Well I blame the slashdot comment system. All I got here is a text box(Which funny enough, is not monospaced) where I can type. I don't know why slashdot would default my posts to a monospaced font.
looks at the option box, wondering if that has the answer. And yes it does: because my posting mode is Code (ARG WHY!). So now I have changed it to plan old text which then deleted the comment I was writing. WFT???
But now my posts don't use a monospace font anymore(Thanks, it did look awfull) and http links are automatic converted to proper links.
Dear Google, please start by making Youtube a platform.
If I want to embed a youtube video on a page optimized to mobile phones, I am fucked. There is for example no way to have youtube show a screenshot of the video, and when the user click it, have it play fullscreen.
But m.youtube.com does it, so it can be done, just as long as you don't want to do it on your own page. (So they have an internal api to do it, but there is no way for me to access it).
And just try to watch this thread: https://groups.google.com/forum/embed/?place=forum/youtube-api-gdata&showsearch=true&showpopout=true&parenturl=http%3A%2F%2Fcode.google.com%2Fapis%2Fyoutube%2Fforum%2Fdiscussion.html#!searchin/youtube-api-gdata/embed$20youtube/youtube-api-gdata/VSk5vQFULts/sddOXH4wXTAJ and look at the response from the youtube team. The best answer is something like: "Use the following hack, which may work. And I can't say if it break the platform agreement, so it might even be allowed..
I wish you would fix your surway system, so it don't crash giving me an: Error 503 Service Unavailable
Service Unavailable Guru Meditation:
XID: 332509647 (Oh And 2 more things which need to be fixed: When increasing font-size with "Text only zoom" The bar to the left overlaps the text of the stories, making them impossible to read.
And I really miss a "Newest commets first, No threads" view mode for when I am comming back to an old story, to see if there are any new comments.
A shame that the benchmarks show that any decent x86 dual-processor box Hp or Dell will beat this box in both price and performance. (But not in power usage)
The thing I don't understand is: If you have code which are multit-hreaded enough to max out a T3, then the T4 will not give you any performance benefit. This is odd, considering how old the T3 is.
How about just buying a webhotel instead of setting up a server? I mean if you just need to run php5.3 and mysql there is really no need to setup your own server.
You are both wrong and right. All objects allocated by Java can be garbadge collected. Including permgen. (See: http://blogs.oracle.com/jonthecollector/entry/presenting_the_permanent_generation)
However this does often not happen because some objects keeps a (Normally static) reference to this class. An example where this often causes problems are with loggers because they often keep an static reference to a class, because they use it when generating debug output.
Removing all references to a class when doing dynamic class loading is not as easy as it sound, and I know that tomcat had huge problems with this in tomcat 5.5 and 6. I had to restart my 6.0 tomcat server used for development due to this problem because I had it configured to auto reload all newly generated classes. But it seems that they fixed that problem with tomcat 7, because I have not seen a PermGen exception since I upgraded.
The design problems mainly have to do with timing of animations.
Since you need support for running over a network, things such as vblank support and anything in general which require knowledge of the update frequence/stats for my screen can't really be done*.
*Except by extensions which don't support network.
But what is the use case for network transparency in a modern setup?
It was original designed so you could log into a powerful graphics workstation/server and do you work on them, and then send the output to your own computer. But nobody does that today because cheep powerful workstations are everywhere.
I have been running Linux for the last 10 years and I have not used the ability to show remote x sessions/windows on my own desktop for the last 5 years. And I can't make up a reason to ever do it again.
It might be useful for remote troubleshooting of desktop systems if you are an admin, but there you need a copy of the output on your system, and not the ability of X to forward a single window.
And since network transparency is seldom used, and causes so many design problems for the graphics system, handling it as a separate application is the best solution. (Like skype, where you can share desktop without any support from the operation system*).
*I newer managed to share my linux desktop with others, but I can se their Windows desktop.
You did not buy it, because the Amazon did not have the right to sell it, and the transaction was reversed.
It is the same situation that happens if I steal a book and then sell it to you. Then the original owner does have the right to take the book from you. Only difference is that because we are talking about bits the take back bit, can happen automatic so they don't have to send the police to pick up the book.
And you would be wrong. There currently don't exists any useless feature in firefox 4. Just because you don't use it does not make it useless or bloated
Maybe not for large companies, but I can easily see a future where most small companies have most of their software and data run by "cloud service"(Or rather Software as a service) companies.
