At work when we switched to Java 6 when it came out our application (electronic surveillance data fusion) saw an 11% speed boost. Apparently the Java 6 JVM had tweaks to double and long primitive handling, which we utilized heavily. My point being it doesn't necessarily have to do with how it is compiled.
Looks like Samsung has put a Digital TV chip into its Moment cellular device. It will be able to receive live DTV. They have a demo available at the CES. Hit up the link from Samsung.
That sounds suspiciously like the place I work. You ought to give www.portableapps.com a look. I've been (mostly) IE6 free at work for a couple of years now.
Thank you for that. I'm in the process of building a new home PC and I will be installing Vista on it. XP wasn't without problems when it was released and Vista is the same. I have gone through the little bit of work to see if any of my new hardware has known issues that I can avoid. The anti Microsoft vitriol is out of control here and the lack of reflection is appalling.
Whether you will actually learn more is up for debate, but you could always try graduate school. I know it helped me secure at least a better starting salary. Most of the people who started at my company straight from college had Masters degrees in computer science. It's perhaps the second best thing to experience for new graduates.
It used to be that I could go onto eBay and find a plethora of used computer parts and the like with decent prices. These days it seems eBay consists mostly of store fronts for those "make thousands from your home computer in as little as 5 minutes a day" schemes. I can get mostly the same items at similar prices from Amazon without the hassle. eBay needs to go back to their core business and remove all the fluff.
I'd rather not argue semantics, but you can have a useable Gentoo system in less than 15 minutes (yes, even with a GUI). Futhermore, the only time I've ever run into non ID10T/PEBCAK problems with Portage is when I use the unstable branch (go figure). You can do anything you want with any Linux distro, but that's the whole point isn't it? Ubuntu is a great distro, and I have personally recommended it over Gentoo many times. I wouldn't use it to use on an embedded system, though. In any event, the tired old cliches and bogus arguments about self-compiled binaries with strange compiler options is not a valid reason to avoid rolling your own.
I just want to say that in *my* four years of using Gentoo I have never had anyone on the Gentoo forums, irc channels, or any of my colleages (academia or private sector) ever say that Gentoo compiled code is necessarily any faster than delivered binaries. I never had anyone recommend anything but -02 and -pipe for compiler options. What Gentoo does give you is the ability to easily get exactly the system you want. Nothing more, nothing less. Whether any particular piece of binary code is faster on Gentoo is purely on a case by base basis. People use Gentoo for choice, configurability, and on occasion performance.
From the Gentoo home page:
Thanks to a technology called Portage, Gentoo can become an ideal secure server, development workstation, professional desktop, gaming system, embedded solution or something else -- whatever you need it to be.
how many people out there in the 'real' working world use 1.6? Prob no one.
Are you serious? We made the move from 1.5 to 1.6 the day it was released and not a single change was necessary. The switch to 1.6 gave us a %15~ performance increase thanks to improved double precision handling.
How does an operating system make claims? You should have said dumbass users who didn't know what they were talking about made baseless claims as to the peformance of customized binary code.
to KDE from Gnome if the default media player can play DVD videos with menu support. A browser plugin that allows me to seek streaming movies would be great too. Stupid Totem + gstreamer.
The submitter suggests that "Hollywood" is the Democrats largest cash machine. Just a little bit of leg work shows otherwise. For instance, Senator Reid received the largest percetange (13.39%) of his 2004 campaign contributions ($8,907,846 total) from law firms ($1,192,588), followed by casinos ($546,113), and "Hollywood" (read TV/Movies/Music) came in 9th ($146,500). I didn't take the time to scour every Democrat in congress, but I suspect that few, if any, received most of their money from "Hollywood". Think for yourself for a change. You can get real, honest, and useful information by getting of your ass and finding it.
Puh-lease. If you want to get sanctimonious about licensing you're barking up the wrong tree. If you think I'm the only one clicking through all those EULAs to get some work done I've got a piece of land on the moon I'd like to sell you. Ask Joe Schmoe off the street what GPLv2 or GPLv3 is going to do for him and get a shoulder shrug. A better pitch would be to show Joe Schmoe how great some piece of software is and then inform him that it will be free (as in speech, possibly as in beer).
There's so much noise about GPLv3 and other copyright issues these days. I don't want to diminish the importance of good licensing practices, but I just frickin' want my X-Fi to work, games to run, and eye candy to drool over in Linux. I don't particulary care what license the work gets done under. I suspect most people don't either; they just want their machines to work.
On the subject of garbage collectors, some of our colleagues use Java and.NET. Both sets of colleagues have had major performance problems caused directly by the garbage collectors kicking in and consuming vast CPU power while they did their thing.
At the risk of being beaten into oblivion I would like to submit that often times when garbage collection causes a detectable performance penalty is due to poorly written Java code. The code generally looks more like C++ than it does Java. I am not saying that garbage collection is cost free, but can be effectively marginalized, even in large scale and high performance applications.
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At work when we switched to Java 6 when it came out our application (electronic surveillance data fusion) saw an 11% speed boost. Apparently the Java 6 JVM had tweaks to double and long primitive handling, which we utilized heavily. My point being it doesn't necessarily have to do with how it is compiled.
