True, but if you're always reinstalling the OS, then you should really look at doing a slipstream where you can put whatever drivers/patches you want on the slipstream cd so that you don't have to go through the windows update cycle.
In relation to this I think that the value of older macs will drop assuming that Apple refreshes their computer linup more often. Given that intel brings upgrades to their chips multiple times peryear as opposed to once or twice a year like IBM/Motorola. Apple should be able to do the same. Which will make the prices of older Macs drop faster.
Are you trying to say that programmers need to use their intuition more when programming? That the code need more emotion, more feeling, and less hard cold logic or something?
If you're going to use a pre compiler, why not use one that has some real power, like Velocity from apache? All precompiling sucks imo, but it is better then the alternative.
but I want distance and low power. 11Mbps is great for me, I just want it to go further and get that bandwith constantly. 240 Max sounds great on paper, but that's in a lab or some other type of ideal conditions. Not in the real world where you have to deal with other people's wireless phones, microwaves, 802.xxx routers, etc. Where I live there are over 4 wireless networks that I can see. Are they telling me with a straight face that I will get 240 Mbps in that kind of condition ? I don't think so. I would much rather have a wireless technology that uses almost no power and goes further but has lower bandwith then that, and uses as little radio spectrum so that I'm not getting kicked off when someone else turns on their wireless phone.
The only reason I think it's not funny is because it hits too close to what might happen. Most of his ideas are actually kinda good. People would like a porn optimized OS, or rather a device that is optimized to view, categorize and sort your porn.
Kiddie edition would be great for many house holds, at least one that comes pre-crippiled so that you can't goto the sites that are in the porn edition.
Window management on both suck. Though at least windoes makes it easier to use one window per screen.
though do you 'tile vertically' windows from 2 different apps in windows? I didn't think that it was possible. The best you get is 2 windows from the same app or multiple sub windows in the same app when in MDI.
In the mac, I want to be able to resize from any side, like in windows ( maybe this could be a command/option drag, I dunno). On windows I want to be able to break out of MDI ( since there are many times that mdi doesn't cut it, especially if you have multiple monitors).
Well even at my company, we run multiple Unix (redhat based x86 machines) where one good unix machine would work fine. So I guess as long as you are talking about only x86 based servers or something like that then you could make a fair comparison. But you can buy a good unix (AIX,Solaris) that will not go down easily due to hardware failure.
True, but most of the better designed unix boxes, be them AIX, Solaris, Etc... All have ways to run one and only one box where most (if not all) the components are hot swappable.
Unix doesn't keep the hardware from failing, but it is more of an option to run it on high end hardware. Windows doesn't support the high end hardware as well as some Unixes. If only because windows is younger and is not integrated with the hardware in the same way.
you need like 3-5 windows boxes to equal one good unix server?
MS themselves reccommends that you have multiple boxes incase one fails. Especially because most of the boxes that run windows do not support any sort of failover if RAM, CPU or PCI card failure. So yeah, if you need to have multiple nines in the uptime of your site, then you will need multiple boxes to handles that.
Number of boxes sold != number of services in any way shape of form.
[i]If this is happening to your Windows machine, it is broken. Get it fixed.[/i]
Not true, it's expected that if you leave your machine alone for a long time then it will decide to pause once you touch it again. Especially because in today's corporate environment we all have to use virus scanners. Which cause whatever you were doing on your computer to swap out to disk during your absence when it does its virus scans. Since Windows is over agressive with swapping out inactive programs to make room for the newest task.
There are fixes, but Windows is much worse about swapping in from disk then any other operating system. Or maybe it's just that it always runs on complete crap hardware and that's what we are really seeing. I've never run Windows on 'nice' hardware. It might be a different experience.
Cocoa is not the 'proper' OS X framework, it's just one of many that work. Carbon is still supported and will continue to be supported for a long time. Cocoa is only 32-bit and will continue to be for a while yet.
