So basically you're telling me that as a taxpayer, I'm paying an extra $790 for a hammer just so a bunch of sales people and lobbyists can schmooze with politicians? That sounds like a really lean operation.
I think Natal is amazing -- and you won't need to replace the batteries in your controller all the time. It's nice to see Microsoft do something besides suck for a change.
Give me an invite. I'll buy this the day it comes out. I've currently got a motorola v188 that came with my t-mobile account. i've had it for 5 years and is suffering from some kind of corrupt code. I need a new phone and $530 for an unlocked 3G/GSM phone with android 2.1, wifi, compass, 5MP camera, accelerometer, snapdragon processor, etc. is quite reasonable.
Whoever came up with this idea is a complete fucking genius. I feel really sorry for the engineers though. It will never work well enough to fully satisfy the testing team.
A potential explanation for all this confusion can perhaps be found in the musings of Frank Zappa:
"Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe."
Oh SURE they knew they would eventually release the source. And SURE they would willingly adhere to the license terms. And people don't cheat on their spouses. And nobody cheats on their taxes. And no one ever gets sued over this kind of thing. And I'm dating Megan Fox.
Wait, are viruses ever 'alive' ? This is hardly schrodinger's cat.
It also sounds like a really good way to destroy every shred of life on the planet -- or at least set up a doomsday scenario in your screenplay that will never get published. Or maybe turn yourself into the Hulk.
Find one or two companies that does the work which interests you, call them up, and ask them what languages they use. Chances are they'll need everything from PHP, Java, Actionscript, Javascript, SQL, or.NET for the web site to C++, Objective C, J2ME, or something else for computers, mobile phones, and game consoles. Seriously, just call them. Make sure you make a distinction between the various positions they have. A single company might have hundreds of programming positions, each of which specializes in some particular thing. A friend of mine who interviewed at Microsoft in the 90's met someone whose entire job was practically dedicated to the print preview dialog box for MS Word. Another friend of mine works for EA or some other game company here in LA. A typical task for him is to prevent that flanging sound when two players fire the same weapon in rapid succession in a first-person shooter. He tends to specialize in audio-related coding.
It is absolutely possible to apologize to Alan Turing for the awful way in which he was treated and it needs to be done. I fail to understand why you say this is not possible. Additionally, there's nothing wrong with singling him out for this apology as the others did not suffer this wrong. Good for them. Bad for Alan Turing.
I'm a software developer and, sadly, my knowledge of hardware systems isn't always what it should be. When I write an application to run on a server and it starts to get slow, I want to know where the bottleneck is. Is my application CPU-bound? I/O-bound? Memory-bound? Do I need more memory? Faster storage? More cores or faster processor speed? Is it the network that's causing the problem? I can usually figure this out using various linux command-line programs like netstat and top and all that, but I would sure love a big fat GUI to make it more graphic. I found something like this once and couldn't remember what it was called. It required all kinds of diagnostic utilities be manually installed.
Ideally, you could view a machine and get some quick idea of where the bottlenecks lie. Maybe that's asking a bit much, but the closer you can get to a single control panel where I could see see all my machines in a list with a status indicator and then drill down machine-by-machine, the happier I would be. It would be even cooler if the machines could contact me when they experience times of overload so that I could get a feel for when the trying times are so I can watch them more closely. I'm imagining a daemon that runs on each server and an admin gui that can speak to that daemon somehow. It would also be nice to have hooks so that I can easily report performance profiling information to the GUI from within my application.
The Activity Monitor utility found on Macs is pretty close to what I'm imagining.
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So basically you're telling me that as a taxpayer, I'm paying an extra $790 for a hammer just so a bunch of sales people and lobbyists can schmooze with politicians? That sounds like a really lean operation.
This reminds me of the $800 hammer that defense contractors sold to the US government back in the 80's. It was an ordinary hammer.
I think Natal is amazing -- and you won't need to replace the batteries in your controller all the time. It's nice to see Microsoft do something besides suck for a change.
Then how were they running Google Earth in the demo I wonder? This is a bummer, but maybe there are ways around it.
The required storage space for Google Earth is 2GB. I find myself wondering about this 190MB limitation. Are talking RAM or disk space here?
