But, if you were using mobile phones to transfer a 2.5 GB file between two seperate windows-only PCs, and you were willing to initiate a $10,000 dollar, 10 day file transfer using a proprietary windows-only compression scheme without any type of error correction or partial restart, then I agree that WinRK would be the best choice.
the extra slack makes it possible to type-safely do things that cannot be done in languages without multiple inheritance or parametric polymorphism.
Beautiful troll. I'll admit that I'm not a big fan of the hideous macro language that C++ has used to simulate a cirppled, limited compile-time-only version of parametric polymorphism, but I do admire anyone who can pretend to be fond of it.
The "related links" box for this story is horribly broken. Instead of being links related to the story, it's a bunch of advertising. I'm sure this was a mistake or a bug in slashcode itself.
I've searched the FAQ, but I can't figure out how to contact slashdot admins. Does anyone know an email address or telephone number I can use to contact them about this serious problem? I'm sure they'll want to fix it as quickly as possible.
3 hours 47 minutes with WinRK versus gzipping in 3 minutes 16 seconds. Is it really worth watching the progress bar for 200 megs smaller file?
If your file starts out as 250 mb, it might be worth it. However, if you start with a 2.5 gb file, then it's almost certainly not -- especially once you take the closed-source and undocumented nature of the compression algorithm into account.
/not surprisingly, the article is about 2.5 gb files
To work bounties need to either be bigger and/or offer some of kind of other incentive, or they need to be tailored to that 14 year old high school student crowd - smaller, easier to evaluate, harder to screw up.
Well, you've apparently never had any involvement with professional programming, of any kind.
The most difficult part of programming is dividing up a project into small, easy to evaluate, difficult to screw up pieces. Doing that takes about 90% of the time, involves 90% of the effort, and usually involves multiple iterations of the entire development cycle to get right. You should count on several months of work by a highly qualified, extremely skilled developer to spec each week's worth of work for a low skill 14 year old high school student.
See, that's the real trick - panels that have 8ms switching time don't tend to have true colour fidelity.
No monitor, at any price, has ever had "true color fidelity." The very fact that you think it's possible indicates that color doesn't matter enough to you to take the time to even understand it, much less need it.
Anyone who uses a web browser is, by definition, knowledgeable in the use of web browsers. So, if you can use a web browser, you're literate in the use of web browsers. Similarly, if you can read and understand books in french, you're literate in french. I'm not sure if I understand your example, since you admit you can't read books in french, and therefore you're not literate in french. I can't see the contradiction there.
I have no problem with the original poster writing a web site to target web illiterate people. In fact, it sounds like it's about the only thing he's qualified to do.
Real Computer Illiterate Users don't use computers, and don't have a preferred screen resolution. Anyone using a computer has, by definition, some degree of computer literacy, in the same way anyone reading a book has some degree of "normal" literacy.
The question is moot, though, since Real Web Designers don't design web pages to a particular screen resolution. Also, real web designers often try to target a more specific audience than "people who don't use computers."
some estimates say that as many as 50% of HD TV owners are not using them for HD...
I'm pretty sure that 50% of HD TV owners report they're not using them for HD. I would be a small fortune that another 30% aren't using them for HD, but report that they are.
For example, in the last Slashdot article about this very subject a disturbingly large number of Slashdot posters reported that they receive and HD signal only when they watched DVDs. In other words, a large number of Slashdotters would report that they're using their television for HD, but would be wrong.
Could someone please tell me why there's a war between the big-enders and the little-enders? I fail to see the entertainment value in the endianness of a chip...
More importantly, how did Swift predict that war back in 1726?
So as someone with incredibly high (I'd even go at far as saying overactive) metabolism and who is way underweight because of it
A sizeable number of american women are so underweight that their hair is falling out and their menstrual cycle is interrupted.
However, I don't think I've ever met a single underweight american man, ever, in my entire life. We've reached a point where many americans have their perceptions so badly warped that they think that 185 lbs. is normal for a six foot tall man, when in reality the normal weight for a six foot tall man is about 155 lbs. If you're under 30, you should probably weigh even less.
But OTOH, Seriously, if this were a bomb and they had a 24 hour time limit...