All the 'Core' technologies don't have counterparts on Windows. CoreData, CoreAudio, CoreVideo,etc. Even quicktime on windows is a hack compared to how quicktime on OS X is integrated with the OS services. Using coredata for your data model in future OS X applications will make implementing things like undo almost free.
OS level integrated scripting? OS X has this, where is it on Windows? Sure, some applications support it, but most Windows applicatons are not scriptable while most are on OS X. This is because the OS X frameworks make it easier to implement. ( and it's better integrated with the system )
One can't really call os x a generation ahead, but it does have many of the 'features' that MS says that it is implementing in Longhorn (and currently don't exist in XP).
But why should you have to keep switching distros? Linux's greatest weakness is that as a user, you have to always keep on top of the latest advancements, you can't just install your box and easily update it. Well, sometimes you can, but you have to figure out exactly what combonations of hardware are supported correctly, which packages you can and cannot install, etc.
I've screwed my linux install up too many times. I'm not a super user, but I would like to think I'm not an idiot either. Most of the time I screwed it up trying to compile and install software too. It's not the easiest thing in the world always. Especially when you're trying to do things like upgrade your gcc, libc or other primary libraries. I've learned the hard way that the best way to do that is to start from scratch which is shitty IMO.
I just want to be able to install software and hardware without a degree in unix sysop. No recompiling, no changing binary ABIs, no weird binary only/ half source driver for the X server. An X server that didn't cost as much as Windows/OS X to get a fully supported graphics card would be nice as well. Linux does not 'just work' and until it does, my comments like this will be rated a troll and people will not switch. (Not that people will start switching then, but at least they will have a reason)
True, generally you don't need a real sysop to install hardware. But what about your random piece of hardware that 'works on windows' but has no driver or even worse, the 'experimental' driver in linux. I have a psx controller adaptor that lets you plug a Playstation controller into your PC. Doesn't work at all under linux last I checked (barely under windows). However it still works in Windows.
for me to stay away from linux. Compatibility is the largest problem I had with linux when I used it and it still is. Sigh, things haven't changed in 5 years?
Meh, you are buying it FOR THE PS2, FOR THE XBOX or FOR THE PC. It's not like they made a version that runs on all three and are just charging an absorbant amount for that one.
All 3 games are different, just because they contain 99% the same content doesn't mean that they are not different in some way.
It's not like they are being sneaky about it with regard to what you are getting (pc version / xbox version / etc...)
As far as your VHS vs DVD argument goes, I don't see the problem for paying twice for the same movie. Since you are getting something, a physical disc or tape. I guess that you also want them to replace your VHS tape when you watch it so many times that it becomes fuzzy and grainy, huh?
You're not forced to buy the product.
If there are any complaints about DVD vs VHS it should be that there is no reason that DVDs should still cost more then VHS did since the fixed cost per unit is much cheaper for DVDs then it is for VHS. It's crazy that movies that very few people buy ( aka Manos Hands of Fate) sell for 5-7 dollars at Borders while the newest movie release from disney, MGM, Sony costs $20+. Yes, the new releases have more DVD options then the el cheapo DVD, but one cannot argue that those options have enough value to TRIPLE the cost of the DVD.
Wireless controllers are amazing. I mean really really amazing.
Doing a 4 player game like bomberman, f-zero, mario kart, is so much easier. Even 2-player games are more fun due to less tangle of cords.
Take this to the next level where I believe Nintendo is going with their DS product. Which is basically a wavebird with 2 screens built in. Now you have something that is truely amazing. You have 2 screens and 2 more cpus per player. Just to add more to the game. Inventory management in RPGs? on the ds ( now with drag and drop ). Extra hints and tips for the handicapped players? Put them on the DS. You could make a game that you play all on the DS, but connects up to the console via wi-fi so that others can watch the action. Since watching 4 people on their dses is no fun since you can't see the screen. Maybe the console could also server a large game world of sorts as well? I dunno, the possibilities are very endless once you have multiples of everything.
