Ok, I've seen MySQL errors, or general 500 errors. ..but this is the first webserver to throw me a java exception as a 500 error:-p and IllegalStateException. . how exotic.
java.lang.IllegalStateException: forward() not allowed after buffer has committed.
at com.caucho.server.webapp.RequestDispatcherImpl.for ward(RequestDispatcherImpl.java:139)
at com.caucho.server.webapp.RequestDispatcherImpl.err or(RequestDispatcherImpl.java:113)
at com.caucho.server.webapp.ErrorPageManager.sendServ letError(ErrorPageManager.java:363)
at com.caucho.server.webapp.WebAppFilterChain.doFilte r(WebAppFilterChain.java:180)
at com.caucho.server.dispatch.ServletInvocation.servi ce(ServletInvocation.java:229)
at com.caucho.server.hmux.HmuxRequest.handleRequest(H muxRequest.java:419)
at com.caucho.server.port.TcpConnection.run(TcpConnec tion.java:389)
at com.caucho.util.ThreadPool.runTasks(ThreadPool.jav a:492)
at com.caucho.util.ThreadPool.run(ThreadPool.java:425 )
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:534)
Back on topic: Some of those lights are usually there as debug info, (especially the linksys router and cable modem) would you feel better if EVERY error you got on a computer was a "E" like on calculators? I think manufacturers need to re-evaluate how necessary a LED is and the correct brightness, etc. But I don't think we should try to eliminate them.
People get turned on to science when they realize they understand something for the first time; I don't think that reducing everything to cartoon characters quite does the trick for anybody.
I don't think thats the point at all. I think there are certain things that need to be changed to make the wiki more accessible to everyone. Have you ever tried to look up something like "euler's totient" to see what it does or how to apply it? You are flooded with links to even more complex mathematical constructs and a barrage of proofs and derivations. I'm not a math major and all that is fairly irrelevant to me, I just want to know the basics. I think looking up math terms is the best way to find areas that really need to be "dumbed down" or at least have a section that gives a brief overview of the basics and its application(s).
Government officials were unavailable for comment, having been immediately arrested upon passage of the bill.
I know you cant be charged with a crime if it wasn't legal when you commited it, but what if the crime became illegal at the precise moment you commited it. . . Here let me put it in terms slashdotters would understand: if (Crime.TimeStamp < Law.TimeStamp)Crime.getPerp().setFree(); else Crime.getPerp().incarcerate();
Which should be if (Crime.TimeStamp <= Law.TimeStamp)Crime.getPerp().setFree(); else Crime.getPerp().incarcerate();
Sure the chances of them both being exactly equal (when they are accurate to the milli or even nano seconds) is extremely remote, you must take into account all possible cases.
The link must be broken. All I saw was a photo of a dead cat.
Well thanks a lot. Due to the nature in which you observed the link now everyone is going to see a dead cat. If only you clicked that link or looked at your monitor slightly differently that cat would be alive. You killed that cat. Next time think before you observe.
Long story short, please don't encourage additional corn crops.
1) Get a bunch of corn or something, start fermenting
Ok then, sugarcane, sugar beets, milk; what is used to ferment is irrelevant, the concept I'm trying to express is utilizing ethanol, CO2, and waste water from fermentation. You take some carbs and stuff (cellulose?) and squeeze out as much energy as possible from it.
I think you missed the point, yes I know that they have been attached to power plants and other sources of CO2, I'm talking specifically here about the CO2 produced in fermenting stuff. Two alternative fuels right now are ethanol and biodiesel. I just noticed that the byproduct of fermenting (to make ethanol) might aid in the production of biodiesel. Then use this to take the leftovers from the fermenting to produce even more power. So basically it works like this:
1) Get a bunch of corn or something, start fermenting
2) Pipe the CO2 that is produced from fermenting wash into an algae farm, algae should grow a lot faster now
3) Distill the ethanol after fermenting is complete
4) Pump the rest of wash (after ethanol has been distilled from it) through this thing.
So you have 3 different areas generating energy.
The question is would it be worth it or not, would enough CO2 be produced to make an impact on the algae farm.
