If they do drop Itanium, it wouldn't be the first CPU that Intel spent a bunch of money on, only to kill it when it wasn't accepted by the market.
The iAPX 432 was a 32-bit processor Intel developed starting in 1975 that embodied CISC technology to the max. It was innovative, but also expensive and slow, and targeted towards the Ada programming language, another market failure.
Well, you could argue that basically, this is the way the universe works, except the basic currency of the universe is energy.
You want to get off the planet, you're going to have to expend some energy. Same is true for bio-systems. You want to find some food, are you going to expend just a little energy and eat the grass right next to you, or are you going to expend a lot of energy and go hunt a buffalo? You want to attract a mate, how much energy are you willing to spend to do it?
We use money because it's easier to deal with. The trick with economic systems is that they are not necessarily fair, open, or equitable, but if they are, they can work well.
Irrational numbers only seem strange because of the way we choose to look at things... the fact that it doesn't reduce to some fraction in our counting system doesn't *mean* anything holy or significant....
Indeed, there are simple examples of this, for example the fraction 1/3 can not be expressed in decimal notation except as an infinitely repeating value (0.3333...), however, expressed in base three it is simply 0.1.
This leads to why you shouldn't use floating point numbers on a computer to balance your checkbook because there are base 10 fractions that can't be represented exactly in base 16.
Shared memory doesn't affect write once run anywhere. If a platform doesn't implement it, then running multiple JVMs will simply require more memory. The behavior of the bytecodes is not changed in any way.
Sorry. You've confused source and target. If you compile with -source 1.5, it tells the compiler to allow the new 1.5 constructs in the source code, but the target bytecode is still 1.4 compatible.
There have been no bytecode changes in the JVM since it was released, though class file formats have changed.
Not to mention that a lot of these features make money for the telco. Downloadable games and tones make the industry well over $1 billion (with a 'b') per year.
Text messaging and photo forwarding similarly earn megabucks for the providers. As usual, the answer is "follow the money."
What I have tried to explain is that people's ideas of who or what Disney is is a little out of date. Yes, it made Bambi and Snow White and Flubber, but it also made Pulp Fiction, The Rock, etc., etc.
While that statement is factually correct, it doesn't really convey how things work. Pulp Fiction was released under the Miramax name, and there are no mouse ears visible anywhere. Unless you know the ins and out of corporate ownership, you don't associated Disney with Pulp Fiction.
So, a lot will depend on which label THHG is released under.
The point of the iPod is that you can have one box that supports music, calendar, contacts, etc. Why should I carry another box, with another set of batteries when 90% of the circuitry is still there.
If a majority of the flash players can offer it, why can't Apple?
Not only that, but it disregards the fact that many of the flash players include an FM radio. This (and price) are the items that made me pick a lower-capacity flash player, rather than the more drool-worthy (design- and capacity- wise) iPods.
I know you meant that as a joke, but there's certainly nothing (technically) stopping them from using that information.
Also, they can certainly sell it in aggregate (e.g., Democrats buy Wusthof knives, Republicans buy Henkels) without violating their privacy policies, since no individual data is released about you.
I personally am not thrilled about this kind of data collection.
So you're saying they have a society where some people get involved in technology very heavily, where people tend to adopt the local culture rather than choose a foreign one, and their leaders once they get power want desperately to keep it?
Sounds like people pretty much everywhere.
Without condoning Saudi treatment of women, recall that in the grand scheme of things, our liberal culture is relatively recent. Only 30 years ago you could get the death penalty for rape (and you still can in Louisiana). We still had public executions 70 years ago. Women couldn't vote 100 years ago, 150 years ago slavery was not only condoned but a large part of the country's economy was built on it.
Yes, we've advanced beyond all of that, but we're not so far from it as some people would like to think.
While it is certainly true that the decision is not a direct
result of the Bush proposal, it certainly is a factor that was
considered.
The main factors include:
Safety - There would have been additional requirements placed on
the flights due to the after-effects of the Columbia accident.
Replacement - The replacement for the HST is due to go up in
2012, so there's a relatively small window with no orbital telescope
(at least, if all goes well)
Priorities - Because of the priority shift imposed by Bush, the
ISS needs to be finished and the shuttles are going to be replaced, both of these
things lessen the likelihood that the HST will get serviced.
So, you really can't say that Bush's proposal wasn't a contributing
factor. Oh, and by the way, don't just take my word for it, check
out what an employee of the Space Telescope Science Institute has to say.
