They aren't comparable, that much everyone seems to agree on, but not becuase the new Pirates movie is in the theaters. Rather because The Matrix trilogy has not only all been out of the theaters but MORE IMPORTANTLY all have been released on all prior media formats individually and as sets. Heck the matrix was availible on home media before the second pirates movie even hit the theaters.
many people knowing there would be more, like myself, didn't buy them individually as they were released and instead waited for the set to come out and to get the set of all three with the bonus materials. It's what I did with the new star wars trilogy and the matrix, what I will do with pirates possibly if I even decide to buy it, and i find i do with most trilogies i really like.
more over because the entire set has been available much longer it already achieved relative saturation. On the other hand Pirates 2 just came to DVD around December, so it hasn't been around nearly as long. A better comparison especially considering the viewing audience would probably be one of the harry potter dvds although those have been pretty darn slow coming as of late.
yes but at least Clearcase isn't a "visual studio only" system. Further more it has several differentiation points from SVN and CVS. Having utilized it on a co-op (8 months) I can say that there are things that I definately like about it that I can't achieve or achieve easily with cvs/svn. Furthermore a major differentiator is its model, which requires a gatekeeper. I didn't configure it myself, but coming in as new user and something I couldn't change was that: a. files not checked out were owned by root and gave me only read privs. Only upon checkout did I get write and ownership. Whenever I tried doing this with cvs/svn esp on windows it was defeated by users local settings when their client wouldn't lock on checkouts and I didn't have the time to go look up the magic config option for the server at the time. secondly SVN was only released in 2004, clear case was around a bit longer
I dont have a problem with microsoft creating their own, my problem is that inevitably they will exert their monopoly powers and create a lockin like they did with visual source safe. We can pay to use their system which will be expensive and integrated into VizStudio, or we can have whatever we want but not integrated. If microsoft opened that up I think they would reclaim some of the ground theyve lost to eclipse, and CDT because as much as I enjoy eclipse the c/c++ support is not near the level of VS. I have yet to see a visual studio CVS plugin for me to use a non microsoft RCS. Its one of the major reasons for development many of us are moving further away from ms.
anyone could benefit from a more well designed installation pathway. Yes the die hards dont need it so much, but like everything else gentoo, choice is good. It goes without saying that the installer will still download and compile from source, how else would it possibly work?. Just because you add a GUI on top of something doesn't mean the underlying calls change at all. Doesn't matter if you run "emacs" from console or click an icon, they both will start emacs with the same command in the end. Frankly what I think would be great is if they added a kickstart generator that could easily export all of the initial settings I mark when I walk through the install process to make repeatable starting points. Granted I could write some of my own scripts to do some of this but automating some of the choices would be handy.
if everyone created functions for any piece of code so complex it required a comment, you'd spend more time writing func_proto's and functions calls (and then later making context switches) then you would doing anything else.
Plus it just creates more spaghetti for you to go through later.. If something needs a comment, give it one. I'd break off a seperate function if the chunk is likely to be resusable elsewhere, is performing a distinct task that is seperate from what the current scoped function is doing. This method is also extremely impractical when you are accessing a large amount of different variables/objects. Things get ugly when you start to pass in 8+ arguments to a function. Yes its often done, just look at openGL, and yes it has a reason. But in general it isnt fun because you constantly have to look back and forth to remember which arg was which and to make sure they were all passed properly. Especially if you are going to be constructing, or malloc'ing any new memory.
Plus if you are in C there no methods... methods are functions anyhow. And wouldn't commenting a function involve a comment here or there on some of the code in its body?
comments are Especially important when you are doing things in a more optimal way to explain what the heck you are doing and why. Because eventually there will be some optimization, and even if there isn't you want to reduce the work that someone new looking at your code has to go through.
A parallel idea is to write skeleton code first and implement details later. Just create a bunch of prototypes and your general outline of whats happening everywhere, and then go back and start making each function in the chain work. In the process you will have to create more outlines (as you create the need for more funcs) and you will also have a pretty understandable easy to explain structure.
just a quick aside, there is lots more to parallel computing than multi cores. There are systems significantly larger already in dev and for sale. A ton of companies have been blowing that number out of the water for decades. Multi core is just the current hotspot for consumer targets. go to top500.org, lots of sites with 1000+ (usually multiple thousands or higher). granted these arent exactly consumer oriented but who says that everything parallel is and needs to be.
Not only does your post seem to be incorrect, I think you missed a large point of the purpose and whole concept of parallel programming, and a parallel processing in general. If there are lots and lots of large applications running that aren't parallelized or parallelizable, eventually you are going to run into a load problem when you start trying to run some other apps that are parallelized. Sure app X doesn't need more than 2 ghz for itself, but if it runs and takes up about 1.5 ghz, that doesn't leave anything for your parallel app to use so that it can take advantage of parallel processing.
my analogy would be to the problem of confidentiality / anonymity. If no one other than yourself is anonymous, you won't be very anonymous for long.
