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In Windows it is a bit odd anyway, as anything drawn using GDI or GDI+ goes through the CPU. This includes the "classic" interface. For accelerated interfaces (Aero), the GPU is involved (but don't ask me how - perhaps someone could elaborate?), so on rubbish GPUs it may be slower than going through the CPU, perhaps? Windows should tell you that your computer is rubbish so won't attempt to use the Aero interface.

If you elect to not use the Aero interface, it'll then attempt to mimic the Aero interface entirely in software using GDI+. This is indeed far slower, as the command to draw a series of lines and bevels obviously means more CPU calls than a single "draw grey rectangle" command. The interface is not drawn using precached bitmaps, but is done by software commands. More complicated drawing = more CPU = slower

Windows gives the option to turn off effects like shadows and transparency, window contents whilst dragging etc. in "performance" options in Control Panel, as these would mean more CPU calls (there's more drawing going on). If it wasn't faster, why would it be under "performance"?

But as you state, to a human perceptible degree it may not be noticed. I find that opening Windows Explorer on Windows XP is a far faster drawing experience than opening it on Windows 7, where it needs to fade into view and then redraw the tree on the left, the pane on the right, the toolbar with gradients (gradients are not free!), the "places" tree above the tree on the left (how confusing), and the giant blue panel that sits at the bottom to draw a picture of a computer in addition to the status bar.

File Manager on Windows 3.1 was really fast by comparison.

EDIT: Actually, on OSX I am left with "whitewashed concrete grey" with "primary pre-school colour" red orange and green. Full circle really!
aloof, self-centered, unhelpful. Classic.
And each EU country implements the directives as it sees fit and can vary widely compare how TUPE is handled for example.

So you can expect some EU countries to play favorites with there ex PTO or Powerful Media interests.
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Most civil and criminal cases are adjudicated by a judge alone.
Did I miss a bit in this article - the innocently convicted man did 25 years. The prosecutor, knowing his innocence, withheld the evidence that allowed this conviction to pass but only did 500 hours (approx. 3 months) of community service and 10 days in prison.

An innocent man lost 25 years of his life and the man who caused this eventually, after a reasonably successful career lost what may as well equate to some vacation time...

Am I the only one who is horrified at this? Okay, so he got more than a slap on the wrist, but what the fuck is this?! That's bullshit! Pardon my linguistics, but my horror at this injustice leaves me short for words.

The only restitution that would make this even marginally okay is if the prosecutor/judge had been required to:

- House the convicted man.

- Set him up with training that would allow the convicted to re-integrate meaningfully into today's society.

- Assist the man to find meaningful and gainful employment.

- Set him up with a pension plan that would have been equivalent to see him through retirement.

- Set him up for success in the manner in which he would have been able to provide for himself had he been a free man.

- Feed him, clothe him and pay his utility bills until such a time as his income would allow him to successfully stand on his own two feet.

Even then, he owes this man 25 years of his service to make up for what was taken from him. If that bankrupts his accuser, so be it.
@brendangregg It was my bad, and you're totally right. I should not have let that fall to the wayside here. We're adding it ASAP. I'm sorry about that.
I really don't care for the problems with our USPTO related law(s), but if you're going to go full-internet-trade-mark-pedant or whatever shouldn't you make use of the unicode glyphs ® or ™ when referring to LEGO^® bricks?

I do like the top comment at SE though, that was a pleasant surprise. excerpt from SE comment follows:

>Owners of trademarks are free to make whatever pronouncements they like regarding how people should use their trademarks. Users of the English language, however, have the final say of how the English language works.

>Just as watches made by Rolex are “Rolexes”, Apple computers are “Macs”, shoes made by Puma are “Pumas”, cars made by Audi are “Audis”, portable video games made by Nintendo are “Game Boys”, by the same process toys made by Lego are “Legos”.
>Really? You miss that special "concrete gray and primary blue" feel?

At least it was easy to read. Nowadays I often can't really focus on UIs because of lacking contrasts.

While now everything looks more "nice" the usability (as in how easy it is for the eyes to focus/find something) often is worse than it was some time ago.
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Stallman using vim. Good joke.
Verifiable is not the same as the stated goal of "as open as possible at a reasonable price using obtainable components". The latter is somewhat flexible, the former is extremely hard to achieve even for milspec gear.
Are all US (criminal) court cases jury cases? Must be noted that this is only true for the US and other common law states, a lot of countries do not have or have only very limited notions of juries.
FWIW, I swore I was looking at Win98, and was surprised to learn (it's on the page, straight from Dennis Richie himself) that that's actually WinNT4. I would never have guessed.

