guys (who still has FB account), please, quit facebook, delete you account, don't give a hand to this evil to spread. facebook just makes stupid people more stupid then they already are.
Says the guy who considers DLC credits "evil" because a journalist called it "virtual currency"..
I am using '07, care to elaborate? (Visual Studio 2010 is a very nice step from VS 2008, so my irrational mind assumes Office 2010 will also be decent improvement from Office 2007)
Even the statically linked "operating system" in a Nintendo 64 game console? That thing had only 4 MB of RAM and thus used 32-bit pointers, but it was still 64-bit.
And the XBOX was 32-bit, and no-one really used the 64-bit ints in n64 games. 64-bit has no real application to 3D (except 64-bit floating point, which isn't really associated with "64-bit processer" since 32-bit processors usually have 64-bit floating point).
The fact it's called the "N64" should tell you the real reason they wanted 64-bit ints; back then bits were like clock speed, and people didn't realize you get diminishing returns.
Perhaps that's why a lot of Flash games still appear to be stuck in the 16-bit era of 2D.
Just like XBOX1, and the majority of PC games that even today are shipped as 32-bit? Bit size has nothing to do with 3D graphics, Flash doesn't have 3D because it doesn't have a decent way to make good use of 3D hardware.
Hmm, not sure. I often find myself doing the old "find . | grep this | sed 's/that/something/g' | perl -ne 'm/blah blah blah/ and print "$this $that";'" with loops and whatnot, and for that sort of thing I can't imagine having to put it all in line by line, and not having to go back and forth. At that point I'd want to be in an editor, but then it's not really an interactive console but an IDE.
Maybe dealing with files and pipes etc in Perl is a totally different ball game to doing math in Python, but something about Python really doesn't work as a interactive console for me (which is sad, because I can definitely see the shortcomings in Perl)
For a program like octave, having no GUI is very forgiveable. There is really no way to work with the system outside of prompt commands. Even Matlab is very prompt based.
What is unforgivable in Octave's case is its graphing capabilities. Octave used Gnuplot for drawing which basically means it is stuck in the 1990s when it comes to making plots. 3D plots are slow, difficult and complicated things to create. Animations are out of the question. 99% of the time, you're better off exporting to png (itself a nighmare), and animating from those. 3D data is all but ungraphable on Linux systems anyway, so I suppose Octave is not alone here.
I think it's
echo "set term png; set output 'plot.png'; splot 'data.txt'" > gnuplot
gnuplot could be better (the documentation isn't great, a well designed GUI to get you started would be nice), but it's not too bad. With imagemagick's convert and a bit of shell scripting you could get some animation going without too much fuss.
Really I've never come across a graphing solution which made me think "wow, this system has got it right", not in stats packages, langauge libraries/packages, spreadsheet apps, math systems, graphing apps, nowhere. I'm not sure why that is, but I guess it must just be hard to model something that has to be so flexible in a neat way.
Doesn't requiring indentation make Python annoying for an interactive console? If you have to loop over something how can you do that on multiple lines via a console?
For some reason commercial software usually seems to lag worst on the 64 bit transition. Windows and OSX lagged Linux, Java and Flash were the last bits on my Linux systems to go 64 bit, etc. They act as if 64 bit is a fad, and people will soon come to their senses and revert to 32.
Linux is plenty commercial, I think you mean "consumer software". (Or at least "proprietary software", but I don't think correlation implies causation there)
Windows server platforms got behind 64-bit more or less in step with its adoption in servers (even having ports to Itanium, back when that was a credible contender for the next 64-bit arch). Also OSX's transition to 64-bit started with the kernel and worked its way up through the UNIX layer, allowing server apps to use more memory long before consumer apps.
It has taken much longer for consumer OSes to be 64-bit by default, but that's just because there was no need for it until >3-4GB of memory became common. There's no need for 64-bit Flash like there was for 64-bit MySQL/SQL Server/Oracle etc, and adoption rates have reflected that.
I'm not sure whether that is factually true, but IEEE-754 isn't exactly perfect or without alternatives so I wouldn't base my language choice on it..
That'd be like not using Java because it doesn't represent ints using ones complement; if your code relies on the specific internal implementation of data primitives you're probably doing something wrong.
(Before I get replies: Of course sometimes these things really do matter, but not often enough to dismiss a multi-purpose langauge.)
I can sympathize with this. What is so sad is that Turnbull really seemed to be a promoter of reasonable, moderate, mainstream policies, who wasn't afraid to work with the opposition where it made sense to do so, and that's what got him replaced with Abbot.
