What happens when the technology for laying the nanotubes onto substrates becomes so good that we are able to build car frames or house frames from it(think 3D substrates of nanotubes) ?
Automobile frames will probably be made of carbon fiber in the next few years, I think that will be "good enough". Check Discovery channel's "Extreme Engineering" for how nanotubes could really be used, on that gigantic pyramid thing.
I'm sure he meant that the breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor primes from the product of two large prime numbers, it's a fairly easy mistake to make. Let's all be nice to ol' Bill, eh?
Nice, thanks! I'm guessing that the reason for the extra spaces in slashcode is to prevent someone from mucking up the page rendering by including a long word with no spaces... annoying, but definitely necessary.
The original article (a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html">http:// www.paulgraham.com/spam.html) actually talks about this... he suggests actually visiting the URL mentioned and running the returned page against the bayes rules, also factoring in HTTP redirects, etc.... of course, analyzing the URL iteself can help too.
I read mail with Mutt, and I've remapped the 'd'elete key to instead throw the message into a 'ham' mbox, and added a 'S'pam mapping to throw the message into a 'spam' mbox.
Bayes rocks, been using it with spamassassin and it kills 99% of my spam. The problem is when some asshole spammer uses my email address in the 'From' header of his spam... then I get scores of 'user not found' or 'virus detected' emails from legitimate mail servers... it's not spam, but it's just as annoying. How do you guys deal with this problem?
I agree with most of what you've stated. Unfortunately, I think that offering the user additional formats with different pricing models overcomplicates things. Personally, I know the differences between MP3, FLAC and OGG -- my Mom doesn't. If she were shopping at a store that offered all of them, she would probably be overwhelmed by the number of choices and just give up. It's great for the power users, but would be hard to sell to the average user -- iTunes has proven that people like a simple model... "push button, get banana chip".
Apple has sample clips for all of their songs, IIRC. I don't think they support full length previews, but I doubt it would be terribly difficult for them to add it if consumers demanded it.
Earlier in the thread it was suggested that WMA is being used for the songs. This makes sense for now, as Windows Media DRM is far further along the path of acceptance and compatibility than Real's Helix DRM.
The spec and books are both good sources of information on HTTP, but I find it difficult to actually apply the knowledge.
I recently interviewed for a position requiring intimate HTTP knowledge. Rather than try and understand every bit of the spec, I just captured all of my clear text HTTP traffic for a night of surfing, I then looked at the actual HTTP exchanges between my web browser and various servers and looked things up in the spec and other sources that I didn't understand.
I also learned some things that weren't in the spec, which were helpful in the interview like how session keys are structured on various servers, etc.
I couldn't agree more with your view of the Oracle tools... but I really do use Java's platform independence all the time, and for non-GUI applications I think it works beautifully. The key here is the 'non-GUI'...
Actual example, I recently developed a servlet-based application, and given the hardware and time constraints I was under I developed on Linux, performed functional testing while deployed on Windows, and finally deployed on Irix. There was no change in behavior with the application other than performance, and it was a complex, multi-threaded application.
Not equivalent, the Java version also supports writing as a String... so the below statement produces the string "coin: PENNY" which is very, very handy.
I once held to the orthodoxy that if I needed more than emacs then something was broken in the language.
I still do;)
`jde-gen-get-set' is an alias for `tempo-template-java-get-set-pair', an interactive Lisp function
-- loaded from "jde-gen" (jde-gen-get-set &optional ARG)
Some prefer the second way because it puts the term which cannot be a valid lvalue on the left side, thus if you make the common typo of "=" instead of "==", you will get a compile error from it, which wold not happen for x = 5.
You could always make 'x' final, producing the same compilation behavior with the more natural syntax.
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Sorry, but the real geeks use Mutt ... graphical email clients are for geek posers ;)
What happens when the technology for laying the nanotubes onto substrates becomes so good that we
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are able to build car frames or house frames from it(think 3D substrates of nanotubes) ?
Automobile frames will probably be made of carbon fiber in the next few years, I think that will be "good enough". Check Discovery channel's "Extreme Engineering" for how nanotubes could really be used, on that gigantic pyramid thing.
http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/engineering/
lol ... yeah got a 95 guessing randomly ... ergh!
I'm sure he meant that the breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor primes from the product of two large prime numbers, it's a fairly easy mistake to make. Let's all be nice to ol' Bill, eh?
