Virtual memory is for the lazy application developer. It's his linear address space which he can use for data or even blend in files, swap or other device access (e.g. graphics)
You cannot "consume" virtual memory, as every app has a fixed amount assigned anyways. Using this address space to access physical ram is just one option.
If you just want to build a cheap car, reuse parts.
If you go for mass production or want to build a Ferrari, start with stock parts and redesign them where necessary.
PHP Developer A: Hey, when I'm inside a namespace, my code does not do the same thing as outside! I tried to fix it but because we are using:: alredy for separating classes and their members, it would just slow PHP down even more. Lets just switch the separator, I vote for \^^H\\^H^H "\\"
PHP Developer B: I see, the hardest part now is to agree on the separator, but I'm sure I can come up with a chart that makes your \"\\\\\" win.
...
I'm loosing my words here, they tried to solve a problem without even bothering to check if someone else solved it already.
Or in direct words to the PHP Team: Please *%/$@ at least USE GOOGLE, and you'll find other languages where:: or . or whatever WORKS JUST FINE.... AND FAST...
But OTOH maybe that'll make others switch away from PHP... Or while they're at it, from Windows... And from SUV's... *sigh*
Tomorrow we'll see the 10 fastest... and then the 20 worst... and then the 100 funniest...
And on the day I read a headline like "the 50 hottest nerds" on the frontpage, I'll digg that story. (and promote it on every other page I can find too).
Just select a decent IDE (IntelliJ IDEA is the one for me), try to do a project with a few good frameworks and you're into it. Start learning maven and spring, they will completely change the way you develop code, and then try to learn hibernate, which will be the last time you think about databases.
You can go everywhere in "old" europe, working conditions, salaries and free time are comparable to the US. I think it'll be a little less in salary, but much more free time.
I'm from germany, and for an IT guy, this is a very good place to start. We have lots of international companies here, that do their busines entirely in english. If you don't want to, you don't even have to learn german. (which is, by the way, not the worst language to learn for a tech guy, as it is strongly rule based and not so much vocabulary based)
But if I'ld have to choose freely, I'ld of course go to the Netherlands, where you can legally buy and smoke pot. Their language is like a mix of english and german and seemingly easy to learn, but it is not spoken by too many people around the globe. Anyway, Netherlands is a really multi cultural country, and almost everybody speaks English.
In Switzerland you'll probably get the best salary, and if you like to go into the financial sector, try Luxembourg, where you propably get a way with English only too. Luxembourg's a country the size of a small city in the US, which has more banks than people living there.
As for the hassle with a permit and stuff: As a tech-worker there should be no problem whatsoever to get a time-limited working permit (lets say for a year or so). And if you are allowed to work in one country in the EU you're free to work everywhere in the EU (which is everywhere in Europe except Switzerland).
We really need a better understanding of what consciousness really is to be able to say anything more - whether it is simply a passive observer, or not.
Sorry for splitting this up into two posts, but I just forgot to say that I agree with you on that one. But in the end, whatever we learn about conscousness, it won't change the fact that we have to act as if our will was free.
And what's the difference between random will and free will?
That depends on how you define free will. Some people think about life as something "more" than applied physics (or chemistry), and therefore, their decisions are based on that "more" as opposed to being random.
Of course, if there is such a "more", it needs an effect on the physical world to be observable. (your hands move, if you decide to, right?). And everything that has an effect on the physical world is well within the realms of research and has to obey the laws of nature. (Of course, our knowledge of these laws is far from complete and most propably flawed, but nonetheless some of our knowledge is pretty accurate)
So it seems meaningless to me to suggest that I am not really in charge of my actions, simply based on some untestable distinction between "random" and "free".
For me, I'ld rather not use the term "in charge" for something random. But anyway, I didn't suggest that you are not in charge! On the contrary: For you, in your first person perspective, your will is entirely free.
From the third person perspective, someone might be able to gather enough information about you and your environment to predict your "free" decisions to any desired accuracy.
But it might as well turn out, that the simplest way to predict your actions might be to make an exact copy of you and your environment and look at what you do in the situation (algorithmical complexity)
So for me, the whole discussion about the will being free or not is not meaningful, at least until we are able to aquire the necessary informations about the current state of a human being, let alone are able to simulate what happens next.
And even if we had a machine that could predict the actions of a person, we still could do no more than look at the information that such a machine gives us and then decide as if we had a free will.
But what, then, is guiding us to believe we have free will?
Because it is quite a good assumption that works in all aspects of live.
On a third person perspective, the free will does not exist. There are numerous arguments that support this. For example, where does the "free will" occur? It has to be something which is not governed by deterministic laws.