Ok so the firewall coefficient is irrelevant since it is multiplied by 0, and the 1.0 coefficient for Cigarette is redundant, moving Cigarette to the other side gets us:
Internet 2.0 = - Cigarette
Multiply both sides by -1 and we see that a single cigarette is worth (-2 Internets).QED
You just gave me an intersting idea. Algae farms have a problem that they aren't very productive without an external CO2 source. What if we used this device to produce energy, then pumped the remaining CO2 into an algae farm to produce even more energy.I'm not too sure about all the math behind it (I'll look into the numbers after I hit submit) so it may not be efficient at all but it just seems so obvious. I'm sure it must have been done before: ferment corn or something then pump the CO2 into an algae farm. Burn ethanol and make biodisel.
If the power gathered is then invested into a public transport system, then you'll end up having drivers subsidise public transport. The fuel savings with public transport may well offset the extra fuel burnt through the turbine induced drag.
Uh, is it me or does this just seem like a bad idea. Using cars (that use combustion engines about 30% efficient) to move air and then use turbines to convert part of that to energy. ..If it was entirely passive and just collected "wasted" energy I'd be all for it. Otherwise those with more aerodynamic cars essentially have to "pay less" than other drivers?? I dunno, unless it is wasted energy anyways I say go for it, otherwise its like using an electric motor to charge a battery via an electric generator.
Whoa why was parent modded insightful? I thought he was joking, he certainly didn't offer any proof. ..or maybe its just to give him good karma and I just didn't hear the "woosh" sound over my head.
There are some groups that can't vote, like minors, or felons. I think the reason minors aren't allowed to vote is due to the fact that they don't much have the capacity to understand the ramifications of who they vote for. Consequently this makes them prime targets for exploitations by dirty (most) politicians. As for felons I could see it the same way (you'll get parole if you vote for candidate X) and also as a punishment for the crime they have commited. The right to vote being revoked from felons is a complicated issue.
Perhaps my response was too hasty. I certainly don't think that a reason as minor as this should be good enough to discount a vote. Imagine if having the voting centers at least 200m away was required as a "pruning process" to weed out those that didn't want to vote "badly enough". ..scary stuff IMO.
I'd be very careful making statements like this, even if it is jest. I don't think anyone's vote should be discounted for any reason. Slippery slope indeed...
Uh oh. . no semicolon. . if you can even get that to compile you better hope that mouse never has to deal with trapped cheese:-p Also, are you sure its a good idea to have the mouse (if the cheese is not trapped) to eat it, squeak, then immediately squeak again? Is that really necessary? I think you should GPL this and let the genetic algorithm of thousands of developers with thousands of ideas tweak it for the optimum behavior.
Unlikely, given that we are really no where close to even understanding completely everything about our complex brains.
When you have a crap ton of computing power available, you don't necessarily need to understand what you are modeling. You can just punch in the variables and let the computations "figure it out". I still think we are a ways away from understanding the human brain because it is much more complex than the mouse brain. Not only are there many many more neurons, but there are also many many more connections between them.
Do we even want to, wouldn't that take away some of the mystery behind humans. After all if we can figure ourselves out then doesn't that mean that we aren't really all that complex?
I think it would instill a sense of awe. If the field of psychology exists, why wouldn't this?
wouldn't that also give us perfect explanations of people's actions making situations predictable violating free will?
I am sure there is still quite a bit of entropy. Yes you may model and have a general idea as to how someone would react to a certain stimuli, but take into account things like quantum effects and the vectors of every molecule of neuotransmitter. ..
afterall if society is ultimately chaotic in terms of our understanding, then wouldn't this be the ultimate control?
Ok, tin-foil hat time:-p As I stated earlier, I think it would be extremely difficult to really predict someone's actions this way, you'd have to get a super accurate model of their brain, and you would have to make sure to include every possible variable, like the spontaneous disappearance of an electron due to some bizarre quantum effect.
I knew it all along. Bush knew it all along, Iran lied about developing nuclear technology for power plants and instead intends to make WMD's!! Oh wait what. . ? Other way around? Iran might have been telling the truth the whole time? Shouldn't this be "good" news?
