And, if you have some spare minutes
when they call you, try to make the phone
call as long as possible, pretending
you will buy but are just hesitating
over details. The phone advertisers
must score a max number of clients in
a day, so longish conversations that
end with nothing (for them) is the
worst possible scenario (for them).
And the other thing, I really hope bamboo doesn't swell with water, otherwise the thing could work great one day, then the next after a rainy night all the bamboo would be rattliing in those sockets.
Good point, I thought about the same.
Obviously, the frame must covered with
some protective material often.
So much for environmental friendliness,
in several years the amount of lacquer
used will negate the non-aluminium
environmental gains:)
I wonder what a material scientist
would reply to that (I am not one).
Steel is not one thing, you know.
Neither are bamboo or aluminium alloys,
of course.
What kind of steel? If the author means
ordinary steel in his comparison, for sure
high-quality steel would be stronger than
bamboo. Mountain bikes, AFAIK, use fairly
high quality alloys, be that steel or
aluminium.
Under what longtitudal force---sorry,
I don't know the terms in English---pushing
the ends towards each other, or pulling the
ends apart? (AFAIK, in the first case the
shape of the cross-section is crucial.)
Typically, a material under increasing force goes through
ellastic transformation (sorry, missing the term
again) when the original shape recovers once
the force is removed; then plastic transofrmation
that leaves permanent damages; then is breaks.
So, what is the 17% advantage of bamboo, is
it that the rod stays in the ellastic zone under
17% bigger force? Or is it that the force that breaks it is 17% bigger?
A bamboo rod has---again, missing the word---"segments" about 30cm long that have
"joint" between them. I would think that the
joints are the weak point. A steel rod of the
type that is found in bikes is has uniform structure, without such joints. Methinks this
is an advantage for the metal one.
Further, the
metal rod can be given appropriate shaping.
On my bike for instance, the two rods that
go between the stem of the seat post and the
rear wheel are bent slightly to the inside
at the place where the rear brakes are attached. In this way, they (the rods) bend less (to the outside)
when the rear brakes are used. This stiffness
means more efficient stopping. If the
two rods were made of bamboo, they would be
straight and thus more prone to bending to
the outside once the brakes are pressed.
If they don't want to keep the whole
thing, they can keep just the hash value.
Say, an md5sum. The first / middle / last
pages are clearly insufficient.
The RCU things was discussed by Linus
recently,
see here
The one thing SCO has mentioned has been the Read Copy Update code that IBM gave us, and that wasn't accepted for the longest time into the kernel exactly because we knew the patents were owned by IBM. [But] we said we couldn't take it until you [IBM] said very explicitly that you also license the patents.
I am surprised about NUMA. Isn't it something
very recent? How many NUMA machines were there
when SCO acquired the rights over Sys V? Does
anyone here know more about NUMA and System V?
whether Mozilla can give you control
to turn SVG off and on (per site and
by default).
As someone
said, flash and animated gifs can
be abused in all sorts of ways,
and no doubt that with SVG we'll see
the same happening if it ever becomes
mainstream.
Hmm. I thought they (the publishers) would
not care how the pdf/ps file is produced,
as long as it conforms to the pdf/ps standard.
No? Why do they need the software you used
to do it?
* How were you reading the file? One big chunk, one character at a time, or with an intermediate buffer? An intermediate-sized buffer with data being copied to a new buffer for output will be the most efficient.
* Were you trying to make in-place changes to the string? Strings in Python can't change, so with larger inputs you might've been moving a lot more data around behind the scenes.
That's the code
while 1:
____c = sys.stdin.read(1)
____if not c: break
____n = ord(c)
____if n < 0xC0:
________text = text + c
________continue
____elif n < 0xE0:
## a small letter
________new = koi[n]
____else:
## a capital letter
________n -= 0x20
________new = chr(ord(koi[n]) - 0x20)
____text = text + new
print text
Of course, there are no underscores, I just
don't know how to get the proper whitespaces
at the beginning of the lines:)
This is a question, I have little
experience with Python and until I finish
my thesis that will not change.
I read somewhere in usenet that python is relatively slow,
even for interpreted language, and my (extremely
limited) experience is the same. A while ago, I did a simple text converter in python as
an exercise. Very basic stuff, read from file, check
the value of each symbol, change with another
value if necessary,
write into another file. It was quite slow
on texts of moderate size. I mean, if it
were in C, the delay would not be noticeable.
However, if google uses it, then python has
"industrial strength" and should perform
well. I wonder...
Not attempting to imply that
XP is unstable, of course,
just an experience. I use
Linux both at home and at work
and haven't touched much 'doze
since v3.11. An office mate at
the university was showing me
XP once, since I had not seen
any in action before (just
screen shots on www). I asked him
whether XP has utility like
"su" for *NIX, he said not really,
but XP can handle multiple
users logged in, though in different
sessions (as opposed to "su").
