One cow to choose from. What, is this some kind of "arranged" marriage? Yeah. That's gonna work real good. I've heard the beer is pretty good in Germany. Didja try lookin' there?
You start by taking an interesting looking (or sounding) idea. Then you try to internalize it. Then you try to restate it. If you can get past the incoherent mumbling stage, then you might throw it out there for other people to criticize. If it works out, then you might adopt it into your own personal philosphy and try to build from there.
Nothing new here, people. Move along. WAIT! NO! I mean stop and look and criticize!
Yeah. By now we should be hearing about piracy at a National Brake Laboratory, or a National Clutch Laboratory, or a National Gearshift Lever Laboratory, or something. Or the National Wiper/Washer Stalk Laboratory at the very least. Arrrgh.
Oh, and what villages? They're 45 miles outside Chicago - not the smallest place. Don't worry though. Unless top quarks, CP violation experiments, and Boson experimentation threaten explosion, I think we're ok.
It's the Bison experimentation I'm more worried about.
makes you wonder if they had anything to do with the virus itself?
(Adjusts tin-foil hat)
It had to be SCO behind this virus! Anyone who would disrupt Superbowl Sunday like this is just downright unAmerican! That's so evil that only SCO could be the ones responsible!
Ahhhh! Ahhhhhhhhhh! (Runs off foaming at the mouth)
Let's try applying RIAA rules. These guys are committing highway robbery!!
If Kevin Mitnick was a criminal mastermind then these guys are terrorists!
If Robert Morris can get a serious sentence for what he did, then so can these weasels.
That information didn't just sorta happen to leak all by itself. When this happens at the highest levels of our government, someone should be held accountable.
The favorite of cheapass architects everywhere who can't stand to stop and sharpen their leads once in a while. Leavs a crisp line, but it's so faint that it's damn near impossible to run a diazo print off it.
I don't totally comprehend all of your code, but I have some suggestions. From what I've read in Knuth vol. 3, you should:
1. choose a pivot which is the middle value of: the first, middle, and last elements. This nullifies the danger of an already sorted array being your extreme worst case.
2. resolve the smaller of the 2 subsets first, to keep from blowing your stack space. and
3. don't sweat the small stuff. whenever you are down to less than, oh... maybe 9 elements, do an insertion sort. At the low end of size, overhead is your worst enemy.
All of this, however, probably defeats the point of posting a short, slick, piece of code.:-)
Haven't you seen Hackers? The Secret Service does everything!
Well... all I've got to say is that they shouldn't have left Half-Life 2 Source lying around on the Gibson. I mean, that was just asking for trouble, wasn't it?
What you describe sounds like dynamic allocation of system resources. Other threads seem to be talking about suplementary power. Power which would have to be allocated through, what, a network?
You either have all the power you need on site, or you don't. Bringing it in at a seconds notice is problematic.
Solution: all your storage, I/O speed, and CPU power is in a huge offsite facility, and you can get your results over a DSL link. This huge offsite facility can allocate their vast resouces across thousands of customers such as you. You can also tweak the amount of resources needed from moment to moment. I think that's what all these industry leaders are trying to sell us.
Unfortunately, this sounds like all your data and computing power is in someone elses hands, and that you are at their mercy at all times. There is also the matter of security between all of the customers on this huge system. A good contract could make this workable. "Could" is the operative word here. They could go bankrupt and take your business assets into the abyss with them. Or your database could be cracked from another partition.
On the other hand, this would be a high concentration of expertise, and they might be up to the challenge. But then being that concentration might lead to inbreeding of critical knowledge, and huge blindspots, and single-point-of-failure problems and such.
Ok, I'm starting to babble, so I'll just sit down now.
Hyperfocusing will tend to occur only when conditions are right. If you are really on to something and nobody bothers you, it will happen. If you have a new game and no appointments, boom, it's 10 AM and you haven't slept. For practical reasons, this doesn't occur very often. YMMV.
I have ADD. I don't have the hyperactivity. I'm a space cadet.
