Yeah, Sun has been known to do it before. Went from Java 1.4 to Java 5 but it still had 1.5 all over the place. Same with 1.6 / 6.
Can't be as bad as Python though. Went from 2.6 to 3000.
I use rockbox on my 5th gen Video iPod.
It chokes when you scroll through songs too fast. Messes up when your playlist is too long and uses the battery much faster. But even with all of that, I love it because I don't have to use iTunes, and can just drop my music on there.
I haven't heard many good things about Android but I'm sure it would be the same situation with this.
Sun will be bought by HP or Dell before they'd be bought by Google. Java is free, why would Google need to buy the company? To control the direction of Java? It is too late. JavaFX is still horrible and doesn't address any of the issues why applets suck. JavaFX still takes way too long to get loaded.
So let me get this straight -- it's more efficient, has fewer moving parts, has a higher power output, and is cheaper to mass produce? Buy that engineer a beer!
Yeah...right after you have a full scale working prototype.
Can this technology be adapted for use in the hydroelectric industry?
No point in that. This thing (if it works) makes the generator work more efficiently over a wider range of excitation by varying resistance. Hydro generators run optimally at a single point and they can already control that with water flow. The only benefit this thing has is for sources where your input energy varies.
which would take a long time anyway given how small they would be
I heart 5 years. I heard that it starts out so small but grows at some crazy rate such that it would be undetectable for 5 years passing through and orbiting our planet. Then we would have 2 minutes of what feels like an earthquake, then we get sucked into another dimension (after being crushed to death).
I removed any trace of Novell from our department when they signed their patent-pact with Microsoft
Did you also remove any trace of Sun from your department? Sun also has a patent cross-licensing deal with Microsoft.
Come to think of it, did you remove all trace of Microsoft?
One commercial OS having patent deals with another commercial OS is fine with me. It is when they start infecting otherwise free software when I have a problem. We use Solaris, Windows, and Linux where I work.
I am a long time XBMC user. I used it pre-fork when it was called XBMP (xbox media player). I am also a MythTV user.
I would love to see MythTV completely drop the entire frontend and have MythTV be only for backend recording. If you want that old crappy mythfrontend stuff around make it a separate project altogether and let users choose between mythfrontend or XBMC.
One thing I hate about myth's front end is the use of a DB for music or videos. Why can't you browse a NFS share, samba mount, or just a local directory live? You wanna build a DB so you can sort by artist, genre or whatever...fine. Do that, but let me just browse my files.
Seriously...drop the crap, write a good plugin for XBMC and be done with it.
Not trying to knock MythTV. It rocks as a recorder and has an awesome web interface...but thats about it. Playback is pretty lousy.
XBMC is an awesome at everything it does.
Its digital...plug it in, if it works it works if not it doesn't...that simple. The connectors are the same, its just whether or not it can handle the bandwidth.
Here is a good read.
http://www.bluejeanscable.com/articles/belden-hdmi-update.htm
If the signal falls inside of that little window it may get interpreted wrong but there are enough error correcting codes to figure stuff out.
Either way...buy the $5 cable see if it works, if not spend a couple more bucks but not over $100
This article was collapsed for my by default. I clicked on it because it looked interesting but only to find out it was a book review. Had it been labeled as such I wouldn't have had to click on the link. Slashdot apparently isn't "optimized" if they're wasting cycles like these.
Tell me at a single company that a fresh out of college $minority engineer is making less than a white male engineer. They're NOT! That is complete BS.
OK, what about 45 year old $minority engineers? Or (shock!) not engineers at all! Not a fields are technical with "hard" employee statistics for evaluations to be based on.
All I'm saying is that you need to look at things on an individual basis. If there is a company that consistently pays $minority people less than a white male, look into it. I'm saying there are much larger factors at work here (laziness among them) that contribute to the overall average.
If women are making less it might have something to do with them wanting to stay home with their kids and pursuing an hourly job rather than a salary one. Again, its their choice.
And if you wanna complain that $minority with 45 years of experience makes less than a white guy with the same, tough crap, these things take time. Imagine that someone within one lifetime got to see blacks not allowed to vote, to a black guy in the white house. We are making amazing progress. But you can't go retroactively fix all the misses raises that a black guy didn't get over the past 45 years....it will piss people off. I'm all about being paid on ability. When I was a bagger / cashier at a grocery store in high school I was pissed off that the 70 year old retirees were making more than me while I was bagging and scanning more than twice as fast as them. It wasn't that they worked there for 50 years, they started the same day that I did with the same cashiering experience...none. Lets tackle age discrimination, that is real... all this other stuff is not.
