Maybe it was ground breaking at the time, but it doesn't hold up.
It does hold up. The thing with the Beatles is that their songs are so well known that they get obnoxious to relisten after a while. The White Album has some incredible songs in it, but in a sense i've been listening to that album for 28 years. Enough is enough.
I downloaded the first free album just to see if it was worth purchasing. I was extremely disappointed. One song consisted of the same 11 notes played over and over again for 3 minutes. One song had so much distortion it was painful to listen to.
You might prefer other NIN works, with a more "normal" song structure - Downward spiral, Pretty hate machine or With teeth are all good albums and more listenable. I rarely enjoy this kind of ambient music, but this album haunts me (the first track in particular, 01 - Ghosts I, is beautiful), and, for the first time if found myself in the position of wanting to buy a CD of an album i really like that has no CD version available. Don't get me wrong, the downloadable version is damn fine, but i'd like to have a hard copy with printed artwork and everything.
Ran the Nvidia control panel settings, calibration utilities, the Rivatuner stuff, messed with windows fonts and everything I could think of, but something about the image quality was just off, and I couldn't read any text for more than 15 minutes without a headache.
I had the exact same issue with my ViewSonic VX1932wm, and quickly found out the monitor had an option for sharpness adjustment in its menu. Eye strain is gone, and the display looks fantastic.
Maybe i'm wrong, but i'm positive a campfire DOES NOT convert mass to energy - you're just releasing chemical energy from the atomic bonds as heat. You're left with as much mass as when you started, only in a different form. If you could convert mass to energy in a campfire you'd see a lot of small mushroom clouds in the countryside:)
No way a judge will allow this lawsuit, much less grant it class-action status. Imagine the precedent this would set. I could sue Motorola because my older cell phone doesn't have all the features that their latest ones have. I could sue Toyota because a newer year/model of my car has more features. Etc. etc.
Your older cellphone is still able to make phone calls. This guy bought a $400 Blu-ray player and found out that some newer Blu-ray titles won't play on it, so, understandably, he's pissed. The nerve!
Creating a fairly strong PRNG is easy - get a seed, and hash it with a few different algorithms (MD5, SHA-512, Whirlpool, etc). Extract a number of bits as your pseudorandom output and then use the whole output as a new seed for the process. You can get fancy with the seed and keeping internal states to change the hashing ordering.
I think this position understates the incentives to attack Linux, because, quite frankly, virtually everything actually important infrastructure-wise runs on a UNIX-alike nowadays (VMS holdouts withstanding), and now it seems clear that with the possible exception of Solaris that all UNIX-alikes except Linux are in their death throes.
By offloading the processing from a mobile device onto a server, there are few limits on the size and processing power available to be used for the storage and search of images
That's like saying my TV set at home can be called a miniature television studio.
None of the transceivers on the towers right now talk in the 700 MHz spectrum. The existing ones can't simply be retuned to do it; we're talking about radio antennas here.
Exactly. Even if you reuse TV antenae/transmission stations, it's still a shitload of money - again, for what purpose?
If people will pay crazy prices for an iPhone, I don't see why they'll be reluctant to buy a GPhone that can do more for less money.
Because an iPhone is, after all, a cellphone. A fancy one, but still a cellphone, which adheres to stablished standarts. What makes it useable is the countless cell towers and networks deployed all over the world. 700Mhz would be a lousy carrier for phone signals (ever tried to set up a TV antenna inside your home?), with huge infrastructure costs and available only on the US!
Fine, but deploying a wireless communication network in a brand new band takes money. A LOT of money, since you aren't building over previous infrastructures (Google is worth arround 700 millon dollars, versus the several billons for established telcos).
And deploying is not the only issue - you have to provide each recipient with a receiver. Since 700MHz was commonly used for TV, there's no current devices intended for those purposes in that band. Teletext is the closest you can get, but it works over an analog TV signal, and its functionality is obsolete; you're better off using the Internet.
Again, the technology is here and it's available. It's just not economicaly feasible, and all for what? Delivering ads?
Whereas Sun gave away their crown jewels, IBM won't even give away their garbage
IBM is the friendly giant to open source, but only because they make money out of it. Don't get me wrong, i think it's great - both parties are clearly benefited. But, with the same line of thinking, you can't expect them to release everything as opensource just because they're not making money out of it. Specially OS/2, for which Microsoft provided a lot of code under license in order to increase interoperability.
Except when it's been JIT compiled to native code. And except when it's translated by hardware directly into microcode, which is the same thing that happens to "native" code on the same platform.
No, JustInTime is nice and dandy, but as long as there's a program converting bytecode to native code, your code is still interpreted, which is done at runtime. It's simple, if your CPU can't execute the code directly without a third party, you're interpreting it for it. The way in which you interpret is irrelevant.
That's ridiculous. Where did you pull that silly strawman from? Looking back to the GP, he says that for 10% of the tasks he has faced, Java isn't a suitable replacement for C or C++. Why don't you look over this thread and find someone willing to profess that belief?
