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What's Wrong with Unix?
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For instance, I installed Flash7 for Firefox 1.0. Didn't work. I installed Sun's JAVA for Firefox 1.0. It didn't work either.
I've installed both on several distributions. I have to tell the Flash installer where Mozilla and it handles the rest. For Java, I have to create a symbolic link to it in my Mozilla plugins directory. They both work fine, except that the sound and video get out of sync in Flash.
Small developers have to either open source or pay fees they cannot afford to obtain a "widget set", something that any other OS supplies for free, and defines a standard for.
Except for Qt, most do not require you to pay a fee or open source your app.
Linux has a pretty poor cache and swap system, combined with zero user level control over cache and swap. As a result, over time, the OS runs slower, and s l o w e r and s... l.... o..... w...... r....... until you restart,
I saw this mentioned in the Red Hat bugzilla, affecting RH9 and some RHEL3 users. But they say it was fixed mostly in 2.4.24 and completely in 2.6.
The GUI, in the user sense, is an afterthought. You have to go to the command line to configure and/or adjust and/or install many things.
Yeah, but I have to use the Windows command line for a lot of things, or dig around in the registry. People who can't on Windows get help from those who can. The actual amount of command line work necessary in Linux varies between distributions. I can do a lot more fron the Linux command line than from the Windows command line, so I'm more apt to use it.
So mostly, people don't run Linux.
But I'll always run it. Ubuntu is starting to look good. I'm running the unstable hoary hedgehog branch scheduled for release in about 4-5 months. Lots of nice things appear to be on the way.
That's what a billion users spending $50+ billion a year on Microsoft software get for their money. They could have hired tens of thousands of programmers just to do line-by-line code audits without making a dent in their budget.
The Megaman games have some very slow and flickery spots. Overclocking will fix the slowness, but not the flicker, which results from trying to display more than 8 sprites on a scanline.
Most emulators let you overclock. 150% eliminates almost all slowness.
I was hooked for all of high school and two years of college. It's open source under the Mozilla Public License. It is Windows-only though, until someone decides to port it. There's also a Linux game inspired by RobotBattle called RealTimeBattle.
It works over a wireless network using remote desktop. The downside is that it performs very slowly for things like 3d and movies, limited by network bandwidth. They're expensive too. 2d performance is supposed to be good, but I haven't tried it.
> Half of working-age adults are not employed full-time.
I might add that the jobs had by the employed half tend to be quite short. The concept of the pension plan is all but legend, and career-changes are happening at over 6 per lifetime (and rising).
A career change every decade doesn't seem that bad. Most of them probably happen in the first several years of employment anyway.
As for the parent's post that half of working age adults are not employed full time, that's misleading. Not employed doesn't mean you can't find a job. For example, there was a time when women were expected to stay at home. They alone made up over half the working age adult population. There are good reasons why the unemployment rate only includes people who are seeking employment.
> Real wage growth is 0.5% since the 70s.
I might add that inflation has been increasing at a much faster rate. This "growth," when adjusted for inflation, is a real wage loss.
Some valuable economic terms to remember: nominal = not adjusted for inflation real = adjusted to account for inflation
Every year, new technology eliminates millions of jobs. This has gone on for hundreds of years. Today, we don't have fewer jobs as a result. And we don't earn less. We can buy much more with our incomes than before. All because technology eliminated unnecessary jobs, allowing the creation of new jobs, with the result of producing more goods and services with the same limited amount of labor.
A lot of people use file sharing as an alternative to a VCR. The miss a show, so they download it, especially if it's the continuation of a "to be continued" episode and won't be shown again for months.
What I think they ought to do is offer legitimate bittorrent downloads of tv shows with commercials inserted.
I guess the company I work for was very lucky to have a no problems at all upgrading a dozen systems to SP2.
