OK, so your post has already been taken over by the point that this experimental feature is not actually locked (and is in the OpenJDK as well).
I've never seen too many people pay Sun for "value-added stuff" unless they actually had to do something for it. Actually, you could even go as far as marking Sun too nice, as they are making few bucks on Java itself. Hopefully Oracle will think Java is too important to take chances with - I would consider this likely since they are pretty big players in the Java camp and are likely to loose an important foothold when Java fails.
Since when is Slashdot or Engadget common use? These are nerd sites that keep us in touch with new technology. Now if they would have used those terms in a know-nothing-of-technology newspaper, fine. But for a technology oriented site it's pretty lame to mix these terms up. This article was specifically about this technology, nonetheless!
One does not need any energy to be functional, only a refresh now and then. The other one can probably run at quite a few hertz, making scrolling and moving pictures a possibility. One is using normal color absorption and refraction. The other on uses absorption and reflection. One has clearly a glassy look to it, the other one looks like real paper. One can be used with back-lighting and may be combined with normal LCD, the other not. One may be bend, the other probably not.
Sure, they are both gray scale (not B&W) and use no/little back lighting so both can be used for reading eBooks. But the differences between the two technologies are huge.
As far as I know, e-Ink is a marketing name for a specific piece of technology using colored particles and static electricity. Somehow I'm not so sure that this is the technology used here, it looks more like different ways of handling an LCD than a layer of e-Ink. I would not know how you could make a sheet of e-Ink invisible for the eye, and it seems this is required. The screen in the photo does not look like digital paper either.
My money is on B/W LCD without (significant) back-lighting.
They've already managed to vanish the subs from the original article it seems. Must be the refracted light and sound that completely goes around it. Or have they dived? I think I saw a periscope!
Personally I thought that the name "Bob" did describe the product pretty well. Maybe "Bing" will do so as well. They could even combine the two to keep it bobbing around.
Meh, I don't have to look, because somewhere 20 pages deep it states that this is US or US + Canada (and maybe the 51st state) only. The other few billion people are of course freshly out of luck.
Or am I guessing wrong this time around? I would be utterly amazed if I was.
First of all, you want all the core functionality build in, but what core functionality is depends per user. Try any forum on any important software package and you notice people fighting to get "core features" integrated in a product. For me a good download manager is a must, but I know for sure that my aunt would be lost within the functionality.
Which brings me to the second point. Memory is cheap yes, but if you have more functionality your GUI may take a beating as well. It might do the same when too much extensions are installed, but at least you aren't brought down by options you don't really want. The chances that a base install contains many bugs is also higher if you pack more functionality in the base package.
As for the package managers, yes there is a problem with syncing the install by the system package mgr and the package mgr of the installed software package. The system package mgr should be flexible enough to compensate for that. Linux package managers normally run scripts for installs, and that seems to go alright. The only other option is having a software mono-culture, but that would not be a good idea for OS designed for a PC.
Of course, on my Linux system there are the default installs of Firefox and Eclipse managed by the OS. They are used for basic functionality. For more complete functionality I keep separately installed copies. I do this only for the software I care most about; the others are all configured using the package mgr of the OS.
Finally, and probably most importantly, any module system leaves the developer no choice but to really thing about the architecture of their system. If that's not right, a module system will fail. Thinking in modules has always been a must in software engineering. It lets oodles of people work together without too much interference with each other. Plugins and extensions are just module systems that become visible to the user. Do you really want to have all these plugin developers mess with the core components and deadlines of [insert your favorite major software package]?
Glad you are still around, and good of you to chime in. It's very important to know that this is not just one standalone case. Out of second hand experience, I know that this kind of trouble is the last thing you need when traveling. My parents did quite a lot of traveling when they were sick with cancer even though it was sometimes pretty hard. In their (and my) opinion, it's better to take a chance and make your life worthwhile.
That said, there's no need to make that (even) harder than it should be. Countries with these kind of restrictions or bad health care (or both) are easy to remove from the list of holiday destinations, unless - as with this case - there are additional reasons for visiting that country.
I'm not so sure that people will be impressed. The quality/stability of these poloroid photo's was sketchy at best. You had to wait quite a bit of time for the photo to develop, during which time the photo needed to be handled carefully. The rather loud mechanism and large heavy camera is not going to impress anyone either. The seeker quality of most poloroid camera's would give you a nice hint on what to expect.
