I'd love to see what this will lead to. Flash games are all good but when you see freakin' QUAKE running in your browser window, all the possibilities suddenly hit home.
JOGL has allowed hardware-accelerated 3D in your browser for years. Jake2 is the port of Quake2--arguably much more intensive than Quake--and that already runs in an applet.
The technology has been there, but no one is using it.
Pencil & paper.
Boot time appears almost instantaneous.
Very handy for jotting down an idea or two.
Battery doesn't run out.
I keep a pencil+paper on the door of my fridge, so it's always easy to find.
For storage, I use "back pocket of jeans" until I can upload it somewhere permanent.
I would have to agree with this. I carry a pen and 3x5 notepad in my pocket. It's convenient to jot down ideas AND diagrams. If you need to give a number or e-mail to someone, you can just rip a page out.
My dad's a CFO and he carries 3x5 cards around with him. He uses a PDA, but for most things, pen and paper is tried and test. No boot up times, very fast, dynamic. I'm a programmer, too, but most of my code editing ideas can be summarized instead of coded immediately. I'm assuming if you boot up to a small speedy OS, you're not trying to run the code then and there anyway.
I enjoyed the article and thought it was layed out well. THe only thing I didn't like was his opinion on the eye candy under the section "Desktop Alternatives". He states 3D is faster than 2D. This just isn't true at all. Mathematically, if you are doing 2D mappings, all you computations are two coordinates to multiply. In 3D, you have three to multiply. He says using 3D will give faster results than 2D for doing filters and mappings, but all those calculations can be done in 2D. I think he's implying 3D means hardware and 2D means software, which I didn't like. It's like the X and many GUI developers agree, 3D isn't of very good use. No one has tried to lay their papers out on a desk in 3D to help organize things. If something shouldn't be seen, you put it behind something else. Even simple things like transparency haven't become popular. Screen scaling is a 2D algorithm. There's no 3D about it, unless your rendering a 2D image into 3D then scaling it, but if you were doing that, you might as well just use the 2D image and scale that instead.
This was an article posted on slashdot a while back about cooling a PC by immersing in in mineral oil, I believe. Although it was covered in the web page, I bet it's pretty sound-insulated by natural viscosity of the oil.
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I'd love to see what this will lead to. Flash games are all good but when you see freakin' QUAKE running in your browser window, all the possibilities suddenly hit home.
JOGL has allowed hardware-accelerated 3D in your browser for years. Jake2 is the port of Quake2--arguably much more intensive than Quake--and that already runs in an applet. The technology has been there, but no one is using it.
Pencil & paper. Boot time appears almost instantaneous. Very handy for jotting down an idea or two. Battery doesn't run out. I keep a pencil+paper on the door of my fridge, so it's always easy to find. For storage, I use "back pocket of jeans" until I can upload it somewhere permanent.
I would have to agree with this. I carry a pen and 3x5 notepad in my pocket. It's convenient to jot down ideas AND diagrams. If you need to give a number or e-mail to someone, you can just rip a page out. My dad's a CFO and he carries 3x5 cards around with him. He uses a PDA, but for most things, pen and paper is tried and test. No boot up times, very fast, dynamic. I'm a programmer, too, but most of my code editing ideas can be summarized instead of coded immediately. I'm assuming if you boot up to a small speedy OS, you're not trying to run the code then and there anyway.
I enjoyed the article and thought it was layed out well. THe only thing I didn't like was his opinion on the eye candy under the section "Desktop Alternatives". He states 3D is faster than 2D. This just isn't true at all. Mathematically, if you are doing 2D mappings, all you computations are two coordinates to multiply. In 3D, you have three to multiply. He says using 3D will give faster results than 2D for doing filters and mappings, but all those calculations can be done in 2D. I think he's implying 3D means hardware and 2D means software, which I didn't like. It's like the X and many GUI developers agree, 3D isn't of very good use. No one has tried to lay their papers out on a desk in 3D to help organize things. If something shouldn't be seen, you put it behind something else. Even simple things like transparency haven't become popular. Screen scaling is a 2D algorithm. There's no 3D about it, unless your rendering a 2D image into 3D then scaling it, but if you were doing that, you might as well just use the 2D image and scale that instead.
Aquarium Full of Oil For PC Cooling
This was an article posted on slashdot a while back about cooling a PC by immersing in in mineral oil, I believe. Although it was covered in the web page, I bet it's pretty sound-insulated by natural viscosity of the oil.