Ever since Abbot got in the whole party took a swing to the right, and he hasn't supported any opposition policy (and usually they're based on past Liberal policies, or he made statements supporting them in the past, it's absurd).
Being against the ETS and not "believing" in global warming, and acting against the opposition on everything, may make short-term sense regarding the poll numbers, but long term it's totally wrong (for Australia and the Liberal Party).
I'm on an HP laptop and don't notice any difference from my lat desktops/laptops. Maybe things like the delete key in a different spot but that always varies from manufacturer to manufacturer
Sounds like it'll mean more science and less risks. If he had wanted to delay to fix the magnets that caused the quench in the LHC would you have called him a whackjob then?
Forgot to mention also that BA9 had no idea what was going on and flew for ages right through the ash cloud, because there was no precedent or training or warning.
If they had just turned around or changed altitude they would have avoided the vast majority of the resulting problems.
Full awareness of the problem implying the ability to then solve the problem.. BA9 had no idea what was going on and flew for ages right through the ash cloud, because there was no precedent.
If they had just turned around or changed altitude they would have avoided the vast majority of the resulting problems.
Right, but this thread about safety (and again that was 150km away from the volcano, most of the EU is in the range of 1000-4000km away).
The economic harm this is causing the EU is immense, but people here are acting like the moment a plane anywhere in the Eastern hemisphere hits 20000ft it'll drop straight out of the sky and onto the nearest playground..
What we don't need right now is safety hysteria holding up the process. No-one benefits from being reckless but safety isn't black and white.
e.g. People saying those who are fine with any risks but still want to fly, and cargo planes etc, should be grounded because they might fall out of the sky and land on "innocent bystanders". That's just irrational.
BA are losing $26M/day apparently, so somewhere between losing an engine per trip and taking the more clear routes and doing some maintenance there's probably a solution that'll lose the least money and cause the least disruption.
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guys (who still has FB account), please, quit facebook, delete you account, don't give a hand to this evil to spread. facebook just makes stupid people more stupid then they already are.
Says the guy who considers DLC credits "evil" because a journalist called it "virtual currency"..
Yeah and only 0.1% of a credit cards total mass is the magnetic stripe! That's an even smaller percent!
It's totally unrelated to a platform fee, but then again so is an interest rate..
Tricky, I use OneNote quite a bit
Previously known as Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, which is a bit less catchy these days.
Actually BP no longer stands for British Petroleum officially, but meh.. No large company is anchored too heavily to its country of origin.
Yeah why not develop two working products so you can release one of them as a decoy?
I am using '07, care to elaborate? (Visual Studio 2010 is a very nice step from VS 2008, so my irrational mind assumes Office 2010 will also be decent improvement from Office 2007)
Even the statically linked "operating system" in a Nintendo 64 game console? That thing had only 4 MB of RAM and thus used 32-bit pointers, but it was still 64-bit.
And the XBOX was 32-bit, and no-one really used the 64-bit ints in n64 games. 64-bit has no real application to 3D (except 64-bit floating point, which isn't really associated with "64-bit processer" since 32-bit processors usually have 64-bit floating point).
The fact it's called the "N64" should tell you the real reason they wanted 64-bit ints; back then bits were like clock speed, and people didn't realize you get diminishing returns.
Perhaps that's why a lot of Flash games still appear to be stuck in the 16-bit era of 2D.
Just like XBOX1, and the majority of PC games that even today are shipped as 32-bit? Bit size has nothing to do with 3D graphics, Flash doesn't have 3D because it doesn't have a decent way to make good use of 3D hardware.
Doesn't your country have a welfare system?
Hmm, not sure. I often find myself doing the old "find . | grep this | sed 's/that/something/g' | perl -ne 'm/blah blah blah/ and print "$this $that";'" with loops and whatnot, and for that sort of thing I can't imagine having to put it all in line by line, and not having to go back and forth. At that point I'd want to be in an editor, but then it's not really an interactive console but an IDE.
Maybe dealing with files and pipes etc in Perl is a totally different ball game to doing math in Python, but something about Python really doesn't work as a interactive console for me (which is sad, because I can definitely see the shortcomings in Perl)
For a program like octave, having no GUI is very forgiveable. There is really no way to work with the system outside of prompt commands. Even Matlab is very prompt based.
