This is based on this question. A number of answers were proposed that generate non-uniform distributions and I started wondering how to quantify the non uniformity of the output. I'm not looking for patterning issues, just single value aspects. What are the accepted procedures? My current thinking is to computer the average Shannon ...
Any attempts to use Rational/IBM PurifyPlus (Purify or Quantify) on an executable that's linked with the Hoard memory manager results in an immediate SIGSEGV: 0004dcd0 ???????? (f78d4, b, 0, 1, 230f, b) 0002aca0 pure_signal_handler_wrapper (b, ffbff808, ffbff550, fd932000, fdbf91c0, 0) + 740 fdab7188 memcpy (febd1860, 3d0, ff360530, f...
G'day, I was reading the item Quantify in the book "97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know" (sanitised Amazon link) and it got me wondering how to quantify scalability. I have designed two systems for a major British broadcasting corporation that are used to: detect the country of origin for incoming HTTP requests, or determi...
I'm developing a PHP application which will charge users for the videos they watch. The business model is "everyone pays for how much she watches". For this purpose, I need to; Implement secure video (FLV) access. (Authorized sessions will gain access) Calculate how much video (FLV) data is sent from the server. A trivial solution for...
Hey guys, What is a common way to pass data for formula fields, to specify a quantifier. I would currently do as follows: <input type="text" name="myfield" class="inputfieldstyle quantified" id="q_12" value="foo" /> where q_12 is generic. But there some inherent problems with the approach: What if i want to give it an id for some ...