Balmer set up a similar system at MS when I worked there. Only every time you broke the build, you had to take a drink. I'm posting anonymously just in case this was in the NDA...
I believe that it wasn't in the NDA, or there have been some leaks already. Did you work there in 1999 by any chance ?
I love the "redundant" mod. I'm the only one to point to the dupe so far, and it's the whole story that's redundant. Now, modding me flamebait I would have understood, me hustling their little egos. But "redundant" ? That's just ironic.
Look for that text box just right of the site logo at the top left of the page. Enter "Facebook hated" (without quotations marks). Validate. Notice that this has already been posted last month.
Well, apparently CmdrTaco took your corrections. If I didn't miss something, the only difference now is "bit-"/"article -" (missing space after bit BTW, and it should be an em dash "—", not an hyphen-minus "-").
However, you didn't correct what I believe is another grammatical error :
"Anyone behind the firewall know" : Shouldn't that be "Anyone behind the firewall knows" ? Or is that a valid ellipsis with an interrogative form : "(Does) anyone behind the firewall know" ?
If I link someone to an offensive image (not that I would!)
Come on, don't be a pussy, do it ! (NSFW, beware of the dragons and other general warnings apply here) (good luck litigating against Switzerland, Tennessee !) There's a non-offensive SFW version here. BTW both pages are in the first page of Google results for "offended".
'The king of France is the most powerful prince in Europe. He has no gold mines, like his neighbour the king of Spain, but he has greater riches because he draws them from an inexhaustible mine—the vanity of his subjects. He has undertaken and carried on great wars without funds except titles of honour to sell, and, through a prodigy of human pride, his troops have found themselves feared, his fortresses built, his fleets equipped. -- Montesquieu in Persian Letters, 18th century
I thought it was a dupe but actually it is not, this camera being 0.01 mm smaller than the previous one from last month. However, at 220x220 pixels, the resolution is also smaller compared to 250x250.
Having 4 cores going at 100% will drain the battery, sure, but compare that against 4 cores doing a task in 1s that a single core takes 5 or 6 seconds to do.
Please don't expect super linear speedup. However, for a given generation of hardware, 4 cores at frequency f are using less power than one core at frequency 4f, because increasing the frequency requires to increase the tension, and power=tension^2/resistivity (Wikipedia cites P = Cf(V^2) but fails to note that core voltage is increased with frequency[PDF warning]).
The only problem here is that it is about the application decree (posted by an AC in this thread). The law was voted in 2004 (surprise surprise, Sarkozy was the minister of economy at that time).
The relevant portion of the decree is:
Les données mentionnées au II de l'article 6 de la loi du 21 juin 2004 susvisée, que les personnes sont tenues de conserver en vertu de cette disposition, sont les suivantes : [...] 3 Pour les personnes mentionnées aux 1 et 2 du I du même article, les informations fournies lors de la souscription d'un contrat par un utilisateur ou lors de la création d'un compte : [...] g) Le mot de passe ainsi que les données permettant de le vérifier ou de le modifier, dans leur dernière version mise à jour;
Translation : The data mentioned in Section II of Article 6 of the Act of June 21, 2004 referred to above, that individuals are required to keep under this provision are as follows: [...] 3 For the persons referred to in 1 and 2 of Article I of the same, the information given upon subscription of a contract by a user or when creating an account: [...] g) The password and the information needed to verify or change it, in their latest updated version;
A friend of mine noticed years ago that MS-Windows 2000 used tiny buffers for copy, which means that hard drive heads move from source to destination constantly, which is slow, wears out the hard drive, and uses more power (maintaining the rotation speed of platters doesn't use much energy compared to the heads actually moving and writing). He wrote an alternative copy program that was much faster by allocating big buffers. I would bet that MS-Windows 7 still uses small buffers.
When MS-Windows gets better battery life than Linux, one common reason is that it gets better ACPI drivers written by the laptop maker. Still, I wouldn't be surprised if Linux would go through your copy task with better battery than MS-Windows in the end, just because it takes half the time (that is, measuring battery use by task and not by time).