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I visit /. about once every 2 days, and even I know this is a repost :)
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/13/19412
Nice, thanks! I'm guessing that the reason for the extra spaces in slashcode is to prevent someone from mucking up the page rendering by including a long word with no spaces ... annoying, but definitely necessary.
The original article (a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html">http:// www.paulgraham.com/spam.html) actually talks about this ... he suggests actually visiting the URL mentioned and running the returned page against the bayes rules, also factoring in HTTP redirects, etc. ... of course, analyzing the URL iteself can help too.
I read mail with Mutt, and I've remapped the 'd'elete key to instead throw the message into a 'ham' mbox, and added a 'S'pam mapping to throw the message into a 'spam' mbox.
.muttrc for this?
Would you mind sharing your
Bayes rocks, been using it with spamassassin and it kills 99% of my spam. The problem is when some asshole spammer uses my email address in the 'From' header of his spam ... then I get scores of 'user not found' or 'virus detected' emails from legitimate mail servers ... it's not spam, but it's just as annoying. How do you guys deal with this problem?
Nearly trivial, and yet something tells me that this doesn't pass the Mom test.
Continuing to come up with ideas that make Steve Jobs and friends "shit their pants" ...
http://www.vcdquality.com/
Given that most of the world's porn comes out of the Los Angeles area, I'm pretty far from surprised.
I agree with most of what you've stated. Unfortunately, I think that offering the user additional formats with different pricing models overcomplicates things. Personally, I know the differences between MP3, FLAC and OGG -- my Mom doesn't. If she were shopping at a store that offered all of them, she would probably be overwhelmed by the number of choices and just give up. It's great for the power users, but would be hard to sell to the average user -- iTunes has proven that people like a simple model ... "push button, get banana chip".
Apple has sample clips for all of their songs, IIRC. I don't think they support full length previews, but I doubt it would be terribly difficult for them to add it if consumers demanded it.
Earlier in the thread it was suggested that WMA is being used for the songs. This makes sense for now, as Windows Media DRM is far further along the path of acceptance and compatibility than Real's Helix DRM.
The spec and books are both good sources of information on HTTP, but I find it difficult to actually apply the knowledge.
I recently interviewed for a position requiring intimate HTTP knowledge. Rather than try and understand every bit of the spec, I just captured all of my clear text HTTP traffic for a night of surfing, I then looked at the actual HTTP exchanges between my web browser and various servers and looked things up in the spec and other sources that I didn't understand.
I also learned some things that weren't in the spec, which were helpful in the interview like how session keys are structured on various servers, etc.
I couldn't agree more with your view of the Oracle tools ... but I really do use Java's platform independence all the time, and for non-GUI applications I think it works beautifully. The key here is the 'non-GUI' ...
Actual example, I recently developed a servlet-based application, and given the hardware and time constraints I was under I developed on Linux, performed functional testing while deployed on Windows, and finally deployed on Irix. There was no change in behavior with the application other than performance, and it was a complex, multi-threaded application.
This would be a nice linguistic pattern to have in C++. As it stands, the equivalent would be:
... so the below statement produces the string "coin: PENNY" which is very, very handy.
struct Coin { enum { penny, nickel, dime, quarter }; };
Not equivalent, the Java version also supports writing as a String
System.out.println("coin: " + Coin.PENNY);
AtomicLong? Born in the heart of a nuclear furnace, endowed with the power of the atom, it's a bird, it's a plane, it's AtomicLong!
;)
Sounds like a "super" class to me.
Sounds like a porn star's name to me.
I once held to the orthodoxy that if I needed more than emacs then something was broken in the language.
;)
I still do
`jde-gen-get-set' is an alias for `tempo-template-java-get-set-pair', an interactive Lisp function
-- loaded from "jde-gen"
(jde-gen-get-set &optional ARG)
Documentation:
Insert variable get-set method pair.
Typesafe enums. That alone makes me quiver with happiness.
You don't get out much, do you?
Some prefer the second way because it puts the term which cannot be a valid lvalue on the left side, thus if you make the common typo of "=" instead of "==", you will get a compile error from it, which wold not happen for x = 5.
You could always make 'x' final, producing the same compilation behavior with the more natural syntax.
The problem is that some syntatic sugar doesn't actually increase readability. Consider operator overloading.
...
Maybe it's just me, but I think operator overloading is closer to syntactic poison than syntactic sugar