I agree with pretty much everything you say, especially with the frequent abuse of reflection. Runtime errors that occur in production at a client's site are a real heartache, and are often very expensive to debug and fix. Any language model that increases the likelihood of this is a bad design IMHO.
I've been using Python for prototypes, and have come to like the concise and clear nature of the syntax compared to Java and Perl. However I don't like the thread handling, the lack of quality compared to Java in the libraries, and the lack of some libraries that enterprise applications commonly use. Some performance measurements I've made also show Java is 4-10 times faster.
Yes, fortunately. My son was diagnosed when he was about 12, and the diagnosis was confirmed when we took him to a study team at Yale University. They were very helpful in laying out what we could expect during his development. He is now a junior at a local university.
The result was probably a smoother course through the public schools than what you experienced.
One of my sons has Asperger, which of course influences his life considerably - however his mind is not particularly analytical in the sense that mine is (I am a scientist). His talents manifest themselves more in along the lines of having amazing recall of information - both auditory and visual. For example he can recite a piece of music that he heard once several years ago note for note. He learns new languages with facile ease. In various academic competitions he excels (in competitions in high school he would achieve top 10 national rankings) if the format is based on factual recall.
once you figure out how to recompile your kernel to support ACPI and get the userspace daemons to work
Centos 4 comes with ACPI compiled in and with the userspace daemons working just fine, thank you.
you can have fun using an operating system that will likely decrease your productivity, have less app support, and is harder to use
Some people find having useful command line tools to be more productive than mousing around a GUI, and while app support may be reduced that includes a greatly reduced complement of malware. Harder to use is in the eye of the beholder and what you are used to. If ease of use was the only critereon we would all be using Mac OS 1.0.
1. Download Centos 4 DVD ISO from a mirror. 2. Burn DVD with ISO 3. Insert DVD into DVD drive 4. Reboot 5. Follow installation instructions being sure to remove all existing partitions. 6. Reboot.
Intel has had exclusive contracts with a lot of laptop vendors. That is changing, at least in part because AMD won an anti-trust lawsuit in Japan against Intel - so these contracts are now illegal in Japan. Lenovo is also not an Intel only shop while IBM was, so it is logical to expect AMD ThinkPads in the future.
Ultimatley the reason you were not able to find quality AMD laptops has a lot to do with Intel using it's near monopoly position to extort exclusive contracts from laptop suppliers. Fortunatly that is ending.
I've seen discussions that early Merom/Conroe parts have been disappointing in terms of thermal budget as that Intel may not be able to release until 3rd quarter. The touted four issue design may also turn out not to scale as well as hoped. If Intel botches this they will find themselves in danger of being #2 in overall CPU market share by the end of 2007.
As far as the drawbacks of integrated memory controllers - Intel's DDR2 bandwidth is significantly lower than AMD's DDR bandwidth. What good is a new architecture if you are bottlenecked elsewhere? If it isn't an advantage, why are integrated memory controller's on Intel's roadmap for 2008?
The Core Duo is not significantly lower power than the Athlon 3800+ despite being a smaller feature size and the fact that it is a mobile applications chip while the Athlon is a desktop CPU. It is also a 32 bit onlh implementation. Give that Vista and Linux both support 64 bit operations you can bet that I'd want a Turion instead. AMD will be introducing Dual Core Turions shortly - and that is what I will be buying.
Intel Fanboys have their heads in the sand - look at the directions in market share gains/losses and stock prices between the two companies and it will be immediately obvious that there is a revolution happening.
This reminds me of stories from the middle ages when local robber barons set up their own tolls on local roads as sort of a protection racket. The ultimate solution was to have government take over and run the roads. I wonder if that is where this will lead.
It's a two-edged sword. Lack of a pan-European DRM policies are inhibiting distribution of digital media in Europe compared with other areas of the world. So in the end Europe is really the loser in this area.
NAT is actually very good. I haven't seen any evidence or reports that a NAT router is subject to penetration except through a route that is explictly opened by the user. Of course that doesn't protect you from client software problems where an anti virus plus a couple of spyware scanners are needed.
Obscurity halps a lot too - use Firefox and you cut down your exposure tremendously.
"At the moment, Intel has the platform focus, marketing clout, bulk-discounting and supply chain that matches Apple's own needs and desires, and AMD can't replicate right now."
