No ex post facto laws. However, I can see these companies being found guilty of reckless endangerment, disturbing the peace, and assisting in crimes that the people using the devices are guilty of.
I can see the individuals being found guilty of impersonating law enforcement officers (I don't know if these laws tend to be specific to convincing people that you're the law or if they could be stretched to apply to cases of convincing machines that you are the law; I know a traffic light in any town I've been in would bomb the Turing test, but hey...).
Read that page again. First of all, it uses FreeBSD 5.1, which is the -CURRENT release, as opposed to 4.9, which is the -STABLE release. Second, and most importantly, it doesn't appear that FreeBSD sucks except to someone who didn't read a single word of that study. Try again, and you'll see that FreeBSD is among the best in most categories. The one that surprised me was OpenBSD's lack of performance in this study. I didn't have that experience at all when I used to run it.
The problem with that is that the average age of the maps that Topozone is based on is about 10 years. Land changes hands for more rapidly than that and, although public land is rarely converted to or from private land, it can happen and finding oneself with guns on someone's land without knowing it isn't public is usually a bad thing. Also, land ownership and other layers are not intuitively available on the web interface, and it is slow to find just what you want.
I tend to use a variety of these to calculate my routes, although only for long hauls through strange cities do I find them necessary. Mapquest seems best to me for mapping a point, Yahoo for quickly mapping a route, and Mapblast for understanding a route through strange urban territory.
That said, I can't find a single decent outdoors mapping program, online or offline. I have tried DeLorme Topo, but it sucks. Sure, the topographic mapping is nice, but you can't map out county, township, and section lines. Anyone know of one? An added bonus if it shows federal and state land ownership. I hate having to go to the BLM and try to work with them to get an unusably large and fragile paper map.
Komarov's death is a case study in why not to blame us engineers. His capsule would not stop spinning in space, and he cursed over the radio at the engineers who built it. They got their revenge, however, as they had apparently packed the parachutes in the craft upside-down - the 'chutes did a cigarette roll all the way to the ground. So folks, treat your engineers well.
Right...you do want to send them out multiple times. But you don't want to do so unnecessarily - you want to know which units are being worked on now. A very well-coded project could even adapt to individual clients' hardware to get the most efficient use out of the system. The goal is to maximize efficiency, and the key to that is having enough data on what's going on and how it's going to make efficiency-related decisions.
I wrote my Honors thesis on general-purpose distributed computing. I also implemented something I think more projects should use, which is presence awareness and work accounting. No more downloading of work units and sitting on them without ever uploading the results - with my system, you can immediately reassign a work unit when someone stops working on it. This eliminates double simultaneous assignment of individual work units. I used Jabber for my communications, and it would be pretty easy to implement hashing and cryptographic signing of work units and shared objects to ensure the integrity of your computation.
Actually, laziness implies that these people wouldn't work any jobs. (True, it's easier to be lazier at some jobs than at others, but lazy people don't work if they can help it.) Pride is the real issue. We're computer programmers or consultants, we wear jeans and make $80k, and we have to spend half our day turning down job offers because, although they pay slightly better, they simply aren't as cool.
You mean they took the quo, and now need to give us the quid, right? (Both literally from the expression and in terms of quid in the English sense would be nice.)
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That's not a list of 5 at all. Linux and FreeBSD couldn't be much less similar. Linux is just a kernel, using other projects to fill in the gaps, whereas FreeBSD is an operating system, using only minimal contributed code (see/usr/src/contrib; gcc is about it for major items). Putting them together there indicates that you're not qualified to make such a list.
By that token, I can use my TI-85 as a Lisp machine. It really doesn't count if you have to put software on it, because that requires the additional purchase of a cable beyond the original calculator purchase; the original poster should have specified that.
