I find it very confusing that Redhat server version 5 only provides 5.1.x php as a standard installation.
This is not even an still a supported branch of php by the php community so I assume none of these fixes that will be coming out in the next php 5.2.x or 5.3.x version may make it into RedHat 5 server. Considering that none of these holes are considered critical is more reason for RedHat to not bother with backporting.
Anyone find it a problem that Redhat installs in corporate environments do not provide a php version that is under active development?
How is Pidgin compare in voice/video quality to Skype? Whats the time frame for it to be in Windows? Will it be able to do multi-person video conference?
Here in NYC if you go to a subway you will sometimes see police officers near the entrance with a little desk in front of them. They are supposed to randomly pick out people to check their bags. This is supposed to do what deter a real terrorist?
What if a real terrorist walks into a subway upon seeing the cops just simply does a 180 and walks about a block to the other entrance to the same station. Somehow I think I rather have the officers be involved in their usual crime stopping work, at least at that way they sometimes succeed.
The articles don't really answer some key questions about how the system determines if the ball hit the line. I guess the details are in the study. Anybody read it out there?
The article says the system takes into account the compression of the ball and the fact that it skids on the ground. So the system tries to determine which parts of the ball actually touched the surface? Those must be some statistical calculations because I don't see how the system can actually see the ball compressing in 3d or tell which parts are actually making contact with the surface. So this is where we get the 3mm error. This brings a good point of the results during a game are within 3mm, should they be accepted.
Right of course. My company bought IDEA and I am happy with it. I am even trying to get them to upgrade to the latest version.
When I said I don't want to pay for it I ment to pay for it for personal use. For such things as just for fun projects. Things at home outside work.
This is why there is no reason the big ticket makers to charge people who would want to use their tools for non-commercial purposes. There must be plenty of people like me who are not enrolled in a college program but can benefit.
IDEA is better than NetBeans or Eclipse but its not $300 better. I will be ready to use it at home use when it becomes free but until then I'll be sticking to NetBeans.
By the way there is a bit of a lock in with the GUI designers on some of these IDEs which should make people careful how they use those features.
As far as I understand it, its not enough just to create many threads. The threads have to cooperate with each other and work on common data. How to do this effectively is the hard part. To make an analogy, in recent versions of java some new hashtable implementations where introduced that allowed many thread to access the data concurrently without locking. It may be complex stuff to us who don't understand how the stuff works under the hood but to an application developer it just works and easy to use.
2. The question now is what happens to the Samba work-around patches. Now that the bug is fixed, do the patches cause a side-effect (i.e. "a new bug")? The Samba people can easily remove their workaround at this time. Whats more of a concern is that this may break any number of thousands of systems when the BSD based OS on which they run are upgraded. Usually one does not upgrade the OS on which a legacy app is running on but since this fix is so recent relatively new code may be effected. People should go an audit their use of telldir and seekdir if they run on BSD.
I remember doing this for work. We needed to create a select element with a few thousand items that needed to be added dynamically based on an array of data. The fastest way that worked across all browsers was to concatenate a strings of tags using Array.push and join() followed by adding the string to the select element with innerHTML. This was about 10 times faster in IE as opposed to adding option items using DOM methods.
Actually you can sort the same data with multiple threads in parallel. Consider for example you divide an array of items into two halfs and sort each half with a separate thread using quicksort. There is no problem with synchronizing the data since the two threads will be working on separate data. The merge of the two sorted sets you can be done single threaded, which is of linear complexity. You can also get fancy with the merge but it gets more complex.
As far as sorting stuff like drop-down boxes you will not have enough data to justify using multiple cores on it, unless you got millions of items in it but then you got other problems.
I think sorting in parallel is not that hard. Sorting is one of the most studies topics in computer science so there bound to be decent parallel sorting algorithms already implemented in libraries you can use. The need for something like this is not that mainstream that is why we don't find implementation in the standard libraries of popular languages.