That isn't preventing Intel from losing market share to AMD. Ultimately none of that matters if the end product is second - rate. Apple should have second sourced its systems so that it would be able to offer products with Opterons or Turions as well as Intel. Now Intel has a stranglehold on Appple and will rape them 6 ways from Sunday.
I am not the only one who has serious doubts about the concept of dark energy.
"I'm as big a fan of dark matter and dark energy as anybody else," says astronomer Richard Ellis of Caltech. But, he adds, "I find it very worrying that you have a universe where there are three constituents, of which only one [i.e., ordinary matter] is really physically understood."
"When you teach undergraduates, and they say, 'Well, what is dark matter?' Well, nobody's really sure. 'What is dark energy?' We're even less sure. So you have to explain to a student, that 90 percent of the universe, 95 percent, is in two ingredients that nobody really understands," says Ellis. "This isn't really progress."
You're beginning to understand how science in the real world works
I am a scientist. I understand how science works in both the real world and in theory. This is an example of science not working. Creationism and its weasel word alternative name Intelligent Design are not connected to science in any way; they are politics and religion.
So something that is invisible, cannot be directly measured now has to undergo constant changing properties so that it fits theory. The other theories I've heard of that had such problems were heliocentricity, phlogiston and aether.
If I were doing something like this I'd be looking at micro PLC's. Besides giving you the temperature control capability you are looking for they offer the potential to do a lot of of other home automation jobs.
I love the tactile and auditory feedback of the Model M, however in my cubicle environment they are too loud - neighbors complain.
Does anyone know of a buckling spring design that has exactly the same feel of the model M without the loud sound. I would dealy love to get rid of the dome keyboard I am using now.
You can't go wrong with a Model M. Built like the pyramids and likely to last as long. Sometimes it doesn't work very well in a cubicle environment because neighbors complain about the key click noise otherwise it is great.
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I agree with pretty much everything you say, especially with the frequent abuse of reflection. Runtime errors that occur in production at a client's site are a real heartache, and are often very expensive to debug and fix. Any language model that increases the likelihood of this is a bad design IMHO.
I've been using Python for prototypes, and have come to like the concise and clear nature of the syntax compared to Java and Perl. However I don't like the thread handling, the lack of quality compared to Java in the libraries, and the lack of some libraries that enterprise applications commonly use. Some performance measurements I've made also show Java is 4-10 times faster.
Hanson Monstger Lo-Carb is along these lines too.
All in the past I suppose.
Yes, fortunately. My son was diagnosed when he was about 12, and the diagnosis was confirmed when we took him to a study team at Yale University. They were very helpful in laying out what we could expect during his development. He is now a junior at a local university.
The result was probably a smoother course through the public schools than what you experienced.
One of my sons has Asperger, which of course influences his life considerably - however his mind is not particularly analytical in the sense that mine is (I am a scientist). His talents manifest themselves more in along the lines of having amazing recall of information - both auditory and visual. For example he can recite a piece of music that he heard once several years ago note for note. He learns new languages with facile ease. In various academic competitions he excels (in competitions in high school he would achieve top 10 national rankings) if the format is based on factual recall.
You will save far more energy by investing in some compact flourescent light bulbs.
once you figure out how to recompile your kernel to support ACPI and get the userspace daemons to work
Centos 4 comes with ACPI compiled in and with the userspace daemons working just fine, thank you.
you can have fun using an operating system that will likely decrease your productivity, have less app support, and is harder to use
Some people find having useful command line tools to be more productive than mousing around a GUI, and while app support may be reduced that includes a greatly reduced complement of malware. Harder to use is in the eye of the beholder and what you are used to. If ease of use was the only critereon we would all be using Mac OS 1.0.
My Workaround:
1. Download Centos 4 DVD ISO from a mirror.
2. Burn DVD with ISO
3. Insert DVD into DVD drive
4. Reboot
5. Follow installation instructions being sure to remove all existing partitions.
6. Reboot.
Intel has had exclusive contracts with a lot of laptop vendors. That is changing, at least in part because AMD won an anti-trust lawsuit in Japan against Intel - so these contracts are now illegal in Japan. Lenovo is also not an Intel only shop while IBM was, so it is logical to expect AMD ThinkPads in the future.
Ultimatley the reason you were not able to find quality AMD laptops has a lot to do with Intel using it's near monopoly position to extort exclusive contracts from laptop suppliers. Fortunatly that is ending.
