They've just described any PC with an embedded or semi-embedded display and audio I/O. This includes every laptop I've ever seen, and some PCs from the early '80s. Even a PDP-11/23 system from 1970-something with a DAC/ADC board in it. Good luck enforcing that.
Java code is not a program, is it "input provided to the JRE which the JRE then acts upon".
Think of the consequences of applying this consistently. Is your CPU microcoded? Then even machine language is merely data for the microcode. Even on a non-microcode-driven processor, any interpreted or semi-interpreted language (BASH, Python, Ruby, Java, TCL) is just data for the interpreter, as is anything run in an emulator.
Is this a good idea? Maybe. But we should reason it out, first!
...(link) and I don't think you'll be getting many complaints.
In Oz, one of the littlies costs about as much as a copy of XP Pro, plus MS Office, plus Adobe Distiller, plus the per-seat amortised cost of an MS Exchange server.
If you can justify The GIMP as a replacement for PhotoShop, PostgreSQL as a replacement for MS SQL Server, and a few other items along those lines, you can probably contra those costs against the biggest one - or at least, one of those for everyone you really need to impress, and one of the next one down for everybody else. (-: And two of the big ones for the development team (that's you).:-)
Muja power plant in Collie, Western Australia, burns 4 million tonnes of coal each year. The coal contains 3ppm of uranium. Where does all of the U go? The coal is also mined pretty much on the spot. That mining releases radon.
Western Australia would be a far cleaner, lower-radiation place if we built a nuclear reactor, but the squawk that happens when you suggest this is amazing. If a nuke powerplant lost 12 kilos of U, the hullaballoo would be audible in Florida, but a coal-fired station burns 12 tonnes of it every year and there's silence. Go figure.
Oh, yes, and they recently built a second coal-fired powerplant down there. <thwack!>
I think if you're expecting the whole risks and reactions thing to make sense, you could die waiting.
Keep in mind that a typical cellphone emits less than a watt of power and a microwave oven is over a thousand times more powerful.
That's average power only, and IIRC it's about a 2W average. But... the recal pulses from a mobile 'phone can peak at 200W, which is about 1/3 of the total power consumption of a smallish microwave oven, guessing roughly 1/2 of its emitted power. Right next to your brain.
...a few years ago now, I watched a very pretty young lass receive a mobile 'phone call while she tood at a bus shelter nattering with her buddies. She was wearing her mobile phone clipped to the outside of her left front pocket, and her handbag - carried on her left hip - had pushed it as far right as it would go. To get it any closer to her gonads, she'd have to tuck it inside the belt.
It rang.
It was set to vibrate as well as sing.
The handbag was pressing down fairly hard on it.
The yelp was audible for several blocks, and she leapt more than a foot into the air (lucky her, she was standing just outside the bus shelter, else the negative effect on her health would have been fairly immediate).
It all drained back to the sea pretty smartly - taking a lot of flora and buildings with it. To me, that looks like reversible flow.
Given the enormous seafloor displacements at the epicenter, a significant amount of water must have been orizontally displaced to somewhere other then the Indonesian coastlines on a reasonably irreversible basis.
WRT the handle and tagline: What's so special about 262537412640768000? And... There are no barbers.
When MS ship two different office suites, three different 3D editors, three different vector drawing programs, a PhotoShop-class graphics editor, three different SQL databases (no seat charges or limits, natch) and three complete IDEs - each of which targets at least six languages - plus a genuine choice of web browsers and email clients for under AUD$100; then and only then will I start to be impressed by them.
All "one language, any platform" - even Java bytecode, via JRuby and JPython. So in a different way, "any language, any platform". Same story with Mono. Remind me again: why does.NET exist?
I buried one of your turd sandwiches in my garden and all of the plants died. So did the pests living on them. And my neighbours' plants. Can I install a Turd Sandwich Service Pack or something?
Your original ideas all contain significant amounts of my patent rights. Yes, you can patent them, but I'll block you from manufacturing them unless you pay me 20% of the wholesale price at time of manufacture.
If you were any shorter sighted, you'd be crosseyed.
Camera or DSL router or MP3 player or Barcode Reader or Bluetooth Dongle or Flash Stick (identity, homework, personal files)
Yes, FireWire would be handy (e.g for a backup drive or CD/DVD burner), but not as handy as 2 extra USB ports. An XboX with USB2 would be even better, but dear old MS're likely to both overcharge for XboX and make it harder to use for interesting things.
I have not yet seen a genuine use for IR, although I'm sure they're out there.
Yes, the RAM is a big deal and if needed, the XboX can take another 64M by just soldering a chip in.
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Something like Qt or Gtk or wx would be closer to what MFC is supposed to do. Any any of those and a dozen others ace it.
For some reason, I think "MCP" (from Tron) when someone says MFC. Perhaps it's because MFC was one of Microsoft's many lock-in attempts.
