huh cool, i may check out cscope. one place where VS falls short for me is recording and playing back macros within the editor. (i'm not sure why i do this so much, but i do) It has the feature, but it's ultra-bloated an unresponsive. For that i generally copy whatever file i'm working on into the lightweight crimson editor, do the macro stuff, and copy it back.
+1 VSE. the editor is allright (actually i prefer vi or crimson editor for straight-up text editing) but VS has a couple features which are hard to find elsewhere: * a very fast find-in-files: this may seem unsexy, but it's the number one thing i use VS for. it's so much easier to search for a symbol than navigate a source hierarchy. VS must be building indexes or something, because it takes just a second or so to grep a largish codebase for a symbol while actual grep takes maybe ten or fifteen. * memory breakpoints: being able to break when a particular byte of memory is changed is pretty cool. i'm not sure if VS express has it. there is a hefty performance overhead tho, so you really only want to use it when smaller guns haven't panned out, if you'll pardon the mixed metaphors.
i was a regular purchaser of whole tomato's VS code-completion-companion tool for several versions, but around 2007 i un-installed it due to general crapiness of recent versions.
in the big scheme of things, i think it's good not to rely on any IDE too much. time-savings are cool, but so is understanding what the heck is going on.
it would be interesting to hook this up in a feedback loop to something that randomly/genetically mutated images and used acquine's score as the fitness function.
try uploading this image (it's clean) several times. it generally gets a 98.9, but sometimes gets a 5.6. after mirroring the image it generally gets a slightly reduced 98.4 but occasionally gets a 35.4.
and this isn't a computer research project at all but rather a sly psychological study trying to gather a collection of images which real humans are aesthetically interested in...perhaps correlated by IP / physical region or perhaps correlated to before and after being posted on slashdot.
this may be surprising to you and vinylrecords, but this app isn't claiming to say squat about "art", it's claiming to simulate human aesthetic reactions. (and apparently doing a dubious job of it but at least it's trying)
> The domination of polygon and SDS workflow in 3D modeling was mostly about the convenience for the artist.
which is how it should be. i'm a 3D tools engineer for games, and imo it's all about whatever enables the artist to be as freely creative as possible. that's what computers are for.
you're just letting them know you're a live account. i've been very happy with using sneakemail.com, an email anonymizer which makes it very convenient to create a new email address every time you register with any given site.
an excellent point. however i wonder if the difference in density due to salinity between iceberg ice and ocean water is the same as that between freshwater ice and the "concentrated saltwater" shown in the experiment.
also, glacier ice often contains small pockets of compressed air, which is why it fizzes and pops when put in a glass of water, and this may also affect its density.
i'm not sure i see the problem w/ that sentence. i agree the semantics are fuzzy, but the sentence structure seems fine. you mean the apples-to-oranges comparison of expansion in one dimension and "strength" in another ?
i agree, the reason i don't use GIMP is not a lack of features, it's the cumbersome UI. technically, imagemagick has a ton of these features also. i feel like i spend 70% of my time with GIMP just managing windows, navigating dialogs, etc, compared to about 30% with CS. for simple image tasks like futzing with brightness or mocking up a UI for work, my app of choice is PaintShop Pro 7. it launches instantly and is very lightweight yet has layers, a UI that does the job and gets out of the way, etc. But Corel bought PSP and since version 9 and especially 10 it's been a bloated unfriendly beast.
there's a small chance the comet may actually appear brighter over the next couple days, because it happens to be moving into direct opposition to the sun (ie the sun, earth, and comet will be lined up in a nearly straight line and in that order), and the opposition effect may increase light reflected from the coma.
agreed that the variance in outgoing velocities will be maximal when the bodies have a head-on collision and minimal when they have a "collision" while moving nearly parallel. so these two bodies were moving more or less perpendicularly, which to me leaves plenty of room for specular collision to produce debris heading straight down. think of how the velocities of two billiard balls can be wildly different from their velocities before collision, all the while maintaining the total momentum of the system.
say i hang out with Suzy a lot, and my wife thinks we're just friends but we're actually banging all over town, and one evening Suzy and i go to Power Exchange as usual, but unbeknownst to me she's made herself wildly trackable online, and my wife idly discovers we weren't at the weekly meeting of the cartography association as i'd so conveniently had her convinced.
obviously this is far-fetched, since everyone knows it's bad form to have an affair with the indiscreet, but it illustrates the point. think about all the times you've been somewhere with someone when the fact of your being together isn't a secret, but your location should have been.
how many non-technical friends do you have who think getting their computer totally overrun with malware sounds like a pretty good idea ?
probably not many.
but how many of those non-technical friends have computers which are totally overrun with malware because they install shit willy-nilly ?
