Posts by stanimir 476 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Jan 2012
Why don't you buy mouse with buttons on the right side, if you are left handed?
The buttons are actually programmable with the right driver, so you can use them for other tasks. Personally I find the side buttons useful even though I don't use the mouse much at all - like scrolling with spacebar (down), shift+spacebar (up).
Why would you have context switches with epoll[1]?
[1]: http://linux.die.net/man/4/epoll
Edit: actually did you mean mode switches (userland->kernel->userland)? They are not that expensive to matter and in the end the bytes have to be pushed to the network card (or read from, but pushing is usually the dominant part).
"Feminists see men coming into traditional 'female' spaces, but traditional 'male' spaces are still closed to women, so now men have many more job opportunities and women have fewer.Also, men going into traditional 'women's' areas tend to rise faster and higher than women in that field"
Citation needed.
I mentioned no standard speakers can deliver infra sounds (even subs). Infra sound would require huge speakers as well to be able to play so low frequency - assuming plugged into some external 5+1 the extra power might be good enough.
I recall reading like 25 years ago about the effects of infra sound and there is info (like the linked one) with experiments on real people. Of course it could be just a myth but that one is hard to (dis)proof as it may not effect everyone.
Kinect mic can pick up stuff that is outside normal human range.
That's below 16Hz and above 20KHz (mybe 22K for some people). Your standard TV set won't be able to play them. Also could make dogs annoyed as they actually hear ultra sound and that's one of the ways to have the dogs perform at the circus.
Then you may have young kids hear the ultra sound and have very unpleasant effect even causing headache (still clearly remember the high pitch 15625Hz of horizontal flyback transformer)
Using infrasound (sub 20Hz) is quite as dangerous. "Low frequency sound can cause people to have unusual experiences even though they cannot consciously detect infrasound"[0]
Basically putting sound waves outside the hearing spectrum (and being able to reproduce them in the physical world) can result in class lawsuits.
[0]http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/09/08/1062901994082.html?oneclick=true
Text to voice is more than good enough for most games and its easy to switch the base voice from male to female and most of the users wouldn't know the difference.
I can clearly bet you'd not make a lead designer for any game with more than a few hundred quids budget.
Also I bet you'd think any cartoons film can just skip voice actors and use text-to-voice.
"fancy tricks that impress programmers ACM but have no real-world applicability".
FTFY
And I totally agree, at some point the code has to go to the CPU (or GPU) to execute. Assembler is harder to read than C but still very far from ability to hide the real execution/algorithm flow.
I still wonder what made those giants dropping the massive news spots the lawsuits ensured them. Practically no commercial breaks and the company names are heard, the newest models talked about and all that on a daily basis all over the globe.
While litigation is definitely a costly endeavour one would think the massive news presence more than enough mak(d)e it for.
There must be some bigger and invisible (yet) fish to try.
>>If I remember correctly, you cannot boot DOS (or Windows) from a write-protected disk<<
You don't. That was how it was done (booting from write protected floppy). DOS doesn't write anywhere unless you have some fancy autoexec.bat... or a virus.
There were urban myths that some viruses can infect even write protected floppies but if the hardware was fine it was not possible.
The DOS box is unconnected - hence it requires to execute some .exe .com from a floppy. I seriously doubt he'd get some game on floppies to play.
Technically you can even boot from a write protected floppy disk each time if you are afraid of command.com being infected.
OpenJDK is GPLv2 licensed[1]. But Andriod is not Java and won't pass the compatibility suit tests and it's not based on OpenJDK.
btw the rangeCheck function is now reduced to just 2 lines of code - so this claim is really bogus b/c the implementation takes like 2-4min top.
However Android initially being ripped off Java but incompatible was a very uncool move. Personally I believe software patents must be abolished even though IMO Google was in the wrong in this case.
[1]:http://download.java.net/openjdk/jdk7/
There is zero need to run byte-code directly. Having good target architecture (concurrency, locking, read-barrier) is actually what takes to run Java better. For instance hardware read barrier allows for non-stop the world garbage collectors.
As for anyone running java, most of the big business does.
how you can do it without making the machine larger, heavier and with less battery life.
Glued batteries offer excellent longevity capabilities? I'd rather have a 19"/3kg laptop that I can replace anything I feel (battery/CPU/Video/Add 32GB ram/add another drive etc) than a lightweight crappy spec. thingie.
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