We should not simply and blindly follow Moore's law as a guide to producing CPU's. We are capable of crushing Moore's law, however, CPU companies are not interrested in creating fast computers, they are interested in making a profit. This translates to small increments in CPU speed which they can charge large increments of price for.
Other possibilites such a quantum computing are left to a number of small university lectures to study and conduct research in, small compared to the revenue of the chip companies.
I find useful and often use the Netbeans debugger. The debugger displays an object's encapsulated data in a traversable tree structure. However, sometimes to view some commanly used objects I have to traverse a few levels down the same way every time.
What I'd like to see is a configurable way to visually format an object's contents soley for the purpose of the debugger. Since it is for the debugger then a custom "debugger GUI" for a particular class could access all private fields.
For example, instead of traversing down a tree from a Matrix object into an array of doubles, then trying to figure out where m[9] lies in the matrix, I could write a "debugger GUI" for the Matrix class which would show my oftly used 4x4 matrices as a nice 4x4 table with all elements shown, and even allow me to make in-place modifications on the matrix easily. An ability to go from the visuall representation to the programatic representation of the object, and back, quickly would also be an advantage.
I like your water pond and rubber sheet analogy. Gravity as we see it mostly works like the rubber sheet, put a planet on it and it will funnel the sheet to a kind of point. But what if something was to dissapear from space time? Would it be like plonking a pebble into a pond? Would there be ripples of gravity waves created that moves everything around it to and fro?
Does anyone know of a law or a particular case where *not* violating human rights is illegal? It would be interesting if this existed, because it could be possible under that new free software license, to write free software which is illegal because it neglects to violate human rights.
Sorry about this slightly philosophical, but very geeky post:)
When you download a demo, there is usually an option that asks you to "select software you already use", which lists some common 3D packages. These lists are usually a great starting point to see what's out there.
But despite detailed searches no one has yet found any Trojan objects near the Earth.
"The Greeks built an immense wooden horse and Odysseus, Menelaus, and other warriors hid inside it. After leaving the horse at the gates of Troy, the Greek army sailed away. The Trojans thought the Greeks had given up and had left the horse as a gift."
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We should not simply and blindly follow Moore's law as a guide to producing CPU's. We are capable of crushing Moore's law, however, CPU companies are not interrested in creating fast computers, they are interested in making a profit. This translates to small increments in CPU speed which they can charge large increments of price for.
Other possibilites such a quantum computing are left to a number of small university lectures to study and conduct research in, small compared to the revenue of the chip companies.
If you've got a Honda, here's the place to visit for tinkering: www.hondata.com.
They should've used gimp.
Does anyone know if this invalidates the Alcubierre drive?
s /abstracts/miguel94a.html
http://www.astro.cf.ac.uk/groups/relativity/paper
I find useful and often use the Netbeans debugger. The debugger displays an object's encapsulated data in a traversable tree structure. However, sometimes to view some commanly used objects I have to traverse a few levels down the same way every time.
What I'd like to see is a configurable way to visually format an object's contents soley for the purpose of the debugger. Since it is for the debugger then a custom "debugger GUI" for a particular class could access all private fields.
For example, instead of traversing down a tree from a Matrix object into an array of doubles, then trying to figure out where m[9] lies in the matrix, I could write a "debugger GUI" for the Matrix class which would show my oftly used 4x4 matrices as a nice 4x4 table with all elements shown, and even allow me to make in-place modifications on the matrix easily. An ability to go from the visuall representation to the programatic representation of the object, and back, quickly would also be an advantage.
Galaxy collision simulations treat the speed of gravity as instantaneous. Looks like a few astronomers have some more papers to publish.
I like your water pond and rubber sheet analogy. Gravity as we see it mostly works like the rubber sheet, put a planet on it and it will funnel the sheet to a kind of point. But what if something was to dissapear from space time? Would it be like plonking a pebble into a pond? Would there be ripples of gravity waves created that moves everything around it to and fro?
will finish the entire works of Shakespeare.
My elven mage was once slain, backstabbed by a greedy little halfling theif.
Does anyone know of a law or a particular case where *not* violating human rights is illegal? It would be interesting if this existed, because it could be possible under that new free software license, to write free software which is illegal because it neglects to violate human rights. :)
Sorry about this slightly philosophical, but very geeky post
Ah, and don't forget the twinkies :)
Once I was involved in a team project where a printable whiteboard did wonders.
The human and the computer.
The invention of pencil and paper.
Probably the biggest improvement is due to the creation of software processes, whether it is the legacy waterfall or the latest XP.
This gives a new meaning to bowel endoscopy.
"Captain planet, he's our hero..."
When you download a demo, there is usually an option that asks you to "select software you already use", which lists some common 3D packages. These lists are usually a great starting point to see what's out there.
"it could be nudged into a permanent Earth orbit where it could be studied at greater length."
"The Greeks built an immense wooden horse and Odysseus, Menelaus, and other warriors hid inside it. After leaving the horse at the gates of Troy, the Greek army sailed away. The Trojans thought the Greeks had given up and had left the horse as a gift."