". Compared to a Silverlight solution, the JS player is 3.5 times larger (535kb vs 154kb), uses about 3.6 times as much CPU power (25% vs 7%), and has to have significant modifications to work in multiple browsers."
Can you please tell me what modifications are necessary to use the silverlight plugin on my Solaris SPARC system? You say it works in multiple browsers so I would like to test your assertion.
They are called ASCII characters and depending on what environment you are using, these little blocks have well-defined rules as to which blocks you can plug together and what the results will be if you make particular patterns out of the blocks.
Ask anyone who has ever tried to wire two programming languages together: the problem is that there is no coherence in the semantics of how we pass things around between modules.
Thanks to loose programming techniques with languages like C and C++, there is no way to determine the semantics of a function call by looking at its signature. 'const' is a lame half-hearted attempt to help but it's totally inadequate.
Until we solve this problem we will never have successful visual programming aids or even much in the way of automated code generation.
Long ago in MIT 6.170 they taught us the importance of writing formal function call signatures, but in our rush to implement everything ASAP these details are left aside.
It is precisely the openness of Firefox etc that makes them better browsers.
If you want to debug your web application you are free to dive right into the browser's source in your debugger and figure out what they are doing with your content. IE will never have this capability (at least for the masses) whereas it can be easily enabled in firefox by simply installing the debug package.
Finally after all these years the browser is feature complete!
URLs were never meant to be part of the user interface. They were always meant to be hidden. Look at them. Do you really think they were designed to be typed by humans? For further proof, read the historical notes from the w3c archives.
-Instant search of large mailboxes - can any of the applications you list do near-instant, as-you-type searches of inboxes that are 20GBytes or larger? heck, how do they handle mail of that volume? It's not as ridiculous as you might think, I've got several users with PST files that large
Yes I do that every single day with Thunderbird on a crappy laptop and it works just fine. I have 9 years of hourly automated test run reports in a single folder. They are all indexed so I can search them all in a snap.
It is actually quite simple. Tax is charged for the transaction when the item is handed to its final destination whether it is is a gift or whatever. The tax is charged for the transaction of handing over the goods. It happens in some jurisdiction and that jurisdiction is owed the taxes. If you buy a ringtone or some such where there is no handing over of goods, well they have no choice but to assume that it is delivered to your residence.
And if the appropriate sales tax is not charged by the vendor then it is your responsibility to pay it.
It is really not much pain for amazon to figure out your taxes. They just use a big look-up table. They have to pay someone to maintain it but that is a rather small task for them. Look at all the other stuff they have to figure out in order to sell you something.
Holy moly what a crappy trademark. It will fail the moment it is challenged. That term has been in common use for many many years. That's not a trademark, it's bad lawyering work.
The software engineering group at MIT (Liskov, Guttag, etc) have been pushing for this since the early 1980s. Guttag told us in lecture that he tried unsuccessfully to get these concepts built into the Ada specification.
As a university you have been paying nickel and dime prices for your products and you will be better off with Linux anyway. Oracle knows this full well and they will not miss your piddling contract.
Why not try their Oracle's search on their page? They have moved a lot of stuff around lately and google hasn't found it yet. This is a google issue, not an Oracle issue. Everything I have looked for is still there but I will admit that I did have to look around a bit.
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". Compared to a Silverlight solution, the JS player is 3.5 times larger (535kb vs 154kb), uses about 3.6 times as much CPU power (25% vs 7%), and has to have significant modifications to work in multiple browsers."
Can you please tell me what modifications are necessary to use the silverlight plugin on my Solaris SPARC system? You say it works in multiple browsers so I would like to test your assertion.
Why don;t you tell us about how many engineers and test systems Microsoft needs for their "standard" platform.
What makes you think that placing fraudulent advertisements is legal? At best they are inducing their customers to commit crimes.
Did they deprecate drive multiplexors in SATA?
http://www.cooldrives.com/cosapomubrso.html
They are called ASCII characters and depending on what environment you are using, these little blocks have well-defined rules as to which blocks you can plug together and what the results will be if you make particular patterns out of the blocks.
Ask anyone who has ever tried to wire two programming languages together: the problem is that there is no coherence in the semantics of how we pass things around between modules.
