Yes and for some reason most programing teachers of a certain age seemed to be old Fortran coders. My first programing language was Pascal and I took it in 82/83. My teacher was gung ho about structured programing and using long descriptive variable names. However he learned Fortran back in college so every for loop he showed was used i as the index. I now write in Java, C++, PHP, Perl, and Objective C... and my loops use i for the index variable even though I know that is bad form. Habits are hard to break.
Actually it is even simpler than that. The code in the PDF I saw for for ELF. They where all typedefs. Elf is a well documented format and not of the code that shows copying was actual functional code. As I was reading the code I was thinking just how trivial the example was but also how well written both.h files where. You could tell exactly what each variable in the type def did. It also looked like a lot of my own code when I am having a good day. Also these are.h files! they are not functional code blocks just definitions. Of course the definitions for the typedefs of a well documented file format will look a lot alike! It is a huge duh but an attorney that knows nothing about programing might not understand that. If this was an example of the infringement I would say the court did a great job when they tossed it out.
Chrome doesn't use built in codec support because it doesn't have too. They have a license to use H.264 so they can build it in.
There is no reason to "enforce" OS codec support. There are a lot of good reasons to use it including not having to write your own code for everything. There are some good reasons to not use it if you want to be sure that x Codec will work no matter what is installed on the PC. The ideal solution IMHO would be to use the built in codec if an OS codec couldn't be found. Or to have the application use the OS Codec system if the built in codec isn't built in to the player.
Wow you work for Nokia's PR department. I didn't know that Nokia was such a global force for good in the world! Nokia makes money by selling lots of cheap cell phones. Nothing wrong with that lots of companies make cheap cell phones and sell them all over the world. Apple is only making two models of phone and both are full on smart phones. They are top of the line and frankly have helped the smart phone market in the US to no end. They have created a max price point. If your phone costs more than an iPhone it isn't going to fly. There is nothing wrong with this strategy. Volvo doesn't make super cheap cars and market them in every nation. Think of Apple as the Volvo of smart phones.
Well if they keep doing it what will happen is people will stop using Firefox and move to Opera and Chrome. If they did it correctly I.E. use the OS's built in codec support they wouldn't have any patent issues at all since any patent infringing code would not be part of FireFox.
True I had forgotten all about the query cost. I bet that it still may be possible to scale an SQL system to twitter volumes but that costs would be huge. Each users update is in effect a query. Some of those could be very ugly when dealing with hash tags. Yep your right just trying to think of all those query's and transactions makes my head hurt.
But would the real-time visualization really help? Most human problems seem to come from need, or the fear of need. This group is taking what is mine so we must stop them or this group has what I need so we must kill them and get it because our need is so great.
Remove the need and or the need and you will stop a lot of the problems. You have other causes like racial hate but I doubt that money will fix that.
I wonder just how much 10 million dollars can do to stop genocide? Is that a problem that money can fix? Honestly folks yes I know all the joke answers like move them but some of the questions I wonder if money can fix. My vote would be for the Polywell reactor. If that can be made to work then many other problems would be solved very quickly. Fresh water, carbon levels, food production, transportation... All solved for a good long while. Of course it will cut the revenue to the middle east and really do a job on coal mining. Oil production will also get hurt big but the refiner will still do well. Once those issues are solved them maybe the increase in resources will decrease the root problems that allow issues like Genocide to happen.
Not at on. On windows just use the Direct Show framework and use that "legal" H.264 codec. On Linux use FFMPEG framwork. OS/X Quicktime will handle it for you. All will involve no legal issues for Firefox.
It is all about bang for the buck. I do not think that anyone has ever said that you can not scale a SQL server to handle a Twitter like load. The question is one of cost. I am sure that you could handle the load with DB2 on a z Machine also but at what cost? I am actually a big fan of SQL and find NoSQL to extremely cumbersome. But then I really do not have a need to scale that big. I just am not yet willing to write off NoSQL yet. I know that Google has used it for some things. But when you are talking about Twitter a key is the cost per transaction. That must be very low. And if I have to wait 30 seconds for a twitter that is a good trade off for me.
my bad since it was a 24 hour flight I thought it was unmanned. Of course it still can not carry people It is a single seater so it can only carry a single person. Yea that is a wiggle out but you are correct. Still in no way a practical form of transport and never will be. Even is solar cells where 100% efficent which they never can be there isn't enough energy density to make a solar powered 737 much less a solar powered 747. Solar impulse is producing around 8 HP. Just to make the math easy let's say that their system is 1% efficient. At 100% you are still only talking about 800HP which is around half the HP of a 1930s DC-3. And that is with an Airbus size wing and tail full of solar cells. So nope this for human transport is never going to be practical. For UAVs yes and those could be very useful indeed. Actually I am kind of disappointed to see them try a manned flight. An unmanned flight would be just as important and would be far safer.
