What I started to hate in C++/Java/C# is that there's no easy and standard-conforming way to express complex data 'inline'. Yeah, it's cleaner to make it XML and load it runtime, but there's no simple+quick way to do that either.
Hell, you can't event put known non-uniform data in C++ vector without doing it one-by-one.
No, at that distance atmospheric falloff already kicks in so image would have muted colors on larger screen viewed from distance. Larger screen would also have more shadowing/lighting problems.
Yeah. I'm a poweruser (I code and do mostly stuff outside of 'web+email+office' triangle). I use gnome.
Previously I've used windowmaker, and still use blackbox on my old laptop.
I use some KDE applications (korganizer, kdirstat). I could say that I'm task-driven in my choice of software. I code in emacs, or eclipse, depending on language.
KDE -applications tend to leave an impression that whoever did them did them just to fill checkboxes on comparision chart (no offense intended) and that they all MUST SHOW. It's all cluttered and one can't easily find most often needed things. (in gnome some of my most ofted needed things aren't easily discoverable either). GNOME just feels less 'pixel-polished', and that term is derogatory in this context, things are hard to see in KDE, gnome is easier-going, ascetically clean.
They really want you to use the C2/3 and S2/3/4 modes. They already have all the relays and tids and bits, but don't have the low-megaherts bits, so it's better to just use the sleepmodes.
I don't really see the point. It's not every-year task that you do something like 'grep -ri --color some_obscure_index c:\windows\vista\source'.
It sorts of makes sense if you want to highlight some portion of code in editor to see how a variable is used, but that's a tool limitation if it can't parse.
FWIW, I only use 'i' as variable name in a clear-cut 'this has no real name' situations. For example if indexing through book-vector I'd use 'booknum' as variable name. But in java, when dealing with mixed-type ArrayList I'd just use 'i'.
I also consider bad style and try to avoid modifying the index variable withing the loop. It rarely makes much sense and often bites.
I just can not stop using i as an index. My programing teacher learned FORTRAN first and when the taught me Pascal he used i in for loops so I do this day.
If 'i' is obfuscation of 'index' then 'for' is obfuscation of 'for_as_long_as_expression_between_semicolons_is_t rue'.
Yeah, solid state storage crossed my mind too, and Google if anyone should know about develoments in that area ahead of time. Of course they would develop different concepts ahead of 'time of feasibility', so that when new cheap technology comes they are ready to exploit it.
Knowing jack sh*t about cooling electronics I'd guess that keeping temperature below surrounding temperature would risk destroying it completely once in a while due to condensed water (which is bound to get inside trailer during maintenance access).
Google's growth was in part made possible by heaps of commodity hardware. Hardware that was originally meant for standard lusers, cheap and unreliable. They built their systems for it and tolerate that. They change lots of haddrives in their datacenters and god knows what else.
What I'm trying to say is that for each of those googlecubes they need staff that regularly changes whatever hardware fails. With 3.5 Petabytes of storage and 5K processors it means that something will fail every single day that beast is powered. All that crammed inside 20/40 feet space (WTF does that mean?) means that heat will kill even more hardware.
So, yeah it should be possible, but not very likely.
Sadly, people will never be able to realize (or rather really understand) that this all is a group effort. Human brain isn't able to do that, all we can is iconize and idolize.
It's like, I 'know' that I should thank all the people and I can say 'thanks to all people that've participated' but it's not like I have a feeling for it. But when I can meet an participated individual I'm really grateful, with the feeling.
Another interesting quote that sounds like the 640k one:
He (Gates) predicted that the HD DVD will be "the last physical media format there will ever be." To help make that happen, Gates said he will need a lot more software engineers.
Oh boy, I hope that doesn't come back to haunt him.
Damn, I'm so hopeful he's right on that. Already now I use DVD/CD only to transport data somewhere where only slower internet access is available. Everywhere else I just use my home machine.
I know there's big portion of humanity with fetish for tangible things and I'm part of that one, but I do hate all those piles of CD's I have in boxes. I think Linus got it so very right: "let the world backup your data" (or something like that).
Faster hardware just makes minor inefficiencies less noticible, so programmers add more minor inefficiencies and apply the same "but faster hardware will make it ok" attitude instead of fixing the real problem!
None of the discussion I've seen so far has touched the real problem, not the wanking on the micro-optimisation (these compiler optimizations are all O(n) in gain) but that so few have any sort of a clue on what algorithms to use and when.
