My point wasn't a feature comparison, but rather you can have a functional box with low specs. Sure, it doesn't have all of the features of XP or Vista but no one in my house would be using those features anyways. The laptop can browse the web, view email, watch DVDs/video and play all of the installed games (admittedly, pretty lightweight) with no problems. With XP on the same laptop if I tried to run anything more than Firefox it would slow to a crawl.
I know what you're saying, but be careful about the blanket statements. I have an old IBM thinkpad that has 256MB of memory in it. XP runs like a one-legged dog even before I run any user apps, but Xubuntu (XFCE, pretty lightweight) runs great for Firefox, Thunderbird and most other things I need to get done on the family room computer. Of course, my dev Ubuntu box needs a gig or things feel slow with everything I need to run.
Don't get me wrong, I completely agree with you. What I was trying to point out is that in this case it appears that MS is simply saying: "That's how it's supposed to be" and they aren't going to look at it any further. I think you'll agree that it's not quite the same thing.
I run a pretty big network and if my primary router resets because the watchdog timer trips (basically what you're describing here), we send the crashdump log to the vendor and they fix the bug. I've never had a vendor say "oh, a crash is normal and appropriate behavior."
Exactly. I'm interested in how Corel is protecting the new key it's trying to distribute. I mean, if they can hack the AACS key out of the player why do they think that they won't break the update to get the new key? Even if they're using some sort of public/private key pair embedded in the software, that too should be easily extracted. I'd wager that the new key will be available very soon.
Hybrid OO/Functional language that compiles down to JVM and CLR bytecode. It supports operator overloading as well as a lot of other cool things. There are even Eclipse and Emacs plugins for dev work:).
Sorry, I don't know about the whole line, but the 7500 and 8000 series are definitely hardware. The 7500 page specifically talks about the hardware XOR engine:
Not to beat a dead horse, but the Escalade 7000/8000 confiuration manual specifically discusses using the BIOS utility (invoked through Alt-3 during boot) to create/modify arrays:
Well, I know you said no DOSBox posts, but it runs fine on my Thinkpad (P4, 2GHZ) laptop. The default CPU cycles (3000) is really slow, but you just have to hit Ctl-F12 a couple of times to pick up to the 8-10k range which is perfectly playable for me (not sure how this translates for other machines).
I completely agree on Feynman's book, there's a lot of very good detail there. I've read a lot of his books (all in boxes at the moment), and I like his style. He's a real inspiration not only for his physics work, but for his precision and attention to detail in general.
John Glenn's mother lived in our town (small suburb of CMH), and I clearly remember watching the whole thing live in the 4th grade, via a satellite feed. Our teacher had stepped out for a moment when it happened and when she came back and found out about it she wept openly. It was very traumatic for all of us...
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Just a comment on the portability issue. I completely agree that sometimes having to move an app between disparate systems may mean that someone didn't plan well, but there are also situations where it means you can leverage your assets. For instance, where I work I developed a small network monitoring/reporting application for our help desk to handle 200 or so sites. At the time I wrote it (3 years ago), we had a spare windows 2K server running on older hardware that was otherwise going to go unused, so we ran it on that. It ran great. Over the past 3 years we have increased the number of sites we monitor to close to 1000, and it wasn't running so well on the old PII server. However, an unrelated project freed up a Sun e450 4xCPU box and we moved the application there with literally zero changes and it runs great on that box (along with several other apps). The windows box has been repurposed as a backup DNS server now (running portable BIND, incidentally).
In this case the portability factor allowed us to fully utilize the hardware we had, instead of having to spend big bucks on a larger wintel server. I'm not saying Java has a monopoly on portability, there are lots of languages that make it trivial or fairly easy to move between platforms; however, if I had written this in C# or some other.Net language I'm not so sure the transfer would have gone as smoothly.
Indeed, python has a lot of nice features. I actually use Jython a lot for DB scripting because it gives me the flexibility of Python with JDBC (among other Java libs).
Just a note on the poor trig performance. Java goes for accuracy over speed when dealing with large multiples of pi (for -pi/4 to pi/4 the performance is much faster). James Gosling has a whole discussion on the issue here. It would have been nice if Java offered the option of a faster, inaccurate method for trig functions, but if you really don't care about accuracy and would prefer speed you probably want to do table interpolation anyway.
