Being a fan of Ruby (although I haven't used it in a couple years) and a student of Portuguese, I'd like to try translating your site. Do you want an English version of it?
So if someone wanted to activate some malicious code on a BeOS machine
it seems to me that an easy way to do it would be to bulk mail a file
called "funnypic.jpg" with its attribute set to executable. That way
as soon as the hapless recipient clicked on the file the code would
run.
BeOS could also set arbitrary icons for files to disguise their real types. This problem is nothing new.
To look at it another way, compare O(N^3) bubble sort to O(N log N) merge sort. Just because we have faster computers doesn't mean we can use inefficient algorithms
I'm actually thinking the original poster is correct. You can't compare compression to algorithms because algs have differences in complexity. The size of a compressed file is (in all systems I know) linear in the size of the uncompressed file. If you had a compression scheme that resulted in a file whose size was logarithmic of the input, I'd agree with you. But as things are, I'd consider a lack of compression more like the use of garbage collection. You lose efficiency, but overall it's easier for everyone
Being an undergrad hoping to do research in this area in the next few years, I've already read a few of Och's papers and others in the field. Some of the best that I remember are:
Kevin Knight prepared an excellent (if now somewhat outdated) introduction to statistical machine translation that you can see in HTML or RTF (the formatting was corrupted when the RTF was converted to HTML - I recommend the RTF).
Do you mean NTLM? I've heard that holds back corporate acceptance in many places. I know it's supported in Mozilla 1.4, if only in Windows. Vote for bug 23679 to give your support
You forgot a step:
Step 1: Kill filesharing Step 2: Lose the business of everyone who bought CDs only because they could sample them first or used sharing to find new artists
Step 3:...
Step 4: Profit!
No, not java. J "is a modern, array oriented, high level, high performance, general purpose programming language. J is used in a variety of industries including banking, investment analysis, insurance, derivative trading, scientific research, and education." It's available for Windows, Unix (including OS X), and PocketPC. J has many built-in functions perfect for mathematics work. There are also several free books available for download to help learn it. You'd especially want to read the excellent "J for C Programmers," to become familiar with the J way of thought (it's most likely completely different than what you're used to!).
...enables the user to play all of those Ogg Vorbis files that you have sitting on your hard drive, but can't play because of lack of support from Apple.
Whose bright idea was it to download "all of those Ogg Vorbis files" that you couldn't play?
Or, for those of you who don't download...
Why did you rip all your CDs into a format you couldn't read?
Re:block images from this server
on
Phoenix 0.3 Is Out
·
· Score: 2, Interesting
Maybe phoenix can include a feature that blocks images from a URL containing the text "adlog.pl" ?
When will you guys learn? The BeOS has done this for years! NetPositive filters ads by text matching, not by domain.
...a beowulf cluster of these! Seriously. Whoever had such a thing would make a lot of friends very quickly. Just think of what would happen if you made him angry; imagine him being able to attack you with a legion of robot arms 600 miles away.
scrambling and re-arranging the works of other artists...I myself enjoy warping and "Mashing" otherwise lame recordings...Most modern music is just recycled chords, lyrics, and beats.
Recycled? Maybe because even you yourself enjoy re-arranging the works of other artists?
Computer Scientists love ed, not just because it comes first alphabetically, but because it's the standard. Everyone else loves ed because it's ED!
"Ed is the standard text editor."
And ed doesn't waste space on my Timex Sinclair. Just look:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 24 Oct 29 1929/bin/ed
-rwxr-xr-t 4 root 1310720 Jan 1 1970/usr/ucb/vi
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 5.89824e37 Oct 22 1990/usr/bin/emacs
Of course, on the system *I* administrate, vi is symlinked to ed. Emacs has been replaced by a shell script which 1) Generates a syslog message at level LOG_EMERG; 2) reduces the user's disk quota by 100K; and 3) RUNS ED!!!!!!
"Ed is the standard text editor."
Let's look at a typical novice's session with the mighty ed:
golem$ ed
?
help
?
?
?
quit
?
exit
?
bye
?
hello?
?
eat flaming death
?
^C
?
^C
?
^D
?
