beyond the stupidity of a company abusing the patent law, such things are the reason which will always let me select a platform where i can just backup and reinstall an app, independent if it's in the market or not.
a) write your application as clear and as high-level as possible. Only focus on a clear representation of the problem and the semantics.
b) determine if the ressource usage is ok
c) if its not ok, then use a profiler to identify the part of the code where you spend significant amounts of the time.
d) optimize and structure the code within the high-level language until you can identify clear interfaces where low-level construct can help (but implement them in the high-level language as a reference)
e) rewrite these parts in C or whatever; goto step b)
I wrote measurement software in jython/java/C,matlab/C,labview/C,perl/C, matlab/tcl/C and i always profited from a clear structure instead of writing it in C directly (which i also did...)
Oh i hate the term. Hackers dont hack the phone calls of the staff or hack into cctv to do harm.
Political activists use legitimate methods to increase their influence.
If you hack into phone calls for purposes different from demonstrating a problem then you are not a hacker. if you use force (like the Anonymous asshats) you are not an activist.
Now they discredit political activists and hackers at the same time by calling them hacktivists, joining two very different things. in order discredit both and connecting them to thinks none of both is related to.
But besides that, minuet is an example of how good a program can be even on an inferior os. I was suprised (i tested it after working with os/2, solaris and linux). Minuet did everything i needed. In fact it could do so in a few mb of ram, quite fast and stable. If you would give me the choice between webmail an minuet, i still would prefer minuet....
Yes, sure. The company where i work, the company where i worked, the companies which are our biggest customers are firmly tied into the the pc world for at least one more generation of computing systems. Very likely that the trend to try to put everything on tablets will be over before they manage to switch.......
While i suspects its not the case, i inform you that there are situations where you cant upgrade the OS. Typically in PCs embedded in instruments or controls. However, these should anyway not be used for web browsing.
With China getting more and more mature, it would be getting more and more important to have a consistent, friendly and strong politics towards China. Helping China to solve its problems is important for everybody. To me it seems that Chinese strength normally did not arise from Military power but from Diplomacy and Administration. Wars and civil wars seem to be traumatic events in the Chinese self-perception .
I find it very normal that China would develop weapons capable of sinking American ships; the Americans should understand that they are not the only ones allowed to possess weapons. What this has to do with Bombers is beyond my grasp. I think its not unlikely that China and US may be partners in some wars in a not very distant future.
A car has a lifetime of up to 20 years (mercedes are known to have a long life). A car has enough power to power on-board computer which can do voice recognition. A car often travels far, sometime trough mountains without reception, maybe to foreign countries with different data service provider, who may, or may not have the right roaming agreement.
And still they are putting something in which is based on a could service , which may vanish at any time when it does not pay off any more?
if a company allows customers to buy apps from providers, given that both parties are fully aware of what is sold and how much is paid.
When i buy a device, i don not hire a nanny. At least i cant remember having signed a contract which forces the manufacturer of my phones to watch over my habits.
If we decide that gambling apps are bad due to the addiction they may cause, lets make a well-defined law about it. If we can not show that then *please* let the customers buy it. If we can show that porn causes rape (which i dont believe), then lets make a law about it. Otherwise lets focus on the conditions under which porn is produced.
I find it a good thing that i have the freedom to buy (respectively: not to buy) porn or gambling apps.
I guess the main reason is that it is very difficult to really use the possibilities in the right way. What replaces the storyline? I think what comes closes to "Hypertext literature" are games. And even there the balance between the hardcore gamers, who want to explore the level for 80h and the casual gamers who want to finish the game in an evening usually goes wrong.
I was more talking about Linux than about windows. and i was talking more about the applications than about the OS. I personally find that XP runs fine, at least if i forget about the limitations on the number GUI objects.
I would hope to run a computer from a battery. And "take the fucking fastest machine and it will be fine" is exactly the approach i expect from perl monkeys.