I don't know. ..take something simple like FIFO (first in first out). The "scheduler" in that scenario does very little and would definitely be a O(1) algorithm since nothing is evaluated and it just keeps a list of who asked for attention first. I'm not familiar with the scheduler in question so I can't say for sure what it is, but if it evaluates 1 process every context switch, that is O(1) with regards to switching tasks as it is independent on how many processes exist. Overall if you have n jobs and you want to know how much overhead the scheduler adds, then yes it adds O(n) because it has to run at least n evaluations (it would probably be something higher unless each processes terminated after being run). Consequently if it evaluated all processes on context switches it would be O(n) for the individual switch and O(n^2) total overhead. . ..God I hate my Operating Systems class.
If you look at that link, the state of Washington (where this all happened) requires two-party notification. ..though the spammer may have been in a different state. . in which case I have no clue.
I'm saying that it's justified by the fact that he was being questioned by a grand jury, which denies you your constitutional right to protection from self-incrimination.
Copy/paste from Wikipedia:In all U.S. jurisdictions retaining the grand jury, the defendant has the right under the Fifth Amendment not to give self-incriminating testimony. However, the prosecutor can call the defendant to testify and require the defendant to assert the right on a question-by-question basis, which is prohibited in jury trials unless the defendant has voluntarily testified on his own behalf. Other evidentiary rules applicable to trials (such as the hearsay rule) are generally not applicable to grand jury proceedings.
IANAL but I don't think the fifth amendment just "poofs" like you think. ..From that paragraph it seems that they could have drilled him a million times and force him to keep repeating "I invoke my 5th amendment right and choose not to answer the question" or some such. The only example I can think of where you cant use the fifth amendment is if he was granted immunity in which case the 5th wouldn't apply (atleast that is what happens on Law & Order) because his testimony couldn't be used against him in court. Having immunity and lying under oath is still purgery (I think).
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Ok, I've seen MySQL errors, or general 500 errors. . .but this is the first webserver to throw me a java exception as a 500 error :-p and IllegalStateException. . how exotic.
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at com.caucho.server.webapp.RequestDispatcherImpl.fo
at com.caucho.server.webapp.RequestDispatcherImpl.er
at com.caucho.server.webapp.ErrorPageManager.sendSer
at com.caucho.server.webapp.WebAppFilterChain.doFilt
at com.caucho.server.dispatch.ServletInvocation.serv
at com.caucho.server.hmux.HmuxRequest.handleRequest(
at com.caucho.server.port.TcpConnection.run(TcpConne
at com.caucho.util.ThreadPool.runTasks(ThreadPool.ja
at com.caucho.util.ThreadPool.run(ThreadPool.java:42
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:534)
Back on topic: Some of those lights are usually there as debug info, (especially the linksys router and cable modem) would you feel better if EVERY error you got on a computer was a "E" like on calculators? I think manufacturers need to re-evaluate how necessary a LED is and the correct brightness, etc. But I don't think we should try to eliminate them.
People get turned on to science when they realize they understand something for the first time; I don't think that reducing everything to cartoon characters quite does the trick for anybody.
I don't think thats the point at all. I think there are certain things that need to be changed to make the wiki more accessible to everyone. Have you ever tried to look up something like "euler's totient" to see what it does or how to apply it? You are flooded with links to even more complex mathematical constructs and a barrage of proofs and derivations. I'm not a math major and all that is fairly irrelevant to me, I just want to know the basics. I think looking up math terms is the best way to find areas that really need to be "dumbed down" or at least have a section that gives a brief overview of the basics and its application(s).
Government officials were unavailable for comment, having been immediately arrested upon passage of the bill.
I know you cant be charged with a crime if it wasn't legal when you commited it, but what if the crime became illegal at the precise moment you commited it. . . Here let me put it in terms slashdotters would understand:
if (Crime.TimeStamp < Law.TimeStamp)Crime.getPerp().setFree();
else Crime.getPerp().incarcerate();
Which should be
if (Crime.TimeStamp <= Law.TimeStamp)Crime.getPerp().setFree();
else Crime.getPerp().incarcerate();
Sure the chances of them both being exactly equal (when they are accurate to the milli or even nano seconds) is extremely remote, you must take into account all possible cases.
