At the moment, there is only earthquake-related coverage on television. Other channels are just displaying a notice about suspended programming. Currently, there are flags-raising ceremonies going on plus the continuing rescue work. There has been extensive earthquake coverage in the Chinese media since about 20 minutes after the quake.
So far the Chinese have raised over $1B in donations, of which $500K has come from the US government.
I haven't noticed any restrictions on websites. Wikipedia is still visible.
OK, I've looked up ActiveRecord now. What I am doing is similar but a bit more sophisticated, in that it can put together parent and child records into a single object. Also that it can generate the whole site this way, although you may want to add in some of your own code if you want/need.
My framework works by code generation, so any overhead is at 'compile' time. Also, I am looking at office-internal systems, which typically are low volume , often 1-1000 users. By ActiveRecord, I presume you mean an implementation that saves recent records in RAM to avoid a database hit — I haven't got that far yet, and there is always the issue of co-ordinating multiple servers.
Sorry, what I meant was, the Eclipse system uses the JVM at present. I was speculating as to whether they could use gcj instead and build a native code executable. I was just using Eclipse as an example as it was the first well-known Java program that came into my head.
I think I meant both... hopefully we will end up with a java compiler that works with the official libraries (and, say, a directly executable version of Eclipse). I'm not sure how difficult that would be. What is required for the native code interfaces?
Blender could do with a move to a plug-in based architecture. This would enable partitioning the code base so that, say, the NURBS support could become a separate sub-project and could be developed independently of the main project. After all, Apache, Gimp, etc all use plugins successfully. Blender does have plugins but only for video effects.
The problem with XML support for Blender is validating the input. How is this proposed to be done?
I cannot see anything the SOX Act that would force Apple to do this — I have Section 404 attached to my cubicle partition — but then I am not an accountant or a lawyer (I do IT SOX). But I suppose it must be revenue-recognition, which is not SOX per se, it is accounting.
Rather than making excuses about why faster booting is not possible, you might want to think about ways of making it possible. Of course, in the rare cases when there has been a hardware change, it will take longer, but then with plug-and-play it is possible to work that out in the middle of normal operation. So why not boot on the assumption that everything is the same but run a few quick checks such as that the amount of RAM is the same, and then do the plug-and-play thing or in extreme cases do a full reboot. But it should be possible to write the operating system so that in normal cases it takes only a few seconds to reach full operation (plus the time to enter userid/password).
Most of these objections can be dealt with by reading the actual paper. They do discuss NaN and how their formulation is different.
They are extending the reals with (at least) three extra quantities namely + (plus infinity), - (minus infinity) and ('phi'). The authors define the basic addition and ordering operations for all of these.
Pacemakers (I have been told) do not stop when they get an arithmetic exception anyway. The on-board computers are just for monitoring and recording; they do not drive the actual main circuitry. (This is NOT professional advice; make your own enquiries...)
Contrary to the assumptions of some users and developers, some of what they see as 'bureaucracy' is in fact necessary to keep a stable production environment. We it is quicker to just edit the production code but there are good reasons why your IT department doesn't let you do this. Installing extra memory in a server means at least downtime and a reboot, and will take down any datbase connections.
I am also surpised noone has mentioned ITIL yet...
Given that scholars can still read clay tablets, I don't think that there will be problems reading any kind of computer media. Sure, it will be a matter for specialists. Basically it will be a new academic speciality someone who can read old floppies and CD-ROMs.
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Look at http://www.amazon.com/What-Business-Really-Wants-Collaborative/dp/0750660961/ref=ed_oe_p
At the moment, there is only earthquake-related coverage on television. Other channels are just displaying a notice about suspended programming. Currently, there are flags-raising ceremonies going on plus the continuing rescue work. There has been extensive earthquake coverage in the Chinese media since about 20 minutes after the quake.
So far the Chinese have raised over $1B in donations, of which $500K has come from the US government.
I haven't noticed any restrictions on websites. Wikipedia is still visible.
