Ok, careless typing is my only excuse. Since you expect perfection, thuogh, I'd like to know how you rationalize using a gerund like "fucking" in a non-gerund context?
Where I work, our major custom web platform is entirely XSLT-driven and written as a java servlet (and myriad helper classes). For each HTTP hit, I take a milliseconds-to-process measurement from the moment we're in the entry-point for the servlet to the moment that we close the output stream. Each measurement goes into a histogram bucket (with buckets arranged at one-millisecond resolution) and the shape of the resulting curve is one tall peak centered about 110 milliseconds. 94% of all requests are processed in under 300 milliseconds. Only 1% of requests take longer than 1.3 seconds.
This includes everything: detecting who the user is, fetching persistent session values, connecting them to a specific application built on the platform, scraping HTML forms, deciding how the application should respond, rending objects to a StringBuffer that contains some xml, transforming that xml to HTML using XSLT, writing changed session variables back to the database, frequent database interactions that don't follow under the previous category, and streaming the resulting HTML.
If you can't do this, then you either have an architectural problem, or you're not giving your process enough memory/CPU, or you've got some other bottleneck, such as a slow interaction with your databases.
You might try to make yourself a simple Histogram object using some sort of Map with Long (milliseconds) as the keys and Long (count) as the values, and then use it to measure various points along your path. You may find the real culprit is not XSLT. Or, you may find that you're not using XSLT in the best way.
With all the time we spend hearing about alternatives to IE around here, you would think that slashdot would be compliant to at least some W3C standard.
If/. were some tiny hobby weblog this would be forgivable, but/. could use the size of it's audience to actually lead. Why not do it?
Oh, you intended those to be disjoint sets. I would have guessed that all genuine foo resemble themselves, and therefore all genuine foo are also quasi-foo. Your statement is much less amusing without that perspective.
"quasi-intellectual", eh? You know that means "having some resemblance to an intellectial", and that means that everybody else are those that have no resemblance whatsoever to intellectuals. You're probably spot-on and you didn't even know it.
But doesn't it also matter how much space you have to work with and how much you're trying to cram into it? I would imagine that you could take almost any processor and and make heat disippation an issue just by trying to fit it in a very small space.
It would be more like repairing that old 128k MacIntosh you bought back then.
Yeah, it would be exactly like that if and only if computational power had not increased exponentially in the interim and only one such orbital Macintosh existed.
Can't speak for the grandparent's logic, but mine is simply that I cast my money towards vendors that encourage openly (and completely, and unambiguously) specified procotols. It effects me because the world is a nicer place when my machine can communicate nicely with the machines of others.
It's not that difficult a concept. Some call it "voting with your consumer dollars".
Hey...them's fightin' words. You're sayin' that Jazz musicians aren't doing it on purpose...like they're not deliberately playing on that one pentatonic scale composed of the five notes that are not within the diatonic key? Playing "outside" the key is no accident...the probability of hitting notes within the key greater.
Most heavy metal, to my ears, is strictly within its key (often harmonic minor). When they get dissonant, more often than not, it's because they're focusing on tritone intervals that already reside within the key.
And just WHY should CNN, or any other news service, "push" one product over another? What possible interest could they have?
I don't think they should push one product over another, but I would love to see them identify the product & vendor of the vulnerable software. Too often these stories are very generic, saying that the virus infects your computer when you visit a website -- whereas they should say that the virus infects Microsoft Windows(tm) when you use Microsoft Internet Explorer(tm) to visit a website.
In addition, rather than saying that you should just keep your anti-virus software up-to-date, they should offer the useful tidbit that the virus could also be avoided by using alternatives the vulnerable products. They don't have to mention Opera or Mozilla. They don't have to mention Linux or MacOS X. Just let the users know that there are other things they could do beyond paying Symantec (et al) for a more recent anti-virus package.
What's possible interest could they have in doing this? To inform. That's a novel concept for a news source, I know...but I'd still like to see it happen now & then.
