"I was sick of hearing people say Java was slow, when I know it's pretty fast"
Nice, unbiased viewpoint there...
A preconception does not imply bias. It's virtually impossible for anyone to go into such a reivew and not have any opinions about the products they are testing beforehand. It's how they handle the results that counts, not what prompts them to do the study in the first place.
And I definitely agree with him, the unsubstantiated claim of the unqualified "slow" criticism of java is long outdated.
So if not SSD then something else but in this day and age where desktop PCs have as much memory as 5 million dollar mainframes of 10 years ago its silly to pretend that there is NOTHING to be done with storage performance except by paying supercomputer prices for SSD.
You can pretty much rest assured that when someone comes up with better technology they will sell it to you - there is no corporate conspiracy going on to deprive you of faster disk access.
Strictly speaking they wouldn't have to redefine it - a byte can be whatever the manufacturer of a system defines it to be. It's just that 8 has (thankfully) become pretty much a universal standard.
so that we can finally get meaningfully great performance out of all this money?
I don't think I understand your question - you think that flash manufacturers are intentionally keeping the performance of their technology down? Or that RAM-based SSD manifacturers are charging too much? Neither really has anything whatsoever to do with the HDDs mentioned in the article.
Zero privacy. The technology is great, but the potential for abuse is definitely there.
Video cameras - fucking video cameras we've had for decades - have the same "potential for abuse," the same ability to usher in a new zero-privacy, post-apocalyptic distopian future.
Every new technology of any substance whatsoever has the "potential" for some kind of abuse, guess we'll have to live in fear for the rest of our lives.
usually even delivering a better player there than they do for windows.
I sure hope so, because it's pretty damn hard to imagine something worse. Seriously, buffering aside, the Real player is one of the crappiest and at the same time most obnoxious (a pretty bad combination) pieces of software out there.
Nobody is saying we don't need anything because of IPv6. We were just wondering how the eventual adoption of IPv6 will affect the technology being discussed.
Lets see if I can reduce the amount of work I put in my slashdot posts:
School the actual 56 was it didnt ahhere to their simply 5 paragraph introduction 3 body and conclusion i did horrible my second time i wrote the article actually i meant the former not the latter indiana is however according to my office every week and really get the first thing that came to my mineas you can skip the registration of the students know that they know will give them the good thing your windows grammar checking software and use it everywhere use it to automoderate slashdot since i like 7 of the computer makes and theyll.
Tell their students what style will get good grades personally ive always felt it is undoubtedly a deep ai problem to how many people did you send a dollar i sent too many yum abiguity although arguably using too here wouldnt answer the question is will other states begin to understand analogy you have been any worse if the gradeovac was inspecting my papers so that we can figure out how to use the erater site erater learns to score essays on a good grade wouldnt bother to contest the results of computerized testing have the following comments are owned.
By whoever posted them we are watermelonwatermelonthis student is treated equally emotion and prejudice are taken out of 10 or something like that you can write using a computer program check that a computer can obviously not grade essays fairly so it gives its favorite students as without reading least favorite students as without reading least favorite students fs and the gold every time 1 reply beneath your current threshold there are easy ways to scam it too bad i dont think its only a matter of time on these clases learning from the rubberstamp high school version of.
Hmmm... looks like there isn't enough variation in your typical slashdot thread for a trivial Markov generator to produce anything interesting.
JBoss is hands down the best J2EE app server out there, including both comercial and free alternatives - I really couldn't care less what opinions their employees post to message boards, assuming they still find the time to write code.
The Java blog space now erupted with posts from a variety of bloggers (here, here, and here for a start)
And what is it with this whole "blog" thing? I thought it was just a form of public masturbation?
I pointed out that the DNA sequence includes info in more than jsut the basepair sequence
Seems we are really interested in the semantics here - by definition, the "DNA sequence" is just the "basepair sequence" - an ordered succession of basepairs. It's quite obvious that a lot more information that that would be needed to "reconstruct" Scary Spice, but the OP did in fact just mean the DNA sequence. If you are saying that the DNA chromosome holds more information than just the basepair sequence - fine, but the sequence is still just the sequence.
(BTW, I am not suggesting that it's possible to reconstruct Scary just from her DNA information, even if you include methylation state).
Store the DNA sequences for the spice girls on it, such that years from now our decendants may know the joys of Scary Spice.
The current genome build has a size of 3,020,300,000 bp, at 2 bits per bp and 5(?) spice girls, that's about 3.5 GB (uncompressed).
Of course with a mostly static database like that you only want to store the diffs, not the whole thing. The bulk of the diff would be SNPs, roughly 1 per 1000 bp: 3,020,300,000 / 1000 / 4 / 1048576 that's about 0.72MB per spice girl. An if you only store the ones actually different from wildtype you probably don't need more than 20% of that.
We've got a developer who only shows up about every other day, though I think terms like "working from home" were applied to the activity retroactively.
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For this to become a flamewar, wouldn't someone (anyone) have to still give a damn about C++?
