I'm so tired of vendor lock-in, especially at the OS level. I mean, I can't get my Linux apps to run on my Vax. When will people learn and make apps that run on all platforms?
You don't need another computer to run this. DOSBox is really just a mini-VM.. which means a real will work just as well, once you install a suitable OS. You can use VirtualBox, VMWare, kvm, and all the rest.
IF your distro keeps up to date, maybe. But Eclipse (and for that matter, Firefox) put a great deal of effort into their own plugin and update systems. Using Apt to manage these is mostly silly. (Not entirely silly; it's nice to be able to update everything from one GUI.) But if Debian is not going to keep up with Eclipse, it's pointless to keep it in the repository. It takes time and effort to maintain an app noone wants.
On the contrary, that's an excellent advantage. This gives developers the choice between making software platform independent or dependent. Your platform already contains tons of nice tools; why not use them? Microsoft put much effort into ActiveDirectory, but you can't use it under Java. Apple put much effort into Aqua and the whole flying windows thing, and everybody else spent much effort cloning it, but you can't access any of those features from Java.
With Java you must find a cross-platform solution to almost every problem, but with C# you have the choice.
Getting off topic, but I just got an HP replaced for that reason (dead nVidia chip). (I'm an nVidia snob, which is why that lappy had one of their chips to begin with.) If you have a bad HP, take the advice at that site, and get a case manager. Using regular support, we had to send it in 3 times to get a working (though down-specced) machine. But once we got a case manager, they sent a new machine.
Right, much like the nuclear program never resulted in anything useful. Or the rocket program. Or the jet engine. Or ARPANET.
The reason Yucca shut down is due to the populace whining about how unsafe reactors are, beyond all reason. Nothing to do with the government; they were trying to BUILD it.
But wait, if you order before midnight, you'll get even more stupid: Hydrogen bombs are already fusion devices!
I've always wondered what a place like that sounds like at the moment it goes off. Is everything so insulated you don't hear a thing? Or does everything shudder like when someone's blasting at a quarry a few miles away?
Yes, but it took us 3 years just to reach "faster". Back in the 90s, you could expect to get double the usable performance in less than two years. We should have had chips running running 2-4 times faster than they are now, but instead Intel has spent half the decade releasing 3 GHz chips, each one merely "faster" than the previous (except for the ones that are slower.) And it's all due to the GHz ceiling.
Well, *I* call it the GHz ceiling. I suppose a more technical name might be "leakage-induced thermal limit."
And the whole reason we have multi-core processors is due to the GHz limit. I'd rather have one 6 GHz core than two at 3 GHz. But we can't get one to run at 6 GHz no matter how small we make it, so the only way to boost performance is it with multiple cores.
The reason there's no new hardware from the console maker is that there is no new hardware from the chip makers. We hit the GHz ceiling a couple years ago, and as a result today's chips aren't better by enough to make it worthwhile.
I suspect MS and Sony want to see where the multi-core thing is going (CPUs support a dozen complex threads, while GPUs support a few hundred simple threads.) Will one line of chips take over the other? Will we find masses of simple cores are better than a few complex cores? Or will we find it's worth keeping a few complex cores on every chip?
Once we (or at least our researchers) can see where this is going, then the next-gen hardware development will start up again.
PAR2 will let you create a set of files where any N of them are sufficient to reconstruct the original content.
You would create roughly 2GB of content, split it into 40 parts, then have PAR2 generate another 38 parts. Put one part on each stick, leaving enough room so that everyone can trade parts and keep them all on their sticks until they have 40. Might want to put the PAR2 program on there as well.
Connecting with people is what the holidays are about.. and this forces them to connect with each other. For whatever that's worth.
A) The reason to retire is so they can go off and do what ever they want. Original poster is already doing that.
B) The reason to make money is to survive, then engage in whatever hobbies you want. #1 doesn't seem to be a problem, and original poster is already engaged in #2.
C) Leading (or even participating) in a startup already makes a great resume.
D) They're already developing their new idea/concept.
This kid doesn't need to join a corp to support his dream, since he's already living it.
Are you thinking about the right kinds of problems? Math and simulation are inherently easy to parallelize; the hard ones are decision-making algorithms like AI and data compression. If you can solve those, you'll be a hero.
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Joe's flashtube
I know you're trying to be funny, but flashtube is already a word.
My employer won't let me leave, you insensitive clod!
Maybe being less clumsy would help?
Clumsy is not a choice. Clumsies unite!
Not me, I was fine up to 'ewe' then had to go back to find the others.
My brain does lazy evaluation with cache, so neither are a problem.
$ man stab
No manual entry for stab
I don't get it. How do you stab /dev/tty?
Hmmm, maybe I shouldn't have posted this ... if they find this message and link it to an IP I frequently use ... /me engages in paranoid episode.
