...I was very pleasantly surprised by "Matrix", --movie I have never heard about before I saw its title at the ticket counter. And Ii have a feeling that I will like TPM much, much less. With all this stupid "comic relief" (phrase that reminds me of taking a dump in a very uncomfortable position) Jar-Jars and stuff -- aimed squarely at selling more junk food to drooling fat kids.
NATO is bombing because it can. We have lotsa cruise missiles and Raytheon wants to sell to the goverment some more of them. And pays politicians to use up the old ones. That's it.
Tell me, have you ever heard much about war in Chechnya? When Russians put heavy multiple launch artillery near Grozny and destroyed the city with all its population? Then continued to kill tens of thousands of civilians. Where was NATO "high moral ground" then? Sure, Chechens guerrilas are no better then KLA - nationalist bandits, arming themselves with drug dealing. Nevertheless.. The only real difference is that Russia had half a zillion nuclear warheads and rockets that do not explode one after another like Titan IV's and Delta's recently. Morality has nothing to do with war. Nothing even close. Kill your TV.
I thought all this spechialized math school were a complete waste of time. I chose to stay in English/Literature school myself - was enough to pass GRE?TOEFL crap 5 years later with zero problems, and I had a hell of a fun time in school, instead of drooling over some stupid math problems. It was easy to catch up in the university, and to pass all this "botaniks" from the math classes. IMO early specialization is wrong. (For all you Americans - by "early" I mean when 14 years old guys take nothing but math/physics classes - graduate at 16 and go through university mandatory classes with very strict specialization. - 20 years old farts taking junky public policy and "save the fags" classes instead of physics and math for their profession is sure stupid) Peace. :)
I couldn't find an adequate Russian equivalent for "nerd", "geek" etc. (little help from other Russians here?)
"Botanik" ? At least that was the name of those strange looking creatures who sailed thru the first year of the Moscow State Physics with flying colors - they have learned all the material in school, when normal people very busy trying to get laid... They somehow dissolved out of the view by the third year...
...is an unnecessary competetive grading. One can get an "F", because some weirdo had nothing better to do then to sit his ass off in library. In my school (in Russia) one would get "2" if he doesn't know shit - and criteria is generally universal and predefined. No "average", no "grading curve". That remove's a LOT of anymosity toward smarter members of the class. You are not competing with THEM, only with you own laziness and dumbness... Just an observation...
I can speak only for my friends and myself. I grew up in Moscow - straight A (5's) in school, honorary diploma, geekiest of the colleges, now my got my Ph.D here. But I always could beat the crap out of anybody in my school, except for my best friend, who was the second best student, but compensated by being a full-contact champ. He is a professor here now...
There is absolutely no negative correlation between your mental and physical abilities. All you geeks out there - get out and work out. Just a little scientific approach (:) ) to your training, and you will need no guns...(just kidding, but..)
about human eye - - most wavelet transform based compression algorythms achieve a better quality due to the fact, that it naturally concentrates on changes - edges - of the image - the same thing human eye and mind concentrates on. Look at some papers on image processing... Notice one about deblocking of JPEG compressed images, for example...
JPEG, even though it is lossy, makes most photos look better than they started off. This is due to the way that the sampling for the DCT works. It takes into account how the human eye works, and leaves out things that our brains wouldn't even notice anyway
BS. Human eye works in nice square pieces? Utter bullshit. Do your homework. It is the other way around.
Don't know what WT compression you looked at, but all I have seen (a lot) have a MUCH better quality per bit, and most important - they are free from this nice square artifacts of JPEG, that human eye is so well equipped to pick up. And when coded sanely - they are computationally MORE efficient.
Do yourself a favor, pick up a good book (Say Mallat's 97 Wavelt tour of signal processing) and read it...
My point is, the OS should be able to handle *anything* period
Utter bullshit. You can kill almost everything with a good memory leak, or by overloading processes, file handles etc. Happens all the time. One can break anything if you screw with it long enough.
