You suffered broken ribs & spine and yet you are still talking to the media?
I thought my family indicated last time that behavior like that can damage your health.
Shouldn't there be an iCar just around the corner?
At least the hype should be just around the corner if nothing else.
I suppose considering the battery life issues that surround the iPhone, maybe this wouldn't be such a good idea after all.
At least the thing would look sleek and have good commercials, even if it didn't perform very well and cost 5X more than anything comparable.
Just hand out a pass or a fail. Don't give grades. That's my theory.
If you really are going to give grades, please don't dumb down the tests.
Keep the tests real but adjust the scores upwards so that the median gives the students encouragement.
One major difference between the UK and the USA is that, in the UK, above 50% is considered OK. In the USA, anything below 80% is starting to look not so good. So I dumbed down my tests in the USA to increase the scores instead of merely adjusting the scores upwards by a fixed percentage. In retrospect, I think this was the wrong thing to do.
Anyway, the problem with dumbing down the tests or merely upping the scores is that the really good students shine less.
I'm really, really looking forward to the day when I can afford a Raid 1 of large capacity SSDs.
Solid State Drives are basically flash memory with an SATA or PATA interface.
Pros:
More reliable: No moving parts; no head crash; no wobble
Low latency, high throughput (all seem to offer low latency, some don't do so good on throughput)
Monopolistic swines.
They told me to upgrade to a digital TV service.
The salesman only informed me of the "teaser rate" and completely omitted to mention that this would expire in time and then I would go up to the standard rate.
The mandatory box required for HD service is $5. So I said that I would then have to pay another $5 if I wanted to connect another HD TV to their service. The salesman said "errr, no actually it is more" because the $5 box was discounted for the 1st one.
I cannot wait for Verizon FIOS. I have put myself on their "waiting list".
It's not that I particularly like Verizon, but they seem slightly better than Comcast. As usual, competition is everything. Imagine what Intel would be selling us now if it weren't for AMD (and vice-versa).
I'm too far away for DSL.
There is no cable modem service in my street.
Am I stuck with dial-up to this mega-network?
If so, progress seems a long way off to me.
We are running many high speed financial message processing applications. A crash for any reason (including a leak) would be very costly for us.
We pre-allocate pools of objects at startup and then re-use them. No other memory is allocated or freed while the process is running. Our pools of reusable objects are monitored very carefully as an object that isn't release back to its pool when the job is done is akin to a memory leak. Use of sentries to automatically release objects back to the pools when they fall out of scope is mandatory.
So my answer is to the problem is: 1. Use sentries (or some other mechanism) to guarantee memory is released. 2. Don't allocate except at startup. 3. No need for elaborate tools due to the above.
I'm sure that not all applications data usage would fit into this model, but it is surprising how many can.
We have seen some leaks in our applications. These were tracked down to STL internally leaking. They weren't generally very large and therefore we continue to live with them.
On the subject of garbage collectors, some of our colleagues use Java and.NET. Both sets of colleagues have had major performance problems caused directly by the garbage collectors kicking in and consuming vast CPU power while they did their thing. The result was a failure to process messages in a timely manner in our high speed environment. The solution in both languages was to use pools of reusable objects and never cause their reference counts to drop to 0. Thus they implemented the very same mechanism that we use in C++ and avoided the garbage collectors.
So don't think that a garbage collector is the solution. Perhaps in less demanding applications it is a potential answer.
Lastly, I strongly dislike anything from Rational. I find them overpriced unreliable bloatware (YMMV). Purify used to be good some time ago, but those days are long gone.
I echo what others have said above. You are a developer. You know your requirements. Build a simple tool to monitor and check your usage. For us it was managed pools of re-usable objects.
You could choose worse than being an algorithmic trading developer (normally referred to as a quant). This is a very well paying field (not as good as the hedge fund manager mentioned previously). The work is a combination of trading knowledge, software development and statistical analysis. Trading algorithms have been long since been putting the "junior trader" jobs out of business. A decent algorithm with many strategies can trade in many ways, depending on what the customer needs. Your job would be to create new strategies based upon customer requirements as well your own experience. Many trading strategies are very closely guarded secrets. The quant that "owns" the knowledge has great power and often commands a very good salary.
There are several books you can read up on the subject.
I assisted in the hiring of a mid-level developer for our team.
One week into his new job, I suggested he set a breakpoint in his code to quickly determine the cause of a problem. He said: "What's a breakpoint?"
A month later he was fired.
How does a developer manage to work for a few years without knowing what a breakpoint is?
Your facts are incorrect. I quote from the sealand website (www.sealandgov.com):
Extension of Territorial Waters
On 1 October, 1987, Britain extended its territorial waters from 3 to 12 nautical miles. The previous day, Prince Roy declared the extension of Sealand's territorial waters to be a like 12 nautical miles, so that right of way from the open sea to Sealand would not be blocked by British claimed waters. No treaty has been signed between Britain and Sealand to divide up the overlapping areas, but a general policy of dividing the area between the two countries down the middle can be assumed. International law does not allow the claim of new land during the extension of sea rights, so Sealand's sovereignty was safely "grandfathered" in. Britain has no more right to Sealand's territory than Sealand has to the territory of the British coastline that falls within its claimed 12 nautical mile arc.