I tend to daydream a lot. God knows what I would be doing if I had the hyperactivity.
It is hard for me to concentrate on something if there's something much more interesting happening. It's like my priorities are not set by rational values, but by levels of "shineyness".
Computers are great because there's an infinite variety of things you can do on any machine. (cheapshot)Unless you're running Windows. (/cheapshot)
Remember that if what I'm doing continues to be the most interest thing, that I can do it for hours. It is called hyperfocusing, and it is perfectly consistant with the underlying mechanism of ADD. Coding all night could be an example of this.
You might have ADD or ADHD. You might not. Get a good diagnosis from someone who can verify or rule out similar "disorders". Go to the library and read up on something like Driven to Distraction by Hallowell and Ratey.
If it turns out that you have ADD or ADHD, drugs might work, and they might not. They are just a start. Long term, you have to learn coping strategies.
I have ADD. I tried several medications. They didn't work for me. I've learned how to do things like structure my time and environment, and to break up tasks. Note-taking helps me concentrate and monitor the effectiveness of my studying. Keeping to-do lists and check lists helps me keep from forgetting things when my concentration is down, and lets me plan brilliantly when my concentration kicks into high gear.
IMPORTANT: ADHD is such a big catch-all for concentration disorders that your problems may not be anything at all like mine. I.E.: YMMV!
I would have guessed that they'd take a page from Boeing (whose newest jet is the 7E7), and call it the i80E86. Since the mundanes don't consider "E" a numeral, Intel can go ahead and trademark it.
Mensa is supposed to be from the Latin word for table. Something to do with it being a round table sort of organization where everyone is treated equally.
Announcer: Well, Mrs. Prezky, open up the bag and see what you've won.
Mrs. Prezky: [stupified] Uh... why, this is a bag of shit!
Announcer: That's right, Mrs. Prezky. But it's really great shit!
--The Firesign Theater
Slashdot Mirror
Anyhow, I dialed 9-1-1, or something like that. I was kind of panicky. So, anyway, 4-1-1 (which is what I dialed) put me through to 9-1-1.
Maybe I can get my Mensa membership converted to Densa. Whadayathink?
HiggsBison (the one grazing in the Higgs' field)
You start by taking an interesting looking (or sounding) idea. Then you try to internalize it. Then you try to restate it. If you can get past the incoherent mumbling stage, then you might throw it out there for other people to criticize. If it works out, then you might adopt it into your own personal philosphy and try to build from there.
Nothing new here, people. Move along. WAIT! NO! I mean stop and look and criticize!
Of course it isn't a unicorn. It's a giant space goat.
(Hey! Stop that! No goatse links!)
Yeah. By now we should be hearing about piracy at a National Brake Laboratory, or a National Clutch Laboratory, or a National Gearshift Lever Laboratory, or something. Or the National Wiper/Washer Stalk Laboratory at the very least. Arrrgh.
It's the Bison experimentation I'm more worried about.
Heh, heh.
I use quadruple rot13. Damn near unbreakable, I say!
I thought we had this but for a long while, it was known as Unobtainium?
Yup, still looking for Unobtainium and Ultronium on the chart.
Damn! They was just here somewhere!
(Adjusts tin-foil hat)
It had to be SCO behind this virus! Anyone who would disrupt Superbowl Sunday like this is just downright unAmerican! That's so evil that only SCO could be the ones responsible!
Ahhhh! Ahhhhhhhhhh! (Runs off foaming at the mouth)
Now even my browser is making strange claims. At the top of my screen it says:
Scientists Create New Form of Matter - Netscape 6
Let's try applying RIAA rules. These guys are committing highway robbery!!
If Kevin Mitnick was a criminal mastermind then these guys are terrorists!
If Robert Morris can get a serious sentence for what he did, then so can these weasels.
That information didn't just sorta happen to leak all by itself. When this happens at the highest levels of our government, someone should be held accountable.
