I think it's rarely a good idea to try to start completely over to accomplish the same thing. Like most things, the simplest and most pragmatic solution is to throw more hardware at it.
Ogg Vorbis has an excellent integer-only implementation called Tremor which runs much faster on mobile devices. I wonder if they will have something similar for Theora soon.
The reasons I hate Vista would not be revealed in the Mojave test. I hate Vista because ever since I upgraded from XP, the following happened:
1. Laptop now wakes up in the bag. No battery left, and I fear overheating causing permanent damage.
2. Laptop absolutely bakes when in use, and I'm seeing 20 minutes less battery life.
3. To get it running well, I had to purchase more memory and new HD.
4. Vista eats up dozens of extra gigs of space. This is because of its Previous Versions, which is on by default. Also, look at your Windows\system32\winsxs directory. Mine is about 20GB. WTF.
5. Device incompatibilities with a lot of stuff. This is getting better, however.
I'm angry because I paid money for all the above. Even if Vista were free, I'd be a little peeved.
Imagining that the above did not exist, I think Vista is mostly pretty usable. Nothing mind-blowing, but certainly very decent. That's not going to stop me from going Mac later this year. I guess that's what San Francisco does to people. Makes people go Gay, go Mac, or both.
No, I get it - Linux is a fine OS. My point actually wasn't about the core OS, but more about what the user experience focus is. Focusing in on maximizing prettiness and animation is the wrong direction. Companies should never focus on that until they have responsiveness, usability, and battery life worked out. In other words, a minimally decent mobility experience. I don't need stuff to scroll smoothly more than I need to not recharge 2 times a day.
I just watched "Mongol" which I liked. I just searched Knol for "Mongolia" and came up with no results. I will check back in 3 days. If there is still no entry on Mongolia, my sense will be that Wikipedia will not be very challenged. Just like I instinctively go to google.com for miscellaneous searches, I instinctively go to wikipedia for learning.
At the tender age of 3, Shuttleworth was hooked to a machine, just to keep his mouth from spouting junk. At least, that's what Thomas Dolby told me.
Anyways, stupid joke aside, this whole eye candy nonsense really has me peeved. What these devices need is *less* eye candy and more clarity. Sorry, but gradient fills all over the place doesn't make something useable or desirable. Have stuff animate all over the place does nothing to make these portable devices more responsive. Putting in realtime shadows/reflections on everything doesn't do anything to give you more battery life.
Give me a lightweight OS with a *pleasant* UI that doesn't just focus on eye candy. Make that OS highly responsive and usable, and highly stable. And design it to maximize battery life, interoperability, and highly portable across many architectures.
Browser wars should fuel hardware advances on mobile devices, since it will likely follow that Flash, YouTube, and dare I say Silverlight (shill-verlight as I refer to it) will be expected to run smoothly. Some browsers are mostly there already, but there will be more hardware accelerated graphics, higher resolution displays (OLED plz k thx), more memory, and faster CPU's (et tu AMD?). And the sad part is that while the browsing experience will be great, all these companies don't give a crap about your battery life.
No no, too late. We already signed the paperwork to have it burn up in the atmosphere on March 3, 2018 3:44am GMT. The deadline for idea proposals has already passed and it is too late to submit a SOPX-1452B form in triplicate to the NASBE office.
Microsoft is going the wrong direction by trying to play Apple's game. The eye candy thing has to stop. Microsoft should focus more on usability, which is an entirely different thing.
Where Vista is horrible in usability:
- Responsiveness. They were supposed to improve this. Instead, I go from periods of great responsiveness to periods of heavy disk grinding.
- Mobility. They were supposed to make Vista sleep quickly and reliably. Instead, my laptop wakes up in my bag, heats up the inside (and may one day overheat!), and drains the battery to 0.
- Heat. Typing on my laptop is torture because Vista causes it to bake, and the heat is really uncomfortable.
Thus, Windows 7 should focus on these things. If they can cut the crap and make it work, it might actually get some market share. Until then, this Windows dev is going Mac.