I'm not saying that it's bad to optimize those sort of things when they pop up at your most-time-spent chart, but that they may simply go away (along with 90% of other runtime) when you really think of the algorithm.
the P990 looks like it will be a shot in the arm for the Symbian camp
I do hope they've come up with programming API to it that doesn't suck compiler designer's hairy balls. I had a course on mobile programming last spring and boy did symbian suck (even compared to mobile java).
I'm still of the optinion that whoever designed programming interface with 16 or more character string types was out of their mind and should be shot, multiple times.
Linux programmers will use.NET/C# but they won't use Java?? What's up with that?
I can apt-get install mono, but Sun told me to go fuck myself with a chainsaw when I wanted a.deb of Java1.5. (Yes, there is java-package, which does a great job, but really, it's a fucking mess).
Yeah, just watched it and I mostly agree with your review.
I'd gather that DVD version is better visually, I'm not a hifi junkie, but those xvid artifacts were hideous. DVD may also have better resolution to look for those easter eggs (communication system..;) and other funnies.
It was so very weird to watch the movie and recognize so many places. B5-alike station features a hall, walkways and auditorium from my school, Tampere University of Technology.
It has its rough edges, but it's funny, even the most basic wooden-leg-jokes (checking malfunctioning blaster..). And damn, it's a full 2 hour movie packed with things like that.
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What I started to hate in C++/Java/C# is that there's no easy and standard-conforming way to express complex data 'inline'. Yeah, it's cleaner to make it XML and load it runtime, but there's no simple+quick way to do that either.
Hell, you can't event put known non-uniform data in C++ vector without doing it one-by-one.
No, at that distance atmospheric falloff already kicks in so image would have muted colors on larger screen viewed from distance. Larger screen would also have more shadowing/lighting problems.
Yeah, I'm nitpicking, so sue me.
All it takes is one buffer overflow in an executable reading a corrupted data file ...
Umm. Do you really think that IBM's Power -architecture doesn't have NX flag?
Why do people spend $3k on a computer to play the Sims ?
Can't you just by a $100 playstation to do this ?
Hello, is it 1960's? Resolution 640x480 is calling!
You can't set a 'DND' for some single stupid asshole that thinks that all your time belongs to her.
That must hurt like a bastard - think more like ripping a tooth out than clipping a fingernail...
Or eyes..
Yeah. I'm a poweruser (I code and do mostly stuff outside of 'web+email+office' triangle). I use gnome.
Previously I've used windowmaker, and still use blackbox on my old laptop.
I use some KDE applications (korganizer, kdirstat). I could say that I'm task-driven in my choice of software. I code in emacs, or eclipse, depending on language.
KDE -applications tend to leave an impression that whoever did them did them just to fill checkboxes on comparision chart (no offense intended) and that they all MUST SHOW. It's all cluttered and one can't easily find most often needed things. (in gnome some of my most ofted needed things aren't easily discoverable either). GNOME just feels less 'pixel-polished', and that term is derogatory in this context, things are hard to see in KDE, gnome is easier-going, ascetically clean.
They really want you to use the C2/3 and S2/3/4 modes. They already have all the relays and tids and bits, but don't have the low-megaherts bits, so it's better to just use the sleepmodes.
They're not awkward, at least not to a finn. If you don't have anything to say, you don't have to and nobody expects you to.
I don't really see the point. It's not every-year task that you do something like 'grep -ri --color some_obscure_index c:\windows\vista\source'.
It sorts of makes sense if you want to highlight some portion of code in editor to see how a variable is used, but that's a tool limitation if it can't parse.
FWIW, I only use 'i' as variable name in a clear-cut 'this has no real name' situations. For example if indexing through book-vector I'd use 'booknum' as variable name. But in java, when dealing with mixed-type ArrayList I'd just use 'i'.
I also consider bad style and try to avoid modifying the index variable withing the loop. It rarely makes much sense and often bites.
I just can not stop using i as an index. My programing teacher learned FORTRAN first and when the taught me Pascal he used i in for loops so I do this day.
If 'i' is obfuscation of 'index' then 'for' is obfuscation of 'for_as_long_as_expression_between_semicolons_is_t rue'.
That said I sure do want one... I wonder why...
You just want to run some crypto benchmark on it.
