Well, a better analogy would be a corvette vs a ferrari. Corvette isn't quite as fast or does quite as well in the corners... but a corvette is a lot more accessible to most people... and for every day things is more than enough and cheaper to maintain.
My phenom II cost me 125$ and isn't much lower performing than some of the newer 300$ i5's (<5% difference), and smokes some of the older 300$+ i7's. And the socket is forwards compatible for many of the newer phenoms and Bulldozer coming out in a few months.
Complex RPG's of the past? You mean just about every JRPG that has the combat strategy of a four man team, 2 members dealing damage and 1/2 members on healing duty while remainders pick their noses while you steamroll the boss? I've played a lot of JRPG's in my day (from Tales to FF to Goldensuns/Fire Emblems to more obscure titles), and "complex" has never come to mind in any of them except for FF11.
Except their net income is only 8.8b dollars. Compare that to a software company like MSFT, which nets 70b in revenue, and keeps 23b in profit.
There's clearly money to be made in OSS. The RHEL model nets Red Hat about 10% profit on their revenue, which is a lot higher than what HP is netting on theirs.
Message is: spend billions on OSS, obtain a cash flow 1.5x higher than average.
Well, it says constant magnetic field. That's pretty hard to generate, since lots of things cause magnetic fields to fluctuate (including body movement of a metal object).
I don't recall it saying anything about determining speed. It said cameras were for determining speed, the drones were for watching. Satellites can do watching perfectly fine.
I don't get why they want to do this with drones... It seems like a less efficient and more expensive method of tracking compared to the satellites they are using now...
The GZone Commando looks to be running Android, at a minimum. It explicitely mentions froyo in their procedure docs for that phone.
Also, under specs, it has listed "Bing Search/Bing Maps", which makes me think that is really what these licensing fees are about. Running Bing apps on an Android device.
I would think the parrots would disagree. They already associate sounds with ideas ("I want sex", "watch out!") In various forms, and words are just sounds with meaning in the same sense. We might train parrots to associate our words with our meanings (pavlovian training), but that isn't stopping them from using our words for their own meanings.
You would think that entropy would degrade any language learned pretty quickly, but those lyrebirds seem to demonstrate that sort of behavior sticks rather than fades rapidly.
Makes me wonder how small a trigger was required to spark human speech evolution. At one time, we probably weren't all that different than these lyrebirds/parrots.
Well, the same could have been said about NeXT, but that ended up being a very successful produce for Apple. Its not the OS that matters, its the underlying technology.
Well yes, I see REHL/HPUX/Centos/OS X just about everywhere in industry and in academia, but I'm talking about grassroots every-day-joe engineers and moderately technically minded people. Those are the ones that I've been seeing a rapid increase in desktop linux adoption.
Well, the policy described has changed a lot in recent years. I work for a large defense contractor (not going to throw names), and while I don't work in contract procurement, I do have an understanding of how things have been changing.
At one time, it was common practice to underbid by a lot, then charge a lot to get stuff done right because the gov't contract selection process was abusive, and so contractors had to abuse the system back to level the playing field and turn a profit.
The gov't then started putting a stop to this by forcing contractors to deliver on the original budgets, or otherwise risk lose contracts in the future. Contractors responded to this by abusing employees and benefits to pick up the difference (for example, at one time it was an unspoken rule or so that one had to work up to the overtime kick-in of 46 hours per week (6 hours/week of free work), or otherwise be first on the chopping block when budget cuts came out). However, the gov't saw what was going on (contracts across the board weren't increasing in price as expected) and put a stop to that as well (forcing all hours to be billed to the gov't, regardless of whether the company pays for it in overtime).
Now contracts are more expensive, and budgets are more tightly and carefully managed, teams are run leaner (that is, fewer people have jobs), but fewer contracts are going way over budget at the same time. At the same time, any scope creep is now added to the project's budget, instead of being absorbed and then rebounded as a cost overrun.
It really has been quite a paradigm shift in the past 3 years or so.
Maybe not such a great marketing move. I wonder how Microsoft would react to much higher than expected numbers of Linux boxes. In the distant past, Linux was waved off on the desktop side as a hobbyist or novelty platform, but I've seen many of my friends and colleagues switch over to a Linux distro in the past few years for their primary OS.
