Labview is horrible for memory management and very inefficient. So if you want something that pushes your hardware to the max (e.g. controls register allocation or defines custom communication protocol to minimize waste bits being sent over) then Labview is just not usable. The other problem with Labview is that they every so often release new versions which happen to be incompatible with previous ones. So if you developed stuff for, say, Labview 5, then by now you have probably recoded your stuff several times or are stuck running old environment. This is not a problem with ANSI C or matlab code. The other problem with Labview is that a good coder can make reasonably legible stuff but in a lab with two or three coders you will inevitably have someone coding spaghetti code. Yes, bad code exists in all environments but there is nothing like Labview spaghetti code to boggle the mind. Another evil of Labview is that there is no easy way to convert its diagrams to line code and use all the standard tools available for, say, C to improve code. In short, Labview is to DAQ what Visual Basic used to be (before.NET) for UI: easy for the clueless but evil for any real work. I would say that if you cannot use assembly and/or custom FPGA (which is the best way for DAQ), at least use C.
The small guys got the business. In this economy that is huge. Survival through blood, sweat, and tears is rarely "an inspiring tale", except when it is told by the survivors to their thriving descendants.
In a word: ICCCM. Clean out some old cruft, maybe make X12 and it will not be so abhorrent. It's like asking, what's wrong with Netscape. It's OK but a cleaner leaner thingy like Firefox (even with the same underlying codebase) is a winner. The other thing I keep saying whenever someone asks this is that X belongs in the kernel. So many kernel-level optimizations affect desktop performance that it is clear that they should be very tightly integrated for best results. And in fact we are starting to see work along these lines with various framebuffer-based approaches.
Myosin V is a major motor which hauls all kinds of stuff. Calling it a memory molecule is like calling a Volvo truck the food truck. Yes, it might be used to deliver food sometimes but it is much more than that.
If you are buying the cheapest, then Tek. Agilent is not cheap and cheap LeCroys are junk (breaks within a year or so, guaranteed). Also, BK Precision is junk. Dunno about $10K ones but anything you get for under $1K better be Tek. Doubly so if used.
Everything parent reported, confirmed here. Plus, this release is a pig. Starts real slow. When I switch to an open OO3 document from some other app, it takes a good few seconds before the menus are useable. This office suite feels like one extended self-inflicted denial of service attack.
Terrible, hard to type name. Messy interface. Yellow color scheme? Small snippets to represent blogs (And I mean small visually, not small number of words).
The inset window blocks much of the search panel.
As far as I can tell, no attempt to group results by domain, that is stacking several relevant blog postings from same blog in adjoint rectangles.
First off, wtf is Sophie? Their page says it is "software for writing and reading rich media documents in a networked environment" and I am still as clueless as before? What does it do? I tried reading their user manual and gave up. It is utterly unclear. As best I can figure, they were making some sort of bastardized office suite. If so, why? Isn;t there enough of that already? As for the question in the summary, what is their license? Both for the original project and for what this company is developing. Just saying open source is not enough when you are dealing with a fork.
I believe that ideally classes should present information and challenge you with homework. The homework need not be graded but needs to give ample feedback to the student to let them know where they are failing, what they could do better, etc. Once (and only once) the full picture is presented, the students should be tested. The test should consist of questions not covered in class or in homework but doable if you truly understand the material. These tests should be open book. The point of learning is to prepare for real life. In real life, if you have a bad day, often times you are screwed. However I think it may be a good policy for teachers to allow students to retake an exam, provided the second exam is harder.
Exactly. My attitude in college was to not bother with tests until the final, where I would almost inevitably get the best or close to the best score. Many profs were looking at me funny because they figured me for a loser and then had to admit I know my stuff. Good times. Graduated with the best GPA in my major and went on to get a PhD. I obviously think that when you teach a class, it is reasonable to ask people at the end whether they have learned. Asking people to take midterms and assigning grades on other stuff like homework is good if you want to give students feedback on their progress, but none of that should count toward the final grade. If I do not care about a class, I should have an option to only turn on my brain once, only long enough to show that I have learned.
For someone who supposedly did a lot of surveying of the field he somehow missed an important amino acid: citrulline which is very important because many proteins undergo deimination and it results in change of function. And this is just from what I caught right off the bat. Let's just say I do not think the world of this article and the "quite a bit of information" is really "way too simplistic view".
Mwave, newegg, zipzoomfly, ewiz, and my local frys if they have a good sale. Typically, in my experience, newegg and ewiz have the best prices and fast shipping.
I personally think that the domain graphics is confined to the rendering engine. Figuring out how muscles work can be biology, anatomy, physics, but graphics it is not. Likewise, more details means more work for the level designers not engine designers.