Basically the only reason why film camera's may not get extinct is because image manipulation will be (slightly?) harder with an analogue camera using film. The qualitity of current camera's is already good enough and in many cases better than camera's using film. Of course there is likely some oomph left for film camera's in niche markets and nostalgia is as good a reason as any. But polaroid? Good ridance.
Note that this is a plain old text message and that my line ends seem to go missing for some reason.
That's true of course, but a bit too simple. Often these kind of public stories can punish somebody much more than the original sentence, even if there was one. Personally, I know that I've made mistakes in my life (although none too serious). I would not want that each of these results stay online forever. This is however something you'll have to deal with nowadays.
Still, I would like that public institutions would think twice before (re-)publishing stories with names in them. Especially when it is with publications that are not easily verified such as student papers, where the articles have not been written by trained individuals. It might be that even the authors may have problems with that; even though the articles may provide a nice insight in the institution, the writers themselves probably weren't writing articles for the whole world to view. That law student that made a prank article about canabis probably did not want the whole world to browse his comments now that he/she is a full grown judge.
Removing the indexing does seem to be a nice middle ground. And we should train the current students (including those in lower classes) that anything you publish today will be become available forever. There's no such thing as a limited number of copies anymore. Some person will always scan something and put it on the internet, now or later on.
Meh, there's no standard that you cannot drive a Microsoft through. It's not like it is a provable mathematical theorem or such. Basically if you sift through any standard and find loopholes. You need testing to get things going right.
So temporarily use a browser without the Java browser plugin installed for general internet access. And if I'm not mistaken, you'd still have to get to a site that specifically attacks Macs using this vulnerability.
I'm already using different browser instances on different user accounts for browsing as well. Just install Firefox twice and make sure it can use different profiles, it's not that hard, especially if you opt for a mobile version.
Hey, my reply is gone. I'm pretty sure I clicked commit.
The correct question is "why wouldn't you remember all the values". The values can be used as evidence, or other calculations can be based upon them. Only if you seriously run out of memory or if you need to have a possibly infinite amount of tests, then it makes sense to only store the intermediate value.
Optimization is good, but should be used sparingly, and only if needed. Rugged code is more important even if it brings some overhead.
Not possible anymore (for a while now). Look at the credits of any major 3D action game. You are going to do that all on your own? Good luck with that. Maybe you can do an initial version of Wolfenstein (2.5D) on your own, anything requiring more game code and/or graphics is off limits for a single developer.
Yes, but why wouldn't you? It's not like a maximum of 32 test results cannot be saved even if they would be using an "atari" processor. Maybe you need the results for evidence or to do different statistics on them.
Keeping just one number is a nice optimization. But in the end it is probably one that's not needed anyway.
"Also, from what I see, most people hate touchpads - I've NEVER seen touchpad-only laptop without a mouse attached when on its desk/etc. I even witnessed somebody trying to use a mouse on a flat area next to touchpad while sitting on a park bench...ridiculous!"
I've seen a stark increase in touchpad use, probably because they've gotten better. I like the Synaptics touchpad much better than the one on Lenovo (a slightly cheaper one from - err, that other manufacturer). But when I was at a protocol/interop meeting some time ago I saw a strong increase in (ultra-) portable laptops as well as a strong decrease in mouse use.
Then again, most people there were road warriors. None of them would describe themselves as IT-professionals though, most of them are consultants or employed by government.
Personally I would gladly pay a rather large sum for a keyboard where the numeric part was a touchscreen/touchpad/drawing-pad.
I've found out that going from 1275 to 1.10 you can use an ISO image to flash. The windows firmware updater will still remove all data though. I've decided I will buy two to play with in the mean time. I've had a nice bonus from work and this will be a good option of each of my systems (low power server, low power laptop & then maybe my main Linux system - although that one is already plenty fast and is not required to be ultra-quiet).
There is good reason why Java does not do operator overloading. It's much easier for parsers to have few overloading possibilities. But more importantly, operator overloading by class implementors is hardly done right. I've got countless C++ examples I can draw from (starting with the ubiquitous shift operators for streams of course). Also, operators have the nagging side effect that users of the classes will use more of them on a single line, where you would otherwise have one, more easy to understand statement.
