In this interview some Sun engineer says the next Java release will definitely support wheel mice with Swing. No word on how this release (1.4, 'Merlin') will be out, though.
What is your point? "runs nicely" really means nothing.
You said:
Have you ever used the swing JFC? If you have tried the demos included in the distribution, you know what I am talking about.
I simply say that I'm programming an application that is quite a bit more complex than the demos and there is no problem with it. No flicker, no slow GUI refresh, no problem. I also get along quite fast because Swing is easy to understand. So whatever you experienced isn't true for me -- got it?! The statement '...try the demo and you'll know what I mean' is simply nonsense. My system is a P-II 350, so not exactly the fastest machine.
I'm just in the process of writing a Swing app (JDK 1.3 / Sun). It runs nicely, the GUI's concept is simple to understand, so -- where's the problem? My story is as anecdotal as any, but what is so bad about Swing?
Given that tools such as Kaffe are no longer needed on Linux now that we have a complete, official JDK from Sun (with a better JIT as well, see the August LJ for info), I think that Transvirtual was thrown into a situation in which there was no future for them in the Linux world.
Kaffe still has an impressing list of supported operating systems and processors. And that list is not even complete, they changed it recently, there also is support for FreeBSD and I don't know what else is missing. They even claim to support the Hurd / i386;-) Even if the more 'important' of these platforms are now covered by IBM and Sun, it's great to have a free JVM that seems to be relatively easily portable to new platforms. So Kaffe is definitely needed! And although Linux JVM's are available, the diversity is a great thing to have.
Although we will probably never get it, but 'Woohoo' nonetheless.
Couldn't care less about the Office package. Not only that they will hardly be able to make it at least partially stable, Linux already has Office software like StarOffice, KOffice and whatever the Gnome people are planning.
If you look at IE 5.5, they don't seem to care much of what anyone else might think of them. The latest version of the Internet Explorer adds tons of proprietary stuff to HTML and they don't really support the existing standards. I'm not sure how much is left to see on any other browser of a page that was designed for IE 5.5, but it can't be a lot. And you know that people do stupid things like designing for a specific version of a specific browser.
I'm pretty sure you can teach someone without computer knowledge to use Netscape, StarOffice and KMail on KDE (as an example). You show them how to log in, that there are the buttons to start the program, how to open files etc. It's a lot like Windows.
The problem is to set up the system. You must give them a preinstalled Linux and they must have someone who will fix problems for them. If they don't have a tech-savvy friend / neighbor / relative, they're screwed. And frankly, I don't think the people who need that much support (e.g. for every icon that disappeared) are able to solve the same problems under Windows.
Can anyone tell a bit more about what metadata can be included in the.ogg files? A link, maybe? It was shortly mentioned that someone was working on it... Or is reading the source the only way right now?
Firstbrook also takes issue with Linux's most famous feature--the fact that it is free. "Our analysis says that the cost of the operating system is only 3 percent of the total cost of ownership of the server," he says. Labor is a far more significant proportion of IT costs, and the very cost that is likely to be affected if employees spend time tinkering with Linux.
If you call yourself an IT professional and are surprised by the fact that total cost of ownership is the thing to look at, you have quite some homework to do.
"Linux is out there and people are using it, but it is mostly because of the cool factor," he says. "Having somebody who can screw around with my operating system would make me very, very nervous," he says.
What about the stability factor? And why does the possibility of change mean that you have to change something? You also shouldn't screw around with your car's brakes if you don't know what you're doing. Sigh...
Does anyone know where the advantages of vector quantization compression are when it comes to storing textures for a game (as mentioned on page 2 of the article)? Can they be decompressed very fast? Can different levels of detail be accessed easily to be mapped to surfaces at varying distances?
As it seems to be implemented in hardware in this case, is there a software package of some VQ compression algorithm that comes close to wavelets or similar state-of-the-art compression? I just wonder because lately anyone seems to use wavelets...
Not if the relative number of occurrences is checked as suggested elsewhere in this discussion -- these words appear, but there are a lot more 'unbanned' words.
It would be interesting to know if search engines have more advanced heuristics to put content into different sections like 'personal homepage', 'news site' etc. In a perfect world everyone would truthfully fill in the details in the meta elements, but that is certainly not the case.