There are motivations other than for pure computing power for parallelism. For starters power consumption can be greatly enhanced. the footprint and heat produced by a 4 400 MHZ SMP is less than 70% of that produced by a 1.6GHZ single processor counterpart.
Secondly most applications you use are NOT single threaded. Does it have a GUI? yeah not single threaded. Your web browser is multi threaded. any music player you have? multi threaded. Unless by consumer apps you refer to unix/linux scripts I can't even think of a single app for windows that I use that isn't multi threaded. I'm not really sure how anyone found your post informative, when I find it be more inaccurate then anything else.
I think that you are also significantly mixing up your terms as. Multithreading does not require multiple cores or multiple processors. They have nothing to do with one another. The only relation is that multithreaded apps easily lend themselves to being parallelized across a cluster, an SMP system or across different cores rather easily.
The purpose of proper architectural design in regards to this is also so that your application is scalable, and can be utilized by the more and more parallel systems out there.
As a related note its not the singular app that is a problem these days. It is the multi tasking problem, and the time wasted on locks and context switches that can plague the system. When you run itunes, a windows office component, firefox, etc etc you notice that your processor usage starts to get higher and higher, especially if you are trying to do file manipulation as well. Instead of having all your apps hanging around waiting for one of them to finish using processor time, you have another processor available to work with. Even if the combined speed (in Mhz) is lower than the original processor you are going to get better performance for your I/O heavy applications with two cores or two processors.
Sure maybe it isn't absolutely neccessary, but neither is windows Vista, XP, mac OS X, extra memory, a faster processor, a bmw, etc. But with the parallel architectures sweeping through to consumers you probably want to take your target audiences architecture into consideration.
This is for boarding ships out at sea you moron, the FCC doesn't have jurisdiction in A. international water or B. outside the U.S. Secondly those regulations apply to consumer goods, not military.
since you are getting rid of them, i will gladly take them off of your hands for you for free. wouldn't want you to have to pay for dumping of such material.
that is unless of course you dont like the zune and plan on keeping them all for yourself, or selling them all on ebay for you own personal profit. thanks
get laughed at and watch their support vanish as their supporters refuse to send emails for communcation supporting them to avoid the tax.
Boston Email party anyone?
someone shuold post a list of who we shuold all start emailing and telling not to even think about doing this. A nice blanket of "dont tax email spam" could serve nicely as evidence of disapproval.
i should add that I'm not trying to express on view on what women should or shouldnt do, only an observation on enrollment percentages. for example my CS department had like maybe 5 girls in my year (of 125); chem-e's were a lot more; where as at nearby skidmore (a liberal arts school) enrollment was 60% female. Heck the first ever bio-medical engineering class at bucknell just gradatuated a class of 13, 7 of them were girls. So it sounds like SOMEONE has something figured out to draw females to the sciences. its a step in the right direction i guess
might stem from the fact that there arent many women majoring in IT and CS in colleges compared to men. probably because they get turned off earlier for one reason or another.. my guess is that all it comes across as is "nerdy coding".
I don't really consider myself a nerd. I played college lacrosse, and I still play in club leagues. But in terms of what i do for a living (software dev) and how i approach the computer, i realize (and expect) that many of my friends, especially females, would think its pretty nerdy stuff. somehow biology, various forms of being a doctor, or a lawyer, seem to grab most of the really sharp women at large. A large percentage also end up going down the management pathway. Many more who probably arent as ambitious or as sharp go down the education path, or the insert name of generic and useless liberal arts degree here. yes there are lots of female engineers and scientists, but a look at enrollment says most of them are elsewhere, particulary many are in liberal arts colleges.
they could just increase the rates for registering IP's, and start taking them away from the squatters that arent doing anything with their websites. How many bajillion crap sites without any content do we really need? start capping the number of IP's a person group or business can register depending on use and such...
Like anything else, sure it looks like we are running out, but if you look closely I bet there is a ton that are wasted.
I wasn't aware that a pure fact could be offensive. No one is asking them to like it, they have to learn it. England isn't an Islamic country, and should stand up for its own sense of pride and history. It starts with one European power falling and then the rest...
i feel like being in england, they were close enough to the war to know that for a fact it happened. Not teaching for fear of offending them is stupid and shortsighted. What if someone's beliefs include that 2+2 != 4; can you no longer teach math because they find it offensive?
Furthermore they have no stake to be offended by the holocaust because they had no involvement in it. The crusades should definitely be covered as well, its part of the history of the country and region. Just present both sides. Frankly I was unaware that Muslims made a practice of denying the holocaust, but the fact that your fear of offending them by presenting the truth causes you to not present the information frightens and offends me.
Furthermore the lack of explaining the holocaust gives them one more reason to validly say "so why in the world did you need to give the jews israel" They don't have to like the truth but they need to accept it.
Personally the logic is clear on their part. Deny it happened, make it stop being talked about, prevent others from learning about it, destroy all record. Then go ahead and do it again yourself and wipeout the jews. Sorta scary. Note to self, england just got removed from places I will live and send my kids to school.
this just really bugs me; I thought the European countries were supposed to be smarter than this. You have no excuse it happened a little over 50 years ago right over there. What next?
how would you even begin to go about taxing email.. seeing as the smtp stack is as secure as an unlocked car in NYC, and we can barely verify where email really comes from as is, how in the world are they going to tax it.
