Due diligence is important though so make sure you actually do try to find their problems. If nothing's found, humor them and say you've looked into the problem. Try to get their system specs, environment settings, etc, etc, ad nauseum and they'll learn they better be able to provide a lot of detials next time they decide to report a complaint on a whim if that's the case.
Don't feel bad, so did i;^) Lost about $900. But more than made up for it in energy MFs. Bought some INTC too -- i figure, if you can't beat 'em join 'em.
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Your post seems to imply that AMD's stock price went down because of the Conroe
I didn't imply anything or at least wasn't trying to. Ths stock price went down because of the repeated downgrading (first by UBS, if I believe). Since then even the Dell niche had little impact when it rose from around 30 up to 35 and then proceeded to tank toward 17. I agree that those downgrading is because of Intel dropping prices -- because they can afford to. or at least more than AMD can. Couple that with Conroe, and I really don't see what AMD can offer to compete. By the way I'm not against AMD b/c I'm an INTC holder b/c, it's the other way around. I dumped AMD after losing quite a bit:(. They do seem to be picking up some steam FWIW.
The effects of new technology on Wall Street's thinking takes a little while to sink in. They're not nearly as quick as Slashdot.
You're underestimating traders. They research their thousands (like me) to millions of dollars of investment in tech just like they do oil, etc. I bet you they know Otellini's bowel movements a factor that in. Compare that with some intel/amd fanboys drowning out most of the knowledgeable people on this site.
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Not if AMD's stock price in the recent 6 months is any indication. it's gone from around 42 to 17. AMD has accomplished a lot but Merom, Conroe and Woodcrest seem way too impressive to deny. Intel may finally strike back, especially considering AMD still needs to move to a 65nm process by the end of the year, no less. Please correct me if I'm mistaken.
The keyspace offered by a million quasars, 5000 possible frequencies, and an almost arbitrarily fine time sampling is pretty vast.
The point is how do you get those parameters to the other party secretly? This is the same problem as giving them a one-time pad generated any random way. I think the point is that you can get randomness but the previous problem will always exist.
WebForms is the response to a little Apache project called "Struts". JSF builds on their concepts as well.
WebForms was not inspired by Struts. Ridiculous, they are so totally and completely different approached that I have to guess you've used neither or possibly one or the other. But JSP is also inspired by Struts, that part is true IMO.
Like I said: WinForms may have a bit of platform-specific code that may be depended on but there are no patents. which is the whole point. MS hinting and not giving "blanket immunity" is not unusual. Look at Sun and the JCP. If you're interested, go here for info about what Mono is: http://www.mono-project.com/FAQ:_General
Didn't really throw out a lot of specs. It had an on-board, Intel video card I'd imagine, although I don't know for sure since it was years ago. One that I'd imagine would also have "decent" drivers seeing as it existed ~5 years before the distro version I used existed. Seems reasonable?
Also, quoting me doesn't invalidate my observation that I mentioned was only one specific case so you can draw your own conclusions, but I guess it would've been too much trouble quoting that too?
If that machine with run W2k usably, it has FAR more power than it needs for a decent X setup - assuming a decently supported video card
Now you're the one drawing conclusions. Like I said: in my case it did not. Even with binary Nvidia drivers on my current desktop (also an old P3 500...with a TNT2 Ultra video card (happy?)) X doesn't come close in 2D performance as Windows 2000 does compared with a new RH or Ubuntu. 3D definitely is close, if not just as good, though. Maybe it's perception no some small degree like not double-buffering/bad synch causing tearing/flickering that makes it look slow -- but it *is*. Just telling it like it is. Maybe open drivers or this Xgl stuff will make me happy some day.
Patent-encumbered? Care to cite a reference? FUD, plain and simple; sounding like a robot, echoing the groupthink. It'd seem sad if it weren't so scary.
WinForms was not submitted as a standard.NET API, that's true.
SWT provides a wrapper around native Win32 APIs also, does that make it "patent-encumbered"? Now if you mentioned that some of the older.NET APIs used long Handles or just seemed Windows-centric in some way then I'd have some respect for your argument. In fact boredom is the only thing keeping me amusing myself like this originally trying to find some useful information from you but that ship has sailed. Later.
Java programmer here. There is a Free project called Mono which is implementing most of.NET, even the non-standard WinForms is also emulated and they are offering alternatives with other GUI toolkits like Gtk#. Mono targets many platforms. Again, I'm a Java programmer and even I know this. I think diversity's good. Competition's good. What do you think the main driver is behind JSF? Yep,.NET's WebForms.
