I do data mining research, most recently on the Enron email dataset, and I've actually been having to roll my own multi-mailbox storage, access, and retrieval systems. It's taking way more time than I'd like, at this point I've gotten a database and web-based viewers made up (beware, they're quite slow).
If anyone has an idea of an open-source application similar to what the submitter is looking for, it would help my research quite a bit. There's practical research applications in this stuff, if someone's interested in making it.
Intelligent case design and fan placement really solves most ills.
Not to get into a clock-waving contest (excuse my pun), I'm running a Prescott 2.4GHz chip on a microATX board inside a gutted Mac Classic with one 8mm fan in the side, one 12mm fan out the back, and it runs at an average 96F. Just my two cents.
I've got to disagree - for beginning CS students, compiling frequently is an excellent thing to do. I'm a CS TA, and most of the panicky emails I get from students the night before a project is due revolve around small, simple problems that get blown way out of proportion.
A single misplaced semicolon can make the compiler spit out dozens of errors for lines of code below it, none of which will make any sense.
Errors propogated through code are terribly difficult to detect; your program's output might be incorrect due to something that you wrote two class files ago and have already forgotten about.
And then there's the problem of poor program planning combined with infrequent test compilations - namely, the design sucks donkey balls and you just spent three hours laying down the foundation for a code base that is completely useless.
I wrote code like this until I because a grad student, and it shows - I spend way less time designing and write far better programs due to multiple test compilations.
Far be it from me to tout Windows for its performance numbers, but I think it's unfair for the article to say that, "both Linux distributions also lay waste to the 64-bit and 32-bit editions of Windows XP." It looks to me as though both editions of Windows were within 10% of the performance numbers of one or both Linux distros on encoding, rendering and gaming, and on DP performance when comparing 32-bit editions. Clearly the Linux distros had numbers up on Windows, but hardly the kind of numbers that I'd refer to as "laying waste". It's editorializations like this that turn off readers looking for a balanced review; I'd far prefer a review with less author bias.
Wow, leave it to the media moguls to take a great idea and just run with it! We all remember how popular Divx players ( this kind, not this kind) were, and those let you watch the movie a whole three times before it wasn't yours any more! These guys know good products when they see them. I imagine a future where the lifespan of the degrading DVD is less than the viewing time of the movie itself, forcing the consumer to buy it twice so they can watch the whole thing! And it won't end with DVDs, no sir! Disposable durable goods are the way of the future. I envision cellular phones that melt in your hand in mid-call, cars that self-destruct after 3000 miles, computers that dissolve into their component atoms when they become obsolete... And then, we will build entire cities from the trash this creates! Our grandchildren won't have to go house-hunting, they'll just mine themselves a 1400 square foot condo near good schools and shopping. What times we're in for!
I don't think this will hold up - it seems to me that this is a revisiting of the FTC's Do-Not-Call list; even though the appeal was upheld, it's still being slugged out in court. I see this as a similar issue, is commercial speech protected by the first amendment? I don't want to sound like an alarmist, but God knows we don't want to give the current administration more ammo to start monitoring, restricting, and censoring online speech; or have we all forgotten that Patriot Act II may still be around the corner...
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I do data mining research, most recently on the Enron email dataset, and I've actually been having to roll my own multi-mailbox storage, access, and retrieval systems. It's taking way more time than I'd like, at this point I've gotten a database and web-based viewers made up (beware, they're quite slow).
If anyone has an idea of an open-source application similar to what the submitter is looking for, it would help my research quite a bit. There's practical research applications in this stuff, if someone's interested in making it.
Not to get into a clock-waving contest (excuse my pun), I'm running a Prescott 2.4GHz chip on a microATX board inside a gutted Mac Classic with one 8mm fan in the side, one 12mm fan out the back, and it runs at an average 96F. Just my two cents.
I've got to disagree - for beginning CS students, compiling frequently is an excellent thing to do. I'm a CS TA, and most of the panicky emails I get from students the night before a project is due revolve around small, simple problems that get blown way out of proportion. A single misplaced semicolon can make the compiler spit out dozens of errors for lines of code below it, none of which will make any sense. Errors propogated through code are terribly difficult to detect; your program's output might be incorrect due to something that you wrote two class files ago and have already forgotten about. And then there's the problem of poor program planning combined with infrequent test compilations - namely, the design sucks donkey balls and you just spent three hours laying down the foundation for a code base that is completely useless. I wrote code like this until I because a grad student, and it shows - I spend way less time designing and write far better programs due to multiple test compilations.
Far be it from me to tout Windows for its performance numbers, but I think it's unfair for the article to say that, "both Linux distributions also lay waste to the 64-bit and 32-bit editions of Windows XP." It looks to me as though both editions of Windows were within 10% of the performance numbers of one or both Linux distros on encoding, rendering and gaming, and on DP performance when comparing 32-bit editions. Clearly the Linux distros had numbers up on Windows, but hardly the kind of numbers that I'd refer to as "laying waste". It's editorializations like this that turn off readers looking for a balanced review; I'd far prefer a review with less author bias.
Wow, leave it to the media moguls to take a great idea and just run with it! We all remember how popular Divx players ( this kind, not this kind) were, and those let you watch the movie a whole three times before it wasn't yours any more! These guys know good products when they see them. I imagine a future where the lifespan of the degrading DVD is less than the viewing time of the movie itself, forcing the consumer to buy it twice so they can watch the whole thing! And it won't end with DVDs, no sir! Disposable durable goods are the way of the future. I envision cellular phones that melt in your hand in mid-call, cars that self-destruct after 3000 miles, computers that dissolve into their component atoms when they become obsolete... And then, we will build entire cities from the trash this creates! Our grandchildren won't have to go house-hunting, they'll just mine themselves a 1400 square foot condo near good schools and shopping. What times we're in for!
I don't think this will hold up - it seems to me that this is a revisiting of the FTC's Do-Not-Call list; even though the appeal was upheld, it's still being slugged out in court. I see this as a similar issue, is commercial speech protected by the first amendment? I don't want to sound like an alarmist, but God knows we don't want to give the current administration more ammo to start monitoring, restricting, and censoring online speech; or have we all forgotten that Patriot Act II may still be around the corner...