So, without logging out, he went
somehow to the log-in prompt,
typed another username & pass,
and... the machine rebooted.
I mean, seriously, one moment
he pressed Enter, next moment
the screen became black (no BSOD),
and then
the BIOS initialisation started with
the memory test.
but most directors don't have the power to make that particular demand, and those that do are mainstream enough not to want to
True! The Hollywood movie machine is not
about artistic visions, it's about successful
marketing. I practically stopped watching
Hollywood films, but on the rare occasions I
do see one, it is inevitably the case.
The predictability, the simple narrative,
the happy end resolution -- it is good
marketing. The general audience wants that,
conflicts resolved, police department
triumphant, the main characters surviving,
the bad ones punished.
Sir, you mention Spielberg. He is NOT an
example of artistic integrity. Recently
I borrowed the three Indiana Jones films
on video and I was surprised how much
propaganda they contain. Sure, they are
cute and funny, but propaganda nevertheless.
Have you seen the soap opera Jurassic Crap?
Yes? Do you recall how the T-Rex ate the
bad, greedy guy with mean look first?
The guy was intended to be hated by the
audience, he betrayed the children, and
thus everyone was relieved to see him
torn to pieces. That's BS, not art.
Woody Allen is another matter. I don't
like all his films, but he is an artist,
not a marketer.
One of my favourite films,
All That Jazz,
is about an unbending artist. Too
bad nowadays almost no one knows about it...
I recall a discussion at lkml about
the licensing issues with bitkeeper. Someone
said that the future versions of your FS will
have some version control built-in, and thus
be a sort-of competitor to Larry McVoy's
bitkeeper. Larry's comment was that if that
happens, then
you have to buy bk in order
to use it.
You suggested that indeed version control is
going to be in.
Can you say more about these plans now, and the
eventual conflict with bitkeeper.
Thanks.
Re:So let me get this straight...
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SCO SCO SCO!
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From what I see, the purpose of the NDA is so that you can't tell other people what the offending lines are, because then they could fix them and SCO wouldn't have a case.
Huh? *If* there is violation in that sense, what other goal can there be, but remove the code in question? IANAL, of course..
There has to be a good reason for this design choice, but I cannot see it. Why not have the
foam sandwiched between two coaxial metal
cylinders, rather than being sprayed onto
one? Then the problem with the falling pieces
would vanish.
What about other rockets that use cryo-fuel?
Do they have thermo insulator as an outer layer?
I can't be positive, I've never touched a rocket,
but they seem to have metal skins...
I did RTFA and did not see the answer to what is
bugging me most about the H_2 economy --
how do you store H_2? AFAIK, it is hard to make
a container for pressurised hydrogen, because
the molecules are very small and it tends to leak.
To turn it into a liquid you have to cool it
down to very low temperatures, so that's not an
option for your car's tank.
And of course it sounds frightening to be in a H_2-powered car in an accident. Remember
Hindenburg?
I know. I did use DOS, and I even got
infected by a virus that came from a
diskette of a friend. I had no email
then, not even a modem, so definitely
it did not come from the Net:)
However, today people widely call "virus"
what was once called "worm". The author
of the Mandrake review does that too. So,
if everyone says they are viruses, let them
be viruses, not worms. If you prefer the
other convention, s/viruses/worms/ in both
his rant and my answer.
Viruses are not written for Windows, this is an imprecise statement. Viruses are written for the default Windows MUA. It (allegedly, I don't use 'doze) tries to "make things easy" and interprets (part of) the email as programs. And it also (allegedly...) runs external applications over attachments wihout (much) notification. I mean, come on, there are certainly more basic mailers under Windows that don't know about the scripts, html and don't run extarnal apps automatically. Trying to infect through such a mailer would be an excercise in futility.
This may not be true *if* the recent Windows'es have gotten so integrated that emails are handled by the core of the OS:)
In addition, many Windows users work as administrators, or still use 97/ME which don't offer protection, so the damage is potentially unlimited.
So, the viruses/worms exploit weaknesses in the system. When someone says "they infect X because they are written for X", there is an implication that anything can be infected, if someone competent enough wanted to. This is clearly wrong.
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And, if you have some spare minutes when they call you, try to make the phone call as long as possible, pretending you will buy but are just hesitating over details. The phone advertisers must score a max number of clients in a day, so longish conversations that end with nothing (for them) is the worst possible scenario (for them).
I have touched bamboo, but never tried to break one. So I will take your word for the joints :)
If they don't want to keep the whole thing, they can keep just the hash value. Say, an md5sum. The first / middle / last pages are clearly insufficient.
while [ 1 ] /dev/null 2>& 1
do
wget --user-agent='SpammerFucker' -O - "$1" >
done
with the spammer's URL as paramater.
As someone said, flash and animated gifs can be abused in all sorts of ways, and no doubt that with SVG we'll see the same happening if it ever becomes mainstream.
