As stated by every Intro to Algorithms prof, you can optimize something to death with low level and hard to follow code, but if your algorithm sucks you've wasted your time.
Are vo-tech ASM monkeys really gonna know how to do algorithm analysis and design? I could probably write bubble sort in 4 x86 instructions that would out preform all other bubble sorts on the same system, but I can also mathematically prove that most every other sort in any other language is better for large sets of randomly sorted data.
I have been thinking this for a long time. I finally managed to get a job doing embedded programming, but I did manage to get a lot of preparation for it in my undergraduate CS courses -- particularly in my Compiler class and my Operating Systems class. We also had an assembly class (16 bit x68) and a computer architecture class so they helped some, but less than you'd think.
My main source of knowledge has been my curiosity of how things worked under the hood and looking into embedded programming on my own.
A lot of embedded programmers are electrical engineers, but engineers tend to program a certain way and use the 'everything is a nail' approach and make bad use of the tools they work with when coding. CS people tend to make their own mistakes when doing embedded programming, and both groups tend to not understand what compilers can and cannot do to produce better code.
The only innovation that I'd heard of coming from Xenix was that it was the first to have console virtual terminals, but I'm not sure if this is true.
Aside from that the only thing I could think of that they might have claimed to have invented with Xenix would have been something Intel or IBM PC specific, since Xenix did run on these, though it did so in 16 bit mode.
Other stuff from Xenix would have belonged to AT&T, but yeah, it's all too old, and I doubt that MS would have been silly enough to make the statement about a patent that was gonna expire the next day.
So essentially it's because bidders can get excited b/c they are stupid and easily stimulated?
I had considered that it might be useful for gaging what the bidders might be willing to pay for the "item", but I would think that these companies would just low ball, let the auction get canceled, rinse and repeat until one of them finally decided that the price was something they couldn't resist and bid the reserve at which point it would turn into a normal auction.
I don't understand why any bids below the reserve would even be placed or accepted by the FCC. I'm not big on auctions, so maybe I'm missing something.
What about protecting other people from stupid people?
Perhaps a label stating "This chainsaw is dangerous!" would keep some moron from tapping the shoulder of his deaf neighbor as to get his attention.
Initially it was chemical simulations that a dedicated cluster was working on already. By using the workstations in the CS department the university could either decrease costs by not buying the computers used in the cluster or just boost the total computational power of the cluster.
Many medical and engineering companies could benefit from similar setup if they use desktop machines (ie, not laptops that get toted home every night).
The CS department at the college I went to used to turn off all the PCs at night but now has them set up to start doing scientific calculations during the times when the labs are closed. They use power during this time, but it's not wasted.
When Diebold decided to get into the voting machine industry rather than develop their own they bought Global Election Systems that already had voting machine products as to have an immediate product offering. The problem was that the product that the small company had wasn't really designed to be that secure. From what I've heard it was used a lot in things like high school elections, but not really in important elections until Diebold bought them.
Diebold may have been duped when they initially bought Global Election Systems but they never should have sold the machines as a secure voting machine, and they seem to have been trying to hide, cover up, and ignore the flaws in the machines more than trying to fix them.
Since they are now trying to get rid of the voting machine subsidiary as Premier Election Solutions due to the tarnishing of their reputation voting machines have brought them I'm sure that a lot of their banking customers are asking the same questions as you.
What I've never figured out is why they didn't work hard to try to fix (not rig) the machines rather than come off as a bunch of lying cheats to the whole world.
I think this probably has more to do with the idea that either through a bluetooth break in or through some sort of virus one day all the phones will dial 911 at the same time in coordination with an actual emergency, so the 911 system will be unable to respond because of all of the automated calls it will have to deal with first.
I think that maybe 911 dialed on the keypad should be treated differently, as the person using the phone knows they dialed it. Automated things or bluetooth could maybe have the alarm, or maybe shouldn't even be able to dial 911.
You can't really cover all the bases if it's a virus on the phone, but if there were one it might already turn off the alarm when dialing 911.
I know in white collar criminal cases where there's a bunch of boring accounting stuff to go through juries are more likely to just think "Well surely the prosecution knows what they are talking about and understands all this." so I'd have to disagree about juries getting it right in general.
the car dealer, the owner when she sells the car, the used car dealer, the shop for replacing the wiper motor when it breaks, and the parts store for selling them the replacement
According to my reading of the article this actually seemed to be about OEMs enabling customers to "downgrade" to XP after purchasing a system with Vista business or ultimate by providing the customer with a copy of XP to install. If so it'd be good for customers because they could see which works out for them and then eventually move to Vista totally if it improves to meet their needs.
A drug company, a cancer stick company, and the delivery company that claims no one was here to get a package when I was sitting right here and they never showed up... he must be evil.
I'd guess that it has probably been made smart about not doing unnecessary things while in a power saving mode. Things like animations or notifications when trying to save power. Things that would require the cpu to wake up.
The animal tracking chip idea won't work because those have to be scanned at close proximity. Not good for "Where the hell is my 'puter?" It might give your laptop cancer, though.
I thought you were gonna talk about him humping hole on the back of the PC where the video card should be and getting cuts and metal splinters on his not yet mature no-no spot.
