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I have to second whirly's opinion. When you are writing some rather complex java, eclipse gives you the following:

- Enforce code style (eg: checkstyle plugin) and source formatting rules
- Project Management
- Java code autocompletion (works perfectly like 99% of the time)
- XML autocompletion through dtd
- With some plugins you get autocompletion for jsp, etc
- Hard-Core refactoring (you've got an example from another guy)
- VCS integration (git, mercurial, svn, even vss, you name it)
- I tend to prefer to use git or mercurial from the commandline, but eclipse has a nice merge editor and it lets me compare 2 commits very very easily. The Hg plugin even shows a tree graph with the commit tree
- And lots of lots of plugins (the mylyn and jira/bugzilla/trac connectors are really nice for example)

My main argument is that it's so much easier to inspect for example a class in a jar library and see the methods it implements within eclipse/intellij/netbeans than with any other plain text editor. Eclipse even lets you see the javadoc for the class.
I think you were referring to the n-body problem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-body_problem). If so, I suggest not neglecting gravity.

Without gravity (and either assuming these guys don't run into each other or can somehow pass through each other), the position of each body is independent, and can be found through the following equation:

Position = Initial + (Velocity * Time)

Blah blah vector components blah blah, but you get my point.
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> So now I fire up eclipse (and reset all my project options and input from scratch) only when I need refactoring

That seems a pretty sensible approach in any case. Emacs is just a nicer environment to live in for day to day editing.
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Parrot 1.0 was released. This means the API is more stable, and this was the main problem of Rakudo (the Perl 6 compiler for Parrot).

The jokes about Perl 6 are kind of lame. It's an open-source project and you can check its progress (instead of reading reddit :)) ... regular releases are made, and it does have a comprehensive tests suite. The latest version released in April is passing 10467 spectests (65% of the tests suite), with an increase of 3194 since March.

I know that it's fun joking about such projects, but Perl 6/Parrot are very ambitions, and even if they could use some help, progress is being made. I wouldn't be surprised if the "Christmas release" is this year.
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Could you tell that Edgar Varèse was wrong when he composed atonal music ?
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Their Charts API, which gives back images for specially formatted URLs, is pretty impressive, too. (It is hands-down the easiest way I know to get analytics data onto a cell phone. You pretty much need a wrapper for your language of choice because the API is very primitive and otherwise you're going to waste time reinventing things like "scaling the chart so that it fits all its data", but otherwise its great.)
automysqlbackup.sh (Google it). That gets you from the database to a file. After you've got the file, backing up to "the cloud" should be pretty trivial.
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Splendidly put.

I'm a chef, and I don't want to talk about knives. I don't care that my knives are basic; taste my cooking. I don't care that your knives are wonderful; I want to taste your cooking.

There's a reason that taste tests are done blindfolded, you know - ugly but delicious trumps beautiful but foul, every day of the week and twice on Sunday.
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I'm down with that. For a really well rounded and thoroughly informed view, I recommend Ernst Mayr (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Mayr). A Biologist and Philosopher, he really understood the foundations of "life as we know it" and what implications this has on our view of the universe.

For instance he wrote some wonderfully insightful essays on the probability of intelligent life (maybe even just "l.a.w.k.i") on the grounds that most people misinterpret the products of strict evolutionary theory. He claimed that for il/lawki to have evolved one must posit the happenings of not just the simian evolutionary line, but all life and it's corresponding physical environment. If we take this literally, then we can say that for il/lawki, an unbroken line of events 13 billion years long are invested in the simple phrase "intelligent life" or "life as we know it"... and we need not restrict ourselves to any time period as it's a continuum, so we start to get an infinite on this side of the equation that divides the infinity of the universe into a simple and undeniable unity - us. To posit anything further than this is beyond the realms of scientific integrity.
but presentation is a big part of cooking. good chefs can't just throw their delicious food on a plate they have to make it look good too.
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Yes, but I guess, either we meet the aliens, or we will make our own. (Assuming we do not go extinct.)
I live in India. So probably the EVDO / 3G connection won't work here. Does the Kindle DX also support vanilla WiFi so that I can still buy books from Amazon?
the scenarios Baxter and Egan write about only push the Great Filter up to the moment of being able to create self-replicating probes (the most basic form of explosive colonization).

