Most trekkies including myself don't put all evens above all odds. The biggest exceptions are 3, which I really liked, and 6, which I thought was near the bottom.
Most people in general believe 4 and 8 were the best though, and 5 was the worst. I think that's what people think of when they remember the even/odd rule.
"Borland plans to offer an alternative to Microsoft's Visual Studio.NET development environment. Such a product could suit application developers that want to leverage.NET and the best applications from many vendors."
The only other.NET IDE I know of today is SharpDevelop, which feels sluggish on my P3 1.2GHz. Anyone know of others?
It's a weird experience to run the same exe in Windows and Linux with the.NET or Mono runtimes. When Mono supports WinForms (by translating them to Gtk#), so GUI apps written with Visual Studio.NET's GUI builder work on Linux, that will be significant.
Reminds me of a girl I knew in college. When I'd ask her hard questions she'd get defensive. Questions like "Why did you vote that way?" or "Why did you let that guy do that?" She liked to say she just "went with the flow".
It reminds me of beginning programmers. They will sit and talk for an hour about how they wrote the number guessing game in C and it took them a week. It's important for them to do this, because that's the level they're at. When I was at that level and I read expert programming books, I thought it was bizarre that they didn't show every line of source or how to structure the code. Now I realize that all programming texts make assumptions about the reader's ability, and only talk at a certain level.
So cut the guy some slack, even though this was an inappropriate post for the front page. Maybe in five years he'll be working for that company that makes the $350 product with a cam already installed.
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Developer re-education? Developers constantly re-educate themselves or become outdated quickly. Most C/C++ programmers who will be affected are aware that if we don't make our programs 64-bit clean today that we'll pay for it later.
C99 has inttypes.h, which declares types like int32_t and uint16_t. Bjarne says this will probably make it in to C++0x.
The Itanium 2 has silicon dedicated to x86 emulation, which has been redesigned to be faster than the original Itanium. If this is fast enough, then it shouldn't be an advantage for AMD right?
Once AMD and Intel have 64-bit processors that are affordable and faster than their 32-bit products, I imagine apps will be optimized for both x86 and IA64 architectures. This could be by using separate binaries compiled for each, or just by writing for Java or.NET and JIT'ing to the host architecture. At this point, x86 emulation will only be used for legacy apps, so it doesn't have to be as fast as IA64 code.
I'm not sure how the emulation works though. Does the CPU have to switch modes using a lengthy switching time, or does the emulator just pick up x86 instructions and translate them to IA64 instructions?
Except $15/mo is more than a "few". You could get 8 magazine subscriptions for that price. Plus they're more portable, which is arguably one of the main advantages of magazines. And you're not stuck to Time/Warner publications.
Just to add my experience, I'm running XP SP1 with IE6 SP1 fully patched and I didn't even get the error box, just the web page and the help window which actually displayed the intro help page. I tried it with the original (Nov. 6) code posted in Bugtraq with the same results.
If you require a human reaction before you accept e-mail, they might start hiring people to sit at a computer for hours and respond to them for minimum wage, and pay them based on their speed and accuracy, just like data entry.
I don't know why the card Tom's Hardware reviewed didn't have one, but this shot which I've seen everywhere else has a gray filter on it. It looks like styrofoam to me, but I don't know what filters are usually made of.
You won't see the GeforceFX in stores until next February, and then it will probably be around $360 according to NVidia. The Radeon 9700 came out a couple of months ago at about $400, and the mid-range version won't be out until next month at under $200. So the mid-range GeforceFX will probably be out some time next summer.
I'm telling people who are prone to buying me gifts to go for the Geforce 4 Ti4200 128MB, which is about $150 right now. The Radeon 8500 is nearly as good if you're not stuck on NVidia like I am, and the 128MB version is under $100.
And for those of you who haven't seen it yet, here's the NVidia promo video, which has taken a lot of criticism.
Star Trek Memories is a great audiobook, read by Shatner himself. It's more about his life than about Trek, which I liked. He talks about how he got along with Nimoy, Roddenberry, and others. It's my second favorite audio book of all time, right behind Torvald's.
Hmm you're right, I was running XWin.exe by itself. I modified startxwin.bat and added the -rootless flag after XWin.exe, and now it works, sort of. You can only see where you're moving the window inside the window you're moving.
Rootless mode doesn't seem ready for general use. It's only available in a server test version. Where Exceed effectively makes Windows the window manager, Cygwin/XFree86 has no window manager, at least by default, so I can't move the windows I create. Also the X server shows up in the task bar and non-intuitively only works if maximized, which you can't tell unless you click on it to see if it's maximized or not. I am sure these will all be fixed in time, but it can't be used as an alternative today.
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Most trekkies including myself don't put all evens above all odds. The biggest exceptions are 3, which I really liked, and 6, which I thought was near the bottom.
Most people in general believe 4 and 8 were the best though, and 5 was the worst. I think that's what people think of when they remember the even/odd rule.
An interesting thought is that the question of Microsoft making cross-platform compilers now is a serious one.
I was on the Borland Developer Network page yesterday and found this article on Borland's upcoming .NET IDE.
.NET development environment. Such a product could suit application developers that want to leverage .NET and the best applications from many vendors."
.NET IDE I know of today is SharpDevelop, which feels sluggish on my P3 1.2GHz. Anyone know of others?
