So I remember Steve jobs rambling about why flash was bad for phones?
- bad performance
- poor battery life
- security ?
Anybody notice poor battery performance with flash? Is it easy to kill bad flash apps or does it reboot your device like my laptop ? How good is the touch interface with flash ?
My thoughts were exactly that when I read this. But this is published in Nature photonics, it cannot be all fake. There is a possibility of incorrect experiments/conclusion, but it cannot be complete BS.
I never understood this. I am a hindu and having seen Muslims closely, I know they are very sensitive about religion. There are some extremists who are hell-bent on making it seem like islam will die if something or the other goes wrong like this posting of Mohammed cartoons and everyone has to wage war.
Here in US, we have what I see is Bully culture - if you have sensibilities, you are basically screwed. Naturally the US and Islam are at odds.
I dont think it is right to insult some religion just because it happens to be protected as your fundamental right to draw. I dont think it is right to make death threats over it either. How will we ever make these 2 sides agree over anything if neither of them are going to ever relent ?
I have set up my acct such that if there is an access made more than a certain amount of money and/or out of my local area, they call me/text me to call them and verify the transaction. I am not a frequent traveller, so this works out for me.
Look up if such a facility is available with your bank too.
Another thing, see if they offer some sort of fraud protection mechanism. Some banks do that. That takes off some of the time-delay/processing worries too.
If you choose to use your debit card and not credit card mostly, also, move your money from checking to some savings account and keep very little ( subjective) money in checking.
That may help too.
Seriously, Apple is beginning to suffocate us developers. Instead of providing a way allow parallel user apps to either exit cleanly or kill them to avoid hogging CPU, Apple comes up with a way to tell you that Apple will provide for parallelism, you just have to hook into one of our services. Seriously, as a developer, that is very frustrating. We know the app that we are making and know where opportunities for parallelization lie.
We dont want apple to tell us that. To avoid a few apps that misbehave, apple now thinks that it should not allow multitasking at user level at all!
wow, being from NCSU and personally knowing most of the people involved in this project, this is nothing but a paper.
There was nothing much in this work that has not been done already and this paper itself got published after getting rejected numerous times in most high quality conferences. There are so many issues with this technique I dont know where to begin with. But it suffices to say that these people have abandoned this and moved on.
How did this article become so popular ? Well, a few days back some newspaper people came to us to ask for a paper that has been published but not presented and this seemed to be the only one. They have glorified this paper so much in their article it almost sounds like an invention !!!
Wow, we truly live in an mis-information age
Did you not read TFA at all ?
You can not only choose which search provider to use the search suggestions, you can also turn off search suggestions in chrome !!
It can't be wrong if we are fixing an inability to process particular wavelengths of light.There are definitely other things that we could do when we mess with bio-engineering/genetics etc that could raise moral and ethical issues . Now, using DNA to provide someone the ability to hear like a dog etc etc, that is more serious stuff ofcourse or maybe not.
Maybe it is moral that if we have technology that can improve our senses, it is ok to improve it even if we humans were not gifted with it at birth. I dont believe Nature is perfect.
IE is not just performance bad, it is also a security nightmare.
The only practical result from these numbers is that all other browsers are mostly equal, so stick to what you have if you are comfortable with it.
How do these numbers help me choose a browser ? When on any test - speed or memory - most browsers performed differently on different benchmarks from the same category ?
I wish they also explained whether being second in a particular memory test is that bad.
Besides, I use a lot of extensions in Mozilla that blocks flash, adblocks etc, how do those affect memory consumption and speed ?
I wish there was some more details about these results, especially how the numbers translate to daily use.
In my college and grad school classes I did not have to draw diagrams a lot since most of them were on the slides. Using my tablet,I was able to draw a few lines on top of the slides for future reference or to make things clearer. Also, it had the option of typing stuff in it below the slide if I was lagging since I can still type faster than I write on my tablet. But I am surprised that you have to draw a lot.
In my classrooms ( I have been in college + gradschool for 11 years ) I noticed people switching from pen and paper to laptops for taking notes and then some students started getting tablet PCs. The fraction of people with tablets to total ( regular laptops + tablets ) in classes that I have been to has been mostly around 0.1 though.
I think there should be a way to take pics like a camera on a laptop for taking pics of whatever is on the white board and then merging it with my notes. Ofcourse, with flash in it I dont know how much the professor could get annoyed.
Old people, non-geeks, spouses of slashdotters maybe. Seriously, a lot of people still use IE. There are reason though. I was able to "convert" my wife from IE to FF a few months ago, however, her company's payroll system only works on IE. Once she switches it on, she continues using it. That to me is a big problem with FF. We as geeks just don't go to crazy ass sites as other regular people sometimes and we think FF is the best whereas, there are still a number of sites that don't work well with IE. I remember flashblock extension screwed up videos on a number of sites for me for a long time.
