Consider the effects of relativity on GPS satellites. The time skew for a GPS satellite in low earth orbit is about 38 microseconds per 24 hour day. Thus, it isn't hard to imagine that links in an interplanetary network could operate for days without their respective clocks differing by more than a few frame lengths.
In a high-bandwidth link, the routers would probably have to adjust the transmit rates, but timestamps would be a fairly minor issue (and trivially fixed with ntp).
You seem to be extrapolating quite a bit to say that this scheme is much more vulnerable to critical data loss. (And your claim about DoS is pretty irrelevant when you consider that all implementations of this protocol will be owned by NASA and their associates.)
Do you really think, based on just TFA, that Vint Cerf of all people would design such a flawed protocol? The point of custody transfer is that retransmissions can be handled by the routers that form the network, rather than wasting precious power using a planetside rover that has better things to do.
I'm pretty optimistic about what Cyan's doing with MORE. They're moving to a very open model, even though they aren't (probably can't) open-source the actual game code. And for a game like Uru, it seems that community participation in content development is a lot more important than in software development.
It doesn't seem to be much of a stretch to imagine Cyan eventually open-sourcing most of the game code, and allowing the community to fill in the gaps left by the proprietary libraries they've used. It seems to be a logical next step if MORE is successful.
Anybody who's not afraid of dying, and would prefer a fun life of reasonable length over a long, dull life.
There will always be plenty of people willing to take big risks. I'd guess that people are more or less hard-wired to be risk takers, because of the huge rewards a species can reap from risks taken by a few. (eg. sailing to land masses not visible from the starting point, eventually leading to a much larger overall population. Or anybody who tried strange looking fruit or vegetables, discovering a new food source.)
So you attribute the Flynn effect to... agressive parenting? Sure, evolution isn't having any effect on that small of a scale, but I wouldn't say that gains from things like improved nutrition (including maternal nutrition), better access to teaching materials, and parents that have more time to spend with their kids count as pushing kids to learn faster.
Your claim that young kids can't learn about tactics is rather silly. For starters, Ender's Game didn't portray most of the 7 year olds as having a good grasp on combat tactics. The 7 year old students were grunt soldiers that moved in formations (albeit in 3 dimensions). And the abilities shown for the 12 year old leaders were completely realistic. I've worked with a lot of 12 year old Boy Scouts that seemed close to being good enough to be Battle School leaders. If anything, Orson Scott Card underestimated what a well-trained 12 year old could do. I'd guess the abilities of a normal Battle School leader are only about 2 standard deviations above average for kids raised in a suburban middle class setting, but Battle School was described as way more selective than that.
Who said anything about Cider? That's a Mac-specific proprietary port of WineLib, the product under discussion. The market for Cider is much smaller than the overall market for WineLib, so saying that Cider isn't that popular really doesn't say anything about WineLib. It could be that the free WineLib is good enough that very few people porting apps off Windows need to bother with Cider. Or that people using WineLib to port stuff want to end up with Linux versions, too.
At issue is not whether she's guilty, it's whether there's a law that makes her actions criminal. It's already abundantly clear that she's a bitch and society has condemned her actions. There just doesn't seem to be any good method of legal recourse against her.
(Although I suppose MySpace could sue her for breaching the terms of service and the resulting bad press for MySpace, that would be civil charges, not criminal.)
Oddly enough, Undo/Redo in blender uses control-z and control-y, same as in in most other apps. Things get a little more muddled when it comes to the copy command, because there are so many things you may want to copy (geometry, texture info, etc), but control-c does bring up a menu to choose what you want to copy.
It's obvious that you have never tried to use Blender. You should. The user interface is not full of gratuitous differences, as you seem to think. It simply doesn't sacrifice much usability for the sake of conformity.
The copy command is a great example - there's no way to simplify things down to a single copy operation, so the user interface doesn't try. If they did try to pick a single copy to bind to control-c, then there would be lots of people who disagree with their pick, and new users would have no way of knowing which copy operation they are getting when they use the familiar control-c.
You're construing "intuitive" to mean "uses the same paradigm as MS Paint". By that standard, any 3d tool that is intuitive will also be horribly hard to use and inefficient.
The steep initial learning curve for Blender comes from getting in the right mindset for using a 3d modeling tool. Once you have sufficiently relinquished the mindset that applies to 2d drawing tools, learning more about Blender's functionality is easy, natural, and yes, intuitive.