How do you think the bulk of spammers work right now? Ever notice how many of the spams you get don't even seem to have you address attached to them anywhere and come from fake senders. Seems like this is going to encourage everyone to do that. Secondly, how do they have the right to tax us for using something that isn't theirs. Next they are going to charge me a tax for taking money out of my own wallet?
I think there would be a lot of issues and hurdles ethically speaking, but the practicality seems flawed. I don't see how they can do it without violating a lot of privacy rights, agreements, and stepping on a whole lot of feet. That or we will all get our email servers relocated to somewhere else.
this seems like double taxing for the same thing. You pay tax for internet bandwidth, now they want more for certain types of data sent on the bandwidth?
I think its very short sighted to try to pin this on a particular political party however. This kind of stupidity tends to follow more from the uneducated fools in the party than the party's grand agenda itself. Frankly this is the kind of thing I'd more expect from Republicans, who would try to censor the email while they were at it
IANAL but from the basis of the description of this, the case should be thrown out as a violation of miranda rights. The person wasn't informed of the rights when they were asked the question. Had he not answered the question the case goes nowhere. Was there a complaint by the owner of said wifi? I'm guessing no. Miranda rights should protect someone in cases like this. He could have refused to answer said question if he knew it was actually a problem, and asserted 5th amendment rights. Case goes nowhere unless the owner of said wifi complains.
reminder that once again, don't answer friendly questions from police such as "what are you doing" because apparently miranda doesnt apply anymore. my global response as of late has been and will be "is there a problem officer" the advice i read somewhere is let them tell you what you did wrong, otherwise it will somehow be construed as an admission. I dont engage in this activity but i would close laptop and ask that question. If he objects I could always say i had confidential material on the screen that I cant show him.
it does seem rather intriguing tho. suppose i could spoof my mac address on my wireless card, wouldn't it get a bit trickier for them to pin this charge on me because they'd have to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that I was indeed the violator of said access?
either way its stupid. If you own a wifi secure it, if you leave it wide open you should be subjected to whatever. What about computers that auto connect? next you're going to tell me that if I hear a neighbor listening to his radio too loud that I need to not listen.
if someone turns on a sprinkler and aims it such that water is falling on the street or sidewalk would it be illegal for me to collect said water with a bucket and do with it what i may?
make it as boring as humanly possible..
games should be as dull as watching the grass grow
that will definately boost sales
who wouldnt want to buy "super turbo grass watcher 5000"
ok so everybody, but that's besides the point.
There is a difference between boring and overly immersive. Stimulation can result in different ways and they don't all have to come from the complex means that people typically think they need to as of late. This doesn't make them boring.
I disagree with that quote... its too insulting to KFC, and I'm by no means a fan
KFC actually is at least mainly comprised of chicken (or chicken like substances).. Albeit fried and of questionable quality where as MTV is not really comprised of music at all anymore.. Unless you count the background music in the shows... It's mostly comprised of crap, propaganda, stupidity and teeny-boppers mixed in with thugs.
better one:
MTV is to music as astronomy is to science I would have used "tampa bay devil rays are to baseball" as in the simpson's except they are having a better year than the yankees.
make things more modular and extension based.. less bloat for those who care, but easy means to add in the other stuff if you want.
same thing for the cache problem... instead having the dev's decide on the balance point, make it a configurable option for the user. Not that complicated. Write a doc on it, and let the user decide what kind of tradeoff they want to make.
as for the other comments about problems with things working and not working; we all know the problem. Let's start enforcing a solution. Stop allowing stuff to work on browsers that shouldn't work, and let's force people to start complying. There's gotta be a way somehow. heck what if people inserted some malware into windows that made IE actually throw errors instead of accepting all the broken crap people write they'll start complaining too... ok so its pretty darn difficult but hey i can have pipe dreams can't i?
seeing as Vista is just getting out the door, and given the increased production times trend (win95,win98, XP (2002 or so?), Vista:2007 so I don't think that we will see Windows "broken unbreakable glass" (what I'm calling their next version) until well into 2013 or so... with that said and given the massive upgrades required to PROPERLY run windows Vista it isn't applicable to todays hardware because most of the x86_32 stuff can barely run it. Personally I don't care much, I've seen Vista and I don't see any major motivation for an upgrade. So there won't be a new OS after Vista on 32, fine by me. XP is stable enough to run the windows junk that I need, If i absolutely had to I suppose years from now I could install a discount Vista... But what's going to be improved about the new OS or even Vista that even motivates me to get it.
People like to run out and by the latest Windows simply because its the latest, thas all they care to know. I say why pay for something you don't need. What does Vista offer you that XP isn't doing well enough for you. What is winNext going to offer that makes it needed or worth upgrading to. I dont care what it runs on if I dont want or need it. Seriously for the bulk of people out there, for whom Email, word processing and internet browsing is the entirety of what they do, 64 bit processors are unneeded. Why focus on improving the current system when you can just deprecate it and release a new one like microsoft does.
