We have to get rid of thousands of years of anthropocentric views though. Just watch any kid between 1 and 5 years old...he/she things he/she owns the world, and that everything that happens is about him/her. Thinking we are the center of the universe is imprinted in our genes, for survival reasons...it's hard to get over it.
Indeed...that's why Transformers is special: it's the first movie I have seen where graphics blend so nicely into reality. Robots seem so real in this movie, thanks to good physics and very good rendering/raytracing.
Re:Solution for phishing: two-way login.
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I used to be an avid arcade games player...I used to spent about 1-2 hours on arcades per day, with my friends, trying out many different games. But now arcade games are dead. What shall I do? I can't spend hours on WoW, it's boring. I need quick game fixes, preferably on co-op games. I only play PC games in 'god' mode as as that I can admire the latest fx.
Nintendo has the solution for me: the Wii. Casual gaming is the most entertaining form of gaming: no stress, just having fun with your mates in the living room, etc.
Right now the cheapest and best entertainment comes from the Wii. Two console generations ago, the cheapest and best entertainment came from PS1. Nintendo got the message, and that's why they are so successful.
1) use an MDI interface. 2) group similar functions together. 3) use better and more informative icons. 4) follow the new/open/close/save/cut/copy/paste paradigm that everyone else uses. 5) use the right click as a contextual menu.
etc
No need to instrument the program, just go ahead and do it as a regular application.
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There is a solution for avoiding phishing: two-way login. Not only the user logs into a site, but the site submits a password to the user during the login sequence. The 2nd password is created during registration. If a site fails to submit the correct password to the user, then it's clearly a phishing site, even if the url is the same.
Suppose that tasks are placed in a linked list, and there are two lists: the runnable tasks and the blocked tasks.
Now suppose that we have two tasks: task A that consumes the CPU 100% and task B which is I/O bound and consumes 50% of the CPU (as per your example).
In the round-robin algorithm, each scheduled task is placed at the end of the list of runnable tasks, so other tasks get a fair chance of running.
When Task B is ready to run (because its data arrived from the network or hard disk, for example), it is removed from the list of blocked tasks and placed at the end of the list of runnable tasks.
Under the above setup, Task B will consume 50% of the CPU time, forcing task A to consume 50% as well, because ready tasks are placed at the end of the runnable queue.
Here is an example (assuming T is a scheduler time step):
step 1: task A runs for T; task B becomes ready at T/2 step 2: task B runs and becomes blocked at T/2; task A is ready step 3: task A runs for T; task B becomes ready at T/2 step 4: task B runs and becomes blocked at T/2; task A is ready step 5: task A runs for T; task B becomes ready at T/2 etc
So under this simple round-robin setup, each task gets 50% of the CPU, with one of the tasks waiting for 50% of the time and the other task not waiting at all.
So why isn't a round-robin algorithm fair like CFS?
It may be open, but it is not free, i.e. the required changes can not be done by third parties or by a committee and then used by Microsoft. Microsoft wouldn't do anything that would hurt its embrace and extend business model, and OOXML follows that logic as well(it's so huge and flawed that no one dares using it).
The author says that there are certain things within a computer that should not be modeled as algorithms due to their purpose and complexity. I partially agree with him: in some cases, the point of interest is not algorithms but how the process evolves to reach the desired goal.
The wave function of a particle collapses due to interference with the wave function of the photon that hits it in order to be measured. It's called quantum decoherence.
After all, all these things can trigger an unbalanced mind, can't they???
And while we are at it, can we please ban:
1) news broadcasts, because seeing news about war can trigger unbalanced minds. 2) strip clubs, because seeing booty can trigger unbalanced minds. 3) history lessons, because of all the sadistic acts and wars in the middle ages. 4) religion lessons, because the bible contains extremely graphic acts. 5) pacman, because eating dots may trigger unbalanced minds subliminally. 6) Lara Croft products, because some unbalanced mind might see the bouncing boobs and get his unbalanced mind triggered. 7) lolipops, because seeing a girl with a lolipop on the street can trigger unbalanced minds....
The western society goes backwards to a 2nd middle ages. Next, they will require all of us to attend Sunday church.
The banning will only serve to strengthen the problem. People will go underground and perform their activities outside of mainstream view.
Banning Pornography will seriously hurt economy, because porn will not be taxed...and the porn industry is huge.
And the number of rapes and other acts will go up, because sexually frustrated people will not have an outlet for their sexual urges.
And these people have not considered the consequences on slashdot members!!!:-)
The concept of creation requires the existence of a spacetime continuum. When God created the universe, if there was a spacetime continuum God was into, then God was finite at the moment of creation.
The psychological problems come after becoming outcasts.
Who is going to hire a person who does not have a permanent address, a home to sleep and to take a bath? no one. Once you become homeless, it's very difficult to get back in society.