I plan to get my 486SX put back together; here's hoping it works. It has 8MB of RAM. (And an SB16... and a radio card... and I recently came upon an ISA ethernet card which hopefully works.....) :D

I remember the first time I enabled Web view in '98 and discovered View Source in my desktop menu. I closed Notepad very quickly. lol

I'm looking forward to building CDE and running it, FWIW. Hopefully I can get it working on something appropriately old! :P

BeOS et. al. FTW. I hope to seriously play around with it sometime soon.

The reason I commented was because I've historically had terrible hardware too :P but it's made me realize how much old/unoptimized/inefficient hardware is so badly needed by developers today... new computers are like new cars, strong, silent types, not like the old noisy tech of old where you could get a visceral idea of what you were doing by sensing the system lag - like on my old 800MHz Duron I was using earlier this year, the mouse cursor could lag four different ways and I knew what each one meant (disk I/O, swapping to death, CPU usage by one process, or CPU usage by many processes). On this note, Netflix' new internal Flux monitoring system is interesting, it provides an "unconscious-compatible" view of data in the same vein.

And yeah, I saw the Netscape screenshots. The scrollbars look really cool IMO.

You might like to look into http://xpra.org, it's sort of VNC + "wow". :P

What else is there...

You might like to have a look at http://vmwaros.blogspot.com

Haxial KDX might be a fun (pointless :P) thing to chase...

Hm, I can't think of anything else. The x86 assembler in bash that was on here last fortnight comes to mind, but nothing else is coming to mind right now...
Sounds like it aims to be a (much) faster darcs. But between the name and the fact that they are trying to maintain two separate codebases (OCaml and Scala) that both do the same thing, I'm not super optimistic about its prospects.
I hear Microsoft a history of taking Apple's UI and copying it for non-Apple devices.
Seems T-Mobile US is the only one in the lot that does not mess with your bits in the middle, and the other carriers may be having a chat with the fcc... And / or the copywrite owners of the content being modified without consent.
All of a sudden, tin foil hats get a whole new meaning.
He should be required to assist the innocent man to get back on his feet, find him a job, house him and set him up for success for what life he has left. If the innocent was close to enough to retirement that he wouldn't be able to retire, he should be required to pay into a pension plan that would have seen the man comfortably through retirement and restore everything that this man would have had the opportunity to provide for himself had he been free. Only then would 10 days and 500 hours of community service seem to be even marginally in the ball park of justice.
How am I, a voter, supposed to know that long ago somebody hid something that wasn't even able to be discovered in the court he was in at the time?
I wish people wouldn't jump to conclusions with out all the facts. We don't know who bought what. Google has some of the team. Handy was in talks to by homejoy. who knows who else is involved. if handy bought the data they would have a right to their own copy.
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Packet copies: Expensive or cheap?
Jump threading can also enables additional optimizations. For instance, if you apply jump threading to

int eight(int a) {
int b;
if (a) {
b = 1;
} else {
b = a;
}
b += 3;
if (a) {
return b + b;
} else {
return b + 5;
}
}

you duplicate the "b += 3;" but both branches can be optimized afterwards. In fact, the function always returns 8.
It's common to not know how to do something, and easy to find out how if you decide to. There's nothing very special or beneficial to me about a) not bothering to figure something out and b) broadcasting that. "I don't have X running so I took a photograph instead, here it is" would be more useful and more humble.
adding two and a half ounces to the weight of a plastic yogurt container makes the yogurt seem about twenty-five per cent more filling

Weight loss product idea - food weights.
> ...snapshot-based systems can be extremely fast, but require an in-depth knowledge of their internals

This is false, as demonstrated by Mercurial.
"Organized crime?"

"Don't kid yourself, it's not that organized."

-Sneakers
for some levels of income

Absolutely. In the past times of high inequality it was routine for the comparatively small number of "middle class" people to have at least one member of domestic staff, often a woman who would cook and clean. This absolutely relies on high income inequality and low tax overhead of having an employee, who themselves would not have a pension or social security.
Not just political views.

Most people would agree that mentally ill people should not have children.

But what constitutes mentally ill? The line is fuzzy - perhaps someone is just a bit "quirky", but still could be a good parent?

In order to have a license the criteria would have to be crystal clear and added to the Constitution (sorry, US-centric). And even if in the Constitution, someone could abuse it (see: NSA, surveillance).
Habit making and breaking
Reminded me of this article (link below with TL;DR). So we have two strong examples of how changing environment can reduce crime and improve lives. Perhaps we should change our current educational and judicial policies?

