The whole concept of http(get, post etc), html (static context), various plugins (java applets, flash etc), javascript etc is flawed right from the start.
What is required is a client application which is an application host (i.e. virtual machine for a language) and provides a 2d/3d graphical output.
The mistake in the design of 3d transportation is the need for flight controllers. Does nature have flight controllers? nope. Have you ever seen bats collide, even if they fly rapidly in a dark cave, and even if they are blind? nope. Bats have an autonomous radar system that helps them navigate and avoid collisions.
Up until now, human nature dictated centralization: a central authority responsible for everything. Air traffic works like this, computers work like this (CPUs are the controllers), countries are run like this (governments are the controllers)...but such a centralization does not really work when the numbers get high.
So for successful flying cars, we need devices that drive themselves and change course according to the signals received by the radars. Such a mechanism would eliminate human error, and leave few possibilities for accidents.
...Windows XP + open source (firefox, thunderbird, gcc, open office, etc). Personally, I am going to stick to it because it satisfies all my computing needs (Linux does too, so it's either XP or Linux). As for games, there is a tremendous amount of free games out there, that's equally entertaining with the latest DX10 games. If I ever need to see Crysis in all its glory, I'll go down to my nearest Internet/gaming Cafe and see it (because it only has 10 hours of gameplay, it does not worth to buy an ultra high end PC just for it).
What you say is true, but only on the surface. If you dig deeper, you will see that many programs contain plenty of opportunities for parallelization.
One algorithm that can be greatly parallelized is that of searching, which is a very frequent operation in all shorts of applications. Instead of searching all data, finding the result and then applying the required job on it, in a parallel environment the job can be executed as one of the threads finds the result; which means speeding up executions in tree and hash maps, in sets and other data structures, with an almost linear increase in performance with the number of cores.
It all depends from where you stand. If your bread and butter is business applications, then indeed it's rare to having to deal with threads. But for almost everything else, threading is a necessity. I am a programmer in the field of defense applications, and I never ever worked in a single-threaded application. And if you look around, almost all applications have some sort of parallelism (examples: Word when re-paginating long documents, Firefox with multiple tabs, Excel running long computations, Torrent clients downloading multiple torrents, etc).
What's up with everybody? are new shiny things so much important to people? I got dizzy just watching all the spinning and rotating objects in the "WINDOWS VISTA AERO VS LINUX UBUNTU BERYL". If I ever had such an environment, the first thing I'd do is to deactivate all the glitz...
Oh, come on. I bought Windows XP, I am entitled to use it for ever, if I want. If Microsoft shuts down the activation servers, I will download a corporate version of it and install it without the hassle of activation...
I live in fucking Europe and public transport sucks.
You generalize. It all depends on where you live. Densely populated areas have public transport lines (trains, buses) that are crowded at certain times of a day...but generally, public transport is good, and if more people used it, it would be better (more trains, more buses, less polution from cars etc).
I recently made a comment on US restricting their armies to US space and got modded to 0...Each time a country other than USA does something with its military, USA screams "dictatorship", but when USA does the same, it's all well and good, even in Slashdot, where posters are considered to be of a higher level than the average US citizen (which is not that different from the average citizen of other countries)...
I did not understand even one bit from the problem description, so I would like to approach this from another perspective: is there any practical benefits in proving the Riemann Hypothesis?
So since the problem is sentimental, why not advertise evolution and science in general as the one and only thing that can change our lives? look at where we are now: we can live to be 100 years old, thanks to science.
Well, perhaps in Northern Europe things are as you describe. In Southern Europe, however, things are exactly the opposite: there is a rise in religion, especially in the Balkans, Turkey, and in the Middle East.
BSG sucks big time. It has a very narrow focus, that of 11 of September of 2001. Star Trek - The Next Generation had a very wide focus, where terrorism was just one episode. Furthermore, BSG is not sci-fi. Just because it shows spaceships and explosions does not make it sci-fi. It's a soap opera disguised as sci-fi.
The original BSG is much more respectable, even if it's much cheesier. The original was simple entertainment for the family; it did not claim to have any connections with reality. And it was even more sci-fi than the new BSG because of its connection to Fon Daineken's 'chariots of the gods' that was so prevalent in the 70s. At least it excited the imagination about Humans having spread to the stars, about ancient civilizations etc. The new BSG does nothing at all from this perspective.
The Be FileSystem that supported journaling, meta-data and 64-bit files was around 10,000 lines of code. It's creator made a comment that "he did not understand how the WinFS filesystem was much larger but with half the capabilities".
If you ever browse the Windows source code (I have, out of curiosity, back then when it was leaked), you'll notice huge kloc numbers. For example, the Microsoft's basic list box control was 11,000 lines of code.
Are all these lines of code needed? it depends. The Microsoft style API is "put everything in one big pile of code and let's hope it works". Win32 is a testament to that. It certainly is not elegant...