And, BTW, what about Latex? There are plenty of books (not just journal papers, but *books*) in Comp. Sci. and Mathematics that are typeset in Latex. I mean, high quality books, e.g. "Introduction to Algorithms" by Cormen, Leiserson, and Rivest, or Modern Computer Algebra by von zur Gathen and Gerhard. You cannot say they are done in a "Kinko's-type place". And yes, both of them are typeset in Latex.
Re: Linux v2.6.0-test1
The whole thread is here Linux v2.6.0-test1
while 1:
____c = sys.stdin.read(1)
____if not c: break
____n = ord(c)
____if n < 0xC0:
________text = text + c
________continue
____elif n < 0xE0:
## a small letter
________new = koi[n]
____else:
## a capital letter
________n -= 0x20
________new = chr(ord(koi[n]) - 0x20)
____text = text + new
print text
Of course, there are no underscores, I just don't know how to get the proper whitespaces at the beginning of the lines :)
I read somewhere in usenet that python is relatively slow, even for interpreted language, and my (extremely limited) experience is the same. A while ago, I did a simple text converter in python as an exercise. Very basic stuff, read from file, check the value of each symbol, change with another value if necessary, write into another file. It was quite slow on texts of moderate size. I mean, if it were in C, the delay would not be noticeable.
However, if google uses it, then python has "industrial strength" and should perform well. I wonder...
I mean, seriously, one moment he pressed Enter, next moment the screen became black (no BSOD), and then the BIOS initialisation started with the memory test.
What about KDE's spreadsheet (Kspread, IIRC) and gnumeric? Last time I checked KDE's one, I found it inferior to gnumeric. But that was loong ago.
True! The Hollywood movie machine is not about artistic visions, it's about successful marketing. I practically stopped watching Hollywood films, but on the rare occasions I do see one, it is inevitably the case. The predictability, the simple narrative, the happy end resolution -- it is good marketing. The general audience wants that, conflicts resolved, police department triumphant, the main characters surviving, the bad ones punished.
Sir, you mention Spielberg. He is NOT an example of artistic integrity. Recently I borrowed the three Indiana Jones films on video and I was surprised how much propaganda they contain. Sure, they are cute and funny, but propaganda nevertheless. Have you seen the soap opera Jurassic Crap? Yes? Do you recall how the T-Rex ate the bad, greedy guy with mean look first? The guy was intended to be hated by the audience, he betrayed the children, and thus everyone was relieved to see him torn to pieces. That's BS, not art.
Woody Allen is another matter. I don't like all his films, but he is an artist, not a marketer.
One of my favourite films, All That Jazz, is about an unbending artist. Too bad nowadays almost no one knows about it...
What is funny about that posting? Have the esteemed moderators watched Clockwork Orange?
I kind of agree with you, although I would not use the word b****** :)
I recall a discussion at lkml about the licensing issues with bitkeeper. Someone said that the future versions of your FS will have some version control built-in, and thus be a sort-of competitor to Larry McVoy's bitkeeper. Larry's comment was that if that happens, then you have to buy bk in order to use it.
You suggested that indeed version control is going to be in. Can you say more about these plans now, and the eventual conflict with bitkeeper.
Thanks.
Huh? *If* there is violation in that sense,
what other goal can there be, but remove the
code in question? IANAL, of course..
A week or two ago I checked out linuxcounter and I swear there was an entry for north korea (1 user). Now there is nothing. Strange...
What about other rockets that use cryo-fuel? Do they have thermo insulator as an outer layer? I can't be positive, I've never touched a rocket, but they seem to have metal skins...
And of course it sounds frightening to be in a H_2-powered car in an accident. Remember Hindenburg?
I know. I did use DOS, and I even got infected by a virus that came from a diskette of a friend. I had no email then, not even a modem, so definitely it did not come from the Net :)
However, today people widely call "virus"
what was once called "worm". The author
of the Mandrake review does that too. So,
if everyone says they are viruses, let them
be viruses, not worms. If you prefer the
other convention, s/viruses/worms/ in both
his rant and my answer.
Viruses are not written for Windows, ...)
:)
this is an imprecise statement.
Viruses are written for the default
Windows MUA. It (allegedly, I don't
use 'doze) tries to "make things easy"
and interprets (part of) the email
as programs. And it also (allegedly
runs external applications over
attachments wihout (much) notification.
I mean, come on, there are certainly
more basic mailers under Windows that
don't know about the scripts, html and
don't run extarnal apps automatically.
Trying to infect through such a mailer
would be an excercise in futility.
This may not be true *if* the recent
Windows'es have gotten so integrated
that emails are handled by the core
of the OS
In addition, many Windows users work as
administrators, or still use 97/ME which
don't offer protection, so the damage
is potentially unlimited.
So, the viruses/worms exploit weaknesses
in the system. When someone says "they
infect X because they are written for X",
there is an implication that anything
can be infected, if someone competent
enough wanted to. This is clearly wrong.