Yeah, I once went to a tech support call and found that the VP's secretary had somehow wedged the Ethernet pigtail into the pins of the *serial port*. I asked her if someone had showed her how to do this and she said that "it was the only place I could fit it."
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Actually, I came back from vacation one time to a Linux box that was hung and making weird noises. When I finally pulled out the hard drive and shook it, it rattled:
Well, speaking from experience the tire doesn't just fall off. I was on the interstate a couple of years ago when the car in the lane next to me (and about 60 feet ahead) had its left rear wheel come completely off the vehicle. The two things that stick with me most vividly were the wheel flying about 20 feet into the air then bouncing over the Jersey barrier into oncoming traffic, and the following 15 foot long fountain of sparks coming off the newly exposed axle/hub. At the time I was too concerned with not running into things to notice whether the wheel hit any cars on the other side of the highway, but it would have definitely made an impact if it had.
How about a spellcheck for incoming messages, that would allow you to automatically send warnings/bans back to the sender if they exceeded some threshold of crappy spelling. The grammar would be a bit harder, though:).
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. I'm all for theories that may explain things better than the current evolution theories, but ID and similar non-theories are not them. Want some examples of animals changing? Look at platypi, or walking fish.
Actually, I think you're taking a very different stance than most ID proponents in the US (I recognize that ID is a grey aread like everything else). What you're stating here is mostly what the Vatican is saying. Where you're headed is starting to bleed into cosmology/big-bang theory, since as far as I know Darwin (and more modern analyses) don't discuss about where matter came from, but rather how life changed from the very first organism into the multitude of species we have today (both micro- and macroevolution). Most ID I've heard has tended to be things like "God invented the eyeball"...
Well, Jean-Marie *has* contributed a lot to the Java community. While this particular post may look trivial or not super important, the Javolution framework does have a lot of nice features and is RTSJ (real-time Java) compliant. He's also contributed a lot to JScience, which is another interesting framework for scientific calculations.
BTW, a lot of realtime Java has to do with deterministic behavior, and lazy initialization is non-deterministic. I don't think the main point here is to save a little bit of time by doing the load up front, but rather to get deterministic behavior from the system later on. For instance, let's say I have a class that normally take 20us for the constructor to run, but takes 15ms to load the class. If I'm expecting to be able to allocate a new instance of this class inside a method that has a maximum run time of 100us, then the system will fail if lazy initialization takes place. If that means I just missed a whole bunch of sensor readings, or that motor ran longer than it was supposed to, it could have some very bad consequences.
If you're interesting in learning about real time systems, or about real time Java in particular, I highly recommend the NIST's report on requirements for real time Java:
No, it's not perfect, but the "ambition factor" does seem to be higher. I don't think it's a great correlation, but certainly where people have a stronger desire to do well economically there tends to be a matching desire to do well in education. My father-in-law's generation was part of, as I like to call it, the Taiwanese Diaspora. My wife's relatives pretty much flung themselves to every corner of the earth in search of better opportunities, including higher education (my father in law was lead research chemist at a very large petrochemical company). I know there are a lot of factors in that mass migration, including poor conditions in Taiwan at the time, but I don't think we've seen anything similar in terms of mass upward movement of people in the US since the turn of the century or earlier (industrial revolution?).
Don't get me started on stupid Taiwanese TV, I think they're still somewhat in the "emulate bad Japanese culture" mode, even 60 years after they ceased to be a Japanese territory...
Sounds reasonable to me. For me science is something that explains how things work and religion is a framework to provide meaning for why things work the way the do.
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My point wasn't a feature comparison, but rather you can have a functional box with low specs. Sure, it doesn't have all of the features of XP or Vista but no one in my house would be using those features anyways. The laptop can browse the web, view email, watch DVDs/video and play all of the installed games (admittedly, pretty lightweight) with no problems. With XP on the same laptop if I tried to run anything more than Firefox it would slow to a crawl.
Derek
I know what you're saying, but be careful about the blanket statements. I have an old IBM thinkpad that has 256MB of memory in it. XP runs like a one-legged dog even before I run any user apps, but Xubuntu (XFCE, pretty lightweight) runs great for Firefox, Thunderbird and most other things I need to get done on the family room computer. Of course, my dev Ubuntu box needs a gig or things feel slow with everything I need to run.
