Dude... that's ridiculous... I'm a programmer (25), and I need a palm to keep my appointments and everything straight. Otherwise, I'd get fired fast, cause I lose track of time soooo easily while coding. Not to mention the stuff I have to do for my wife...;)
I listen to mostly house/trance, so it would be sweet to have all that in one package. Not to mention that there are 128 meg memory sticks now...;)
Each of the new procs will ship with a golden orb fan included, and a coupon for a major discount on a water cooling system! They also said that they fully expect 40% of AMD proc consumers to build custom cooling solutions for their own machines...;)
Ok.... I was referring to GC as applied to an entire language, like in Java. I have absolutely no problem agreeing that in some cases, as in semantic nets, using a GC-sort-of-algorithm to perform memory management can be the best solution.
I do have a problem with the application of GC to an entire language... I believe that the applications that would seem to require a GC-like algorithm are very rare in commercial software, (as you mentioned, more prevalent in AI)...
Maybe C++ could make it easier to do GC on specific classes, but I really don't like a language that doesn't let you encapsulate the details of memory management within a class...
Interesting -- they mention that the areas hit by the laser emit 680nm light, and are 400nm in diameter, and are separated by 100nm in all directions...
They also mention that this is about 2500 times as much data in one square centimeter, and that they extracted different data from different layers of the cube by varying the type of doping material, thereby varying the frequency of emitted light from each layer...
By the way, why does the lameness filter prevent me from posting the url link in japanese with unicode? That's pretty lame...
There are a lot of principles at work in good OOP, and they don't have to involve run-time polymorphism, or huge class hierarchies to be OO.
I'll agree that it takes a lot of experience to use C++ correctly and efficiently, but I've got to say, I love it because of the things you can do, and because of it's efficiency.
There are tons of ways to write mad-fast C++, and still use good object oriented design -- you just have to know how. Use simulated dynamic binding. Use const references. Use initialization lists. Use inline functions properly. Overload new and delete to do faster allocation. Use the STL properly. Avoid temporaries. Use expression templates. Use templates a lot. Use more templates......
Of course, you have to learn how all these things work together to write good C++ code, while being efficient at the same time, but isn't that what we programmers do?;)
Don't knock C++ for speed until you've made it fucking fly. Cause you can, if you know the language.
Actually, I think you've hit on a crucial point, and we're really gonna see some trouble when we all move to 64bit systems...
I was thinking about this earlier today, and I think that what's really needed is a language that forces you to define your types before you can write any code. It should force you to define them in a simple language describing the number of bits, signedness, etc... Then, your compiler could just tell you whether your processor could support your spec or not, and you could just change the spec when you switched platforms, or got new functionality in a processor.
Yes, the.NET compiler is supposed to be better, but I know that in VC++ 6.0, there's still a problem with the constructors of the containers...
You can't initialize a vector, etc, with any iterators you want, because although the constructor is supposed to be templated to accept any iterator types, it isn't -- it only takes iterators for that container currently.... I hope this is fixed in 7.0 too.
Garbage collection sucks my anal crevice. Does it feel so great to just forget about encapsulating memory management nicely within a class, and just spew it all over the system to let someone else clean it up for you? GC is a hack that destroys a major benefit of good encapsulation -- the ability to change your memory allocation without affecting users of your class's interface.
Really... The only reason for it is that people are lazy and sloppy thinkers.
Yes, there should be a wife whose full-time job is to raise the kids. Or a husband whose full-time job is to raise the kids.
Why the term de-evolve? Is it an evolutionary step to neglect children? What the hell is so hard about having one parent work, and the other not work? Get a smaller house, or an apartment. Buy an old car. But don't neglect your children because you think it's too hard to have one parent not work...
I swear, I get so pissed off by people who think that all women have to work, or else they're being cheated somehow... If you talked to most mothers, they would probably say that they'd love to stay home with their kids full time, but they have to make ends meet. The answer isn't for them to work, it's for one of the parents to try to get a better education, and a better job, and cut back on their expenses, so they CAN do it.
Some people have lost sight of common sense in the search for equal opportunities...
Agggh...! Freedom of speech is a right of every citizen in the U.S. under the Constitution. It does apply to private schools, as well as public schools.
That means that public and private schools have the right to free speech. That does not mean that they have an obligation to treat others nicely when they exercise that right.
The private school has the right to suspend or expell any student for any reason that doesn't conflict with equal opportunity laws... This does not substantially limit or oppress the students' right to free speech, because they can find schools elsewhere. Public schools probably are not the same in this respect.
Algae were used to help clean up the Exxon Valdez spill, and there are a number of patents on specific organisms that will eat oil... I'm actually surprised that someone hasn't tried this yet. There are a number of organisms that live at the mouth of undersea volcanic vents, where hot sulfuric water and gas are released. These don't require light, surviving solely on heat, minerals, and CO2, etc. that are in the water...
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You know, I'm really tired of people complaining that certain types of media take up too much bandwidth. If everyone on the net were like you, we wouldn't even have FORMS in HTML!!
