GCJ, as far as I know, is not a JIT compiler, but a AOT compiler (Ahead of Time) - basically a normal compiler. So there is no greater opporunity to optimise per platform at runtime here. JITs are found tightly integrated in JVM implementations, such as Sun's HotSpot VM.
That's what makes GCJ so interesting: it's a Java compiler that, unlike most other Java compilers, compiles directly to native code without the VM in between. Thus, you potentially lose some of the advantages that the VM can provide you (and I don't know if it restricts language runtime features like dynamic class loading or not) and, in theory, you gain a good deal of performance.
I believe that you can force popups to go to new tabs, but I don't recall how to do it. You might have to get the extended tabs thinger for Mozilla.
The other option is to turn on pop-up blocking, and override the blocking just for the web apps that you need it for. If you have a recent version, go to the popup section of your preferences, and fiddle with it.
Neo 5.0 took the other door and reset the Matrix and created Zion 6.0 populated by people Neo 5.0's choosing (which might include Trinity).
Very romantic, but Neo 5.0 couldn't have chosen Trinity, because a) Trinity was "saved" by Morpheus (mentioned in the first movie) and b) Zion 6.0 has been around for about 100 years.
The Architect also said that the previous 5 Ones only had a "general" connection to the matrix and humanity, but that this One was different because he had a specific Love (Trinity).
You know what they say: A One that isn't cold is scarcely a One at all.
The big car chase scene also happened on Highway 101, which goes up and down California, but the footage seemed to be from the San Francisco and peninsula area. I recognized some of the exits (Whipple Avenue, Marsh Rd), but they added some HUGE walls on either side of the freeway.
Anyway, I have no idea what the significance of 101 is, but there you go.
My uncle likes to tell a story (over and over again) about how, in the army, he got into a car wreck and (he found out later) broke 2 ribs. He was on the ground, but needed to help the (much more badly wounded) other people, so he had to give himself 2 morphine shots - after which he got up and helped the other folks out without any real problem.
Yeah... It's better when he tells it. Then again, he's had LOTS of practice. On the rest of his family. Over and over again.
Personally, I liked Temple of Doom, but being of Indian descent, I had to face my fellow seventh graders and constantly tell 'em "we don't eat snakes, monkey brains, etc."
No, that's the Chinese. Seriously, what's wrong with eating snakes and monkey brains? Of course I would find it revolting (though my dad has eaten cow brains and snake before), but lots of other cultures eat stuff that would make Americans (and probably the British, too) feel sick. Lutefisk, anyone? Tripe? Mmmmmm.... Jelllllyfish....
The funny thing is that I don't know of one thing that Americans (not that immigrants aren't Americans, but you know what I mean) eat that would make anyone else revolted (unless, perhaps, they were militant vegans, but then being comfortable anywhere BUT India and maybe California would probably be a challenge).
While the movie might have been culturally inaccurate, I don't see why it was neccessarily derogatory in any way.
I don't understand this... merely portraying a wholesome childrens' icon in a dominatrix situation is a parody in itself, regardless of the fact that they were also making fun of American McGee's creative tendencies. It doesn't have to be clever, or political, or even good to qualify.
According to the first definition of parody on dictionary.com:
A literary or artistic work that imitates the characteristic style of an author or a work for comic effect or ridicule.
Even though the were not ridiculing American Greetings, specifically, they were imitating the characteristic style of Strawberry Shortcake for comic effect. Thus, it's a parody.
Yeah, just because it's legal to take the name, doesn't mean it's considerate/nice/responsible to do so. It also has to be one of the most unoriginal names for ANYTHING, no offense to either project.
If only 200 people in the world could play, I'm sure you could charge a LOT more than $30 a month, and people would pay it. I would say the price (if you were interested in making a profit) would probably have to be prohibitive unless you had a significant amount of disposable income, because the customer volume is so low.