Of the three computers I have (not including gaming consoles and my phone running linux), all of them are either single, double, or triple boot optioned with a linux distro as one of the options.
This will surely hurt business after splitting the Instant plan. Some of their best (some of their few blockbuster/A titles) were available through the STARZ offerings. I'm a huge fan of netflix instant, but between only carrying half-series of Shonen-jumps for months before completion(if they do get completed) and now this, I'll seriously be reconsidering my membership.
That's for close stars though right? How would you distinguish reddening from dust and reddening from red-shift caused by expansion at greater distances?
It is, "Just another paradigm changer" (JAPC). These sorts of articles come out all the time (see the recent OPA article). Basically, this term is to be used when another invested developer harks a new or underused language that will change the way most developers code. The problem is, most ignore some big hurdles in adoption:
1. Saturation. If there are already established tools that do more-or-less the same thing, then there is little incentive for developers to learn something different (often radically) for no tangible gains.
2. Non-problems: Developers often get excited by "problems" that don't exist outside of their niche or mind, and then develope something to solve it. While this might work in the niche, it rarely works in the general case (thoguh there are a few notable exceptions).
Really? Because the Flroda aquifer (in both north and central/south that feeds into the everglades) flow towards the ocean, just like the rivers do. There are springs and seeps in the sea from it all over the coast.
An old card running at 50 or 80% capacity to do the same task as a new card running at 5 or 10% capacity for the same task likely would draw a lot more power.
And 10 years from now, you'll have a machine 10 yrs old instead of 20 years old for the same price. I don't know why you think keeping that old hardware (10 yrs less reliable and less in performance for future upscaling of your needs) makes sense.
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Well, a better analogy would be a corvette vs a ferrari. Corvette isn't quite as fast or does quite as well in the corners... but a corvette is a lot more accessible to most people... and for every day things is more than enough and cheaper to maintain.
My phenom II cost me 125$ and isn't much lower performing than some of the newer 300$ i5's (<5% difference), and smokes some of the older 300$+ i7's. And the socket is forwards compatible for many of the newer phenoms and Bulldozer coming out in a few months.
That's a hard bargain to beat.
Well also, Chrome is the default web browser on many Android based phones. As smartphone usage increases, so does Chrome adoption.
The irony of that statement.
Lots of users had to upgrade hardware from XP->7, I don't. See why you think that expectation is so outrageous.
Complex RPG's of the past? You mean just about every JRPG that has the combat strategy of a four man team, 2 members dealing damage and 1/2 members on healing duty while remainders pick their noses while you steamroll the boss? I've played a lot of JRPG's in my day (from Tales to FF to Goldensuns/Fire Emblems to more obscure titles), and "complex" has never come to mind in any of them except for FF11.
Except their net income is only 8.8b dollars. Compare that to a software company like MSFT, which nets 70b in revenue, and keeps 23b in profit.
There's clearly money to be made in OSS. The RHEL model nets Red Hat about 10% profit on their revenue, which is a lot higher than what HP is netting on theirs.
Message is: spend billions on OSS, obtain a cash flow 1.5x higher than average.
Well, it says constant magnetic field. That's pretty hard to generate, since lots of things cause magnetic fields to fluctuate (including body movement of a metal object).
I don't recall it saying anything about determining speed. It said cameras were for determining speed, the drones were for watching. Satellites can do watching perfectly fine.
I don't get why they want to do this with drones... It seems like a less efficient and more expensive method of tracking compared to the satellites they are using now...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_bias
The GZone Commando looks to be running Android, at a minimum. It explicitely mentions froyo in their procedure docs for that phone.
Also, under specs, it has listed "Bing Search/Bing Maps", which makes me think that is really what these licensing fees are about. Running Bing apps on an Android device.
http://www.casiogzone.com/commando/
http://www.casiogzone.com/commando/gpl/Procedure.txt
I would think the parrots would disagree. They already associate sounds with ideas ("I want sex", "watch out!") In various forms, and words are just sounds with meaning in the same sense. We might train parrots to associate our words with our meanings (pavlovian training), but that isn't stopping them from using our words for their own meanings.
