Well, I would have been interested if I had eared about it in the first place, probably like everyone else. We should not forget that the average Joe user will by what is "cool" or "essential" at the moment. This is the reason they buy DVD/CD Burners/etc and floppy drive in the first place. They are either cool or essential to their PC. I don't really appreciate marketing hypes, but sometimes, a good marketing strategy and some alliance with major vendor is essential for your product to succeed. It takes more then just a reference to it on a web page or that you sell it in a couple local computer stores...
I recently bought a DVD player, I want to slowly add new stuff to have a decent home theater. I had a fairly good price on it at my local Wallmart... Next, I went at some electronic shop with my wife to check out which TV I could get next. Well, I was pretty disapointed to see how much a decent TV cost, and because of that, I seriously think I will wait a few years before upgrading it. A 32 inch Sony Trinitron cost near twice as much as a D-Series of the same size. Why?!? Yes the technology is recent and it host a lot of cool features, but twice the price tag?!? It's all based on the hype which surrounds it, and some people will actually buy it. The problem is that I'm sure it is not within reach of the middle JoeBlow. And I don't eant to buy a standard analog TV cause I already have one. So I'll stick with what I have until prices drop significantly. Maybe if they are required to includ digital decoder it could help to lower the price, but I don't beleive the manufacturer argument that it is this much more expensive to make. Today, they benefit from the "cool" factor which help them sell their TVs twive the price. The day this will become a "normal" feature, they will have to reajust their pricing and is a "bad" thing.
I see that everybody is talking about alternatives, but why is it that manufacturers are not comming out with a replacement if they absolutly want to get rid of this floppy drive? Thay had changed from 81/4 inch disk to 720K 3.5 inch and then to 1.44MG 3.5 inch disk. Seeing where the thechnlogy as got since their last "upgrade", they could probably release 100mb floppy at the same price they actually sell them. And they could, at the same time, upgrade their interface if it bothers them so much, I dunno, make it work with the USB2 port.
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Hey! Thanks a lot for the information! This guy seems pretty brilliant:-)
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Hmmm, ok... So my void was the actual modulation... I always think that I have a revolutionary idea, until I explain it to someone more clever then me!
Just out of curiosity, how did you calculate this?
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In the article, if I understood it correctly, they talk about dynamically allocate frequencies so everyone can have a piece when needed. I can imagine it's kind of like multithreading but with air waves, every one would get it's slice once in while.
My question thereof is this. How does one calculates bandwith available over a given frequency? Because maybe I don't understand some concept (that's why I asked the question), but as I understand it, you can put as much information onto an "airwaves" as you like, no? From what I remember an airwave as a sinusoidal look, from what I also recall, you can separate this in as many piece as you like, down to infinit. So let's say we have a curve which "start" at -10, go up to +10 and way back... If we separate into "units" of ones, we would have 5 places to put bits into +1(1) or -1(0), +2(1) or -2(0) etc etc. My only void is to how to specify if the bit is actually there or not... And the higher the frequency, the fastest it would come in. I'm really not into this kind of theory, but this is interesting, could someone explain me how it works?
I see that everybody are upseted about the fact that he have to tell them 10 days in advance before he release any confidential documents. But do he only have to tell them, or do he have to tell them AND give them back the documents? Cause if he just have to tell them, it's kind of ok I think, it will give time to the bad guys to go hide themself far far away...
I'm no rocket scientist:-)but I think it looks just like any other rocket... Can someone explain me what could be the benefit of using this? Could it be used to lauch satelites? I can't imagine sitting on this for transportation! I would win the Darwin award for sure...
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I'm not impliying that you have to do a Ph.D in mathematics to be good. What I say is that a solid base in many science is helpfull. By the way, compiler optimisation involves a lot of maths, unless it has change lastly... All great algorithms ever produced are based on maths. Music and Image compression and more generaly, computers would not exist without maths. Yes, you can be gould with out it, but being good in maths WILL help for sure. Physics, even only basic knowledge in physics is essential if you want to do almost any good simulation games. I'm not doing this kind of software, but it sure help to open my horizons.