-.O
Yeah, solid state storage crossed my mind too, and Google if anyone should know about develoments in that area ahead of time. Of course they would develop different concepts ahead of 'time of feasibility', so that when new cheap technology comes they are ready to exploit it.
Knowing jack sh*t about cooling electronics I'd guess that keeping temperature below surrounding temperature would risk destroying it completely once in a while due to condensed water (which is bound to get inside trailer during maintenance access).
Google's growth was in part made possible by heaps of commodity hardware. Hardware that was originally meant for standard lusers, cheap and unreliable. They built their systems for it and tolerate that. They change lots of haddrives in their datacenters and god knows what else.
What I'm trying to say is that for each of those googlecubes they need staff that regularly changes whatever hardware fails. With 3.5 Petabytes of storage and 5K processors it means that something will fail every single day that beast is powered. All that crammed inside 20/40 feet space (WTF does that mean?) means that heat will kill even more hardware.
So, yeah it should be possible, but not very likely.
Databases like PostgresSQL and Oracle that utilize a multiple process modelautomatically use additional threads/cores/processors.
I'd really like to see database that benefits more from processor power than from memory bandwidth. remember, it's database, not spreadsheet.
Is there any hard, researched, evidence that harder punishments decrease rate of whatever they're punishing?
If you connect to Google's WiFi, then they know where you are. Then they can target you with location-specific advertising.
That's a bit funny way to say it, but yeah, they're probably going to make whatever ads they serve more relevant
I've always wanted to say big thanks to all the people that are responsible for what WINE has become, but never really took the steps to do it.
So, BIG THANKS to all you people who are responsible for what WINE has become!
I don't use it overly much, but it's good to have for desperate situations.
Sadly, people will never be able to realize (or rather really understand) that this all is a group effort. Human brain isn't able to do that, all we can is iconize and idolize.
It's like, I 'know' that I should thank all the people and I can say 'thanks to all people that've participated' but it's not like I have a feeling for it. But when I can meet an participated individual I'm really grateful, with the feeling.
Because they don't have them, maybe? There is no special right to make compatible lenses for a specific camera body.
The point is that they don't sell the specs. Apple is.
Another interesting quote that sounds like the 640k one:
He (Gates) predicted that the HD DVD will be "the last physical media format there will ever be." To help make that happen, Gates said he will need a lot more software engineers.
Oh boy, I hope that doesn't come back to haunt him.
Damn, I'm so hopeful he's right on that. Already now I use DVD/CD only to transport data somewhere where only slower internet access is available. Everywhere else I just use my home machine.
I know there's big portion of humanity with fetish for tangible things and I'm part of that one, but I do hate all those piles of CD's I have in boxes. I think Linus got it so very right: "let the world backup your data" (or something like that).
Faster hardware just makes minor inefficiencies less noticible, so programmers add more minor inefficiencies and apply the same "but faster hardware will make it ok" attitude instead of fixing the real problem!
None of the discussion I've seen so far has touched the real problem, not the wanking on the micro-optimisation (these compiler optimizations are all O(n) in gain) but that so few have any sort of a clue on what algorithms to use and when.
I'm not saying that it's bad to optimize those sort of things when they pop up at your most-time-spent chart, but that they may simply go away (along with 90% of other runtime) when you really think of the algorithm.
the P990 looks like it will be a shot in the arm for the Symbian camp
I do hope they've come up with programming API to it that doesn't suck compiler designer's hairy balls. I had a course on mobile programming last spring and boy did symbian suck (even compared to mobile java).
I'm still of the optinion that whoever designed programming interface with 16 or more character string types was out of their mind and should be shot, multiple times.
Linux programmers will use .NET/C# but they won't use Java?? What's up with that?
I can apt-get install mono, but Sun told me to go fuck myself with a chainsaw when I wanted a .deb of Java1.5. (Yes, there is java-package, which does a great job, but really, it's a fucking mess).
Yeah, just watched it and I mostly agree with your review.
I'd gather that DVD version is better visually, I'm not a hifi junkie, but those xvid artifacts were hideous. DVD may also have better resolution to look for those easter eggs (communication system.. ;) and other funnies.
It was so very weird to watch the movie and recognize so many places. B5-alike station features a hall, walkways and auditorium from my school, Tampere University of Technology.
It has its rough edges, but it's funny, even the most basic wooden-leg-jokes (checking malfunctioning blaster..). And damn, it's a full 2 hour movie packed with things like that.