Instead of targetting a 1.0 release "when it's done", they should do what Knuth did for TeX - number the versions 3, 3.1, 3.14, 3.141, etc. - indicating the move towards perfection with each release.
They can probably use the Golden Ratio (1.618033...), since Pi has already been taken.;-)
Being someone who's been coding for almost five years on Java for a living, I can tell that you haven't really gone beyond the white-papers and small programs.
Coding in Java *does* help a lot in porting to various platforms, but it does not guarantee it - as always, you will still have to build and test your programs on all of your target platforms. This is true especially of applications with a GUI.
And don't even get me started on the supposed "security, high-availability and scaleability" of Java.
Some time back there was a complete cross-platform environment called Galaxy. It won lots of accolades and awards and was praised by quite a few developers. I guess it was killed (almost) by the arrival of Java, though it still seems to be alive.
If I understand it correctly, a service provider
already knows where you are accurate to a cell.
Therefore, they already have the information to
suggest nearby restaurants, cinemas, etc. - they
do not *really* need GPS to tell you that!
Or am I missing something here?
> David Goldberg, "What Every Computer Scientist
> Needs To Know About Floating Point Arithmetic,"
> ACM Computing Surveys, vol. 23, pp. 5-48, 1991.
>
> I could not find a copy online, but here is
> an interview with William Kahan
Slashdot Mirror
BTW, it supports PNG, JPEG and ICO as FavIcons, and not just ICO as IE does.
They can probably use the Golden Ratio (1.618033...), since Pi has already been taken. ;-)
"JayPee" has made available Navigator-only optimised builds for Linux that you might find useful.
Being someone who's been coding for almost five years on Java for a living, I can tell that you haven't really gone beyond the white-papers and small programs.
Coding in Java *does* help a lot in porting to various platforms, but it does not guarantee it - as always, you will still have to build and test your programs on all of your target platforms. This is true especially of applications with a GUI.
And don't even get me started on the supposed "security, high-availability and scaleability" of Java.
Some time back there was a complete cross-platform environment called Galaxy. It won lots of accolades and awards and was praised by quite a few developers. I guess it was killed (almost) by the arrival of Java, though it still seems to be alive.
Use Google Advanced Search
If I understand it correctly, a service provider already knows where you are accurate to a cell. Therefore, they already have the information to suggest nearby restaurants, cinemas, etc. - they do not *really* need GPS to tell you that! Or am I missing something here?
As a graphics programming enthusiast, I really couldn't have asked for more. Kudos to Sam!
> Needs To Know About Floating Point Arithmetic,"
> ACM Computing Surveys, vol. 23, pp. 5-48, 1991.
>
> I could not find a copy online, but here is
> an interview with William Kahan
A search on Google reveals that you can find a copy of this paper online via ResearchIndex.
YAPP-Message = Yet Another Previously Posted Message
Huh? Shouldn't that be gravity?
Intertia would have made it a cold, dark world, flying off into space till it collided into something...EEEEK!
The hell it does! I'm a native speaker of Hindi so I ought to know.