Who says Microsoft is expecting the user to go online for the help? I didn't need any help finding out how to use the GUI, but the OP obviously did. I only posted the links to Microsoft's online documentation, because I'm not at the OP's house to point out the relevant control. The build-in Windows help (or the obvious "Help" button in the dialog) would have also worked, but I can't type a link to that in a/. post.
Maybe it was just an innocent typo. I don't think anyone here has such jejune attitude and a severe hatred of Micro$oft that they would deliberately misspell the name their primary product.
Because with WAV+BZIP you have to decompress and store the entire WAV file somewhere before beginning playback.
Why decompress the entire file? It can be streamed a block at a time. In the worst case scenario (highest compression), a player would need a 4 MB buffer to decompress one bzipped block of data using the default decompression algorithm (i.e. not -s). The decompression would net 878 KB or 5 seconds of CD quality sound. By the time the player finishes playing that, it'd be able to decompress the next block.
There's a third reason to doubt it now that I actually think about it. He probably wouldn't be changing the pattern every time through the loop even with a variable. Since Perl 5.6 and higher only compile the pattern once if it doesn't change, this invalidates whatever point I was trying to make in the first place.:'(
Of course, we're debating code neither of us has read, so it's a silly benchmark anyway.
Considering the GP was probably trolling, this whole conversation was probably doomed to the depths of absurdity.
Thanks you, sir, for taking part in this, a case study in pointlessness!
Random-but-informed guess: these log files are large, and you slurped them all into memory in your Perl program, causing swap and IO thrash. You didn't do that in Java. Non-sequitur conclusion: Perl is useless.
He said that he rewrote the program line for line. The way to read an entire file into memory in Perl has no easily translatable analogue in Java, but a Perl program written to read a line at a time in a loop can be translated directly to Java with very little effort. That's why I think that he probably used the later method.
Taking this into account, my guess is that he made the classic mistake of recompiling the regex every time through the loop in the Perl program. However, in the Java program he only called Pattern.compile() once.
I have not compared Perl and Java regex matching speed in almost 4 years, but for the application I was writing at the time, the language made very little difference. The dataset was large enough and the regexes varied enough that the differences in speed between the languages ended by being negligible.
Curiosity is piqued as to how someone who is, by very definition, "of both sexes", can be "transgender", the belief that one's gender is opposite to that of their physical characteristics at birth.
They were born a hermaphrodite, but inside they feel like a himaphrodite.
My car is a good ol' American car (kinda). 2000 Pontiac Firebird TransAm WS/6, a product of General Motors. It was assembled in Canada.:)
The engine is an LS1. The engine block is cast in Ontario, Canada.
I'm pretty sure the body sheet metal and plastics were made in Canada, but I couldn't find a reference for that.
When I changed my water pump and power steering pump, they both had "Made In Canada" stickers on them.
So what you're saying is: CANADA TOOK OUR JAEHRBS!!!!!
You're proud of 30mpg? Maybe you guys need some European cars?
The two situations are probably not equivalent:
The U.S. gallon is larger than an Imperial gallon. 1 U.S Gallon = 1.20095042 Imperial Gallons.
What is the ethanol content of your gasoline? He is most likely using E10 without even realizing it, so that's going to cut his efficiency by a bit over regular gasoline.
There are differences in mpg between the U.S. version of a car and the European version of the same car. I drive a VW, and the difference in mpg between my car and the European version is ~5 mpg. This difference is mainly due to emission standards.
We don't know what he drives. I know it's obivious, but cars of the same class made by different manufacturers can have very different mpg. My wife's car gets about 10 mpg more than mine, but is in the same class (small 4 door sedan).
You do realise the only 2 countries not in the UN are Vatican City and Taiwan?
The Holy See conducts diplomatic relations on behalf of Vatican City. The Holy See has all the rights of full UN membership except voting (by choice).
There are other nations with similar status to Taiwan that are likewise not represented in the UN. These include:
Abkhazia, the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, Kosovo, the Palestinian territories, South Ossetia, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Nagorno-Karabakh, Transnistria, and Somaliland.
7.5.1? 1996? Ha! You must be a MSFT fanboy of Blue Screen of Death if you bring up that.
When other Apple enthusiasts have to correct you about Windows, it might possibly be time to reevaluate your position. At this point, you don't even realize that your zealotry has become ignorance and is just perpetuating the Apple fanboy stereotype. We do not need this type of people in our community. It is being ruined by this type of jejune behavior.
Your comment is irrelevant!
My comment was illustrating the fallacy of your argument. That was the whole point, but you're too blinded by your fanaticism to realize that your entire argument is based on an outdated and incorrect assumption. If you really want people to switch, your information needs to be correct, otherwise they will see you for what you are and call you on it.
