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» michaeldino replied on Thu Jul 29, 2004 @ 9:24am. Posted in Boobs!. |
oh yeah.. and dump your boyfriend... he sounds like an ass |
» michaeldino replied on Thu Jul 29, 2004 @ 9:23am. Posted in Boobs!. |
hahhahaa... sarah = hilarious... we should egt drunk together more often like a lot more often hahahaha... |
» michaeldino replied on Wed Jul 28, 2004 @ 7:39pm. Posted in What made/ruined your day?. |
FANTA!!! OMG!!! WHO REMEMBERS THAT?!?!?! Its so good!!!! |
» michaeldino replied on Wed Jul 28, 2004 @ 12:12pm. Posted in What are you thinking about now?. |
*cough* i dont... read my sig. |
» michaeldino replied on Wed Jul 28, 2004 @ 12:12pm. Posted in I Hate . . .. |
Originally posted by LITTLE SARAH... how it's going. how i can't seem to end it. why can't i? why do i feel like there's still some hope? fuck.. say welcome to dumpville... population: you |
» michaeldino replied on Wed Jul 28, 2004 @ 12:11pm. Posted in What made/ruined your day?. |
Originally posted by LITTLE SARAH... made: going out tonight and gonna forget about all this shit hopefully when are we going to cheers? |
» michaeldino replied on Wed Jul 28, 2004 @ 11:07am. Posted in The Picture Thread.... |
right.. in teh picture up there.... right |
» michaeldino replied on Wed Jul 28, 2004 @ 11:06am. Posted in The Picture Thread.... |
Originally posted by CLOUD9INE... shit guy, check out my biceps. uhh.... i dont get it... are you gonna post a picture or something? |
» michaeldino replied on Wed Jul 28, 2004 @ 9:08am. Posted in The Picture Thread.... |
for serious |
» michaeldino replied on Wed Jul 28, 2004 @ 9:05am. Posted in Things that piss you off. |
Originally posted by KATIE... Having a song stuck in my head I cant listen to and its driving me MAAAAAD!!! ugh.. i hate that |
» michaeldino replied on Wed Jul 28, 2004 @ 9:04am. Posted in What do you want today?. |
Originally posted by NAILBUNNY... all the shit I ordered online ME TOO!!!! |
» michaeldino replied on Wed Jul 28, 2004 @ 9:00am. Posted in I feel like a pedophile. |
Originally posted by HEATHER PIE HOLE... I seen guy #1 in alot of different stuff on tv but anyways guy #2 is cute cute he was in that YTV show.. teh Zack Files |
» michaeldino replied on Wed Jul 28, 2004 @ 8:59am. Posted in If I had a dog. |
i guess |
» michaeldino replied on Wed Jul 28, 2004 @ 8:59am. Posted in Switzerland public restroom. |
me too amanda... me too |
» michaeldino replied on Tue Jul 27, 2004 @ 4:03pm. Posted in The Picture Thread.... |
exactly.. same goes weith me |
» michaeldino replied on Tue Jul 27, 2004 @ 2:05pm. Posted in Researchers seek simpler software debugg. |
Researchers seek simpler software debugging Tuesday, July 27, 2004 Posted: 1417 GMT (2217 HKT) PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (AP) -- Computer bugs, or errors in software, can mess up just about anything: They've been blamed for missing homework, blackouts, prison breaks and even the loss of multimillion-dollar space probes. Andrew Ko, a computer researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, talks about a new debugging program called Whyline. They can be costly to the economy -- almost $60 billion a year, a 2002 federal study estimates. But they're difficult pests to eliminate, because doing so requires programmers to perform "an elaborate detective investigation," said Brad Myers, a Carnegie Mellon University computer science professor. "You are trying to make guesses about where the problem is and prove your hypothesis. A lot of time programmers guess wrong ... and add new bugs because they were trying to fix something that wasn't broken." But help is on the way. Myers and a graduate student, Andrew Ko, have developed a debugging program that lets users ask questions about computer errors in plain English: Why didn't a program behave as expected? Funded by $1.2 million from the National Science Foundation, Whyline -- short for Workspace for Helping You Link Instructions to Numbers and Events -- is designed for programmers of all kinds, from hard-core professionals to