Have you read the FAQ on archive.org's hardware setup? Their goal, just for a start, is "one system administrator per petabyte". That amount of storage is not trivial, and suggesting one copy per university is a little overzealous. The Archive has three petabytes online; that's thirty racks the way they do it.
How about "What animal is this?" or even "Is this animal, mineral, or vegetable?" It's not very usable for blind people, granted, but you could try "What genre would you place this music in?" and accept a variety of answers per clip. People are still better at pattern recognition than machines in some categories.
So he does O(n) work whenever he calls splitlist. It's lousy style, perhaps, but not O(n^2). Mergelists is O(n) anyways, so you end up with T(n) = 2T(n/2) + O(n) just like well-done quicksort. I'd write the whole thing with non-recursive quicksort, I think, but I haven't tried to implement sorting on linked lists so I could be unpleasantly surprised. Not as surprised as I was viewing this code, though - could he not find a book on this stuff?
By the way, C++'s "new" operator allocates storage on the heap, not the stack. If he said long Head[65536] instead of long* Head = new long[65536] (why isn't he using constants for that number!?) it'd be on the stack.
Or rather, [65535] instead of [65536] in the last paragraph. Oops on his end.
Pci express is 2.5 gbit/s signaling rate per lane with 8/10b coding. So 16x pci-e is 2.5*10/8*16=32 gbps of user data. 100 > 32, last I checked. Adding packet headers and so forth on 100GBe still won't make it three times slower.
And since 16x pci-e is the fastest thing going that I know of, this probably works only with switches. From there you demultiplex out to multiple 10GBes.
you can add an automated filter to move all messages from that list to a "label". Then archive them and they show up in that label. That's what I do with slashdot, anyway.
I'm connected at 32/160 right now (down/up!) over my dsl line from them. Earlier this WEEK I was getting 864/160 regularly. This does not make me happy-happy.
Actually, it _has_ been a problem for me... I once did swapon on the wrong disk and went along blithely using the machine for an hour or so, at which point I realized my mistake. One more reason not to run as root, kiddos.
Oh, and it overwrote the fsck.ext3 binary, so I was SOL there. It's easy to lose a system when you don't know what you're doing.:)
gasp! surprise! wineX doesn't run games as well as windows!
imo, wineX hurts the cause of developers, who can point to it and say "that's why we didn't develop a linux client! see, it runs!" if noone develops games for linux, noone plays games on linux. repeat. don't use or support wineX if you're interested in linux gaming.
Actually, I think it may vary on a person-to-person basis. I am not a big user of caffeine, and have only been to Starbucks once. Ever. However, the other night I had a large Mountain Dew at around 9:30 and I was asleep by 10. This is a one-time thing, however. When I used to go to camp for the summer, and get 10x as much caffeine as I usually do, I would have trouble sleeping.
These days all I have to do is listen to a debate on the presidential campaign, and it's off to lullaby land. Seriously, isn't it in November? Coverage's been going on for a year now!
this should be an online game. they take the best people from it and hook them up to actual tractors, and then fire all the farmers. all the work gets done, no extra pay.
if the current me conflict died out, wouldn't that be nice? I realize there are other reasons, but let's face it, economic is a big one. if we switched tomorrow to a different fuel source, it would be a good thing both for the environment but for thousands and thousands of Iraqi citizens and our soldiers, who would get to come back. There wasn't stability in 1849 in California until they ran out of gold. There won't be stability in Iraq until they're out of black gold or until noone cares about it.
All mmorpgs are going to be disappointing until everyone has broadband. There is just too big a discrepancy between dialup and broadband for all of us with slow connections to play. When I get dsl (crosses fingers) I don't plan to play online-only games, but I'd be more inclined to think about it. If I have to wait 30 extra seconds to have a mediocre gaming experience for online versus having a great time single-player or over LAN, it's local every time.
The other downside of MMORPGs is the $10 or so monthly fee. I just can't see over $100 a year for a game I can't even win. It may be engrossing, but it isn't as engrossing as the 2 or 3 single player games I could buy with the same $120. Actually, if you wait for them to hit the bargain bin, you could get 6 or 10 games. The replay value there outweighs for me the replay value of a single online game. Anyway, when you get a yearning for something completely different, it's there. YMMV.
Can you imagine if this happened in other fields? In the news today: Ford has issued a recall affecting 36000 vehicles. Customers with the 2007 F150 are affeted, and can turn in their vehicles for a replacement vehicle and a free muffler.
I don't think it'd go over so well. Or maybe book publishing - if your book is damaged we'll give you 15 pages of the next one in the series.
