It's a basic choice for a project developer to do one thing well or provide many options where some or all do not work quite as well.
Or, in this case, do one thing that doesn't work well (if large parts of the userbase decide it's a bad UI design choice then it is a bad UI design choice) or provide an option that may or may not qork well.
"Regularly" is the important word. There are some gems; Run Lola Run comes to mind, as does Das Experiment. On the other hand, there is an endless number of so-called comedy movies following the same half dozen concepts most prior German comedy movies have used - right down to reusing most of the jokes. There are rare exceptions, though, like "Das merkwürdige Verhalten geschlechtsreifer Großstädter zur Paarungszeit" ("The curious behavior of sexually mature big city inhabitants during the mating season").
Germany has some very funny comedians and some great comedy shows, but our talent seems to lie more with funny shows, not funny movies. Except if the movies are animated; that usually means they're based on comics by artists who know what they're doing (unfortunately it appears that neither the Werner movies nor Kleines Arschloch have been released outside Germany).
In general, German movies have (in Germany) a reputation of tending to get things wrong or simply failing to captivate. Much of that probably lies in the German tendency towards critique and self-loathing, but we generally don't produce that many good movies. A few great ones and a lot of junk.
Come to think of junk, we do have some quite talented producers of trash movies (even if we don't count Uwe Boll). The Neverhorst Company produced some great pieces of trash like the superhero anti-epos Captain Cosmotic or the war/disco movie Operation: Dance Sensation. Their plot devices are about at the same level as Troma's; while Captin Cosmotic doesn't have random barrels of nuclear waste, it does feature a woman getting shot with an alien weapon that unfortunately only kills aliens - if it hits a human that human gains super powers. It also features Earth's core being stolen and transported away in a regular steel barrel.
To sum it up, Germany's talent with regard to movies lies with horror, suspense, WWII dramas and trash. Unfortunately most German movie studios (ie. the bigger German TV stations) still think our talent lies with family-friendly entertainment.
Actually, I was exaggerating. Usually background checks on gun owners are limited to directly before purchase, I'm unaware of periodic background checs on pilots and obtaining most chemicals is rather easy if you have a company. These are of varying acceptability and much of whether they make sense depends on the case.
Checks on people who want to buy Braindead or Summer Spanking Camp 13 are not desirable. I very much doubt there's a correlation between wanking to women getting flogged on-screen and committing crimes against actual women.
Also note that the incident that started this debate didn't involve anyone doing anything bad; someone just displayed questionable taste when he was filmed living out his Nazi fetish. Nobody was hurt (more than he minded).
Er, just how did you manage to connect sex slaves with BDSM studios? Because people get tortured? Believe it or not, some people like that (and the movies commonly feature interviews where they state exactly what they thought about the whole thing). You aso tend to see some faces all over the place, so either most porn studios are part of one big slavery ring or these people get things done to them in front of a camera because they think it's a good way to earn money.
Of course we could argue that there are bad apples somewhere in the industry and that shutting down the whole industry also shuts down their revenue stream, but a) the same applies to any industry and b) if the studio is criminal to begin with it's not going to stop making movies because the movies are outlawed. A ban would just remove all of the good apples, leaving the bad.
As for the "who would ever beat Mosley" part - lots of people. Really, it's not hard to find someone who's willing to engage in SM play for money, whether as top, bottom or both. Also, I think that he'd be spanked, paddeled, caned or flogged rather than beaten. Beating someone just quickly makes bruises and those usually aren't in the interest of either participant.
Of course, the same kinds of background checks should be done on people who buy guns (obviously), get a pilot license, do business with chemical manufacturers... Let's not forget people who buy violent video games and movies.
All those groups might contain deranged individuals who might be sent over the top by having access to that kind of stuff.
"Creates", not "manufactures". Also, don't forget the culture. There aren't too many Chinese TV shows and movies to be seen around here and the radios haven't even heard of Jay Chow. Apart from the music, where I tend towards other countries, entertainment-wise the States rule supreme. A good movie has a much higher chance of being from LA than from Munich (or Beijing, for that matter). Same goes for TV series.
And the more non-throwaway goods are usually designed in the USA or Japan and manufactured smewhere in China or its neighbour countries. For example, an iMac is hardly a Chinese creation, even though it's assembled there.
Except if you happen to live in Europe, in which case it is funny. Well, unless you realize that a falling Dollar might negatively impact the country that creates 90% of our culture and goods, which is sad on many levels.
A few years from now Intel will unveil their shocking new techology - they will build the floating point accelerator right into the CPU! For massive performance gains! And then a few years later they will move it out of the CPU for better performance. And so on, and so forth, etc. etc. etc.
