Try reading more about the Korean War. It was basically the start of WWIII but it never went outside the boundaries of the Korean Peninsula precisely because of nuclear weapons. Back then there were no integrated circuits.
Yes and in the XIXth century Malthus calculated the Earth's population would have imploded because food production couldn't cope. The problem with models is that they may or may not reflect reality.
These "missiles" seem to be air-to-air defense radars and components. For SA-2 Guideline air defense missiles of all things. Not exactly new technology.
Actually the reality is that nuclear power is economic over the entire lifetime of a plant, nearly as cheap as coal, and works just fine without particulate emissions.
Solar power will eventually be interesting enough for grid generation but for now it remains too expensive. Not to mention that these technologies have issues regarding availability. As for storage there have been a lot of people working on it but it neither comes cheap, nor does it come without losses.
Conservation only works when you actually have generated energy to conserve.
If someone else managed to do his job better than him it would be trivial to do a fork. That this has not happened is a testament that his way doing things works. Simple as that. So what if he is verbally abusive.
What I did manage to grasp from his talk is that the basic X design which he claims is terrible has remained for the most part while their fantastic new designs for things like XInput keep getting obsoleted one after the other. That he does not like the fact that X11 has a lot of extensions so his answer is to rewrite it. What will eventually happen if he ever has success is Wayland will get a lot of cruft as well.
I also noticed he gave no demos of Wayland at all. He isn't even eating his own dogfood. At least the original X designers actually created it to solve a problem they had and they actually used it.
His model of doing everything using pixmaps is also probably going to be a problem if displays keep going to higher resolutions as is happening recently. In that case you may spend a lot less bandwidth sending draw calls rather than the pixmaps.
I also disagree about the claim that VNC is good enough.
Iraq had nothing to do with the attacks. The PNAC supported two simultaneous wars before W was elected president. One in Iraq to control Middle Eastern oil production, another in North Korea in an attempt to gain more mindshare in that region and ensure Korea remained nuclear weapons free.
They just used the attacks as an excuse to be able to railroad the Iraqi invasion earlier. I am kind of surprised so many idiots just accepted their blatant lies at face value. I guess Goering was right after all. You just need to cook up some imaginary phantoms and denounce peaceniks as collaborating with the enemy and unpatriotic and you get your people behind a war of aggression regardless if you are in a democracy or not.
As for Afghanistan that was a legitimate response IMO since the Taliban basically trained the perpetrators and were covering for Bin Laden. While Bin Laden was not directly in charge of that particular operation he was the leader of the organization behind those attacks and many others.
Actually what did happen with netbooks is that Microsoft started twisting the vendors arms. First to bundle Windows XP with them then Windows 7. They increased software licensing costs for the vendors significantly. They also forced a mandatory list of requirements including hard disk drives with 100s of GB of capacity. This basically killed any cost advantage netbooks had. Once you had Core 2 Duo laptops costing about the same price as a netbook who in their right mind would buy one? Not to mention that Windows did not run at an adequate performance on that kind of hardware unlike the earlier Linux based netbooks.
I used to play with TTL chips and breadboards to make circuits out of gates. The thing is at the levels of integration used today you are not going to be able to build even the I/O chips by yourself. The best you can hope is to program an FPGA into doing what you want.
I don't know what you are talking about. I assembled a new computer just last year. It is far less challenging than it used to be since today most things are integrated on the motherboard. But at least I can still have my choice of graphics card, CPU, RAM, disk, etc.
Surely you jest. iOS is based on MacOS X which is based on NEXTStep. NEXTStep had solved the problem of a resolution independent GUI back in the late 80s using Display Postscript. MacOS X has Quartz to do basically the same thing. That Apple chose to drop that from iOS is their own problem. Google knew better than that.
There is this thing called emulation you can use to test how the application will look like in most platforms. For the rest you can just process user complaints. I guess you never did Windows development.
Yeah. I would also like to have more Metrosexual Windows 8 touchy feel apps. However the market only has crappy applications developed for keyboard and mouse Windows 7. The horror!
Yep. For example I cannot play 720p MPEG-4 AVC video properly with the bundled video player in Android Gingerbread which came with my Galaxy Tab. The playback stutters. However the video plays just fine using MX Player which comes with its own native binary codec.
Yes mobile phone users are fickle and user retention historically has been pretty low. While this is bound to change with the entry into service of electronic application stores and the ilk, most of the time users don't spend that money on applications. I know I don't.
If their market share on the PC market is any indication Apple will eventually only have 10-20% of the smartphone market.
I have always upgraded my PC every 3-4 years. I prefer to wait until the next iteration of architecture and Moore's law happens. That takes roughly 36 months i.e. 3 years. Before I had a PC my machines lasted a lot longer. My Amiga computer lasted for like 5 years or something.
You can do browsing and video fine with a tablet computer. The main issue is when you want to do productive input intensive tasks. Or tasks which previously required a workstation. I doubt workstation like computers will ever go away. Quite often people want to have the same performance they have on a server on a desktop in order to be able to program for those platforms. They may get more expensive however.
Uh no. Plenty of people wrote CGIs in C back in the 90s. That is the easiest way for a C application to interface with the web. If you want even better performance you can use FastCGI which is supported by web servers like lighthttpd.
We do not commonly use C today for web programming for other reasons.
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Try reading more about the Korean War. It was basically the start of WWIII but it never went outside the boundaries of the Korean Peninsula precisely because of nuclear weapons. Back then there were no integrated circuits.
The Spanish Civil War is one big example but there are more.
Yes and in the XIXth century Malthus calculated the Earth's population would have imploded because food production couldn't cope. The problem with models is that they may or may not reflect reality.
