The NT metaphor would be a 60 speed bike with 5 chainrings in the front and 12 sprockets on the rear cluster and yet only had 24 unique gear ratios. Plus, it has a ultrathin chain that a strong rider could break at will.
The manufacturer's justification being that it is too much to ask the rider to know the location of desireable gear ratios and so they put the same gear ratios in so many different chainring/sprocket combos. And to do that they accepted reduced reliability.
The Linux metaphor would be to give every different rider different gearing based upon rider strength and the local terrain. And btw, have lots of different "standardized" variations of chains including one variation designed for the spacing and width of the timing chain from a '50 chevy.
OO 1.1.1 is less complete than Office 2003 and using OO 1.1.1 is a question of whether OO 1.1.1 satisifes the needs of that particular user.
I'm using OO 680 milestone 32 from late March which is from the development branch that will become OO 2.0. It is significantly better than OO 1.1.1 with regard to usuability, stability and importing external formats. OO 2.0 will be far more complete than OO 1.1.1 and be a far more serious candidate to replace Office 97 and Office 2003.
I'd suggest anyone considering switching from Office 97 to OO 1.1.1 or to Office 2003 to hold off until OO 2.0.
The parallel is a good one because indie films do not compete with studio films on the basis of special effects. Indie films are rarely the eye candy of studio movies. The strength of indie movies is that it can be different and sometimes results in a terrific movie. But that there is a still a huge difference between playing around with a camcorder and making even a low budget indie movie.
The parallel suggests that it will never be cheap to make a console game, but that there will probably be independent game producers releasing games with strong story lines that lack the latest graphics and other features of the games from the major producers.
It has been my experience that the FBI wants to do as little investigative work on computer crimes as possible. It is largely upto the ISP or whoever to present to law enforcement strong evidence of the crime and strong info on the identity of the wrongdoer before law enforcement will consider further investigation.
So no one "sue the government for not enforcing the laws" or even "raises a stink about it". If they are sufficiently upset then they spend the time doing the legwork so that the FBI agent only has to supervise the company's investigation. Heck, I was on an investigation where we collected all the info and then we had to tell the FBI what "privacy protected" records of ours to subpeona to complete his case.
Vandalism and other mundane crimes involving property, the victim wants a police report in order to file an insurance claim. Thus, the police have a job to do on trivial crimes even if they don't plan on doing any further investigation.
What you needed to do was ask for the ISP's security dept saying that their systems had been compromised and that their systems were now being used to attempt to compromise your and presumably other customers data.
There is the open question of whether there might be a pattern in Pi. Obviously, it cannot have a sequence that repeats after n digits as then Pi would be rational and it is proven to be transcedental. But it has been proven that one can construct a number that is transcendental. A function like the sum of 1/(10^(2^n)) where n=1 to infinity has been proven to be transcendental. Actually, it is far easier to prove such a number is transcendental than a number like Pi or e because of how the number is constructed.
I may have the exact functional slightly wrong, but the point is that a transcendental number most definitely can have a nonrandom pattern.
> if you don't want the user to know it, don't send it to the client.
Nice principle, but not always practical. There have been/. articles on cheating with modified graphics cards. A multiplayer game is not going to make the server responsible for rendering graphics. Too much computational work is needed for the servers to not rely upon the clients or the clients not to rely upon the graphics cards.
It will always be a cat and mouse game between the game's programmers and the cheaters. The cheaters may find a way to reveal enough info that it negatively affects gameplay for the noncheaters. If the game is to survive then it's programmers need to find a way to minimize the advantages gained by the cheaters without moving too much load to their game's servers.
Handling blocking system calls should be more efficiently handled by the kernel scheduler and have improved performance in the NPTL model.
Handling interthread scheduling such as pthread_cont_wait() and pthread_cond_signal() should be more efficiently handled by an user space scheduler and benefit from the NGTL model.
Thus, ideally the NGTL model would run on top of the NPTL model. The NGTL model could cherry pick that which it can handle faster than the kernel scheduler to provide a best of both worlds.
What other product besides software is purchased with the acceptance that it might not work properly and it might damage anything nearby?
Certification tends to be required when failure is too dangerous or expensive to be tolerated. Society simply cannot afford to have buildings, bridges or planes crashing to the ground. Software applications such as airplanes or subways where failure could kill people is written and tested to standards far more stringent than for desktop applications.
The solution to buggy software will be alternative applications that are bug free. What fixed Detroit's poor quality cars? Cars from Japan that didn't have problems.
As a math major also taking CS classes from Huffman, I had real issues with his concept of "intuitive proofs". Personally, I had doubts whether he consistently knew the math well enough to do formal proofs. Actually, much of the early info theory work was relatively simple mathematics where the famous names of CS were the first to pose the particular problems and were able to solve them. Sometimes great work is the result of solving a very difficult problem (ex. Fermat's Last Theorem by Wiles) and sometimes by finding new topics (Huffman). David Huffman was a nice man that will be remembered for a very long time for having discovered something fundamental to CS.
