The reality is that BOTH are the problem. The product should have been designed with matching software and hardware (i.e. if webOS needs faster hardware, it should've had it; or it should've been optimized better for the hardware it does have). But I say in this case it's more webOS's fault because other mobile platforms with similar functionality (iPhone, Droid) work just fine on a similarly powered CPU.
By the way I tried using patches, but I didn't realize you needed to uninstall them all before an OS upgrade and it messed up some of my apps. I'll probably try your suggestion anyway. My point still stands though. If the Droid can run a similarly functioning OS without the same performance issues, it is webOS's fault.
Actually webOS kinda sucks. It's sluggish; not enough that if you use it for a few minutes you notice much, but after a few days of owning it, it gets on your nerves. I can't wait to get rid of my Pre when the HTC Evo comes out.
"Java has a long term downward trend". Wrong. For one, C and Java share the same "downward trend" from 2002 (earliest year on the chart) and 2007. From 2007 to late last year, both C and Java basically stay about the same. Only in the last 6 months or so can you say Java has been doing down and C rising.
No, not seriously. RTFA. This "new" Blu-ray format is for mass storage applications, it's not meant to replace the existing Blu-ray format used for movies.
In general, the two new formats will be geared toward broadcast and document archiving, both industries that need to record and store massive libraries of digital content. But consumer versions will be available, "particularly in those regions where BD recorders have achieved broad consumer acceptance, " the BDA said.
So, this isn't really to replace the existing Blu-ray format for movies. This is for mass storage.
If the iPad does actually kill off Flash, Steve Jobs will finally have given something worthwhile to the world of computing.
Oh come on, this is labeled "Insightful"? This is stupid trolling. What, the original graphical user interface for the masses didn't come from Apple? The iPod and iPhone haven't turned their respective industries around? If you don't like Apple or its products fine, but to say it hasn't deeply affected the computing world is nonsense.
So, your first paragraph contradicts the second paragraph. If you are a bank, are you going to guarantee that your users run Linux, runs NoScript, disables JavaScript in email, and gets executables only from reliable sources? I think not. Hence, an on-screen keyboard is not unreasonable, because the bank doesn't control the user's computer or the user's behavior. For all they know, the user clicks on spam links all the time, which then installs a key logger.
No security reason to require a password for login to your home computer? You fully trust every single person that ever walks into your home, including all your romantic relationships, strangers coming over for a house party, etc? Even if it's true for you, you think everyone can trust every spouse or lover, or any person that walks into their home?
Since when does allowing multitasking inherently slow things down? Obviously it doesn't; it only slows the system down if you run too many simultaneous apps.
I think the real reason is that Apple never planned to open the iPhone to other developers. When it first came out it was a completely closed platform and Jobs swore it was critical for security that no one be able to install any 3rd party software. Then everyone went nuts and Apple realized they had to allow 3rd party development, hence the app store. Point is, it was all very last minute and rushed, so it has taken a while to make this happen since it was never planned in the first place.
The hypocrisy of Jobs censoring iPhone development, when 3rd party apps are now touted as one of the great features of the iPhone, is truly staggering.
Their albums do the same thing by existing as separate tracks. If they really meant this "artistic integrity" then their CDs would have a single track as the whole album.
I didn't really mean remote desktop; I meant more "session sharing", though my point is not the standard session sharing someone will request if you're asking an admin for Windows help.
Yes, a stealth program installed by your employer could happen on any OS. My point is not that this is a Windows problem, but that such software has more opportunity to observe what you've been doing remotely if you leave sessions open all the time.
Unless you lock your desktop every single time you get up and walk away from your desk, it's better to generally disconnect, because you lessen the (admittedly very small odds) that someone else will simply walk up to your workstation, and either out of malice, curiosity or just mistake (they think you are logged in someplace it's ok for them to poke around), they end up accessing your remote session.
It may also look suspicious to sysadmins that you keep sessions alive for so long.
Is it possible for a Windows admin to poke around your desktop, remotely, without your knowledge? I believe they normally have to make a request that you accept before you hand over control of your desktop to a Windows admin, but I don't know if Windows (or other corporate monitoring software) allows this to happen without your knowledge.
I saw Avatar yesterday, and thought it was a terrible movie. I had a deja vu to watching Titanic: within 15 minutes, the entire plot of the movie was completely obvious. The entire movie was recycled and there was nothing original or interesting about it.