This could open up the door even wider for Linux to become a mainstream OS for people who don't have any need to buy a 64bit processor in the future but for whatever unforeseen reason need to migrate to a supported OS.
Telling me what your next release is going to support for hardware without telling me what the next release even addresses is sorta pointless. I don't give a crap what your next thing does until I know if I even WOULD want it anyways. It seems rather backwards to me. The telling sign that microsoft doesn't know how to advertise, other than Aero I don't know why I would want to upgrade to Vista. Vista's features consist pretty much entirely of new versions of applications as opposed to OS enhancements, at least as advertised. Most of it seems like GUI catchup to KDE/GNOME/OSX (aqua).
I think what they really did is shoot themselves in the foot. Now anyone who was thinking about buying a new machine to get vista shuoldnt, they should wait because whatever they get will be made obsolete when x86_64 becomes the only supported thing.
It all really comes down to the fundamental problem of what are the OS updates and new versions actually accomplishing other than GUI updates and bundling applications or updating current ones.
is the whole public domain migration process.. At what point does the transcription of a song, or knowledge of how to play it become common knowledge.
Is there anyone who plays guitar who doesn't know how to play or know the key riff of: smells like teen spirit stairway to heaven enter sandman
etc.
what's next a crackdown on wikipedia by encyclopedia makers and people who want to sell you that knowledge? It almost goes without saying that they will target gamefaqs.com next.
Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty. Shouldn't they have to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that you deliberately went out and copied or enetered via hand the tab from their book or one of their publications. How else could I be infringing on their copyright.
If there is no publicly availble (via sale) tab book for an album could I even possibly infringe on it by posting a tab. Or wouldn't I then have the tab and now the publisher would infringing on my copyright?
Are they going to target how-to guide on the internet next saying you should by the instruction manual?
Much as VCR was excluded for its degrade of quality compared to live broadcast and dvd back in the day, shouldn't a text file containing nothing but fret numbers and such (aka not a pdf) recieve the same safety.
Why don't i just quickly write a program to generate all the 4 note patterns of notes, and post that. Yes I understand there is a serious issue that they have some claim too in regards to people copying the stuff straight out of the tab books and then posting it, but to me it seems like the manner in which they are restricting is going beyond their rights. Instead of preventing me from doing that, they are now preventing me from legitimate activity.
Furthermore any band that allows taping at concerts shouldn't be allowed to do this because you could just record what they do and write a tab from that...
Yes this guy should be praised for his honesty of his utter ineptitude. What he should do is recuse himself from the case for someone who knows something. And he should be thanked and rewarded. He should then go take some courses to learn something about the internet. Meanwhile judges who don't admit that they don't know what it is should be hunted down and fired or noted that they are inelligible to serve on any technological case.
Contrary to another poster I don't believe that a lack of being knowledgeble in the field brings about true justice. It means that such a person could easily be confused and misled by the guck that the expert and lawyers present to them. It has nothing to do with bias for the justice side of it, it has to do with not being competant enough on the topic to resolve the issue. More time and money will be wasted in trial getting him a clue then actually on the legal matter at hand. How is that good for anybody? It isn't.
If you ask me this is one more sign that serious reform is needed in the judge system, and the whole "tenure for life" good old boys network of judges is the first target. Though not neccessarily true, they are the most likely to be completely ignorant of technology and to have never bothered to learn what the internet is. What's worse is I'd bet that these are same morons who are letting all the legislation regarding to technology through. I say let's test their general knowledge and have endorsements for highly technical cases involving things such as various facets technology. Why not, they have to study tax law if they want to deal with taxes, they should have to study technology and IP law if they want to rule on stuff with that. From the tests results issue endorsements; if they can't pass a test on technology they can't be assigned a case that hinges upon internet technology very simple.
Would you let a foot doctor give you advice on heart surgery? No. And it's not a superiority thing either, I wouldn't let the cardiac surgeon tell me how to treat my feet other. As long as the issue is dealt with respectfully and judges are forth coming let them stay in the system. But when judges are found to be presiding over cases they dont have the proper knowledge of that should be treated just as unethically as a lawyer neglecting to properly represent a client.
My real question, if he's forthcoming enough to admit his lack of knowledge why not be forthright enough to remove yourself from the case to be replaced by someone who knows it to speed up the case. In our country at least I have a right to a speedy trial, which definately does not include educating a judge on the internet.
It's far time judges, teachers and other public officials were held to the same standards that other workers are in regards to time. Time goes on and new technologies come along as well as new techniques and trends. To be a viable worker we have to keep up with these things, why don't they have to? The tenure systems are crippling us.
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if you RTA you notice that this one is copy pasted from ars techncia which at least was paraphrased from the seattle paper entry from bloomberg news.
which begs to ask the question: How many licks does it take to get to the center....