Had an old 100MHz Pentium PC with 64MB mem and 1GB hard drive space that was reinstalled for my dad to use. Tried a really leaned-down Slackware (with Linux kernel 2.4), manually configured the modem, installed WindowMaker with FireFox and the machine took a long while to boot up to a useable UI and everything was godawfully slow... Installed W2K, still same story but less so. W2K mostly sucked because it took up too much space after visiting windows update for SP + the ridiculous amount of patches that had to be downloaded and installed. Finally I put on there what I had originally when I bought it. Win98 with being patched but everything locked down, and using FireFox (which was still noticably slower than the IE that came bundled) but it was more useable. I know this is just one case but using X on an old PC is a big no-no.
This happened to me when I was interviewing for a job...I made a competitive salary up, but they wanted to see pay stubs. They asked for the pay stubs and cooly explained that I was currently negotiating for a raise with my former management and they had agreed to give me the raise...it just wouldn't show up in they pay stubs. I got the job anyway. However I still feel I'm underpaid. The market's good right now, I suggest taking your time, looking around and test our some "salary requirements" on prospective employers to get a taste of what you can get away with. Sites like salary.com just seem useless for this.
I remember a movie called Soldier about human conditioned for war, and during one scene they flashed back to his training when he was just a boy of about 8 years or so, and show him severly beating (probably, to death) another classmate and then remorselessly returning to his desk to finish his work.
While I didn't enjoy the book too much, maybe Hollywood will at least stay true to the story.
I think we're all saying the same thing here, try to see if AJAX (ugh i feel dirty) makes sense in your webapp. Hard to see sometimes (see below)
Of the three examples Google maps is the only one that uses AJAX in a manner that provides major benefits over a traditional implementation
Now hold on. Gmail is another perfect example of how AJAX can help. Say I have an inbox with 50 emails and I want to trash, archive, or otherwise do something to one message/thread that would involve it being removed from my view, the rest of the inbox (not to mention all the other peripheral UI elements) shouldn't change. In the old way we'd re-request all this tremendous information (say ~95% of the UI) that didn't even change! And this is even more obvious when you remember that each seemingly tiny, simple piece of the UI (say a message line) may use a bunch of HTML (not to mention scripts, css, etc) behind the scenes to make it look/feel a certain way. In the AJAX version we'd just have to add some scripting to remove that DOM element from the page and send a simple, say 0.5KB, HTTP message like "[...]deleteMsg.do?msgid=x[...]" to the server. You still have to suffer the TCP round trip latency (but less so), but the difference can be dramatic, no?
Might also help if you kept your banal, "me too!" comments from contributing to the low signal-to-noise ratio. Say someting useful instead of trying to impress some anonymous strangers or making yourself feel better by receiving a "Funny" mod.
Didn't you read the *whole* article? The "getDistanceFrom()" example was there to show you *can* have "elegant", safe code transparently and safley optimzed by the JIT compiler to be the same EXACT code as the unsafe, fast example precisely because the jitter can notice what a static compiler cannot (in this case a static compiler can do escape analysis as well), TOTALLY removing any allocations. Even if the Java and C++ did not do this, why would that be your reason for believing only Java is slow? It would have the same effect on both of them -- namely having an unnecessary allocation of Point.
And those airbag assemblies are just chock full of heavy cases and those dense airgs themselves. Get rid of these cumbersome, life-saving material and you should be good to go.
Be sure to research some of these hybrid SUVs http://outside.away.com/outside/news/200404/hybrid _suvs.html>. They should be robust enough (unless you're looking for a nice long range) than a paved-road wanderer like a Civic.
It's noble to want to do something for the environment, but I have to mention (and you probably already have realized this) such a conversion would cost more than you'd be able to make up for with the slightly better mileage in less than (at least) a few years. Look at Civic hybrids: they cost about $4k more than their gasoline counterparts.
IMO, I think your money would be *much* better spent on a healthy down payment on one of those more economic, eco-friendly vehicles thna retro-fitting an older, gas-guzzler SUV.
I have to say this is much slicker than Google's personal page. The thing looks like it's based off some RSS feed to show the linked articles/stories as well (instead of only the titles).
Also, a slightly better looking implementation but that's just my taste of course.
IE CSS support has some issues but i've found that it sometimes behaves better than Gecko's. An example is:
<table style="display: inline; border: 1px blue dotted; "><tr><td style="border: 1px green solid;">td1 and</td><td>td2 here</td></tr></table>
You'll see the table cell borders go beyond the table itself. Not too intuative.
Also, there seems to be trouble with a a font and size being inherited from a table to it's cells; different from IE, but not sure if this is supposed to be correct.
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Due diligence is important though so make sure you actually do try to find their problems. If nothing's found, humor them and say you've looked into the problem. Try to get their system specs, environment settings, etc, etc, ad nauseum and they'll learn they better be able to provide a lot of detials next time they decide to report a complaint on a whim if that's the case.
