I thought that this article was about debugging Mac OS memory leaks by examining the disposal of allocated memory. Slashdot. You just can't tell till you read the fine print.
Don't learn PHP or PERL There are far better alternatives - try eg Obyx ( http://www.obyx.org/ ) if you want to play with web applications. iPhone applications programming is also pretty easy, and brings you up to date with the modern world of OO, event-based processing, multiple threading etc. - But that's Objective-C / Objective-C++
If you know C, then C++ is also a good start - it probably offers the richest programming environment there is.
Well actually, the British Empire is no more, so the effects of UK legislation would be limited to it's borders. I'm pretty sure that biological processes require 2nd Law of Thermodynamics, so life in the UK would cease, but all of UK neighbours would benefit from the energy leakage of from (possibly) the only non-singularity free of the second law.
Ok, I only read a few of the hundreds of comments, but there is one good reason why I personally dislike Flash, (outside of it's proprietary nature) - and that is the Adobe memory management. Adobe are terrible with memory management. All of the software leaks like a sieve. No wonder they find it so hard to port.
Ah. That's exactly what I thought it meant (foundering) until I read your note. The partial capitalisation of the headline also assists in the ambiguity.
How sure is anyone that this isn't some viral for a computer game? The graphics are all cg - even the local russians say it's just a concept. The company doesn't even have press liaison.
What the UK population is most concerned about is a sustained, healthy economy (with continued free quality healthcare, education and welfare at the point of delivery).
How will the Pirate Party's policies demonstrate that a sustainable healthy economy is a necessary outcome of degrading the copyright and patent laws?
If it's cheap because everyone fears the radiation, regardless of whether or not it will cook you, you will have trouble selling it for the same reason. If you are worried in the least, don't buy it. You don't need the stress. If you want to be clever and get a bargain because you don't need to fear, then (if you can) get someone to measure the RF over a week; chances are it will be okay, but what do I know? As an investment, remember that the market always depends upon perceived value. Having some gigantic wire beast staring at the window will generate fear in many buyers. Probably why it's going cheap in the first place.
If you are ever thinking of selling, it's probably better just to go for a nice flat that doesn't have any threatening uber-wire modern science gizmo just outside the window. Nothing to do with risk to health, everything to do with perception of risk to health.
Honestly, why people ever started backing a way of working that completely breaks down with even the smallest vagueness in what crosses the wire is beyond me.
You mean like compilers, or assembler, or mathematical expressions? The problem is that as soon as you allow for vagueness, you have ambiguity. Where there is ambiguity, you have ad hoc interpretation. Where there is ad hoc interpretation, there's a hole (the hole exploited by ms in the beginning) that allows proprietary interpretation.
Generating valid XHTML but parsing it as tag soup, that's the right way to go about things.
What I am talking about is much more simple. MSIE doesn't even recognise valid XHTML. I'm not suggesting that they stop 'quirks' - just that they start recognising valid XHTML using the XML document model, rather than the outdated SGML/HTML engine which cannot handle legal XML synonyms. MSIE doesn't even recognise application/xhtml as a valid XHTML mimetype.
Must that I am unfond of Microsoft business tactics, and hegemonising in manners that are contrary to the benefits of the community at large, I am tentatively very happy that Microsoft has joined the SVG WG. On two counts - firstly, that they will add native support for it in their IE product (which, as far as I can see, is inevitable unless they truly are demonic); and secondly that it opens up a hope that they will move onto standards compliance, skip into the 21st century and support XHTML as an XML instance rather than as an HTML extension of an SGML instance. Then at last, I won't have to have a fix for /> , <div/>, <script/> problems that arise after normalising XHTML documents.
I talked to the government about this. The question I put to them was 'How?'. It's pretty easy to install a secure private network - with any form of transport to go over it including voip, mail, irc, what-have-you. It's a necessary feature of the internet.
Bradbury, Lem and Leguin have all written extensively on the importance and meaning of Science Fiction. As for authors, don't neglect Borges - probably the most important short story writer of all time; the Strugatsky Bros. are important - especially in light of their working environment - as is Theodore Sturgeon - who was an important author in his own right - and whose texts generally focus on exploring the meaning of love. To poorly paraphrase LeGuin (it's been years since I actually read the piece), Science Fiction not only allows but requires the full creativity of the author. Probably the most important aspect of Science fiction is the pregnant constructions that reveal the unconscious (or not so unconscious!) beliefs and prejudices of the author. Even though modern Lit. Crit suggests that textual analysis does not reveal the author, within Science Fiction, I would beg to differ. IMO Science fiction is very much the result of a full disclosure of the Rorschach Ink Blot of writing; if you can create the entire universe, what (physics, etc) would YOU inhabit it with?