Also, FF has its own issues. I typically have to restart my browser every other day because it makes my system slow and I am already using Adblock and Flashblock to cut off the junk and the memory leak from flash.
The biggest advantage of Chrome is its popularity due to Google and perceived speed. It feels like Chrome loads pages wayyy faster FF. However, in many instances, it succeeds in loading only half the page fast, there are elements of the page that load slowly and if you note down the start to end loading time, it is comparable to FF. However, since it loads a visible portion quickly, people believe it is wayy faster than FF.
You can see a potential benefit if you got out of country. You can be out on the road and use your cellphone to make calls via skype etc to others. Ofcourse, you could do the same thing once you are in a wifi zone in another country too. This just gives you a slight extra. So it is really not anything to get orgasmic about.
You cannot have such stupid mechanisms to detect terrorist activity at airports. At best, you can use them to support other mechanisms. Like as an example maybe to reduce the number of people you want people to go under the scanner. I am sure with patents published online, someone can figure out a way to beat the detection. IMHO, at airports we should use scanners to detect drugs/chemicals/weapons etc. Everything else must come before granting visa like performing a thorough background check !!
I graduated last November. I was looking for jobs since August. I did not get any calls at least until end of November. Since then I have had an interview every day and finally had the luxury to choose from multiple offers. I know a lot of companies are starting up new projects. A lot of the jobs in my area - Computer Architecture/Systems/Networks is being driven by Cloud Computing. Datacenter style jobs are big. Most positions require experience in Fiber Chanel SAN etc or hardware for large Datacenter switches.
They dont seem to mention the Iphone generation anywhere. Is it fair to compare the third generation of a product to new products out there right away ? I think other phones can pick up on touch sensitivity etc in future generations.
Well, you are talking about cases where threads need to synchronize using locks, which of course can be hard if you wanna get best performance. It does not have to be hard. You could make your life easier by using coarse locks and lose some performance. So locks does not always equal problems. That said there are lots of completely parallel tasks that can be written easily using user-level threads. In this case, the purpose of the threads is only to express parallelism that exists in the program.
Sorry I cant think of an example right on top of my head early morning. But I am sure you can come up with one too.
Slashdot Mirror
They have a lot of swear words in them They begin with a #!
I thought the same thing, but jack was wearing different clothes when he died last night than on the first episode.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-20005452-248.html
So I remember Steve jobs rambling about why flash was bad for phones? - bad performance - poor battery life - security ? Anybody notice poor battery performance with flash? Is it easy to kill bad flash apps or does it reboot your device like my laptop ? How good is the touch interface with flash ?
My thoughts were exactly that when I read this. But this is published in Nature photonics, it cannot be all fake. There is a possibility of incorrect experiments/conclusion, but it cannot be complete BS.
I never understood this. I am a hindu and having seen Muslims closely, I know they are very sensitive about religion. There are some extremists who are hell-bent on making it seem like islam will die if something or the other goes wrong like this posting of Mohammed cartoons and everyone has to wage war. Here in US, we have what I see is Bully culture - if you have sensibilities, you are basically screwed. Naturally the US and Islam are at odds. I dont think it is right to insult some religion just because it happens to be protected as your fundamental right to draw. I dont think it is right to make death threats over it either. How will we ever make these 2 sides agree over anything if neither of them are going to ever relent ?
I have set up my acct such that if there is an access made more than a certain amount of money and/or out of my local area, they call me/text me to call them and verify the transaction. I am not a frequent traveller, so this works out for me. Look up if such a facility is available with your bank too. Another thing, see if they offer some sort of fraud protection mechanism. Some banks do that. That takes off some of the time-delay/processing worries too. If you choose to use your debit card and not credit card mostly, also, move your money from checking to some savings account and keep very little ( subjective) money in checking. That may help too.
http://www.qcmg.org/cancer.html It gives a background of what they are trying to do, seems interesting.
Where the bad guys get to the guy who has the best predicted performance, kidnap his loved one and make him commit a bank robbery or something.
Seriously, Apple is beginning to suffocate us developers. Instead of providing a way allow parallel user apps to either exit cleanly or kill them to avoid hogging CPU, Apple comes up with a way to tell you that Apple will provide for parallelism, you just have to hook into one of our services. Seriously, as a developer, that is very frustrating. We know the app that we are making and know where opportunities for parallelization lie. We dont want apple to tell us that. To avoid a few apps that misbehave, apple now thinks that it should not allow multitasking at user level at all!
wow, being from NCSU and personally knowing most of the people involved in this project, this is nothing but a paper. There was nothing much in this work that has not been done already and this paper itself got published after getting rejected numerous times in most high quality conferences. There are so many issues with this technique I dont know where to begin with. But it suffices to say that these people have abandoned this and moved on. How did this article become so popular ? Well, a few days back some newspaper people came to us to ask for a paper that has been published but not presented and this seemed to be the only one. They have glorified this paper so much in their article it almost sounds like an invention !!! Wow, we truly live in an mis-information age
Did you not read TFA at all ? You can not only choose which search provider to use the search suggestions, you can also turn off search suggestions in chrome !!