I say this because technology doesn't make up for a terrible movie. You can spend millions of dollars in CG tech, make actors seem young or revive them from the dead, but if you don't have a good story, and the skill to make it real as a director, no amount of technology will cover that up.
I don't agree with the parent post one bit, and apparently I'm not alone. However, that doesn't mean cosm is a troll. S/he happens to disagree with your opinion, and in fact cosm's point of view is shared by many people, and has its validity regardless of whether you agree with it in this situation or even in general. I wish I had moderator points to mod the parent up; not because I agree with the post, but because "disagreement" is not the same as "trolling".
"No Health Benefits" is a very inappropriate title. They are merely saying there are no significant nutritional differences. They did not include any studies which analyzed long term health benefits, e.g. overall illness or mortality rates of people who eat organic foods after many years.
Isn't that one of the major problems with nuclear power? It produces waste that we don't know what to do with. Hiding it somewhere and pretending it doesn't exist doesn't seem like a valid long term solution.
The research took into account physical activity, as stated in both the Slashdot summary and the article itself. This doesn't tell you exactly how much "high BMI due to muscle not fat" got taken into account, but it tells you it is at least partially, and probably significantly, taken into account since people with lots of muscle will usually also have a high level of physical activity.
I'm not familiar with smart pointers; I can't tell (or remember) if they were always possible or if they were a language feature added since I last coded C++ in the mid-90s.
They do seem cool and a better solution for this problem. But it seems you are still stuck with implementing them yourself, in which case you are in [almost] the same situation as in Java. I.e. in C++ you have to write custom code (e.g. smart pointers) to do the resource freeing automatically; but in Java you can do the same thing by writing a wrapper class that closes objects automatically after issuing whatever read/write-type operation you are performing. Either way you are writing custom code, which in either language isn't all that different.
Conceptually smart pointers sound cleaner anyway. But then don't you have to worry about implementing all the semantics of smart pointers? It doesn't look trivial, and the elimination of all this pointer mess is one of the godsends of Java.
At least in C++, the destructor of an object is guaranteed to be called as soon as the object is deleted. Java has no such guarantee, so expecting an object to clean itself up once it goes out of scope is a fool's errand.
So? I switched from C/C++ to Java over 10 years ago, and have not once needed to even consider implementing finalize. The only thing this "lack of deterministic behavior" really means in practice is that you have to explicitly close input/output streams, rather than let objects go out of scope and close their own resources in the finalize method. In other words, instead of calling delete, you call close. Outside of that, there is very little consequence.
I'll take Java's current behavior just fine, thanks. I don't know of a real example where Java's non-deterministic behavior is an issue.
This guy is seriously nuts. Comparing IP bans to hate crimes and Nazi persecution? His entire response is an illogical and hate filled rant with no logic or rational basis whatsoever. Not once does he address the reason Wikipedia issued the ban in the first place. Here's another excerpt:
If these scumbags had their way, all children would be psych-drugged into oblivion, most eventually becoming high school gunmen; vicious de-programmers would constantly be leaping out from shadowy corners; there would be all-night electroshock parlors on the high street of every village, town and city; and anyone who tried to live an ethical life would quickly receive an icepick lobotomy.
It's one thing to be skeptical of Scientology from reading second and third hand articles on the Internet. It's another thing to see directly how this is likely a cult headed by people with serious psychological problems by reading an article written by none other than the CEO of the organization. It's so over the top it's hard to believe this isn't a hoax.
Wow, clearly your individual example shows that every human being in existence does exactly the same thing. You really showed the parent poster he's been living under a rock...
Because they don't really believe and haven't had time to consider and come to terms with their own mortality.
This has been my experience. My mom and dad both passed away (3 years apart), but not immediately; they both spent a couple weeks in a hospice in their last days.
The reaction of those around us was quite telling. Most of the religious people I saw around me, especially for my mom's death, were completely freaked out and in utter denial. From the first day she had her stroke, doctors said she would never speak or walk again, and with her condition continually deteriorating, they kept telling her she'd "rise up and praise God".
I have never seen such fear, ignorance and denial. It left the impression that they know their beliefs aren't true, but because they are so incredibly afraid of death and the consequences of living in a meaningless universe without a God, they must proclaim God even louder. The more they fear, the more they must proclaim to hide their fear and convince themselves God exists and they are right.