I"m not surprised about this at all. IMO there is possibly one good modern author of Sci Fi - and that's William Gibson.
I've read nearly every major author there is. There are no Farmers, or Zelaznys, let alone Dicks, Lems, Asimovs, Clarkes, Strugatskys, Sturgeons, Heinleins or Bradburys (etc etc - insert another twenty excellent '50s-'70s authors here). LeGuin is still alive but is more of a teacher than an author now.
The fantasy literature still hasn't moved beyond Ged wannabes. But then where are we anyway? The best SF literature there is ( once again IMO) is Borges - and he isn't even classified as SF.
So the genre is filled with shit megavolumes of hack space opera, yet another beggar-becomes-top-wizard, and okay - once in a rare while I get a laugh from Pratchett. Oh whoops - forgot the movie tie-ins. Dr Who, Star Trek, and Star Wars - none of it involves breaking into totally new ways of seeing the world - so it doesn't get my vote. And I wish Gibson would give up on being a futurist, and get back to his wild unconscious imagination. Please, go on Bill - jump a thousand years.
So here is the crisis - if it's good literature then it's not Sci Fi. Therefore, the entire genre is vanishing into hack shit.
There is really such a rich set of opportunities available still - what it means to really be alien - as well as the gadzillion potentials of far flung future.
I am a die-hard SF fan - but after having read every major author from Stapleton, Verne and Wells up to the modern day - I am not feeling good about the future of SF.
Don't use SD cards for long term storage. Use them for capture only. Having a wireless Network Attached Storage is a great way for all the family to store, without having to use just one computer for access. We have a 4TB Terastation Pro for the family - and HDV, DV, RAW, and JPG capture is stored there. Getting used to uploading a shoot as soon as arriving (back from holiday, or an event) didn't take so long. When going on holidays that will use more than a couple of 16G SDHC cards, we label them A-G and writelock them once they are finished. We writelock our DV/HDV tapes also. And we use a separate storage for empty cards/tapes than we do for filled cards/tapes.
If your holidays are not remote, you can always use commercial online storage as a temporary cache. Also secure network connections to your own NAS is not really very hard to set up if you belong to the standard slashdot demographic.
Hm. How about this: (1) The majorty of humanity will carry on buying OEM MS operating systems (2) Apple will produce something sleek, shiny, and expensive (3) Linux users will think that 2009 will be when Linux will move (at last) into the mainstream userbase. They will be wrong. (4) The majority of humanity will carry on using Internet Explorer, which will continue to annoy every web developer who doesn't have a MS qualification. (5) Sun will trudge on. (6) Cloud computing will still be used by academics and hackers. (7) Java will continue to have it's mixture of fans and foes. But not much else. (8) Same goes for BEA, etc. (9) Innovation will happen in ways that you least expect. (10) Oh - that year went by so fast. (11) But now I am out of a job because the banks took my money and made a profit, then made a loss and took my money again.
"If the market wanted such games it would demand them and pay for them, you are in an extreme minorit."
I disagree - and so would market figures. The average age of gamers is rising every year, and now that there are proportionately less youngsters playing games so there is less need for gamers to use games to vent their unconscious rage against their sense of powerlessness that serves as the basic mechanic for games that involve killing and destroying.
LBP and SC etc. are all well and good, but I am convinced that MMORPG environments that are not solely concerned about killing are also in demand. An excellent example would be 'A Tale in the Desert' - a cooperative non-violent game with a huge population. There's also stuff like second life, etc - though for me there's no project for the community in that.
Slashdot Mirror
I thought that this article was about debugging Mac OS memory leaks by examining the disposal of allocated memory. Slashdot. You just can't tell till you read the fine print.
Don't learn PHP or PERL
There are far better alternatives - try eg Obyx ( http://www.obyx.org/ ) if you want to play with web applications.
iPhone applications programming is also pretty easy, and brings you up to date with the modern world of OO, event-based processing, multiple threading etc. - But that's Objective-C / Objective-C++
If you know C, then C++ is also a good start - it probably offers the richest programming environment there is.
