I have drastically cut back on my tech book purchases in recent times but this book will definitely be on my shopping list. The First edition offered many insights into not only getting the best performance from Java but also solid guidelines for when and where to apply optimisations.
As a side note I would disagree about performance being an albatross for Java. Well written Java code can be very high performant just as poorly written code in ANY language can perform slowly. Many of the performance issues associated with Java are inexperienced developers using inappropriate methods and objects.
With the new technique researchers will be able to resolve details about 10 microarcconds across - equivalent to seeing a sugar cube on the Moon, from Earth. (A microarcsecond is measure of angular size - how big an object looks. It's a third of a billionth of a degree.)
Mankind has been producing dangerous technology since we first learned to bang sticks and stones together. Responsible usage and control have worked for us so far.
Based on the article the RIAA claims have serious flaws. I dont doubt that the wake system did 'facilitate' illegal sharing of material by making it easier to find if noting else but it does not seem to fit many of the criteria to satisfy the claims. From what I cam make of the article it almost looks as if MS are much much to blame for providing the file transfer infrastructure !!
Given the way things are going though I think its only a question of time before the network and infrastructure admins are the ones held liable for the software running on their systems. Massive lawsuits against students are ridiculous and will damage public perception. How long before they go after the universities etc who at least will have insurance to cover the financial claims.
It never ceases to amaze me the level of arrogance among many environmentalists and conservationsist. Forever telling us how they feel things are supposed to be, and completely overlooking the billions of years of evolution, change and constant fluctuations it has taken us to get here. Its perfectly natural for our temperatures to fluctuate. Its not that long since we had a fucking Ice age so a bit of warming is not an inherently bad thing.
Are many individuals (on their own machines and not he company hardware) actually running the SETI client? I started it back in 1999 but gave up when I discovered that it took about 24hrs to process one unit on my 366 Toshiba laptop making it rather unlikely that at that rate I would live long enough to find anything. To be honest I had pretty much forgotten about the project altogether.
to think that given the size of the universe we are still discovering things that are practically on top of us. Makes you wonder what else is out there.
the droid army would probably do a whole lot better in battles for a start and Natalie Portman would probably start to look more androidy than human on screen.
Looks like the "network is the computer" line is getting a revamp here. From the article the focus would appear to be a thin client rather than a full on desktop. Mc Nealy really needs to let go of this idea if Sun is to progress. It failed miserably in the past and I cant see a compelling reason why it will work now.
"Making a computer game now is incredibly expensive," said Mr Molyneux. "You're talking about millions and millions of pounds to make a triple-A, globally successful game."
Peter nelected to mention the millions and millions and millions of pounds this successful game will generate in revene.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained....
I would argue that email is the least intrusive form of communication. I can read it when I please, respond when I feel appropriate and consider my responses while I perform some other task.
If communication is not via email then its by phone so everyones phones are ringing constantly and there is high background chatter, and I pretty much am expected to respond immediately. If not by comminication by phone then face to face communication is worse again in terms of distraction because I am force to direct all my attention to the person I am conversing with.
Its coding, not brain surgery. If it takes the author 3 hours to get up to speed and they find it difficult to manage in a normal interactive working environment then I would advise alternative employment.
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I have drastically cut back on my tech book purchases in recent times but this book will definitely be on my shopping list. The First edition offered many insights into not only getting the best performance from Java but also solid guidelines for when and where to apply optimisations.
As a side note I would disagree about performance being an albatross for Java. Well written Java code can be very high performant just as poorly written code in ANY language can perform slowly. Many of the performance issues associated with Java are inexperienced developers using inappropriate methods and objects.
All work and no play make Homer a something something ..
With the new technique researchers will be able to resolve details about 10 microarcconds across - equivalent to seeing a sugar cube on the Moon, from Earth. (A microarcsecond is measure of angular size - how big an object looks. It's a third of a billionth of a degree.)
Fucking amazing !!!
Anything thats costs this much and poses a potential nuke threat to my beer is just not on.
Mankind has been producing dangerous technology since we first learned to bang sticks and stones together. Responsible usage and control have worked for us so far.
Based on the article the RIAA claims have serious flaws. I dont doubt that the wake system did 'facilitate' illegal sharing of material by making it easier to find if noting else but it does not seem to fit many of the criteria to satisfy the claims. From what I cam make of the article it almost looks as if MS are much much to blame for providing the file transfer infrastructure !!
Given the way things are going though I think its only a question of time before the network and infrastructure admins are the ones held liable for the software running on their systems. Massive lawsuits against students are ridiculous and will damage public perception. How long before they go after the universities etc who at least will have insurance to cover the financial claims.
It never ceases to amaze me the level of arrogance among many environmentalists and conservationsist. Forever telling us how they feel things are supposed to be, and completely overlooking the billions of years of evolution, change and constant fluctuations it has taken us to get here. Its perfectly natural for our temperatures to fluctuate. Its not that long since we had a fucking Ice age so a bit of warming is not an inherently bad thing.
Are many individuals (on their own machines and not he company hardware) actually running the SETI client? I started it back in 1999 but gave up when I discovered that it took about 24hrs to process one unit on my 366 Toshiba laptop making it rather unlikely that at that rate I would live long enough to find anything. To be honest I had pretty much forgotten about the project altogether.
to think that given the size of the universe we are still discovering things that are practically on top of us. Makes you wonder what else is out there.
this commander Hubble and what are the Iraqis doing with protoplanetary disk ???
Forgent Pretty poor choice of name for a company with a patent for images.
Are a P0rn Video Recorder and Digital Video Recorder not the same thing ?
sentient robot will probably die laughing when it reads this research
Now my woman will be able to prove I was in the bar and not working late at the office. Is there to be no escape !!!
Maybe they would be so busy with their own robot kid problems they wont have time to worry about us.
the droid army would probably do a whole lot better in battles for a start and Natalie Portman would probably start to look more androidy than human on screen.
As an avid p0rnologist I am definitely hoping to go out in a certain manner...
Looks like the "network is the computer" line is getting a revamp here. From the article the focus would appear to be a thin client rather than a full on desktop. Mc Nealy really needs to let go of this idea if Sun is to progress. It failed miserably in the past and I cant see a compelling reason why it will work now.
Having seen some of the gobble de gook in some of those math books I think the first requirement is an advanced reading class.
Put the lid back on before it escapes !!
OK begin testing NOW !
testing testing 1 , 2 , ehh , ehh, 7?
"Making a computer game now is incredibly expensive," said Mr Molyneux. "You're talking about millions and millions of pounds to make a triple-A, globally successful game." ....
Peter nelected to mention the millions and millions and millions of pounds this successful game will generate in revene.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained
I would argue that email is the least intrusive form of communication. I can read it when I please, respond when I feel appropriate and consider my responses while I perform some other task.
If communication is not via email then its by phone so everyones phones are ringing constantly and there is high background chatter, and I pretty much am expected to respond immediately. If not by comminication by phone then face to face communication is worse again in terms of distraction because I am force to direct all my attention to the person I am conversing with.
Its coding, not brain surgery. If it takes the author 3 hours to get up to speed and they find it difficult to manage in a normal interactive working environment then I would advise alternative employment.
The site is down can you mail me the article please
like an opportunity for a lot of sacked dot commers to say they work in IT again