Some of the third party software out there does some pretty scary stuff with undocumented hacks. Upon installing SP2 I noticed they had made some attempts to protect against crashes caused by third party software. For example, HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Userinit is often modified to run a program (sometimes malware) before explorer at startup, but the program taking it over must execute userinit.exe or the user login process will fail and return to the login screen, rendering the system unusable. SP2 changes this key on install to ensure that userinit still runs if the program taking over the key crashes. Perhaps they just didn't get to all the other potential sources of trouble.
Sadly, too few users are motivated enough to click the little shield icon in their tray to find out if disabling the firewall enabled by SP2 will fix their problem.
They said they were going to investigate it. If it's the same code base, it's probably vulnerable. Macs just aren't popular enough to deserve equal attention. -ducks-
Suppose you had a 10x10 map, and didn't have to track velocity. Then N would be max of 10x10=100, but your path length could be 10-20 steps, depending on how you treat diagonal movement. An exponential solution starts looking very bad very quickly. In a discrete problem such as this, N is not the number of possible paths, but at most the product of all the dimensions. In this case the upper limit based on dimensions is 790*350*21*21*2. The actual N is less because much of the map is unreachable.
The optimal solutions for both fewest steps and least fuel usage appear to have been found, which would make Jeremie Allard and Randy Sargent the winners for each finding both solutions. Allen Noe also deserves notice for being the first to find a fewest steps solution.
It appears most contestants required only about 3-4 hours of programming time and 2-20 minutes of cpu time. The problem was simple enough to apply a traditional shortest path algorithm, solvable in O(N) time, but with 5 instead of 2 dimensions, which required nearly half a gb or more of ram to store path information for the roughly 115 million possible states.
Three more prizes remain to be given out for exceptional solutions, going above and beyond the scope of the original problem.
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For instance, I installed Flash7 for Firefox 1.0. Didn't work. I installed Sun's JAVA for Firefox 1.0. It didn't work either.
I've installed both on several distributions. I have to tell the Flash installer where Mozilla and it handles the rest. For Java, I have to create a symbolic link to it in my Mozilla plugins directory. They both work fine, except that the sound and video get out of sync in Flash.
Small developers have to either open source or pay fees they cannot afford to obtain a "widget set", something that any other OS supplies for free, and defines a standard for.
Except for Qt, most do not require you to pay a fee or open source your app.
Linux has a pretty poor cache and swap system, combined with zero user level control over cache and swap. As a result, over time, the OS runs slower, and s l o w e r and s... l.... o..... w...... r....... until you restart,
I saw this mentioned in the Red Hat bugzilla, affecting RH9 and some RHEL3 users. But they say it was fixed mostly in 2.4.24 and completely in 2.6.
The GUI, in the user sense, is an afterthought. You have to go to the command line to configure and/or adjust and/or install many things.
Yeah, but I have to use the Windows command line for a lot of things, or dig around in the registry. People who can't on Windows get help from those who can. The actual amount of command line work necessary in Linux varies between distributions. I can do a lot more fron the Linux command line than from the Windows command line, so I'm more apt to use it.
So mostly, people don't run Linux.
But I'll always run it. Ubuntu is starting to look good. I'm running the unstable hoary hedgehog branch scheduled for release in about 4-5 months. Lots of nice things appear to be on the way.
That's what a billion users spending $50+ billion a year on Microsoft software get for their money. They could have hired tens of thousands of programmers just to do line-by-line code audits without making a dent in their budget.
The Megaman games have some very slow and flickery spots. Overclocking will fix the slowness, but not the flicker, which results from trying to display more than 8 sprites on a scanline.
Most emulators let you overclock. 150% eliminates almost all slowness.
I'm still waiting to see FireFox 1.0 in Ubuntu.
It only went down a dollar, which is still a dollar higher than it was at the start of November.
Very addictive programming game
I was hooked for all of high school and two years of college. It's open source under the Mozilla Public License. It is Windows-only though, until someone decides to port it. There's also a Linux game inspired by RobotBattle called RealTimeBattle.
Duh.
http://www.amazon.com/smartdisplays/
It works over a wireless network using remote desktop. The downside is that it performs very slowly for things like 3d and movies, limited by network bandwidth. They're expensive too. 2d performance is supposed to be good, but I haven't tried it.
