That isn't true. Corporations are regulated in
the US in the sense that they must operate under
the law. There are all sorts of restrictions
on what corporations can do legally. I think
this is a good thing for citizens and for
fair competition.
We don't have a free market economy in the
sense you describe. The government must
intervene to keep order and enforce ethical
behavior.
What if pharmaceutical companies made fradulent
claims about their drug products? Is that
okay as long as we have the almighty "free market"? You seem to be suggesting that
it is better to have a "free market" than to
enforce ethical behavior.
Gee, I'm sorry your mom died but she shouldn't
have been so stupid and believed those pills
would actually lower her blood pressure.
I don't know how it got into your head that
honesty and decency is outweighed by profit,
but I find it very sad.
Companies are unable to ethically self-regulate
and this is why we need the FDA and other
oversight organizations, as well as pro-consumer
groups.
They claim accurate search results. If your
results aren't accurate but instead based on
payment without stating so, that's deceptive.
google.com is not one of the search engines
they're going after. in fact, the article
says:
"
Not all search engine companies have adopted deceptive advertising
practices. For example, Google clearly notes that its paid placements
are "Sponsored Links," and it will not put paid ads within its search
results. "We have no plans for a paid inclusion program," Google
spokesperson Cindy McCaffrey told SearchEngineWatch.com. "[O]ur search
results represent our editorial integrity, and we have no plans to
alter our automated process, which works very well in gathering
information and delivering highly relevant results,"(4) she said.
"
Re:Slashcode needs ispell plugin! (was Re:insite?)
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Idiot savants, as I understand it, are mentally
retarded yet can perform some skill extremely
well. So, I supposed that it was spelling
in this case (essentially memorizing letter
sequences). Is this not a correct view of the
disorder?
And hey if my C-64 would have had net access
instead of a 300 baud modem I would never have
upgraded.
I really doubt the guy was referring to very
specialized cases such as the rare outlier
software you mention.
Remember the topic here is digital music
decoders not mission critical system. Who
the hell was talking about rocket systems?
Nobody. You pulled it out of your ass to "prove"
your fallacious argument.
Clock speeds on two different processors mean
different things, so I would say yes it's fair
since what they're comparing is top end
vs. top end, not efficiency per MHz.
Mac users used to play this silly game all the
time: PPC is faster per MHz! Yeah sure, but
if you can't buy them at the same higher
speeds as Intel CPUs then it doesn't really
matter. In fact, that efficiency may be why
they can't manufacture faster clocked processors.
She said learn C or C++, depending on whether
you want to do Gnome or KDE programming. I think
that is sound advice. Yes, there are bindings
for other languages but I think you need to
be able to comprehend the library source at
least at some level.
But she also emphasizes finding a project you
like, reading documentation, starting off with
simple examples and changes.
I think encouraging people to go for it if
they're interested is a good idea. Becoming
a great programmer is hard, but you have to
start somewhere and you can still contribute
even if you're not a master.
The interesting thing to me here is how well some
simple special purpose hardware can do at certain
classes of problems. This sort of flies in the
face of the trend towards generals COTS hardware
and general languages for computation.
The last time I saw cool and useful specialized hardware was the
EFF's cracking machine that won the distributed
contest.
We talk about, for example, Java being fast enough
to compete with compiled languages, but the fact
of the matter is that a general system could not
achieve anywhere near 32TFlops peak performance
on standard PC clusters where you really just
need raw computational speed. I think some other
people mentioned that SIMD will get you in the
GFlops range, but that is 3 orders of magnitude
below the Grapes machines.
Before Seymour Cray was killed, one of the last
thing he was working on was a project aiming
for Petaflops performance. You can see just what
a high goal that still is. (A Petaflop is
1000 Teraflops!)
I remember when transputers used to be advertised
a lot in Byte and other computer magazines. I
wonder if we'll ever see a return of something
similar. Grapes seems pretty specialized, but
something a little more general like FPGA
add on boards might be a good way to get good
price/performance on a PC base (i.e. using
a PC cluster instead of an expensive
supercomputer). The applications would be limited
to computationally intensive things. But, for
example, 3D rendering for movie animation might
be better done on more specialized hardware.
You couldn't even guess why they'd want to
make sure you spend 20 seconds writing a post? Do you think it could be a heuristic to filter
out short and worthless posts??
Are you sure there aren't a lot of those books
because there's a big market for them?
