Generally it makes no sense to use any other language than English for comments (unless it's some small inside project ). For example, my native language is Finnish and there wouldn't be many programmer around who actually could read those comments if written in such rare language. Therefore I'm wondering, why they used German language in first place.
It really doesn't seem like portability should be a huge goal for writing code for top-100 supercomputers.
It depends on what are you doing. If you have relatively short term project (say less than couple of years) you are right. But if you do some serious long term research, portability comes with huge impact. Especially if your project has relatively large code base. Thing is, architectures comes and goes and you can't count what architecture you are going to use five years from now. Another thing is that you might use wide variety of computing sites, when portability is essential, really.
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Why is it different to start applications from the terminal? I just tested it with KDE (version I use is 3.3.1 if anyone cares) by launching kate (text editor) from terminal and it didn't steal focus. Did I just miss some point?
Since they seem to be at the forefront of providing the virus delivery systems, why do I have to pay someone else (like Symantec) to protect me from them?
Paying for virus protection seems to me like paying some sort of protection money for mafia. ?If you don't pay, you ain't safe.?
I know that anti-virus software vendors doesn't write viruses (at least usually;) ) but still...
Lobbying governments is good thing, but this issue is solved in euro parliament after all. So it's important to lobby MEPs against software patents. And more importantly: Go out and vote!
My Scanner can scan at 5mgpx per sq inch. So if you just take a normal picture big enough, and scan it... It would be about the same.
And that normal _big_ picture you are talking should be 100*100 inch with resolution of 5MDPI at least. Now, how did you think to take the picture and more importantly, how to process (like printing) it for scanning that with your scanner.
Stealth is a waste of money for the Swedish Navy anyhow; it seems this ship's mission, like all other seagoing Swedish vessels, is to sail back and forth between Stockholm and Helsinki in order to give Swedish people a place to buy cheaper booze than System Bolaget.
Why to bother. I live in Helsinki and I could suggest to sail between Stockholm and Tallinn in that matter. Booze is much cheaper in there. =)
I'm aware that this sounds glib, but in my experience a lot of non-techy end users have enough difficulty getting used to Windows.
As far as I have seen, learning curve for Linux or Windows desktop is very similar for entry level users to learn. At least as far as I know. (I'm teaching computer skills for elder persons sometimes)
2. GPS has only 10m accuracy. This is important when you're giving pedestrians directions (eg cross the street and enter the second door on your right).
Are we really this helpless? My advice simply is: if 10m accuracy isn't enough for find your destination, please don't go any foreign city without guide.
Technically I very much doubt this system. I just don't believe it could be much accurate than GPS if it's quite accurate at all. Sometimes there is just too much similarities in the area.
People just thinks that CPU clock speed is some accurate way to measure processing speed. As you already pointed out, this isn't true.
I'm quite sure that 150MHz DSP can code and decode those MP3s faster than any pentium or what ever. Trick is simple.. Hardware is designed for such jobs in the DSP core. There is no over head looping, Single insturction cycle MACs (multiply and accumulate), circular buffering, etc. built in.
I agree, Windows is easier for an average user than Linux, but it ain't perfect. As a tech support of my friends / half-friends / family members... I often found myself in the very situation to tell how to install software / drivers / etc to the windows box.
Maybe linux isn't developed to the desktops yet, but we are not so far from there. KDE and gnome are quite usable now a days and there is some applications too. (Star office, Word Perfect, etc.) I often hear something like "I would use Linux, but there is no Microsoft Office for it". I would ask so what? Average home desktop user needs word processor just for writing some notes, letters and such, and in that use. Some Word Perfect for linux (or almost anything) will do.
Please review this Specification copy only if you licensed and downloaded it from Microsoft Corporations website; if you did not, please destroy this copy,
"If you're capable of selling to kids (actually, their parents) in the US, you have enough presence in the US for the US law to get at you. "
So you think but how is that done actually? For example I live in Finland and I don't know any way how you can sue me by means of US law. It is impossible. For any legal action against me I have to violate finnish law, not US! So for, US can keep their laws and I don't have to care them.
What is a standard desktop computer? That's one question, but actually I have planned to design this kind of desktop computer for some time now. I haven't yet started to do any actual desing work but I have thinked about it while doing some work with embedded systems.
One of the main questions is how much computation power average desktop computer user really needs? Due the fact, these processors lack on power compared on common processors used in today's desktops, but how much is really needed for running applications needed in every day use of the desktop computer?
Ofcource this isn't only question that remains (there is at leas issue about the availability of these processors for prototyping), but if computation power need can be satisfied by some processor like this (ARM), I can't see reason why not to implement one.
Well, building such rack case yourself can be fun, but needs some basic mechanical skills and proper tools for the task, and that's not allways the way things are.
Modems are only one place where DSPs is used. Actually computers itselfs is only one fragment of all DSP usage. DSPs are widely used by electronics industry.
Besides of the computers DSPs are used in (for example):
- Motor Control Systems - Measurement Equipment - Data Communications Systems - Scientific Research - Industry Automation Systems and so on.
DSP is quite new invention on computer related products if you compare it to the time line of the DSP.
By reading the U.S. patent databases by searching patents claimed by Transmeta, it isn't quite hard to quess that transmeta's projects have something to do with processors.
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Generally it makes no sense to use any other language than English for comments (unless it's some small inside project ). For example, my native language is Finnish and there wouldn't be many programmer around who actually could read those comments if written in such rare language. Therefore I'm wondering, why they used German language in first place.
It really doesn't seem like portability should be a huge goal for writing code for top-100 supercomputers.
