This one had me laughing pretty hard. Mine isn't nearly so bad. I turn it on... and 20 seconds later there's a picture and sound and it's all working. Unless I turn it off again before that because I thought maybe it didn't hear me the first time. Although mine is also about 8 years old (but it has been like this since new). The colors have started to get washed out looking. Maybe it's just that I notice it now, but it looks pretty bad. I'd say it's time for both of us to upgrade, likely.
I'll definitely be turning the sets on and off in the store.;)
You posted that in response to a joke? Maxwell Smart always says decreasingly impressive things that are clearly untrue. Such as:
Smart: Surrender, you'll never escape the dozen agents behind that door.
Villain: There aren't any agents behind that door.
Smart: Would you believe there's a vicious guard dog?
Villain: No.
Smart: How about a small puppy?
(This is not a quote, I just made it up as an example.)
As a previous poster said, it's hard to answer without a location. In my area RCN has 1.5Mbit down and some smaller amount up for about $18/month + other fees.
I run a scrapyard. We buy insulated wire (cat5, ribbon cables, etc) for around $1/lb. Scrap steel is around 10 cents/lb, but falling now. Circuit boards range anywhere from 15 cents to over a dollar per pound. Aluminum heat sinks, disassembled HDDs, etc are between 50 and 80 cents/lb. Monitors are a tougher issue. I don't know where you'd get rid of the glass, we don't deal with that. The plastic casings pay a premium, but we don't deal with that either. There are copper windings, about 1/2 lb - 1 lb/monitor that fetch $2.50 - $3.50/lb. YMMV.
Throwing stuff in a landfill is really a stupid option. If you can find someone to reuse the stuff, I would start there. If not, might as well recycle it and get a few bucks.
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What is so hard with developing shared libraries in O'Caml? I've used them, but never actually worked on them.
WRT performance, there's a nice comparison run by the Debian project at http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/great/ Why would getting good performance out of of things that require using the full word length on a platform be a problem? Sys.word_size gives the size of a word, and there are 32 and 64 bit modules.
I can't speak to reflection or building plugins as I've never had the reason to work with them using O'Caml.
You know, when I first read the title, I thought you meant coke. How fitting. Doing coke led our president to politics. I guess "c student" mean "does coke"?
Where is your sense of humor? Don't take yourself so seriously. Maybe others here take you seriously, but I don't.
You're wrong anyway. Did you not notice "Spam"? Or were you just confused by it? Maybe you need an explanation. See, spam is fake ham, and they have a picture of a fake pig. So there's 3 steps you have to take there. Unsolicited email -> actual spam -> processed ham -> fake pig. I know it was complicated, but maybe you understand now.
I wish all of the icons were humorous. The tux in a suit certainly is.
Lots of people here insult "the average slashdot reader". I'd rather insult a specific slashdot reader who is a little below average.
From what I understand, the ECMA requires their standards to be Royalty-free and RAND. So while the definition may have been a slip, what was said was generally true. Even still... this is not GPL compatible.
from wikipedia.org they list 145 gal/acre for rapeseed... that's an order of magnitude better than what you listed. it also lists 8.75 gal/acre to farm. so you get about 136 gal/acre. the other thing is you can't compare directly with gasoline because the fuel efficiencies are different. diesel engines get approx. 18% more energy per volume. so you'd only need about 85% as much of it. so it all comes out to require 1923 million acres. maybe we need to stop using so many SUV's.;-)
Actually if you read the article, it can't. The oil breaks down the more you use it. Used vegetable oil has more free fatty acids than fresh vegetable oil, significantly more. The article states that this is both unhealthy and a hinderance to making biodiesel.
hey, me too. But I agree with the sentiment of the original post: Haskell might be weird because everyone would need to learn to use monads. So I guess there would be a significant barrier there.
quicktime is only available on Mac and windows as far as I know. so if Joe is using linux, he's SOL. From what Rob has said this seems to be an emerging technology. So if Joe needs SMIL support, this is a place he can get it, potentially.
If Real gets this licensed under an OSI license that is GPL compatible, I think it will be a very good thing for all of us. If Real truly is going to take an approach with helping the software community as the goal, then I hope they thrive and create an opportunity to produce software that makes them money as well. (I'm assuming their intention is to make money off the server software.)
I'd say I hate to break it to you, but I don't. Life is politics, deal with it. If you want to escape that, then you're building yourself a fantasy world. I find it heartening that things of such relevance are at the forefront on slashdot. One can find all kinds of great bubbly technology stories in the mainstream. I'm glad slashdot exists as an alternative to that. If slashdot is becoming the mainstream, so much the better.
Most consumers dont even care if a company kills babies* so long as they get cheap gasoline (*i know of know such company).
What company? Do you have any sources?
Does no one know the history of Shell? You shouldn't need sources. Go do your homework.
isn't buying of government part of capitalism? capitalism is power embodied in things. so if I have a lot of things, shouldn't I be able to make the rules? so companies with money innately make the rules.
maybe you misread the story or I misread your post. 3.1.1 is abi compaitible with 3.1 (I think that's why it was released). 3.2 broke compatibility with 3.1.x. 3.2 seems to be basically 3.1.1 but with a different C++ ABI on some corner cases (like phil just said)
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This one had me laughing pretty hard. Mine isn't nearly so bad. I turn it on... and 20 seconds later there's a picture and sound and it's all working. Unless I turn it off again before that because I thought maybe it didn't hear me the first time. Although mine is also about 8 years old (but it has been like this since new). The colors have started to get washed out looking. Maybe it's just that I notice it now, but it looks pretty bad. I'd say it's time for both of us to upgrade, likely. I'll definitely be turning the sets on and off in the store. ;)
Anand has a really good write up of the Intel instruction decoder at http://www.anandtech.com/show/6355/intels-haswell-architecture/6. It's significant, but who's to say ARM wouldn't be similar? I also think the article author is overstating the point.
