On a related note, the 3.0 release of this widget/Konfabulator has renamed the special 'overlay' window which shows all your widgets and also acts as a 'hidden layer' (which you activate with a user-configurable key, by default F8). This version calls it a "Heads-Up Display". The last version called it... Konsposé. With an é.
Hmm, now where have I heard a similar-sounding name before? I wonder......
It's called caching. Perhaps you've heard of it. In short, they can read the slashdot feed once when it updates, and process it, and distribute it to their zillions of users upon request. Saves processor time and bandwidth for everyone involved.
I could swear that on the last story about these filters someone made a quip about how they could block all these songs with just twenty-six filters: a,b,c,d,e... The user replying to it stated that he could do it with just one: *
Which is more or less exactly what they have done.
(can't find the original posts, Slashdot search ickiness)
Well, $60 a month for a semester of four months, say? September October November December? That's $240, and I got my books for about $240 this semester- I had an English course with one anthology and assorted random volumes, two computer computer science courses (with fairly expensive books), an art course, and some stupid waste-of-time 'health' course with a paperback textbook. I got many of the books used (bookstore-used, not off-a-random-student used, but still not New).
Of course, having more expensive books hardly leaves you more money to spend on cell phones...
It's more like a professor of the psychology department holding a class making fun of zero-point energy and free energy crackpots. Even though crackpots may be his expertise.
Making fun of people is seldom a good way to encourage healthy dialogue and understanding... in any department.
If your claim is that intelligent design is a scientific hypothesis, then your problem is that there is no way to show it may be false. This means that it can't be a scientific hypothesis.
Excuse me for summarizing the complaint improperly. The full complaint then, I suppose, is it's "not falsifiable" and therefore can't be a proper scientific theory. Which still leaves us at 'not falsifiable' and a Slashdot headline claiming the course was nevertheless going to 'debunk' it, which is just Slashdot misleadingness, though I suppose it is in the Religion department and "subject to being debunked on religious grounds" as you have mentioned... this'll teach me to read Slashdot headlines, in any event.
Catholic college? Are you presently Catholic? What denomination was this professor, out of curiosity?
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Well, those are really touching words. Great way to encourage healthy dialogues and understanding!
Joking aside for a moment, we were reading Inherit the Wind the other day in AmLit class. The worry from the 'fundies' of the day, as it were (though they were not called 'fundies' back then) was that mentioning Evolution in schools would somehow make young minds incapable of proper moral or religious thought, and that they'd be snatched away from the faith just like that! [snap]
Looking at the hard-core anti-ID types today, we see that the worry about mentioning creationism and intelligent design in the classroom will shoehow make young minds incapable of proper systematic and scientific thought and reasoning, and they'll be snatched away from Science and Logic and Reason just like that! [snap] ... and probably end up modern-day Luddites, throwing their wooden shoes into machinery in some auto factory in the midwest, or something like that, I suppose.
We're generally dealing with just another stupid high school class. Anyone who isn't already aware of the existance of both theories and the controversy surrounding them is liable to be asleep in the classroom the day either is being taught, anyway.
If I were running a school and this issue poked up, I'd try to rig an intercurricular extravaganza: history classes, science classes, philosophy (if you have any of that at the high school level), politics, religion, myth, English... sorry, but no dice on Physical Education, they're just boring. Maybe invite some random speakers in to boot.
I would hope not, because that's not a good argument. The issue is that it's not provable, testable, or in any way verifiable. There is no evidence - and that's a different issue than it being unfalsifiable.
The complaint against it is that it's unfalsifiable... unfalsifiable and untestable. The two complaints against it are its unfalsifiability and untestability... and unverifiability. Our three complaints against it are that it's not falsifiable, not testable, not verifiable... and not provable... Among our complaints against it...
Hate is when you don't like something. When you're full of hate, you're hateful. The state of being full of hate is 'hatefulness'. I have here at least one dictionary mentioning it.
Apparently the emails weren't as private as they ought to have been. Actually, my guess is he sent something to college-democrats-l@kansas.edu or its equivalent (college democrats? I don't know what sort of organization he targeted it at- I'll bet you it wasn't college republicans, though).
... Creationism... is a religious belief... Creationism, version 2, relabeled "Intelligent Design" is put forth (to the best of my understanding) as a *scientific theory*.