Of course the use of a concatenate character instead of + would have been more logical. It would remove confusion with the + sign for single characters. The use for operator overloading for classes that represent some kind of numbering system (BigInteger, BigDecimal etc) might have been useful. But I suppose that that is something for languages that do away completely with basic types.
Meanwhile, some searching of my own did indeed turn up new firmware. The main change is the addition of TRIM functionality though, and it does not seem to have any serious bug fixes. Still:
"The OCZ Vertex SSD series is one of the few on the market that supports consumer firmware updates. Flashing the drive destroys all data on the drive, so this isn't something you want to do often. Just to give you an idea the OCZ Vertex has not had one, but five firmware updates over the past couple months! Since we had to update the Vertex to firmware v1.10 we'll walk you through the process."
does not really add strong confidence that I would never have to flash the drive.
Also, Anandtech also concluded that OCZ could not do any of the hard testing Intel does with their drive.
On the Dutch site tweakers.net there's some discussion on the Vertex drive and stability problems for USERS. This article is dated later than the anandtech article you are posting and specifically tells about a firmware revision to solve stability problems.
See the number of threads mentioning flashing on the OCZ forums as well. I'll send a mail to my retailer to see what version they are shipping though.
Ridiculous? Why? My SL300 is exactly what I was hoping for: - Rugged design (roll cage, liquid proof keyboard, hard disk protection) - 13.3 inch screen, 1280 pixels wide - Relatively long battery life (about 5 hours while working) - Wireless N + Bluetooth build in - Low priced (I payed about 510 euros for the SL300) - Power safe works as advertised, at least under Windows - in Linux it should work fine as well except for display brightness. - Good, responsive and well sized keyboard. - Small, practical power PSU.
OK, the screen is average, the touch-pad could have been a bit better and the FN key is too much to the left hand side, but otherwise it's just perfect for MY needs. Of course, I would not recommend it for a hand-bag, because it is somewhat heavy.
BTW, about nobody likes the trackpoint, but it is a distinguishing feature and it does not bother me either.
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OK, so your post has already been taken over by the point that this experimental feature is not actually locked (and is in the OpenJDK as well).
I've never seen too many people pay Sun for "value-added stuff" unless they actually had to do something for it. Actually, you could even go as far as marking Sun too nice, as they are making few bucks on Java itself. Hopefully Oracle will think Java is too important to take chances with - I would consider this likely since they are pretty big players in the Java camp and are likely to loose an important foothold when Java fails.
Since when is Slashdot or Engadget common use? These are nerd sites that keep us in touch with new technology. Now if they would have used those terms in a know-nothing-of-technology newspaper, fine. But for a technology oriented site it's pretty lame to mix these terms up. This article was specifically about this technology, nonetheless!
One does not need any energy to be functional, only a refresh now and then. The other one can probably run at quite a few hertz, making scrolling and moving pictures a possibility. One is using normal color absorption and refraction. The other on uses absorption and reflection. One has clearly a glassy look to it, the other one looks like real paper. One can be used with back-lighting and may be combined with normal LCD, the other not. One may be bend, the other probably not.
Sure, they are both gray scale (not B&W) and use no/little back lighting so both can be used for reading eBooks. But the differences between the two technologies are huge.
As far as I know, e-Ink is a marketing name for a specific piece of technology using colored particles and static electricity. Somehow I'm not so sure that this is the technology used here, it looks more like different ways of handling an LCD than a layer of e-Ink. I would not know how you could make a sheet of e-Ink invisible for the eye, and it seems this is required. The screen in the photo does not look like digital paper either.
My money is on B/W LCD without (significant) back-lighting.
They've already managed to vanish the subs from the original article it seems. Must be the refracted light and sound that completely goes around it. Or have they dived? I think I saw a periscope!
Maybe they are just hiding from the sharks.
Personally I thought that the name "Bob" did describe the product pretty well. Maybe "Bing" will do so as well. They could even combine the two to keep it bobbing around.
Meh, I don't have to look, because somewhere 20 pages deep it states that this is US or US + Canada (and maybe the 51st state) only. The other few billion people are of course freshly out of luck.
Or am I guessing wrong this time around? I would be utterly amazed if I was.
First of all, you want all the core functionality build in, but what core functionality is depends per user. Try any forum on any important software package and you notice people fighting to get "core features" integrated in a product. For me a good download manager is a must, but I know for sure that my aunt would be lost within the functionality.