The other two percent are the problem. The 98% who can be easily found are not the ones who snuck into the country on a forged passport and are currently going to terrorist school by night and airplane flying school by day. This does help in another way, though - if they find you in it, then you're innocent.
Although the bible has a great deal of sex and violence (esp. in the OT) it isn't condoned by Jesus. Whatever you think of him, you gotta admit that he was a decent guy (unless you believe he didn't exist... another can 'o worms there) and wasn't really into the whole violence thing. The church has been responsible for some bad stuff, but then so has every other group which has been around for that long.
I would agree that the groups trying to ban it would be idiots. Denying history doesn't work. If Castle Wolfenstein was allowed to be published, this game should have smooth sailing.
There are even better solutions. Get Firefox. 0.9 it may be, but it's release quality in my opinion. Better than IE by orders of magnitude. Get a real e-mail account. Gmail will go public eventually, and then Hotmail is doomed. The spam filtering alone would make people switch, and a gig of space for free just helps it along.
What the NKs seem to miss is that the US is going more and more toward electronic warfare only. We're also raising an entire generation on halo and half-life and UT and ghost recon. Meanwhile, in NK, they are raising them on crap. Who's gonna own who in 2010?
Although I admit that this is a stupid regulation and fairly dictatorial, it shouldn't be that big a deal. If people are interested in rocketry, they can go through the licensing stuff and then go for it. Even if model rockets weren't used on 9/11, that doesn't mean they can't be used for similar purposes. They're basically explosives. Regulations on explosives are generally good things.
Although I'd be the first to agree with the whole "corporate whores" thing, I think everyone is inflating the moronic nature of the average bb employee. While they all seem like cattle to us, to Joe Sixpack, they know what they're talking about. The only way that these employees can tell the difference between the fairly well-informed/. reader and the aforementioned Mr. Sixpack is for you (yes you) to wear a large sign stating "do not help me" or something of that nature. The friendly people at best buy will then leave you alone.
On the whole "would you like a free can of spam with that" thing, it's their job. McDonalds employees say would you like fries with that, Best buy employees say would you like six months of junk mail with that. You are free to refuse either offer. However, it's part of their job, and you can't deny that, no matter how lazy they appear, that's one part of the job that they fulfill quite well.
I think that, on the whole, what we've learned it that being a best buy employee sucks. Lots. Cut them a break. Disclaimer: I don't work at best buy or napster or any of the above services. I don't patronize either. I think the employees are idiots too. However, the only way to improve the average is to work there, and I don't think so.
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Have you read the FAQ on archive.org's hardware setup? Their goal, just for a start, is "one system administrator per petabyte". That amount of storage is not trivial, and suggesting one copy per university is a little overzealous. The Archive has three petabytes online; that's thirty racks the way they do it.
How about "What animal is this?" or even "Is this animal, mineral, or vegetable?" It's not very usable for blind people, granted, but you could try "What genre would you place this music in?" and accept a variety of answers per clip. People are still better at pattern recognition than machines in some categories.
/. is pretty awful. Oh well.
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Where do you see this O(n^2) stuff going on? It looks to me like O(n). In listops.h (trimmed down for readability):
Node* splitlist(Node* p) {if (not p) return NULL;
do {
p3 = p2;
p2 = p2->nextNode;
p1 = p1->nextNode;
if (p1) p1 = p1->nextNode;
} while (p1);
p3->nextNode = NULL;
return p2; }
So he does O(n) work whenever he calls splitlist. It's lousy style, perhaps, but not O(n^2). Mergelists is O(n) anyways, so you end up with T(n) = 2T(n/2) + O(n) just like well-done quicksort. I'd write the whole thing with non-recursive quicksort, I think, but I haven't tried to implement sorting on linked lists so I could be unpleasantly surprised. Not as surprised as I was viewing this code, though - could he not find a book on this stuff?
By the way, C++'s "new" operator allocates storage on the heap, not the stack. If he said long Head[65536] instead of long* Head = new long[65536] (why isn't he using constants for that number!?) it'd be on the stack.
Or rather, [65535] instead of [65536] in the last paragraph. Oops on his end.
Pci express is 2.5 gbit/s signaling rate per lane with 8/10b coding. So 16x pci-e is 2.5*10/8*16=32 gbps of user data. 100 > 32, last I checked. Adding packet headers and so forth on 100GBe still won't make it three times slower. And since 16x pci-e is the fastest thing going that I know of, this probably works only with switches. From there you demultiplex out to multiple 10GBes.
you can add an automated filter to move all messages from that list to a "label". Then archive them and they show up in that label. That's what I do with slashdot, anyway.