---
Note the consistent user interface and error reportage. Ed is generous enough to flag errors, yet prudent enough not to overwhelm the novice with verbosity.
"Ed is the standard text editor."
Ed, the greatest WYGIWYG editor of all.
ED IS THE TRUE PATH TO NIRVANA! ED HAS BEEN THE CHOICE OF EDUCATED AND IGNORANT ALIKE FOR CENTURIES! ED WILL NOT CORRUPT YOUR PRECIOUS BODILY FLUIDS!! ED IS THE STANDARD TEXT EDITOR! ED MAKES THE SUN SHINE AND THE BIRDS SING AND THE GRASS GREEN!!
When I use an editor, I don't want eight extra KILOBYTES of worthless help screens and cursor positioning code! I just want an EDitor!! Not a "viitor". Not a "emacsitor". Those aren't even WORDS!!!! ED! ED! ED IS THE STANDARD!!!
TEXT EDITOR.
When IBM, in its ever-present omnipotence, needed to base their "edlin" on a UNIX standard, did they mimic vi? No. Emacs? Surely you jest. They chose the most karmic editor of all. The standard.
Ed is for those who can *remember* what they are working on. If you are an idiot, you should use Emacs. If you are an Emacs, you should not be vi. If you use ED, you are on THE PATH TO REDEMPTION. THE SO-CALLED "VISUAL" EDITORS HAVE BEEN PLACED HERE BY ED TO TEMPT THE FAITHLESS. DO NOT GIVE IN!!! THE MIGHTY ED HAS SPOKEN!!!
As a high school senior, all I can say is that it's amazing they had enough money to build the place after all the mail they sent me. The cost of the stamps alone would have provided enough food for a small country...
Re:Ignorance is beaming
on
Haiku vs Spam
·
· Score: 2, Funny
China eh? Funny, I always thought Haiku was a Japanese art. ..
how did this person
get modded up? they did not
write a haiku, too
From the company website: So whether you are at home, at the office or even in your car, our patented interface lets you now download and enjoy your favorite digital audio - wherever you go!
Patented interface? Wasn't the whole point that this thing acts exactly like a cassette?
And don't bother looking for a liquid crystal display to help with navigation or to show the title of the song that's playing.
How could you? Would you tear open the front of your car stereo? It's enough trouble just to read the clock while I'm driving, let alone some tiny little letters no larger than the thickness of a cassette tape!
Slashdot Mirror
Great. You can email me at rtarpine (at) andrew (dot) cmu (dot) edu.
Being a fan of Ruby (although I haven't used it in a couple years) and a student of Portuguese, I'd like to try translating your site. Do you want an English version of it?
BeOS virus ? Something to keep you awake at night... BeOS could also set arbitrary icons for files to disguise their real types. This problem is nothing new.
I'm actually thinking the original poster is correct. You can't compare compression to algorithms because algs have differences in complexity. The size of a compressed file is (in all systems I know) linear in the size of the uncompressed file. If you had a compression scheme that resulted in a file whose size was logarithmic of the input, I'd agree with you. But as things are, I'd consider a lack of compression more like the use of garbage collection. You lose efficiency, but overall it's easier for everyone
- Improved Statistical Alignment Models (2000) - Franz Josef Och, Hermann Ney, which investigates and compares several models
- A Syntax-based Statistical Translation Model - Yamada, Knight (2001), which tries to treat sentences structurally instead of just a stream of words
- A Finite-State Approach to Machine Translation - Bangalore, Riccardi (2001), which uses a different way of looking at the problem than usual
Kevin Knight prepared an excellent (if now somewhat outdated) introduction to statistical machine translation that you can see in HTML or RTF (the formatting was corrupted when the RTF was converted to HTML - I recommend the RTF).Do you mean NTLM? I've heard that holds back corporate acceptance in many places. I know it's supported in Mozilla 1.4, if only in Windows. Vote for bug 23679 to give your support
You forgot a step: ...
Step 1: Kill filesharing
Step 2: Lose the business of everyone who bought CDs only because they could sample them first or used sharing to find new artists
Step 3:
Step 4: Profit!
You probably remember Isn't it Time for Metric Time?
You mean, of course, CD-Rs once everyone discovers the sneakernet.
