The New Yorker because it has funny cartoons to get you going, fiction and non-fiction. They had a really good articles about google a while back. Lot of interesting off beat stuff. Good short stories.
The economist is more on world events the economy (although it includes that too). They have interesting perspective on things.
Anyway I finish watching. Interesting stuff. The system wide search is interesting. Like the google search service for your hard drive.
The the real time image/video effects. I do a lot of photoshop and the effects are really fast and leverage the video card GPU. The libraries will autodetect the card and use the card if applicable. 100+ effect libraries with the os to build into application.
If you combine RBG light you get a white ish looking light. So how does this work? Is it reflecting only the light frequencies the RBG projector is showing.
Each type of light bulb gives off multiple frequencies some of which must overlap. Unless they're also using the incoming angle to control reflectivity.
There seems to be more to this than the article is describing.
Google can do conversions although I don't know how accurate they are. They get 100 124.057 meters (3 decimal places of accuracy)
Also in civil engineering we use tenths of feet to measuse distances. Slightly longer than an inch. Its an odd bastardization of the english system. Some tapes where double sided so you had to be carefull.
I've don't know if you know anyone over there, but tours of duty in Iraq for almost all troops have been extended, for some multiple times. Clearly they're running kinda thin on troops, if we need a major deployment elsewhere....
From USA today The 1st Armored Division, which arrived in Baghdad in the first week of May 2003, spent most of the past year in and around the Iraqi capital. Then, just as the division's 20,000 troops were about to head home, they were ordered to race south to counter the bloody insurgency of renegade cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and his militia. The Pentagon extended the division's tour by 90 days, until mid-July.
I been looking through the online mozilla.org trying to determine if it supports css 1.0 or 2.0 or xhtml. I can't find a listing of what the browser supports or is trying to support. Does it still support png? (I'd assume yes).
WHere is this information or do I have to search throught Geko to find it.
They gave a bunch of programmers some tasks to do. The fastest language was...
perl then java then c then C++.
It had more to do with the perl programmers use of hashes than anything else. Thats the way perl programmer think.
Basically the more difficult you make it to use more efficent data structures the less likely programmers are to use them. C++ even with the STL is non-trivial.
The company I worked for was having trouble with STL three years ago, and only one guy there really knew it well. We were parsing lots of text. Java was easy to use with well documented libraries and surprising fast. And everyone picked up the java programming language quickly.
Will highly optimized C/C++ toast all other languages? Yes, but writting the code is significantly more difficult and time consuming. For many tasks computers are fast enough now where it doesn't matter for many tasks..
This has been tried when Circut City started selling divx Movies instead of DVDs. Divx discs where like dvd disks except you had to authorize them to play (I think you paid each time your viewed the movie). The idea was if you "rented" a disc and wouldn't have to return it, just pay each time you played it.
Obviously this caught on like wildfire, because divx dvd machines are everywhere. Even the term divx means something different today.
I just wrote a LAMP application.. It worked but the interface wasn't pretty.
Part of the problem is that everyone has a browser to run application and the only consistancy across ie and netsc..Mozilla is html. Java was almost there but MS killed it in the browser.
Everyone has a webrowser.
I always thought a standard application runner program with plug-in (components) would do well. Eclipse plug in arcitectue should show the way. Jedit as well..
Repling to my own post.. But this helped. mono faq
An this quote explained why its hard to figure exactle what it its... The ".NET Initiative" is a somewhat nebulous company-wide effort by Microsoft, one part of which is a cross-platform development framework.
I've visited the website.. I can't figure out if mono is.
1) A c# compiler? (bytecode??) 2) A api library the is kinda like MS C# libraries 3) An api library that had been developed from scratch.
Or any combination of the above.
Does it compile and run native or does it use bytecode like java? Can I build cross platform apps in it? (like java was supposed to be)
I'm looking for a cross platform application building toolkit. I run OSX and linux.QT/GTK and C are some options I'm looking at, so far it looks like java/eclipse is the way I'm leaning, but this looked interesting and worth considering.