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The NT metaphor would be a 60 speed bike with 5 chainrings in the front and 12 sprockets on the rear cluster and yet only had 24 unique gear ratios. Plus, it has a ultrathin chain that a strong rider could break at will.
The manufacturer's justification being that it is too much to ask the rider to know the location of desireable gear ratios and so they put the same gear ratios in so many different chainring/sprocket combos. And to do that they accepted reduced reliability.
The Linux metaphor would be to give every different rider different gearing based upon rider strength and the local terrain. And btw, have lots of different "standardized" variations of chains including one variation designed for the spacing and width of the timing chain from a '50 chevy.
Not only is OO 1.1.1 free, but so will be OO 2.0.
OO 1.1.1 is less complete than Office 2003 and using OO 1.1.1 is a question of whether OO 1.1.1 satisifes the needs of that particular user.
I'm using OO 680 milestone 32 from late March which is from the development branch that will become OO 2.0. It is significantly better than OO 1.1.1 with regard to usuability, stability and importing external formats. OO 2.0 will be far more complete than OO 1.1.1 and be a far more serious candidate to replace Office 97 and Office 2003.
I'd suggest anyone considering switching from Office 97 to OO 1.1.1 or to Office 2003 to hold off until OO 2.0.
The parallel is a good one because indie films do not compete with studio films on the basis of special effects. Indie films are rarely the eye candy of studio movies. The strength of indie movies is that it can be different and sometimes results in a terrific movie. But that there is a still a huge difference between playing around with a camcorder and making even a low budget indie movie.
The parallel suggests that it will never be cheap to make a console game, but that there will probably be independent game producers releasing games with strong story lines that lack the latest graphics and other features of the games from the major producers.
It has been my experience that the FBI wants to do as little investigative work on computer crimes as possible. It is largely upto the ISP or whoever to present to law enforcement strong evidence of the crime and strong info on the identity of the wrongdoer before law enforcement will consider further investigation.
So no one "sue the government for not enforcing the laws" or even "raises a stink about it". If they are sufficiently upset then they spend the time doing the legwork so that the FBI agent only has to supervise the company's investigation. Heck, I was on an investigation where we collected all the info and then we had to tell the FBI what "privacy protected" records of ours to subpeona to complete his case.
Vandalism and other mundane crimes involving property, the victim wants a police report in order to file an insurance claim. Thus, the police have a job to do on trivial crimes even if they don't plan on doing any further investigation.
What you needed to do was ask for the ISP's security dept saying that their systems had been compromised and that their systems were now being used to attempt to compromise your and presumably other customers data.
There is the open question of whether there might be a pattern in Pi. Obviously, it cannot have a sequence that repeats after n digits as then Pi would be rational and it is proven to be transcedental. But it has been proven that one can construct a number that is transcendental. A function like the sum of 1/(10^(2^n)) where n=1 to infinity has been proven to be transcendental. Actually, it is far easier to prove such a number is transcendental than a number like Pi or e because of how the number is constructed.
I may have the exact functional slightly wrong, but the point is that a transcendental number most definitely can have a nonrandom pattern.
> if you don't want the user to know it, don't send it to the client.
/. articles on cheating with modified graphics cards. A multiplayer game is not going to make the server responsible for rendering graphics. Too much computational work is needed for the servers to not rely upon the clients or the clients not to rely upon the graphics cards.
Nice principle, but not always practical. There have been
It will always be a cat and mouse game between the game's programmers and the cheaters. The cheaters may find a way to reveal enough info that it negatively affects gameplay for the noncheaters. If the game is to survive then it's programmers need to find a way to minimize the advantages gained by the cheaters without moving too much load to their game's servers.
Handling blocking system calls should be more efficiently handled by the kernel scheduler and have improved performance in the NPTL model.
Handling interthread scheduling such as pthread_cont_wait() and pthread_cond_signal() should be more efficiently handled by an user space scheduler and benefit from the NGTL model.
Thus, ideally the NGTL model would run on top of the NPTL model. The NGTL model could cherry pick that which it can handle faster than the kernel scheduler to provide a best of both worlds.
What other product besides software is purchased with the acceptance that it might not work properly and it might damage anything nearby?
Certification tends to be required when failure is too dangerous or expensive to be tolerated. Society simply cannot afford to have buildings, bridges or planes crashing to the ground. Software applications such as airplanes or subways where failure could kill people is written and tested to standards far more stringent than for desktop applications.
The solution to buggy software will be alternative applications that are bug free. What fixed Detroit's poor quality cars? Cars from Japan that didn't have problems.
As a math major also taking CS classes from Huffman, I had real issues with his concept of "intuitive proofs". Personally, I had doubts whether he consistently knew the math well enough to do formal proofs. Actually, much of the early info theory work was relatively simple mathematics where the famous names of CS were the first to pose the particular problems and were able to solve them. Sometimes great work is the result of solving a very difficult problem (ex. Fermat's Last Theorem by Wiles) and sometimes by finding new topics (Huffman). David Huffman was a nice man that will be remembered for a very long time for having discovered something fundamental to CS.