Sure it does, comiled Java code can be just as fast as C++ code and nearly as fast as C code. It all depends on how good the libraries are and how smart the compilers are. There is numeric code available for Java today that is just as fast as equivilant libraries for C++. Hell real numeric code is STILL written against FORTRAN libraries because the code is that good, that well optimized, and that well tested. Java GUI's suck, but numeric code and server code has long since been more than fast enough.
Well, he pled guilty to a conspiracy charge, which may be correct. He did in fact conspire to steal trade secrets from AOL. What the prosecutor says to the email and the legal wording of the filing are probably very different things. At least that's what I got by reading the article and reading between the lines.
You are correct. This site has some good information including some applicable federal statutes involving theft of trade secrets and economic espionage. This guy was looking at up to 10 years in prison and 500K in fines so he got off relativly lightly. I never knew that theft of trade secrets carried criminal attachment, I thought it was purely a civil tort, shows how much you might not know about the law if you're not a lawyer.
I do, all the time. When looking for a product or service google's adwords are always correctly targeted and lead to usefull information, when I'm searching for pure info (like what the crash error number means) the ads stay out of my way. THAT is how advertising SHOULD work, provide a way to find out information about something I am interested in and likely to buy, not worthless branding which only works on sheeple.
slightly higher per megabyte than CompactFlash cards
Yes, if you consider 20-100% higher slightly. Memorystick is a stupid, proprietary (even if they have one external lessee for their tech), technology that typically lags CF in both capacity and price drops. For example the cheapest 1GB CF card on Newegg is $63, cheapest MS Pro 1GB? $133. And that's not some aberation that I picked just to prove a point, I simply went to look for how far behind MS still is.
German Mark's used to have a series of raised lines which were applied during printing which gave the denomination. Add to that the fact that different denominations are physically different sizes as are the coins and it's not too difficult. Now American blind people have to rely on money and the kindness of strangers to remember which bills are in what order in their billfold and hope that unscrupulous people don't take advantage of them when they make a mistake.
I'm with you, I've had a smart card for the past 5 years yet I have had a total of 3 places use it in their smartcard CC reader, this is with using my CC as digital cash for everything possible every day. Add to this the fact that we don't have photo's as standard features on all CC's and I've concluded that the credit card companies just don't care. It must not be a big enough problem for them to worry about. Amex's net profit for the fourth quarter of 2004 was nearly $1 Billion, and they are the smallest of the big three CC processors!
The only time I was the victim of credit card fraud my bank caught it before anything happened. They called me up to ask if I was attempting to make such and such large transaction, I stated that I was not, they said that they had thought not. Their fraud detection computer had flagged my account after another small value transaction had been recorded for a specific amount, aparantly the theives had starting making large numbers of purchases for small values and the repetition of those values had tipped the computer off that something wasn't right. Aparantly the thieves were testing to see if the cards would work. After telling me that she would decline the transaction and flag the account the nice lady at the CC company asked me if I could think of any time in the last week that the card had been out of my site, I told her that I could only recall one time at a restaurant where the waitress had taken my card away, she said that this fit the patern they were seeing. I guess a large organized group had persuaded waitresses at a number of national chains to skim cards by posing as bank security people testing a new system. The amazing thing to me was that despite the appearance of this being a large, organized plan with probably high potential impact I never heard anything about it in the media.
Btw if you have a Visa checkcard you are generally covered under the same $100 max liability as a normal credit card, but you should check the specifics with your bank and the written contract you signed, I know that the four that I signed up for or seriously looked at all had the same coverage.
Not sure about this model but many cars have integrated stereo/navigation/cellphone systems so that the stereo can mute when a call is recieved or the voice navigation can play overtop the radio, etc. This is a usefull way to integrate technologies together to give a better user experience which also has the benifit of being more safe (no reaching for volume knobs!).
Ugh, the travel app sucks horribly, and of course Amex Travel upped their teleop fees a ton about a year back which made my supervisor demand that everyone use it. No longer employed with IBM but glad I worked there, if nothing else than seeing how a HUGE company operates.
Yes, yes it does. In fact I most often refered to it as blows goats.
