Absolutley everything ever = Omniverse
Not to be confused with Multiverse.
Our pocket is but one Universe. ...and the open source version is Liniverse.
Sorry, just had to reply to your signature. What part of being a village idiot requires unusual work hours, unreported contacts with foreign nationals etc.?
There's a lot of comments on this story about the superiority of European chocolate over US varieties, but it should be remembered that many EU countries already allow up to 5% vegetable fats to be used in chocolate (including Denmark, Ireland, Portugal, Sweden, Finland, and the United Kingdom according to wikipedia). This was the origin of a scare story in the UK more than 10 years ago (I'm too lazy to look up the exact date) when it was reported that the EU would require that UK chocolate be renamed 'vegelate'. This was never an official EU proposal, though maybe it should have been. I should say that the above list of countries are not those I would put at the top of a list of good chocolate producers...
Simon
I was wondering about this, so this morning I did a test with my (well my wife's actually) MBP (2.0GHz). I downloaed the temperature utility CoreDuoTemp that was used in the Ars review, and I ran openssl speed in two terminal windows simultaneously. and I repeated this three times. By the end of the first run, the reported temperature of the processor had risen to 85-86C, but then the fans came on (at low speed), and it reduced slightly to about 82C, where it stayed for the remainder of the test. The CPU did not throttle down, however, and kept at 2.0GHz for the duration of the test. After the three runs had completed, I checked the temperature of the strip between the keyboard and the screen (where by G4 powerbook gets very hot), and it was warm, but not hot. I was quite impressed that (a) the CPU did not throttle down, (b) the fans did not come on at full speed (I had to put my head close to the machine to hear the fans - much quieter than ny G4 powerbook), and (c) the external surfaces did not get that hot. Don't know how the Macbook compares, and whether the behaviour I say was helped by the latest firmware update.
I don't know, the ASCII system would not be so inconvenient. To type capitals just hold the '64' key down and type from 1 to 16+8+2, and the '32' key to get lower case. Having to type '64' + '32' + '16' + '8' + '2' + '1' to get '{' would suck for programming though...
When I said they appear as disks I should have said that they appear as mounted volumes. i.e., from the command line you will see them with the df or mount commands and you can cd to them. However you do have to perform the mount step (which can be done by the finder), you can't directly cd to a URL.
Under OSX, you can mount remote servers (SMB, NFS, FTP etc.) and they appear as a new disk on the desktop. They can then be accessed by *any* application (including from the command line). It's been a long time since I used KDE, but I can't see how it could be more integrated than this...
A closed population (one without appreciable inwards migration) will always be inbred after a few generations by the definition of inbreeding. Note that an individual counts as being inbred if there is any known relationship between the parents, even if this relationship if very distant.
Inbreeding in this sense is not necessarily harmful. In fact, societies with high rates of close marriages (for example first cousins) can have lower gene frequencies for mutations causing recessive diseases than outbred populations because there is more opportunities for selection to act against the mutation.
My last point is that the aim of studies is not just to look for the genetic causes of diseass in a particular population, but to get clues for the genetic causes of diseases in the general population. Both these aims can be present of course, for example there is a large study in Iceland which is looking at almost the entire population which has the explicit aims of providing health benefits for the Icelandic population, as well as providing leads for drug development for the population in general.
Hmm. never seen that myself. However if this is true then the shuffle algorithm, at least in iTunes, is not a true 'shuffle'! This is easy to check - a shuffle should never have a song appearing twice.
...except that TFA describes the operation as a 'shuffle' and is quite explicit about this. Therefore the only orders are produced are those in which each song occurs only once. Of course, this property is not preserved across reshuffles.
Not at all - as was explained in TFA, these are the sorts of patterns you would expect to see with a normal RNG. People may actually be happier with a more complicated shuffle algorithm for shuffling which which ensured that, for example, songs on the same album did not occur too close together. AFAIK, a song will not repeat until all the songs in the device have been played through. However, when people re-shuffle the order this property is lost, so another desirable property might be to keep the last playing time of each song across shuffles and adjusting the order appropriately. If this is done, however, over time the order will be more and more constrained by what has gone before so after all that it is probably better, and definitely simpler, to just shuffle randomly without trying to do anything more complicated...
You have to bear in mind that this was in his first few weeks in the job.
If an employee screws up, but had been good up to then, then it can be worth trying to sort things out. If, however, an employee screws up pretty much as soon as they walk through the door, the employer might be forgiven for thinking that the guy is trouble and it is not worth keeping him (that is, after all, what the probation period is for).
I had the same problem and I came to the same conclusion that it was something to do with having 2 users logged in. I could neither reboot or log out using the GUI, but sudo shutdown now worked fine.
