It's not really Java though, at least not when it's being run on the phone. The Android VM is very well done and specifically tweaked (from the design and onwards) to be suitable for embedded devices, even moreso than J2Me... The SDK includes an optimizing JVM to Android VM translator, so performance shouldn't be much of an issue, while at the same time you don't have to worry about writing/porting code to a variety of different architectures.
Not to mention, you could probably compile other code to run on the Android VM, much like NestedVM does for C on the JVM...
What a load of rubbish, the black boxen are ClearCube "Digital Fiber C/Port" thin terminals connected to a workstation somewhere in a cabinet, if you were to swap them around you'd have the computer connected to the top-secret network on the other side of your desk.
It's not like if you did that packets would magically leak out and allow Chinese hackers to read their e-mails...
This is quite a neat setup because everything can be stored away, centrally managed and physically secured from a single location.
FUCK the middle men who gain most and give little for all the artists hard work, FUCK their rights after creating a monopoly where only they can make big bucks with a large audience. Any kind of industry representative group protecting their copyrights while screwing the artists rights is obviously "harassment".
It's so funny seeing large corporations trying to prevent people from ripping them off. Screw you, loosers! (I don't know what to say about this sentance..). Stop "harassing" me for taking objection to your treatment of the very people who make you profitable.
(I have no expectations of how this post will be modded).
Have you looked at the efforts of the Minix 3 operating system? It's a true microkernel where most drivers run outside of ring0 with limited access to hardware and/or the kernel.
Not just that, but it has stuff in place to severely limit the impact of a rogue driver and can restart dead or dying drivers, not to mention it embraces message passing with interrupts being passed to the driver as low-latency messages.
Other operating systems like QNX implement things in a similar way, although QNX also has guranteed near realtime scheduling and resource allocation allowing the whole system to be partitioned from the development stage.
We were recently required to explicitly keep something like 6 months worth of call data records (although we keep many years worth already due to customer requirements) so that wasn't such an issue.
However, if ISPs (and universities or other large organisations) were suddenly required to keep track of all IP allocations for 6 months or more it'd cost a bucket load to implement.
The point with these "enviro" bags are that their robust and can be used for months or even years, compare that to how many disposable plastic bags you would use in that time period...
In my local supermarket they offer cloth bags for around £2 and will replace them for free, the bags are biodegradable and will mulch quite happily in compost. Sure if the bags they're offering as alternatives really aren't that green then you should still consider my first argument, their use of flimsy bags are subtle hints for you to use something less disposable that'll last longer.
What still gets me is the irony of trying to cut down on plastic bags while still heavily packing all the stuff you buy in large amounts of cardboard & plastics.
The worst examples I've seen have been videos of a lecture/speech, and while the main speaker has a microphone it also picks up sound from around the auditorium or lecture hall.
Normally this is fine as we have all become accustomed to faint background noise, with this extreme compression the faintest cough or shuffling in the audience sounds is as loud as the person speaking and is thus very distracting.
Considering most of the lectures I view are 30+ minutes long this really pisses me off.
It sounds like they've hired a DBA to keep as many customers as possible running smoothly on a single mysql instance, and considering a lot of customers just run off the shelf software and may not be competent enough to follow tuning suggestions - then it seems like that's a good thing to do.
As long as it's all agreed to when signing up, then there's no real problem; when it's a paragraph in the middle of a large TOS at 7pt font then it's just sneaky - but legal.
I'm currently developing Windows apps without actually having to "use" windows to get my work done. Yup the beauty of cross compiling with MinGW and testing on the Windows XP machine I have hidden in the corner.
I think I've actually gotten better at writing code, because I have to read/check more and make sure that I think it works before testing.
It takes a lot of preparation for them to reach this point and file proceedings, consider:
* exec hears about it, if it were Microsoft chairs would be thrown
* passed to the legal team to see if Apple have a case
* legal sign off
* paralegals do the groundwork, scrutinizing the EULA etc.
*...
*...
* case is filed in court?
In the past I've tried bringing legal action for trademark infringement, and the whole process just to get things started can take months and months especially if you're in a large organization with N-layers of forms & approvals required for anything like this.
While Microsoft have long since dropped Power support from their desktop & server lines, the stripped down 2K/XP kernel for the Xbox360 runs on a multi-core PowerPC chip. Considering Windows 2003 & 2008 Server both support NUMA to some extent it could well be possible.