Some sites use huge graphics that combine both pictures and descriptions. This is
1) bad webdesign (bandwidth-robbing, cannot be indexed etc.) and
2) not automatically detectable.
So there will always be sites that 'escape'.
Another question: How to handle a website that is made up of many pages in its subdirectories? Something like xoom or geocities comes to mind. While one person might upload all of his pr0n there, another one has insightful material on his last vacation (boring yet harmless). Where does one draw the line?
There is Java Grande. These guys are working on making Java more suitable for number crunching and similar jobs. They've contributed to StrictMath and suggested the strictfp modifier (IIRC)... If they thought number crunching couldn't be done fast enough, they'd never started the project. It seems like the interpretation / just-in-time compilation part of Java doesn't have too much of an influence on performance with these kinds of applications.
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The original Gnutella client isn't the 'officially recommended' client anymore -- they now ask you to use Gnotella.
With the old client you couldn't restrict bandwidth or number of node connections, so it is a good idea to pick another one if you're connected for more than an hour.
And there is a ton of other clients, some with source.
IIRC, they send replies on any query you might come up with, which makes them a real pain in the ass (right now, 33.131.204.88:4242 for me). I guess I'll switch to a Gnutella software that lets you ban certain IP's (meaning that results from them aren't displayed and that results routed via your node coming from them are dropped).
I guess a system like Gnutella must be able to live with that kind of abuse. OTOH, I wouldn't be too sad when I hear that someone did something nasty to their servers!
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I'm really impressed with this milestone -- the first that I tested that actually works fine.
My question (I read a Mozilla FAQ but I didn't find an answer): I have Sun's 1.3 JDK installed. The JDK of course includes all runtime classes and a virtual machine. Is there a guide on how to activate the VM under Mozilla? Is Sun's JVM OJI-compliant?
I haven't read much cryptography books (in fact, nothing except this one and the first edition of Schneier's book), so I'm not an expert. But it was a good text book for our university course on cryptography. Doing cryptanalysis was one of the more interesting homeworks! The book puts an emphasis on theoretic background (it's one of the things LaTeX is great for, with all of these formulas;-)).
If you want to read a cryptography-related novel, I can recommend Stephenson's Cryptonomicon. I guess most/. readers know it anyway, so I just mention it for the sake of completeness.
Many of the US films are not available here in Germany because they're only published in the US region (esp. the older ones, where region coding makes/no sense at all/ -- why exactly do they have to fear that a film could be bought here when it hasn't run in Germany yet if the film is from 1952?).
They're more expensive.
Sometimes they are available, but you cannot switch off the bloody subtitles (for legal reasons, whatever that means). IMHO that's annoying.
Sometimes they leave out the English audio track. In an American film. What the fuck?!
So, I'm kinda pissed by the whole DVD thing. They try everything to scare away potential buyers. Unfortunately, they have one hell of a monopoly.
The Ericsson R380 seems to combine a cell phone and a PDA quite nicely, it even uses EPOC as its operating system which is considered pretty robust. Those two devices seem to be good candidates for a 'merger'.
Unfortunately, Ericsson seems to be unable to finish the product. Anyone else knows what's the problem? They've now scheduled it for 3rd quarter 2000...
Since this is in XML, one can surely expect file sizes to be huge compared to binary formats. What sort of sumb idea is this?
You will be able to save a lot of space compared to a GIF or PNG that represents a bitmapped version of the same image (which had to be used until now). And you cannot even scale that bitmap a lot without seeing its pixel nature.
My guess is that, if anybody uses this, they'll compress the files as a matter of course. But with LZW, so this will end up with patent issues in practice.
Why should anyone pick LZW?! There's zlib / gzip, they're patent-free, browsers seem to support unpacking them, so no problem at all.
Try it here. It takes into consideration the structure of XML for its compression model.
BTW, the exact redundancy depends on the kind of data you're compressing. But because you cannot use certain characters directly in XML (you have to escape certain things like the ampersand etc.), you will always be able to reduce XML files a bit.
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In this interview some Sun engineer says the next Java release will definitely support wheel mice with Swing. No word on how this release (1.4, 'Merlin') will be out, though.
Will be fixed in 1.4, according to some guys in comp.lang.java.programmer. There already is a fix, but only for Win32...