Mail has a default rule for News from Apple which bypasses the Junk mail filter (or at least, seems to, as it has a 'stop processing rules' action). This can, however, easily be turned off. Go to Preferences->Rules and deselect the Rule 'News from Apple'.
Cheers,
Simon
I agree with you about the utility of the command line and scripts for performing complex tasks repetitive tasks. However, for one off admin tasks (such as the original example of setting up a shared printer), the GUI can make things much easier, particularly when the setup of the computer/network is not familiar. On a FreeBSD box, which I've had for many years, setting up a temporary NFS share from the command line is very simple as I've done it so many times (edit/etc/exports; start rpcbind, mountd and nfsd). On a new OS X box I do the same thing with the GUI (because I'm not familiar enough with the system to do it properly), and it is as least as fast as with the command line on FreeBSD. Setting up a shared printer on the OS X box using the GUI was embarassingly easy given how long it took me a month ago to do the same thing on FreeBSD.
So to summarize, for me the command line + scripts are wonderful (if not required) for complex, out of the ordinary, or highly repetitive tasks. For more normal tasks (burning CDs, setting up printers) a well designed GUI can be very useful, even to experienced users - and I'm often surprised (on OS X) at how this 'normal task' category can include operations I'd previously regarded as being complex...
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Cheers,
Simon
There's a lot of comments on this story about the superiority of European chocolate over US varieties, but it should be remembered that many EU countries already allow up to 5% vegetable fats to be used in chocolate (including Denmark, Ireland, Portugal, Sweden, Finland, and the United Kingdom according to wikipedia). This was the origin of a scare story in the UK more than 10 years ago (I'm too lazy to look up the exact date) when it was reported that the EU would require that UK chocolate be renamed 'vegelate'. This was never an official EU proposal, though maybe it should have been. I should say that the above list of countries are not those I would put at the top of a list of good chocolate producers... Simon
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Yours pedantically,
Simon
When I said they appear as disks I should have said that they appear as mounted volumes. i.e., from the command line you will see them with the df or mount commands and you can cd to them. However you do have to perform the mount step (which can be done by the finder), you can't directly cd to a URL.
Under OSX, you can mount remote servers (SMB, NFS, FTP etc.) and they appear as a new disk on the desktop. They can then be accessed by *any* application (including from the command line). It's been a long time since I used KDE, but I can't see how it could be more integrated than this...
Inbreeding in this sense is not necessarily harmful. In fact, societies with high rates of close marriages (for example first cousins) can have lower gene frequencies for mutations causing recessive diseases than outbred populations because there is more opportunities for selection to act against the mutation.
My last point is that the aim of studies is not just to look for the genetic causes of diseass in a particular population, but to get clues for the genetic causes of diseases in the general population. Both these aims can be present of course, for example there is a large study in Iceland which is looking at almost the entire population which has the explicit aims of providing health benefits for the Icelandic population, as well as providing leads for drug development for the population in general.
Hired the first guy who posted the technique on the discussion board, not the 118 others. Who needs sheep?
Hmm. never seen that myself. However if this is true then the shuffle algorithm, at least in iTunes, is not a true 'shuffle'! This is easy to check - a shuffle should never have a song appearing twice.
...except that TFA describes the operation as a 'shuffle' and is quite explicit about this. Therefore the only orders are produced are those in which each song occurs only once. Of course, this property is not preserved across reshuffles.
Not at all - as was explained in TFA, these are the sorts of patterns you would expect to see with a normal RNG. People may actually be happier with a more complicated shuffle algorithm for shuffling which which ensured that, for example, songs on the same album did not occur too close together. AFAIK, a song will not repeat until all the songs in the device have been played through. However, when people re-shuffle the order this property is lost, so another desirable property might be to keep the last playing time of each song across shuffles and adjusting the order appropriately. If this is done, however, over time the order will be more and more constrained by what has gone before so after all that it is probably better, and definitely simpler, to just shuffle randomly without trying to do anything more complicated...
If an employee screws up, but had been good up to then, then it can be worth trying to sort things out. If, however, an employee screws up pretty much as soon as they walk through the door, the employer might be forgiven for thinking that the guy is trouble and it is not worth keeping him (that is, after all, what the probation period is for).
Simon
Mail has a default rule for News from Apple which bypasses the Junk mail filter (or at least, seems to, as it has a 'stop processing rules' action). This can, however, easily be turned off. Go to Preferences->Rules and deselect the Rule 'News from Apple'. Cheers, Simon
So to summarize, for me the command line + scripts are wonderful (if not required) for complex, out of the ordinary, or highly repetitive tasks. For more normal tasks (burning CDs, setting up printers) a well designed GUI can be very useful, even to experienced users - and I'm often surprised (on OS X) at how this 'normal task' category can include operations I'd previously regarded as being complex...