I started using the net in 1992. I was a sophomore in high school, and I worked over the summer at the Naval Research Lab in Virginia studying solar flares. They had mosaic. But at that time, I believe they had just added support for gifs, and *everyone* was complaining about how certain sites took up too much bandwidth, and about how Netscape was adding all this "proprietary" tag support, for jpegs and other stuff...
I ask you, what happened??? All those people who complained didn't have a clue... The web has evolved for the better, just like everything else. Those people who don't accept the change are not just conservative, they're wrong.
Some people are predisposed to gaining weight. It may be that you are one of these people, but the vast majority are not.
I suggest that it also matters _what_ you eat, and what you do to work out... There are more strenuous things you could do, such as climbing or martial arts, possibly giving you more time for other things....
Hey! I just got married a few months ago, and have had the same problem sometimes, but my wife and I have a good understanding of each other that helps a lot.
We got to know each other in college, which was great now that I think about it, because we both found that we could be happy spending time together, even though we both had to study. So we just studied together all the time -- she would do her thing, and I would do mine, but every hour or two, we would chat a bit...:)
So now, we basically do the same thing, but since she's not working, I just work on programming, and she reads books and stuff -- we go to the bookstore a lot too, where she can browse stuff and read random things (cookbooks mostly;) ) and I can just think about my stuff, and be together...:):) I guess it might be hard to get girls to like this if they're of certain personality types, but it works for us.:)
I have this problem _all_ the time.;) It's extremely hard for me to get over, because I get intensely into anything that I'm trying to figure out. When I get blocked in this state, I end up going over and over things in my mind, but get nowhere.
The suggestion to work on other hobbies, etc, is good, IMHO, but I actually _really_ need something more specific to solve this problem. See, I actually can't get my mind off programming problems, even when I'm doing other things sometimes. The thing that always helps me, is to do some hobby that involves repetetive, simple, mental tasks, that force my mind away from problem solving, clean it out, and get it thinking simply and clearly again... The following are the things that work the best for me:
1) Typing practice 2) Practicing the abacus 3) Studying Chinese/Japanese characters 4) Studying other difficult languages
The other thing that helps me avoid just sitting and staring at the computer (or surfing all day) is to go to a cafe and chill. Read magazines, browse stuff, etc. Then, I can sip a coffee and begin to think about the problem while being really relaxed, with noone looking over my shoulder, and knowing that noone will bother me. I also work at home a lot at these times, just sitting on the couch with my laptop, or scribbling stuff on paper... I actually really like to use paper at these times, cause it removes that feeling of urgency -- I don't feel then that I have to get something done, just think about the problem and see what happens...
So maybe it's time for people in this PC world to begin to face reality rather than their own idealistic ignorance.
There is a difference in quality among human beings. Some are smarter. Some are stronger. This is a simple fact that too many people choose to ignore. Now, we'll see what everyone really thinks are good qualities in people, even if they won't admit it.
I'm not afraid of this change. It's just a wake up call -- a call for us to begin to see ourselves as something under our control, part of the universe of things that we can engineer. That we can mould and design as we see fit.
In the end, people will do what they want to do with this newfound power, and in our consumer society, I'm pretty sure that it will take the form of pop-culture / fashion / fads... People will change themselves and their children in accordance with what the fad is. Maybe for a few years in japan, round eyes will be the rage... Then, when China becomes cool, oriental eyes again... beyond that, who knows?? I do know that most of it will be relatively harmless though.
In the end, there will be a pronounced trend toward more able humans, and this is something that I'm sure everyone will come to see as a good thing.
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I listen to mostly house/trance, so it would be sweet to have all that in one package. Not to mention that there are 128 meg memory sticks now... ;)
Each of the new procs will ship with a golden orb fan included, and a coupon for a major discount on a water cooling system! They also said that they fully expect 40% of AMD proc consumers to build custom cooling solutions for their own machines... ;)
I do have a problem with the application of GC to an entire language... I believe that the applications that would seem to require a GC-like algorithm are very rare in commercial software, (as you mentioned, more prevalent in AI)...
Maybe C++ could make it easier to do GC on specific classes, but I really don't like a language that doesn't let you encapsulate the details of memory management within a class...
Japanese url.
Interesting -- they mention that the areas hit by the laser emit 680nm light, and are 400nm in diameter, and are separated by 100nm in all directions...
They also mention that this is about 2500 times as much data in one square centimeter, and that they extracted different data from different layers of the cube by varying the type of doping material, thereby varying the frequency of emitted light from each layer...
By the way, why does the lameness filter prevent me from posting the url link in japanese with unicode? That's pretty lame...
Java gives me Diarrhea.
There are a lot of principles at work in good OOP, and they don't have to involve run-time polymorphism, or huge class hierarchies to be OO.
I'll agree that it takes a lot of experience to use C++ correctly and efficiently, but I've got to say, I love it because of the things you can do, and because of it's efficiency.
There are tons of ways to write mad-fast C++, and still use good object oriented design -- you just have to know how. Use simulated dynamic binding. Use const references. Use initialization lists. Use inline functions properly. Overload new and delete to do faster allocation. Use the STL properly. Avoid temporaries. Use expression templates. Use templates a lot. Use more templates. .....
