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| 2003/5/12 [Science/GlobalWarming, Industry/Startup, Computer/SW/Security] UID:28410 Activity:very high |
5/11 http://www.workingassets.com - just a decent phone company that puts money toward good (progressive) causes (for when your email to your congressman stops making you feel good). \_ Shouldn't they be giving the service free!?? Capitalist swine - you are a sell out. \_ yermom gives it out for free and she's still swine. \_ If they are the cheapest and give (your) money away, then this is great. o/w give your own money away, and get the charitable deduction for yourself. \_ the nice thing about opting for world conscious services such as this one is that you show market preference for that type of corporation ethic. other companies will clean up their act if they see that the conscious stick gets customers. \_ wow.... I didn't know people actually believed that.... \_ Kinda like the U.N. I imagine. \_ Except the UN doesn't make a profit, isn't at all 'world conscious', doesn't provide real services, has no competition, and continues collecting money from it's 'members' no matter how well or poorly it does providing no incentive to improve, and has no effective means of controlling either it's own members or it's own staff, officers, and executives who don't ever get reviewed, demoted, fired, or replaced, and is trying to take over the entire world and reduce your national level rights to zero. Yeah, kinda like that. \_ Except for the profit thing, this sounds exactly like Microsoft! \_ You think the UN and MS are in cahoots? |
| 2003/5/12 [Computer/SW/Languages/Misc] UID:28411 Activity:kinda low |
5/12 latex gurus please help. When I complile my latex file to ps and
look at it with gsview, the figures look fine. Then, when i convert
it to pdf, all the text in the figures gets strangely fubared: the
letters are run into eachother somehow. What might cause this?
\_ PDF font embedding?
\_ try using pslatex to compile and see if that helps. -hahnak
\_ ok, so now I tried using ps2pdf on another computer with
the same file and it worked! So, in one sense my problem
is solved, but what the hell happened? Same program, same
file, different computer, different font embedding.
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
\_ different versions? different available fonts? bad magic? |
| 2003/5/12 [Computer/SW/Compilers, Computer/SW/Languages] UID:28412 Activity:kinda low |
5/11 What is "software pipelining"? Is that like multithreaded stuff
doing the same task on different processors? I understand hardware
pipelining completely (took cs152), but don't understand what
software pipelining is. ok thx.
\_ It's a way of reducing loop overhead (much like loop-unrolling).
SW pipelining works by taking replicating the loop body several
times and staggering them in such a way that the instructions
appear in reverse order in the loop body but none of the
instructions have any dependencies within the same iteration.
This helps place distance between dependent instructions. The
major problem with SW pipelining is that you need a really
smart compiler to realize this and there's some startup and
cleanup code you need to tag on.
Original Code
-------------
L1: lw $1 <- MEM
add $2, $1, $1
sw MEM <- $2
bc L1
SW Pipelined Code
-----------------
lw $1 <- MEM
add $2, $1, $1 lw $1 <- MEM
L1: sw MEM <- $2 add $2, $1, $1 lw $1 <- MEM bc L1
sw MEM <- $2 add $2, $1, $1
sw MEM <- $2
\_ so does this require VLIW (issueing 3 cmds in 1 cycle?)
\_ I wrote it in column format to illustrate how to
convert the original code into SW pipelined code.
It has nothing to do with multi-issue.
\_ Multi-issue helps. There's two big reasons to SWP.
One is to take advantage of more instruction-level
parallelism (ILP), because you're running more
instructions concurrently. But even if you don't have
multi-issue, you can still get better latency tolerance
by interleaving instructions from other iterations
while waiting for a long-latency instruction to
complete (in the example above, the load [lw] might
take a long time to return).
\_ one way people use the term is in threaded programming models,
where you have a thread (or pool of threads) to handle a specific
task which then passes work on to another thread/threads.
\_ comment on my reply, the above poster has the more common usage. |
| 2003/5/12 [Uncategorized] UID:28413 Activity:nil |
5/11 God damn, somebody, please point out who censored the thread please. |
| 2003/5/12 [Politics/Foreign/Asia/China] UID:28414 Activity:very high |
5/11 "Doctors say spitting, sometimes referred to as China's national
pastime, can propel droplets to others and inadvertently spread SARS."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&u=/nm/20030512/ts_nm/sars_dc_275
Can someone explain how/why spitting is a pastime?
\_ just more white racism.
\_ isn't the implication obvious? stereotypically speaking,
chinese guys (well, the ones from asia) spit a lot.
-chinese guy that doesn't spit a lot
\_ wow, this is one i hadn't heard before or noticed. is this a
China or Taiwan or all chinese in general thing?
