Actually, he isn't all that -very- wrong - the genome is like a machine code - literally assembly code to generate proteins at slightly higher level, humans at highest level. What we see while watching the genome is about the same as we see while looking at a binary of a program displayed in ASCII. In one hand, it IS all, in the other we can't make out any sense of it - but we DO see patterns. At least in some programs, some of us do. Watch the binary, and you'll see patches of more ASCII printable characters, long rows of NULLs, similar slightly differing short sequences repeating multiple times, forming diagonal patterns on the ASCII display and so on. These relate to copy/paste code patterns, inlined data, initializing data structures with multiple empty strings, zeros and null values and such. I doubt evolution wrote some clean form of for($i=1;$i=5;$i++){hand.appendFinger($i)} and much more likely used dirty cut&paste style of inline addFingerToLimb(hand1, finger1); inline addFingerToLimb(hand1, finger2);inline addFingerToLimb(hand1, finger3)... which can easily create such patterns of repeatablity.
because some ignorant employees won't know the law is on their side and will politely leave upon the period stated in the contract (or won't dare to stand up against the employer violating the law). Generally, if you see in your contract that your notice period is shorter than stated by law, you can smell the employer is up to no good.
In Poland the notice period is regulated by law - 2 weeks for a new employee, a month for one working over 6 months, 3 months for an employee for 3 years or so. Of course a company is perfectly free to fire you tomorrow, BUT they have to pay your salary for the whole pending period - so unless they really mean getting rid of you ASAP, they'd better leave you working for another 3 months, because they will have to pay your salary for that time, no matter if you work or not. There's also some odd law about "abandonning job" - I'm not sure about the exact wording, but you can stop going to work any day, without any notice, without telling anyone, signing anything or such, and they can do really little about that except of cancelling your job contract. There's an interesting clause about the notice periods too - the employer can assign you a shorter notice period than stated by law. Which you are then free to ignore - choice between entry in the contract and the one in law belongs to the employee.
the problem is that screenshots are nearly worthless as a proof - you can modify them digitally leaving no trace of the modification, and without some trust system it's impossible to sign the screenshot proving it wasn't doctored.
We all did this occasionally. These are good conversational pieces, nothing else. But if you keep doing this day after day, annoying the shit off your neighbor up to the point that he sets up a camera and waits for you to do this Yet Again, then posts it to the web, this is a different matter.
Not always. Convolution matrix can be a lossy transform operation. If you're replacing a 5x5 pixels area with medium average of values of pixels contained within ('resolution drop blur') there's no way in hell you could reproduce all 25 pixel values just from the color they've been averaged to. If each pixel is an average of itself and 24 surrounding pixels within 2 pixels range, solution becomes an enormous set of equations, because it depends on unknown values of pixels which depend on its own (unknown) value. It is solvable but not trivial. If the pixels are just displaced by a random factor, you can't reproduce them without knowing the random seed, which was lost long ago. Apply JPEG compression of 95% - and the information is gone. There are many filters that are safe.
There are no weather effects does not allow you to race against other drivers There are 10 cars in all. You start with the Suzuki Cappuccino and work your way up by beating goal times for each car on the given track. There is only one track
ONE track, ONE car to choose from on startup (plus unlockable 9), single-player only, driving against time.
Is it more fun than Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge series for Amiga 500? (playable for 4 players in real time - 2 split screens, about 10 tracks to choose from plus unlockables, 2 cars, weather effects affecting driving experience, including snowfall making the road almost invisible, 20 opponents sometimes displaying unfriendly behaviour, various sceneries and good music)
hey can get only minimum wage jobs, maybe two of them. But they all do, and in six months they are in a brand new house. In a year and a half they own a seven-eleven.
And then they are deported back to Vietnam over a formality, often thanks to a bribe/tip from an owner of a 7-11 two streets away. Or have their shop put on fire by a local gang (paid by same owner). Capitalism is not only about improving your quality of service and prices over the competition, it's also about influencing the competitors in a negative way.