Copyright is implicit in almost all nations since 1976.
Oblig wiki link
The link must be broken. All I saw was a photo of a dead cat.
Well thanks a lot. Due to the nature in which you observed the link now everyone is going to see a dead cat. If only you clicked that link or looked at your monitor slightly differently that cat would be alive. You killed that cat. Next time think before you observe.
Long story short, please don't encourage additional corn crops.
1) Get a bunch of corn or something, start fermenting
Ok then, sugarcane, sugar beets, milk; what is used to ferment is irrelevant, the concept I'm trying to express is utilizing ethanol, CO2, and waste water from fermentation. You take some carbs and stuff (cellulose?) and squeeze out as much energy as possible from it.
Sorry to bust your bubble, but it's already been thought of, many times.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12834398/
I think you missed the point, yes I know that they have been attached to power plants and other sources of CO2, I'm talking specifically here about the CO2 produced in fermenting stuff. Two alternative fuels right now are ethanol and biodiesel. I just noticed that the byproduct of fermenting (to make ethanol) might aid in the production of biodiesel. Then use this to take the leftovers from the fermenting to produce even more power. So basically it works like this:
1) Get a bunch of corn or something, start fermenting
2) Pipe the CO2 that is produced from fermenting wash into an algae farm, algae should grow a lot faster now
3) Distill the ethanol after fermenting is complete
4) Pump the rest of wash (after ethanol has been distilled from it) through this thing.
So you have 3 different areas generating energy.
The question is would it be worth it or not, would enough CO2 be produced to make an impact on the algae farm.
Internet 2.0 + Cigarette 1.0 = Firewall 0.0
Ok so the firewall coefficient is irrelevant since it is multiplied by 0, and the 1.0 coefficient for Cigarette is redundant, moving Cigarette to the other side gets us:
Internet 2.0 = - Cigarette
Multiply both sides by -1 and we see that a single cigarette is worth (-2 Internets).QED
Witnesses reported seeing him staring into the flames and rocking slowly while mumbling a series of letters and numbers.
Maybe it was an IPv6 address...
You just gave me an intersting idea. Algae farms have a problem that they aren't very productive without an external CO2 source. What if we used this device to produce energy, then pumped the remaining CO2 into an algae farm to produce even more energy.I'm not too sure about all the math behind it (I'll look into the numbers after I hit submit) so it may not be efficient at all but it just seems so obvious. I'm sure it must have been done before: ferment corn or something then pump the CO2 into an algae farm. Burn ethanol and make biodisel.
:)
/me calls patent office
If the power gathered is then invested into a public transport system, then you'll end up having drivers subsidise public transport. The fuel savings with public transport may well offset the extra fuel burnt through the turbine induced drag.
.If it was entirely passive and just collected "wasted" energy I'd be all for it. Otherwise those with more aerodynamic cars essentially have to "pay less" than other drivers?? I dunno, unless it is wasted energy anyways I say go for it, otherwise its like using an electric motor to charge a battery via an electric generator.
Uh, is it me or does this just seem like a bad idea. Using cars (that use combustion engines about 30% efficient) to move air and then use turbines to convert part of that to energy. .
Whoa why was parent modded insightful? I thought he was joking, he certainly didn't offer any proof. . .or maybe its just to give him good karma and I just didn't hear the "woosh" sound over my head.
Wonder how long they would stay neutral.
There are some groups that can't vote, like minors, or felons. I think the reason minors aren't allowed to vote is due to the fact that they don't much have the capacity to understand the ramifications of who they vote for. Consequently this makes them prime targets for exploitations by dirty (most) politicians. As for felons I could see it the same way (you'll get parole if you vote for candidate X) and also as a punishment for the crime they have commited. The right to vote being revoked from felons is a complicated issue.
.scary stuff IMO.
Perhaps my response was too hasty. I certainly don't think that a reason as minor as this should be good enough to discount a vote. Imagine if having the voting centers at least 200m away was required as a "pruning process" to weed out those that didn't want to vote "badly enough". .
...then your vote shouldn't count...
I'd be very careful making statements like this, even if it is jest. I don't think anyone's vote should be discounted for any reason. Slippery slope indeed...
