You know why? Infant and child mortality. Lots and lots of dead babies and very young children. But for those who made it to adulthood, they lived pretty long.
VMS allows a process to map a file into its address space and use the paging mechanism to do the disk i/o. It is kind of like a private page file. You get fast random access. You get persistence if you close the file/map properly when you are finished with it.
It has been a long time since I looked at this stuff, but I think you could share the mapped file with other local processes. You had to roll your own atomic access with mutexes.
RMS/Files-11 is a whole different, overly-complex issue. At least FIVE different formats for a simple sequential text file. A whole multi-indexed database in a single file. --
In the spirit of ISO 2014, which settled the argument of whether dates should be written
"day/month/year" or "month/day/year" by specifying "year-month-day",
I propose this simple solution which should satisfy both comma/period user factions:
Use either comma or period as a thousands separator. Use semi-colon to separate the integer part from the fractional part.
A few programmers (c, java, Pascal) may be temporarily inconvenienced, but this is a small price to pay for sorting out this perplexing problem in monetary representation. -- Often wrong but never in doubt.
About all one should infer from the ATOM user problem is that Apple has no plans to build and sell an ATOM based product that runs OS X. Not until the next update, anyway.
Of course the massed intellect of/. can solve this problem in a few minutes. There will be another one along shortly, so we can't spend too much time on just this one.
The snakes-on-a-plane remark disqualifies Python as a means of delivering a solution.
I don't think aeronautics will thank us for a solution expressed in a PERL script. -- Easy things should be easy, hard things should be possible -- Larry Wall
What of something like a conical set of vanes rotating freely in front of the compressor flow? With a very shallow pitch to reduce drag and angular velocity and maintain airflow? The goal would be to deflect the bird mass away from the main turbine, but maybe into the fan. Or maybe to slice and dice the meat into smaller bits.
Loss of bonus points for snagging a bird, unbalancing the cone, and making life more exciting that before.
There, fixed that. Apologies for trying to allow logic to overcome a/. meme. -- I just realised I am 100 years old (base 8). It is worse when misread in binary.
Don't try to use the file name or directory structure. This is difficult to adapt or relocate as the namespace becomes distorted from its original content over time.
Try this instead:
Assign arbitrary file names.
Adopt a directory structure derivable from those names, if you must.
Build a database of several tables to link keywords, project names, authors, etc, to the arbitrary file names.
Award small prizes for verified corrections to the database.
Computer Scientists are reductionists - If a problem is too hard to solve, simplify it by throwing some of it away, until what is left CAN be solved. The result may still be of some use.
Software engineers make systems for real world use - If a problem is too hard, throw another programmer on the fire.
FOSS engineers can reduce the problem and call it version
Make the directors of the failing content company responsible in criminal law for your loss of use due to DRM. We could even think up a technical decription of the crime. Something like THEFT. Unlike copytright violation, they DO deprive you of the use of the content.
Appealing, but more complex and harder to make work: stick every part of the distribution chain for the loss. Hard to attribute in case of a failure, but it might get Walmart thinking about even stocking anything with DRM.
In the United States of America, the individual States are supposed to be "sovereign" and all rights not specifically granted to the Federal Government are the province of the individual States. Over the years "creeping Federalism" has undermined the individuality, power and authority of the individual States.
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You know why? Infant and child mortality. Lots and lots of dead babies and very young children. But for those who made it to adulthood, they lived pretty long.
...unless they died in childbirth
VMS allows a process to map a file into its address space and use the paging mechanism to do the disk i/o. It is kind of like a private page file. You get fast random access. You get persistence if you close the file/map properly when you are finished with it.
It has been a long time since I looked at this stuff, but I think you could share the mapped file with other local processes. You had to roll your own atomic access with mutexes.
RMS/Files-11 is a whole different, overly-complex issue. At least FIVE different formats for a simple sequential text file. A whole multi-indexed database in a single file.
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Quality is not measurable directly. It's just a subjective thing
Higher MTBF, lower MTTR. Do the numbers. Objectively, the German version is better.
Sounds like a good way to run a wide shallow botnet control tree.
