Bah, you're talking about *manual* assembly programming, which don't really matter much currently: the design of the ISA for RISC are optimised for compilers..
Some RISC sucks sure, but it's the same for CISCs (x86 sucks big time), so I'm not sure why you do this comparison..
>So will this be the next weight loss method? If I am powering electronics it must come from burning calories correct?
Uh? What a stupid statement! They connected a transistor to *one* cell: you'd need to connect something to *many* cells before there would be any significant weightloss..
>1) The segment that thinks that Apple is easier and "just works" when compared to Windows. They dont want to fuck about with their PC. (I disagree with these people because Windows7 "just works" too)
I disagree with your disagreement: Windows don't just work due to the security aspect that you *have* to take into account. I bet that many Mac users don't have any antivirus, whereas most Windows users have one, which create additionnal work: for example, the antivirus subscription on my GF's computer expired a few days ago, I noticed this because the security center complained at having no firewall!!
Uh? I found this article quite good: it explain to users why they could care about lower latency (not for surfing the web but for multiplayer games) and it doesn't oversell 4G.
As they say the 4G can theoretically provide higher bandwith and lower latency but as always it depends on the implementation: if the backbone is overused for example, a better radio access network won't bring much benefit to users..
>While you can't prove that there is no god (or similar esoteric entity), you can still prove that certain forms of religion are wrong and self-contradicting.
Not really, you can show inconsistency in religions but does this mean that the religious people will accept these inconsistencies as proof? No! They will most likely reject the 'proof'.. Given that religions don't follow rationality, how could a rational argument be considered as a proof by religious people??
Would someone with moderators points increase one of the answer: the GP was wrong: the dead pixels don't change upon (re)rolling. So now what they need to show is that there are able to make prototype without dead pixels and this technology would become useful (if the production costs are reasonable).
Uh? I've read here that some traders are paying to put their hardware the closest they can to the trading servers so that they can have low latency.. So I'd guess that this is more a case of an article with a flawed example than anything else..
The analogy could be improved, true: food is a physical object, so you cannot share it (if you eat the food, then I can't and vice versa), so if it costs something to produce food, someone has to pay for it, software can be shared: patents which prevents the sharing are totally artificial restrictions which are made to raise price of software.
Plus even if programmers are paid (which is not always the case), it doesn't mean that the software itself must have a price: as shown by all the companies which pays programmers to produce Free/Open software: for example do you know the history of Erlang?
> As nice as the world might be if food was free and software had no patents, that isn't the world we live in.
Remember that software patents are basically non-existant in Europe.. Growing food is labor intensive, so it cannot be truly free(*), software patents are only a self-inflicted wound.
*: unless you can convince people to give their work for free, _someone_ has to pay for the tools and the labor used to grow food.
>> If you have to take heavy medication that makes your organs unsuitable for example, it shouldn't affect your priority to receive organs. It would turn your consent to donate into an empty formality of course.
Not really: your organs may be used for medical study for example, which is also a *life or death* issue, even if it's less direct: insufficently trained doctor equal more risks for the patients.. 'consent for donation' is all what matter, not the state of the organs themselves.
>As such they should be as easy and accessible for an average person to use.
Sure, but the thing is: quite often programs try to be easy for an average person to use but in fact make it more difficult to use, the canonical example of this is Microsoft. One example, in Word: if you select the middle of a word, the programs helpfully selects for you the end of this word, except that this happens only in Word not in other programs making this behaviour inconsistent: thanks a lot for the f#$@# "help".
One interesting thing to learn is about algorithm which are O(n), O(n2), etc. It's not difficult and it can help optimising a program..
Also the way to proof that the program is correct (there's a introduction about it in programming's pearls*), it's not used often but it can be very useful for 'tricky' algorithms.
*Funnily the sort program with the proofs has still bugs: it computes the middle of a range with middle:=(x + y)/2 which can overflow!!
>[cut] most memory problems you have are the same ones between Java and Objective-C - over-retention. That's not something GC fixes for you.
A GC *could* help: there has been some research with GC which cooperates with the kernel's virtual memory manager, the main advantage is that memory referenced but unused can be swapped instead of being kept in memory by the garbage collector, see http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2391
Unfortunately this require modification of the kernel's virtual memory manager, so AFAIK the research has never been used:-(
Even if you're right, what's depressing is that BeOS was the most responsive system I've ever used on a PC.. Which means that even if BeOS is bad, the other are *worst*..
Amusing so Vista is as good as XP for running programs but it need much more powerful hardware(!). Don't you see a "small" contradiction/incoherence in your post?
I wonder why this is moderated insightful? This is a very different kind of 'acquisition' as the genes for making chlorophyll acquired from the algae are not transferred to its offspring..
>Purchasing a non-Windows system on an Atom makes no sense at all. The only current use for an Atom is to run Windows.
And Flash, and WINE, and Free software not ported to something else than x86..
>and one has to wonder how/why KDE got selected given that there are 3+ other window managers available under Linux -- most of which have a much smaller footprint
Apparently you didn't even bother to go to the website: they made a poll and KDE was chosen.
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Bah, you're talking about *manual* assembly programming, which don't really matter much currently: the design of the ISA for RISC are optimised for compilers..
Some RISC sucks sure, but it's the same for CISCs (x86 sucks big time), so I'm not sure why you do this comparison..
>So will this be the next weight loss method? If I am powering electronics it must come from burning calories correct?
Uh? What a stupid statement!
They connected a transistor to *one* cell: you'd need to connect something to *many* cells before there would be any significant weightloss..
