Google search appliance definitely targeted at businesses. The adwords schemes are targeted at businesses. Various other services are also targeted at businesses.
Sure, a lot of Google products are mass market. But not all.
I have a 10Mbps cable connection. Sure, most 'net servers aren't able to give out files that fast. But the ones that are..
3-4 weeks ago I downloaded a 142MB file. Firefox reported it as coming down at one megabyte/sec. I'm not sure whether it lied, but the file was downloaded in under 2 minutes.
Surprised the hell out of me. Made me happy.
Cable company is NTL. Their technical support is absolutely atrocious. Luckily their connection is very stable, so I rarely have to call them. And the download speed is very nice indeed.
Since when did the GPL cover hardware support for code? They distribute binaries, and the full source to them. You can take that source code and use it elsewhere.
What you can't do is run "untrusted" binaries on the hardware. That's a hardware licencing issue, not a software one. Is the hardware under GPL?
Personally I think the FSF are very correct to be anti-DRM - not because DRM is in itself always wrong, but because significant market players are publicly keen to use it to lock down hardware and software in the manner described.
To accuse the FSF of evangelism and dogma is to ignore its entire history. It has always been a source of evangelism and is very dogmatic in its pursuit of its beliefs. I've never heard RMS compromise in the slightest on software freedom, and although I may not always agree with him, I respect his position greatly. It would be wrong and foolish to expect anything different regarding DRM.
I diagree that Deckard is a drunk. He gets drunk, but there's nothing to suggest that's a habitual thing for him.
Personally I like Deckard because he's not stupid, he's not unfeasibly strong, he's very human. He also gets his job done - whether you like it or not. Indeed, the only thing I didn't like was how he forced himself on Rachel. That scene continues to raise mixed feelings in me - including confusion that she responded positively to his advance.
Batty on the other hand was too superior, too cold to really like. Even at the end, it seemed he saved Deckard for himself, not for Deckard.
So I'd disagree completely that Batty and Deckard are alike. Batty considers humanity to be below him (quite rightly, life expectancy aside) and uses it as a source of amusement. Deckard _is_ humanity, weak and flawed (along with all the positive attributes).
Disclaimer: I used to work for a credit card company.
>> letting them spend an amount they'll never be able to repay
Sorry, but I believe in personal responsibility. Don't spend money you can't afford. Being poor is not an excuse for poor fiscal prudence.
Yes, credit card companies do offer very large credit limits, and anybody accepting every card offer they receive and spending the limit on each card will find themselves unable to pay. There is a simple solution here, and it's nothing to do with the credit card companies.
This doesn't address several key flaws - how do you know what's encrypted? You can't decrypt something that's not encrypted, but this law lets you go to jail for failing to do so - people can be imprisoned for refusing to give up a key they genuinely don't possess, even if something is encrypted - the difficulty of mounting a defense against this is asinine
I'm sympathetic to the issue the police/SOCA/etc face. This law is not the answer.
How about you do the obvious thing and download Rails and give it a go?
There are many applications - web applications - that I wouldn't use RoR for. There are also certain applications that can be written in a day using RoR that will take a couple of weeks in (e.g.) Java.
Throw in testing time, ease of maintenance, likelihood of bugs, and there are situations where RoR is clearly the right answer.
I'm a hardcore Java fanatic, but Rails is for certain uses quite superb. What I don't know and want to find out is where the boundaries are - at which level of complexity/functionality/scale does Rails cease to have productivity gains and other frameworks/approaches become better choices.
The article is not hype; it may not be entirely objectively written but it also doesn't lie. Ruby on Rails is not bull.
The UK do have a treaty which permits extradition from the US to the UK.
It's existed for a long time.
What we also have is a need to provide evidence before extradition can take place. This is where there's a mismatch - the US don't need to provide evidence before extraditing to the US.
To you it's a 2 line PERL script. To a true monk it's a multi-system automated intrusion system capable of deploying rootkits and coordinating attacks through an IRC bot network.
Don't underestimate the power of PERL.
Back on topic, another poster summed it up well: - he's an idiot - he should be tried in a UK court
70 years in prison in a country he never visited to perform his alleged crime? That's not proportionate.
Ironic indeed. Although (in the UK) if I let someone rent a room in my house from me, I can claim expenses against that income, and only pay tax on the 'profit'.
TreeMap is a red-black tree implementation. To store a single node you need to store - key - value - red or black - child nodes (left and right)
I haven't checked up red-black trees for a while, so i can't remember whether this is necessary or just more efficient, but you want to also store - parent node
Java uses an object to wrap this lot together. So already we have five object references, a boolean and an object. Each reference is 4 bytes in size, so that gives you 16 bytes, plus the size of the object (a minimum of 8 bytes) and a couple of bytes for the boolean (red or black). So already every entry in the tree is 26 bytes in size before you even add any data.
