This seems like a pretty poor showing for Itanium 2, overall.
It does? You know that clustered computing doesn't scale linearly. If virginia tech were to double the amount of processors used, they wouldn't double their performance.
If I create a Flash animation I do not have to worry about how it will appear on Mac/Linux/Windows/Netscape/Mozilla/IE/Opera. It will be consistent across all platforms.
Except for Linux on PPC, which doesn't have a flash plugin available for it.
I looked at your "example" of 19th century biometrics. Interesting historical value. Your point was?
My point was here was a system where no matter how accurate your measurements were, it didn't matter since it wasn't unique enough.
It seems to me that no one has done any real tests of iris scanning to show that it isn't easily circumventable. Does lasik surgery affect the scan? What about opaque contacts?
No amount of technology is going to help if iris scanning is inherently flawed... and we're not going to know if it is flawed or not until people do real tests, and not just use it for gimmicks like IDing volunteers who don't try to push the system.
There ain't no such thing as a technology that gets worst or doesn't improve.
True, but there is such a think as a technology that has been proven to be inherently flawed.
Just google for "Bertillonage" for an example of a failed biometrics concept, which no amount of technology could save.
Is iris scanning inherently flawed? I don't know, but if they're just now finding out crying gives a false negative, I don't think anyone has really done any real tests to prove one way or another.
And on a side note, does it bother anybody else when people refer to "wheels" as "rims"? A wheel is more than just a "rim", so why call it that?
Because usually they're talking about the rim specifically. A wheel = tire + rim. Not too many riceboys can even tell the difference between firestone and yokohama... but they know shiny!
Apple is doing very nice - 20.2% of the 802.11g market, the first-mover advantage
I'd say it was all advertising. The fact that you think they had a first-mover advantage when they didn't (linksys had 802.11g products for cheaper, earlier) means that Job's keynote speeches are worth a mint in advertising.
Take a look at car stereo systems with minipin input jacks on the front. I've found that Aiwa makes several models that have this.
Yeah, but that's messy and you still have the problem of an ipod flopping around.
I want a car stereo dock. You slide the ipod in like an 8 track. Kenwood style. (The face flips down, there's a slot for the ipod. the face flips up, and has a whole interface)
That, of course, is way beyond your standard hacks, but it would be a great consumer product.
The new drives are less accurate when writing at low speeds, because they are built with the assumption that people will burn at the highest speed available to them.
I don't know if I agree with that. The cdrom in this Pismo Powerbook reports errors with cdrs burned at anything above 10x. It can read the disc, but it reports corruption every 200 megs or so. The disc validates perfectly in my PC. Burn at 8x and the powerbook doesn't have a problem with it.
The problem may be with the drive, or it may be with the media not being very accurate. I haven't seen any real evidence dealing with burn speeds and cdrom reliability, so I don't know.
the rest of the business world doesn't really seem to make time for "doing things right" (just an observation, not my opinion).
This may be true in certain businesses, but not for most commercial websites. People on the web have little tolerance for slow loading pages, and we lose viewership if something is slow.
Yeah, as long as you write simple, 2D games(like the author of the essay does) that would be true.
Not only that, but even simple 2d games can need optimizing. Perhaps they need optimizing because they're on an inherently slow platform (like Flash or a cell phone), or perhaps they need optimizing because they're multiplayer (and games with bad network code are immediately obvious and usually fail miserably)
I find it strange that so many programmers here talk about things being "fast enough" or "not worth my time"... yet any article about mozilla, openoffice, windows, osx, damn near any software package with a gui is filled with complaints about slowness and bloat.
How is this fair? He completely and utterly changed the entire assignment on you forcing you to throw all of your work away. And gave you one week for it!?
If you have an answer, then good for you, but maybe you don't and should thus leave that 2 hour maintenanc task alone, spend your time doing something else.
What else should, say, the programmers responsible for OpenOffice be spending their time on? Features? Compatibility? Other projects altogether?
I think we all can agree that the biggest problem with OpenOffice is speed. If only they had designed it with speed in mind.
Optimization takes longer (and is often impossible) if it is the last thing you do. It should be in mind every step of the process.
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This seems like a pretty poor showing for Itanium 2, overall.
It does? You know that clustered computing doesn't scale linearly. If virginia tech were to double the amount of processors used, they wouldn't double their performance.
Better chances: Hare Krishnas They can appeal to the disaffected alien youth!
Not until we build an interstellar spaceport for them to hang out in.
If I create a Flash animation I do not have to worry about how it will appear on Mac/Linux/Windows/Netscape/Mozilla/IE/Opera. It will be consistent across all platforms.
Except for Linux on PPC, which doesn't have a flash plugin available for it.
Microsoft is a monopoly. Apple is not.
Is that so fucking hard to understand?
Aparently so, since MS isn't a monopoly. They *have* a monopoly.. in consumer level commercial OSes.
Apple has a monopoly too.. in online music distribution.
They just made the mistake of thinking the word Library kind of self-documented its purpose.
Oh, so it's the place where OSX stores all of its books?
Frontal Assault
I believe you mean Full Frontal Assault.
Jailbreak
Hot!
And they didn't ask the community, and they are going against the gain of EVERY other OS.
