I second the 'red screen' problems of Windows 7. Very recent Sony VAIO, brand new USB umts sticky, installation of very large name Telecom provider failed with a redscreen.
You can observe things like the color of distant stars, the rotations of galaxies, even the cosmic background radiation. We can see, for example, that hot hydrogen on a distant star has exactly the same kind of spectroscopic signature that hydrogen here on earth does.
But we don't, we see a redshifted version. We have explained that this is because the galaxy is moving away but maybe it's something else.
P.S. I am a physicist, an experimental type.
And what is a day before god made the Earth? Or do you use the 'day' timestandard, and then apply it back to before he made the earth. Oh, which day, the one we have now, or the one a couple of billion years ago? Oh oops, there was no couple of billion years ago, It all started 6000 years ago or something.
The small country is where I live, and it's definitely a social democracy with high taxation, decent unemployment benefits, mandatory healthcare insurance and such. The original poster equated that with high youth unemployment, and it takes just one counter-example to prove that that hypothesis is wrong.
Yeah, so it's apparently not so much the social democrat philosophy of the European countries as it is in the implementation of labor laws and other factors. I know there's more labor mobility in the Netherlands than in France, but I don't know why this is so. Unions are more powerful in France, that's for sure, but I don't know if that's an important factor.
Tried to install from a DVD on my Vaio laptop. Unity crashes during install. Tried the 32 bit version. Unity crashes during install.
Installed OpenSuse 11.4 from DVD; everything works perfectly, video, sound, camera, wifi, multi-boot.
So you ARE fanboying; you say something is 'miles better' than something else, even though you have never worked with it. If the shoe fits or something.... And you also do not address the caching issue in the JIT compiler, because that's the real problem with anything approaching realtime in Java.
The one big problem of Java is its unpredictable latency, mostly due to the caching status of the JIT compiler. If the bit of code you need for smooth scrolling is already in the cache, its fast and otherwise it's slower. There's also the occasional garbage collect which really locks the whole thing.There are some attempts to make Java interpreters more predictable but to me they feel like an awful hack, trying to force Java into something it was never meant for.
I have actually tried extremely simple programs using swing, awt, swt and qt-jambi, and all of them jitter when showing a tickertape. The same qt program in C++ does not jitter. So I stand by my point of view. Don't believe me; try it yourself.
As for fanboyism; you asked for it with you 'miles better'. It's not, it's just different and far less integrated and not as fast as Qt. And it's Java, so it doesn't start quick, and is not really quick (compare Eclipse with Qt-Creator for instance). Have you even worked in Qt? I have, and in Java + AWT, Swing, Swt and even Qt. Oh and about two dozen other languages.
here is the complete scenario of what will happen, told by a guy who has seen the same happen to his small company when it was bought by Adobe, via the same guy that's now running Nokia.
Qt needs to be forked asap.
Let me put it this way. I did not call you a liar (read it carefully), but the gist of what I wrote is that you come across as being untruthful. I think I did a similar thing to what I'm accusing you of, which is to carefully use words to create an impression.
I think when one reads the whole of the Lovelock article he comes across as far more sensible than what you portray in your summary. So I think you're not stating a falsehood, but I think your exclusive selection of one fragment of the interview for your summary creates a falsehood, strengthened by the fact that very many slashdotters don't read TFA.
My Dutch bank ING uses my cellphone for authorization of transactions or changes online. I can log in and view my account data with just a password, so that might get compromised, but for a transaction or for instance changing over to a new cellphone number, I need a transaction number that is being sms-ed to the cellphone.
My other Dutch bank ABN/AMRO uses some kind of calculator thingy that provides a transaction number based on a value you receive from the banks webpage.
The same ING bank also provides a very simple system where you have a sheet of paper with transaction numbers, and the webpage just asks you for your next TAN code.
What do all these have in common? Right, a separate transaction authorization outside the browser. How hard is that?
Historically Microsoft has pushed very hard for their own DirectX 3D api. This happened after the OpenGL standard was already common for Unix workstations and such.
So wether or not it's the card vendors or Microsoft, it's a fact that Microsoft created the non-uniformity of the 3D api world, by introducing its own non-open non-crossplatform standard.
So ofcourse one can run OpenGL on Windows, but it's not easy, not standard, and often works badly. Which is exactly what Microsoft wanted when it created DirectX. A new 3D standard, that would be used in gaming, and that would make it harder (i.e. more expensive) for applications to be crossplatform; it thereby served its purpose: continuing and extending the dominance of the Windows platform.
Many Windows machines can't render WebGL content because the OpenGL drivers aren't installed, even though the computer has powerful graphics hardware, Bridge wrote. Computers running OS X or Linux are fine, however, since those operating systems use OpenGL as the primary 3D API, Bridge wrote.
"ANGLE will allow Windows users to run WebGL content without having to find and install new drivers for their system," Bridge wrote.
Because ANGLE aims to use most of the OpenGL ES 2.0 API, it may help developers working on mobile and embedded devices, Bridge wrote.