weekend Web designers. Their work is part of a larger, nationwide project -- called End Users Shaping Effective Software, or EUSES -- to make computers friendlier for everyday users by changing everything from how they look to how they act. Ultimately, perhaps, error messages will be easier to understand than "general protection fault" or "fatal exceptions." You may not know it, but chances are you, too, are a programmer. If you've created a spreadsheet, made macros in Excel or Word or used a Web application to fetch news about your hobby or favorite celebrity, you've programmed. Lost in translation But while software companies have allowed users to do more than ever with their computers, they've offered few ways for people to solve their own problems. Programmers "are completely isolated from the people they are trying to serve and, of course, they are colored by what they know and what they like," said Margaret Burnett, a computer science professor at Oregon State University and director of EUSES. "For them, finding out the hex address of a division overflow is exactly what they need, and it never occurs to them that it is not something that someone else will need." Hitting the "Why" button stops the program and prompts the Whyline to offer questions based on programmed events. Programming is a lot like translation. Writing code involves taking what you want to do and converting it into computer language; hunting down a bug requires the opposite, which sometimes isn't as easy. Whyline aims to simplify debugging and troubleshooting. While testing a program, if something appears to go awry, a user can hit the "Why" button, which stops the program. Whyline then offers questions based on programmed events. For example, if a program contains rules about Pac-Man shrinking when he hits a ghost, Whyline will let the programmer ask "Why didn't Pac-Man resize?" Lines of programming code related to the question are highlighted in a window. Another window shows what happened while the program was running, with a flow chart and timeline. "This tool puts about 90 percent of the questions people want to ask before them," Myers said. Tool's limitations In studies involving a handful of graduate students, from relative novices to experienced programmers, Ko and Myers found that Whyline could help users find bugs eight times faster and do 40 percent more programming. Other debugging tools include AskIgor, a Web-based program from Andreas Zeller, a professor at Saarland University in Saarbrucken, Germany. Programmers tell AskIgor when a program works and when it fails, and AskIgor tries to determine differences that cause the bugs. "When you compare debugging to walking through a dark house with a torch, AskIgor walks through the house and tells you what it is all about. It gives you a diagnosis," Zeller said. For now, though, AskIgor only works for specific Linux programs, and it moves onto another challenge if it can't find the problem in 15 minutes. Whyline, meanwhile, has been used only to debug programs in Alice, an academic programming language with a limited vocabulary of commands to make interactive 3-D worlds, like video games. And the more complex a program gets, the harder it is for Whyline to offer the right questions and answers. It can't answer complicated questions such as, "Why did Pac-Man shrink after he ate the power pellet and was hit by a ghost?" Adding Whyline to a different language, like Java, which is 10 times as complex, could limit how much Whyline can help. So Whyline is a very long way from getting incorporated into the world's most widespread software, Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system. (When asked about its own debugging efforts, Microsoft didn't comment.) Despite Whyline's current limitations, "we have this new way to think about debugging tasks and I don't think there is any question we can make it better than it is today," Myers said. "It really doesn't have to help 95 percent of the time to be useful. If it helps half the time it is still dramatic." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright 2004 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. |