Well actually, the British Empire is no more, so the effects of UK legislation would be limited to it's borders.
I'm pretty sure that biological processes require 2nd Law of Thermodynamics, so life in the UK would cease, but all of UK neighbours would benefit from the energy leakage of from (possibly) the only non-singularity free of the second law.
Ok, I only read a few of the hundreds of comments, but there is one good reason why I personally dislike Flash, (outside of it's proprietary nature) - and that is the Adobe memory management. Adobe are terrible with memory management. All of the software leaks like a sieve. No wonder they find it so hard to port.
Ah. That's exactly what I thought it meant (foundering) until I read your note. The partial capitalisation of the headline also assists in the ambiguity.
How sure is anyone that this isn't some viral for a computer game?
The graphics are all cg - even the local russians say it's just a concept.
The company doesn't even have press liaison.
about a trillion atoms
What the UK population is most concerned about is a sustained, healthy economy (with continued free quality healthcare, education and welfare at the point of delivery).
How will the Pirate Party's policies demonstrate that a sustainable healthy economy is a necessary outcome of degrading the copyright and patent laws?
You don't say. Of the Sicilian flavour.
Any company calling itself "Wiseguy" is surely going to pull some heat. It's like having a prescription signed "Dr A. Fraud."
If it's cheap because everyone fears the radiation, regardless of whether or not it will cook you, you will have trouble selling it for the same reason.
If you are worried in the least, don't buy it. You don't need the stress.
If you want to be clever and get a bargain because you don't need to fear, then (if you can) get someone to measure the RF over a week; chances are it will be okay, but what do I know?
As an investment, remember that the market always depends upon perceived value. Having some gigantic wire beast staring at the window will generate fear in many buyers. Probably why it's going cheap in the first place.
If you are ever thinking of selling, it's probably better just to go for a nice flat that doesn't have any threatening uber-wire modern science gizmo just outside the window. Nothing to do with risk to health, everything to do with perception of risk to health.
Honestly, why people ever started backing a way of working that completely breaks down with even the smallest vagueness in what crosses the wire is beyond me.
You mean like compilers, or assembler, or mathematical expressions? The problem is that as soon as you allow for vagueness, you have ambiguity. Where there is ambiguity, you have ad hoc interpretation. Where there is ad hoc interpretation, there's a hole (the hole exploited by ms in the beginning) that allows proprietary interpretation.
Generating valid XHTML but parsing it as tag soup, that's the right way to go about things.
What I am talking about is much more simple. MSIE doesn't even recognise valid XHTML. I'm not suggesting that they stop 'quirks' - just that they start recognising valid XHTML using the XML document model, rather than the outdated SGML/HTML engine which cannot handle legal XML synonyms. MSIE doesn't even recognise application/xhtml as a valid XHTML mimetype.
Must that I am unfond of Microsoft business tactics, and hegemonising in manners that are contrary to the benefits of the community at large, I am tentatively very happy that Microsoft has joined the SVG WG. On two counts - firstly, that they will add native support for it in their IE product (which, as far as I can see, is inevitable unless they truly are demonic); and secondly that it opens up a hope that they will move onto standards compliance, skip into the 21st century and support XHTML as an XML instance rather than as an HTML extension of an SGML instance. Then at last, I won't have to have a fix for/> , <div />, <script /> problems that arise after normalising XHTML documents.
Always - I mean always - be careful what you wish for.
I talked to the government about this. The question I put to them was 'How?'.
It's pretty easy to install a secure private network - with any form of transport to go over it including voip, mail, irc, what-have-you.
It's a necessary feature of the internet.
Bradbury, Lem and Leguin have all written extensively on the importance and meaning of Science Fiction. As for authors, don't neglect Borges - probably the most important short story writer of all time; the Strugatsky Bros. are important - especially in light of their working environment - as is Theodore Sturgeon - who was an important author in his own right - and whose texts generally focus on exploring the meaning of love. To poorly paraphrase LeGuin (it's been years since I actually read the piece), Science Fiction not only allows but requires the full creativity of the author. Probably the most important aspect of Science fiction is the pregnant constructions that reveal the unconscious (or not so unconscious!) beliefs and prejudices of the author. Even though modern Lit. Crit suggests that textual analysis does not reveal the author, within Science Fiction, I would beg to differ. IMO Science fiction is very much the result of a full disclosure of the Rorschach Ink Blot of writing; if you can create the entire universe, what (physics, etc) would YOU inhabit it with?
