Personnally I think real-looking actors are relatively far into the future. Sure you can make monsters and beasts for TV at the moment but humans don't look too good, especially at the movies. I haven't come across a film where they make CG human characters walk realistically for example.
Moreover I don't think even realistically looking humans would put actors out of business. Cinema has not killed theatre any more than TV killed radio.
Lets take the example of LoTR. Here's a film with a huge lot of CG, a large part of which spent on Gollum. There is still a human actor who play it even though he was replaced with CG in post-production. Also this for this film, far from relying exclusively on CG for the scenery, they went as far as physically re-creating most of the locations (Rivendell, Weathertop, etc), same for the costumes, the weapons, everything. For realistically looking stuff nothing beats reality.
Finally, in SW2 I thought the CG looked crap. Give me the 1980's SW5 plastic models anyday. If with the best current technology can offer even CG machines look cheap and poorly done it's going to be a long way for humans.
Here in Australia they have little cottages just next to the nursery which feel a lot more like home than the ward. If anything goes wrong you are right next door to the theatre.
Difficult deliveries are not uncommon and there is a degree of risk involved. If you live not far from the hospital and the midwife is competent the risk is pretty minimal though. Basically something needs to be done if the delivery is not progressing and the baby is getting distressed (frantic heartbeat, miconium (sp?) showing up, etc).
Also the first delivery usually is hardest and longest. The first baby has to light the way...
IIRC, the US ambassador to Iraq was told in late 1990 of an imminent attack of Kuwait, and was asked did the US have any problem with it? (at the time Iraq was an US ally). She did not report the problem and replied in uncertain terms that were interpreted incorrectly by S. Hussein.
This was widely reported in the US press. The ambassador lost her job.
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Believe it or not a lot of people think they already spend way too much time in front of the box watching adds and crappy programs.
For most of what TV has to offer HDTV is of strictly zero use. Who wants to see talk show hosts in such high definition that you start noticing the hair in their nose?
DVDs are a different matter. As many have noticed, they are very popular now and it is worth getting a large set to view them better.
Depending on the trajectory of the asteroid, it migh t be worse. If the asteroid is moving in the same apparent direction as the night sky, then its speed will actually be 15+8 = 23 degrees per hour. If if is moving in the opposite direction then it will be 17-8=7 degrees per hour. Most probably it will be something in between.
You will have to do the 8degree/h adjustment if your telescope normally tracks stars by itself (if it has an equatorial mount with a motor for example).
So anyway, with a telescope, knowing where to look the asteroid should be unmistakable.
Because the C++ ABI is _really_hard_ to get right. In the current case of course there was a design phase of the ABI that was as complete as possible, but in the course of the implementation some bugs were discovered that made compilation of some valid code impossible.
In the O'Reilly series there are lots of truly excellent books, and quite a few lemons. For a truly horrible few check their RCS/SCCS offering or their C++ books.
Yes, I think you need a book that'll teach you this `algorithm'. Yes it's part of the top 10 and you are likely to use it in each and every one of your GUI programs deep inside a couple of do/while loops.
OK,so you're a Java programmer, fine, continue to use it, no worries there.
Reasons for using C/C++ include complete control over execution, deterministic behaviour of application and raw speed. For memory allocation in C++ malloc() is no longer necessary, use , , etc. The reason why C++ does not have a standard garbage collector is that the ISO committee thought that adding one would hamper performances too much for little return.
FYI C and C++ actually have an ISO/ANSI standard, so does C, unlike Java. The last revision of C was in 1999 and it includes variable length array (VLAs). Personally I will not touch Java for anything important until it is standardised.
You are right about a standard GUI though, that would be nice. However existing GUIs aren't `standard'. The difference in the way of thinking and in general appearance between, say, MacOS/X and Windows is still big. Sure they both have buttons, dialogs and lists but the similarity end pretty quick. If you wanted an advanced application that looked native and worked on both you would be severely limited in your choice of widgets.
It might also be a good idea to point to *really bad* reference books out there, so that you don't get confused.
My "favourite" in this category is the O'Reilly `practical C++ programming' book by S.Oualine. While the book reads fine enough it is completely out of date (published 1995!) and does not refer to standard C++ in any way.
The truly appaling fact is that it is just about the only C++ book available from O'Reilly. This publishing house has such a good reputation that a lot of people have picked up this book assuming it would be good also. I can't believe O'Reilly doesn't have a more recent C++ book given the importance of this language.
I O'Reilly has a policy that they don't want to keep up to date with C++ they should pull this book out their collection. At the moment it only confuses people.
The title refers to the choice mythic hero Achilles was offered by the Gods: to have a short but glorious life as opposed to a long and peaceful but anonymous one.