But, this might be viable as communal non-profit kind of thing... I know, big surprise that someone would suggest that on slashdot. I mean, people get together and play pencil and paper RPGs... much larger groups of people get together and play live action RPGs - this is just the next level. Someone would have to develop the software, but say that was done, you would just get 100-200 of your closest friends together, the cost of the co-located server is split among everyone... and you could have dedicated DMs or rotating DMs, however you wanted to work it.
Of course, I have a hard time getting 5 people together regularly for D&D, so maybe it would be trickier than it appears...
This is as opposed to hard disks, where the platter is actually hard (if you ever disassemble a HD, you'll notice those platters are pretty heavy duty). Even though the 3.5" disk's case is rigid, the disk itself is floppy, which is what makes them floppy disks.
Generic tissue SUCKS ASS... if you had lots of nose problems like me, you'd know that Scotties or whatever are coarse and sandpapery and cause rashes pretty quickly. Kleenex is generally pretty soft, and when you blow your nose into them, they don't blow apart.
But Puffs are actually better than Kleenex. The lotiony Puffs are nasty, make your face all oily, but the normal line of Puffs tissues are by far the best tissue on the market. An oily nose is better than one with a rash if you have a cold, though.
In the toilet paper arena, Charmin is my favorite. There is a pronounced difference between Charmin and the generic TP. Of all the places to skimp and save money on, my ass is not one of them as far as I'm concerned.
Bounty is my favorite Paper Towel. Strong, absorbent, compared to the frustrating crap the generic brands dish out. These are all market leaders, and the reason is partially brand recognition, but they built their brand by selling consistently quality products. Brands have value, but you (generally) need quality to begin with to build that brand.
Starbucks is my favorite example of a brand that was built with an inferior, WAY overpriced product. When I was living in Berkeley, I could get a large espresso drink that was 3 times better than one from Starbucks for about half the price. Down in the the Silicon Valley, it's not so easy... Starbucks wins on availablility.:|
Well, hey, that sounds pretty good to me... This isn't actually my main computer, it's a computer I use for work, so it's actually my last generation computer. If it was my main computer, I would definitely upgrade to something that would work over the digital cable. Thanks for coming up with a reasonable explanation, even if it's flimsy...:)
Well, the native resolution is 1280x1024, right? Even though 1280x960 is a 4:3 aspect ratio, 1280x1024 has always been a standard screen resolution. I just checked my box, and, yeah, the native res is 1280x1024...
Right now I'm at 1280x1024 on the analog cable, and I get that stipple weirdness. On the digital cable, I can run at 1024x768, but the monitor of course interpolates it to 1280x1024, so it looks like ass. For some reason, if I try to switch to 1280x1024 on the digital cable, the monitor acts like it's not getting a signal at all. I've heard some older NVidia cards have problems with DVI input, so that could be that problem...
I'd heard a rumor that you could fix stuck pixels (not dead ones) by setting your screen to full-intensity white for a bit, then black, and back and forth. Do you (or does anyone) know if that's true at all? I'd much rather do that than have to deal with returning it.
I was under the impression that LCDs sucked for fast motion video like an FPS (Quake).
In general, they do compared to a good CRT. BUT, these newer LCD monitors have faster and faster response times. When they get to the point that they are nearly as fast as a standard CRT (60Hz+), then they should be actually superior to a CRT. The Samsung 171P (which I bought, too) has, I think, a 25ms response time, which is pretty good. 25ms / 1000ms = 40Hz
The problem with cheaper LCDs is that their response time is lower, and so you'll get ghosting as the pixels take so long to change color/brightness that you can notice it. 40Hz isn't bad at all... you should, in theory, be able to watch any DVD movie on it and not notice any ghosting (I haven't actually tried it with my samsung, so I can't say whether that's actually true).
Main things to look for in an LCD: contrast ratio (higher the better), viewing angle (closer to 180 the better), response time (lower the better), native resolution (whatever you want). with LCDs, you are only going to want to run in exact multiples of it's native resolution, otherwise it will look like absolute crap.
