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More performant in my experience - less lag and beachballing. Mac running El Capitan.

I'd love to hear John Carmacks' take on this. They had to solve very similar problems when developing this helmet:

extremely low-latency head & eye-tracking, managing depth-of-field, integrating multiple input streams, providing non-distracting information overlays etc.

Also have a look into HyperDex: http://hyperdex.org/

I see 'em audiophiles drooling over this.

just look at this homemade battery in some audiophiles basement:

http://6moons.com/industryfeatures/roadtourlivingvoice/3.htm...

ups - copy and paste error - this should have read: it would be interesting to include Mythryl to the comparison.

including mythryl, a sml/nj derivative with c-flavored syntax to the comparison would be interesting. see http://mythryl.org/ for further info.

finally! looks great and I hope sony doesn't mess this up.

and please make a external monitor version! preferably 24" so I can have a secondary monitor dedicated to word-processing.

even though refresh times might be slow for anything else having an e-paper external monitor for word-processing would make total sense from an ergonomics perspective. a lot of people spend many hours a day writing/editing text and e-paper is much more eye-friendly.

wow - that is fast. wondering what this means for latency-mitigation in display devices?! waiting for carmack to chime in...

could you point to documents explaining proof checking in aerospace industry?

I am especially interested in the history leading to software verification in avionics, the involvement of insurance companies and government regulation.

thx

adaption of ML style languages suffers from the unfamiliar syntax, the pretty steep learning curve for those trained in imperative dialects at 'java-school'.

at least when it comes to syntax mythryl might someday provide an option. its basically SML/NJ with a c-like syntax and multithreading support. still very much in development but looks promising: mythryl.org

that said Haskell certainly seems to be the winner of the current functional language trend.

to whom?

have you looked at mythryl: http://www.mythryl.org/ ?

if anything this as just re-injected new life into the elsevier-protests and the sorry state of academic publishing in general.

elsevier's business practices are well documented and the protest is not just manned by some fringe people but has support from prestigious institutions and scholars.

with each new round like this people will educate themselves even more about open access and contemporary free and open source tools for academic work.

zotero probably will win this out and be pushed to mimic mendely features soon enough. zotero already is pretty good but its social features need to developed or integrated with other platforms like arxiv or academia.net.

last not least given googles science-bias and foothold in academia not least with google-scholar and google docs I wonder why they haven't made a move with respect to citation management.

"6] IBM seems to be losing more money on processors every year, and the people I know at IBM have their resumes polished, because they don't expect POWER development to continue seriously (at least in the U.S.) for more than another generation or two, if that. Oracle is pouring money into SPARC, but it's not clear why, because SPARC has been basically dead for years."

both IBM and Oracle have committed to two more generations of POWER nor SPARC. also there is Fujitsu keeping investing into SPARC. these uarchs are not going to go away anytime soon. they are high-margin niche products in the enterprise space and government with considerable footprints and huge long term service contracts attached to them.

POWER and SPARC are not competing against low-power CPU's but aim for the high-socket count, large unified memory, RAS market which for some workloads is the only alternative.

especially SPARC while having shrinking market share still makes Oracle more than a billion annually. afaik IBM's Power division is not loosing money either.

long story short: in the next five years there will be at least four ISA's (ARM, SPARC, POWER, X86) in the server space, but not all compete for the same markets.

interesting times ahead!

blaming the decline of the industry on the sound quality of mp3 is plain bs. well encoded mp3 with bitrates higher than 169kbps have repeatedly been shown indistinguishable from the original.

for an informed discussion and public listening test you may want to check the hydrogenaudio forums:

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showforum=40

more background info in this article on audio codecs by christopher “monty” montgomery of ogg-vorbis fame:

http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html

there were some attempts to include multithreading into standard ml. john reppy's manticore project came quite far but wasn't fully implemented.

currently mythryl, a sml/nj derivative with c-flavored syntax, is about to get a full multithreading support. check out mythryl.org and the status updates on the mailing list.