Apple is not infallible. I know this intimately, as my first Macintosh was a Centris 610 (How do you think I know about Type 11 errors?). I have owned Apples since 1986, and at this point I have a rather large Apple collection, which includes two Newton 2000s. The jewels of my collection, though, are the original Apple II owners manuals. I have several of them in mint condition - two of them are still in the shrinkwrap.
In other words, my iPenis is fucking eNormous, so don't even attempt to play the MS fanboy card with me.
Instead, you need to simmer down and come to the realization that a computing platform is not a religion.
Short answer: GPS units just make an estimate of your position, not calculate it exactly. More satellites make for a better estimate.
Long answer: The ranges calculated in GPS are estimates, because the clocks in the receiver aren't very precise. A small offset in the timing can cause a large error in the calculated distance (if the clock is off by 1/1000th of a second, you're actually 200 miles away from where you think you are). This is why GPS usually uses 4 satellites. If the receivers all had atomic clocks on them, every set of measurements from any three satellites would end up at the same exact point, because the clocks are so precise. The quartz clocks in GPS receivers drift out of sync with the clocks on the satellites, and this drift is enough to cause pretty large inaccuracies. In other words, if you measure the ranges from three satellites, and then subsequently measure the range from a fourth, the fourth satellite's measurement will not align with the other three. When this happens, the GPS unit makes adjustments to the 4 measurements until they all align in a single point. This effectively eliminates the clock issue. To get an even more accurate measurement, the GPS receiver will try to acquire as many satellites as possible and take measurements in groups of 4. This helps eliminate other errors caused by interference, atmospheric anomalies, highly reflective goats, etc.
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Who says Microsoft is expecting the user to go online for the help? I didn't need any help finding out how to use the GUI, but the OP obviously did. I only posted the links to Microsoft's online documentation, because I'm not at the OP's house to point out the relevant control. The build-in Windows help (or the obvious "Help" button in the dialog) would have also worked, but I can't type a link to that in a /. post.
I don't care at all about the point. I was just answering his questions.
I think that people who have been using windows consistently get inured to it or something.
No, we just know where all the GUI configuration settings are located.
Here are your answers:
Things like trying to hide the program and system files from me
Turn on display of system files.
God-fucking-forbid there ever be an unused icon on my desktop!!!
Turn off desktop cleanup
Vista seems to take that philosphy to the extreme with the UAC
UAC can be shut off completely from the control panel, or selectively disabled.
and the seriously messed up control panel.
Switch to classic view
HTH. HAND.
That's not necessarily true. For example, I do a lot of thinking with another part of my anatomy. Ask anyone.
It's true, folks!
I asked Linux_ho's former roommate, and he said that Linux_ho has most definitely used his uvula to handle some sticky situations.
Quite expertly, I might add.
Maybe it was just an innocent typo. I don't think anyone here has such jejune attitude and a severe hatred of Micro$oft that they would deliberately misspell the name their primary product.
Because with WAV+BZIP you have to decompress and store the entire WAV file somewhere before beginning playback.
Why decompress the entire file? It can be streamed a block at a time. In the worst case scenario (highest compression), a player would need a 4 MB buffer to decompress one bzipped block of data using the default decompression algorithm (i.e. not -s). The decompression would net 878 KB or 5 seconds of CD quality sound. By the time the player finishes playing that, it'd be able to decompress the next block.
I think there's a Darwin award about that.
That one was an Honorable Mention.
There was nothing honorable about mentioning it here, though.
I doubt that, for two reasons.
There's a third reason to doubt it now that I actually think about it. He probably wouldn't be changing the pattern every time through the loop even with a variable. Since Perl 5.6 and higher only compile the pattern once if it doesn't change, this invalidates whatever point I was trying to make in the first place. :'(
Of course, we're debating code neither of us has read, so it's a silly benchmark anyway.
Considering the GP was probably trolling, this whole conversation was probably doomed to the depths of absurdity.
Thanks you, sir, for taking part in this, a case study in pointlessness!
Random-but-informed guess: these log files are large, and you slurped them all into memory in your Perl program, causing swap and IO thrash. You didn't do that in Java. Non-sequitur conclusion: Perl is useless.
He said that he rewrote the program line for line. The way to read an entire file into memory in Perl has no easily translatable analogue in Java, but a Perl program written to read a line at a time in a loop can be translated directly to Java with very little effort. That's why I think that he probably used the later method.
Taking this into account, my guess is that he made the classic mistake of recompiling the regex every time through the loop in the Perl program. However, in the Java program he only called Pattern.compile() once.
I have not compared Perl and Java regex matching speed in almost 4 years, but for the application I was writing at the time, the language made very little difference. The dataset was large enough and the regexes varied enough that the differences in speed between the languages ended by being negligible.
Curiosity is piqued as to how someone who is, by very definition, "of both sexes", can be "transgender", the belief that one's gender is opposite to that of their physical characteristics at birth.
They were born a hermaphrodite, but inside they feel like a himaphrodite.
This book about the notorious ICMP Echo Request/Response utility is a must-have for any person in IT.