The only thing I've noticed with my 171P is that stipple effects (like in Win2k when you hit shutdown) seem to flicker pretty bad, so that's another thing to check. Luckily, now that we have 16, and 24-bit graphics, we don't need stippling so much, so it rarely comes up.
I remember in Quake 2 there was an option to simulate alpha with stippling for slower computers that didn't have 3D hardware acceleration. It looked terrible.
I still use a CRT monitor for games, but the 171P probably would be pretty good, too. I'm just a perfectionist when it comes to these things. The LCD is definately a superior display for programming/word processing.
What I want to know is: what's the lighting situation on the reflective LCD display? Is it at least of Afterburner quality? All the pictures of it have the screen off.
"(Of course this is probably really because you have to opt out of the extra point manually each time you think it unjustified instead of going to the trouble of adding it if you think it justified.)"
Actually, you can select "No Karma Bonus" by default in your posting preferences... I always post at 1, just for equity's sake - though now that people can turn that off in their comment browsing preferences, maybe I should start using it.
I use "it's" as a possessive pronoun, despite the fact that it's technically correct to use "its," simply because it is not intuitive. I imagine it was devised as a distinction between the possessive pronoun, and the contraction for "it is," but the meaning is obvious in context, so it's a valueless prescriptive rule. Nearly everyone uses "it's" in place of "its" unless they are told by someone that it's incorrect, and that tells me that it's not intuitive - and I believe that language should be as intuitive as possible.
So this is my little civil disobedience, I'm such a rebel!
-If
Of course, "his" and "hers" and "theirs" don't have apostrophes, but unfortunately just adding the apostrophe doesn't really solve that little problem. Damned if you apostrophe, and damned if you don't apostrophe!
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GCJ, as far as I know, is not a JIT compiler, but a AOT compiler (Ahead of Time) - basically a normal compiler. So there is no greater opporunity to optimise per platform at runtime here. JITs are found tightly integrated in JVM implementations, such as Sun's HotSpot VM.
That's what makes GCJ so interesting: it's a Java compiler that, unlike most other Java compilers, compiles directly to native code without the VM in between. Thus, you potentially lose some of the advantages that the VM can provide you (and I don't know if it restricts language runtime features like dynamic class loading or not) and, in theory, you gain a good deal of performance.
-If
I believe that you can force popups to go to new tabs, but I don't recall how to do it. You might have to get the extended tabs thinger for Mozilla.
The other option is to turn on pop-up blocking, and override the blocking just for the web apps that you need it for. If you have a recent version, go to the popup section of your preferences, and fiddle with it.
-If
Neo 5.0 took the other door and reset the Matrix and created Zion 6.0 populated by people Neo 5.0's choosing (which might include Trinity).
Very romantic, but Neo 5.0 couldn't have chosen Trinity, because a) Trinity was "saved" by Morpheus (mentioned in the first movie) and b) Zion 6.0 has been around for about 100 years.
-If
The Architect also said that the previous 5 Ones only had a "general" connection to the matrix and humanity, but that this One was different because he had a specific Love (Trinity).
You know what they say: A One that isn't cold is scarcely a One at all.
-If
The big car chase scene also happened on Highway 101, which goes up and down California, but the footage seemed to be from the San Francisco and peninsula area. I recognized some of the exits (Whipple Avenue, Marsh Rd), but they added some HUGE walls on either side of the freeway.
Anyway, I have no idea what the significance of 101 is, but there you go.
-If
My uncle likes to tell a story (over and over again) about how, in the army, he got into a car wreck and (he found out later) broke 2 ribs. He was on the ground, but needed to help the (much more badly wounded) other people, so he had to give himself 2 morphine shots - after which he got up and helped the other folks out without any real problem.
Yeah... It's better when he tells it. Then again, he's had LOTS of practice. On the rest of his family. Over and over again.
-If
Personally, I liked Temple of Doom, but being of Indian descent, I had to face my fellow seventh graders and constantly tell 'em "we don't eat snakes, monkey brains, etc."