-another chinese guy who rarely spits
\_ Can only vouch for Shanghai and Fujian province, but yes,
all sorts of people were hawking all over the place.
Watched this very beautiful young lady walk down the
street, pause, and hawk a loud one before she continued
sashaying. Talk about culture shock.
\_ I'll vouch for jiangsu province--same thing. snot shots
also.
\_ "sashaying". What a beautiful word. Thanks for using it.
\_ you're welcome!
\_ this is Chinese in general thing. Taiwan had a movement
to get rid of it and had pretty good degree of success.
Beijing is doing the same after they won the Olympic bid.
Beijing is deadily serious about it now :p
\_ In Hong Kong twenty or so years ago they started fining people
HK$2000 (~US$400, with the exchange rate back then) for
spitting onto the ground.
\_ Yankee go home.
\_ I disagree. Among those under 40, I actually find Americans spit
more. Maybe they are just learning from their baseball players.
\_ I've never seen anyone spit unless they had something vile like
a bug fly into their mouth. Dunno which barns you're hanging
out in. Keep your racism and ageism to yourself, thanks.
\_ You need to pop your head out of the pig's arse once in a
while.
\_ You mean I need to hang out in barns and sleep in the
swill with the likes of you? It's a bad thing that I
don't hang out with spitting gutter trash like you?
\_ Next time when our national pasttime is on, stop
hanging out with the pig and yersis in the barn, go
home, turn on the TeeVee and watch the spit fly.
\_ I think smoking is the real national pasttime there.
\_ I agree with the article and I'm chinese. The general perception
amongst the non-mainland chinese is that the mainlanders are
backward rural people with poor personal hygiene. I thought it
was a stereotype until I came into contact with them. Damn. Not
only do the men smoke a lot, they smoke in front of their children
and yes, they do spit a lot also. Also they don't wash their hands
after going to the bathroom. That's one reason why I almost never
go to chinese restaurants. And reason why I never want to go to
china either. The bathrooms are china are scary. No toilet
paper and often no doors! that's right, you crap out in the open.
\_ Plus the toilets are squatters, you're lucky if you have a three
foot high partition, and you have to pay for the experience.
\_ RACIST!
\_ on the bus from one city to another, we stopped for a roadside
break. there were public toilets in the back of one bldg. no
doors on the 2 entrances to the bathrooms, and you could see
a row of squatting toilets. ppl tried to use the less obvious
ones cause when you gotta go, you gotta go. some ppl just
stuck their hands in the common hand washing bucket instead
using the supplied handled cup to get a dunk of water to pour
over your hands. Needless to say, I just held my bladder until
we got to our destination. It was gross, and unsanitary. It's
not RACIST, just 3rd world conditions. also, people on the bus
threw their trash in the middle aisle of the bus. yeech!
\_ What is racist isn't their conditions but your holier than
thou attitude about it. It was gross? They 'live' like
that every single day! 'yeech!' Oh yeah? Well what did
*you* do to help improve their situation? Wore a condom
when you had sex with the 12 year old enslaved prostitute?
\_ I'm not the original "racist" poster, and this is just
commentary of my trip in China. There isn't anything I
could do personally to help them like building new
toilets at every bus stop and so forth. However, I'm
sure that my spending of tourist dollars in their
economy must have helped someone. Sorry, but that's the
best I can do. Perhaps, both you and the original poster
can both work on your attitudes. that said, I really
enjoyed my trip to China and would go back in a heartbeat,
if I had the $$$ and there was no SARS. China is still
3rd world, but is quickly catching up. There is still
something special about old China and it was great to
experience it before they modernize and it's all lost.
In my experience, a lot of city folks look down on the
ppl from the countryside which since it's in China,
cannot be called racism (classism?). But they are the
pillars of the new economy, and the countryside is very
beautiful, and these ppl tend to be quite nice in general.
A lot of ppl working the restaurants are from the
countryside and no one ever seems to say "thank you"
to them, I did, though. and those were some of the most
genuinely beautiful smiles I saw while I was there. Oh,
and I didn't have sex with 12 year olds.
\_ How many of you people disgusted with spitting
get or give blowjobs? |
| 2003/5/12-14 [Computer/Networking] UID:28415 Activity:low |
5/12 I'm doing some structured wiring for my home. I have only been
able to find composite cables that contain 2 cat-5 and 2 coax into
a single cable. I can't seem to find one that contains 3 cat-5 and
2 coax. Anybody done this before and have found a vendor with such
a cable? Thanks.
\_ This doesn't actually answer your question, but when I have some
random cable problem, i check l-com first. they have lots of stuff.
