It is so uncomfortable, that I have to change typing position a lot. And I have to get up and walk around for awhile when I cannot feel my posterior any more.
I had proper office chair before, but my back was always hurting. Not so anymore - no back pains whatsoever.
Uncomfortable is comfortable!
From the synopsis:
" Despite its potential it relies on only simple mathematics and does not need powerful computers to run, which means software applications based on PSO would not be limited only to academic researchers and those with access to supercomputers."
There is an excellent treatise on a mathematical foundations of PSO in a book Fundamentals of Computational Swarm Intelligence by A.P. Engelbrecht.
Parent is the dimmest post ever to get "Score: 5, Interesting". Then again, maybe it was moderated by singularityneuronbiowulfcluster of Slashdot experts.-P
This thread is rapidly leaving the world of reason. Of course Java is bad at Hello World - it's not designed for such duties. Then again, if your objective is to print "Hello World" on stdout at max speed and convenience, perl is overkill also:-) % echo "Hello World"
Unless you are psychic, you won't be able to tell the difference between an MP3 ripped from a "master recording" (whatever that may be) and an MP3 ripped from a CD. And unless you are an alien, a dog, or an infant, you are lucky to hear anything meaninful above 16khz, which means that 44khz sampling is plenty.
That would be the case if all we ever recorded were pure sinewaves. Natural waveforms are far more complex and composed of multiple harmonics. Harmonics give the sound it's colour and their frequencies can go quite high
Professional audio hardware is fast moving to 192kHz sample rate - guess why. Try protools.com for more info, look for Protools|HD.
Nicely argumented view. I especially like your references to numerous studies on the subject. And thanks for making it clear to me that I don't want mobile wideband-applications. Phew, I think I'd better go crawling back to the local landline monopoly and beg them to re-install a landline connection.
>>...now that they got rid of their OS which was awful (for what I needed), and are now OpenBSD, I'm more likely to switch.
>Ummm, it's FreeBSD. There's a difference.
According to Apple's Darwin FAQ:
Q. Where does Darwin fit into the BSD family? A. The purpose of Darwin is to provide the core system software for Mac OS X. It is not designed to be an alternative to other excellent BSD options such as FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD. Darwin is simply BSD tweaked in ways we think will help Apple deliver the next great version of the Mac OS. We should note, however, that apart from a few architectural differences (such as our use of the Mach kernel), we try to keep Darwin as compatible as possible with FreeBSD (our BSD reference platform).
Take a look at orionserver.com. Their latest STABLE release was released 6/2001! Since then they have released two EXPERIMENTAL versions. Since they want to do experiments over bug fixes, we have decided to move away from orionserver.
Tomcat/JBoss seems to be the best way to go. I have used JServ/Tomcat-variations for several years, and in many production-sites. Tomcat has always been adequate (JServ was a bit of pain).
If you really need to squeeze every last drop of performance out of your cpu, Resin might be the way to go.
YMMV
In angryCoder tradition, this article is serious flame-bait and attempts to address some of the pretensions within the Java and general developer community.
Nice editorial work, Hemos. As if there aren't enough flame-baits in/. commentary already.
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In related studies from yesteryear: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/fmrisalmon/
http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(10)01020-1?large_figure=true
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It is so uncomfortable, that I have to change typing position a lot. And I have to get up and walk around for awhile when I cannot feel my posterior any more.
I had proper office chair before, but my back was always hurting. Not so anymore - no back pains whatsoever. Uncomfortable is comfortable!
There is an excellent treatise on a mathematical foundations of PSO in a book Fundamentals of Computational Swarm Intelligence by A.P. Engelbrecht.
Revonsuo has been studying this for a while:
http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/v6/psyche-6-08-revonsuo.html
It's not a popsci-article though, some familiarity with statistical analysis in psychological research helps.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066769/ based on a book by Michael Crichton.
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/hea_sui_rat_mal- health-suicide-rate-males
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Parent is the dimmest post ever to get "Score: 5, Interesting". Then again, maybe it was moderated by singularityneuronbiowulfcluster of Slashdot experts .-P
In best /. tradition...
Well worth the dirty feeling of installing XP on an iMac.
Cellular automata and music (in java): http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-ca music/?ca=dnt-520
Common Music (jazz in lisp): http://commonmusic.sourceforge.net/doc/cm.html
*sigh*
Or should it be co-operative since it's a mac thread
That's also human influence, is it not? Or am I missing news about millions of free cows happily farting away in some distant corner of Antarctis?
This thread is rapidly leaving the world of reason. :-)
Of course Java is bad at Hello World - it's not designed for such duties. Then again, if your objective is to print "Hello World" on stdout at max speed and convenience, perl is overkill also
% echo "Hello World"
(nuff said)
Although on Java-side of the world the Sun is getting Eclipsed..
That would be the case if all we ever recorded were pure sinewaves. Natural waveforms are far more complex and composed of multiple harmonics. Harmonics give the sound it's colour and their frequencies can go quite high
Professional audio hardware is fast moving to 192kHz sample rate - guess why. Try protools.com for more info, look for Protools|HD.
Nicely argumented view. I especially like your references to numerous studies on the subject. And thanks for making it clear to me that I don't want mobile wideband-applications.
Phew, I think I'd better go crawling back to the local landline monopoly and beg them to re-install a landline connection.
>Ummm, it's FreeBSD. There's a difference.
According to Apple's Darwin FAQ:
Q. Where does Darwin fit into the BSD family?
A. The purpose of Darwin is to provide the core system software for Mac OS X. It is not designed to be an alternative to other excellent BSD options such as FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD. Darwin is simply BSD tweaked in ways we think will help Apple deliver the next great version of the Mac OS. We should note, however, that apart from a few architectural differences (such as our use of the Mach kernel), we try to keep Darwin as compatible as possible with FreeBSD (our BSD reference platform).
So it's neither, according to Apple.
Take a look at orionserver.com. Their latest STABLE release was released 6/2001! Since then they have released two EXPERIMENTAL versions. Since they want to do experiments over bug fixes, we have decided to move away from orionserver. Tomcat/JBoss seems to be the best way to go. I have used JServ/Tomcat-variations for several years, and in many production-sites. Tomcat has always been adequate (JServ was a bit of pain). If you really need to squeeze every last drop of performance out of your cpu, Resin might be the way to go. YMMV
That interview has been published in March. So it's not NEWs any more, methink.