Graphical layout tools like this will save _many_ hours of code writing Except the default code it generates is UGLY and it is very hard to modify if you ever get out of the enviroment. And the Visual Cafe greats event listeners for you? Arghhh... Nothing beats a piece of paper and a pencil to great a good layout. Sure, typing all the.setBounds sucks, say nothing if ou choose that abomination of GridBagLayout, but you do it once and it is exactly as you want it to be - most important you hand coded event model make sense and performs better. Of course for me GUI is a small part. RAD tools sure help if you do it every day, and do not care if anybody will ever have to modify, maintain or rewrite it....
And it is awfully buggy when IZtry to type in forms...
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I actually found that for modelling a good code parser is better for me than going the other way around - modelling in IDL, drawing pretty boxes, and generating hard to read code. RR generated code is butt ugly. Just do your inital design with placeholder for functions, than use something like Source Navigator (from Cygnus) to look how it looks like in terms of the structure... It draws pretty trees and diagrams for Java pretty well. And when linked to EMACS for an editor with JDE it is grreat. Though a built in editor is good enough. - just $150 for developers version...
Actually, even in NT I prefer to use EMACS with JDE. Works great. Visualcafe is used for quick forms layout and initial code generation and for compiling.
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...does compile Java into windows binaries just fine. Including AWT and Swing classes. Big reason I keep booting NT is to use it. (Besides Illustrator)... Linux needs not just a Java compiler, but also a good IDE like Visual Cafe..
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...I was very pleasantly surprised by "Matrix", --movie I have never heard about before I saw its title at the ticket counter. And Ii have a feeling that I will like TPM much, much less. With all this stupid "comic relief" (phrase that reminds me of taking a dump in a very uncomfortable position) Jar-Jars and stuff -- aimed squarely at selling more junk food to drooling fat kids.
... between actually donating something useful, and using this for self promotion...
Sure it is his money and he earned them. That does not make this donation less of an ego promotion...
P.S. I do not donate and do not plan to. I find good use for what money I got.
... or one of these other car magazines
..who blew 100K to install twin turbos on his F50?
This *investment* is a joke. Developers need some real money to fix this abomination of a grafical subsystem of X..
NATO is bombing because it can. We have lotsa cruise missiles and Raytheon wants to sell to the goverment some more of them. And pays politicians to use up the old ones. That's it.
Tell me, have you ever heard much about war in Chechnya? When Russians put heavy multiple launch artillery near Grozny and destroyed the city with all its population? Then continued to kill tens of thousands of civilians. Where was NATO "high moral ground" then? Sure, Chechens guerrilas are no better then KLA - nationalist bandits, arming themselves with drug dealing. Nevertheless.. The only real difference is that Russia had half a zillion nuclear warheads and rockets that do not explode one after another like Titan IV's and Delta's recently.
Morality has nothing to do with war. Nothing even close. Kill your TV.
I thought all this spechialized math school were a complete waste of time. I chose to stay in English/Literature school myself - was enough to pass GRE?TOEFL crap 5 years later with zero problems, and I had a hell of a fun time in school, instead of drooling over some stupid math problems. It was easy to catch up in the university, and to pass all this "botaniks" from the math classes.
IMO early specialization is wrong. (For all you Americans - by "early" I mean when 14 years old guys take nothing but math/physics classes - graduate at 16 and go through university mandatory classes with very strict specialization. - 20 years old farts taking junky public policy and "save the fags" classes instead of physics and math for their profession is sure stupid)
Peace.
:)
I couldn't find an adequate Russian equivalent for "nerd", "geek" etc. (little help from other Russians here?)
;)
"Botanik" ? At least that was the name of those strange looking creatures who sailed thru the first year of the Moscow State Physics with flying colors - they have learned all the material in school, when normal people very busy trying to get laid... They somehow dissolved out of the view by the third year...
Real geeks bench press twice their body weight
...is an unnecessary competetive grading. One can get an "F", because some weirdo had nothing better to do then to sit his ass off in library.
In my school (in Russia) one would get "2" if he doesn't know shit - and criteria is generally universal and predefined. No "average", no "grading curve".