There's a ton of production Cobol and Fortran
code, and tons of it still being written.
All the Java docs are online. Same with
Perl. Why do I need a book? I have like
two Java books related to performance and
even those were a waste. Those books are
outdated as soon as you get them home too.
I haven't written any significant Scheme code,
but I wrote a bunch of CL and my experience
was that it was a writable and not readable
language. I thought it was harder to debug
than an imperative language. Not that it
isn't cool, I just wouldn't want to write
large Scheme/CL programs at all.
-Kevin
OCaml Re:I can tell you why *I* am not using Ruby.
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I've been playing with OCaml lately and it's
kind of neat.
Something similar to your reject example
might be:
List.filter (fun c -> c = Char.uppercase c) ['a';'A';'b';'B';'c'];;
Assuming you answered "yes", what is the difference between the regular placement of
tiles to create art and the placement
of computer pixels to create art?
I don't think there is a difference.
If you say that computer art isn't fine art,
you open a lot of other issues IMO. Can
fine art be performed with electronic
instruments?
Slashdot Mirror
"moved" is correct since the clause is
subjunctive
some of your other comments fall into subjectivity
rather than grammar
next time you correct someone, you should try to
be correcter
-Kevin
That isn't true. Corporations are regulated in
the US in the sense that they must operate under
the law. There are all sorts of restrictions
on what corporations can do legally. I think
this is a good thing for citizens and for
fair competition.
-Kevin
We don't have a free market economy in the
sense you describe. The government must
intervene to keep order and enforce ethical
behavior.
What if pharmaceutical companies made fradulent
claims about their drug products? Is that
okay as long as we have the almighty "free market"? You seem to be suggesting that
it is better to have a "free market" than to
enforce ethical behavior.
Gee, I'm sorry your mom died but she shouldn't
have been so stupid and believed those pills
would actually lower her blood pressure.
I don't know how it got into your head that
honesty and decency is outweighed by profit,
but I find it very sad.
Companies are unable to ethically self-regulate
and this is why we need the FDA and other
oversight organizations, as well as pro-consumer
groups.
-Kevin
The difference is that lying is okay
as long as you make a buck?
-Kevin
They claim accurate search results. If your
results aren't accurate but instead based on
payment without stating so, that's deceptive.
google.com is not one of the search engines
they're going after. in fact, the article
says:
"
Not all search engine companies have adopted deceptive advertising
practices. For example, Google clearly notes that its paid placements
are "Sponsored Links," and it will not put paid ads within its search
results. "We have no plans for a paid inclusion program," Google
spokesperson Cindy McCaffrey told SearchEngineWatch.com. "[O]ur search
results represent our editorial integrity, and we have no plans to
alter our automated process, which works very well in gathering
information and delivering highly relevant results,"(4) she said.
"
Idiot savants, as I understand it, are mentally
retarded yet can perform some skill extremely
well. So, I supposed that it was spelling
in this case (essentially memorizing letter
sequences). Is this not a correct view of the
disorder?
And hey if my C-64 would have had net access
instead of a 300 baud modem I would never have
upgraded.
-Kevin
*cough* straw man *cough*
I really doubt the guy was referring to very
specialized cases such as the rare outlier
software you mention.
Remember the topic here is digital music
decoders not mission critical system. Who
the hell was talking about rocket systems?
Nobody. You pulled it out of your ass to "prove"
your fallacious argument.
-Kevin
Clock speeds on two different processors mean
different things, so I would say yes it's fair
since what they're comparing is top end
vs. top end, not efficiency per MHz.
Mac users used to play this silly game all the
time: PPC is faster per MHz! Yeah sure, but
if you can't buy them at the same higher
speeds as Intel CPUs then it doesn't really
matter. In fact, that efficiency may be why
they can't manufacture faster clocked processors.
-Kevin
Did michael read the article?
She said learn C or C++, depending on whether
you want to do Gnome or KDE programming. I think
that is sound advice. Yes, there are bindings
for other languages but I think you need to
be able to comprehend the library source at
least at some level.
But she also emphasizes finding a project you
like, reading documentation, starting off with
simple examples and changes.
I think encouraging people to go for it if
they're interested is a good idea. Becoming
a great programmer is hard, but you have to
start somewhere and you can still contribute
even if you're not a master.
-Kevin
This case doesn't seem very murky to me since
KIllustrator and Illustrator are such similar
programs (vector drawing programs).