Then why is Slashdot putting this in the Science: section? It obviously belongs in the Religion section! (duck+run)
College students generally have a phone line installed in the dorm. Typically, it's been installed a while, and the universities used to make enormous amounts of money off them. I've heard our own director of Information Systems tell about how they used to buy long distance in bulk at 13 cents a minute, resell it to students at 25 cents a minute, and they made millions every year. Now they buy for about 3, sell for 5, and make thousands. Still- for a college student living on campus, a landline where they don't pay for anything except long distance may be cheaper than a cell phone- and if you're poor and working your way through university on a scholoarship (or faculty dependant tuition concession) then a cell phone may simply be unaffordable when they run $20-$60 a month. That's books for a semester. And do you somehow think that these cell phone companies are measurably less-evil than Bellsouth?
I did not have a cell phone until this semester, and that's only because I'm with the university's special technology pilot program (they eventually want to give them to all students so they can get a cut of that, as well) and they gave me the rather nice cell phone/PDA combo to use, and they're even paying for my service... =D
It strikes me as interesting that he's out to "debunk" intelligent design. Isn't the complaint that everyone here on Slashdot makes against it that it's unfalsifiable- unable to be proved false?
So what are they looking for here? Talking about iPods? They want some little patch they can put on your sleeve so you can scroll-wheel it while it's still in your pocket? Hmm. Maybe they can combine it with the next-generation Bluetooth iPod. =b
Sounds interesting, but I'd want to see a few more compelling applications than this.
Well, I'm a junior in college and a computer science major, studying things across the spectrum from kernels to compilers to recursive descent parsers to Turing machines and much of the stuff in between. I've had several jobs dealing with web or Intranet applications and embedded development. And I've never written a web server. I've never even considered it. I've written some pretty low-level CGI bits for C/C++ applications (parsing query strings and POSTs) and I've written some TCP/IP network communication bits, and I'm sure I could write a web server if I had to but... why should I ever need to? I've got Apache, I can look at other web servers like Tux, even IIS... and I have well-defined interfaces to these like CGI, and mod_perl, and things like JSPs for Resin. Write a web server "like everybody else?" I sincerely doubt that even one in fifty programmers have written them- and I'll even let you choose the definition of "programmers". Of all the nifty applications you could possibly imagine to write, why would you choose a web server?
Instead of embedding a mini HTTP server into your application so it can talk to an application, you could just write a GUI in your favorite language (Java? C++? Java?) and talk to it with good old-fashioned TCP/IP (or even UDP) network sockets. Probably a lot simpler to define your own stuff than to deal with a big old standard like HTTP and parsing all the browsers which may be mangling your requests.
If it must be accessible via the web/intranet/browser/etc, set up some of your favorite CGI/PHP/JSP/Python/Ruby and have it talk to the application via TCP/IP and to the browser with HTTP.
SimCity 4 is what Sim City 3000 should have been. Shiny 3D goodness, a (reasonably) robust traffic model, a MUCH more realistic budget, difficulty levels that means something after you've been playing the game for any length of time (instead of just crippling your starting cash)...
However, I do think there's one very simple thing WP should do: stop allowing people to edit without being logged in to an account.
Not quite enough. Do you realize how easy it is to create an account on Wikipedia? You just go to the Login page, add a unique username and a password, and you have an account. So-called 'anonymous' users are actually less 'private' than logged-on users: they are identified by IP address (Wikipedia slang will refer to them like 'that IP is vandalizing again') and it's trivially easy to block them and track their being blocked. Once people get usernames, though, all that trackability is gone. There are still autoblock scripts so that when someone gets a username blocked, the IP address they're at is also blocked from making new accounts.
At the minumum they'd need to radically alter the process for getting an account and disable IP-only edits. Not happening in any current political climate there.
What parts do what should be clear from the names of function calls and variables
I've always thought that you should be able to tell what is happening from the code... the comments are supoosed to tell you *why* it's doing what it's doing.
From my (admittedly brief) glance at this, it would seem to indicate this increase in NGF could just as easily be a result of the relationship, rather than a cause- sort of a "love makes your nerves grow" sort of thing.
It's called a 'codename'. The real name is apparently 'IBM Full-System Simulator for the Cell Broadband Engine processor'.