Yeah, especially if you were born with IQ of 80 and one leg slightly shorter than the other, in slums, black, you have a great chance for success in capitalism thanks to hard work, yeah?
You can be sure whoever gets the short end of the stick in capitalism, won't be comfortable with it. And if you take care so that nobody does, you get socialism. Capitalism is based on a constant struggle, the strong and rich try to exploit and squash the poor and weak, and the poor and weak try to pull them down and grab a handful for themselves. If they all start working towards equality, capitalism ends, socialism begins. If the rich lose, you have a revolution and anarchy, if the poor lose, you have feudalism or similar.
After you installed extension board with PowerPC CPU in Amiga 1200, you'd never use whole computational power of the computer. That is because it would send the native Motorola CPU to sleep and you'd be unable to run both in parallel. So even if you ran at 100% of the PPC, you still had some unused, unavailable MIPS under the hood. It seems quite likely that the bizzare, weird construction of Cell plus some other really weird "features" of PS3 will make it nearly impossible, or plain impossible to use all of its power at once. Not that it wouldn't ever be needed, simply there will be no hacker skilled enough to employ all of it scattered over 8 sub-cores, GPU and so on.
actually, assembly (non-macro) is more efficient because it converts 1:1 to binary and you don't need to do all the remembering of addresses and so on. Essentially assembly is not really a separate language than binary but just a symbollic representation of it. Not once I was counting cycles of an interrupt routine or seeking where to save that one byte to fit the whole routine before the next interrupt vector instead of making an unnecessary jump, saving at least 3 cycles.
10 times as dense also means 10 times lower probability of a mistake. Apples to apples, oranges to oranges, a badly-commented C code will be just as hard to maintain 'per line of code' as badly-commented javascript, correctly written will be just as easy - a screenful of good C will be as hard to debug as a screenful of well written Javascript, but C will do in that screenful what javascript does in two lines. Meaning C program will be 10 times longer and take 10 times as much work to maintain. Costing ten times that much in maintenance costs.
Especially the habit of using || and && on command line seems ridiculous to me. These have room in two situations: - scripts - commands that take long enough that you go have a coffee.
This makes sense:
make install && lilo && reboot
This doesn't:
cd tmp/a/b/c || mkdir -p tmp/a/b/c
If you fail the first part, well, you typed " || " instead of pressing enter. If you succeed the first part, you typed " || mkdir -p tmp/a/b/c" without a bloody reason.
Type first part. Press enter. Observe result. If necessary, type the second part, otherwise correct the first without baggage of the second one hanging around.
Excuse me, but each of these samples was likely far less irradiating than an average depleted uranium bullet. All the terrorists have to do is to pick american bullets shot all over their country, grind them to a powder and voila, a dirty-bomb irradiation material, many tons of it, for free. As opposed to 3 small samples which would likely have to be placed directly in contact with your skin for 5 years to increase risk of cancer, and totally useless for a dirty bomb, because the explosion would spread it so thinly that they wouldn't be stronger than background radiation.
Additionally, #3 was a heavily involved developer too, but it's not what he was credited for (but for the PR stuff). Just as well as boss of Nintendo, credit for corporate achievements, not for any of the things you mention.
Nintendo is sold out of wii. There are very few fanatics who'd buy a game without owning a console to run it on. So it would be really odd if Zelda outsold Wii, and Wii sales are currently capped by supply, not by demand. If you look at the figures, great most of current happy Wii owners already have the Zelda. What percent of Japaneese XBOX 360 owners bought Blue Ghost though?
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I bet if Lcamtuf heard he's being called a 'researcher' he'd be rolling in his grave.
After dropping dead on place, that is.
