That's one reason less to use something different than Windows. It might decrease Microsoft's income a bit, but how about Waibel offering all kinds of operating systems with their system? Microsoft certainly doesn't like Waibel too much for that move, so are there any obstacles in offerings various other operating systems with their hardware?
I'm a native German speaker, so you don't have to translate it for me. But what is it supposed to mean in the context of
Enforcement! Regulation! New regulations! Tighter regulations! All out for the campaign against piracy! No quarter! Build more prisons! Harsher sentences!
To get rid of the problems of resizing (different graphics resolutions, different fonts and font sizes), layout managers as used in Java's AWT or Swing are a good solution. You specify how items like buttons, text fields etc. are laid out in a visual component and the rendering is done automatically by the manager. You'll need a while to get used to it, but then you never want to go back to pixel-based GUI construction.
Someone is asking how to debug multithreaded C++ code and gets as an answer to use functional programming languages. Sorry, but how is this insightful? I've had to use functional programming languages (Scheme, Haskell) and like a lot of what I've seen, so this is no flamebait. It's good to know all kinds of programming languages and paradigms (bad word;-)). But once a decision has been made for a certain language, it's no longer an issue to change the language. Nice list, though, I didn't know them all!
It says among the things already mentioned that candidate selection will start in the autumn of 2001. About 100 TV shows will be made, but nothing is said about the final contestants becoming millionaires...
Cannot say anything about the parameters, though, I don't know the freenet app. With a decent manifest file you shouldn't have to specify the application class as a user. And any config file should be in the home directory, so I don't understand why you have to specify that. Maybe a couple of./ (like in current directory) could help. View the content of a JAR file with unzip -l freenet.jar (it's basically a ZIP file).
And please guys, no more Java bashing. It has been said many times that JRE's have improved in terms of speed, functionality etc.
>Swing sucks. AWT sucks. GTK+ should have Java hooks (now that Sun is a GNOME backer.) I cannot get an App that doesn't look like ass.
Get some decent Swing apps like Gnutella or jEdit. Use a decent VM. They look great.
And they look great on Win32, Linux, Solaris, Irix, HP-UX, Tru64 Unix, OS/2, Macintosh, some IBM OS's I never heard of, you name it.
>Slugishness. Java gets its ass kicked by C in speed.
On the other points that you mentioned, some other replies dealt with them or I don't have a quick link at hand. You're generalizing a lot. Redundancy in Integer.parseInt - that's a problem? It's a class method, and there are class methods for other types in java.lang.Integer. No redundancy here.
- No multiple inheritance. None. Which means you either klidge your design, or use aggregation. Neither of which is pretty in a case where multiple inheritance would work best.
Where do you use multiple inheritance? I truly havent't found a reason to use MI. I admit I don't get it. I'm really interested, no flamebait...
Someone else mentioned interfaces, but you can't reuse code with them so they're not exactly the same as MI, interfaces just let you define what has to be in a class.
Thank God they didn't include macros in Java. Whenever I have to read larger portions of other people's C and C++ code they're the ultimate source for confusion. In terms of maintainability, they're hell.
Sun gets out the most important versions (whatever that means) first. Windows has been released way earlier than their own Solaris versions. Linux is a bit behind, but not much. Blackdown makes sure Linux does not only mean Linux x86 while IBM has very good Linux tools of its own to offer.
I'm not so sure about Kaffe's progress. The website doesn't get updated often, but doesn't have to mean something. Anyone?
Is there an easy way to make use of the fact that both MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 use square blocks of pixels? That both use the DC transform? Maybe a dedicated MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 converter wouldn't have to do IDCT first followed by FDCT? Is it possible to work on quantized coefficients instead of pixels? Can information from the MPEG-2 encoding process (e.g. the direction of movement between two frames) be re-used? AFAIK, a lot of MPEG-2 encoding time goes into finding out what parts of a frame are moved in what direction, trying out various rotation angles and contrast / brightness adjustments... It seems to be a waste to throw that information away.
OTOH, although I know JPEG's internals pretty well, I'm not sure about MPEG;-)
I'd like to learn more, why this came through and which parties did what in the process (in two years it's election time;-)). The major German parties have become so similar in their behaviour that minor topics like this may make a difference...
The couple of DM they charge for a burner do not matter much, but once they put taxes on the media...
I don't like the idea of paying for the ability to store copyrighted material when in fact I just burn some videos from the last family reunion.
If the data has similarities in all those channels, maybe specialized lossless compression for astronomic images can be developed. Compression results always get better once you have a modeler designed specifically for your class of data.