Fast food chains use a server in each store and then bundle the data to be transmitted. So not really. National lotteries? maybe but I know that my state lottery also bundles data because they stop selling tickets about an hour before the drawing. telecomms maybe but then the data value is much higher than twitters.
okay just what Point of Sale System handles as many transactions a day as Twitter? I doubt that even WalMart pushes every POS transaction to it's central database in realtime. Frankly it would be stupid to design the system that way. You could have a ore many stores all go down if their was a cable cut. Odds are that WalMart has servers in each store that push data to a central server every x amount of time. Also lets be honest Walmarts transactions are each far more valuable than twitters.
I would think that 120-180 api calls an hour would be good enough. That comes to around one every 30 seconds and that should be good enough.
"It's fantastic that air travel can now be powered using solar enery alone," No it can't. This is a UAV and can not carry people so next. "I think that our real emphasis needs to be on needs to be the successful implementation of renewable energy sources in automobiles." An electric car and a dam, solar panels for charging, breeder reactor, or windmill. Next.
There it is done for you. Or you can use Menthol, Bio Diesel, or Ethanol as well all of which are renewable. Yes I know the issues with Ethanol but most of those issues go away when you use sugar cane and not corn. Also methane is an option and can be made in a renewable manner.
Yes but for UAVs this might be very interesting. Also a solar electric aircraft could have a very high ceiling since they do not require O2 for energy production. All handy for a long duration UAV for communications or monitoring. For carrying people.... Not anytime real soon IMHO.
Exactly. I wouldn't even bother with the city attorney yet. Just tell them that as part of the franchise agreement they are to provide free extended cable. Tell them where to deliver the boxes if they bawk explain that if they do not you will then be in touch with the city attorney. It will be a lot cheaper for Comcast to just give you the boxes than deal with a single letter from the city attorney much less fines.
This is only one test and it is on an old single core P4 so maybe multi cores will do better. FF4 may do better on other bench marks, and FF4 is an early beta. Also I ran the test on Chrome first so any catching that may have been done would have benefited FF4.
But the results for me mean that I will probably stick with Chrome on this machine for now.
Thanks I was wondering what the heck was the matter with 4.0 It looked so bad that I figured that it couldn't be an issue for every one but I couldn't find anything on Google about it. Now I can put 4 through some paces and see if I will replace chrome with it.
You don't think cooling is a huge variable here? It can be effected by so many things in a notebooks that it isn't funny. The batteries when they charge put out heat, drives, memory, video cards. It is far more of a mess than I think you understand. And if it was as simple as you think then a clone maker would be doing it and trying to take the market.
Oh I am all with you about the power brick. I was just wondering just what else one could make swapable on a notebook besides the powerbrick, Ram, Hard Drives, WifiCards and so on. Batteries would also be nice but packaging makes that a hard nut to crack for sure.
I do feel that there is a lot of bias in media. Both ways. Also to be honest I do tend to the conservative side in politics. It is for that reason I really try hard to double check and be far with my comments when posting about President Obama. I have a extremely strong dislike of his space policy so I know that I tend to jump to the negative at first glance. So to try and be fair I double check before I spout off. Also I have nothing bad to say about the man. I try and restrict my criticism to policy. I think things would be a lot better if both sides made a real effort to do the same.
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Yes and for some reason most programing teachers of a certain age seemed to be old Fortran coders.
My first programing language was Pascal and I took it in 82/83. My teacher was gung ho about structured programing and using long descriptive variable names.
However he learned Fortran back in college so every for loop he showed was used i as the index.
I now write in Java, C++, PHP, Perl, and Objective C... and my loops use i for the index variable even though I know that is bad form.