Actually, he isn't all that -very- wrong - the genome is like a machine code - literally assembly code to generate proteins at slightly higher level, humans at highest level. What we see while watching the genome is about the same as we see while looking at a binary of a program displayed in ASCII. In one hand, it IS all, in the other we can't make out any sense of it - but we DO see patterns. At least in some programs, some of us do. Watch the binary, and you'll see patches of more ASCII printable characters, long rows of NULLs, similar slightly differing short sequences repeating multiple times, forming diagonal patterns on the ASCII display and so on. These relate to copy/paste code patterns, inlined data, initializing data structures with multiple empty strings, zeros and null values and such. I doubt evolution wrote some clean form of for($i=1;$i=5;$i++){hand.appendFinger($i)} and much more likely used dirty cut&paste style of inline addFingerToLimb(hand1, finger1); inline addFingerToLimb(hand1, finger2);inline addFingerToLimb(hand1, finger3)... which can easily create such patterns of repeatablity.
I bet fucking clue costs WAY more - US has paid several billions (money wasted on "war on terror") and didn't get a clue yet.
because some ignorant employees won't know the law is on their side and will politely leave upon the period stated in the contract (or won't dare to stand up against the employer violating the law). Generally, if you see in your contract that your notice period is shorter than stated by law, you can smell the employer is up to no good.
In Poland the notice period is regulated by law - 2 weeks for a new employee, a month for one working over 6 months, 3 months for an employee for 3 years or so. Of course a company is perfectly free to fire you tomorrow, BUT they have to pay your salary for the whole pending period - so unless they really mean getting rid of you ASAP, they'd better leave you working for another 3 months, because they will have to pay your salary for that time, no matter if you work or not.
There's also some odd law about "abandonning job" - I'm not sure about the exact wording, but you can stop going to work any day, without any notice, without telling anyone, signing anything or such, and they can do really little about that except of cancelling your job contract.
There's an interesting clause about the notice periods too - the employer can assign you a shorter notice period than stated by law. Which you are then free to ignore - choice between entry in the contract and the one in law belongs to the employee.
the problem is that screenshots are nearly worthless as a proof - you can modify them digitally leaving no trace of the modification, and without some trust system it's impossible to sign the screenshot proving it wasn't doctored.
We all did this occasionally. These are good conversational pieces, nothing else.
But if you keep doing this day after day, annoying the shit off your neighbor up to the point that he sets up a camera and waits for you to do this Yet Again, then posts it to the web, this is a different matter.
Not always. Convolution matrix can be a lossy transform operation. If you're replacing a 5x5 pixels area with medium average of values of pixels contained within ('resolution drop blur') there's no way in hell you could reproduce all 25 pixel values just from the color they've been averaged to. If each pixel is an average of itself and 24 surrounding pixels within 2 pixels range, solution becomes an enormous set of equations, because it depends on unknown values of pixels which depend on its own (unknown) value. It is solvable but not trivial. If the pixels are just displaced by a random factor, you can't reproduce them without knowing the random seed, which was lost long ago. Apply JPEG compression of 95% - and the information is gone. There are many filters that are safe.
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There are no weather effects
does not allow you to race against other drivers
There are 10 cars in all. You start with the Suzuki Cappuccino and work your way up by beating goal times for each car on the given track. There is only one track
ONE track, ONE car to choose from on startup (plus unlockable 9), single-player only, driving against time.
Is it more fun than Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge series for Amiga 500? (playable for 4 players in real time - 2 split screens, about 10 tracks to choose from plus unlockables, 2 cars, weather effects affecting driving experience, including snowfall making the road almost invisible, 20 opponents sometimes displaying unfriendly behaviour, various sceneries and good music)
hey can get only minimum wage jobs, maybe two of them. But they all do, and in six months they are in a brand new house. In a year and a half they own a seven-eleven.
And then they are deported back to Vietnam over a formality, often thanks to a bribe/tip from an owner of a 7-11 two streets away. Or have their shop put on fire by a local gang (paid by same owner). Capitalism is not only about improving your quality of service and prices over the competition, it's also about influencing the competitors in a negative way.
Yeah, especially if you were born with IQ of 80 and one leg slightly shorter than the other, in slums, black, you have a great chance for success in capitalism thanks to hard work, yeah?
