That just assumes you are using their libraries. And RBG triplets packed in a int require unsigned also. Mostly, I have done a lot of building of my own libraries, which is generally what is needed. Like you said you think they are using unsigned underneath which means they are coding in another language besides java. I know their goal is to code their libraries in "100% java"
Obviously you or the other poster haven't done much programming in the areas I pointed out. When dealing with memory intesive issues (e.g. very large datasets, or especially images) having to use a short to represent something that could be done in an unsigned byte doubles your memory requirement. This in turn slows down everything else while your computer is thrashing the drive for swap, and the bandwidth between RAM and CPU is eaten up. Images are an especially important example. Values for images are generally RGB triplets ranging from 0-255. Doubling the memory footprint of all images on your computer would kill it real fast with all visual icons and everything that most people use.
IMO, this blatant disregard for memory and CPU usage is the reason that computers performance has been ramping up slowly, while we have maintained exponential growth in hardware speeds.
Now if they would just implement unsigned types (uint, ushort, uchar) the jvm could be used much more effectively for lots of things. Especially vision, graphics, and all kinds of numerical algorithms.
If Al Gore were president, then they would be Gore (Al, not VIDal) donors. They just want to make money through policy, it doesn't matter the administration. Vidal needs to stop making it a party or conservative vs. liberal issue.
However, I am firmly on his side WRT paper trails. E-voting is fine in concept because of the ease of burden, but I have yet to see a viable solution, and moreover, I don't believe there is one. Basically, circuit boards are just too easy to switch out without people noticing as opposed to mechanical devices.
1. Search / Search Replace are terrible. To search you are required to bring up a new window and is not very featureful (regex, incremental search, etc). Replace is equally or more lacking.
2. Undo is only one step.
Both of these things are in emacs and vim. Emacs and vim are ported to nearly every platform in existence, and both emacs and vi, can also serve many other purposes besides writing text like programming, publishing (w/ latex, nroff, etc.), letters, mail, and news.
I have never downloaded anything so quickly. I started out at 50kB/s, and now am at 533kB/s and have 59% of the total (RH dist). What a marvelous technology.
Imagine if all updates, iso's, etc were distributed this way... The more people want it, the better it goes. Critical updates get to you near instantaneously.
That is REAL value, RH seriously needs to consider implementing this into their system.
I will probably have to contribute to their/his cause.
But AMD has shown that many times code is REDUCED in size due to fewer Load/Store instructions because of the increased number of registers available to the compiler. Additionally, for a while, they have chosen the pointer to be only 40 bits (one byte extra) even though the architecture handles 64 bits.
For those that modded me as troll... lighten up! Don't you find it the least bit humorous that we are announcing that a RELEASE CANDIDATE is ALMOST ready?!
Come on, have a little smile on your face... Use your minds and enjoy life... not everyone is trolling to defame Slashdot, or get some stupid remarks, I thought it was funny.:)
I vehemently defend Slashdot for choices of their articles, because after all, it is their choice. But come on -- we are announcing "almost" releases now...:_)
I find this _very_ amusing. Its like having a planning meeting for a planning meeting (actually happened to my dad)
For me, it was a great beginners book because I am a developer, and I like quick information lookup. Ciphening through text to descover an answer is frustrating. Not to say that other books that are not like this are poor, but quality reference books are usually my number one choice.
From reading this FAQ, it appears that there is no problem with packaging this in a distribution (RH 8.1 w/ Helix?). However, I was unable to find a detailed list of supported codecs. I saw that it supported Real, and Ogg, but what I mean is, How does it compare to Real One Player (Currently not available for linux). Version 8 is the latest I think.
Stroustrup explains some nice details on especially this issue of memory constructs. He makes a convincing argument for why C++ is easier for C-style programming... Especially for those of you (One I saw below) who "Don't want to get into c++", realize that you can edge into it pretty easily, and accomplish your tasks more easily and quickly -- give it a try!
WOW! mplayer is doing some seriously wonderful work. Now, with sorensen (1 and 3) codecs, and WMP/WMA codecs, the reasons for havin to boot to windows are diminishing greatly....Now if only Intuit would port Quicken, that is last great frontier.
