In Sweden and Finland the universities are for free, for all levels.
And just where in Finland is that?
I have to pay the fee of the student union in order to parttake in the exams, get credit points and diploma...
Same deal in Sweden. And the union fee is a crippling $45 a year! Not to mention you don't even get free lunches, pen/paper and litterature, like you do in lower education! Shocking!
A masters degree could cost me $225! A doctorate, $400+!
Of course, I would get $15,000 in goverment grants during that period but that's BESIDE THE POINT!
However, I'd suggest that Heinlein wasn't "chauvinistic", just that he celebrated the differences between men and women (which any sane individual recognizes, no?).
More correctly, he celebrated the difference between fathers and nubile daughters, over and over. Much like Piers Anthony (mentioned in this thread) keeps celebrating the difference between men and mares.
They play football (soccer). Maybe that doesn't fit your definition of "usefull" but then human beings like David Beckham would also have to be considered useless. Oh, wait, he is. Scratch that thought.
When RoboCup was held in Stockholm me and the mates went down and checked it out. The Aibo's were hilarious!
Two teams were especially good.
The Tokyo team. They had programmed their bots to do Favorite-Martial-Arts-Coin-Op-Game-esque moves. For side shots, the Aibo tilts it snout way up, poses for a second, then hits the ball the other way with the snout.
For forward shots, the Aibo goes rigid, looks as if it is shouting "ho-ar-yu-ken!!!", then jumps (badly) into the air while splaying it's legs. It falls splat! on it's tummy, squirting the ball forward.
Not exactly effective, but cute as hell, and very Japanese.
The New South Wales team were... Unorthodox. And really good programmers. Most other teams clearly had problems with the Aibo's eyesight. UNSW had kick-ass eyesight. Every now and then their 'bots would pause for just half a second, very rapidly throw the head left-right (checking out the differently coloured corner sticks and locking exactly onto them, and thus placing itself) then charge forward.
The charging bit was the other fun part of the Australian effort. All other teams had a very conservative, stable, shuffling gait. Apparently the down-unders thought "Fuck that! Make'm run!". Their Aibo's were twice as fast as the competition... but frequently fell on their asses, then executed the cute Sony get-on-your-feet manouver.
The saddest bit in this tournament was the swedish (mine by nationality) team. Their bots started the game by verrrrrry sloooowwwly rotating 360 degrees (while the competitors were scoring goals). Then they broke down.
Where do you get off saying this? Java hasn't been slow in ages. Repeating what others have told you is not the same as basing your opinions on fact.
I am a programmer, and maintainer, of a large Swing application (used by many hundreds) in Sweden. We had to go to extreme measures to bring the app even remotely up to speed (2001). Never allocate a frame before you have to, pool Swing objects, and so forth.
Even so, our program was VERY slow compared to the VB predecessor. We nearly lost the contract.
1.2 and 1.3 helped a lot. As in slower than a 2 tonne chunk of granite versus a 1 tonne chunk of sandstone. We now have 1GHz+ machines, but we're still talking about 5-10 seconds to to bring up a complex frame that took ca. 0.1 seconds in the VB implementation. 10 second garbage collects are not unusual.
I guess you are going to say that Swing is known to be slow. What the hell should we use? AWT won't cut it, external packages like SWT are impossible. We're firmly up shit creak here (which is why I'm so cranky:-).
For extra credit: Write a small essay on how JIT:ed Java can be faster the C++. Then perhaps a piece on how C++ can be optimized farther that pure C, followed by a write-up on how modern C compilers produce faster assembler then a human programmer;-)
Code generation is definitely something programmers of large/complex projects should look into.
Maybe, maybe not. I have used code generation to great effect, by making tiny C files for each of the database tables that provide c structs and simple operations such as insert .
Why am I doing this? Because there's no high level interface between C and the database. Code generation is often needed because two system just can't mesh comfortably. This is a fault in both systems.
Let me illustrate with a quote from the linked article:
Supporting a single database table in an EJB framework requires building up to seven different classes and interfaces...
Why? This simply means that EJB just doesn't mesh with SQL databases. Which is strange because that's what it was designed for.
