Comment How did I not know about this?? (Score 1) 543
And why was I seemingly born 20yrs to soon for these sort of LULZ!?
What to Fight Over After Megapixels? 596
NewScientist has a quick look at where the digital image crowd is headed now that the megapixel wars are drawing to a close. Looks like an emphasis on low-light performance and color accuracy in addition to fun software tools are the new hotness. "For years, consumers have been sold digital cameras largely on the basis of one number - the megapixels crammed onto its image sensor. But recently an industry bigwig admitted that squeezing in ever more resolution has become meaningless. Akira Watanabe, head of Olympus' SLR planning department, said that 12 megapixels is plenty for most photography purposes and that his company will henceforth be focusing on improving color accuracy and low-light performance."
Comment Google search field at the top of the browser (Score 1) 776
I use this all the time for quick calculations and unit conversion.
It is open most of the time and very handy..
Judge Dismisses Google Street View Case 258
angry tapir writes "A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a Pennsylvania family against Google after the company took and posted images of the outside of their house in its Maps service. The lawsuit, filed in April 2008, drew attention because it sought to challenge Google's right to take street-level photos for its Maps' Street View feature. Judge Amy Reynolds Hay from the US District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania granted Google's request for dismissing the lawsuit because 'the plaintiffs have failed to state a claim under any count.'"
Google Terminates Six Services 195
Jonah Bomber writes with this excerpt from Information Week:
"In addition to Google's announcements about the elimination of 100 recruiting positions and the shutdown of offices in Austin, Texas; Trondheim, Norway; and Lulea, Sweden, the company said it would close Dodgeball, Google Catalog Search, Google Mashup Editor, Google Notebook, and Jaiku. It also said it's discontinuing the ability to upload videos to Google Video. ... Jaiku, however, will live on as an open source project. Gundotra said that Google engineers have been porting the microblogging service to Google App Engine and that when the migration is completed, the company plans to make the code available under the Apache license."
A Robotic Cyberknife To Fight Cancer 80
Roland Piquepaille writes "The Cyberknife is not a real knife. This is a robot radiotherapy machine which works with great accuracy during treatment, thanks to its robotic arm which moves around a patient when he breathes. According to BBC News, the first Cyberknife will be operational in February 2009 in London, UK. But other machines have been installed in more than 15 countries, and have permitted doctors to treat 50,000 patients in the first semester of 2008. And the Cyberknife is more efficient than conventional radiotherapy devices. The current systems require twenty or more short sessions with low-dose radiation. On the contrary, and because it's extremely precise, a Cyberknife can deliver powerful radiation in just three sessions."
Should Apple Open Source the iPhone? 379
An anonymous reader writes "Given the OpeniBoot project is just a breath away from getting Android onto the iPhone, maybe Apple should consider opening up the platform. This post has five reasons, but I think there are far more. Without open source, Apple will find itself in the same position as today's Microsoft in seven years."
Comment Glacial compile times and huge dwarf builds (Score 1) 206
The problem I have with egcs/gcc is the the glacial compile times!! I am running on a dual 450 PIII and it takes 5 times as long to compile (no optmisations) my app as it does on PPC/Codewarior on a single CPU PCC/300. This is probably because of the lack of precompiled headers. Much of the source includes the headers to libs and system stuff.
However, ***BY FAR*** the most absurd thing about the GCC tool chain for x86 is DWARF!! My 4 Meg executable swells to a mindboggling 130MB of god-knows-what nonsense when the -g flag is on.
Linking this beast takes ~8 minutes and nearly brings my 256MB RAM machine to its knees.
The thought of porting my company's code to Linux is very appealing, however I can't even imagine the pain of doing so with the current tools. My only option seems to be spend some undetermined amount of time fixing the tool chain --- if its even possible -- something tells be if it was a reasonable task to fix the Broken-As-Designed aspects of the gcc/dwarf and the debugger (no doubt all three would need to be revd.) then someone would have done so long before now...
I am not trying the flame-bait the GCC/Linux is the holy grail crowd here, but the current situation sucks for those of us with beefy apps.
--BQ
"Bruce Q Hammond" bruceq@gobe.n.o.s.p.a.m.com
However, ***BY FAR*** the most absurd thing about the GCC tool chain for x86 is DWARF!! My 4 Meg executable swells to a mindboggling 130MB of god-knows-what nonsense when the -g flag is on.
Linking this beast takes ~8 minutes and nearly brings my 256MB RAM machine to its knees.
The thought of porting my company's code to Linux is very appealing, however I can't even imagine the pain of doing so with the current tools. My only option seems to be spend some undetermined amount of time fixing the tool chain --- if its even possible -- something tells be if it was a reasonable task to fix the Broken-As-Designed aspects of the gcc/dwarf and the debugger (no doubt all three would need to be revd.) then someone would have done so long before now...
I am not trying the flame-bait the GCC/Linux is the holy grail crowd here, but the current situation sucks for those of us with beefy apps.
--BQ
"Bruce Q Hammond" bruceq@gobe.n.o.s.p.a.m.com
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