These days, with RAM bandwidth being a major bottleneck, it might actually make a lot of sense if you could do the compression / decompression in hardware between the cache controller and the RAM - you'd get more bandwidth to RAM at the cost of slightly more latency.
When I was at Kodak in the mid 80s we were actively investigating lossless image compression to get by disk speed bottlenecks. Sadly, our lossless algorithms weren't hitting the compression ratios we needed. This was not for consumer products, but rather pre-press shops.
At least know the owners of bot controlled machines will have a clue that their machines are bot controlled. And maybe we'll see fewer bot controlled machines.
I never said you would spend 3 weeks documenting your code. I said your projects. There is a big difference. You code should be documented as you go along.
In the next 3 weeks tell people how to build it, install it, make the installers, passwords to SVN, you contact info. Architectural issues you see, known bugs. What tools do you use? What versions of those tools? Licensed software serial number or validation codes. Online password for pay services. Contact info for the translators, contract graphic artists.
That sort of thing.
Any half decent programmer can figure out your code.
We live in a small community. I've been an engineer since the early 80s. It is difficult for me to think of a company that I've worked for that I not known someone, sometimes coincidentally, that I've worked with before.
So aside from it being the moral thing to do, enlightened self-interest also suggests that you should always treat your employer well, odds are, you'll meet them again in a few years.
You should spend the next 3 weeks documenting your projects. That is what the company needs from you. So few companies get this, want you coding until the last minute.
What happens when your stuff breaks? The next folks start at your documentation and go from there. Internal wiki's are great for this.
Photos don't do it justice. All you would see is either a telephoto shot of a whale, and those are a dime a dozen, or you would see a wide angle shot showing black dots. Seeing the arching backs, the dolphins leaping, the gulls congregating around the whales' bubble nets and the Gannett's plunge diving.
I live on the Outer Cape in Cape Cod Massachusetts. Herring Cove Beach is about 7 miles from my home. You can just drive to the beach and see them off shore. Now, the bulk of the whale are off shore and can't be seen, but there were about 40 there on Saturday. The whale watch boats are often kept at bay by the Provincetown Police, but even if the police aren't there, the boats do the right thing and stay a bit off. I've seen countless dolphins in a single field of view of my binoculars.
If you are in the area, you really should go see this. Bring the best binoculars you can, but even if you don't have any, you might see tens of blows per minutes. Long time locals suggest that the shore whales will disappear once the fast ferry starts up, which is in about 2 weeks.
It is truly amazing. I can't imagine what it is like off shore.
No argument there. It is certainly, in my mind, what I meant. I do wish I hadn't been so obscure, but that is the downside to being clever, one sometimes isn't always understood. Clearly my first use didn't take off, like many obvious things, many people discover it independently.
I think I still have 14 of my 15 minutes left.
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Re:Nov 23, 1987 - 1st documented use
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notice the lack of documentation to the claims. I didn't do the research on this, someone I didn't know. I had a friend point out the posting to me.
Popular thought is that the MUDers were using the term in 1985, but alas, google hasn't archived all those MUD logs.
Hence my careful use of the word "documented"
Maybe I should edit the wikipedia page!
And yes, I've been in correspondence with Brad Templeton, he also disputes my claim. But, I do have the google archive to back me up. If only I had been oblique in my reference.
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Nov 23, 1987 - 1st documented use of the word "spam" to describe unwanted electronic correspondence.
On 31 October 1992, Pope John Paul II expressed regret for how the Galileo affair was handled, and officially conceded that the Earth was not stationary, as the result of a study conducted by the Pontifical Council for Culture.
I hearby apologize to all Japanese people for the slashdot readers who created this tag. Not all geeks find that funny, and some of it find it very offensive.
Slashdot Mirror
You probably didn't know that Wendy was also a gifted solar eclipse astrophotographer, did you?
Now that's a woman of note. Cool musician, cool geek.
http://www.wendycarlos.com/eclipse.html
When I was at Kodak in the mid 80s we were actively investigating lossless image compression to get by disk speed bottlenecks. Sadly, our lossless algorithms weren't hitting the compression ratios we needed. This was not for consumer products, but rather pre-press shops.
Wasn't that a great car? Mine got great mileage. Finicky carb but at least it was easy to rebuild.
At least know the owners of bot controlled machines will have a clue that their machines are bot controlled. And maybe we'll see fewer bot controlled machines.
One can only hope.
I never said you would spend 3 weeks documenting your code. I said your projects. There is a big difference. You code should be documented as you go along.