Looks like Samsung has put a Digital TV chip into its Moment cellular device. It will be able to receive live DTV. They have a demo available at the CES. Hit up the link from Samsung.
That sounds suspiciously like the place I work. You ought to give www.portableapps.com a look. I've been (mostly) IE6 free at work for a couple of years now.
Still cloudy here (about 20 miles away).
Background checks, yes, but not necessarily a lie detector test. It depends on the security level you need to be cleared to.
Thank you for that. I'm in the process of building a new home PC and I will be installing Vista on it. XP wasn't without problems when it was released and Vista is the same. I have gone through the little bit of work to see if any of my new hardware has known issues that I can avoid. The anti Microsoft vitriol is out of control here and the lack of reflection is appalling.
Whether you will actually learn more is up for debate, but you could always try graduate school. I know it helped me secure at least a better starting salary. Most of the people who started at my company straight from college had Masters degrees in computer science. It's perhaps the second best thing to experience for new graduates.
Does it run Linux?
It used to be that I could go onto eBay and find a plethora of used computer parts and the like with decent prices. These days it seems eBay consists mostly of store fronts for those "make thousands from your home computer in as little as 5 minutes a day" schemes. I can get mostly the same items at similar prices from Amazon without the hassle. eBay needs to go back to their core business and remove all the fluff.
2 + 2 = 5, for large values of 2.
I'd rather not argue semantics, but you can have a useable Gentoo system in less than 15 minutes (yes, even with a GUI). Futhermore, the only time I've ever run into non ID10T/PEBCAK problems with Portage is when I use the unstable branch (go figure). You can do anything you want with any Linux distro, but that's the whole point isn't it? Ubuntu is a great distro, and I have personally recommended it over Gentoo many times. I wouldn't use it to use on an embedded system, though. In any event, the tired old cliches and bogus arguments about self-compiled binaries with strange compiler options is not a valid reason to avoid rolling your own.
I just want to say that in *my* four years of using Gentoo I have never had anyone on the Gentoo forums, irc channels, or any of my colleages (academia or private sector) ever say that Gentoo compiled code is necessarily any faster than delivered binaries. I never had anyone recommend anything but -02 and -pipe for compiler options. What Gentoo does give you is the ability to easily get exactly the system you want. Nothing more, nothing less. Whether any particular piece of binary code is faster on Gentoo is purely on a case by base basis. People use Gentoo for choice, configurability, and on occasion performance.
From the Gentoo home page:
Thanks to a technology called Portage, Gentoo can become an ideal secure server, development workstation, professional desktop, gaming system, embedded solution or something else -- whatever you need it to be.
Now we just need AMD to buy out Creative Labs and I can finally use my X-Fi. 3D video and sound, on Linux, WOW!
Are you serious? We made the move from 1.5 to 1.6 the day it was released and not a single change was necessary. The switch to 1.6 gave us a %15~ performance increase thanks to improved double precision handling.
And that I am!
How does an operating system make claims? You should have said dumbass users who didn't know what they were talking about made baseless claims as to the peformance of customized binary code.
Soaps made from ladies' fat asses don't need triclosan.
to KDE from Gnome if the default media player can play DVD videos with menu support. A browser plugin that allows me to seek streaming movies would be great too. Stupid Totem + gstreamer.
They really did a study on why nerds and special education students don't get laid?
The submitter suggests that "Hollywood" is the Democrats largest cash machine. Just a little bit of leg work shows otherwise. For instance, Senator Reid received the largest percetange (13.39%) of his 2004 campaign contributions ($8,907,846 total) from law firms ($1,192,588), followed by casinos ($546,113), and "Hollywood" (read TV/Movies/Music) came in 9th ($146,500). I didn't take the time to scour every Democrat in congress, but I suspect that few, if any, received most of their money from "Hollywood". Think for yourself for a change. You can get real, honest, and useful information by getting of your ass and finding it.
Will Internet2 have twice the tubes or tubes twice the size?
Puh-lease. If you want to get sanctimonious about licensing you're barking up the wrong tree. If you think I'm the only one clicking through all those EULAs to get some work done I've got a piece of land on the moon I'd like to sell you. Ask Joe Schmoe off the street what GPLv2 or GPLv3 is going to do for him and get a shoulder shrug. A better pitch would be to show Joe Schmoe how great some piece of software is and then inform him that it will be free (as in speech, possibly as in beer).
I am running Windows and Linux. I have too if I want to play most video games.
There's so much noise about GPLv3 and other copyright issues these days. I don't want to diminish the importance of good licensing practices, but I just frickin' want my X-Fi to work, games to run, and eye candy to drool over in Linux. I don't particulary care what license the work gets done under. I suspect most people don't either; they just want their machines to work.
At the risk of being beaten into oblivion I would like to submit that often times when garbage collection causes a detectable performance penalty is due to poorly written Java code. The code generally looks more like C++ than it does Java. I am not saying that garbage collection is cost free, but can be effectively marginalized, even in large scale and high performance applications.