I used to think the same, until I tried RadialContext, which is basically adding a menu to those gestures (so you can still do the more obscure ones). See previous thread.
-iname => -name (no need to be case insensitive here | -> use -exec instead awk -> Why not just echo ? find -name '.*' -exec echo chown root:root {} ";" Just remove the "echo" to actually run it... Other problem : it changes all regular files that start with a "." in the hierarchy instead of all files / directories starting with a "." in the current directory.
3. Beware anyone, anywhere, who leads his argument with the 2nd law of thermodynamic Well in this case it used right: energy conversion has to be wasteful (i.e. create entropy). However as you point out, the amount of power wasted when the initial power is "free" is not really relevant (especially if the power is wasted into space). But his point that the amount of resources to build the plant could be higher than what it produces is appealing (though of course it would be interesting to have some numbers), I read for instance that solar panels cost more energy to create than they produced during their lifetime (to be verified, I think I read it here on/.)
but the cable has to be much much stronger since it would be three times longer and must support its own weight. The weight would be the exact same as that of a counterweight (to keep the center of gravity at the same place), so you are wrong here.
But, what about the sonic boom? I mean, even a small thing crossing the speed barrier makes a noise (ref: a bullwhip) -- how loud will it be on deck with n of these things breaking the sound barrier every 10 seconds? Regular rifle ammo (e.g. NATO 5.57 or 7.62) goes about 700m/s IIRC. That's about twice the speed of sound.
it's why English uses eleven and twelve instead of oneteen and twoteen. Note that in French, we have this until 16 (onze=11 douze treize quatorze quinze seize=16). The main point here is that for usual numbers we use base 10, so it makes sense to do the same for measurements. It might have been better if we had 12 fingers, but well...
Huffman coding is a way of representing some stream of symbols using bits in the most optimal way possible. Note that you must know beforehand the probability of each symbol (though there is a possibility of adaptive Huffmann encoding, but of course it's not optimal)
Would be nice if it were that simple, but a nice trick used throughout GOOD c++ programming is to allocate, say, an MFC dialog on the stack, as this automatically solves many memory leak problems and is tons faster than new. A class instance is data. It doesn't contain any code (it contains a pointer to a vtable, which itself points to code...). So you can keep allocating objects on the stack, it is indeed faster / safer.
I really enjoy the new version but have noticed that the Firefox browser loads much slower initially than IE. I have tested this on two machines. Anyone else with the same problem? IE is preloaded by windows, so always starts nearly instantly. Just keep firefox open:-)
I also like OCaml (learned it in school), although it has a missing feature: you can't for instance define a union type with a member that would have a set of the same type e.g.:
type t = A of a | B of t Set won't work...
Also the lack of any kind of overload is very annoying. I actually use it for scripting (too lazy to learn Perl when I already have this), while doing "serious" programs in C++.
I actually know asm, but if you have to put everything into a structure first I don't really see how it is better than pushing it to the stack (since putting the values into the structure takes as many instructions as it would take to put the arguments directly into the stack, and the structure is probably already on the stack anyway) Of course it's different if you pass the same arguments along several times...
the thing to do is create a class that contains all the parameters and just pass in a reference to an object of that class. Then your code is both efficient AND easy to understand. How is that supposed to be more efficient? (I agree about the readability part though)
Of course, I'd assume it will play Ogg Vorbis, right? I actually play music on my Zaurus (it's mostly ogg), since my computer (though a laptop) is VERY noisy. I only have a 128MB card though, so I make a playlist (using Gjay) every night and have a script copy the files to the card. It works nicely (though the opie media player is buggy, notably it has what is probably a nasty memory leak, and is always killed when I turn the thing back on the next day. Also when it has a problem with a file, it stops instead of just skipping)
I guess I can just point you to any reference on arithmetic: Zn, set of integers modulo n, is a ring (a field if n is prime); the transformation from Z is a homomorphism, so these kinds of operations on equalities is perfectly valid.
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I used to think the same, until I tried RadialContext,
which is basically adding a menu to those gestures (so you can still do the more obscure ones). See previous thread.
-iname => -name (no need to be case insensitive here
| -> use -exec instead
awk -> Why not just echo ?
find -name '.*' -exec echo chown root:root {} ";"
Just remove the "echo" to actually run it...
Other problem : it changes all regular files that start with a "." in the hierarchy instead of all files / directories starting with a "." in the current directory.
SimCity IS American-centric.