This highly-rated review describes the book more informatively than I can.
FYI, I live deep in the country.
Wow, I think I've finally answered an age-old riddle...
Wait, no, that doesn't work. Nevermind.
Anyone else imagine a caulking gun shoved into a guy?
Thanks to goatse, I don't have to.
-- Do you need the literal version? Here, let me draw a picture.
Your sig makes your post even more disturbing.
My car is a good ol' American car (kinda). 2000 Pontiac Firebird TransAm WS/6, a product of General Motors. It was assembled in Canada. :)
The engine is an LS1. The engine block is cast in Ontario, Canada.
I'm pretty sure the body sheet metal and plastics were made in Canada, but I couldn't find a reference for that.
When I changed my water pump and power steering pump, they both had "Made In Canada" stickers on them.
So what you're saying is: CANADA TOOK OUR JAEHRBS!!!!!
When doing this kind of work, a number of ppl work under temp names.
Well, that was his first mistake. He should have used mkstemp(3) or tmpfile(3) instead.
1 Imperial gallon = 1.20095042 U.S. gallons
Typo. The keys are like right next to each other.
Also, I picked the wrong day to give up sniffing glue.
You're proud of 30mpg? Maybe you guys need some European cars?
The two situations are probably not equivalent:
So, it's not always so cut and dry.
Oh, and it's called a "rotary". ;)
You do realise the only 2 countries not in the UN are Vatican City and Taiwan?
The Holy See conducts diplomatic relations on behalf of Vatican City. The Holy See has all the rights of full UN membership except voting (by choice).
There are other nations with similar status to Taiwan that are likewise not represented in the UN. These include: Abkhazia, the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, Kosovo, the Palestinian territories, South Ossetia, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Nagorno-Karabakh, Transnistria, and Somaliland.
I get porn suggested just b/c i type in 'tea-bag' but then I'm like..hmmm this looks interesting.
ProTip: Instead of searching, bookmark Bungie.net for when you want to see your Halo profile.
7.5.1? 1996? Ha! You must be a MSFT fanboy of Blue Screen of Death if you bring up that.
When other Apple enthusiasts have to correct you about Windows, it might possibly be time to reevaluate your position. At this point, you don't even realize that your zealotry has become ignorance and is just perpetuating the Apple fanboy stereotype. We do not need this type of people in our community. It is being ruined by this type of jejune behavior.
Your comment is irrelevant!
My comment was illustrating the fallacy of your argument. That was the whole point, but you're too blinded by your fanaticism to realize that your entire argument is based on an outdated and incorrect assumption. If you really want people to switch, your information needs to be correct, otherwise they will see you for what you are and call you on it.
Apple is not infallible. I know this intimately, as my first Macintosh was a Centris 610 (How do you think I know about Type 11 errors?). I have owned Apples since 1986, and at this point I have a rather large Apple collection, which includes two Newton 2000s. The jewels of my collection, though, are the original Apple II owners manuals. I have several of them in mint condition - two of them are still in the shrinkwrap.
In other words, my iPenis is fucking eNormous, so don't even attempt to play the MS fanboy card with me.
Instead, you need to simmer down and come to the realization that a computing platform is not a religion.
Windows still needs admin privileges to run a debugger.
No it doesn't. The user needs to be a member of the "Debugger Users" group.
I love it when the Add/Remove Program utility fails and leave the entry in you program list forever.
For the better part of a decade Windows has given the user the choice of removing programs from the list if the uninstaller is broken or not found.
Seriously, this comment is akin to dredging up the Type 11 errors from System 7.5.1 that would occur if you so much as breathed near your Mac.
The OP mentions plumbing, but I'm not sure that plastic is a viable alternative yet.
Sure is, and you need only go as far North as New Hampshire to find that many of the new houses being constructed there are using plastic plumbing.
Long answer: The ranges calculated in GPS are estimates, because the clocks in the receiver aren't very precise. A small offset in the timing can cause a large error in the calculated distance (if the clock is off by 1/1000th of a second, you're actually 200 miles away from where you think you are). This is why GPS usually uses 4 satellites. If the receivers all had atomic clocks on them, every set of measurements from any three satellites would end up at the same exact point, because the clocks are so precise. The quartz clocks in GPS receivers drift out of sync with the clocks on the satellites, and this drift is enough to cause pretty large inaccuracies. In other words, if you measure the ranges from three satellites, and then subsequently measure the range from a fourth, the fourth satellite's measurement will not align with the other three. When this happens, the GPS unit makes adjustments to the 4 measurements until they all align in a single point. This effectively eliminates the clock issue. To get an even more accurate measurement, the GPS receiver will try to acquire as many satellites as possible and take measurements in groups of 4. This helps eliminate other errors caused by interference, atmospheric anomalies, highly reflective goats, etc.
The T-Mobile logo is not some lousy magenta, it is Pantone Rhodamine Red!