funny how on the Cave system, they mention that it "looks impressive" as a selling point. yes it does, in fact, look impressive. i just didn't realize that was one of the more important points.... hehe.
...where the guy glaces at the nuclear power plant, and for a split second wonders what it would be like to see it blow up? and that split second starts a chain of events that takes several minutes....
(may or may not have been rudy rucker... the more i think about it, the more doubtful i am. one thing for sure: it was early 80's cyberpunk.)
and that's not the worst of it. statistics tells us that the actions of rare individuals is discarded and lost in the maelstrom of the average. and believe, marketing people take statistics. (not the cool, calculus-based kind, either) so what it comes down to is that skewing the data is only worth it if a couple conditions are met: 1) it has to be free. it's completely worthless to pay someone to skew their data. (but, if you really want to do that, i'll set up a database you can play with, and you can send me a check now and again =) and 2) you have to be able to enter vast amounts of extraneous data. and it would be better skewed than random. and skewed toward something totally ridiculous. like 95% of all americans only turn on their tv's for 5 minutes of "alf" every third sunday.
there are some obvious problems with this. falsifying this much data in an organized manner could probably be legally proven to be harmful to the company's interests (which is directly counter to what aggravates us all about this stupid thing: we don't want it reporting on us; what about our interests?) and they might sue. another problem is that they might just make "the alf network".
a better solution than this might be simple boycot. i mean, the easiest way to protect your data is to just avoid giving it to them in the first place, right? sure, then they get all the data from their customers still, but they have fewer customers, and their customers don't represent a good cultural cross-section anymore, because the people who boycot these things are themselves a consumer demographic, completely missing from their database.
ever try running your monitor at 1920x1440? it's beautiful for photoshop work, but text disappears and icons are nearly impossible to hit. but what IBM is talking about is more than twice that detailed. Imagine cranking your monitor up to 3200x2400...
I'm a professional programmer, and I assume that some of you are, too. As programmers, don't we know the difference between hardware, assembly, procedural and OOP? Aren't the descriptions offered in this article more in the "blatantly obvious" category? I was hoping for something more in-depth, I guess. This guy sounds like my boss trying to explain to a client what exactly they're paying for. His "insight" is not new. It's not even interesting. My response? "Well, duh."
not to be, like, a DUCKING FICK, but i'm not a college kid anymore, and i got cable modem, 10/100 in-house network... i miss the days of sitting on a 300+Mb network, but i get 2-3Mb consistently... modems just suck. i wouldn't move somewhere without some form of high-speed.
Gender conditioning I wonder about. I grew up in a family with two boys, two girls. I spent my savings on an (even then) old TI-99/4A. Did I buy it because I was the oldest? Because I was a boy? Or because I'm a geek who just didn't know it yet?
I played with that thing for hours every day. It was always available to my siblings (though somewhat jealously guarded, I admit). And though we all used it to some degree, I don't remember any clear gender roles coming out. I remember being the only one who could program it.
Same with the Apple ][. Same with my first PC. Same with my second, and so on.
Although now, in the Internet era, my entire family knows _something_ about computers, can get online, find things, buy things, etc. But still, I alone own a computer (or two...). And I'm still the only one who can program it. And so, now I'm a professional. Cool with me, it's what I've always wanted to do. They respect my ability, but are not so covetous as to become skilled themselves.
In computer science classes out of a hundred or so of us there were only 4, maybe 5 girls. And my cousin, a female ChemE major, said it's no different. There is definitely a discrepency in these fields. But I think the feminists in these articles are looking only to place blame.
Why don't girls grow up to be geeks (very often)? Hell if I know. But I'm pretty sure it's not my fault.
yeah, food access is important. much like bandwidth, i prefer it delivered to my abode. so 24hr delivery availability is much appreciated. how many late nights have you noticed that you haven't eaten anything and...shit! it's 3am.
But a web-enabled psx2 will be smooth. However, i don't think i'm really waiting for the day when i can set how brown i want my toast via my personal website....
