Neither my Java nor Android compilers do a good job of taking advantage of the multiple cores from within Eclipse. I am able to get significant improvement when compiling GWT projects by giving it a 6 core directive. I save about 40% of the time it used to take. Plain old Java and Android showed little improvement though.
I just got a fancy 8 core T7500 Dell workstation and only one of my compilers actually takes advantage of the multiple cores when it is compiling. As a result this expensive desktop is only 15% faster in terms of time to compile than the 4 year old PC it replaced (the new PC has twice the ram as the old though which may account for some of that speed increase). I am seriously unimpressed with all these cores. Maybe they are useful for something, but I've not found anything that I do that shows significant improvement. Putting my development projects on a SSD did much more for my work flow performance than this fancy new computer, that is for certain.
The risks of trying something hard (and expensive) and failing are too high. The media has convinced us that any failure must be followed by a blood-letting of the offenders rather than applauding their best efforts even if they failed. Until we can become a society that celebrates trying instead of only celebrating success we won't be doing hard stuff. Oddly, we give kids medals for getting last place in a banality contest and then when they become grown ups we accept no failure regardless of the original odds of success.
Someone will release a root kit for it and an appropriate Android install will be available shortly. This is pretty cool I think. I purchased a Nook to read with because I wanted an Android device. I'll buy an inexpensive tablet as well if the feature/value ratio is right for me. I'm looking forward to seeing what they have to offer.
You might be reading the book wrong. Design patterns ideas are applicable regardless of language. I can design the software one time using these or other patterns and then write it in many languages. They entire point is that there are repeated patterns in computer science as it relates to software that can be informed by learning from what other people have already done again and again.
Those are all interesting and compelling reasons, but what does that have to do with it being mounted in a light saber case with a battery and marketed in this way. If you want to source 1w laser diodes at digikey, knock yourself out. What is the purpose for one mounted in a light saber like case though?
I don't care if you have one. I just want to know why you want one? It's so dangerous and also so not obviously dangerous. It's kind of like having land mines in your back yard. Take into account the fact that you could be blinded or blind someone else on accident so easily with a simple reflection.
Can any explain why they want one of these exceedingly dangerous "toys" lying around? This seems like the kind of thing that felony reckless depraved indifference assault charges was designed for.
Finally Facebook integration leads to something useful. Now, I'm not about to give those delta-bravos access to my Facebook data, but still it's pretty cool for people who don't care about their friends or their own privacy.
We are not looking for a panacea here. If you raise the bar to the level where you have to actually take possession of one of the users phone in the conversation, it would become a matter for a judge to decide in US. That costs lots of money which means it won't happen willy nilly. I just want surveillance of the people by the government to not be trivial. I don't think that is a lot to ask.
How come PGP instant messaging isn't a reality yet? Private messages that turn out to NOT be private will have a chilling effect on technology. I would think that these companies would encrypt everything just so they were not put in a position to have decide IF they should rat out their customers.
Stallman complains about DRM and a lack of anonymity with eBooks. It seems to me that this story relates very closely to legally acquired music. While it is still difficult to legally acquire digital music anonymously, it is easy to get it without DRM. I suspect books will follow this same path if consumers value it as a feature. In practice there is in fact little anonymity in the purchase of real books as everyone wants you to swipe your "club" card and use your debit card to make the purchase but his point is well taken. The option to buy an unpopular book in secret is nice.
With time and interest from consumers we will have DRM free books.
Anonymity is dead and gone and I didn't even get an invitation to the funeral. We should all mourn it's passing.
So, the idea is to put together a bunch of criminal genius types who operate on the worlds computer networks with impunity. What could possibly go wrong?
Your first point may be correct, but as the parts we are discussing will be so esoteric I believe indexing them will be darn near impossible so scanning will likely be the only likely way to get what you want.
To your second point, I likely will have the part, it will just be broken. So I'll glue it and scan it or scan the pieces and glue them in software. Either way that seems like the most plausible scenario until BMW starts selling 3D files.
I don't think you are going to be finding patterns of esoteric patterns hiding on the pirate bay. Instead 3D scanning will become as normal as 3D printing I think.
You are right on the money with this. I don't think BMW is ever going to sue you for making your own spare part though. How would they know?? I can imagine BMW eventually charging for a 3D model of the part so you can make it yourself, but I really don't see them getting upset if you fashion your own.
That will require an extraordinarily expensive 3D printer because the ones that cost a couple thousand won't make something that big or that thin (with similar strength). 3D printing is at least a decade (several decades is my guess) away from replacing commodity item purchases. They are an incredible tool for rapid prototyping but beyond that they are not a serious threat to manufacturers of plastic crap.
I think people who say 3D printers are "not going anywhere thanks to IP law" are missing the point. 3D printers are for people who want to design and build their own things and less about trying to save money by building your own version of a absurdly cheap Walmart available gizmo. A 3D printer will never compete with Lego as an affordable way to replace Lego's manufacturing capabilities. I have no doubt that these machines will be co-opted for nefarious goals on occasion, but mostly they will be cost additive rather than cost saving or even cost neutral compared to the mark up on a manufactured items.
I have a couple of things I've been wanting to build for quite sometime but I don't have rapid prototyping capabilities at home. Once I get to my local hackerspace and print out a a few prototypes and get the design worked out I'll be having them machined out of aluminum and sell the products. More money will move through the economy and maybe even a few jobs will be created. These may even bring about a renaissance in the small business. Here's to hoping anyway.
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Neither my Java nor Android compilers do a good job of taking advantage of the multiple cores from within Eclipse. I am able to get significant improvement when compiling GWT projects by giving it a 6 core directive. I save about 40% of the time it used to take. Plain old Java and Android showed little improvement though.
