Clam is not exactly for windows. Last time I've checked Win Clam was far behind Linux version. Free AVG seems a lot better for Windows, but not open sourced
Harsh punishment for minor offence is not always wise.
During the frirst all-China empire Qin, legalistLi Si held a great power and established harhs penalty for any minor crime. A group of peasants was drafted for labor service. Heavy rains made his group late in reporting for duty. Knowing they would be killed for this offense, the group members decided they had nothing to lose and became an outlaw band. Soon their ranks swelled with thousands of malcontents, making the band of outlaws a sizeable force. Similar uprisings took place simultaneously in other parts of the empire, and empire Qin collapsed.
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At least when you look at other toltaltarian states - i.e. Nazi Germany or USSR, their governments worked with far better efficency and effectiveness than ours at controlling the sheep.
Hmm, I don't see USSR around, but US still here...
At least they don't have to worry about anybody reading "Das Kapital" and believing Marxist economics - it's a really dull read and the economics are transparently bogus
Well, I thought so until RIAA lawsuits, IP lawsuits, patend sharking, and all that big brother staff, but after that I remebered some quotes:
"Property is a form of violence"
"The state is a band of armed people"
And retruning to the Little Red Book:
Political power grow out of the barrel of a gun
In a programmer, I'd rather have a competent person giving me their honest 75-85% effort than a certified genius giving me their half-assed 15-20% effort
The thing is, you need both. Sometimes you need breakthrough solution which requie insight and couldn't be achived by any amount of pure technical work. Also dull, unisnpired persons often produce bloated, overcomplicated code/design and usually not keeping up with latest technology.
Well, modern laptop battery store something around 100 watt-hour. That mean this bucky-ball fuel film should have 1000 square centimeters surface to have the same energy capacity. Into what volume this surface could be packed I have no idea, but if one layer is around 1mm it should be something about the same size and capactity as modern battery.
reasons for the slowness:
a) microkernel architecture
IMO microkernel architecture is a must for smartphone. Relaibility is the first priority for phone. That is why I think Minix would make better emebdded system then Linux.
I'm still waiting for the following devices in cell phones:
1. swiss army knives
2. pencil sharpeners
3. staplers
4. handguns
Smartphone with handgun and camera is really cool idea. Think about long-distance kills. But beware of spyware on your phone ! If some third party trigger handgun while you are speaking... (You can rely on the manufacturers design team that gun barrel will point to your temple while you are speaking)
The more abused the system is, the quicker it will have to be fixed.
Actually many soviet citizens during 1936 Ezhov - Stalin purges thought so. But instead of the return to the semblance of normailty they got 1937 purges and 27 years of Stalin rule.
BTW this Gusev is not related to the hero of the novel Aelita (wiki link to the movie) by Aleksey Tolstoy, who made expedition to Mars. Matvei Gusev was a Russian astronomer of the XIX century [1826-1866].
Sounds like a great OS for mobile devices - PDA, cell phones, camera etc. Stable, small, OS not crushing if some driver fail. Why it was never used for mobiles ?
Or when there's more convergence between desktop/laptop/mobile systems?
There is one thing, which mobile with camera can do and desktop/laptop can not. Mobile with camera is a nautural platform for augmented reality applications, and is a cheap subsitute for wearable display. Mobile can serv as 3d pointing device, display and camera, all in one.
Well it's really funny:)
Embedded Visual C++ is totally free of charge and pain in the ass to use..Net compact is a lot better but is not free. About Symbian - parent correct, Symbain is fragmened into two GUI (s60 and UIQ) and several version of the OS, which are supposed to be completly binary compatible, but in reality not so compatible. And starting from v9 big part of the API closed for unregistered developers. But Symbian market share still growing. Though 83% Symbain users don't use any Symbain features, and only use their smartphone for voice call and SMS.
Write a single application that would run on all Windows systems, or six different ones, each with its own unique quality assurance and support problems?
Seems a little bit oversimplified. I'm not directly affected because I don't use Microsoft software, but I've heard where I work that it takes months to verify if every service pack for Windows will work with existing software. And when I was a Windows developer, we were doing some pretty low level stuff with the authentication subystem, and things were very different between Win 98, 2000, and NT 4 (was that really still around then?). Granted, for a simple GUI app, Windows is very portable across its products, but if you get a little lower into the OS, things get nasty quick.
Can not agree more. Especially if you are developing 3D graphics application. You have to test for several ATI and NVIDIA videocard at least. And even with the same videocard different version of drivers sometimse work different (that is have different bugs and missing features). That is why game developers switching to consoles.
It's not difficalt to develop Open Sourced application for Symbian OS/Linux/Win Mobile 2005 wich would do the same. I've some expirience with image recoginition on Symbian phones, so I know what I'm talking about.
About clicky noise - this kind of application work in movie recording mode. So you don't have to pess button several times - just start application and sweep the phone (slowly preferably)
If only he could redefine Calculus to use simple
algebraic expressions.
Actually that is already done. It's called Nonstandart Analysis and based on indtoduction of rigorously defined infinitesimal numbers. Many clamed that it is more easy to teach then normal calculus. However that approach shift the difficalties from calculus to algebra, though it's clamed that combined difficalty is less.
I think the Numerical Analisis is the only must have form the list. Not for getting the job, but for performing it. Whatever you will do, you will stumble onto floating point sooner or later, and there you have to understand precision, errors, numerical instability, floating point matrices etc. Whatever AI and machine learinig you may need you can learn it yourself. There is not much practically usefull theoretical staff there.