Don't feel bad, so did i ;^) Lost about $900. But more than made up for it in energy MFs. Bought some INTC too -- i figure, if you can't beat 'em join 'em.
Your post seems to imply that AMD's stock price went down because of the Conroe
:(. They do seem to be picking up some steam FWIW.
I didn't imply anything or at least wasn't trying to. Ths stock price went down because of the repeated downgrading (first by UBS, if I believe). Since then even the Dell niche had little impact when it rose from around 30 up to 35 and then proceeded to tank toward 17. I agree that those downgrading is because of Intel dropping prices -- because they can afford to. or at least more than AMD can. Couple that with Conroe, and I really don't see what AMD can offer to compete. By the way I'm not against AMD b/c I'm an INTC holder b/c, it's the other way around. I dumped AMD after losing quite a bit
The effects of new technology on Wall Street's thinking takes a little while to sink in. They're not nearly as quick as Slashdot.
You're underestimating traders. They research their thousands (like me) to millions of dollars of investment in tech just like they do oil, etc. I bet you they know Otellini's bowel movements a factor that in. Compare that with some intel/amd fanboys drowning out most of the knowledgeable people on this site.
Not if AMD's stock price in the recent 6 months is any indication. it's gone from around 42 to 17. AMD has accomplished a lot but Merom, Conroe and Woodcrest seem way too impressive to deny. Intel may finally strike back, especially considering AMD still needs to move to a 65nm process by the end of the year, no less. Please correct me if I'm mistaken.
The keyspace offered by a million quasars, 5000 possible frequencies, and an almost arbitrarily fine time sampling is pretty vast.
The point is how do you get those parameters to the other party secretly? This is the same problem as giving them a one-time pad generated any random way. I think the point is that you can get randomness but the previous problem will always exist.
WebForms is the response to a little Apache project called "Struts". JSF builds on their concepts as well.
WebForms was not inspired by Struts. Ridiculous, they are so totally and completely different approached that I have to guess you've used neither or possibly one or the other. But JSP is also inspired by Struts, that part is true IMO.
Dont' be misleading:
.NET Framework, and what has been patented by Microsoft falls under the ECMA/ISO submission (emphasis mine)
The core of the
There are worries specifically about WinForms (and other parts of the API) in the same way the Java TM is patented by Sun. Is there any difference?
Would you use it in a production environment? Me neither.
That's great. Answering you're own question, I mean. I guess you don't need me.
Like I said: WinForms may have a bit of platform-specific code that may be depended on but there are no patents. which is the whole point. MS hinting and not giving "blanket immunity" is not unusual. Look at Sun and the JCP. If you're interested, go here for info about what Mono is: http://www.mono-project.com/FAQ:_General
Didn't really throw out a lot of specs. It had an on-board, Intel video card I'd imagine, although I don't know for sure since it was years ago. One that I'd imagine would also have "decent" drivers seeing as it existed ~5 years before the distro version I used existed. Seems reasonable?
Also, quoting me doesn't invalidate my observation that I mentioned was only one specific case so you can draw your own conclusions, but I guess it would've been too much trouble quoting that too?
If that machine with run W2k usably, it has FAR more power than it needs for a decent X setup - assuming a decently supported video card
Now you're the one drawing conclusions. Like I said: in my case it did not. Even with binary Nvidia drivers on my current desktop (also an old P3 500...with a TNT2 Ultra video card (happy?)) X doesn't come close in 2D performance as Windows 2000 does compared with a new RH or Ubuntu. 3D definitely is close, if not just as good, though. Maybe it's perception no some small degree like not double-buffering/bad synch causing tearing/flickering that makes it look slow -- but it *is*. Just telling it like it is. Maybe open drivers or this Xgl stuff will make me happy some day.
Patent-encumbered? Care to cite a reference? FUD, plain and simple; sounding like a robot, echoing the groupthink. It'd seem sad if it weren't so scary.
.NET API, that's true.
.NET APIs used long Handles or just seemed Windows-centric in some way then I'd have some respect for your argument. In fact boredom is the only thing keeping me amusing myself like this originally trying to find some useful information from you but that ship has sailed. Later.
WinForms was not submitted as a standard
SWT provides a wrapper around native Win32 APIs also, does that make it "patent-encumbered"? Now if you mentioned that some of the older
Java programmer here. There is a Free project called Mono which is implementing most of .NET, even the non-standard WinForms is also emulated and they are offering alternatives with other GUI toolkits like Gtk#. Mono targets many platforms. Again, I'm a Java programmer and even I know this. I think diversity's good. Competition's good. What do you think the main driver is behind JSF? Yep, .NET's WebForms.
