You're right the acronyms are cryptic and unnessarily confusing, to make things worse they are currently renaming them and adding new ones. I don't remember how may different names MIDP 3 has had;) But anyway don't worry, there is no chance of J2ME being destroyed. No other platform is nearly as widespread and entrenched (even if it isn't perfect)
Except that you have to buy an expensive smart phone, or PDA to use it. If you do J2ME development the program you write will work on most phones. Also, you your skills are more marketable. Windows mobile devices only cover a tiny fraction of the market.
Although I haven't used Symbian, I read a lot of discussion on the Nokia forums about this topic. Most of the API can be accessed from a self signed application.
It's funny that the usablity of the UI doesn't get much credit in the artical, even though that is the most important factor. The general opinion of the modelers at work is that XSI is the best and Maya is the worst. One outside consultant swears by XSI. He claims Modeling and texturing is about twice as fast compaired to 3ds max.
> in some cases even prohibit the programmer from being able to manage their resources.
There you have hit the problem with garbage collection.
A lot of people don't realise that it's easier to have memory leaks with languages with garbage collection. In a complicated program typically each object is referenced by dozens of other objects and you have to carefully check that each one is nulled out, otherwise you will have "unintentional object retention". In c++ a well designed program will have a clearly designated owner of each object, which is reponsible for deleting the object.
I suppose that's the price you have to pay for performance. About 3 years ago people had less powerful machines. Netbeans was so slow that it was barely usable, probably because it wasn't using native widgets
He blames the poor performance of the Harpertown on the fact that it's running 32-bit Windows xp. But that can't effect any of the tests that were run (all of them easily fit in less than 1gb memory). The real reason is because Harpertown is running on a slower clock frequency. Penryn is only a minor core update, so it won't run much faster than conroe clock for clock. The real advantage of Penryn is the 45nm High-k + metal gate process, which gives lower power consumption and allows faster clock speeds.
People who don't live in the center of the universe always say things like that. Just like losers always say winning isn't everthing and poor people say money can't bring hapiness.
That list shows mobile phones that can be connected to a Linux PC, not that are running Linux. I'd seriously doubt that those Samsungs and Motorolas are capable of running Linux, becuase they are all pretty under-powered phones.
This a great improvement: recieve graphical user suggetions via a blog and then compleately ignore them. Far better than the old way: get user suggestions in plain text and then completely ignore them
We're told the old line "we use ads to pay for this web site", but what about online banks. We pay for that service, yet their web pages are still riddled with ads for their own services. How is that fair?
Why less than $500? AT&T are charging $600. Look for gadgets with similar features and you get an idea of what the price should be. Nokia N91, for example has 8gb and sells for $500 - admitadly it doesn't have the exact same feature set, some features aren't as good while others are better.
Actually, if you look at the raw test data (rather than the conclusions) you will see that both servers performed nearly equally. The xeon doing slightly better on some tests, while the opteron better in others. In most tests the results are about the same (5% difference)
"In a letter from Microsoft, our business partners were informed that they were "expected" to participate in the SIS meeting and vote yes... This was a mistake and the letter was sent by a certain chair-throwing employee on his own initiative "
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Were the origonial X-Wings made out of Birch wood as well? Maybe that would explain why they were so susceptible to tie fighter laser fire.
You're right the acronyms are cryptic and unnessarily confusing, to make things worse they are currently renaming them and adding new ones. I don't remember how may different names MIDP 3 has had ;)
But anyway don't worry, there is no chance of J2ME being destroyed. No other platform is nearly as widespread and entrenched (even if it isn't perfect)
Except that you have to buy an expensive smart phone, or PDA to use it. If you do J2ME development the program you write will work on most phones. Also, you your skills are more marketable. Windows mobile devices only cover a tiny fraction of the market.
Although I haven't used Symbian, I read a lot of discussion on the Nokia forums about this topic. Most of the API can be accessed from a self signed application.
It's funny that the usablity of the UI doesn't get much credit in the artical, even though that is the most important factor.
The general opinion of the modelers at work is that XSI is the best and Maya is the worst. One outside consultant swears by XSI. He claims Modeling and texturing is about twice as fast compaired to 3ds max.
> in some cases even prohibit the programmer from being able to manage their resources.
There you have hit the problem with garbage collection.
A lot of people don't realise that it's easier to have memory leaks with languages with garbage collection. In a complicated program typically each object is referenced by dozens of other objects and you have to carefully check that each one is nulled out, otherwise you will have "unintentional object retention". In c++ a well designed program will have a clearly designated owner of each object, which is reponsible for deleting the object.
I suppose that's the price you have to pay for performance. About 3 years ago people had less powerful machines. Netbeans was so slow that it was barely usable, probably because it wasn't using native widgets
He blames the poor performance of the Harpertown on the fact that it's running 32-bit Windows xp. But that can't effect any of the tests that were run (all of them easily fit in less than 1gb memory). The real reason is because Harpertown is running on a slower clock frequency. Penryn is only a minor core update, so it won't run much faster than conroe clock for clock. The real advantage of Penryn is the 45nm High-k + metal gate process, which gives lower power consumption and allows faster clock speeds.
> There is no "center" of the universe.
People who don't live in the center of the universe always say things like that. Just like losers always say winning isn't everthing and poor people say money can't bring hapiness.
Even if there is no doomsday it's not going to be fun living through the oil peak ;)
That list shows mobile phones that can be connected to a Linux PC, not that are running Linux. I'd seriously doubt that those Samsungs and Motorolas are capable of running Linux, becuase they are all pretty under-powered phones.
Yes, but RTG isn't the only form of nuclear power. There's currently 49 soviet RORSAT nuclear satellites in orbit with nuclear reactors (not RTGs)
Nasa and the rusians also have nuclear reactors in orbit:
http://space.newscientist.com/article/mg18624964.300-space-crimes-and-misdemeanors.html
My sentinments exactly. ;)
Pity that the Gimp community don't use Slashdot comments to collect design ideas
This a great improvement: recieve graphical user suggetions via a blog and then compleately ignore them.
Far better than the old way: get user suggestions in plain text and then completely ignore them
> killing people creates more terrorists, not less. ;)
Actually the people who detonate these types of weapons usually *are* the terrorists
Does Microsoft really have some way of remotely destroying Vista installations?
We're told the old line "we use ads to pay for this web site", but what about online banks. We pay for that service, yet their web pages are still riddled with ads for their own services. How is that fair?
All we need to do is install more power stations with Windows and the viruses will do the rest:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/08/14/power.outage/
No power, no light pollution
Why less than $500? AT&T are charging $600. Look for gadgets with similar features and you get an idea of what the price should be. Nokia N91, for example has 8gb and sells for $500 - admitadly it doesn't have the exact same feature set, some features aren't as good while others are better.
So, in other words, if Bill gates offered you a million, you would refuse?
Pah, don't throw me your small change, Bill!
but can't there be two standards? Can't ODF get ISO approval as well?
What's the upshot of all this anyways?
Even if OOXML gets approved for ISO don't we still have a choice? Won't ODF still be there?
Actually, if you look at the raw test data (rather than the conclusions) you will see that both servers performed nearly equally. The xeon doing slightly better on some tests, while the opteron better in others. In most tests the results are about the same (5% difference)
"In a letter from Microsoft, our business partners were informed that they were "expected" to participate in the SIS meeting and vote yes...
This was a mistake and the letter was sent by a certain chair-throwing employee on his own initiative "