It is my understanding that we're talking about the Java language compiler and virtual machine here, right? Which libraries will be GPL'd? What about the Java code for the J2SE libraries and the J2EE framework? The article is a bit short on details...
And remember that when an image is displayed, it is decompressed into a raw format in memory (since compressed formats like JPEG and PNG are for storage and transport only) and people forget about that effect on memory.
Curiously, this seems to be only partially true. As a web designer I've used a lot of "CSS sprites / image slicing". This involves multiple images in one, showing only part of it at any given time. I've noticed that even very large images (say 3000 x 5000 px) take up very little memory if you don't display the whole image. In that particular case the image was a 10KB PNG, don't know if that was a factor though...
But I'm one of those people who's lucky enough to not have an addictive personality. I didn't get addicted to IRC or the 'net. I can go weeks without logging into a computer outside of work without any problem. When my laptop (my only computer) crashed at home two months ago, I puttered for a few weeks before even bothering to reinstall the OS
It's funny... when my computer is out of order at home I get real nervous, but not because I need the computer per say. The problem is it's become such a vital part of my every day life it's rather indispensible. Paying the bills, email, stuff like that all are net-dependent. I can reserve books and have them delivered to my local library from a library system that is large even on a global scale: http://www.helmet.fi/screens/opacmenu.html Hell, I even plan non regular public transportation trips online: http://aikataulut.ytv.fi/reittiopas/en/
I don't have time to play games. I have two kids, and more babies are on the way. Email is pretty much the only way to deal with stuff sensibly if I don't make calls during working hours. Anything I need to research I use the net for. Being without a connection literally cuts me off from society.
I don't feel it's an addiction. I don't miss the net on a vacation away from home. But at home it's like running water and electricity, it's just expected to be there.
Someone had to work and pay taxes for that "free lunch". Contrary to what your local Socialist Indoctrinator says, it just didn't spring out from a magical "lunch machine".
Indeed, about a third of my pay goes to taxes and other similar fees. I'm quite happy about it, as the money is mostly used for sensible spendings. How many medical procedures have you had for free? Education? Real social security?
Yes the system has flaws, and no it's not free as in magically free. But it is parctially free, for the one using the services. It's a matter of opinion if it makes sense to take from those who have and give to those who need, but I'm not complaining as long as I find I can use the services paid for with my tax money when I am in a time of need.
In Finland school lunches are free. Not only are they free, but kids get a healthy meal including fresh vegetables and often fruit every single day, bread and milk is included as well. Everyone eats the same meal, including the teachers. The only exceptions are people with allergies / ethic issues (vegetarians etc). You're free not to eat if you don't like the food, of course.
I strongly believe that good eating habits at an early age is paramount for learning a healthy lifestyle. One can have many opinions of socialistic solutions, but when it comes to nutrition and education I'm all for it. Having seen the muck english school kids have to eat I'm rather grateful I was born in Finland.
Actually, the "ban" on recumberents is more an issue of the nature of the sport. Basically they feel that a recumberent is not a bicycle in the traditional sense. But the wind resistance advantage is more or less nullified by the increased effort in climbing hills with recumberents. On a normal bike you can use your body weight to climb more efficiently, not so with a recumberent.
I guess there are few (there are some) races because there are rather few riders as well.
From the site: (http://www.powercranks.com/about/concept.htm)
PowerCranks(TM) integrates a one-way clutch in each crank-arm of your bicycle or stationary bike. This patented modification changes the cranks from being fixed to each other at 180 (as are regular cranks), to being independent from one another. Each leg can drive the bicycle but one leg cannot assist the other. Effectively, with PowerCranks(TM) the rider is doing one-legged pedaling with both legs simultaneously.
So basically, they force riders to use all leg muscles and keep them from lifting one leg with the other, wasting energy. Simple, but very effective. It's a nice concept, and I'd love to get a pair even for my commute, but being a niche product they are rather expensive...
This could really be an interesting way to boost real time soft synths... Even with top of the line processors the more complex ones will bring a CPU to it's knees. Seems like a more sensible option compared to a DSP-filled expansion card. Too bad this thing is still a little on the expensive side for a viable market on the music software side.
Secondly, MMOGs are not chemical addictions and should not be treated as such.
You have no idea what you are talking about. Addiction can be neurochemical without the introduction of external agents. It is quite possible to develop an addiciton by pursuing activities that boost your own endorfin and other neurochemical production, such as games, sex, etc. If you keep on doing this excessively your brain will adapt to the higher levels and you will get deprivation symptoms from not doing whatever it is you do to keep your levels at where your brain thinks they are supposed to be.
Just because you don't eat/drink/inject something that doesn't guarantee that your body chemistry can't be totally out of whack.
Most people who dislike eye candy do so because it slows things down or clutters the UI. Watching these videos and seeing what Apple has done with OS X made me realize that eye candy can make the interface more intuitive when done right. The virtual destop cube -thingy really looked like something usable for a change.
