If I connect my TV remote to the mains AC, it will break. I blame the makers for not 'validating' my input voltage. My Cups/Mugs all have bugs, as when I drop them, they break....silly makers for not designing in dampers to cushion the blow. My car has bugs.... I can very easily crash it, how dare the manufacturers make something I can crash by just pressing the buttons/ turning the wheel in the wrong order.
My point is, that practically everything will fail, or demonstrate unpredictable behavior if it is subject to conditions to which it is not designed to handle. We accept this, as a fact of life!....Why should software be judged any different, just because it's 'virtual' and cant really be seen as a real world object?...to make a perfect bug free piece of software is practically impossible.....well, maybe 'hello world', and even this will fail should it be run on an architecture it was not designed to run on.
As I said Above.... This sounds like Java Webstart..... (Apart from the 'Handles security transparently' bit, though there is nothing stopping anyone adding this as a module)
...its called Java. You may have heard of it! - A Java Webstart program can run on anywhere, with vastly less coding for platform differences than, say, coding a website to run perfectly between different browsers, and has everything you want, right now.
However, the slashdot crowd (and others of similar ilk) have already condemned, and dismissed the Java GUI for not been quite as fast, or looking exactly like a native app....even though these differences nowadays are very slight. Java has been banished from the desktop.
Now Microsoft are coming along with Silverlight, which I guess will do a similar thing (though, will probably work like crap on non M$ platforms), and in 10 years, the world will rejoice how Silverlight has brought us out of the dark Web based internet dark ages, tying us all to windows platform for ever more...
Why not do this as an Applet, not Flash.... After all, Java is FOSS, and works on all platforms. Applets launch fast, (unless they have megabytes of Jars to load, though this problem is not just with Java).
....and then, when they realise they can beat the shit out of someone, will they have the maturity to not continue beating the shit out of anyone who pisses them off, thus becoming a bully themselves?
according to the article '....give Larsen 15 percent of any increase in value...', which is slightly different to what the story summary implies. I wonder, should the value decrease, does the seller get 15% back of any decrease?...I guess not!
I am a Mac user (and have been forever!), but as a web developer / Java coder, I do recommend getting VirtualBox, or VMWare installed with Windows. The ability to develop on the mac, and instantly test on IE, Firefox, Chrome on Windows, as well as Mac browsers, is just THE killer feature.. Im not sure if it will work with the special hardware though:-(
If I buy a book, I can legally do whatever I want with it. Read it, shred it, use it for toilet paper. If I then choose to sell the remains of the book, That I can also do this legally...just so long as I do not copy it (copyright infringement). If I buy a legal boxed copy OS X, then I should have the same rights to do as I please, which includes installing it on my own hardware regardless of it been an Apple branded box or not.
So, I guess, you would want the laptop to come with Java preinstalled (if you a Java Dev), or PHP / Apache installed, if you are that way inclinded. For source control, best make sure it comes with a mainstream SCM software, something like Subversion and hopefully the same company will create an IDE that supports it out of the box , while at the same time recognizing that alternative IDE's are out there and provide support and assistance to those who want to use it. Of course, been a developer laptop, having a good Backup Strategy is important, you wouldn't want to loose all that hard work if your hard disk died now would you!. Finally, of course, that manufacturer would provide tools to allow alternative operating systems to run on their hardware so you can test your final product on different systems, or even provide links to third party software should you wish to run any OS in a virtualised environment.....
4 Moderators marked this 'Troll'... Really?..., for just someone's honest opinion?.... Seams more like censorship of anything positive to do with Apple. I wonder if the parent comment spoke of '...Migrated the office to Unbuntu..', it would have received the same hostility?
Newtonian Mechanics is wrong at any speed. Just the error becomes more noticeable near light speed.
F=MA, yet a 1kg mass accelerated by 10 neutons for 1 second from stationary, will NOT be traveling at 10 m/s It will be traveling just, very slightly slower....
Anyhow, I thought the actual thought experiment that leads to the derivation of e=mc2, (the one with a photon and a box), assumes the existance of the 'photon' a quantum scale particle.
I think we should pick just one out of the list... (Come up with a good criteria, rate each one, go for the best). it needs to be just one so that the site can attain enough critical mass to overtake Ebay.
From what I gather, this magnet isn't able to split/focus light, any more than lesser powered magnets. What makes this one different, is that usually, at such high fields, it is phisically imposible to get any sort of light inside, as the structure of the magnet has no gaps that can be used to shine a light in, ie, 100% enclosed. This magnet is constructed differently, in that even though it attains the highest magnetic fields, the insides are still viewable from outside, and so lasers/etc can be focused from the outside, onto the subject while its in operation.