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I wish that someone would do another VIC-20. For $200.00, I bet that we could get an awesome computer, but I doubt that any of the traditional companies like HP, IBM, and Sony would be interested.
You are correct, the origional iPod was flat or neutral in its frequency response. In fact it got rave reviews from audiophiles for exactly this feature. Unfortunatly most people are used to compressed, bass pumped, overproduced pop and new rock which is made to sound "good" on car stereo's and other cheap systems. If you have good cans and appreciate good music you should love the origional iPod. Of course if you have high resistence headphones the iPod might not be the best pick since it's not terribly high powered.
Yes, because controlling two keyboards and a looper while keeping in sync with a partner with two turn tables is so much less musical.....
Just because you don't like a genre of music doesn't mean that it doesn't take creative energy and work to produce. The exception being produced pop idiots who lip sync their studio mastered wonders or who are overdubbed at every live event because they really can't sing.
Cleveland a couple years ago at an event called rave on the river (or something similar). From what they said they accidently dumped the memory on looper and had to reload em all, it looked like they were using a zip disk which explains a lot of why it was so slow.
Because setting up a PC and dealing with software crashes just isn't acceptable in a professional live music setting. I saw the Chemical brothers lose their entire library at a live show once and it meant an unexpected 15 minute second intermission. Luckily it wasn't an OS corruption issue, they just reset the looper and reloaded their samples. Not to mention the fact that these things are really friggin rugged to put up with the abuse from roadies. Oh yeah, and these things basically never break down. I don't think I've ever heard of a Korg Triton (previous DAW from Korg) breaking down.
The contract is with Marvel, not the movie studios. They got their money already from the movie studios so all the accounting trickery in the world isn't going to hide it now. I'm sure they will try to do something with future deals to minimize the exposure to this judgement but for an 82 year old man he's going to have more money than he can likely spend in the remainder of his lifetime.
Will the need for an unbroken end-to-end light pipe finally lead to enough demand to light up some of that dark fibre that is sitting on the telco's books?
Overall they did pretty good capacity planning (The login server crashing problems notwithstanding), but they never had enough players to get all the edge cases where a REALLY populated server complex (because that's what each "server" is) experiences weird problems at peak hours. If you aren't on one of the hadfull of really overpopulated server then as long as the login servers are up you probably aren't having problems much of the time. They are now finding those edge cases and beefing up the servers on the most populated servers and fixing the code where it is most likely to break. Overall I'd say it's been a good effort and I expect things to do nothing but get better over the next couple months. These issues have the attention of everyone at Blizzard from the President on down.
check out this page which does a far better job of describing how the object model works. Basically a class can contain other classes as well as simple data classes, which can be very usefull for mapping your object oriented programming model onto the database.
I LOVE my Pentium M laptop. It's a Panasonic Toughbook civilian model. It's got more than enough power when plugged into the wall (1.8Ghz) and sips power when on batteries (600Mhz). It can go for almost 2 weeks in standby and last about 6 hours on a full charge with moderate usage (a couple office type apps open, a web browser with a dozen or so windows and a couple RDP sessions). It has 640MB of ram so it almost never touches the HDD (which is a BIG user of power, almost as much as the backlight). So I wouldn't trash the idea of large amounts of ram.
That's not really all that object relational, it's kind of like early iterations of c++ which were just preprocessor macro's. To see a true object oriented DB that still allows standard SQL access see Intersystems CACHÉ. Everything is an object and can be manipulated as such, it's a truely different way of looking at SQL.
Correct, AFAIK the biggest windows 2003 datacenter installs are on Unisys ES7000's and those only support 32-way windows partitions. The box can hold 64 Xeon's so I would say that Unisys isn't comfortable with the scalability of windows to the full system size, otherwise they'd be shouting it from the rooftops.
Will an HDMI/HDCP display accept un-encrypted content? That is can I use them as a display for normal PC content? I'd love to connect my HTPC to a big screen display and it would suck if I can't buy a display after this July that will work with my homebrew solution.