Well, If he was the same expert witness used in many cases, could this in some way give ground for appeal on the other cases? (IANAL)
untrap($cheese)
:-p Also, are you sure its a good idea to have the mouse (if the cheese is not trapped) to eat it, squeak, then immediately squeak again? Is that really necessary? I think you should GPL this and let the genetic algorithm of thousands of developers with thousands of ideas tweak it for the optimum behavior.
Uh oh. . no semicolon. . if you can even get that to compile you better hope that mouse never has to deal with trapped cheese
Unlikely, given that we are really no where close to even understanding completely everything about our complex brains.
.
:-p As I stated earlier, I think it would be extremely difficult to really predict someone's actions this way, you'd have to get a super accurate model of their brain, and you would have to make sure to include every possible variable, like the spontaneous disappearance of an electron due to some bizarre quantum effect.
When you have a crap ton of computing power available, you don't necessarily need to understand what you are modeling. You can just punch in the variables and let the computations "figure it out". I still think we are a ways away from understanding the human brain because it is much more complex than the mouse brain. Not only are there many many more neurons, but there are also many many more connections between them.
Do we even want to, wouldn't that take away some of the mystery behind humans. After all if we can figure ourselves out then doesn't that mean that we aren't really all that complex?
I think it would instill a sense of awe. If the field of psychology exists, why wouldn't this?
wouldn't that also give us perfect explanations of people's actions making situations predictable violating free will?
I am sure there is still quite a bit of entropy. Yes you may model and have a general idea as to how someone would react to a certain stimuli, but take into account things like quantum effects and the vectors of every molecule of neuotransmitter. .
afterall if society is ultimately chaotic in terms of our understanding, then wouldn't this be the ultimate control?
Ok, tin-foil hat time
I prefer my chess games to be realtime. :-p Having your opponent drop the game for something "more important" is kinda annoying.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these!
:-D
Care for a game of chess? Nothing drives innovation in processing power more than a good game of chess
I knew it all along. Bush knew it all along, Iran lied about developing nuclear technology for power plants and instead intends to make WMD's!! Oh wait what. . ? Other way around? Iran might have been telling the truth the whole time? Shouldn't this be "good" news?
I don't know. . .take something simple like FIFO (first in first out). The "scheduler" in that scenario does very little and would definitely be a O(1) algorithm since nothing is evaluated and it just keeps a list of who asked for attention first. I'm not familiar with the scheduler in question so I can't say for sure what it is, but if it evaluates 1 process every context switch, that is O(1) with regards to switching tasks as it is independent on how many processes exist. Overall if you have n jobs and you want to know how much overhead the scheduler adds, then yes it adds O(n) because it has to run at least n evaluations (it would probably be something higher unless each processes terminated after being run). Consequently if it evaluated all processes on context switches it would be O(n) for the individual switch and O(n^2) total overhead. . . .God I hate my Operating Systems class.
If you look at that link, the state of Washington (where this all happened) requires two-party notification. . .though the spammer may have been in a different state. . in which case I have no clue.
Given that heat -> power is a fairly mature technology, wouldn't that be more efficient than solar cells?
What about Molten Salt
I'm saying that it's justified by the fact that he was being questioned by a grand jury, which denies you your constitutional right to protection from self-incrimination.
:In all U.S. jurisdictions retaining the grand jury, the defendant has the right under the Fifth Amendment not to give self-incriminating testimony. However, the prosecutor can call the defendant to testify and require the defendant to assert the right on a question-by-question basis, which is prohibited in jury trials unless the defendant has voluntarily testified on his own behalf. Other evidentiary rules applicable to trials (such as the hearsay rule) are generally not applicable to grand jury proceedings.
.From that paragraph it seems that they could have drilled him a million times and force him to keep repeating "I invoke my 5th amendment right and choose not to answer the question" or some such. The only example I can think of where you cant use the fifth amendment is if he was granted immunity in which case the 5th wouldn't apply (atleast that is what happens on Law & Order) because his testimony couldn't be used against him in court. Having immunity and lying under oath is still purgery (I think).
Copy/paste from Wikipedia
IANAL but I don't think the fifth amendment just "poofs" like you think. .