No, not java. J "is a modern, array oriented, high level, high performance, general purpose programming language. J is used in a variety of industries including banking, investment analysis, insurance, derivative trading, scientific research, and education." It's available for Windows, Unix (including OS X), and PocketPC. J has many built-in functions perfect for mathematics work. There are also several free books available for download to help learn it. You'd especially want to read the excellent "J for C Programmers," to become familiar with the J way of thought (it's most likely completely different than what you're used to!).
Whose bright idea was it to download "all of those Ogg Vorbis files" that you couldn't play?
Or, for those of you who don't download...
Why did you rip all your CDs into a format you couldn't read?
When will you guys learn? The BeOS has done this for years! NetPositive filters ads by text matching, not by domain.
And BeOS is not dead!!
I think you and MS disagree on what it means to interoperate with Linux properly...
...a beowulf cluster of these! Seriously. Whoever had such a thing would make a lot of friends very quickly. Just think of what would happen if you made him angry; imagine him being able to attack you with a legion of robot arms 600 miles away.
Recycled? Maybe because even you yourself enjoy re-arranging the works of other artists?
I guess now we know why we need those new Maxtor drives.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these!
Pitfall! must! have! been! the! inspiration! for! Yahoo!
"Ed is the standard text editor."
And ed doesn't waste space on my Timex Sinclair. Just look:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 24 Oct 29 1929 /bin/ed /usr/ucb/vi /usr/bin/emacs
-rwxr-xr-t 4 root 1310720 Jan 1 1970
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 5.89824e37 Oct 22 1990
Of course, on the system *I* administrate, vi is symlinked to ed. Emacs has been replaced by a shell script which 1) Generates a syslog message at level LOG_EMERG; 2) reduces the user's disk quota by 100K; and 3) RUNS ED!!!!!!
"Ed is the standard text editor."
Let's look at a typical novice's session with the mighty ed:
golem$ ed
?
help
?
?
?
quit
?
exit
?
bye
?
hello?
?
eat flaming death
?
^C
?
^C
?
^D
?
---
Note the consistent user interface and error reportage. Ed is generous enough to flag errors, yet prudent enough not to overwhelm the novice with verbosity.
"Ed is the standard text editor."
Ed, the greatest WYGIWYG editor of all.
ED IS THE TRUE PATH TO NIRVANA! ED HAS BEEN THE CHOICE OF EDUCATED AND IGNORANT ALIKE FOR CENTURIES! ED WILL NOT CORRUPT YOUR PRECIOUS BODILY FLUIDS!! ED IS THE STANDARD TEXT EDITOR! ED MAKES THE SUN SHINE AND THE BIRDS SING AND THE GRASS GREEN!!
When I use an editor, I don't want eight extra KILOBYTES of worthless help screens and cursor positioning code! I just want an EDitor!! Not a "viitor". Not a "emacsitor". Those aren't even WORDS!!!! ED! ED! ED IS THE STANDARD!!!
TEXT EDITOR.
When IBM, in its ever-present omnipotence, needed to base their "edlin" on a UNIX standard, did they mimic vi? No. Emacs? Surely you jest. They chose the most karmic editor of all. The standard.
Ed is for those who can *remember* what they are working on. If you are an idiot, you should use Emacs. If you are an Emacs, you should not be vi. If you use ED, you are on THE PATH TO REDEMPTION. THE SO-CALLED "VISUAL" EDITORS HAVE BEEN PLACED HERE BY ED TO TEMPT THE FAITHLESS. DO NOT GIVE IN!!! THE MIGHTY ED HAS SPOKEN!!!
?
As a high school senior, all I can say is that it's amazing they had enough money to build the place after all the mail they sent me. The cost of the stamps alone would have provided enough food for a small country...
how did this person
get modded up? they did not
write a haiku, too
Patented interface? Wasn't the whole point that this thing acts exactly like a cassette?
How could you? Would you tear open the front of your car stereo? It's enough trouble just to read the clock while I'm driving, let alone some tiny little letters no larger than the thickness of a cassette tape!
Does the thought of patenting a bar code scare anyone else?
Speaking of inches, I can see the spam now...
Operate a small business from home? Add inches to your bar code! More digits impress your clients!!