I've met several programmers who only know Java. Many of them can write great code. But they all have been guilty of statements that show a uncertainty about how a computer actually works, and that seems deeply wrong.
The death of C has been greatly exagerated, and there's a very good reason for that.
That's sweet, but the binary compatability headache will probably stop most people. Great for developers or someone with an Altivec app to run, though.
"C/C++ is good because you can compile it on just about any OS/machine"
That was the theory. In the 60's. In the 80's it was Java, and that hasn't quite worked out as well as hoped, either.
"Write once, debug everywhere." Get used to it.
Oh. And I heartily agree with your suggestion of Python, but it is far slower than C. But its "glue language" facility makes it easy to recode bottlenecks in C.
While we're advocating; Objective-C rocks. Anybody who knows C should spend an afternoon learning Obj-C (that's all it takes!). It's the simple C we all love + objects, as compared to C++ massiveness.
I don't want to knock anyone hacking on code, but hasn't this been done? We've been using genetic algorithims and studying emergent behaviour for a while now, and there are some very advanced code bases out there.
I like the eye-candy aspect of it, though. Maybe you could port it to OpenGL.:-)
Use some more logic, Senior. 3% is 3%, if I'm going from 100 widgets to 103, or 1000 widgets to 1030.
Second, when's the last time you couldn't buy an AMD chip? Less availability means higher price means less demand, at least when you're talking supply disruptions of 3%. Remember also that AMD doesn't have contracts to supply Joe Gamer with CPUs.
Third, I would guess that AMD would bend over backwards to pair up with such a strong brand as Apple. They might make great chips, but they still have a branding problem. (Ohh! Intel inside!)
That would be true for the Neanderthals, having adapted to the colder northen climes, but H. Sapian was coming out of Africa, and the rest of the world was getting more like Africa was.
In fact, if you go to the Unreal Tech sight, all the screenshots and models are the same as these. That leads me to belive that they've been working on this for a while.
A bigger brain might not be an advantage when put up against a species with a smaller brain and physique, much less caloric requirements, and resulting higher population densities. Especially considering the end of the Ice Age meant that life was getting less demanding.
I agree that the higher energy requirements of the neanderthals was the deciding factor. Although the H. Sapian finds are generally richer (culture and tech), this could be explained by the fact that H. Sapians could live in larger groups.
There are enough homo sapiens that don't have the intellectual qualifications to do much of our work. And that bar is getting higher, with the information economy and such. How many labours do we need?
Given that the average Neanderthal had a larger brain than your average H. Sapian, maybe they could help us out. The human linked extinction might not have been because the humans were smarter, but because the of the Ns much greater caloric needs.
Species do not exist entirely seperate from each other, and ignoring extiction events "because we have a backup" is suicidel. We either live sustainably, or we do not. The results of each path sould be pretty obvious.
In fact, they probably weren't anyones ancestors. These people were almost certainly wiped out, with very little crossbreeding, by sucsessive waves of people.
I agree. This is fucking stupid, even if the project has value. My browser choked on that stupid page for 3 minutes plus. Fuck you Timothy, you've just done a revers DOS.
For most uses that is true, most people don't really need more than ~1.5 GHz performance. I have a 300 MHz PC here with 512 RAM, and for office type use it's fast enough.
But man! We're taking about a IIsi here! 20 MHz! The productivity gains she could have seen by upgradeing the are huge.
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The death of C has been greatly exagerated, and there's a very good reason for that.
We should all give thanks, and wish Prof. Knuth the best of luck in finishing V.4 before 2050.
The gp was being sarcastic. Read it again.
That's sweet, but the binary compatability headache will probably stop most people. Great for developers or someone with an Altivec app to run, though.
IBM is huge. Apple is not. There's no way that Apple could dictate IBM's marketing.
That was the theory. In the 60's. In the 80's it was Java, and that hasn't quite worked out as well as hoped, either.
"Write once, debug everywhere." Get used to it.
Oh. And I heartily agree with your suggestion of Python, but it is far slower than C. But its "glue language" facility makes it easy to recode bottlenecks in C.
While we're advocating; Objective-C rocks. Anybody who knows C should spend an afternoon learning Obj-C (that's all it takes!). It's the simple C we all love + objects, as compared to C++ massiveness.
I like the eye-candy aspect of it, though. Maybe you could port it to OpenGL. :-)
Second, when's the last time you couldn't buy an AMD chip? Less availability means higher price means less demand, at least when you're talking supply disruptions of 3%. Remember also that AMD doesn't have contracts to supply Joe Gamer with CPUs.
Third, I would guess that AMD would bend over backwards to pair up with such a strong brand as Apple. They might make great chips, but they still have a branding problem. (Ohh! Intel inside!)
27>16.
That would be true for the Neanderthals, having adapted to the colder northen climes, but H. Sapian was coming out of Africa, and the rest of the world was getting more like Africa was.
In fact, if you go to the Unreal Tech sight, all the screenshots and models are the same as these. That leads me to belive that they've been working on this for a while.
A new low for /. IMO.
Oodles.
A bigger brain might not be an advantage when put up against a species with a smaller brain and physique, much less caloric requirements, and resulting higher population densities. Especially considering the end of the Ice Age meant that life was getting less demanding.
I agree that the higher energy requirements of the neanderthals was the deciding factor. Although the H. Sapian finds are generally richer (culture and tech), this could be explained by the fact that H. Sapians could live in larger groups.
Given that the average Neanderthal had a larger brain than your average H. Sapian, maybe they could help us out. The human linked extinction might not have been because the humans were smarter, but because the of the Ns much greater caloric needs.
It's still not quite my idea of autocompletion, and the code uses "text_field_with_auto_complete", seemingly a primitive.
In fact, they probably weren't anyones ancestors. These people were almost certainly wiped out, with very little crossbreeding, by sucsessive waves of people.
I agree. This is fucking stupid, even if the project has value. My browser choked on that stupid page for 3 minutes plus. Fuck you Timothy, you've just done a revers DOS.
It had the most detailed graphics and the slickest 3d interface, and was by a small group.
Sometimes the problem is getting out of the weight of years of obselete technology. Witness the problems MS is having shipping Longhorn.
But man! We're taking about a IIsi here! 20 MHz! The productivity gains she could have seen by upgradeing the are huge.
1 set of GPS coords = one place. It kinda makes sense if you think about it.
Nice job. I get the same error message though, although it pops up soon after, and CPU load drops again.