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Sure it does, comiled Java code can be just as fast as C++ code and nearly as fast as C code. It all depends on how good the libraries are and how smart the compilers are. There is numeric code available for Java today that is just as fast as equivilant libraries for C++. Hell real numeric code is STILL written against FORTRAN libraries because the code is that good, that well optimized, and that well tested. Java GUI's suck, but numeric code and server code has long since been more than fast enough.
Well, he pled guilty to a conspiracy charge, which may be correct. He did in fact conspire to steal trade secrets from AOL. What the prosecutor says to the email and the legal wording of the filing are probably very different things. At least that's what I got by reading the article and reading between the lines.
You are correct. This site has some good information including some applicable federal statutes involving theft of trade secrets and economic espionage. This guy was looking at up to 10 years in prison and 500K in fines so he got off relativly lightly. I never knew that theft of trade secrets carried criminal attachment, I thought it was purely a civil tort, shows how much you might not know about the law if you're not a lawyer.
who do you think actually clicks on ads?
I do, all the time. When looking for a product or service google's adwords are always correctly targeted and lead to usefull information, when I'm searching for pure info (like what the crash error number means) the ads stay out of my way. THAT is how advertising SHOULD work, provide a way to find out information about something I am interested in and likely to buy, not worthless branding which only works on sheeple.
Tools->Internet Options->Security->restricted sites, add site in question.
slightly higher per megabyte than CompactFlash cards
Yes, if you consider 20-100% higher slightly. Memorystick is a stupid, proprietary (even if they have one external lessee for their tech), technology that typically lags CF in both capacity and price drops. For example the cheapest 1GB CF card on Newegg is $63, cheapest MS Pro 1GB? $133. And that's not some aberation that I picked just to prove a point, I simply went to look for how far behind MS still is.
German Mark's used to have a series of raised lines which were applied during printing which gave the denomination. Add to that the fact that different denominations are physically different sizes as are the coins and it's not too difficult. Now American blind people have to rely on money and the kindness of strangers to remember which bills are in what order in their billfold and hope that unscrupulous people don't take advantage of them when they make a mistake.
I'm with you, I've had a smart card for the past 5 years yet I have had a total of 3 places use it in their smartcard CC reader, this is with using my CC as digital cash for everything possible every day. Add to this the fact that we don't have photo's as standard features on all CC's and I've concluded that the credit card companies just don't care. It must not be a big enough problem for them to worry about. Amex's net profit for the fourth quarter of 2004 was nearly $1 Billion, and they are the smallest of the big three CC processors!
The only time I was the victim of credit card fraud my bank caught it before anything happened. They called me up to ask if I was attempting to make such and such large transaction, I stated that I was not, they said that they had thought not. Their fraud detection computer had flagged my account after another small value transaction had been recorded for a specific amount, aparantly the theives had starting making large numbers of purchases for small values and the repetition of those values had tipped the computer off that something wasn't right. Aparantly the thieves were testing to see if the cards would work. After telling me that she would decline the transaction and flag the account the nice lady at the CC company asked me if I could think of any time in the last week that the card had been out of my site, I told her that I could only recall one time at a restaurant where the waitress had taken my card away, she said that this fit the patern they were seeing. I guess a large organized group had persuaded waitresses at a number of national chains to skim cards by posing as bank security people testing a new system. The amazing thing to me was that despite the appearance of this being a large, organized plan with probably high potential impact I never heard anything about it in the media.
Btw if you have a Visa checkcard you are generally covered under the same $100 max liability as a normal credit card, but you should check the specifics with your bank and the written contract you signed, I know that the four that I signed up for or seriously looked at all had the same coverage.
Not sure about this model but many cars have integrated stereo/navigation/cellphone systems so that the stereo can mute when a call is recieved or the voice navigation can play overtop the radio, etc. This is a usefull way to integrate technologies together to give a better user experience which also has the benifit of being more safe (no reaching for volume knobs!).
Ugh, the travel app sucks horribly, and of course Amex Travel upped their teleop fees a ton about a year back which made my supervisor demand that everyone use it. No longer employed with IBM but glad I worked there, if nothing else than seeing how a HUGE company operates.