X-Box/PS3 are looking to be amazing consoles but they are focused on delivering the next level of the same thing.
Nintendo is at least trying to do the next great thing. They may not do it, but it's a risk I think that they need to take if they want to be back on top, or at least not seen as a third place contender.
Right, which means nothing because the only part of the signal that will effect water is the part of the signal that is resonating at 2450Mhz. Just because you are broadcasting in that range doesn't mean that the water in your body will be effected anymore then normally.
You probably absorb more radation standing in front of your microwave waiting for the popcorn to stop popping then if you were to use a bluetooh headset. Though I don't know for sure. I do know that microwaves put out hundreds of watts of power and bluetooth is in the milliwatt range.
a) The Compiler actually doesn't infer the correct type most of the time but usually takes the literal and type converts it. Usually at compile time, but not always.
b) Nowhere did you say float var = 0.0f; System.println(var);//prints infinity.
Since if that were true, then how in the world would he code you posted work? Was it a bug in the way that the PrintStream wrote the float? That might to have been the problem.
How did you know that the value of your float was exactly 0.0f (that number is representable in IEEE floating point)?
so that you and the compiler are sure that you are using the right value for 0 (in floating point)
And if you are concerned with fp error, then you should actually use a less then comparison like
if ( Math.abs(var) THRESHOLD )
where threshold is a very small number like 1E-20 or something (enough for your purpose). Since floating point calculations have error and it can build over multiple operations.
http://www.dsprelated.com/showmessage/25885/1.ph p
You do realize that the whole reason that Transmeta's processor works well at all is because it's hopelessly optimized for emulating x86 instructions. And their software took years to write and it still is not 100% correct. (they still have some bugs in the x86 emulation) It's not going to be easy to do such a thing and at the end of the day what would be the advantage of running emulation at that level when you can just run a user level process to emulate a PIC, or ultrasparc or whatever you want?
I don't see the point of being able to boot into a random chip because you also have to emulate the entire computer, not just the cpu.
Even if you could emulate an ultrasparc cpu, you can't just throw it into a PC case and boot solaris, you have to use an actual SUN computer that has the right video, network and ide cards in it otherwise you'll have a broken machine. There are lots of little things that will cause the machine to break. The cpu is the heart of a computer, but it's not the only piece. They all have to fit together or it won't work. Just like you can't go and install a copy of OSX on a motherboard for the MorphOS (you can, but it's through an emulation layer, Mac on Linux) It's not at the kernel level.
The point is that other operting systems say that you CAN have those applications open. It won't effect the install at all. In enterprise class computing, risks are minimized.
In any enterprise class computing system, everything is redundant and replacable. Computers don't reboot because that means they are not working during the reboot. This is unacceptable for enterprise class computing.
That example is not so great IMO, because for sorting with the comparable interface, most of the time it's not a good idea to make the objects actually know how to compare between all the different types. AKA if 2-Wheeled and 4-Wheeled vehicles both extend Vehicle, then 2-Wheeled shouldn't know about 4-Wheeled. Instead you should make a Comparator that can sort between 2 and 4 wheeled vehicles, and when your new 3-wheeled vehicle comes along then you modify your ONE comparator. For convienence sake, I usually stick the comparator instances in the base class (Vehicle) and name them such that nobody is confused as to what they can actually compare (getAllVehicleComparatorByWheels, getCarComparatorByColor, get2And4WheelComparatorByWeight,... )
Interfaces are great, but most people don't know how to use them.
MI simply doesn't work, when casting the same object to a different type causes different methods to be called with the same signature, then you have problems... aka Object o = new MI(); ((Type1)o).call();// returns 1 ((Type2)o).call();// returns 2 This shouldn't happen because it's confusing, to the API designer, to the user of an object etc.
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True, but if you're always reinstalling the OS, then you should really look at doing a slipstream where you can put whatever drivers/patches you want on the slipstream cd so that you don't have to go through the windows update cycle.