Lets backtrace an action, like the movement of your hand. Your hand is moved by muscles which are signaled by some nerves, which are in turn signaled by some neurons in your head, which are formed according your genetics and environmental influence. If there's something "free" in that process, it has to be some not yet discovered non-deterministic physics, and quantum noise is not the answer. (As it only would lead to "random" will, not "free" will)
There's another argument: The free will proponents assume that there is a difference between the future and the past. In their views, the future can be changed whereas the past is fixed. This can't be true, given that your (undetermined) future might be the (fixed) past for another observer.
But don't worry, that's not the end of the free will from a first persons perspective!
From a first persons perspective, I can never acquire all information necessary to fully predict my own actions, because acquiring these informations would change me and thus the outcome of my prediction.
You see, I safely can assume that my own will is perfectly free, whereas there is no free will of the rest of the world.
I guess it's a troll, otherwise he wouldn't have implied that the "kde free qt organization" is something about freeing kde from qt, where it is a nice agreement to secure kde even more rights on QT in case of Trolltech stopping developement, besides you can use all important (and almost all unimportand) QT libs under the terms of the GPL.
Well, on second thought, I'ld like to as real questions:
Does that beam of squeezed light transport any energy at all, when the intensity is lowered to 0?
If not, does that mean you can transfer information without transfering energy?
If so, can you measure if someone is "receiving" photons of that beam by an energy loss at the sender?
Well, how did they knew they stored nothing in there? And how did they prove they recovered the same nothing from the cloud as they have put into it? And did it take no space in the clouds "memory"?
That of course can be used in Quantum Computing, it's gonna be/dev/null!
I for sure know, the telephone was invented in Jamaica, as a taxi driver there told me:
"yah man, dis is de place of the first telephone. It was an old man who invented it. But he had nobody to call and so he had put it away"
Yea, at first I thought it is what I was waiting for: A robot that can remove weed from tobacco, a problem I usually face when I'm out of weed and try to pick it out of the leftovers from previous joints.
Slashdot Mirror
I can confirm the carbohydrate cravings from first hand experience
I knew it, I KNEW IT! Did they name a band?
C'mon, you know how to use ftp in the command line, do you?
Well, the base is already pretty much open source.
What's this place?
Virtual memory is for the lazy application developer. It's his linear address space which he can use for data or even blend in files, swap or other device access (e.g. graphics)
You cannot "consume" virtual memory, as every app has a fixed amount assigned anyways. Using this address space to access physical ram is just one option.
None says cloning is bad
But THEIR cloning IS bad!p>
Online commentators have reported that Psystar's Open Computer is..."LOUD, Crazy Loud,"
Never thought I'd see "LOUD, Crazy Loud" in a legal document!
Never thought I'd see an internet comment in a legal document!
or on a firefox with the language setting for soviet russia.....
.... where Chrome signs you.
Never thought I'ld see an internet comment in a legal document!
If you just want to build a cheap car, reuse parts. If you go for mass production or want to build a Ferrari, start with stock parts and redesign them where necessary.
That's basically how they came to this decision:
PHP Developer A: Hey, when I'm inside a namespace, my code does not do the same thing as outside! I tried to fix it but because we are using :: alredy for separating classes and their members, it would just slow PHP down even more. Lets just switch the separator, I vote for \^^H\\^H^H "\\"
PHP Developer B: I see, the hardest part now is to agree on the separator, but I'm sure I can come up with a chart that makes your \"\\\\\" win.
...
I'm loosing my words here, they tried to solve a problem without even bothering to check if someone else solved it already.
Or in direct words to the PHP Team: Please *%/$@ at least USE GOOGLE, and you'll find other languages where :: or . or whatever WORKS JUST FINE.... AND FAST...
But OTOH maybe that'll make others switch away from PHP... Or while they're at it, from Windows... And from SUV's... *sigh*
Tomorrow we'll see the 10 fastest ... and then the 20 worst ... and then the 100 funniest ...
And on the day I read a headline like "the 50 hottest nerds" on the frontpage, I'll digg that story. (and promote it on every other page I can find too).
Slashdot will need it, by then. Sigh..
Well. you're gonna think about hibernate, not about databases ;-)
Just select a decent IDE (IntelliJ IDEA is the one for me), try to do a project with a few good frameworks and you're into it. Start learning maven and spring, they will completely change the way you develop code, and then try to learn hibernate, which will be the last time you think about databases.
You can go everywhere in "old" europe, working conditions, salaries and free time are comparable to the US. I think it'll be a little less in salary, but much more free time.