To put it another way, Blender's UI is internally consistent, but it is by nature not consistent with much of anything else, because everything else is about 2d stuff (except games, which run in full screen anyways).
Your "better monitor" is smaller than any Cinema Display has ever been, and it is almost certainly a TN panel, meaning that it's color gamut and viewing angles suck in comparison to the Cinema displays. The Cinema displays aren't at all targeted towards gamers and budget buyers who don't care about picture quality. They are for people who would like to get something almost as good as an Eizo for half the price.
If you drink enough coffee, then it is possible to get a net gain out of the deal. You're paying a fixed cost for an unlimited amount of coffee, so you'll probably end up drinking a lot more coffee than you otherwise would. If the raise was going to be fairly small, you can come out ahead by quite a bit.
How many programs or installers still break if you try to install to somewhere other than C:\Program Files\? Not many, but there used to be a lot.
How about if you want to store your documents somewhere other than C:\My Documents\ (on win9x) or C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\My Documents\? NTFS supports mount points, but Microsoft didn't expose that functionality to users, so it is very difficult to get an stock Windows install to store all user-specific files and settings on a different physical drive from the core OS.
15 years ago, object oriented programming was still catching on, and the Pentium was brand-new. Computers were slow, people had about as much RAM as modern CPUs have cache. The Windows operating systems of the time were just starting to support 32-bit features. Pre-emptive multitasking was still 2 years away.
When it comes to using the extra power of modern hardware, it is easy to say "I want it to make everything 10 times faster". On the other hand, you could use that power to run a python interpreter, and make things 10 times easier for the programmer. Both are perfectly good uses of the more advanced hardware. But the latter is where you'll see the really innovative apps showing up. That's what Microsoft is missing out on when their platform still doesn't let you ignore the nitty-gritty details that you couldn't afford to ignore 15 years ago.
Exactly. He illustrates it well. That's coming awfully close to being, you know, creative. And creativity is one of the well-known risk factors for becoming a Mac fanboy.
Nothing gets repossessed except with the approval of the bankruptcy court. Once SCO v. Novell is settled, it is likely that the bankruptcy court will place Novell ahead of the banks in line for what little assets remain.
From Apple's website (http://www.apple.com/macosx/technology/unix.html)
Leopard is an Open Brand UNIX 03 Registered Product, conforming to the SUSv3 and POSIX 1003.1 specifications for the C API, Shell Utilities, and Threads. That is not at all limited to the Server edition.
Porting a large C++ application to ObjC++ is not that simple. You will need to rearchitect the entire GUI code and most of the backend. The re-architecting necessary to use ObjC++ with an existing C++ codebase is no more significant than what was necessary to port a Swing or AWT app to use the Java-Cocoa bridge, or to port an app from GTK to QT. But that's irrelevant. The fact is that Apple does provide a C++ interface.
The Cocoa-Java bridge was dropped because hardly anybody was using it. There's no way it would have been cost effective for Apple to continue to update it.
The "C/C++" apis you were referring to, more commonly known as the Carbon api, is a slightly sanitized version of the Classic Mac OS programming interface. They were old and ugly, and Carbon had to retrofit them with support for things like preemptive multitasking and memory protection. Anybody who considered Carbon as anything but a legacy api was a fool. (Yes, that includes Adobe.)
You don't seem to be aware of CoreFoundation and Objective-C++, which provide C and C++ respectively with access to most of the Cocoa apis. But I get the feeling that you're deliberately ignoring the fact that Apple has added Cocoa bindings for Python and Ruby.
And you definitely should have mentioned GNUStep, a portable environment that is compatible with OpenStep (from which Cocoa is derived) and has included many of the improvements from Cocoa. If you actually want your app to be portable, it is very easy to write it using GNUStep as the lowest common denominator. The resulting app can then be compiled and run on Windows, Linux, and OS X.
Pi is not an integer. Do you believe that it was invented? I think anybody using reasonable definitions of "invented" and "discovered" would say that the fact that the radius and circumference of any circle have the same ratio is a discovered fact, not any human creation.
Most apple products already have hardware decoding support. All the iPods use decoding chips, and most of the computers have GPUs that can accelerate decoding. As for a "DRM chip", they've already tried putting TPMs in some of their computers. It didn't go over well.
Yes. The comment was specifically about IDEs, and how Eclipse is the best among them for embedded device work (particularly when compared to Visual Studio). Your disdain for all IDEs does not affect Eclipse's relative standing among IDEs.
