I have a son of four years old and have been a coder/designer/architect for many years. The irregular hours that are typical of my coding phases are very difficult for me to fit in with family life. My wife is a great person but has no clue about the mind of a coder! And I cannot explain the habit of working 14 hours a day for three weeks and then working half days for the next three. I try to work at night when her and my son are asleep.
I tend to agree with you as most ui intensive apps I have tried in Java are slow. However I would be interested to know what then is a good class of app for Java. I like the Java programming language a lot and would be interested to know what others consider a good target app.
Whilst I don't dispute that there could in theory be "jetspeed" java programs, I have to point out that in my experience Eclipse is not one of them. I recently thought I would give it a spin having heard good things about it and on my 2.7 Ghz 512MB XP system it was a complete dog. I am now back to Scite as my main development "IDE" and much happier!
If you use von Neuman architecture to do this mapping you still will not get consciousness. Thats because there is something else going on in the brain, possibly to do with quantum effects, that todays computers just cannot emulate no matter how powerful. As I said previously, I think you need a complete new design.
I am willing to bet that this will NEVER happen with the current von Neuman design of computers which is basically what Nielsen thinks will still be the norm in 2034.
You need a differnt design to get consciusness (whatever that is).
I had the same experience as you. I really tried hard to hear a difference, and when listening to music, one should be relaxed and not trying to find flaws! I concluded that from now on I will encode at 128kbps MP3 whereas before I was encoding at 320kbps. I can now fit so much more on a CD-R! I even set up my own test where I took a piece of music I know really well and did a test at 128, 256 and 320 against the wav file. I personally cannot tell the difference. Maybe I am just lucky!
I took the test and it was exactly as your indicated best way. In other words, you had to identify which of the encodings most closely matches the original (blinded of course).
Maybe my ears are bad but I could not tell a difference in any of the samples which was really an eye opener for me. All along I have been encoding at 320kbps. Ever since taking the test I saved a huge amount on CD-Rs by encoding at 128.
The discovery channel? Are you serious? While some of their "documentaries" are entertaining and even educational, I have seen a great many that are not objective. For example, I spent 10 years living in Botswana and 25 years living in South Africa and all the "documantaries" from Discovery in those two countries are NOT objective. But please note that I am not suggesting Discovery is "evil" in any way, just that they are trying to increase viewership.
But 8 bytes per sec over a modem IS more than 64 bits per sec as each byte is transmitted with two stop bits and 1 parity bit (possibly more, depending on the implementation).
I have looked at the screenshots and film clips of project looking glass and I fail to see the benefit of rotating windows other than as some novelty eye candy. By the way there was a program that used to cause OS/2 windows to do a similar thing.
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I have a son of four years old and have been a coder/designer/architect for many years. The irregular hours that are typical of my coding phases are very difficult for me to fit in with family life. My wife is a great person but has no clue about the mind of a coder! And I cannot explain the habit of working 14 hours a day for three weeks and then working half days for the next three. I try to work at night when her and my son are asleep.
And don't forget that Lotus also failed even before Corel with eSuite, not only a word processor but an entire office suite.
I tend to agree with you as most ui intensive apps I have tried in Java are slow. However I would be interested to know what then is a good class of app for Java. I like the Java programming language a lot and would be interested to know what others consider a good target app.
Whilst I don't dispute that there could in theory be "jetspeed" java programs, I have to point out that in my experience Eclipse is not one of them. I recently thought I would give it a spin having heard good things about it and on my 2.7 Ghz 512MB XP system it was a complete dog. I am now back to Scite as my main development "IDE" and much happier!
You mean It really raises the question. There was some bandwidth recently on /. about the difference between begging and raising the question!
If you use von Neuman architecture to do this mapping you still will not get consciousness. Thats because there is something else going on in the brain, possibly to do with quantum effects, that todays computers just cannot emulate no matter how powerful. As I said previously, I think you need a complete new design.
I am willing to bet that this will NEVER happen with the current von Neuman design of computers which is basically what Nielsen thinks will still be the norm in 2034. You need a differnt design to get consciusness (whatever that is).
I predict that within the next 5 years your computer will talk to your car and fridge. It is even theoretically possible today.
I had the same experience as you. I really tried hard to hear a difference, and when listening to music, one should be relaxed and not trying to find flaws! I concluded that from now on I will encode at 128kbps MP3 whereas before I was encoding at 320kbps. I can now fit so much more on a CD-R! I even set up my own test where I took a piece of music I know really well and did a test at 128, 256 and 320 against the wav file. I personally cannot tell the difference. Maybe I am just lucky!
I took the test and it was exactly as your indicated best way. In other words, you had to identify which of the encodings most closely matches the original (blinded of course). Maybe my ears are bad but I could not tell a difference in any of the samples which was really an eye opener for me. All along I have been encoding at 320kbps. Ever since taking the test I saved a huge amount on CD-Rs by encoding at 128.
You are right and it would be great to have an open standard "WinFS" that all platforms implement. Any chance of that happening?
The discovery channel? Are you serious? While some of their "documentaries" are entertaining and even educational, I have seen a great many that are not objective. For example, I spent 10 years living in Botswana and 25 years living in South Africa and all the "documantaries" from Discovery in those two countries are NOT objective. But please note that I am not suggesting Discovery is "evil" in any way, just that they are trying to increase viewership.
Actually I think the concept of WinFS is very cool. If they get it right I may choose LH over a GNU/Linux based OS.
But 8 bytes per sec over a modem IS more than 64 bits per sec as each byte is transmitted with two stop bits and 1 parity bit (possibly more, depending on the implementation).
I didn't know that. I love it. any other tips?
>The rest of the population is mostly content with dial-up
How do you know this?
Whats worse is that many users don't change the default paper size to A4 and then wonder why the print preview has bigger margins than the hard copy.
I have looked at the screenshots and film clips of project looking glass and I fail to see the benefit of rotating windows other than as some novelty eye candy.
By the way there was a program that used to cause OS/2 windows to do a similar thing.