In 1991 you could buy a NeXT workstation, which is the equivalent of today's MacOS/X. The rest of your comment is correct, but for user friendliness that O/S is still unmatched.
At least here in Australia the big CSIRO-owned Parkes radio-telescope (also a 70-m dish, featured in the recent movie `the Dish') supplements the NASA DSN when needed. Last time I visited the site they were communicating with the Galileo Jupiter probe.As far as I know this antenna is well maintained, as it is also used for radio-astronomy research.
Java is *not* fast. It maybe acceptable if you are on a supported platform with a good performance native compiler or a fast JIT. Neither of these are usually free. The only real free hope is GCJ and it's dog slow right now.
For some projects the speed of Java is not the issue, fine. This is not the case in every industry where a project can be rejected by a client if it is to slow by a factor of 10%.
To succeed everywhere java needs a free fast compiler, it has already won where speed does not matter but it not about to displace C++ everywhere else.
The US is the richest country in the world and is also the most polluting (check your facts). These are the two main reasons why the US *has* to lead.
China, with 5 times as many people, is only #2. Imagine if China polluted as much per capita as does the US? It is in the interest of everybody including the US to start polluting less.
Itanium compilers have been around for quite a while already. The gcc back end for Itanium has reasonable integer performance for example (and very poor floating point performance).
If you run RedHat on Itanium you can pick up your optimizing compiler on Intel's site right now:
However current Itanium performance with either of these compilers is not very good. It's hard to say
whether it is because of the poor hardware implementation or of the lack of optimization in the compiler.
Probably both.
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Personnally I think real-looking actors are relatively far into the future. Sure you can make monsters and beasts for TV at the moment but humans don't look too good, especially at the movies. I haven't come across a film where they make CG human characters walk realistically for example.
Moreover I don't think even realistically looking humans would put actors out of business. Cinema has not killed theatre any more than TV killed radio.
Lets take the example of LoTR. Here's a film with a huge lot of CG, a large part of which spent on Gollum. There is still a human actor who play it even though he was replaced with CG in post-production. Also this for this film, far from relying exclusively on CG for the scenery, they went as far as physically re-creating most of the locations (Rivendell, Weathertop, etc), same for the costumes, the weapons, everything. For realistically looking stuff nothing beats reality.
Finally, in SW2 I thought the CG looked crap. Give me the 1980's SW5 plastic models anyday. If with the best current technology can offer even CG machines look cheap and poorly done it's going to be a long way for humans.
1- Are you having any fun in your job?
2- I hear some patent applications are in the several hundreds of pages long, how do you assess those?
3- Are you secretly working on a new theory of everything?
Here in Australia they have little cottages just next to the nursery which feel a lot more like home than the ward. If anything goes wrong you are right next door to the theatre.
Difficult deliveries are not uncommon and there is a degree of risk involved. If you live not far from the hospital and the midwife is competent the risk is pretty minimal though. Basically something needs to be done if the delivery is not progressing and the baby is getting distressed (frantic heartbeat, miconium (sp?) showing up, etc).
Also the first delivery usually is hardest and longest. The first baby has to light the way...
IIRC, the US ambassador to Iraq was told in late 1990 of an imminent attack of Kuwait, and was asked did the US have any problem with it? (at the time Iraq was an US ally). She did not report the problem and replied in uncertain terms that were interpreted incorrectly by S. Hussein.
This was widely reported in the US press. The ambassador lost her job.
Believe it or not a lot of people think they already spend way too much time in front of the box watching adds and crappy programs.
For most of what TV has to offer HDTV is of strictly zero use. Who wants to see talk show hosts in such high definition that you start noticing the hair in their nose?
DVDs are a different matter. As many have noticed, they are very popular now and it is worth getting a large set to view them better.
Depending on the trajectory of the asteroid, it migh t be worse. If the asteroid is moving in the same apparent direction as the night sky, then its speed will actually be 15+8 = 23 degrees per hour. If if is moving in the opposite direction then it will be 17-8=7 degrees per hour. Most probably it will be something in between.
You will have to do the 8degree/h adjustment if your telescope normally tracks stars by itself (if it has an equatorial mount with a motor for example).
So anyway, with a telescope, knowing where to look the asteroid should be unmistakable.
Because the C++ ABI is _really_hard_ to get right.
In the current case of course there was a design phase of the ABI that was as complete as possible, but in the course of the implementation some bugs were discovered that made compilation of some valid code impossible.
The only way around this is to change the ABI.
In the O'Reilly series there are lots of truly excellent books, and quite a few lemons. For a truly horrible few check their RCS/SCCS offering or their C++ books.
Yes, I think you need a book that'll teach you this `algorithm'. Yes it's part of the top 10 and you are likely to use it in each and every one of your GUI programs deep inside a couple of do/while loops.
