What's your point? People with visual impairment do buy large monitors and set it to seemingly 'ridiculous' resolutions. But it is all their eyes can cope with. It's not strange. You're just a stupid kid for not realising that some people don't have 20/20 eyesight.
I don't think they are doing all that well either. I'm pruning bottlenecks in a java app my company designed and I can currently get it to serve around 2 new sessions every second (approx. 7200 unique user sessions per hour) AND they are all dynamic flows with LOTS of DB activity (aruond 70 SQL queries in every session). All this uses a single 450Mhz sparc CPU to host both the app server and the database. The box is around 20% idle under that load.... And I'm not done pruning yet.
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It's not as good. I own this book and own both C++ books by Scott Meyers and this one is not nearly the level of Meyers' titles.
The topics it discusses are much more obvious than the traps that Meyers covered. Java's a simpler language, that's fair enough but there are areas of Java, especially around concurrent programming and network and io apis that may surprise even experienced developers. Those areas are precisely where 'Effective Java' is thin on content and I found it disappointing overall.
Just because it's sectioned the same way as Scott Meyers' books doesn't mean it's just as good!
Have you tried to fire some traffic at your applications through a tool like OpenSTA, for example? It would really tell you what the true performance characteristics are like for your software. Just observing the idle state memory footprints isn't going to tell you much.
None of this is even close to mainstream. Incidentally I played with some VR helmets that aspired to be 'mainstream' such as i-Glasses and CyberMaxx but they seem to have gone the way of the DoDo. It's too bad because I think they were ahead of their time... but only by a couple of years.
Speaking of which... why are VR helmets not yet (or perhaps no longer) with us? I had really high hopes for VR in a living room after playing with an SGI based system once in a museum in Chicago. Even though the thing had pretty crude graphics at the time it was still very immersive (at least I found it very immersive). Is VR having some extra strong effects on my brain that noone else experiences? I thought helmet based VR was the best thing since the invention of a video game but for some reason, 12 years on after I first tried it a decent VR helmet for an average gamer is still a pipe dream. Why?
Why just off-season? I think there is a huge hidden market of those who will excersise if it is more fun but won't be found in a gym or on a beach because they think they're too fat/skinny/ugly/whatever. It's a huge market to tap into, much bigger than the "6 minutes abs" thingies. It just has to be done right, like you say.
Besides not finding such a device particularly useful I also coulnd't help but notice the particularly hideous 70's design of the box itself. Carly is not only a bad manager, she also lacks any sense of aesthetics whatsoever...
Negotiate my ass. Have you been shopping for jobs lately? They give you an offer and either you take it or you're unemployed because there are already tens of others ready to take the crappy deal. Only the old boys' networks of this industry still seem to reward one another handsomely....
Which is precisely the way it is now. I still see so many incompetent cretins at my office shopping for houses twice as expensive as mine and it makes me wonder if being technically competent is worth the hassle of learning and the long nights of self study. Instead I could also become a lunch buddy of the VP of development and start making six figures...
At least unions would guarantee a fairly predictable pay schedule that would be commesurate to ones experience as opposed to being blatantly based on 'networking' the way it is now.
Interestingly this announcement follows the recent one by AMD where they stated that they were withdrawing from the x86 CPU market. Are there really such serious technical barriers or is Intel simply resting on laurels now that there is less competition in sight?
wholeheartedly agree. Most people buy stuff on the net once or twice a year. It really isn't a big deal for them to just type the same info twice a year. It takes more time to find your credit cards in your stow pocket than it does to type those few lines into a web form.
Where Passport/Alliance etc. is useful is for corporations who can easier track your browsing/shopping habits to profile you and target you with more personalized spam.
3. You can do corba over http without any problems. There are a number of tools to do just that. By the way, http is not lightweight compared to iiop by any stretch of imagination.
SOAP is the same soup reheated and served over and over again. It solves nothing that CORBA wasn't able to solve. Initially it was simpler than CORBA because of its incompleteness. Now that it is catching up to CORBA in terms of supported functionality its complexity has grown exponentially.
You have a point with debugging but I'd definitely argue about the ease of XSD vs IDL. I find IDL far more natural and obvious than XSD. Personal perference perhaps, but I know more than one person who also shares that view. Also IIOP is much more efficient in terms of bandwidth and processing power required to marshall/unmarshall invocations. I know in this day and age that doesn't count for squat but it explains why we constanly need more and more powerful machines to accomplish essentially the same stuff we did ten years ago.
CORBA maps to most conceivable languages out there (name one that doesn't have an IDL mapping). XML is also less efficient as a way of implementing B-2-B communication (extra parsing time required for each invocation and general verbosity of the text sent). IDL is fast, efficient, standardised and now with all this new schema nonsense coming, it also appears simpler than SOAP.
Salon must be incredibly expensive to run. They employ full time journos and lots of support staff and techies. If a place like Kuro5hin.org (literally a one man show) barely hangs on through fundraisers and pledge drives then Salon with their scores of employees and meager advertising income are going down the tubes quickly.
Therein lies the problem with US cell networks. CDMA allows you to cram more calls per station that GSM (they don't have a fixed limit) but it's with each call quality degradation. It is purely the setup of the networks by the cellphone company that determines what constitutes 'acceptable quality'. That's why GSM communication is so much more consistent in voice quality.
Lucky bastard. I studied in Edinburgh as an 'overseas student'. You pay all the bullshit fees (printing costs, graduation fee, exam fee, accomodation etc) ON THE TOP of an 8000 Pounds Sterling tuition fee.