In the next 3 weeks tell people how to build it, install it, make the installers, passwords to SVN, you contact info. Architectural issues you see, known bugs. What tools do you use? What versions of those tools? Licensed software serial number or validation codes. Online password for pay services. Contact info for the translators, contract graphic artists.
That sort of thing.
Any half decent programmer can figure out your code.
We live in a small community. I've been an engineer since the early 80s. It is difficult for me to think of a company that I've worked for that I not known someone, sometimes coincidentally, that I've worked with before.
So aside from it being the moral thing to do, enlightened self-interest also suggests that you should always treat your employer well, odds are, you'll meet them again in a few years.
Really, you aren't.
You should spend the next 3 weeks documenting your projects. That is what the company needs from you. So few companies get this, want you coding until the last minute.
What happens when your stuff breaks? The next folks start at your documentation and go from there. Internal wiki's are great for this.
Maybe a 300 year old cottage? Just asking...
Photos don't do it justice. All you would see is either a telephoto shot of a whale, and those are a dime a dozen, or you would see a wide angle shot showing black dots. Seeing the arching backs, the dolphins leaping, the gulls congregating around the whales' bubble nets and the Gannett's plunge diving.
This is something to experience, not see.
I live on the Outer Cape in Cape Cod Massachusetts. Herring Cove Beach is about 7 miles from my home. You can just drive to the beach and see them off shore. Now, the bulk of the whale are off shore and can't be seen, but there were about 40 there on Saturday. The whale watch boats are often kept at bay by the Provincetown Police, but even if the police aren't there, the boats do the right thing and stay a bit off. I've seen countless dolphins in a single field of view of my binoculars.
If you are in the area, you really should go see this. Bring the best binoculars you can, but even if you don't have any, you might see tens of blows per minutes. Long time locals suggest that the shore whales will disappear once the fast ferry starts up, which is in about 2 weeks.
It is truly amazing. I can't imagine what it is like off shore.
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No argument there. It is certainly, in my mind, what I meant. I do wish I hadn't been so obscure, but that is the downside to being clever, one sometimes isn't always understood. Clearly my first use didn't take off, like many obvious things, many people discover it independently.
I think I still have 14 of my 15 minutes left.
arghhh.... lets try this again. http://groups.google.com/group/news.admin.net-abuse.email/msg/b7ce97a77276e16f I've not put it in an URL since that doesn't seem to work.
ok, here's the full link ahref=http://groups.google.com/group/news.admin/msg/483c12f48d13225e?output=gplrel=url2html-26238http://groups.google.com/group/news.admin/msg/483c12f48d13225e?output=gpl>
notice the lack of documentation to the claims. I didn't do the research on this, someone I didn't know. I had a friend point out the posting to me.
Popular thought is that the MUDers were using the term in 1985, but alas, google hasn't archived all those MUD logs.
Hence my careful use of the word "documented"
Maybe I should edit the wikipedia page!
And yes, I've been in correspondence with Brad Templeton, he also disputes my claim. But, I do have the google archive to back me up. If only I had been oblique in my reference.
Nov 23, 1987 - 1st documented use of the word "spam" to describe unwanted electronic correspondence.
See http://tinyurl.com/4jg5w4 (the url is a tinyurl that links to a google groups posting)
And yes, I'm the one who said that back then, and no, I didn't think I was doing anything big, it just seemed, well, obvious at the time.
Paul Czarnecki Cezanne
See http://www.constitution.org/mil/tn/batathen.htminstead.
You are so wrong, as was the original use of the word "own."
We have two cats and they certainly own us. We are their humans.
From the wiki page:
On 31 October 1992, Pope John Paul II expressed regret for how the Galileo affair was handled, and officially conceded that the Earth was not stationary, as the result of a study conducted by the Pontifical Council for Culture.
Don't try to escape by flying down the central hole, landing, and then getting out and walking about.
Trust me, it just isn't a good idea.
It was discovered on November 20, 2007.
And sometimes they don't show up years in advance. 2007 WD5 was discovered in November and may hit Mars in January.
See http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/12/21/mars.asteroid.ap/
But then again, if we had been looking carefully we might have seen this a long time again.
In any case, those are much smaller than the early 80s Symbolics machines.
That's a Symbolic's machine from 2004. The ones from the early 80s stood taller than myself and had wirerapped boards.
I hearby apologize to all Japanese people for the slashdot readers who created this tag. Not all geeks find that funny, and some of it find it very offensive.
Hard to imagine a more suspicious activity than geocaching in a city...