Nice, unbiased viewpoint there...
A preconception does not imply bias. It's virtually impossible for anyone to go into such a reivew and not have any opinions about the products they are testing beforehand. It's how they handle the results that counts, not what prompts them to do the study in the first place.
And I definitely agree with him, the unsubstantiated claim of the unqualified "slow" criticism of java is long outdated.
You can pretty much rest assured that when someone comes up with better technology they will sell it to you - there is no corporate conspiracy going on to deprive you of faster disk access.
you mean, that some aspects of computer and/or network technologies will be faster in the future? well, now I am just confused...
Strictly speaking they wouldn't have to redefine it - a byte can be whatever the manufacturer of a system defines it to be. It's just that 8 has (thankfully) become pretty much a universal standard.
I don't think I understand your question - you think that flash manufacturers are intentionally keeping the performance of their technology down? Or that RAM-based SSD manifacturers are charging too much? Neither really has anything whatsoever to do with the HDDs mentioned in the article.
Can't quite see the source of your exasperation.
Video cameras - fucking video cameras we've had for decades - have the same "potential for abuse," the same ability to usher in a new zero-privacy, post-apocalyptic distopian future.
Every new technology of any substance whatsoever has the "potential" for some kind of abuse, guess we'll have to live in fear for the rest of our lives.
You'd think so, wouldn't you? And yet Real seems to manage just that. Windows Media also seems to accomplish this feat.
I sure hope so, because it's pretty damn hard to imagine something worse. Seriously, buffering aside, the Real player is one of the crappiest and at the same time most obnoxious (a pretty bad combination) pieces of software out there.
So, you know, keep your panties on.
I'm a little confused - what's the thought process behind this "treatment"?
Seems the purpose is to monitor IP scanning activity - something wholly impractical with IPv6.
Uh? I thought the whole purpose of this site was to gripe about microsoft products.
Hm, I don't think the dinosaurs overkilled themselves with nuclear weapons.
School the actual 56 was it didnt ahhere to their simply 5 paragraph introduction 3 body and conclusion i did horrible my second time i wrote the article actually i meant the former not the latter indiana is however according to my office every week and really get the first thing that came to my mineas you can skip the registration of the students know that they know will give them the good thing your windows grammar checking software and use it everywhere use it to automoderate slashdot since i like 7 of the computer makes and theyll.
Tell their students what style will get good grades personally ive always felt it is undoubtedly a deep ai problem to how many people did you send a dollar i sent too many yum abiguity although arguably using too here wouldnt answer the question is will other states begin to understand analogy you have been any worse if the gradeovac was inspecting my papers so that we can figure out how to use the erater site erater learns to score essays on a good grade wouldnt bother to contest the results of computerized testing have the following comments are owned.
By whoever posted them we are watermelonwatermelonthis student is treated equally emotion and prejudice are taken out of 10 or something like that you can write using a computer program check that a computer can obviously not grade essays fairly so it gives its favorite students as without reading least favorite students as without reading least favorite students fs and the gold every time 1 reply beneath your current threshold there are easy ways to scam it too bad i dont think its only a matter of time on these clases learning from the rubberstamp high school version of.
Hmmm... looks like there isn't enough variation in your typical slashdot thread for a trivial Markov generator to produce anything interesting.
Sounds like you wouldn't have too much trouble.
Wait a minute, but BEA is crap and JBoss is fantastic - does that make me a JBoss employee?
The Java blog space now erupted with posts from a variety of bloggers (here, here, and here for a start)
And what is it with this whole "blog" thing? I thought it was just a form of public masturbation?
Seems we are really interested in the semantics here - by definition, the "DNA sequence" is just the "basepair sequence" - an ordered succession of basepairs. It's quite obvious that a lot more information that that would be needed to "reconstruct" Scary Spice, but the OP did in fact just mean the DNA sequence. If you are saying that the DNA chromosome holds more information than just the basepair sequence - fine, but the sequence is still just the sequence.
(BTW, I am not suggesting that it's possible to reconstruct Scary just from her DNA information, even if you include methylation state).
Oh sure, but the OP specifically said "DNA sequence."
The current genome build has a size of 3,020,300,000 bp, at 2 bits per bp and 5(?) spice girls, that's about 3.5 GB (uncompressed).
Of course with a mostly static database like that you only want to store the diffs, not the whole thing. The bulk of the diff would be SNPs, roughly 1 per 1000 bp: 3,020,300,000 / 1000 / 4 / 1048576 that's about 0.72MB per spice girl. An if you only store the ones actually different from wildtype you probably don't need more than 20% of that.
You can fit a Spice Girl on a floppy.
You forgot Human Genomes - I for one can't tell how much storage something has until it is expressed in Human Genomes.
No, your company's intranet.
Of what? Not being able to charge for Swing anymore? IBM is going for Microsoft's throat using Sun's tools, and Sun should think that's a bad thing?
We've got a developer who only shows up about every other day, though I think terms like "working from home" were applied to the activity retroactively.