Quote: "the obvious place to push the envelope is graphics"
The main problems in games is not graphics. Good 3D models and high resolution textures are common and realistic lighting is being pushed more and more. The two main problems are lack of detail and lack of realistic physics. The lack of detail is evident in just about any game. I am not aware of any game for instance where dust is modeled as individual particles. Outside scenes are even worse. Roads are often textured rather than modeled meaning that if you see an imperfection in the road and look at it from different angles up close you do not see different lighting conditions and shadows. Foliage is still not realistic despite much progress. Etc... Physics is in some ways doing better. Many games define their own and that's the way the game works. But we do expect people and animals to move a certain way (regardless of what the game tells us about its physics) and to have certain facial expressions. Those have to be dead on. And so far, no game can even make a human being walk right, let alone respond to a wound realistically. Grimacing is horrible. So to recap, there is much more to a game than "graphics", whether you mean polygon counts and shaders or simply pretty still shots. There are many places in dire need of pushing the envelope and graphics is not the main one of them. In fact, with so much in need of improvement I honestly doubt we will see truly realistic games in my lifetime (next 30-50 years).
I am actually against consensual crimes (e.g. drugs and prostitution) being penalized but so long as the law against them is on the books, sure, in your scenario you should be tried (and maybe even jailed) for possession.
OK, what I meant to say is that she should be tried for prostitution. If the judge decides to be lenient, or the president decides to pardon her, well, that's part of due process. All I care about is that the letter of the law be followed.
The criminal law exists to discourage behaviors detrimental to efficient social functioning.
The key element of any legal system is that everyone be equal before law. The "law"of the jungle implies that the strong are exempt. Your "legal" system with built-in compassion means that the cute ones and the cry-babies are exempt. Neither is useful or even morally defensible.
Compassion... I'd love to discuss this some more but first, please give me a strict legal definition of it - a definition that can be used reproducibly and predictably in all criminal and civil cases.
The analogy is wrong. The girl in the miniskirt has done nothing wrong and has not attempted to do anything wrong (unless she lives in Saudi Arabia). But if this same girl is approached by a guy with a sex for money offer, goes with him to a dark alley and is then raped, she should definitely go to jail for prostitution even if no money was exchanged (assuming prostitution is illegal in that locale), just as the rapist should go to jail for rape.
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Labview is horrible for memory management and very inefficient. So if you want something that pushes your hardware to the max (e.g. controls register allocation or defines custom communication protocol to minimize waste bits being sent over) then Labview is just not usable. .NET) for UI: easy for the clueless but evil for any real work. I would say that if you cannot use assembly and/or custom FPGA (which is the best way for DAQ), at least use C.
The other problem with Labview is that they every so often release new versions which happen to be incompatible with previous ones. So if you developed stuff for, say, Labview 5, then by now you have probably recoded your stuff several times or are stuck running old environment. This is not a problem with ANSI C or matlab code.
The other problem with Labview is that a good coder can make reasonably legible stuff but in a lab with two or three coders you will inevitably have someone coding spaghetti code. Yes, bad code exists in all environments but there is nothing like Labview spaghetti code to boggle the mind.
Another evil of Labview is that there is no easy way to convert its diagrams to line code and use all the standard tools available for, say, C to improve code.
In short, Labview is to DAQ what Visual Basic used to be (before
George Washington Bridge? What's so cool about that.
The small guys got the business. In this economy that is huge. Survival through blood, sweat, and tears is rarely "an inspiring tale", except when it is told by the survivors to their thriving descendants.
In a word: ICCCM.
Clean out some old cruft, maybe make X12 and it will not be so abhorrent. It's like asking, what's wrong with Netscape. It's OK but a cleaner leaner thingy like Firefox (even with the same underlying codebase) is a winner.
The other thing I keep saying whenever someone asks this is that X belongs in the kernel. So many kernel-level optimizations affect desktop performance that it is clear that they should be very tightly integrated for best results. And in fact we are starting to see work along these lines with various framebuffer-based approaches.
Butt-cheeky?
Ballmer sure is kinky. Who knew?
Myosin V is a major motor which hauls all kinds of stuff. Calling it a memory molecule is like calling a Volvo truck the food truck. Yes, it might be used to deliver food sometimes but it is much more than that.
If you are buying the cheapest, then Tek. Agilent is not cheap and cheap LeCroys are junk (breaks within a year or so, guaranteed). Also, BK Precision is junk. Dunno about $10K ones but anything you get for under $1K better be Tek. Doubly so if used.
I think they were aiming for a dupe and accidentally came out fair and balanced.
Everything parent reported, confirmed here. Plus, this release is a pig. Starts real slow. When I switch to an open OO3 document from some other app, it takes a good few seconds before the menus are useable. This office suite feels like one extended self-inflicted denial of service attack.
Porn blogs! Great idea. Gives blogspot a whole new meaning.
Terrible, hard to type name.
Messy interface. Yellow color scheme?
