Actually, you probably have more than the average number of fingers. He just had more than the median. Yeah yeah, statistics jokes are real kneeslappers, eh?
I wouldn't call extra digits common, but there are quite a few people walking around with them. I doubt he had a lot of strength or fine control of it, and it probably would have gotten in the way of playing the piano, actually.
> I dont think the FCC has jurisdiction over film ratings.
Our good buddies at the MPAA assign the ratings. Technically they're voluntary, and occasionally an unrated film does make it to the box office of major theatres. DVD releases of even previously rated films are even more commonly unrated -- still like 1% or so.
WETA wrote MASSIVE, which is a system for simulating the behavior and mechanics of crowds. By no means did they invent their own modeler or renderer, which would have been an, er, massive duplication of effort.
Well, where did you think grub was going to install its record?
Granted, they should warn a little more strongly. In fact the whole grub install process needs some polish. It didn't make a peep when I used one big XFS partition which then failed to boot, when it should have recognized it as unsupported. I had to go back and reinstall and make an ext2/boot partition, but that's only from knowing how it works -- anyone else I know would have been completely flummoxed at that point.
> I've got to agree. I've got no idea what it is, and with a name like that, I'm not inclined to investigate.
Hey, I just grabbed a kernel off kernel.org and copied some packages off a redhat box. Got a few from the suse box as well, and I think the same libc works with both, might get a segfault or two. I'm still working on some manpages. I'm calling it "Global Enterprise Management Linux", GEM for short. Pretty slick, eh? That just exudes stable and corporate, no?
The name is whimsy. The distribution is solid. If you can't look past whimsy, you have no understanding of Linux, and should not be planning a Linux strategy.
I'm 32 years old. I remember playing "Race" and "Tanks Plus" on my "Sears Tele-Games" -- an atari 2600 with everything relabelled. We called it the Atari though, so I sort of knew what was up. Being six, one doesn't really get the nuances. Friends of my parents had that pong thingie where you actually put the acetate sheets on the screen for the other games, but I never liked the controllers. I remember Space Invaders and Asteroids, and being utterly blown away by Gorf. "It talks!". I think I've established that I can piss as far if not further than you now.
Games bore you and me to death because we've played them all before. Yes, there's less originality in mainstream titles, largely due to market conditions. Go take a look at PopCap or some indie titles. But you don't even have to do that, let me grab my game collection:
Let's see, I have Morrowind... oh wait, some 20 year old RPG did it all first, right? I'll grant it's derivative, but so are most books. Neverwinter nights... heck even I can't call it original, but the DM tools are actually seeing some use now. How about The Sims? Oh yeah, Little Computer People. How about EVE Online. You going to tell me that's Elite 3? Going over to my console, I'll pick out Beyond Good and Evil and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Nitpick away.
That came out nastier than it should have, I suppose. I apologize for that.
I could pull out examples all day, but you'll find some way to conform it into some existing category. But this isn't limited to games: Joseph Campbell figured out that almost every "hero" myth is largely the same if you pull out the common elements.
> It would seem most games nowadays are more focused on fancy visual effects rather than basic gameplay
Oh just knock it off with the rose-colored nostalgia crap already. You only remember the games that were good, and not the loads of CRAP that was also released. You were also younger, and the games were more of a novelty, so they left a greater impression. There are perfectly good innovative games out there right now, and some of them don't even look like ass. There just happen to be a lot more of them than there were back in your imagined "golden age".
But don't take my word for it. Go get yourself an emulator, and hit it. You'll be wondering in no time what all the fuss was about.
My phone doesn't force me to pay for ringtones. They just don't document how to create the ringtone file format, and so far no one's made a very easy tool to import third party ringtones (except really crummy ones). Mine has a standard irda interface though, and last I looked bluetooth was pretty damn standard.
Just because it has USB doesn't mean it has to be be treated as a removable drive, or if it is, that it has to accept everything you drag onto it.
On the other hand, it can't be that hard (and possibly would be another income source) selling little boxes that plug into the wall and provide 1 or 2 USB ports just for power transfer...