Derek
The other option is to run interactive sudo by doing a "sudo -i". That effectively gives you a root shell.
Derek
Don't get me wrong, I completely agree with you. What I was trying to point out is that in this case it appears that MS is simply saying: "That's how it's supposed to be" and they aren't going to look at it any further. I think you'll agree that it's not quite the same thing.
Derek
I run a pretty big network and if my primary router resets because the watchdog timer trips (basically what you're describing here), we send the crashdump log to the vendor and they fix the bug. I've never had a vendor say "oh, a crash is normal and appropriate behavior."
Derek
Hmmm, I wonder if the technology has changed much for tubes. IIRC my old guitar amplifier used 6L6s... Was I dosing myself while jamming?
And then they'll either hack the patch to get the new key or use the same method they used to extract the original key to get the new one...
Exactly. I'm interested in how Corel is protecting the new key it's trying to distribute. I mean, if they can hack the AACS key out of the player why do they think that they won't break the update to get the new key? Even if they're using some sort of public/private key pair embedded in the software, that too should be easily extracted. I'd wager that the new key will be available very soon.
Derek
True, but the parent poster was talking about HTTPS. AFAIK, TLS/SSL negotiation doesn't allow for name-based virtual hosts.
Derek
You and the parent might be interested in Scala:
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http://scala.epfl.ch/
Hybrid OO/Functional language that compiles down to JVM and CLR bytecode. It supports operator overloading as well as a lot of other cool things. There are even Eclipse and Emacs plugins for dev work
Derek
Sorry, I don't know about the whole line, but the 7500 and 8000 series are definitely hardware. The 7500 page specifically talks about the hardware XOR engine:
0 3.pdf pages 25-27
http://www.3ware.com/products/parallel_ata.asp
The 8000 page also says: "True hardware RAID protection for all your valuable data"
http://www.3ware.com/products/serial_ata8000.asp
Not to beat a dead horse, but the Escalade 7000/8000 confiuration manual specifically discusses using the BIOS utility (invoked through Alt-3 during boot) to create/modify arrays:
http://www.3ware.com/support/UserDocs/7000IG_0429
Where do you see that any of their products are software?
Derek
Well, I know you said no DOSBox posts, but it runs fine on my Thinkpad (P4, 2GHZ) laptop. The default CPU cycles (3000) is really slow, but you just have to hit Ctl-F12 a couple of times to pick up to the 8-10k range which is perfectly playable for me (not sure how this translates for other machines).
Derek
I completely agree on Feynman's book, there's a lot of very good detail there. I've read a lot of his books (all in boxes at the moment), and I like his style. He's a real inspiration not only for his physics work, but for his precision and attention to detail in general.
John Glenn's mother lived in our town (small suburb of CMH), and I clearly remember watching the whole thing live in the 4th grade, via a satellite feed. Our teacher had stepped out for a moment when it happened and when she came back and found out about it she wept openly. It was very traumatic for all of us...
Derek
Just a comment on the portability issue. I completely agree that sometimes having to move an app between disparate systems may mean that someone didn't plan well, but there are also situations where it means you can leverage your assets. For instance, where I work I developed a small network monitoring/reporting application for our help desk to handle 200 or so sites. At the time I wrote it (3 years ago), we had a spare windows 2K server running on older hardware that was otherwise going to go unused, so we ran it on that. It ran great. Over the past 3 years we have increased the number of sites we monitor to close to 1000, and it wasn't running so well on the old PII server. However, an unrelated project freed up a Sun e450 4xCPU box and we moved the application there with literally zero changes and it runs great on that box (along with several other apps). The windows box has been repurposed as a backup DNS server now (running portable BIND, incidentally).
.Net language I'm not so sure the transfer would have gone as smoothly.
In this case the portability factor allowed us to fully utilize the hardware we had, instead of having to spend big bucks on a larger wintel server. I'm not saying Java has a monopoly on portability, there are lots of languages that make it trivial or fairly easy to move between platforms; however, if I had written this in C# or some other
Derek
Indeed, python has a lot of nice features. I actually use Jython a lot for DB scripting because it gives me the flexibility of Python with JDBC (among other Java libs).