(To be clear: windows has never been my primary desktop os)
When i think back to 1995 i expected a machine/os, which has/uses *lots of cores and bandwidth to ram*, where everything is reasonably multi threaded and where programs can exchange data in a reasonable, transparent way.
Nothing came true. Application still freeze when waiting for sth, a massive CPU still has to be running to do simple background operations, we still exclude Bitmaps is text documents because nothing else works, and my CPU is still waiting for the RAM, even longer than before.
Web applications take the thing to the next level. Some of the Web document processors are less responsive and have less features than Word/Amipro/Describe/Wordperfect in 1995. (not to say its not possible to write good web application, there are some)
Funnily, i am just reading a book about project management. The triangle "Resources, time, quality" in mentioned in the first chapter. And that exactly it. If you put everything to "very important" you are in the quality corner. Either you hire or rent more people or you will wait longer. The fundamental task of a project manger is to help to balance these things.
a) identify the stakeholders and the associated risks
b) Identify which things are needed to make them happy
c) allocate resources to do so. if you over-allocate (it will happen), reduce the quality criteria wanted by the least important (in terms of risk) stakeholders.
I am always amazed how systematic the project manager managing me monitors these things.
Congratulations, whether it will be used for QC or not (which is what is think, but i worked for some time on a competing kind of quantum bit), its a cool thing, and for sure it is a big step forward which will IMHO influence many devices.
As somebody having worked on QC i personally find every newspaper report mentioning QC having a certain hype. Usually they make it sound like: "This device will go into a working QC" instead of "this device enables to examine physics never examined before".
Yes. Thats how is see it. Accessing a database in a syncronous way is always adding something very intransparent to your program. In one moment it runs fast, in the next when the moon hits the right position some kind of resource which you don't even think you use is busy......
using SQLITE for every operation is for sure convenient, but is it efficient? I have seen weird performance issues when in principle small data structures maintained using sqlite exceeded certain bounds.
It is the task of the programmer to distiguish between data which should be kept in ram and data which can be written to flash.
well. i use google maps, search and google+. However my homepage and email are with a paid for provider under a jurisdiction i approve of.
The point is: googles business in understanding what you look for to provide you with the best advertisements possible.
The combination: "he agreed to meet casually with a group of friends (google+) at x after searching (google search) for y and while going there (google maps) he paid something at shop z (via NFC for example) and checked in at time t and while he was waiting he searched for s." is very valuable to google.
The main Problem is that analog electronic, discrete, and logic components get replaced by MCUs. Where you would have used a Threshold comparator, and analog trigger, a voltage regulator, and a flipflop before to make a simple resettable alarm, no you buy an ATtiny (and you can even skip the voltage regulator, if you buy the right one). The margin for sellign it is probably the same, and there is a certain minimum size of a shop to make in reasonable to have a full range of the MCU variants in stock. So Electronics shops started to put in low cost tech articles in their shops, which is something you can only compete if you are big enough, which most of them are not. I am not sure if a path of spezialization would have saved more of the shops, but i guess not. when buying electronic components for my work i am obviously using the internet.
Why should i upgrade a comparatively cheap console. Even if the games run, they never would be optimized to use the upgraded HW. Moreover, consoles are packed more densely, so heat problems can easily occur.
The design criteria for consoles, namely platform stability, dense packing, cheap production (solder wherever its good from a yield/repair point, ease of use (imagine that you have to provide technical support to completely unqualified people putting in a new CPU wrongly) exclude any move towards extensibility.
If you want to buy a PC you can already, and it unlikely that a market as big as for the PC will arise (unless you allow the customers to put in standard PCI cards, which really make the console a little big.
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beyond the stupidity of a company abusing the patent law, such things are the reason which will always let me select a platform where i can just backup and reinstall an app, independent if it's in the market or not.