Please get some perspective.
OK,so you're a Java programmer, fine, continue to use it, no worries there.
Reasons for using C/C++ include complete control over execution, deterministic behaviour of application and raw speed. For memory allocation in C++ malloc() is no longer necessary, use , , etc. The reason why C++ does not have a standard garbage collector is that the ISO committee thought that adding one would hamper performances too much for little return.
FYI C and C++ actually have an ISO/ANSI standard, so does C, unlike Java. The last revision of C was in 1999 and it includes variable length array (VLAs). Personally I will not touch Java for anything important until it is standardised.
You are right about a standard GUI though, that would be nice. However existing GUIs aren't `standard'. The difference in the way of thinking and in general appearance between, say, MacOS/X and Windows is still big. Sure they both have buttons, dialogs and lists but the similarity end pretty quick. If you wanted an advanced application that looked native and worked on both you would be severely limited in your choice of widgets.
There may be no slowdown for you but that may not be true in all cases.
Moreover using GC does not protect you from off-by-one addressing type of error, which Valgrind is designed to help you with.
Hi,
It might also be a good idea to point to *really bad* reference books out there, so that you don't get confused.
My "favourite" in this category is the O'Reilly `practical C++ programming' book by S.Oualine. While the book reads fine enough it is completely out of date (published 1995!) and does not refer to standard C++ in any way.
The truly appaling fact is that it is just about the only C++ book available from O'Reilly. This publishing house has such a good reputation that a lot of people have picked up this book assuming it would be good also. I can't believe O'Reilly doesn't have a more recent C++ book given the importance of this language.
I O'Reilly has a policy that they don't want to keep up to date with C++ they should pull this book out their collection. At the moment it only confuses people.
> the well-deserved backlash against the French
Tell me again why American people are under-appreciated around the world?
Microsoft has stopped offering new service packs for NT4.0. The last service pack was 6.0a. This information is dated July 2001.
Achilles' Choice, by Larry Niven & Stephen Barnes
The title refers to the choice mythic hero Achilles was offered by the Gods: to have a short but glorious life as opposed to a long and peaceful but anonymous one.
In 1991 you could buy a NeXT workstation, which is the equivalent of today's MacOS/X. The rest of your comment is correct, but for user friendliness that O/S is still unmatched.
At least here in Australia the big CSIRO-owned Parkes radio-telescope (also a 70-m dish, featured in the recent movie `the Dish') supplements the NASA DSN when needed. Last time I visited the site they were communicating with the Galileo Jupiter probe.As far as I know this antenna is well maintained, as it is also used for radio-astronomy research.
Re-read yourself:
1- [...] $1k on Microsofts tool set means nothing to me.
2- [...] exhorbitant costs ($1900 for enterprise) every 6 months
So $1.0k is nothing but $1.9k is exhorbitant. Do you
have anything in between?
Java is *not* fast. It maybe acceptable if you are on a supported platform with a good performance native compiler or a fast JIT. Neither of these are usually free. The only real free hope is GCJ and it's dog slow right now.
For some projects the speed of Java is not the issue, fine. This is not the case in every industry where a project can be rejected by a client if it is to slow by a factor of 10%.
To succeed everywhere java needs a free fast compiler, it has already won where speed does not matter but it not about to displace C++ everywhere else.
The US is the richest country in the world and
is also the most polluting (check your facts). These
are the two main reasons why the US *has* to lead.
China, with 5 times as many people, is only #2. Imagine if China polluted as much per capita as
does the US? It is in the interest of everybody
including the US to start polluting less.
In this case the stupid is not Steve given he got the long end of the stick. Apple bailed him up and basically offered him the top job.
Stupid Apple board?
Well, in French O/S is translated by
System d'EXploitation. A little used but sometimes
seen acronym for O/S in french is SEX.
So yes, Microsoft is definitely in the SEX trade.
Hi,
> If a book is good, it will be made into a movie
> well before 20 or 30 years
Not so. Case in point: LotR. The Hobbit hasn't
been made into a proper movie yet even though
the book is from the 30's.
I'll leave you to think of all the classics that
have never been made into a movie. I'm sure you
can come up with your own examples.
Hi,
Speed of light is 3.10^8 m/s
In a nanosecond (10^-9s), light travels 30cm,
not 1cm like you wrote.
Itanium compilers have been around for quite a while already. The gcc back end for Itanium has reasonable integer performance for example (and very poor floating point performance).
c 50/linux/
If you run RedHat on Itanium you can pick up your optimizing compiler on Intel's site right now:
http://www.intel.com/software/products/compilers/
However current Itanium performance with either of these compilers is not very good. It's hard to say
whether it is because of the poor hardware implementation or of the lack of optimization in the compiler.
Probably both.