It was really kinda crazy.
Compare this to my dad, the biggest atheist I've known. He was at complete peace from the moment he found out he had only 3 months left to live, and smiled to the very end. He said he actually would not want to go to heaven, should it exist; because if even one person could not get in, he didn't want to go either.
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The reality is that BOTH are the problem. The product should have been designed with matching software and hardware (i.e. if webOS needs faster hardware, it should've had it; or it should've been optimized better for the hardware it does have). But I say in this case it's more webOS's fault because other mobile platforms with similar functionality (iPhone, Droid) work just fine on a similarly powered CPU.
By the way I tried using patches, but I didn't realize you needed to uninstall them all before an OS upgrade and it messed up some of my apps. I'll probably try your suggestion anyway. My point still stands though. If the Droid can run a similarly functioning OS without the same performance issues, it is webOS's fault.
Actually webOS kinda sucks. It's sluggish; not enough that if you use it for a few minutes you notice much, but after a few days of owning it, it gets on your nerves. I can't wait to get rid of my Pre when the HTC Evo comes out.
Apple is not a monopoly, so it doesn't have to play the same rules as Microsoft which is a monopoly.
"Java has a long term downward trend". Wrong. For one, C and Java share the same "downward trend" from 2002 (earliest year on the chart) and 2007. From 2007 to late last year, both C and Java basically stay about the same. Only in the last 6 months or so can you say Java has been doing down and C rising.
No, not seriously. RTFA. This "new" Blu-ray format is for mass storage applications, it's not meant to replace the existing Blu-ray format used for movies.
If you had bothered to read the article:
So, this isn't really to replace the existing Blu-ray format for movies. This is for mass storage.
If the iPad does actually kill off Flash, Steve Jobs will finally have given something worthwhile to the world of computing.
Oh come on, this is labeled "Insightful"? This is stupid trolling. What, the original graphical user interface for the masses didn't come from Apple? The iPod and iPhone haven't turned their respective industries around? If you don't like Apple or its products fine, but to say it hasn't deeply affected the computing world is nonsense.
So, your first paragraph contradicts the second paragraph. If you are a bank, are you going to guarantee that your users run Linux, runs NoScript, disables JavaScript in email, and gets executables only from reliable sources? I think not. Hence, an on-screen keyboard is not unreasonable, because the bank doesn't control the user's computer or the user's behavior. For all they know, the user clicks on spam links all the time, which then installs a key logger.
No security reason to require a password for login to your home computer? You fully trust every single person that ever walks into your home, including all your romantic relationships, strangers coming over for a house party, etc? Even if it's true for you, you think everyone can trust every spouse or lover, or any person that walks into their home?
Since when does allowing multitasking inherently slow things down? Obviously it doesn't; it only slows the system down if you run too many simultaneous apps.
I think the real reason is that Apple never planned to open the iPhone to other developers. When it first came out it was a completely closed platform and Jobs swore it was critical for security that no one be able to install any 3rd party software. Then everyone went nuts and Apple realized they had to allow 3rd party development, hence the app store. Point is, it was all very last minute and rushed, so it has taken a while to make this happen since it was never planned in the first place.
The hypocrisy of Jobs censoring iPhone development, when 3rd party apps are now touted as one of the great features of the iPhone, is truly staggering.
Their albums do the same thing by existing as separate tracks. If they really meant this "artistic integrity" then their CDs would have a single track as the whole album.
Effective Java and Java Concurrency in Practice. These are a must have for any serious Java programmer.
I didn't really mean remote desktop; I meant more "session sharing", though my point is not the standard session sharing someone will request if you're asking an admin for Windows help.
Yes, a stealth program installed by your employer could happen on any OS. My point is not that this is a Windows problem, but that such software has more opportunity to observe what you've been doing remotely if you leave sessions open all the time.
Unless you lock your desktop every single time you get up and walk away from your desk, it's better to generally disconnect, because you lessen the (admittedly very small odds) that someone else will simply walk up to your workstation, and either out of malice, curiosity or just mistake (they think you are logged in someplace it's ok for them to poke around), they end up accessing your remote session.
It may also look suspicious to sysadmins that you keep sessions alive for so long.