Took a look at some of the agenda.... complete BS.
Pay Inequity Continues: For every $1.00 earned by a man, the average woman receives only 77 cents, while African American women only get 67 cents and Latinas receive only 57 cents.
Tell me at a single company that a fresh out of college $minority engineer is making less than a white male engineer. They're NOT! That is complete BS. You can say that there aren't as many $minority engineers or as many $minority doctors as there are white males on average...fine! That becomes a question of education. You can't educate people that don't want it. I live in Florida. Here, if you get a 3.0 average in high school (which is a freaking joke) you get a 75% scolorship to a Florida university. If you get a 3.5 average you get %100. If you ask me, anything less than a 3.0 you're either borderline retarded, illiterate, or don't care and just wanna sell drugs, or be a rapper, or be on welfare. So don't tell me the opportunities aren't out there for education. Don't tell me that "on average" $minority people make less...its their choice.
Put 1 million Plug-In Hybrid cars -- cars that can get up to 150 miles per gallon -- on the road by 2015...
You wanna say 1 million Plug-In Hybrid cars, fine. Don't say 150 miles per gallon. That means nothing on a plug-in. Tell me how many miles per gallon it gets on gas alone and tell me how many miles per kilowatt on the battery side. You can't combine these things. I could buy a Chevy Volt, plug it in, drive 20 miles without the engine ever kicking in. So, if my calculations are correct... 20 / 0 = INFINITE MILES PER GALLON!!!
, cars that we will work to make sure are built here in America.
Here is some more BS. We live in a global economy. If anything has hurt the American auto industry it is the retarded Joe Sixpacks our there that buy GM or Ford because its American. It let our auto makers get complacent and comfortable and look what happened. Foreign car makers are ahead of us in almost every area. People need to buy what is better. When GM or Ford's sales go down, they will need to react. They can't react if you have rednecks buying American just to say they bought American and they can't react when we have an idiot president(-elect) talking about "making sure" these cars are built here. That sounds like a bailout of the auto industry.
Are you saying that I only need to double my development time to get a 3,000% increase in user base!?!? Where can I find this GTK+/Qt?...I want to start using them today!
For my purpose, Cocoa applications relying on Core Data seem to be the best way to get the job done quickly. While I have some programming experience
Why don't you either get more than "some" programming experience or stop making decisions on the framework / platform. This kind of crap happens all the time when non-technical people make high level decisions on language, framework, or platform.
And if you want it open-source why are you tying it to a particular OS?
If you use QT, or GTK, or WX you can still have it on OSX as well as others.
My entire state is a constitution-free zone as defined by the aclu
I saw it somewhere before (probably on a sig here on slashdot)... the root password to the constitution is terrorism.
probably too late for anyone to see this post, but does anyone else notice the little re, green, and blue things flashing very quickly all over any video on that site? Possibly so that if anyone ever finds a way to rip the videos off there they'll be able to tie it back to a particular IP.
definitely not accelerated. Just because you can run tux racer doesn't mean that it is accelerated.
My point is that the same thing will happen on mobile devices. You won't be able to take advantage of hardware that is there unless you have the phone maker's blessing.
Let me know when they have graphics drivers written for Linux on the Xbox.
I ran Linux on my xbox for several years but never did anything graphical...it was pointless. I just ran a game server (bf1942).
The most useful thing you can do with the Xbox is run XBMC which is built using illegally acquired XDKs. The hardware can't handle high def sources, but the hardware on the 360 could, and now XBMC is ported to Linux....so where is the Linux on the 360?
And before you talk about Linux on the PS3 let me just say that it is broken too and the only reason you can run it on there is because Sony let you.
We need to port this thing to all kinds of devices
An open source platform for mobile phones isn't any good at all if there isn't a open hardware platform to run it on. Good luck modifying android and running it on your shiny new phone, tmobile wouldn't let you.
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OMG, is that what WTF stands for? I had no idea lol.
Completely agree. No matter what anyone else says on this thread you know that if Vista was bluescreening on an upgrade it would have made SlashDot.
Yeah, Sun has been known to do it before. Went from Java 1.4 to Java 5 but it still had 1.5 all over the place. Same with 1.6 / 6.
