Nader has definitely given patents and copyrights deep thought. I wish the other candidates had at least a fraction of the understanding Nader demonstrates.
I know that Java has to be compiled at runtime, but when properly configured on a server, it does not have to be complied again to be used. The compile overhead can be significant.
It isn't clear from the article if they properly configured the Apache Linux server to persist the compiled Java code between calls. 13 pages per second is not production ready relative to any other product (considering that PHP and ASP were over 40 pps.)
Pretty clearly different resolution. (Does anyone know if this pictures are fudged in some way?) How can the PS2 claim to be better than DM with graphic disparities like this?
Doesn't the PS2 come with built in DVD? If it can play movies, I'm buying one once the price drops under $200. That's what a regular DVD player costs anyhow. The games are just bonus.
I purchased a CD-RW (4xwrite) for $150 last year and love it. Blank CDR disks cost me about.75 each and CDRW costs about $1 each.
I can't tell you how much source code I will never be able to recover because the floppy disks I saved them a few years ago can no longer be read.
When you backup to floppy disk, only consider it a short-term backup. They don't last very long. CDR has a limited life too, but I have yet to get read errors even after 10 years on my commercial CDs. I hope my CDR disks last as long.
Someone has to devise a simple and self evident argument that business people understand showing that software patents are bad for their business. (Clearly patents can be good for business, but ONLY for the business that owns the relevant patents and this is at the expense of ALL the other businesses that can benefit from the idea. Maybe a way to put it to a business person is "do you feel lucky?")
For those that do not know, Consumer reports is a non profit organization that compares products. They have nothing to do with software specifically, but that is my point.
You are correct, but the "geared down" release of the energy is exactly why it works.
Think of the pure air "pop" being like the tires of a car on a slick surface when the engine is given full gas. The tires spin, but the car does not go forward. On that same surface, if you give the engine a little gas at a time, you can add forward momentum to the car instead of wasting the energy as heat and noise.
If you ever had one of those cheap "air-pump + water" rockets as a kid you know what I'm thinking:
For an extra power boost, keep a small tank of water in the car thats connected to the compressed air tank through a valve and has a cone exit at the rear. For those special merging situations you can get a fast "after burner" like kick in the pants by opening the valve. (No flames, just water spraying out the rear at about 1000000 miles/hr!)
Serious Note: I believe someone in the 80's tried to set a land speed record at the salt flats in the US using the "compressed air expels water"-rocket approach.
A cautious person does not leave embarrassing voice messages or send inappropriate emails from work regardless if the law says the employer cannot look because technology enables them to look anyhow.
Whether their lawyers advise them to keep the peeking quiet is secondary to the fact that they may find things you don't want to share.
Not sure I can agree with the concept of "abuse it or lose it" when it comes to freedom of speech, but then that is an unrelated topic. The issue here is whether an employer can track what you do and say with their equipment or on their time. I don't have a problem with that and it sounds as if you don't either.
Where all the modern fad of calling it a breach of privacy has come from, I dunno.
Superficially the claim feels valid. But as the courts are showing, it does not stand up to close inspection. I think this fad comes from the entitlement thinking that people can do whatever they want whenever they want and misusing company equipment or embezzling time are not considerations.:)
It is no big deal. Just common sense. If someone pays your salary and provides you telephones(e.g. voice mail) + computer equipment the use of that equipment is their business and the use of your (time during work hours) is their business.
I don't employ anyone, I just live under these conditions and they are okay with me. When I want to badmouth someone, I do it on my own time from my own PC.
I also remmember reading about a personal "strap-on" helicopter you could buy and fly right now last year right here on Slashdot. It is available in Japan.
The VIC20's limited memory created more assembly programming hobbyists than the resource plump boxes we have today ever will.
It's hard to imagine 3.5k of RAM today. Not mb, just k!
Try to find a file that small on your harddrive. You won't find many. Speaking of which, if you were one of the few that purchased a floppy drive... you could write 160kb total per side. That's just 160kb!
I wouldn't buy a pocket calculator with these limitations today, but I loved that VIC20 then.
Have you looked at the screenshots? They look like the games you sometimes find on the mini-consoles at some bars. Nothing of arcade quality. The action games are very 80's.
How is this gathering ambient light along its length? Sounds more like it is moving light from one open end to the other. (In other words, just the usual optical fiber behavior.)
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But at least Gore understands the internet. Bush's ignorance disturbs me. I'm voting Gore for this issue alone.
...Add this to some ultra-efficient light source... Some folks are misunderstanding the principle here. These fibers are collecting ambient light, not amplifying it. Like all things in the physical world, there is a power loss through the fiber, so you are not getting something for nothing.
Think of this invention as analogous to a rain gutter where light is the water and the gutter is the optical fiber. When it rains, water is "collected" along the length of plumbing that edges the roof. No extra water is created, but the volume of water at the end of the pipe is an amplification of what would have been there without the gutters.
The innovation here is that no one has created a fiber that easily collected ambient light along its length before. The only other way I know of to focus ambient light is to use mirrors or lenses. Clearly the fiber sounds cheaper, less bulky, and less fragile.
Please let C++ die already. It is a bad way to do good things. IMHO
Extending its reach into the internet will just make it into another COBAL. (A language that lives on through the inertia of its existing code-base volume.)
This may just mean that better languages like Java will grow at a slower pace than they might otherwise.
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When we put a person in jail, we are attempting to engineer their behavior out of our society.
Social engineering is a fact of civilization and we all support it. We only disagree on the details of its execution.
Nader has definitely given patents and copyrights deep thought. I wish the other candidates had at least a fraction of the understanding Nader demonstrates.