The favorite of cheapass architects everywhere who can't stand to stop and sharpen their leads once in a while. Leavs a crisp line, but it's so faint that it's damn near impossible to run a diazo print off it.
1. choose a pivot which is the middle value of: the first, middle, and last elements. This nullifies the danger of an already sorted array being your extreme worst case.
2. resolve the smaller of the 2 subsets first, to keep from blowing your stack space. and
3. don't sweat the small stuff. whenever you are down to less than, oh... maybe 9 elements, do an insertion sort. At the low end of size, overhead is your worst enemy.
All of this, however, probably defeats the point of posting a short, slick, piece of code. :-)
Well... all I've got to say is that they shouldn't have left Half-Life 2 Source lying around on the Gibson. I mean, that was just asking for trouble, wasn't it?
"Never attribute to malevolence what you can explain by simple stupidity."
OK, so it's a stupid plot coming out of Redmond. Monoculture is a vast sort of stupidity. Including monoculture applied to signing.
You either have all the power you need on site, or you don't. Bringing it in at a seconds notice is problematic.
Solution: all your storage, I/O speed, and CPU power is in a huge offsite facility, and you can get your results over a DSL link. This huge offsite facility can allocate their vast resouces across thousands of customers such as you. You can also tweak the amount of resources needed from moment to moment. I think that's what all these industry leaders are trying to sell us.
Unfortunately, this sounds like all your data and computing power is in someone elses hands, and that you are at their mercy at all times. There is also the matter of security between all of the customers on this huge system. A good contract could make this workable. "Could" is the operative word here. They could go bankrupt and take your business assets into the abyss with them. Or your database could be cracked from another partition.
On the other hand, this would be a high concentration of expertise, and they might be up to the challenge. But then being that concentration might lead to inbreeding of critical knowledge, and huge blindspots, and single-point-of-failure problems and such.
Ok, I'm starting to babble, so I'll just sit down now.
Hyperfocusing will tend to occur only when conditions are right. If you are really on to something and nobody bothers you, it will happen. If you have a new game and no appointments, boom, it's 10 AM and you haven't slept. For practical reasons, this doesn't occur very often. YMMV.
I tend to daydream a lot. God knows what I would be doing if I had the hyperactivity.
It is hard for me to concentrate on something if there's something much more interesting happening. It's like my priorities are not set by rational values, but by levels of "shineyness".
Computers are great because there's an infinite variety of things you can do on any machine. (cheapshot)Unless you're running Windows. (/cheapshot)
Remember that if what I'm doing continues to be the most interest thing, that I can do it for hours. It is called hyperfocusing, and it is perfectly consistant with the underlying mechanism of ADD. Coding all night could be an example of this.
If it turns out that you have ADD or ADHD, drugs might work, and they might not. They are just a start. Long term, you have to learn coping strategies.
I have ADD. I tried several medications. They didn't work for me. I've learned how to do things like structure my time and environment, and to break up tasks. Note-taking helps me concentrate and monitor the effectiveness of my studying. Keeping to-do lists and check lists helps me keep from forgetting things when my concentration is down, and lets me plan brilliantly when my concentration kicks into high gear.
IMPORTANT: ADHD is such a big catch-all for concentration disorders that your problems may not be anything at all like mine. I.E.: YMMV!
How about... Eat fascist death flaming media pigs!
But that's just me. I mean, it's hardly rational. But since you asked...
And we will continue slicing until you tell us how you make 117 menu items on a 4-pot stove!
Dyslexics get their sword reserved.
I would have guessed that they'd take a page from Boeing (whose newest jet is the 7E7), and call it the i80E86. Since the mundanes don't consider "E" a numeral, Intel can go ahead and trademark it.
(Buncha frickin geniuses. Yeesh!)
For a minute there I thought it was NMAP.
Announcer: Well, Mrs. Prezky, open up the bag and see what you've won.
Mrs. Prezky: [stupified] Uh... why, this is a bag of shit!
Announcer: That's right, Mrs. Prezky. But it's really great shit!
--The Firesign Theater