Oh goody!
Now I can play Duke Nukem at 120 frames per second despite the fact that human eyes aren't capable of seeing that much data.
Given the fact that we seem to be reaching laws of diminishing returns on video cards, shouldn't the hardware manufacturers instead start to concentrate on the weakest link by improving the capabilities of the human?
I need eyes than can handle more fps. I need more bandwidth from my eyes to my brain. I definitely need more processing power in my brain.
I won't mention one of my other peripherals that really needs upgrading....
The bittorrent developers have sold out! Now if I owned the code, that action would have been OK, but seeing as I don't, it's despicable. Of course the bittorrent developers could always cut me in for a part of the action and I would be open to changing my opinion.
It is bad for consumers when this happens. We need a healthy competition between AMD and Intel to keep prices down and performance up. When either side becomes dominant, the consumers are the only ones to suffer. Let's hope the Core Duo redresses the balance.
Just like choosing between two lousy presidents
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Choosing between Lotus Notes and MS Sharepoint isn't an enviable choice.
I've used both. I thought they both sucked in so many ways.
I particularly like the entry in the interface hall of shame specifically dedicated to the disgrace called Lotus Notes.
The problem is that I thought Sharepoint was almost as bad.
Luckily I am a developer and I will just build a custom website that continues to function (unlike sharepoint) and has an intuitive interface (like neither).
Seeing as they have already denied many rights to non-Microsoft people, they were looking for another segment of humans to restrict. It seems they have found it.
Isn't the habit of prefixing stuff with lower case letters such as i and e so yesterday? No more so than using the expression "so yesterday" I suppose. Well I just want to register my objection to all this eTrade, eMachines, iPod, iTablet, iBook crap.
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You suffered broken ribs & spine and yet you are still talking to the media?
I thought my family indicated last time that behavior like that can damage your health.
The ZENN is an NEV regulated to a maximum 25mph. This renders it useless for many, many people.
Shouldn't there be an iCar just around the corner?
At least the hype should be just around the corner if nothing else.
I suppose considering the battery life issues that surround the iPhone, maybe this wouldn't be such a good idea after all.
At least the thing would look sleek and have good commercials, even if it didn't perform very well and cost 5X more than anything comparable.
Just hand out a pass or a fail. Don't give grades. That's my theory. If you really are going to give grades, please don't dumb down the tests. Keep the tests real but adjust the scores upwards so that the median gives the students encouragement. One major difference between the UK and the USA is that, in the UK, above 50% is considered OK. In the USA, anything below 80% is starting to look not so good. So I dumbed down my tests in the USA to increase the scores instead of merely adjusting the scores upwards by a fixed percentage. In retrospect, I think this was the wrong thing to do. Anyway, the problem with dumbing down the tests or merely upping the scores is that the really good students shine less.
Anyone offering odds on the outcome?
Pros:
Cons:
Samsung SSDp roducts/ssd.asp
http://www.samsung.com/eu/Products/Semiconductor/
Lexar SSD
http://www.lexar.com/ssd/expresscard.html
Sandisk SSDa nDisk_SSD_Solid_State_Drives.aspx
http://www.sandisk.com/OEM/ProductCatalog(1274)-S
Transcend SSDp ?ModNo=162
http://www.transcendusa.com/Products/ModDetail.as
You can buy a 32GB Samsung from NewEgg for $534 incl shipping.
Seems like a very poor idea considering how many spills occur on a tablecloth.
Imagine spilling a beer and getting an electric shock?
Monopolistic swines. They told me to upgrade to a digital TV service. The salesman only informed me of the "teaser rate" and completely omitted to mention that this would expire in time and then I would go up to the standard rate. The mandatory box required for HD service is $5. So I said that I would then have to pay another $5 if I wanted to connect another HD TV to their service. The salesman said "errr, no actually it is more" because the $5 box was discounted for the 1st one. I cannot wait for Verizon FIOS. I have put myself on their "waiting list". It's not that I particularly like Verizon, but they seem slightly better than Comcast. As usual, competition is everything. Imagine what Intel would be selling us now if it weren't for AMD (and vice-versa).
I'm too far away for DSL. There is no cable modem service in my street. Am I stuck with dial-up to this mega-network? If so, progress seems a long way off to me.
We are running many high speed financial message processing applications. A crash for any reason (including a leak) would be very costly for us.
.NET. Both sets of colleagues have had major performance problems caused directly by the garbage collectors kicking in and consuming vast CPU power while they did their thing. The result was a failure to process messages in a timely manner in our high speed environment. The solution in both languages was to use pools of reusable objects and never cause their reference counts to drop to 0. Thus they implemented the very same mechanism that we use in C++ and avoided the garbage collectors.