They aren't comparable, that much everyone seems to agree on, but not becuase the new Pirates movie is in the theaters. Rather because The Matrix trilogy has not only all been out of the theaters but MORE IMPORTANTLY all have been released on all prior media formats individually and as sets. Heck the matrix was availible on home media before the second pirates movie even hit the theaters.
many people knowing there would be more, like myself, didn't buy them individually as they were released and instead waited for the set to come out and to get the set of all three with the bonus materials. It's what I did with the new star wars trilogy and the matrix, what I will do with pirates possibly if I even decide to buy it, and i find i do with most trilogies i really like.
more over because the entire set has been available much longer it already achieved relative saturation. On the other hand Pirates 2 just came to DVD around December, so it hasn't been around nearly as long. A better comparison especially considering the viewing audience would probably be one of the harry potter dvds although those have been pretty darn slow coming as of late.
yes but at least Clearcase isn't a "visual studio only" system. Further more it has several differentiation points from SVN and CVS. Having utilized it on a co-op (8 months) I can say that there are things that I definately like about it that I can't achieve or achieve easily with cvs/svn. Furthermore a major differentiator is its model, which requires a gatekeeper. I didn't configure it myself, but coming in as new user and something I couldn't change was that: a. files not checked out were owned by root and gave me only read privs. Only upon checkout did I get write and ownership. Whenever I tried doing this with cvs/svn esp on windows it was defeated by users local settings when their client wouldn't lock on checkouts and I didn't have the time to go look up the magic config option for the server at the time. secondly SVN was only released in 2004, clear case was around a bit longer
I dont have a problem with microsoft creating their own, my problem is that inevitably they will exert their monopoly powers and create a lockin like they did with visual source safe. We can pay to use their system which will be expensive and integrated into VizStudio, or we can have whatever we want but not integrated. If microsoft opened that up I think they would reclaim some of the ground theyve lost to eclipse, and CDT because as much as I enjoy eclipse the c/c++ support is not near the level of VS. I have yet to see a visual studio CVS plugin for me to use a non microsoft RCS. Its one of the major reasons for development many of us are moving further away from ms.
anyone could benefit from a more well designed installation pathway. Yes the die hards dont need it so much, but like everything else gentoo, choice is good. It goes without saying that the installer will still download and compile from source, how else would it possibly work?. Just because you add a GUI on top of something doesn't mean the underlying calls change at all. Doesn't matter if you run "emacs" from console or click an icon, they both will start emacs with the same command in the end. Frankly what I think would be great is if they added a kickstart generator that could easily export all of the initial settings I mark when I walk through the install process to make repeatable starting points. Granted I could write some of my own scripts to do some of this but automating some of the choices would be handy.
if everyone created functions for any piece of code so complex it required a comment, you'd spend more time writing func_proto's and functions calls (and then later making context switches) then you would doing anything else.
Plus it just creates more spaghetti for you to go through later..
If something needs a comment, give it one. I'd break off a seperate function if the chunk is likely to be resusable elsewhere, is performing a distinct task that is seperate from what the current scoped function is doing. This method is also extremely impractical when you are accessing a large amount of different variables/objects. Things get ugly when you start to pass in 8+ arguments to a function. Yes its often done, just look at openGL, and yes it has a reason. But in general it isnt fun because you constantly have to look back and forth to remember which arg was which and to make sure they were all passed properly. Especially if you are going to be constructing, or malloc'ing any new memory.
Plus if you are in C there no methods... methods are functions anyhow. And wouldn't commenting a function involve a comment here or there on some of the code in its body?
comments are Especially important when you are doing things in a more optimal way to explain what the heck you are doing and why. Because eventually there will be some optimization, and even if there isn't you want to reduce the work that someone new looking at your code has to go through.
A parallel idea is to write skeleton code first and implement details later. Just create a bunch of prototypes and your general outline of whats happening everywhere, and then go back and start making each function in the chain work. In the process you will have to create more outlines (as you create the need for more funcs) and you will also have a pretty understandable easy to explain structure.
just a quick aside, there is lots more to parallel computing than multi cores.
There are systems significantly larger already in dev and for sale. A ton of companies have been blowing that number out of the water for decades. Multi core is just the current hotspot for consumer targets. go to top500.org, lots of sites with 1000+ (usually multiple thousands or higher). granted these arent exactly consumer oriented but who says that everything parallel is and needs to be.
RTFA and READ parallel programming
/linux scripts I can't even think of a single app for windows that I use that isn't multi threaded. I'm not really sure how anyone found your post informative, when I find it be more inaccurate then anything else.
Not only does your post seem to be incorrect, I think you missed a large point of the purpose and whole concept of parallel programming, and a parallel processing in general. If there are lots and lots of large applications running that aren't parallelized or parallelizable, eventually you are going to run into a load problem when you start trying to run some other apps that are parallelized. Sure app X doesn't need more than 2 ghz for itself, but if it runs and takes up about 1.5 ghz, that doesn't leave anything for your parallel app to use so that it can take advantage of parallel processing.
my analogy would be to the problem of confidentiality / anonymity. If no one other than yourself is anonymous, you won't be very anonymous for long.
