The New I/O utility looks interesting -- possibly powerful enough to overcome the problem preventing me from using Java right now: 16-bit characters.
Yes, 16-bit characters are nice for internationalization, but if I'm trying to slurp up 600 MB of data, it really hurts to have to store the text portions using two bytes per character. I know it's not politically correct, but perhaps a choice of char sizes would have been nice? (I'm a Java newbie, though -- there's probably an esoteric way around it.)
If you need exercise that badly, check out Dance Dance Revolution. Not only does it feature lots of aerobic goodness, with the two-player mode you can work on your social skills too!
(IIRC, 3rd Mix actually has a "Diet Mode" -- you can see how many calories you've burned.)
I do EDA, and I have 2 21" monitors and my "pager" is usually full.
Overlapping windows is just a side-effect of "not enough screen space."
I want something like the Sony Glasstron (head-mounted HDTV-quality display) with head-tracking so that when I turn my head left the virtual desktop scrolls that way, giving me more space without distracting my hands from working.
Stackable windows? Bah. More space, that's the real key.
The reason serial interfaces are attractive is their cost.
As feature sizes on chips shrink, it becomes possible to pack a chip very densely. However, for that chip to talk to the outside world, it needs IO, which takes up a startling amount of space on the chip regardless of feature size.
If you can eliminate enough pins, you get to use a smaller die; die costs increase exponentially with size, so there is a big push for smaller, denser chips.
My friend's apartment had pretty thick carpet, and the static electricity was particularly bad that winter day...
When I put the handspring into his (USB-connected) cradle, I felt a jolt, the Visor reset itself, and the computer rebooted! Fortunately, the palm and computer came back up, neither the worse for wear.
I bet this will get worse as flash-mem mp3 players proliferate...
Oppose software patents! Authors of free-as-in-speech software should remain free-as-in-Dmitri!
Nahh -- Linux is accused of being a mutant, so we should play on that. Didn't the X-Men movie prove to the general populus that mutants can run faster, fly, and wield adamantium claws?
I'm unfamiliar with GIMP heavy wizardry, but I'm sure a suitable penguin in (suitably modified, to avoid the suits) X-Men garb might be apropos . . .
From: The Tao of Programming
Book 7
7.1
A novice asked the master: "In the east there is a great tree-structure that men call 'Corporate Headquarters'. It is bloated out of shape with vice-presidents and accountants. It issues a multitude of memos, each saying 'Go, Hence!' or 'Go, Hither!' and nobody knows what is meant. Every year new names are put onto the branches, but all to no avail. How can such an unnatural entity exist?"
The master replies: "You perceive this immense structure and are disturbed that it has no rational purpose. Can you not take amusement from its endless gyrations? Do you not enjoy the untroubled ease of programming beneath its sheltering branches? Why are you bothered by its uselessness?"
I'm an engineer in Huntsville (not with Boeing, thank goodness!), so we got the details first-hand. Apparently, (or "allegedly", if you prefer), Boeing actually sent workers into the landfill to attempt to recover the parts! They found bits and pieces, but nothing big enough to haul back.
I'm guessing there's a tank with a light coating of peanut butter and banana peels sitting up on blocks in a redneck's yard by now . . .
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It's a flexible CD!
It's a dessert topping!
No, it's a flexible CD and a dessert topping!
(Don't you love old SNL episodes?)
The Swiss do have a patent system.
Or at least, they did when Albert Einstein worked as a patent examiner in Bern, Switzerland. Did some nifty physics in his spare time, too.
Agreed. I've got a nice fat pipe and lots of time, so I didn't buy the box; I just donated $20. A much better value than Windows, I'd say.
You really shouldn't have picked the backspace bug as an example. Is there anyone who hasn't found The Backspace Bug?
augh...would that I would be able to pick the format of the file.
Because I can't use the nifty string operations on an array of bytes. *sadness*
because he spell-checked this post.
The New I/O utility looks interesting -- possibly powerful enough to overcome the problem preventing me from using Java right now: 16-bit characters.
Yes, 16-bit characters are nice for internationalization, but if I'm trying to slurp up 600 MB of data, it really hurts to have to store the text portions using two bytes per character. I know it's not politically correct, but perhaps a choice of char sizes would have been nice? (I'm a Java newbie, though -- there's probably an esoteric way around it.)
If you need exercise that badly, check out Dance Dance Revolution. Not only does it feature lots of aerobic goodness, with the two-player mode you can work on your social skills too!
(IIRC, 3rd Mix actually has a "Diet Mode" -- you can see how many calories you've burned.)
Ahh, import PS goodness.
I do EDA, and I have 2 21" monitors and my "pager" is usually full.
Overlapping windows is just a side-effect of "not enough screen space."
I want something like the Sony Glasstron (head-mounted HDTV-quality display) with head-tracking so that when I turn my head left the virtual desktop scrolls that way, giving me more space without distracting my hands from working.
Stackable windows? Bah. More space, that's the real key.
The reason serial interfaces are attractive is their cost.
As feature sizes on chips shrink, it becomes possible to pack a chip very densely. However, for that chip to talk to the outside world, it needs IO, which takes up a startling amount of space on the chip regardless of feature size.
If you can eliminate enough pins, you get to use a smaller die; die costs increase exponentially with size, so there is a big push for smaller, denser chips.
My friend's apartment had pretty thick carpet, and the static electricity was particularly bad that winter day...
When I put the handspring into his (USB-connected) cradle, I felt a jolt, the Visor reset itself, and the computer rebooted! Fortunately, the palm and computer came back up, neither the worse for wear.
I bet this will get worse as flash-mem mp3 players proliferate...
Oppose software patents! Authors of free-as-in-speech software should remain free-as-in-Dmitri!
Nahh -- Linux is accused of being a mutant, so we should play on that. Didn't the X-Men movie prove to the general populus that mutants can run faster, fly, and wield adamantium claws? I'm unfamiliar with GIMP heavy wizardry, but I'm sure a suitable penguin in (suitably modified, to avoid the suits) X-Men garb might be apropos . . .
From: The Tao of Programming
Book 7
7.1
A novice asked the master: "In the east there is a great tree-structure that men call 'Corporate Headquarters'. It is bloated out of shape with vice-presidents and accountants. It issues a multitude of memos, each saying 'Go, Hence!' or 'Go, Hither!' and nobody knows what is meant. Every year new names are put onto the branches, but all to no avail. How can such an unnatural entity exist?"
The master replies: "You perceive this immense structure and are disturbed that it has no rational purpose. Can you not take amusement from its endless gyrations? Do you not enjoy the untroubled ease of programming beneath its sheltering branches? Why are you bothered by its uselessness?"
I'm an engineer in Huntsville (not with Boeing, thank goodness!), so we got the details first-hand. Apparently, (or "allegedly", if you prefer), Boeing actually sent workers into the landfill to attempt to recover the parts! They found bits and pieces, but nothing big enough to haul back.
I'm guessing there's a tank with a light coating of peanut butter and banana peels sitting up on blocks in a redneck's yard by now . . .
Where did you see this nifty device?
/., anybody with
Just curious . . .
If you don't want to clutter
nifty info on FPGA stuff, mail me at
johng@NOSPAM.eng.auburn.edu
And, of course, s/NOSPAM//
(Isn't it sad we have to mangle?)