I thought this too but now I am not sure. For a long time the wireless took forever to reconnect after the laptop has woken up from sleep but recently it has been much faster. Its possibly that issue was resolved by updates.
I been using a ThinkPad X60 with Vista Business for six month. Generally I had no major issues and like how Vista works. Here are a few notes though:
1. By default the CPU is set to run at half the speed. My notebook came with a 1.8Ghz Core2 Duo, but by default the power settings are set to run it at 900Mhz. In fact thats the only speed the laptop does not get hot as hell. Even at the lower speed most desktop apps work fast enough.
2. I did a few tweaks myself like disable shadow copy and windows defender. I decided to leave the indexer on since I actually like what it provides.
3. With the most recent updates I think a few annoying things got fixed. The laptop comes out of sleep faster and copying seems to be faster.
4. Wireless networking sometimes is flaky. I don't know if Vista is responsible or its due to the interference where I live or its the lenovo wireless utils that are sluggish.
5. I really like the minor UI improvements in Vista like the new resource monitor. I don't see why it cant be back ported to XP.
Thats why when Verison gets over to your house and wires it up with fiber your cable company is not only going to drop your rates but also triple your download and upload.
Its a bit of a fallacy to look at it in those terms. Obviously you can use any one of many alternative. What you cannot duplicate that easily is the network part of the network.
I don't think it matters what IT people are thinking. What about countless small businesses that are purchasing new PCs and are not giving a second thought what OS is being configured on the PC. Literally not even bothering to see what the default OS selection is when they buy. They just make sure Office is included and there you go -- Vista adoption. Once this network effect happens Vista will be the default OS for business no matter what.
This is an really interesting problem. In my opinion vandalism is not an issue with wikipedia but the quality of the research work involved with each article is. Every article has a varying degree of quality to it. Some are "good" as in someone who did thorough research has written the article. Some are "good" because many people did little good bits of research and the combination is good. Some are "bad" because the research was flimsy or the article is tainted by the bias of the author. Not all articles have been well researched. Not all articles have been reviewed or corrected by people who are experts on the subject. And finally the really hard problem. For some articles there is not enough "good" material elsewhere online available to cite or use by people who do want to do good research. For some topics in order to write a good encyclopedic article one would have to spend 5 month researching secondary sources which are not freely available online.
So we wind up with a situation where some parts of wikipedia are good because the topics covered have alot of good research material to rely on and some topics are poor because the cost/motivation of doing proper research are too great for an average wikipedia editor. This is the really tough problem to overcome since most of wikipedia is volunteer work and most people are not willing to dedicate large portions of their life to it.
Nevertheless this new tech is going to at least solve the vandal problem a bit better. Right now its a little difficult to spot vandalism in the see of changes. This bit of automation would make it much easier for the "police" force of wikipedia to spot and eliminate any obvious vandalism.
Since nobody seemed to have made this point yet I thought I should. According to sco.com the company still has a number of actual real product which have nothing to do with the linux lawsuit.
There is the OpenServer 6 product. According to the site "SCO UNIX has more than 40% market share among U.S. pharmacy retailers". There is also mention of a "Mobile Server" somewhere.
I have no idea if any of these products have any future or if anyone is actually paying them. If the company where to drop all its litigation non-sense and focus on their products, could not the stock price rebound?
Registerfly has horible service I dont know how they are even in business. Their software does not work at all.
I had 2 big issues: 1. One of the domains I owned just disappeared from my account. After man minutes on the phone it was restored. 2. When I tried to pay to renew did not seem to work. The credit card submit page just died on you. I tried again. Later got a failure notice in the email and my credit card was charged twice.
I agree that this example is using xml requests for no reason. The list of images could have been a plain javascript array embeded in a tag in the html page. I think this article has more useful information about how to create slideshow effects using javascript. Although xml requests could be useful for other purposes this is not one of them. One thing that could make them useful for a slideshow is if it consistat of hundreds of images so xml can be used to load the data in chunks.