Of course, you have to learn how all these things work together to write good C++ code, while being efficient at the same time, but isn't that what we programmers do? ;)
Don't knock C++ for speed until you've made it fucking fly. Cause you can, if you know the language.
I was thinking about this earlier today, and I think that what's really needed is a language that forces you to define your types before you can write any code. It should force you to define them in a simple language describing the number of bits, signedness, etc... Then, your compiler could just tell you whether your processor could support your spec or not, and you could just change the spec when you switched platforms, or got new functionality in a processor.
You can't initialize a vector, etc, with any iterators you want, because although the constructor is supposed to be templated to accept any iterator types, it isn't -- it only takes iterators for that container currently.... I hope this is fixed in 7.0 too.
Really... The only reason for it is that people are lazy and sloppy thinkers.
Why the term de-evolve? Is it an evolutionary step to neglect children? What the hell is so hard about having one parent work, and the other not work? Get a smaller house, or an apartment. Buy an old car. But don't neglect your children because you think it's too hard to have one parent not work...
I swear, I get so pissed off by people who think that all women have to work, or else they're being cheated somehow... If you talked to most mothers, they would probably say that they'd love to stay home with their kids full time, but they have to make ends meet. The answer isn't for them to work, it's for one of the parents to try to get a better education, and a better job, and cut back on their expenses, so they CAN do it.
Some people have lost sight of common sense in the search for equal opportunities...
That means that public and private schools have the right to free speech. That does not mean that they have an obligation to treat others nicely when they exercise that right.
The private school has the right to suspend or expell any student for any reason that doesn't conflict with equal opportunity laws... This does not substantially limit or oppress the students' right to free speech, because they can find schools elsewhere. Public schools probably are not the same in this respect.
I started using the net in 1992. I was a sophomore in high school, and I worked over the summer at the Naval Research Lab in Virginia studying solar flares. They had mosaic. But at that time, I believe they had just added support for gifs, and *everyone* was complaining about how certain sites took up too much bandwidth, and about how Netscape was adding all this "proprietary" tag support, for jpegs and other stuff...
I ask you, what happened??? All those people who complained didn't have a clue... The web has evolved for the better, just like everything else. Those people who don't accept the change are not just conservative, they're wrong.
Some people are predisposed to gaining weight. It may be that you are one of these people, but the vast majority are not. I suggest that it also matters _what_ you eat, and what you do to work out... There are more strenuous things you could do, such as climbing or martial arts, possibly giving you more time for other things....
We got to know each other in college, which was great now that I think about it, because we both found that we could be happy spending time together, even though we both had to study. So we just studied together all the time -- she would do her thing, and I would do mine, but every hour or two, we would chat a bit... :)
So now, we basically do the same thing, but since she's not working, I just work on programming, and she reads books and stuff -- we go to the bookstore a lot too, where she can browse stuff and read random things (cookbooks mostly ;) ) and I can just think about my stuff, and be together... :):) I guess it might be hard to get girls to like this if they're of certain personality types, but it works for us. :)
--torokun
The suggestion to work on other hobbies, etc, is good, IMHO, but I actually _really_ need something more specific to solve this problem. See, I actually can't get my mind off programming problems, even when I'm doing other things sometimes. The thing that always helps me, is to do some hobby that involves repetetive, simple, mental tasks, that force my mind away from problem solving, clean it out, and get it thinking simply and clearly again... The following are the things that work the best for me:
1) Typing practice
2) Practicing the abacus
3) Studying Chinese/Japanese characters
4) Studying other difficult languages
The other thing that helps me avoid just sitting and staring at the computer (or surfing all day) is to go to a cafe and chill. Read magazines, browse stuff, etc. Then, I can sip a coffee and begin to think about the problem while being really relaxed, with noone looking over my shoulder, and knowing that noone will bother me. I also work at home a lot at these times, just sitting on the couch with my laptop, or scribbling stuff on paper... I actually really like to use paper at these times, cause it removes that feeling of urgency -- I don't feel then that I have to get something done, just think about the problem and see what happens...
hope this helps :)
--torokun
So maybe it's time for people in this PC world to begin to face reality rather than their own idealistic ignorance.
There is a difference in quality among human beings. Some are smarter. Some are stronger. This is a simple fact that too many people choose to ignore. Now, we'll see what everyone really thinks are good qualities in people, even if they won't admit it.
I'm not afraid of this change. It's just a wake up call -- a call for us to begin to see ourselves as something under our control, part of the universe of things that we can engineer. That we can mould and design as we see fit.
In the end, people will do what they want to do with this newfound power, and in our consumer society, I'm pretty sure that it will take the form of pop-culture / fashion / fads... People will change themselves and their children in accordance with what the fad is. Maybe for a few years in japan, round eyes will be the rage... Then, when China becomes cool, oriental eyes again... beyond that, who knows?? I do know that most of it will be relatively harmless though.
In the end, there will be a pronounced trend toward more able humans, and this is something that I'm sure everyone will come to see as a good thing.
--toro.