And being homeless is not as difficult as it sounds, especially as you get older and the company you worked for prefers young people with 1/3 of your wage. The most dangerous range is from 40 to 55 years old, where you are too old to be considered fresh and too young to retire.
But there are also other categories of unemployed people:
1) women who got pregnant early and without a supporting husband. 2) people that were born in areas with high criminal and drug rates (ghettos, etc). 3) immigrants without higher education.
These people will not get hired by anyone. Is it their fault? I very much doubt it. If they were born in rich or middle-class families, they would not have such big a problem, most probably.
Even in the extreme case that unemployed people are lazy bums, it is still correct for us to pay for their health care. If we don't, more problems will arise, as the 'lazy unemployed bums' will get more and more in numbers.
You don't want the French revolution to happen again, do you? because if it does, you will be the one inside Versailles this time...
"Don't you feel like you're being ripped off paying for the health care of jobless people when you're busting a gut earning a living?"
Most unemployed people are not lazy bums who don't want to work. They are people with psychological problems who feel being outcast from society, and don't belong anywhere.
And the poor people are not only the jobless ones, but those that work for minimum pay, because of being unlucky to be born in the lower classes.
It's a shame to even ask that question. It shows a profound lack of understanding of how the world operates. It's that kind of ignorance that politicians exploit in order to get elected.
Most of the games mentioned in the so-called top 100 have 0 replayability value. I finished Ocarina of Time, but I did not ever get back to it.
But I play Ms PacMan from time to time, 25 years after its release, on MAME. And I still haven't found all its secrets.
Ms PacMan may not have the flashiest graphics around, but it has the most hectic gameplay, and the sound is so immersive that after a while it's you and the ghosts, and the rest of the world does not exist...
Java has really matured. Its VMs are very fast, on par with C/C++, the language offers excellent facilities like generics, Eclipse is quite a good IDE (not the best, but quite good, especially if you get used to its intricacies), there is a huge community and the SDK is excellent.
So why code specifically for Windows? we have nothing to gain from a Windows-only application. We write our apps in Java, we pay attention to platform specific details, and most code runs as is in Windows, Unix/Linux and Mac OS.
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We have to get rid of thousands of years of anthropocentric views though. Just watch any kid between 1 and 5 years old...he/she things he/she owns the world, and that everything that happens is about him/her. Thinking we are the center of the universe is imprinted in our genes, for survival reasons...it's hard to get over it.
Indeed...that's why Transformers is special: it's the first movie I have seen where graphics blend so nicely into reality. Robots seem so real in this movie, thanks to good physics and very good rendering/raytracing.
Not if communication is encrypted.
But how does the round-robin algorithm is not fair in the same was as CFS? the end result seems the same.
I used to be an avid arcade games player...I used to spent about 1-2 hours on arcades per day, with my friends, trying out many different games. But now arcade games are dead. What shall I do? I can't spend hours on WoW, it's boring. I need quick game fixes, preferably on co-op games. I only play PC games in 'god' mode as as that I can admire the latest fx.
Nintendo has the solution for me: the Wii. Casual gaming is the most entertaining form of gaming: no stress, just having fun with your mates in the living room, etc.
Right now the cheapest and best entertainment comes from the Wii. Two console generations ago, the cheapest and best entertainment came from PS1. Nintendo got the message, and that's why they are so successful.
And common sense says:
1) use an MDI interface.
2) group similar functions together.
3) use better and more informative icons.
4) follow the new/open/close/save/cut/copy/paste paradigm that everyone else uses.
5) use the right click as a contextual menu.
etc
No need to instrument the program, just go ahead and do it as a regular application.
There is a solution for avoiding phishing: two-way login. Not only the user logs into a site, but the site submits a password to the user during the login sequence. The 2nd password is created during registration. If a site fails to submit the correct password to the user, then it's clearly a phishing site, even if the url is the same.
Suppose that tasks are placed in a linked list, and there are two lists: the runnable tasks and the blocked tasks.
Now suppose that we have two tasks: task A that consumes the CPU 100% and task B which is I/O bound and consumes 50% of the CPU (as per your example).
In the round-robin algorithm, each scheduled task is placed at the end of the list of runnable tasks, so other tasks get a fair chance of running.
When Task B is ready to run (because its data arrived from the network or hard disk, for example), it is removed from the list of blocked tasks and placed at the end of the list of runnable tasks.
Under the above setup, Task B will consume 50% of the CPU time, forcing task A to consume 50% as well, because ready tasks are placed at the end of the runnable queue.
Here is an example (assuming T is a scheduler time step):
step 1: task A runs for T; task B becomes ready at T/2
step 2: task B runs and becomes blocked at T/2; task A is ready
step 3: task A runs for T; task B becomes ready at T/2
step 4: task B runs and becomes blocked at T/2; task A is ready
step 5: task A runs for T; task B becomes ready at T/2
etc
So under this simple round-robin setup, each task gets 50% of the CPU, with one of the tasks waiting for 50% of the time and the other task not waiting at all.