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I find it very confusing that Redhat server version 5 only provides 5.1.x php as a standard installation.
This is not even an still a supported branch of php by the php community so I assume none of these fixes that will be coming out in the next php 5.2.x or 5.3.x version may make it into RedHat 5 server. Considering that none of these holes are considered critical is more reason for RedHat to not bother with backporting.
Anyone find it a problem that Redhat installs in corporate environments do not provide a php version that is under active development?
How is Pidgin compare in voice/video quality to Skype?
Whats the time frame for it to be in Windows?
Will it be able to do multi-person video conference?
The fact that you voted is not secret. Only who you picked is.
Here in NYC if you go to a subway you will sometimes see police officers near the entrance with a little desk in front of them. They are supposed to randomly pick out people to check their bags. This is supposed to do what deter a real terrorist?
What if a real terrorist walks into a subway upon seeing the cops just simply does a 180 and walks about a block to the other entrance to the same station. Somehow I think I rather have the officers be involved in their usual crime stopping work, at least at that way they sometimes succeed.
The articles don't really answer some key questions about how the system determines if the ball hit the line. I guess the details are in the study. Anybody read it out there?
The article says the system takes into account the compression of the ball and the fact that it skids on the ground. So the system tries to determine which parts of the ball actually touched the surface? Those must be some statistical calculations because I don't see how the system can actually see the ball compressing in 3d or tell which parts are actually making contact with the surface. So this is where we get the 3mm error. This brings a good point of the results during a game are within 3mm, should they be accepted.
Right of course. My company bought IDEA and I am happy with it. I am even trying to get them to upgrade to the latest version.
When I said I don't want to pay for it I ment to pay for it for personal use. For such things as just for fun projects. Things at home outside work.
This is why there is no reason the big ticket makers to charge people who would want to use their tools for non-commercial purposes. There must be plenty of people like me who are not enrolled in a college program but can benefit.
IDEA is better than NetBeans or Eclipse but its not $300 better. I will be ready to use it at home use when it becomes free but until then I'll be sticking to NetBeans.
By the way there is a bit of a lock in with the GUI designers on some of these IDEs which should make people careful how they use those features.
As far as I understand it, its not enough just to create many threads. The threads have to cooperate with each other and work on common data. How to do this effectively is the hard part. To make an analogy, in recent versions of java some new hashtable implementations where introduced that allowed many thread to access the data concurrently without locking. It may be complex stuff to us who don't understand how the stuff works under the hood but to an application developer it just works and easy to use.
Actually only trees that are growing are sinks otherwise they are only stores of carbon.
I remember doing this for work. We needed to create a select element with a few thousand items that needed to be added dynamically based on an array of data. The fastest way that worked across all browsers was to concatenate a strings of tags using Array.push and join() followed by adding the string to the select element with innerHTML. This was about 10 times faster in IE as opposed to adding option items using DOM methods.
Actually you can sort the same data with multiple threads in parallel. Consider for example you divide an array of items into two halfs and sort each half with a separate thread using quicksort. There is no problem with synchronizing the data since the two threads will be working on separate data. The merge of the two sorted sets you can be done single threaded, which is of linear complexity. You can also get fancy with the merge but it gets more complex.
As far as sorting stuff like drop-down boxes you will not have enough data to justify using multiple cores on it, unless you got millions of items in it but then you got other problems.
I think sorting in parallel is not that hard. Sorting is one of the most studies topics in computer science so there bound to be decent parallel sorting algorithms already implemented in libraries you can use. The need for something like this is not that mainstream that is why we don't find implementation in the standard libraries of popular languages.
I thought this too but now I am not sure. For a long time the wireless took forever to reconnect after the laptop has woken up from sleep but recently it has been much faster. Its possibly that issue was resolved by updates.