No, that's the Chinese. Seriously, what's wrong with eating snakes and monkey brains? Of course I would find it revolting (though my dad has eaten cow brains and snake before), but lots of other cultures eat stuff that would make Americans (and probably the British, too) feel sick. Lutefisk, anyone? Tripe? Mmmmmm.... Jelllllyfish....
The funny thing is that I don't know of one thing that Americans (not that immigrants aren't Americans, but you know what I mean) eat that would make anyone else revolted (unless, perhaps, they were militant vegans, but then being comfortable anywhere BUT India and maybe California would probably be a challenge).
While the movie might have been culturally inaccurate, I don't see why it was neccessarily derogatory in any way.
-If
You fight like a cow.
According to the first definition of parody on dictionary.com:Even though the were not ridiculing American Greetings, specifically, they were imitating the characteristic style of Strawberry Shortcake for comic effect. Thus, it's a parody.
Yep.
-If
Yeah, just because it's legal to take the name, doesn't mean it's considerate/nice/responsible to do so. It also has to be one of the most unoriginal names for ANYTHING, no offense to either project.
-If
If only 200 people in the world could play, I'm sure you could charge a LOT more than $30 a month, and people would pay it. I would say the price (if you were interested in making a profit) would probably have to be prohibitive unless you had a significant amount of disposable income, because the customer volume is so low.
But, this might be viable as communal non-profit kind of thing... I know, big surprise that someone would suggest that on slashdot. I mean, people get together and play pencil and paper RPGs... much larger groups of people get together and play live action RPGs - this is just the next level. Someone would have to develop the software, but say that was done, you would just get 100-200 of your closest friends together, the cost of the co-located server is split among everyone... and you could have dedicated DMs or rotating DMs, however you wanted to work it.
Of course, I have a hard time getting 5 people together regularly for D&D, so maybe it would be trickier than it appears...
-If
This is as opposed to hard disks, where the platter is actually hard (if you ever disassemble a HD, you'll notice those platters are pretty heavy duty). Even though the 3.5" disk's case is rigid, the disk itself is floppy, which is what makes them floppy disks.
Does anyone know if Zip disks are floppy or hard?
-If
Generic tissue SUCKS ASS... if you had lots of nose problems like me, you'd know that Scotties or whatever are coarse and sandpapery and cause rashes pretty quickly. Kleenex is generally pretty soft, and when you blow your nose into them, they don't blow apart.
:|
But Puffs are actually better than Kleenex. The lotiony Puffs are nasty, make your face all oily, but the normal line of Puffs tissues are by far the best tissue on the market. An oily nose is better than one with a rash if you have a cold, though.
In the toilet paper arena, Charmin is my favorite. There is a pronounced difference between Charmin and the generic TP. Of all the places to skimp and save money on, my ass is not one of them as far as I'm concerned.
Bounty is my favorite Paper Towel. Strong, absorbent, compared to the frustrating crap the generic brands dish out. These are all market leaders, and the reason is partially brand recognition, but they built their brand by selling consistently quality products. Brands have value, but you (generally) need quality to begin with to build that brand.
Starbucks is my favorite example of a brand that was built with an inferior, WAY overpriced product. When I was living in Berkeley, I could get a large espresso drink that was 3 times better than one from Starbucks for about half the price. Down in the the Silicon Valley, it's not so easy... Starbucks wins on availablility.
-If
Well, hey, that sounds pretty good to me... This isn't actually my main computer, it's a computer I use for work, so it's actually my last generation computer. If it was my main computer, I would definitely upgrade to something that would work over the digital cable. Thanks for coming up with a reasonable explanation, even if it's flimsy... :)
-If
Well, the native resolution is 1280x1024, right? Even though 1280x960 is a 4:3 aspect ratio, 1280x1024 has always been a standard screen resolution. I just checked my box, and, yeah, the native res is 1280x1024...