So why isn't a round-robin algorithm fair like CFS?
It may be open, but it is not free, i.e. the required changes can not be done by third parties or by a committee and then used by Microsoft. Microsoft wouldn't do anything that would hurt its embrace and extend business model, and OOXML follows that logic as well(it's so huge and flawed that no one dares using it).
But you would have to click the object that you want to apply the function at!!!
Just remove any options from the screen and put everything in the context menu.
You want to save? right-click on the document, save.
You want to change the color of the text? select the text, right-click, change the color.
You want to apply a new style? select the text, right-click, select style, apply.
You want to load another document? right-click on the MDI form empty space, select 'open' and load the document.
etc.
The author says that there are certain things within a computer that should not be modeled as algorithms due to their purpose and complexity. I partially agree with him: in some cases, the point of interest is not algorithms but how the process evolves to reach the desired goal.
So the universe is proven to be wise, once more.
Perhaps in a few years singing a song would be illegal as well. As the Smurfs used to sing:
La la, la la la la, la, la la, la la...
wait a minute, someone's at the door...
The wave function of a particle collapses due to interference with the wave function of the photon that hits it in order to be measured. It's called quantum decoherence.
...year of Free Energy!
Since God's frame of reference is timeless, how can God create anything? creation means changing the state of God's spacetime.
After all, all these things can trigger an unbalanced mind, can't they???
...
:-)
And while we are at it, can we please ban:
1) news broadcasts, because seeing news about war can trigger unbalanced minds.
2) strip clubs, because seeing booty can trigger unbalanced minds.
3) history lessons, because of all the sadistic acts and wars in the middle ages.
4) religion lessons, because the bible contains extremely graphic acts.
5) pacman, because eating dots may trigger unbalanced minds subliminally.
6) Lara Croft products, because some unbalanced mind might see the bouncing boobs and get his unbalanced mind triggered.
7) lolipops, because seeing a girl with a lolipop on the street can trigger unbalanced minds.
The western society goes backwards to a 2nd middle ages. Next, they will require all of us to attend Sunday church.
The banning will only serve to strengthen the problem. People will go underground and perform their activities outside of mainstream view.
Banning Pornography will seriously hurt economy, because porn will not be taxed...and the porn industry is huge.
And the number of rapes and other acts will go up, because sexually frustrated people will not have an outlet for their sexual urges.
And these people have not considered the consequences on slashdot members!!!
The concept of creation requires the existence of a spacetime continuum. When God created the universe, if there was a spacetime continuum God was into, then God was finite at the moment of creation.
It just shows how manmade religions are.
The psychological problems come after becoming outcasts.
Who is going to hire a person who does not have a permanent address, a home to sleep and to take a bath? no one. Once you become homeless, it's very difficult to get back in society.
And being homeless is not as difficult as it sounds, especially as you get older and the company you worked for prefers young people with 1/3 of your wage. The most dangerous range is from 40 to 55 years old, where you are too old to be considered fresh and too young to retire.
But there are also other categories of unemployed people:
1) women who got pregnant early and without a supporting husband.
2) people that were born in areas with high criminal and drug rates (ghettos, etc).
3) immigrants without higher education.
These people will not get hired by anyone. Is it their fault? I very much doubt it. If they were born in rich or middle-class families, they would not have such big a problem, most probably.
Even in the extreme case that unemployed people are lazy bums, it is still correct for us to pay for their health care. If we don't, more problems will arise, as the 'lazy unemployed bums' will get more and more in numbers.
You don't want the French revolution to happen again, do you? because if it does, you will be the one inside Versailles this time...
Not if you use JGoodies.
"Don't you feel like you're being ripped off paying for the health care of jobless people when you're busting a gut earning a living?"
Most unemployed people are not lazy bums who don't want to work. They are people with psychological problems who feel being outcast from society, and don't belong anywhere.
And the poor people are not only the jobless ones, but those that work for minimum pay, because of being unlucky to be born in the lower classes.
It's a shame to even ask that question. It shows a profound lack of understanding of how the world operates. It's that kind of ignorance that politicians exploit in order to get elected.
Most of the games mentioned in the so-called top 100 have 0 replayability value. I finished Ocarina of Time, but I did not ever get back to it.
But I play Ms PacMan from time to time, 25 years after its release, on MAME. And I still haven't found all its secrets.
Ms PacMan may not have the flashiest graphics around, but it has the most hectic gameplay, and the sound is so immersive that after a while it's you and the ghosts, and the rest of the world does not exist...
Java has really matured. Its VMs are very fast, on par with C/C++, the language offers excellent facilities like generics, Eclipse is quite a good IDE (not the best, but quite good, especially if you get used to its intricacies), there is a huge community and the SDK is excellent.
So why code specifically for Windows? we have nothing to gain from a Windows-only application. We write our apps in Java, we pay attention to platform specific details, and most code runs as is in Windows, Unix/Linux and Mac OS.