It depends on what are you doing. If you have relatively short term project (say less than couple of years) you are right. But if you do some serious long term research, portability comes with huge impact. Especially if your project has relatively large code base. Thing is, architectures comes and goes and you can't count what architecture you are going to use five years from now. Another thing is that you might use wide variety of computing sites, when portability is essential, really.
Why is it different to start applications from the terminal? I just tested it with KDE (version I use is 3.3.1 if anyone cares) by launching kate (text editor) from terminal and it didn't steal focus. Did I just miss some point?
Hey. That's current state of my windows gaming too. (and my boss really thinks that NH is sort of network management tool...) ;)
Since they seem to be at the forefront of providing the virus delivery systems, why do I have to pay someone else (like Symantec) to protect me from them?
Paying for virus protection seems to me like paying some sort of protection money for mafia. ?If you don't pay, you ain't safe.?
I know that anti-virus software vendors doesn't write viruses (at least usually
Lobbying governments is good thing, but this issue is solved in euro parliament after all. So it's important to lobby MEPs against software patents. And more importantly: Go out and vote!
Is that called recursive linking?
Yes, it would. =)
It really doesn't make much difference for producing that picture.
My Scanner can scan at 5mgpx per sq inch. So if you just take a normal picture big enough, and scan it... It would be about the same.
And that normal _big_ picture you are talking should be 100*100 inch with resolution of 5MDPI at least. Now, how did you think to take the picture and more importantly, how to process (like printing) it for scanning that with your scanner.
Yes, you still need something like that camera.
-AZi
Stealth is a waste of money for the Swedish Navy anyhow; it seems this ship's mission, like all other seagoing Swedish vessels, is to sail back and forth between Stockholm and Helsinki in order to give Swedish people a place to buy cheaper booze than System Bolaget.
Why to bother. I live in Helsinki and I could suggest to sail between Stockholm and Tallinn in that matter. Booze is much cheaper in there. =)
I'm aware that this sounds glib, but in my experience a lot of non-techy end users have enough difficulty getting used to Windows.
As far as I have seen, learning curve for Linux or Windows desktop is very similar for entry level users to learn. At least as far as I know. (I'm teaching computer skills for elder persons sometimes)
2. GPS has only 10m accuracy. This is important when you're giving pedestrians directions (eg cross the street and enter the second door on your right).
Are we really this helpless? My advice simply is: if 10m accuracy isn't enough for find your destination, please don't go any foreign city without guide.
Technically I very much doubt this system. I just don't believe it could be much accurate than GPS if it's quite accurate at all. Sometimes there is just too much similarities in the area.
People just thinks that CPU clock speed is some accurate way to measure processing speed. As you already pointed out, this isn't true.
I'm quite sure that 150MHz DSP can code and decode those MP3s faster than any pentium or what ever. Trick is simple.. Hardware is designed for such jobs in the DSP core. There is no over head looping, Single insturction cycle MACs (multiply and accumulate), circular buffering, etc. built in.
-M.T.
I agree, Windows is easier for an average user than Linux, but it ain't perfect. As a tech support of my friends / half-friends / family members... I often found myself in the very situation to tell how to install software / drivers / etc to the windows box.
Maybe linux isn't developed to the desktops yet, but we are not so far from there. KDE and gnome are quite usable now a days and there is some applications too. (Star office, Word Perfect, etc.) I often hear something like "I would use Linux, but there is no Microsoft Office for it". I would ask so what? Average home desktop user needs word processor just for writing some notes, letters and such, and in that use. Some Word Perfect for linux (or almost anything) will do.
AZi
I just would like to know, why is that? What is so special in debian slink or potato?
(And this is not meant to launch any distro war!)
So, is this all meaning there is no problem at all.
I think so.
Seems to be fixed now.
Last idea sounds somewhat interesting. Would someone please describe in what directory that outside thing is located?
...
#define outside
;-)
Just wondering: How can I destroy this document?
"If you're capable of selling to kids (actually, their parents) in the US, you have enough presence in the US for the US law to get at you. "
So you think but how is that done actually? For example I live in Finland and I don't know any way how you can sue me by means of US law. It is impossible. For any legal action against me I have to violate finnish law, not US! So for, US can keep their laws and I don't have to care them.
What is a standard desktop computer? That's one question, but actually I have planned to design this kind of desktop computer for some time now. I haven't yet started to do any actual desing work but I have thinked about it while doing some work with embedded systems.
One of the main questions is how much computation power average desktop computer user really needs? Due the fact, these processors lack on power compared on common processors used in today's desktops, but how much is really needed for running applications needed in every day use of the desktop computer?
Ofcource this isn't only question that remains (there is at leas issue about the availability of these processors for prototyping), but if computation power need can be satisfied by some processor like this (ARM), I can't see reason why not to implement one.
If future direction of applications is going to be web based (or browser based), who will decide how these should look like?
It's really very similar situation to a skins. Every web developer will choose (at least on some level) own way to implement things.
I think that's bigger issue than any skins. Skins affect only for the single user, but public website... Well..
Well, building such rack case yourself can be fun, but needs some basic mechanical skills and proper tools for the task, and that's not allways the way things are.
Modems are only one place where DSPs is used. Actually computers itselfs is only one fragment of all DSP usage. DSPs are widely used by electronics industry.
Besides of the computers DSPs are used in (for example):
- Motor Control Systems
- Measurement Equipment
- Data Communications Systems
- Scientific Research
- Industry Automation Systems
and so on.
DSP is quite new invention on computer related products if you compare it to the time line of the DSP.
"Just the information.."
-AZi
By reading the U.S. patent databases by searching patents claimed by Transmeta, it isn't quite hard to quess that transmeta's projects have something to do with processors.