Small snippets to represent blogs (And I mean small visually, not small number of words).
The inset window blocks much of the search panel.
As far as I can tell, no attempt to group results by domain, that is stacking several relevant blog postings from same blog in adjoint rectangles.
Grade: F-
First off, wtf is Sophie? Their page says it is "software for writing and reading rich media documents in a networked environment" and I am still as clueless as before? What does it do? I tried reading their user manual and gave up. It is utterly unclear. As best I can figure, they were making some sort of bastardized office suite. If so, why? Isn;t there enough of that already?
As for the question in the summary, what is their license? Both for the original project and for what this company is developing. Just saying open source is not enough when you are dealing with a fork.
I believe that ideally classes should present information and challenge you with homework. The homework need not be graded but needs to give ample feedback to the student to let them know where they are failing, what they could do better, etc.
Once (and only once) the full picture is presented, the students should be tested. The test should consist of questions not covered in class or in homework but doable if you truly understand the material. These tests should be open book.
The point of learning is to prepare for real life. In real life, if you have a bad day, often times you are screwed. However I think it may be a good policy for teachers to allow students to retake an exam, provided the second exam is harder.
Exactly. My attitude in college was to not bother with tests until the final, where I would almost inevitably get the best or close to the best score. Many profs were looking at me funny because they figured me for a loser and then had to admit I know my stuff. Good times. Graduated with the best GPA in my major and went on to get a PhD.
I obviously think that when you teach a class, it is reasonable to ask people at the end whether they have learned. Asking people to take midterms and assigning grades on other stuff like homework is good if you want to give students feedback on their progress, but none of that should count toward the final grade. If I do not care about a class, I should have an option to only turn on my brain once, only long enough to show that I have learned.
Can someone give me a side-by-side example of C and Cobol program or statement to do the same thing which would illustrate why Cobol is so "evil"?
For someone who supposedly did a lot of surveying of the field he somehow missed an important amino acid: citrulline which is very important because many proteins undergo deimination and it results in change of function. And this is just from what I caught right off the bat. Let's just say I do not think the world of this article and the "quite a bit of information" is really "way too simplistic view".
Mwave, newegg, zipzoomfly, ewiz, and my local frys if they have a good sale. Typically, in my experience, newegg and ewiz have the best prices and fast shipping.
You'll be hard... to what?
I personally think that the domain graphics is confined to the rendering engine. Figuring out how muscles work can be biology, anatomy, physics, but graphics it is not. Likewise, more details means more work for the level designers not engine designers.
Quote: "the obvious place to push the envelope is graphics"
The main problems in games is not graphics. Good 3D models and high resolution textures are common and realistic lighting is being pushed more and more.
The two main problems are lack of detail and lack of realistic physics. The lack of detail is evident in just about any game. I am not aware of any game for instance where dust is modeled as individual particles. Outside scenes are even worse. Roads are often textured rather than modeled meaning that if you see an imperfection in the road and look at it from different angles up close you do not see different lighting conditions and shadows. Foliage is still not realistic despite much progress. Etc...
Physics is in some ways doing better. Many games define their own and that's the way the game works. But we do expect people and animals to move a certain way (regardless of what the game tells us about its physics) and to have certain facial expressions. Those have to be dead on. And so far, no game can even make a human being walk right, let alone respond to a wound realistically. Grimacing is horrible.
So to recap, there is much more to a game than "graphics", whether you mean polygon counts and shaders or simply pretty still shots. There are many places in dire need of pushing the envelope and graphics is not the main one of them. In fact, with so much in need of improvement I honestly doubt we will see truly realistic games in my lifetime (next 30-50 years).
I am actually against consensual crimes (e.g. drugs and prostitution) being penalized but so long as the law against them is on the books, sure, in your scenario you should be tried (and maybe even jailed) for possession.
OK, what I meant to say is that she should be tried for prostitution. If the judge decides to be lenient, or the president decides to pardon her, well, that's part of due process. All I care about is that the letter of the law be followed.
The criminal law exists to discourage behaviors detrimental to efficient social functioning.
The key element of any legal system is that everyone be equal before law. The "law"of the jungle implies that the strong are exempt. Your "legal" system with built-in compassion means that the cute ones and the cry-babies are exempt. Neither is useful or even morally defensible.
Compassion... I'd love to discuss this some more but first, please give me a strict legal definition of it - a definition that can be used reproducibly and predictably in all criminal and civil cases.
The analogy is wrong. The girl in the miniskirt has done nothing wrong and has not attempted to do anything wrong (unless she lives in Saudi Arabia). But if this same girl is approached by a guy with a sex for money offer, goes with him to a dark alley and is then raped, she should definitely go to jail for prostitution even if no money was exchanged (assuming prostitution is illegal in that locale), just as the rapist should go to jail for rape.