Maybe instead we'll see a more modern rendition of the Star Trek (TOS) soft-lens thing that they used whenever Kirk looked at a woman. ("Oh, earth man, teach me how to LUV!") Instead it will be a digital effect of some sort. I think for ST they smeared a lens filter with vaseline or something low-tech like that.
Well, I think the Cray supercomputers would still perform today like they did in when they came out. Not even supercomputers get better with age. AFAIK there are no current Crays to compare to, since Cray Research ceased to be in the year 2000...so obviously a comparison of some machine today would necessarily be with respect to a Cray of yore. I'm sure you could find a Cray of the appropriate vintage to make the article text a forgivable analog.
I'm too lazy to actually attempt this, but to do it right the evil acronym must mean/imply the opposite of what the content of the bill actually does...so you need an acronym that means "encouraging the use of acronyms for evil legislation", but really limits its use.
This post is not funny.
These ringtones are based on MIDI, which -- as we all know -- is dying. That's right, MIDI had its chance to capture the market for music distribution, and it failed. Netcraft confirms,...
Oh wait, wrong thread.
Any company that has to make a marketing effort to declare themselves "professional" most likely is not.
Is likely not engaged in a means of livelihood? It is sad that the world "professional" has grown to mean more than "I do stuff for money or trade". Now there's a tacit assumption that only people who do stuff for money are virtuous, and that some nebulous set of positive qualities are necessarily absent in people (and/or their product) who do something because they love it, or because they want to help someone, or want to learn something,...
I, too, am bothered by companies that tout their "professionalism", but only because it's redundant...and orthogonal to whether they'll do good work.
How about you wait until the firewall is loaded before plugging in the network cable?
+5 Funny. This reminds me of a situation at work. We sort of have two separate halves of the software development department: Java and the Microsofties. One day I wandered by the server room where the most brilliant of the Microsofties was installing some sort PDF-indexing engine on one of their Windows servers. They were being thwarted by some dialog box that kept comming up during the install. His solution to the problem at the moment that I happened by was...I swear to god...to jam a penny into the keyboard such that it kept the return key held down, so that the key-repeat would dismiss the dialog box over & over again, in hopes that it would happen rapidly enough to get through the install.
I swear, it's a totally different culture. Some of us insist on good software architecture. Others have an amazing capacity to assfucked by bad software architecture and keep going back for more. You can bother about yanking and reinsertintg your ethernet if you really want to. I'll work around the problem by being a more selective consumer, thank you.
In addition to visual translucency, windows according to the present invention also have a manipulative translucent quality. Upon reaching a certain level of visual translucency, user input in the region of the window is interpreted as an operation on the underlying objects rather than the contents of the overlaying window.
There's more to the text of the patent application than mere time-dependent translucency. I know, I know...not much more, but enough to strike impotent any prior art claims.
I don't think my point is any different from yours. It's just that the standard for invalidating the patent requires
two or more references that when combined show all of the features of the claimed invention and indicate that one of ordinary skill would make that combination.*
So we need a bit more than references to transparent terms and rounded MP3 player winows in order to meet that standard.
Everybody RTFP so that you know what you're actually hunting for. Finding a translucent window isn't quite enough...
Methods and systems for providing graphical user interfaces are described. overlaid, Information-bearing windows whose contents remain unchanged for a predetermined period of time become translucent. The translucency can be graduated so that, over time, if the window's contents remain unchanged, the window becomes more translucent. In addition to visual translucency, windows according to the present invention also have a manipulative translucent quality. Upon reaching a certain level of visual translucency, user input in the region of the window is interpreted as an operation on the underlying objects rather than the contents of the overlaying window.
Yes, software patents are evil...so lets do the right thing and not claim that every transparent xterm hack qualifies as 'prior art'.
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Ok, careless typing is my only excuse. Since you expect perfection, thuogh, I'd like to know how you rationalize using a gerund like "fucking" in a non-gerund context?