And by the way, genius, if you started learning C and Assembly at 8/9 years old, read the Dragon book since and wrote your own OS, all that and you being only 12 years old, you should really release your work (even if it is closed sources) to the public. Unless it is just a plain lie, you have an amazing future in CS in front of you and I'm sure some people with more money then me would like to sponsor you.
OTOH, if its just a plain lie, go sleep, it's almost 7h30PM and South Park is not the kind of things you should look at anyway. And don't forget to brush your teeths!
Java is cross-platform unless you use JNI stuff in there. If they use the Cocoa binding, you can just forget it.
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Reminds me of those day when I was still going at shcool...
I was in college, and we were there, learning about pointers, assembly, C/C++, java, Database systems and etc etc. I really enjoyed all that, but I had been left with the impression that something was missing. I started to work, everything was fine and I was even quite good at what I was doing. Then I began to read about algorithm and design patterns. I had learned more about what I was doing reading this king of book then I ever felt I had learned before. Being on a "learning rush", I reently decided to go deeper into mathematics, basic physics and some compiler/kernel and other things like that. There's nothing in all that which I had to use directly in my everyday job, I'm doing some java on AIX stuff for now, but I feel that I have better control over what I'm doing. I do better algorithms, sometimes I even rewrite some part of code based on what I have read in some maths book. Nothing really complicated, it is just better written in the end.
All that to say that when I was still in high school, I was pretty good at maths/physics/chemistry, but I just hated it. It was just to abstract for the kind of person I am. I like when things can be applied to things I know concretly. What I would say now, to those young people who would like to become good programmer is to read about algorithms as soon as they know the basics of programming. Read that side by side with your maths books and you will see that a lot of maths concept are going hand in hand with computers and programing. And it is the hell a lot more fun that way! And in the end, you will only be better at making relations between an everyday problem and the theories you learned at that time, and you'll then write better algorithms yourself.
My answer was pretty elementary, Dear Watson... There is a difference between never working again and not working again for a mega-corporation. I had never accepted to work for any major company, and I'm doing fine with small 15-20 employee company.
Between an inexperienced developer and an incompetent developer. If it is because they are fresh out of school, but you can see they "got it", that they are brilliant, feed them with all the code and the algorithm etc etc that you can. If they are freshies, and they want to learn, they will grasp things really fast and will learn new concept at an inimaginable speed, becoming productive pretty fast.
If they are just incompetent, ("senior" VB developers who can't even subclass a form or "senior" java developer with "10" years of java coding who have never heard about design patterns for exemple), then you are just in deep sh1t...
Well, on your computer it could be ok, but in digital cameras, it is still an issue. Five times less picture on a 128mb compact flash IS a lot less. And not everybody can afford a 1gig microdrove
If we start from the fact that we are not yet able to fully understand the human brain, and that we are not even able to fully understand human behaviors and there fundamental motivations, how is it possible to model an A.I. which would behave like a human being?
What I would really like to see, is Compact Flash to become more affordable. Sandisk is already making 1gig CP and 2 gig CP has been annonce already. If they could be half as cheap as a CD, it would really be great. Imagine, instead of having this archaic floppy drive, you could have 1 or 2 gig storage in a square inch floppy.
Now, I would use that rather then CD's anytime if it was cheaper...
The reference for server side java is The Server Side.com Also, JGuru has quite a lot of stuff about general java And of course, the Sun Java site is an excellent reference to, and they recently redesigned the web site which is now much more intuitive IMHO...
Also, get a copy of Thinking in Java by Bruce Eckel (Free PDF version on the web), this is the best book on java ever written!
I hope it will be fast, but I hope I will have the possibility to build it myself. I always drenaed of having a central server at home from which I could control everything in the house(Domotic) and from which I could also store data. But the most important feature is that I want control over it. I want to be able to spend whole weekend coding apps for my custom built system. Unfortunatly, equipment to make an home made pvr is not "top of the line" yet
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Thou shall bow before the Loard of the ping!
Or is it... I'm all confused now!
Are you doing CG Porn?
;-)
Well, I would have been interested if I had eared about it in the first place, probably like everyone else.
We should not forget that the average Joe user will by what is "cool" or "essential" at the moment.