I've been looking at the jobs market here for 10 years, or so...and, I havent seen much. It seams the west mids is a void, when it comes to IT jobs, compaired to the rest of the country...
I have to commute 110 miles daily, to my place of work (down the ultra fast M6 - UGH!) to somewhere where at least they pay me a decent wack.
My advice?...Move!!Get out now, if you're young/free/single!... Apparently, there's plenty of work down south/london way (so the agencies allways tell me!). I would, do so myself, except I have a wife who would rather not.
I think this solution might well use quantum physics to work. Photons travel down the fibre optics, but it is not known which path they take until they get to the very end and are 'measured'. therefore, a single photon might traverse every path, leading to an interferance pattern that matches the shortest solution.
Now, Somewhere about, I heard that it has been proven that any NP problem, can be refactored into a different NP problem. So, for example, Factorising two primes that have been multiplied, could be restated as a traveling salesman problem, and hooked up to this rig.
So, maybe, just maybe, this might just work. except...
Prime factors are HUGE!!! and, you would need to check each unit division on the interferometer (assuming divisions went from 0, to infin) to see if it interfeared....... Yes, The setup might well be calculating the solution, how you extract that solution is an entirly different problem.
>>You can always tell a Java program on Windows because it breaks every paradigm that a windows user is used >>to. The buttons look different, act different. Menus look weird and act weird. Nothing does what you expect. I find many *native* windows programs fit also into this category... For example. On my PC now, i have running: IE 6 Firefox Outlook 2003 v2. Windows Media Player 9.
Every one of the above programs, differ from each other subtly, Outlook has blue re-arrange able menus, in a different font to the others. firefox has a larger toolbar, and the separator line between the toolbar and menus is more bold. Windows Media player is so vastly different its not worth listing the broken paradigms, but even in skin mode, has white boxed menus, that 'press' in, when the others do not. Java has its faults (slow initial startup speed/ memory consumption, for instance), but don't criticise it for stuff even Microsoft cant get right on its own platform.
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As a Java/C/RPG programmer, with 10 years experiance... I have to say, I don't have the foggiest what you're wittering on about!
You wouldn't even know they're made in Java if you used them.
I think this is part of the problem - Crap java apps, make Java look bad. Good Java apps, go unnoticed.
So, here I am in the middle of nowhere, with nothing but a 3g Dongle and suddenly this Geomagnetic storms£(*&^SGU &@*(&((clkxjnx..........NO CARRIER
public class Hello {
static {System.out.println("Hello World");}
}
If I connect my TV remote to the mains AC, it will break. I blame the makers for not 'validating' my input voltage. My Cups/Mugs all have bugs, as when I drop them, they break....silly makers for not designing in dampers to cushion the blow. My car has bugs.... I can very easily crash it, how dare the manufacturers make something I can crash by just pressing the buttons/ turning the wheel in the wrong order.
My point is, that practically everything will fail, or demonstrate unpredictable behavior if it is subject to conditions to which it is not designed to handle. We accept this, as a fact of life!....Why should software be judged any different, just because it's 'virtual' and cant really be seen as a real world object?...to make a perfect bug free piece of software is practically impossible.....well, maybe 'hello world', and even this will fail should it be run on an architecture it was not designed to run on.
As I said Above.... This sounds like Java Webstart..... (Apart from the 'Handles security transparently' bit, though there is nothing stopping anyone adding this as a module)
...its called Java. You may have heard of it! - A Java Webstart program can run on anywhere, with vastly less coding for platform differences than, say, coding a website to run perfectly between different browsers, and has everything you want, right now.
However, the slashdot crowd (and others of similar ilk) have already condemned, and dismissed the Java GUI for not been quite as fast, or looking exactly like a native app....even though these differences nowadays are very slight. Java has been banished from the desktop.
Now Microsoft are coming along with Silverlight, which I guess will do a similar thing (though, will probably work like crap on non M$ platforms), and in 10 years, the world will rejoice how Silverlight has brought us out of the dark Web based internet dark ages, tying us all to windows platform for ever more...
Im getting too old for this, hence my cynicism.
Why not do this as an Applet, not Flash.... After all, Java is FOSS, and works on all platforms. Applets launch fast, (unless they have megabytes of Jars to load, though this problem is not just with Java).
....and then, when they realise they can beat the shit out of someone, will they have the maturity to not continue beating the shit out of anyone who pisses them off, thus becoming a bully themselves?
according to the article '....give Larsen 15 percent of any increase in value ...', which is slightly different to what the story summary implies. I wonder, should the value decrease, does the seller get 15% back of any decrease?...I guess not!
