They also get to gauge the response better. By letting them see every time its watched (for now forgetting about the few stream ripper ppl around), they can go back to their bosses with some hard figures about demand.
Fingers crossed that this is the start of subscribing (yes I would pay) to entire series direct from the web legally:)
I would certainly not object paying for legal access to hidef torrents of these shows (BG, Enterprise hell the missus would pay for Angel, the list goes on).
It would be in our best interests to keep shouting loudly about wanting something like this.
Subscribing to a favorite series, more like a magazine subscription model than a blanket tv channel package we are currently forced to digest.
my modifications weren't to the algorythm itself, more to the specific implimentation. Sorting an array of integers is one thing, handling lookups and retaining the calculated current pivot weight nearby are where my tuning was aimed. It turned a sluggish routine into something quick and responsive. Your spot on about the average, and quite rightly suggest the right tool for the job in certain situations:) Theres no need for peer review, the coding is done, it operates to my expectations of speed, and the customer is satisfied:)
I realised this as well, and have infact posted something very similar in another reply. The compiler simply translates a "0" in a pointer context up to be an uninitialized memory pointer on whichever the target system is (whether that is or is not == 0 is irrelivent to the code).
Your right about none zero memory pointers (I was just re-reading a FAQ compiled from the K&R bible).
BUT as part of an C compiler, using a "0" in a pointer context will always compile to a null pointer on the target system.
The only problems with zeros comes from the cast applied when passing parameters, and in such cases, even a NULL definition may require explicit casting.
As I recall, NULL does not always == 0. Won't some compilers shout at you for comparing a long against a pointer? Doesn't it have to be casted, hence making the almost universally defined macro essential for clean compilation.
Also, some computer systems do not use 0 as the definition of an uninitialised pointer.
An example would be searching and sorting algorythms (I know there have been thousands of variations, and entire libraries now exist, but theres always some other need for a non generic search function)
I could write sloppy code which appears to be significant, but then realise that holding this here, and keeping that register there, then I can do such a thing just a fraction quicker than before.
Its not so much going to the assembler level anymore, but a tightly coded loop tuned by human intuition will almost always still be faster than anything an optimiser can give.
I recently had an issue with sorting collections containing thousands of none trivial objects. Every time I adjusted the adready fast quicksort, I gained a little more speed.
Its always been the way, and until genetic compilation and optimisation comes along trying every combination, it will continue to be the case.
This is not the terrace at a football game, Microsoft is not the enemy. They are merely a competitor to a fraction of OSS projects.
Open source software lives and thrives within a Windows environment. Given any of the common OS's, I can download and install legal software without paying a penny more. It doesn't matter if I am using a Mac or an x86 or something else, software is available.
If you want the Linux OS to suceed however, you have to convince Dell and HP and Time and Tiny that the OS on their machines is stable and can be supported. I do not know a single home user who has purchased or changed their operating system for a machine they have bought. They will put up with whatever is there until its hardware renewal time.
I couldn't care less what OS people use, as long as they have choice. Its in our own best interests though to push and market OSS principles and benefits to the rest of the world.
IBM and Novell have backed a winner in Linux, and with such big names standing behind it, it wont be long before others follow:)
I have an addin for firefox that adds a context item called "Remove this object". It works a treat and removes the object your hovering over, but unfortunately it returns after a refresh (my missus thought she had finally managed to delete slashdot totally from the internet when I showed her! The look on her face as she wiped out geek comments was a classic)
The addin is called "Nuke anything", unfortunately its on my home machine, so I can't get a link.
If adblock etc could impliment this kind of thing and put a pretty regex front end on it, then it will be faily simple to keep up.
A user would only see a specific kind of advert/dodgy content once, and the blocker would learn:)
If a press release is posted somewhere, its entirely possible for multiple people to read the same story at a similar time. Consider also the syndication via AP or other sites - look at how Google handles dupes, most single news items have 1000s of sites all saying the same thing.
Each of the readers of these thousands of sites can decide to submit their take on the story, and so for every single bit of syndicated news travelling the web, there could for certain stories be thousands of submissions (i hazard its usually much less though).
The editors themselves have to filter through all these and find out what interests THEM, what stands out from the rest. They have to read and judge all these, and quite quickly decide which to post. The single story you see could be from a flood of 100 similar "dupes" themselves, so the editor thinks its new and picks the best one at that moment. </ponder>
I can quite easily see WHY they happen, perhaps we could help the editors by making a submission scanner and search function. An interface to google news (as somebody pointed out recently, they manage to index very quickly so would catch most) would be simplest I think. Even just using link domains as an initial "this might already have been posted very recently" test would help them out.
I once thought about breaking my wall into 2cm squares and painting an entire mandelbrot mural along it.
