This choking algorithm may be beneficial in the sense of increasing the total connections that a seed will accept but it robs the system of its performance benefits.
Seeds do not use choking. Choking is used by peers without the complete file on peers that aren't sending them data. Seeds need no data and so do not perform chokes. Last I looked (admittedly an early version) seeds will send to the clients that dl the fastest and will only send to a small number of clients at a time for efficiency reasons.
Super-seeds are completely different (but still don't use choking, although they reward people who received a piece that the super-seed detects has been spread around well by the people who received it).
I can't believe you typed a whole rant about choking without having the slightest clue how it is used, however. You could have spent that time googling and a) learned something and b) not come across as an idiot.
WebScriptions does this for scifi in ebook form. From their FAQ:
A web based re-creation of the serialized novel using Science Fiction published by Baen Books. Each novel will be published in three segments, one month apart, beginning 3 months before the actual publication date. Each month 4 books will be available.
Funnily enough, I don't use that part of their service, but do buy complete books from them a lot. They offer pretty much any format you could want (lit, txt, html, palm, etc.). Wish they covered more than one publisher.
Anyone have any ideas for projects for this? The FAQ mentions they have funds for 200 students and yet the organization pages have far less projects than that.
Good chance to volunteer some ideas and maybe get someone to implement them for you in an OSS manner.
It's a mispelling of root. Originally said when you obtain the same on some server. ^^ Internet wise it spread from there.
There are also idiot linguists around who claim it comes from Africa or some shit like that. Claiming a bit of internet slang that was around even back when the internet was entirely US based came from a foreign country is a bit far fetched, melting pot or not.
I know people always whine about exclusives, but I'm starting to think they are a good thing for hardcore players. I'm probably going to own 2 out of 3 next gen. consoles at the minimum so I don't lose very many games. In return the games get customized for one particular console instead of wasting the developers time getting it to run on all of them.
Xbox 360 has hardware support for procedural synthesis going on and PS3 has all those SPEs to schedule. Games that push the edge will make use of these instead of just targeting PPC architecture in general.
Is there any valid use for sending a browser XML+XSL anyway? I actually used it for a page for a while once. The results were good on modern software, but some users with older or alternative software couldn't render it and complained. Changing things so that the transform happened on the server side was relatively painless anyway and increased compatibility.
Throw in the fact that Mozilla/Firefox is crippled in the XML/XSL area (refuses to load external entities in XML, id() function in XSL non-functional, etc. where those both work fine in MSIE and aren't proprietary by any means) and it becomes even more trouble doing things client side.
Heh, I had no clue either. At first I thought you could make sound by waving your hands at a sensor or something. Apparently, looking at the site, it's the opposite. It makes ugly, meaningless crap on the screen from controller or audio input. I guess if you can't beat Mario paint you implement something like this...
The digitizers on the Tablet PCs are often made by Wacom, in fact. I suspect they have some good patents on making those pens work without batteries like they do (magnetic resonance).
>socialization starts at birth (look at toys and >types of play offered to infant males vs females
Amusingly enough a recent Scientific American article on gender differences mentioned an experiement dealing with the young and toys. They offered some baby monkeys/baboons their choice of various toys. The male babies preferred things like cars and balls that involved motion. The female babies preferred dolls. So maybe babies are given particular toys because that's what they like, not because that's what is being forced on them.
The article actually had a lot of other good material on the differences between the sexes. Apparently different areas of the brain take up proportionally different amounts of space in the two sexes (they use a ratio since women tend to be smaller). Since different parts are responsible for different functions, it makes sense this would lead to differences.
Lots of managers don't value well written code. Get it done and get it done fast is the rule they enforce. Maybe a segment where you give them two different scripts, one with traditional spaghetti code/long functions/poor naming, etc. and one with well written and documented code. Then ask them to fix certain bugs in the scripts or add certain features.