No, the GP said there are certain tasks for which only C makes sense currently, which is true. This can be interpreted as Java being suitable to replace altogheter compiled languages in every other task, which is wrong, hence my comment - based on MY personal experience. My wording was poor in that last post, but you're reading too much into it.
I'd even bet that the first few implementations of Java were written in C/C++.
Heck, i'd bet all Jav implementations are written in C/C++!!!
Come on, Java is a nice language - an interpreted language (yes, bytecode has to be interpreted). The notion that Java can is a suitable C/C++ replacement for everything but drivers is sadly common, and flawed.
I don't think Microsoft does much hardware in-house anyway - it's all just badge engineering.
Indeed. The problem is that while their computer hardware can be normally considered mid to high-end (reflected on the price when compared to alternatives), the XBox360 is a complex, high tech device sold at a loss, which means they will cut every possible corner in order to reduce manufacturing costs. Happened a lot with the Playstations 1 and 2, IIRC.
But anyway, my point is that Microsoft can make (or sell:) decent hardware. It just was not the case with the 360.
Actually, Microsofts' hardware is top notch, or atleast it used to be - it's been quite a few years since i bought something from them. Mice, trackballs and keyboards were particularly good.
But really, I'm disappointed. How many millions of dollars and how much waiting just to see more photos of a vaguely spherical object with lots of cratering. This is not the 90s folks. They really need to make flashier pictures if they want to get the public interest.
This is an interesting point. The Messenger probe was sent to do science, not to get flashy pictures for NASAs' PR department. Yet, most people wouldn't give a damn without their new desktop wallpapers, and public interest is necesary to get funding. Most of those lovely fake color/composite pictures of nebulae and such are fairly useless for anything else than looking cool (and they do:).
Anyway, i found those pictures very interesting, and i know i'm not alone. Thing is, most people are sadly used to images from planet probing, even when those pictures involve impressive technical feats. In that sense, maybe we're a bit overdue for a manned mission to another planet (Mars?).
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Maybe it was ground breaking at the time, but it doesn't hold up.
It does hold up. The thing with the Beatles is that their songs are so well known that they get obnoxious to relisten after a while. The White Album has some incredible songs in it, but in a sense i've been listening to that album for 28 years. Enough is enough.
With Sun opening up Java, its time to reconsider the use of a VM to draw our desktops. I'll have some of what you're smoking, thank you.
Same here. I get a 60/100 on Opera 9.50b1 (i686, Linux 2.6.23).
I downloaded the first free album just to see if it was worth purchasing. I was extremely disappointed. One song consisted of the same 11 notes played over and over again for 3 minutes. One song had so much distortion it was painful to listen to.
You might prefer other NIN works, with a more "normal" song structure - Downward spiral, Pretty hate machine or With teeth are all good albums and more listenable. I rarely enjoy this kind of ambient music, but this album haunts me (the first track in particular, 01 - Ghosts I, is beautiful), and, for the first time if found myself in the position of wanting to buy a CD of an album i really like that has no CD version available. Don't get me wrong, the downloadable version is damn fine, but i'd like to have a hard copy with printed artwork and everything.
Ran the Nvidia control panel settings, calibration utilities, the Rivatuner stuff, messed with windows fonts and everything I could think of, but something about the image quality was just off, and I couldn't read any text for more than 15 minutes without a headache.
I had the exact same issue with my ViewSonic VX1932wm, and quickly found out the monitor had an option for sharpness adjustment in its menu. Eye strain is gone, and the display looks fantastic.
Maybe i'm wrong, but i'm positive a campfire DOES NOT convert mass to energy - you're just releasing chemical energy from the atomic bonds as heat. You're left with as much mass as when you started, only in a different form. If you could convert mass to energy in a campfire you'd see a lot of small mushroom clouds in the countryside :)
Google bidding in the FCC bandwidth auction in progress + balloon-based cell transceivers + dark fiber = cheap new national cell network for Android.
That wouldn't be exactly cheap, or even practical. Besides being only applicable in the US.
No way a judge will allow this lawsuit, much less grant it class-action status. Imagine the precedent this would set. I could sue Motorola because my older cell phone doesn't have all the features that their latest ones have. I could sue Toyota because a newer year/model of my car has more features. Etc. etc.
Your older cellphone is still able to make phone calls. This guy bought a $400 Blu-ray player and found out that some newer Blu-ray titles won't play on it, so, understandably, he's pissed. The nerve!
Creating a fairly strong PRNG is easy - get a seed, and hash it with a few different algorithms (MD5, SHA-512, Whirlpool, etc). Extract a number of bits as your pseudorandom output and then use the whole output as a new seed for the process. You can get fancy with the seed and keeping internal states to change the hashing ordering.
I think this position understates the incentives to attack Linux, because, quite frankly, virtually everything actually important infrastructure-wise runs on a UNIX-alike nowadays (VMS holdouts withstanding), and now it seems clear that with the possible exception of Solaris that all UNIX-alikes except Linux are in their death throes.
And of all those, no one is more dead than *BSD!
