In other news today, Yahoo (Nasdaq:YHOO) made an announcement revising their earlier statement that they would not meet earnings estimates. It appears that the efforts of the editors of slashdot.org singlehandedly pushed Yahoo ahead of its estimates, when they directed thousands of users to yahoo's news site.
A spokesman for Yahoo denied that publicising the failure to meet estimates was a deliberate ploy to attract users. Contacting the slashdot editors was inconclusive, with their only comment being "All your base are belong to us".
Who the hell are you to turn up your nose at someone wishing to work as a cleaner?
The one thing I notice in the US, and in silicon valley in particular, is that swarms of mexicans are employed to do menial tasks, many of which could be done mechanically, or would be deemed easily not worth the cost if it was any higher. I don't think the situation is created by the mexicans - it's not like they're dying to work for $5/hr, but by a minimum wage which makes it cheap enough to have 5 people attend to me at my hotel check in.
So many of the nintendo games, like Banjo, obviously run on the same or a slightly modified game engine. A lot of the development time goes into the characters, the story, the landscape and the depth of detail - so there IS something around every corner.
I'm not saying that you need to have a story to motivate you to slaughter your opponents in quake, but when you do have a story it makes it more fun to work out the challenges in the game, beacause they have to be solved not as individual challenges, but as challenges in the context of the game - the solutions come from thinking in the context of the game.
It's not that hard to design a protocol to count identical devices, which sharing one signal. Each device just keeps trying to send without a colission, with exponentially increasing delays after a failed transmission.
The Length(feet)/Speed(knots) ratio for planing is normally between 3 & 5. So for this boat to plane, it's going to have to be travelling at at least 250'/5 = 50 knots. For a boat like this, reaching 50 knots and getting on the plane is going to be no trouble at all.
I'd just like to see it planing over a 10 metre swell!
It's nice that you live in New Zealand and all, but you still should be aware that the Atlantic is a rather big bit of water, with not that much coastline.
So large fast boats can have serious environmental consequences, especially in coastal waters.
Surely blue vs. red is just a dress rehersal for the final show down between windows and linux - with windows represented by Big Blue, and the linux forces gathering behind Redhat.
Unfortunately the last few thousand years of nice liveable weather is really not normal - we're in an extended period between regular ice ages - i.e. we're due for an ice age any time now. From what we know about previous ice ages, they arrive over only a few years, so it's hard to spot them coming.
Heating earth up might be the very thing that keeps the next ice age at bay.
Mozilla today announced a new roadmap. Team members had described the old roadmap as being "full of loops and dead ends". It is hoped that the new roadmap does actually lead to the much anticipated "final release", but as one team member admitted "it's no highway, that's for sure - we'll probably just get stuck circling a roundabout".
He noted that things should probably get moving properly "when IE 7 comes out".
The Mozilla team announced today that they are delaying the ship date of their recently finished mozilla browser. "We were ready to ship, finally, but then somebody suggested that we add LaTeX support, and we just couldn't help ourselves" said one of the lead programmers.
Adding the new feature should take "only a few more weeks" according to them team, although there were suggestions that LaTeX support would also be added to the mail client, futher delaying the browsers release. Another programmer noted that "we might also want to make this LaTeX thing skinable".
Users waiting for Mozilla to release seemed suprisingly unsurprised by the announcement, although one slashdot reader was heard to say "it's a pity - i might have even used mozilla if IE crashed."
When you get to point of having 99% of the internet down, don't you think that whatever caused it (bombs etc.) will have messed with the power supply?
Don't be shocked, fellow reader, but i'm afraid that your average joe doesn't even know what a UPS is, so i'm guessing there may be a shortage of web users at that point. Not too many people are going to experience a nuclear war, and then ask "I wonder if slashdot is still up?".
Most of the critical network points are at the join between major networks - i.e. the US and other countries. Sure this means we non US citizens might not be able to shop at amazon anymore, but our national networks tend to have lots of internal redundancy, so they're much harder to knock out.
We'd still be able to email our friends, and use our intranets. Let's face it - if you had to lose one of
Email within your country
Web within your country
Web in the US
Then web from the US would be the first thing to go!
Slashdot Mirror
Sweek Jesus! Don't tell me everyone is going to start add stock disclaimers to their posts - as if IANAL wasn't bad enough!
A spokesman for Yahoo denied that publicising the failure to meet estimates was a deliberate ploy to attract users. Contacting the slashdot editors was inconclusive, with their only comment being "All your base are belong to us".
Oh of course, we could all debug the code using our development GPS satellites, before moving the code to the production GPS satellites.
The one thing I notice in the US, and in silicon valley in particular, is that swarms of mexicans are employed to do menial tasks, many of which could be done mechanically, or would be deemed easily not worth the cost if it was any higher. I don't think the situation is created by the mexicans - it's not like they're dying to work for $5/hr, but by a minimum wage which makes it cheap enough to have 5 people attend to me at my hotel check in.
At least I can always read slashdot to find the articles I missed a week ago somewhere else.
It really helps when you have millions of poor mexicans crossing the border willing to clean for $5/hr.
I'm not saying that you need to have a story to motivate you to slaughter your opponents in quake, but when you do have a story it makes it more fun to work out the challenges in the game, beacause they have to be solved not as individual challenges, but as challenges in the context of the game - the solutions come from thinking in the context of the game.
It's not that hard to design a protocol to count identical devices, which sharing one signal. Each device just keeps trying to send without a colission, with exponentially increasing delays after a failed transmission.
You could run a grocery store like that by having one ID per product, instead of each carton of milk needing to have it's own individual ID.
A keyring would be perfect for storing my private key!
I'd just like to see it planing over a 10 metre swell!
So large fast boats can have serious environmental consequences, especially in coastal waters.
which this boat isn't planning on travelling in.
I can't believe you actually paid money to see that movie.
Surely blue vs. red is just a dress rehersal for the final show down between windows and linux - with windows represented by Big Blue, and the linux forces gathering behind Redhat.
It's on topic cause it's on slashdot
Pity you had to post about it and wipe of the moderation!
Unfortunately only 20 bytes of new content...
Mirror anyone?
Heating earth up might be the very thing that keeps the next ice age at bay.
He noted that things should probably get moving properly "when IE 7 comes out".
Maybe you could have split all this information you have into ten posts, instead of just 2, and whore yourself even more karma...
Of course you can avoid all that if you don't want the months to match the seasons, just have 100 day years!
Information about how quantum computers work, from a competing team also hoping to build a quantum computer, is here,
Adding the new feature should take "only a few more weeks" according to them team, although there were suggestions that LaTeX support would also be added to the mail client, futher delaying the browsers release. Another programmer noted that "we might also want to make this LaTeX thing skinable".
Users waiting for Mozilla to release seemed suprisingly unsurprised by the announcement, although one slashdot reader was heard to say "it's a pity - i might have even used mozilla if IE crashed."
When you get to point of having 99% of the internet down, don't you think that whatever caused it (bombs etc.) will have messed with the power supply?
Don't be shocked, fellow reader, but i'm afraid that your average joe doesn't even know what a UPS is, so i'm guessing there may be a shortage of web users at that point. Not too many people are going to experience a nuclear war, and then ask "I wonder if slashdot is still up?".
We'd still be able to email our friends, and use our intranets. Let's face it - if you had to lose one of
- Email within your country
- Web within your country
- Web in the US
Then web from the US would be the first thing to go!