i think that's actually the point after which filters have to contend with a diversity of "the psychology of the intelligences that evolve" (rather than at the emergence of biology, since biology is localized and subject to regularities in astrophysics such as supernovae).

how far are we from being able to produce such probes, and could our psychology become so idiosyncratic between now and then that we wouldn't deploy them?
The new graphs are up too.
My guess is that the reverse is likely more true.
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The most interesting part of it, IMHO, is time, not so much the distance and probability. We are new at being an intelligent species with organised science. Other intelligent life in the universe that we might hope to interact with, aren't less developed than us, but they might easily have 50.000 years or more on us.

How do we know that there aren't already "aliens" that know about us?

The time aspect also suggests that we have nothing to fear from aliens. If they've survived themselves for thousands of generations from where we are today, it's impossible that they don't have a viable and sustainable way of life, that doesn't require them to go "harvest" us :)
Not to hijack, but can people stop implying a "free market" actually exists anywhere in the world -- as long as there are governments, taxes and tolls, it is just by definition not the case, regardless of your or my opinion on this simple fact.
I found this article, rather vague..

How is it that computer networks will override moore's law?
Either networking is inherently too costly on CPU/Hardware
Or someone miscalculated that with a rise in computer power the networking infrastructure also rises in power..

Also using Youtube as an example for "clogged tubes" is silly, Youtube is clogging their own tubes (Ours too but only because we're not keeping up in rolling out new networks)
Think of delivery via means like Bittorrent (no that doesn't instantly mean piracy) But rather as a protocol for distribution and even streaming media..More efficent so it makes the youtube costs much smaller and the overall load more distributed.

There is a maximum amount of traffic that could flow on the internet currently, but theoretically we will one day have a limit to our consumption above 1080p we might only ever need 2k and so that will be video, text is too small to worry about and music will only change in quality to a few gigs per album, So what more could we transfer?
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Murder the spammers.

Like, literally find them in their homes and dead them.
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Ok, I'm the idiot who did the script injection attack. Sorry every one. Actually I figured it wouldn't work because he appears to be escaping the output in the code on the blog page ... but what do I know.
Exactly. I freely admit that I don't work every minute of every day, but that's because you need to take breaks in order to refocus and mull over what you are working on. You can't cut the time you work in half (which for me often includes evenings and weekends) and expect to get the same amount done. The "extra" work that you add is often work that was unforseen when you started but became necessary as you understood the problem better.
At least for an ex-smoker it also takes a lot more discipline. It's the habits that are the hardest to break. After a good meal or during a work-break the urge to light up is the strongest, even when you quit long ago.

Moreover a cigarette provides a nice time-frame and the illusion of of doing something. You can have a "one cig break" or a "two cig break". And you have something to do while thinking, which helps with the process (at least it does for me).
I think spam is still a technology problem more than a person problem, Spam can be beaten. Things like piracy can't.

EG, There are only so many ways to display spam to someone, And if we aren't seeing it it's going to stop.

But there will always be a way to share information, and it's the end user that cares they don't mind how they get it so it wont be stopped.
I was in the same situation a while ago and ended up jumping to netbeans with the free and excellent jvi plugin. However, I feel your pain and when I recently started using scala on a hobby project I was really happy to be able to just use vim again -- partly because the netbeans support isn't so good for scala and partly because the language "feels" like it doesn't need an IDE.
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Eclipse,emacs and maven works for me. I use the emacs for making quick changes and often end up working within it. Still couldn't go without having eclipse along side though.
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Ah, another "we must be at the end of the future now" post.

So what more could we transfer?

