Heh,
you have to watch out for that Huge image of the entire world. They werent joking about it being huge. I only have 256Mb RAM, and it ran out rather quickly.
Which is that Microsoft, whether they are right or they are wrong, are settng themselved up as able to persue through legal means groups such as the Samba team. With the cost of legal counsel, i doubt it matters if in actuality they are not correct, the damage is still done.
I think that microsoft is really doing it to scare people off people who have neither the money nor inclinaton to defend their work in court. If I were writing an Open Source widget that was covered by this, and I found a nasty looking letter in my mailbox from Microsoft, I think i would just unplug the website and pray they leave me alone.
Should have to go to talk to the person cured, and explain why they think not doing this research is more important to their values than him being cured.
I have a Sony Cybershot 3Mpixel digicam. It has a USB port to connect to the computer. So, my computer was on, and i plugged it in to windows XP. When i do, as i scramble from the back of my computer, i hear the hard disk whizzing. By the time i get to the top and can see the monitor, there is a dialog which says:
"What would you like to do with the pictures? Print? E-mail? Open windows explorer?"
And the best thing is... there are no pictures in the root folder of the drive it made for my camera, they are buried 2 folders deep.
Quite honestly, that was fantastic. I didnt have to do ANYTHING.
You're right about the almost. Here in New Zealand we are one of the few industrialised, developed countries that got that way by selling logs and by farming.
Back in the 50s and 60s, we had one of the highest standards of living in the world, better than the US. However, it has been downhill from there, and successive generations have tried to reclaim past glories by borrowing too much, and now we have a sizeable debt.
We have a microwave like that (just two dials) at home. It was after I was doing a summer job at a research facility and no fewer than 3 scientists with doctorates were standing around poking at this god-awful microwave that it really became so obvious how a microwave should be. We did get it to cook, but it was one of those jobs where you have to press the time button, then the power button, then the go button.
While we were looking for our new microwave, there was an one which had an LCD screen... and best of all, a "next", a "back" and a "favourites" button. On a freaking microwave!!!
Energy constrains it, by the same principles. Essentially, it means the atmosphere would have less energy, less pressure, and would not leak.
If the gravity were sufficiently low as to allow it to leak, then the air wouldnt be able to get into the gravity column in the first place. I think some of the other replies i have got mis-understood my post.
As an aside, our atmosphere does leak already. H and He have sufficient energy to just escape, so they are not present in our atmosphere. Everything else is really too heavy/ is being replenished.
here in NZ, (and almost every other country in the world) we do actually have a brain drain. Only, they are all going to the US, which is one of the few countries with a brain gain. If they're gonna drain outta the US, where will they go?
The last time this came around, i was pondered what this would actually mean.
Consider a localised column around the earth in which gravity is lessened. This means that the potential energy is higher in this area... here on earth we have very negative energy, and out to infinity we define zero energy. The area of lesser gravity has a higher potential energy.
The upshot of this is that it requires a force to "push" something into this area of microgravity. Why? because otherwise you could have two stairwells, one for going up in the microgravity area, and one for going down (normal gravity). You could get energy for free.
So, if your missile, or what ever, has sufficient energy to make it into the microgravity column, it slows, and then comes out the other side, at its original velocity. If it doesnt have this critical velocity (let's call it escape velocity), it bounces back. At its original speed. Ouch. Most notably, if you put your arm in there, your heart can't pump the blood with enough pressure to keep the blood in your arm. Bugger.
I think it is kinda interesting, not only because it is fundamentally a cool thing, but all the cooky side effects that could come about from it.
Swing is a bad example. It runs slow even when compiled to native code (in fact, a bit slower). The problem isnt the java, the problem is the inherent design of swing in which you are very deep in inheritance trees, much abstraction going on.
An example of why java guis dont need to be slow is eclipse. You can't tell its written in java (except maybe the slow load time:-)), but this uses a a different windowing toolkit.
In summary, the VM adds overhead, yes. But the VM is not the cause of a lousy GUI toolkit.
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The australians tried it, their boat sank.
Dennis Connor tried it, but well, he lost.
Long live black magic.
Was that a spec spec?
Chocolate cravings... mmm.... those flake ice cream cones are great for those little hunger pangs.
Hopefully however, the pipe of death will not actually conjure up any child processes. Im not quite at that stage in my life yet.