"ANGLE should make it simpler to prototype these applications on Windows and also gives developers new options for deploying production versions of their code to the desktop,"
So WebGL works fine on real operating systems that already have OpenGL, and because Microsoft suffered from its not-invented-here syndrome, Windows computers typically can not do WebGL because they have no OpenGL stack. That't the driver TFA is talking about.
I've spent most of my career on embedded projects, and I'm still doing real programming, from bit banging an I2C or Dallas onewire bus, writing a custom assembly routine to provide a uC-OS-II task switch on an ethernet chip interrupt, or interfacing with some higher level Tcl stuff. To get the whole thing working mix in some shell, awk, python xslt, stir well, and get space qualified software. Oh and when all that starts to get boring, throw in some FPGA programming for a completely new way of doing things.
I love my jobs!
Really, I think embedded software is often more interesting than most web-, gui- or server apps. The disadvantage is that you pretty much need an electronics degree (which I do), to be able to do it effectively.
Last but not least, it often pays pretty good, and the quality requirements are high, which means that there is time allocated to make something good. Google for 'Declic' on linuxjournal.com if you want to see what I'm talking about.
Buy an Arduino or something similar (msp-430) and see how much work it is to actually toggle a LED at a certain frequency, or drive an LCD connected via I2c or something. It's a whole new world. You'll have to learn C (probably) and maybe a bit of assembly language.
Linux journal had a nice introduction article on embedded programming.
I've been doing embedded development work for the last 20 years, and am still enjoying it. It pays pretty good, and you'll be far less interchangeable with someone else than your typical Java programmer.
Jeez, and it's not even my own language!
At least half the comments here, as well as TFA confirm the general observation of falling literacy skills even among the university educated.
Thanks for calling me names.
Fortunately I feel quite justified in having my own opinion on the science behind AGW; after all I have a cum laude Masters in Physics. I've spent most of my career in University labs, so I don't share your trust in the perfection of science. There are a lot of dumb and/or bad scientists, and there is a lot of bad science done and published. I happen to think that a lot of the science behind AGW is really bad, and as far as the computer modelling goes: anyone that thinks we are currently capable to accurate model an open energy system as complicated as climate, is not aware of the difficulties of computational physics. The predictions of these models are as reliable as simple extrapolation of the past, and the last 10 years of level or slightly dropping global average temperatures is proof that simple extrapolation of trendlines from last century (which period?) does not cut the mustard.
Thanks for the link to wikipedia. Just looking at the graph it is clear that the sea level has been rising steadily since the last ice age. There is no increase in the slope at all, so there is nothing about global warming/climate change that has changed anything whatsoever about our decisions to live near the coast or not.
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I second the 'red screen' problems of Windows 7. Very recent Sony VAIO, brand new USB umts sticky, installation of very large name Telecom provider failed with a redscreen.
But we don't, we see a redshifted version. We have explained that this is because the galaxy is moving away but maybe it's something else.
P.S. I am a physicist, an experimental type.
And what is a day before god made the Earth? Or do you use the 'day' timestandard, and then apply it back to before he made the earth. Oh, which day, the one we have now, or the one a couple of billion years ago? Oh oops, there was no couple of billion years ago, It all started 6000 years ago or something.
The small country is where I live, and it's definitely a social democracy with high taxation, decent unemployment benefits, mandatory healthcare insurance and such. The original poster equated that with high youth unemployment, and it takes just one counter-example to prove that that hypothesis is wrong.
Yeah, so it's apparently not so much the social democrat philosophy of the European countries as it is in the implementation of labor laws and other factors. I know there's more labor mobility in the Netherlands than in France, but I don't know why this is so. Unions are more powerful in France, that's for sure, but I don't know if that's an important factor.
Looking at the youth unemployment figures for the USA (17.6%) and that of for instance the Netherlands (6.6%), you seem to be mistaken.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=youth+unemployment+USA+vs+Netherlands
Suse with KDE has more polish than kubuntu, KDE is definitely second choice in the ubuntu universe.
Tried to install from a DVD on my Vaio laptop. Unity crashes during install. Tried the 32 bit version. Unity crashes during install.
Installed OpenSuse 11.4 from DVD; everything works perfectly, video, sound, camera, wifi, multi-boot.
So you ARE fanboying; you say something is 'miles better' than something else, even though you have never worked with it. If the shoe fits or something....
And you also do not address the caching issue in the JIT compiler, because that's the real problem with anything approaching realtime in Java.
The one big problem of Java is its unpredictable latency, mostly due to the caching status of the JIT compiler. If the bit of code you need for smooth scrolling is already in the cache, its fast and otherwise it's slower. There's also the occasional garbage collect which really locks the whole thing.There are some attempts to make Java interpreters more predictable but to me they feel like an awful hack, trying to force Java into something it was never meant for.
I have actually tried extremely simple programs using swing, awt, swt and qt-jambi, and all of them jitter when showing a tickertape. The same qt program in C++ does not jitter. So I stand by my point of view. Don't believe me; try it yourself.