Is it really true that it is murky?
-Kevin
Because it's an obvious take off on Illustrator!
It couldn't be more blatant unless The GIMP
called itself GAdobePhotoshop or a new cola soft
drink called itself KCoke.
Illustrator is a famous moniker and Adobe doesn't
want someone getting a free ride on all their
effort to develop that recognition.
I don't think it is an unreasonable request.
-Kevin
The interesting thing to me here is how well some simple special purpose hardware can do at certain classes of problems. This sort of flies in the face of the trend towards generals COTS hardware and general languages for computation.
The last time I saw cool and useful specialized hardware was the EFF's cracking machine that won the distributed contest.
We talk about, for example, Java being fast enough to compete with compiled languages, but the fact of the matter is that a general system could not achieve anywhere near 32TFlops peak performance on standard PC clusters where you really just need raw computational speed. I think some other people mentioned that SIMD will get you in the GFlops range, but that is 3 orders of magnitude below the Grapes machines.
Before Seymour Cray was killed, one of the last thing he was working on was a project aiming for Petaflops performance. You can see just what a high goal that still is. (A Petaflop is 1000 Teraflops!)
I remember when transputers used to be advertised a lot in Byte and other computer magazines. I wonder if we'll ever see a return of something similar. Grapes seems pretty specialized, but something a little more general like FPGA add on boards might be a good way to get good price/performance on a PC base (i.e. using a PC cluster instead of an expensive supercomputer). The applications would be limited to computationally intensive things. But, for example, 3D rendering for movie animation might be better done on more specialized hardware.
-Kevin
You have no clue?
You couldn't even guess why they'd want to make sure you spend 20 seconds writing a post? Do you think it could be a heuristic to filter out short and worthless posts??
Maybe they should up it to 60.
-Kevin
Are you sure there aren't a lot of those books
because there's a big market for them?
There's a ton of production Cobol and Fortran
code, and tons of it still being written.
All the Java docs are online. Same with
Perl. Why do I need a book? I have like
two Java books related to performance and
even those were a waste. Those books are
outdated as soon as you get them home too.
-Kevin
I haven't written any significant Scheme code,
but I wrote a bunch of CL and my experience
was that it was a writable and not readable
language. I thought it was harder to debug
than an imperative language. Not that it
isn't cool, I just wouldn't want to write
large Scheme/CL programs at all.
-Kevin
I've been playing with OCaml lately and it's kind of neat.
Something similar to your reject example might be:
List.filter (fun c -> c = Char.uppercase c) ['a';'A';'b';'B';'c'];;
outputs:
- : char list = ['A'; 'B']
-Kevin
But what are the seek times?
Transfer rates are not very indicative of
useful performance.
When I see 20,000RPM + FDB + SCSI, I'll
be interested.
-Kevin
Does Natalie Portman use JFS or ReiserFS?
-Kevin
No kidding! What an idiot.
...
Am I the only one who ever put together a model car and painted it? You can get a great finish. If you want, you can go multicolor, clear coat,
-Kevin (still shaking my head)
Can you make fine art out of tiles?
IOW, can tile murals be considered "fine art"?
Assuming you answered "yes", what is the difference between the regular placement of
tiles to create art and the placement
of computer pixels to create art?
I don't think there is a difference.
If you say that computer art isn't fine art,
you open a lot of other issues IMO. Can
fine art be performed with electronic
instruments?
-Kevin
Not sure I get the intention of your post, but
IIS has been improved also I'm sure. And IIS
probably has more development resources.
-Kevin
>The rest of this post is to just get by the
>Lameness filter... what the hell is that?
A filter for short, lame, posts, but
I guess it doesn't work.
-Kevin
>You're obviously not overly adept at reading,
>since you fail to see clearly intended sarcasm.
People realized he was joking. It
just wasn't funny because of the technical
error.
If you try to make a joke to technical
people and the premise is in error (blatant
misquote in this case), you should expect
criticism.
I'm sorry you felt the need to write those
final attempts at insults in order to passive
agressively defend your own unsophisticated
sense of humor.
-Kevin
I guess you'll have to be a little quicker
next time, Sparky.
-Kevin
I agree that gcc isn't very fast. You can
try -pipe, a lower -O setting, multiple
CPUs, and so on to speed things up.
However, that is a pretty bad way to set up
a project anyway. It should be split into
more manageable, seperately compilable,
pieces.
-Kevin