At last, all modern mobile CPUs have dynamic frequency scaling (like SpeedStep) and temperature sensors, and Linux should use them to avoid the overheating. In that sense, there's potentially a bug in Linux that might be worth reporting for investigation. More probably, it is simply a setting, and the default "server" setting is that if your CPU overheats, it means that your server is not cooled enough, which needs to be fixed, and rely on the CPU protection rather than silently throttling back.
If you're trying to put some text between < and >, write < and > , and don't forget to preview;)
Do they really get that much in revenue to justify the site-crawling they must have to do?
Well, my guess is that the answer is "yes". These forums don't really require that much storage nor bandwidth, the usual "related topics" on that kind of sites helps getting better Pagerank (than the original forum), and the page is otherwise usually mostly filled with ads. You can also imagine other goals, for example :
Copy other forums' posts : forum aggregator;
Imitate other forums : with reputation earned in step 1, you can attract people to write original content for your forum;
Innovate by doing something more / better than other forums;
...
Profit ! (each step more)
And apparently <ol> tags don't number anymore in the new Slashdot redesign. Letting them to check for potential preview bug...
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Balmer set up a similar system at MS when I worked there. Only every time you broke the build, you had to take a drink. I'm posting anonymously just in case this was in the NDA...
I believe that it wasn't in the NDA, or there have been some leaks already. Did you work there in 1999 by any chance ?
You're welcome.
what if someone was called by a peculiar and also strange name? how would g+ handle that?
I suppose that this guy would be in trouble.
(Replying to myself)
I love the "redundant" mod. I'm the only one to point to the dupe so far, and it's the whole story that's redundant.
Now, modding me flamebait I would have understood, me hustling their little egos.
But "redundant" ? That's just ironic.
Look for that text box just right of the site logo at the top left of the page.
Enter "Facebook hated" (without quotations marks). Validate.
Notice that this has already been posted last month.
tl;dr: Dupe!
too. many. numbers.
Too many periods !
Well, apparently CmdrTaco took your corrections. If I didn't miss something, the only difference now is "bit-"/"article -" (missing space after bit BTW, and it should be an em dash "—", not an hyphen-minus "-").
However, you didn't correct what I believe is another grammatical error :
"Anyone behind the firewall know" : Shouldn't that be "Anyone behind the firewall knows" ? Or is that a valid ellipsis with an interrogative form : "(Does) anyone behind the firewall know" ?
From your wikipedia link :
Deciding on a course of action and then sticking to that decision against repeated failures is sisu
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting it to come out different
Therefore, sisu=insanity, right ?
If I link someone to an offensive image (not that I would!)
Come on, don't be a pussy, do it ! (NSFW, beware of the dragons and other general warnings apply here) (good luck litigating against Switzerland, Tennessee !)
There's a non-offensive SFW version here.
BTW both pages are in the first page of Google results for "offended".
What about Project Xanadu by Ted Nelson ?
Demo here.
(And in case you wonder, no, you're not supposed to take that advice seriously.)
livre des faces and twitteur
More like trombinoscope and piailleur.
Seems especially targeted to French people...
'The king of France is the most powerful prince in Europe. He has no gold mines, like his neighbour the king of Spain, but he has greater riches because he draws them from an inexhaustible mine—the vanity of his subjects. He has undertaken and carried on great wars without funds except titles of honour to sell, and, through a prodigy of human pride, his troops have found themselves feared, his fortresses built, his fleets equipped. -- Montesquieu in Persian Letters, 18th century
I thought it was a dupe but actually it is not, this camera being 0.01 mm smaller than the previous one from last month.
However, at 220x220 pixels, the resolution is also smaller compared to 250x250.
What's the record at /.?
Have you considered making it light enough that your arm doesn't ache after 5 minutes?
My arm gets plenty of exercise.
Doesn't it deplete the battery really fast ?
This comic from the Oatmeal seems appropriated...
