Is this any different from what these guys did? Actually, this link seemed fake to me when I first saw it on slashdot. They claim to use DIAMAGNETIC LEVITATION, not anti-gravity. I'm still waiting for the home model.
"It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet." - George W. Bush
Applications with 64-bit pointers do not use cache as efficiently as those with 32-bit pointers. Take the same application and compile it in 32- and 64-bit versions, and the 32-bit version will be measurably faster on the same hardware.
Umm...does that mean a 16-bit and 8-bit versions will be measurably faster on the same hardware too? Just checking...thanks.
During the holiday weekend, I got to sit and talk with my Grandmother. She's been using PCs since 1992, so I think of her as an expert. But she still believes she's a novice. Half of the problem is how one sees one's self.
Even though she's been using PCs for a long time, she's still unaware of the jargon, but there are a couple things that entriege her. For instance, the concept of Machine Language. To a geek, this is a basic concept. To her, the idea that machines now have their very own language would be science fiction in her day, and it is fascinating.
So, I have a problem when I try to explain what I do for a living. I'm a Java programmer. "Ok, what's that?" I usually leave out the word "java" for obvious reasons - it's confusing. Ok, so I'm a programmer. Again, "Ok, what's that?" "Well, I write instructions for a computer to follow." Not, "Well, I code up objects and methods that the compiler translates into bytecode that the virtual machines uses to translate into native machine language."
Still, after that it's not like I can't talk to her about what I do. But usually I have to resort to analogy, which I hate because it's always a sloppy analogy.
Lately, I've been working on a web version of our company's customer relationship management suite. I always start from the beginning with explaining what a customer relationship manager (CRM) is. "It's a list of customers and information about them." Instead of, "It's a database of profiles with relational ties to multiple tables."
Sometimes she'd ask, "How does it work?" I'm not sure what she's really asking, so I say, half jokingly, "Very well, thank you." Usually that kind of question really means, "Can you show me a demo?"
I almost feel like a JVM myself sometimes, but at least I can talk to her.
Kind of on the reverse end for me, once I had a call in for Sprint's technical department because my Web enabled phone stopped accessing web sites. The front line support couldn't figure it out, so they told me to wait for the technical people to call me back.
They called back early Saturday to my land line. I was half asleep, and they guy sounded like he was on speed. He told me to try a bunch of things, all the time talking about the "deck" and "cards" of the wireless web. I knew all about them, but why was he throwing out the jargon? "The card you see is on the ROM, so we need to get you back to your home deck." Then he'd say, "Did you change the home deck to something else?" He had me check this and that, all to no avail. Still no web access.
Finally, he had me drill into the service screens using some codes I wanted to write down, but couldn't because I was still too sleepy. After all that, he realizes that the web service had been turned off. That's an accounting issue, not technical. I let him have it. I told him that Sprint should have figured this out before running me through the... ringer.:-) He hung up. I had no way of reporting his rude unprofessional behavior. Let this be a warning. Get their name first. Even if they give a fake name, they always seem to give the same fake name.
They forgot bamboozlecture (or the bamboozle architecture). It's how authors bamboozle you into buying books about made up words.
Then there's karmarchitecture (or the karma architecture). It's the method by which karma whores read as little of the article as possible and come up with a comment that seems to have something to do with the post but really is just a cheap shot at gathering as much karma as possible.
I guess I'm too much of a hard ass to expect the IDE to do so much, but you're right. Compile time validation is a Good Thing. Another would be visually displaying the /> tags. I've gone so long without a visual form editor for JSP, I feel like a king whenever I do Swing development. Supposedly JSF is supposed to address this. We shall see.
update WEB-INF/web.xml and add Struts as a servlet
Oh, but you're talking about setup wizards, right? Yeah, JBuilder 8 only supports Struts 1.0, and JBuilder 9 only supports Struts 1.1 beta release. Even then, the wizards don't get you very far. Other than allowing newbees to learn the ropes, I don't see the use in setup wizards, but that's just me.
On the other hand, when using NetBeans code synchronization, it's very helpful. It looks for methods that should be overridden, and overrides them with one dialog box, then you just write implementation, which is kick-ass. Not exactly the same thing as supporting Struts directly, but helpful none the less.
It'd be nice if there was a Netbeans module that would read the struts-config.xml and present it in a form, like the TLD module.
Point well take, but then today's quantum physicists aren't really quantum physicists by futuristic standards. In 500 years, many of the arts we call science will be viewed as we regard alchemy today.
...you move to an area and you fork and fork until every resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another cpu.
There is another license on this planet that follows the same pattern. GNU. SCO is a disease, a cancer of this planet. You are a plague. And we are... the cure.
Here's my idea of a real world benchmark. Take 75 people with varying levels of technical no-how. Divide them into three groups of 25, and assign various real world tasks.