Well, as others have pointed out, diff simply outputs the differences between two programs in a standardized way. Well, in one of several standardized ways. Sorry if I ticked you off; "is familiar with *nix to a certain degree" is one of the safer assumptions to make on Sashdot, so...
As for my username: It was actally chosen for trolling, a long time ago in a far away chatroom. The concept was "controversial but actually meaningless". I stuck with it because I didn't yet have a proper nickname I'd stuck with and I kinda liked the sound of it.
Generally, I avoid trolling nowadays, though. The name describes me more through none of the two extremes of it applying to me - and because I identify with it for the sake of identifying with it. Most people actually react rather well to it, although I can see how it might worsen a perceived troll or flame.
Oh and say hi to Horrigan from me when you meet him.;)
The problem with giving the JVM too much memory is that we will later spawn off a number of worker threads, each of which will potentially use several gigabytes of memory (the most labor-intensive things we do are cooccurrence analysis and clustering and those are memory hogs). If what I've ben told is correct, giving the JVM lots of memory means that any threads it later spawns get less, which would be undesirable.
The -server tip worked well, however. On my minimal data set I cut processing time from 12 to 8 seconds with only 4% of all ticks spent with the GC. It now spends 11% of the ticks on compilation, but that number will likely decrease to nothing when tested with a real data set.
Thanks for the tips. I'll bring your post up at the next project meeting.
Okay, we do multi-threaded number cruching and that involves wait()ing, but is that high amount of waiting normal? Could it be an indicator of using too many worker threads (which would make sense as I tested with a small data set and thread-happy settings)?
Oh, and we spendi upwards of 10% of all ticks with the GC, which is probably bad, as your post points out. Is there any way to determine where the GC spends the most time cleaning up without digging through the code? I'd love to make the app faster (as it needs to crunch absurdly large amounts of text), but a full-scale code evaluation would be too much effort and I have other things to do.
Companies might give a toss. If it's discovered it obviously can't be patented. If it's invented, the case against patentability isn't as strong. Math patents could be extremely profitable.
Actually, this is what they train soldiers who are sent to Iraq with:
WEST OF BAZAAR
YOU ARE STANDING ON A STREET IN BAGHDAD. IT IS VERY DARK.
> look
IT IS VERY DARK. YOU ARE LIKELY TO BE EATEN BY AN IRAQI WITH MISSILES.
> what is an iraqi with missiles
THE IRAQI WITH MISSILES IS A SINISTER, LURKING PRESENCE IN THE DARK PLACES OF THE EARTH. ITS FAVORITE DIET IS SOLDIERS, BUT ITS INSATIABLE APPETITE IS TEMPERED BY ITS FEAR OF LIGHT. NO IRAQI WITH MISSILES HAS EVER BEEN SEEN BY THE LIGHT OF DAY, AND FEW HAVE SURVIVED ITS FEARSOME JAWS TO TELL THE TALE.
> s
OH, NO! YOU HAVE WALKED INTO THE SLAVERING FANGS OF AN IRAQI WITH MISSILES!
It's a nice game. Bioware has great humor and is arguably much better at writing than George Lucas. Also, the game allows you to corrupt Jedi to the dark side, which is a nice thing. And HK-47, who alone is reason enough to buy the game.
Thank you! My business just ditched its old J2ME applications and replaced them with Visual Basic applications! Everything is so much better now! The sun is shining and little bunnies are hopping through the grass underneath a radiant rainbow! And all of that in the server room, which now also features a large nude beach for beautiful female exhibitionists! Also, everyone in the company now makes six digits - a month! Even the janitor!
Well, gotta go; our load balancer (now also written in VB) just wrote me an IM to inform me that it has finished replicating a cask of 50 year old Scotch and it's time for the tasting.
In that case, don't complain. If you don't want to spend money on actual prevention don't complain when bad stuff happens and the public media witch burning leads to politicians pondering whether people have too much privacy.
I really don't like the "I will fight any possible improvement if it doesn't directly pertain to me or come for free" attitude. Yes, there are things that aren't worth it, but I think that an honest attempt to make paedophilia a non-issue is worth more than perfect roads.
I always forget that things like compassion, altruism and sense of community died long ago. But then again I'm a communist Euro-pinko who thinks that occasionally you should be there for people around you and not strictly the other way around.
I'm sorry I offended you by suggesting a slightly inconvenient solution. It won't happen again.
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"Regularly" is the important word. There are some gems; Run Lola Run comes to mind, as does Das Experiment. On the other hand, there is an endless number of so-called comedy movies following the same half dozen concepts most prior German comedy movies have used - right down to reusing most of the jokes. There are rare exceptions, though, like "Das merkwürdige Verhalten geschlechtsreifer Großstädter zur Paarungszeit" ("The curious behavior of sexually mature big city inhabitants during the mating season").
