Among the debris: 6 McDonalds fries containers, a comb with gum stuck on it, a toll receipt for the GW bridge dated 1995, that missing glove from the EVA 10 years ago, an empty chapstick, two Miller Lite beer cans, and directions to the party that you don't want to remember now.
First off, how do we know this study is real and the author didn't just make up the results?
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I don't know. Back in the day, I wrote a simplified Lisp interpreter to run on a 6802 microprocessor in 64K. It seemed like the easiest way to run a realtime dispatching algorithm - kind of a rule-based expert system. You can get Lisp going with about a dozen hard-coded ops and write everything else in Lisp. I haven't seen a better way to do it since then, although I like stack-based languages for embedded systems also. Postscript is my favorite. One of the few embedded projects I've worked on that completely failed was written in C.
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Lisp's downfall is that it became popular before there was any concept of language standards so it split into dialects early on and has no standard libraries. Everything is pretty much built from scratch. It has one other major bug, which is it's mistaken belief that indices start at 0 instead of 1. Most other languages have copied this delusion.
(Note: No garbage collection today due to holiday.)
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"Python copies even features [from Lisp] that many Lisp hackers consider to be mistakes." -- Paul Graham
The area I live in has optical mark cards. Make an X, put it in the box, the box has already counted it by the time I'm out the door. It's as fast as using a computerized system where flash cards have to be carried to a central reader and counted. If they want to recount, they can take the ballots out of the box and run them through again, or look at them and count them by hand.
The real reason for using the computer systems is to save the cost and time required to design and print paper ballots, not to speed up the vote count
As someone once pointed out: If you were walking down the street and you saw an ATM machine, put in your card and PIN, and it gave you an error like "Out of Service", would you suspect that it was a phish scam just put there to collect your information? Would you call up your bank and report it?
I know a guy who worked on the software for differentiating "Hello? (rising tone, pause)..." from "Hi. I'm not here right now." so that the calls that are answered by a human get put through to the telemarketer (or recorded message) and the others get dumped. If you want to fake out the machines, answer the phone "Hi. This is Intron. I'm home right now. Who's calling, please?"
It probes for ipv6 first, then falls back to ipv4. This is the default setting for many unix systems as well. You usually find your system running slowly, then find a setting for this and turn it off to eliminate the timeout delay.
As for how big a spike it can cause, see this for the effect of Windows' active directory update scheme on the root servers.
Or, to put it another way, I'm very willing to pay somebody else $19.95 to do that research and testing for me and package the result up in a NICE neat bundle."
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Among the debris: 6 McDonalds fries containers, a comb with gum stuck on it, a toll receipt for the GW bridge dated 1995, that missing glove from the EVA 10 years ago, an empty chapstick, two Miller Lite beer cans, and directions to the party that you don't want to remember now.
First off, how do we know this study is real and the author didn't just make up the results?
I don't know. Back in the day, I wrote a simplified Lisp interpreter to run on a 6802 microprocessor in 64K. It seemed like the easiest way to run a realtime dispatching algorithm - kind of a rule-based expert system. You can get Lisp going with about a dozen hard-coded ops and write everything else in Lisp. I haven't seen a better way to do it since then, although I like stack-based languages for embedded systems also. Postscript is my favorite. One of the few embedded projects I've worked on that completely failed was written in C.
Lisp's downfall is that it became popular before there was any concept of language standards so it split into dialects early on and has no standard libraries. Everything is pretty much built from scratch. It has one other major bug, which is it's mistaken belief that indices start at 0 instead of 1. Most other languages have copied this delusion.
(Note: No garbage collection today due to holiday.)
"Python copies even features [from Lisp] that many Lisp hackers consider to be mistakes." -- Paul Graham
This is literally final!
Earthlink-help.net has address 66.218.65.224
jwhois 66.218.65.224
[Querying whois.arin.net]
[whois.arin.net]
OrgName: Yahoo!
OrgID: YAOO
Address: 701 First Ave
City: Sunnyvale
StateProv: CA
PostalCode: 94089
Country: US
I've been using it during the beta. It is nice looking, but slow compared to the old mail interface. It is very AJAXy like the new /. interface.
It's called slashdot. It's a self-regulated forum of intellectuals who espouse fairness, rational discourse, wit and good fellowship above all else.
The area I live in has optical mark cards. Make an X, put it in the box, the box has already counted it by the time I'm out the door. It's as fast as using a computerized system where flash cards have to be carried to a central reader and counted. If they want to recount, they can take the ballots out of the box and run them through again, or look at them and count them by hand.
The real reason for using the computer systems is to save the cost and time required to design and print paper ballots, not to speed up the vote count
As someone once pointed out: If you were walking down the street and you saw an ATM machine, put in your card and PIN, and it gave you an error like "Out of Service", would you suspect that it was a phish scam just put there to collect your information? Would you call up your bank and report it?
Why should people on the internet be any smarter?
Some people fish with rod & reel, some with nets, and some with a stick of dynamite. It all depends on what works best.
already happening, unfortunately.
I never expected to live in a world where librarians and encyclopedists are the guardians of civil liberties.
Conservation of total energy & matter in the universe is simplest.
Do you mail your letters in clear envelopes?
It could be rogue moderation, but then again, it could be because you
spelled constitution wrong...
"Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad."
-- Lyndon Johnson
I think your sig got modded. It is flamebait...
Don't we have some land in Cuba? Are we using it for anything important?
I know a guy who worked on the software for differentiating "Hello? (rising tone, pause)..." from "Hi. I'm not here right now." so that the calls that are answered by a human get put through to the telemarketer (or recorded message) and the others get dumped. If you want to fake out the machines, answer the phone "Hi. This is Intron. I'm home right now. Who's calling, please?"
It probes for ipv6 first, then falls back to ipv4. This is the default setting for many unix systems as well. You usually find your system running slowly, then find a setting for this and turn it off to eliminate the timeout delay.
As for how big a spike it can cause, see this for the effect of Windows' active directory update scheme on the root servers.
What he wants to measure is not the time the computer is busy, but the time that the user is idle.
For that I would measure slashdot posts / day.
Or, to put it another way, I'm very willing to pay somebody else $19.95 to do that research and testing for me and package the result up in a NICE neat bundle."
Kind of funny.