There are motivations other than for pure computing power for parallelism. For starters power consumption can be greatly enhanced. the footprint and heat produced by a 4 400 MHZ SMP is less than 70% of that produced by a 1.6GHZ single processor counterpart.
Secondly most applications you use are NOT single threaded. Does it have a GUI? yeah not single threaded. Your web browser is multi threaded. any music player you have? multi threaded. Unless by consumer apps you refer to unix
I think that you are also significantly mixing up your terms as. Multithreading does not require multiple cores or multiple processors. They have nothing to do with one another. The only relation is that multithreaded apps easily lend themselves to being parallelized across a cluster, an SMP system or across different cores rather easily.
The purpose of proper architectural design in regards to this is also so that your application is scalable, and can be utilized by the more and more parallel systems out there.
As a related note its not the singular app that is a problem these days. It is the multi tasking problem, and the time wasted on locks and context switches that can plague the system. When you run itunes, a windows office component, firefox, etc etc you notice that your processor usage starts to get higher and higher, especially if you are trying to do file manipulation as well. Instead of having all your apps hanging around waiting for one of them to finish using processor time, you have another processor available to work with. Even if the combined speed (in Mhz) is lower than the original processor you are going to get better performance for your I/O heavy applications with two cores or two processors.
Sure maybe it isn't absolutely neccessary, but neither is windows Vista, XP, mac OS X, extra memory, a faster processor, a bmw, etc.
But with the parallel architectures sweeping through to consumers you probably want to take your target audiences architecture into consideration.
This is for boarding ships out at sea you moron, the FCC doesn't have jurisdiction in A. international water or B. outside the U.S.
Secondly those regulations apply to consumer goods, not military.
1. Tux the penguin (if arnold is american he can be too) 2. dogbert 3. my left shoe
Dear sir controlling said bin,
since you are getting rid of them, i will gladly take them off of your hands for you for free. wouldn't want you to have to pay for dumping of such material.
that is unless of course you dont like the zune and plan on keeping them all for yourself, or selling them all on ebay for you own personal profit.
thanks
- nerd looking for free gear
get laughed at and watch their support vanish as their supporters refuse to send emails for communcation supporting them to avoid the tax. Boston Email party anyone? someone shuold post a list of who we shuold all start emailing and telling not to even think about doing this. A nice blanket of "dont tax email spam" could serve nicely as evidence of disapproval.
i should add that I'm not trying to express on view on what women should or shouldnt do, only an observation on enrollment percentages. for example my CS department had like maybe 5 girls in my year (of 125); chem-e's were a lot more; where as at nearby skidmore (a liberal arts school) enrollment was 60% female. Heck the first ever bio-medical engineering class at bucknell just gradatuated a class of 13, 7 of them were girls. So it sounds like SOMEONE has something figured out to draw females to the sciences. its a step in the right direction i guess
might stem from the fact that there arent many women majoring in IT and CS in colleges compared to men. probably because they get turned off earlier for one reason or another.. my guess is that all it comes across as is "nerdy coding".
I don't really consider myself a nerd. I played college lacrosse, and I still play in club leagues. But in terms of what i do for a living (software dev) and how i approach the computer, i realize (and expect) that many of my friends, especially females, would think its pretty nerdy stuff. somehow biology, various forms of being a doctor, or a lawyer, seem to grab most of the really sharp women at large. A large percentage also end up going down the management pathway. Many more who probably arent as ambitious or as sharp go down the education path, or the insert name of generic and useless liberal arts degree here. yes there are lots of female engineers and scientists, but a look at enrollment says most of them are elsewhere, particulary many are in liberal arts colleges.
clearly the real answer here is 42. we should skip right over IPv6 and go to.... IPv42
anything else?
they could just increase the rates for registering IP's, and start taking them away from the squatters that arent doing anything with their websites. How many bajillion crap sites without any content do we really need? start capping the number of IP's a person group or business can register depending on use and such...
Like anything else, sure it looks like we are running out, but if you look closely I bet there is a ton that are wasted.
I wasn't aware that a pure fact could be offensive. No one is asking them to like it, they have to learn it. England isn't an Islamic country, and should stand up for its own sense of pride and history. It starts with one European power falling and then the rest...
i feel like being in england, they were close enough to the war to know that for a fact it happened. Not teaching for fear of offending them is stupid and shortsighted. What if someone's beliefs include that 2+2 != 4; can you no longer teach math because they find it offensive?
Furthermore they have no stake to be offended by the holocaust because they had no involvement in it. The crusades should definitely be covered as well, its part of the history of the country and region. Just present both sides. Frankly I was unaware that Muslims made a practice of denying the holocaust, but the fact that your fear of offending them by presenting the truth causes you to not present the information frightens and offends me.
Furthermore the lack of explaining the holocaust gives them one more reason to validly say "so why in the world did you need to give the jews israel" They don't have to like the truth but they need to accept it.