Almost doubling the throughput of a memory to memory copy is not a measly performance gain. Sure, it may not be noticeable for desktop usage, but for gaming or scientific computation, that's a pretty big gain.
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Consider the effects of relativity on GPS satellites. The time skew for a GPS satellite in low earth orbit is about 38 microseconds per 24 hour day. Thus, it isn't hard to imagine that links in an interplanetary network could operate for days without their respective clocks differing by more than a few frame lengths.
In a high-bandwidth link, the routers would probably have to adjust the transmit rates, but timestamps would be a fairly minor issue (and trivially fixed with ntp).
You seem to be extrapolating quite a bit to say that this scheme is much more vulnerable to critical data loss. (And your claim about DoS is pretty irrelevant when you consider that all implementations of this protocol will be owned by NASA and their associates.)
Do you really think, based on just TFA, that Vint Cerf of all people would design such a flawed protocol? The point of custody transfer is that retransmissions can be handled by the routers that form the network, rather than wasting precious power using a planetside rover that has better things to do.
I'm pretty optimistic about what Cyan's doing with MORE. They're moving to a very open model, even though they aren't (probably can't) open-source the actual game code. And for a game like Uru, it seems that community participation in content development is a lot more important than in software development.
It doesn't seem to be much of a stretch to imagine Cyan eventually open-sourcing most of the game code, and allowing the community to fill in the gaps left by the proprietary libraries they've used. It seems to be a logical next step if MORE is successful.
JBoss is owned by RedHat, so it qualifies as having a major company backing it (at least as much as RHEL does).
Anybody who's not afraid of dying, and would prefer a fun life of reasonable length over a long, dull life.
There will always be plenty of people willing to take big risks. I'd guess that people are more or less hard-wired to be risk takers, because of the huge rewards a species can reap from risks taken by a few. (eg. sailing to land masses not visible from the starting point, eventually leading to a much larger overall population. Or anybody who tried strange looking fruit or vegetables, discovering a new food source.)
So you attribute the Flynn effect to... agressive parenting? Sure, evolution isn't having any effect on that small of a scale, but I wouldn't say that gains from things like improved nutrition (including maternal nutrition), better access to teaching materials, and parents that have more time to spend with their kids count as pushing kids to learn faster.
Your claim that young kids can't learn about tactics is rather silly. For starters, Ender's Game didn't portray most of the 7 year olds as having a good grasp on combat tactics. The 7 year old students were grunt soldiers that moved in formations (albeit in 3 dimensions). And the abilities shown for the 12 year old leaders were completely realistic. I've worked with a lot of 12 year old Boy Scouts that seemed close to being good enough to be Battle School leaders. If anything, Orson Scott Card underestimated what a well-trained 12 year old could do. I'd guess the abilities of a normal Battle School leader are only about 2 standard deviations above average for kids raised in a suburban middle class setting, but Battle School was described as way more selective than that.
Who said anything about Cider? That's a Mac-specific proprietary port of WineLib, the product under discussion. The market for Cider is much smaller than the overall market for WineLib, so saying that Cider isn't that popular really doesn't say anything about WineLib. It could be that the free WineLib is good enough that very few people porting apps off Windows need to bother with Cider. Or that people using WineLib to port stuff want to end up with Linux versions, too.
At issue is not whether she's guilty, it's whether there's a law that makes her actions criminal. It's already abundantly clear that she's a bitch and society has condemned her actions. There just doesn't seem to be any good method of legal recourse against her.
(Although I suppose MySpace could sue her for breaching the terms of service and the resulting bad press for MySpace, that would be civil charges, not criminal.)
Oddly enough, Undo/Redo in blender uses control-z and control-y, same as in in most other apps. Things get a little more muddled when it comes to the copy command, because there are so many things you may want to copy (geometry, texture info, etc), but control-c does bring up a menu to choose what you want to copy.
It's obvious that you have never tried to use Blender. You should. The user interface is not full of gratuitous differences, as you seem to think. It simply doesn't sacrifice much usability for the sake of conformity.
The copy command is a great example - there's no way to simplify things down to a single copy operation, so the user interface doesn't try. If they did try to pick a single copy to bind to control-c, then there would be lots of people who disagree with their pick, and new users would have no way of knowing which copy operation they are getting when they use the familiar control-c.
You're construing "intuitive" to mean "uses the same paradigm as MS Paint". By that standard, any 3d tool that is intuitive will also be horribly hard to use and inefficient.
