Thanks, AC,
One caveat: From what I understand, you have to describe your invention in non-fiction. For example, Arthur C. Clarke arguably invented geosynchronous satellites, but since the description of the idea was in a science fiction story, it wasn't considered "prior art". There have been several recent inventions too which were described in scifi books long before the patent office granted patents to someone else.
How about..."plug-ins" for new music formats (e.g. ogg vorbis)... visualization programs (such as Geiss on WinAmp)... software-driven equalization and balancing, so I can take a microphone and cancel any echoes in my listening room... inputs galore, so I can record _anything_... You mentioned keyboards? How about a MIDI input?... Don't forget an interface to home control systems, (e.g. X-10), so I can dim the lights and start the show.
This book spends a lot of pages down in the hardware level of optimization, but covers a lot of optimizations in other programming languages, particularly C. The author also discusses some general principles of optimization: Concentrate your optimization efforts on the code which is used the most, such as inner loops; consider alternative representations of your data, etc.
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Thanks, AC, One caveat: From what I understand, you have to describe your invention in non-fiction. For example, Arthur C. Clarke arguably invented geosynchronous satellites, but since the description of the idea was in a science fiction story, it wasn't considered "prior art". There have been several recent inventions too which were described in scifi books long before the patent office granted patents to someone else.
How about..."plug-ins" for new music formats (e.g. ogg vorbis)... visualization programs (such as Geiss on WinAmp)... software-driven equalization and balancing, so I can take a microphone and cancel any echoes in my listening room... inputs galore, so I can record _anything_... You mentioned keyboards? How about a MIDI input? ... Don't forget an interface to home control systems, (e.g. X-10), so I can dim the lights and start the show.
It will still take two minutes to boot up Win2020!
This book spends a lot of pages down in the hardware level of optimization, but covers a lot of optimizations in other programming languages, particularly C. The author also discusses some general principles of optimization: Concentrate your optimization efforts on the code which is used the most, such as inner loops; consider alternative representations of your data, etc.