Think about it... 64 processors with 8 cores each, you could run Vista AND Word at the same time!!!!!
Although it doesn't necessarily need to be in ram all at the same time, it could be mapped from ROM or other storage, presuming a 32bit address space you could "use" ~162,688,160 lines of code.
As a non-american I think Obama is running the middle ground, moderate leaning towards conservative at times with Ron Paul etc. on the moderate to liberal libertarian side, which is a direct contrast to McCain who's very much a stern conservative capitalist.
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For kicks I recently setup Oracle 7 on a spare box running XP, considering it was originally ported to NT 3.51 it's working surprisingly well for a 13 year old piece of software. As long as you stick to core stuff, the NT lineage is amazingly backwards compatible.
Still, compare this to UNIX software - which may not be binary compatible (being rooted in minicomputer culture), but on a number of occasions I've compiled 20-25 year old applications with only a few very minor changes to account for GCC's bitching.
So whats the new approach for future? Give us the source code and we'll figure it out:)
My mother wasn't so fortunate; I do wonder though if she'd been diagnosed 5 years later if she would've survived. The first round of chemotherapy didn't quite work, during the second she told me "fuck it I cant take it anymore" and passed a few days after:(
Anything less intensive, painful and stressful than chemotherapy is a good thing IMO, even if this new method isn't too effective on aggressive cancers there's still hope that it can be applied for more general cases and help people live normal lives instead of being stereotypical "cancer patients".
The temperature difference can be easily solved by storing the urine sample in a bag and uh... inserting it somewhere that's the same temperature as your body for a few hours...
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It's not really Java though, at least not when it's being run on the phone. The Android VM is very well done and specifically tweaked (from the design and onwards) to be suitable for embedded devices, even moreso than J2Me...
The SDK includes an optimizing JVM to Android VM translator, so performance shouldn't be much of an issue, while at the same time you don't have to worry about writing/porting code to a variety of different architectures.
Not to mention, you could probably compile other code to run on the Android VM, much like NestedVM does for C on the JVM...
They're dumb terminals and have no switching capability...
Yes, leave some of those monies for poor little phishers and hacking groups like us :)
What a load of rubbish, the black boxen are ClearCube "Digital Fiber C/Port" thin terminals connected to a workstation somewhere in a cabinet, if you were to swap them around you'd have the computer connected to the top-secret network on the other side of your desk.
It's not like if you did that packets would magically leak out and allow Chinese hackers to read their e-mails...
This is quite a neat setup because everything can be stored away, centrally managed and physically secured from a single location.
Hrm, I should try that, after a series of unfortunate events I'm now unemployed and thinking of signing on for benefits.
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Or as a non-sarcastic post:
FUCK the middle men who gain most and give little for all the artists hard work, FUCK their rights after creating a monopoly where only they can make big bucks with a large audience. Any kind of industry representative group protecting their copyrights while screwing the artists rights is obviously "harassment".
It's so funny seeing large corporations trying to prevent people from ripping them off. Screw you, loosers! (I don't know what to say about this sentance..). Stop "harassing" me for taking objection to your treatment of the very people who make you profitable.
(I have no expectations of how this post will be modded).
Have you looked at the efforts of the Minix 3 operating system? It's a true microkernel where most drivers run outside of ring0 with limited access to hardware and/or the kernel.
Not just that, but it has stuff in place to severely limit the impact of a rogue driver and can restart dead or dying drivers, not to mention it embraces message passing with interrupts being passed to the driver as low-latency messages.
Other operating systems like QNX implement things in a similar way, although QNX also has guranteed near realtime scheduling and resource allocation allowing the whole system to be partitioned from the development stage.
Is that 4oz in weight or 4oz in volume?
How long until it makes law?
We were recently required to explicitly keep something like 6 months worth of call data records (although we keep many years worth already due to customer requirements) so that wasn't such an issue.
However, if ISPs (and universities or other large organisations) were suddenly required to keep track of all IP allocations for 6 months or more it'd cost a bucket load to implement.
The point with these "enviro" bags are that their robust and can be used for months or even years, compare that to how many disposable plastic bags you would use in that time period...