Well, yes, brute force could be faster. But then we'll just have to use those "micro-micro-micro" processors to find bigger primes. A processor can always encrypt better than it can decrypt. Currently encrypted stuff would suddenly be very... vulnerable, thought. Makes you think differently about all those catch-phrases like, "using current technology..." or, "barring some incredible new advancment..." doesn't it?
As a professional in the web development side of things, I can't help but think that this is a completely unnecessary step.
Since we own Photoshop 5.5, which is made by Adobe, who are, in fact, licensed by Unisys, every GIF on all of our clients' sites is legitimate. So from the "afraid of litigation" angle, there are no worries. My personal site was created with a licensed version of Photoshop that I bought, and therefore it's in the clear, too.
I've been looking forward to PNG for a long time. The variable alpha support, specifically, interests me. But, alas, browsers are tied up in their support, and all of them bungle the variable transparency. So while PNG has wonderful possibilities, its current implementation falls flat. Add that to a 4.0+ browser restriction, and consider the work of revamping a site, and "burn all GIFs day" becomes less than attractive. (And if you suggest letting a script touch your images, I'd reply that you're a chump...I can compress better than any script, and so can you, because we can _see_ the final quality, and judge each image individually, and ensure that each are the smallest possible. Only with very large sites -- say an online catalog with 5,000 parts -- does a script come into the equation)
I want to see the days of PNG, but I just don't think today's the day.
A sample of 150 developers? How could that possibly be representative? Furthermore, what are the 41% of developers doing who aren't writing C/C++, Java, or vb? Hmm? This is an example of journalists (remember the dumb kids in college, who said "eww...." when you mentioned your cs/math major?) reporting on a story that actually is based on facts of minor significance. Apparently, statistics and addition are a little too difficult, or too easy to overlook.
Picture a world of green hills and blue skies. When years from now, Microsoft's business has changed...to focus on... mice. They could be the Logitech of the 21st century. (And hey, I've only had one microsoft mouse that didn't work right, and I've never had one crash...)
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funny how on the Cave system, they mention that it "looks impressive" as a selling point. yes it does, in fact, look impressive. i just didn't realize that was one of the more important points.... hehe.
"This? Oh, this is our new Quake rig, Robin. Let's see j0KK3r frag me now!"
(may or may not have been rudy rucker... the more i think about it, the more doubtful i am. one thing for sure: it was early 80's cyberpunk.)
Still, it's great news for other Linux Java developers, I'm sure, and it makes me glad to know that Win/Solaris aren't the only ones anymore.
When will Apple catch up? They still don't have a Java 2 JVM yet. MacOS X will bring that, true, but have they even begun work on a 1.3 JDK?
-- Henry David Thoreau
there are some obvious problems with this. falsifying this much data in an organized manner could probably be legally proven to be harmful to the company's interests (which is directly counter to what aggravates us all about this stupid thing: we don't want it reporting on us; what about our interests?) and they might sue. another problem is that they might just make "the alf network".
a better solution than this might be simple boycot. i mean, the easiest way to protect your data is to just avoid giving it to them in the first place, right? sure, then they get all the data from their customers still, but they have fewer customers, and their customers don't represent a good cultural cross-section anymore, because the people who boycot these things are themselves a consumer demographic, completely missing from their database.
NASA + NCI is an invalid LValue, and cannot store the result of the expression "Nano-Explorers For Humans"
thm-thm-thm-chk
thmmmmm-thm-chk
wicky-zwipp-swap
thm-chk-a-thm
thmmmmm-thm-chk
ever try running your monitor at 1920x1440? it's beautiful for photoshop work, but text disappears and icons are nearly impossible to hit. but what IBM is talking about is more than twice that detailed. Imagine cranking your monitor up to 3200x2400...
Peter Glaskowsky, a senior editor for Microprocessor Report, said Thursday that a PlayStation 2 will be fundamentally easier to use than a PC.
Give this journalist a prize! (Did he really need to quote somebody to say that?)