DjVu is for scanned documents. There is no major accepted file format in use for this kind of data. This will be a huge market once bureaucracies around the world start digitizing their tons of documents. OTOH, DjVu is there for quite a while already and I don't see it having succeeded. Plus, when I installed the plugin under IE 5 a year ago, it was in some dubious beta state. Not nice to work with.
Lossy / lossless image compression types. You cannot compare PNG tolossy schemes. PNG cannot beat a lossy method because the goals are different. Lossless: Compress as small as possible (but the exact original must be restoreable). Typically, the algorithms that throw more resources (CPU and memory) at it are better. Lossy: For a given file size, reach the best quality. You can easily beat PNG with a lossy scheme by simply choosing very bad quality.
Open source. There are a few programs out there. Try TIC. It's GPL'd and beats JBIG-1 by about 40 percent on scanned images, according to the website.
I'm not sure if that is true. Sun has created several subsets of Java (namely J2ME, the micro edition) which run with a smaller memory footprint (the K in KVM is for kilobyte). Subset means that some of the standard classes are not available.
The Psion JVM that you're talking about is 'real' Java (1.1.4 compatible), but I've only heard that it runs on Revo (Plus) and the 5mx. It needs about 3 MB RAM.
Does anyone have an online resource explaining what ACL's enable you to do? Maybe even comparing the Unix flavor(s) to the ACL's they have on Windows NT? Just some introductory text.
could have asked for a new ballot, had they noticed a mistake.
In yesterday's Larry King Live show someone said that people were refused new ballots. Many people only noticed later when they talked with friends / relatives about the ballots. Someone at LKL also showed the card, and I must say that I find them very confusing. Even CNN's political analyst Bill Schneider said that.
OTOH, the parties had an opportunity (long before election day) to see that ballots and make an objection, which the Democratic Party did not do.
Slashdot Mirror
Thanks, that's exactly what I couldn't find on their pages ;-) And I did search for a while...
That's one reason less to use something different than Windows. It might decrease Microsoft's income a bit, but how about Waibel offering all kinds of operating systems with their system? Microsoft certainly doesn't like Waibel too much for that move, so are there any obstacles in offerings various other operating systems with their hardware?
At Mrshowbiz. They mention the sequels...
I'm a native German speaker, so you don't have to translate it for me. But what is it supposed to mean in the context of
Enforcement! Regulation! New regulations! Tighter regulations! All out for the campaign against piracy! No quarter! Build more prisons! Harsher sentences!
Germany = Nazi-Germany?
Or is it a quote?
To get rid of the problems of resizing (different graphics resolutions, different fonts and font sizes), layout managers as used in Java's AWT or Swing are a good solution. You specify how items like buttons, text fields etc. are laid out in a visual component and the rendering is done automatically by the manager. You'll need a while to get used to it, but then you never want to go back to pixel-based GUI construction.
The name of Darwin's ship (Beagle) was the first DM 1,000,000 question asked on Germany's version of 'Who wants to be a millionaire'.
;-)
BTW, the guy decided to take the 500,000 bucks
For the practical programming of even simple computer games, is ORIGIN any better than Java, which totally sucks ass?
Why is a statement like 'Java totally sucks ass' insightful? It isn't even true for game programming, for which Java certainly wasn't designed.
Someone is asking how to debug multithreaded C++ code and gets as an answer to use functional programming languages. Sorry, but how is this insightful? I've had to use functional programming languages (Scheme, Haskell) and like a lot of what I've seen, so this is no flamebait. It's good to know all kinds of programming languages and paradigms (bad word ;-)). But once a decision has been made for a certain language, it's no longer an issue to change the language. Nice list, though, I didn't know them all!
A press statement released Dec 12, 2000.
It says among the things already mentioned that candidate selection will start in the autumn of 2001. About 100 TV shows will be made, but nothing is said about the final contestants becoming millionaires...
How about java -jar freenet.jar.
./ (like in current directory) could help. View the content of a JAR file with unzip -l freenet.jar (it's basically a ZIP file).
Cannot say anything about the parameters, though, I don't know the freenet app. With a decent manifest file you shouldn't have to specify the application class as a user. And any config file should be in the home directory, so I don't understand why you have to specify that. Maybe a couple of
And please guys, no more Java bashing. It has been said many times that JRE's have improved in terms of speed, functionality etc.
Get some decent Swing apps like Gnutella or jEdit.
I meant the Gnutella client FURI.
>Swing sucks. AWT sucks. GTK+ should have Java hooks (now that Sun is a GNOME backer.) I cannot get an App that doesn't look like ass.
Get some decent Swing apps like Gnutella or jEdit. Use a decent VM. They look great.