> Oh, bullshit. Competition isn't the issue. Why wasn't that guy building a better vcs than reverse engineering Bitkeeper? It's not anti-competitive to want to keep someone from stealing your ideas (and hard work).
So let me see if I have the facts:
* There's a guy who either doesn't work on the Linux Kernel, or does in some very peripheral capacity.
* This guy starts building a feature-compatible version of BK in his spare time.
* Presumably the guy uses BK to do so, violating its usage license.
* BK demands from OSDL that they force this guy to desist.
* OSDL does not comply, stating that it is not involved in the matter.
* Therefore, all developers of the Linux Kernel are in violation.
One of these things is not like the other... one of these things just doesn't belong.
> To drop the analogy, a proprietary software vendor has the right and ability to stop developing his software at any time.
No one's saying McVoy can't exercise his own prerogative. This doesn't much affect the observation that the exercise of his prerogative appears to be predicated on overweening control and temper tantrums. That this should affect future purchasing decisions should also not be surprising.
BitMovers is in a niche, they'll survive for a few years yet. Significant growth, however, I think can be ruled out.
Recent versions of perl install a cpan command for you, which takes some args from the command line, defaulting to 'install', e.g. cpan Acme::Bleach. cpan -r is really useful when you upgrade your perl.
Gads, you should have my girlfriend playing on the Taurus level. She barrels around a corner and I scream "LOOK OUT, A COW! ARGH!"
And she restarts for the 20th time, she's hell bent on getting that cousin. When she finally finds him, she's gently "sneaking" around the cows guarding him in a way that'd put Solid Snake to shame.
Finally did it. Don't think she got the gift though, so we'll be dodging cows for a while yet.
I do get the constant factor, yes, O(n) and O(3n) are the same order. However, I also see too many people say "well, it only took a few seconds longer to do 10 concurrent requests, so it should handle 1000 and only be just a little bit slower too". That constant actually matters then.
I attempted to reply to your reply earlier, but kept getting 503 errors. Slashdot seemed to be running smoothly in 2001. It's been less reliable ever since.
That option isn't available in 1.2.9. I see that they offer a newer version from the site, but not the extensions catalog. It doesn't uninstall cleanly, I might add. Uninstalling the plugin, incidentally, simply removes the display of all flash, and they want you to hand-edit your UserContent.css file.
It still wants you to restart your browser twice. No indication of this fact when you start up the first time. I wonder what other little surprises are lurking. As it is now, I wouldn't recommend this plugin to non-technical users.
Flashblock would be a lot more useful if it gave you the option to add the site to the whitelist from the button itself. Maybe by holding down the button or right-clicking it.
Right now it's not even smart enough to not block the SAME animation you just clicked to view if you reload or navigate to another page.
Actually, since it has to blow away a register then reload it as opposed to simply using the existing register, you can think of the overhead as a fractional reduction in the number of available registers and thus it's more like cutting efficiency at least in half, and that's generous considering how many cycles it actually takes to fetch. This is pretty significant when your code isn't pipelined, because you don't have many registers to work with on the x86 architecture (pipelined code gets register renaming, x86's have lots of those registers that you can't otherwise get to)
You don't really have to think about this too much if the performance isn't that critical, but you really should be thinking in terms of how many *times* slower interpreted vs compiled is, not just how much slower.
Still, I much prefer doing things in python or ruby.
> Language is merely description, implementation is what you can benchmark.
That was a mighty succinct way of putting it. Now try telling me the same thing in latin. Make sure you get all your declensions right. Dealing with Java is like being back in Latin class.
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First UF I've read in two years.
Still can't draw.
Still not funny.
Actually, you probably have more than the average number of fingers. He just had more than the median. Yeah yeah, statistics jokes are real kneeslappers, eh?
I wouldn't call extra digits common, but there are quite a few people walking around with them. I doubt he had a lot of strength or fine control of it, and it probably would have gotten in the way of playing the piano, actually.