And this will in general be a service which is far more secure, and better backup up then what they currently have.
An example is googles service, where email, calendar, wordprocessor and spreadsheet is located in the cloud. I know some small companies where the everyday workflow depend on all these applications working.
Or take a look at http://www.e-conomic.dk which is a danish cloud based software as a service accounting solution. It can only only be accessed by the browser*. I think that this is the most used accounting** service when talking about small companies.
*Well they also have a Soap api, if you need to integrate with your own software.
This is wierd. The text says: "but the back-story for some of the characters has led to a possible breach of child protection legislation in Sweden."
And "The game will now no longer be available in Sweden, Denmark, or Norway - despite no formal investigation having yet been made".
So they pull the game from Denmark and Norway because it may break the law in Sweden?
Oh and I case you wonder, The legal minimum age for having sex in Denmark is 15 (18 If you have a professional (teacher/Student) relationship) so I really can't see the reason to pull it.
You used to work as a code monkey. Now that you don't have that job anymore, do you ever write code in your free time, or are you happe never to use a compiler again?
ps: Are there any plans for rock band 3 pro mode guitar for some of your existing songs (Please:}
Just because you bought a book don't mean you own it.
Example: If i steal a book, and then sell it to you, then you do not own the book and you would in fact have to return it to the rightful owner, even thou you me paid for it. This is exactly the same thing which happend for Amazon: People bought something which Amazon was not allowed to sell, and thus the book had to be returned. And yes Amazon did handle that case really really bad.
So you are saying he is laying? If "they had to take their entire business offline while they added these backdoors for the government" then he is laying when he is saying that "We have no security problem" and "We have the most secure platform available"
And how did the thing become a question of "national security" (Which is his final argument for ending this thing). I mean the only way to argue national security is if they give their own government access to data.
And complaining about being "singled out" is the same as saying "Yes we give out your data, but so does anyone else so its not fair just complaining that we do it".
It really looked like he ended this way, because had he not done that he would have the choice between saying "Sorry, we have no security" and lying in an way he could not weasel out of later.
Enumerable<String> objectsA = new List<string>() Enumerable<Object> objectsB = objectsA; objectsA.add(42);// Will this give an exception, because the list was allocated as List<String>? String myString=objectsA.get(0);// Or will this cause a class cast exception, trying to convert 42 to a string?
There newer seems to be a good way to handle this, which is why neither Java nor c++ allows it.
But yes java miss a lot of features which c# have, but it seems like they are comming with java7 and 8, which is good for us still developing java. (Except for delegates which still seems to be missing, so writing gui code with that fucked up callback system based on interfaces and unnamed objects is still going to suck).
That would not at all be what Google did. Google have published full documentation of the current version of the spdy protocol. (Its linked on the announcement page, and looks like something which will be given to w3c once its done.
It is however still a draft because the protocol is not finished yet.
The difference is that Microsoft used and modified Suns software and source-code under a specific contract from Sun. Google don't use any code from Sun.
And I did really not cheer when Sun shut it down. What Microsoft did was to identify a real world problem where Java really missed some features(And java still miss this. Writing gui code in java is still painfull due to missing delegates/function pointers).
What sun should have done was to realize that Microsoft did find a giant feature hole in java. So sun should have changed java to add the features which Microsoft needed (And the rest of the gui developing world) missed.
Are you sure? Because according to http://thetechjournal.com/electronics/mobile/undisclosed-and-confidential-partner-docs-of-windows-phone-os-7-exposed.xhtml
"Native apps are restricted to OEMs and mobile operators in order to extend the experience and functionality specific to a phone or network"
The one I read said "[Nokia] will create no more Symbian phones after 2012 ". The slashdot story don't say anything about stopping support for existing phones, and nothing about them stopping existing phones either.
Even the headline "No More Symbian Phones After 2012" got it almost right, even thou you might say that they need the word "new" to clarify.
Slashdot Mirror
Well I blame the slashdot comment system. All I got here is a text box(Which funny enough, is not monospaced) where I can type. I don't know why slashdot would default my posts to a monospaced font.
looks at the option box, wondering if that has the answer. And yes it does: because my posting mode is Code (ARG WHY!). So now I have changed it to plan old text which then deleted the comment I was writing. WFT???