On a side note, it doesn't surprise me at all that you made it to state but failed to win at that level, given your use of an HP.;-D
Do they do RPN in a way similar to or at least as smooth as the HP48 does? I personally have always preferred my TI-85 to HP48s, but may consider upgrading to an 89 if it's truly the best of both worlds.:)
Prefering something doesn't make you stupid. Ignorance of the single most important feature that the author asked for does. This is like the car dealer hearing you need four-wheel drive and a V8 and suggesting you get a sports car. Both good, but one is nothing at all like what you wanted.
Get them to use Jabber. Many clients support PGP encryption of chat conversations. You can just set up your own server and go with it. Additionally, it's useful for more than just chatting, as you can easily use it as a generic XML-fragment routing framework. O'Reilly's "Programming Jabber" gives examples of this in various languages (Python, Perl, and Java, e.g.) to do various things (including CVS notification delivery and notification from SAP.
You're driving on the freeway during rush hour, and traffic is at a crawl. You're in the far-left lane, but you need to get to the far-right lane to get your exit. Do you:
I don't drive
Courteously signal your lane change, checking your blindspot, waiting for a good samaritan to permit passage
Creep into the neighboring lane, scaring cautious drivers into giving you a wide berth
Come to a complete stop, turn on your hazards, get out and place emergency flares in a diagonal line across all four lanes
Roll down your window and instruct drivers to get out of your way with your bullhorn
It's really a problem of the chicken and the egg, though: Who set up the 5.1 system?
Not the stupid parents, for sure. If they did, you can bet that at least one speaker is in the wrong place and at least one other speaker is not properly connected.
This doesn't just occur with children of stupid parents, but also any children I am around, because I'm a sadistic bastard and would cross-wire all the speakers, so that your kids get seriously messed up when it comes to spatial positioning.
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No ex post facto laws. However, I can see these companies being found guilty of reckless endangerment, disturbing the peace, and assisting in crimes that the people using the devices are guilty of.
I can see the individuals being found guilty of impersonating law enforcement officers (I don't know if these laws tend to be specific to convincing people that you're the law or if they could be stretched to apply to cases of convincing machines that you are the law; I know a traffic light in any town I've been in would bomb the Turing test, but hey...).
Gee, I wish that I needed a tax break that badly...
Read that page again. First of all, it uses FreeBSD 5.1, which is the -CURRENT release, as opposed to 4.9, which is the -STABLE release. Second, and most importantly, it doesn't appear that FreeBSD sucks except to someone who didn't read a single word of that study. Try again, and you'll see that FreeBSD is among the best in most categories. The one that surprised me was OpenBSD's lack of performance in this study. I didn't have that experience at all when I used to run it.
You do realize that the atmosphere has already evaporated, right, and that's what makes it an atmosphere instead of an ocean or skating rink?
The problem with that is that the average age of the maps that Topozone is based on is about 10 years. Land changes hands for more rapidly than that and, although public land is rarely converted to or from private land, it can happen and finding oneself with guns on someone's land without knowing it isn't public is usually a bad thing. Also, land ownership and other layers are not intuitively available on the web interface, and it is slow to find just what you want.
I tend to use a variety of these to calculate my routes, although only for long hauls through strange cities do I find them necessary. Mapquest seems best to me for mapping a point, Yahoo for quickly mapping a route, and Mapblast for understanding a route through strange urban territory.
That said, I can't find a single decent outdoors mapping program, online or offline. I have tried DeLorme Topo, but it sucks. Sure, the topographic mapping is nice, but you can't map out county, township, and section lines. Anyone know of one? An added bonus if it shows federal and state land ownership. I hate having to go to the BLM and try to work with them to get an unusably large and fragile paper map.
Komarov's death is a case study in why not to blame us engineers. His capsule would not stop spinning in space, and he cursed over the radio at the engineers who built it. They got their revenge, however, as they had apparently packed the parachutes in the craft upside-down - the 'chutes did a cigarette roll all the way to the ground. So folks, treat your engineers well.