Yes, the usual strategy is like the following:
a) write your application as clear and as high-level as possible. Only focus on a clear representation of the problem and the semantics.
b) determine if the ressource usage is ok
c) if its not ok, then use a profiler to identify the part of the code where you spend significant amounts of the time.
d) optimize and structure the code within the high-level language until you can identify clear interfaces where low-level construct can help (but implement them in the high-level language as a reference)
e) rewrite these parts in C or whatever; goto step b)
I wrote measurement software in jython/java/C,matlab/C,labview/C,perl/C, matlab/tcl/C and i always profited from a clear structure instead of writing it in C directly (which i also did...)
Oh i hate the term. Hackers dont hack the phone calls of the staff or hack into cctv to do harm.
Political activists use legitimate methods to increase their influence.
If you hack into phone calls for purposes different from demonstrating a problem then you are not a hacker. if you use force (like the Anonymous asshats) you are not an activist.
Now they discredit political activists and hackers at the same time by calling them hacktivists, joining two very different things. in order discredit both and connecting them to thinks none of both is related to.
But besides that, minuet is an example of how good a program can be even on an inferior os. I was suprised (i tested it after working with os/2, solaris and linux). Minuet did everything i needed. In fact it could do so in a few mb of ram, quite fast and stable. If you would give me the choice between webmail an minuet, i still would prefer minuet....
Yes, sure. The company where i work, the company where i worked, the companies which are our biggest customers are firmly tied into the the pc world for at least one more generation of computing systems. Very likely that the trend to try to put everything on tablets will be over before they manage to switch.......
What is the problem with Quick Basic? It came for free and it was quite ok.
or get an Amazon EC account. Then you vnc or rdesktop there (or onto the netbook if the screen is too small).
What you consider is probably criminal, puts your company into danger of violating recording rules, and useless in case they are really paranoid.
While i suspects its not the case, i inform you that there are situations where you cant upgrade the OS. Typically in PCs embedded in instruments or controls. However, these should anyway not be used for web browsing.
I expect a graduate of a specialized, applied university art to be able to handle the up-to date tools.
a few thousand dollar Student is not much if this happens only every few years. Tutorial classes and supervision are most likely more expensive.
With China getting more and more mature, it would be getting more and more important to have a consistent, friendly and strong politics towards China. Helping China to solve its problems is important for everybody. To me it seems that Chinese strength normally did not arise from Military power but from Diplomacy and Administration. Wars and civil wars seem to be traumatic events in the Chinese self-perception .
I find it very normal that China would develop weapons capable of sinking American ships; the Americans should understand that they are not the only ones allowed to possess weapons. What this has to do with Bombers is beyond my grasp. I think its not unlikely that China and US may be partners in some wars in a not very distant future.
A car has a lifetime of up to 20 years (mercedes are known to have a long life). A car has enough power to power on-board computer which can do voice recognition. A car often travels far, sometime trough mountains without reception, maybe to foreign countries with different data service provider, who may, or may not have the right roaming agreement.
And still they are putting something in which is based on a could service , which may vanish at any time when it does not pay off any more?
Well done.
if a company allows customers to buy apps from providers, given that both parties are fully aware of what is sold and how much is paid.
When i buy a device, i don not hire a nanny. At least i cant remember having signed a contract which forces the manufacturer of my phones to watch over my habits.
If we decide that gambling apps are bad due to the addiction they may cause, lets make a well-defined law about it. If we can not show that then *please* let the customers buy it. If we can show that porn causes rape (which i dont believe), then lets make a law about it. Otherwise lets focus on the conditions under which porn is produced.
I find it a good thing that i have the freedom to buy (respectively: not to buy) porn or gambling apps.
I guess the main reason is that it is very difficult to really use the possibilities in the right way. What replaces the storyline? I think what comes closes to "Hypertext literature" are games. And even there the balance between the hardcore gamers, who want to explore the level for 80h and the casual gamers who want to finish the game in an evening usually goes wrong.
I was more talking about Linux than about windows. and i was talking more about the applications than about the OS. I personally find that XP runs fine, at least if i forget about the limitations on the number GUI objects.