Can't be as bad as Python though. Went from 2.6 to 3000.
I use rockbox on my 5th gen Video iPod. It chokes when you scroll through songs too fast. Messes up when your playlist is too long and uses the battery much faster. But even with all of that, I love it because I don't have to use iTunes, and can just drop my music on there. I haven't heard many good things about Android but I'm sure it would be the same situation with this.
Sun will be bought by HP or Dell before they'd be bought by Google. Java is free, why would Google need to buy the company? To control the direction of Java? It is too late. JavaFX is still horrible and doesn't address any of the issues why applets suck. JavaFX still takes way too long to get loaded.
So let me get this straight -- it's more efficient, has fewer moving parts, has a higher power output, and is cheaper to mass produce? Buy that engineer a beer!
Yeah...right after you have a full scale working prototype.
Can this technology be adapted for use in the hydroelectric industry?
No point in that. This thing (if it works) makes the generator work more efficiently over a wider range of excitation by varying resistance. Hydro generators run optimally at a single point and they can already control that with water flow. The only benefit this thing has is for sources where your input energy varies.
which would take a long time anyway given how small they would be
I heart 5 years. I heard that it starts out so small but grows at some crazy rate such that it would be undetectable for 5 years passing through and orbiting our planet. Then we would have 2 minutes of what feels like an earthquake, then we get sucked into another dimension (after being crushed to death).
Did you also remove any trace of Sun from your department? Sun also has a patent cross-licensing deal with Microsoft.
Come to think of it, did you remove all trace of Microsoft?
One commercial OS having patent deals with another commercial OS is fine with me. It is when they start infecting otherwise free software when I have a problem. We use Solaris, Windows, and Linux where I work.
I am a long time XBMC user. I used it pre-fork when it was called XBMP (xbox media player). I am also a MythTV user.
I would love to see MythTV completely drop the entire frontend and have MythTV be only for backend recording. If you want that old crappy mythfrontend stuff around make it a separate project altogether and let users choose between mythfrontend or XBMC.
One thing I hate about myth's front end is the use of a DB for music or videos. Why can't you browse a NFS share, samba mount, or just a local directory live? You wanna build a DB so you can sort by artist, genre or whatever...fine. Do that, but let me just browse my files.
Seriously...drop the crap, write a good plugin for XBMC and be done with it.
Not trying to knock MythTV. It rocks as a recorder and has an awesome web interface...but thats about it. Playback is pretty lousy. XBMC is an awesome at everything it does.
Its digital...plug it in, if it works it works if not it doesn't...that simple. The connectors are the same, its just whether or not it can handle the bandwidth.
Here is a good read.
http://www.bluejeanscable.com/articles/belden-hdmi-update.htm
If the signal falls inside of that little window it may get interpreted wrong but there are enough error correcting codes to figure stuff out.
Either way...buy the $5 cable see if it works, if not spend a couple more bucks but not over $100
This article was collapsed for my by default. I clicked on it because it looked interesting but only to find out it was a book review. Had it been labeled as such I wouldn't have had to click on the link. Slashdot apparently isn't "optimized" if they're wasting cycles like these.
Tell me at a single company that a fresh out of college $minority engineer is making less than a white male engineer. They're NOT! That is complete BS.
OK, what about 45 year old $minority engineers? Or (shock!) not engineers at all! Not a fields are technical with "hard" employee statistics for evaluations to be based on.
All I'm saying is that you need to look at things on an individual basis. If there is a company that consistently pays $minority people less than a white male, look into it. I'm saying there are much larger factors at work here (laziness among them) that contribute to the overall average.
If women are making less it might have something to do with them wanting to stay home with their kids and pursuing an hourly job rather than a salary one. Again, its their choice.
And if you wanna complain that $minority with 45 years of experience makes less than a white guy with the same, tough crap, these things take time. Imagine that someone within one lifetime got to see blacks not allowed to vote, to a black guy in the white house. We are making amazing progress. But you can't go retroactively fix all the misses raises that a black guy didn't get over the past 45 years....it will piss people off.
I'm all about being paid on ability. When I was a bagger / cashier at a grocery store in high school I was pissed off that the 70 year old retirees were making more than me while I was bagging and scanning more than twice as fast as them. It wasn't that they worked there for 50 years, they started the same day that I did with the same cashiering experience...none. Lets tackle age discrimination, that is real... all this other stuff is not.