I don't see a problem if the developer can creatively work the survey into the game. Like, in order to cross some bridge, some bridge keeper asks you a series of questions or you die...
It's usually a good time to upgrade your hard drive when their size increases (500MB in this case) are way bigger than your current hard drive's entire capacity (250MB).
Japan is going to make a huge comeback. And their 3-way writing system is good for your mind. Hiragana will teach you elegance and harmony. Katakana will teach you adaptation. Kanji, though, will just drive you nuts.
Microsoft doesn't trust that their development base will follow them if they radically redefine what it is to create applications under Windows. And now Vista has just confirmed their worst fears - developer loyalty at MS has crumbled.
To get them back, they need to do what they hate the most: focus on interop and start to accept that the new hotness is Not Invented Here.
I don't need LED backlighting that is superbright. I don't need my display barely readable outdoors, yet burns my retinas indoors. I need a display that works equally well in all lighting conditions and doesn't drain battery life unnecessarily.
I get it! So, now we have interpreted C, and it's (relatively) strongly typed! Wow, so because of that, we can deduce a lot of runtime information at compile time. Thus, potentially, the interpreter could optimize. And for the ultimate speed gain, they will find a way to turn that interpreted C into native machine language. And then it'll run really fast. Yeah.
Bah. What can C# do that Java can't
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I mean, I can write a C# compiler in Java, can I not?
Oh wait, I can write a Java compiler in C#.
Holy crap, I can write anything in assembler.
I just found the best language.
You need to specify to whom the language is challenging in the question.
Maybe you meant "Why must a well designed language be challenging to experienced developers" ?
or "Why must a well designed language be challenging to new programmers" ?
See? Very different questions.
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They are about to launch. Just a few minutes away. All systems sound like they are go.
Ah, that's great - I had assumed it wasn't.
I think it's rarely a good idea to try to start completely over to accomplish the same thing. Like most things, the simplest and most pragmatic solution is to throw more hardware at it.
Long live Usenet!
Ogg Vorbis has an excellent integer-only implementation called Tremor which runs much faster on mobile devices. I wonder if they will have something similar for Theora soon.
I'm already talking about the $1 laptop. Respect my incredible vision.
The reasons I hate Vista would not be revealed in the Mojave test. I hate Vista because ever since I upgraded from XP, the following happened: 1. Laptop now wakes up in the bag. No battery left, and I fear overheating causing permanent damage. 2. Laptop absolutely bakes when in use, and I'm seeing 20 minutes less battery life. 3. To get it running well, I had to purchase more memory and new HD. 4. Vista eats up dozens of extra gigs of space. This is because of its Previous Versions, which is on by default. Also, look at your Windows\system32\winsxs directory. Mine is about 20GB. WTF. 5. Device incompatibilities with a lot of stuff. This is getting better, however. I'm angry because I paid money for all the above. Even if Vista were free, I'd be a little peeved. Imagining that the above did not exist, I think Vista is mostly pretty usable. Nothing mind-blowing, but certainly very decent. That's not going to stop me from going Mac later this year. I guess that's what San Francisco does to people. Makes people go Gay, go Mac, or both.
My common sense tells me the tests were flawed, because everyone knows that by the time girls can count to 10, guys can count to 11.
No, I get it - Linux is a fine OS. My point actually wasn't about the core OS, but more about what the user experience focus is. Focusing in on maximizing prettiness and animation is the wrong direction. Companies should never focus on that until they have responsiveness, usability, and battery life worked out. In other words, a minimally decent mobility experience. I don't need stuff to scroll smoothly more than I need to not recharge 2 times a day.
I just watched "Mongol" which I liked. I just searched Knol for "Mongolia" and came up with no results. I will check back in 3 days. If there is still no entry on Mongolia, my sense will be that Wikipedia will not be very challenged. Just like I instinctively go to google.com for miscellaneous searches, I instinctively go to wikipedia for learning.