I would hope to run a computer from a battery. And "take the fucking fastest machine and it will be fine" is exactly the approach i expect from perl monkeys.
(To be clear: windows has never been my primary desktop os)
When i think back to 1995 i expected a machine/os, which has/uses *lots of cores and bandwidth to ram*, where everything is reasonably multi threaded and where programs can exchange data in a reasonable, transparent way.
Nothing came true. Application still freeze when waiting for sth, a massive CPU still has to be running to do simple background operations, we still exclude Bitmaps is text documents because nothing else works, and my CPU is still waiting for the RAM, even longer than before.
Web applications take the thing to the next level. Some of the Web document processors are less responsive and have less features than Word/Amipro/Describe/Wordperfect in 1995. (not to say its not possible to write good web application, there are some)
Funnily, i am just reading a book about project management. The triangle "Resources, time, quality" in mentioned in the first chapter. And that exactly it. If you put everything to "very important" you are in the quality corner. Either you hire or rent more people or you will wait longer. The fundamental task of a project manger is to help to balance these things.
a) identify the stakeholders and the associated risks
b) Identify which things are needed to make them happy
c) allocate resources to do so. if you over-allocate (it will happen), reduce the quality criteria wanted by the least important (in terms of risk) stakeholders.
I am always amazed how systematic the project manager managing me monitors these things.
Congratulations, whether it will be used for QC or not (which is what is think, but i worked for some time on a competing kind of quantum bit), its a cool thing, and for sure it is a big step forward which will IMHO influence many devices.
As somebody having worked on QC i personally find every newspaper report mentioning QC having a certain hype. Usually they make it sound like: "This device will go into a working QC" instead of "this device enables to examine physics never examined before".
Yes. Thats how is see it. Accessing a database in a syncronous way is always adding something very intransparent to your program. In one moment it runs fast, in the next when the moon hits the right position some kind of resource which you don't even think you use is busy......
using SQLITE for every operation is for sure convenient, but is it efficient? I have seen weird performance issues when in principle small data structures maintained using sqlite exceeded certain bounds.
It is the task of the programmer to distiguish between data which should be kept in ram and data which can be written to flash.
by bundling tiles randomly google could make this approach much harder - if they accept that sometimes its a little slower.
well. i use google maps, search and google+. However my homepage and email are with a paid for provider under a jurisdiction i approve of.
The point is: googles business in understanding what you look for to provide you with the best advertisements possible.
The combination: "he agreed to meet casually with a group of friends (google+) at x after searching (google search) for y and while going there (google maps) he paid something at shop z (via NFC for example) and checked in at time t and while he was waiting he searched for s." is very valuable to google.
The main Problem is that analog electronic, discrete, and logic components get replaced by MCUs. Where you would have used a Threshold comparator, and analog trigger, a voltage regulator, and a flipflop before to make a simple resettable alarm, no you buy an ATtiny (and you can even skip the voltage regulator, if you buy the right one). The margin for sellign it is probably the same, and there is a certain minimum size of a shop to make in reasonable to have a full range of the MCU variants in stock. So Electronics shops started to put in low cost tech articles in their shops, which is something you can only compete if you are big enough, which most of them are not. I am not sure if a path of spezialization would have saved more of the shops, but i guess not. when buying electronic components for my work i am obviously using the internet.
Why should i upgrade a comparatively cheap console. Even if the games run, they never would be optimized to use the upgraded HW. Moreover, consoles are packed more densely, so heat problems can easily occur.
The design criteria for consoles, namely platform stability, dense packing, cheap production (solder wherever its good from a yield/repair point, ease of use (imagine that you have to provide technical support to completely unqualified people putting in a new CPU wrongly) exclude any move towards extensibility.
If you want to buy a PC you can already, and it unlikely that a market as big as for the PC will arise (unless you allow the customers to put in standard PCI cards, which really make the console a little big.
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