Habits are hard to break.
Actually it is even simpler than that. The code in the PDF I saw for for ELF. .h files where. You could tell exactly what each variable in the type def did. It also looked like a lot of my own code when I am having a good day. .h files! they are not functional code blocks just definitions. Of course the definitions for the typedefs of a well documented file format will look a lot alike!
They where all typedefs. Elf is a well documented format and not of the code that shows copying was actual functional code.
As I was reading the code I was thinking just how trivial the example was but also how well written both
Also these are
It is a huge duh but an attorney that knows nothing about programing might not understand that.
If this was an example of the infringement I would say the court did a great job when they tossed it out.
Chrome doesn't use built in codec support because it doesn't have too. They have a license to use H.264 so they can build it in.
There is no reason to "enforce" OS codec support. There are a lot of good reasons to use it including not having to write your own code for everything. There are some good reasons to not use it if you want to be sure that x Codec will work no matter what is installed on the PC.
The ideal solution IMHO would be to use the built in codec if an OS codec couldn't be found. Or to have the application use the OS Codec system if the built in codec isn't built in to the player.
Wow you work for Nokia's PR department. I didn't know that Nokia was such a global force for good in the world!
Nokia makes money by selling lots of cheap cell phones. Nothing wrong with that lots of companies make cheap cell phones and sell them all over the world.
Apple is only making two models of phone and both are full on smart phones. They are top of the line and frankly have helped the smart phone market in the US to no end. They have created a max price point. If your phone costs more than an iPhone it isn't going to fly.
There is nothing wrong with this strategy. Volvo doesn't make super cheap cars and market them in every nation. Think of Apple as the Volvo of smart phones.
Well if they keep doing it what will happen is people will stop using Firefox and move to Opera and Chrome.
If they did it correctly I.E. use the OS's built in codec support they wouldn't have any patent issues at all since any patent infringing code would not be part of FireFox.
True I had forgotten all about the query cost. I bet that it still may be possible to scale an SQL system to twitter volumes but that costs would be huge.
Each users update is in effect a query. Some of those could be very ugly when dealing with hash tags.
Yep your right just trying to think of all those query's and transactions makes my head hurt.
But would the real-time visualization really help? Most human problems seem to come from need, or the fear of need. This group is taking what is mine so we must stop them or this group has what I need so we must kill them and get it because our need is so great.
Remove the need and or the need and you will stop a lot of the problems.
You have other causes like racial hate but I doubt that money will fix that.
I wonder just how much 10 million dollars can do to stop genocide? Is that a problem that money can fix? Honestly folks yes I know all the joke answers like move them but some of the questions I wonder if money can fix.
My vote would be for the Polywell reactor.
If that can be made to work then many other problems would be solved very quickly. Fresh water, carbon levels, food production, transportation... All solved for a good long while.
Of course it will cut the revenue to the middle east and really do a job on coal mining. Oil production will also get hurt big but the refiner will still do well. Once those issues are solved them maybe the increase in resources will decrease the root problems that allow issues like Genocide to happen.
Not at on. On windows just use the Direct Show framework and use that "legal" H.264 codec. On Linux use FFMPEG framwork. OS/X Quicktime will handle it for you.
All will involve no legal issues for Firefox.
Yes that would work but like my original posts in really already is possible. It comes down to price.
It is all about bang for the buck. I do not think that anyone has ever said that you can not scale a SQL server to handle a Twitter like load. The question is one of cost.
I am sure that you could handle the load with DB2 on a z Machine also but at what cost?
I am actually a big fan of SQL and find NoSQL to extremely cumbersome.
But then I really do not have a need to scale that big.
I just am not yet willing to write off NoSQL yet. I know that Google has used it for some things.
But when you are talking about Twitter a key is the cost per transaction. That must be very low. And if I have to wait 30 seconds for a twitter that is a good trade off for me.
Do you really think Lowes does that many transactions?
It will all come down to support. Which codec has the widest support.
Even Firefox will eventually add H.264 support even if it is with a plug in.
my bad since it was a 24 hour flight I thought it was unmanned.
Of course it still can not carry people It is a single seater so it can only carry a single person. Yea that is a wiggle out but you are correct. Still in no way a practical form of transport and never will be.