Obviously one group of 25 is using only the latest and greatest that the wintel people has to offer, while another group is using only the latest and greatest that Apple has to offer.
What is the third group doing? Each person in the third group gets to choose which platform they can use.
All three groups would be given real world objectives. Some would be as simple as writing a report. Some would be as technical as application development. Others would be as pointless as a Quake III tournament. All would be measured for how much time it took to complete, and/or other pertinent measurements to see which platform stood out. This is less of a performance test and more of a productivity test.
What is the third group for? It's the preference control group. Do people really prefer one platform over the other AND are they more productive when they can choose? That's what I'd really like to know. Most companies are dead set on one side or the other (usually wintel). If anyone goes off the beaten path, they are the black sheep.
Personally, I like to work on multiple platforms - some at the same exact time. If the current BitTorrent implementation is better on OS X, I'm using it. If the best IRC implementation is in the X Window system, I'm there. If it's quicker for me to pull up the Windows calculator when I'm trying to convert a decimal value to hex, that's what I'll do. But am I really being more productive (and why am I using BitTorrent and IRC to measure this)?
Man:
Evening, squire! Man with hat:
Good evening. Man:
Is your...does your sysadmin support Linux? Man with hat:
I-I...I beg your pardon? Man:
Your...your sysadmin. Does he support Linux, eh? Does he support Linux, eh? Eh? Man with hat:
Huh, sometimes he has to support Linux, yes. Man:
I bet he does! I bet he does! Say no more! Say no more! Know what I mean? Nudge, nudge!
If they want to prove the voracity of their claim that copious amounts of hydrogen must be water, why don't they try this experiment on Earth. NASA did this with the Galileo space probe. It was equipped with some kind of spectrometer that was supposed to detect particular elements. When it was far enough away, they tested it on Earth to see if they'd get the readings they were expecting from other planets.
Slashdot Mirror
Is this any different from what these guys did? Actually, this link seemed fake to me when I first saw it on slashdot. They claim to use DIAMAGNETIC LEVITATION, not anti-gravity. I'm still waiting for the home model.
"It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet." - George W. Bush
Thank-you.
Applications with 64-bit pointers do not use cache as efficiently as those with 32-bit pointers. Take the same application and compile it in 32- and 64-bit versions, and the 32-bit version will be measurably faster on the same hardware.
Umm...does that mean a 16-bit and 8-bit versions will be measurably faster on the same hardware too? Just checking...thanks.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of those!
During the holiday weekend, I got to sit and talk with my Grandmother. She's been using PCs since 1992, so I think of her as an expert. But she still believes she's a novice. Half of the problem is how one sees one's self.
... ringer. :-) He hung up. I had no way of reporting his rude unprofessional behavior. Let this be a warning. Get their name first. Even if they give a fake name, they always seem to give the same fake name.
Even though she's been using PCs for a long time, she's still unaware of the jargon, but there are a couple things that entriege her. For instance, the concept of Machine Language. To a geek, this is a basic concept. To her, the idea that machines now have their very own language would be science fiction in her day, and it is fascinating.
So, I have a problem when I try to explain what I do for a living. I'm a Java programmer. "Ok, what's that?" I usually leave out the word "java" for obvious reasons - it's confusing. Ok, so I'm a programmer. Again, "Ok, what's that?" "Well, I write instructions for a computer to follow." Not, "Well, I code up objects and methods that the compiler translates into bytecode that the virtual machines uses to translate into native machine language."
Still, after that it's not like I can't talk to her about what I do. But usually I have to resort to analogy, which I hate because it's always a sloppy analogy.
Lately, I've been working on a web version of our company's customer relationship management suite. I always start from the beginning with explaining what a customer relationship manager (CRM) is. "It's a list of customers and information about them." Instead of, "It's a database of profiles with relational ties to multiple tables."
Sometimes she'd ask, "How does it work?" I'm not sure what she's really asking, so I say, half jokingly, "Very well, thank you." Usually that kind of question really means, "Can you show me a demo?"
I almost feel like a JVM myself sometimes, but at least I can talk to her.
Kind of on the reverse end for me, once I had a call in for Sprint's technical department because my Web enabled phone stopped accessing web sites. The front line support couldn't figure it out, so they told me to wait for the technical people to call me back.
They called back early Saturday to my land line. I was half asleep, and they guy sounded like he was on speed. He told me to try a bunch of things, all the time talking about the "deck" and "cards" of the wireless web. I knew all about them, but why was he throwing out the jargon? "The card you see is on the ROM, so we need to get you back to your home deck." Then he'd say, "Did you change the home deck to something else?" He had me check this and that, all to no avail. Still no web access.
