For heavy number crunching interpretted is not there yet. Then again compiled code is not great for everything either, sometimes you have to write hardware specific assembly code. On the other hand if you are doing something that spends more time waiting in the user than actually working, then an interpretted language is great. Like everything you need to make a choice when you are going to use one approach or another. Remember you want to get a program out of the door and making it available to as wide an audience as possible so you will write in the language that is best suited for the task. If you know where to delegate the heavy number crunching then you can spend the rest of the time making a great program. Look at some of the programs written in Java using OpenGL. They are fast, but that is because they hand off the necessary heavy lifting to low-level APIs, heck even compiled languages like C/C++ do the same. See here for example: https://jogl.dev.java.net/
It is this sort of thing that is leading to the fall of the USA. Believe me, I don't want to be negative, but more and more I feel the actions happening in the country are likely to lead to an economical down fall. Things that I can think of:
- the indebting of the country by the Iraq war
- the greed of media companies and corporate america
- the dumbing down of the education system
- outsourcing of the economy
How long before the country is full of business owners and criminals, because no one can afford what their own country is producing.
As long as they don't weild it as a patent troll I will just mind my own business. Hopefully they have better things to do than use it against competitors.
Apple and Nintendo are both good at what they do. Apple buying Nintendo is likely to dilute one of the two companies, without making either better. The other issue, is while they are both successful at what they do they have very different work cultures. I'd rather things be left as they are in this case.
We often blame the RIAA for Apple putting DRM on its music and say they leave it there out of fear of losing their contracts. The question is, that I have seen asked before, is whether an independent label or artist whether can have my music on iTunes without DRM and ask for automatic global distribution. eMusic already hosts indie labels without DRM, so there is little reason that Apple should refuse, unless they are as greedy as big media - thus making them no better.
I feel that while we don't need IPv6 yet, waiting until we do need it would be foolish. Think of this in the same terms as the Y2K issue, which never became an issue because people took proactive action.
All that is really needed is for the pockets of IPv6 networks to join up, rather than staying as pockets. Maybe an IPv6 based P2P or something of the sorts might help provide some sort of momentum.
Something to do when you find a CD like that: take it to the cashier and ask them whether you can use it with your iPod and if it doesn't can you return it? If they say no to either say sorry 'no-purchase'. If enough people to do that they will get the message. No point in spending money or simply not going through the motions. People need to know why you aren't buying.
Does anyone know what I can do to make Slashdot use a serif based font for the comments? This sans-serif font is making it hard to read anything where there is a large amount of text. I am using Firefox, so something that works with that would be handy.
I avoid first generation Apple products for this reason.
I avoid most first generation products for this reason, or at least wait six months, unless there is a real reason to throw caution to the wind.
Like any product, while it may have been tested well in the labs, the real world is far more complex in the issues that get thrown at stuff. People don't use products as intended, forget procedure or do other stupid things that no one would have thought of. Other issues include manufacturing problems, so even if the product was perfect in the lab something subtle might have screwed up in manufacturing. These problems can get corrected as the issues arise, but it is people buying the product as the start who will get hit by the issues first, since they are using a product that hasn't been fully submitted to the trials of life.
I live in Canada and having transiting through the USA is a bitch, and therefore do my best to avoid having USA based transits. The sort of thing that bothers me, and have experienced are:
- one hour waits in the passport queue with two agents, while USA citizens get four agents which spend most of the time waiting
- double immigration checks on return to Canada (once in USA and once in Canada)
- unfriendly agents which ask you to go away and fill in the one missing line in the form When you are tired from and 7 hour night flight this is not enjoyable - no I am not into S&M.
Nope, my cell gets turned off when in the car. I alo don't drive much since buying a downtown condo (I took my car out for the first time since march last weekend).
And then probably returned home very quickly, realising how many idiots behind steering wheels are loose out there.
Maybe the question should be asked differently: What advantages does it offer over existing formats? Sure it provides Microsoft with their own lossy image format, making their data type portfolio complete, but what does it offer everyone else?
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We have too many lawyers because we have too many laws. Eliminate the excess laws, and we'll have less lawyers as a side effect.
But we have too many laws, because we have too many lawyers, therefore we need too many lawyers - etc.
For heavy number crunching interpretted is not there yet. Then again compiled code is not great for everything either, sometimes you have to write hardware specific assembly code. On the other hand if you are doing something that spends more time waiting in the user than actually working, then an interpretted language is great. Like everything you need to make a choice when you are going to use one approach or another. Remember you want to get a program out of the door and making it available to as wide an audience as possible so you will write in the language that is best suited for the task. If you know where to delegate the heavy number crunching then you can spend the rest of the time making a great program. Look at some of the programs written in Java using OpenGL. They are fast, but that is because they hand off the necessary heavy lifting to low-level APIs, heck even compiled languages like C/C++ do the same. See here for example: https://jogl.dev.java.net/
It is this sort of thing that is leading to the fall of the USA. Believe me, I don't want to be negative, but more and more I feel the actions happening in the country are likely to lead to an economical down fall. Things that I can think of:
- the indebting of the country by the Iraq war
- the greed of media companies and corporate america
- the dumbing down of the education system
- outsourcing of the economy
How long before the country is full of business owners and criminals, because no one can afford what their own country is producing.