This was a tradeoff I had to make. I decided that anyone still on dialup probably doesn't have enough CPU power to matter that much, anyhow. :)
Right...you do want to send them out multiple times. But you don't want to do so unnecessarily - you want to know which units are being worked on now. A very well-coded project could even adapt to individual clients' hardware to get the most efficient use out of the system. The goal is to maximize efficiency, and the key to that is having enough data on what's going on and how it's going to make efficiency-related decisions.
I wrote my Honors thesis on general-purpose distributed computing. I also implemented something I think more projects should use, which is presence awareness and work accounting. No more downloading of work units and sitting on them without ever uploading the results - with my system, you can immediately reassign a work unit when someone stops working on it. This eliminates double simultaneous assignment of individual work units. I used Jabber for my communications, and it would be pretty easy to implement hashing and cryptographic signing of work units and shared objects to ensure the integrity of your computation.
One long megabyte is 1024 bytes, eh? I think my drive just got a whole lot smaller.
You must be pretty stupid to think people will click on that.
How exactly is your ssh relay set up, especially in terms of automation? I, too, have been suffering from Cox.
Actually, laziness implies that these people wouldn't work any jobs. (True, it's easier to be lazier at some jobs than at others, but lazy people don't work if they can help it.) Pride is the real issue. We're computer programmers or consultants, we wear jeans and make $80k, and we have to spend half our day turning down job offers because, although they pay slightly better, they simply aren't as cool.
Nah, I'll just microwave it...what's the worst that could happen?
You mean they took the quo, and now need to give us the quid, right? (Both literally from the expression and in terms of quid in the English sense would be nice.)
That's not a list of 5 at all. Linux and FreeBSD couldn't be much less similar. Linux is just a kernel, using other projects to fill in the gaps, whereas FreeBSD is an operating system, using only minimal contributed code (see /usr/src/contrib; gcc is about it for major items). Putting them together there indicates that you're not qualified to make such a list.
By that token, I can use my TI-85 as a Lisp machine. It really doesn't count if you have to put software on it, because that requires the additional purchase of a cable beyond the original calculator purchase; the original poster should have specified that.
;-D
On a side note, it doesn't surprise me at all that you made it to state but failed to win at that level, given your use of an HP.
Do they do RPN in a way similar to or at least as smooth as the HP48 does? I personally have always preferred my TI-85 to HP48s, but may consider upgrading to an 89 if it's truly the best of both worlds. :)
When I wired up 5 60MB SCSI-25 drives back in the day to get a whooping capacity of 5x60MB...
:P
Holy mathematics, Batman! We're too lazy to multiply 5 and 6, so we'll just post the original numbers a second time.
Prefering something doesn't make you stupid. Ignorance of the single most important feature that the author asked for does. This is like the car dealer hearing you need four-wheel drive and a V8 and suggesting you get a sports car. Both good, but one is nothing at all like what you wanted.
Get them to use Jabber. Many clients support PGP encryption of chat conversations. You can just set up your own server and go with it. Additionally, it's useful for more than just chatting, as you can easily use it as a generic XML-fragment routing framework. O'Reilly's "Programming Jabber" gives examples of this in various languages (Python, Perl, and Java, e.g.) to do various things (including CVS notification delivery and notification from SAP.
Every day is a good day to short SCO stock.
You're driving on the freeway during rush hour, and traffic is at a crawl. You're in the far-left lane, but you need to get to the far-right lane to get your exit. Do you:
I don't drive
Courteously signal your lane change, checking your blindspot, waiting for a good samaritan to permit passage
Creep into the neighboring lane, scaring cautious drivers into giving you a wide berth
Come to a complete stop, turn on your hazards, get out and place emergency flares in a diagonal line across all four lanes
Roll down your window and instruct drivers to get out of your way with your bullhorn
It's really a problem of the chicken and the egg, though: Who set up the 5.1 system?
Not the stupid parents, for sure. If they did, you can bet that at least one speaker is in the wrong place and at least one other speaker is not properly connected.
This doesn't just occur with children of stupid parents, but also any children I am around, because I'm a sadistic bastard and would cross-wire all the speakers, so that your kids get seriously messed up when it comes to spatial positioning.