.. people are dumb, and lots of people will install this without thinking it through. so yeah, tier-one popular software providers [should] have an obligation to protect people from themselves. whether google's efforts in this direction with the software at hand fall short, as TFA suggests, i don't particularly know. but the argument "don't install it if you don't want it" isn't particularly germane.
true, it could be coincidental - earth may have captured it or it could be a total fluke, but looking at the simulation of the orbits, it sure *looks* like they were once one body.
since the asteroid is coorbital, it's a little misleading to say that it's "passing" within 400,000 miles. what's really interesting is that it will be at more or less that same distance for many months, suggesting that it and earth share a common history.
good points, but if you do use more than one machine (which frankly, i do) or don't back up your safe or something, you could be in for some hassle. (actually i forget passwords on a regular basis and just rely on "forgot password" features)
i'm not sure how my idea is insecure - it's a hash of the site name plus a personal master password. i guess if your master password got out though you'd be fux0red, but the same could be said for a password safe.
this is a great idea but also sounds like a PITA, having to look up a random pw to log into a site. you could 'generate' a hashed password for each site, and just remember the salt. that way if your safe got lost or you didn't have access to it you could still derive your password for each site.
fwiw, all signs point to the solar minimum being over: there have been several sunspots in the past couple weeks. we can very reasonably expect solar maximum in about five to six years, so this seems like an excellent time to be raising the issue of infrastructure fragilities. the timing is a little late, if anything.
> Poland.. is also one of the poorest countries in Europe
slight clarification: that link says that Poland is one of the poorest countries in the EU. i think Moldava and other European countries not in the EU may be poorer.
actually, high-power LEDs such as Philips's Luxeon series are quite robust in the face of surprising amounts of heat. I've run enough current through them so that they melted their soldering several times, and while its true their efficiency declines with heat, they suffered no permanent damage. When you put an amp and half through one of those suckers, they're literally stunningly bright.
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huh cool, i may check out cscope.
one place where VS falls short for me is recording and playing back macros within the editor. (i'm not sure why i do this so much, but i do) It has the feature, but it's ultra-bloated an unresponsive. For that i generally copy whatever file i'm working on into the lightweight crimson editor, do the macro stuff, and copy it back.
+1 VSE. the editor is allright (actually i prefer vi or crimson editor for straight-up text editing) but VS has a couple features which are hard to find elsewhere:
* a very fast find-in-files: this may seem unsexy, but it's the number one thing i use VS for. it's so much easier to search for a symbol than navigate a source hierarchy. VS must be building indexes or something, because it takes just a second or so to grep a largish codebase for a symbol while actual grep takes maybe ten or fifteen.
* memory breakpoints: being able to break when a particular byte of memory is changed is pretty cool. i'm not sure if VS express has it. there is a hefty performance overhead tho, so you really only want to use it when smaller guns haven't panned out, if you'll pardon the mixed metaphors.
i was a regular purchaser of whole tomato's VS code-completion-companion tool for several versions, but around 2007 i un-installed it due to general crapiness of recent versions.
in the big scheme of things, i think it's good not to rely on any IDE too much. time-savings are cool, but so is understanding what the heck is going on.
it would be interesting to hook this up in a feedback loop to something that randomly/genetically mutated images and used acquine's score as the fitness function.
try uploading this image (it's clean) several times. it generally gets a 98.9, but sometimes gets a 5.6. after mirroring the image it generally gets a slightly reduced 98.4 but occasionally gets a 35.4.
and this isn't a computer research project at all but rather a sly psychological study trying to gather a collection of images which real humans are aesthetically interested in. ..perhaps correlated by IP / physical region or perhaps correlated to before and after being posted on slashdot.
this may be surprising to you and vinylrecords,
but this app isn't claiming to say squat about "art",
it's claiming to simulate human aesthetic reactions.
(and apparently doing a dubious job of it but at least it's trying)
hah! nice Burn After Reading reference.
i expect this will become the hallmark phrase of data ransom notes everywhere.
> The domination of polygon and SDS workflow in 3D modeling was mostly about the convenience for the artist.
which is how it should be.
i'm a 3D tools engineer for games, and imo it's all about whatever enables the artist to be as freely creative as possible. that's what computers are for.
you're just letting them know you're a live account.
i've been very happy with using sneakemail.com, an email anonymizer which makes it very convenient to create a new email address every time you register with any given site.