We pre-allocate pools of objects at startup and then re-use them. No other memory is allocated or freed while the process is running. Our pools of reusable objects are monitored very carefully as an object that isn't release back to its pool when the job is done is akin to a memory leak. Use of sentries to automatically release objects back to the pools when they fall out of scope is mandatory.
So my answer is to the problem is:
1. Use sentries (or some other mechanism) to guarantee memory is released.
2. Don't allocate except at startup.
3. No need for elaborate tools due to the above.
I'm sure that not all applications data usage would fit into this model, but it is surprising how many can.
We have seen some leaks in our applications. These were tracked down to STL internally leaking. They weren't generally very large and therefore we continue to live with them.
On the subject of garbage collectors, some of our colleagues use Java and
So don't think that a garbage collector is the solution. Perhaps in less demanding applications it is a potential answer.
Lastly, I strongly dislike anything from Rational. I find them overpriced unreliable bloatware (YMMV). Purify used to be good some time ago, but those days are long gone.
I echo what others have said above. You are a developer. You know your requirements. Build a simple tool to monitor and check your usage. For us it was managed pools of re-usable objects.
You could choose worse than being an algorithmic trading developer (normally referred to as a quant). This is a very well paying field (not as good as the hedge fund manager mentioned previously). The work is a combination of trading knowledge, software development and statistical analysis. Trading algorithms have been long since been putting the "junior trader" jobs out of business. A decent algorithm with many strategies can trade in many ways, depending on what the customer needs. Your job would be to create new strategies based upon customer requirements as well your own experience. Many trading strategies are very closely guarded secrets. The quant that "owns" the knowledge has great power and often commands a very good salary. There are several books you can read up on the subject.
On behalf of Francophiles, I would advise you to brush up on your French. The word "Viva" is Italian isn't it? Perhaps you meant "Vive".
One week into his new job, I suggested he set a breakpoint in his code to quickly determine the cause of a problem. He said: "What's a breakpoint?"
A month later he was fired.
How does a developer manage to work for a few years without knowing what a breakpoint is?
Your facts are incorrect.
I quote from the sealand website (www.sealandgov.com):
Extension of Territorial Waters
On 1 October, 1987, Britain extended its territorial waters from 3 to 12 nautical miles. The previous day, Prince Roy declared the extension of Sealand's territorial waters to be a like 12 nautical miles, so that right of way from the open sea to Sealand would not be blocked by British claimed waters. No treaty has been signed between Britain and Sealand to divide up the overlapping areas, but a general policy of dividing the area between the two countries down the middle can be assumed. International law does not allow the claim of new land during the extension of sea rights, so Sealand's sovereignty was safely "grandfathered" in. Britain has no more right to Sealand's territory than Sealand has to the territory of the British coastline that falls within its claimed 12 nautical mile arc.
The only things that are inevitable are virtual birth, virtual death and real taxes.
No content post. Just happy at this news item.
Oh goody!
Now I can play Duke Nukem at 120 frames per second despite the fact that human eyes aren't capable of seeing that much data.
Given the fact that we seem to be reaching laws of diminishing returns on video cards, shouldn't the hardware manufacturers instead start to concentrate on the weakest link by improving the capabilities of the human?
I need eyes than can handle more fps. I need more bandwidth from my eyes to my brain. I definitely need more processing power in my brain.
I won't mention one of my other peripherals that really needs upgrading....
The bittorrent developers have sold out! Now if I owned the code, that action would have been OK, but seeing as I don't, it's despicable. Of course the bittorrent developers could always cut me in for a part of the action and I would be open to changing my opinion.
Buyers of this item should also consider purchasing the Kenwood TT756SL 2 slice toaster and radio. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000AANXG8/ref=no sim/002-8287001-2609612?n=284507
It is bad for consumers when this happens. We need a healthy competition between AMD and Intel to keep prices down and performance up. When either side becomes dominant, the consumers are the only ones to suffer. Let's hope the Core Duo redresses the balance.
I particularly like the entry in the interface hall of shame specifically dedicated to the disgrace called Lotus Notes. The problem is that I thought Sharepoint was almost as bad.
Luckily I am a developer and I will just build a custom website that continues to function (unlike sharepoint) and has an intuitive interface (like neither).
My choice would be "none of the above".
Seeing as they have already denied many rights to non-Microsoft people, they were looking for another segment of humans to restrict. It seems they have found it.
Can I get a bulk discount for a Beowulf cluster of these laptops? I'm thinking of looking on EBay.
Isn't the habit of prefixing stuff with lower case letters such as i and e so yesterday? No more so than using the expression "so yesterday" I suppose. Well I just want to register my objection to all this eTrade, eMachines, iPod, iTablet, iBook crap.
Next, someone's gonna discover that these cans make convenient containers for chips.