Which brings me to the second point. Memory is cheap yes, but if you have more functionality your GUI may take a beating as well. It might do the same when too much extensions are installed, but at least you aren't brought down by options you don't really want. The chances that a base install contains many bugs is also higher if you pack more functionality in the base package.
As for the package managers, yes there is a problem with syncing the install by the system package mgr and the package mgr of the installed software package. The system package mgr should be flexible enough to compensate for that. Linux package managers normally run scripts for installs, and that seems to go alright. The only other option is having a software mono-culture, but that would not be a good idea for OS designed for a PC.
Of course, on my Linux system there are the default installs of Firefox and Eclipse managed by the OS. They are used for basic functionality. For more complete functionality I keep separately installed copies. I do this only for the software I care most about; the others are all configured using the package mgr of the OS.
Finally, and probably most importantly, any module system leaves the developer no choice but to really thing about the architecture of their system. If that's not right, a module system will fail. Thinking in modules has always been a must in software engineering. It lets oodles of people work together without too much interference with each other. Plugins and extensions are just module systems that become visible to the user. Do you really want to have all these plugin developers mess with the core components and deadlines of [insert your favorite major software package]?
Mine too, but I know some people with computers that use brand new atoms. They use a terrible amount of power per atom though.
Glad you are still around, and good of you to chime in. It's very important to know that this is not just one standalone case. Out of second hand experience, I know that this kind of trouble is the last thing you need when traveling. My parents did quite a lot of traveling when they were sick with cancer even though it was sometimes pretty hard. In their (and my) opinion, it's better to take a chance and make your life worthwhile.
That said, there's no need to make that (even) harder than it should be. Countries with these kind of restrictions or bad health care (or both) are easy to remove from the list of holiday destinations, unless - as with this case - there are additional reasons for visiting that country.
I'm not so sure that people will be impressed. The quality/stability of these poloroid photo's was sketchy at best. You had to wait quite a bit of time for the photo to develop, during which time the photo needed to be handled carefully. The rather loud mechanism and large heavy camera is not going to impress anyone either. The seeker quality of most poloroid camera's would give you a nice hint on what to expect.
Basically the only reason why film camera's may not get extinct is because image manipulation will be (slightly?) harder with an analogue camera using film. The qualitity of current camera's is already good enough and in many cases better than camera's using film. Of course there is likely some oomph left for film camera's in niche markets and nostalgia is as good a reason as any. But polaroid? Good ridance.
Note that this is a plain old text message and that my line ends seem to go missing for some reason.
That's true of course, but a bit too simple. Often these kind of public stories can punish somebody much more than the original sentence, even if there was one. Personally, I know that I've made mistakes in my life (although none too serious). I would not want that each of these results stay online forever. This is however something you'll have to deal with nowadays.
Still, I would like that public institutions would think twice before (re-)publishing stories with names in them. Especially when it is with publications that are not easily verified such as student papers, where the articles have not been written by trained individuals. It might be that even the authors may have problems with that; even though the articles may provide a nice insight in the institution, the writers themselves probably weren't writing articles for the whole world to view. That law student that made a prank article about canabis probably did not want the whole world to browse his comments now that he/she is a full grown judge.
Removing the indexing does seem to be a nice middle ground. And we should train the current students (including those in lower classes) that anything you publish today will be become available forever. There's no such thing as a limited number of copies anymore. Some person will always scan something and put it on the internet, now or later on.
Meh, there's no standard that you cannot drive a Microsoft through. It's not like it is a provable mathematical theorem or such. Basically if you sift through any standard and find loopholes. You need testing to get things going right.
So temporarily use a browser without the Java browser plugin installed for general internet access. And if I'm not mistaken, you'd still have to get to a site that specifically attacks Macs using this vulnerability.
I'm already using different browser instances on different user accounts for browsing as well. Just install Firefox twice and make sure it can use different profiles, it's not that hard, especially if you opt for a mobile version.
I thought the "Z-bugger" was quite funny though :)
Then the drive would get famous and you would sell it on ebay, right? Good plan!
Hey, my reply is gone. I'm pretty sure I clicked commit.
The correct question is "why wouldn't you remember all the values". The values can be used as evidence, or other calculations can be based upon them. Only if you seriously run out of memory or if you need to have a possibly infinite amount of tests, then it makes sense to only store the intermediate value.
Optimization is good, but should be used sparingly, and only if needed. Rugged code is more important even if it brings some overhead.