Wait, you wrote this *before* you posted. Is this a temporal paradox? I'm confused.
Most new ATM machines use LCD displays. In fact we just had one delivered by the OEM manufacturer.
I'm so tired of vendor lock-in, especially at the OS level. I mean, I can't get my Linux apps to run on my Vax. When will people learn and make apps that run on all platforms?
Not if they started hacking when they were 2. It's possible, kids are pretty rebellious at that age.
You don't need another computer to run this. DOSBox is really just a mini-VM .. which means a real will work just as well, once you install a suitable OS. You can use VirtualBox, VMWare, kvm, and all the rest.
IF your distro keeps up to date, maybe. But Eclipse (and for that matter, Firefox) put a great deal of effort into their own plugin and update systems. Using Apt to manage these is mostly silly. (Not entirely silly; it's nice to be able to update everything from one GUI.) But if Debian is not going to keep up with Eclipse, it's pointless to keep it in the repository. It takes time and effort to maintain an app noone wants.
On the contrary, that's an excellent advantage. This gives developers the choice between making software platform independent or dependent. Your platform already contains tons of nice tools; why not use them? Microsoft put much effort into ActiveDirectory, but you can't use it under Java. Apple put much effort into Aqua and the whole flying windows thing, and everybody else spent much effort cloning it, but you can't access any of those features from Java.
With Java you must find a cross-platform solution to almost every problem, but with C# you have the choice.
And also with Python. =^p
Getting off topic, but I just got an HP replaced for that reason (dead nVidia chip). (I'm an nVidia snob, which is why that lappy had one of their chips to begin with.) If you have a bad HP, take the advice at that site, and get a case manager. Using regular support, we had to send it in 3 times to get a working (though down-specced) machine. But once we got a case manager, they sent a new machine.
Right, much like the nuclear program never resulted in anything useful. Or the rocket program. Or the jet engine. Or ARPANET.
The reason Yucca shut down is due to the populace whining about how unsafe reactors are, beyond all reason. Nothing to do with the government; they were trying to BUILD it.
But wait, if you order before midnight, you'll get even more stupid: Hydrogen bombs are already fusion devices!
I've always wondered what a place like that sounds like at the moment it goes off. Is everything so insulated you don't hear a thing? Or does everything shudder like when someone's blasting at a quarry a few miles away?
Yes, but it took us 3 years just to reach "faster". Back in the 90s, you could expect to get double the usable performance in less than two years. We should have had chips running running 2-4 times faster than they are now, but instead Intel has spent half the decade releasing 3 GHz chips, each one merely "faster" than the previous (except for the ones that are slower.) And it's all due to the GHz ceiling.
Well, *I* call it the GHz ceiling. I suppose a more technical name might be "leakage-induced thermal limit."
And the whole reason we have multi-core processors is due to the GHz limit. I'd rather have one 6 GHz core than two at 3 GHz. But we can't get one to run at 6 GHz no matter how small we make it, so the only way to boost performance is it with multiple cores.
The reason there's no new hardware from the console maker is that there is no new hardware from the chip makers. We hit the GHz ceiling a couple years ago, and as a result today's chips aren't better by enough to make it worthwhile.
I suspect MS and Sony want to see where the multi-core thing is going (CPUs support a dozen complex threads, while GPUs support a few hundred simple threads.) Will one line of chips take over the other? Will we find masses of simple cores are better than a few complex cores? Or will we find it's worth keeping a few complex cores on every chip?
Once we (or at least our researchers) can see where this is going, then the next-gen hardware development will start up again.
PAR2 will let you create a set of files where any N of them are sufficient to reconstruct the original content.
You would create roughly 2GB of content, split it into 40 parts, then have PAR2 generate another 38 parts. Put one part on each stick, leaving enough room so that everyone can trade parts and keep them all on their sticks until they have 40. Might want to put the PAR2 program on there as well.
Connecting with people is what the holidays are about .. and this forces them to connect with each other. For whatever that's worth.
Sure, but watch out for spelling nazis.
Since when has "Penis" been an obscenity?
When you're 12 years old and post a Klingon sig.
Yikes, what a terrible answer.
A) The reason to retire is so they can go off and do what ever they want. Original poster is already doing that.
B) The reason to make money is to survive, then engage in whatever hobbies you want. #1 doesn't seem to be a problem, and original poster is already engaged in #2.
C) Leading (or even participating) in a startup already makes a great resume.
D) They're already developing their new idea/concept.
This kid doesn't need to join a corp to support his dream, since he's already living it.
So perhaps it should be written "eat their cake but keep it".
Are you thinking about the right kinds of problems? Math and simulation are inherently easy to parallelize; the hard ones are decision-making algorithms like AI and data compression. If you can solve those, you'll be a hero.
Starbucks was never $1.45.