"Windows 7 Pre-Orders Top Vista's In Just 8hrs" - So Vista only had 6 pre-orders?
I"m not surprised about this at all. IMO there is possibly one good modern author of Sci Fi - and that's William Gibson.
I've read nearly every major author there is. There are no Farmers, or Zelaznys, let alone Dicks, Lems, Asimovs, Clarkes, Strugatskys, Sturgeons, Heinleins or Bradburys (etc etc - insert another twenty excellent '50s-'70s authors here). LeGuin is still alive but is more of a teacher than an author now.
The fantasy literature still hasn't moved beyond Ged wannabes. But then where are we anyway? The best SF literature there is ( once again IMO) is Borges - and he isn't even classified as SF.
So the genre is filled with shit megavolumes of hack space opera, yet another beggar-becomes-top-wizard, and okay - once in a rare while I get a laugh from Pratchett. Oh whoops - forgot the movie tie-ins. Dr Who, Star Trek, and Star Wars - none of it involves breaking into totally new ways of seeing the world - so it doesn't get my vote. And I wish Gibson would give up on being a futurist, and get back to his wild unconscious imagination. Please, go on Bill - jump a thousand years.
So here is the crisis - if it's good literature then it's not Sci Fi. Therefore, the entire genre is vanishing into hack shit.
There is really such a rich set of opportunities available still - what it means to really be alien - as well as the gadzillion potentials of far flung future.
I am a die-hard SF fan - but after having read every major author from Stapleton, Verne and Wells up to the modern day - I am not feeling good about the future of SF.
Don't use SD cards for long term storage. Use them for capture only.
Having a wireless Network Attached Storage is a great way for all the family to store, without having to use just one computer for access. We have a 4TB Terastation Pro for the family - and HDV, DV, RAW, and JPG capture is stored there. Getting used to uploading a shoot as soon as arriving (back from holiday, or an event) didn't take so long. When going on holidays that will use more than a couple of 16G SDHC cards, we label them A-G and writelock them once they are finished. We writelock our DV/HDV tapes also. And we use a separate storage for empty cards/tapes than we do for filled cards/tapes.
If your holidays are not remote, you can always use commercial online storage as a temporary cache. Also secure network connections to your own NAS is not really very hard to set up if you belong to the standard slashdot demographic.
..and possibly, the MORE interesting it is, the MORE difficult it is. (hmm there may be a Phd buried in that)
Actually, prediction is not necessarily difficult. Just interesting prediction is difficult.
Take a normal 6-sided dice. I can precisely predict what you will throw. You will throw a number that is between 1 and 6.
See? It's just not very interesting.
Oops - you are right. I missed out the word Desktop, even though I was thinking of it when I wrote that
Should read
(3) Linux users will think that 2009 will be when Linux will move (at last) into the mainstream desktop userbase. They will be wrong.
Hm. How about this:
(1) The majorty of humanity will carry on buying OEM MS operating systems
(2) Apple will produce something sleek, shiny, and expensive
(3) Linux users will think that 2009 will be when Linux will move (at last) into the mainstream userbase. They will be wrong.
(4) The majority of humanity will carry on using Internet Explorer, which will continue to annoy every web developer who doesn't have a MS qualification.
(5) Sun will trudge on.
(6) Cloud computing will still be used by academics and hackers.
(7) Java will continue to have it's mixture of fans and foes. But not much else.
(8) Same goes for BEA, etc.
(9) Innovation will happen in ways that you least expect.
(10) Oh - that year went by so fast.
(11) But now I am out of a job because the banks took my money and made a profit, then made a loss and took my money again.
"If the market wanted such games it would demand them and pay for them, you are in an extreme minorit."
I disagree - and so would market figures. The average age of gamers is rising every year, and now that there are proportionately less youngsters playing games so there is less need for gamers to use games to vent their unconscious rage against their sense of powerlessness that serves as the basic mechanic for games that involve killing and destroying.
LBP and SC etc. are all well and good, but I am convinced that MMORPG environments that are not solely concerned about killing are also in demand. An excellent example would be 'A Tale in the Desert' - a cooperative non-violent game with a huge population. There's also stuff like second life, etc - though for me there's no project for the community in that.
.. why is Linus Torvalds the new president of Brazil?