I suspect the possibilities created by hardware accelerated UIs will lay the groundwork for a whole new set of UI paradigms, but the real implications are probably still years away.
The problem is that standby is very convenient. I don't want to have to walk upto my TV to turn it on. I want to sit down and press the power button on the remote. For me to be able to do this the TV has to be using a bit of power (how much I am not sure of).
Current standby modes keep the tube partially active, which is supposed to prolongue it's lifetime. A remote-on enabling standby would be a very trivial IR circuit controlling a relay, which shouldn't require more than a fraction of a watt. Ideally the trickle charge would be off a battery, so that the tranformer circuit could be shut down.
Disclaimer: I am not an electrical engineer, the above is pure speculation.
I literally think more slowly after waking up. When I shower in the morning it takes me like 20 minutes to do the exact same procedure I can complete in 10 minutes if take a shower in the middle of the day.
I bicycle to work, and I've found the exercise really helps to jolt you awake. Fresh air and exercise in general wakes me up much better than getting on a bus to work does. Below freezing temperatures help too;)
I think people tend to take their need of sleep too lightly these days. I would prefer to sleep about 9 hours a night, but practical issues and social pressure keeps me at between 6 and 8 hours per night. I don't feel that time spent sleeping is wasted, as a programmer I often that I've solved problems during sleep.
Having programmed in numerous languages I can't help wonder if it's really worth it. There's a reason why languages come and go. Bolting on new features might be more like treating the symptoms rather than the cause?
Let's face it: You don't need a bunch of fancy instructions. The basics are really simple, and everything else you pick up as you go along. Parenting and raising kids may be a different issue, but you do not need a multimedia presentation on how to change a diaper. This is a waste of money.
Trust me, I know. As in my "firstborn were twins and we did just fine".
Eight cores at four threads is 32 simultaneous threads. Nice, but what about memory bandwith? Each thread needs proper I/O if this is actually going to do any good... Anyone have any real info on this marchitecture?
If it works like stock investment you pay taxes once you earn a profit (in Finland at least). Basically, once you cash your holdings (virtual money in this case) the gain/loss is calculated and the gain is then taxed just like any other income.
After a person goes through school, how much of that knowledge is ever applied? It all seems so irrelevant. Let me see, the last time I applied the quadratic equation... Was it that long ago that I balanced a chemical equation?
You're missing the point here. You need to learn a bit about everything in school, becase there's no way to know what knowledge you're going to need in the future. It's true that much is never applied, but the learning curve for pretty much anything is far less steep if you know the basics of everyting. (Yes, most people do forget, but you can't remember what you never learned...)
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It is my understanding that we're talking about the Java language compiler and virtual machine here, right? Which libraries will be GPL'd? What about the Java code for the J2SE libraries and the J2EE framework? The article is a bit short on details...
And remember that when an image is displayed, it is decompressed into a raw format in memory (since compressed formats like JPEG and PNG are for storage and transport only) and people forget about that effect on memory.
Curiously, this seems to be only partially true. As a web designer I've used a lot of "CSS sprites / image slicing". This involves multiple images in one, showing only part of it at any given time. I've noticed that even very large images (say 3000 x 5000 px) take up very little memory if you don't display the whole image. In that particular case the image was a 10KB PNG, don't know if that was a factor though...
It's funny... when my computer is out of order at home I get real nervous, but not because I need the computer per say. The problem is it's become such a vital part of my every day life it's rather indispensible. Paying the bills, email, stuff like that all are net-dependent. I can reserve books and have them delivered to my local library from a library system that is large even on a global scale: http://www.helmet.fi/screens/opacmenu.html Hell, I even plan non regular public transportation trips online: http://aikataulut.ytv.fi/reittiopas/en/
I don't have time to play games. I have two kids, and more babies are on the way. Email is pretty much the only way to deal with stuff sensibly if I don't make calls during working hours. Anything I need to research I use the net for. Being without a connection literally cuts me off from society.
I don't feel it's an addiction. I don't miss the net on a vacation away from home. But at home it's like running water and electricity, it's just expected to be there.
Indeed, about a third of my pay goes to taxes and other similar fees. I'm quite happy about it, as the money is mostly used for sensible spendings. How many medical procedures have you had for free? Education? Real social security?
Yes the system has flaws, and no it's not free as in magically free. But it is parctially free, for the one using the services. It's a matter of opinion if it makes sense to take from those who have and give to those who need, but I'm not complaining as long as I find I can use the services paid for with my tax money when I am in a time of need.
In Finland school lunches are free. Not only are they free, but kids get a healthy meal including fresh vegetables and often fruit every single day, bread and milk is included as well. Everyone eats the same meal, including the teachers. The only exceptions are people with allergies / ethic issues (vegetarians etc). You're free not to eat if you don't like the food, of course.