But now my posts don't use a monospace font anymore(Thanks, it did look awfull) and http links are automatic converted to proper links.
Dear Google, please start by making Youtube a platform.
If I want to embed a youtube video on a page optimized to mobile phones, I am fucked. There is for example no way to have youtube show a screenshot of the video, and when the user click it, have it play fullscreen.
But m.youtube.com does it, so it can be done, just as long as you don't want to do it on your own page. (So they have an internal api to do it, but there is no way for me to access it).
And just try to watch this thread: https://groups.google.com/forum/embed/?place=forum/youtube-api-gdata&showsearch=true&showpopout=true&parenturl=http%3A%2F%2Fcode.google.com%2Fapis%2Fyoutube%2Fforum%2Fdiscussion.html#!searchin/youtube-api-gdata/embed$20youtube/youtube-api-gdata/VSk5vQFULts/sddOXH4wXTAJ and look at the response from the youtube team. The best answer is something like: "Use the following hack, which may work. And I can't say if it break the platform agreement, so it might even be allowed..
I wish you would fix your surway system, so it don't crash giving me an :
Error 503 Service Unavailable
Service Unavailable
Guru Meditation:
XID: 332509647
(Oh And 2 more things which need to be fixed: When increasing font-size with "Text only zoom" The bar to the left overlaps the text of the stories, making them impossible to read.
And I really miss a "Newest commets first, No threads" view mode for when I am comming back to an old story, to see if there are any new comments.
What make you think it will be stuck in a walled garden? Does Amazon prevent me from installing my own Android software on it?
A shame that the benchmarks show that any decent x86 dual-processor box Hp or Dell will beat this box in both price and performance. (But not in power usage)
The thing I don't understand is: If you have code which are multit-hreaded enough to max out a T3, then the T4 will not give you any performance benefit. This is odd, considering how old the T3 is.
How about just buying a webhotel instead of setting up a server? I mean if you just need to run php5.3 and mysql there is really no need to setup your own server.
And what does this have to do with arm?
An intel atom chip could give you all that*.
*Within a few wats, but thoose 2 or 3 wats are not the reason such a computer don't exists.
Except that Windows can't boot if you disable secure boot. So dual booting will be really fucked up.
You are both wrong and right. All objects allocated by Java can be garbadge collected. Including permgen. (See: http://blogs.oracle.com/jonthecollector/entry/presenting_the_permanent_generation)
However this does often not happen because some objects keeps a (Normally static) reference to this class. An example where this often causes problems are with loggers because they often keep an static reference to a class, because they use it when generating debug output.
Removing all references to a class when doing dynamic class loading is not as easy as it sound, and I know that tomcat had huge problems with this in tomcat 5.5 and 6. I had to restart my 6.0 tomcat server used for development due to this problem because I had it configured to auto reload all newly generated classes. But it seems that they fixed that problem with tomcat 7, because I have not seen a PermGen exception since I upgraded.
The design problems mainly have to do with timing of animations.
Since you need support for running over a network, things such as vblank support and anything in general which require knowledge of the update frequence/stats for my screen can't really be done*.
*Except by extensions which don't support network.
But what is the use case for network transparency in a modern setup?
It was original designed so you could log into a powerful graphics workstation/server and do you work on them, and then send the output to your own computer. But nobody does that today because cheep powerful workstations are everywhere.
I have been running Linux for the last 10 years and I have not used the ability to show remote x sessions/windows on my own desktop for the last 5 years. And I can't make up a reason to ever do it again.
It might be useful for remote troubleshooting of desktop systems if you are an admin, but there you need a copy of the output on your system, and not the ability of X to forward a single window.
And since network transparency is seldom used, and causes so many design problems for the graphics system, handling it as a separate application is the best solution. (Like skype, where you can share desktop without any support from the operation system*).
*I newer managed to share my linux desktop with others, but I can se their Windows desktop.
You did not buy it, because the Amazon did not have the right to sell it, and the transaction was reversed.
It is the same situation that happens if I steal a book and then sell it to you. Then the original owner does have the right to take the book from you. Only difference is that because we are talking about bits the take back bit, can happen automatic so they don't have to send the police to pick up the book.