Whenever there's a really harsh conceptual boundrary between two systems, be they programming languages or wildly different API frameworks, meta-programming will be usefull, but not desireable.
In any event, I would never trust a source code generator, unless I wrote it myself, from scratch. Too many opportunities for mistranslations-heaped-on-mistranslations...
So, it's not only slow as molasses in Antartica, it's actually even slower? Giving you 3,4,5 nice abstraction layers on a platform (the article is about cell phones) that is slow in pure assembler? Gotta check that out.
Perhaps Gandalf "let go" because a thousand pounds of falling balrog was physically connected to his leg?? The balrog, as he fell, snagged Gandalfs leg with his whip!
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Welcome to the wonderful world of IKEA. I have their Galant desk here at home.
This desk is immense. The shorter limb is about two meters, the longer 3. Extremely sturdy. You can literally jump up and down on it. It laughs at my 43 Kg 22" monitor. Note how the legs are placed way back or to the sides, more leg space for you. I have four computers on it, two rolling sets of drawers and the trusty old HPLJIII below. That still leaves plenty of desk space for the phone, ADSL modem, various piles of paper and assorted knick-knack.
Prize: $329. I couldn't buy the planks to build a desk this size for $329 (slight exageration).
To much or not enough? It's all modular. Buy new segments. The desk in the picture is made from a narrow segment, a wide segment, a narrow-to-wide bend and a semi-circular wide end-cap.They fit together in a wide variety of configurations. By some strange voodoo the pictured desk is exactly the same as mine.
NB: I'm not in any way affiliated with IKEA, I just like this desk. Best I ever had.
I thought I remember reading about volcanic vent extremophiles using sulfur for oxidation instead of oxygen.
Most volcanic vent extremophiles oxidize sulfur, but iron oxidizers are not uncommon.
That's not what he meant. I've also heard about thermophile vent bacteria using sulfurization instead of oxidization. IE "breathing" sulfur instead of oxygen. Sulfur and iron in, iron sulfide out. I even heard that it's a more energetic process that oxidization. True?
Hey...my elitism only extends to intelligence.....(not spelling which i happen to be bad at, lol)
Un-necessary ellipsis followed by a non-capitalized sentence, followed by some strange multi-ellipsis, followed by an illegitimate parenthesis, with an un-capitalized start. This horrible sequence is ended by a g4m3rz/irc-looser abbreviation.
Well, d00d, u teh 3l1t3, u tEH intelligent. Lol, rotfl, omg, (random perl).
Of course, this is slashdot. My spleign/gammrar is no better.
Isn't the whole Slashdot Mythos about not being able to get girlfriends? In my case, true. So, I've got all these useless inches hanging around, but I don't want to sell cheap either... Hmm... 25 IQ per inch? If I sell all 6 I'll gain 150 IQ, yeah!
To counteract the foul stench caused by metabolizing creatine, take chlorophyll which is available at your local health food store.
Chlorophyll is also available - at a much lower price - at your local lawn. Bend down and bite of a few mouthfulls of grass whenever you leave home. Not only will you smell great, your teeth will be green and sugar will be produced in your oral cavity whenever you smile!
You don't get the situation. French feel enormously threatened by the Americans, culturally speaking. Maybe the feeling is even founded on something...
If you approach them with English, or even saying "Do you speak English?" in broken French, they would rather watch you being eaten live by sharks then understand your cries for "Help!".
What you do is, ask the French person what-ever you need to know in your best French. Probably he will not even understand what the hell you're trying to say. Speak to him (in French) again. And again. Bring out your phrase book and shuffle the pages, speaking uselessly at the french guy.
Maybe he WILL understand parts of it. This will just cause him to unleash torrents of speedy French in your direction, which you can't understand. Look stupid. Stupidity is key.
Soon, it will be obvious that you don't know shit about the french language. NOW, and ONLY NOW, ask in your very brokenest French (no, NOT English, you will ruin everything you just accomplished!) if maybe he knows just a little English.
Of course he does. After all, all the kids study English in school, and have so for many years. This way he can feel superior about helping the daft tourist idiot.
NB. I am not american, I'm swedish. I had the exact same problem in Paris until I developed this method.
_ALL_ GTK+ apps scale their fonts properly _by default_. This is a major design feature of the GTK+ toolkit.
