emails with subject lines like "Court of Appeals / Executive Director Parole Board / Boards and Commissions", and "FW: DPS Personnel and Budget Issues", and "Draft letter to Governor Schwarzenegger / Container Tax".
Now that 64-bit processors are so common, perhaps operating systems can spare some virtual address space for performance benefits.
The OPAL operating system was a University of Washington research project from the 1990s. OPAL uses a single address space for all processes. Unlike Windows 3.1, OPAL still has memory protection and every process (or "protection domain") has its own pages. The benefit of sharing a single address space is that you don't need to flush the cache (because the virtual-to-physical address mapping do not change when you context switch). Also, pointers can be shared between processes because their addresses are globally unique.
For all their fancy screens and print-outs, what problem do e-voting machines actually solve? Counting votes by hand seemed to be old-fashioned, but working just fine, thank you.:\
There are many cool games beyond D&D and dungeon crawling. Most of these "indie" games are more story-oriented and some don't even have GM but are still fun for competitive players.:)
It was originally invented by Xerox, which later teamed up with Digital Equipment Corporation and Intel to define the DIX standard. Lot's other companies then jumped on the band wagon.
Yes: Ethernet was invented by Xerox, not an industry alliance.
they aren't making phones at all. HTC is a partner for making the handsets.
That's what worries me. I don't trust the same ol' phone hardware companies to make something different.
Imagine if Apple designed the iPhone OS but let someone else design the phone hardware? You'd probably get something like the Motorola ROKR: DOA crapware.
Also, I doubt a mobile Firefox browser will be included. Didn't Google already say there were using the Safari/KHTML code?
Yes, we created the Iraq mess (in the 2000s and the 1980s). But are we making it be better or worse these days? Our soldiers draw terrorists and chaos there. If we leave, how much of that problem leaves too?
The touted benefit of UTF-16 is that for those who make almost no use of the 7-bit ascii set (the only characters that are represented by a single byte in UTF-8), it can improve the speed of reading/scanning and ultimate size of many files.
You are describing the benefits of UCS-2, which is the character encoding used by Windows NT and.NET and Java. UCS-2 characters are fixed-width, but UTF-16 characters (like UTF-8 characters) support surrogate pairs, so you never know how long a character might be without scanning the string from the beginning.
UTF-16 more multi-lingual friendly than UTF-8? Er... it has many disadvantages and not a single benefit over UTF-8.
btw, Windows NT uses UCS-2 not UTF-16. UTF-16 has no benefit over UTF-8, but UCS-2 is convenient for string operations (since UCS-2 chars are fixed width, allowing for O(1) string indexing).
I am very pro-liberty, but his "essay" definitely warranted investigation, as it contained ("joke") threats to the teacher and other students:
As a teacher, don't be surprised on inspiring the first [Cary-Grove High School] shooting.... Blood, sex and booze. Drugs, drugs, drugs are fun. Stab, stab, stab, stab, stab, s...t...a...b..., puke. So I had this dream last night where I went into a building, pulled out two P 90s and started shooting everyone, then had sex with the dead bodies. Well, not really, but it would be funny if I did."
Multicore CPUs will likely affect single-threaded app performance. Core will probably become slower and simpler so more can be shoveled onto a CPU. If the number of transistors per CPU can't grow (as Moore's Law hits a brick wall), then reducing the number of transisters per core is how manufacturers will increase the number of cores per CPU.
One workaround, though, would be asymmetric multiprocessing: pair one fast single-core CPU with a slow many-core CPU.
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What would you do with a 64-bit Flash Player?
I receive spam like that everyday!
Don't forget his Airport to Nowhere, a handout to Seattle-based Trident Seafoods Corp.
Now that 64-bit processors are so common, perhaps operating systems can spare some virtual address space for performance benefits.
The OPAL operating system was a University of Washington research project from the 1990s. OPAL uses a single address space for all processes. Unlike Windows 3.1, OPAL still has memory protection and every process (or "protection domain") has its own pages. The benefit of sharing a single address space is that you don't need to flush the cache (because the virtual-to-physical address mapping do not change when you context switch). Also, pointers can be shared between processes because their addresses are globally unique.
Presumably Google won't charge its users/patients, but will charge the health care providers for data access.
Phones, email, and IM are supposed to be for the recipient's benefit. Many people (callers and callees) forget that.
Sounds like the problem is his wife, not the technology. I hope his divorce comes through soon, for his sake.
For all their fancy screens and print-outs, what problem do e-voting machines actually solve? Counting votes by hand seemed to be old-fashioned, but working just fine, thank you. :\
There are many cool games beyond D&D and dungeon crawling. Most of these "indie" games are more story-oriented and some don't even have GM but are still fun for competitive players. :)
A good place to start exploring is Indie Press Revolution's Game Recommendations.
chris
But what is the alternative?
me too.
When I read this article's title, I thought today was the 20th anniversary of Perl 5.10! Seriously.
and sell them at Wal-Mart to ensure they are widely disseminated.
So GoW's resource loading is done in 2MB chunks? Do you have any more info?
Yes: Ethernet was invented by Xerox, not an industry alliance.
MULTICS = Multiplexed Information and Computing Service
That's what worries me. I don't trust the same ol' phone hardware companies to make something different.
Imagine if Apple designed the iPhone OS but let someone else design the phone hardware? You'd probably get something like the Motorola ROKR: DOA crapware.
Also, I doubt a mobile Firefox browser will be included. Didn't Google already say there were using the Safari/KHTML code?
I have a patent.
Yes, we created the Iraq mess (in the 2000s and the 1980s). But are we making it be better or worse these days? Our soldiers draw terrorists and chaos there. If we leave, how much of that problem leaves too?
You are describing the benefits of UCS-2, which is the character encoding used by Windows NT and
btw, Windows NT uses UCS-2 not UTF-16. UTF-16 has no benefit over UTF-8, but UCS-2 is convenient for string operations (since UCS-2 chars are fixed width, allowing for O(1) string indexing).
Are you sure that Mono does not support callouts to unmanaged code?
i braries
http://www.mono-project.com/Interop_with_Native_L
Games are performance-critical. At least Lua code compiles down bytecode. Tcl is interpreted. Even Tcl numbers are strings.
Multicore CPUs will likely affect single-threaded app performance. Core will probably become slower and simpler so more can be shoveled onto a CPU. If the number of transistors per CPU can't grow (as Moore's Law hits a brick wall), then reducing the number of transisters per core is how manufacturers will increase the number of cores per CPU.
One workaround, though, would be asymmetric multiprocessing: pair one fast single-core CPU with a slow many-core CPU.