Ada95 is blazing compared to C... All that runtime type constraint checking picks things up a bit...And its new.. the 95 stands for 2095 er.. I mean 1995, so its spiffy newness means greatness. It even has socket support in GCC now so....
Seriously though, its really hard to write bug free C code. Maybe changing languages isn't such a bad idea to think about.
I was wondering the same thing when in Munich and I came across this sign for the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property Competetion and Tax Law.
Was Max also an expert on Tax Law?? I also wondered why the sign wasn' in german..
I like the gui file browsers to move files around, copy files on off. I like xemacs. I don't like the text screen (not enough char width). Xterm is my friend. Also Its a lone linux box on a windows network, so I work alot from the console.
There really isn't anything I couldn't do without X, so its just convienence.
And the server has a really large harddrive. and I hate wasting space.. (ok.. I'm grasping at straws)
I just installed mandrake on a 400 mhz pII with 128 megs of ram. The gui isn't fast, but it isn't horrible either. (It runs as a server so I don't have X windows running unless I need it). I've done some admin from the command line, but generally the gui makes things easier. It very fast as a server though.
Xwindows is an abstraction and cross platform and big (remote windows etc..) And the KDE/Gnomes are trying to add lots of functionality which invariably makes the memory footprint bigger. The more that gets added to the libraries the larger the memory footprint, if your using that functionality or not.
I use macosx for much of my development, I like it alot,(its sooo pretttyy) but its a ram hog (I'm running with over a gig of ram). So linux really isn't that bad comparatively.
I like macs. I use a dual g4 daily. I appreciate the software they come with adds value.. however
When a decent PC tower can be had for 1200$ and cheapies for 300$ these new machines seem mainly aimed at pros.
The machines are also physically quite large (significantly larger than the g4 towers.)
If apple wants to sell more computers (like they stated at the beginning of the year), they really should make a reasonably priced minitower. (ideally in the 1000-1500 range),
Computers are not cars. The more you have the more software gets written for them the better/more usefull the machine becomes.
There is a minimum functionality that is required for certain shots (obviously in low light a disposable or really cheap 5-20$ camera won't do.) I used to shoot a lot of concerts and events and expose by eye because I knew about what to expect and my camera meter was primitive and easily fooled by backlighting etc. My camera was primitive and I used manual focus fixed lenses which wern't great with the manual wind it wasn't the fastest shot.., but I think I got some good results. I was limited by only shooting 400 speed film too (pushed to 800-1600 at times because we needed too). don't think I would have don't much better with a better camera or better film.
The camera has to work.. It has to have a good lens, but in the overall analysis it has little to do with images. I've taken great pictures with a cheap manual focus ae-1 and a fixed focus 55mm lens and crappy photos with a better camera. Sometimes technology helps but its not the be all end all to taking pictures. People have been holding cameras over there heads and taking pictures without the benifit of that screen for a long time.
I work at a company that rolled out a web app that was "ie" only. Made all of us sick (especially since there are a lot of us that only have unix workstations). We've tried accessing the page with mozilla but it must be some activeX controls that are preventing us from using the page.
Open source should be taking the lead on many things and this is a good start. Even without IE support out of the box, if these standards are significantly better, web apps will be written to use these standards and the browsers are mostly compatable, companiieswill install them (they're free!). Our company bent over backwords to get us IE access for timecards on our unix workstations.
I just hope these standards are fully implimented, unlike ccs2 and xhtml which have been around for a while and don't seem to be fully supported. Its hard to tell which browser supports what nowdays.
Slashdot Mirror
The New Yorker because it has funny cartoons to get you going, fiction and non-fiction. They had a really good articles about google a while back. Lot of interesting off beat stuff. Good short stories.
The economist is more on world events the economy (although it includes that too). They have interesting perspective on things.
Both are unfortunetly fairly $$ as magazines go.
I link the keynote which is interesting.. Get modded to "flamebait"????. Maybe someone couldn't get a good connection?
Anyway here are the working links again..
Quicktime WWDC
or a more direct link
Anyway I finish watching. Interesting stuff. The system wide search is interesting. Like the google search service for your hard drive.
The the real time image/video effects. I do a lot of photoshop and the effects are really fast and leverage the video card GPU. The libraries will autodetect the card and use the card if applicable. 100+ effect libraries with the os to build into application.