Before someone mentions it, I know about Kapital and gnucash, they just generally don't connect to the banks, and have all the necessary features, but they're great if they meet your needs. They just don't meet mine yet. I also know about crossover office -- but I don't want to pay more money, when I already have windows.
Anyway, here's hoping Intuit ports their bread and butter.
I am so sick of seeing the standard, "Why did we post this stupid story?" questions. Hey people read the FAQ The pertinent answer is copied below. Secondly, if you think it is just blah news, or unimportant, just skip the headlines -- surely you don't read everything in the newspaper, you read what YOU are interested in. The newspaper reports what it decides to.
Why did you post story X? Slashdot is many things to many people. Some people think it's a Linux site. To others, it's a geek hangout. I've always worked very hard to make sure that Slashdot matches up with my interests and the interests of my authors. We think we're pretty typical Slashdot readers... but that does mean that occasionally one of us might post something that you think is inappropriate. You might be interested in my Omelette rant.
Personally, I have a pet peeve when people post comments saying things like "That's not News For Nerds!" and "That's not Stuff that Matters!" Slashdot has been running for almost 5 years, and over that time, I have always been the final decision maker on what ends up on the homepage. It turns out that a lot of people agree with me: Linux, Legos, Penguins, Sci (both real and fiction). If you've been reading Slashdot, you know what the subjects commonly are, but we might deviate occasionally. It's just more fun that way. Variety Is The Spice Of Life and all that, right? We've been running Slashdot for a long time, and if we occasionally want to post something that someone doesn't think is right for Slashdot, well, we're the ones who get to make the call. It's the mix of stories that makes Slashdot the fun place that it is.
I have always felt, if we could get games that were a combination of the creativeness of those old text based adventure games, and the eye candy of Quake/Doom, you would get one of the funner games ever. I think this rarely happens, but Nintendo did well with DK64, Mario Kart64, and the Super Mario's have always been fun.
Anyway, my point is, eye candy is the first and most important rule for game makers these days, and it ought to be the other way around. I mean, isn't Jumpman Jr. still fun:)
After the first screenshots showing the virtual desktops that Longhorn has, one of my friends that interned at MS this summer told me that his cousin is one of a few that are in charge of evaluating what is good in Linux (or other free software) and adding it into windows. Thus, virtual desktops, and this panel thing they are doing.
I think the question, and the real test of free software will be: Can we continue to answer the desktop faster than Microsoft, or, with a target on our backs, will we just be another casualty?
This is a valid question. MS has a ton of money (40 Billion in cash) and our developers are donating their time, usually not paid for their endeavors, and we consequently continually struggle with maintainership and continued development of projects. Especially the more mature ones.
This may be the biggest test of the "system" we will see. What do you think will happen?
I attended a colloquium here at BYU, where the guest speaker was Scott Lewandowski (MIT - Lincoln Labs). They are working on an architecture called SARA (Survivable Autonomic Response Architecture) that deals with attacks in computer time. This does not negate the need for a good administration team, but does allow machines to be stronger and more fault tolerant.
For a quick summary:
Current computer security research is motivated by the realization that some cyber-attacks will succeed and that systems therefore must be designed for survivability. Two critical enabling technologies for building survivable systems are autonomic response and orchestration. SARA, the Survivable Autonomic Response Architecture, is an architecture developed as part of Lincoln Laboratory's participation in the DARPA SWWIM program. SARA facilitates orchestrated autonomic response by allowing components developed by independent information assurance developers to collaborate to defend computer networks and systems. SARA is well suited to defend against fast, distributed information attacks that require rapid, coordinated, network-wide responses. The core components of the architecture are a run-time infrastructure (RTI), a communication language, a system model, and defensive components. The RTI incorporates a number of innovative design concepts and provides fast, reliable, exploitation-resistant communication and coordination services to the components defending the network, even when challenged by a distributed attack. The architecture can be tailored to provide scalable information assurance defenses for large, geographically distributed, heterogeneous networks with multiple domains, each of which uses different technologies and requires different policies. The architecture can form the basis of a field-deployable system. Prototype versions of SARA have been used in a number of experiments and environments; most notably, SARA was a core technology in an experiment in which distributed defenses neutralized a self-propagating polymorphic email virus.