As for fanboyism; you asked for it with you 'miles better'. It's not, it's just different and far less integrated and not as fast as Qt. And it's Java, so it doesn't start quick, and is not really quick (compare Eclipse with Qt-Creator for instance). Have you even worked in Qt? I have, and in Java + AWT, Swing, Swt and even Qt. Oh and about two dozen other languages.
Try make a SMOOTH scrolling ticker tape text, and then come back with your fanboy nonsense.
here is the complete scenario of what will happen, told by a guy who has seen the same happen to his small company when it was bought by Adobe, via the same guy that's now running Nokia.
Qt needs to be forked asap.
you are kidding
I'm afraid for the Qt future. It's a great toolkit, but it's very much cross-platform, so Microsoft will kill it.
Maybe you can add something meaningful to the scilab project? http://www.scilab.org/
Let me put it this way. I did not call you a liar (read it carefully), but the gist of what I wrote is that you come across as being untruthful. I think I did a similar thing to what I'm accusing you of, which is to carefully use words to create an impression.
I think when one reads the whole of the Lovelock article he comes across as far more sensible than what you portray in your summary. So I think you're not stating a falsehood, but I think your exclusive selection of one fragment of the interview for your summary creates a falsehood, strengthened by the fact that very many slashdotters don't read TFA.
Of all the shit slashdot summaries, this one must be about the worst. It's so much not representative of the article that it's pretty much a lie.
My other Dutch bank ABN/AMRO uses some kind of calculator thingy that provides a transaction number based on a value you receive from the banks webpage.
The same ING bank also provides a very simple system where you have a sheet of paper with transaction numbers, and the webpage just asks you for your next TAN code.
What do all these have in common? Right, a separate transaction authorization outside the browser. How hard is that?
Historically Microsoft has pushed very hard for their own DirectX 3D api. This happened after the OpenGL standard was already common for Unix workstations and such.
So wether or not it's the card vendors or Microsoft, it's a fact that Microsoft created the non-uniformity of the 3D api world, by introducing its own non-open non-crossplatform standard.
So ofcourse one can run OpenGL on Windows, but it's not easy, not standard, and often works badly. Which is exactly what Microsoft wanted when it created DirectX. A new 3D standard, that would be used in gaming, and that would make it harder (i.e. more expensive) for applications to be crossplatform; it thereby served its purpose: continuing and extending the dominance of the Windows platform.
So WebGL works fine on real operating systems that already have OpenGL, and because Microsoft suffered from its not-invented-here syndrome, Windows computers typically can not do WebGL because they have no OpenGL stack. That't the driver TFA is talking about.
I've spent most of my career on embedded projects, and I'm still doing real programming, from bit banging an I2C or Dallas onewire bus, writing a custom assembly routine to provide a uC-OS-II task switch on an ethernet chip interrupt, or interfacing with some higher level Tcl stuff. To get the whole thing working mix in some shell, awk, python xslt, stir well, and get space qualified software. Oh and when all that starts to get boring, throw in some FPGA programming for a completely new way of doing things. I love my jobs!
Really, I think embedded software is often more interesting than most web-, gui- or server apps. The disadvantage is that you pretty much need an electronics degree (which I do), to be able to do it effectively.
Last but not least, it often pays pretty good, and the quality requirements are high, which means that there is time allocated to make something good. Google for 'Declic' on linuxjournal.com if you want to see what I'm talking about.
Buy an Arduino or something similar (msp-430) and see how much work it is to actually toggle a LED at a certain frequency, or drive an LCD connected via I2c or something. It's a whole new world. You'll have to learn C (probably) and maybe a bit of assembly language.
Linux journal had a nice introduction article on embedded programming.
I've been doing embedded development work for the last 20 years, and am still enjoying it. It pays pretty good, and you'll be far less interchangeable with someone else than your typical Java programmer.
Jeez, and it's not even my own language!
At least half the comments here, as well as TFA confirm the general observation of falling literacy skills even among the university educated.
Thanks for calling me names.
Fortunately I feel quite justified in having my own opinion on the science behind AGW; after all I have a cum laude Masters in Physics. I've spent most of my career in University labs, so I don't share your trust in the perfection of science. There are a lot of dumb and/or bad scientists, and there is a lot of bad science done and published. I happen to think that a lot of the science behind AGW is really bad, and as far as the computer modelling goes: anyone that thinks we are currently capable to accurate model an open energy system as complicated as climate, is not aware of the difficulties of computational physics. The predictions of these models are as reliable as simple extrapolation of the past, and the last 10 years of level or slightly dropping global average temperatures is proof that simple extrapolation of trendlines from last century (which period?) does not cut the mustard.
Thanks for the link to wikipedia. Just looking at the graph it is clear that the sea level has been rising steadily since the last ice age. There is no increase in the slope at all, so there is nothing about global warming/climate change that has changed anything whatsoever about our decisions to live near the coast or not.