From the company who has said laughing "open standard? doesn't that mean it's broken, incomplete?" (a Finnish Microsoft representative in an interview I don't remember which). I'm not too optimistic.
Laaserboy wrote:
> I may not have a Nobel Prize, but I do have a Ph.D. in physics. Electrons do not tranform
> into photons. They may produce photons, but not turn into them.
But a collision of an electron and an antielectron produces two photons.
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Hooking.
When people design pages for IE because "everyone uses IE", they're making it more difficult for people to start using other browsers, and in the end, other operating systems.
And Microsoft sits on they moneypile and laughs.
> at a speed of over 1.5 million miles per hour (670 kilometers per second)
I think this was fine. "x mph" is for your average american person who talks in imperial units (the core audience of Slashdot readers?) and "x km/s" lets science-oriented people understand how the speed relates to the speed of light (which btw, is about 300000 kilometers per second - the relativistic effects are still almost neglible).
>> support code that no one really understands > What does he mean by this? He's equating more manageable code with slower code. > Is he implying that complex, unmaintainable code is faster? I've never seen that to be the case.
He means cruft - obsolete code that nobody dares to remove because they don't know if it will break something.
An example of an application that can take advantage of SIMD is one where the same value is being added to a large number of data points, a common operation in many multimedia applications.
How is this different for MMX?
Because I thought MMX does exactly what you described.
Pentium..........(original)
Pentium II.......(twice as good)
Pentium III......(3x as good)
Pentium IV......(4x as good)
Pentium M.......(1000x as good)
Pentium MMX.(2010x as good)
While Firefox is a nice app and IMHO better than IE, it is not pushing the frontiers of web application capabilities, the way that Netscape did in the nineties. As nice as it is to not worry about slimeware, Firefox is just enabling the same ol' web.
Answer 1: That's not its job after all.
It's currently W3C whose responsibility is to develop the web standards. The Mozilla developers
do a good job in implementing them.
Answer 2: They do. Do a little research about XUL.
Unfortunately I couldn't find an example application.
In the spirit of the "electricity via ethernet" and trend today, I recommend: 1. Castration with Rusty Nails 2. Chinese Chainsaw showers 3. Disembowelment with Water Torture 4. Trephining with Chinese Bamboo
> > how about making backup of your life into several TB harddisk?
> That assumes that each neuron in your brain stores on the order of
> a kilobit of information, and in reality it's more like one bit, or
> a few. An arevage 120 GB harddrive should be quite enough to back
> up a human brain, perhaps even several times over.
How about the connections between those neurons? Aren't there like 10000 per each of them?
The mass of Earth is about 5'973'600'000'000'000'000'000'000 kg. The mass of Moon is about 73'500'000'000'000'000'000'000 kg.
What kind of masses are we talking about in these materials? Even a million tons (1'000'000'000 kg) difference is not detectable with today's equipment.
Besides, the mass of both of these objects is constantly being changed by solar wind and other causes.
But it's still wise to think of possible consequences.
Speed of sound (~300 m/s) is much lower than the speed of light (~300'000'000 m/s). Also, the trick used in Star Trek IV involved the sun somehow (flying behind it or something).
> I can open pages in the background so I can continue to read my article
The same works in Mozilla & Firefox. I rightclick the link and select "Open in new tab", or hold ctrl and click the link. The page starts loading in a new tab, and meanwhile I continue reading the original page (no window/tab switching). When the animating "loading" icon disappears from the new tab, I can switch to it (and of course, earlier or later if I wish to).
I don't really have a word of complaint of Firefox or Mozilla (I use both), but I admit not having tested Opera for a couple of years. But I do have complaints of IE. As a web developer, I am very often negatively surprised when I hear that IE doesn't support this-and-that standard CSS feature which Firefox/Mozilla have no problem with.
In the today world, I don't intend to support MSIE anymore. I don't like how it delays the development of the WWW. W3C shows the direction of web development, and I intend to support it. And I am happy that Mozilla follows it.
Often programs that support./configure support also "make uninstall", provided that you haven't touched the building environment after you installed the program.
If you are worried about your untrustability in deciding what to delete, just replace your rm binary with (or alias your rm command as) a program/script that moves the files to a dedicated trashcan directory.
This won't prevent other programs deleting files permanently, but I think neither does Windows.
Doesn't this already make it blazingly obvious to everyone that software patents are nothing but WEAPONS, used by corporations to destroy each others' business?
I'm utterly at loss trying to understand how some people are unable to realize this fact.
The projected light still consists of a combination of specific shades of red, green and blue, and the screen is designed to reflect exactly those shades.
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From the company who has said laughing "open standard? doesn't that mean it's broken, incomplete?" (a Finnish Microsoft representative in an interview I don't remember which).
I'm not too optimistic.
Laaserboy wrote:
> I may not have a Nobel Prize, but I do have a Ph.D. in physics. Electrons do not tranform
> into photons. They may produce photons, but not turn into them.