I'm from germany, and for an IT guy, this is a very good place to start. We have lots of international companies here, that do their busines entirely in english. If you don't want to, you don't even have to learn german. (which is, by the way, not the worst language to learn for a tech guy, as it is strongly rule based and not so much vocabulary based)
But if I'ld have to choose freely, I'ld of course go to the Netherlands, where you can legally buy and smoke pot. Their language is like a mix of english and german and seemingly easy to learn, but it is not spoken by too many people around the globe. Anyway, Netherlands is a really multi cultural country, and almost everybody speaks English.
In Switzerland you'll probably get the best salary, and if you like to go into the financial sector, try Luxembourg, where you propably get a way with English only too. Luxembourg's a country the size of a small city in the US, which has more banks than people living there.
As for the hassle with a permit and stuff: As a tech-worker there should be no problem whatsoever to get a time-limited working permit (lets say for a year or so). And if you are allowed to work in one country in the EU you're free to work everywhere in the EU (which is everywhere in Europe except Switzerland).
Nevertheless, do it. You'll like it very much.
Sorry for splitting this up into two posts, but I just forgot to say that I agree with you on that one. But in the end, whatever we learn about conscousness, it won't change the fact that we have to act as if our will was free.
That depends on how you define free will. Some people think about life as something "more" than applied physics (or chemistry), and therefore, their decisions are based on that "more" as opposed to being random.
Of course, if there is such a "more", it needs an effect on the physical world to be observable. (your hands move, if you decide to, right?). And everything that has an effect on the physical world is well within the realms of research and has to obey the laws of nature. (Of course, our knowledge of these laws is far from complete and most propably flawed, but nonetheless some of our knowledge is pretty accurate)
For me, I'ld rather not use the term "in charge" for something random. But anyway, I didn't suggest that you are not in charge! On the contrary: For you, in your first person perspective, your will is entirely free.
From the third person perspective, someone might be able to gather enough information about you and your environment to predict your "free" decisions to any desired accuracy.
But it might as well turn out, that the simplest way to predict your actions might be to make an exact copy of you and your environment and look at what you do in the situation (algorithmical complexity)
So for me, the whole discussion about the will being free or not is not meaningful, at least until we are able to aquire the necessary informations about the current state of a human being, let alone are able to simulate what happens next.
And even if we had a machine that could predict the actions of a person, we still could do no more than look at the information that such a machine gives us and then decide as if we had a free will.
Because it is quite a good assumption that works in all aspects of live.
On a third person perspective, the free will does not exist. There are numerous arguments that support this. For example, where does the "free will" occur? It has to be something which is not governed by deterministic laws.
Lets backtrace an action, like the movement of your hand. Your hand is moved by muscles which are signaled by some nerves, which are in turn signaled by some neurons in your head, which are formed according your genetics and environmental influence. If there's something "free" in that process, it has to be some not yet discovered non-deterministic physics, and quantum noise is not the answer. (As it only would lead to "random" will, not "free" will)
There's another argument: The free will proponents assume that there is a difference between the future and the past. In their views, the future can be changed whereas the past is fixed. This can't be true, given that your (undetermined) future might be the (fixed) past for another observer.
But don't worry, that's not the end of the free will from a first persons perspective!
From a first persons perspective, I can never acquire all information necessary to fully predict my own actions, because acquiring these informations would change me and thus the outcome of my prediction.
You see, I safely can assume that my own will is perfectly free, whereas there is no free will of the rest of the world.
Then, I guess, we're on the same page and I misinterpreted your post.
I guess it's a troll, otherwise he wouldn't have implied that the "kde free qt organization" is something about freeing kde from qt, where it is a nice agreement to secure kde even more rights on QT in case of Trolltech stopping developement, besides you can use all important (and almost all unimportand) QT libs under the terms of the GPL.
Well, on second thought, I'ld like to as real questions:
Does that beam of squeezed light transport any energy at all, when the intensity is lowered to 0?
If not, does that mean you can transfer information without transfering energy?
If so, can you measure if someone is "receiving" photons of that beam by an energy loss at the sender?
Well, how did they knew they stored nothing in there? And how did they prove they recovered the same nothing from the cloud as they have put into it? And did it take no space in the clouds "memory"?
/dev/null!
That of course can be used in Quantum Computing, it's gonna be
I for sure know, the telephone was invented in Jamaica, as a taxi driver there told me: "yah man, dis is de place of the first telephone. It was an old man who invented it. But he had nobody to call and so he had put it away"
Yea, at first I thought it is what I was waiting for: A robot that can remove weed from tobacco, a problem I usually face when I'm out of weed and try to pick it out of the leftovers from previous joints.
Sadly, I was disappointed
Drugs ? Emergency Medication? Over here!