In relation to this I think that the value of older macs will drop assuming that Apple refreshes their computer linup more often. Given that intel brings upgrades to their chips multiple times peryear as opposed to once or twice a year like IBM/Motorola. Apple should be able to do the same. Which will make the prices of older Macs drop faster.
Are you trying to say that programmers need to use their intuition more when programming? That the code need more emotion, more feeling, and less hard cold logic or something?
If you're going to use a pre compiler, why not use one that has some real power, like Velocity from apache? All precompiling sucks imo, but it is better then the alternative.
but I want distance and low power. 11Mbps is great for me, I just want it to go further and get that bandwith constantly. 240 Max sounds great on paper, but that's in a lab or some other type of ideal conditions. Not in the real world where you have to deal with other people's wireless phones, microwaves, 802.xxx routers, etc. Where I live there are over 4 wireless networks that I can see. Are they telling me with a straight face that I will get 240 Mbps in that kind of condition ? I don't think so. I would much rather have a wireless technology that uses almost no power and goes further but has lower bandwith then that, and uses as little radio spectrum so that I'm not getting kicked off when someone else turns on their wireless phone.
The only reason I think it's not funny is because it hits too close to what might happen. Most of his ideas are actually kinda good. People would like a porn optimized OS, or rather a device that is optimized to view, categorize and sort your porn.
Kiddie edition would be great for many house holds, at least one that comes pre-crippiled so that you can't goto the sites that are in the porn edition.
Window management on both suck. Though at least windoes makes it easier to use one window per screen.
though do you 'tile vertically' windows from 2 different apps in windows? I didn't think that it was possible. The best you get is 2 windows from the same app or multiple sub windows in the same app when in MDI.
In the mac, I want to be able to resize from any side, like in windows ( maybe this could be a command/option drag, I dunno). On windows I want to be able to break out of MDI ( since there are many times that mdi doesn't cut it, especially if you have multiple monitors).
Well even at my company, we run multiple Unix (redhat based x86 machines) where one good unix machine would work fine. So I guess as long as you are talking about only x86 based servers or something like that then you could make a fair comparison. But you can buy a good unix (AIX,Solaris) that will not go down easily due to hardware failure.
True, but most of the better designed unix boxes, be them AIX, Solaris, Etc... All have ways to run one and only one box where most (if not all) the components are hot swappable.
Unix doesn't keep the hardware from failing, but it is more of an option to run it on high end hardware. Windows doesn't support the high end hardware as well as some Unixes. If only because windows is younger and is not integrated with the hardware in the same way.
you need like 3-5 windows boxes to equal one good unix server?
MS themselves reccommends that you have multiple boxes incase one fails. Especially because most of the boxes that run windows do not support any sort of failover if RAM, CPU or PCI card failure. So yeah, if you need to have multiple nines in the uptime of your site, then you will need multiple boxes to handles that.
Number of boxes sold != number of services in any way shape of form.
[i]If this is happening to your Windows machine, it is broken. Get it fixed.[/i]
Not true, it's expected that if you leave your machine alone for a long time then it will decide to pause once you touch it again. Especially because in today's corporate environment we all have to use virus scanners. Which cause whatever you were doing on your computer to swap out to disk during your absence when it does its virus scans. Since Windows is over agressive with swapping out inactive programs to make room for the newest task.
There are fixes, but Windows is much worse about swapping in from disk then any other operating system. Or maybe it's just that it always runs on complete crap hardware and that's what we are really seeing. I've never run Windows on 'nice' hardware. It might be a different experience.
So it still takes a day to install software? That's really user friendly.
Cocoa is not the 'proper' OS X framework, it's just one of many that work. Carbon is still supported and will continue to be supported for a long time. Cocoa is only 32-bit and will continue to be for a while yet.
All the 'Core' technologies don't have counterparts on Windows. CoreData, CoreAudio, CoreVideo,etc. Even quicktime on windows is a hack compared to how quicktime on OS X is integrated with the OS services. Using coredata for your data model in future OS X applications will make implementing things like undo almost free.