Yes, cool, GTK scales fonts, does what Windows and Mac has attempted and not-quite-succeded with.
BUT, that's not what this is about, at all! You don't want to scale fonts, what the user wants is to scale the ENTIRE UI. Gadgets, window frames, images, text... Basically, he want's to switch from 640x480 to 1600x100 and see the same desktop (same sized windows, same sized icons, same distances between them), only with higher resolution. Apple has all the tech they need to make this (BASIC, OBVIOUS) behaviour a reality. Have they? No...
I don't think leading the troops is too much to ask. Afterall, How can you give an order that would cause people to die if your not willing and ready to be counted among the dead?
The way i read UDPP2P's docs it was basically a three stage process:
Request (forged IP, random rendez-vous number).
Offer (forged IP, random randez-vous #, broadcasted to all neighbors and tagged by "Request" r-v #).
Accept. (broadcast actual IP, tagged by "Offer" r-v #).
Demi-ingenious, the provider now knows the requesters IP but not vice-versa.
The provider proceeds to send the file to the requester as an unsorted bunch of UDP packages. There is no way to communicate with the server, so you just have to drink from the fire-hose. And of course UDP packets aren't guaranteed to be error free... Oh, and good routers will just throw away all the spoofed packages. <sarcasm>This could really work!</sarcasm>
So, why do you connect the Vaio to the phone line if you have disabled phone capabilities?
I guess phone functionality is disabled by default and these 10+ accidents occured when people where trying to enable it, and someone rang while they were in the process.
The ring current can give you a mean shock. I'm speaking from experience, I (tried to) fix a busted phone connector once with the other end in the wall when my sister called me... ZZZAP!
It was an above-unpleasant - though utterly unlifethreatening - experience. How much should I have sued my sister (or perhaps the phone company) for? $1,000,000? "*Sob* *sob* I felt PAIN!! I'll never be the *sob* same man *sob* *sob* I was *sob*."
No, no, it's the data bus that's one-bit. Basically, you stream data to the processor over a serial line, either from memory or from another processor. There are a bunch of instructions. All the normal boolean operations, operations for streaming data aka NEWS, sleep-if, wake... No arithmetic operations, obviously.
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That would seem to be Mammon, $, The Market, The Invisible Hand etc.
Never actually named a God, but worshipped throughout time, and never more so than in America.
Same deal in Sweden. And the union fee is a crippling $45 a year! Not to mention you don't even get free lunches, pen/paper and litterature, like you do in lower education! Shocking!
A masters degree could cost me $225! A doctorate, $400+!
Of course, I would get $15,000 in goverment grants during that period but that's BESIDE THE POINT!
Plenty of beatings, plenty of deflagaration? I'm sorry for him :-(
More correctly, he celebrated the difference between fathers and nubile daughters, over and over. Much like Piers Anthony (mentioned in this thread) keeps celebrating the difference between men and mares.
They play football (soccer). Maybe that doesn't fit your definition of "usefull" but then human beings like David Beckham would also have to be considered useless. Oh, wait, he is. Scratch that thought.
When RoboCup was held in Stockholm me and the mates went down and checked it out. The Aibo's were hilarious!
Two teams were especially good.
The Tokyo team. They had programmed their bots to do Favorite-Martial-Arts-Coin-Op-Game-esque moves. For side shots, the Aibo tilts it snout way up, poses for a second, then hits the ball the other way with the snout.
For forward shots, the Aibo goes rigid, looks as if it is shouting "ho-ar-yu-ken!!!", then jumps (badly) into the air while splaying it's legs. It falls splat! on it's tummy, squirting the ball forward.
Not exactly effective, but cute as hell, and very Japanese.
The New South Wales team were... Unorthodox. And really good programmers. Most other teams clearly had problems with the Aibo's eyesight. UNSW had kick-ass eyesight. Every now and then their 'bots would pause for just half a second, very rapidly throw the head left-right (checking out the differently coloured corner sticks and locking exactly onto them, and thus placing itself) then charge forward.