Where's the source for this 190MB limitation? That sounds ridiculous, and the article didn't cite where the information came from. I'm skeptical.
Unlimited data on t-mobile is $30/month. you get unlimited voice and data for like $80/mo no contract.
Give me an invite. I'll buy this the day it comes out. I've currently got a motorola v188 that came with my t-mobile account. i've had it for 5 years and is suffering from some kind of corrupt code. I need a new phone and $530 for an unlocked 3G/GSM phone with android 2.1, wifi, compass, 5MP camera, accelerometer, snapdragon processor, etc. is quite reasonable.
Whoever came up with this idea is a complete fucking genius. I feel really sorry for the engineers though. It will never work well enough to fully satisfy the testing team.
What a self-congratulatory, onanistic piece of gloat that is!
What the engineer was really saying was "please don't hire someone to be my boss".
I thought my prejudice against HP laptops was just emotional or superstitious or something. 25.6% malfunction?? They really need to work on that.
A potential explanation for all this confusion can perhaps be found in the musings of Frank Zappa:
"Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is
so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute
that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the
basic building block of the universe."
And if I can...just...manage...to...get it off I might get another job that isn't so dreary.
Oh SURE they knew they would eventually release the source. And SURE they would willingly adhere to the license terms. And people don't cheat on their spouses. And nobody cheats on their taxes. And no one ever gets sued over this kind of thing. And I'm dating Megan Fox.
Yes but how do we *know*. Guess we'll need to have look now, won't we?
if it's built on open source software, chances are someone will force them to reveal their source code.
Wait, are viruses ever 'alive' ? This is hardly schrodinger's cat.
It also sounds like a really good way to destroy every shred of life on the planet -- or at least set up a doomsday scenario in your screenplay that will never get published. Or maybe turn yourself into the Hulk.
OHHHHH...only $3800. What do you want from a hairdresser?
So to run an 1800W hairdryer, you need $38,000 worth of solar panels? Ouch. This totally ruins my plans for a remote hair salon.
can you here me *NOW* you little bitch???
Find one or two companies that does the work which interests you, call them up, and ask them what languages they use. Chances are they'll need everything from PHP, Java, Actionscript, Javascript, SQL, or .NET for the web site to C++, Objective C, J2ME, or something else for computers, mobile phones, and game consoles. Seriously, just call them. Make sure you make a distinction between the various positions they have. A single company might have hundreds of programming positions, each of which specializes in some particular thing. A friend of mine who interviewed at Microsoft in the 90's met someone whose entire job was practically dedicated to the print preview dialog box for MS Word. Another friend of mine works for EA or some other game company here in LA. A typical task for him is to prevent that flanging sound when two players fire the same weapon in rapid succession in a first-person shooter. He tends to specialize in audio-related coding.
An apology is most definitely in order. Estrogen shots? COME ON.
It is absolutely possible to apologize to Alan Turing for the awful way in which he was treated and it needs to be done. I fail to understand why you say this is not possible. Additionally, there's nothing wrong with singling him out for this apology as the others did not suffer this wrong. Good for them. Bad for Alan Turing.
I'm a software developer and, sadly, my knowledge of hardware systems isn't always what it should be. When I write an application to run on a server and it starts to get slow, I want to know where the bottleneck is. Is my application CPU-bound? I/O-bound? Memory-bound? Do I need more memory? Faster storage? More cores or faster processor speed? Is it the network that's causing the problem? I can usually figure this out using various linux command-line programs like netstat and top and all that, but I would sure love a big fat GUI to make it more graphic. I found something like this once and couldn't remember what it was called. It required all kinds of diagnostic utilities be manually installed.
Ideally, you could view a machine and get some quick idea of where the bottlenecks lie. Maybe that's asking a bit much, but the closer you can get to a single control panel where I could see see all my machines in a list with a status indicator and then drill down machine-by-machine, the happier I would be. It would be even cooler if the machines could contact me when they experience times of overload so that I could get a feel for when the trying times are so I can watch them more closely. I'm imagining a daemon that runs on each server and an admin gui that can speak to that daemon somehow. It would also be nice to have hooks so that I can easily report performance profiling information to the GUI from within my application.
The Activity Monitor utility found on Macs is pretty close to what I'm imagining.