This is the reason they buy DVD/CD Burners/etc and floppy drive in the first place.
They are either cool or essential to their PC.
I don't really appreciate marketing hypes, but sometimes, a good marketing strategy and some alliance with major vendor is essential for your product to succeed.
It takes more then just a reference to it on a web page or that you sell it in a couple local computer stores...
I recently bought a DVD player, I want to slowly add new stuff to have a decent home theater.
I had a fairly good price on it at my local Wallmart...
Next, I went at some electronic shop with my wife to check out which TV I could get next.
Well, I was pretty disapointed to see how much a decent TV cost, and because of that, I seriously think I will wait a few years before upgrading it.
A 32 inch Sony Trinitron cost near twice as much as a D-Series of the same size. Why?!?
Yes the technology is recent and it host a lot of cool features, but twice the price tag?!?
It's all based on the hype which surrounds it, and some people will actually buy it.
The problem is that I'm sure it is not within reach of the middle JoeBlow. And I don't eant to buy a standard analog TV cause I already have one.
So I'll stick with what I have until prices drop significantly. Maybe if they are required to includ digital decoder it could help to lower the price, but I don't beleive the manufacturer argument that it is this much more expensive to make.
Today, they benefit from the "cool" factor which help them sell their TVs twive the price.
The day this will become a "normal" feature, they will have to reajust their pricing and is a "bad" thing.
I see that everybody is talking about alternatives, but why is it that manufacturers are not comming out with a replacement if they absolutly want to get rid of this floppy drive?
Thay had changed from 81/4 inch disk to 720K 3.5 inch and then to 1.44MG 3.5 inch disk. Seeing where the thechnlogy as got since their last "upgrade", they could probably release 100mb floppy at the same price they actually sell them.
And they could, at the same time, upgrade their interface if it bothers them so much, I dunno, make it work with the USB2 port.
Hey! Thanks a lot for the information! :-)
This guy seems pretty brilliant
Hmmm, ok... So my void was the actual modulation...
I always think that I have a revolutionary idea, until I explain it to someone more clever then me!
Just out of curiosity, how did you calculate this?
In the article, if I understood it correctly, they talk about dynamically allocate frequencies so everyone can have a piece when needed.
I can imagine it's kind of like multithreading but with air waves, every one would get it's slice once in while.
My question thereof is this. How does one calculates bandwith available over a given frequency?
Because maybe I don't understand some concept (that's why I asked the question), but as I understand it, you can put as much information onto an "airwaves" as you like, no?
From what I remember an airwave as a sinusoidal look, from what I also recall, you can separate this in as many piece as you like, down to infinit.
So let's say we have a curve which "start" at -10, go up to +10 and way back...
If we separate into "units" of ones, we would have 5 places to put bits into +1(1) or -1(0), +2(1) or -2(0) etc etc. My only void is to how to specify if the bit is actually there or not... And the higher the frequency, the fastest it would come in.
I'm really not into this kind of theory, but this is interesting, could someone explain me how it works?
They have to make ads with people flying all around in a Cathedral and a Bazard.
I see that everybody are upseted about the fact that he have to tell them 10 days in advance before he release any confidential documents.
But do he only have to tell them, or do he have to tell them AND give them back the documents?
Cause if he just have to tell them, it's kind of ok I think, it will give time to the bad guys to go hide themself far far away...
I'm no rocket scientist :-)but I think it looks just like any other rocket...
Can someone explain me what could be the benefit of using this?
Could it be used to lauch satelites? I can't imagine sitting on this for transportation!
I would win the Darwin award for sure...
I'm not impliying that you have to do a Ph.D in mathematics to be good. What I say is that a solid base in many science is helpfull. By the way, compiler optimisation involves a lot of maths, unless it has change lastly... All great algorithms ever produced are based on maths. Music and Image compression and more generaly, computers would not exist without maths. Yes, you can be gould with out it, but being good in maths WILL help for sure. Physics, even only basic knowledge in physics is essential if you want to do almost any good simulation games. I'm not doing this kind of software, but it sure help to open my horizons.