> we wouldn't want to Bear False Witness would we?
Why not? His entire belief structure is predicated on pushing a big lie to as many people as possible. What's a little one?
> I dont think the FCC has jurisdiction over film ratings.
Our good buddies at the MPAA assign the ratings. Technically they're voluntary, and occasionally an unrated film does make it to the box office of major theatres. DVD releases of even previously rated films are even more commonly unrated -- still like 1% or so.
If I recall correctly, Steve said fuck, not "eff underscore underscore underscore".
Stop perpetuating the hangups people have on coarse language. It's simply a "low class" word, it's not damaging.
WETA wrote MASSIVE, which is a system for simulating the behavior and mechanics of crowds. By no means did they invent their own modeler or renderer, which would have been an, er, massive duplication of effort.
Possibly grub does not work with xfs on amd64? Or maybe the installer used an old grub. Just throwing out wild guesses.
Well, where did you think grub was going to install its record?
/boot partition, but that's only from knowing how it works -- anyone else I know would have been completely flummoxed at that point.
Granted, they should warn a little more strongly. In fact the whole grub install process needs some polish. It didn't make a peep when I used one big XFS partition which then failed to boot, when it should have recognized it as unsupported. I had to go back and reinstall and make an ext2
> I've got to agree. I've got no idea what it is, and with a name like that, I'm not inclined to investigate.
Hey, I just grabbed a kernel off kernel.org and copied some packages off a redhat box. Got a few from the suse box as well, and I think the same libc works with both, might get a segfault or two. I'm still working on some manpages. I'm calling it "Global Enterprise Management Linux", GEM for short. Pretty slick, eh? That just exudes stable and corporate, no?
The name is whimsy. The distribution is solid. If you can't look past whimsy, you have no understanding of Linux, and should not be planning a Linux strategy.
I'm 32 years old. I remember playing "Race" and "Tanks Plus" on my "Sears Tele-Games" -- an atari 2600 with everything relabelled. We called it the Atari though, so I sort of knew what was up. Being six, one doesn't really get the nuances. Friends of my parents had that pong thingie where you actually put the acetate sheets on the screen for the other games, but I never liked the controllers. I remember Space Invaders and Asteroids, and being utterly blown away by Gorf. "It talks!". I think I've established that I can piss as far if not further than you now.
... oh wait, some 20 year old RPG did it all first, right? I'll grant it's derivative, but so are most books. Neverwinter nights ... heck even I can't call it original, but the DM tools are actually seeing some use now. How about The Sims? Oh yeah, Little Computer People. How about EVE Online. You going to tell me that's Elite 3? Going over to my console, I'll pick out Beyond Good and Evil and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Nitpick away.
Games bore you and me to death because we've played them all before. Yes, there's less originality in mainstream titles, largely due to market conditions. Go take a look at PopCap or some indie titles. But you don't even have to do that, let me grab my game collection:
Let's see, I have Morrowind
That came out nastier than it should have, I suppose. I apologize for that.
I could pull out examples all day, but you'll find some way to conform it into some existing category. But this isn't limited to games: Joseph Campbell figured out that almost every "hero" myth is largely the same if you pull out the common elements.
> It would seem most games nowadays are more focused on fancy visual effects rather than basic gameplay
Oh just knock it off with the rose-colored nostalgia crap already. You only remember the games that were good, and not the loads of CRAP that was also released. You were also younger, and the games were more of a novelty, so they left a greater impression. There are perfectly good innovative games out there right now, and some of them don't even look like ass. There just happen to be a lot more of them than there were back in your imagined "golden age".
But don't take my word for it. Go get yourself an emulator, and hit it. You'll be wondering in no time what all the fuss was about.
What have I been getting before today?
My phone doesn't force me to pay for ringtones. They just don't document how to create the ringtone file format, and so far no one's made a very easy tool to import third party ringtones (except really crummy ones). Mine has a standard irda interface though, and last I looked bluetooth was pretty damn standard.