As long as they don't weild it as a patent troll I will just mind my own business. Hopefully they have better things to do than use it against competitors.
Apple and Nintendo are both good at what they do. Apple buying Nintendo is likely to dilute one of the two companies, without making either better. The other issue, is while they are both successful at what they do they have very different work cultures. I'd rather things be left as they are in this case.
This is one of those many instances where British English (boffin, lorry, ground ground nuts, pantechnicon)
Hmm, I don't know where you get your translations from, but we call it 'peanut butter' and a 'moving van' is known as 'removal van'.
see my question about indie labels: http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=187871&cid =15495851
We often blame the RIAA for Apple putting DRM on its music and say they leave it there out of fear of losing their contracts. The question is, that I have seen asked before, is whether an independent label or artist whether can have my music on iTunes without DRM and ask for automatic global distribution. eMusic already hosts indie labels without DRM, so there is little reason that Apple should refuse, unless they are as greedy as big media - thus making them no better.
FWIW, Firefox 2 will support unicode in filenames and such despite also still working on Win9x.
7 9
I know that this is what they are aiming for:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2392
but whether it will be complete by the time pre-Windows 2000 support is dropppe is another matter.
Maybe this will mean that we will finally get a build that actually makes use of Windows unicode API?
I feel that while we don't need IPv6 yet, waiting until we do need it would be foolish. Think of this in the same terms as the Y2K issue, which never became an issue because people took proactive action.
Some useful IPv6 related links:
- http://www.simphalempin.com/dev/miredo/
- http://evanjones.ca/macosx-ipv6.html
- http://www.bieringer.de/linux/IPv6/
- http://www.hexago.com/
- https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/590/ - displays ipv6 address in firefox, if it has one
- http://www.ipv6.org/impl/windows.html
All that is really needed is for the pockets of IPv6 networks to join up, rather than staying as pockets. Maybe an IPv6 based P2P or something of the sorts might help provide some sort of momentum.
Something to do when you find a CD like that: take it to the cashier and ask them whether you can use it with your iPod and if it doesn't can you return it? If they say no to either say sorry 'no-purchase'. If enough people to do that they will get the message. No point in spending money or simply not going through the motions. People need to know why you aren't buying.
Does anyone know what I can do to make Slashdot use a serif based font for the comments? This sans-serif font is making it hard to read anything where there is a large amount of text. I am using Firefox, so something that works with that would be handy.
Just a couple of handy links with regard to Mac gaming:
- http://www.apple.com/games/
- http://www.insidemacgames.com/
- http://www.aspyr.com/
- http:///
A little of topic, but related:
If you have been watching the Alctal - Lucent merger, then you might be interested in what IEEE Spectrum has to say:
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/may06/3427
I avoid first generation Apple products for this reason.
I avoid most first generation products for this reason, or at least wait six months, unless there is a real reason to throw caution to the wind.
Like any product, while it may have been tested well in the labs, the real world is far more complex in the issues that get thrown at stuff. People don't use products as intended, forget procedure or do other stupid things that no one would have thought of. Other issues include manufacturing problems, so even if the product was perfect in the lab something subtle might have screwed up in manufacturing. These problems can get corrected as the issues arise, but it is people buying the product as the start who will get hit by the issues first, since they are using a product that hasn't been fully submitted to the trials of life.
It wont even run your games? They really ARE copying OS X.
;)
What do you expect. They have a perfectly fine gaming machine that they want to sell you, that just needs a TV
I live in Canada and having transiting through the USA is a bitch, and therefore do my best to avoid having USA based transits. The sort of thing that bothers me, and have experienced are:
- one hour waits in the passport queue with two agents, while USA citizens get four agents which spend most of the time waiting
- double immigration checks on return to Canada (once in USA and once in Canada)
- unfriendly agents which ask you to go away and fill in the one missing line in the form
When you are tired from and 7 hour night flight this is not enjoyable - no I am not into S&M.
Like any good theory we need evidence. So who is the unlucky sod going back in time to check the info? ;)
Nope, my cell gets turned off when in the car. I alo don't drive much since buying a downtown condo (I took my car out for the first time since march last weekend).
And then probably returned home very quickly, realising how many idiots behind steering wheels are loose out there.
So, my question is fundamentally..........WHY?
Why not?
Maybe the question should be asked differently: What advantages does it offer over existing formats? Sure it provides Microsoft with their own lossy image format, making their data type portfolio complete, but what does it offer everyone else?
$x = £x would be a massive rip-off!
But I have often see hardware priced exactly that way, and yes it is a rip off. The UK is just to overpriced these days.
these days you're likely to get your ass tackled if you're seen fooling with your shoes and plugging stuff into them.
I thought they were proactive these days, so they just flip a coin to decide whether you're the next one to make their day.
Actually, when I first read the headline, I thought Apple was doing some mobile DDR with shoe accelerometers connected to the iPod.
Hmm, I wonder how long before someone actually creates a DDR IDv3 extension for MP3?