Saying well written code is valuable is one thing, but since you are actually teaching PHP and MySQL you have the ability to show it. Were you doing a more capable language like Java/JSP or ASP.NET I'd say also show them how valuable separating things into designed layers and concerns is in software engineering, but PHP isn't very capable in that area and you probably don't have time to teach OOP and UML and whatnot anyway.
I couldn't get the Google Print results to show up following the links provided at first, nor by trying many other searches. Anyway, what solved it on Windows XP:
1) I deleted all my Google cookies. I have ones from the Spanish Google as well as the English, etc..
2) Switched to a US proxy on a more recognized ISP. Mine serves the US, but is less well known and deciding location by host names and what not has never worked well.
3) Ran Mozilla in Microsoft's AppLocale with the language set to English. I have my other regional settings on English/US, but do have non-unicode programs set to Japanese since it doesn't hurt my English programs and let's the Japanese ones work.
Anyway it finally started working after that. I haven't weeded out if it was one or all of them, just AppLocale didn't work, but whatever. Needless to say I won't be using this service which is PITA to access...they should make a seperate interface than the normal search one. That would allow freaking error messages that tell people what's going on as well.
On the subject of power programming, does anyone know any refactoring tools for PHP? I inherited a god awful script to maintain the other day. It has some functions over 300 lines long, short and obscure naming of variables and functions, almost everything crammed in one file, etc..
If it were in Java I'd be joyfully extracting methods and auto renaming stuff up the wazoo, but I can't find any refactoring tools for PHP. It's actually easier to just rewrite the damn thing than slog through by hand and unintelligent find/replaces.
I checked PHPEclipse already, the only refactoring they have enabled is file renaming and that's broken (breaks all your include statements, etc.) so there's little hope there.
I have ~5 years old ThinkPad (no reason to upgrade since I don't play games) and SP2 hoses it. It will intermittently freeze if SP2 is installed. I've updated the BIOS, all the drivers, tried a clean install, disabling as many new features as possible, everything.
Guess the only way to stay secure is going to be dumping Windows for this machine. They should have kept the security stuff separate from the rest of the crap.
If women were proven to think differently about math and science maybe better ways to teach those subjects to women could be found. Burying our heads like you suggest tends to be a bad solution.
Reminds me of when my school canceled its honors level classes and forced me to sit in with the idiots for a year. The entire class was slowed for some idiots just because the school wanted to pretend everyone was equal.
Don't women tend to do better in school in general? I'm pretty sure I've seen numbers showing such. So it isn't as surprising that they do better in math and science as well.
Doesn't mean either sex is "smarter" anyway. I always used to get rotten grades because I refused to do any homework I saw as busy work, yet I still had second highest SATs in the school, college credits before graduating, etc.. Performance in school seems more about aping the teachers than actually learning.
I have a Zaurus with a 640x480 screen. It took me a long time to dig up a version of mplayer with hardware accel for whatever chip is in there so it could handle videos of that res, but after I did it turned out to be pointless.
The screens on these things are so small that QVGA is more than ample. I've been watching anime fansubs lately, which ever since the process went digital have been using these tiny font size subtitles (more suited to monitors than TVs), but even they read fine at 320x240 at the size we're talking about.
>The second traditional reason is that they're mostly - and >there's exceptions, clearly - hugely better written.
Did anyone else find this sentence hilarious? This guy's writing is terrible. If I were editing I'd delete half his sentences as utterly useless and have to clean up shitty sentences like the one quoted above. "mostly...hugely," my god. It's clear he is used to writing as much as possible no matter how bad it makes his writing. Makes sense for someone involved in journalism, I suppose. I'm glad internet reviews don't pull shit like that as much.
Bah, at least the ISS has some meaning. Astronomy is the laughing stock of all the sciences with only a modicum of value to the physicists. The space program is dying because it puts so much money into astronomy, something the vast majority of people see as useless and boring. Back when space exploration actually involved people the technological side benefits were much better for society and it was actually possible to get excited about space missions.