And Big Crime^WBusiness could control a collection of these small ISPs just like a botnet.
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Does the noise in my head bother you?
I imagine the people cooking up ACTA would love this idea.
This doesn't scale very well to representatives of larger constituencies.
In the spirit of ISO 2014, which settled the argument of whether dates should be written
"day/month/year" or "month/day/year" by specifying "year-month-day",
I propose this simple solution which should satisfy both comma/period user factions:
Use either comma or period as a thousands separator.
Use semi-colon to separate the integer part from the fractional part.
A few programmers (c, java, Pascal) may be temporarily inconvenienced, but this is a small price to pay for sorting out this perplexing problem in monetary representation.
--
Often wrong but never in doubt.
Varifocal lenses work for me.
About all one should infer from the ATOM user problem is that Apple has no plans to build and sell an ATOM based product that runs OS X. Not until the next update, anyway.
Its been used to trace most human ancestors to a couple places in Africa, almost to a couple of individual females.
Were these few females human?
Balmer, Trust, Interoperate -- pick at most two
I see no evidence that Google is ignoring TPB.
Googling "torrents site:thepiratebay.org" gives almost 4.9e6 hits.
Perhaps the original (removed) posting was less than completely accurate.
Doesn't DMCA require Flickr to notify the uploader, identifying the copyright claimaint?
Let's all upload that Time cover image, wait for the notices, and compare them here on /.
Hacksaw?
We ask for Justice; we get the Law (We secretly wish for Mercy).
Of course the massed intellect of /. can solve this problem in a few minutes. There will be another one along shortly, so we can't spend too much time on just this one.
The snakes-on-a-plane remark disqualifies Python as a means of delivering a solution.
I don't think aeronautics will thank us for a solution expressed in a PERL script.
--
Easy things should be easy, hard things should be possible -- Larry Wall
What of something like a conical set of vanes rotating freely in front of the compressor flow? With a very shallow pitch to reduce drag and angular velocity and maintain airflow? The goal would be to deflect the bird mass away from the main turbine, but maybe into the fan. Or maybe to slice and dice the meat into smaller bits.
Loss of bonus points for snagging a bird, unbalancing the cone, and making life more exciting that before.
Paint the plane like a GIANT FALCON...
There, fixed that. Apologies for trying to allow logic to overcome a /. meme.
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I just realised I am 100 years old (base 8). It is worse when misread in binary.
Don't try to use the file name or directory structure. This is difficult to adapt or relocate as the namespace becomes distorted from its original content over time.
Try this instead:
Assign arbitrary file names.
Adopt a directory structure derivable from those names, if you must.
Build a database of several tables to link keywords, project names, authors, etc, to the arbitrary file names.
Award small prizes for verified corrections to the database.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content-addressable_storage for more information.
Or send a bunch of photons from a source to a photovoltaic receiver.
You could use a launching laser and a light sail, but that gets you acceleration, not electricity.
Computer Scientists are reductionists - If a problem is too hard to solve, simplify it by throwing some of it away, until what is left CAN be solved. The result may still be of some use.
Software engineers make systems for real world use - If a problem is too hard, throw another programmer on the fire.
FOSS engineers can reduce the problem and call it version
Make the directors of the failing content company responsible in criminal law for your loss of use due to DRM. We could even think up a technical decription of the crime. Something like THEFT. Unlike copytright violation, they DO deprive you of the use of the content.
Appealing, but more complex and harder to make work: stick every part of the distribution chain for the loss. Hard to attribute in case of a failure, but it might get Walmart thinking about even stocking anything with DRM.
And, while we are dreaming, repeal DMCA, too.
In the United States of America, the individual States are supposed to be "sovereign" and all rights not specifically granted to the Federal Government are the province of the individual States. Over the years "creeping Federalism" has undermined the individuality, power and authority of the individual States.
The American Civil War was not exactly creeping.
If this impacts bourbon production, there may be a political rethink.
When the only answer slashdotters can imagine is "just pay somebody else to do it," that is the day there is no point reading here.
Hey, that was pretty good. What would you charge to make my posts for me?
Hey, that was pretty good. What would you charge to READ these posts for me?