I am a Mac user (and have been forever!), but as a web developer / Java coder, I do recommend getting VirtualBox, or VMWare installed with Windows. The ability to develop on the mac, and instantly test on IE, Firefox, Chrome on Windows, as well as Mac browsers, is just THE killer feature.. Im not sure if it will work with the special hardware though :-(
If I buy a book, I can legally do whatever I want with it. Read it, shred it, use it for toilet paper. If I then choose to sell the remains of the book, That I can also do this legally...just so long as I do not copy it (copyright infringement). If I buy a legal boxed copy OS X, then I should have the same rights to do as I please, which includes installing it on my own hardware regardless of it been an Apple branded box or not.
Please remind me exactly why my post is troll...
So, I guess, you would want the laptop to come with Java preinstalled (if you a Java Dev), or PHP / Apache installed, if you are that way inclinded. For source control, best make sure it comes with a mainstream SCM software, something like Subversion and hopefully the same company will create an IDE that supports it out of the box , while at the same time recognizing that alternative IDE's are out there and provide support and assistance to those who want to use it. Of course, been a developer laptop, having a good Backup Strategy is important, you wouldn't want to loose all that hard work if your hard disk died now would you!. Finally, of course, that manufacturer would provide tools to allow alternative operating systems to run on their hardware so you can test your final product on different systems, or even provide links to third party software should you wish to run any OS in a virtualised environment.....
Shame such a company doesn't exist *sigh*...
4 Moderators marked this 'Troll'... Really?..., for just someone's honest opinion?.... Seams more like censorship of anything positive to do with Apple. I wonder if the parent comment spoke of '...Migrated the office to Unbuntu..', it would have received the same hostility?
I though MSI, were the top Wind producer, and they're based in Taiwan??...er.....
Newtonian Mechanics is wrong at any speed. Just the error becomes more noticeable near light speed.
F=MA, yet a 1kg mass accelerated by 10 neutons for 1 second from stationary, will NOT be traveling at 10 m/s
It will be traveling just, very slightly slower....
Anyhow, I thought the actual thought experiment that leads to the derivation of e=mc2, (the one with a photon and a box), assumes the existance of the 'photon' a quantum scale particle.
I think we should pick just one out of the list... (Come up with a good criteria, rate each one, go for the best). it needs to be just one so that the site can attain enough critical mass to overtake Ebay.
I guess this is pretty secure!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQYPCPB1g3o
From what I gather, this magnet isn't able to split/focus light, any more than lesser powered magnets. What makes this one different, is that usually, at such high fields, it is phisically imposible to get any sort of light inside, as the structure of the magnet has no gaps that can be used to shine a light in, ie, 100% enclosed. This magnet is constructed differently, in that even though it attains the highest magnetic fields, the insides are still viewable from outside, and so lasers/etc can be focused from the outside, onto the subject while its in operation.
I've been looking at the jobs market here for 10 years, or so...and, I havent seen much. It seams the west mids is a void, when it comes to IT jobs, compaired to the rest of the country...
I have to commute 110 miles daily, to my place of work (down the ultra fast M6 - UGH!) to somewhere where at least they pay me a decent wack.
My advice?...Move!!Get out now, if you're young/free/single!... Apparently, there's plenty of work down south/london way (so the agencies allways tell me!). I would, do so myself, except I have a wife who would rather not.
I think this solution might well use quantum physics to work. Photons travel down the fibre optics, but it is not known which path they take until they get to the very end and are 'measured'. therefore, a single photon might traverse every path, leading to an interferance pattern that matches the shortest solution.
Now, Somewhere about, I heard that it has been proven that any NP problem, can be refactored into a different NP problem. So, for example, Factorising two primes that have been multiplied, could be restated as a traveling salesman problem, and hooked up to this rig.
So, maybe, just maybe, this might just work. except...
Prime factors are HUGE!!! and, you would need to check each unit division on the interferometer (assuming divisions went from 0, to infin) to see if it interfeared....... Yes, The setup might well be calculating the solution, how you extract that solution is an entirly different problem.
>>You can always tell a Java program on Windows because it breaks every paradigm that a windows user is used >>to. The buttons look different, act different. Menus look weird and act weird. Nothing does what you expect.
I find many *native* windows programs fit also into this category... For example. On my PC now, i have running:
IE 6
Firefox
Outlook 2003 v2.
Windows Media Player 9.
Every one of the above programs, differ from each other subtly, Outlook has blue re-arrange able menus, in a different font to the others. firefox has a larger toolbar, and the separator line between the toolbar and menus is more bold. Windows Media player is so vastly different its not worth listing the broken paradigms, but even in skin mode, has white boxed menus, that 'press' in, when the others do not. Java has its faults (slow initial startup speed/ memory consumption, for instance), but don't criticise it for stuff even Microsoft cant get right on its own platform.
erm, I could buy a C64 from ebay, and play "break-out" games...
What a MOD?..... Link Please!