My scientific apps have to be absolutely precise but also very very fast. They have to run in very tight memory spaces and be impossible to crash. I used to use compiled perl because of the rapid development time, but nowadays I use Java because it meets all these requirements and more.
All of this is core Mozilla functionality that can be done in the stock browser from Mozilla. Why the divisive attitudes on Firefox vs Mozilla anyway? It's like the vi vs emacs of the browser world.
I went through a "good CS program" and we only covered the computing parts of GEB. CS programs since 1995 (when I graduated) are a lot more real-world oriented (thanks Internet!) and so GEB is becoming less eye-opening for today's graduates.
Not to mention the fact that everybody (for all values of $BODY in $PROGRAMMERS) online writes and talks like Hofstadter did in GEB so it seems less amazing now.
But trust me, if you went through GEB before 1995 like I did, you'd have had your life changed. It's just that the Internet changed everyone else without having to read it.
"Priming the cache" and "doing a breadth-first fetch on a page" are both things that create *more* network traffic on the off-chance that it might save some number of microseconds for the user. It's basically a Tragedy of the Commons situation. Everyone would be better off if no one pre-fetched links, but any given person is better off if they don't cooperate with that global model. So everyone just grabs what they can get and everyone is worse off.
This device can tell someone how many people are in your house and give them some big hints about what they are doing (on blob on top of another, etc). If the blobs are correlated with information on who enters and exits and when then they can start to get a good picture, so to speak, of what you are up to. I'm sure an ACLU lawyer could think of a dozen other privacy violations here.
I run cgoban2, which is written in Java. It's basically a chat client with a pretty simple point-and-click board game interface thrown in. How much RAM does it use? 40 MB. Others have reported numbers as high as 65 or even 75 MB.
I also run ed2k_gui (the Java frontend to overnet). I cannot run both of these apps at the same time if I want my system (1.2 GHz, 256 MB RAM) to be usable.
"absorb the energy" that quickly? The only way I can think of that wouldn't involve having to change brakepads (or install a new device) every time is magnetic braking. And that's going to cause a big EMP which, if it doesn't fry the tool's electronics, will at least any nearby pacemakers to go haywire.
I can just see it now: A retired carpenter is doing a little sawing, accidentally puts his finger in the way but SawStop saves it....at the cost of his life.
The article notes that it uses ultrasound sensors to detect the curb and other cars, but I see there are a number of equally spaced white lines painted on the ground (farther out than parking lines are normally painted). How artificial was this test? Can it do arbitrary parallel parking?
I'm pretty sure my mom would think this could really happen.
I think most people are aware that TANSTAAFL and Gates is not going to be sending them money. Just because the email is forwarded by someone doesn't mean they fell for it. This "laughing" that you and your colleagues did--did any of it involve sending it on to someone else so they could laugh or possibly gulled?
We already have a GPL'd AV player: mplayer. If by "industry-standard" you mean "a lot of pointy-hairs like it", then we also have an "industry-standard" OS: Windows. In which case, why are we all using Linux?
That's great. Look for my upcoming release to "Totally Real Interactive Virtual Fighter" where "interactive" means when you press the one button the big on-screen square hops over the monster sprite. All, when I say "immersive 3D technology" I mean that every pixel has an X and Y position and you are seated a certain distance Z from the display.
Playing "protocol catchup" with a company that has a proven disdain for human rights is not the way to have Linux win. The MS-inspired monstrosity that is dotMONO is a another great example of this.
Don't make "Linux versions" of popular software. Create original popular software that runs on Linux.
I think it is especially significant that Linux has been adopted by the Judicial branch which is both the most savvy branch (people hate Congress and the White House, but few hate the SCOTUS) and, constitutionally, the one given the most power over the other two. I look forward to an activist judge mandating that all branches must use Linux to adopt and maintain transparent government.
I however am thinking of the future. How many "surfer dudes" are going to learn about computer and science because of this? How many of them will subsequently combine their interests and become marine biologists or oceanographers? If the cause is increased understanding of our world then I say "Put those chips in surfboards!"
Another idea: Can you install sensors at the stops that will alert you when the bus has reached that point? After some data collection, you should be able to predict when the bus will arrive, even if the previous stop was 20 miles away.
