stealth bombers are a totally different case they are military hardware and that changes the rules somewhat (risks from tech can seem much less significant when you consider the alternative may be increased risk of being shot down)
personally i'm a fan of delphi style object pascal. Reasonablly clean laguage,strongly typed, has properties etc. yet it doesn't get in the way too much when you want to do low level stuff either (right down to inline assembler if needed)
its not GC though which might put off some of the java/C# addicts
1: people can fix bugs DIRECTLY and distribute those fixes 2: distros can distribute java freely so it works out of the box 3: people can port it to new platforms freely
and those are just the practical reasons. There are people who prefer free software because they like to have the freedom even though they don't use it themselves.
wrap the IE ocx in a custom app and trap the events so as soon as anyone browses outside your intranet sites you fire up firefox
i wonder how hard it is to embed firefox in the same way and have a tool that transparently switches between ie and mozilla rendering engines based on admin settings.
http uses mime content types but the data isn't "mime encoded" its just sent as raw binary data after the http headers (it can be gzipped and/or chunked but it doesn't have to be and won't be unless both the client and server agree to this)
i do agree though if your aim is marketing to normal users then html is the way to go. On the other hand if your aim is to communicate effectively no matter what client someone is using including thigs like email-sms gateways then you should use text.
basically a "color ccd" works by having tiny filters over the pixels
this means you effectively waste a lot of resoloution AND you limit yourself to a human-like impression of color
with a monochrome ccd and a color wheel you can have a much wider choice of filters and then decide what combinations you wan't to use to make the final image later. The downside is ofc that it takes longer to make an image.
if nasa decides an infa-red channel will better capture the information they want than a red channel then thats what they will use to make an image
whilst it may be technically possible to use all 128 bit patterns this hits issues of its own (like old sofware not handling null correctly etc)
so mail normally uses base64 which encodes 6 bits into an ascii printable charactor this means that 3 bytes of input become 4 bytes of output a growth of 1/3 over the original.
it should be noted that with the correct software 8 bit data transmission over mail is possible. There is a smtp extention to declare that you support it iirc.
yeah but whilst many heatsink/fan combinations have issues the fact is they are still smaller lighter and cheaper than an equivilent fanless arrangement.
look at StringBuffer that returns itself after being modified all the time!
afaict the main reason for doing this is to let you chain functions that operate on the same array etc more easilly.
mind you i guess if you get too addicted to having a garbage collector you keep less track of where things are being copied. When you have to worry about whose problem it is to free stuff you always have to keep a close eye on the docs to see when stuff is being copied anyway.
the windows OS shows every partition as a seperate drive even though they are not actually seperate drives.
so what lied to you was your operating systems user interface that claims there are two drives when in fact there are just two partitions on the same drive
note to nitpickers: i said USER INTERFACE i know you can see the partitions in the administrative tools but most users won't know that exists.
is correct the definitions that were originally used? or is correct the revisionist definitions the standards bodies try to push that never get followed in reality?
i beleive some data centres don't allow in-rack UPSs for fire safety reasons and things can go wrong between the datacenters backup supply system and your rack
anyone remember the wikimedia incident known as "power currupts power failure currupts absoloutely"?
yeah sure they had dumps and binlogs but restoring from those would have been extremely time consuming.
sun.* packages are NOT part of the documented pulic api and but there is nothing to actually stop apps from using them (ofc they can dissapear at any time so using them is risky).
last i heared OOo was using them but only in some parts releated to loading applets.
you can and they did because that was the only practical choice
thier stated goal however was to make a totally free system (unfortunately they fucked up on the kernel somewhat and linus stole thier thunder with a quick hack that worked;) )
is sun java the only practical choice for development nowadays? NO! does making the system depend on sun java make the system less free? YES!
if the OOo devs had made working properly on a free jvm a requirement to commit anything then we wouldn't have this problem.
sure you can extend a class in oop fasion but that doesn't nessacerally allow you to fix it without rewriting much (or even all if the encapsulation is especially horrible) of the functionaility and/or making a dirty kludge
not to mention the fact that you would then have to change everything to make it use your new class. and it gets even worse if the class you want to fix has descendents (fix them all sperately?) or final methods (which you can do nothing about).
i'd hardly say this compares very well at all to being able to fix an issue at source.
