The Jython language is still (essentially) an older version of Python. Just because it runs in a Java VM and can integrate with Java classes doesn't moot the point about doing enterprise work by "coding in a language that isn't painful."
Even if carbon-nano tubes form the magically strong and light material for the main cable, there are still plenty of issues to be solved, especially regarding stabilization. You have to deal with forces from wind and weather, tidal effects from the moon and other planetary objects, etc.
AMD has a quantum CPU almost ready for production. Unfortunately, their trials show that when your cooling fan fails the probability wave collapses and your cat dies.
I've read several popular items on artificial life, chaos, evolution, etc. All of them delve into this concept of emergence: this notion that totally unexpected - but organized - behavior can result from the complex interactions of very simple rules.
The peculiar thing about emergence, though, is that all these authors and researchers are fascinated by it but nobody seems to have a rigorously measurable definition. Nobody seems to be able to say that "if and only if X and Y happen, then you have emergence."
Among other things, the Eurcoupe design prevents forward slips. Forward slips can be useful for dumping altitude quickly, especially in emergency descent situations or landing over an obstacle. It was also very difficult to take off in a crosswind, althought landing in a crosswind sounds easier.
Unlike everybody who posted "big deal, my Commodore 64 used to hold long, sexy conversations with my Speak & Spell about the meaning of Wargames," I actually read the article. Near the end it says "The multilevel storage memory system allows the chip to store up to 256 different voltage levels, or the equivalent of 8 bits, into one EEPROM cell, which is up to 8x the capacity of conventional memories..."
Being a software geek with my last classes in EE/CE several years safely my sordid past, I'm out of touch. Is this a big deal?
Visual Age for Java is one of the best IDE's I've ever worked with (and I've worked with a lot of them). However, in order to acheive some of its power, it sticks all source code into its "repository." The repository is a database with a proprietary format that indexes and cross references all your source.
That would be fine, except that it doesn't play well with tools that expect source to be in text files. You can do it, but you have to export the source and then re-import it once you're done using the tool. Everything from source control to profilers to lints to pretty printers had to go through this dance.
Does anybody know if the Eclipse framework uses the same repository?
Who do these people think they are? Killing the National Organization of Women! The Progeny of white, middle-class, men, that's who. Rise up, my sisters, and fight the system!
we could crash Windows with only 16 bits. None of this namby-pamby 64 bit stuff. No sir. We used to say, "look at me, I'm crashing with a segmented memory model!" And you know what? It was good enough for us and we liked it.
This new generation doesn't know how to crash Windows. No sir. They say, "oh, I couldn't possibly crash Windows without 64 bits, oh no." Wimps. All of 'em. Think bus bits grow on trees or something.
I'm glad to hear some of that group is still around. Austin has had a fairly good gaming industry. We have Steve Jackson Games, Digital Anvil, and Origin to name a few. However, Origin's layoff and apparent fall into a coma was quite a blow, especially falling on the heels of massive layoffs from companies like Dell, the shutdown of.bombs like Living and Garden, etc.
I really wish these guys luck. Austin's a great geek city and gaming, to me, plays a symbolic role in demonstrating that to the world. Not to mention the fact that it keeps my dream alive of quitting my day job and coding games for a living.
When you lease a dry alarm grade pair from a telco they aren't (generally) required to condition it e.g. make sure it's electrically clean with no bridge taps, load coils, high resistance shorts or grounds etc. These things don't make any difference for the rather crude requirements of an alarm circuit but they play Hell with DSL. You could find your "high speed" connection operating at 300bps. Still, I love the idea.
Anything with an electronic heartbeat can become a Jxta peer
Finally my grandfather can become a Jxta peer. Ever since we implanted that pacemaker, that's been his dearest dream. Bless his artificially stimulated heart.
Maybe now he can send messages to the microwave ovens at 7-11 that used to terrify him so.
Does that mean you could reach a point where adding another node actually slows everything down?
Sure. Just take one example. Imagine a problem that requires the cluster to munch on a large set of data. The initial set up of the problem requires that all the processors get their piece(s) of data. Maybe this is done via an RPC style mechanism, or by reading from a common file share or any number of other techniuqes. Doesn't matter. That initial set up takes up network resources.
At some point, the network (or the shared disk, or something) will become a bottleneck. When it takes more time to get the data through that bottleneck than it takes for the processing to actually complete, then you've reached a point of negative returns: adding nodes decreases performance.
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Oddly enough, my wife has one of those built in.
The Jython language is still (essentially) an older version of Python. Just because it runs in a Java VM and can integrate with Java classes doesn't moot the point about doing enterprise work by "coding in a language that isn't painful."
It's doubtful that it's capable of handling anything near that depth, but I can't find any sort of depth rating in their literature.
BTW, here's another product based on bone conduction: a snorkle with an FM radio.
good god, it took forever to find what they're about. Who invented their navigation scheme, Rube Goldberg? Their about page is http://docs.postnuke.com/index.php?module=Static_D ocs&func=view&f=/aboutpn/whatispn.htm
Even if carbon-nano tubes form the magically strong and light material for the main cable, there are still plenty of issues to be solved, especially regarding stabilization. You have to deal with forces from wind and weather, tidal effects from the moon and other planetary objects, etc.