And by the way, genius, if you started learning C and Assembly at 8/9 years old, read the Dragon book since and wrote your own OS, all that and you being only 12 years old, you should really release your work (even if it is closed sources) to the public. Unless it is just a plain lie, you have an amazing future in CS in front of you and I'm sure some people with more money then me would like to sponsor you.
OTOH, if its just a plain lie, go sleep, it's almost 7h30PM and South Park is not the kind of things you should look at anyway. And don't forget to brush your teeths!
Java is cross-platform unless you use JNI stuff in there.
If they use the Cocoa binding, you can just forget it.
Reminds me of those day when I was still going at shcool...
;-)
I was in college, and we were there, learning about pointers, assembly, C/C++, java, Database systems and etc etc.
I really enjoyed all that, but I had been left with the impression that something was missing.
I started to work, everything was fine and I was even quite good at what I was doing. Then I began to read about algorithm and design patterns. I had learned more about what I was doing reading this king of book then I ever felt I had learned before.
Being on a "learning rush", I reently decided to go deeper into mathematics, basic physics and some compiler/kernel and other things like that.
There's nothing in all that which I had to use directly in my everyday job, I'm doing some java on AIX stuff for now, but I feel that I have better control over what I'm doing.
I do better algorithms, sometimes I even rewrite some part of code based on what I have read in some maths book. Nothing really complicated, it is just better written in the end.
All that to say that when I was still in high school, I was pretty good at maths/physics/chemistry, but I just hated it. It was just to abstract for the kind of person I am. I like when things can be applied to things I know concretly. What I would say now, to those young people who would like to become good programmer is to read about algorithms as soon as they know the basics of programming. Read that side by side with your maths books and you will see that a lot of maths concept are going hand in hand with computers and programing. And it is the hell a lot more fun that way! And in the end, you will only be better at making relations between an everyday problem and the theories you learned at that time, and you'll then write better algorithms yourself.
Well, just my 0.02 CAN$
My answer was pretty elementary, Dear Watson...
There is a difference between never working again and not working again for a mega-corporation.
I had never accepted to work for any major company, and I'm doing fine with small 15-20 employee company.
Nobody's forcing you...
Between an inexperienced developer and an incompetent developer. If it is because they are fresh out of school, but you can see they "got it", that they are brilliant, feed them with all the code and the algorithm etc etc that you can. If they are freshies, and they want to learn, they will grasp things really fast and will learn new concept at an inimaginable speed, becoming productive pretty fast.
If they are just incompetent, ("senior" VB developers who can't even subclass a form or "senior" java developer with "10" years of java coding who have never heard about design patterns for exemple), then you are just in deep sh1t...
If starting point is prior art, then any patent ever emmited can be discarded. There is a starting point to any new "invention"...
The first one arrived claimed the first post?
Well, on your computer it could be ok, but in digital cameras, it is still an issue. Five times less picture on a 128mb compact flash IS a lot less. And not everybody can afford a 1gig microdrove
If we start from the fact that we are not yet able to fully understand the human brain, and that we are not even able to fully understand human behaviors and there fundamental motivations, how is it possible to model an A.I. which would behave like a human being?
What I would really like to see, is Compact Flash to become more affordable. Sandisk is already making 1gig CP and 2 gig CP has been annonce already. If they could be half as cheap as a CD, it would really be great. Imagine, instead of having this archaic floppy drive, you could have 1 or 2 gig storage in a square inch floppy.
Now, I would use that rather then CD's anytime if it was cheaper...
The reference for server side java is The Server Side.com
Also, JGuru has quite a lot of stuff about general java
And of course, the Sun Java site is an excellent reference to, and they recently redesigned the web site which is now much more intuitive IMHO...
Also, get a copy of Thinking in Java by Bruce Eckel (Free PDF version on the web), this is the best book on java ever written!
I hope it will be fast, but I hope I will have the possibility to build it myself.
I always drenaed of having a central server at home from which I could control everything in the house(Domotic) and from which I could also store data.
But the most important feature is that I want control over it. I want to be able to spend whole weekend coding apps for my custom built system. Unfortunatly, equipment to make an home made pvr is not "top of the line" yet