» michaeldino replied on Tue Jul 27, 2004 @ 1:57pm. Posted in What do you want today?. |
bah |
» michaeldino replied on Tue Jul 27, 2004 @ 1:57pm. Posted in Happy Birthday Sharon. |
and ass sex |
» michaeldino replied on Tue Jul 27, 2004 @ 1:00pm. Posted in What do you want today?. |
when is this soccer game you speak of? |
» michaeldino replied on Tue Jul 27, 2004 @ 12:35pm. Posted in What made/ruined your day?. |
Originally posted by LITTLE SARAH... ish: going for job thing right now- *nervous* i need this job estie.. oh yeah and good luck with that |
» michaeldino replied on Tue Jul 27, 2004 @ 12:35pm. Posted in What do you want today?. |
what kind of soccer game? |
» michaeldino replied on Tue Jul 27, 2004 @ 12:34pm. Posted in What made/ruined your day?. |
Originally posted by LITTLE SARAH... made: dino coming over with cake ruined: quick 'hi/bye' turned into a 20 min argument- sowwy dino look at that: i just don't care anymore ruined: ate SO much bad food yesterday! ish: going for job thing right now- *nervous* i need this job estie.. must go to gym today DAMN RIGHT! That cake was great! also... Fuck'im!! and bad food is good... made: watching a broken tv ruined: i have to go pull weeds on the highway now cuz a dumb contractor is lazy madE: getting paid almost triple time for going to pull said weeds |
» michaeldino replied on Tue Jul 27, 2004 @ 12:32pm. Posted in What did you do last night?. |
stupid fucking videotron call them and bitch A LOT |
» michaeldino replied on Tue Jul 27, 2004 @ 8:57am. Posted in What did you do last night?. |
watched a broken tv.. stupid illico |
» michaeldino replied on Tue Jul 27, 2004 @ 8:55am. Posted in U2. |
pop?? that was such a bad album... my fav is still the joshua tree |
» michaeldino replied on Tue Jul 27, 2004 @ 8:53am. Posted in miss sixty's for sale. |
but the nipple never made an appearance!! you suck |
» michaeldino replied on Tue Jul 27, 2004 @ 8:53am. Posted in Funny but true, human evolution. |
i wanna spear people |
» michaeldino replied on Mon Jul 26, 2004 @ 8:55pm. Posted in miss sixty's for sale. |
no... maybe... and possibly... whats in it for me? |
» michaeldino replied on Mon Jul 26, 2004 @ 8:51pm. Posted in miss sixty's for sale. |
hahaha.. i know the guy who makes mavi jeans... iu buy them at the warehouse on chabanel... 25-40$ |
» michaeldino replied on Mon Jul 26, 2004 @ 4:10pm. Posted in Sweet!!. |
[ cgi.ebay.ca ] |
» michaeldino replied on Mon Jul 26, 2004 @ 3:40pm. Posted in miss sixty's for sale. |
no YOU did! |
» michaeldino replied on Mon Jul 26, 2004 @ 3:39pm. Posted in Happy Birthday Sharon. |
happy birthday 'ron |
» michaeldino replied on Mon Jul 26, 2004 @ 1:02pm. Posted in !!!Happy birthday Hayley!!!. |
happy birthday i hope you enjoy it |
» michaeldino replied on Mon Jul 26, 2004 @ 1:01pm. Posted in What are you looking forward to?. |
goign to cuba |
» michaeldino replied on Mon Jul 26, 2004 @ 12:59pm. Posted in What made/ruined your day?. |
hahahaha |
» michaeldino replied on Mon Jul 26, 2004 @ 12:57pm. Posted in miss sixty's for sale. |
i think sarah should take a picture of her wearing the pants and nothing else.. and post it then ill decide if i wanna buy them |
» michaeldino replied on Mon Jul 26, 2004 @ 8:52am. Posted in U2. |
which album? all that you cant leave behind? i thought it was good then again, i cant NOT like U2... its programmed in my genes |
» michaeldino replied on Sun Jul 25, 2004 @ 9:57pm. Posted in What made/ruined your day?. |
Originally posted by LITTLE SARAH... what the heck is that? ians camera... the same thing |
» michaeldino replied on Sun Jul 25, 2004 @ 9:57pm. Posted in U2. |
Bono rocks my ass |
» michaeldino replied on Sun Jul 25, 2004 @ 9:56pm. Posted in How much would you pay.... |
hahah.. theyre all gone its funny.. 15 to three people... figure that out.. thats an average of 5 per person... bahahaha... its great... i have to get these more often anyway... all i had was the white and brown round ones |
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