It can't be wrong if we are fixing an inability to process particular wavelengths of light.There are definitely other things that we could do when we mess with bio-engineering /genetics etc that could raise moral and ethical issues . Now, using DNA to provide someone the ability to hear like a dog etc etc, that is more serious stuff ofcourse or maybe not.
Maybe it is moral that if we have technology that can improve our senses, it is ok to improve it even if we humans were not gifted with it at birth. I dont believe Nature is perfect.
IE is not just performance bad, it is also a security nightmare. The only practical result from these numbers is that all other browsers are mostly equal, so stick to what you have if you are comfortable with it.
How do these numbers help me choose a browser ? When on any test - speed or memory - most browsers performed differently on different benchmarks from the same category ? I wish they also explained whether being second in a particular memory test is that bad. Besides, I use a lot of extensions in Mozilla that blocks flash, adblocks etc, how do those affect memory consumption and speed ? I wish there was some more details about these results, especially how the numbers translate to daily use.
So now if people are thinking about their passwords while typing it in, it could be picked up by this ?
In my college and grad school classes I did not have to draw diagrams a lot since most of them were on the slides. Using my tablet,I was able to draw a few lines on top of the slides for future reference or to make things clearer. Also, it had the option of typing stuff in it below the slide if I was lagging since I can still type faster than I write on my tablet. But I am surprised that you have to draw a lot. In my classrooms ( I have been in college + gradschool for 11 years ) I noticed people switching from pen and paper to laptops for taking notes and then some students started getting tablet PCs. The fraction of people with tablets to total ( regular laptops + tablets ) in classes that I have been to has been mostly around 0.1 though. I think there should be a way to take pics like a camera on a laptop for taking pics of whatever is on the white board and then merging it with my notes. Ofcourse, with flash in it I dont know how much the professor could get annoyed.
Old people, non-geeks, spouses of slashdotters maybe. Seriously, a lot of people still use IE. There are reason though. I was able to "convert" my wife from IE to FF a few months ago, however, her company's payroll system only works on IE. Once she switches it on, she continues using it. That to me is a big problem with FF. We as geeks just don't go to crazy ass sites as other regular people sometimes and we think FF is the best whereas, there are still a number of sites that don't work well with IE. I remember flashblock extension screwed up videos on a number of sites for me for a long time. Also, FF has its own issues. I typically have to restart my browser every other day because it makes my system slow and I am already using Adblock and Flashblock to cut off the junk and the memory leak from flash. The biggest advantage of Chrome is its popularity due to Google and perceived speed. It feels like Chrome loads pages wayyy faster FF. However, in many instances, it succeeds in loading only half the page fast, there are elements of the page that load slowly and if you note down the start to end loading time, it is comparable to FF. However, since it loads a visible portion quickly, people believe it is wayy faster than FF.
You can see a potential benefit if you got out of country. You can be out on the road and use your cellphone to make calls via skype etc to others. Ofcourse, you could do the same thing once you are in a wifi zone in another country too. This just gives you a slight extra. So it is really not anything to get orgasmic about.
It literally looks like a giant IPhone. This is an ISlap to the IPeople.
You cannot have such stupid mechanisms to detect terrorist activity at airports. At best, you can use them to support other mechanisms. Like as an example maybe to reduce the number of people you want people to go under the scanner. I am sure with patents published online, someone can figure out a way to beat the detection. IMHO, at airports we should use scanners to detect drugs/chemicals/weapons etc. Everything else must come before granting visa like performing a thorough background check !!
So that I can keep playing the same music videos over and over and get to work instead of coming back to youtube every 5minutes and pressing play.
I graduated last November. I was looking for jobs since August. I did not get any calls at least until end of November. Since then I have had an interview every day and finally had the luxury to choose from multiple offers. I know a lot of companies are starting up new projects. A lot of the jobs in my area - Computer Architecture/Systems/Networks is being driven by Cloud Computing. Datacenter style jobs are big. Most positions require experience in Fiber Chanel SAN etc or hardware for large Datacenter switches.
They dont seem to mention the Iphone generation anywhere. Is it fair to compare the third generation of a product to new products out there right away ? I think other phones can pick up on touch sensitivity etc in future generations.
Well, you are talking about cases where threads need to synchronize using locks, which of course can be hard if you wanna get best performance. It does not have to be hard. You could make your life easier by using coarse locks and lose some performance. So locks does not always equal problems. That said there are lots of completely parallel tasks that can be written easily using user-level threads. In this case, the purpose of the threads is only to express parallelism that exists in the program. Sorry I cant think of an example right on top of my head early morning. But I am sure you can come up with one too.