The very top of programming language technology, as we speak, is Haskell. You'll understand a lot more the other languages if you learn it, and you will be disappointed by the lameness of the other languages when you go back to them.
I am currently typing this from Windows, but other than games, there is nothing that Linux can't do. I occasionally boot to Linux, must in both systems I usually use the same tools (Firefox, Thunderbird, gcc, etc).
I am not using the command line much. I don't find it fun to use; if there is a GUI way to achieve the task, I prefer that. But KDE and Gnome have come a long way and they are far superior, as window managers, than Windows.
Well, Palestinians did not sign it because the agreement favored the Israelis. The Palestinians have already been forced away from their land.
So, according to your opinion ("might makes right"), the world should be a jungle where the big fish eats the small one, where the strongest one survives.
Well, that's inhuman and unfair.
And you are wrong that border lines are what they are because of 'might made right'. Border lines are what they are now because people got tired of wars, realized that peace is more beneficial...
The 'now' is not important compared to history. When someone had a particular piece of land for thousands of years, he has some rights over that land. And this extends over to other cultural facets, including cultural heritage, names and symbols.
On what basis it will not be right to kick out the USA or Israelis?
A technology that can be invented (unlike those Star Trek fantasies) is a radar to help avoid car collisions. Ever seen bats in a cave? they don't collide, even if they flight really fast and in very confined spaces...so it's doable for the cars, and it will save thousands of lives and lots of money.
In Star Trek, a holodeck contained fabricated matter hold together by force fields and other forces. We don't have the capabilities to manipulate spacetime in that fashion yet. Perhaps they are making a virtual holodeck?
The only reason it is called naive is because the stakes are higher in the international setting. Other than that, the behavior is the same: some people think they deserve more.
If you ignore the past, then things can be considered as you said. But there is a continuous line of terrorist acts from both sides for over 50 years. If you look at it from a historical perspective, the Arabs never had a problem with the Jews, until the British decided to give Arabic land to the Jews to construct their state.
I believe that the Jews have a right to a state where the modern Israel is, but not because of the Bible, because of their historical roots there. But, from the other side, I can not ignore the facts that many Palestinians were driven away from their homes by force initially by British forces, then by Israeli forces.
Let's also not forget that Israelis did terrorist acts when they wanted to force the international community to see their side, 60 years and more back.
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The whole concept of http(get, post etc), html (static context), various plugins (java applets, flash etc), javascript etc is flawed right from the start.
What is required is a client application which is an application host (i.e. virtual machine for a language) and provides a 2d/3d graphical output.
The mistake in the design of 3d transportation is the need for flight controllers. Does nature have flight controllers? nope. Have you ever seen bats collide, even if they fly rapidly in a dark cave, and even if they are blind? nope. Bats have an autonomous radar system that helps them navigate and avoid collisions.
Up until now, human nature dictated centralization: a central authority responsible for everything. Air traffic works like this, computers work like this (CPUs are the controllers), countries are run like this (governments are the controllers)...but such a centralization does not really work when the numbers get high.
So for successful flying cars, we need devices that drive themselves and change course according to the signals received by the radars. Such a mechanism would eliminate human error, and leave few possibilities for accidents.
...Windows XP + open source (firefox, thunderbird, gcc, open office, etc). Personally, I am going to stick to it because it satisfies all my computing needs (Linux does too, so it's either XP or Linux). As for games, there is a tremendous amount of free games out there, that's equally entertaining with the latest DX10 games. If I ever need to see Crysis in all its glory, I'll go down to my nearest Internet/gaming Cafe and see it (because it only has 10 hours of gameplay, it does not worth to buy an ultra high end PC just for it).
What you say is true, but only on the surface. If you dig deeper, you will see that many programs contain plenty of opportunities for parallelization.
One algorithm that can be greatly parallelized is that of searching, which is a very frequent operation in all shorts of applications. Instead of searching all data, finding the result and then applying the required job on it, in a parallel environment the job can be executed as one of the threads finds the result; which means speeding up executions in tree and hash maps, in sets and other data structures, with an almost linear increase in performance with the number of cores.
It all depends from where you stand. If your bread and butter is business applications, then indeed it's rare to having to deal with threads. But for almost everything else, threading is a necessity. I am a programmer in the field of defense applications, and I never ever worked in a single-threaded application. And if you look around, almost all applications have some sort of parallelism (examples: Word when re-paginating long documents, Firefox with multiple tabs, Excel running long computations, Torrent clients downloading multiple torrents, etc).
...is won by Linux!
What's up with everybody? are new shiny things so much important to people? I got dizzy just watching all the spinning and rotating objects in the "WINDOWS VISTA AERO VS LINUX UBUNTU BERYL". If I ever had such an environment, the first thing I'd do is to deactivate all the glitz...
