"Passive tags (like the one in the passport) can only be read a few inches away and someone with even a basic knowledge of physics knows that the power requirement to maintain an adequate magnetic field increases exponentially with distance."
It is more near to x^3, huge difference. Also, you can get near constant field (a few meters apart) with the right design.
What we are discussing here is if we really need better physics and graphics (the cell won't make a better online experience). Better AI is probably a good thing, but the cell won't also help it that much.
Also, the cell is HARD to program for. VERY HARD. A good programer can make efficient code for it, but any miss can destroy the performance of the hole program. It would be very nice to have optimizing compilers for the platform, and to get libraries that solve the hard parts, but making it easy to write programs for that kind of computer is an open problem of CS for decades (and a kind of holy graal of CS), and I wouldn't hold my breath waitting for Sony to solve it on time to catch the console market.
That one of the very few cases where XML does make sense. If you look better at that , all you can take out of it is syntax sugar, no intrisical complexity (you just replace a mess of tags with a mess of braces). That at the cost of implementing another parser that will often be full of bugs.
"Since developers seem to code about the same number of lines of code/statement per unit time, regardless of language. 10 times as dense means the developers are 10 times as productive. Since programmers are reasonably expensive needing 1/10th as many is a good thing."
Maybe, but writting the program is fast. What is slow is writting a program that works.
Now, How does Javascript helps you to wite code that works at the first try, or maintanable code, or code that is easier to debug? Well, the answer is that without sane objects, a workable type system, some rules that prohibit bad patterns of code, and most of the other things that make Java verbhose Javascript simply doesn't help you.
Brand recognition: Lots of people will know Opera. By word of mounth, lots can buy it.
Market dominance: Opera will start to show up at web statistics. It can now get out of the "nobody uses that" class, and it could be the end of the "your browser is not supported" messages.
Charity: Yep, companies also do that. It is normaly a way of getting free publicity, or fix problems with their image, but they do.
It's free: It doesn't cost Opera anything, since (as you stated) those people wouldn't buy anything from them otherwise. And copying software is free. So, they have nothing to lose... Any possible benefit is a net gain.
A company that goes to the public tell its opinion should not be censored. An independent individual that goes to the public to tell his opinion shouldn't be censored either.
Now, a company that goes to the public covered as an independent individual shouldn't be listened. That is a lie, and there is no point on a newspaper reporting lies.
"Why use SQL express? It's more stable and more flexible than just using ODBC to connect to an Access database file. Plus you can use all other features that you can not use in Access. It's also the defacto standard for Visual Studio 2005 developers so it gets a lot of use now adays in development. It's also far easier to use than installing the clients for Oracle or MySQL and reduces your program's foot print. (1.2MB vs 35 MB)"
Well, SQL express is not the only small foot print database available. Firebird is small (see the embebed version), fast and easy to use on your programs. It is also FOSS (but can be linked to closed source software), so you can port it for any system you are desesperate to use.
Of course, integration with MS development tools is missing.
Web servers nowadays seem to have their bottleneck at memory, then processor, acess to the database server, and only then disk acess. The days of static pages is gone.
"Worse, it seems Microsoft has lowered the collective standards of computing to the point where many people believe OS X and even Linux to be advanced operating systems..."
And yet destroyed any chance we had of developping something better. So, in a sense, MS turned Linux and OS X into advanced systems.
Who still mods this up? This guy is affraid of using GPLed code inhouse because he can`t send it to his customers!!! Not quite inhouse...
Just to clarify. Using GPLed code inhouse is perfectly clear (unless you got problems with patents). You need no metodoly, or legal team, or anything, just use the code. Now, when you want to DISTRIBUTE closed source programs, well, make sure you are selling your own code.
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But I still bet it will work!
That makes perfect sense if the keys aren't stored at the same machine that will decrypt the movie.
No atmosphere == no liquid water.
In fact, no atmosphere == no liquid anything.
"Passive tags (like the one in the passport) can only be read a few inches away and someone with even a basic knowledge of physics knows that the power requirement to maintain an adequate magnetic field increases exponentially with distance."
It is more near to x^3, huge difference. Also, you can get near constant field (a few meters apart) with the right design.
Don't give them ideas...
You sound just like Sony's PR...
What we are discussing here is if we really need better physics and graphics (the cell won't make a better online experience). Better AI is probably a good thing, but the cell won't also help it that much.
Also, the cell is HARD to program for. VERY HARD. A good programer can make efficient code for it, but any miss can destroy the performance of the hole program. It would be very nice to have optimizing compilers for the platform, and to get libraries that solve the hard parts, but making it easy to write programs for that kind of computer is an open problem of CS for decades (and a kind of holy graal of CS), and I wouldn't hold my breath waitting for Sony to solve it on time to catch the console market.
...and sudenly Linux is the new gamers OS.
Librarians have being dealing with 'IT' for much longer than we are. But, yes, they're probably bad at programming computers.
And, about 'enterprise-class'... This site has a very nice definition of it.
s/used/copyed/
Now, since you get it wrog, that ins't EXACTLY what copyright is... And this guy is copying nothing.
XXII century? I wonder if we'll stil have Walmarts by then.
Wow, that is quite a noce sig :) If only it had less than 120 chars...
That one of the very few cases where XML does make sense. If you look better at that , all you can take out of it is syntax sugar, no intrisical complexity (you just replace a mess of tags with a mess of braces). That at the cost of implementing another parser that will often be full of bugs.
Maybe, but writting the program is fast. What is slow is writting a program that works.
Now, How does Javascript helps you to wite code that works at the first try, or maintanable code, or code that is easier to debug? Well, the answer is that without sane objects, a workable type system, some rules that prohibit bad patterns of code, and most of the other things that make Java verbhose Javascript simply doesn't help you.
No, Vista is not Cairo... Vista would be Cairo if MS didn't take everything out of it (again) to actualy make a release.
And deducing the messenger from the message caracterizes as an attack against the message or the messenger?
There is no standard telling how a browser should look.
A company that goes to the public tell its opinion should not be censored. An independent individual that goes to the public to tell his opinion shouldn't be censored either.
Now, a company that goes to the public covered as an independent individual shouldn't be listened. That is a lie, and there is no point on a newspaper reporting lies.
Why just "man bites dog" can be news? Why we can't comment that "man didn't bite dog" when somebody told us that it should happen?
Didn't D&D use d6? Or I must go back to Gurps?
Well, SQL express is not the only small foot print database available. Firebird is small (see the embebed version), fast and easy to use on your programs. It is also FOSS (but can be linked to closed source software), so you can port it for any system you are desesperate to use.
Of course, integration with MS development tools is missing.
Web servers nowadays seem to have their bottleneck at memory, then processor, acess to the database server, and only then disk acess. The days of static pages is gone.
And yet destroyed any chance we had of developping something better. So, in a sense, MS turned Linux and OS X into advanced systems.
Well, the shared secret does not really work. But it's being pushed by the same people that hype QC...
Who still mods this up? This guy is affraid of using GPLed code inhouse because he can`t send it to his customers!!! Not quite inhouse...
Just to clarify. Using GPLed code inhouse is perfectly clear (unless you got problems with patents). You need no metodoly, or legal team, or anything, just use the code. Now, when you want to DISTRIBUTE closed source programs, well, make sure you are selling your own code.