OS level integrated scripting? OS X has this, where is it on Windows? Sure, some applications support it, but most Windows applicatons are not scriptable while most are on OS X. This is because the OS X frameworks make it easier to implement. ( and it's better integrated with the system )
One can't really call os x a generation ahead, but it does have many of the 'features' that MS says that it is implementing in Longhorn (and currently don't exist in XP).
You're planning on upgrading your libc on a 400Mhz machine?
Ok, see you in a week or so. That's a rather large chore.
But why should you have to keep switching distros? Linux's greatest weakness is that as a user, you have to always keep on top of the latest advancements, you can't just install your box and easily update it. Well, sometimes you can, but you have to figure out exactly what combonations of hardware are supported correctly, which packages you can and cannot install, etc.
I've screwed my linux install up too many times. I'm not a super user, but I would like to think I'm not an idiot either. Most of the time I screwed it up trying to compile and install software too. It's not the easiest thing in the world always. Especially when you're trying to do things like upgrade your gcc, libc or other primary libraries. I've learned the hard way that the best way to do that is to start from scratch which is shitty IMO.
I just want to be able to install software and hardware without a degree in unix sysop. No recompiling, no changing binary ABIs, no weird binary only/ half source driver for the X server. An X server that didn't cost as much as Windows/OS X to get a fully supported graphics card would be nice as well. Linux does not 'just work' and until it does, my comments like this will be rated a troll and people will not switch. (Not that people will start switching then, but at least they will have a reason)
True, generally you don't need a real sysop to install hardware. But what about your random piece of hardware that 'works on windows' but has no driver or even worse, the 'experimental' driver in linux. I have a psx controller adaptor that lets you plug a Playstation controller into your PC. Doesn't work at all under linux last I checked (barely under windows). However it still works in Windows.
for me to stay away from linux. Compatibility is the largest problem I had with linux when I used it and it still is. Sigh, things haven't changed in 5 years?
Meh, you are buying it FOR THE PS2, FOR THE XBOX or FOR THE PC. It's not like they made a version that runs on all three and are just charging an absorbant amount for that one.
All 3 games are different, just because they contain 99% the same content doesn't mean that they are not different in some way.
It's not like they are being sneaky about it with regard to what you are getting (pc version / xbox version / etc...)
As far as your VHS vs DVD argument goes, I don't see the problem for paying twice for the same movie. Since you are getting something, a physical disc or tape. I guess that you also want them to replace your VHS tape when you watch it so many times that it becomes fuzzy and grainy, huh?
You're not forced to buy the product.
If there are any complaints about DVD vs VHS it should be that there is no reason that DVDs should still cost more then VHS did since the fixed cost per unit is much cheaper for DVDs then it is for VHS. It's crazy that movies that very few people buy ( aka Manos Hands of Fate) sell for 5-7 dollars at Borders while the newest movie release from disney, MGM, Sony costs $20+. Yes, the new releases have more DVD options then the el cheapo DVD, but one cannot argue that those options have enough value to TRIPLE the cost of the DVD.
Wireless controllers are amazing. I mean really really amazing.
Doing a 4 player game like bomberman, f-zero, mario kart, is so much easier. Even 2-player games are more fun due to less tangle of cords.
Take this to the next level where I believe Nintendo is going with their DS product. Which is basically a wavebird with 2 screens built in. Now you have something that is truely amazing. You have 2 screens and 2 more cpus per player. Just to add more to the game.
Inventory management in RPGs? on the ds ( now with drag and drop ).
Extra hints and tips for the handicapped players? Put them on the DS.
You could make a game that you play all on the DS, but connects up to the console via wi-fi so that others can watch the action. Since watching 4 people on their dses is no fun since you can't see the screen. Maybe the console could also server a large game world of sorts as well? I dunno, the possibilities are very endless once you have multiples of everything.