Yeah, if the terrorists had a bomb, and they put in a pneumatic tube, but then it got stuck, and you only had 24 hours to find it and get it out, there are three questions that come immediately to mind:
1. Would the robots get there in time? 2. Would we be allowed to torture the terrorists, or would the evil villain John McCain prevent it? 3. What kind of crack are you smoking?
But OTOH, Seriously, what kind of crack are you smoking?
If I have a database that is handling sales, and it crashes, gets corrupt, the machine dies, etc., transactions are irrelevant...
There are methods for keeping off-site transaction logs; even if your server catches on fire and burns you can come back up to last committed transaction. It's probably expensive, both in complexity and setup costs, but it might help you sleep a little better at night.
You know, there are a lot of places using databases servers that haven't been restarted since mysql v. 2 was the latest and greatest.
The fact that every six months mysql comes out with a brand new, latest and greatest, we-honestly-got-it-right-this-time-for-real version doesn't give anyone warm fuzzies.
MySQL is a perfectly fine set of APIs to wrap around flat files. And, since the majority of websites would get by just fine with flat files with very simple file-level locking, by extension the majority of websites would get by just fine with MySQL.
However, I don't think anyone with any knowledge uses MySQL as a database. The idea is absurd.
You can't call someone wrong and pedantic at the same time. It makes absolutely no sense.
At any rate, you might want to track down the person who did report that you had a larger than average penis in this earlier post. Because the person who reported that you had a larger than average penis used your screen name, and made it very clear that you were "intimately" familiar with the precise size of your swimming partner's erect members...
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What do you do, exactly?
He trolls message boards. He's extraordinarly good at it, too.
But, if you were using mobile phones to transfer a 2.5 GB file between two seperate windows-only PCs, and you were willing to initiate a $10,000 dollar, 10 day file transfer using a proprietary windows-only compression scheme without any type of error correction or partial restart, then I agree that WinRK would be the best choice.
the extra slack makes it possible to type-safely do things that cannot be done in languages without multiple inheritance or parametric polymorphism.
Beautiful troll. I'll admit that I'm not a big fan of the hideous macro language that C++ has used to simulate a cirppled, limited compile-time-only version of parametric polymorphism, but I do admire anyone who can pretend to be fond of it.
The "related links" box for this story is horribly broken. Instead of being links related to the story, it's a bunch of advertising. I'm sure this was a mistake or a bug in slashcode itself.
I've searched the FAQ, but I can't figure out how to contact slashdot admins. Does anyone know an email address or telephone number I can use to contact them about this serious problem? I'm sure they'll want to fix it as quickly as possible.
3 hours 47 minutes with WinRK versus gzipping in 3 minutes 16 seconds. Is it really worth watching the progress bar for 200 megs smaller file?
/not surprisingly, the article is about 2.5 gb files
If your file starts out as 250 mb, it might be worth it. However, if you start with a 2.5 gb file, then it's almost certainly not -- especially once you take the closed-source and undocumented nature of the compression algorithm into account.
To work bounties need to either be bigger and/or offer some of kind of other incentive, or they need to be tailored to that 14 year old high school student crowd - smaller, easier to evaluate, harder to screw up.
Well, you've apparently never had any involvement with professional programming, of any kind.
The most difficult part of programming is dividing up a project into small, easy to evaluate, difficult to screw up pieces. Doing that takes about 90% of the time, involves 90% of the effort, and usually involves multiple iterations of the entire development cycle to get right. You should count on several months of work by a highly qualified, extremely skilled developer to spec each week's worth of work for a low skill 14 year old high school student.
At first, I thought that Slashdot was a full 30 hours behind fark.
But then I discovered that fark is actually two and a half years behind slashdot.
This is true; in the applications where a $50,000 professional monitor is needed, an LCD simply isn't a replacement.
See, that's the real trick - panels that have 8ms switching time don't tend to have true colour fidelity.
No monitor, at any price, has ever had "true color fidelity." The very fact that you think it's possible indicates that color doesn't matter enough to you to take the time to even understand it, much less need it.
I said people who could read books were literate.
You said you couldn't read books in french, and therefore were not literate in french.
Please explain the contradiction to me. Do it slowly, with small words, so that I can understand.