\_ There are plenty of companies that make custom cables at reasonable
rates/foot if your exact cable needs aren't available. |
| 2003/5/12-13 [Politics/Domestic/Election, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:28416 Activity:insanely high |
5/12 Oakland High teens get grilled by Secret Service
http://www.kron.com/Global/story.asp?s=%20%201268949
What did they say? "Gonna put a cap in that fool's ass"?
\_ Card-carrying Republican signing in to say, how inane. I wish more
conservatives would figure out the line between security and
insanity.
\_ Right on. A little more common sense on everyone's part
would serve us well. -op
\_ I agree in part. However, we have to remember how we got to
this point. How has the Federal government accumulated all
of this power and intrusive involvement into virtually every
aspect of our lives. More importantly how has it accumulated
the resources (ie money) to organize such violations.
This irony seems to escape the liberal polity.
The article, BTW, is garbage and provides absolutely zero
information about what happened. Its unreasonable to
speculate without more information.
\_ FASCIST! DOWN WITH WHITEY!
\_ could you elaborate on "this irony" for the more dense of us?
\_ Income tax enacted by Wilson, War on Poverty from Johnson,
Social Security and everything else from FDR, etc. etc. etc.
Liberals created the monster, but both political parties
avail themselves of it. A welfare state is not compatible
with liberty - the founders knew this in the 1700's, and said
as much.
\_ hey are you that guy with the mustache passing
Lyndon LaRouche literature on Sproul? You are
awesome. - danh
\_ Just curious, do you think that the Scandinavians
have liberty? Why or why not?
\_ I don't see why conservatives back Bush. Bush is about as
conservative as Castro is communist. Real conservatives want
US out of UN and US out of Israel, because we need to take care
of our own first. - Real Conservative.
\_ analgous argument for liberals and Gore (or the Democratic
party for that matter). - Real Liberal.
\_ do you regret voting for Nader?
\_ for one, I don't live in a contested state (FL), so,
no. However, even that aside, no, I don't regret it
since I don't think Gore would have done much for the
problems that I feel the country is faced with. I
think its ultimately more valuable for a thrid party
candidate like Nader to gain popularity than to
elect an almost-Republican to office.
\_ isolationism is dangerous. we are a global power;
castrating our foreign policy would be folly. --aaron
\_ unfortunately, what we are doing right now is
constantant expansion of our interest, much like
what British was doing 150 years ago. |
| 2003/5/12-14 [Health/Disease/General] UID:28417 Activity:high |
5/12 Where can I buy N95 masks for SARS? I need to send some overseas to
some relatives. I called <DEAD>fishersci.com<DEAD>, but they're out of stock.
Thanks in advance.
\_ fyi, I ended up paying inflated prices on ebay. -op
\_ I should normally insert new comments at the bottom, but I make
an exception this time. For ordinary, untrained folks, a regular
unless you come into really close contact with patients.
mask is good enough and is actually neither useful nor recommended
unless you come into close contact with patients.
Otherwise it is just about as useful as burning vinegar (read:
useless and meaningless.) By reading all accounts of the spread
of the disease so far, it is clear that SARS is far less spreadable
likely to be caught by surprise.
than flu or cold in its current form (or you would have it by now)
but because it is a new type of disease, our immune system are more
likely to be caught by surprise. Personal (especially hand) hygiene
is far more important. Most people are not trained to wear masks
of any kind, esp. not the ones designed for medical professional.
They are likely to move it around, lifting it with unclean hands
etc. So please, get more sense and do not spread more rumor and
create more confusion. Can you tell you relatives/friends in
Beijing/Taipei or wherever (-1) not to panic (the disease
has killed less in total so far than any one of the common
diseases does in each and every day), (0) to carry on life but stay
vigilant, (1) not to spit, (2) to wash their hands after toilet and
before meals or touching soft tissures
such as eyes, mouth, or, private parts , (3) to be
responsible and conscientious? The people in Beijing originally
thought this is just a problem in Guangzhou and took no notice.
The people in Taiwan thought this was just a mainland problem and
they just barred entries of all mainlanders and began celebrating
the superiority of themselves. Both were surprised by local
chains of transmissions. Disease can start in a hog farm in Ohio
or Guanzhou, but it can affect anyone. People in poorer regions
have less resource to cope with it. If you guys (not just the
original poster) are feeling supposedly so different and
superior for being here, maybe you want it reflected in your
thoughtfulness and knowledge, rather than the lack thereof?
Oh yes, the masks. Forget about it. They have plenty of masks
that work.
\_ ok, so masks are useless. but it sounds like latex gloves
might not be a bad idea in certain circumstances, yes?
like handling money, if you do that at work, or using public
terminal keyboards, etc. are people doing that?