TL;DR: after hurricaine Katrina, many people who relocated from the lowest-income, highest-crime areas in New Orleans (and many of whom had previous convictions) improved their circumstances--reduced recidivism, higher standards of living, etc. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/08/24/starting-over-d...
Yes, context is the magic word. Fiddling with the wording of titles, not so much.
"Undesired" could mean anything the local community/neighborhood decides it to be. Personally, I would not want anyone with criminal records in my neighborhood/private property. Is that perfect? No, but it's a good start.

Whitelisting would also be more difficult to maintain, but is already done in a lot of gated complexes I've seen. Where the individual phones ahead, and get's given a ticket that has a day pass or something.

Ultimately, I believe this will get a lot of backlash as it will make a lot of people uncomfortable as to the implications.
Dude, I am quoting verbatim from your website. I have never said that you can't use Java libraries in Ceylon. I have said it is Ceylon's goal to replace Java's libraries, and that is lifted from your website. In fact, I don't even know why you're arguing, as you have not mentioned even a single point where you disagree with what I've said, yet you keep calling me a liar and a fabulist for some reason (for the record, I'm not). For all I know, we're in perfect agreement. What is it that I'm supposedly lying about? Have I misquoted Ceylon's stated design goals? Have I said that Ceylon's Java interop is bad? Ceylon's Java interop is radically different from Kotlin's because it was designed that way! You have clearly said that unlike other projects that want to work with the JDK as-is (Kotlin is one), Ceylon seeks to replace the libraries. You view that decision as a strength and place it high on the Ceylon FAQ, while Kotlin views the opposite decision as a strength. Both are fine, but the difference should be noted. It is you who is putting words in my mouth and insisting on arguing even though I don't even know what about. So unless you're willing to actually state what it is that you disagree with, please stop calling me a liar, thanks.
It also was highly effective at having loads of female babies/embryos/foetuses aborted and the demographics skewed in favour of too many men: http://www.forbes.com/sites/china/2011/05/13/chinas-growing-...
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FYI he had retired. Taking away his license is purely symbolic and entirely consistent with this light tap on the wrist.
Yes I have seen schemes like this used, but the analysis is at most done on one day only and can be exceptionally expensive (labour costs).

To reduce costs local authorities use the simpler and poorer cable counts. ALPR gives full visibility of traffic flow. Something other tracking systems are taking to their logical conclusion http://insights.strava.com/
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I think it's just a matter of keep it simple so it stay fast, since this is the whole philosophy behind NoSQL.
Cool. Is there any other Docker registry web fronted and/or user and ACL tool besides this and cesanta/docker_auth?

Some notes (IMO):

- would be more cool to package this as a single docker image which people can docker pull

- rather than supplying a registry image, I'd just instruct people what they need to set in their registry (seems that those are atm notification[endpoints] and auth[token]).

- supervisor sucks, is there really no other way to do async tasks with Docker and Rails? I'd even rather do it from another container rather than with supervisor.

- this https://github.com/SUSE/Portus/blob/master/docker/registry/e... is ugly and needs special entrypoint. Why not just force a link name to the registry in the compose file?

Overall the project looks great and I'm gonna try it out!
Singapore is doing fine at high population density.
X-rays would do better, but you know, dangerous. On a less sarcastic note, yes, there are frequencies which would be better suited for a specific target material, but like Jach said, regulations and cost are what keeps this things in the WiFi spectrum. I think it also has a kind of "wow factor" when told to non-technical people.
Which is funny because the effect was important on a 100MHz Pentium, but pretty much negligible beyond that.
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I agree that greed isn't passion, but "space" here is industry jargon for things like "business domain" or "market" or "customer segment". He could by lying (that is¸ saying he's passionate about something he's not) or wrong (confusing greed or familiarity or obsession for passion).
Your "ethical rule order" is already a feature of American jurisprudence. Violating it is why this prosecutor is doing any time at all.
This seems like a classic case of novice developers thinking it's a great idea to re-invent the wheel. The page gives no compelling reason why I'd want to adopt this over the much more mature solutions out there.

I say they are novice because they are maintaining two parallel codebases, which is a mistake no experienced developer would make.
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Exactly. There is really profound computer illiteracy in this country (the US), and this kind of mundane, practical scripting is both the most common sort of programming that people should do, and also the biggest hole in computer education. And yet most people probably think the way to learn programming is to take a course on iOS app design rather than batch file rename or how to automate the boring stuff with Python.
https://automatetheboringstuff.com/
This is the point: if there ever was a baby in that bath, it's dead now. Read what Patio11 wrote again and realize his situation isn't an isolated incident. It's the norm.