Personally the logic is clear on their part. Deny it happened, make it stop being talked about, prevent others from learning about it, destroy all record. Then go ahead and do it again yourself and wipeout the jews. Sorta scary. Note to self, england just got removed from places I will live and send my kids to school.
this just really bugs me; I thought the European countries were supposed to be smarter than this. You have no excuse it happened a little over 50 years ago right over there. What next?
how would you even begin to go about taxing email.. seeing as the smtp stack is as secure as an unlocked car in NYC, and we can barely verify where email really comes from as is, how in the world are they going to tax it.
How do you think the bulk of spammers work right now? Ever notice how many of the spams you get don't even seem to have you address attached to them anywhere and come from fake senders. Seems like this is going to encourage everyone to do that. Secondly, how do they have the right to tax us for using something that isn't theirs. Next they are going to charge me a tax for taking money out of my own wallet?
I think there would be a lot of issues and hurdles ethically speaking, but the practicality seems flawed. I don't see how they can do it without violating a lot of privacy rights, agreements, and stepping on a whole lot of feet. That or we will all get our email servers relocated to somewhere else.
this seems like double taxing for the same thing. You pay tax for internet bandwidth, now they want more for certain types of data sent on the bandwidth?
I think its very short sighted to try to pin this on a particular political party however. This kind of stupidity tends to follow more from the uneducated fools in the party than the party's grand agenda itself. Frankly this is the kind of thing I'd more expect from Republicans, who would try to censor the email while they were at it
IANAL
but from the basis of the description of this, the case should be thrown out as a violation of miranda rights. The person wasn't informed of the rights when they were asked the question. Had he not answered the question the case goes nowhere. Was there a complaint by the owner of said wifi? I'm guessing no.
Miranda rights should protect someone in cases like this. He could have refused to answer said question if he knew it was actually a problem, and asserted 5th amendment rights. Case goes nowhere unless the owner of said wifi complains.
reminder that once again, don't answer friendly questions from police such as "what are you doing" because apparently miranda doesnt apply anymore. my global response as of late has been and will be "is there a problem officer" the advice i read somewhere is let them tell you what you did wrong, otherwise it will somehow be construed as an admission. I dont engage in this activity but i would close laptop and ask that question. If he objects I could always say i had confidential material on the screen that I cant show him.
it does seem rather intriguing tho. suppose i could spoof my mac address on my wireless card, wouldn't it get a bit trickier for them to pin this charge on me because they'd have to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that I was indeed the violator of said access?
either way its stupid. If you own a wifi secure it, if you leave it wide open you should be subjected to whatever. What about computers that auto connect? next you're going to tell me that if I hear a neighbor listening to his radio too loud that I need to not listen.
if someone turns on a sprinkler and aims it such that water is falling on the street or sidewalk would it be illegal for me to collect said water with a bucket and do with it what i may?
whoops my bad here's a better one MTV is to music as "careful editing" was to my first post
make it as boring as humanly possible.. games should be as dull as watching the grass grow that will definately boost sales who wouldnt want to buy "super turbo grass watcher 5000" ok so everybody, but that's besides the point. There is a difference between boring and overly immersive. Stimulation can result in different ways and they don't all have to come from the complex means that people typically think they need to as of late. This doesn't make them boring.
I disagree with that quote... its too insulting to KFC, and I'm by no means a fan
KFC actually is at least mainly comprised of chicken (or chicken like substances).. Albeit fried and of questionable quality
where as MTV is not really comprised of music at all anymore.. Unless you count the background music in the shows... It's mostly comprised of crap, propaganda, stupidity and teeny-boppers mixed in with thugs.
better one:
MTV is to music as astronomy is to science
I would have used "tampa bay devil rays are to baseball" as in the simpson's except they are having a better year than the yankees.
make things more modular and extension based..
less bloat for those who care, but easy means to add in the other stuff if you want.
same thing for the cache problem... instead having the dev's decide on the balance point, make it a configurable option for the user. Not that complicated. Write a doc on it, and let the user decide what kind of tradeoff they want to make.
as for the other comments about problems with things working and not working; we all know the problem. Let's start enforcing a solution. Stop allowing stuff to work on browsers that shouldn't work, and let's force people to start complying. There's gotta be a way somehow. heck what if people inserted some malware into windows that made IE actually throw errors instead of accepting all the broken crap people write they'll start complaining too... ok so its pretty darn difficult but hey i can have pipe dreams can't i?
seeing as Vista is just getting out the door, and given the increased production times trend (win95,win98, XP (2002 or so?), Vista:2007
so I don't think that we will see Windows "broken unbreakable glass" (what I'm calling their next version) until well into 2013 or so...
with that said and given the massive upgrades required to PROPERLY run windows Vista it isn't applicable to todays hardware because most of the x86_32 stuff can barely run it.
Personally I don't care much, I've seen Vista and I don't see any major motivation for an upgrade. So there won't be a new OS after Vista on 32, fine by me. XP is stable enough to run the windows junk that I need, If i absolutely had to I suppose years from now I could install a discount Vista...
But what's going to be improved about the new OS or even Vista that even motivates me to get it.