Heh,
you have to watch out for that Huge image of the entire world. They werent joking about it being huge. I only have 256Mb RAM, and it ran out rather quickly.
I think that microsoft is really doing it to scare people off people who have neither the money nor inclinaton to defend their work in court. If I were writing an Open Source widget that was covered by this, and I found a nasty looking letter in my mailbox from Microsoft, I think i would just unplug the website and pray they leave me alone.
I never really appreciated it at the time, but they used to over take people, going up a hill, while towing a carvan. Yowee.
Of course, that was an older model (70s some time), and now they have the 90s 5l model. Similar power, but uses HALF the fuel....
And then of course, i ride a 50cc motor scooter.... it amuses me that their car had over 100x the swept volume. That's a huge range of engine sizes.
throw new CloneNotSupportedException();
Should have to go to talk to the person cured, and explain why they think not doing this research is more important to their values than him being cured.
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True story:
I have a Sony Cybershot 3Mpixel digicam. It has a USB port to connect to the computer. So, my computer was on, and i plugged it in to windows XP. When i do, as i scramble from the back of my computer, i hear the hard disk whizzing. By the time i get to the top and can see the monitor, there is a dialog which says:
"What would you like to do with the pictures? Print? E-mail? Open windows explorer?"
And the best thing is... there are no pictures in the root folder of the drive it made for my camera, they are buried 2 folders deep.
Quite honestly, that was fantastic. I didnt have to do ANYTHING.
Thanks.
But essentially, yes, most GDP from primary produce.
Back in the 50s and 60s, we had one of the highest standards of living in the world, better than the US. However, it has been downhill from there, and successive generations have tried to reclaim past glories by borrowing too much, and now we have a sizeable debt.
Also, no matter the innacuracy, you can always get more accurate by sitting there for a bit longer.
When i was cavortling around with one, you could get accuracies better than a metre.
Just an idea.
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I thought it was going to turn reeeaaal ugly.
Those answers remind me of ELIZA. The only thing yours is missing is the obligitory "You havent talked about your parents yet" phrase.
We have a microwave like that (just two dials) at home. It was after I was doing a summer job at a research facility and no fewer than 3 scientists with doctorates were standing around poking at this god-awful microwave that it really became so obvious how a microwave should be. We did get it to cook, but it was one of those jobs where you have to press the time button, then the power button, then the go button.
While we were looking for our new microwave, there was an one which had an LCD screen... and best of all, a "next", a "back" and a "favourites" button. On a freaking microwave!!!
Needless to say, they did not get our custom.
There was no need to bring Britney into this. That's just a low shot.
If the gravity were sufficiently low as to allow it to leak, then the air wouldnt be able to get into the gravity column in the first place. I think some of the other replies i have got mis-understood my post.
As an aside, our atmosphere does leak already. H and He have sufficient energy to just escape, so they are not present in our atmosphere. Everything else is really too heavy/ is being replenished.
here in NZ, (and almost every other country in the world) we do actually have a brain drain. Only, they are all going to the US, which is one of the few countries with a brain gain. If they're gonna drain outta the US, where will they go?
Consider a localised column around the earth in which gravity is lessened. This means that the potential energy is higher in this area... here on earth we have very negative energy, and out to infinity we define zero energy. The area of lesser gravity has a higher potential energy.
The upshot of this is that it requires a force to "push" something into this area of microgravity. Why? because otherwise you could have two stairwells, one for going up in the microgravity area, and one for going down (normal gravity). You could get energy for free.
So, if your missile, or what ever, has sufficient energy to make it into the microgravity column, it slows, and then comes out the other side, at its original velocity. If it doesnt have this critical velocity (let's call it escape velocity), it bounces back. At its original speed. Ouch. Most notably, if you put your arm in there, your heart can't pump the blood with enough pressure to keep the blood in your arm. Bugger.
I think it is kinda interesting, not only because it is fundamentally a cool thing, but all the cooky side effects that could come about from it.
An example of why java guis dont need to be slow is eclipse. You can't tell its written in java (except maybe the slow load time :-)), but this uses a a different windowing toolkit.
In summary, the VM adds overhead, yes. But the VM is not the cause of a lousy GUI toolkit.
Maybe they rounded it up.
I imagine you are correct, it doesnt matter whether or not the technology exists, only if people use it :-)