Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed4a.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!usenetcore.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.bt.com!news.bt.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 09:23:43 -0600 From: "Chris Uppal" Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer References: <7ad4a15c-7e35-4d08-a61f-4d673f5d4ef0@googlegroups.com> <081fg9thirl4u17mdbeq8q3oocgtbakr7t@4ax.com> <97SdnYwVB7SC1onOnZ2dnUVZ8gednZ2d@bt.com> <140f3bv3kst7.7zenor3r2v2k.dlg@40tude.net> <5ujw21gfmtzd$.1jtrdvdlsnf4y.dlg@40tude.net> Subject: Re: error discription and solution Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 15:25:16 -0000 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5512 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5512 Message-ID: Lines: 21 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-AuthenticatedUsername: NoAuthUser X-Trace: sv3-1dhtDugFcSJ3sCpWAYDNyDYUwPStfWPOiOlo7bmSFUT8WKRpOa09epTjFjW1XO5nTX3GDCtdmXcaEp6!8w6GzQiMvQpZ02BC3eBwjxIaIkfyEsqJtyoTYpoF5U48Y642auiuksIfbI9d/RwY+Qu+5tVL1x8= X-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2575 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:27692 Eric Sosman wrote: > The interesting question, I think, is What Happens Tomorrow? > Will quantum computers or thought-directed computing or positronic > brains change things as fundamentally as they have changed since > Mel? Will the Best Practices we promote today be dismissed as just > so much primitive bunkum? Naturally, I don't know -- but I wouldn't > bet against it ... Nor I, but also I think the process has already started, in a small way, and has largely been missed. No, I'm not talking about multi-core processing (or variants on that theme). The pendulum has swung back, and efficiency /should/ now be of first-tier interest -- not so much for saving time, but for saving /energy/. Only desktop machines can ignore their energy use; servers and "devices" are (in their very different ways) much more sensitive to power consumption. -- chris