We've been hearing things like this since 9/11. "It'll turn things around...", "We're ready for a boom...". I'll believe it when I see it. Until then, all I see is a bunch of unemployed ex-dotcommers looking into other industries. I find it highly doubtful that there will be another hiring boom of the scale and unfettered nature as 1999's.
The same thing happened on a $900 19" Toshiba monitor at buy.com last year. It was listed for $100 something. Thousands of people ordered it. There was a class action lawsuit, and each person that ordered (myself included) it got a ended up getting a check for $45.
Bottom line: Go order it, even if you don't get it, you might get some cash out of the settlement.
When I wrote my graphing calculator (and other math functions) calculator, I used C++. Keep in mind that you probably don't need the precision of anything more than a 32 bit number. Having 15 decimal places is just fine for nearly all applications, and it's overkill for most.
As far as large numbers is concerned, I don't have any real experience in this. But do a google search on "infinite precision library" and you'll see that there has been some work done already in this area.
All past MS OS's since Win95 have (thankfully) shipped with basic OpenGL support (opengl32.dll ). Does any one know if this is true with XP and/or future MS OS's?
A word of warning to handheld owners: No matter which handheld you end up with, Do not carry them in your back pocket!. I even had a hard aluminum case on mine, and the screen craked straight down the middle. That fast it was rendered totally useless. Granted, I have a larger than average backside... I'm just saying be careful.
Yes, your newtwork will quickly become saturated. Do the math, IDE66 is 66 megaBYTES per second. That's about 500 megabits/sec. So even a single computer could (theoretically) burst 5 times standard fast ethernet. I highly suggest a little Cat6 and gigabit networking for any clustering project.
Although I agree that on the surface it would be great to open source, and free up all products that are no longer supported. But wouldn't this cause a trend of people not buying commercial software, and just waiting for them to go out of business so they could get it for free?
I'm not so sure these images are actually 61cm resolution. They look a lot like what happens when you over sample a lower resolution image, lots of fuzzy large pixels. Any way to tell for sure?
> comes the closest of any integer base to e, the ideal base in terms of efficiency
What does this mean? I'm pretty decent with numbers, but I've never heard e being referred to as the most efficient base. Anybody know any more about this? Math article somewhere?
I'm not sure how well this works in linux, but I can tell you from experience that using my Mitsubishi 900U monitor with 3 port downstream usb and 2 port upstream usb in windows is NOT ideal. There are many problems with switching between the two computers. Sometimes the devices won't get detected when I switch, and if one computer crashes I usually have to turn the monitor off and back on again before the other computer gets the devices.
I'm also writing windows software that I'm debating whether or not to go GPL with. The reason I restrain is that my source code might be worth a lot of money someday. If I GPL it then people can get it free. Isn't there a lot of profit lost in open sourcing?
I was working on something like this awhile back. I could handle the four basic operations for infinite length strings. But I haven't seen anything that's really published.
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Not necessarily so. Check out a recent bugtraq posting that claims that keys up to and including 1024 bit are easily crackable by government types.
We've been hearing things like this since 9/11. "It'll turn things around...", "We're ready for a boom...". I'll believe it when I see it. Until then, all I see is a bunch of unemployed ex-dotcommers looking into other industries. I find it highly doubtful that there will be another hiring boom of the scale and unfettered nature as 1999's.
Silly mortal, you didn't think the DOE uses the internet did you? They have their own networks separate from everything else.
The same thing happened on a $900 19" Toshiba monitor at buy.com last year. It was listed for $100 something. Thousands of people ordered it. There was a class action lawsuit, and each person that ordered (myself included) it got a ended up getting a check for $45.
Bottom line: Go order it, even if you don't get it, you might get some cash out of the settlement.
When I wrote my graphing calculator (and other math functions) calculator, I used C++. Keep in mind that you probably don't need the precision of anything more than a 32 bit number. Having 15 decimal places is just fine for nearly all applications, and it's overkill for most.
As far as large numbers is concerned, I don't have any real experience in this. But do a google search on "infinite precision library" and you'll see that there has been some work done already in this area.
The first thing it makes me think about is Super Pigs.
At least it worked for Popeye.
All past MS OS's since Win95 have (thankfully) shipped with basic OpenGL support (opengl32.dll ). Does any one know if this is true with XP and/or future MS OS's?
A word of warning to handheld owners: No matter which handheld you end up with, Do not carry them in your back pocket!. I even had a hard aluminum case on mine, and the screen craked straight down the middle. That fast it was rendered totally useless. Granted, I have a larger than average backside... I'm just saying be careful.
Yes, your newtwork will quickly become saturated. Do the math, IDE66 is 66 megaBYTES per second. That's about 500 megabits/sec. So even a single computer could (theoretically) burst 5 times standard fast ethernet. I highly suggest a little Cat6 and gigabit networking for any clustering project.
Although I agree that on the surface it would be great to open source, and free up all products that are no longer supported. But wouldn't this cause a trend of people not buying commercial software, and just waiting for them to go out of business so they could get it for free?
I'm not so sure these images are actually 61cm resolution. They look a lot like what happens when you over sample a lower resolution image, lots of fuzzy large pixels. Any way to tell for sure?
> comes the closest of any integer base to e, the ideal base in terms of efficiency
What does this mean? I'm pretty decent with numbers, but I've never heard e being referred to as the most efficient base. Anybody know any more about this? Math article somewhere?
I'm not sure how well this works in linux, but I can tell you from experience that using my Mitsubishi 900U monitor with 3 port downstream usb and 2 port upstream usb in windows is NOT ideal. There are many problems with switching between the two computers. Sometimes the devices won't get detected when I switch, and if one computer crashes I usually have to turn the monitor off and back on again before the other computer gets the devices.
I'm also writing windows software that I'm debating whether or not to go GPL with. The reason I restrain is that my source code might be worth a lot of money someday. If I GPL it then people can get it free. Isn't there a lot of profit lost in open sourcing?
I was working on something like this awhile back. I could handle the four basic operations for infinite length strings. But I haven't seen anything that's really published.
Although it's not open source and only for Windows... GraphCalc is powerful and extremely easy to use. http://www.graphcalc.com