Is it possible for a Windows admin to poke around your desktop, remotely, without your knowledge? I believe they normally have to make a request that you accept before you hand over control of your desktop to a Windows admin, but I don't know if Windows (or other corporate monitoring software) allows this to happen without your knowledge.
I saw Avatar yesterday, and thought it was a terrible movie. I had a deja vu to watching Titanic: within 15 minutes, the entire plot of the movie was completely obvious. The entire movie was recycled and there was nothing original or interesting about it.
I say this because technology doesn't make up for a terrible movie. You can spend millions of dollars in CG tech, make actors seem young or revive them from the dead, but if you don't have a good story, and the skill to make it real as a director, no amount of technology will cover that up.
If it can reproduce, it's alive.
I don't agree with the parent post one bit, and apparently I'm not alone. However, that doesn't mean cosm is a troll. S/he happens to disagree with your opinion, and in fact cosm's point of view is shared by many people, and has its validity regardless of whether you agree with it in this situation or even in general. I wish I had moderator points to mod the parent up; not because I agree with the post, but because "disagreement" is not the same as "trolling".
"No Health Benefits" is a very inappropriate title. They are merely saying there are no significant nutritional differences. They did not include any studies which analyzed long term health benefits, e.g. overall illness or mortality rates of people who eat organic foods after many years.
Isn't that one of the major problems with nuclear power? It produces waste that we don't know what to do with. Hiding it somewhere and pretending it doesn't exist doesn't seem like a valid long term solution.
The research took into account physical activity, as stated in both the Slashdot summary and the article itself. This doesn't tell you exactly how much "high BMI due to muscle not fat" got taken into account, but it tells you it is at least partially, and probably significantly, taken into account since people with lots of muscle will usually also have a high level of physical activity.
I'm not familiar with smart pointers; I can't tell (or remember) if they were always possible or if they were a language feature added since I last coded C++ in the mid-90s.
They do seem cool and a better solution for this problem. But it seems you are still stuck with implementing them yourself, in which case you are in [almost] the same situation as in Java. I.e. in C++ you have to write custom code (e.g. smart pointers) to do the resource freeing automatically; but in Java you can do the same thing by writing a wrapper class that closes objects automatically after issuing whatever read/write-type operation you are performing. Either way you are writing custom code, which in either language isn't all that different.
Conceptually smart pointers sound cleaner anyway. But then don't you have to worry about implementing all the semantics of smart pointers? It doesn't look trivial, and the elimination of all this pointer mess is one of the godsends of Java.
So? I switched from C/C++ to Java over 10 years ago, and have not once needed to even consider implementing finalize. The only thing this "lack of deterministic behavior" really means in practice is that you have to explicitly close input/output streams, rather than let objects go out of scope and close their own resources in the finalize method. In other words, instead of calling delete, you call close. Outside of that, there is very little consequence.
I'll take Java's current behavior just fine, thanks. I don't know of a real example where Java's non-deterministic behavior is an issue.
It's one thing to be skeptical of Scientology from reading second and third hand articles on the Internet. It's another thing to see directly how this is likely a cult headed by people with serious psychological problems by reading an article written by none other than the CEO of the organization. It's so over the top it's hard to believe this isn't a hoax.
Wow, clearly your individual example shows that every human being in existence does exactly the same thing. You really showed the parent poster he's been living under a rock...
Because they don't really believe and haven't had time to consider and come to terms with their own mortality.
This has been my experience. My mom and dad both passed away (3 years apart), but not immediately; they both spent a couple weeks in a hospice in their last days.
The reaction of those around us was quite telling. Most of the religious people I saw around me, especially for my mom's death, were completely freaked out and in utter denial. From the first day she had her stroke, doctors said she would never speak or walk again, and with her condition continually deteriorating, they kept telling her she'd "rise up and praise God".
I have never seen such fear, ignorance and denial. It left the impression that they know their beliefs aren't true, but because they are so incredibly afraid of death and the consequences of living in a meaningless universe without a God, they must proclaim God even louder. The more they fear, the more they must proclaim to hide their fear and convince themselves God exists and they are right.
It was really kinda crazy.
Compare this to my dad, the biggest atheist I've known. He was at complete peace from the moment he found out he had only 3 months left to live, and smiled to the very end. He said he actually would not want to go to heaven, should it exist; because if even one person could not get in, he didn't want to go either.