Finally, he had me drill into the service screens using some codes I wanted to write down, but couldn't because I was still too sleepy. After all that, he realizes that the web service had been turned off. That's an accounting issue, not technical. I let him have it. I told him that Sprint should have figured this out before running me through the
Oh great. Another ruling from the most overturned appellate court ever.
</fat_comic_book_guy_from_the_simpsons>
I just hope Microsoft doesn't get the idea to patent Method and System For Microsoft For Any Reason.
Yet another part of my brain has been patented by big business.
Slashdot: 1010001001101110010 geeks can't be wrong.
Think Cisco.
Or how about Crisco? Mmm...Crisco...
marketecture...tarchitecture
They forgot bamboozlecture (or the bamboozle architecture). It's how authors bamboozle you into buying books about made up words.
Then there's karmarchitecture (or the karma architecture). It's the method by which karma whores read as little of the article as possible and come up with a comment that seems to have something to do with the post but really is just a cheap shot at gathering as much karma as possible.
I guess I'm too much of a hard ass to expect the IDE to do so much, but you're right. Compile time validation is a Good Thing. Another would be visually displaying the/> tags. I've gone so long without a visual form editor for JSP, I feel like a king whenever I do Swing development. Supposedly JSF is supposed to address this. We shall see.
When they start busting people for owning routers, I'll believe it.
Dear Sir/Madam: Your router is owned.
Netscape Founder Says Web Browsing Innovation Dead
That's only because *BSD is in fact dying.
CHATROOM
"It's ether very new cheese or very old meat."
Oh, but you're talking about setup wizards, right? Yeah, JBuilder 8 only supports Struts 1.0, and JBuilder 9 only supports Struts 1.1 beta release. Even then, the wizards don't get you very far. Other than allowing newbees to learn the ropes, I don't see the use in setup wizards, but that's just me.
On the other hand, when using NetBeans code synchronization, it's very helpful. It looks for methods that should be overridden, and overrides them with one dialog box, then you just write implementation, which is kick-ass. Not exactly the same thing as supporting Struts directly, but helpful none the less.
It'd be nice if there was a Netbeans module that would read the struts-config.xml and present it in a form, like the TLD module.
Point well take, but then today's quantum physicists aren't really quantum physicists by futuristic standards. In 500 years, many of the arts we call science will be viewed as we regard alchemy today.
"The ability to change colour was regarded as an alchemical property, making iridescence magic too."
Yep, I can attest to that. Just take a look at all of the magical leftovers in my refrigerator.
...you move to an area and you fork and fork until every resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another cpu.
There is another license on this planet that follows the same pattern. GNU. SCO is a disease, a cancer of this planet. You are a plague. And we are... the cure.
Here's my idea of a real world benchmark. Take 75 people with varying levels of technical no-how. Divide them into three groups of 25, and assign various real world tasks.
Obviously one group of 25 is using only the latest and greatest that the wintel people has to offer, while another group is using only the latest and greatest that Apple has to offer.
What is the third group doing? Each person in the third group gets to choose which platform they can use.
All three groups would be given real world objectives. Some would be as simple as writing a report. Some would be as technical as application development. Others would be as pointless as a Quake III tournament. All would be measured for how much time it took to complete, and/or other pertinent measurements to see which platform stood out. This is less of a performance test and more of a productivity test.
What is the third group for? It's the preference control group. Do people really prefer one platform over the other AND are they more productive when they can choose? That's what I'd really like to know. Most companies are dead set on one side or the other (usually wintel). If anyone goes off the beaten path, they are the black sheep.
Personally, I like to work on multiple platforms - some at the same exact time. If the current BitTorrent implementation is better on OS X, I'm using it. If the best IRC implementation is in the X Window system, I'm there. If it's quicker for me to pull up the Windows calculator when I'm trying to convert a decimal value to hex, that's what I'll do. But am I really being more productive (and why am I using BitTorrent and IRC to measure this)?
Man:
Evening, squire!
Man with hat:
Good evening.
Man:
Is your...does your sysadmin support Linux?
Man with hat:
I-I...I beg your pardon?
Man:
Your...your sysadmin. Does he support Linux, eh? Does he support Linux, eh? Eh?
Man with hat:
Huh, sometimes he has to support Linux, yes.
Man:
I bet he does! I bet he does! Say no more! Say no more! Know what I mean? Nudge, nudge!
If they want to prove the voracity of their claim that copious amounts of hydrogen must be water, why don't they try this experiment on Earth. NASA did this with the Galileo space probe. It was equipped with some kind of spectrometer that was supposed to detect particular elements. When it was far enough away, they tested it on Earth to see if they'd get the readings they were expecting from other planets.
Why doesn't some OSS body patent Two-Click purchaces? Really, no one wants a One-Click process. They want "Buy, Confirm" process.