Had an old 100MHz Pentium PC with 64MB mem and 1GB hard drive space that was reinstalled for my dad to use. Tried a really leaned-down Slackware (with Linux kernel 2.4), manually configured the modem, installed WindowMaker with FireFox and the machine took a long while to boot up to a useable UI and everything was godawfully slow... Installed W2K, still same story but less so. W2K mostly sucked because it took up too much space after visiting windows update for SP + the ridiculous amount of patches that had to be downloaded and installed. Finally I put on there what I had originally when I bought it. Win98 with being patched but everything locked down, and using FireFox (which was still noticably slower than the IE that came bundled) but it was more useable. I know this is just one case but using X on an old PC is a big no-no.
This happened to me when I was interviewing for a job...I made a competitive salary up, but they wanted to see pay stubs. They asked for the pay stubs and cooly explained that I was currently negotiating for a raise with my former management and they had agreed to give me the raise...it just wouldn't show up in they pay stubs. I got the job anyway. However I still feel I'm underpaid. The market's good right now, I suggest taking your time, looking around and test our some "salary requirements" on prospective employers to get a taste of what you can get away with. Sites like salary.com just seem useless for this.
I remember a movie called Soldier about human conditioned for war, and during one scene they flashed back to his training when he was just a boy of about 8 years or so, and show him severly beating (probably, to death) another classmate and then remorselessly returning to his desk to finish his work.
While I didn't enjoy the book too much, maybe Hollywood will at least stay true to the story.
I think we're all saying the same thing here, try to see if AJAX (ugh i feel dirty) makes sense in your webapp. Hard to see sometimes (see below)
Of the three examples Google maps is the only one that uses AJAX in a manner that provides major benefits over a traditional implementation
Now hold on. Gmail is another perfect example of how AJAX can help. Say I have an inbox with 50 emails and I want to trash, archive, or otherwise do something to one message/thread that would involve it being removed from my view, the rest of the inbox (not to mention all the other peripheral UI elements) shouldn't change. In the old way we'd re-request all this tremendous information (say ~95% of the UI) that didn't even change! And this is even more obvious when you remember that each seemingly tiny, simple piece of the UI (say a message line) may use a bunch of HTML (not to mention scripts, css, etc) behind the scenes to make it look/feel a certain way. In the AJAX version we'd just have to add some scripting to remove that DOM element from the page and send a simple, say 0.5KB, HTTP message like "[...]deleteMsg.do?msgid=x[...]" to the server. You still have to suffer the TCP round trip latency (but less so), but the difference can be dramatic, no?
Might also help if you kept your banal, "me too!" comments from contributing to the low signal-to-noise ratio. Say someting useful instead of trying to impress some anonymous strangers or making yourself feel better by receiving a "Funny" mod.
Didn't you read the *whole* article? The "getDistanceFrom()" example was there to show you *can* have "elegant", safe code transparently and safley optimzed by the JIT compiler to be the same EXACT code as the unsafe, fast example precisely because the jitter can notice what a static compiler cannot (in this case a static compiler can do escape analysis as well), TOTALLY removing any allocations.
Even if the Java and C++ did not do this, why would that be your reason for believing only Java is slow? It would have the same effect on both of them -- namely having an unnecessary allocation of Point.
And those airbag assemblies are just chock full of heavy cases and those dense airgs themselves. Get rid of these cumbersome, life-saving material and you should be good to go.
Be sure to research some of these hybrid SUVs http://outside.away.com/outside/news/200404/hybrid _suvs.html>. They should be robust enough (unless you're looking for a nice long range) than a paved-road wanderer like a Civic.
It's noble to want to do something for the environment, but I have to mention (and you probably already have realized this) such a conversion would cost more than you'd be able to make up for with the slightly better mileage in less than (at least) a few years. Look at Civic hybrids: they cost about $4k more than their gasoline counterparts.
IMO, I think your money would be *much* better spent on a healthy down payment on one of those more economic, eco-friendly vehicles thna retro-fitting an older, gas-guzzler SUV.
smells like burning
I have to say this is much slicker than Google's personal page. The thing looks like it's based off some RSS feed to show the linked articles/stories as well (instead of only the titles).
Also, a slightly better looking implementation but that's just my taste of course.
You're right, thanks. Actually according to this inline-table is a CSS2 feature, but it's noteworthy to mention that inline-block works just as well.
IE CSS support has some issues but i've found that it sometimes behaves better than Gecko's. An example is:
<table style="display: inline; border: 1px blue dotted; "><tr><td style="border: 1px green solid;">td1 and</td><td>td2 here</td></tr></table>
You'll see the table cell borders go beyond the table itself. Not too intuative.
Also, there seems to be trouble with a a font and size being inherited from a table to it's cells; different from IE, but not sure if this is supposed to be correct.