Just because it has USB doesn't mean it has to be be treated as a removable drive, or if it is, that it has to accept everything you drag onto it.
On the other hand, it can't be that hard (and possibly would be another income source) selling little boxes that plug into the wall and provide 1 or 2 USB ports just for power transfer...
Like these?
> Oh, bullshit. Competition isn't the issue. Why wasn't that guy building a better vcs than reverse engineering Bitkeeper? It's not anti-competitive to want to keep someone from stealing your ideas (and hard work).
... one of these things just doesn't belong.
So let me see if I have the facts:
* There's a guy who either doesn't work on the Linux Kernel, or does in some very peripheral capacity.
* This guy starts building a feature-compatible version of BK in his spare time.
* Presumably the guy uses BK to do so, violating its usage license.
* BK demands from OSDL that they force this guy to desist.
* OSDL does not comply, stating that it is not involved in the matter.
* Therefore, all developers of the Linux Kernel are in violation.
One of these things is not like the other
> To drop the analogy, a proprietary software vendor has the right and ability to stop developing his software at any time.
No one's saying McVoy can't exercise his own prerogative. This doesn't much affect the observation that the exercise of his prerogative appears to be predicated on overweening control and temper tantrums. That this should affect future purchasing decisions should also not be surprising.
BitMovers is in a niche, they'll survive for a few years yet. Significant growth, however, I think can be ruled out.
Recent versions of perl install a cpan command for you, which takes some args from the command line, defaulting to 'install', e.g. cpan Acme::Bleach. cpan -r is really useful when you upgrade your perl.
> You don't pick up the cows
Gads, you should have my girlfriend playing on the Taurus level. She barrels around a corner and I scream "LOOK OUT, A COW! ARGH!"
And she restarts for the 20th time, she's hell bent on getting that cousin. When she finally finds him, she's gently "sneaking" around the cows guarding him in a way that'd put Solid Snake to shame.
Finally did it. Don't think she got the gift though, so we'll be dodging cows for a while yet.
I do get the constant factor, yes, O(n) and O(3n) are the same order. However, I also see too many people say "well, it only took a few seconds longer to do 10 concurrent requests, so it should handle 1000 and only be just a little bit slower too". That constant actually matters then.
I attempted to reply to your reply earlier, but kept getting 503 errors. Slashdot seemed to be running smoothly in 2001. It's been less reliable ever since.
That option isn't available in 1.2.9. I see that they offer a newer version from the site, but not the extensions catalog. It doesn't uninstall cleanly, I might add. Uninstalling the plugin, incidentally, simply removes the display of all flash, and they want you to hand-edit your UserContent.css file.
It still wants you to restart your browser twice. No indication of this fact when you start up the first time. I wonder what other little surprises are lurking. As it is now, I wouldn't recommend this plugin to non-technical users.
I have no such option in my rightclick menu with flashblock. I just installed the latest version from the site, 1.2.9. What are you using?
Flashblock would be a lot more useful if it gave you the option to add the site to the whitelist from the button itself. Maybe by holding down the button or right-clicking it.
Right now it's not even smart enough to not block the SAME animation you just clicked to view if you reload or navigate to another page.
> A lookup is still constant(ish) time
Actually, since it has to blow away a register then reload it as opposed to simply using the existing register, you can think of the overhead as a fractional reduction in the number of available registers and thus it's more like cutting efficiency at least in half, and that's generous considering how many cycles it actually takes to fetch. This is pretty significant when your code isn't pipelined, because you don't have many registers to work with on the x86 architecture (pipelined code gets register renaming, x86's have lots of those registers that you can't otherwise get to)
You don't really have to think about this too much if the performance isn't that critical, but you really should be thinking in terms of how many *times* slower interpreted vs compiled is, not just how much slower.
Still, I much prefer doing things in python or ruby.
> Language is merely description, implementation is what you can benchmark.
That was a mighty succinct way of putting it. Now try telling me the same thing in latin. Make sure you get all your declensions right. Dealing with Java is like being back in Latin class.
"The Romans they go to the house?"