Germany has some very funny comedians and some great comedy shows, but our talent seems to lie more with funny shows, not funny movies. Except if the movies are animated; that usually means they're based on comics by artists who know what they're doing (unfortunately it appears that neither the Werner movies nor Kleines Arschloch have been released outside Germany).
In general, German movies have (in Germany) a reputation of tending to get things wrong or simply failing to captivate. Much of that probably lies in the German tendency towards critique and self-loathing, but we generally don't produce that many good movies. A few great ones and a lot of junk.
Come to think of junk, we do have some quite talented producers of trash movies (even if we don't count Uwe Boll). The Neverhorst Company produced some great pieces of trash like the superhero anti-epos Captain Cosmotic or the war/disco movie Operation: Dance Sensation. Their plot devices are about at the same level as Troma's; while Captin Cosmotic doesn't have random barrels of nuclear waste, it does feature a woman getting shot with an alien weapon that unfortunately only kills aliens - if it hits a human that human gains super powers. It also features Earth's core being stolen and transported away in a regular steel barrel.
To sum it up, Germany's talent with regard to movies lies with horror, suspense, WWII dramas and trash. Unfortunately most German movie studios (ie. the bigger German TV stations) still think our talent lies with family-friendly entertainment.
Actually, I was exaggerating. Usually background checks on gun owners are limited to directly before purchase, I'm unaware of periodic background checs on pilots and obtaining most chemicals is rather easy if you have a company. These are of varying acceptability and much of whether they make sense depends on the case.
Checks on people who want to buy Braindead or Summer Spanking Camp 13 are not desirable. I very much doubt there's a correlation between wanking to women getting flogged on-screen and committing crimes against actual women.
Also note that the incident that started this debate didn't involve anyone doing anything bad; someone just displayed questionable taste when he was filmed living out his Nazi fetish. Nobody was hurt (more than he minded).
Compared to what the German movie industry regularly produces that IS good.
As someone who never had a high school sweetie I find that punishment entirely adequate.
Make it a meta-core. Intel wants to go 80 cores, so why not have 40 of them be the FPU?
Er, just how did you manage to connect sex slaves with BDSM studios? Because people get tortured? Believe it or not, some people like that (and the movies commonly feature interviews where they state exactly what they thought about the whole thing). You aso tend to see some faces all over the place, so either most porn studios are part of one big slavery ring or these people get things done to them in front of a camera because they think it's a good way to earn money.
Of course we could argue that there are bad apples somewhere in the industry and that shutting down the whole industry also shuts down their revenue stream, but a) the same applies to any industry and b) if the studio is criminal to begin with it's not going to stop making movies because the movies are outlawed. A ban would just remove all of the good apples, leaving the bad.
As for the "who would ever beat Mosley" part - lots of people. Really, it's not hard to find someone who's willing to engage in SM play for money, whether as top, bottom or both. Also, I think that he'd be spanked, paddeled, caned or flogged rather than beaten. Beating someone just quickly makes bruises and those usually aren't in the interest of either participant.
Of course, the same kinds of background checks should be done on people who buy guns (obviously), get a pilot license, do business with chemical manufacturers... Let's not forget people who buy violent video games and movies.
All those groups might contain deranged individuals who might be sent over the top by having access to that kind of stuff.
"Creates", not "manufactures". Also, don't forget the culture. There aren't too many Chinese TV shows and movies to be seen around here and the radios haven't even heard of Jay Chow. Apart from the music, where I tend towards other countries, entertainment-wise the States rule supreme. A good movie has a much higher chance of being from LA than from Munich (or Beijing, for that matter). Same goes for TV series.
And the more non-throwaway goods are usually designed in the USA or Japan and manufactured smewhere in China or its neighbour countries. For example, an iMac is hardly a Chinese creation, even though it's assembled there.
Their wireless routers were crap, though.
Except if you happen to live in Europe, in which case it is funny. Well, unless you realize that a falling Dollar might negatively impact the country that creates 90% of our culture and goods, which is sad on many levels.
A few years from now Intel will unveil their shocking new techology - they will build the floating point accelerator right into the CPU! For massive performance gains! And then a few years later they will move it out of the CPU for better performance. And so on, and so forth, etc. etc. etc.
Well, as others have pointed out, diff simply outputs the differences between two programs in a standardized way. Well, in one of several standardized ways. Sorry if I ticked you off; "is familiar with *nix to a certain degree" is one of the safer assumptions to make on Sashdot, so...