I just got a fancy 8 core T7500 Dell workstation and only one of my compilers actually takes advantage of the multiple cores when it is compiling. As a result this expensive desktop is only 15% faster in terms of time to compile than the 4 year old PC it replaced (the new PC has twice the ram as the old though which may account for some of that speed increase). I am seriously unimpressed with all these cores. Maybe they are useful for something, but I've not found anything that I do that shows significant improvement. Putting my development projects on a SSD did much more for my work flow performance than this fancy new computer, that is for certain.
We just have to start with out own children and hope it catches on.
The risks of trying something hard (and expensive) and failing are too high. The media has convinced us that any failure must be followed by a blood-letting of the offenders rather than applauding their best efforts even if they failed. Until we can become a society that celebrates trying instead of only celebrating success we won't be doing hard stuff. Oddly, we give kids medals for getting last place in a banality contest and then when they become grown ups we accept no failure regardless of the original odds of success.
Someone will release a root kit for it and an appropriate Android install will be available shortly. This is pretty cool I think. I purchased a Nook to read with because I wanted an Android device. I'll buy an inexpensive tablet as well if the feature/value ratio is right for me. I'm looking forward to seeing what they have to offer.
Didn't Iomega have a utility that came with the JAZZ drive?
You might be reading the book wrong. Design patterns ideas are applicable regardless of language. I can design the software one time using these or other patterns and then write it in many languages. They entire point is that there are repeated patterns in computer science as it relates to software that can be informed by learning from what other people have already done again and again.
Those are all interesting and compelling reasons, but what does that have to do with it being mounted in a light saber case with a battery and marketed in this way. If you want to source 1w laser diodes at digikey, knock yourself out. What is the purpose for one mounted in a light saber like case though?
Guns, knives, cars, dynamite, chain saws, and so many other things are not toys. They are tools. Is this a tool or a toy?
I don't care if you have one. I just want to know why you want one? It's so dangerous and also so not obviously dangerous. It's kind of like having land mines in your back yard. Take into account the fact that you could be blinded or blind someone else on accident so easily with a simple reflection.
Can any explain why they want one of these exceedingly dangerous "toys" lying around? This seems like the kind of thing that felony reckless depraved indifference assault charges was designed for.
Drink some Sanka buddy.
For me it is the Design Patterns by the so-called Gang of Four.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_Patterns
Finally Facebook integration leads to something useful. Now, I'm not about to give those delta-bravos access to my Facebook data, but still it's pretty cool for people who don't care about their friends or their own privacy.
We are not looking for a panacea here. If you raise the bar to the level where you have to actually take possession of one of the users phone in the conversation, it would become a matter for a judge to decide in US. That costs lots of money which means it won't happen willy nilly. I just want surveillance of the people by the government to not be trivial. I don't think that is a lot to ask.
Yoda's paranoid twin...
How come PGP instant messaging isn't a reality yet?
Private messages that turn out to NOT be private will have a chilling effect on technology. I would think that these companies would encrypt everything just so they were not put in a position to have decide IF they should rat out their customers.
Stallman complains about DRM and a lack of anonymity with eBooks. It seems to me that this story relates very closely to legally acquired music. While it is still difficult to legally acquire digital music anonymously, it is easy to get it without DRM. I suspect books will follow this same path if consumers value it as a feature. In practice there is in fact little anonymity in the purchase of real books as everyone wants you to swipe your "club" card and use your debit card to make the purchase but his point is well taken. The option to buy an unpopular book in secret is nice.
With time and interest from consumers we will have DRM free books.
Anonymity is dead and gone and I didn't even get an invitation to the funeral. We should all mourn it's passing.
So, the idea is to put together a bunch of criminal genius types who operate on the worlds computer networks with impunity. What could possibly go wrong?
That sounds great compared to $30ish for an Arduino compatible USB host. That is until you see that the main board is 4 times the Arduino price.
Your first point may be correct, but as the parts we are discussing will be so esoteric I believe indexing them will be darn near impossible so scanning will likely be the only likely way to get what you want.
To your second point, I likely will have the part, it will just be broken. So I'll glue it and scan it or scan the pieces and glue them in software. Either way that seems like the most plausible scenario until BMW starts selling 3D files.
Who knows we are just prognosticating...
I don't think you are going to be finding patterns of esoteric patterns hiding on the pirate bay. Instead 3D scanning will become as normal as 3D printing I think.
You are right on the money with this. I don't think BMW is ever going to sue you for making your own spare part though. How would they know?? I can imagine BMW eventually charging for a 3D model of the part so you can make it yourself, but I really don't see them getting upset if you fashion your own.
That will require an extraordinarily expensive 3D printer because the ones that cost a couple thousand won't make something that big or that thin (with similar strength). 3D printing is at least a decade (several decades is my guess) away from replacing commodity item purchases. They are an incredible tool for rapid prototyping but beyond that they are not a serious threat to manufacturers of plastic crap.
I think people who say 3D printers are "not going anywhere thanks to IP law" are missing the point. 3D printers are for people who want to design and build their own things and less about trying to save money by building your own version of a absurdly cheap Walmart available gizmo. A 3D printer will never compete with Lego as an affordable way to replace Lego's manufacturing capabilities. I have no doubt that these machines will be co-opted for nefarious goals on occasion, but mostly they will be cost additive rather than cost saving or even cost neutral compared to the mark up on a manufactured items.
I have a couple of things I've been wanting to build for quite sometime but I don't have rapid prototyping capabilities at home. Once I get to my local hackerspace and print out a a few prototypes and get the design worked out I'll be having them machined out of aluminum and sell the products. More money will move through the economy and maybe even a few jobs will be created. These may even bring about a renaissance in the small business. Here's to hoping anyway.