Where I work, our major custom web platform is entirely XSLT-driven and written as a java servlet (and myriad helper classes). For each HTTP hit, I take a milliseconds-to-process measurement from the moment we're in the entry-point for the servlet to the moment that we close the output stream. Each measurement goes into a histogram bucket (with buckets arranged at one-millisecond resolution) and the shape of the resulting curve is one tall peak centered about 110 milliseconds. 94% of all requests are processed in under 300 milliseconds. Only 1% of requests take longer than 1.3 seconds.
This includes everything: detecting who the user is, fetching persistent session values, connecting them to a specific application built on the platform, scraping HTML forms, deciding how the application should respond, rending objects to a StringBuffer that contains some xml, transforming that xml to HTML using XSLT, writing changed session variables back to the database, frequent database interactions that don't follow under the previous category, and streaming the resulting HTML.
If you can't do this, then you either have an architectural problem, or you're not giving your process enough memory/CPU, or you've got some other bottleneck, such as a slow interaction with your databases.
You might try to make yourself a simple Histogram object using some sort of Map with Long (milliseconds) as the keys and Long (count) as the values, and then use it to measure various points along your path. You may find the real culprit is not XSLT. Or, you may find that you're not using XSLT in the best way.
Hope this helps.
With all the time we spend hearing about alternatives to IE around here, you would think that slashdot would be compliant to at least some W3C standard. If /. were some tiny hobby weblog this would be forgivable, but /. could use the size of it's audience to actually lead. Why not do it?
Oh, you intended those to be disjoint sets. I would have guessed that all genuine foo resemble themselves, and therefore all genuine foo are also quasi-foo. Your statement is much less amusing without that perspective.
Modulo spelling errors, of course.
"quasi-intellectual", eh? You know that means "having some resemblance to an intellectial", and that means that everybody else are those that have no resemblance whatsoever to intellectuals. You're probably spot-on and you didn't even know it.
But doesn't it also matter how much space you have to work with and how much you're trying to cram into it? I would imagine that you could take almost any processor and and make heat disippation an issue just by trying to fit it in a very small space.
We may as well just go straight to Godwins law, citing sympathy for those poor german soldiers that were just following orders.
Yeah, it would be exactly like that if and only if computational power had not increased exponentially in the interim and only one such orbital Macintosh existed.
Cost is what the market will bear. To me the sucker would be someone who went for the Dell rebate if they could have done better on ebay.
Results 1 - 10 of about 577,000 for windows sucks. (0.26 seconds)
...and in MSN Search preview...
Sorry, no results were found containing "windows sucks" Can they really claim to have indexed so many pages? :-)
Can't speak for the grandparent's logic, but mine is simply that I cast my money towards vendors that encourage openly (and completely, and unambiguously) specified procotols. It effects me because the world is a nicer place when my machine can communicate nicely with the machines of others. It's not that difficult a concept. Some call it "voting with your consumer dollars".
Hey...them's fightin' words. You're sayin' that Jazz musicians aren't doing it on purpose...like they're not deliberately playing on that one pentatonic scale composed of the five notes that are not within the diatonic key? Playing "outside" the key is no accident...the probability of hitting notes within the key greater. Most heavy metal, to my ears, is strictly within its key (often harmonic minor). When they get dissonant, more often than not, it's because they're focusing on tritone intervals that already reside within the key.
I don't think they should push one product over another, but I would love to see them identify the product & vendor of the vulnerable software. Too often these stories are very generic, saying that the virus infects your computer when you visit a website -- whereas they should say that the virus infects Microsoft Windows(tm) when you use Microsoft Internet Explorer(tm) to visit a website.
In addition, rather than saying that you should just keep your anti-virus software up-to-date, they should offer the useful tidbit that the virus could also be avoided by using alternatives the vulnerable products. They don't have to mention Opera or Mozilla. They don't have to mention Linux or MacOS X. Just let the users know that there are other things they could do beyond paying Symantec (et al) for a more recent anti-virus package.