Yes, all of IBM's products are named like that. I mean, every now and again they try to go for something neat and spiffy sounding like "WebSphere", but then they have to munge it all up with "Websphere Application Server" (WAS) and "Websphere Client Technologies Mobile Edition" (WCTME) and so on and so forth. This is normal for IBM, and this is why they really need code-names. A related story out of IBM from a distinguished engineer I once made the acquaintance of... He's walking along one day and runs into one of his boss's boss's bosses or something like that. So he says, "I know how we can win the war on drugs." He explains: "We make all drugs legal... and assign exclusive marketing rights to the OS/2 marketing team." Boss-dude tells him he's an asshole; he shrugs: "But you got my point."
It doesn't crash firefox. It hangs Firefox because it's trying to display a prompt() wherein it must reflow zillions of interesting Unicode characters. Eventually it'll display.
if you interrupt the busy state in a debugger we're busy in layout trying to display the prompt(). Usually in some form of Reflow(), sometimes in font stuff, sometimes in Bidi (nsBidiPresUtils::RemoveBidiContinuation?).
The bugzilla title for this bug is 'hang when long wrappable string is passed to prompt()'.
Consider which one wouldn't forget to deploy the sensor package after spending all that time and money to get to the target.
With the budget for a human-manned probe to one of these things- shall I be conservative at, say, ten billion? for all the safety systems and life support and life support and life support and living space and bigger launch rockets for the huge mass and THEN ensuring that the human doesn't commit suicide out of boredom after hanging around in space for a couple years while they manuver into position and then afterwards if you want to make this craft return to Earth... versus the opportunity to launch, say, a $50 million robot probe. Wow, that's like two hundred robot probes for the price of one manned probe! Time, well... that's no so obvious, but still.
I run a relatively lightly used academic server. We used to run it off a Sun Ultra 10, 440 megahertz. A year or two ago we ended up replacing it with a new Linux box for a variety of reasons, including a hard-to-diagnose hardware failure (which now it appears may be limited to the hard drives, so we may yet recycle the box, heh) and the fact that not many people are familiar specifically with Solaris...
So we bought a new middling-low-end server from IBM, 1U, Opteron... The manager of the site basically asked me for a machine which would last them a decade, if possible. Which may just happen. Sure, we may replace a disk between now and then, but we should have more than enough power to run everything we want and more between now and then.
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Hmm, now where have I heard a similar-sounding name before? I wonder......
It's called caching. Perhaps you've heard of it. In short, they can read the slashdot feed once when it updates, and process it, and distribute it to their zillions of users upon request. Saves processor time and bandwidth for everyone involved.
Which is more or less exactly what they have done.
(can't find the original posts, Slashdot search ickiness)
Of course, having more expensive books hardly leaves you more money to spend on cell phones...
Making fun of people is seldom a good way to encourage healthy dialogue and understanding... in any department.
Excuse me for summarizing the complaint improperly. The full complaint then, I suppose, is it's "not falsifiable" and therefore can't be a proper scientific theory. Which still leaves us at 'not falsifiable' and a Slashdot headline claiming the course was nevertheless going to 'debunk' it, which is just Slashdot misleadingness, though I suppose it is in the Religion department and "subject to being debunked on religious grounds" as you have mentioned... this'll teach me to read Slashdot headlines, in any event.
Catholic college? Are you presently Catholic? What denomination was this professor, out of curiosity?
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Well, those are really touching words. Great way to encourage healthy dialogues and understanding!
hateful adj.
1. Eliciting or deserving hatred.
2. Feeling or showing hatred; malevolent.
hate'fully adv.
hate'fulness n.
right there -^
Hatefulness.
Ah well. No matter.
Joking aside for a moment, we were reading Inherit the Wind the other day in AmLit class. The worry from the 'fundies' of the day, as it were (though they were not called 'fundies' back then) was that mentioning Evolution in schools would somehow make young minds incapable of proper moral or religious thought, and that they'd be snatched away from the faith just like that! [snap]
Looking at the hard-core anti-ID types today, we see that the worry about mentioning creationism and intelligent design in the classroom will shoehow make young minds incapable of proper systematic and scientific thought and reasoning, and they'll be snatched away from Science and Logic and Reason just like that! [snap]
... and probably end up modern-day Luddites, throwing their wooden shoes into machinery in some auto factory in the midwest, or something like that, I suppose.
We're generally dealing with just another stupid high school class. Anyone who isn't already aware of the existance of both theories and the controversy surrounding them is liable to be asleep in the classroom the day either is being taught, anyway.
If I were running a school and this issue poked up, I'd try to rig an intercurricular extravaganza: history classes, science classes, philosophy (if you have any of that at the high school level), politics, religion, myth, English... sorry, but no dice on Physical Education, they're just boring. Maybe invite some random speakers in to boot.