OK, I've looked up ActiveRecord now. What I am doing is similar but a bit more sophisticated, in that it can put together parent and child records into a single object. Also that it can generate the whole site this way, although you may want to add in some of your own code if you want/need.
My framework works by code generation, so any overhead is at 'compile' time. Also, I am looking at office-internal systems, which typically are low volume , often 1-1000 users. By ActiveRecord, I presume you mean an implementation that saves recent records in RAM to avoid a database hit — I haven't got that far yet, and there is always the issue of co-ordinating multiple servers.
I am putting together a framework at http://methodsupport.com/program/About.html for generating process/method(ology) support websites.
The emphasis is on document (paper form equivalent) based processes automated quickly and easily.
At this stage it is pre-alpha, but I hope to get a minimum feature set in place soon and upgrade it to alpha.
The source is available from the Sourceforge page.
At this stage, I need any comments or advice that anybody can give me.
Sorry, I think I posted this to the wrong topic....
I am putting together a framework at http://methodsupport.com/program/About.html for generating process/method(ology) support websites.
The emphasis is on document (paper form equivalent) based processes automated quickly and easily.
At this stage it is pre-alpha, but I hope to get a minimum feature set in place soon and upgrade it to alpha.
The source is available from the Sourceforge page.
At this stage, I need any comments or advice that anybody can give me.
Sorry, what I meant was, the Eclipse system uses the JVM at present. I was speculating as to whether they could use gcj instead and build a native code executable. I was just using Eclipse as an example as it was the first well-known Java program that came into my head.
I'm not seeing anything there about open java.
I think I meant both... hopefully we will end up with a java compiler that works with the official libraries (and, say, a directly executable version of Eclipse). I'm not sure how difficult that would be. What is required for the native code interfaces?
What is happening to the FSF's java project now?
The link appears to be broken; perhaps they took the page down when they were slashdotted.
Blender could do with a move to a plug-in based architecture. This would enable partitioning the code base so that, say, the NURBS support could become a separate sub-project and could be developed independently of the main project. After all, Apache, Gimp, etc all use plugins successfully. Blender does have plugins but only for video effects.
The problem with XML support for Blender is validating the input. How is this proposed to be done?
I cannot see anything the SOX Act that would force Apple to do this — I have Section 404 attached to my cubicle partition — but then I am not an accountant or a lawyer (I do IT SOX). But I suppose it must be revenue-recognition, which is not SOX per se, it is accounting.
Rather than making excuses about why faster booting is not possible, you might want to think about ways of making it possible. Of course, in the rare cases when there has been a hardware change, it will take longer, but then with plug-and-play it is possible to work that out in the middle of normal operation. So why not boot on the assumption that everything is the same but run a few quick checks such as that the amount of RAM is the same, and then do the plug-and-play thing or in extreme cases do a full reboot. But it should be possible to write the operating system so that in normal cases it takes only a few seconds to reach full operation (plus the time to enter userid/password).
Most of these objections can be dealt with by reading the actual paper. They do discuss NaN and how their formulation is different.
They are extending the reals with (at least) three extra quantities namely + (plus infinity), - (minus infinity) and ('phi'). The authors define the basic addition and ordering operations for all of these.
Pacemakers (I have been told) do not stop when they get an arithmetic exception anyway. The on-board computers are just for monitoring and recording; they do not drive the actual main circuitry. (This is NOT professional advice; make your own enquiries...)
Also see Roger Penrose's The road to reality which has a long section on string theory, largely agreeing with the article.
Contrary to the assumptions of some users and developers, some of what they see as 'bureaucracy' is in fact necessary to keep a stable production environment. We it is quicker to just edit the production code but there are good reasons why your IT department doesn't let you do this. Installing extra memory in a server means at least downtime and a reboot, and will take down any datbase connections.
I am also surpised noone has mentioned ITIL yet...
It's octopodes...
It doesn't work... when you go to the gmail link it asks for an invitation code.
Given that scholars can still read clay tablets, I don't think that there will be problems reading any kind of computer media. Sure, it will be a matter for specialists. Basically it will be a new academic speciality someone who can read old floppies and CD-ROMs.