I been using a ThinkPad X60 with Vista Business for six month. Generally I had no major issues and like how Vista works. Here are a few notes though:
1. By default the CPU is set to run at half the speed. My notebook came with a 1.8Ghz Core2 Duo, but by default the power settings are set to run it at 900Mhz. In fact thats the only speed the laptop does not get hot as hell. Even at the lower speed most desktop apps work fast enough.
2. I did a few tweaks myself like disable shadow copy and windows defender. I decided to leave the indexer on since I actually like what it provides.
3. With the most recent updates I think a few annoying things got fixed. The laptop comes out of sleep faster and copying seems to be faster.
4. Wireless networking sometimes is flaky. I don't know if Vista is responsible or its due to the interference where I live or its the lenovo wireless utils that are sluggish.
5. I really like the minor UI improvements in Vista like the new resource monitor. I don't see why it cant be back ported to XP.
1. Write a small comment next to the comment mentioning the code was copied of the web.
2. Write a quick email to your boss telling them you did that.
Move on with more important things.
Thats why when Verison gets over to your house and wires it up with fiber your cable company is not only going to drop your rates but also triple your download and upload.
Its a bit of a fallacy to look at it in those terms. Obviously you can use any one of many alternative. What you cannot duplicate that easily is the network part of the network.
You can get Barcelona systems from siliconmechanics. The big guys don't have the systems yet.
I don't think it matters what IT people are thinking. What about countless small businesses that are purchasing new PCs and are not giving a second thought what OS is being configured on the PC. Literally not even bothering to see what the default OS selection is when they buy. They just make sure Office is included and there you go -- Vista adoption. Once this network effect happens Vista will be the default OS for business no matter what.
Does anyone else feel the nostalgia of this insignificant conquer nothing investment?
This is an really interesting problem. In my opinion vandalism is not an issue with wikipedia but the quality of the research work involved with each article is. Every article has a varying degree of quality to it. Some are "good" as in someone who did thorough research has written the article. Some are "good" because many people did little good bits of research and the combination is good. Some are "bad" because the research was flimsy or the article is tainted by the bias of the author. Not all articles have been well researched. Not all articles have been reviewed or corrected by people who are experts on the subject. And finally the really hard problem. For some articles there is not enough "good" material elsewhere online available to cite or use by people who do want to do good research. For some topics in order to write a good encyclopedic article one would have to spend 5 month researching secondary sources which are not freely available online.
So we wind up with a situation where some parts of wikipedia are good because the topics covered have alot of good research material to rely on and some topics are poor because the cost/motivation of doing proper research are too great for an average wikipedia editor. This is the really tough problem to overcome since most of wikipedia is volunteer work and most people are not willing to dedicate large portions of their life to it.
Nevertheless this new tech is going to at least solve the vandal problem a bit better. Right now its a little difficult to spot vandalism in the see of changes. This bit of automation would make it much easier for the "police" force of wikipedia to spot and eliminate any obvious vandalism.
Since nobody seemed to have made this point yet I thought I should. According to sco.com the company still has a number of actual real product which have nothing to do with the linux lawsuit.
There is the OpenServer 6 product. According to the site "SCO UNIX has more than 40% market share among U.S. pharmacy retailers". There is also mention of a "Mobile Server" somewhere.
I have no idea if any of these products have any future or if anyone is actually paying them. If the company where to drop all its litigation non-sense and focus on their products, could not the stock price rebound?
Registerfly has horible service I dont know how they are even in business.
Their software does not work at all.
I had 2 big issues:
1. One of the domains I owned just disappeared from my account. After man minutes on the phone it was restored.
2. When I tried to pay to renew did not seem to work. The credit card submit page just died on you. I tried again. Later got a failure notice in the email and my credit card was charged twice.
Thankfully switched in time
I agree that this example is using xml requests for no reason. The list of images could have been a plain javascript array embeded in a tag in the html page. I think this article has more useful information about how to create slideshow effects using javascript. Although xml requests could be useful for other purposes this is not one of them. One thing that could make them useful for a slideshow is if it consistat of hundreds of images so xml can be used to load the data in chunks.