What is unforgivable in Octave's case is its graphing capabilities. Octave used Gnuplot for drawing which basically means it is stuck in the 1990s when it comes to making plots. 3D plots are slow, difficult and complicated things to create. Animations are out of the question. 99% of the time, you're better off exporting to png (itself a nighmare), and animating from those. 3D data is all but ungraphable on Linux systems anyway, so I suppose Octave is not alone here.
I think it's
gnuplot could be better (the documentation isn't great, a well designed GUI to get you started would be nice), but it's not too bad. With imagemagick's convert and a bit of shell scripting you could get some animation going without too much fuss.
Really I've never come across a graphing solution which made me think "wow, this system has got it right", not in stats packages, langauge libraries/packages, spreadsheet apps, math systems, graphing apps, nowhere. I'm not sure why that is, but I guess it must just be hard to model something that has to be so flexible in a neat way.
Doesn't requiring indentation make Python annoying for an interactive console? If you have to loop over something how can you do that on multiple lines via a console?
For some reason commercial software usually seems to lag worst on the 64 bit transition. Windows and OSX lagged Linux, Java and Flash were the last bits on my Linux systems to go 64 bit, etc. They act as if 64 bit is a fad, and people will soon come to their senses and revert to 32.
Linux is plenty commercial, I think you mean "consumer software". (Or at least "proprietary software", but I don't think correlation implies causation there)
Windows server platforms got behind 64-bit more or less in step with its adoption in servers (even having ports to Itanium, back when that was a credible contender for the next 64-bit arch). Also OSX's transition to 64-bit started with the kernel and worked its way up through the UNIX layer, allowing server apps to use more memory long before consumer apps.
It has taken much longer for consumer OSes to be 64-bit by default, but that's just because there was no need for it until >3-4GB of memory became common. There's no need for 64-bit Flash like there was for 64-bit MySQL/SQL Server/Oracle etc, and adoption rates have reflected that.
I'm not sure whether that is factually true, but IEEE-754 isn't exactly perfect or without alternatives so I wouldn't base my language choice on it..
That'd be like not using Java because it doesn't represent ints using ones complement; if your code relies on the specific internal implementation of data primitives you're probably doing something wrong.
(Before I get replies: Of course sometimes these things really do matter, but not often enough to dismiss a multi-purpose langauge.)
I was talking inkjets rather than laserjets
I agree, and I still don't get the justification. I'm guessing it's liberal use of the word "server".
I can sympathize with this. What is so sad is that Turnbull really seemed to be a promoter of reasonable, moderate, mainstream policies, who wasn't afraid to work with the opposition where it made sense to do so, and that's what got him replaced with Abbot.
Ever since Abbot got in the whole party took a swing to the right, and he hasn't supported any opposition policy (and usually they're based on past Liberal policies, or he made statements supporting them in the past, it's absurd).
Being against the ETS and not "believing" in global warming, and acting against the opposition on everything, may make short-term sense regarding the poll numbers, but long term it's totally wrong (for Australia and the Liberal Party).
My HP laptop is fine, no better or worse than Dell. Also cheap HP printers are a nightmare, but the more expensive ones are much better.
I'm on an HP laptop and don't notice any difference from my lat desktops/laptops. Maybe things like the delete key in a different spot but that always varies from manufacturer to manufacturer
Sounds like it'll mean more science and less risks. If he had wanted to delay to fix the magnets that caused the quench in the LHC would you have called him a whackjob then?
free as in beer?
Forgot to mention also that BA9 had no idea what was going on and flew for ages right through the ash cloud, because there was no precedent or training or warning.
If they had just turned around or changed altitude they would have avoided the vast majority of the resulting problems.
Full awareness of the problem implying the ability to then solve the problem.. BA9 had no idea what was going on and flew for ages right through the ash cloud, because there was no precedent.
If they had just turned around or changed altitude they would have avoided the vast majority of the resulting problems.
Right, but this thread about safety (and again that was 150km away from the volcano, most of the EU is in the range of 1000-4000km away).
The economic harm this is causing the EU is immense, but people here are acting like the moment a plane anywhere in the Eastern hemisphere hits 20000ft it'll drop straight out of the sky and onto the nearest playground..
What we don't need right now is safety hysteria holding up the process. No-one benefits from being reckless but safety isn't black and white.
e.g. People saying those who are fine with any risks but still want to fly, and cargo planes etc, should be grounded because they might fall out of the sky and land on "innocent bystanders". That's just irrational.
BA are losing $26M/day apparently, so somewhere between losing an engine per trip and taking the more clear routes and doing some maintenance there's probably a solution that'll lose the least money and cause the least disruption.
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