Yes, yes it does. In fact I most often refered to it as blows goats.
I wish that someone would do another VIC-20. For $200.00, I bet that we could get an awesome computer, but I doubt that any of the traditional companies like HP, IBM, and Sony would be interested.
Isn't that called a MacMini?
You are correct, the origional iPod was flat or neutral in its frequency response. In fact it got rave reviews from audiophiles for exactly this feature. Unfortunatly most people are used to compressed, bass pumped, overproduced pop and new rock which is made to sound "good" on car stereo's and other cheap systems. If you have good cans and appreciate good music you should love the origional iPod. Of course if you have high resistence headphones the iPod might not be the best pick since it's not terribly high powered.
Yes, because controlling two keyboards and a looper while keeping in sync with a partner with two turn tables is so much less musical.....
Just because you don't like a genre of music doesn't mean that it doesn't take creative energy and work to produce. The exception being produced pop idiots who lip sync their studio mastered wonders or who are overdubbed at every live event because they really can't sing.
Cleveland a couple years ago at an event called rave on the river (or something similar). From what they said they accidently dumped the memory on looper and had to reload em all, it looked like they were using a zip disk which explains a lot of why it was so slow.
Because setting up a PC and dealing with software crashes just isn't acceptable in a professional live music setting. I saw the Chemical brothers lose their entire library at a live show once and it meant an unexpected 15 minute second intermission. Luckily it wasn't an OS corruption issue, they just reset the looper and reloaded their samples. Not to mention the fact that these things are really friggin rugged to put up with the abuse from roadies. Oh yeah, and these things basically never break down. I don't think I've ever heard of a Korg Triton (previous DAW from Korg) breaking down.
The contract is with Marvel, not the movie studios. They got their money already from the movie studios so all the accounting trickery in the world isn't going to hide it now. I'm sure they will try to do something with future deals to minimize the exposure to this judgement but for an 82 year old man he's going to have more money than he can likely spend in the remainder of his lifetime.
Will the need for an unbroken end-to-end light pipe finally lead to enough demand to light up some of that dark fibre that is sitting on the telco's books?
Overall they did pretty good capacity planning (The login server crashing problems notwithstanding), but they never had enough players to get all the edge cases where a REALLY populated server complex (because that's what each "server" is) experiences weird problems at peak hours. If you aren't on one of the hadfull of really overpopulated server then as long as the login servers are up you probably aren't having problems much of the time. They are now finding those edge cases and beefing up the servers on the most populated servers and fixing the code where it is most likely to break. Overall I'd say it's been a good effort and I expect things to do nothing but get better over the next couple months. These issues have the attention of everyone at Blizzard from the President on down.
check out this page which does a far better job of describing how the object model works. Basically a class can contain other classes as well as simple data classes, which can be very usefull for mapping your object oriented programming model onto the database.
I LOVE my Pentium M laptop. It's a Panasonic Toughbook civilian model. It's got more than enough power when plugged into the wall (1.8Ghz) and sips power when on batteries (600Mhz). It can go for almost 2 weeks in standby and last about 6 hours on a full charge with moderate usage (a couple office type apps open, a web browser with a dozen or so windows and a couple RDP sessions). It has 640MB of ram so it almost never touches the HDD (which is a BIG user of power, almost as much as the backlight). So I wouldn't trash the idea of large amounts of ram.
That's not really all that object relational, it's kind of like early iterations of c++ which were just preprocessor macro's. To see a true object oriented DB that still allows standard SQL access see Intersystems CACHÉ. Everything is an object and can be manipulated as such, it's a truely different way of looking at SQL.
Correct, AFAIK the biggest windows 2003 datacenter installs are on Unisys ES7000's and those only support 32-way windows partitions. The box can hold 64 Xeon's so I would say that Unisys isn't comfortable with the scalability of windows to the full system size, otherwise they'd be shouting it from the rooftops.
Will an HDMI/HDCP display accept un-encrypted content? That is can I use them as a display for normal PC content? I'd love to connect my HTPC to a big screen display and it would suck if I can't buy a display after this July that will work with my homebrew solution.