At the tender age of 3, Shuttleworth was hooked to a machine, just to keep his mouth from spouting junk. At least, that's what Thomas Dolby told me. Anyways, stupid joke aside, this whole eye candy nonsense really has me peeved. What these devices need is *less* eye candy and more clarity. Sorry, but gradient fills all over the place doesn't make something useable or desirable. Have stuff animate all over the place does nothing to make these portable devices more responsive. Putting in realtime shadows/reflections on everything doesn't do anything to give you more battery life. Give me a lightweight OS with a *pleasant* UI that doesn't just focus on eye candy. Make that OS highly responsive and usable, and highly stable. And design it to maximize battery life, interoperability, and highly portable across many architectures.
Browser wars should fuel hardware advances on mobile devices, since it will likely follow that Flash, YouTube, and dare I say Silverlight (shill-verlight as I refer to it) will be expected to run smoothly. Some browsers are mostly there already, but there will be more hardware accelerated graphics, higher resolution displays (OLED plz k thx), more memory, and faster CPU's (et tu AMD?). And the sad part is that while the browsing experience will be great, all these companies don't give a crap about your battery life.
No no, too late. We already signed the paperwork to have it burn up in the atmosphere on March 3, 2018 3:44am GMT. The deadline for idea proposals has already passed and it is too late to submit a SOPX-1452B form in triplicate to the NASBE office.
Microsoft is going the wrong direction by trying to play Apple's game. The eye candy thing has to stop. Microsoft should focus more on usability, which is an entirely different thing. Where Vista is horrible in usability: - Responsiveness. They were supposed to improve this. Instead, I go from periods of great responsiveness to periods of heavy disk grinding. - Mobility. They were supposed to make Vista sleep quickly and reliably. Instead, my laptop wakes up in my bag, heats up the inside (and may one day overheat!), and drains the battery to 0. - Heat. Typing on my laptop is torture because Vista causes it to bake, and the heat is really uncomfortable. Thus, Windows 7 should focus on these things. If they can cut the crap and make it work, it might actually get some market share. Until then, this Windows dev is going Mac.
I don't see a problem if the developer can creatively work the survey into the game. Like, in order to cross some bridge, some bridge keeper asks you a series of questions or you die...
Scientists also discovered that the world, for one, welcomed their new Rodinia overlords.
It's usually a good time to upgrade your hard drive when their size increases (500MB in this case) are way bigger than your current hard drive's entire capacity (250MB).
Yeah! I'm still waiting to play Diablo 3 in my browser. It just wouldn't be as awesome without the back/forward and refresh buttons :-)
You don't get it. It's running in a *browser* - don't you see how awesome that is? I don't either.
Japan is going to make a huge comeback. And their 3-way writing system is good for your mind. Hiragana will teach you elegance and harmony. Katakana will teach you adaptation. Kanji, though, will just drive you nuts.
Microsoft doesn't trust that their development base will follow them if they radically redefine what it is to create applications under Windows. And now Vista has just confirmed their worst fears - developer loyalty at MS has crumbled. To get them back, they need to do what they hate the most: focus on interop and start to accept that the new hotness is Not Invented Here.
I don't need LED backlighting that is superbright. I don't need my display barely readable outdoors, yet burns my retinas indoors. I need a display that works equally well in all lighting conditions and doesn't drain battery life unnecessarily.
I get it! So, now we have interpreted C, and it's (relatively) strongly typed! Wow, so because of that, we can deduce a lot of runtime information at compile time. Thus, potentially, the interpreter could optimize. And for the ultimate speed gain, they will find a way to turn that interpreted C into native machine language. And then it'll run really fast. Yeah.
I mean, I can write a C# compiler in Java, can I not? Oh wait, I can write a Java compiler in C#. Holy crap, I can write anything in assembler. I just found the best language.
You need to specify to whom the language is challenging in the question. Maybe you meant "Why must a well designed language be challenging to experienced developers" ? or "Why must a well designed language be challenging to new programmers" ? See? Very different questions.