If you guys want your advanced space stations that means you have to pay $$$ into space station technologies. This includes funding the intermediate versions instead of those useless telescopes. Money into astronomy is good for little more than intellectual masturbation. Money into manned space exploration develops useful technology and the science behind it at a much greater rate and it expands man's capabilities. Don't pay the money, the technology will never develop, we'll never enter space in any significant amount as a species, and all that astronomy will be even more useless than it is now.
Did you even read the post being replied to? This guy's wife cheated on him, hid it, and in so doing was responsible for giving the guy AIDS. How could this not be considered a bad choice of a wife?
It's your duty to society to hold this woman's actions up as a bad example and something to be reviled (and hell maybe even cause her to engage in some much needed self reflection). Pretending otherwise and turning a blind eye to spare someone's feelings is being irresponsible.
It's funny how both this woman and yourself are causing harm by being dishonest. I guess your parents were too polite to teach you otherwise as a children.
Big polluting countries like China and India are exempt from the Kyoto protocol (even though they sign). Please have some clue about what you are posting about before throwing accusations.
I know the XBox Halo guys have weapon mods, vehicles in multiplayer (playing on xbc, not live), their own maps and a lot of other stuff going. The DOAXVB Xbox modders have done tons of texture related stuff (invisible swimsuits, replaceable textures, importable 3dsmax meshes, etc). If modded units were aloud on Live it would be very, very, very easy to do cheats.
It wasn't an official review like the other 9 places the negative comments are taken from, but PA did say bad things about Halo 2's story and ending (or lack thereof) and has a huge readership...
I agree the civilian deaths due to the war were a bad thing (although I think our military worked very hard to keep these minimal), but the other option was continuing sanctions. Kerry even spoke out for using sanctions several times during the debates. Here's a quote from UNICEF's fact sheet on what sanctions were causing:
"--Seven years after the imposition of the blockade on the people of Iraq, more than 1.2 million people, including 750,000 children below the age of five, have died because of the scarcity of food and medicine. 32 percent of children under age 5, some 960,000 children, are chronically malnourished--a rise of 72 percent since 1991. 23% are underweight - twice as high as the levels found in neighboring Jordan or Turkey. (UNICEF, 1997)"
I don't think sanctions would have been lifted soon, either. In the run up to the latest war Hans Blix, the head of the UN inspection team, was continually reporting that Iraq was simply not cooperating fully and not showing an intent to disarm. Inspections are not supposed to be hide and seek, it's supposed to be a cooperative effort and that just wasn't happening.
>Scroll wheels on mice are similar, as are just >plain old dials, but they requre you to lift >up your finger/hand repeatedly to scroll far >enough in either direction.
IBM actually makes a line of mice that have their TrackPoint microjoystick instead of the scroll wheel. In addition to being able to scroll as much as you like without petting the thing like you have to a scroll wheel, it's also pressure sensitive so you can scroll a lot/fast or a little/slow as you like by just pressing differently.
It's worth pointing out that even in the video effects example given in the article, using the keyboard is far more productive. With the dial you have to click past x other effects just to get to the one you want. A keyboard can be setup to enable the effect you want simple by pressing a single button for each of them.
So the keyboard may not be as easy to use, but it certainly is more productive as long as you assume the user can figure out which button does which. Given proper visual aid (ie. a little diagram with the keys circled in red and functions listed, or a keyboard overlay, etc.) that would take maybe a 8 year old or older.;p
If I were going to make a custom box like the guy in the article did, I would just make one with big, labeled buttons. A sensitive control knob is useful for moving through footage where the linear relationship of the options you are moving through exists and is natural. For moving through a list of effects, however, it's simply a pain. Similarly having it by the monitor is just stupid; try holding your arm up by the monitor for an hour, it's a pain in the ass. The dial should be close to the user where it can be accessed easily and what you select with it should be visible on the screen.