I don't think the knee-jerk Bush-bashing is appropriate, either (mostly because it's offtopic) but it deserves pointing out that if he really wants it to happen, he should fund it properly. The announcements the other day showed only that he was willing to sacrifice other projects (that's where the money comes from) for a political stage show (because Mars it where the action is right now) and to top it off, he's giving more money ($1.5B vs $1.0B) to "encourage marriage" so you see where his priorities really are.
That yellow tint is when your camera "guesses wrong" about the source of light. Sunlight != Florescent != Incandescant != Flash. The camera knows the "color" of each of those sources of light and tries to correct for it.
Set the white balance manually if you can. Other than that, the most common problem seems to occur when you use a flash indoors with a lot of incandescant light. The camera "corrects" for flash but since a lot of the light is incandescant you get a yellow tint.
You're off by an order of magnitude. Decaf coffee has about 3mg/cup compared to about 100mg/cup of regular.
Technically, yes, you're not at zero, but there are caffeine-like compounds in chocolate as well, and you could also be on methamphetamines and be caffeine-free. The point is, at that (decaf) level, you can go completely off and not suffer the withdrawal effects that you will suffer if you go cold turkey.
I get up first in the morning and make the coffee. She asked me to get her off of caffeine without the headaches, and I did it. It took about three weeks.
I simply mixed decaf beans in with the "leaded" beans gradually over time until they were 100% decaf. Like I said, I did it over about three weeks, maybe 80:20 for 5 days, 60:40 for 5 days, etc. The day I told her she was completely decaffeinated, she was surprised. No headaches, no side effects.
OK, you we're believable and reasonable up until the point where you started talking about how much Gates is a better representative of his company.
If you read any of his anti-trust testminony it's clear he's simply lying and everyone knows it, it just that most of it happens to be in that legal gray area that the Reagan Iran/Contra team exploited so well, "I don't recall."
OTOH, the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation _is_ doing some very nice stuff, and I don't think that Ellison can compare at all.
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If they do drop Itanium, it wouldn't be the first CPU that Intel spent a bunch of money on, only to kill it when it wasn't accepted by the market.
The iAPX 432 was a 32-bit processor Intel developed starting in 1975 that embodied CISC technology to the max. It was innovative, but also expensive and slow, and targeted towards the Ada programming language, another market failure.
Uh, the /. editors are very inconsistant about a lot of things. Condsider the time lag in this story and the submission below:
2003-11-19 20:11:35 Software contributed to blackouts (articles,software) (rejected)
Yeah, how about a programming system actually designed for kids?
Well, you could argue that basically, this is the way the universe works, except the basic currency of the universe is energy.
You want to get off the planet, you're going to have to expend some energy. Same is true for bio-systems. You want to find some food, are you going to expend just a little energy and eat the grass right next to you, or are you going to expend a lot of energy and go hunt a buffalo? You want to attract a mate, how much energy are you willing to spend to do it?
We use money because it's easier to deal with. The trick with economic systems is that they are not necessarily fair, open, or equitable, but if they are, they can work well.
Irrational numbers only seem strange because of the way we choose to look at things... the fact that it doesn't reduce to some fraction in our counting system doesn't *mean* anything holy or significant....
Indeed, there are simple examples of this, for example the fraction 1/3 can not be expressed in decimal notation except as an infinitely repeating value (0.3333...), however, expressed in base three it is simply 0.1.
This leads to why you shouldn't use floating point numbers on a computer to balance your checkbook because there are base 10 fractions that can't be represented exactly in base 16.
If you've tested it, then I believe you, but the docs are wrong then because they say "target -1.4 is the default."
Shared memory doesn't affect write once run anywhere. If a platform doesn't implement it, then running multiple JVMs will simply require more memory. The behavior of the bytecodes is not changed in any way.
No. If you look at the historical documents, Sun has been planning these features for some time. Experimental versions of generics predate even 1.2.
Now it is possible that the timing of the features changed, but many of these features have been "in plan" for quite some time.
Sorry. You've confused source and target. If you compile with -source 1.5, it tells the compiler to allow the new 1.5 constructs in the source code, but the target bytecode is still 1.4 compatible.
There have been no bytecode changes in the JVM since it was released, though class file formats have changed.
Clearly the Python insult "Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries" is closer to becoming s statement of fact.
Not to mention that a lot of these features make money for the telco. Downloadable games and tones make the industry well over $1 billion (with a 'b') per year.
Text messaging and photo forwarding similarly earn megabucks for the providers. As usual, the answer is "follow the money."
What I have tried to explain is that people's ideas of who or what Disney is is a little out of date. Yes, it made Bambi and Snow White and Flubber, but it also made Pulp Fiction, The Rock, etc., etc.
