You'll also note (if you've heard any recordings of Tolkein speaking) that McKellen adopts an accent and cadence rather like that of the Professor. This was apparently deliberate.
It seems strangely fitting somehow, to watch and hear him speak. It does seem very "Gandalf".
Ian McKellen would not have been my choice for Gandalf at all (I last saw him in X-Men, of all things), but he is a remarkable actor. Nearly everyone I've showed the trailer to (and who has also read the book) has remarked that Gandalf was just like they'd imagined.
Why the hell would you want to use a chip designed for low-power mobile use in a high-power non-mobile environment?!?
It was designed for lower power consumption and heat output. That happens to be very desirable for low-power mobile use, but *gasp* that also doesn't sound like such a bad idea for a web server farm.
If you're running a database server, CPU performance is more of an issue, but a heavily loaded web server is going to top out I/O and network throughput before it does the CPU.
Just because you can put an insanely high power server out there on the web doesn't mean you need to. A friend of mine runs a web hosting service that serves 140 domains and a number of sites hosted off of the main domain. Most of these are art and multimedia sites (what the service caters to) -- not very lightweight. The sole server is a 188 MHz Cyrix 6x86 with 128MB RAM. The loadavg is currently... 0.08.
You fools, this thing produces NO2! That is NOT the same thing as nitrous (N2O). Nasty stuff if you're thinking of inhaling it, and it certainly won't boost your car's performance either.
Not that I really think inhaling N2O for fun is really that bright an idea either, but good grief man..
In other words, I wish there was a way for us to donate directly to musicians in appreciation of, and as compensation for, their creative genius and all the hard work they put into entertaining us. Any suggestions???
Why on earth are you still using dselect? Pretty much everything you want to do should be covered by apt-get install, apt-get dist-upgrade, apt-get remove, and apt-cache search.
A lot faster, a lot simpler, and much less of a pain.
(occasionally using apt-get autoclean is good to keep the package cache down in size, too)
If you don't actually plan on doing anything with the file after opening it, just use access(filename, F_OK). Save yourself a close() system call.
Keep in mind that on top of the file overhead you're also taking hits for transitions to and from userspace for every packet. Best to keep system calls to a minimum in such a case.
IP In the form of movies or music is not "infinite".
Yes it is. Assuming digital media, there is an infinite supply of copies of existing works.
It costs $$$ to make a movie (About $40 million on average these days).
Right. That's the (one-time) cost of generating the content, not copying it. We're just used to "subsidizing" these costs by paying per-copy fees.
We're going to have to either find other ways to "subsidize" content creators, or settle for a world in which it is effectively illegal for anyone but "authorized content providors" to create or copy content.
I think I could live with the societal and artistic consequences of former better than I could the latter.
...some random user agent (read: browser) can handle bad code in any number of unexpected ways.
Right, and that's why it's really important that the code be valid. Otherwise, the results are, as they say, "undefined" -- you may very well end up shutting out all but a few browsers and never even know it (unless people send you death threats or something ^_^).
It's kinda nice to have a 'strict' browser around. I've seen a lot of web designers make bad errors that don't show up in IE (which is about the most permissive browser out there).
Permissive browsers are good for users, but really bad for designers.
Probably better to use the validator anyway though.
Big thing, though, is that Netscape (<= v4) isn't exactly strict... it's just downright broken. I make a reasonable effort (write valid & strongly semantic markup, make some minor adjustments) so that broken browsers can at least display the content (regardless of how it looks), but at the end of the day if it's just simply a matter of browser bugs, screw that browser.
For my personal projects (where I just go for rigorous standards-compliance) this usually means:
Mozilla - fine
Mac IE 5 - fine
Netscape 3 - fine, no CSS
lynx - fine, no CSS
Windows IE 5 - fine (minor layout issues, little CSS2)
Opera - fine (minor layout/formatting issues, occasional weird CSS1/CSS2)
Windows IE 4 - fine, everything's readable although e.g. "float" can occasionally be bizzare.
Netscape 4 - you can read the page... most of the time. always new "surprises"
Mac IE 4 - parses HTML in a non-upwardly compatible (and incorrect) way, so XHTML displays as source. too bad.
Oh. HTML Tidy is nice for fixing HTML so you don't have to by hand.
Penny-arcade recently talked about this, how if they weren't going to get paid, they wouldn't be able to do the site anymore, I imagine most web comics would be the same.
There are other ways to get paid, however. Donations and merchandising spring to mind as the most obvious.
reiserfs is intended to be a database fs
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Much of the ultimate point of ReiserFS is the marriage of databases and filesystems (filesystems are really just a limited sort of database anyway). This is the reason for the all the commercial funding; there are people out there who really want this.
See Hans Reiser's White Paper for information on where he's going with this.
For what it's worth, database filesystems are not a new thing at all. Hans is just planning on accomplishing this in a way that completely preserves the Unix file metaphor and related concepts.
The basic utility of neural networks is basically the same as "genetic programming".. they avoid the necessity of having to describe a solution to a complex (or merely subtle) problem.
The trained network or the evolved program solves your problem, but it's basically "black box magic" -- you never really will understand completely how it works or how it was arrived at. Both can also exhibit unexpected properties.
They're overkill for most problems where you CAN describe an adequate "deterministic" solution. Neural nets also require a fair amount of overhead, too.
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It's not wasted effort if it's quicker to write the script than it is to sit through the install.
If it takes you longer to write the script, well, then there's your point.
You'll also note (if you've heard any recordings of Tolkein speaking) that McKellen adopts an accent and cadence rather like that of the Professor. This was apparently deliberate.
