I find it humorous how ancient writers went into great detail about how torture was done. Thy weren't ancient writers, they were ancient storytellers. These stories were passed by word of mouth first, and the gory details tend to be the ones that stick in your memory and are easiest to retell.
The actual processing involved may not be difficult, but for simple tasks like that, the user sees the responsiveness, not the processing time. That is, when I hit / for a search in 2.0, it may take 5-10 seconds for the bar to come up before I can type anything (esp. on large pages that are still loading), but once I start typing, the search happens immediately. This is a much harder thing to fix, since it would require hunting down all the related bottlenecks, which may not be right in the search code, but almost anywhere else in the app.
Memory allocated to Firefox is not available memory, and cannot be used for anything if Firefox isn't using it. This is not necessarily true. In most applications, if a memory page is not being actively used (aka read or written to recently), it can be swapped to disk to make room for more stuff. Unfortunately, Firefox prevents this with most of its memory, unless you enable a hidden option (config.trim_on_minimize), which lets Windows do its thing (not sure how this setting affects Linux).
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There _is_ a portable gVim here. And for built in vi, Firefox has the ViewSourceWith plugin, which works just great with gVim. It lets you edit any textarea using the editor of your choice.
(I'm not affiliated with either of these, they're just good software.)
I have the Kleinberg/Tardos book for one of my classes. You're right, it is pretty basic -- it does not really go into implementation, it is more about the theory behind certain algorithms and proving that they work. If you are looking more for different approaches to certain problems, and suggestions about implementing them, I would not suggest this book.
RIAA bets 1 bogus charge
Defendant raises 1 "let me see your evidence"
RIAA sees "let me see your evidence" and raises 1 "give me your hard drive"
Defendant raises 1 countersuit
RIAA folds.
I think it's more than just the "hierarchical organization of music" that is being disputed. There are also glaring similarities between the interfaces on the two systems. For example... http://www.grumet.net/weblog/archives/images/mini- v-zen.jpg (not my photo)
Executing code remotely really _is_ a feature... When it's code that you want executed. I work in IT and we'd need a small army instead of just a 7-person department if we couldn't do all the remote administration we do.
a greater threat than illegal peer-to-peer downloading, according to the RIAA
Yes, because, at least for p2p, they have their sueing and scare-tactics. The RIAA didn't get their claws on CD-burning technology early enough to prevent its use for pirating music, so they see it as a greater threat.
You could just turn on POP forwarding and use your favorite email client. Or if you want a really minimal view, use http://m.gmail.com/. I agree with the above, though, keep your inbox empty and use search. That's how Gmail was designed to be used.
strcpy copies one string into a location without caring about how much space there actually is. Meaning a hacker (or careless programmer) can write too much into that location and overwrite important data (such as the stack). See Buffer Overflow.
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OpenGL's grave will likely be right next to Unix, X, vi and C
As I use all 4 on a regular basis, I was about to jump on my flamewagon as soon as I read this, until I got to the next part.
The actual processing involved may not be difficult, but for simple tasks like that, the user sees the responsiveness, not the processing time. That is, when I hit / for a search in 2.0, it may take 5-10 seconds for the bar to come up before I can type anything (esp. on large pages that are still loading), but once I start typing, the search happens immediately. This is a much harder thing to fix, since it would require hunting down all the related bottlenecks, which may not be right in the search code, but almost anywhere else in the app.
There _is_ a portable gVim here. And for built in vi, Firefox has the ViewSourceWith plugin, which works just great with gVim. It lets you edit any textarea using the editor of your choice. (I'm not affiliated with either of these, they're just good software.)
I have the Kleinberg/Tardos book for one of my classes. You're right, it is pretty basic -- it does not really go into implementation, it is more about the theory behind certain algorithms and proving that they work. If you are looking more for different approaches to certain problems, and suggestions about implementing them, I would not suggest this book.
It's like a bad poker game.
RIAA bets 1 bogus charge
Defendant raises 1 "let me see your evidence"
RIAA sees "let me see your evidence" and raises 1 "give me your hard drive"
Defendant raises 1 countersuit
RIAA folds.
I think it's more than just the "hierarchical organization of music" that is being disputed. There are also glaring similarities between the interfaces on the two systems. For example... http://www.grumet.net/weblog/archives/images/mini- v-zen.jpg (not my photo)
Executing code remotely really _is_ a feature... When it's code that you want executed. I work in IT and we'd need a small army instead of just a 7-person department if we couldn't do all the remote administration we do.
a greater threat than illegal peer-to-peer downloading, according to the RIAA
Yes, because, at least for p2p, they have their sueing and scare-tactics. The RIAA didn't get their claws on CD-burning technology early enough to prevent its use for pirating music, so they see it as a greater threat.
You could just turn on POP forwarding and use your favorite email client. Or if you want a really minimal view, use http://m.gmail.com/. I agree with the above, though, keep your inbox empty and use search. That's how Gmail was designed to be used.
one study found they were as bad at reacting as someone who had a BAC of the legal limit
MythBusters, episode 33.
Yes it would, but if you _do_ own that bit of memory, you just corrupted your data without realizing it.
strcpy copies one string into a location without caring about how much space there actually is. Meaning a hacker (or careless programmer) can write too much into that location and overwrite important data (such as the stack). See Buffer Overflow.
I don't know about the source, but you can get the paper right here. It has a little more details than the article.
This sounds exactly like what good ol' Diablo did. Players and NPCs jumped around like that all the time.