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What's your point? People with visual impairment do buy large monitors and set it to seemingly 'ridiculous' resolutions. But it is all their eyes can cope with. It's not strange. You're just a stupid kid for not realising that some people don't have 20/20 eyesight.
I don't think they are doing all that well either. I'm pruning bottlenecks in a java app my company designed and I can currently get it to serve around 2 new sessions every second (approx. 7200 unique user sessions per hour) AND they are all dynamic flows with LOTS of DB activity (aruond 70 SQL queries in every session). All this uses a single 450Mhz sparc CPU to host both the app server and the database. The box is around 20% idle under that load.... And I'm not done pruning yet.
The topics it discusses are much more obvious than the traps that Meyers covered. Java's a simpler language, that's fair enough but there are areas of Java, especially around concurrent programming and network and io apis that may surprise even experienced developers. Those areas are precisely where 'Effective Java' is thin on content and I found it disappointing overall.
Just because it's sectioned the same way as Scott Meyers' books doesn't mean it's just as good!
Have you tried to fire some traffic at your applications through a tool like OpenSTA, for example? It would really tell you what the true performance characteristics are like for your software. Just observing the idle state memory footprints isn't going to tell you much.
None of this is even close to mainstream. Incidentally I played with some VR helmets that aspired to be 'mainstream' such as i-Glasses and CyberMaxx but they seem to have gone the way of the DoDo. It's too bad because I think they were ahead of their time... but only by a couple of years.
Speaking of which... why are VR helmets not yet (or perhaps no longer) with us? I had really high hopes for VR in a living room after playing with an SGI based system once in a museum in Chicago. Even though the thing had pretty crude graphics at the time it was still very immersive (at least I found it very immersive). Is VR having some extra strong effects on my brain that noone else experiences? I thought helmet based VR was the best thing since the invention of a video game but for some reason, 12 years on after I first tried it a decent VR helmet for an average gamer is still a pipe dream. Why?
Why just off-season? I think there is a huge hidden market of those who will excersise if it is more fun but won't be found in a gym or on a beach because they think they're too fat/skinny/ugly/whatever. It's a huge market to tap into, much bigger than the "6 minutes abs" thingies. It just has to be done right, like you say.
Besides not finding such a device particularly useful I also coulnd't help but notice the particularly hideous 70's design of the box itself. Carly is not only a bad manager, she also lacks any sense of aesthetics whatsoever...
I'm under 30 FYI
At least unions would guarantee a fairly predictable pay schedule that would be commesurate to ones experience as opposed to being blatantly based on 'networking' the way it is now.
"100 Best girls to have sex with"? Geez, if I only could be the judge in that ranking... :)
Quick question: Why do Russians always hang area rugs above their beds? Off topic, I know, but I'm really curious...
Doesn't matter. His name only has an exact cyrilic spelling. Anything written in the roman alphabet is simply an approximation.
Interestingly this announcement follows the recent one by AMD where they stated that they were withdrawing from the x86 CPU market. Are there really such serious technical barriers or is Intel simply resting on laurels now that there is less competition in sight?
That's downright tasteless!
Let's see Rose reverse engninner your next project, eh?
Where Passport/Alliance etc. is useful is for corporations who can easier track your browsing/shopping habits to profile you and target you with more personalized spam.
Am I the only one who thinks this sounds very much like the stuff Jean Michelle Jarre would produce?
2. You use Dynamic Invocation Interface
3. You can do corba over http without any problems. There are a number of tools to do just that. By the way, http is not lightweight compared to iiop by any stretch of imagination.
SOAP is the same soup reheated and served over and over again. It solves nothing that CORBA wasn't able to solve. Initially it was simpler than CORBA because of its incompleteness. Now that it is catching up to CORBA in terms of supported functionality its complexity has grown exponentially.
You have a point with debugging but I'd definitely argue about the ease of XSD vs IDL. I find IDL far more natural and obvious than XSD. Personal perference perhaps, but I know more than one person who also shares that view. Also IIOP is much more efficient in terms of bandwidth and processing power required to marshall/unmarshall invocations. I know in this day and age that doesn't count for squat but it explains why we constanly need more and more powerful machines to accomplish essentially the same stuff we did ten years ago.
CORBA maps to most conceivable languages out there (name one that doesn't have an IDL mapping). XML is also less efficient as a way of implementing B-2-B communication (extra parsing time required for each invocation and general verbosity of the text sent). IDL is fast, efficient, standardised and now with all this new schema nonsense coming, it also appears simpler than SOAP.
And that's better than good ole' CORBA IDL, how?
Salon must be incredibly expensive to run. They employ full time journos and lots of support staff and techies. If a place like Kuro5hin.org (literally a one man show) barely hangs on through fundraisers and pledge drives then Salon with their scores of employees and meager advertising income are going down the tubes quickly.
Therein lies the problem with US cell networks. CDMA allows you to cram more calls per station that GSM (they don't have a fixed limit) but it's with each call quality degradation. It is purely the setup of the networks by the cellphone company that determines what constitutes 'acceptable quality'. That's why GSM communication is so much more consistent in voice quality.
Lucky bastard. I studied in Edinburgh as an 'overseas student'. You pay all the bullshit fees (printing costs, graduation fee, exam fee, accomodation etc) ON THE TOP of an 8000 Pounds Sterling tuition fee.