They're working hard on the OS and it shows.
Its the WWDC 2004 keynote...
I'm watching it now..
Try here or
if that doesn't work.. The link is on This page
If you combine RBG light you get a white ish looking light. So how does this work? Is it reflecting only the light frequencies the RBG projector is showing.
Each type of light bulb gives off multiple frequencies some of which must overlap. Unless they're also using the incoming angle to control reflectivity.
There seems to be more to this than the article is describing.
Google can do conversions although I don't know how accurate they are. They get 100 124.057 meters (3 decimal places of accuracy)
Also in civil engineering we use tenths of feet to measuse distances. Slightly longer than an inch. Its an odd bastardization of the english system. Some tapes where double sided so you had to be carefull.
I've don't know if you know anyone over there, but tours of duty in Iraq for almost all troops have been extended, for some multiple times. Clearly they're running kinda thin on troops, if we need a major deployment elsewhere....
From USA today
The 1st Armored Division, which arrived in Baghdad in the first week of May 2003, spent most of the past year in and around the Iraqi capital. Then, just as the division's 20,000 troops were about to head home, they were ordered to race south to counter the bloody insurgency of renegade cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and his militia. The Pentagon extended the division's tour by 90 days, until mid-July.
I been looking through the online mozilla.org trying to determine if it supports css 1.0 or 2.0 or xhtml. I can't find a listing of what the browser supports or is trying to support.
Does it still support png? (I'd assume yes).
WHere is this information or do I have to search throught Geko to find it.
They gave a bunch of programmers some tasks to do. The fastest language was...
perl then java then c then C++.
It had more to do with the perl programmers use of hashes than anything else. Thats the way perl programmer think.
Basically the more difficult you make it to use more efficent data structures the less likely programmers are to use them. C++ even with the STL is non-trivial.
The company I worked for was having trouble with STL three years ago, and only one guy there really knew it well. We were parsing lots of text. Java was easy to use with well documented libraries and surprising fast. And everyone picked up the java programming language quickly.
Will highly optimized C/C++ toast all other languages? Yes, but writting the code is significantly more difficult and time consuming. For many tasks computers are fast enough now where it doesn't matter for many tasks..
This has been tried when Circut City started selling divx Movies instead of DVDs. Divx discs where like dvd disks except you had to authorize them to play (I think you paid each time your viewed the movie). The idea was if you "rented" a disc and wouldn't have to return it, just pay each time you played it.
Obviously this caught on like wildfire, because divx dvd machines are everywhere. Even the term divx means something different today.
Seriously..
I just wrote a LAMP application.. It worked but the interface wasn't pretty.
Part of the problem is that everyone has a browser to run application and the only consistancy across ie and netsc..Mozilla is html. Java was almost there but MS killed it in the browser.
Everyone has a webrowser.
I always thought a standard application runner program with plug-in (components) would do well. Eclipse plug in arcitectue should show the way. Jedit as well..
Repling to my own post..
But this helped. mono faq
An this quote explained why its hard to figure exactle what it its...
The ".NET Initiative" is a somewhat nebulous company-wide effort by Microsoft, one part of which is a cross-platform development framework.
I've visited the website..
I can't figure out if mono is.
1) A c# compiler? (bytecode??)
2) A api library the is kinda like MS C# libraries
3) An api library that had been developed from scratch.
Or any combination of the above.
Does it compile and run native or does it use bytecode like java?
Can I build cross platform apps in it? (like java was supposed to be)
I'm looking for a cross platform application building toolkit. I run OSX and linux.QT/GTK and C are some options I'm looking at, so far it looks like java/eclipse is the way I'm leaning, but this looked interesting and worth considering.
Ada95 is blazing compared to C... All that runtime type constraint checking picks things up a bit...And its new.. the 95 stands for 2095 er.. I mean 1995, so its spiffy newness means greatness. It even has socket support in GCC now so....
Seriously though, its really hard to write bug free C code. Maybe changing languages isn't such a bad idea to think about.
But if you forward the message to everyone you know we all get a free trip to disney world from AOL owner Bill Gates..
oh wait a second...