It seems strangely fitting somehow, to watch and hear him speak. It does seem very "Gandalf".
Ian McKellen would not have been my choice for Gandalf at all (I last saw him in X-Men, of all things), but he is a remarkable actor. Nearly everyone I've showed the trailer to (and who has also read the book) has remarked that Gandalf was just like they'd imagined.
It was designed for lower power consumption and heat output. That happens to be very desirable for low-power mobile use, but *gasp* that also doesn't sound like such a bad idea for a web server farm.
If you're running a database server, CPU performance is more of an issue, but a heavily loaded web server is going to top out I/O and network throughput before it does the CPU.
Just because you can put an insanely high power server out there on the web doesn't mean you need to. A friend of mine runs a web hosting service that serves 140 domains and a number of sites hosted off of the main domain. Most of these are art and multimedia sites (what the service caters to) -- not very lightweight. The sole server is a 188 MHz Cyrix 6x86 with 128MB RAM. The loadavg is currently ... 0.08.
Crusoe isn't compute farm material, but peformance doesn't actually SUCK either.
(emphasis mine) duh?
In practice UDP is not actually extremely scalable unless you implement your own congestion control.
*slaps forehead*
You fools, this thing produces NO2! That is NOT the same thing as nitrous (N2O). Nasty stuff if you're thinking of inhaling it, and it certainly won't boost your car's performance either.
Not that I really think inhaling N2O for fun is really that bright an idea either, but good grief man..
Fully open ... like... oh, say, Jabber?
Or like Jabber, where no single company controls all the servers.
Note that Jabber is decentralized like SMTP is decentralized, not like Gnutella is decentralized.
Also note that a lot of Jabber clients support encryption/digital signatures now too.
What a good idea...
http://www.fairtunes.com
Actually, if he was using Mozilla, he did.
Mozilla's text entry widget is implemented using the Composer component.
Long-term plan is to write a special-purpose text entry widget that's a lot smaller and removes the depenency on Composer, but for now it works.
Some browsers such as e.g. lynx can 'shell out' to the editor of your choice for editing text fields. Replace FTP with HTTP, and you've got it.
apt-cache search is handy for quick searches.
Why on earth are you still using dselect? Pretty much everything you want to do should be covered by apt-get install, apt-get dist-upgrade, apt-get remove, and apt-cache search.
A lot faster, a lot simpler, and much less of a pain.
(occasionally using apt-get autoclean is good to keep the package cache down in size, too)
...and suffered from respiratory ailments as a result of inhaling fine graphite dust.
In this case, the open-source implementation is also arguably better.
Realize that in several European locales (like ... I dunno, Germany), the meanings of '.' and ',' in numeric contexts are reversed from American usage.
The world's a lot bigger than your little corner of it, my friend. He was saying 38000 connections.
Free as in beer, maybe, but the restrictions placed on you if you take such a course can be rather onerous.
It can be rather difficult to legally find work with a Microsoft competitor, as you're "contaminated" with Microsoft IP.
Actually 2.4 supports the 2.0 and 2.2 interfaces too, as optional (extremely small) kernel modules.
If you don't actually plan on doing anything with the file after opening it, just use access(filename, F_OK). Save yourself a close() system call.
Keep in mind that on top of the file overhead you're also taking hits for transitions to and from userspace for every packet. Best to keep system calls to a minimum in such a case.
Yes it is. Assuming digital media, there is an infinite supply of copies of existing works.
Right. That's the (one-time) cost of generating the content, not copying it. We're just used to "subsidizing" these costs by paying per-copy fees.
We're going to have to either find other ways to "subsidize" content creators, or settle for a world in which it is effectively illegal for anyone but "authorized content providors" to create or copy content.
I think I could live with the societal and artistic consequences of former better than I could the latter.
Try the W3C's HTML Validator.
Right, and that's why it's really important that the code be valid. Otherwise, the results are, as they say, "undefined" -- you may very well end up shutting out all but a few browsers and never even know it (unless people send you death threats or something ^_^).
It's kinda nice to have a 'strict' browser around. I've seen a lot of web designers make bad errors that don't show up in IE (which is about the most permissive browser out there).
Permissive browsers are good for users, but really bad for designers.
Probably better to use the validator anyway though.
Big thing, though, is that Netscape (<= v4) isn't exactly strict ... it's just downright broken. I make a reasonable effort (write valid & strongly semantic markup, make some minor adjustments) so that broken browsers can at least display the content (regardless of how it looks), but at the end of the day if it's just simply a matter of browser bugs, screw that browser.
For my personal projects (where I just go for rigorous standards-compliance) this usually means:
Oh. HTML Tidy is nice for fixing HTML so you don't have to by hand.
There are other ways to get paid, however. Donations and merchandising spring to mind as the most obvious.
Much of the ultimate point of ReiserFS is the marriage of databases and filesystems (filesystems are really just a limited sort of database anyway). This is the reason for the all the commercial funding; there are people out there who really want this.
See Hans Reiser's White Paper for information on where he's going with this.
For what it's worth, database filesystems are not a new thing at all. Hans is just planning on accomplishing this in a way that completely preserves the Unix file metaphor and related concepts.
The basic utility of neural networks is basically the same as "genetic programming" .. they avoid the necessity of having to describe a solution to a complex (or merely subtle) problem.
The trained network or the evolved program solves your problem, but it's basically "black box magic" -- you never really will understand completely how it works or how it was arrived at. Both can also exhibit unexpected properties.
They're overkill for most problems where you CAN describe an adequate "deterministic" solution. Neural nets also require a fair amount of overhead, too.
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