Could you implement a red-black tree using less memory in another language? Almost certainly. Could you implement your search in Java using less memory? You said so yourself.
Is a red-black tree the correct mechanism to use for your purposes? I don't know; I do know that if I'm asked to write a web search engine I'll do some research on algorithms first, and use the one that makes the most sense.
The machine was someone's laptop. Of course, that tells you nothing of the complexity of the search.
Put another way: The search was functionally the same as one written in SQL running on an Oracle database hosted on a Sun F15K with approx. 16 CPUs and a few gig of RAM.
The java in-memory search ran faster than the Oracle search.
That is also a pointless comparison; I know for certain I could optimise the Oracle search quite considerably, and simplify it massively. To do so without changing the results it returns would be an extensive and painful exercise. Also, the Java search dealt with a specific class of search; the Oracle PL/SQL was handling multiple classes of search (hence its complexity).
All good fun. But still demonstrates the ability of the language to handle the issue, in a sensible and performant manner.
I'd suggest that's sloppy coding - if nothing else, one of the first things you should do is provide a default 'oops' page that hides such details from the user.
You see the same issue with LAMP or ASP based websites too. It's a common curse:(
Oh please. Who evaluates languages on the simplicity of a "Hello World" application.
However, just to play along: They're both equally easy to read. One of them has a lot of context; the other doesn't. A fairer comparison would have been the call to System.out against the print statement.
Even now I don't know whether your second example will append a carriage return to the output..
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Google search appliance definitely targeted at businesses.
The adwords schemes are targeted at businesses.
Various other services are also targeted at businesses.
Sure, a lot of Google products are mass market. But not all.
I have a 10Mbps cable connection. Sure, most 'net servers aren't able to give out files that fast. But the ones that are..
3-4 weeks ago I downloaded a 142MB file. Firefox reported it as coming down at one megabyte/sec. I'm not sure whether it lied, but the file was downloaded in under 2 minutes.
Surprised the hell out of me. Made me happy.
Cable company is NTL. Their technical support is absolutely atrocious. Luckily their connection is very stable, so I rarely have to call them. And the download speed is very nice indeed.
You forgot the part where Alex's Chechen uncle goes all vendetta on you, your family and everybody you've emailed in the last 8 months.
Since when did the GPL cover hardware support for code? They distribute binaries, and the full source to them. You can take that source code and use it elsewhere.
What you can't do is run "untrusted" binaries on the hardware. That's a hardware licencing issue, not a software one. Is the hardware under GPL?
Personally I think the FSF are very correct to be anti-DRM - not because DRM is in itself always wrong, but because significant market players are publicly keen to use it to lock down hardware and software in the manner described.
To accuse the FSF of evangelism and dogma is to ignore its entire history. It has always been a source of evangelism and is very dogmatic in its pursuit of its beliefs. I've never heard RMS compromise in the slightest on software freedom, and although I may not always agree with him, I respect his position greatly. It would be wrong and foolish to expect anything different regarding DRM.
I diagree that Deckard is a drunk. He gets drunk, but there's nothing to suggest that's a habitual thing for him.
Personally I like Deckard because he's not stupid, he's not unfeasibly strong, he's very human. He also gets his job done - whether you like it or not. Indeed, the only thing I didn't like was how he forced himself on Rachel. That scene continues to raise mixed feelings in me - including confusion that she responded positively to his advance.
Batty on the other hand was too superior, too cold to really like. Even at the end, it seemed he saved Deckard for himself, not for Deckard.
So I'd disagree completely that Batty and Deckard are alike. Batty considers humanity to be below him (quite rightly, life expectancy aside) and uses it as a source of amusement. Deckard _is_ humanity, weak and flawed (along with all the positive attributes).
The film is superb though, in either version.
Disclaimer: I used to work for a credit card company.
>> letting them spend an amount they'll never be able to repay
Sorry, but I believe in personal responsibility. Don't spend money you can't afford. Being poor is not an excuse for poor fiscal prudence.
Yes, credit card companies do offer very large credit limits, and anybody accepting every card offer they receive and spending the limit on each card will find themselves unable to pay. There is a simple solution here, and it's nothing to do with the credit card companies.
Oh, don't. I went for one job interview where they asked me to write code - on paper. With a pen.
I still regret not just walking out on the spot. I will next time.
Apart from that, yes, concur completely.
This doesn't address several key flaws
- how do you know what's encrypted? You can't decrypt something that's not encrypted, but this law lets you go to jail for failing to do so
- people can be imprisoned for refusing to give up a key they genuinely don't possess, even if something is encrypted
- the difficulty of mounting a defense against this is asinine
I'm sympathetic to the issue the police/SOCA/etc face. This law is not the answer.
So do it, get it done in the next two weeks, email Google, ask permission to distribute it and get offered a job.
Sod skill. If I want skill I'll play real life sport.