The only link I could find was the universites link to the colloquium which has the short abstract I quoted above.
Slashdot Mirror
Anyway, what makes them think that a copyright (or intellectual property) has anything to do with peoples' ability or right to see it.
Preferably the same who directed ESB.
I didn't see this anywhere else... sorry if a repost.
The dual-core opteron's will be fully pin compatible with the current ones. Have a dual-opteron? drop a couple new ones in, and its a quad.
Awesome.
That just assumes you are using their libraries. And RBG triplets packed in a int require unsigned also. Mostly, I have done a lot of building of my own libraries, which is generally what is needed. Like you said you think they are using unsigned underneath which means they are coding in another language besides java. I know their goal is to code their libraries in "100% java"
Obviously you or the other poster haven't done much programming in the areas I pointed out. When dealing with memory intesive issues (e.g. very large datasets, or especially images) having to use a short to represent something that could be done in an unsigned byte doubles your memory requirement. This in turn slows down everything else while your computer is thrashing the drive for swap, and the bandwidth between RAM and CPU is eaten up. Images are an especially important example. Values for images are generally RGB triplets ranging from 0-255. Doubling the memory footprint of all images on your computer would kill it real fast with all visual icons and everything that most people use.
IMO, this blatant disregard for memory and CPU usage is the reason that computers performance has been ramping up slowly, while we have maintained exponential growth in hardware speeds.
Now if they would just implement unsigned types (uint, ushort, uchar) the jvm could be used much more effectively for lots of things. Especially vision, graphics, and all kinds of numerical algorithms.
If Al Gore were president, then they would be Gore (Al, not VIDal) donors. They just want to make money through policy, it doesn't matter the administration. Vidal needs to stop making it a party or conservative vs. liberal issue.
However, I am firmly on his side WRT paper trails. E-voting is fine in concept because of the ease of burden, but I have yet to see a viable solution, and moreover, I don't believe there is one. Basically, circuit boards are just too easy to switch out without people noticing as opposed to mechanical devices.
My main two reasons to avoid it are:
1. Search / Search Replace are terrible. To search you are required to bring up a new window and is not very featureful (regex, incremental search, etc). Replace is equally or more lacking.
2. Undo is only one step.
Both of these things are in emacs and vim. Emacs and vim are ported to nearly every platform in existence, and both emacs and vi, can also serve many other purposes besides writing text like programming, publishing (w/ latex, nroff, etc.), letters, mail, and news.
I have never downloaded anything so quickly. I started out at 50kB/s, and now am at 533kB/s and have 59% of the total (RH dist). What a marvelous technology.
Imagine if all updates, iso's, etc were distributed this way... The more people want it, the better it goes. Critical updates get to you near instantaneously.
That is REAL value, RH seriously needs to consider implementing this into their system.
I will probably have to contribute to their/his cause.
But AMD has shown that many times code is REDUCED in size due to fewer Load/Store instructions because of the increased number of registers available to the compiler. Additionally, for a while, they have chosen the pointer to be only 40 bits (one byte extra) even though the architecture handles 64 bits.
Between this and the new gcc, RedHat will have their hands full redoing all kinds of packages at rawhide...
:)
Don't you love it?
For those that modded me as troll... lighten up! Don't you find it the least bit humorous that we are announcing that a RELEASE CANDIDATE is ALMOST ready?!
:)
Come on, have a little smile on your face... Use your minds and enjoy life... not everyone is trolling to defame Slashdot, or get some stupid remarks, I thought it was funny.
I vehemently defend Slashdot for choices of their articles, because after all, it is their choice. But come on -- we are announcing "almost" releases now... :_)
I find this _very_ amusing. Its like having a planning meeting for a planning meeting (actually happened to my dad)
Let me use a ring, then I only lose a finger when someone wants access :~)
copyrighting popups, and extracting a royalty for everytime someone "reads" one...
Actually, I have this version, and it is not the latest thing that windows has... It cannot do all of the same things. Check the version (8.0.3.421)
For me, it was a great beginners book because I am a developer, and I like quick information lookup. Ciphening through text to descover an answer is frustrating. Not to say that other books that are not like this are poor, but quality reference books are usually my number one choice.