The charging bit was the other fun part of the Australian effort. All other teams had a very conservative, stable, shuffling gait. Apparently the down-unders thought "Fuck that! Make'm run!". Their Aibo's were twice as fast as the competition... but frequently fell on their asses, then executed the cute Sony get-on-your-feet manouver.
The saddest bit in this tournament was the swedish (mine by nationality) team. Their bots started the game by verrrrrry sloooowwwly rotating 360 degrees (while the competitors were scoring goals). Then they broke down.
I am a programmer, and maintainer, of a large Swing application (used by many hundreds) in Sweden. We had to go to extreme measures to bring the app even remotely up to speed (2001). Never allocate a frame before you have to, pool Swing objects, and so forth.
Even so, our program was VERY slow compared to the VB predecessor. We nearly lost the contract.
1.2 and 1.3 helped a lot. As in slower than a 2 tonne chunk of granite versus a 1 tonne chunk of sandstone. We now have 1GHz+ machines, but we're still talking about 5-10 seconds to to bring up a complex frame that took ca. 0.1 seconds in the VB implementation. 10 second garbage collects are not unusual.
I guess you are going to say that Swing is known to be slow. What the hell should we use? AWT won't cut it, external packages like SWT are impossible. We're firmly up shit creak here (which is why I'm so cranky :-).
For extra credit: Write a small essay on how JIT:ed Java can be faster the C++. Then perhaps a piece on how C++ can be optimized farther that pure C, followed by a write-up on how modern C compilers produce faster assembler then a human programmer ;-)
Maybe, maybe not. I have used code generation to great effect, by making tiny C files for each of the database tables that provide c structs and simple operations such as insert .
Why am I doing this? Because there's no high level interface between C and the database. Code generation is often needed because two system just can't mesh comfortably. This is a fault in both systems.
Let me illustrate with a quote from the linked article:
Why? This simply means that EJB just doesn't mesh with SQL databases. Which is strange because that's what it was designed for.
Whenever there's a really harsh conceptual boundrary between two systems, be they programming languages or wildly different API frameworks, meta-programming will be usefull, but not desireable.
In any event, I would never trust a source code generator, unless I wrote it myself, from scratch. Too many opportunities for mistranslations-heaped-on-mistranslations...
BeanShell... pure Java Java source interpreter
So, it's not only slow as molasses in Antartica, it's actually even slower? Giving you 3,4,5 nice abstraction layers on a platform (the article is about cell phones) that is slow in pure assembler? Gotta check that out.
That's the least of the problem. Consider this:
Perhaps evolution is giving you a small hint here?
So, if I RTFA correctly, the J2MEP MIDP2 which is CLDC w. API's gets a book which will tell you how to design good GUI's for PDA's ASAP?
Perhaps Gandalf "let go" because a thousand pounds of falling balrog was physically connected to his leg?? The balrog, as he fell, snagged Gandalfs leg with his whip!
Welcome to the wonderful world of IKEA. I have their Galant desk here at home.
This desk is immense. The shorter limb is about two meters, the longer 3. Extremely sturdy. You can literally jump up and down on it. It laughs at my 43 Kg 22" monitor. Note how the legs are placed way back or to the sides, more leg space for you. I have four computers on it, two rolling sets of drawers and the trusty old HPLJIII below. That still leaves plenty of desk space for the phone, ADSL modem, various piles of paper and assorted knick-knack.
Prize: $329. I couldn't buy the planks to build a desk this size for $329 (slight exageration).
To much or not enough? It's all modular. Buy new segments. The desk in the picture is made from a narrow segment, a wide segment, a narrow-to-wide bend and a semi-circular wide end-cap.They fit together in a wide variety of configurations. By some strange voodoo the pictured desk is exactly the same as mine.
NB: I'm not in any way affiliated with IKEA, I just like this desk. Best I ever had.
That's not what he meant. I've also heard about thermophile vent bacteria using sulfurization instead of oxidization. IE "breathing" sulfur instead of oxygen. Sulfur and iron in, iron sulfide out. I even heard that it's a more energetic process that oxidization. True?
Un-necessary ellipsis followed by a non-capitalized sentence, followed by some strange multi-ellipsis, followed by an illegitimate parenthesis, with an un-capitalized start. This horrible sequence is ended by a g4m3rz/irc-looser abbreviation.