What is your point? "runs nicely" really means nothing.
You said:
Have you ever used the swing JFC? If you have tried the demos included in the distribution, you know what I am talking about.
I simply say that I'm programming an application that is quite a bit more complex than the demos and there is no problem with it. No flicker, no slow GUI refresh, no problem. I also get along quite fast because Swing is easy to understand. So whatever you experienced isn't true for me -- got it?! The statement '...try the demo and you'll know what I mean' is simply nonsense. My system is a P-II 350, so not exactly the fastest machine.
Fact is, you can't say Java is fast or slow, it depends a lot on the context.
I'm just in the process of writing a Swing app (JDK 1.3 / Sun). It runs nicely, the GUI's concept is simple to understand, so -- where's the problem? My story is as anecdotal as any, but what is so bad about Swing?
Given that tools such as Kaffe are no longer needed on Linux now that we have a complete, official JDK from Sun (with a better JIT as well, see the August LJ for info), I think that Transvirtual was thrown into a situation in which there was no future for them in the Linux world.
;-) Even if the more 'important' of these platforms are now covered by IBM and Sun, it's great to have a free JVM that seems to be relatively easily portable to new platforms. So Kaffe is definitely needed! And although Linux JVM's are available, the diversity is a great thing to have.
Kaffe still has an impressing list of supported operating systems and processors. And that list is not even complete, they changed it recently, there also is support for FreeBSD and I don't know what else is missing. They even claim to support the Hurd / i386
Woohoo! Finally!
Although we will probably never get it, but 'Woohoo' nonetheless.
Couldn't care less about the Office package. Not only that they will hardly be able to make it at least partially stable, Linux already has Office software like StarOffice, KOffice and whatever the Gnome people are planning.
The DOJ.
If you look at IE 5.5, they don't seem to care much of what anyone else might think of them. The latest version of the Internet Explorer adds tons of proprietary stuff to HTML and they don't really support the existing standards. I'm not sure how much is left to see on any other browser of a page that was designed for IE 5.5, but it can't be a lot. And you know that people do stupid things like designing for a specific version of a specific browser.
I'm pretty sure you can teach someone without computer knowledge to use Netscape, StarOffice and KMail on KDE (as an example). You show them how to log in, that there are the buttons to start the program, how to open files etc. It's a lot like Windows.
The problem is to set up the system. You must give them a preinstalled Linux and they must have someone who will fix problems for them. If they don't have a tech-savvy friend / neighbor / relative, they're screwed. And frankly, I don't think the people who need that much support (e.g. for every icon that disappeared) are able to solve the same problems under Windows.
... is here. It includes the preface of the book.
In addition to the other two replies so far, there is a HOWTO especially for the cute little VAIO PCG-C1XD.
Can anyone tell a bit more about what metadata can be included in the .ogg files? A link, maybe? It was shortly mentioned that someone was working on it... Or is reading the source the only way right now?
Firstbrook also takes issue with Linux's most famous feature--the fact that it is free. "Our analysis says that the cost of the operating system is only 3 percent of the total cost of ownership of the server," he says. Labor is a far more significant proportion of IT costs, and the very cost that is likely to be affected if employees spend time tinkering with Linux.
If you call yourself an IT professional and are surprised by the fact that total cost of ownership is the thing to look at, you have quite some homework to do.
"Linux is out there and people are using it, but it is mostly because of the cool factor," he says. "Having somebody who can screw around with my operating system would make me very, very nervous," he says.
What about the stability factor? And why does the possibility of change mean that you have to change something? You also shouldn't screw around with your car's brakes if you don't know what you're doing. Sigh...
Does anyone know where the advantages of vector quantization compression are when it comes to storing textures for a game (as mentioned on page 2 of the article)? Can they be decompressed very fast? Can different levels of detail be accessed easily to be mapped to surfaces at varying distances?
As it seems to be implemented in hardware in this case, is there a software package of some VQ compression algorithm that comes close to wavelets or similar state-of-the-art compression? I just wonder because lately anyone seems to use wavelets...
Not if the relative number of occurrences is checked as suggested elsewhere in this discussion -- these words appear, but there are a lot more 'unbanned' words.