These "missiles" seem to be air-to-air defense radars and components. For SA-2 Guideline air defense missiles of all things. Not exactly new technology.
Actually the reality is that nuclear power is economic over the entire lifetime of a plant, nearly as cheap as coal, and works just fine without particulate emissions.
Solar power will eventually be interesting enough for grid generation but for now it remains too expensive. Not to mention that these technologies have issues regarding availability. As for storage there have been a lot of people working on it but it neither comes cheap, nor does it come without losses.
Conservation only works when you actually have generated energy to conserve.
If someone else managed to do his job better than him it would be trivial to do a fork. That this has not happened is a testament that his way doing things works. Simple as that. So what if he is verbally abusive.
Even better. Use /dev/random instead of /dev/zero. Good luck to anyone trying to recover that data.
What I did manage to grasp from his talk is that the basic X design which he claims is terrible has remained for the most part while their fantastic new designs for things like XInput keep getting obsoleted one after the other. That he does not like the fact that X11 has a lot of extensions so his answer is to rewrite it. What will eventually happen if he ever has success is Wayland will get a lot of cruft as well.
I also noticed he gave no demos of Wayland at all. He isn't even eating his own dogfood. At least the original X designers actually created it to solve a problem they had and they actually used it.
His model of doing everything using pixmaps is also probably going to be a problem if displays keep going to higher resolutions as is happening recently. In that case you may spend a lot less bandwidth sending draw calls rather than the pixmaps.
I also disagree about the claim that VNC is good enough.
Iraq had nothing to do with the attacks. The PNAC supported two simultaneous wars before W was elected president. One in Iraq to control Middle Eastern oil production, another in North Korea in an attempt to gain more mindshare in that region and ensure Korea remained nuclear weapons free.
They just used the attacks as an excuse to be able to railroad the Iraqi invasion earlier. I am kind of surprised so many idiots just accepted their blatant lies at face value. I guess Goering was right after all. You just need to cook up some imaginary phantoms and denounce peaceniks as collaborating with the enemy and unpatriotic and you get your people behind a war of aggression regardless if you are in a democracy or not.
As for Afghanistan that was a legitimate response IMO since the Taliban basically trained the perpetrators and were covering for Bin Laden. While Bin Laden was not directly in charge of that particular operation he was the leader of the organization behind those attacks and many others.
Actually what did happen with netbooks is that Microsoft started twisting the vendors arms. First to bundle Windows XP with them then Windows 7. They increased software licensing costs for the vendors significantly. They also forced a mandatory list of requirements including hard disk drives with 100s of GB of capacity. This basically killed any cost advantage netbooks had. Once you had Core 2 Duo laptops costing about the same price as a netbook who in their right mind would buy one? Not to mention that Windows did not run at an adequate performance on that kind of hardware unlike the earlier Linux based netbooks.
I used to play with TTL chips and breadboards to make circuits out of gates. The thing is at the levels of integration used today you are not going to be able to build even the I/O chips by yourself. The best you can hope is to program an FPGA into doing what you want.
I don't know what you are talking about. I assembled a new computer just last year. It is far less challenging than it used to be since today most things are integrated on the motherboard. But at least I can still have my choice of graphics card, CPU, RAM, disk, etc.
Surely you jest. iOS is based on MacOS X which is based on NEXTStep. NEXTStep had solved the problem of a resolution independent GUI back in the late 80s using Display Postscript. MacOS X has Quartz to do basically the same thing. That Apple chose to drop that from iOS is their own problem. Google knew better than that.
There is this thing called emulation you can use to test how the application will look like in most platforms. For the rest you can just process user complaints. I guess you never did Windows development.
Yeah. I would also like to have more Metrosexual Windows 8 touchy feel apps. However the market only has crappy applications developed for keyboard and mouse Windows 7. The horror!
Yep. For example I cannot play 720p MPEG-4 AVC video properly with the bundled video player in Android Gingerbread which came with my Galaxy Tab. The playback stutters. However the video plays just fine using MX Player which comes with its own native binary codec.
Yes mobile phone users are fickle and user retention historically has been pretty low. While this is bound to change with the entry into service of electronic application stores and the ilk, most of the time users don't spend that money on applications. I know I don't.
If their market share on the PC market is any indication Apple will eventually only have 10-20% of the smartphone market.
Micron level tolerances and Chinese hand assembly of components don't mix.
The main issue is the unibody construction which requires expensive machine tools.
Actually the fun thing is that a ball point pen works just fine in space.
I have always upgraded my PC every 3-4 years. I prefer to wait until the next iteration of architecture and Moore's law happens. That takes roughly 36 months i.e. 3 years. Before I had a PC my machines lasted a lot longer. My Amiga computer lasted for like 5 years or something.
You can do browsing and video fine with a tablet computer. The main issue is when you want to do productive input intensive tasks. Or tasks which previously required a workstation. I doubt workstation like computers will ever go away. Quite often people want to have the same performance they have on a server on a desktop in order to be able to program for those platforms. They may get more expensive however.
Experience with HUDs in fighter aircraft disproves this.
Uh no. Plenty of people wrote CGIs in C back in the 90s. That is the easiest way for a C application to interface with the web. If you want even better performance you can use FastCGI which is supported by web servers like lighthttpd.
We do not commonly use C today for web programming for other reasons.
Oh and Sun open sourced Java so no one is stopping you from continuing development if Oracle gave up on it anyway.
IBM also makes their own compilers and VM there are others. No one forces you to use Oracle's implementation.
I am kind of partial to Systemagic myself.