By offloading the processing from a mobile device onto a server, there are few limits on the size and processing power available to be used for the storage and search of images
That's like saying my TV set at home can be called a miniature television studio.
Muse. I have all of this band's albums, non-DRM, CD distribution.
:)
Shit man. I'm sorry.
(j/k!
None of the transceivers on the towers right now talk in the 700 MHz spectrum. The existing ones can't simply be retuned to do it; we're talking about radio antennas here. Exactly. Even if you reuse TV antenae/transmission stations, it's still a shitload of money - again, for what purpose? If people will pay crazy prices for an iPhone, I don't see why they'll be reluctant to buy a GPhone that can do more for less money. Because an iPhone is, after all, a cellphone. A fancy one, but still a cellphone, which adheres to stablished standarts. What makes it useable is the countless cell towers and networks deployed all over the world. 700Mhz would be a lousy carrier for phone signals (ever tried to set up a TV antenna inside your home?), with huge infrastructure costs and available only on the US!
Sorry, i missed on my numbers by far :) Google is worth arround 18 billon. Then again, AT&T had three times that on revenues last year.
That's an interesting point, but if it's an interesting band for telcos to use you can bet they'll try to bid them for themselves.
Fine, but deploying a wireless communication network in a brand new band takes money. A LOT of money, since you aren't building over previous infrastructures (Google is worth arround 700 millon dollars, versus the several billons for established telcos).
And deploying is not the only issue - you have to provide each recipient with a receiver. Since 700MHz was commonly used for TV, there's no current devices intended for those purposes in that band. Teletext is the closest you can get, but it works over an analog TV signal, and its functionality is obsolete; you're better off using the Internet.
Again, the technology is here and it's available. It's just not economicaly feasible, and all for what? Delivering ads?
but I really don't see any reason why Google couldn't get serious and really try to bid for some air space
I see this posted a lot, and i still don't get it. What could Google possibly use the 700MHz band for? Even as an investment it makes little sense.
Whereas Sun gave away their crown jewels, IBM won't even give away their garbage
IBM is the friendly giant to open source, but only because they make money out of it. Don't get me wrong, i think it's great - both parties are clearly benefited. But, with the same line of thinking, you can't expect them to release everything as opensource just because they're not making money out of it. Specially OS/2, for which Microsoft provided a lot of code under license in order to increase interoperability.
Except when it's been JIT compiled to native code. And except when it's translated by hardware directly into microcode, which is the same thing that happens to "native" code on the same platform.
No, JustInTime is nice and dandy, but as long as there's a program converting bytecode to native code, your code is still interpreted, which is done at runtime. It's simple, if your CPU can't execute the code directly without a third party, you're interpreting it for it. The way in which you interpret is irrelevant.
That's ridiculous. Where did you pull that silly strawman from? Looking back to the GP, he says that for 10% of the tasks he has faced, Java isn't a suitable replacement for C or C++. Why don't you look over this thread and find someone willing to profess that belief?
No, the GP said there are certain tasks for which only C makes sense currently, which is true. This can be interpreted as Java being suitable to replace altogheter compiled languages in every other task, which is wrong, hence my comment - based on MY personal experience. My wording was poor in that last post, but you're reading too much into it.
Sorry about the grammar errors - i need to check twice before submitting :(
I'd even bet that the first few implementations of Java were written in C/C++.
Heck, i'd bet all Jav implementations are written in C/C++!!!
Come on, Java is a nice language - an interpreted language (yes, bytecode has to be interpreted). The notion that Java can is a suitable C/C++ replacement for everything but drivers is sadly common, and flawed.
I don't think Microsoft does much hardware in-house anyway - it's all just badge engineering.
:) decent hardware. It just was not the case with the 360.
Indeed. The problem is that while their computer hardware can be normally considered mid to high-end (reflected on the price when compared to alternatives), the XBox360 is a complex, high tech device sold at a loss, which means they will cut every possible corner in order to reduce manufacturing costs. Happened a lot with the Playstations 1 and 2, IIRC.
But anyway, my point is that Microsoft can make (or sell
Actually, Microsofts' hardware is top notch, or atleast it used to be - it's been quite a few years since i bought something from them. Mice, trackballs and keyboards were particularly good.
But really, I'm disappointed. How many millions of dollars and how much waiting just to see more photos of a vaguely spherical object with lots of cratering. This is not the 90s folks. They really need to make flashier pictures if they want to get the public interest.
:).
This is an interesting point. The Messenger probe was sent to do science, not to get flashy pictures for NASAs' PR department. Yet, most people wouldn't give a damn without their new desktop wallpapers, and public interest is necesary to get funding. Most of those lovely fake color/composite pictures of nebulae and such are fairly useless for anything else than looking cool (and they do
Anyway, i found those pictures very interesting, and i know i'm not alone. Thing is, most people are sadly used to images from planet probing, even when those pictures involve impressive technical feats. In that sense, maybe we're a bit overdue for a manned mission to another planet (Mars?).
I can't wait for them to rewrite it in Java!