UT was more fun. That's all that counts.
How about you do the obvious thing and download Rails and give it a go?
There are many applications - web applications - that I wouldn't use RoR for. There are also certain applications that can be written in a day using RoR that will take a couple of weeks in (e.g.) Java.
Throw in testing time, ease of maintenance, likelihood of bugs, and there are situations where RoR is clearly the right answer.
I'm a hardcore Java fanatic, but Rails is for certain uses quite superb. What I don't know and want to find out is where the boundaries are - at which level of complexity/functionality/scale does Rails cease to have productivity gains and other frameworks/approaches become better choices.
The article is not hype; it may not be entirely objectively written but it also doesn't lie. Ruby on Rails is not bull.
No, because I'm in the UK. Prosecute me under UK laws or secure your servers.
The UK do have a treaty which permits extradition from the US to the UK.
It's existed for a long time.
What we also have is a need to provide evidence before extradition can take place. This is where there's a mismatch - the US don't need to provide evidence before extraditing to the US.
But say I create a website in the UK, looking at the hypothetical question of "How would you assassinate the President of the United States".
Good fun party question, very interesting topic to investigate and ponder, and highly illegal in the US.
Your view is that I should be extraditable to the US for that. My view is that you can go fuck yourself (and ideally your president too).
To you it's a 2 line PERL script. To a true monk it's a multi-system automated intrusion system capable of deploying rootkits and coordinating attacks through an IRC bot network.
Don't underestimate the power of PERL.
Back on topic, another poster summed it up well:
- he's an idiot
- he should be tried in a UK court
70 years in prison in a country he never visited to perform his alleged crime? That's not proportionate.
Find and change your FF pref to read
pref("browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped", true);
Then (editing the
pref("browser.urlbar.autoFill", true);
now open FF, enter en.wikipedia.org in the address bar, hit return. From that point forward, just enter 'en' and hit return - FF will do the rest.
People that read a lot will write better. You learn spelling, grammar and sentence structure by seeing it in use.
So make them read.
Ironic indeed. Although (in the UK) if I let someone rent a room in my house from me, I can claim expenses against that income, and only pay tax on the 'profit'.
What can I say. Governments hate individuals..
Erm, no. Gross profit maybe, but gross income is revenue, and taxing on revenue would be unfeasibly harsh.
Income : $10b
Costs : $9b
Tax rate : 30%
Do you pay $3b or $300k?
(answer: you pay nothing - that's what accountants and tax lawyers are for)
TreeMap is a red-black tree implementation. To store a single node you need to store
- key
- value
- red or black
- child nodes (left and right)
I haven't checked up red-black trees for a while, so i can't remember whether this is necessary or just more efficient, but you want to also store
- parent node
Java uses an object to wrap this lot together. So already we have five object references, a boolean and an object. Each reference is 4 bytes in size, so that gives you 16 bytes, plus the size of the object (a minimum of 8 bytes) and a couple of bytes for the boolean (red or black). So already every entry in the tree is 26 bytes in size before you even add any data.
Could you implement a red-black tree using less memory in another language? Almost certainly. Could you implement your search in Java using less memory? You said so yourself.
Is a red-black tree the correct mechanism to use for your purposes? I don't know; I do know that if I'm asked to write a web search engine I'll do some research on algorithms first, and use the one that makes the most sense.
The machine was someone's laptop. Of course, that tells you nothing of the complexity of the search.
Put another way: The search was functionally the same as one written in SQL running on an Oracle database hosted on a Sun F15K with approx. 16 CPUs and a few gig of RAM.
The java in-memory search ran faster than the Oracle search.
That is also a pointless comparison; I know for certain I could optimise the Oracle search quite considerably, and simplify it massively. To do so without changing the results it returns would be an extensive and painful exercise. Also, the Java search dealt with a specific class of search; the Oracle PL/SQL was handling multiple classes of search (hence its complexity).
All good fun. But still demonstrates the ability of the language to handle the issue, in a sensible and performant manner.
I've written working software in Eiffel. It's a bit tedious, but that doesn't mean you couldn't get productive with a good IDE.
The biggest problem is skillsets. Not many Eiffel experts out there, especially compared to C++/Java/Perl/PHP and even
I'm not worried about my own code, my own personal projects. I'm looking at what to recommend to 30 man development teams..
Regretably in my professional life I encounter far more the inept than I do the truly elegant writer of poetic code.
I'd suggest that's sloppy coding - if nothing else, one of the first things you should do is provide a default 'oops' page that hides such details from the user.
You see the same issue with LAMP or ASP based websites too. It's a common curse
Oh please. Who evaluates languages on the simplicity of a "Hello World" application.
However, just to play along: They're both equally easy to read. One of them has a lot of context; the other doesn't. A fairer comparison would have been the call to System.out against the print statement.
Even now I don't know whether your second example will append a carriage return to the output..