People like to run out and by the latest Windows simply because its the latest, thas all they care to know. I say why pay for something you don't need. What does Vista offer you that XP isn't doing well enough for you. What is winNext going to offer that makes it needed or worth upgrading to. I dont care what it runs on if I dont want or need it. Seriously for the bulk of people out there, for whom Email, word processing and internet browsing is the entirety of what they do, 64 bit processors are unneeded. Why focus on improving the current system when you can just deprecate it and release a new one like microsoft does.
This could open up the door even wider for Linux to become a mainstream OS for people who don't have any need to buy a 64bit processor in the future but for whatever unforeseen reason need to migrate to a supported OS.
Telling me what your next release is going to support for hardware without telling me what the next release even addresses is sorta pointless. I don't give a crap what your next thing does until I know if I even WOULD want it anyways. It seems rather backwards to me. The telling sign that microsoft doesn't know how to advertise, other than Aero I don't know why I would want to upgrade to Vista. Vista's features consist pretty much entirely of new versions of applications as opposed to OS enhancements, at least as advertised. Most of it seems like GUI catchup to KDE/GNOME/OSX (aqua).
I think what they really did is shoot themselves in the foot. Now anyone who was thinking about buying a new machine to get vista shuoldnt, they should wait because whatever they get will be made obsolete when x86_64 becomes the only supported thing.
It all really comes down to the fundamental problem of what are the OS updates and new versions actually accomplishing other than GUI updates and bundling applications or updating current ones.
is the whole public domain migration process..
At what point does the transcription of a song, or knowledge of how to play it become common knowledge.
Is there anyone who plays guitar who doesn't know how to play or know the key riff of:
smells like teen spirit
stairway to heaven
enter sandman
etc.
what's next a crackdown on wikipedia by encyclopedia makers and people who want to sell you that knowledge?
It almost goes without saying that they will target gamefaqs.com next.
Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty. Shouldn't they have to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that you deliberately went out and copied or enetered via hand the tab from their book or one of their publications. How else could I be infringing on their copyright.
If there is no publicly availble (via sale) tab book for an album could I even possibly infringe on it by posting a tab. Or wouldn't I then have the tab and now the publisher would infringing on my copyright?
Are they going to target how-to guide on the internet next saying you should by the instruction manual?
Much as VCR was excluded for its degrade of quality compared to live broadcast and dvd back in the day, shouldn't a text file containing nothing but fret numbers and such (aka not a pdf) recieve the same safety.
Why don't i just quickly write a program to generate all the 4 note patterns of notes, and post that.
Yes I understand there is a serious issue that they have some claim too in regards to people copying the stuff straight out of the tab books and then posting it, but to me it seems like the manner in which they are restricting is going beyond their rights. Instead of preventing me from doing that, they are now preventing me from legitimate activity.
Furthermore any band that allows taping at concerts shouldn't be allowed to do this because you could just record what they do and write a tab from that...
Yes this guy should be praised for his honesty of his utter ineptitude. What he should do is recuse himself from the case for someone who knows something. And he should be thanked and rewarded. He should then go take some courses to learn something about the internet. Meanwhile judges who don't admit that they don't know what it is should be hunted down and fired or noted that they are inelligible to serve on any technological case.
Contrary to another poster I don't believe that a lack of being knowledgeble in the field brings about true justice. It means that such a person could easily be confused and misled by the guck that the expert and lawyers present to them. It has nothing to do with bias for the justice side of it, it has to do with not being competant enough on the topic to resolve the issue. More time and money will be wasted in trial getting him a clue then actually on the legal matter at hand. How is that good for anybody? It isn't.
If you ask me this is one more sign that serious reform is needed in the judge system, and the whole "tenure for life" good old boys network of judges is the first target. Though not neccessarily true, they are the most likely to be completely ignorant of technology and to have never bothered to learn what the internet is. What's worse is I'd bet that these are same morons who are letting all the legislation regarding to technology through. I say let's test their general knowledge and have endorsements for highly technical cases involving things such as various facets technology. Why not, they have to study tax law if they want to deal with taxes, they should have to study technology and IP law if they want to rule on stuff with that. From the tests results issue endorsements; if they can't pass a test on technology they can't be assigned a case that hinges upon internet technology very simple.
Would you let a foot doctor give you advice on heart surgery? No. And it's not a superiority thing either, I wouldn't let the cardiac surgeon tell me how to treat my feet other. As long as the issue is dealt with respectfully and judges are forth coming let them stay in the system. But when judges are found to be presiding over cases they dont have the proper knowledge of that should be treated just as unethically as a lawyer neglecting to properly represent a client.
My real question, if he's forthcoming enough to admit his lack of knowledge why not be forthright enough to remove yourself from the case to be replaced by someone who knows it to speed up the case. In our country at least I have a right to a speedy trial, which definately does not include educating a judge on the internet.
It's far time judges, teachers and other public officials were held to the same standards that other workers are in regards to time. Time goes on and new technologies come along as well as new techniques and trends. To be a viable worker we have to keep up with these things, why don't they have to? The tenure systems are crippling us.