AMD has a quantum CPU almost ready for production. Unfortunately, their trials show that when your cooling fan fails the probability wave collapses and your cat dies.
I've read several popular items on artificial life, chaos, evolution, etc. All of them delve into this concept of emergence: this notion that totally unexpected - but organized - behavior can result from the complex interactions of very simple rules.
The peculiar thing about emergence, though, is that all these authors and researchers are fascinated by it but nobody seems to have a rigorously measurable definition. Nobody seems to be able to say that "if and only if X and Y happen, then you have emergence."
Has anybody here seen such a definition?
Among other things, the Eurcoupe design prevents forward slips. Forward slips can be useful for dumping altitude quickly, especially in emergency descent situations or landing over an obstacle. It was also very difficult to take off in a crosswind, althought landing in a crosswind sounds easier.
where was this book 3 years ago?
If there were 8 nodes in the cluster, you'd have an Octopussy.
Unlike everybody who posted "big deal, my Commodore 64 used to hold long, sexy conversations with my Speak & Spell about the meaning of Wargames," I actually read the article. Near the end it says "The multilevel storage memory system allows the chip to store up to 256 different voltage levels, or the equivalent of 8 bits, into one EEPROM cell, which is up to 8x the capacity of conventional memories..."
Being a software geek with my last classes in EE/CE several years safely my sordid past, I'm out of touch. Is this a big deal?
Visual Age for Java is one of the best IDE's I've ever worked with (and I've worked with a lot of them). However, in order to acheive some of its power, it sticks all source code into its "repository." The repository is a database with a proprietary format that indexes and cross references all your source.
That would be fine, except that it doesn't play well with tools that expect source to be in text files. You can do it, but you have to export the source and then re-import it once you're done using the tool. Everything from source control to profilers to lints to pretty printers had to go through this dance.
Does anybody know if the Eclipse framework uses the same repository?
Who do these people think they are? Killing the National Organization of Women! The Progeny of white, middle-class, men, that's who. Rise up, my sisters, and fight the system!
Yes sir, full screen video over a 28k connection.
So what am I seeing? It looks rather blank.
Well sir, that's a white cow in a snow field. It just scared out some snow hares.
Over 28k you say? Where do I sign?
we could crash Windows with only 16 bits. None of this namby-pamby 64 bit stuff. No sir. We used to say, "look at me, I'm crashing with a segmented memory model!" And you know what? It was good enough for us and we liked it.
This new generation doesn't know how to crash Windows. No sir. They say, "oh, I couldn't possibly crash Windows without 64 bits, oh no." Wimps. All of 'em. Think bus bits grow on trees or something.
I'm glad to hear some of that group is still around. Austin has had a fairly good gaming industry. We have Steve Jackson Games, Digital Anvil, and Origin to name a few. However, Origin's layoff and apparent fall into a coma was quite a blow, especially falling on the heels of massive layoffs from companies like Dell, the shutdown of .bombs like Living and Garden, etc.
I really wish these guys luck. Austin's a great geek city and gaming, to me, plays a symbolic role in demonstrating that to the world. Not to mention the fact that it keeps my dream alive of quitting my day job and coding games for a living.
When you lease a dry alarm grade pair from a telco they aren't (generally) required to condition it e.g. make sure it's electrically clean with no bridge taps, load coils, high resistance shorts or grounds etc. These things don't make any difference for the rather crude requirements of an alarm circuit but they play Hell with DSL. You could find your "high speed" connection operating at 300bps. Still, I love the idea.
In a creepy whisper: 'I get letters from dead people.'
Nanoscale crystals for really small new age healers.
Does getting rid of workers increase *revenue*?
"I won't buy your product 'til you fire that Bill Gates guy."
Yeah, I can see it.
We can send emails with MPEG attachments to the sys admins of the sites brought to their knees by /. links.
"You've been slashdotted."
I had to dump my last girlfriend after she bleached her hair.
She was suddenly unable to pass a Turing test.
Anything with an electronic heartbeat can become a Jxta peer
Finally my grandfather can become a Jxta peer. Ever since we implanted that pacemaker, that's been his dearest dream. Bless his artificially stimulated heart.
Maybe now he can send messages to the microwave ovens at 7-11 that used to terrify him so.
"Search Engine" is no longer politically correct. We prefer "Exploratory Native American."
Sure. Just take one example. Imagine a problem that requires the cluster to munch on a large set of data. The initial set up of the problem requires that all the processors get their piece(s) of data. Maybe this is done via an RPC style mechanism, or by reading from a common file share or any number of other techniuqes. Doesn't matter. That initial set up takes up network resources.
At some point, the network (or the shared disk, or something) will become a bottleneck. When it takes more time to get the data through that bottleneck than it takes for the processing to actually complete, then you've reached a point of negative returns: adding nodes decreases performance.