While that statement is factually correct, it doesn't really convey how things work. Pulp Fiction was released under the Miramax name, and there are no mouse ears visible anywhere. Unless you know the ins and out of corporate ownership, you don't associated Disney with Pulp Fiction.
So, a lot will depend on which label THHG is released under.
The point of the iPod is that you can have one box that supports music, calendar, contacts, etc. Why should I carry another box, with another set of batteries when 90% of the circuitry is still there.
If a majority of the flash players can offer it, why can't Apple?
Not only that, but it disregards the fact that many of the flash players include an FM radio. This (and price) are the items that made me pick a lower-capacity flash player, rather than the more drool-worthy (design- and capacity- wise) iPods.
I know you meant that as a joke, but there's certainly nothing (technically) stopping them from using that information.
Also, they can certainly sell it in aggregate (e.g., Democrats buy Wusthof knives, Republicans buy Henkels) without violating their privacy policies, since no individual data is released about you.
I personally am not thrilled about this kind of data collection.
Brilliant. Who'd have thought a software patch was capable of fixing the judicial system.
So you're saying they have a society where some people get involved in technology very heavily, where people tend to adopt the local culture rather than choose a foreign one, and their leaders once they get power want desperately to keep it?
Sounds like people pretty much everywhere.
Without condoning Saudi treatment of women, recall that in the grand scheme of things, our liberal culture is relatively recent. Only 30 years ago you could get the death penalty for rape (and you still can in Louisiana). We still had public executions 70 years ago. Women couldn't vote 100 years ago, 150 years ago slavery was not only condoned but a large part of the country's economy was built on it.
Yes, we've advanced beyond all of that, but we're not so far from it as some people would like to think.
While it is certainly true that the decision is not a direct result of the Bush proposal, it certainly is a factor that was considered.
The main factors include:
So, you really can't say that Bush's proposal wasn't a contributing factor. Oh, and by the way, don't just take my word for it, check out what an employee of the Space Telescope Science Institute has to say.
I don't think the knee-jerk Bush-bashing is appropriate, either (mostly because it's offtopic) but it deserves pointing out that if he really wants it to happen, he should fund it properly. The announcements the other day showed only that he was willing to sacrifice other projects (that's where the money comes from) for a political stage show (because Mars it where the action is right now) and to top it off, he's giving more money ($1.5B vs $1.0B) to "encourage marriage" so you see where his priorities really are.
That yellow tint is when your camera "guesses wrong" about the source of light. Sunlight != Florescent != Incandescant != Flash. The camera knows the "color" of each of those sources of light and tries to correct for it.
Set the white balance manually if you can. Other than that, the most common problem seems to occur when you use a flash indoors with a lot of incandescant light. The camera "corrects" for flash but since a lot of the light is incandescant you get a yellow tint.
Grommit!. Let's go somewhere where there's cheese.
Perhaps you were an odd 14-year-old, but Atwood is one of the last writers I'd expect to be accused of pandering to adolescents.
She's an excellent writer, (my second favorite Canadian author after Robertson Davies) and I've enjoyed some of her books such as
Alias Grace, a historical novel about 19th century attitudes towards women and mental health.
The Handmaid's Tale, a dystopian novel where Pat Robertson/Jerry Falwell types have established a puritan, patriarchal society.
The Robber Bride, a hilarious dissection of three 50ish women and their friendships.
All her themes are focused on adults, and tend to focus on feminist issues. Not the stuff of your average kid's fantasies.
You're off by an order of magnitude. Decaf coffee has about 3mg/cup compared to about 100mg/cup of regular.
Technically, yes, you're not at zero, but there are caffeine-like compounds in chocolate as well, and you could also be on methamphetamines and be caffeine-free. The point is, at that (decaf) level, you can go completely off and not suffer the withdrawal effects that you will suffer if you go cold turkey.
I get up first in the morning and make the coffee. She asked me to get her off of caffeine without the headaches, and I did it. It took about three weeks.
I simply mixed decaf beans in with the "leaded" beans gradually over time until they were 100% decaf. Like I said, I did it over about three weeks, maybe 80:20 for 5 days, 60:40 for 5 days, etc. The day I told her she was completely decaffeinated, she was surprised. No headaches, no side effects.
OK, you we're believable and reasonable up until the point where you started talking about how much Gates is a better representative of his company.
If you read any of his anti-trust testminony it's clear he's simply lying and everyone knows it, it just that most of it happens to be in that legal gray area that the Reagan Iran/Contra team exploited so well, "I don't recall."
OTOH, the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation _is_ doing some very nice stuff, and I don't think that Ellison can compare at all.