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an excellent point.
however i wonder if the difference in density due to salinity between iceberg ice and ocean water is the same as that between freshwater ice and the "concentrated saltwater" shown in the experiment.
also, glacier ice often contains small pockets of compressed air, which is why it fizzes and pops when put in a glass of water, and this may also affect its density.
i'm not sure i see the problem w/ that sentence. i agree the semantics are fuzzy, but the sentence structure seems fine. you mean the apples-to-oranges comparison of expansion in one dimension and "strength" in another ?
i agree, the reason i don't use GIMP is not a lack of features, it's the cumbersome UI. technically, imagemagick has a ton of these features also. i feel like i spend 70% of my time with GIMP just managing windows, navigating dialogs, etc, compared to about 30% with CS. for simple image tasks like futzing with brightness or mocking up a UI for work, my app of choice is PaintShop Pro 7. it launches instantly and is very lightweight yet has layers, a UI that does the job and gets out of the way, etc. But Corel bought PSP and since version 9 and especially 10 it's been a bloated unfriendly beast.
there's a small chance the comet may actually appear brighter over the next couple days, because it happens to be moving into direct opposition to the sun (ie the sun, earth, and comet will be lined up in a nearly straight line and in that order), and the opposition effect may increase light reflected from the coma.
agreed that the variance in outgoing velocities will be maximal when the bodies have a head-on collision and minimal when they have a "collision" while moving nearly parallel. so these two bodies were moving more or less perpendicularly, which to me leaves plenty of room for specular collision to produce debris heading straight down. think of how the velocities of two billiard balls can be wildly different from their velocities before collision, all the while maintaining the total momentum of the system.
say i hang out with Suzy a lot,
and my wife thinks we're just friends but we're actually banging all over town,
and one evening Suzy and i go to Power Exchange as usual,
but unbeknownst to me she's made herself wildly trackable online,
and my wife idly discovers we weren't at the weekly meeting of the cartography association as i'd so conveniently had her convinced.
obviously this is far-fetched, since everyone knows it's bad form to have an affair with the indiscreet, but it illustrates the point. think about all the times you've been somewhere with someone when the fact of your being together isn't a secret, but your location should have been.
how many non-technical friends do you have who think getting their computer totally overrun with malware sounds like a pretty good idea ?
probably not many.
but how many of those non-technical friends have computers which are totally overrun with malware because they install shit willy-nilly ?
seriously. this is by far the most irresponsibly misleading summary title i've ever seen on Slashdot, on top of what seems to be bullsh*t science.
true, it could be coincidental - earth may have captured it or it could be a total fluke, but looking at the simulation of the orbits, it sure *looks* like they were once one body.
probably it's a lost mesozoic space capsule.
since the asteroid is coorbital, it's a little misleading to say that it's "passing" within 400,000 miles. what's really interesting is that it will be at more or less that same distance for many months, suggesting that it and earth share a common history.
according to this java simulation of the object's orbit, it won't be this close again until about 2100.
good points, but if you do use more than one machine (which frankly, i do)
or don't back up your safe or something, you could be in for some hassle.
(actually i forget passwords on a regular basis and just rely on "forgot password" features)
i'm not sure how my idea is insecure - it's a hash of the site name plus a personal master password. i guess if your master password got out though you'd be fux0red, but the same could be said for a password safe.
this is a great idea but also sounds like a PITA,
having to look up a random pw to log into a site.
you could 'generate' a hashed password for each site, and just remember the salt.
that way if your safe got lost or you didn't have access to it you could still derive your password for each site.
eg, password = MD5(siteName + myAwesomeSecretSalt) + charsToMakeItPassPasswordRequirements.
wow, three years. way to take the long view.
fwiw, all signs point to the solar minimum being over:
there have been several sunspots in the past couple weeks.
we can very reasonably expect solar maximum in about five to six years,
so this seems like an excellent time to be raising the issue of infrastructure fragilities. the timing is a little late, if anything.
> Poland .. is also one of the poorest countries in Europe
slight clarification:
that link says that Poland is one of the poorest countries in the EU.
i think Moldava and other European countries not in the EU may be poorer.
> and they break when they get too hot.
actually, high-power LEDs such as Philips's Luxeon series are quite robust in the face of surprising amounts of heat. I've run enough current through them so that they melted their soldering several times, and while its true their efficiency declines with heat, they suffered no permanent damage. When you put an amp and half through one of those suckers, they're literally stunningly bright.