That remove's a LOT of anymosity toward smarter members of the class. You are not competing with THEM, only with you own laziness and dumbness...
Just an observation...
..should be a fragile, beaten up freak.
:) ) to your training, and you will need no guns...(just kidding, but..)
I can speak only for my friends and myself. I grew up in Moscow - straight A (5's) in school, honorary diploma, geekiest of the colleges, now my got my Ph.D here. But I always could beat the crap out of anybody in my school, except for my best friend, who was the second best student, but compensated by being a full-contact champ. He is a professor here now...
There is absolutely no negative correlation between your mental and physical abilities. All you geeks out there - get out and work out. Just a little scientific approach (
Let's beat KDE/GNOME war. (We ALL know Gnome sucks - do not we?)
Otherwise the star ship might blow up half way getting to its destination
That does happen...
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published in mid to late 80's, I think
Huh? You should brush up your understanding of the subject... Most of the developments happened later - I already mentioed some good references...
From your description of your testing I am positevely sure you fucked it up. E-mail me if you want some more references on the subject...
about human eye -
- most wavelet transform based compression algorythms achieve a better quality due to the fact, that it naturally concentrates on changes - edges - of the image - the same thing human eye and mind concentrates on.
Look at some papers on image processing...
Notice one about deblocking of JPEG compressed images, for example...
about human eye -
JPEG, even though it is lossy, makes most photos look better than they started off. This is due to the way that the sampling for the DCT works. It takes into account how the human eye works, and leaves out things that our brains wouldn't even notice anyway
BS. Human eye works in nice square pieces? Utter bullshit. Do your homework. It is the other way around.
Don't know what WT compression you looked at, but all I have seen (a lot) have a MUCH better quality per bit, and most important - they are free from this nice square artifacts of JPEG, that human eye is so well equipped to pick up.
And when coded sanely - they are computationally MORE efficient.
Do yourself a favor, pick up a good book (Say Mallat's 97 Wavelt tour of signal processing) and read it...
compression speed on wavelets may be agonizingly slow
Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.
DWT and relatives are computationally very effective algorythms.
The reason it was not used ealier - it was not developed earlier.
My point is, the OS should be able to handle *anything* period
Utter bullshit. You can kill almost everything with a good memory leak, or by overloading processes, file handles etc. Happens all the time.
One can break anything if you screw with it long enough.
>50% in our group. Though they still dual-boot NT to read Word docs people sent us and to make Powerpoint colored poop...
Graphical layout tools like this will save _many_ hours of code writing .setBounds sucks, say nothing if ou choose that abomination of GridBagLayout, but you do it once and it is exactly as you want it to be - most important you hand coded event model make sense and performs better.
Except the default code it generates is UGLY and it is very hard to modify if you ever get out of the enviroment. And the Visual Cafe greats event listeners for you? Arghhh...
Nothing beats a piece of paper and a pencil to great a good layout. Sure, typing all the
Of course for me GUI is a small part. RAD tools sure help if you do it every day, and do not care if anybody will ever have to modify, maintain or rewrite it....
And it is awfully buggy when IZtry to type in forms...
I actually found that for modelling a good code parser is better for me than going the other way around - modelling in IDL, drawing pretty boxes, and generating hard to read code. RR generated code is butt ugly.
Just do your inital design with placeholder for functions, than use something like Source Navigator (from Cygnus) to look how it looks like in terms of the structure... It draws pretty trees and diagrams for Java pretty well. And when linked to EMACS for an editor with JDE it is grreat. Though a built in editor is good enough.
- just $150 for developers version...
Actually, even in NT I prefer to use EMACS with JDE. Works great. Visualcafe is used for quick forms layout and initial code generation and for compiling.
...does compile Java into windows binaries just fine. Including AWT and Swing classes. Big reason I keep booting NT is to use it. (Besides Illustrator)...
Linux needs not just a Java compiler, but also a good IDE like Visual Cafe..
You can. Select advanced in the download applet and select "compatibility". Worked for me.