And they look great on Win32, Linux, Solaris, Irix, HP-UX, Tru64 Unix, OS/2, Macintosh, some IBM OS's I never heard of, you name it.
>Slugishness. Java gets its ass kicked by C in speed.
No, it doesn't. Read the article Binaries vs Byte-Codes.
On the other points that you mentioned, some other replies dealt with them or I don't have a quick link at hand. You're generalizing a lot. Redundancy in Integer.parseInt - that's a problem? It's a class method, and there are class methods for other types in java.lang.Integer. No redundancy here.
- No multiple inheritance. None. Which means you either klidge your design, or use aggregation. Neither of which is pretty in a case where multiple inheritance would work best.
Where do you use multiple inheritance? I truly havent't found a reason to use MI. I admit I don't get it. I'm really interested, no flamebait...
Someone else mentioned interfaces, but you can't reuse code with them so they're not exactly the same as MI, interfaces just let you define what has to be in a class.
#define const public static final
Thank God they didn't include macros in Java. Whenever I have to read larger portions of other people's C and C++ code they're the ultimate source for confusion. In terms of maintainability, they're hell.
Sun gets out the most important versions (whatever that means) first. Windows has been released way earlier than their own Solaris versions. Linux is a bit behind, but not much. Blackdown makes sure Linux does not only mean Linux x86 while IBM has very good Linux tools of its own to offer.
I'm not so sure about Kaffe's progress. The website doesn't get updated often, but doesn't have to mean something. Anyone?
Is there an easy way to make use of the fact that both MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 use square blocks of pixels? That both use the DC transform? Maybe a dedicated MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 converter wouldn't have to do IDCT first followed by FDCT? Is it possible to work on quantized coefficients instead of pixels? Can information from the MPEG-2 encoding process (e.g. the direction of movement between two frames) be re-used? AFAIK, a lot of MPEG-2 encoding time goes into finding out what parts of a frame are moved in what direction, trying out various rotation angles and contrast / brightness adjustments... It seems to be a waste to throw that information away.
;-)
OTOH, although I know JPEG's internals pretty well, I'm not sure about MPEG
I'd like to learn more, why this came through and which parties did what in the process (in two years it's election time ;-)). The major German parties have become so similar in their behaviour that minor topics like this may make a difference...
The couple of DM they charge for a burner do not matter much, but once they put taxes on the media...
I don't like the idea of paying for the ability to store copyrighted material when in fact I just burn some videos from the last family reunion.
If the data has similarities in all those channels, maybe specialized lossless compression for astronomic images can be developed. Compression results always get better once you have a modeler designed specifically for your class of data.
DjVu is for scanned documents. There is no major accepted file format in use for this kind of data. This will be a huge market once bureaucracies around the world start digitizing their tons of documents. OTOH, DjVu is there for quite a while already and I don't see it having succeeded. Plus, when I installed the plugin under IE 5 a year ago, it was in some dubious beta state. Not nice to work with.
Lossy / lossless image compression types. You cannot compare PNG tolossy schemes. PNG cannot beat a lossy method because the goals are different. Lossless: Compress as small as possible (but the exact original must be restoreable). Typically, the algorithms that throw more resources (CPU and memory) at it are better. Lossy: For a given file size, reach the best quality. You can easily beat PNG with a lossy scheme by simply choosing very bad quality.
Open source. There are a few programs out there. Try TIC. It's GPL'd and beats JBIG-1 by about 40 percent on scanned images, according to the website.
Resources: Image Compression Resources, The Data Compression Library.
Do you know kAWT? Nice toolkit ;-)
I'm not sure if that is true. Sun has created several subsets of Java (namely J2ME, the micro edition) which run with a smaller memory footprint (the K in KVM is for kilobyte). Subset means that some of the standard classes are not available.
The Psion JVM that you're talking about is 'real' Java (1.1.4 compatible), but I've only heard that it runs on Revo (Plus) and the 5mx. It needs about 3 MB RAM.
Does anyone have an online resource explaining what ACL's enable you to do? Maybe even comparing the Unix flavor(s) to the ACL's they have on Windows NT? Just some introductory text.
...killed oreilly.com ;-)
It seems to be down, uhm, for maintenance purposes...
could have asked for a new ballot, had they noticed a mistake.
In yesterday's Larry King Live show someone said that people were refused new ballots. Many people only noticed later when they talked with friends / relatives about the ballots. Someone at LKL also showed the card, and I must say that I find them very confusing. Even CNN's political analyst Bill Schneider said that.
OTOH, the parties had an opportunity (long before election day) to see that ballots and make an objection, which the Democratic Party did not do.
Also, I wonder if Slashdot will be paying as much interest to the UK elections next year? France, Germany or Italy? I think not.
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