Right now I'm at 1280x1024 on the analog cable, and I get that stipple weirdness. On the digital cable, I can run at 1024x768, but the monitor of course interpolates it to 1280x1024, so it looks like ass. For some reason, if I try to switch to 1280x1024 on the digital cable, the monitor acts like it's not getting a signal at all. I've heard some older NVidia cards have problems with DVI input, so that could be that problem...
-DG
I'm using the analog input, because my Geforce2 doesn't seem to work with the digital input at resolutions about 1024x768.... :(
-If
Oh, wait, no Hz == 1/s, so you were right
wah
err, heh, yeah
1s / 25ms = 40Hz
whoops
-If
I'd heard a rumor that you could fix stuck pixels (not dead ones) by setting your screen to full-intensity white for a bit, then black, and back and forth. Do you (or does anyone) know if that's true at all? I'd much rather do that than have to deal with returning it.
-If
I was under the impression that LCDs sucked for fast motion video like an FPS (Quake).
In general, they do compared to a good CRT. BUT, these newer LCD monitors have faster and faster response times. When they get to the point that they are nearly as fast as a standard CRT (60Hz+), then they should be actually superior to a CRT. The Samsung 171P (which I bought, too) has, I think, a 25ms response time, which is pretty good. 25ms / 1000ms = 40Hz
The problem with cheaper LCDs is that their response time is lower, and so you'll get ghosting as the pixels take so long to change color/brightness that you can notice it. 40Hz isn't bad at all... you should, in theory, be able to watch any DVD movie on it and not notice any ghosting (I haven't actually tried it with my samsung, so I can't say whether that's actually true).
Main things to look for in an LCD: contrast ratio (higher the better), viewing angle (closer to 180 the better), response time (lower the better), native resolution (whatever you want). with LCDs, you are only going to want to run in exact multiples of it's native resolution, otherwise it will look like absolute crap.
The only thing I've noticed with my 171P is that stipple effects (like in Win2k when you hit shutdown) seem to flicker pretty bad, so that's another thing to check. Luckily, now that we have 16, and 24-bit graphics, we don't need stippling so much, so it rarely comes up.
I remember in Quake 2 there was an option to simulate alpha with stippling for slower computers that didn't have 3D hardware acceleration. It looked terrible.
I still use a CRT monitor for games, but the 171P probably would be pretty good, too. I'm just a perfectionist when it comes to these things. The LCD is definately a superior display for programming/word processing.
-If
What I want to know is: what's the lighting situation on the reflective LCD display? Is it at least of Afterburner quality? All the pictures of it have the screen off.
-If
Yeah, it turns out they were wrong about that. Apparently, from what I've gathered, enemies of your enemies can be your enemies, too. Go figure!
-If
"Why the heck can't it handle my skins a little more gracefully? Is having Orbit work between 1.2.1 and 1.3 too much to ask?"
No kidding, they should just include/maintain Orbit with the default install - everyone I know that uses Mozilla uses Orbit as their theme of choice.
-If
"(Of course this is probably really because you have to opt out of the extra point manually each time you think it unjustified instead of going to the trouble of adding it if you think it justified.)"
Actually, you can select "No Karma Bonus" by default in your posting preferences... I always post at 1, just for equity's sake - though now that people can turn that off in their comment browsing preferences, maybe I should start using it.
-If
I use "it's" as a possessive pronoun, despite the fact that it's technically correct to use "its," simply because it is not intuitive. I imagine it was devised as a distinction between the possessive pronoun, and the contraction for "it is," but the meaning is obvious in context, so it's a valueless prescriptive rule. Nearly everyone uses "it's" in place of "its" unless they are told by someone that it's incorrect, and that tells me that it's not intuitive - and I believe that language should be as intuitive as possible.
So this is my little civil disobedience, I'm such a rebel!
-If
Of course, "his" and "hers" and "theirs" don't have apostrophes, but unfortunately just adding the apostrophe doesn't really solve that little problem. Damned if you apostrophe, and damned if you don't apostrophe!