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stealth bombers are a totally different case they are military hardware and that changes the rules somewhat (risks from tech can seem much less significant when you consider the alternative may be increased risk of being shot down)
personally i'm a fan of delphi style object pascal. Reasonablly clean laguage,strongly typed, has properties etc. yet it doesn't get in the way too much when you want to do low level stuff either (right down to inline assembler if needed)
its not GC though which might put off some of the java/C# addicts
companies that own a whole datacenter aren't going to want to move it as that would basically be throwing thier capital away
companies colocating are going to look at the complete package of costs of which power is almost certainly going to be a small part.
for companies setting up a new datacenter they are probablly going to be thinking more about networking issues and land cost issues than power issues.
slashfix is just a hack to force reflowing at the end of page load to work around a bug it doesn't restructure or change the page content in any way.
the benifits of a free java
1: people can fix bugs DIRECTLY and distribute those fixes
2: distros can distribute java freely so it works out of the box
3: people can port it to new platforms freely
and those are just the practical reasons. There are people who prefer free software because they like to have the freedom even though they don't use it themselves.
wrap the IE ocx in a custom app and trap the events so as soon as anyone browses outside your intranet sites you fire up firefox
i wonder how hard it is to embed firefox in the same way and have a tool that transparently switches between ie and mozilla rendering engines based on admin settings.
http uses mime content types but the data isn't "mime encoded" its just sent as raw binary data after the http headers (it can be gzipped and/or chunked but it doesn't have to be and won't be unless both the client and server agree to this)
i do agree though if your aim is marketing to normal users then html is the way to go. On the other hand if your aim is to communicate effectively no matter what client someone is using including thigs like email-sms gateways then you should use text.
basically a "color ccd" works by having tiny filters over the pixels
this means you effectively waste a lot of resoloution AND you limit yourself to a human-like impression of color
with a monochrome ccd and a color wheel you can have a much wider choice of filters and then decide what combinations you wan't to use to make the final image later. The downside is ofc that it takes longer to make an image.
if nasa decides an infa-red channel will better capture the information they want than a red channel then thats what they will use to make an image
last i checked outlook gave you the option at some point but it wasn't the default as such.
its a long time since i've done a fresh install of outlook though so my memory may be a bit hazy.
whilst it may be technically possible to use all 128 bit patterns this hits issues of its own (like old sofware not handling null correctly etc)
so mail normally uses base64 which encodes 6 bits into an ascii printable charactor this means that 3 bytes of input become 4 bytes of output a growth of 1/3 over the original.
it should be noted that with the correct software 8 bit data transmission over mail is possible. There is a smtp extention to declare that you support it iirc.
you don't have to have something to sell to make money from spam just a way to get peoples money.
ofc you violate even more laws if you do it this way but since when have spammers cared about that?
As many people here are fond of pointing out, the plural of "anecdote" is not "data".
if NOONE bought stuff from spam then we wouldn't see reports of people doing it.
ofc how many people do it is a totally different matter.
iirc the plan is for there to be 7 books covering the 7 years of harrys educations.
yeah but whilst many heatsink/fan combinations have issues the fact is they are still smaller lighter and cheaper than an equivilent fanless arrangement.
look at StringBuffer that returns itself after being modified all the time!
afaict the main reason for doing this is to let you chain functions that operate on the same array etc more easilly.
mind you i guess if you get too addicted to having a garbage collector you keep less track of where things are being copied. When you have to worry about whose problem it is to free stuff you always have to keep a close eye on the docs to see when stuff is being copied anyway.
the man page CLEARLY states STABLE STORAGE
a volatile cache is NOT STABLE STORAGE.
afaict most operating systems DO tell the drives to sync on a fsync but the drives simply ignore the request.
the windows OS shows every partition as a seperate drive even though they are not actually seperate drives.
so what lied to you was your operating systems user interface that claims there are two drives when in fact there are just two partitions on the same drive
note to nitpickers: i said USER INTERFACE i know you can see the partitions in the administrative tools but most users won't know that exists.
depends on your definition of correct
is correct the definitions that were originally used? or is correct the revisionist definitions the standards bodies try to push that never get followed in reality?
i beleive some data centres don't allow in-rack UPSs for fire safety reasons and things can go wrong between the datacenters backup supply system and your rack
anyone remember the wikimedia incident known as "power currupts power failure currupts absoloutely"?
yeah sure they had dumps and binlogs but restoring from those would have been extremely time consuming.
sun.* packages are NOT part of the documented pulic api and but there is nothing to actually stop apps from using them (ofc they can dissapear at any time so using them is risky).
last i heared OOo was using them but only in some parts releated to loading applets.
you can and they did because that was the only practical choice
;) )
thier stated goal however was to make a totally free system (unfortunately they fucked up on the kernel somewhat and linus stole thier thunder with a quick hack that worked
is sun java the only practical choice for development nowadays? NO! does making the system depend on sun java make the system less free? YES!
if the OOo devs had made working properly on a free jvm a requirement to commit anything then we wouldn't have this problem.
sure you can extend a class in oop fasion but that doesn't nessacerally allow you to fix it without rewriting much (or even all if the encapsulation is especially horrible) of the functionaility and/or making a dirty kludge
not to mention the fact that you would then have to change everything to make it use your new class. and it gets even worse if the class you want to fix has descendents (fix them all sperately?) or final methods (which you can do nothing about).
i'd hardly say this compares very well at all to being able to fix an issue at source.
usually there are vendor specific classes that underlie the public api
in suns java theese are in the package sun. and if you use such classes then you can end up with jvm specific java code.
pci is definately sprung and its not exactly tiny pins either.
even in air any connection has to be tight to be reliable.
he wasn't using relative paths for the images so coral wasn't helping much.