If this is a kiosk and the monitor is down by the user's hands and so easily accessible then OK, but then I question why a touchscreen isn't being used in that case (e.g. tap the screen, little menu pops up with functions and descriptions, tap function, and your on, etc.).
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Seeds do not use choking. Choking is used by peers without the complete file on peers that aren't sending them data. Seeds need no data and so do not perform chokes. Last I looked (admittedly an early version) seeds will send to the clients that dl the fastest and will only send to a small number of clients at a time for efficiency reasons.
Super-seeds are completely different (but still don't use choking, although they reward people who received a piece that the super-seed detects has been spread around well by the people who received it).
I can't believe you typed a whole rant about choking without having the slightest clue how it is used, however. You could have spent that time googling and a) learned something and b) not come across as an idiot.
Anyone have any ideas for projects for this? The FAQ mentions they have funds for 200 students and yet the organization pages have far less projects than that.
Good chance to volunteer some ideas and maybe get someone to implement them for you in an OSS manner.
It's a mispelling of root. Originally said when you obtain the same on some server. ^^ Internet wise it spread from there.
There are also idiot linguists around who claim it comes from Africa or some shit like that. Claiming a bit of internet slang that was around even back when the internet was entirely US based came from a foreign country is a bit far fetched, melting pot or not.
I know people always whine about exclusives, but I'm starting to think they are a good thing for hardcore players. I'm probably going to own 2 out of 3 next gen. consoles at the minimum so I don't lose very many games. In return the games get customized for one particular console instead of wasting the developers time getting it to run on all of them.
Xbox 360 has hardware support for procedural synthesis going on and PS3 has all those SPEs to schedule. Games that push the edge will make use of these instead of just targeting PPC architecture in general.
Is there any valid use for sending a browser XML+XSL anyway? I actually used it for a page for a while once. The results were good on modern software, but some users with older or alternative software couldn't render it and complained. Changing things so that the transform happened on the server side was relatively painless anyway and increased compatibility.
Throw in the fact that Mozilla/Firefox is crippled in the XML/XSL area (refuses to load external entities in XML, id() function in XSL non-functional, etc. where those both work fine in MSIE and aren't proprietary by any means) and it becomes even more trouble doing things client side.
Heh, I had no clue either. At first I thought you could make sound by waving your hands at a sensor or something. Apparently, looking at the site, it's the opposite. It makes ugly, meaningless crap on the screen from controller or audio input. I guess if you can't beat Mario paint you implement something like this...
The digitizers on the Tablet PCs are often made by Wacom, in fact. I suspect they have some good patents on making those pens work without batteries like they do (magnetic resonance).
>socialization starts at birth (look at toys and
>types of play offered to infant males vs females
Amusingly enough a recent Scientific American article on gender differences mentioned an experiement dealing with the young and toys. They offered some baby monkeys/baboons their choice of various toys. The male babies preferred things like cars and balls that involved motion. The female babies preferred dolls. So maybe babies are given particular toys because that's what they like, not because that's what is being forced on them.
The article actually had a lot of other good material on the differences between the sexes. Apparently different areas of the brain take up proportionally different amounts of space in the two sexes (they use a ratio since women tend to be smaller). Since different parts are responsible for different functions, it makes sense this would lead to differences.
Lots of managers don't value well written code. Get it done and get it done fast is the rule they enforce. Maybe a segment where you give them two different scripts, one with traditional spaghetti code/long functions/poor naming, etc. and one with well written and documented code. Then ask them to fix certain bugs in the scripts or add certain features.
Saying well written code is valuable is one thing, but since you are actually teaching PHP and MySQL you have the ability to show it. Were you doing a more capable language like Java/JSP or ASP.NET I'd say also show them how valuable separating things into designed layers and concerns is in software engineering, but PHP isn't very capable in that area and you probably don't have time to teach OOP and UML and whatnot anyway.