What's possible interest could they have in doing this? To inform. That's a novel concept for a news source, I know...but I'd still like to see it happen now & then.
Rather it's the same reason that some people wear hawaiian shirts with their plaid pants.
Maybe instead we'll see a more modern rendition of the Star Trek (TOS) soft-lens thing that they used whenever Kirk looked at a woman. ("Oh, earth man, teach me how to LUV!") Instead it will be a digital effect of some sort. I think for ST they smeared a lens filter with vaseline or something low-tech like that.
Well, I think the Cray supercomputers would still perform today like they did in when they came out. Not even supercomputers get better with age. AFAIK there are no current Crays to compare to, since Cray Research ceased to be in the year 2000...so obviously a comparison of some machine today would necessarily be with respect to a Cray of yore. I'm sure you could find a Cray of the appropriate vintage to make the article text a forgivable analog.
I can't wait! Please ship my new maximally-configured G5 tower to me and I'll put it up on the network as godot.screaming.org as soon as I get it!
I'm too lazy to actually attempt this, but to do it right the evil acronym must mean/imply the opposite of what the content of the bill actually does...so you need an acronym that means "encouraging the use of acronyms for evil legislation", but really limits its use. This post is not funny.
These ringtones are based on MIDI, which -- as we all know -- is dying. That's right, MIDI had its chance to capture the market for music distribution, and it failed. Netcraft confirms,... Oh wait, wrong thread.
Is likely not engaged in a means of livelihood? It is sad that the world "professional" has grown to mean more than "I do stuff for money or trade". Now there's a tacit assumption that only people who do stuff for money are virtuous, and that some nebulous set of positive qualities are necessarily absent in people (and/or their product) who do something because they love it, or because they want to help someone, or want to learn something,...
I, too, am bothered by companies that tout their "professionalism", but only because it's redundant...and orthogonal to whether they'll do good work.
+5 Funny. This reminds me of a situation at work. We sort of have two separate halves of the software development department: Java and the Microsofties. One day I wandered by the server room where the most brilliant of the Microsofties was installing some sort PDF-indexing engine on one of their Windows servers. They were being thwarted by some dialog box that kept comming up during the install. His solution to the problem at the moment that I happened by was...I swear to god...to jam a penny into the keyboard such that it kept the return key held down, so that the key-repeat would dismiss the dialog box over & over again, in hopes that it would happen rapidly enough to get through the install.
I swear, it's a totally different culture. Some of us insist on good software architecture. Others have an amazing capacity to assfucked by bad software architecture and keep going back for more. You can bother about yanking and reinsertintg your ethernet if you really want to. I'll work around the problem by being a more selective consumer, thank you.
Obviously not, if you read the quoted text:
In addition to visual translucency, windows according to the present invention also have a manipulative translucent quality. Upon reaching a certain level of visual translucency, user input in the region of the window is interpreted as an operation on the underlying objects rather than the contents of the overlaying window.
There's more to the text of the patent application than mere time-dependent translucency. I know, I know...not much more, but enough to strike impotent any prior art claims.
two or more references that when combined show all of the features of the claimed invention and indicate that one of ordinary skill would make that combination. *
So we need a bit more than references to transparent terms and rounded MP3 player winows in order to meet that standard.
Methods and systems for providing graphical user interfaces are described. overlaid, Information-bearing windows whose contents remain unchanged for a predetermined period of time become translucent. The translucency can be graduated so that, over time, if the window's contents remain unchanged, the window becomes more translucent. In addition to visual translucency, windows according to the present invention also have a manipulative translucent quality. Upon reaching a certain level of visual translucency, user input in the region of the window is interpreted as an operation on the underlying objects rather than the contents of the overlaying window.
Yes, software patents are evil...so lets do the right thing and not claim that every transparent xterm hack qualifies as 'prior art'.