You would think that entropy would degrade any language learned pretty quickly, but those lyrebirds seem to demonstrate that sort of behavior sticks rather than fades rapidly.
Makes me wonder how small a trigger was required to spark human speech evolution. At one time, we probably weren't all that different than these lyrebirds/parrots.
Well, the same could have been said about NeXT, but that ended up being a very successful produce for Apple. Its not the OS that matters, its the underlying technology.
Well yes, I see REHL/HPUX/Centos/OS X just about everywhere in industry and in academia, but I'm talking about grassroots every-day-joe engineers and moderately technically minded people. Those are the ones that I've been seeing a rapid increase in desktop linux adoption.
Well, the policy described has changed a lot in recent years. I work for a large defense contractor (not going to throw names), and while I don't work in contract procurement, I do have an understanding of how things have been changing.
At one time, it was common practice to underbid by a lot, then charge a lot to get stuff done right because the gov't contract selection process was abusive, and so contractors had to abuse the system back to level the playing field and turn a profit.
The gov't then started putting a stop to this by forcing contractors to deliver on the original budgets, or otherwise risk lose contracts in the future. Contractors responded to this by abusing employees and benefits to pick up the difference (for example, at one time it was an unspoken rule or so that one had to work up to the overtime kick-in of 46 hours per week (6 hours/week of free work), or otherwise be first on the chopping block when budget cuts came out). However, the gov't saw what was going on (contracts across the board weren't increasing in price as expected) and put a stop to that as well (forcing all hours to be billed to the gov't, regardless of whether the company pays for it in overtime).
Now contracts are more expensive, and budgets are more tightly and carefully managed, teams are run leaner (that is, fewer people have jobs), but fewer contracts are going way over budget at the same time. At the same time, any scope creep is now added to the project's budget, instead of being absorbed and then rebounded as a cost overrun.
It really has been quite a paradigm shift in the past 3 years or so.
Maybe not such a great marketing move. I wonder how Microsoft would react to much higher than expected numbers of Linux boxes. In the distant past, Linux was waved off on the desktop side as a hobbyist or novelty platform, but I've seen many of my friends and colleagues switch over to a Linux distro in the past few years for their primary OS.
Of the three computers I have (not including gaming consoles and my phone running linux), all of them are either single, double, or triple boot optioned with a linux distro as one of the options.
1. Get involved with FIRST lego league at the school
2. Bring in robot
3. ???
4. Profit
This will surely hurt business after splitting the Instant plan. Some of their best (some of their few blockbuster/A titles) were available through the STARZ offerings. I'm a huge fan of netflix instant, but between only carrying half-series of Shonen-jumps for months before completion(if they do get completed) and now this, I'll seriously be reconsidering my membership.
That's for close stars though right? How would you distinguish reddening from dust and reddening from red-shift caused by expansion at greater distances?
Also, please ignore the typos, its hard writing from a phone keyboard.
It is, "Just another paradigm changer" (JAPC). These sorts of articles come out all the time (see the recent OPA article). Basically, this term is to be used when another invested developer harks a new or underused language that will change the way most developers code. The problem is, most ignore some big hurdles in adoption:
1. Saturation. If there are already established tools that do more-or-less the same thing, then there is little incentive for developers to learn something different (often radically) for no tangible gains.
2. Non-problems: Developers often get excited by "problems" that don't exist outside of their niche or mind, and then develope something to solve it. While this might work in the niche, it rarely works in the general case (thoguh there are a few notable exceptions).
Really? Because the Flroda aquifer (in both north and central/south that feeds into the everglades) flow towards the ocean, just like the rivers do. There are springs and seeps in the sea from it all over the coast.
An old card running at 50 or 80% capacity to do the same task as a new card running at 5 or 10% capacity for the same task likely would draw a lot more power.
And 10 years from now, you'll have a machine 10 yrs old instead of 20 years old for the same price. I don't know why you think keeping that old hardware (10 yrs less reliable and less in performance for future upscaling of your needs) makes sense.