You can often quiet an older fan by removing the sticker which covers the bearing and putting a drop of oil (sewing machine oil or car engine oil) on it.
Cancer is not "one of nature's many ways of balancing species population".
Cancer is a failure of the mechanisms which control cell division. From an evolutionary perspective our bodies have evolved many mechanisms to stop cancer from occurring, because the genes for these mechanisms increased the probability that the body they were in would survive to reproduce.
These will never be perfect, because random events can defeat these mechanisms, but there is no 'nature' which 'balances' species.
cardshark wrote: Perhaps some of those deaths seem suspicious, but please: a murder-suicide by an associate of the deceased? I really do not see how the "spooks" could cause something like that.
That's the one that proves it was the spooks!
Only they have the advanced mind control techniques to do that!
OK, I haven't done pair programming, but the idea isn't that it's someone 'watching over your shoulder', you're working together, but one of you is doing the typing. You can trade spots pretty often though.
Day 1 we tore the Turing Test apart, proved it was more pathetic than my predictions above
What did your class think was wrong with the Turing test?
Did you remember that it is explicitly a sufficient, but not a necessary test for something intelligent to pass?
That is, we can imagine something which we would recognise as intelligent which *can't* pass the Turing test, but not something unintelligent which *can*.
Less Optimisation == Less CPU usage?!?
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JIT compilation raises some issues. One is that it demands resources -- memory and processor particularly. To solve this, MS have two JIT compilers: a normal one, that optimizes compiled code fairly well, but can be processor and/or memory intensive; and an "EconoJIT". EconoJIT might not optimize the code as well, but it'll require less memory and processor time to run.
I can believe that a JIT which does less optimisation will use less memory, but I don't believe it will run your code faster!
From FlexPlay's FAQ:
It is interesting to note that a recent scientific study found that because Flexplay discs will eliminate unnecessary trips by car to video stores, they will actually result in a net benefit to the environment. The study, conducted by Jonathan Koomey, a noted environmental expert, concluded that if Flexplay discs constituted 10% of all rentals, the technology would save 50 million gallons of gasoline, eliminate 111,000 metric tons of carbon emissions, 700 tons of hydrocarbons, and 1,000 tons of nitrogen oxides every year. These emissions savings would be equivalent in their effects to removing 82,000 passenger car and light trucks from the road permanently.
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You can often quiet an older fan by removing the sticker which covers the bearing and putting a drop of oil (sewing machine oil or car engine oil) on it.
Tom
At least you can spell Sidney correctly -- but as we speak German your locale was wrong.
Tom
If bytes transferred from ftp.aarnet.edu.au were free I wouldn't mind the new plans one bit.
Tom
Cancer is not "one of nature's many ways of balancing species population".
Cancer is a failure of the mechanisms which control cell division. From an evolutionary perspective our bodies have evolved many mechanisms to stop cancer from occurring, because the genes for these mechanisms increased the probability that the body they were in would survive to reproduce.
These will never be perfect, because random events can defeat these mechanisms, but there is no 'nature' which 'balances' species.
Tom
Coincidentally I read this post while listeneing to Paul Kelly's 'Maralinga'
IBM forgot about Java?
What rubbish.
IBM makes up to date JDKs for all their platforms (even OS/2), plus Linux and Windows.
They support one of the leading open source Java IDEs, eclipse.
And their application server offering, Websphere, is a J2EE server.
Java does have a future on Linux. I think the future of Linux is tied to the future of Java -- I wouldn't use Linux if it didn't support Java well.
Tom
cardshark wrote:
Perhaps some of those deaths seem suspicious, but please: a murder-suicide by an associate of the deceased? I really do not see how the "spooks" could cause something like that.
That's the one that proves it was the spooks!
Only they have the advanced mind control techniques to do that!
OK, I haven't done pair programming, but the idea isn't that it's someone 'watching over your shoulder', you're working together, but one of you is doing the typing. You can trade spots pretty often though.
Tom
I've installed Windows XP, which I think is a good start.
Tom
>But the rectenna is MUCH more efficient than a solar panel at turning it into electricity
That's intersting. Why?
Tom
And it isn't even real time!
Seriously, my favourite monsters were the Keystone Kops, and the 'wipe eyes' command you needed when fighting them...
Tom
Just to clarify the original post:
Eclipse (www.eclipse.org) is a Java IDE, written in Java but using IBMs SWT, which is a cross platform GUI toolkit which uses native widgets.
Because it uses native widgets, it works well on NT, less well on Linux, and not at all (I think) on Mac OS X.
But it is a very nice, libre, IDE, and allows you to use Swing (which is *really* cross-platform) as well as SWT.
Tom
http://www.dansdata.com/mimio.htm
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The amount of work that got done over beer and at three in the morning cannot possibly be underestimated.
Did he really mean to say this?
Traser sell such a watch.
Tom
Day 1 we tore the Turing Test apart, proved it was more pathetic than my predictions above
What did your class think was wrong with the Turing test?
Did you remember that it is explicitly a sufficient, but not a necessary test for something intelligent to pass?
That is, we can imagine something which we would recognise as intelligent which *can't* pass the Turing test, but not something unintelligent which *can*.
Tom
and the world would be free from this menace.
Tom
JIT compilation raises some issues. One is that it demands resources -- memory and processor particularly. To solve this, MS have two JIT compilers: a normal one, that optimizes compiled code fairly well, but can be processor and/or memory intensive; and an "EconoJIT". EconoJIT might not optimize the code as well, but it'll require less memory and processor time to run.
I can believe that a JIT which does less optimisation will use less memory, but I don't believe it will run your code faster!
Tom
From FlexPlay's FAQ:
It is interesting to note that a recent scientific study found that because Flexplay discs will eliminate unnecessary trips by car to video stores, they will actually result in a net benefit to the environment. The study, conducted by Jonathan Koomey, a noted environmental expert, concluded that if Flexplay discs constituted 10% of all rentals, the technology would save 50 million gallons of gasoline, eliminate 111,000 metric tons of carbon emissions, 700 tons of hydrocarbons, and 1,000 tons of nitrogen oxides every year. These emissions savings would be equivalent in their effects to removing 82,000 passenger car and light trucks from the road permanently.
For other languages which compile to JVM bytecodes, see: http://flp.cs.tu-berlin.de/~tolk/vmlanguages.html
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For a discussion of implementing other languages on the JVM see:
http://www.byte.com/documents/s=505/BYT20001214
Tom
Will Office.NET (if such a beast exists) use only the .NET libraries?
There is nothing to stop it making Win32 system calls too.
Tom
Will they work on ethanol? -- Will a peaty single malt gum up the works?
Does the Pentium 4 use these, or something else?
Tom
we want to keep the TCP connection open so a client knows when it has an incoming message instantly.
Why not use UDP for this?
Tom
Eclipse 2.0 certainly has code completion. Which version are you using?
Tom