I've seen discussions that early Merom/Conroe parts have been disappointing in terms of thermal budget as that Intel may not be able to release until 3rd quarter. The touted four issue design may also turn out not to scale as well as hoped. If Intel botches this they will find themselves in danger of being #2 in overall CPU market share by the end of 2007.
As far as the drawbacks of integrated memory controllers - Intel's DDR2 bandwidth is significantly lower than AMD's DDR bandwidth. What good is a new architecture if you are bottlenecked elsewhere? If it isn't an advantage, why are integrated memory controller's on Intel's roadmap for 2008?
I'm betting 6 months.
The Core Duo is not significantly lower power than the Athlon 3800+ despite being a smaller feature size and the fact that it is a mobile applications chip while the Athlon is a desktop CPU. It is also a 32 bit onlh implementation. Give that Vista and Linux both support 64 bit operations you can bet that I'd want a Turion instead. AMD will be introducing Dual Core Turions shortly - and that is what I will be buying.
Intel Fanboys have their heads in the sand - look at the directions in market share gains/losses and stock prices between the two companies and it will be immediately obvious that there is a revolution happening.
AMD has a co-development agreement with IBM and is planning to introduce 45nm parts in 2008.
That's why paper table is better than punch cards for reliability. Not as noisy either.
You get round chads too.
From what I recall the turning point in VCRs was when Star Wars became available on tape. That is certainly when I bought my first VCR.
The internet was a different story - I bought that because of the technical information that it gave me access to.
This reminds me of stories from the middle ages when local robber barons set up their own tolls on local roads as sort of a protection racket. The ultimate solution was to have government take over and run the roads. I wonder if that is where this will lead.
It's a two-edged sword. Lack of a pan-European DRM policies are inhibiting distribution of digital media in Europe compared with other areas of the world. So in the end Europe is really the loser in this area.
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Here is a good article about this issue:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/20/european_
NAT is actually very good. I haven't seen any evidence or reports that a NAT router is subject to penetration except through a route that is explictly opened by the user. Of course that doesn't protect you from client software problems where an anti virus plus a couple of spyware scanners are needed.
Obscurity halps a lot too - use Firefox and you cut down your exposure tremendously.
Investing in something on the pink sheets (unlisted stocks) is so risky that even hucksters like Jim Cramer recommend against it.
"At the moment, Intel has the platform focus, marketing clout, bulk-discounting and supply chain that matches Apple's own needs and desires, and AMD can't replicate right now."
That isn't preventing Intel from losing market share to AMD. Ultimately none of that matters if the end product is second - rate. Apple should have second sourced its systems so that it would be able to offer products with Opterons or Turions as well as Intel. Now Intel has a stranglehold on Appple and will rape them 6 ways from Sunday.
I am not the only one who has serious doubts about the concept of dark energy.
"I'm as big a fan of dark matter and dark energy as anybody else," says astronomer Richard Ellis of Caltech. But, he adds, "I find it very worrying that you have a universe where there are three constituents, of which only one [i.e., ordinary matter] is really physically understood."
"When you teach undergraduates, and they say, 'Well, what is dark matter?' Well, nobody's really sure. 'What is dark energy?' We're even less sure. So you have to explain to a student, that 90 percent of the universe, 95 percent, is in two ingredients that nobody really understands," says Ellis. "This isn't really progress."
You're beginning to understand how science in the real world works
I am a scientist. I understand how science works in both the real world and in theory. This is an example of science not working. Creationism and its weasel word alternative name Intelligent Design are not connected to science in any way; they are politics and religion.
So something that is invisible, cannot be directly measured now has to undergo constant changing properties so that it fits theory. The other theories I've heard of that had such problems were heliocentricity, phlogiston and aether.
Occam is rolling in his grave.
If I were doing something like this I'd be looking at micro PLC's. Besides giving you the temperature control capability you are looking for they offer the potential to do a lot of of other home automation jobs.
I love the tactile and auditory feedback of the Model M, however in my cubicle environment they are too loud - neighbors complain.
Does anyone know of a buckling spring design that has exactly the same feel of the model M without the loud sound. I would dealy love to get rid of the dome keyboard I am using now.
You can't go wrong with a Model M. Built like the pyramids and likely to last as long. Sometimes it doesn't work very well in a cubicle environment because neighbors complain about the key click noise otherwise it is great.