And you would be wrong. There currently don't exists any useless feature in firefox 4. Just because you don't use it does not make it useless or bloated
Maybe not for large companies, but I can easily see a future where most small companies have most of their software and data run by "cloud service"(Or rather Software as a service) companies.
And this will in general be a service which is far more secure, and better backup up then what they currently have.
An example is googles service, where email, calendar, wordprocessor and spreadsheet is located in the cloud. I know some small companies where the everyday workflow depend on all these applications working.
Or take a look at http://www.e-conomic.dk which is a danish cloud based software as a service accounting solution. It can only only be accessed by the browser*. I think that this is the most used accounting** service when talking about small companies.
*Well they also have a Soap api, if you need to integrate with your own software.
**You know, invoices customer data and so on.
This is wierd. The text says:
"but the back-story for some of the characters has led to a possible breach of child protection legislation in Sweden."
And
"The game will now no longer be available in Sweden, Denmark, or Norway - despite no formal investigation having yet been made".
So they pull the game from Denmark and Norway because it may break the law in Sweden?
Oh and I case you wonder, The legal minimum age for having sex in Denmark is 15 (18 If you have a professional (teacher/Student) relationship) so I really can't see the reason to pull it.
You used to work as a code monkey. Now that you don't have that job anymore, do you ever write code in your free time, or are you happe never to use a compiler again?
:}
ps: Are there any plans for rock band 3 pro mode guitar for some of your existing songs (Please
Just because you bought a book don't mean you own it.
Example: If i steal a book, and then sell it to you, then you do not own the book and you would in fact have to return it to the rightful owner, even thou you me paid for it. This is exactly the same thing which happend for Amazon: People bought something which Amazon was not allowed to sell, and thus the book had to be returned. And yes Amazon did handle that case really really bad.
But how do you get voice support for google talk in linux?
Kdenlive is not as good a name as Vegas, because I have no clue about how to pronounce it which also make it very difficult to remember the name.
So you are saying he is laying? If "they had to take their entire business offline while they added these backdoors for the government" then he is laying when he is saying that "We have no security problem" and "We have the most secure platform available"
And how did the thing become a question of "national security" (Which is his final argument for ending this thing). I mean the only way to argue national security is if they give their own government access to data.
And complaining about being "singled out" is the same as saying "Yes we give out your data, but so does anyone else so its not fair just complaining that we do it".
It really looked like he ended this way, because had he not done that he would have the choice between saying "Sorry, we have no security" and lying in an way he could not weasel out of later.
How does c# then handle this:
// Will this give an exception, because the list was allocated as List<String>? // Or will this cause a class cast exception, trying to convert 42 to a string?
Enumerable<String> objectsA = new List<string>()
Enumerable<Object> objectsB = objectsA;
objectsA.add(42);
String myString=objectsA.get(0);
There newer seems to be a good way to handle this, which is why neither Java nor c++ allows it.
But yes java miss a lot of features which c# have, but it seems like they are comming with java7 and 8, which is good for us still developing java. (Except for delegates which still seems to be missing, so writing gui code with that fucked up callback system based on interfaces and unnamed objects is still going to suck).
That would not at all be what Google did. Google have published full documentation of the current version of the spdy protocol. (Its linked on the announcement page, and looks like something which will be given to w3c once its done.
It is however still a draft because the protocol is not finished yet.
The difference is that Microsoft used and modified Suns software and source-code under a specific contract from Sun. Google don't use any code from Sun.
And I did really not cheer when Sun shut it down. What Microsoft did was to identify a real world problem where Java really missed some features(And java still miss this. Writing gui code in java is still painfull due to missing delegates/function pointers).
What sun should have done was to realize that Microsoft did find a giant feature hole in java. So sun should have changed java to add the features which Microsoft needed (And the rest of the gui developing world) missed.
Are you sure? Because according to
http://thetechjournal.com/electronics/mobile/undisclosed-and-confidential-partner-docs-of-windows-phone-os-7-exposed.xhtml
"Native apps are restricted to OEMs and mobile operators in order to extend the experience and functionality specific to a phone or network"
What story did you read?
The one I read said "[Nokia] will create no more Symbian phones after 2012 ". The slashdot story don't say anything about stopping support for existing phones, and nothing about them stopping existing phones either.
Even the headline "No More Symbian Phones After 2012" got it almost right, even thou you might say that they need the word "new" to clarify.