It must be nice to be cringely. Just make a different totally random prediction every week, and you'll be hailed as a visionary because just by the law of averages at least some of your predictions will turn out to be true, sort of, eventually.
To be fair to him he makes fairly specific predictions, for a specific timeframes (although he clarified a few 2005 predictions because delays burnt predictions from 2004), and he sets out his reasoning for his speculation. His reasoning is sound, and his prediction definite, so-much-so that if there isn't a major announcement about Apple and streaming movies with Sony and Mini-Mac, in the next 3-12 months, he'll have to write this prediction off. That's pretty tough.
Firstly thanks, I'm going to work on something to auto-histogram and separate them.
Secondly, do you have tech info on these? Times they were taken, height, angle/pixel, tilt of each image in the triplet?
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Simple example, Gedit, an extremly basic text-editor takes 4-5 seconds to load on a 1Ghz Athlon
Interesting that you picked on startup latency, this probably depends mostly on the system and compiler libraries that the App loads, and these probably contain a lot of stuff that the app doesn't need, plus layers of legacy--read already optimized in days of slower processors--functions that the app needs, like string inserts and find functions.
Added to this Gedit is a GUI app on Linux, and GUI isn't mature yet there, so there's probably lots of debug code loaded when those libraries are implemented.
Slightly straying, I can remember when you could watch the Mac OS go through all its window drawing and region invalidating routines, and you could click and type ahead, knowing what order the events would go through and what objects they would be sent to. That doesn't get honoured any more--when I really load up firefox, and press control-tab then click, then before the system can react, left-click, this is interpreted as a control click. Maybe this is optimized for fast computers, or maybe it's buggy code, I don't know.
I totally agree. In the first case, it's like BASIC, in that it's interpreted. The first think you can learn is echo ''. It's like BASIC's print command (I can't remember what it's called), and it won't confuse beginners by requiring brackets around the input, just quote marks.
Variables can be easily understood, because they have a $ sign in front of them ("Dollar means value, son").
There's no GOTO, but you could probably introduce loops with the backwards do.. while loop. It would be easier to understand, because you start it with just a simple command, and do the hard concept stuff at the end. Try
$i=1; do { echo $i; echo '<br>'; $i = $i+1; } while ($i < 10);
The browser is then your compiler.
The hard part would be explaining why you need to put <br> at the end of your lines--but you can always do it from the command line. And you'd want to disable all filesystem functions for an education environment.
According to your government, Operation Iraqi Freedom was to bring greater democracy to the world, not kill Iraqis, although some deaths on both sides were acceptable (otherwise they wouldn't have gone to war).
You may not be a troll, but you just made George W Bush look smarter.
Yeah, when I read that (site admin stating that they did not have illegal software) my first thought was "You guys are so going down!".
It's like arguing "No, I didn't kill the guy, I pressed the trigger which then lead to a series of mechanical and chemical events totally unrelated to me which resulted in the bullet penetrating his body".
I believe I read about Bittorrent when it was still theoretical, and the guy behind it claimed it could get around all copyright laws because the content was peer-distributed, with only the meta-file needing to be centrally hosted, and it was possible that nobody had a working version of the data, just little bits, but the work in its entirety was still available.
Perhaps you should ask your software vendor to make a more standards compliant browser?
I've been through this before on webdesignforums. It's an endless argument, but basically IE chooses not to support all of CSS, but a fairly sizeable subset, and there's lots of cool things in the CSS IE misses out on.
I've concluded that since IE represents 90-95% of the browser market, it is the defacto standard. That's a trap that open standards like CSS can fall into. Saying "but IE isn't standards complient" is common, but only really makes sense to people who say the same thing.
The only thing this chip is good for is proving Intel can make millions oF transistors at 65nm.
Also, DRAM uses capacitors for bits which are smaller and cheaper than transistor RAM (called SRAM).
I believe the big announcement here is about the smaller transistors, not about the RAM chip. A RAM chip is probably the simplest non-trivial (useful) circuit that uses millions of transistors. It shows that the underlying transistor technology works en masse.