The steep initial learning curve for Blender comes from getting in the right mindset for using a 3d modeling tool. Once you have sufficiently relinquished the mindset that applies to 2d drawing tools, learning more about Blender's functionality is easy, natural, and yes, intuitive.
To put it another way, Blender's UI is internally consistent, but it is by nature not consistent with much of anything else, because everything else is about 2d stuff (except games, which run in full screen anyways).
Your "better monitor" is smaller than any Cinema Display has ever been, and it is almost certainly a TN panel, meaning that it's color gamut and viewing angles suck in comparison to the Cinema displays. The Cinema displays aren't at all targeted towards gamers and budget buyers who don't care about picture quality. They are for people who would like to get something almost as good as an Eizo for half the price.
If you drink enough coffee, then it is possible to get a net gain out of the deal. You're paying a fixed cost for an unlimited amount of coffee, so you'll probably end up drinking a lot more coffee than you otherwise would. If the raise was going to be fairly small, you can come out ahead by quite a bit.
How many programs or installers still break if you try to install to somewhere other than C:\Program Files\? Not many, but there used to be a lot.
How about if you want to store your documents somewhere other than C:\My Documents\ (on win9x) or C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\My Documents\? NTFS supports mount points, but Microsoft didn't expose that functionality to users, so it is very difficult to get an stock Windows install to store all user-specific files and settings on a different physical drive from the core OS.
15 years ago, object oriented programming was still catching on, and the Pentium was brand-new. Computers were slow, people had about as much RAM as modern CPUs have cache. The Windows operating systems of the time were just starting to support 32-bit features. Pre-emptive multitasking was still 2 years away.
When it comes to using the extra power of modern hardware, it is easy to say "I want it to make everything 10 times faster". On the other hand, you could use that power to run a python interpreter, and make things 10 times easier for the programmer. Both are perfectly good uses of the more advanced hardware. But the latter is where you'll see the really innovative apps showing up. That's what Microsoft is missing out on when their platform still doesn't let you ignore the nitty-gritty details that you couldn't afford to ignore 15 years ago.
Exactly. He illustrates it well. That's coming awfully close to being, you know, creative. And creativity is one of the well-known risk factors for becoming a Mac fanboy.
This is a bench trial, not a jury trial.
Nothing gets repossessed except with the approval of the bankruptcy court. Once SCO v. Novell is settled, it is likely that the bankruptcy court will place Novell ahead of the banks in line for what little assets remain.
You're making the wrong kind of jokes. The scientists aren't from the USA. They're from Israel.
The Cocoa-Java bridge was dropped because hardly anybody was using it. There's no way it would have been cost effective for Apple to continue to update it.
The "C/C++" apis you were referring to, more commonly known as the Carbon api, is a slightly sanitized version of the Classic Mac OS programming interface. They were old and ugly, and Carbon had to retrofit them with support for things like preemptive multitasking and memory protection. Anybody who considered Carbon as anything but a legacy api was a fool. (Yes, that includes Adobe.)
You don't seem to be aware of CoreFoundation and Objective-C++, which provide C and C++ respectively with access to most of the Cocoa apis. But I get the feeling that you're deliberately ignoring the fact that Apple has added Cocoa bindings for Python and Ruby.
And you definitely should have mentioned GNUStep, a portable environment that is compatible with OpenStep (from which Cocoa is derived) and has included many of the improvements from Cocoa. If you actually want your app to be portable, it is very easy to write it using GNUStep as the lowest common denominator. The resulting app can then be compiled and run on Windows, Linux, and OS X.
Pi is not an integer. Do you believe that it was invented? I think anybody using reasonable definitions of "invented" and "discovered" would say that the fact that the radius and circumference of any circle have the same ratio is a discovered fact, not any human creation.
Most apple products already have hardware decoding support. All the iPods use decoding chips, and most of the computers have GPUs that can accelerate decoding. As for a "DRM chip", they've already tried putting TPMs in some of their computers. It didn't go over well.
Yes. The comment was specifically about IDEs, and how Eclipse is the best among them for embedded device work (particularly when compared to Visual Studio). Your disdain for all IDEs does not affect Eclipse's relative standing among IDEs.
Almost doubling the throughput of a memory to memory copy is not a measly performance gain. Sure, it may not be noticeable for desktop usage, but for gaming or scientific computation, that's a pretty big gain.