Feel free to chime in guys:
"It's from Gartner, so it is wrong"
Yes, this is a repetition of what I'll always say when talking about a Gartner report. But obviously it hasn't been chanted enough.
Not possible anymore (for a while now). Look at the credits of any major 3D action game. You are going to do that all on your own? Good luck with that. Maybe you can do an initial version of Wolfenstein (2.5D) on your own, anything requiring more game code and/or graphics is off limits for a single developer.
Yes, but why wouldn't you? It's not like a maximum of 32 test results cannot be saved even if they would be using an "atari" processor. Maybe you need the results for evidence or to do different statistics on them.
Keeping just one number is a nice optimization. But in the end it is probably one that's not needed anyway.
"Also, from what I see, most people hate touchpads - I've NEVER seen touchpad-only laptop without a mouse attached when on its desk/etc. I even witnessed somebody trying to use a mouse on a flat area next to touchpad while sitting on a park bench...ridiculous!"
I've seen a stark increase in touchpad use, probably because they've gotten better. I like the Synaptics touchpad much better than the one on Lenovo (a slightly cheaper one from - err, that other manufacturer). But when I was at a protocol/interop meeting some time ago I saw a strong increase in (ultra-) portable laptops as well as a strong decrease in mouse use.
Then again, most people there were road warriors. None of them would describe themselves as IT-professionals though, most of them are consultants or employed by government.
Personally I would gladly pay a rather large sum for a keyboard where the numeric part was a touchscreen/touchpad/drawing-pad.
I've found out that going from 1275 to 1.10 you can use an ISO image to flash. The windows firmware updater will still remove all data though. I've decided I will buy two to play with in the mean time. I've had a nice bonus from work and this will be a good option of each of my systems (low power server, low power laptop & then maybe my main Linux system - although that one is already plenty fast and is not required to be ultra-quiet).
There is good reason why Java does not do operator overloading. It's much easier for parsers to have few overloading possibilities. But more importantly, operator overloading by class implementors is hardly done right. I've got countless C++ examples I can draw from (starting with the ubiquitous shift operators for streams of course). Also, operators have the nagging side effect that users of the classes will use more of them on a single line, where you would otherwise have one, more easy to understand statement.
Of course the use of a concatenate character instead of + would have been more logical. It would remove confusion with the + sign for single characters. The use for operator overloading for classes that represent some kind of numbering system (BigInteger, BigDecimal etc) might have been useful. But I suppose that that is something for languages that do away completely with basic types.
Thanks for posting that.
Meanwhile, some searching of my own did indeed turn up new firmware. The main change is the addition of TRIM functionality though, and it does not seem to have any serious bug fixes. Still:
"The OCZ Vertex SSD series is one of the few on the market that supports consumer firmware updates. Flashing the drive destroys all data on the drive, so this isn't something you want to do often. Just to give you an idea the OCZ Vertex has not had one, but five firmware updates over the past couple months! Since we had to update the Vertex to firmware v1.10 we'll walk you through the process."
does not really add strong confidence that I would never have to flash the drive.
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/954/3/
Also, Anandtech also concluded that OCZ could not do any of the hard testing Intel does with their drive.
On the Dutch site tweakers.net there's some discussion on the Vertex drive and stability problems for USERS. This article is dated later than the anandtech article you are posting and specifically tells about a firmware revision to solve stability problems.
See the number of threads mentioning flashing on the OCZ forums as well. I'll send a mail to my retailer to see what version they are shipping though.
What with their ridiculous SL series
Ridiculous? Why? My SL300 is exactly what I was hoping for:
- Rugged design (roll cage, liquid proof keyboard, hard disk protection)
- 13.3 inch screen, 1280 pixels wide
- Relatively long battery life (about 5 hours while working)
- Wireless N + Bluetooth build in
- Low priced (I payed about 510 euros for the SL300)
- Power safe works as advertised, at least under Windows - in Linux it should work fine as well except for display brightness.
- Good, responsive and well sized keyboard.
- Small, practical power PSU.
OK, the screen is average, the touch-pad could have been a bit better and the FN key is too much to the left hand side, but otherwise it's just perfect for MY needs. Of course, I would not recommend it for a hand-bag, because it is somewhat heavy.
BTW, about nobody likes the trackpoint, but it is a distinguishing feature and it does not bother me either.