I'm a professional programmer, and I assume that some of you are, too. As programmers, don't we know the difference between hardware, assembly, procedural and OOP? Aren't the descriptions offered in this article more in the "blatantly obvious" category? I was hoping for something more in-depth, I guess. This guy sounds like my boss trying to explain to a client what exactly they're paying for. His "insight" is not new. It's not even interesting. My response? "Well, duh."
not to be, like, a DUCKING FICK, but i'm not a college kid anymore, and i got cable modem, 10/100 in-house network... i miss the days of sitting on a 300+Mb network, but i get 2-3Mb consistently... modems just suck. i wouldn't move somewhere without some form of high-speed.
I played with that thing for hours every day. It was always available to my siblings (though somewhat jealously guarded, I admit). And though we all used it to some degree, I don't remember any clear gender roles coming out. I remember being the only one who could program it.
Same with the Apple ][. Same with my first PC. Same with my second, and so on.
Although now, in the Internet era, my entire family knows _something_ about computers, can get online, find things, buy things, etc. But still, I alone own a computer (or two...). And I'm still the only one who can program it. And so, now I'm a professional. Cool with me, it's what I've always wanted to do. They respect my ability, but are not so covetous as to become skilled themselves.
In computer science classes out of a hundred or so of us there were only 4, maybe 5 girls. And my cousin, a female ChemE major, said it's no different. There is definitely a discrepency in these fields. But I think the feminists in these articles are looking only to place blame.
Why don't girls grow up to be geeks (very often)? Hell if I know. But I'm pretty sure it's not my fault.
I dunno about the top 10, but Donald Knuth has made excellent contributions to the theory side of computer science. It's all about algorithms, baby!
yeah, food access is important. much like bandwidth, i prefer it delivered to my abode. so 24hr delivery availability is much appreciated. how many late nights have you noticed that you haven't eaten anything and...shit! it's 3am.
Gack.
...not to be all particular or anything...
But a web-enabled psx2 will be smooth. However, i don't think i'm really waiting for the day when i can set how brown i want my toast via my personal website....
Anybody got an reference to the official word on Maya for Linux? I haven't seen it mentioned in a while...
Well, yes, brute force could be faster. But then we'll just have to use those "micro-micro-micro" processors to find bigger primes. A processor can always encrypt better than it can decrypt. Currently encrypted stuff would suddenly be very ... vulnerable, thought. Makes you think differently about all those catch-phrases like, "using current technology..." or, "barring some incredible new advancment..." doesn't it?
Since we own Photoshop 5.5, which is made by Adobe, who are, in fact, licensed by Unisys, every GIF on all of our clients' sites is legitimate. So from the "afraid of litigation" angle, there are no worries. My personal site was created with a licensed version of Photoshop that I bought, and therefore it's in the clear, too.
I've been looking forward to PNG for a long time. The variable alpha support, specifically, interests me. But, alas, browsers are tied up in their support, and all of them bungle the variable transparency. So while PNG has wonderful possibilities, its current implementation falls flat. Add that to a 4.0+ browser restriction, and consider the work of revamping a site, and "burn all GIFs day" becomes less than attractive. (And if you suggest letting a script touch your images, I'd reply that you're a chump...I can compress better than any script, and so can you, because we can _see_ the final quality, and judge each image individually, and ensure that each are the smallest possible. Only with very large sites -- say an online catalog with 5,000 parts -- does a script come into the equation)
I want to see the days of PNG, but I just don't think today's the day.
A sample of 150 developers? How could that possibly be representative? Furthermore, what are the 41% of developers doing who aren't writing C/C++, Java, or vb? Hmm? This is an example of journalists (remember the dumb kids in college, who said "eww...." when you mentioned your cs/math major?) reporting on a story that actually is based on facts of minor significance. Apparently, statistics and addition are a little too difficult, or too easy to overlook.
nexus, nexi? Kind of a stretch...but it sounds cool. Anybody call crayons Crayolas?
I'm not sure of the exact count, but there a few other keywords you've missed. More than 29.
Picture a world of green hills and blue skies. When years from now, Microsoft's business has changed...to focus on... mice. They could be the Logitech of the 21st century. (And hey, I've only had one microsoft mouse that didn't work right, and I've never had one crash...)