Tell me, cpach, why did you feel the need to defend the news establishment? You obviously think there's some value they're bringing to the table. What is that value?
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Really? They can do that? Wow. If they did that to me, it apparently didn't hurt my chances, I've always been offered jobs I've applied for.

You usually have to sign something when you apply giving them permission, so if you didn't do that then it probably didn't happen. Though in any case I doubt "no credit history" would be a bad sign for an employment offer; they're likely only looking for specifically negative events.
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True it can feed and house many more people, but eventually we'll reach the cap.
Corporations being central to the operations of academia is bad news. It's bad now with Elsevier and its ilk. It'll be bad in the future if Academia.edu starts mattering for tenure.

Here's the solution. It's a steep climb.

Persuasive academics need to start convincing people with money to donate millions and millions to not-for-profit collaborations of universities and government research entities to start open research and open-source journals. Truly altruistic people need to start and run these journals, convinced of their mission of providing open research to all the world. They need to be motivated by the mission. The money needs to be there too. But given the choice between optimizing selling widgets for Amazon, or providing the world with free access to all research the world over... what job would you choose?

The gov't could support it too, but I'd rather their support go towards actual research than a collaboration. There's too much bureaucracy when you take money from the gov't.
> you can do everything with it that you can do with the same class in Java

Of course! I have not said otherwise. I have said that you can't do with them everything you can do with Ceylon classes, hence -- not first-class citizens.

Now, I would appreciate you stop calling me names, because I haven't called you names. On the other hand, you have not addressed even a single one of the main points I've raised, except come back with great fury against some statements I've made that may not have been clear. So I would also appreciate you taking the time to understand what it is that I'm saying rather than what it is you think I'm saying, because I have not said a single bad thing about Ceylon in this entire thread (on the other hand, I have paid it and you several compliments because it really is a beautiful language), except that I believe a more compromising approach to language design would prove the more pragmatic one in the long term. Please try to understand what it is that I'm saying before blowing a fuse. We are in total agreement (on the facts, at least).

I joined this discussion to sound an observation about different design philosophies in language design (in rare agreement with a comment by Imm), then I commented to a user who asked about the differences between Ceylon and Kotlin (answer: different design goals), and you just keep calling names left and right and think I'm out to spread FUD or that I have an animosity against Ceylon. Jeez. So I will say it -- again -- just so there's no misunderstanding: Ceylon is a terrific programming language, and anyone whose goals are aligned with the language's goals should definitely give it a try!

If you think I have posted something that is incorrect or can be misunderstood, please add your correction politely. Why politely? Because you just might have misinterpreted my intentions or my words, and by being polite you might avoid saying things you may regret. Even if you really think that I'm trying to hurt your language or just so stupid that I keep making the same mistakes over and over, still keep a polite tone, because other readers of the discussion may not have the same interpretation as you.
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I used to be one of the carried away people. Then I developed a really awesome relationship, and then I fell off of a bicycle and experienced a traumatic brain injury, and the lingering after effect of a head injury or a spinal cord injury is often chronic pain.

Luckily, I can still program. I didn't loose much mental capacity. But there's a thing in the chronic pain support community called the 'theory of spoons.' In short, you get a certain number of spoons when you wake up in the morning. Some days it's more, some days it's less. You give a spoon out for everything you do and every interaction you have. Most days, you'll run out of spoons midway through the day through normal interaction. But when you run out of spoons, you have nothing to stop yourself from just hurting. You don't have anything to give yourself to stop the pain, much less to give to anyone else to make them feel needed in the relationship you have, to make them feel valued at work, to make them feel happy or welcome to be in your home, to produce something awesome on your side project, to make a healthy dinner ... there just aren't enough spoons on any given day. But the worst part is that you end up in physical pain because you've given out all your spoons, and you know that the people around you are hurting emotionally because you don't have any spoons to give them.

Most people eventually learn to budget their spoons carefully. If you're SUPER cautious about it and you put many of your ambitions aside, you can get to a point where you still have a spoon left by the time you get home at night. But it means you're probably not going to be an astronaut, and you probably are very shallowly involved with your community, and you probably aren't going to leave much of a mark on the world outside of the people who love you. Recognizing that early in life is pretty important so that you do have people who love you.
US person here. I grew up calling them Legos. I don't know why. I even spent a Summer in Sweden (and visited Denmark several times) when I was a child; yet I still wound up calling them Legos. I don't refer to sheep (plural) as sheeps, though. I'm just happy that my neighbors aren't including an errant apostrophe ie: Lego's