I couldn't get the Google Print results to show up following the links provided at first, nor by trying many other searches. Anyway, what solved it on Windows XP:
1) I deleted all my Google cookies. I have ones from the Spanish Google as well as the English, etc..
2) Switched to a US proxy on a more recognized ISP. Mine serves the US, but is less well known and deciding location by host names and what not has never worked well.
3) Ran Mozilla in Microsoft's AppLocale with the language set to English. I have my other regional settings on English/US, but do have non-unicode programs set to Japanese since it doesn't hurt my English programs and let's the Japanese ones work.
Anyway it finally started working after that. I haven't weeded out if it was one or all of them, just AppLocale didn't work, but whatever. Needless to say I won't be using this service which is PITA to access...they should make a seperate interface than the normal search one. That would allow freaking error messages that tell people what's going on as well.
On the subject of power programming, does anyone know any refactoring tools for PHP? I inherited a god awful script to maintain the other day. It has some functions over 300 lines long, short and obscure naming of variables and functions, almost everything crammed in one file, etc..
If it were in Java I'd be joyfully extracting methods and auto renaming stuff up the wazoo, but I can't find any refactoring tools for PHP. It's actually easier to just rewrite the damn thing than slog through by hand and unintelligent find/replaces.
I checked PHPEclipse already, the only refactoring they have enabled is file renaming and that's broken (breaks all your include statements, etc.) so there's little hope there.
I have ~5 years old ThinkPad (no reason to upgrade since I don't play games) and SP2 hoses it. It will intermittently freeze if SP2 is installed. I've updated the BIOS, all the drivers, tried a clean install, disabling as many new features as possible, everything.
Guess the only way to stay secure is going to be dumping Windows for this machine. They should have kept the security stuff separate from the rest of the crap.
If women were proven to think differently about math and science maybe better ways to teach those subjects to women could be found. Burying our heads like you suggest tends to be a bad solution.
Reminds me of when my school canceled its honors level classes and forced me to sit in with the idiots for a year. The entire class was slowed for some idiots just because the school wanted to pretend everyone was equal.
Don't women tend to do better in school in general? I'm pretty sure I've seen numbers showing such. So it isn't as surprising that they do better in math and science as well.
Doesn't mean either sex is "smarter" anyway. I always used to get rotten grades because I refused to do any homework I saw as busy work, yet I still had second highest SATs in the school, college credits before graduating, etc.. Performance in school seems more about aping the teachers than actually learning.
I have a Zaurus with a 640x480 screen. It took me a long time to dig up a version of mplayer with hardware accel for whatever chip is in there so it could handle videos of that res, but after I did it turned out to be pointless.
The screens on these things are so small that QVGA is more than ample. I've been watching anime fansubs lately, which ever since the process went digital have been using these tiny font size subtitles (more suited to monitors than TVs), but even they read fine at 320x240 at the size we're talking about.
>The second traditional reason is that they're mostly - and
>there's exceptions, clearly - hugely better written.
Did anyone else find this sentence hilarious? This guy's writing is terrible. If I were editing I'd delete half his sentences as utterly useless and have to clean up shitty sentences like the one quoted above. "mostly...hugely," my god. It's clear he is used to writing as much as possible no matter how bad it makes his writing. Makes sense for someone involved in journalism, I suppose. I'm glad internet reviews don't pull shit like that as much.
Bah, at least the ISS has some meaning. Astronomy is the laughing stock of all the sciences with only a modicum of value to the physicists. The space program is dying because it puts so much money into astronomy, something the vast majority of people see as useless and boring. Back when space exploration actually involved people the technological side benefits were much better for society and it was actually possible to get excited about space missions.