But a collision of an electron and an antielectron produces two photons.
Hooking. When people design pages for IE because "everyone uses IE", they're making it more difficult for people to start using other browsers, and in the end, other operating systems. And Microsoft sits on they moneypile and laughs.
In Finnish,
Mänty, äiti, aurinko, päivä
So he's actually making a mixture between two...
maybe more.
> at a speed of over 1.5 million miles per hour (670 kilometers per second)
I think this was fine.
"x mph" is for your average american person who talks in imperial units (the core audience of Slashdot readers?) and
"x km/s" lets science-oriented people understand how the speed relates to the speed of light (which btw, is about 300000 kilometers per second - the relativistic effects are still almost neglible).
>> support code that no one really understands
> What does he mean by this? He's equating more manageable code with slower code.
> Is he implying that complex, unmaintainable code is faster? I've never seen that to be the case.
He means cruft - obsolete code that nobody dares to remove because they don't know if it will break something.
An example of an application that can take advantage of SIMD is one where the same value is being added to a large number of data points, a common operation in many multimedia applications.
How is this different for MMX?
Because I thought MMX does exactly what you described.
Pentium..........(original)
Pentium II.......(twice as good)
Pentium III......(3x as good)
Pentium IV......(4x as good)
Pentium M.......(1000x as good)
Pentium MMX.(2010x as good)
So VIIV = 7 to 5 (7 *-1+ 5) = -2 (-2x as good)?
Answer 1: That's not its job after all. It's currently W3C whose responsibility is to develop the web standards. The Mozilla developers do a good job in implementing them.
Answer 2: They do. Do a little research about XUL. Unfortunately I couldn't find an example application.
In the spirit of the "electricity via ethernet" and trend today, I recommend:
1. Castration with Rusty Nails
2. Chinese Chainsaw showers
3. Disembowelment with Water Torture
4. Trephining with Chinese Bamboo
continue the list at your will.
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> That assumes that each neuron in your brain stores on the order of
> a kilobit of information, and in reality it's more like one bit, or
> a few. An arevage 120 GB harddrive should be quite enough to back
> up a human brain, perhaps even several times over.
How about the connections between those neurons? Aren't there like 10000 per each of them?
(Nevermind that the URL in that post is wrong... well, nobody checks them anyway.)
Find the correct one with Google or from Slashdot archive.
So when will Microsoft will sue them because the name is similar to IfNot, their patented invention?
In a way, blogs replace or add to columnists.
To state the obvious, the formula mentioned in the parent posting uses carbon coke, not the drug "coke".
The mass of Earth is about
5'973'600'000'000'000'000'000'000 kg.
The mass of Moon is about
73'500'000'000'000'000'000'000 kg.
What kind of masses are we talking about in these materials?
Even a million tons (1'000'000'000 kg) difference is not detectable with today's equipment.
Besides, the mass of both of these objects is constantly being changed by solar wind and other causes.
But it's still wise to think of possible consequences.
Speed of sound (~300 m/s) is much lower than the speed of light (~300'000'000 m/s).
Also, the trick used in Star Trek IV involved the sun somehow (flying behind it or something).
> I can open pages in the background so I can continue to read my article
The same works in Mozilla & Firefox.
I rightclick the link and select "Open in new tab", or hold ctrl and click the link.
The page starts loading in a new tab, and meanwhile I continue reading the original page (no window/tab switching).
When the animating "loading" icon disappears from the new tab, I can switch to it (and of course, earlier or later if I wish to).
I don't really have a word of complaint of Firefox or Mozilla (I use both), but I admit not having tested Opera for a couple of years.
But I do have complaints of IE. As a web developer, I am very often negatively surprised when I hear that IE doesn't support this-and-that standard CSS feature which Firefox/Mozilla have no problem with.
In the today world, I don't intend to support MSIE anymore. I don't like how it delays the development of the WWW.
W3C shows the direction of web development, and I intend to support it. And I am happy that Mozilla follows it.
Often programs that support ./configure support also "make uninstall", provided that you haven't touched the building environment after you installed the program.
So it's the same as with abstract/surreal art?
Mirrors:
http://www.es.ioccc.org/whowon.html
http://www.tw.ioccc.org/whowon.html
http://www.gr.ioccc.org/whowon.html
http://www1.us.ioccc.org/whowon.html
http://www.au.ioccc.org/whowon.html
If you are worried about your untrustability in deciding what to delete, just replace your rm binary with (or alias your rm command as) a program/script that moves the files to a dedicated trashcan directory.
This won't prevent other programs deleting files permanently, but I think neither does Windows.
Let's do this again.
Software patents are good, because..?
Doesn't this already make it blazingly obvious to everyone that software patents are nothing but WEAPONS, used by corporations to destroy each others' business?
I'm utterly at loss trying to understand how some people are unable to realize this fact.
The projected light still consists of a combination of specific shades of red, green and blue, and the screen is designed to reflect exactly those shades.
I think you're talking about the shift key, not capslock.