It would be interesting to know if search engines have more advanced heuristics to put content into different sections like 'personal homepage', 'news site' etc. In a perfect world everyone would truthfully fill in the details in the meta elements, but that is certainly not the case.
Some sites use huge graphics that combine both pictures and descriptions. This is
1) bad webdesign (bandwidth-robbing, cannot be indexed etc.) and
2) not automatically detectable.
So there will always be sites that 'escape'.
Another question: How to handle a website that is made up of many pages in its subdirectories? Something like xoom or geocities comes to mind. While one person might upload all of his pr0n there, another one has insightful material on his last vacation (boring yet harmless). Where does one draw the line?
There is Java Grande. These guys are working on making Java more suitable for number crunching and similar jobs. They've contributed to StrictMath and suggested the strictfp modifier (IIRC)... If they thought number crunching couldn't be done fast enough, they'd never started the project. It seems like the interpretation / just-in-time compilation part of Java doesn't have too much of an influence on performance with these kinds of applications.
The original Gnutella client isn't the 'officially recommended' client anymore -- they now ask you to use Gnotella.
With the old client you couldn't restrict bandwidth or number of node connections, so it is a good idea to pick another one if you're connected for more than an hour.
And there is a ton of other clients, some with source.
IIRC, they send replies on any query you might come up with, which makes them a real pain in the ass (right now, 33.131.204.88:4242 for me). I guess I'll switch to a Gnutella software that lets you ban certain IP's (meaning that results from them aren't displayed and that results routed via your node coming from them are dropped).
I guess a system like Gnutella must be able to live with that kind of abuse. OTOH, I wouldn't be too sad when I hear that someone did something nasty to their servers!
I'm really impressed with this milestone -- the first that I tested that actually works fine.
My question (I read a Mozilla FAQ but I didn't find an answer): I have Sun's 1.3 JDK installed. The JDK of course includes all runtime classes and a virtual machine. Is there a guide on how to activate the VM under Mozilla? Is Sun's JVM OJI-compliant?
Salomaa: Public Key Cryptography
;-)).
/. readers know it anyway, so I just mention it for the sake of completeness.
I haven't read much cryptography books (in fact, nothing except this one and the first edition of Schneier's book), so I'm not an expert. But it was a good text book for our university course on cryptography. Doing cryptanalysis was one of the more interesting homeworks! The book puts an emphasis on theoretic background (it's one of the things LaTeX is great for, with all of these formulas
If you want to read a cryptography-related novel, I can recommend Stephenson's Cryptonomicon. I guess most
Many of the US films are not available here in Germany because they're only published in the US region (esp. the older ones, where region coding makes /no sense at all/ -- why exactly do they have to fear that a film could be bought here when it hasn't run in Germany yet if the film is from 1952?).
They're more expensive.
Sometimes they are available, but you cannot switch off the bloody subtitles (for legal reasons, whatever that means). IMHO that's annoying.
Sometimes they leave out the English audio track. In an American film. What the fuck?!
So, I'm kinda pissed by the whole DVD thing. They try everything to scare away potential buyers. Unfortunately, they have one hell of a monopoly.
The Ericsson R380 seems to combine a cell phone and a PDA quite nicely, it even uses EPOC as its operating system which is considered pretty robust. Those two devices seem to be good candidates for a 'merger'.
Unfortunately, Ericsson seems to be unable to finish the product. Anyone else knows what's the problem? They've now scheduled it for 3rd quarter 2000...
Since this is in XML, one can surely expect file sizes to be huge compared to binary formats. What sort of sumb idea is this?
You will be able to save a lot of space compared to a GIF or PNG that represents a bitmapped version of the same image (which had to be used until now). And you cannot even scale that bitmap a lot without seeing its pixel nature.
My guess is that, if anybody uses this, they'll compress the files as a matter of course. But with LZW, so this will end up with patent issues in practice.
Why should anyone pick LZW?! There's zlib / gzip, they're patent-free, browsers seem to support unpacking them, so no problem at all.
Try it here. It takes into consideration the structure of XML for its compression model.
BTW, the exact redundancy depends on the kind of data you're compressing. But because you cannot use certain characters directly in XML (you have to escape certain things like the ampersand etc.), you will always be able to reduce XML files a bit.