The "sensor" could even just be a button in bus shelter that someone would push as they get on the bus.
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My scientific apps have to be absolutely precise but also very very fast. They have to run in very tight memory spaces and be impossible to crash. I used to use compiled perl because of the rapid development time, but nowadays I use Java because it meets all these requirements and more.
All of this is core Mozilla functionality that can be done in the stock browser from Mozilla. Why the divisive attitudes on Firefox vs Mozilla anyway? It's like the vi vs emacs of the browser world.
Not to mention the fact that everybody (for all values of $BODY in $PROGRAMMERS) online writes and talks like Hofstadter did in GEB so it seems less amazing now.
But trust me, if you went through GEB before 1995 like I did, you'd have had your life changed. It's just that the Internet changed everyone else without having to read it.
"Priming the cache" and "doing a breadth-first fetch on a page" are both things that create *more* network traffic on the off-chance that it might save some number of microseconds for the user. It's basically a Tragedy of the Commons situation. Everyone would be better off if no one pre-fetched links, but any given person is better off if they don't cooperate with that global model. So everyone just grabs what they can get and everyone is worse off.
Thanks for excluding that trivial information in the summary--we don't like to be bothered with details.
We are already funding the possibility of life in Africa (cf starvation).
This device can tell someone how many people are in your house and give them some big hints about what they are doing (on blob on top of another, etc). If the blobs are correlated with information on who enters and exits and when then they can start to get a good picture, so to speak, of what you are up to. I'm sure an ACLU lawyer could think of a dozen other privacy violations here.
Or used for pre-emptively assassinating political opposition leaders? You make the call, but remember it was in Israel.
I also run ed2k_gui (the Java frontend to overnet). I cannot run both of these apps at the same time if I want my system (1.2 GHz, 256 MB RAM) to be usable.
I can just see it now: A retired carpenter is doing a little sawing, accidentally puts his finger in the way but SawStop saves it....at the cost of his life.
The article notes that it uses ultrasound sensors to detect the curb and other cars, but I see there are a number of equally spaced white lines painted on the ground (farther out than parking lines are normally painted). How artificial was this test? Can it do arbitrary parallel parking?
Yes, I do like glabels.
Do I use glabels? Yes. Do I like glabels? Do I mention glabels as a Premier Application when I talk about Linux? No.
I think most people are aware that TANSTAAFL and Gates is not going to be sending them money. Just because the email is forwarded by someone doesn't mean they fell for it. This "laughing" that you and your colleagues did--did any of it involve sending it on to someone else so they could laugh or possibly gulled?
- Create bloat in disk and RAM usage
- Access NULL pointers to decrease stability
- Program major security holes into common apps like xterm
Let's level the playing field!We already have a GPL'd AV player: mplayer. If by "industry-standard" you mean "a lot of pointy-hairs like it", then we also have an "industry-standard" OS: Windows. In which case, why are we all using Linux?
That's great. Look for my upcoming release to "Totally Real Interactive Virtual Fighter" where "interactive" means when you press the one button the big on-screen square hops over the monster sprite. All, when I say "immersive 3D technology" I mean that every pixel has an X and Y position and you are seated a certain distance Z from the display.
Don't make "Linux versions" of popular software. Create original popular software that runs on Linux.
I think it is especially significant that Linux has been adopted by the Judicial branch which is both the most savvy branch (people hate Congress and the White House, but few hate the SCOTUS) and, constitutionally, the one given the most power over the other two. I look forward to an activist judge mandating that all branches must use Linux to adopt and maintain transparent government.
if they just dropped Jar Jar.
Just run it backwards. It's basically electrolysis/hydrolysis, after all.
I however am thinking of the future. How many "surfer dudes" are going to learn about computer and science because of this? How many of them will subsequently combine their interests and become marine biologists or oceanographers? If the cause is increased understanding of our world then I say "Put those chips in surfboards!"
or is XPInstall broken now? I just get an "Open With...?" dialog when I click on XPI files.
The "sensor" could even just be a button in bus shelter that someone would push as they get on the bus.
Web mail is already basically IMAP (i.e. you can access it from anywhere). All you need is a tool to use a regular email client.