I find it humorous that it's still in Beta after 10 years of development.
I'm not poo-pooing the effort, but you have to admit that that's a long time before declaring 1.0!
GNU/Hurd is at 0.2 right now...
Because Excel is even less free?
is pretty well established now.
You're thinking of fusion power.
3. Beware anyone, anywhere, who leads his argument with the 2nd law of thermodynamic /.)
Well in this case it used right: energy conversion has to be wasteful (i.e. create entropy). However as you point out, the amount of power wasted when the initial power is "free" is not really relevant (especially if the power is wasted into space).
But his point that the amount of resources to build the plant could be higher than what it produces is appealing (though of course it would be interesting to have some numbers), I read for instance that solar panels cost more energy to create than they produced during their lifetime (to be verified, I think I read it here on
but the cable has to be much much stronger since it would be three times longer and must support its own weight.
The weight would be the exact same as that of a counterweight (to keep the center of gravity at the same place), so you are wrong here.
But, what about the sonic boom? I mean, even a small thing crossing the speed barrier makes a noise (ref: a bullwhip) -- how loud will it be on deck with n of these things breaking the sound barrier every 10 seconds?
Regular rifle ammo (e.g. NATO 5.57 or 7.62) goes about 700m/s IIRC. That's about twice the speed of sound.
it's why English uses eleven and twelve instead of oneteen and twoteen.
Note that in French, we have this until 16 (onze=11 douze treize quatorze quinze seize=16).
The main point here is that for usual numbers we use base 10, so it makes sense to do the same for measurements. It might have been better if we had 12 fingers, but well...
Huffman coding is a way of representing some stream of symbols using bits in the most optimal way possible.
Note that you must know beforehand the probability of each symbol (though there is a possibility of adaptive Huffmann encoding, but of course it's not optimal)
Would be nice if it were that simple, but a nice trick used throughout GOOD c++ programming is to allocate, say, an MFC dialog on the stack, as this automatically solves many memory leak problems and is tons faster than new.
A class instance is data. It doesn't contain any code (it contains a pointer to a vtable, which itself points to code...). So you can keep allocating objects on the stack, it is indeed faster / safer.
I really enjoy the new version but have noticed that the Firefox browser loads much slower initially than IE. I have tested this on two machines. Anyone else with the same problem? :-)
IE is preloaded by windows, so always starts nearly instantly. Just keep firefox open
Interesting... I had found a workaround somewhere but it involved modifying the Set module, which I didn't want to do. I'll check this out...
I also like OCaml (learned it in school), although it has a missing feature: you can't for instance define a union type with a member that would have a set of the same type e.g.:
type t =
A of a |
B of t Set
won't work...
Also the lack of any kind of overload is very annoying.
I actually use it for scripting (too lazy to learn Perl when I already have this), while doing "serious" programs in C++.
I actually know asm, but if you have to put everything into a structure first I don't really see how it is better than pushing it to the stack (since putting the values into the structure takes as many instructions as it would take to put the arguments directly into the stack, and the structure is probably already on the stack anyway)
Of course it's different if you pass the same arguments along several times...
the thing to do is create a class that contains all the parameters and just pass in a reference to an object of that class. Then your code is both efficient AND easy to understand.
How is that supposed to be more efficient? (I agree about the readability part though)
And then compare disk footprint of those exact same distros in the exact same configuration.
Yes, because hard disks are so small.
Snail mail can easily have dropped packets
Yes, especially mail-in rebates
Of course, I'd assume it will play Ogg Vorbis, right?
I actually play music on my Zaurus (it's mostly ogg), since my computer (though a laptop) is VERY noisy. I only have a 128MB card though, so I make a playlist (using Gjay) every night and have a script copy the files to the card. It works nicely (though the opie media player is buggy, notably it has what is probably a nasty memory leak, and is always killed when I turn the thing back on the next day. Also when it has a problem with a file, it stops instead of just skipping)
making this possibly the world's first all-artificial movie.
It seems to me that humans still did most of the work
OK, how many artificial things do you know that are not human made?
Amazing...
clicky
(which all fit on a single floppy!)
How many projects do you have whose source doesn't fit on a floppy??
e.g. : bittorrent source = 230kb (compressed)
I guess I can just point you to any reference on arithmetic: Zn, set of integers modulo n, is a ring (a field if n is prime); the transformation from Z is a homomorphism, so these kinds of operations on equalities is perfectly valid.
OK:
3 is prime
4 = 3 + 1