>1) The segment that thinks that Apple is easier and "just works" when compared to Windows. They dont want to fuck about with their PC. (I disagree with these people because Windows7 "just works" too)
I disagree with your disagreement: Windows don't just work due to the security aspect that you *have* to take into account.
I bet that many Mac users don't have any antivirus, whereas most Windows users have one, which create additionnal work: for example, the antivirus subscription on my GF's computer expired a few days ago, I noticed this because the security center complained at having no firewall!!
Uh? I found this article quite good: it explain to users why they could care about lower latency (not for surfing the web but for multiplayer games) and it doesn't oversell 4G.
As they say the 4G can theoretically provide higher bandwith and lower latency but as always it depends on the implementation:
if the backbone is overused for example, a better radio access network won't bring much benefit to users..
So that's not weasel words, just being cautious..
>While you can't prove that there is no god (or similar esoteric entity), you can still prove that certain forms of religion are wrong and self-contradicting.
Not really, you can show inconsistency in religions but does this mean that the religious people will accept these inconsistencies as proof?
No! They will most likely reject the 'proof'..
Given that religions don't follow rationality, how could a rational argument be considered as a proof by religious people??
Would someone with moderators points increase one of the answer: the GP was wrong: the dead pixels don't change upon (re)rolling.
So now what they need to show is that there are able to make prototype without dead pixels and this technology would become useful (if the production costs are reasonable).
What about the 'shared memory' extension?
I think that it's used by many toolkit communicating with the X server to improve performances..
Because I don't know how to use github and it looks to me as a really, really complicated way to make a wiki..
Maybe in your list of solutions you could mention interval arithmetic, it's not very much used, but it gives "exact" solution.
Uh? I've read here that some traders are paying to put their hardware the closest they can to the trading servers so that they can have low latency..
So I'd guess that this is more a case of an article with a flawed example than anything else..
Depends on the RISC.. An ARM with the Thumb2 ISA has a quite good code density too but with a "mostly sane" ISA..
Note that I consider the ARM the best ISA either: it doesn't have 64bit memory addressing for example.
The analogy could be improved, true: food is a physical object, so you cannot share it (if you eat the food, then I can't and vice versa), so if it costs something to produce food, someone has to pay for it, software can be shared: patents which prevents the sharing are totally artificial restrictions which are made to raise price of software.
Plus even if programmers are paid (which is not always the case), it doesn't mean that the software itself must have a price: as shown by all the companies which pays programmers to produce Free/Open software: for example do you know the history of Erlang?
> As nice as the world might be if food was free and software had no patents, that isn't the world we live in.
Remember that software patents are basically non-existant in Europe..
Growing food is labor intensive, so it cannot be truly free(*), software patents are only a self-inflicted wound.
*: unless you can convince people to give their work for free, _someone_ has to pay for the tools and the labor used to grow food.
Sure but PNG didn't manage to displace GIF, *even though* it is superior to GIF.
Probably because of IE's non-existing, then crappy implementation..
I'm not sure that this is a good omen for Theora vs H.264..
>> If you have to take heavy medication that makes your organs unsuitable for example, it shouldn't affect your priority to receive organs. It would turn your consent to donate into an empty formality of course.
Not really: your organs may be used for medical study for example, which is also a *life or death* issue, even if it's less direct: insufficently trained doctor equal more risks for the patients..
'consent for donation' is all what matter, not the state of the organs themselves.
>As such they should be as easy and accessible for an average person to use.
Sure, but the thing is: quite often programs try to be easy for an average person to use but in fact make it more difficult to use, the canonical example of this is Microsoft.
One example, in Word: if you select the middle of a word, the programs helpfully selects for you the end of this word, except that this happens only in Word not in other programs making this behaviour inconsistent: thanks a lot for the f#$@# "help".
>There should be no errors. Period. Your program should not allow errors.
Very funny. When are you writting a wordprocessor (not a toy say one which use ODF) or a webbrowser?
One interesting thing to learn is about algorithm which are O(n), O(n2), etc.
It's not difficult and it can help optimising a program..
Also the way to proof that the program is correct (there's a introduction about it in programming's pearls*), it's not used often but it can be very useful for 'tricky' algorithms.
*Funnily the sort program with the proofs has still bugs: it computes the middle of a range with middle:=(x + y)/2 which can overflow!!
>[cut] most memory problems you have are the same ones between Java and Objective-C - over-retention. That's not something GC fixes for you.
A GC *could* help: there has been some research with GC which cooperates with the kernel's virtual memory manager, the main advantage is that memory referenced but unused can be swapped instead of being kept in memory by the garbage collector, see http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2391
Unfortunately this require modification of the kernel's virtual memory manager, so AFAIK the research has never been used :-(
>Now, who wants to try a bite?
Even if you're right, what's depressing is that BeOS was the most responsive system I've ever used on a PC..
Which means that even if BeOS is bad, the other are *worst*..
I wonder why this was moderated insightful??
A sample of one is enough for you to be sure that dogs are always right when they don't like someone??
You're not very rationnal here..
Amusing so Vista is as good as XP for running programs but it need much more powerful hardware(!).
Don't you see a "small" contradiction/incoherence in your post?
Thanks for the correction.
I wonder why this is moderated insightful?
This is a very different kind of 'acquisition' as the genes for making chlorophyll acquired from the algae are not transferred to its offspring..
>Purchasing a non-Windows system on an Atom makes no sense at all. The only current use for an Atom is to run Windows.
And Flash, and WINE, and Free software not ported to something else than x86..
>and one has to wonder how/why KDE got selected given that there are 3+ other window managers available under Linux -- most of which have a much smaller footprint
Apparently you didn't even bother to go to the website: they made a poll and KDE was chosen.