Pascal's wager is also not phrased properly. Suppose that I decide to believe. That does it, right? Not really. Depending on the religion, there's differing criteria. I might FAIL to believe, even though I chose to believe. Therefore, the outcome for taking the believing path can be either 1) go to heaven or 2) not go to heaven.
And, on the other side, suppose I take the path to not believe. I might fail at that too. A nice liberal god might let me in anyway. Therefore, the outcome for taking the nonbelieving path is either 1) go to heaven or 2) not go to heaven.
This shows quite clearly that Pascal's wager is completely useless if you try to figure out how to maximize your gain by either believing or not believing.
Yellow means stop. Just about anywhere you drive, a cop has a judgement call to make. If you go through a yellow, and the cop judges that you could have stopped, he can give you a ticket for running the light even though it was yellow.
Program runs in xterm A, but not xterm B. Why? A missing slash in a variable somewhere.
No problem, I'll just use my super powerful administration tools that I have for environment variables. Those tools are called "set" "export" and are used by typing out long strings by hand without making a mistake.
Is there some way that Linux can be limited to a certain number of CPU's? It sure would be wonderful if there were separate versions of Linux for each possible number of CPU's. If you had a kernel that was only written for two CPU's, it should properly not work at all on 4 CPU's, preferably with a message saying "send more money to your vendor". And while they are at it, is there some way that XFree can limit the number of xterms to less than 4, so that if a user wanted to open 6 xterms they would have to download the XFree that ran with 6 xterms? Think of the marketing possibilities that can be used to improve Linux!
Out of the loop? Hardly. You were one of the first 10 people to post in the brand new section about Apple on Slashdot. Apparently, you are in the middle of the loop.
I would rather we screw up this planet so badly that humankind is forced to its destiny in space. There was even a Usenet group devoted to that. alt.destroy.the.earth or something.
How about a variety of bacteria that doesn't produce scatane when it digests food? That would be wonderful. I would suggest that it could make some nice ketones instead, so our farts could smell like bananas or something.
I once had a Pentium 133 that worked properly in all ways except one: When I installed an IDE CD-ROM, the machine could not see the drive. After much digging, I found that the problem was in the AMI BIOS on the motherboard. I bought a new BIOS from Mr. BIOS, and that fixed the problem completely. If that board had a flashable BIOS, the problem could have been solved without changing an IC.
If something *has* to be inefficient, then I want it to be processor inefficient. My CPU cycles are probably the cheapest part of all the computing that I do. Python is an extremely useful tool for me, despite the fact that it's slower than C++ or C. When I need to write a utility, I want to write it quickly, and I don't really care if it runs relatively slowly.
I make banana shakes during the summer, but I use homemade yogurt.
1 really ripe banana
some sugar if you like
2 cups yogurt
a bit of water to thin
blend everything and drink it.
The yogurt is really easy to make too, and it's far cheaper than buying it.
use 1/2 gallon milk - I've tried everything from whole to skim, and all of them work about equally well. Put the milk in a plastic container and nuke about 25 minutes on high until it's boiling. Let it boil for about 2 minutes. The boiling causes all those proteins in the milk to stretch out, link up, and form nice long chains. Those chains actually cause the yogurt to be nice and firm. If you don't boil the milk as long, the yogurt will be goopy, but will taste the same. Boiling milk in a microwave is easier because it won't burn like in a pan on the stove.
OK, you've boiled the milk, now put it into a covered container and let it sit and cool down.
When it's about 125 degrees or less, open the top and dump in a container of unflavored unsweetened yogurt with live acidophilus cultures. This yogurt can be a cup of your previous batch, or it can be a new cup from the store to get you started. Stir it up with a clean spoon and put the top back on the container.
Let that yogurt container sit on the counter for 8-12 hours at room temperature. When you open that thing up, you will be only the latest talking monkey to take part of a long human culinary tradition that probably spans over 10,000 years. Smell that yogurt - that's our HISTORY in that bowl. Save a bit in a clean jar for the next batch and start making those fruit shakes.
Garbage collection in an interpreter or virtual machine might be a big factor, I don't know. But I do know that garbage collection in compiled code does not need to be slower. Either you've got to free the pointers manually, and do the bookkeeping yourself, or the collector has to do it. The workload is the same either way.
Check out the Boehm conservative collector and read what Hans Boehm has to say on the subject. I think he qualifies as an expert, since he is a mind behind both the Boehm collector (free beer and speech) and the Great Circle collector (proprietary).
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I use the --subnodes option and pipe through less to get a more usable printout. The info program has a really crappy interface.
like this:
info --subnodes bison | more
Pascal's wager is also not phrased properly. Suppose that I decide to believe. That does it, right? Not really. Depending on the religion, there's differing criteria. I might FAIL to believe, even though I chose to believe. Therefore, the outcome for taking the believing path can be either 1) go to heaven or 2) not go to heaven.
And, on the other side, suppose I take the path to not believe. I might fail at that too. A nice liberal god might let me in anyway. Therefore, the outcome for taking the nonbelieving path is either 1) go to heaven or 2) not go to heaven.