You can be sure whoever gets the short end of the stick in capitalism, won't be comfortable with it. And if you take care so that nobody does, you get socialism. Capitalism is based on a constant struggle, the strong and rich try to exploit and squash the poor and weak, and the poor and weak try to pull them down and grab a handful for themselves. If they all start working towards equality, capitalism ends, socialism begins. If the rich lose, you have a revolution and anarchy, if the poor lose, you have feudalism or similar.
I wonder how Sony's investors, (and executives) keep being "overly optimistic".
In their situation it's very easy. If they say "This is gonna be a disaster", they still are overly optimistic.
After you installed extension board with PowerPC CPU in Amiga 1200, you'd never use whole computational power of the computer.
That is because it would send the native Motorola CPU to sleep and you'd be unable to run both in parallel. So even if you ran at 100% of the PPC, you still had some unused, unavailable MIPS under the hood.
It seems quite likely that the bizzare, weird construction of Cell plus some other really weird "features" of PS3 will make it nearly impossible, or plain impossible to use all of its power at once. Not that it wouldn't ever be needed, simply there will be no hacker skilled enough to employ all of it scattered over 8 sub-cores, GPU and so on.
actually, assembly (non-macro) is more efficient because it converts 1:1 to binary and you don't need to do all the remembering of addresses and so on. Essentially assembly is not really a separate language than binary but just a symbollic representation of it. Not once I was counting cycles of an interrupt routine or seeking where to save that one byte to fit the whole routine before the next interrupt vector instead of making an unnecessary jump, saving at least 3 cycles.
10 times as dense also means 10 times lower probability of a mistake. Apples to apples, oranges to oranges, a badly-commented C code will be just as hard to maintain 'per line of code' as badly-commented javascript, correctly written will be just as easy - a screenful of good C will be as hard to debug as a screenful of well written Javascript, but C will do in that screenful what javascript does in two lines. Meaning C program will be 10 times longer and take 10 times as much work to maintain. Costing ten times that much in maintenance costs.
I'm available if you're seeking men to help you taking over the world.
Also DO remember 'su -' changes working directory.
% cd ~
% cd somejunk
% ls
just junk, junk...
% rm -Rf *
somejunk: permission denied
% su -
Password:
# rm -Rf *^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hpwd
/
You cannot find anything useful in shell history unless there actually is something
Mod parent 'redundant'.
Especially the habit of using || and && on command line seems ridiculous to me. These have room in two situations:
- scripts
- commands that take long enough that you go have a coffee.
This makes sense:
make install && lilo && reboot
This doesn't:
cd tmp/a/b/c || mkdir -p tmp/a/b/c
If you fail the first part, well, you typed " || " instead of pressing enter.
If you succeed the first part, you typed " || mkdir -p tmp/a/b/c" without a bloody reason.
Type first part. Press enter. Observe result.
If necessary, type the second part, otherwise correct the first without baggage of the second one hanging around.
Ie there is NOTHING bad about piping cats
PETA would disagree.
Excuse me, but each of these samples was likely far less irradiating than an average depleted uranium bullet. All the terrorists have to do is to pick american bullets shot all over their country, grind them to a powder and voila, a dirty-bomb irradiation material, many tons of it, for free. As opposed to 3 small samples which would likely have to be placed directly in contact with your skin for 5 years to increase risk of cancer, and totally useless for a dirty bomb, because the explosion would spread it so thinly that they wouldn't be stronger than background radiation.
Additionally, #3 was a heavily involved developer too, but it's not what he was credited for (but for the PR stuff). Just as well as boss of Nintendo, credit for corporate achievements, not for any of the things you mention.
Nintendo is sold out of wii. There are very few fanatics who'd buy a game without owning a console to run it on. So it would be really odd if Zelda outsold Wii, and Wii sales are currently capped by supply, not by demand. If you look at the figures, great most of current happy Wii owners already have the Zelda. What percent of Japaneese XBOX 360 owners bought Blue Ghost though?