How do we know that the spammers didn't just take their servers offline in response to the attack?
They'll probably discover an interesting new way to make margarine.
> Half of working-age adults are not employed full-time.
I might add that the jobs had by the employed half tend to be quite short. The concept of the pension plan is all but legend, and career-changes are happening at over 6 per lifetime (and rising).
A career change every decade doesn't seem that bad. Most of them probably happen in the first several years of employment anyway.
As for the parent's post that half of working age adults are not employed full time, that's misleading. Not employed doesn't mean you can't find a job. For example, there was a time when women were expected to stay at home. They alone made up over half the working age adult population. There are good reasons why the unemployment rate only includes people who are seeking employment.
> Real wage growth is 0.5% since the 70s.
I might add that inflation has been increasing at a much faster rate. This "growth," when adjusted for inflation, is a real wage loss.
Some valuable economic terms to remember:
nominal = not adjusted for inflation
real = adjusted to account for inflation
Every year, new technology eliminates millions of jobs. This has gone on for hundreds of years. Today, we don't have fewer jobs as a result. And we don't earn less. We can buy much more with our incomes than before. All because technology eliminated unnecessary jobs, allowing the creation of new jobs, with the result of producing more goods and services with the same limited amount of labor.
Hooray for a growing economy!
AI is a tool, not an end solution. Like most tools, we don't expect it to do our job on its own, but it can make the job easier.
For most MPEG4 compressed movies it comes out to about 18 per second.
try --cache=off
A lot of people use file sharing as an alternative to a VCR. The miss a show, so they download it, especially if it's the continuation of a "to be continued" episode and won't be shown again for months.
What I think they ought to do is offer legitimate bittorrent downloads of tv shows with commercials inserted.
I guess the company I work for was very lucky to have a no problems at all upgrading a dozen systems to SP2.
Some of the third party software out there does some pretty scary stuff with undocumented hacks. Upon installing SP2 I noticed they had made some attempts to protect against crashes caused by third party software. For example, HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Userinit is often modified to run a program (sometimes malware) before explorer at startup, but the program taking it over must execute userinit.exe or the user login process will fail and return to the login screen, rendering the system unusable. SP2 changes this key on install to ensure that userinit still runs if the program taking over the key crashes. Perhaps they just didn't get to all the other potential sources of trouble.
Sadly, too few users are motivated enough to click the little shield icon in their tray to find out if disabling the firewall enabled by SP2 will fix their problem.
They said they were going to investigate it. If it's the same code base, it's probably vulnerable. Macs just aren't popular enough to deserve equal attention.
-ducks-
Suppose you had a 10x10 map, and didn't have to track velocity. Then N would be max of 10x10=100, but your path length could be 10-20 steps, depending on how you treat diagonal movement. An exponential solution starts looking very bad very quickly. In a discrete problem such as this, N is not the number of possible paths, but at most the product of all the dimensions. In this case the upper limit based on dimensions is 790*350*21*21*2. The actual N is less because much of the map is unreachable.
I hope it starts a revolutionary concept: thinking
You know it'll never happen.
Whether or not you expect to need them, it's best that you try to learn all the major languages.
Impossible in a game doesn't mean much in real life. They have a $100,000 incentive to make sure it doesn't happen.
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The optimal solutions for both fewest steps and least fuel usage appear to have been found, which would make Jeremie Allard and Randy Sargent the winners for each finding both solutions. Allen Noe also deserves notice for being the first to find a fewest steps solution.
It appears most contestants required only about 3-4 hours of programming time and 2-20 minutes of cpu time. The problem was simple enough to apply a traditional shortest path algorithm, solvable in O(N) time, but with 5 instead of 2 dimensions, which required nearly half a gb or more of ram to store path information for the roughly 115 million possible states.
Three more prizes remain to be given out for exceptional solutions, going above and beyond the scope of the original problem.
With previous test versions, I've experienced crashes caused by an extension I had installed which was no longer compatible after the upgrade.