"Borland plans to offer an alternative to Microsoft's Visual Studio
The only other
It's a weird experience to run the same exe in Windows and Linux with the .NET or Mono runtimes. When Mono supports WinForms (by translating them to Gtk#), so GUI apps written with Visual Studio .NET's GUI builder work on Linux, that will be significant.
Here's a video where an NVidia engineer has a GF FX running two demos. It crashes twice, once taking the whole system down for a reboot.
(2.34e-9 * 1e-9)/(1/(3.04e9)) = 7.1136e-9
How did you measure 7 billionths of a processor cycle?
Here's the XScale link and the Solar PC link.
Reminds me of a girl I knew in college. When I'd ask her hard questions she'd get defensive. Questions like "Why did you vote that way?" or "Why did you let that guy do that?" She liked to say she just "went with the flow".
So did the Nazis.
It reminds me of beginning programmers. They will sit and talk for an hour about how they wrote the number guessing game in C and it took them a week. It's important for them to do this, because that's the level they're at. When I was at that level and I read expert programming books, I thought it was bizarre that they didn't show every line of source or how to structure the code. Now I realize that all programming texts make assumptions about the reader's ability, and only talk at a certain level.
So cut the guy some slack, even though this was an inappropriate post for the front page. Maybe in five years he'll be working for that company that makes the $350 product with a cam already installed.
Developer re-education? Developers constantly re-educate themselves or become outdated quickly. Most C/C++ programmers who will be affected are aware that if we don't make our programs 64-bit clean today that we'll pay for it later.
C99 has inttypes.h, which declares types like int32_t and uint16_t. Bjarne says this will probably make it in to C++0x.
The Itanium 2 has silicon dedicated to x86 emulation, which has been redesigned to be faster than the original Itanium. If this is fast enough, then it shouldn't be an advantage for AMD right?
.NET and JIT'ing to the host architecture. At this point, x86 emulation will only be used for legacy apps, so it doesn't have to be as fast as IA64 code.
Once AMD and Intel have 64-bit processors that are affordable and faster than their 32-bit products, I imagine apps will be optimized for both x86 and IA64 architectures. This could be by using separate binaries compiled for each, or just by writing for Java or
I'm not sure how the emulation works though. Does the CPU have to switch modes using a lengthy switching time, or does the emulator just pick up x86 instructions and translate them to IA64 instructions?
Except $15/mo is more than a "few". You could get 8 magazine subscriptions for that price. Plus they're more portable, which is arguably one of the main advantages of magazines. And you're not stuck to Time/Warner publications.
Just to add my experience, I'm running XP SP1 with IE6 SP1 fully patched and I didn't even get the error box, just the web page and the help window which actually displayed the intro help page. I tried it with the original (Nov. 6) code posted in Bugtraq with the same results.
If you require a human reaction before you accept e-mail, they might start hiring people to sit at a computer for hours and respond to them for minimum wage, and pay them based on their speed and accuracy, just like data entry.
I don't know why the card Tom's Hardware reviewed didn't have one, but this shot which I've seen everywhere else has a gray filter on it. It looks like styrofoam to me, but I don't know what filters are usually made of.
You won't see the GeforceFX in stores until next February, and then it will probably be around $360 according to NVidia. The Radeon 9700 came out a couple of months ago at about $400, and the mid-range version won't be out until next month at under $200. So the mid-range GeforceFX will probably be out some time next summer.
I'm telling people who are prone to buying me gifts to go for the Geforce 4 Ti4200 128MB, which is about $150 right now. The Radeon 8500 is nearly as good if you're not stuck on NVidia like I am, and the 128MB version is under $100.
And for those of you who haven't seen it yet, here's the NVidia promo video, which has taken a lot of criticism.
Star Trek Memories is a great audiobook, read by Shatner himself. It's more about his life than about Trek, which I liked. He talks about how he got along with Nimoy, Roddenberry, and others. It's my second favorite audio book of all time, right behind Torvald's.
Sorry about the typo.
I'm curious, does writing on a screen ever make scratches, even after years of heavy use?
Also the model mentioned is $1300 for a 15" next year, while you can pick up a $700 Samsung 19" LCD at Best Buy today.
Hmm you're right, I was running XWin.exe by itself. I modified startxwin.bat and added the -rootless flag after XWin.exe, and now it works, sort of. You can only see where you're moving the window inside the window you're moving.
Rootless mode doesn't seem ready for general use. It's only available in a server test version. Where Exceed effectively makes Windows the window manager, Cygwin/XFree86 has no window manager, at least by default, so I can't move the windows I create. Also the X server shows up in the task bar and non-intuitively only works if maximized, which you can't tell unless you click on it to see if it's maximized or not. I am sure these will all be fixed in time, but it can't be used as an alternative today.
Interesting that this article hit #1 on the blogdex a few days ago, and has since fallen off the chart.
Interesting links there now are Republican commentary from The Onion and a frightening NY Times article on the "virtual, centralized grand database" the new Homeland Security Bill the House just passed would create.
That reminds me of this Flipcode IOTD. It's pretty impressive if you're upsampling something cartoon-ish with not much high frequency detail.
Can you recommend any television shows or domestic films that give a good feeling for Japanese culture?