Too many posts hit +4. Decrease the number of moderators.
Slashdot's moderation system is broken by design. Your solution just masks the hole with another layer of duct tape.
Anyone who uses a web browser is, by definition, knowledgeable in the use of web browsers. So, if you can use a web browser, you're literate in the use of web browsers. Similarly, if you can read and understand books in french, you're literate in french. I'm not sure if I understand your example, since you admit you can't read books in french, and therefore you're not literate in french. I can't see the contradiction there.
I have no problem with the original poster writing a web site to target web illiterate people. In fact, it sounds like it's about the only thing he's qualified to do.
Real Computer Illiterate Users don't use computers, and don't have a preferred screen resolution. Anyone using a computer has, by definition, some degree of computer literacy, in the same way anyone reading a book has some degree of "normal" literacy.
The question is moot, though, since Real Web Designers don't design web pages to a particular screen resolution. Also, real web designers often try to target a more specific audience than "people who don't use computers."
some estimates say that as many as 50% of HD TV owners are not using them for HD...
I'm pretty sure that 50% of HD TV owners report they're not using them for HD. I would be a small fortune that another 30% aren't using them for HD, but report that they are.
For example, in the last Slashdot article about this very subject a disturbingly large number of Slashdot posters reported that they receive and HD signal only when they watched DVDs. In other words, a large number of Slashdotters would report that they're using their television for HD, but would be wrong.
Scheme replaces Lisp in exactly the same way that Java replaced C.
Could someone please tell me why there's a war between the big-enders and the little-enders? I fail to see the entertainment value in the endianness of a chip...
More importantly, how did Swift predict that war back in 1726?
So as someone with incredibly high (I'd even go at far as saying overactive) metabolism and who is way underweight because of it
A sizeable number of american women are so underweight that their hair is falling out and their menstrual cycle is interrupted.
However, I don't think I've ever met a single underweight american man, ever, in my entire life. We've reached a point where many americans have their perceptions so badly warped that they think that 185 lbs. is normal for a six foot tall man, when in reality the normal weight for a six foot tall man is about 155 lbs. If you're under 30, you should probably weigh even less.
I was 155 a year ago, and I'm 185 now.
Unless you're 6' 6", or bench about 300 lbs, you're probably fat.
Add to that the fact that the submitter was anonymous, and this story should not have been picked up...
I agree. The submitter should have made up stuff about military troops and radiation proof robots. Only then would it have been worthy of a slashdot story.
But OTOH, Seriously, if this were a bomb and they had a 24 hour time limit...
Yeah, if the terrorists had a bomb, and they put in a pneumatic tube, but then it got stuck, and you only had 24 hours to find it and get it out, there are three questions that come immediately to mind:
1. Would the robots get there in time?
2. Would we be allowed to torture the terrorists, or would the evil villain John McCain prevent it?
3. What kind of crack are you smoking?
But OTOH, Seriously, what kind of crack are you smoking?
If I have a database that is handling sales, and it crashes, gets corrupt, the machine dies, etc., transactions are irrelevant...
There are methods for keeping off-site transaction logs; even if your server catches on fire and burns you can come back up to last committed transaction. It's probably expensive, both in complexity and setup costs, but it might help you sleep a little better at night.
You know, there are a lot of places using databases servers that haven't been restarted since mysql v. 2 was the latest and greatest.
The fact that every six months mysql comes out with a brand new, latest and greatest, we-honestly-got-it-right-this-time-for-real version doesn't give anyone warm fuzzies.
MySQL is a perfectly fine set of APIs to wrap around flat files. And, since the majority of websites would get by just fine with flat files with very simple file-level locking, by extension the majority of websites would get by just fine with MySQL.
However, I don't think anyone with any knowledge uses MySQL as a database. The idea is absurd.
and best of all, the 'L' is not in the right top corner.
But now the 'K' is in the top right corner, which is much worse!
And it wasn't me doing the reporting.
You can't call someone wrong and pedantic at the same time. It makes absolutely no sense.
At any rate, you might want to track down the person who did report that you had a larger than average penis in this earlier post. Because the person who reported that you had a larger than average penis used your screen name, and made it very clear that you were "intimately" familiar with the precise size of your swimming partner's erect members...