Well, d00d, u teh 3l1t3, u tEH intelligent. Lol, rotfl, omg, (random perl).
Of course, this is slashdot. My spleign/gammrar is no better.
Isn't the whole Slashdot Mythos about not being able to get girlfriends? In my case, true. So, I've got all these useless inches hanging around, but I don't want to sell cheap either... Hmm... 25 IQ per inch? If I sell all 6 I'll gain 150 IQ, yeah!
Chlorophyll is also available - at a much lower price - at your local lawn. Bend down and bite of a few mouthfulls of grass whenever you leave home. Not only will you smell great, your teeth will be green and sugar will be produced in your oral cavity whenever you smile!
Wouldn't that be "GNPisNotthePassword"?
You don't get the situation. French feel enormously threatened by the Americans, culturally speaking. Maybe the feeling is even founded on something...
If you approach them with English, or even saying "Do you speak English?" in broken French, they would rather watch you being eaten live by sharks then understand your cries for "Help!".
What you do is, ask the French person what-ever you need to know in your best French. Probably he will not even understand what the hell you're trying to say. Speak to him (in French) again. And again. Bring out your phrase book and shuffle the pages, speaking uselessly at the french guy.
Maybe he WILL understand parts of it. This will just cause him to unleash torrents of speedy French in your direction, which you can't understand. Look stupid. Stupidity is key.
Soon, it will be obvious that you don't know shit about the french language. NOW, and ONLY NOW, ask in your very brokenest French (no, NOT English, you will ruin everything you just accomplished!) if maybe he knows just a little English.
Of course he does. After all, all the kids study English in school, and have so for many years. This way he can feel superior about helping the daft tourist idiot.
NB. I am not american, I'm swedish. I had the exact same problem in Paris until I developed this method.
Yes, cool, GTK scales fonts, does what Windows and Mac has attempted and not-quite-succeded with.
BUT, that's not what this is about, at all! You don't want to scale fonts, what the user wants is to scale the ENTIRE UI. Gadgets, window frames, images, text... Basically, he want's to switch from 640x480 to 1600x100 and see the same desktop (same sized windows, same sized icons, same distances between them), only with higher resolution. Apple has all the tech they need to make this (BASIC, OBVIOUS) behaviour a reality. Have they? No...
My very first poem:
Your victims their
Obviously we do, victims we slash-dotters are.love poetics so
When sometime the life loved
never righter
Oh, this is great! When you can actually make yourself love your life, life cannot be righter.
Eyes closed doomed
Guiding her fleetest yet
Benevolently
Condemner of sweeter for
him to been if unneighborly
Analysis: She's got the hots for him, and he's nice. Sex will follow.
Bush bravely leads.
Oh, I wish more leaders could be so brave, moral, and non-idiotic.
The way i read UDPP2P's docs it was basically a three stage process:
Demi-ingenious, the provider now knows the requesters IP but not vice-versa.
The provider proceeds to send the file to the requester as an unsorted bunch of UDP packages. There is no way to communicate with the server, so you just have to drink from the fire-hose. And of course UDP packets aren't guaranteed to be error free... Oh, and good routers will just throw away all the spoofed packages. <sarcasm>This could really work!</sarcasm>
Try DirectConnect. It works well enough.
So, why do you connect the Vaio to the phone line if you have disabled phone capabilities?
I guess phone functionality is disabled by default and these 10+ accidents occured when people where trying to enable it, and someone rang while they were in the process.
The ring current can give you a mean shock. I'm speaking from experience, I (tried to) fix a busted phone connector once with the other end in the wall when my sister called me... ZZZAP!
It was an above-unpleasant - though utterly unlifethreatening - experience. How much should I have sued my sister (or perhaps the phone company) for? $1,000,000? "*Sob* *sob* I felt PAIN!! I'll never be the *sob* same man *sob* *sob* I was *sob*."
America, land of the law-suit :-)
No, no, it's the data bus that's one-bit. Basically, you stream data to the processor over a serial line, either from memory or from another processor. There are a bunch of instructions. All the normal boolean operations, operations for streaming data aka NEWS, sleep-if, wake... No arithmetic operations, obviously.
No links handy, sorry.