It wasn't until I actually realised I would need to paint about 25000 (2.5m*4m) individual pixels that I gave up on the idea. It wouldv taken me longer than Michealangelo painting the cisteen chapel.
(This was back in my Amiga days, color printing, especially at the scale I needed was expensive)
Anyways, back to the subject, at building distances, higher resolution is unimportant.
Then people would moan that its "old news". They would bitch if you decided to use advertising to support the server you use, they would complain in droves about your CSS and page layout techniques. They would find a way to break your system, or foil your filters, and the trolls will still laugh.
Apparantly on slash, you can't win.
Accept the dupes, accept the trolls, accept the bitching and the in fighting.
the noise to signal ratio is high, but the majority of us have enough going on upstairs to cut through it:)
I actually like it as it is though, the good parts easily outweigh the crap that comes along with it.
(having said all that, it might be a good idea to think about a Submission pre-moderation area that all moderators can access to potentially weed out dupes. Like the meta-mod area, but give 10-15minutes before stories even hit the mysterious future. Hell, just get the mods checking mails about stories in the mysterious future itself would solve it...)
This is NOT a dupe. Slashdot rigerously enforces the Dupecast flag, and makes sure stories are only posted if the flag is not set. Or does that not count until after July?
The planets and moons and asteroids can be considered "dark matter".
From a distance, alone in space, nobody can see them. They do not glow, or burn or give off radiation of their own.
There are thousands and thousands of huge rocks floating around just our solar system that we don't know exist because we cannot see them directly.
Unlike a sun, they don't easily advertise their presence to obververs.
It is things like this that on a galactic scale really begin to add up. We certainly don't know how much debris exists away from the comforting glow of a red hot sun, but we KNOW at least some exists.
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They also get to gauge the response better.
:)
By letting them see every time its watched (for now forgetting about the few stream ripper ppl around), they can go back to their bosses with some hard figures about demand.
Fingers crossed that this is the start of subscribing (yes I would pay) to entire series direct from the web legally
I would certainly not object paying for legal access to hidef torrents of these shows (BG, Enterprise hell the missus would pay for Angel, the list goes on).
It would be in our best interests to keep shouting loudly about wanting something like this.
Subscribing to a favorite series, more like a magazine subscription model than a blanket tv channel package we are currently forced to digest.
Don't worry, you are immune from infection as long as you dont use Internet explorer to view the page ;)
my modifications weren't to the algorythm itself, more to the specific implimentation. :) :)
Sorting an array of integers is one thing, handling lookups and retaining the calculated current pivot weight nearby are where my tuning was aimed. It turned a sluggish routine into something quick and responsive.
Your spot on about the average, and quite rightly suggest the right tool for the job in certain situations
Theres no need for peer review, the coding is done, it operates to my expectations of speed, and the customer is satisfied
I realised this as well, and have infact posted something very similar in another reply.
The compiler simply translates a "0" in a pointer context up to be an uninitialized memory pointer on whichever the target system is (whether that is or is not == 0 is irrelivent to the code).
Your right about none zero memory pointers (I was just re-reading a FAQ compiled from the K&R bible).
BUT as part of an C compiler, using a "0" in a pointer context will always compile to a null pointer on the target system.
The only problems with zeros comes from the cast applied when passing parameters, and in such cases, even a NULL definition may require explicit casting.
As I recall, NULL does not always == 0.
Won't some compilers shout at you for comparing a long against a pointer?
Doesn't it have to be casted, hence making the almost universally defined macro essential for clean compilation.
Also, some computer systems do not use 0 as the definition of an uninitialised pointer.
An example would be searching and sorting algorythms (I know there have been thousands of variations, and entire libraries now exist, but theres always some other need for a non generic search function)
I could write sloppy code which appears to be significant, but then realise that holding this here, and keeping that register there, then I can do such a thing just a fraction quicker than before.
Its not so much going to the assembler level anymore, but a tightly coded loop tuned by human intuition will almost always still be faster than anything an optimiser can give.
I recently had an issue with sorting collections containing thousands of none trivial objects. Every time I adjusted the adready fast quicksort, I gained a little more speed.
Its always been the way, and until genetic compilation and optimisation comes along trying every combination, it will continue to be the case.
lol
:)
Was mere lazyness on my behalf.
You made me laugh though
This is not the terrace at a football game, Microsoft is not the enemy. They are merely a competitor to a fraction of OSS projects.
:)
Open source software lives and thrives within a Windows environment. Given any of the common OS's, I can download and install legal software without paying a penny more. It doesn't matter if I am using a Mac or an x86 or something else, software is available.
If you want the Linux OS to suceed however, you have to convince Dell and HP and Time and Tiny that the OS on their machines is stable and can be supported. I do not know a single home user who has purchased or changed their operating system for a machine they have bought. They will put up with whatever is there until its hardware renewal time.