In short it's not-scientific-theory.
Apparently the emails weren't as private as they ought to have been. Actually, my guess is he sent something to college-democrats-l@kansas.edu or its equivalent (college democrats? I don't know what sort of organization he targeted it at- I'll bet you it wasn't college republicans, though).
Then why is Slashdot putting this in the Science: section? It obviously belongs in the Religion section! (duck+run)I did not have a cell phone until this semester, and that's only because I'm with the university's special technology pilot program (they eventually want to give them to all students so they can get a cut of that, as well) and they gave me the rather nice cell phone/PDA combo to use, and they're even paying for my service... =D
It strikes me as interesting that he's out to "debunk" intelligent design. Isn't the complaint that everyone here on Slashdot makes against it that it's unfalsifiable- unable to be proved false?
Sounds interesting, but I'd want to see a few more compelling applications than this.
Well, I'm a junior in college and a computer science major, studying things across the spectrum from kernels to compilers to recursive descent parsers to Turing machines and much of the stuff in between. I've had several jobs dealing with web or Intranet applications and embedded development. And I've never written a web server. I've never even considered it. I've written some pretty low-level CGI bits for C/C++ applications (parsing query strings and POSTs) and I've written some TCP/IP network communication bits, and I'm sure I could write a web server if I had to but... why should I ever need to? I've got Apache, I can look at other web servers like Tux, even IIS... and I have well-defined interfaces to these like CGI, and mod_perl, and things like JSPs for Resin. Write a web server "like everybody else?" I sincerely doubt that even one in fifty programmers have written them- and I'll even let you choose the definition of "programmers". Of all the nifty applications you could possibly imagine to write, why would you choose a web server?
If it must be accessible via the web/intranet/browser/etc, set up some of your favorite CGI/PHP/JSP/Python/Ruby and have it talk to the application via TCP/IP and to the browser with HTTP.
SimCity 3000 Unlimited? THAT was a money-grab. =b
Not quite enough. Do you realize how easy it is to create an account on Wikipedia? You just go to the Login page, add a unique username and a password, and you have an account. So-called 'anonymous' users are actually less 'private' than logged-on users: they are identified by IP address (Wikipedia slang will refer to them like 'that IP is vandalizing again') and it's trivially easy to block them and track their being blocked. Once people get usernames, though, all that trackability is gone. There are still autoblock scripts so that when someone gets a username blocked, the IP address they're at is also blocked from making new accounts.
At the minumum they'd need to radically alter the process for getting an account and disable IP-only edits. Not happening in any current political climate there.
I'd help campaign for her in the primaries! :)
I've always thought that you should be able to tell what is happening from the code... the comments are supoosed to tell you *why* it's doing what it's doing.
From my (admittedly brief) glance at this, it would seem to indicate this increase in NGF could just as easily be a result of the relationship, rather than a cause- sort of a "love makes your nerves grow" sort of thing.
Yes, all of IBM's products are named like that. I mean, every now and again they try to go for something neat and spiffy sounding like "WebSphere", but then they have to munge it all up with "Websphere Application Server" (WAS) and "Websphere Client Technologies Mobile Edition" (WCTME) and so on and so forth. This is normal for IBM, and this is why they really need code-names.
A related story out of IBM from a distinguished engineer I once made the acquaintance of... He's walking along one day and runs into one of his boss's boss's bosses or something like that. So he says, "I know how we can win the war on drugs." He explains: "We make all drugs legal... and assign exclusive marketing rights to the OS/2 marketing team." Boss-dude tells him he's an asshole; he shrugs: "But you got my point."
With the budget for a human-manned probe to one of these things- shall I be conservative at, say, ten billion? for all the safety systems and life support and life support and life support and living space and bigger launch rockets for the huge mass and THEN ensuring that the human doesn't commit suicide out of boredom after hanging around in space for a couple years while they manuver into position and then afterwards if you want to make this craft return to Earth... versus the opportunity to launch, say, a $50 million robot probe. Wow, that's like two hundred robot probes for the price of one manned probe!
Time, well... that's no so obvious, but still.
So we bought a new middling-low-end server from IBM, 1U, Opteron... The manager of the site basically asked me for a machine which would last them a decade, if possible. Which may just happen. Sure, we may replace a disk between now and then, but we should have more than enough power to run everything we want and more between now and then.