\_ THANK *YOU*
roaming in Taipei, not wearing masks, and being
treated as an outcast
\_ Buddy, if I were in Taipei and forced to wear masks everywhere,
I would be wearing an N95 or N99 mask. I've also done the
same research as you have.
\_ One could argue that the masks are having a "placebo" effect.
At least people can carry on with their daily lives by wearing
these masks, as opposed to staying at home and being totally
afraid to go outside.
\_ where are you sending them to? I just sent 500 N95 masks to
relative in Beijing. I bought 3 cases from a 3M supplier in
Anaheim. How many do you want? I can sell some. -nivra
\_ If you are sending it to Taiwan, then, here is a suggestion:
package it using boxes other than medical supplier. Ship
them in small quantities seperately. Our great democratic
government is confiscating masks mailed from overseas in the name
of greater public goods.
\_ urlP
\_ #t
\_ ???
\_ Please provide URL if you can. google returns something
but would like something more official.
\_ I heard the same from my dad in Taiwan (!original
poster).
\_ I heard that from the TV news here in TW.
\_ The govt in Mainland China is confiscating masks at mask
factorie so they won't be shipped to Taiwan to those who have
placed orders.
\_ Try any of the drug stores. They usually carry some masks.
However, the three stores I tried last week were out. My
aunt in Manhattan were able to get 50 N95 masks.
\_ is there *any* evidence at all that masks provide any protection
against SARS?
\_ The N95 masks are designed to filter out 95% of airborn
allergens. There are N99 masks which are a bit more
expensive, but are more likely to keep out virus molecules.
The main problem is that listed above, that they should be
specially fitted to the wearer and unless they're worn
correctly offer no protection.
The main point of masks for SARS is to keep virus particles
from being aerosolized. When someone coughs, most of the
virus stops at the mask... for that case, even a cotton
mask will do.
\_ No. go to CDC and WHO websites, they tell you that masks
are only necessary for medical staff who takes care of the
patients. N95 is rated for TB, so, technically, not even
N95 is proven to be effective against SARS.
I am in Taiwan righ now and refuse to wear masks. You can't
imagine what kind of social outcast I am right now.
Most effective means of preventing SARS is isolation and
containment. But such measure has drastic short-term economic
consequences, that people prefer an easier way out, despite
it doesn't serve any usefulness other than sooth the psychie
of hysterical public.
In the mean time, the Taiwan government is more worry about
using this SARS as a stage to get into WHO than trying to
contain the disease.
\_ The Mainland Chinese govt worried more about keeping Taiwan
out of WHO than trying to help the people in Taiwan, or at
least letting them help themselves, to contain the disease.
\_ No, it's a spread by contact, like a handshake. However, in
china/taiwan masks are being used as a fashion statement now
note the designs of hello kitty and other pop culture icons
on them.
\_ WHO web site, SARS epidemiology:
"SARS appears to be spread most commonly by close
person-to-person contact involving exposure to infectious
droplets, and possibly by direct contact with infected body
fluids."
WHO also says N99/N100 recommended for hospital staff
treating SARS patients. Because, you know, these screen
out droplets.
\_ No, but the WHO still recommends N95 masks for visitors to
SARS patients and N99/N100 masks for health care workers
in direct contact with them. You have that Hong Kong hotel
where 300 occupants got SARS, and the leading theory is a
leak in a pipe, but who knows how everyone got it?
Also: http://csua.org/u/eb7
\_ typhoid mary hooker.
\_ I was astounded yesterday to see three asian kids down by JLS
with masks on...
\_ Home Depot. Look in the paint department.
\_ Try 3M.
\_ I prefer moldex. http://www.moldex.com They fit better and
don't collapse as easy. |
| 2003/5/12-14 [Computer] UID:28418 Activity:kinda low |
5/12 http://www.farsam.com/matrix.html \_ Please tell me they're going to post pix of the winners of the Trinity lookalike contest. -daddy needs new wallpaper \_ daddy needs a http://playboy.com subscription if he wants to wank \_ if you're wanking to your wallpaper, it's probably not work-safe. |
| 2003/5/12-14 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs, Computer/SW/Apps] UID:28419 Activity:nil |
5/12 Are there any "good" Windows capturing softwares out there that is
capable of capturing every action of an application that I specify?
Such as all of the typings in Word, Excel, Emacs, IM, Explorer,
NetMeeting. Best if it also capture sounds in addition to to the
actions performed within the application. I have searched at Google,
but have only found softwares that are capable of capturing to images
and an alpha that does what I want, but crashes too often. Best if
everything is captured in either AVI or MPG3 formats.
\_ point a digital video camera at the screen.
\_ Camtasia. I gave useful information on the motd, and feel dirty. |