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It must be nice to be cringely. Just make a different totally random prediction every week, and you'll be hailed as a visionary because just by the law of averages at least some of your predictions will turn out to be true, sort of, eventually.
To be fair to him he makes fairly specific predictions, for a specific timeframes (although he clarified a few 2005 predictions because delays burnt predictions from 2004), and he sets out his reasoning for his speculation. His reasoning is sound, and his prediction definite, so-much-so that if there isn't a major announcement about Apple and streaming movies with Sony and Mini-Mac, in the next 3-12 months, he'll have to write this prediction off. That's pretty tough.
... has been slashdotted.
I've got some mirrors of raw images.
Firstly thanks, I'm going to work on something to auto-histogram and separate them.
Secondly, do you have tech info on these? Times they were taken, height, angle/pixel, tilt of each image in the triplet?
Simple example, Gedit, an extremly basic text-editor takes 4-5 seconds to load on a 1Ghz Athlon
Interesting that you picked on startup latency, this probably depends mostly on the system and compiler libraries that the App loads, and these probably contain a lot of stuff that the app doesn't need, plus layers of legacy--read already optimized in days of slower processors--functions that the app needs, like string inserts and find functions.
Added to this Gedit is a GUI app on Linux, and GUI isn't mature yet there, so there's probably lots of debug code loaded when those libraries are implemented.
Slightly straying, I can remember when you could watch the Mac OS go through all its window drawing and region invalidating routines, and you could click and type ahead, knowing what order the events would go through and what objects they would be sent to. That doesn't get honoured any more--when I really load up firefox, and press control-tab then click, then before the system can react, left-click, this is interpreted as a control click. Maybe this is optimized for fast computers, or maybe it's buggy code, I don't know.
Variables can be easily understood, because they have a $ sign in front of them ("Dollar means value, son").
There's no GOTO, but you could probably introduce loops with the backwards do
The browser is then your compiler.
The hard part would be explaining why you need to put <br> at the end of your lines--but you can always do it from the command line. And you'd want to disable all filesystem functions for an education environment.
A 12.0 on the other hand, with 160,000,000,000,000 tons of tnt energy, would break the hearth in half.
And finally the southern hemisphere could become a planet in its own right!
The U.S. will donate $35 million. Let's see...
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= $8,647,058 - spent to kill each Iraqi
According to your government, Operation Iraqi Freedom was to bring greater democracy to the world, not kill Iraqis, although some deaths on both sides were acceptable (otherwise they wouldn't have gone to war).
You may not be a troll, but you just made George W Bush look smarter.
I do these myself:
Front View
Back view
The impact site
Misc junk just to left of above image
Highly brightened image to show inner heatshield material (looks kinda black).
They usually send down enough data to construct a colour image, but it invovles at least 3 shots with different filters.
Yeah, when I read that (site admin stating that they did not have illegal software) my first thought was "You guys are so going down!".
It's like arguing "No, I didn't kill the guy, I pressed the trigger which then lead to a series of mechanical and chemical events totally unrelated to me which resulted in the bullet penetrating his body".
I believe I read about Bittorrent when it was still theoretical, and the guy behind it claimed it could get around all copyright laws because the content was peer-distributed, with only the meta-file needing to be centrally hosted, and it was possible that nobody had a working version of the data, just little bits, but the work in its entirety was still available.
Perhaps you should ask your software vendor to make a more standards compliant browser?
I've been through this before on webdesignforums. It's an endless argument, but basically IE chooses not to support all of CSS, but a fairly sizeable subset, and there's lots of cool things in the CSS IE misses out on.
I've concluded that since IE represents 90-95% of the browser market, it is the defacto standard. That's a trap that open standards like CSS can fall into. Saying "but IE isn't standards complient" is common, but only really makes sense to people who say the same thing.
The only thing this chip is good for is proving Intel can make millions oF transistors at 65nm.
Also, DRAM uses capacitors for bits which are smaller and cheaper than transistor RAM (called SRAM).
I believe the big announcement here is about the smaller transistors, not about the RAM chip. A RAM chip is probably the simplest non-trivial (useful) circuit that uses millions of transistors.
It shows that the underlying transistor technology works en masse.