Multiple video streams for a start, for enhanced 3D or choose-your-own-viewpoint or choose-your-own-ending.
Good grief. If I read one more article based on 'X multitasks better than the iPhone', I think I am going to scream.

None of the iPhone competitors pack much more under the bonnet than the iPhone, at least when talking about Mb and MHz. The iPhone already has trouble just running a computationally intensive task (such as a 3D game) with the background system tasks running. It also has problems with battery life as these apps go through the juice. Hands up everyone that has put the iPhone in sleep mode whilst there is a 3rd party app running, which decides to not actually stop running? You go back and find that you have barely any battery left. How often do you think that is going to happen to people when they are running multiple apps?

I have not seen anywhere any indication whatsoever that Palm has solved these limitations. If a user truly does decide to run several apps in the background, we have every reason to believe that they will have a dog of an experience, in terms of responsiveness of the system, and battery life. Unless, as I have already said, Palm has found a way to build a system that is an order of magnitude more lightweight than iPhone OS, and nobody seems to be saying that.
Oh please don't call the successor technology "LISP".
Can an iPhone multitask? I wasn't aware of it. (And I own one)
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This Reddit thread on why it was canceled is hilarious:

"Poor developers got screwed over. They coded the whole thing in Arc before an implementation was released, then Paul Graham pulled a stunt and released a set of MzScheme macros instead of the auto-vectorizing native code compiler he promised them."

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8ihf5/3d_realms...
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I don't agree with the "lack of access capacity" being a blocker for Internet growth/development. This problem can be solved easily by more investment from the cable/Telecom companies.
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Well, the "read-only" part would be your responsibility. You'd also need to give your "cloud" credentials, which would have to be write credentials, of course.

Maybe what you want exists as a service, I imagine you can find it if you google a bit more. However, what do you plan to do when a DB fails? Do you expect the recovery process to be automatic, or are you willing to restore manually?
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Charge your paid competitors 2.00 CPM so that they can earn 80.00 from same users.

Well, thats what my competitors do, anyway...Trust me, I wish them outlandish success.

Anyhow, I use free stuff as a friendcatcher for organic SEO, etc, and then turn rankings into money via paid apps. Also have a free trial, consider it a no brainer.
It's a pretty trollish question, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt :)

The iPhone runs OSX, so mutitasking's built in at an OS level. For a number of reasons Apple have decided that user-installed apps can't run in the background, meaning that when you select another app, the previous one actually closes.

Some Apple apps, like the phone, iPod player etc are exempt from this rule and do run in the background.
If this was true, we should be seeing bandwidth becoming more expensive. At least here in Sweden, the opposite seems to be true: prices seem to continue to fall.

And for the idea that we will someday hit a "capacity ceiling" to be true, price elasticity for bandwidth (and IP numbers) must be very, very low. I don't know of any evidence that we are ready to pay humongous amounts for tomorrows 3D, 2160p, video streams.
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Using the last.fm business model: for me it is the perfect example of service quality + pr + revenue.

You cannot find a better music service on the web, you cannot find worst communication strategy than they have (negative promo is better than positive promo, the first rule of pr!) and soon the press will be flooded by their success story.
He included "charge" which (mathematically) is identical to gravity.

Plus he said relativistic, so the very concept of "position" (and time) is not so simple.
I think that Palm made all applications, even the system ones, web apps and as such everything is running in the background all the time. This pretty much means that they have to get background apps working correctly or the phone wont function at all. :)
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I often wonder if the Beeb could implement a location aware torrent based streaming app for iPlayer... I think they could drastically cut their costs if they just let their data exist on license payers personal networks, and it would make a hell of an experiment on optimising data flow.
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Generally, function call overhead is absolutely worth the added ability to abstract, but adding that overhead per character in all IO operations adds up quickly. Getchar is often the innermost loop of IO-bound processing, so inlining it (in this case, by making it a #define macro) is worth doing as a special case.
I've never really had crummy service with any provider. Both T-Mobile and AT&T have been fine with me, forgiving the price gouging that occurs with all providers. The prospect of switching to Sprint is not a big deal for me. I just make the payment to someone else and I get to keep my phone number. Meh.