;)
As for my username: It was actally chosen for trolling, a long time ago in a far away chatroom. The concept was "controversial but actually meaningless". I stuck with it because I didn't yet have a proper nickname I'd stuck with and I kinda liked the sound of it.
Generally, I avoid trolling nowadays, though. The name describes me more through none of the two extremes of it applying to me - and because I identify with it for the sake of identifying with it. Most people actually react rather well to it, although I can see how it might worsen a perceived troll or flame.
Oh and say hi to Horrigan from me when you meet him.
The problem with giving the JVM too much memory is that we will later spawn off a number of worker threads, each of which will potentially use several gigabytes of memory (the most labor-intensive things we do are cooccurrence analysis and clustering and those are memory hogs). If what I've ben told is correct, giving the JVM lots of memory means that any threads it later spawns get less, which would be undesirable.
The -server tip worked well, however. On my minimal data set I cut processing time from 12 to 8 seconds with only 4% of all ticks spent with the GC. It now spends 11% of the ticks on compilation, but that number will likely decrease to nothing when tested with a real data set.
Thanks for the tips. I'll bring your post up at the next project meeting.
Okay, we do multi-threaded number cruching and that involves wait()ing, but is that high amount of waiting normal? Could it be an indicator of using too many worker threads (which would make sense as I tested with a small data set and thread-happy settings)?
Oh, and we spendi upwards of 10% of all ticks with the GC, which is probably bad, as your post points out. Is there any way to determine where the GC spends the most time cleaning up without digging through the code? I'd love to make the app faster (as it needs to crunch absurdly large amounts of text), but a full-scale code evaluation would be too much effort and I have other things to do.
That's a nice idea, but I think that client-side PHP is the wave of the future. getPHPScript('today')!
No, wait. I think it was get_php_script('today'). Or was it get_today('script', _PHP_)...?
$ echo "JavaScript" > JavaScript
$ diff Java JavaScript
1c1
< Java
---
> JavaScript
HTH
Companies might give a toss. If it's discovered it obviously can't be patented. If it's invented, the case against patentability isn't as strong. Math patents could be extremely profitable.
That's because you didn't have clearance for the later levels.
Actually, this is what they train soldiers who are sent to Iraq with:
WEST OF BAZAAR
YOU ARE STANDING ON A STREET IN BAGHDAD. IT IS VERY DARK.
> look
IT IS VERY DARK. YOU ARE LIKELY TO BE EATEN BY AN IRAQI WITH MISSILES.
> what is an iraqi with missiles
THE IRAQI WITH MISSILES IS A SINISTER, LURKING PRESENCE IN THE DARK PLACES OF THE EARTH. ITS FAVORITE DIET IS SOLDIERS, BUT ITS INSATIABLE APPETITE IS TEMPERED BY ITS FEAR OF LIGHT. NO IRAQI WITH MISSILES HAS EVER BEEN SEEN BY THE LIGHT OF DAY, AND FEW HAVE SURVIVED ITS FEARSOME JAWS TO TELL THE TALE.
> s
OH, NO! YOU HAVE WALKED INTO THE SLAVERING FANGS OF AN IRAQI WITH MISSILES!
*** YOU HAVE DIED ***
I'd ask about JC Denton, but he worked for the UN.
It's a nice game. Bioware has great humor and is arguably much better at writing than George Lucas. Also, the game allows you to corrupt Jedi to the dark side, which is a nice thing. And HK-47, who alone is reason enough to buy the game.
Thank you! My business just ditched its old J2ME applications and replaced them with Visual Basic applications! Everything is so much better now! The sun is shining and little bunnies are hopping through the grass underneath a radiant rainbow! And all of that in the server room, which now also features a large nude beach for beautiful female exhibitionists! Also, everyone in the company now makes six digits - a month! Even the janitor!
Well, gotta go; our load balancer (now also written in VB) just wrote me an IM to inform me that it has finished replicating a cask of 50 year old Scotch and it's time for the tasting.
In that case, don't complain. If you don't want to spend money on actual prevention don't complain when bad stuff happens and the public media witch burning leads to politicians pondering whether people have too much privacy.
I really don't like the "I will fight any possible improvement if it doesn't directly pertain to me or come for free" attitude. Yes, there are things that aren't worth it, but I think that an honest attempt to make paedophilia a non-issue is worth more than perfect roads.
I always forget that things like compassion, altruism and sense of community died long ago. But then again I'm a communist Euro-pinko who thinks that occasionally you should be there for people around you and not strictly the other way around.
I'm sorry I offended you by suggesting a slightly inconvenient solution. It won't happen again.