Even is solar cells where 100% efficent which they never can be there isn't enough energy density to make a solar powered 737 much less a solar powered 747.
Solar impulse is producing around 8 HP. Just to make the math easy let's say that their system is 1% efficient.
At 100% you are still only talking about 800HP which is around half the HP of a 1930s DC-3. And that is with an Airbus size wing and tail full of solar cells.
So nope this for human transport is never going to be practical. For UAVs yes and those could be very useful indeed.
Actually I am kind of disappointed to see them try a manned flight. An unmanned flight would be just as important and would be far safer.
Fast food chains use a server in each store and then bundle the data to be transmitted. So not really.
National lotteries? maybe but I know that my state lottery also bundles data because they stop selling tickets about an hour before the drawing.
telecomms maybe but then the data value is much higher than twitters.
okay just what Point of Sale System handles as many transactions a day as Twitter?
I doubt that even WalMart pushes every POS transaction to it's central database in realtime. Frankly it would be stupid to design the system that way. You could have a ore many stores all go down if their was a cable cut.
Odds are that WalMart has servers in each store that push data to a central server every x amount of time.
Also lets be honest Walmarts transactions are each far more valuable than twitters.
I would think that 120-180 api calls an hour would be good enough. That comes to around one every 30 seconds and that should be good enough.
"It's fantastic that air travel can now be powered using solar enery alone,"
No it can't. This is a UAV and can not carry people so next.
"I think that our real emphasis needs to be on needs to be the successful implementation of renewable energy sources in automobiles."
An electric car and a dam, solar panels for charging, breeder reactor, or windmill. Next.
There it is done for you.
Or you can use Menthol, Bio Diesel, or Ethanol as well all of which are renewable. Yes I know the issues with Ethanol but most of those issues go away when you use sugar cane and not corn.
Also methane is an option and can be made in a renewable manner.
Yes but for UAVs this might be very interesting. Also a solar electric aircraft could have a very high ceiling since they do not require O2 for energy production.
All handy for a long duration UAV for communications or monitoring.
For carrying people.... Not anytime real soon IMHO.
Exactly. I wouldn't even bother with the city attorney yet. Just tell them that as part of the franchise agreement they are to provide free extended cable. Tell them where to deliver the boxes if they bawk explain that if they do not you will then be in touch with the city attorney. It will be a lot cheaper for Comcast to just give you the boxes than deal with a single letter from the city attorney much less fines.
Well I decided to run sun spider on both Chrome and FF4
Chrome wins by a lot.
RESULTS (means and 95% confidence intervals)
Total: 847.0ms +/- 25.3%
FF4
RESULTS (means and 95% confidence intervals)
Total: 1245.0ms +/- 3.7%
This is only one test and it is on an old single core P4 so maybe multi cores will do better. FF4 may do better on other bench marks, and FF4 is an early beta.
Also I ran the test on Chrome first so any catching that may have been done would have benefited FF4.
But the results for me mean that I will probably stick with Chrome on this machine for now.
Well how out of date are you talking?
I am using it on a P4 single core which is pretty dang old and it works just fine.
Thanks I was wondering what the heck was the matter with 4.0
It looked so bad that I figured that it couldn't be an issue for every one but I couldn't find anything on Google about it.
Now I can put 4 through some paces and see if I will replace chrome with it.
You don't think cooling is a huge variable here?
It can be effected by so many things in a notebooks that it isn't funny.
The batteries when they charge put out heat, drives, memory, video cards.
It is far more of a mess than I think you understand.
And if it was as simple as you think then a clone maker would be doing it and trying to take the market.
Oh I am all with you about the power brick. I was just wondering just what else one could make swapable on a notebook besides the powerbrick, Ram, Hard Drives, WifiCards and so on.
Batteries would also be nice but packaging makes that a hard nut to crack for sure.
I do feel that there is a lot of bias in media. Both ways. Also to be honest I do tend to the conservative side in politics.
It is for that reason I really try hard to double check and be far with my comments when posting about President Obama. I have a extremely strong dislike of his space policy so I know that I tend to jump to the negative at first glance.
So to try and be fair I double check before I spout off. Also I have nothing bad to say about the man. I try and restrict my criticism to policy.
I think things would be a lot better if both sides made a real effort to do the same.