Oh, come on. I bought Windows XP, I am entitled to use it for ever, if I want. If Microsoft shuts down the activation servers, I will download a corporate version of it and install it without the hassle of activation...
You generalize. It all depends on where you live. Densely populated areas have public transport lines (trains, buses) that are crowded at certain times of a day...but generally, public transport is good, and if more people used it, it would be better (more trains, more buses, less polution from cars etc).
I recently made a comment on US restricting their armies to US space and got modded to 0...Each time a country other than USA does something with its military, USA screams "dictatorship", but when USA does the same, it's all well and good, even in Slashdot, where posters are considered to be of a higher level than the average US citizen (which is not that different from the average citizen of other countries)...
I did not understand even one bit from the problem description, so I would like to approach this from another perspective: is there any practical benefits in proving the Riemann Hypothesis?
So since the problem is sentimental, why not advertise evolution and science in general as the one and only thing that can change our lives? look at where we are now: we can live to be 100 years old, thanks to science.
Well, perhaps in Northern Europe things are as you describe. In Southern Europe, however, things are exactly the opposite: there is a rise in religion, especially in the Balkans, Turkey, and in the Middle East.
BSG sucks big time. It has a very narrow focus, that of 11 of September of 2001. Star Trek - The Next Generation had a very wide focus, where terrorism was just one episode. Furthermore, BSG is not sci-fi. Just because it shows spaceships and explosions does not make it sci-fi. It's a soap opera disguised as sci-fi.
The original BSG is much more respectable, even if it's much cheesier. The original was simple entertainment for the family; it did not claim to have any connections with reality. And it was even more sci-fi than the new BSG because of its connection to Fon Daineken's 'chariots of the gods' that was so prevalent in the 70s. At least it excited the imagination about Humans having spread to the stars, about ancient civilizations etc. The new BSG does nothing at all from this perspective.
The Be FileSystem that supported journaling, meta-data and 64-bit files was around 10,000 lines of code. It's creator made a comment that "he did not understand how the WinFS filesystem was much larger but with half the capabilities".
If you ever browse the Windows source code (I have, out of curiosity, back then when it was leaked), you'll notice huge kloc numbers. For example, the Microsoft's basic list box control was 11,000 lines of code.
Are all these lines of code needed? it depends. The Microsoft style API is "put everything in one big pile of code and let's hope it works". Win32 is a testament to that. It certainly is not elegant...
The very top of programming language technology, as we speak, is Haskell. You'll understand a lot more the other languages if you learn it, and you will be disappointed by the lameness of the other languages when you go back to them.
I am currently typing this from Windows, but other than games, there is nothing that Linux can't do. I occasionally boot to Linux, must in both systems I usually use the same tools (Firefox, Thunderbird, gcc, etc).
I am not using the command line much. I don't find it fun to use; if there is a GUI way to achieve the task, I prefer that. But KDE and Gnome have come a long way and they are far superior, as window managers, than Windows.
If and ever artificial gravity is discovered, a hell of lot will change regarding our lives.
In the meantime, couldn't a rotating space station be constructed so as that there is some simulated gravity environment on board?
How about taking your armies and navies and restrict them to US space, allowing them to exist only for defensive purposes?
Well, Palestinians did not sign it because the agreement favored the Israelis. The Palestinians have already been forced away from their land.
So, according to your opinion ("might makes right"), the world should be a jungle where the big fish eats the small one, where the strongest one survives.
Well, that's inhuman and unfair.
And you are wrong that border lines are what they are because of 'might made right'. Border lines are what they are now because people got tired of wars, realized that peace is more beneficial...
The 'now' is not important compared to history. When someone had a particular piece of land for thousands of years, he has some rights over that land. And this extends over to other cultural facets, including cultural heritage, names and symbols.
On what basis it will not be right to kick out the USA or Israelis?
A technology that can be invented (unlike those Star Trek fantasies) is a radar to help avoid car collisions. Ever seen bats in a cave? they don't collide, even if they flight really fast and in very confined spaces...so it's doable for the cars, and it will save thousands of lives and lots of money.
In Star Trek, a holodeck contained fabricated matter hold together by force fields and other forces. We don't have the capabilities to manipulate spacetime in that fashion yet. Perhaps they are making a virtual holodeck?
The only reason it is called naive is because the stakes are higher in the international setting. Other than that, the behavior is the same: some people think they deserve more.
If you ignore the past, then things can be considered as you said. But there is a continuous line of terrorist acts from both sides for over 50 years. If you look at it from a historical perspective, the Arabs never had a problem with the Jews, until the British decided to give Arabic land to the Jews to construct their state.
I believe that the Jews have a right to a state where the modern Israel is, but not because of the Bible, because of their historical roots there. But, from the other side, I can not ignore the facts that many Palestinians were driven away from their homes by force initially by British forces, then by Israeli forces.
Let's also not forget that Israelis did terrorist acts when they wanted to force the international community to see their side, 60 years and more back.