X-Box/PS3 are looking to be amazing consoles but they are focused on delivering the next level of the same thing.
Nintendo is at least trying to do the next great thing. They may not do it, but it's a risk I think that they need to take if they want to be back on top, or at least not seen as a third place contender.
Right, which means nothing because the only part of the signal that will effect water is the part of the signal that is resonating at 2450Mhz. Just because you are broadcasting in that range doesn't mean that the water in your body will be effected anymore then normally.
You probably absorb more radation standing in front of your microwave waiting for the popcorn to stop popping then if you were to use a bluetooh headset. Though I don't know for sure. I do know that microwaves put out hundreds of watts of power and bluetooth is in the milliwatt range.
a) The Compiler actually doesn't infer the correct type most of the time but usually takes the literal and type converts it. Usually at compile time, but not always.
//prints infinity.
b) Nowhere did you say
float var = 0.0f;
System.println(var);
Since if that were true, then how in the world would he code you posted work? Was it a bug in the way that the PrintStream wrote the float? That might to have been the problem.
How did you know that the value of your float was exactly 0.0f (that number is representable in IEEE floating point)?
but even that's not quite right.
h p
you should at least do a comparison like
if ( var == 0f)
so that you and the compiler are sure that you are using the right value for 0 (in floating point)
And if you are concerned with fp error, then you should actually use a less then comparison like
if ( Math.abs(var) THRESHOLD )
where threshold is a very small number like 1E-20 or something (enough for your purpose). Since floating point calculations have error and it can build over multiple operations.
http://www.dsprelated.com/showmessage/25885/1.p
You do realize that the whole reason that Transmeta's processor works well at all is because it's hopelessly optimized for emulating x86 instructions. And their software took years to write and it still is not 100% correct. (they still have some bugs in the x86 emulation) It's not going to be easy to do such a thing and at the end of the day what would be the advantage of running emulation at that level when you can just run a user level process to emulate a PIC, or ultrasparc or whatever you want?
I don't see the point of being able to boot into a random chip because you also have to emulate the entire computer, not just the cpu.
Even if you could emulate an ultrasparc cpu, you can't just throw it into a PC case and boot solaris, you have to use an actual SUN computer that has the right video, network and ide cards in it otherwise you'll have a broken machine. There are lots of little things that will cause the machine to break. The cpu is the heart of a computer, but it's not the only piece. They all have to fit together or it won't work. Just like you can't go and install a copy of OSX on a motherboard for the MorphOS (you can, but it's through an emulation layer, Mac on Linux) It's not at the kernel level.
The point is that other operting systems say that you CAN have those applications open. It won't effect the install at all. In enterprise class computing, risks are minimized.
In any enterprise class computing system, everything is redundant and replacable. Computers don't reboot because that means they are not working during the reboot. This is unacceptable for enterprise class computing.
are you a pro photographer?
What model of camera are you useing that generates pictures that large?
That example is not so great IMO, because for sorting with the comparable interface, most of the time it's not a good idea to make the objects actually know how to compare between all the different types. AKA if 2-Wheeled and 4-Wheeled vehicles both extend Vehicle, then 2-Wheeled shouldn't know about 4-Wheeled. Instead you should make a Comparator that can sort between 2 and 4 wheeled vehicles, and when your new 3-wheeled vehicle comes along then you modify your ONE comparator. For convienence sake, I usually stick the comparator instances in the base class (Vehicle) and name them such that nobody is confused as to what they can actually compare (getAllVehicleComparatorByWheels, getCarComparatorByColor, get2And4WheelComparatorByWeight, ... )
// returns 1 // returns 2
Interfaces are great, but most people don't know how to use them.
MI simply doesn't work, when casting the same object to a different type causes different methods to be called with the same signature, then you have problems...
aka
Object o = new MI();
((Type1)o).call();
((Type2)o).call();
This shouldn't happen because it's confusing, to the API designer, to the user of an object etc.