Yeah, until Apple switches back to a spacial finder and everyone praises them as visionaries.
let's show the incredibly breath taking cinematic art and make it LOOK in-game
Pretty much every nintendo game has cinematic art done in real time. So even if it was cinematic art, it was still all rendered real time.
This is due to the small discs that can't contain tons of movies.
I looked at your "example" of 19th century biometrics. Interesting historical value. Your point was?
My point was here was a system where no matter how accurate your measurements were, it didn't matter since it wasn't unique enough.
It seems to me that no one has done any real tests of iris scanning to show that it isn't easily circumventable. Does lasik surgery affect the scan? What about opaque contacts?
No amount of technology is going to help if iris scanning is inherently flawed... and we're not going to know if it is flawed or not until people do real tests, and not just use it for gimmicks like IDing volunteers who don't try to push the system.
There ain't no such thing as a technology that gets worst or doesn't improve.
True, but there is such a think as a technology that has been proven to be inherently flawed.
Just google for "Bertillonage" for an example of a failed biometrics concept, which no amount of technology could save.
Is iris scanning inherently flawed? I don't know, but if they're just now finding out crying gives a false negative, I don't think anyone has really done any real tests to prove one way or another.
And on a side note, does it bother anybody else when people refer to "wheels" as "rims"? A wheel is more than just a "rim", so why call it that?
Because usually they're talking about the rim specifically. A wheel = tire + rim. Not too many riceboys can even tell the difference between firestone and yokohama... but they know shiny!
God, I loved that company back in the days of the N64. What the hell happened?
Everyone involved with the N64 left the company, and what MS bought was an empty shell.
Apple is doing very nice - 20.2% of the 802.11g market, the first-mover advantage
I'd say it was all advertising. The fact that you think they had a first-mover advantage when they didn't (linksys had 802.11g products for cheaper, earlier) means that Job's keynote speeches are worth a mint in advertising.
He was supposed to show the world proof that he destroyed the weapons. That never happened.
Well duh, can't prove a negative.
But I see 2ch and I don't think "channel 2" I think of a dot.
2ch is the ascii code for a '.'
Slashdot should now be known as 2f2ch
Shadow of the Beast is by far the hardest game I've ever played. No saves, no extra men. 3 hits and the game is over.
Second hardest is probably Ghosts and Goblins/Super Ghouls and Ghosts series.
Take a look at car stereo systems with minipin input jacks on the front. I've found that Aiwa makes several models that have this.
Yeah, but that's messy and you still have the problem of an ipod flopping around.
I want a car stereo dock. You slide the ipod in like an 8 track. Kenwood style. (The face flips down, there's a slot for the ipod. the face flips up, and has a whole interface)
That, of course, is way beyond your standard hacks, but it would be a great consumer product.
The new drives are less accurate when writing at low speeds, because they are built with the assumption that people will burn at the highest speed available to them.
I don't know if I agree with that. The cdrom in this Pismo Powerbook reports errors with cdrs burned at anything above 10x. It can read the disc, but it reports corruption every 200 megs or so. The disc validates perfectly in my PC. Burn at 8x and the powerbook doesn't have a problem with it.
The problem may be with the drive, or it may be with the media not being very accurate. I haven't seen any real evidence dealing with burn speeds and cdrom reliability, so I don't know.
Sony uses "Wand of Square-Enix!"
Final Fantasy series ports have been summoned!
Nintendo has four hours to come up with a counter attack while the summon animation is playing.
So if it crashes, do you trip and fall? Boy, that'd suck on stairs...
Think of it as a built-in bitchslap from the manufacturer.. for being stupid enough to buy this thing.
Just another follow up on my previous reply..
the rest of the business world doesn't really seem to make time for "doing things right" (just an observation, not my opinion).
This may be true in certain businesses, but not for most commercial websites. People on the web have little tolerance for slow loading pages, and we lose viewership if something is slow.
Yeah, as long as you write simple, 2D games(like the author of the essay does) that would be true.
Not only that, but even simple 2d games can need optimizing. Perhaps they need optimizing because they're on an inherently slow platform (like Flash or a cell phone), or perhaps they need optimizing because they're multiplayer (and games with bad network code are immediately obvious and usually fail miserably)
I find it strange that so many programmers here talk about things being "fast enough" or "not worth my time"... yet any article about mozilla, openoffice, windows, osx, damn near any software package with a gui is filled with complaints about slowness and bloat.
Makes you wonder what IS worth their time.
This is the one time where I'll step up and say that VC actually does a few neat tricks for the trinary operator.translates tothere are other variants of this, I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to figure out what is going on.
How is this fair? He completely and utterly changed the entire assignment on you forcing you to throw all of your work away. And gave you one week for it!?
He sounds just like my boss.
If you have an answer, then good for you, but maybe you don't and should thus leave that 2 hour maintenanc task alone, spend your time doing something else.
What else should, say, the programmers responsible for OpenOffice be spending their time on? Features? Compatibility? Other projects altogether?
I think we all can agree that the biggest problem with OpenOffice is speed. If only they had designed it with speed in mind.
Optimization takes longer (and is often impossible) if it is the last thing you do. It should be in mind every step of the process.