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As stated by every Intro to Algorithms prof, you can optimize something to death with low level and hard to follow code, but if your algorithm sucks you've wasted your time. Are vo-tech ASM monkeys really gonna know how to do algorithm analysis and design? I could probably write bubble sort in 4 x86 instructions that would out preform all other bubble sorts on the same system, but I can also mathematically prove that most every other sort in any other language is better for large sets of randomly sorted data.
I have been thinking this for a long time. I finally managed to get a job doing embedded programming, but I did manage to get a lot of preparation for it in my undergraduate CS courses -- particularly in my Compiler class and my Operating Systems class. We also had an assembly class (16 bit x68) and a computer architecture class so they helped some, but less than you'd think. My main source of knowledge has been my curiosity of how things worked under the hood and looking into embedded programming on my own. A lot of embedded programmers are electrical engineers, but engineers tend to program a certain way and use the 'everything is a nail' approach and make bad use of the tools they work with when coding. CS people tend to make their own mistakes when doing embedded programming, and both groups tend to not understand what compilers can and cannot do to produce better code.
The only innovation that I'd heard of coming from Xenix was that it was the first to have console virtual terminals, but I'm not sure if this is true. Aside from that the only thing I could think of that they might have claimed to have invented with Xenix would have been something Intel or IBM PC specific, since Xenix did run on these, though it did so in 16 bit mode. Other stuff from Xenix would have belonged to AT&T, but yeah, it's all too old, and I doubt that MS would have been silly enough to make the statement about a patent that was gonna expire the next day.
So essentially it's because bidders can get excited b/c they are stupid and easily stimulated? I had considered that it might be useful for gaging what the bidders might be willing to pay for the "item", but I would think that these companies would just low ball, let the auction get canceled, rinse and repeat until one of them finally decided that the price was something they couldn't resist and bid the reserve at which point it would turn into a normal auction.
I don't understand why any bids below the reserve would even be placed or accepted by the FCC. I'm not big on auctions, so maybe I'm missing something.
What about protecting other people from stupid people? Perhaps a label stating "This chainsaw is dangerous!" would keep some moron from tapping the shoulder of his deaf neighbor as to get his attention.
Initially it was chemical simulations that a dedicated cluster was working on already. By using the workstations in the CS department the university could either decrease costs by not buying the computers used in the cluster or just boost the total computational power of the cluster. Many medical and engineering companies could benefit from similar setup if they use desktop machines (ie, not laptops that get toted home every night).
The CS department at the college I went to used to turn off all the PCs at night but now has them set up to start doing scientific calculations during the times when the labs are closed. They use power during this time, but it's not wasted.
This is truly the holiest of holes!
When Diebold decided to get into the voting machine industry rather than develop their own they bought Global Election Systems that already had voting machine products as to have an immediate product offering. The problem was that the product that the small company had wasn't really designed to be that secure. From what I've heard it was used a lot in things like high school elections, but not really in important elections until Diebold bought them. Diebold may have been duped when they initially bought Global Election Systems but they never should have sold the machines as a secure voting machine, and they seem to have been trying to hide, cover up, and ignore the flaws in the machines more than trying to fix them. Since they are now trying to get rid of the voting machine subsidiary as Premier Election Solutions due to the tarnishing of their reputation voting machines have brought them I'm sure that a lot of their banking customers are asking the same questions as you. What I've never figured out is why they didn't work hard to try to fix (not rig) the machines rather than come off as a bunch of lying cheats to the whole world.
I think this probably has more to do with the idea that either through a bluetooth break in or through some sort of virus one day all the phones will dial 911 at the same time in coordination with an actual emergency, so the 911 system will be unable to respond because of all of the automated calls it will have to deal with first. I think that maybe 911 dialed on the keypad should be treated differently, as the person using the phone knows they dialed it. Automated things or bluetooth could maybe have the alarm, or maybe shouldn't even be able to dial 911. You can't really cover all the bases if it's a virus on the phone, but if there were one it might already turn off the alarm when dialing 911.
Only briefly.
Well people ate plenty of roaches on Fear Factor and few people minded much except the people who were eating them.
I know in white collar criminal cases where there's a bunch of boring accounting stuff to go through juries are more likely to just think "Well surely the prosecution knows what they are talking about and understands all this." so I'd have to disagree about juries getting it right in general.
You could strap 4 rockets to an oak tree and make it fly.
and then X100, network them together, and make a Beowulf cluster of 'em
I worked at one of those too. Excel for everything. Annoyed the crap out of me.
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the car dealer, the owner when she sells the car, the used car dealer, the shop for replacing the wiper motor when it breaks, and the parts store for selling them the replacement
I thought that this was gonna have more to do with the Quest for Glory series by Sierra :-(
According to my reading of the article this actually seemed to be about OEMs enabling customers to "downgrade" to XP after purchasing a system with Vista business or ultimate by providing the customer with a copy of XP to install. If so it'd be good for customers because they could see which works out for them and then eventually move to Vista totally if it improves to meet their needs.
A drug company, a cancer stick company, and the delivery company that claims no one was here to get a package when I was sitting right here and they never showed up... he must be evil.
I'd guess that it has probably been made smart about not doing unnecessary things while in a power saving mode. Things like animations or notifications when trying to save power. Things that would require the cpu to wake up.
The animal tracking chip idea won't work because those have to be scanned at close proximity. Not good for "Where the hell is my 'puter?" It might give your laptop cancer, though.
I thought you were gonna talk about him humping hole on the back of the PC where the video card should be and getting cuts and metal splinters on his not yet mature no-no spot.