Derek
Just a note on the poor trig performance. Java goes for accuracy over speed when dealing with large multiples of pi (for -pi/4 to pi/4 the performance is much faster). James Gosling has a whole discussion on the issue here. It would have been nice if Java offered the option of a faster, inaccurate method for trig functions, but if you really don't care about accuracy and would prefer speed you probably want to do table interpolation anyway.
Derek
Yeah, I once went to a tech support call and found that the VP's secretary had somehow wedged the Ethernet pigtail into the pins of the *serial port*. I asked her if someone had showed her how to do this and she said that "it was the only place I could fit it."
Derek
Actually, I came back from vacation one time to a Linux box that was hung and making weird noises. When I finally pulled out the hard drive and shook it, it rattled:
The heads crashed and machined through the platter!
Derek
Well, speaking from experience the tire doesn't just fall off. I was on the interstate a couple of years ago when the car in the lane next to me (and about 60 feet ahead) had its left rear wheel come completely off the vehicle. The two things that stick with me most vividly were the wheel flying about 20 feet into the air then bouncing over the Jersey barrier into oncoming traffic, and the following 15 foot long fountain of sparks coming off the newly exposed axle/hub. At the time I was too concerned with not running into things to notice whether the wheel hit any cars on the other side of the highway, but it would have definitely made an impact if it had.
Derek
How about a spellcheck for incoming messages, that would allow you to automatically send warnings/bans back to the sender if they exceeded some threshold of crappy spelling. The grammar would be a bit harder, though :).
Derek
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. I'm all for theories that may explain things better than the current evolution theories, but ID and similar non-theories are not them. Want some examples of animals changing? Look at platypi, or walking fish.
Derek
Actually, I think you're taking a very different stance than most ID proponents in the US (I recognize that ID is a grey aread like everything else). What you're stating here is mostly what the Vatican is saying. Where you're headed is starting to bleed into cosmology/big-bang theory, since as far as I know Darwin (and more modern analyses) don't discuss about where matter came from, but rather how life changed from the very first organism into the multitude of species we have today (both micro- and macroevolution). Most ID I've heard has tended to be things like "God invented the eyeball"...
Derek
Well, Jean-Marie *has* contributed a lot to the Java community. While this particular post may look trivial or not super important, the Javolution framework does have a lot of nice features and is RTSJ (real-time Java) compliant. He's also contributed a lot to JScience, which is another interesting framework for scientific calculations.
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BTW, a lot of realtime Java has to do with deterministic behavior, and lazy initialization is non-deterministic. I don't think the main point here is to save a little bit of time by doing the load up front, but rather to get deterministic behavior from the system later on. For instance, let's say I have a class that normally take 20us for the constructor to run, but takes 15ms to load the class. If I'm expecting to be able to allocate a new instance of this class inside a method that has a maximum run time of 100us, then the system will fail if lazy initialization takes place. If that means I just missed a whole bunch of sensor readings, or that motor ran longer than it was supposed to, it could have some very bad consequences.
If you're interesting in learning about real time systems, or about real time Java in particular, I highly recommend the NIST's report on requirements for real time Java:
http://www.itl.nist.gov/div897/ctg/real-time/intr
Derek
No, it's not perfect, but the "ambition factor" does seem to be higher. I don't think it's a great correlation, but certainly where people have a stronger desire to do well economically there tends to be a matching desire to do well in education. My father-in-law's generation was part of, as I like to call it, the Taiwanese Diaspora. My wife's relatives pretty much flung themselves to every corner of the earth in search of better opportunities, including higher education (my father in law was lead research chemist at a very large petrochemical company). I know there are a lot of factors in that mass migration, including poor conditions in Taiwan at the time, but I don't think we've seen anything similar in terms of mass upward movement of people in the US since the turn of the century or earlier (industrial revolution?).
Don't get me started on stupid Taiwanese TV, I think they're still somewhat in the "emulate bad Japanese culture" mode, even 60 years after they ceased to be a Japanese territory...
Derek
Sounds reasonable to me. For me science is something that explains how things work and religion is a framework to provide meaning for why things work the way the do.
Derek