Java does have native compilers, not by Sun though. When you native compile you loose some of the on the fly debugging capabilities of java, sometimes even dynamic class loading.
I dont care about resolution enough to go buy a new player and new media for movies. I found myself switching to DVD's (and CD's for the same concept) because they didn't wear out like our old magnetic tape VHS. VHS are not tolerant to heat at all. Try moving with a VHS collection in the summer. In only a short time you'll have ruined movies. VHS tend to survive children better than DVDs however.
I went to a small private college (St. Vincent College, Latrobe, PA). There we had a software engineer class and a senior project. The software engineer class varies a little from year to year, but the professor in charge has been working software internships, or volunteer IT/software work for the community. One of the volunteer projects was a rather complex access data base with front end for a nursing home to keep track of poeple, events, family, etc. The class work itself taught software engineer, process, requirements, etc, and the work was almost entirely out of class. The senior project was usually a self design sollution to a problem, similar to software engineering, but done with less guidance and more freedom (you didn't have to work in a group and you had designed your own project). Software engineering was more "real world" becuase you didnt' have much choice on what to do (there were 3 projects, but still). And you HAD to work with who ever ended up on the project with you.
The whole "speed of light thing" is rather confusing. As you approach the speed of light the distance between two points becomes shorter from the perspective of the object making the trip. So if you went to a distant planet at near the speed of light, and it was say 50 light years away, depending on how close to the speed of light you traveled, you may only experience a 20 year trip. Mean while, everyone back here would have aged 50 some years. If you were going 99.99999999999% the speed of light, you would only experience something like a 10 minute trip. the 50 light years, would collapse to about 10 miles as you approached the speed of light. (These values are not calculated, but they show the concept) When they went to the moon they weren't going very close to the speed of light at all... however they used two clocks as an experiment. Both were set at the same time before launch, when they returned from the moon the clock that traveled was a couple minutes behind the other. The astronauts experienced less time than we did. So it is quite literally true that the faster you travel the shorter the trip.
The problem with Least Recently Use or LRU, is that the least recently used may be the next to be used. As far as I know, the basis of most the swap algorithms is a random selection followed by a few simple test to guess if the page is going to be used soon. On average "random" performs better than LRU. If you don't believe me, read the algorithm and try some by hand.
The only problem with emulating multiple systems on one system is that it is ONE system. If he wanted to test how different systems can interact with each other, it will be completely different if the systems are actually one. ie, connecting to another system that is really a system will be much faster than connecting to another REAL system. I don't think any genre of software dev. was mentioned, so this may or may not apply.
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Java does have native compilers, not by Sun though. When you native compile you loose some of the on the fly debugging capabilities of java, sometimes even dynamic class loading.
Unless its hypnotoad and its going to control our minds! Thats pretty terrifying.
Cig? No thanks I'm trying to quit.
I dont care about resolution enough to go buy a new player and new media for movies. I found myself switching to DVD's (and CD's for the same concept) because they didn't wear out like our old magnetic tape VHS. VHS are not tolerant to heat at all. Try moving with a VHS collection in the summer. In only a short time you'll have ruined movies. VHS tend to survive children better than DVDs however.
I went to a small private college (St. Vincent College, Latrobe, PA). There we had a software engineer class and a senior project. The software engineer class varies a little from year to year, but the professor in charge has been working software internships, or volunteer IT/software work for the community. One of the volunteer projects was a rather complex access data base with front end for a nursing home to keep track of poeple, events, family, etc. The class work itself taught software engineer, process, requirements, etc, and the work was almost entirely out of class. The senior project was usually a self design sollution to a problem, similar to software engineering, but done with less guidance and more freedom (you didn't have to work in a group and you had designed your own project). Software engineering was more "real world" becuase you didnt' have much choice on what to do (there were 3 projects, but still). And you HAD to work with who ever ended up on the project with you.
The whole "speed of light thing" is rather confusing. As you approach the speed of light the distance between two points becomes shorter from the perspective of the object making the trip. So if you went to a distant planet at near the speed of light, and it was say 50 light years away, depending on how close to the speed of light you traveled, you may only experience a 20 year trip. Mean while, everyone back here would have aged 50 some years. If you were going 99.99999999999% the speed of light, you would only experience something like a 10 minute trip. the 50 light years, would collapse to about 10 miles as you approached the speed of light. (These values are not calculated, but they show the concept) When they went to the moon they weren't going very close to the speed of light at all... however they used two clocks as an experiment. Both were set at the same time before launch, when they returned from the moon the clock that traveled was a couple minutes behind the other. The astronauts experienced less time than we did. So it is quite literally true that the faster you travel the shorter the trip.
The problem with Least Recently Use or LRU, is that the least recently used may be the next to be used. As far as I know, the basis of most the swap algorithms is a random selection followed by a few simple test to guess if the page is going to be used soon. On average "random" performs better than LRU. If you don't believe me, read the algorithm and try some by hand.
The only problem with emulating multiple systems on one system is that it is ONE system. If he wanted to test how different systems can interact with each other, it will be completely different if the systems are actually one. ie, connecting to another system that is really a system will be much faster than connecting to another REAL system. I don't think any genre of software dev. was mentioned, so this may or may not apply.