In my local supermarket they offer cloth bags for around £2 and will replace them for free, the bags are biodegradable and will mulch quite happily in compost. Sure if the bags they're offering as alternatives really aren't that green then you should still consider my first argument, their use of flimsy bags are subtle hints for you to use something less disposable that'll last longer.
What still gets me is the irony of trying to cut down on plastic bags while still heavily packing all the stuff you buy in large amounts of cardboard & plastics.
I believe it's called the "Brain" and has prior art (in every mammal and most advanced animals) dating back many millions of years.
Although if you could stretch the definition of fabric to say.. silicone you've pretty much patented every IC on the planet.
The worst examples I've seen have been videos of a lecture/speech, and while the main speaker has a microphone it also picks up sound from around the auditorium or lecture hall.
Normally this is fine as we have all become accustomed to faint background noise, with this extreme compression the faintest cough or shuffling in the audience sounds is as loud as the person speaking and is thus very distracting.
Considering most of the lectures I view are 30+ minutes long this really pisses me off.
It sounds like they've hired a DBA to keep as many customers as possible running smoothly on a single mysql instance, and considering a lot of customers just run off the shelf software and may not be competent enough to follow tuning suggestions - then it seems like that's a good thing to do.
As long as it's all agreed to when signing up, then there's no real problem; when it's a paragraph in the middle of a large TOS at 7pt font then it's just sneaky - but legal.
Or even a light snow can disrupt underground services (don't ask me how... I've just heard the service announcements)
Uh, it's a ploy on the word Pundit (meaning .. of expert opinion) but related to the IT industry, which works quite well IMO.
Your other suggestions just seem foolish and misunderstanding.
I'm currently developing Windows apps without actually having to "use" windows to get my work done. Yup the beauty of cross compiling with MinGW and testing on the Windows XP machine I have hidden in the corner.
I think I've actually gotten better at writing code, because I have to read/check more and make sure that I think it works before testing.
It takes a lot of preparation for them to reach this point and file proceedings, consider:
* exec hears about it, if it were Microsoft chairs would be thrown ... ...
* passed to the legal team to see if Apple have a case
* legal sign off
* paralegals do the groundwork, scrutinizing the EULA etc.
*
*
* case is filed in court?
In the past I've tried bringing legal action for trademark infringement, and the whole process just to get things started can take months and months especially if you're in a large organization with N-layers of forms & approvals required for anything like this.
While Microsoft have long since dropped Power support from their desktop & server lines, the stripped down 2K/XP kernel for the Xbox360 runs on a multi-core PowerPC chip. Considering Windows 2003 & 2008 Server both support NUMA to some extent it could well be possible.
Think about it... 64 processors with 8 cores each, you could run Vista AND Word at the same time!!!!!
Although it doesn't necessarily need to be in ram all at the same time, it could be mapped from ROM or other storage, presuming a 32bit address space you could "use" ~162,688,160 lines of code.
These numbers are complete bullshit of course :)
Compare that to my peak usage of ~300+gb a month a few times a year... and this is all on a basic 20mbit cable connection...
McCain leans "moderate to liberal" ?
As a non-american I think Obama is running the middle ground, moderate leaning towards conservative at times with Ron Paul etc. on the moderate to liberal libertarian side, which is a direct contrast to McCain who's very much a stern conservative capitalist.
For kicks I recently setup Oracle 7 on a spare box running XP, considering it was originally ported to NT 3.51 it's working surprisingly well for a 13 year old piece of software. As long as you stick to core stuff, the NT lineage is amazingly backwards compatible.
Still, compare this to UNIX software - which may not be binary compatible (being rooted in minicomputer culture), but on a number of occasions I've compiled 20-25 year old applications with only a few very minor changes to account for GCC's bitching.
So whats the new approach for future? Give us the source code and we'll figure it out :)
My mother wasn't so fortunate; I do wonder though if she'd been diagnosed 5 years later if she would've survived. The first round of chemotherapy didn't quite work, during the second she told me "fuck it I cant take it anymore" and passed a few days after :(
Anything less intensive, painful and stressful than chemotherapy is a good thing IMO, even if this new method isn't too effective on aggressive cancers there's still hope that it can be applied for more general cases and help people live normal lives instead of being stereotypical "cancer patients".
The temperature difference can be easily solved by storing the urine sample in a bag and uh... inserting it somewhere that's the same temperature as your body for a few hours...