You posted that in response to a joke? Maxwell Smart always says decreasingly impressive things that are clearly untrue. Such as: Smart: Surrender, you'll never escape the dozen agents behind that door. Villain: There aren't any agents behind that door. Smart: Would you believe there's a vicious guard dog? Villain: No. Smart: How about a small puppy? (This is not a quote, I just made it up as an example.)
As a previous poster said, it's hard to answer without a location. In my area RCN has 1.5Mbit down and some smaller amount up for about $18/month + other fees.
I run a scrapyard. We buy insulated wire (cat5, ribbon cables, etc) for around $1/lb. Scrap steel is around 10 cents/lb, but falling now. Circuit boards range anywhere from 15 cents to over a dollar per pound. Aluminum heat sinks, disassembled HDDs, etc are between 50 and 80 cents/lb. Monitors are a tougher issue. I don't know where you'd get rid of the glass, we don't deal with that. The plastic casings pay a premium, but we don't deal with that either. There are copper windings, about 1/2 lb - 1 lb/monitor that fetch $2.50 - $3.50/lb. YMMV. Throwing stuff in a landfill is really a stupid option. If you can find someone to reuse the stuff, I would start there. If not, might as well recycle it and get a few bucks.
What is so hard with developing shared libraries in O'Caml? I've used them, but never actually worked on them.
WRT performance, there's a nice comparison run by the Debian project at http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/great/ Why would getting good performance out of of things that require using the full word length on a platform be a problem? Sys.word_size gives the size of a word, and there are 32 and 64 bit modules.
I can't speak to reflection or building plugins as I've never had the reason to work with them using O'Caml.
You know, when I first read the title, I thought you meant coke. How fitting. Doing coke led our president to politics. I guess "c student" mean "does coke"?
Where is your sense of humor? Don't take yourself so seriously. Maybe others here take you seriously, but I don't.
You're wrong anyway. Did you not notice "Spam"? Or were you just confused by it? Maybe you need an explanation. See, spam is fake ham, and they have a picture of a fake pig. So there's 3 steps you have to take there. Unsolicited email -> actual spam -> processed ham -> fake pig. I know it was complicated, but maybe you understand now.
I wish all of the icons were humorous. The tux in a suit certainly is.
Lots of people here insult "the average slashdot reader". I'd rather insult a specific slashdot reader who is a little below average.
what part of the word default don't you understand?
From what I understand, the ECMA requires their standards to be Royalty-free and RAND. So while the definition may have been a slip, what was said was generally true. Even still... this is not GPL compatible.
from wikipedia.org they list 145 gal/acre for rapeseed... that's an order of magnitude better than what you listed. it also lists 8.75 gal/acre to farm. so you get about 136 gal/acre. the other thing is you can't compare directly with gasoline because the fuel efficiencies are different. diesel engines get approx. 18% more energy per volume. so you'd only need about 85% as much of it. so it all comes out to require 1923 million acres. maybe we need to stop using so many SUV's. ;-)
Actually if you read the article, it can't. The oil breaks down the more you use it. Used vegetable oil has more free fatty acids than fresh vegetable oil, significantly more. The article states that this is both unhealthy and a hinderance to making biodiesel.
hey, me too. But I agree with the sentiment of the original post: Haskell might be weird because everyone would need to learn to use monads. So I guess there would be a significant barrier there.
quicktime is only available on Mac and windows as far as I know. so if Joe is using linux, he's SOL. From what Rob has said this seems to be an emerging technology. So if Joe needs SMIL support, this is a place he can get it, potentially.
If Real gets this licensed under an OSI license that is GPL compatible, I think it will be a very good thing for all of us. If Real truly is going to take an approach with helping the software community as the goal, then I hope they thrive and create an opportunity to produce software that makes them money as well. (I'm assuming their intention is to make money off the server software.)
I'd say I hate to break it to you, but I don't. Life is politics, deal with it. If you want to escape that, then you're building yourself a fantasy world. I find it heartening that things of such relevance are at the forefront on slashdot. One can find all kinds of great bubbly technology stories in the mainstream. I'm glad slashdot exists as an alternative to that. If slashdot is becoming the mainstream, so much the better.
Most consumers dont even care if a company kills babies* so long as they get cheap gasoline (*i know of know such company). What company? Do you have any sources? Does no one know the history of Shell? You shouldn't need sources. Go do your homework.
isn't buying of government part of capitalism? capitalism is power embodied in things. so if I have a lot of things, shouldn't I be able to make the rules? so companies with money innately make the rules.
maybe you misread the story or I misread your post. 3.1.1 is abi compaitible with 3.1 (I think that's why it was released). 3.2 broke compatibility with 3.1.x. 3.2 seems to be basically 3.1.1 but with a different C++ ABI on some corner cases (like phil just said)