I simply wish developers would package both types of binaries on their game CDs
It seems there is no money in the Linux gaming. Porting to Linux taking some non-trivial effort (most of game using DierctX now, so it is porting form DirectX to OPenGL and SDL/OpenAL for audio) and supporting game for Linux would be more costly then for Windows - Linux 3d drivers usually less stable then DirectX drivers. From the other hand Linux user are not inclined pay for the games - couple of Linux game porting companies gone broken in last years.
However, MS has proven that by ignoring the Windows game devs the past few years that they can't be trusted to help the PC gaming cause anyway.
That is correct. That is why most developers moved to consoles. Windows becoming platform for small, casual games, with occasional port, the same as Mac (not counting MMORPG and multiplayer FPS - they are stay for now).
For now in any OS every window just drawn into render buffer. It has no separate memory area. I suspect that in Vista every window will be treated like a 3d objects with texture in the videomemory (that will allow rotate it, distort, make transperent etc. more easyly), that is each windows in fact drawn into separte area in the videomemory. If you have a lot of windows on the screen you would need a huge amount of videomemory.
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Clam is not exactly for windows. Last time I've checked Win Clam was far behind Linux version. Free AVG seems a lot better for Windows, but not open sourced
Harsh punishment for minor offence is not always wise.
During the frirst all-China empire Qin, legalist Li Si held a great power and established harhs penalty for any minor crime. A group of peasants was drafted for labor service. Heavy rains made his group late in reporting for duty. Knowing they would be killed for this offense, the group members decided they had nothing to lose and became an outlaw band. Soon their ranks swelled with thousands of malcontents, making the band of outlaws a sizeable force. Similar uprisings took place simultaneously in other parts of the empire, and empire Qin collapsed.
reference here
It keep asking password for hera.hardocp.com on firefox
If it would be surgical that would be a real news.
At least when you look at other toltaltarian states - i.e. Nazi Germany or USSR, their governments worked with far better efficency and effectiveness than ours at controlling the sheep.
Hmm, I don't see USSR around, but US still here...
At least they don't have to worry about anybody reading "Das Kapital" and believing Marxist economics - it's a really dull read and the economics are transparently bogus
Well, I thought so until RIAA lawsuits, IP lawsuits, patend sharking, and all that big brother staff, but after that I remebered some quotes:
"Property is a form of violence"
"The state is a band of armed people"
And retruning to the Little Red Book:
Political power grow out of the barrel of a gun
Helium_3
In a programmer, I'd rather have a competent person giving me their honest 75-85% effort than a certified genius giving me their half-assed 15-20% effort
The thing is, you need both. Sometimes you need breakthrough solution which requie insight and couldn't be achived by any amount of pure technical work. Also dull, unisnpired persons often produce bloated, overcomplicated code/design and usually not keeping up with latest technology.
Well, modern laptop battery store something around 100 watt-hour. That mean this bucky-ball fuel film should have 1000 square centimeters surface to have the same energy capacity. Into what volume this surface could be packed I have no idea, but if one layer is around 1mm it should be something about the same size and capactity as modern battery.
I'm wondering if this is how the life spread through the universe....
BTW this Gusev is not related to the hero of the novel Aelita (wiki link to the movie) by Aleksey Tolstoy, who made expedition to Mars. Matvei Gusev was a Russian astronomer of the XIX century [1826-1866].
Sounds like a great OS for mobile devices - PDA, cell phones, camera etc. Stable, small, OS not crushing if some driver fail. Why it was never used for mobiles ?
This hunter is bold man. Kzinti won't forigive killing their recon and hanging his body in such humiliating manner.
Well it's really funny :)
Embedded Visual C++ is totally free of charge and pain in the ass to use. .Net compact is a lot better but is not free. About Symbian - parent correct, Symbain is fragmened into two GUI (s60 and UIQ) and several version of the OS, which are supposed to be completly binary compatible, but in reality not so compatible. And starting from v9 big part of the API closed for unregistered developers. But Symbian market share still growing. Though 83% Symbain users don't use any Symbain features, and only use their smartphone for voice call and SMS.
Can not agree more. Especially if you are developing 3D graphics application. You have to test for several ATI and NVIDIA videocard at least. And even with the same videocard different version of drivers sometimse work different (that is have different bugs and missing features). That is why game developers switching to consoles.
It's not difficalt to develop Open Sourced application for Symbian OS/Linux/Win Mobile 2005 wich would do the same. I've some expirience with image recoginition on Symbian phones, so I know what I'm talking about. About clicky noise - this kind of application work in movie recording mode. So you don't have to pess button several times - just start application and sweep the phone (slowly preferably)
I think the Numerical Analisis is the only must have form the list. Not for getting the job, but for performing it. Whatever you will do, you will stumble onto floating point sooner or later, and there you have to understand precision, errors, numerical instability, floating point matrices etc. Whatever AI and machine learinig you may need you can learn it yourself. There is not much practically usefull theoretical staff there.
For now in any OS every window just drawn into render buffer. It has no separate memory area. I suspect that in Vista every window will be treated like a 3d objects with texture in the videomemory (that will allow rotate it, distort, make transperent etc. more easyly), that is each windows in fact drawn into separte area in the videomemory. If you have a lot of windows on the screen you would need a huge amount of videomemory.