I was wondering the same thing when in Munich and I came across this sign for the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property Competetion and Tax Law.
Was Max also an expert on Tax Law?? I also wondered why the sign wasn' in german..
Obligitory simposons reference...
Barts on a TV show and nowone beleives him because the credits are soo squished into that tiny corner.
Ads are becoming more and more pushy/ annoying.
Especially ads before movies... I paid to see these.. START THE MOVIE
I see a lot of this on TV. Shows with audiences and amazing products that will change your life. Its one big paid advertisement.
How is this any different? Except they have to pay for a lot of time (2-3 minutes) of ad time.
I like the gui file browsers to move files around, copy files on off. I like xemacs. I don't like the text screen (not enough char width). Xterm is my friend. Also Its a lone linux box on a windows network, so I work alot from the console.
.. I'm grasping at straws)
There really isn't anything I couldn't do without X, so its just convienence.
And the server has a really large harddrive. and I hate wasting space.. (ok
I just installed mandrake on a 400 mhz pII with 128 megs of ram. The gui isn't fast, but it isn't horrible either. (It runs as a server so I don't have X windows running unless I need it). I've done some admin from the command line, but generally the gui makes things easier. It very fast as a server though.
Xwindows is an abstraction and cross platform and big (remote windows etc..) And the KDE/Gnomes are trying to add lots of functionality which invariably makes the memory footprint bigger. The more that gets added to the libraries the larger the memory footprint, if your using that functionality or not.
I use macosx for much of my development, I like it alot,(its sooo pretttyy) but its a ram hog (I'm running with over a gig of ram). So linux really isn't that bad comparatively.
Considering all the screen rendering in done in 3d (opengl) on the cards. 2d cards are pretty irrelevant.
I like macs. I use a dual g4 daily. I appreciate the software they come with adds value.. however
When a decent PC tower can be had for 1200$ and cheapies for 300$ these new machines seem mainly aimed at pros.
The machines are also physically quite large (significantly larger than the g4 towers.)
If apple wants to sell more computers (like they stated at the beginning of the year), they really should make a reasonably priced minitower. (ideally in the 1000-1500 range),
Computers are not cars. The more you have the more software gets written for them the better/more usefull the machine becomes.
I agree to a point..
There is a minimum functionality that is required for certain shots (obviously in low light a disposable or really cheap 5-20$ camera won't do.) I used to shoot a lot of concerts and events and expose by eye because I knew about what to expect and my camera meter was primitive and easily fooled by backlighting etc. My camera was primitive and I used manual focus fixed lenses which wern't great with the manual wind it wasn't the fastest shot.., but I think I got some good results. I was limited by only shooting 400 speed film too (pushed to 800-1600 at times because we needed too). don't think I would have don't much better with a better camera or better film.
However sometimes you can get good shots with a point and shoot. too. They have there place.
The camera has to work.. It has to have a good lens, but in the overall analysis it has little to do with images. I've taken great pictures with a cheap manual focus ae-1 and a fixed focus 55mm lens and crappy photos with a better camera. Sometimes technology helps but its not the be all end all to taking pictures. People have been holding cameras over there heads and taking pictures without the benifit of that screen for a long time.
Ken rockwell has a good summary of this philosophy, called You camera doesn't matter
Great-
I work at a company that rolled out a web app that was "ie" only. Made all of us sick (especially since there are a lot of us that only have unix workstations). We've tried accessing the page with mozilla but it must be some activeX controls that are preventing us from using the page.
Open source should be taking the lead on many things and this is a good start. Even without IE support out of the box, if these standards are significantly better, web apps will be written to use these standards and the browsers are mostly compatable, companiieswill install them (they're free!). Our company bent over backwords to get us IE access for timecards on our unix workstations.
I just hope these standards are fully implimented, unlike ccs2 and xhtml which have been around for a while and don't seem to be fully supported. Its hard to tell which browser supports what nowdays.
I keep wondering if they mean the java class libraries or the Java virtual machine (which runs those java applications)?
Opensourcing can only help java. It will definetly spread its adoption to be standard on many linuxes.