If you guys want your advanced space stations that means you have to pay $$$ into space station technologies. This includes funding the intermediate versions instead of those useless telescopes. Money into astronomy is good for little more than intellectual masturbation. Money into manned space exploration develops useful technology and the science behind it at a much greater rate and it expands man's capabilities. Don't pay the money, the technology will never develop, we'll never enter space in any significant amount as a species, and all that astronomy will be even more useless than it is now.
Did you even read the post being replied to? This guy's wife cheated on him, hid it, and in so doing was responsible for giving the guy AIDS. How could this not be considered a bad choice of a wife?
It's your duty to society to hold this woman's actions up as a bad example and something to be reviled (and hell maybe even cause her to engage in some much needed self reflection). Pretending otherwise and turning a blind eye to spare someone's feelings is being irresponsible.
It's funny how both this woman and yourself are causing harm by being dishonest. I guess your parents were too polite to teach you otherwise as a children.
Big polluting countries like China and India are exempt from the Kyoto protocol (even though they sign). Please have some clue about what you are posting about before throwing accusations.
I know the XBox Halo guys have weapon mods, vehicles in multiplayer (playing on xbc, not live), their own maps and a lot of other stuff going. The DOAXVB Xbox modders have done tons of texture related stuff (invisible swimsuits, replaceable textures, importable 3dsmax meshes, etc). If modded units were aloud on Live it would be very, very, very easy to do cheats.
It wasn't an official review like the other 9 places the negative comments are taken from, but PA did say bad things about Halo 2's story and ending (or lack thereof) and has a huge readership...
I agree the civilian deaths due to the war were a bad thing (although I think our military worked very hard to keep these minimal), but the other option was continuing sanctions. Kerry even spoke out for using sanctions several times during the debates. Here's a quote from UNICEF's fact sheet on what sanctions were causing:
"--Seven years after the imposition of the blockade on the people of Iraq, more than 1.2 million people, including 750,000 children below the age of five, have died because of the scarcity of food and medicine. 32 percent of children under age 5, some 960,000 children, are chronically malnourished--a rise of 72 percent since 1991. 23% are underweight - twice as high as the levels found in neighboring Jordan or Turkey. (UNICEF, 1997)"
I don't think sanctions would have been lifted soon, either. In the run up to the latest war Hans Blix, the head of the UN inspection team, was continually reporting that Iraq was simply not cooperating fully and not showing an intent to disarm. Inspections are not supposed to be hide and seek, it's supposed to be a cooperative effort and that just wasn't happening.
>Scroll wheels on mice are similar, as are just
>plain old dials, but they requre you to lift
>up your finger/hand repeatedly to scroll far
>enough in either direction.
IBM actually makes a line of mice that have their TrackPoint microjoystick instead of the scroll wheel. In addition to being able to scroll as much as you like without petting the thing like you have to a scroll wheel, it's also pressure sensitive so you can scroll a lot/fast or a little/slow as you like by just pressing differently.
It's worth pointing out that even in the video effects example given in the article, using the keyboard is far more productive. With the dial you have to click past x other effects just to get to the one you want. A keyboard can be setup to enable the effect you want simple by pressing a single button for each of them.
;p
So the keyboard may not be as easy to use, but it certainly is more productive as long as you assume the user can figure out which button does which. Given proper visual aid (ie. a little diagram with the keys circled in red and functions listed, or a keyboard overlay, etc.) that would take maybe a 8 year old or older.
If I were going to make a custom box like the guy in the article did, I would just make one with big, labeled buttons. A sensitive control knob is useful for moving through footage where the linear relationship of the options you are moving through exists and is natural. For moving through a list of effects, however, it's simply a pain. Similarly having it by the monitor is just stupid; try holding your arm up by the monitor for an hour, it's a pain in the ass. The dial should be close to the user where it can be accessed easily and what you select with it should be visible on the screen.
If this is a kiosk and the monitor is down by the user's hands and so easily accessible then OK, but then I question why a touchscreen isn't being used in that case (e.g. tap the screen, little menu pops up with functions and descriptions, tap function, and your on, etc.).