However, I will say that I would like to be on Verizon for the simple fact that almost everyone I know is on Verizon and I could get by with a 25 minute/month plan. :)
'If it's using bash-specific extensions for scripting, that's understandable, but that's seldom the case.'

Are you sure? Bash-style functions and arithmetic subshells are pretty common. As long as they don't label the script with the Bourne interpretar (/bin/sh) then Bash scripting is fine.
Does anyone have more info on YouTube "discontinuing video delivery to certain geographies due to lack of access capacity"? From what I understand this was more of a "we can't monetize 3rd world traffic" problem.
Except Gimp comes with the OS installation.
Perhaps the broadband providers are 'capping bandwidth' because the research these guys did seems to give them some added legitimacy to do so?
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I don't know what this means for Borland as I haven't used any of their products for years, but during the 90's they built some of the best development tools available. Before the age of .NET, Borland Delphi was leaps and bounds better than Visual Basic for rapid development of Windows applications. And Turbo Pascal, while certainly not the most beautiful language in the world, was much better than Visual Basic, in my opinion.
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I agree, But how many Video streams would we need to stream at once for it to overrun moore's law is what i don't get, Sure it's a heck of a big job, but it's not a falling sky as such.

3D enhanced video sounds great! but all these technologies really won't be loading more than 3-6 streams of data at once, which we can keep up with easily.

It's just that choking bandwith doesn't cause any loss of customers until the competition offers better..at least that's how it is here

(NZ)

But i get it, there are huge files, But i still think we can keep up.
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In North America, bandwidth is becoming more expensive in the form of overage charges for exceeding your bandwidth cap. My ISP charges a ridiculous $2 per GB for anything past 90GB.
Maybe they should call it "ARC" instead ;)
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What are the caps/speeds like there on average? VS price..

I come from a world where "10Gig!" is a "extreme plan" and the largest cap is 80gig, Which costs 130NZD or 607.092087 Swedish kronor (So says my converter)
Exactly. That's the same kind of approach detractors to Windows take. Blue screens are actually caused by third-party driver issues, for example, yet are still used as a negative point when they are virtually nonexistent in current versions of Windows.
How much is your monthly charge though? I mentioned mine just above..
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With today’s economy I don’t see much hope in releasing an application that cost money.

I strongly disagree with this. Consumers and companies still use money, they just use less and, importantly, use it differently. B2B markets are particularly interesting right now. There are thousands of companies looking to cut down on their IT spending, trying to locate better and cheaper options for their expensive solutions.

Make a cheap standardised Intranet to replace the corporate behemoth that costs thousands of dollars every year, make a helpdesk application that can cut down on support costs, offer a cheap hosted VOIP solution that saves on phone bills.

The possibilities are endless, and if you call up a company telling them that they can save money using your product they'll listen.
I pay 150SEK, or $20, a month for 100MBit/s (and the fixed cost for fixed telephone). No cap (as far as I'm aware).
Note: Mechanical Turk has been originally created as a way for Amazon to provide their machine learning algorithms with labelled data; i.e. to train the AI.
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Goodnews. When is this going to be available in the UK?

I'm there if I can read PDFs on it (check), subscribe to Le Monde (check), the New York Times (check), The Economist and The Guardian. I can see a device like this making me spend more on subscriptions than I currently do because of the convenience and lack of paper to recycle.

I guess I might buy the occasional book, although I really like paper books.
I read this yesterday about some changes Nintendo made between pressing the gold cart and later versions:

Eventually the Muslim community complained that the chanting was in the game, and it had to be removed, along with the original Mirror Shield crescent moon design, which is also an Islamic symbol. The only way to see either one of these things now is by playing the original OoT Version 1.0, which amounts to all of the gold cartridges and only the very first gray ones.

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It's about $70 for 10mbit down, 1mbit up. They also throttle bittorrent to about 10% of that.