Pay Inequity Continues: For every $1.00 earned by a man, the average woman receives only 77 cents, while African American women only get 67 cents and Latinas receive only 57 cents.
Tell me at a single company that a fresh out of college $minority engineer is making less than a white male engineer. They're NOT! That is complete BS. You can say that there aren't as many $minority engineers or as many $minority doctors as there are white males on average...fine! That becomes a question of education. You can't educate people that don't want it. I live in Florida. Here, if you get a 3.0 average in high school (which is a freaking joke) you get a 75% scolorship to a Florida university. If you get a 3.5 average you get %100. If you ask me, anything less than a 3.0 you're either borderline retarded, illiterate, or don't care and just wanna sell drugs, or be a rapper, or be on welfare. So don't tell me the opportunities aren't out there for education. Don't tell me that "on average" $minority people make less...its their choice.
Put 1 million Plug-In Hybrid cars -- cars that can get up to 150 miles per gallon -- on the road by 2015...
You wanna say 1 million Plug-In Hybrid cars, fine. Don't say 150 miles per gallon. That means nothing on a plug-in. Tell me how many miles per gallon it gets on gas alone and tell me how many miles per kilowatt on the battery side. You can't combine these things. I could buy a Chevy Volt, plug it in, drive 20 miles without the engine ever kicking in. So, if my calculations are correct... 20 / 0 = INFINITE MILES PER GALLON!!!
, cars that we will work to make sure are built here in America.
Here is some more BS. We live in a global economy. If anything has hurt the American auto industry it is the retarded Joe Sixpacks our there that buy GM or Ford because its American. It let our auto makers get complacent and comfortable and look what happened. Foreign car makers are ahead of us in almost every area. People need to buy what is better. When GM or Ford's sales go down, they will need to react. They can't react if you have rednecks buying American just to say they bought American and they can't react when we have an idiot president(-elect) talking about "making sure" these cars are built here. That sounds like a bailout of the auto industry.
Are you saying that I only need to double my development time to get a 3,000% increase in user base!?!? Where can I find this GTK+/Qt?...I want to start using them today!
For my purpose, Cocoa applications relying on Core Data seem to be the best way to get the job done quickly. While I have some programming experience
Why don't you either get more than "some" programming experience or stop making decisions on the framework / platform. This kind of crap happens all the time when non-technical people make high level decisions on language, framework, or platform.
And if you want it open-source why are you tying it to a particular OS?
If you use QT, or GTK, or WX you can still have it on OSX as well as others.
My entire state is a constitution-free zone as defined by the aclu
I saw it somewhere before (probably on a sig here on slashdot)... the root password to the constitution is terrorism.
If you're going to triple boot...why not do it on a Dell? That's what I do. I think I have booted into Vista and OSX twice each.
first line of the pdf.... Niels Ferguson Microsoft Corp., niels@microsoft.com
probably too late for anyone to see this post, but does anyone else notice the little re, green, and blue things flashing very quickly all over any video on that site? Possibly so that if anyone ever finds a way to rip the videos off there they'll be able to tie it back to a particular IP.
definitely not accelerated. Just because you can run tux racer doesn't mean that it is accelerated.
My point is that the same thing will happen on mobile devices. You won't be able to take advantage of hardware that is there unless you have the phone maker's blessing.
Let me know when they have graphics drivers written for Linux on the Xbox.
I ran Linux on my xbox for several years but never did anything graphical...it was pointless. I just ran a game server (bf1942).
The most useful thing you can do with the Xbox is run XBMC which is built using illegally acquired XDKs. The hardware can't handle high def sources, but the hardware on the 360 could, and now XBMC is ported to Linux....so where is the Linux on the 360?
And before you talk about Linux on the PS3 let me just say that it is broken too and the only reason you can run it on there is because Sony let you.
We need to port this thing to all kinds of devices
An open source platform for mobile phones isn't any good at all if there isn't a open hardware platform to run it on. Good luck modifying android and running it on your shiny new phone, tmobile wouldn't let you.
port it to the iPhone
anyone happen to know if the driver from fs-driver.org will work with ext4? It works with 2 and 3
Thanks for this informative comment - I haven't had the time to try C/C++ yet, but now I won't bother.
I agree wholeheartedly - having a language let you have the option to use curly braces is fucking stupid.
I'll stick with languages such as Python, which is consistent.