This shows quite clearly that Pascal's wager is completely useless if you try to figure out how to maximize your gain by either believing or not believing.
Star Trek is just a TV show, and my message was just a joke
Yellow means stop. Just about anywhere you drive, a cop has a judgement call to make. If you go through a yellow, and the cop judges that you could have stopped, he can give you a ticket for running the light even though it was yellow.
More likely that the evil Spock from the alternate universe will mind meld with us and turn us into Windows freaks.
"In every revolution, there is one man with a marketing plan." - Bill Gates, to the evil Spock
Why?
Program runs in xterm A, but not xterm B. Why? A missing slash in a variable somewhere.
No problem, I'll just use my super powerful administration tools that I have for environment variables. Those tools are called "set" "export" and are used by typing out long strings by hand without making a mistake.
Is there some way that Linux can be limited to a certain number of CPU's? It sure would be wonderful if there were separate versions of Linux for each possible number of CPU's. If you had a kernel that was only written for two CPU's, it should properly not work at all on 4 CPU's, preferably with a message saying "send more money to your vendor". And while they are at it, is there some way that XFree can limit the number of xterms to less than 4, so that if a user wanted to open 6 xterms they would have to download the XFree that ran with 6 xterms? Think of the marketing possibilities that can be used to improve Linux!
OK, for the idiot who marked me redundant:
check out the post numbers. Mine was first, everyone else came after me. They should be marked redundant, not me.
Out of the loop? Hardly. You were one of the first 10 people to post in the brand new section about Apple on Slashdot. Apparently, you are in the middle of the loop.
Can we have this theme on the other pages?
Just a little clue: if you have shareholders, it's not YOUR business. It's theirs and you work for them.
I use fetchmail and exim for my mail, and I set it up to reject anything coming from or through *.kr *.ru *.cn *.my and *.jp
That cut my spam down by a huge amount. This technique really works.
I would rather we screw up this planet so badly that humankind is forced to its destiny in space. There was even a Usenet group devoted to that. alt.destroy.the.earth or something.
With cow-orkers like that, who needs managers?
Itanium is Titanium without the T, so Anadium is Vanadium without the V.
I can't wait until they get to Hassium. They could name their chip Assium!
BAH! I throw my pillow at you!
I don't care. I'm definitely a blue pill kind of guy.
How about a variety of bacteria that doesn't produce scatane when it digests food? That would be wonderful. I would suggest that it could make some nice ketones instead, so our farts could smell like bananas or something.
What does "sell-through rate" mean? I am but a simple computer programmer, unacustomed to your strange language...
If I were Linus, I'd do a feature freeze right now, get all the bugs out over the next few months, and release Linux 2.6 this summer.
Right on! I'm hoping to buy a chairdog before I die.
I once had a Pentium 133 that worked properly in all ways except one: When I installed an IDE CD-ROM, the machine could not see the drive. After much digging, I found that the problem was in the AMI BIOS on the motherboard. I bought a new BIOS from Mr. BIOS, and that fixed the problem completely. If that board had a flashable BIOS, the problem could have been solved without changing an IC.
If something *has* to be inefficient, then I want it to be processor inefficient. My CPU cycles are probably the cheapest part of all the computing that I do. Python is an extremely useful tool for me, despite the fact that it's slower than C++ or C. When I need to write a utility, I want to write it quickly, and I don't really care if it runs relatively slowly.
I make banana shakes during the summer, but I use homemade yogurt.
1 really ripe banana
some sugar if you like
2 cups yogurt
a bit of water to thin
blend everything and drink it.
The yogurt is really easy to make too, and it's far cheaper than buying it.
use 1/2 gallon milk - I've tried everything from whole to skim, and all of them work about equally well. Put the milk in a plastic container and nuke about 25 minutes on high until it's boiling. Let it boil for about 2 minutes. The boiling causes all those proteins in the milk to stretch out, link up, and form nice long chains. Those chains actually cause the yogurt to be nice and firm. If you don't boil the milk as long, the yogurt will be goopy, but will taste the same. Boiling milk in a microwave is easier because it won't burn like in a pan on the stove.
OK, you've boiled the milk, now put it into a covered container and let it sit and cool down.
When it's about 125 degrees or less, open the top and dump in a container of unflavored unsweetened yogurt with live acidophilus cultures. This yogurt can be a cup of your previous batch, or it can be a new cup from the store to get you started. Stir it up with a clean spoon and put the top back on the container.
Let that yogurt container sit on the counter for 8-12 hours at room temperature. When you open that thing up, you will be only the latest talking monkey to take part of a long human culinary tradition that probably spans over 10,000 years. Smell that yogurt - that's our HISTORY in that bowl. Save a bit in a clean jar for the next batch and start making those fruit shakes.
Garbage collection in an interpreter or virtual machine might be a big factor, I don't know. But I do know that garbage collection in compiled code does not need to be slower. Either you've got to free the pointers manually, and do the bookkeeping yourself, or the collector has to do it. The workload is the same either way.
Check out the Boehm conservative collector and read what Hans Boehm has to say on the subject. I think he qualifies as an expert, since he is a mind behind both the Boehm collector (free beer and speech) and the Great Circle collector (proprietary).