I strongly believe that good eating habits at an early age is paramount for learning a healthy lifestyle. One can have many opinions of socialistic solutions, but when it comes to nutrition and education I'm all for it. Having seen the muck english school kids have to eat I'm rather grateful I was born in Finland.
My 2 cents, anyway.
Actually, the "ban" on recumberents is more an issue of the nature of the sport. Basically they feel that a recumberent is not a bicycle in the traditional sense. But the wind resistance advantage is more or less nullified by the increased effort in climbing hills with recumberents. On a normal bike you can use your body weight to climb more efficiently, not so with a recumberent.
I guess there are few (there are some) races because there are rather few riders as well.
From the site: (http://www.powercranks.com/about/concept.htm)
So basically, they force riders to use all leg muscles and keep them from lifting one leg with the other, wasting energy. Simple, but very effective. It's a nice concept, and I'd love to get a pair even for my commute, but being a niche product they are rather expensive...
I do follow basic common-geek-sense, but so far F-Secure hasn't failed me. Completely anecdotal, mind you...
This could really be an interesting way to boost real time soft synths... Even with top of the line processors the more complex ones will bring a CPU to it's knees. Seems like a more sensible option compared to a DSP-filled expansion card. Too bad this thing is still a little on the expensive side for a viable market on the music software side.
You have no idea what you are talking about. Addiction can be neurochemical without the introduction of external agents. It is quite possible to develop an addiciton by pursuing activities that boost your own endorfin and other neurochemical production, such as games, sex, etc. If you keep on doing this excessively your brain will adapt to the higher levels and you will get deprivation symptoms from not doing whatever it is you do to keep your levels at where your brain thinks they are supposed to be.
Just because you don't eat/drink/inject something that doesn't guarantee that your body chemistry can't be totally out of whack.
Then again, he had the sense to use coral cache.
Most people who dislike eye candy do so because it slows things down or clutters the UI. Watching these videos and seeing what Apple has done with OS X made me realize that eye candy can make the interface more intuitive when done right. The virtual destop cube -thingy really looked like something usable for a change.
I suspect the possibilities created by hardware accelerated UIs will lay the groundwork for a whole new set of UI paradigms, but the real implications are probably still years away.
The problem is that standby is very convenient. I don't want to have to walk upto my TV to turn it on. I want to sit down and press the power button on the remote. For me to be able to do this the TV has to be using a bit of power (how much I am not sure of).
Current standby modes keep the tube partially active, which is supposed to prolongue it's lifetime. A remote-on enabling standby would be a very trivial IR circuit controlling a relay, which shouldn't require more than a fraction of a watt. Ideally the trickle charge would be off a battery, so that the tranformer circuit could be shut down.
Disclaimer: I am not an electrical engineer, the above is pure speculation.
I literally think more slowly after waking up. When I shower in the morning it takes me like 20 minutes to do the exact same procedure I can complete in 10 minutes if take a shower in the middle of the day.
;)
I bicycle to work, and I've found the exercise really helps to jolt you awake. Fresh air and exercise in general wakes me up much better than getting on a bus to work does. Below freezing temperatures help too
I think people tend to take their need of sleep too lightly these days. I would prefer to sleep about 9 hours a night, but practical issues and social pressure keeps me at between 6 and 8 hours per night. I don't feel that time spent sleeping is wasted, as a programmer I often that I've solved problems during sleep.
Having programmed in numerous languages I can't help wonder if it's really worth it. There's a reason why languages come and go. Bolting on new features might be more like treating the symptoms rather than the cause?
Time will tell, I guess.
No link, Googling came up empty. The are editors still hung over from last night's Christmas party? ;)
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I respect and support your insecurity.
Let's face it: You don't need a bunch of fancy instructions. The basics are really simple, and everything else you pick up as you go along. Parenting and raising kids may be a different issue, but you do not need a multimedia presentation on how to change a diaper. This is a waste of money.
Trust me, I know. As in my "firstborn were twins and we did just fine".
What will it cost?
Um... Read the FAQ and quit foaming.
Eight cores at four threads is 32 simultaneous threads. Nice, but what about memory bandwith? Each thread needs proper I/O if this is actually going to do any good... Anyone have any real info on this marchitecture?
If it works like stock investment you pay taxes once you earn a profit (in Finland at least). Basically, once you cash your holdings (virtual money in this case) the gain/loss is calculated and the gain is then taxed just like any other income.
That's the theory, anyway.
After a person goes through school, how much of that knowledge is ever applied? It all seems so irrelevant. Let me see, the last time I applied the quadratic equation ... Was it that long ago that I balanced a chemical equation?
You're missing the point here. You need to learn a bit about everything in school, becase there's no way to know what knowledge you're going to need in the future. It's true that much is never applied, but the learning curve for pretty much anything is far less steep if you know the basics of everyting. (Yes, most people do forget, but you can't remember what you never learned...)
A chain is only as strong as it's weakest link.
Too bad the BrightSide display is "a little costly"... (Think several small cars -costly.)