I couldn't care less what OS people use, as long as they have choice. Its in our own best interests though to push and market OSS principles and benefits to the rest of the world.
IBM and Novell have backed a winner in Linux, and with such big names standing behind it, it wont be long before others follow
I have an addin for firefox that adds a context item called "Remove this object".
:)
It works a treat and removes the object your hovering over, but unfortunately it returns after a refresh (my missus thought she had finally managed to delete slashdot totally from the internet when I showed her! The look on her face as she wiped out geek comments was a classic)
The addin is called "Nuke anything", unfortunately its on my home machine, so I can't get a link.
If adblock etc could impliment this kind of thing and put a pretty regex front end on it, then it will be faily simple to keep up.
A user would only see a specific kind of advert/dodgy content once, and the blocker would learn
Elles ont levé le nombre de versions localisées.
I don't want my passwords removing.
Its a PITA to click the
History
Saved Form Information
Cookies
Cache
items every time, the options nicelt hold the page, and the ones I want clearing stay closed, but I still have to dance down clicking.
Might be a job for an addin.
If a press release is posted somewhere, its entirely possible for multiple people to read the same story at a similar time. Consider also the syndication via AP or other sites - look at how Google handles dupes, most single news items have 1000s of sites all saying the same thing.
Each of the readers of these thousands of sites can decide to submit their take on the story, and so for every single bit of syndicated news travelling the web, there could for certain stories be thousands of submissions (i hazard its usually much less though).
The editors themselves have to filter through all these and find out what interests THEM, what stands out from the rest. They have to read and judge all these, and quite quickly decide which to post. The single story you see could be from a flood of 100 similar "dupes" themselves, so the editor thinks its new and picks the best one at that moment.
</ponder>
I can quite easily see WHY they happen, perhaps we could help the editors by making a submission scanner and search function. An interface to google news (as somebody pointed out recently, they manage to index very quickly so would catch most) would be simplest I think. Even just using link domains as an initial "this might already have been posted very recently" test would help them out.
Any perl hacks out there got any ideas?
Subscribers should have a button in the mysterious future.
Pressing it should sound an alarm and turn a lava lamp different colors.
Taco and Cowboy can get into their superhero costumes and slide down a pole to go and fight the evil menace.
+++++++++++++Very good information, Quick to load, trustworthy poster, would click again.
I once thought about breaking my wall into 2cm squares and painting an entire mandelbrot mural along it.
It wasn't until I actually realised I would need to paint about 25000 (2.5m*4m) individual pixels that I gave up on the idea.
It wouldv taken me longer than Michealangelo painting the cisteen chapel.
(This was back in my Amiga days, color printing, especially at the scale I needed was expensive)
Anyways, back to the subject, at building distances, higher resolution is unimportant.
I'm quite certain someone could come up with a small connecting cable instead of hanging your phone out of the window....
Then people would moan that its "old news".
:)
They would bitch if you decided to use advertising to support the server you use, they would complain in droves about your CSS and page layout techniques. They would find a way to break your system, or foil your filters, and the trolls will still laugh.
Apparantly on slash, you can't win.
Accept the dupes, accept the trolls, accept the bitching and the in fighting.
the noise to signal ratio is high, but the majority of us have enough going on upstairs to cut through it
I actually like it as it is though, the good parts easily outweigh the crap that comes along with it.
(having said all that, it might be a good idea to think about a Submission pre-moderation area that all moderators can access to potentially weed out dupes. Like the meta-mod area, but give 10-15minutes before stories even hit the mysterious future. Hell, just get the mods checking mails about stories in the mysterious future itself would solve it...)
Try submitting the story again.
They appear to read them, or at least glance and accept.
+10 points for ingenuity :)
seems fixed now anyways, panic over.
try it when your not logged in.
it seems to only come into effect with no account.
(notice the lack of AC postings.... those that are here seem most likely be the "post anonymously" tickbox)
This is NOT a dupe.
Slashdot rigerously enforces the Dupecast flag, and makes sure stories are only posted if the flag is not set.
Or does that not count until after July?
The planets and moons and asteroids can be considered "dark matter".
From a distance, alone in space, nobody can see them. They do not glow, or burn or give off radiation of their own.
There are thousands and thousands of huge rocks floating around just our solar system that we don't know exist because we cannot see them directly.
Unlike a sun, they don't easily advertise their presence to obververs.
It is things like this that on a galactic scale really begin to add up.
We certainly don't know how much debris exists away from the comforting glow of a red hot sun, but we KNOW at least some exists.
What got me about the picture was the amount of stars visible BEHIND the supposed dark matter galaxy.
Granted, some background light may be visible through it, but it looks no different than empty space.
I don't doubt the astronomers detected "something" in that region of space, but to immediately tell us its a galaxy is another.
Even with radio signals, we are able to translate the signals into something visible.
would certainly better than looking at nothingness.