Linux in a Nutshell, concise, to the point, reference manual for just getting stuff done.
From reading this FAQ, it appears that there is no problem with packaging this in a distribution (RH 8.1 w/ Helix?). However, I was unable to find a detailed list of supported codecs. I saw that it supported Real, and Ogg, but what I mean is, How does it compare to Real One Player (Currently not available for linux). Version 8 is the latest I think.
Of course Bjarne Stroustrup would say this, but he has some nice examples backing his statements up, too. See his FAQ and his paper on "Learning Standard c++ as a New Language".
Stroustrup explains some nice details on especially this issue of memory constructs. He makes a convincing argument for why C++ is easier for C-style programming... Especially for those of you (One I saw below) who "Don't want to get into c++", realize that you can edge into it pretty easily, and accomplish your tasks more easily and quickly -- give it a try!
WOW! mplayer is doing some seriously wonderful work. Now, with sorensen (1 and 3) codecs, and WMP/WMA codecs, the reasons for havin to boot to windows are diminishing greatly. ...Now if only Intuit would port Quicken, that is last great frontier.
Before someone mentions it, I know about Kapital and gnucash, they just generally don't connect to the banks, and have all the necessary features, but they're great if they meet your needs. They just don't meet mine yet. I also know about crossover office -- but I don't want to pay more money, when I already have windows.
Anyway, here's hoping Intuit ports their bread and butter.
I am so sick of seeing the standard, "Why did we post this stupid story?" questions. Hey people read the FAQ The pertinent answer is copied below. Secondly, if you think it is just blah news, or unimportant, just skip the headlines -- surely you don't read everything in the newspaper, you read what YOU are interested in. The newspaper reports what it decides to.
Why did you post story X?
Slashdot is many things to many people. Some people think it's a Linux site. To others, it's a geek hangout. I've always worked very hard to make sure that Slashdot matches up with my interests and the interests of my authors. We think we're pretty typical Slashdot readers... but that does mean that occasionally one of us might post something that you think is inappropriate. You might be interested in my Omelette rant.
Personally, I have a pet peeve when people post comments saying things like "That's not News For Nerds!" and "That's not Stuff that Matters!" Slashdot has been running for almost 5 years, and over that time, I have always been the final decision maker on what ends up on the homepage. It turns out that a lot of people agree with me: Linux, Legos, Penguins, Sci (both real and fiction). If you've been reading Slashdot, you know what the subjects commonly are, but we might deviate occasionally. It's just more fun that way. Variety Is The Spice Of Life and all that, right? We've been running Slashdot for a long time, and if we occasionally want to post something that someone doesn't think is right for Slashdot, well, we're the ones who get to make the call. It's the mix of stories that makes Slashdot the fun place that it is.
Answered by: CmdrTaco
Last Modified: 6/26/00
I have always felt, if we could get games that were a combination of the creativeness of those old text based adventure games, and the eye candy of Quake/Doom, you would get one of the funner games ever. I think this rarely happens, but Nintendo did well with DK64, Mario Kart64, and the Super Mario's have always been fun.
:)
Anyway, my point is, eye candy is the first and most important rule for game makers these days, and it ought to be the other way around. I mean, isn't Jumpman Jr. still fun
After the first screenshots showing the virtual desktops that Longhorn has, one of my friends that interned at MS this summer told me that his cousin is one of a few that are in charge of evaluating what is good in Linux (or other free software) and adding it into windows. Thus, virtual desktops, and this panel thing they are doing.
I think the question, and the real test of free software will be: Can we continue to answer the desktop faster than Microsoft, or, with a target on our backs, will we just be another casualty?
This is a valid question. MS has a ton of money (40 Billion in cash) and our developers are donating their time, usually not paid for their endeavors, and we consequently continually struggle with maintainership and continued development of projects. Especially the more mature ones.
This may be the biggest test of the "system" we will see. What do you think will happen?
For a quick summary:
The only link I could find was the universites link to the colloquium which has the short abstract I quoted above.