I know that Java has to be compiled at runtime, but when properly configured on a server, it does not have to be complied again to be used. The compile overhead can be significant.
It isn't clear from the article if they properly configured the Apache Linux server to persist the compiled Java code between calls. 13 pages per second is not production ready relative to any other product (considering that PHP and ASP were over 40 pps.)
Pretty clearly different resolution. (Does anyone know if this pictures are fudged in some way?) How can the PS2 claim to be better than DM with graphic disparities like this?
Doesn't the PS2 come with built in DVD? If it can play movies, I'm buying one once the price drops under $200. That's what a regular DVD player costs anyhow. The games are just bonus.
Thanks for the information. I did not know that.
(Why was the submission moderated down to a score of 0? Is he misinforming?)
I purchased a CD-RW (4xwrite) for $150 last year and love it. Blank CDR disks cost me about .75 each and CDRW costs about $1 each.
I can't tell you how much source code I will never be able to recover because the floppy disks I saved them a few years ago can no longer be read.
When you backup to floppy disk, only consider it a short-term backup. They don't last very long. CDR has a limited life too, but I have yet to get read errors even after 10 years on my commercial CDs. I hope my CDR disks last as long.
This is why I have the name.
Someone has to devise a simple and self evident argument that business people understand showing that software patents are bad for their business. (Clearly patents can be good for business, but ONLY for the business that owns the relevant patents and this is at the expense of ALL the other businesses that can benefit from the idea. Maybe a way to put it to a business person is "do you feel lucky?")
For those that do not know, Consumer reports is a non profit organization that compares products. They have nothing to do with software specifically, but that is my point.
I see no reason to limit this restrictive concept to software. If we can apply it there, it is only fair to apply it to any manufactured product.
Non profit organizations like Consumer Reports (among others) better fight this one.
You are correct, but the "geared down" release of the energy is exactly why it works.
Think of the pure air "pop" being like the tires of a car on a slick surface when the engine is given full gas. The tires spin, but the car does not go forward. On that same surface, if you give the engine a little gas at a time, you can add forward momentum to the car instead of wasting the energy as heat and noise.
If you ever had one of those cheap "air-pump + water" rockets as a kid you know what I'm thinking:
For an extra power boost, keep a small tank of water in the car thats connected to the compressed air tank through a valve and has a cone exit at the rear. For those special merging situations you can get a fast "after burner" like kick in the pants by opening the valve. (No flames, just water spraying out the rear at about 1000000 miles/hr!)
Serious Note: I believe someone in the 80's tried to set a land speed record at the salt flats in the US using the "compressed air expels water"-rocket approach.
A cautious person does not leave embarrassing voice messages or send inappropriate emails from work regardless if the law says the employer cannot look because technology enables them to look anyhow.
Whether their lawyers advise them to keep the peeking quiet is secondary to the fact that they may find things you don't want to share.
Not sure I can agree with the concept of "abuse it or lose it" when it comes to freedom of speech, but then that is an unrelated topic. The issue here is whether an employer can track what you do and say with their equipment or on their time. I don't have a problem with that and it sounds as if you don't either.
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Where all the modern fad of calling it a breach of privacy has come from, I dunno.
Superficially the claim feels valid. But as the courts are showing, it does not stand up to close inspection. I think this fad comes from the entitlement thinking that people can do whatever they want whenever they want and misusing company equipment or embezzling time are not considerations.
It is no big deal. Just common sense. If someone pays your salary and provides you telephones(e.g. voice mail) + computer equipment the use of that equipment is their business and the use of your (time during work hours) is their business.
I don't employ anyone, I just live under these conditions and they are okay with me. When I want to badmouth someone, I do it on my own time from my own PC.
http://abcnews .go .com/sections/science/DyeHard/dyehard000829.html
I also remmember reading about a personal "strap-on" helicopter you could buy and fly right now last year right here on Slashdot. It is available in Japan.
The VIC20's limited memory created more assembly programming hobbyists than the resource plump boxes we have today ever will.
... you could write 160kb total per side. That's just 160kb!
It's hard to imagine 3.5k of RAM today. Not mb, just k!
Try to find a file that small on your harddrive. You won't find many. Speaking of which, if you were one of the few that purchased a floppy drive
I wouldn't buy a pocket calculator with these limitations today, but I loved that VIC20 then.
Have you looked at the screenshots? They look like the games you sometimes find on the mini-consoles at some bars. Nothing of arcade quality. The action games are very 80's.
Where are the 3D action games????
Can't tell how "rusted" this pipe is from the online article. :)
How is this gathering ambient light along its length? Sounds more like it is moving light from one open end to the other. (In other words, just the usual optical fiber behavior.)
But at least Gore understands the internet. Bush's ignorance disturbs me. I'm voting Gore for this issue alone.
...Add this to some ultra-efficient light source...
Some folks are misunderstanding the principle here. These fibers are collecting ambient light, not amplifying it. Like all things in the physical world, there is a power loss through the fiber, so you are not getting something for nothing.
Think of this invention as analogous to a rain gutter where light is the water and the gutter is the optical fiber. When it rains, water is "collected" along the length of plumbing that edges the roof. No extra water is created, but the volume of water at the end of the pipe is an amplification of what would have been there without the gutters.
The innovation here is that no one has created a fiber that easily collected ambient light along its length before. The only other way I know of to focus ambient light is to use mirrors or lenses. Clearly the fiber sounds cheaper, less bulky, and less fragile.
I should preview before submitting. :(
Please let C++ die already. It is a bad way to do good things. IMHO
Extending its reach into the internet will just make it into another COBAL. (A language that lives on through the inertia of its existing code-base volume.)
This may just mean that better languages like Java will grow at a slower pace than they might otherwise.