Thanks to loose programming techniques with languages like C and C++, there is no way to determine the semantics of a function call by looking at its signature. 'const' is a lame half-hearted attempt to help but it's totally inadequate.
Until we solve this problem we will never have successful visual programming aids or even much in the way of automated code generation.
Long ago in MIT 6.170 they taught us the importance of writing formal function call signatures, but in our rush to implement everything ASAP these details are left aside.
HDTV reception gear is quite inexpensive compared to cable fees.
We use MythTV but I understand other packages work as well.
The quality is excellent, much better than Hulu or Netflix for the same show.
You gotta invest in some disk storage if you want to keep more than a few days worth of shows.
Yeah let's not bother to mention that Kinect is basically technology that they purchased from the MIT Media Lab.
Let's not bother to mention that Kinect is just like every other Microsoft product: someone else's technology.
It is precisely the openness of Firefox etc that makes them better browsers.
If you want to debug your web application you are free to dive right into the browser's source in your debugger and figure out what they are doing with your content. IE will never have this capability (at least for the masses) whereas it can be easily enabled in firefox by simply installing the debug package.
Finally after all these years the browser is feature complete!
URLs were never meant to be part of the user interface. They were always meant to be hidden. Look at them. Do you really think they were designed to be typed by humans? For further proof, read the historical notes from the w3c archives.
Ever heard of "X Windows"?
You can do all of that stuff. Just plug your big monitor and your real keyboard into your phone.
"Why would I want to have to fetch my phone and hook it to my TV, meaning I can't easily use it as a phone if needed"
Why not? Presumably all the connections are wireless. I saw a commercial just last night with a person talking on their smartphone as they surfed.
-Instant search of large mailboxes - can any of the applications you list do near-instant, as-you-type searches of inboxes that are 20GBytes or larger? heck, how do they handle mail of that volume? It's not as ridiculous as you might think, I've got several users with PST files that large
Yes I do that every single day with Thunderbird on a crappy laptop and it works just fine. I have 9 years of hourly automated test run reports in a single folder. They are all indexed so I can search them all in a snap.
It is actually quite simple. Tax is charged for the transaction when the item is handed to its final destination whether it is is a gift or whatever. The tax is charged for the transaction of handing over the goods. It happens in some jurisdiction and that jurisdiction is owed the taxes. If you buy a ringtone or some such where there is no handing over of goods, well they have no choice but to assume that it is delivered to your residence.
And if the appropriate sales tax is not charged by the vendor then it is your responsibility to pay it.
It is really not much pain for amazon to figure out your taxes. They just use a big look-up table. They have to pay someone to maintain it but that is a rather small task for them. Look at all the other stuff they have to figure out in order to sell you something.
So you need to profile your code too! What else is new? This is a tool, not a panacea.
You can do all of this range checking yourself manually in your code if you want, there is nothing new here.
These annotations just do the dirty work of pumping out the boilerplate code. You could do it yourself with an emacs macro or some such.
google "6.170" and you will find that the work at MIT predates eiffel by many years.
Well if you program correctly you will never have to worry about that, will you?
This is the ENTIRE IDEA.
Holy moly what a crappy trademark. It will fail the moment it is challenged. That term has been in common use for many many years. That's not a trademark, it's bad lawyering work.
WTF are you talking about? Design contracts have been around since the 70's at least. Come on can't you do any research at all before you post?
You didn't read the article did you? This has nothing to do with buffer overruns.
The software engineering group at MIT (Liskov, Guttag, etc) have been pushing for this since the early 1980s. Guttag told us in lecture that he tried unsuccessfully to get these concepts built into the Ada specification.
The enterprises that use java and pay for it do not suffer from such problems.
You say "java is dead" but it runs many many web sites. Your personal experience is meaningless.
As a university you have been paying nickel and dime prices for your products and you will be better off with Linux anyway. Oracle knows this full well and they will not miss your piddling contract.
"Google nearly any Sun product"
Why not try their Oracle's search on their page? They have moved a lot of stuff around lately and google hasn't found it yet. This is a google issue, not an Oracle issue. Everything I have looked for is still there but I will admit that I did have to look around a bit.