I'm connected at 32/160 right now (down/up!) over my dsl line from them. Earlier this WEEK I was getting 864/160 regularly. This does not make me happy-happy.
Actually, it _has_ been a problem for me... I once did swapon on the wrong disk and went along blithely using the machine for an hour or so, at which point I realized my mistake. One more reason not to run as root, kiddos.
:)
Oh, and it overwrote the fsck.ext3 binary, so I was SOL there. It's easy to lose a system when you don't know what you're doing.
gasp! surprise! wineX doesn't run games as well as windows! imo, wineX hurts the cause of developers, who can point to it and say "that's why we didn't develop a linux client! see, it runs!" if noone develops games for linux, noone plays games on linux. repeat. don't use or support wineX if you're interested in linux gaming.
Actually, I think it may vary on a person-to-person basis. I am not a big user of caffeine, and have only been to Starbucks once. Ever. However, the other night I had a large Mountain Dew at around 9:30 and I was asleep by 10. This is a one-time thing, however. When I used to go to camp for the summer, and get 10x as much caffeine as I usually do, I would have trouble sleeping. These days all I have to do is listen to a debate on the presidential campaign, and it's off to lullaby land. Seriously, isn't it in November? Coverage's been going on for a year now!
this should be an online game. they take the best people from it and hook them up to actual tractors, and then fire all the farmers. all the work gets done, no extra pay.
if the current me conflict died out, wouldn't that be nice? I realize there are other reasons, but let's face it, economic is a big one. if we switched tomorrow to a different fuel source, it would be a good thing both for the environment but for thousands and thousands of Iraqi citizens and our soldiers, who would get to come back. There wasn't stability in 1849 in California until they ran out of gold. There won't be stability in Iraq until they're out of black gold or until noone cares about it.
The other downside of MMORPGs is the $10 or so monthly fee. I just can't see over $100 a year for a game I can't even win. It may be engrossing, but it isn't as engrossing as the 2 or 3 single player games I could buy with the same $120. Actually, if you wait for them to hit the bargain bin, you could get 6 or 10 games. The replay value there outweighs for me the replay value of a single online game. Anyway, when you get a yearning for something completely different, it's there. YMMV.
In the news today: Ford has issued a recall affecting 36000 vehicles. Customers with the 2007 F150 are affeted, and can turn in their vehicles for a replacement vehicle and a free muffler.
I don't think it'd go over so well. Or maybe book publishing - if your book is damaged we'll give you 15 pages of the next one in the series.
The other two percent are the problem. The 98% who can be easily found are not the ones who snuck into the country on a forged passport and are currently going to terrorist school by night and airplane flying school by day. This does help in another way, though - if they find you in it, then you're innocent.
Although the bible has a great deal of sex and violence (esp. in the OT) it isn't condoned by Jesus. Whatever you think of him, you gotta admit that he was a decent guy (unless you believe he didn't exist... another can 'o worms there) and wasn't really into the whole violence thing. The church has been responsible for some bad stuff, but then so has every other group which has been around for that long.
I would agree that the groups trying to ban it would be idiots. Denying history doesn't work. If Castle Wolfenstein was allowed to be published, this game should have smooth sailing.
There are even better solutions. Get Firefox. 0.9 it may be, but it's release quality in my opinion. Better than IE by orders of magnitude. Get a real e-mail account. Gmail will go public eventually, and then Hotmail is doomed. The spam filtering alone would make people switch, and a gig of space for free just helps it along.
What the NKs seem to miss is that the US is going more and more toward electronic warfare only. We're also raising an entire generation on halo and half-life and UT and ghost recon. Meanwhile, in NK, they are raising them on crap. Who's gonna own who in 2010?
Although I admit that this is a stupid regulation and fairly dictatorial, it shouldn't be that big a deal. If people are interested in rocketry, they can go through the licensing stuff and then go for it. Even if model rockets weren't used on 9/11, that doesn't mean they can't be used for similar purposes. They're basically explosives. Regulations on explosives are generally good things.
On the whole "would you like a free can of spam with that" thing, it's their job. McDonalds employees say would you like fries with that, Best buy employees say would you like six months of junk mail with that. You are free to refuse either offer. However, it's part of their job, and you can't deny that, no matter how lazy they appear, that's one part of the job that they fulfill quite well.
I think that, on the whole, what we've learned it that being a best buy employee sucks. Lots. Cut them a break. Disclaimer: I don't work at best buy or napster or any of the above services. I don't patronize either. I think the employees are idiots too. However, the only way to improve the average is to work there, and I don't think so.