FTFA:
However, both Gartner and IDC predict Microsoft's Windows Phone will beat out Apple's iOS for mobile market share by 2015
Yeah, that's what everyone predicts from the market share trends :
Or maybe MS will continue its slow descent into hell...
It's an old Slashdot meme. Google that for references
It was used in summaries a long time ago.
Some consider it "internet politeness".
There is some discussion about the reasons back from 2003.
Having 4 cores going at 100% will drain the battery, sure, but compare that against 4 cores doing a task in 1s that a single core takes 5 or 6 seconds to do.
Please don't expect super linear speedup.
However, for a given generation of hardware, 4 cores at frequency f are using less power than one core at frequency 4f, because increasing the frequency requires to increase the tension, and power=tension^2/resistivity
(Wikipedia cites P = Cf(V^2) but fails to note that core voltage is increased with frequency[PDF warning]).
The only problem here is that it is about the application decree (posted by an AC in this thread). The law was voted in 2004 (surprise surprise, Sarkozy was the minister of economy at that time).
The relevant portion of the decree is :
Les données mentionnées au II de l'article 6 de la loi du 21 juin 2004 susvisée, que les personnes sont tenues de conserver en vertu de cette disposition, sont les suivantes : ;
[...]
3 Pour les personnes mentionnées aux 1 et 2 du I du même article, les informations fournies lors de la souscription d'un contrat par un utilisateur ou lors de la création d'un compte :
[...]
g) Le mot de passe ainsi que les données permettant de le vérifier ou de le modifier, dans leur dernière version mise à jour
Translation :
The data mentioned in Section II of Article 6 of the Act of June 21, 2004 referred to above, that individuals are required to keep under this provision are as follows:
[...]
3 For the persons referred to in 1 and 2 of Article I of the same, the information given upon subscription of a contract by a user or when creating an account:
[...]
g) The password and the information needed to verify or change it, in their latest updated version;
A few remarks on your post...
A friend of mine noticed years ago that MS-Windows 2000 used tiny buffers for copy, which means that hard drive heads move from source to destination constantly, which is slow, wears out the hard drive, and uses more power (maintaining the rotation speed of platters doesn't use much energy compared to the heads actually moving and writing). He wrote an alternative copy program that was much faster by allocating big buffers. I would bet that MS-Windows 7 still uses small buffers.
When MS-Windows gets better battery life than Linux, one common reason is that it gets better ACPI drivers written by the laptop maker. Still, I wouldn't be surprised if Linux would go through your copy task with better battery than MS-Windows in the end, just because it takes half the time (that is, measuring battery use by task and not by time).
At last, all modern mobile CPUs have dynamic frequency scaling (like SpeedStep) and temperature sensors, and Linux should use them to avoid the overheating. In that sense, there's potentially a bug in Linux that might be worth reporting for investigation. More probably, it is simply a setting, and the default "server" setting is that if your CPU overheats, it means that your server is not cooled enough, which needs to be fixed, and rely on the CPU protection rather than silently throttling back.
And it is a story; it shows the absurdity of their policies.
I thought that it was showing the absurdity of the american society.
Apple deserve bashing for this.
Are Apple also somehow deserving bashing for Janet Jackson ?
The Gh0stMarket website [...] was dubbed by the court as [...] 'Crimebook.'
We know that Facebook owns trademark on .*book, just let them sue the court !
Also, these aren't queries like "bmw 335i" or ""
If you're trying to put some text between < and >, write < and > , and don't forget to preview ;)
Do they really get that much in revenue to justify the site-crawling they must have to do?
Well, my guess is that the answer is "yes". These forums don't really require that much storage nor bandwidth, the usual "related topics" on that kind of sites helps getting better Pagerank (than the original forum), and the page is otherwise usually mostly filled with ads. You can also imagine other goals, for example :
And apparently <ol> tags don't number anymore in the new Slashdot redesign. Letting them to check for potential preview bug...
Why go with IPv64 when IPv9 is already perfectly suitable for the task ?