They've just described any PC with an embedded or semi-embedded display and audio I/O. This includes every laptop I've ever seen, and some PCs from the early '80s. Even a PDP-11/23 system from 1970-something with a DAC/ADC board in it. Good luck enforcing that.
Java code is not a program, is it "input provided to the JRE which the JRE then acts upon".
Think of the consequences of applying this consistently. Is your CPU microcoded? Then even machine language is merely data for the microcode. Even on a non-microcode-driven processor, any interpreted or semi-interpreted language (BASH, Python, Ruby, Java, TCL) is just data for the interpreter, as is anything run in an emulator.
Is this a good idea? Maybe. But we should reason it out, first!
v, the process of applying for or buying up patents with the intention of blackmailing others rather than protecting your own development.
...(link) and I don't think you'll be getting many complaints.
:-)
In Oz, one of the littlies costs about as much as a copy of XP Pro, plus MS Office, plus Adobe Distiller, plus the per-seat amortised cost of an MS Exchange server.
If you can justify The GIMP as a replacement for PhotoShop, PostgreSQL as a replacement for MS SQL Server, and a few other items along those lines, you can probably contra those costs against the biggest one - or at least, one of those for everyone you really need to impress, and one of the next one down for everybody else. (-: And two of the big ones for the development team (that's you).
...by bidding OpenOffice at USD$25 a seat.
Which morons modded the parent down? Repent! Or get married, and learn what women are really all about. (-:
...to find one of the people involved and get it open sourced - or at least partly so?
...electricity, vulcanism and effects perhaps best classified as "other stuff" (-:.
It's a very tinfoil-hat site, but nevertheless some of the reports and studies they cite are quite real.
Specifically because once killed, a brain-cell stays dead. There's not much replacement going on.
Muja power plant in Collie, Western Australia, burns 4 million tonnes of coal each year. The coal contains 3ppm of uranium. Where does all of the U go? The coal is also mined pretty much on the spot. That mining releases radon.
Western Australia would be a far cleaner, lower-radiation place if we built a nuclear reactor, but the squawk that happens when you suggest this is amazing. If a nuke powerplant lost 12 kilos of U, the hullaballoo would be audible in Florida, but a coal-fired station burns 12 tonnes of it every year and there's silence. Go figure.
Oh, yes, and they recently built a second coal-fired powerplant down there. <thwack!>
I think if you're expecting the whole risks and reactions thing to make sense, you could die waiting.
You didn't even look, did you? Lazy, presumptuous sod! (-:
Note especially the 4th paragraph below the picture of the airliner.
...supporting that assertion?
...a few years ago now, I watched a very pretty young lass receive a mobile 'phone call while she tood at a bus shelter nattering with her buddies. She was wearing her mobile phone clipped to the outside of her left front pocket, and her handbag - carried on her left hip - had pushed it as far right as it would go. To get it any closer to her gonads, she'd have to tuck it inside the belt.
It rang.
It was set to vibrate as well as sing.
The handbag was pressing down fairly hard on it.
The yelp was audible for several blocks, and she leapt more than a foot into the air (lucky her, she was standing just outside the bus shelter, else the negative effect on her health would have been fairly immediate).
It all drained back to the sea pretty smartly - taking a lot of flora and buildings with it. To me, that looks like reversible flow.
Given the enormous seafloor displacements at the epicenter, a significant amount of water must have been orizontally displaced to somewhere other then the Indonesian coastlines on a reasonably irreversible basis.
WRT the handle and tagline: What's so special about 262537412640768000? And... There are no barbers.
When MS ship two different office suites, three different 3D editors, three different vector drawing programs, a PhotoShop-class graphics editor, three different SQL databases (no seat charges or limits, natch) and three complete IDEs - each of which targets at least six languages - plus a genuine choice of web browsers and email clients for under AUD$100; then and only then will I start to be impressed by them.
Goodbye, quirks.
All "one language, any platform" - even Java bytecode, via JRuby and JPython. So in a different way, "any language, any platform". Same story with Mono. Remind me again: why does .NET exist?
I buried one of your turd sandwiches in my garden and all of the plants died. So did the pests living on them. And my neighbours' plants. Can I install a Turd Sandwich Service Pack or something?
Your original ideas all contain significant amounts of my patent rights. Yes, you can patent them, but I'll block you from manufacturing them unless you pay me 20% of the wholesale price at time of manufacture.
If you were any shorter sighted, you'd be crosseyed.
- Keyboard
- Mouse
- Printer and/or Scanner
- Camera or DSL router or MP3 player or Barcode Reader or Bluetooth Dongle or Flash Stick (identity, homework, personal files)
Yes, FireWire would be handy (e.g for a backup drive or CD/DVD burner), but not as handy as 2 extra USB ports. An XboX with USB2 would be even better, but dear old MS're likely to both overcharge for XboX and make it harder to use for interesting things.I have not yet seen a genuine use for IR, although I'm sure they're out there.
Yes, the RAM is a big deal and if needed, the XboX can take another 64M by just soldering a chip in.
Welcome to my addressbook. When this headache expires, it shall be done.