So it doesn't offer much improvement over the PIV eh. That's nothing 5000 layoffs can't fix. It certainly looks exotic, like the ISA expansion panels of the late 80's. Either way I expect they'll have to pull a Cisco to return to profitability. Preferrably on the campus by 101. And keep the suicides off the freeway.
I first thought this was a joke but then realized this kid somehow figured it out in his head that hacking into a computer would set the government on his trail and sentence him to prison, a perception generated by many a web site news agency. What else does a 13 year old have to go on but what he reads on the internet?
When you read article after article day after day about the government trying to rule the world by squashing computer hackers into little bits, it raises a generation of kids who can think of nothing but how computer hacking is everything the universe is made of and when you're caught hacking into a school computer you've commited a crime against the government worse than murder, the government is going to send the armed forces after you, imprison you for life, and castrate your grandkids, when all you've done is hack into a computer.
Some people don't know when to quit hyping conspiracies and stop sending these kids home with nightmares for the rest of their lives. Thank God the media hasn't picked up burning toast as the next government conspiracy.
It looked like he had a whole bunch of experiments going on in a whole bunch of things but couldn't stay focused long enough to finish any of them. Now 3 months later it looks like his web site is one of them, with the last photos from February before taking another diversion and traveling to Russia. Even if he could finish just one of the things in his back yard, it would definitely take more concentration than he's shown to test it and learn to fly it.
After being unemployed for a while I've come to the conclusion that not having to pay for software is nice but after college you'd better start thinking about charging for it anyway. If you want learning and pedagogy get a MSEE under your company's tuition reimbursement plan.
As for accessing the source code, beyond a certain point the source code becomes an afterthought. If they can understand 110,000 lines of C++ they're more likely to write another one from scratch than study the existing source code. What really matters is not having to pay for the software.
I've never been much of a DSL fan as most slashdotters. It seems to be most popular for technical reasons other than bandwidth, like security and implementation. Cable modems while earning the despise of computer scientists have worked perfectly for me. I usually get 400 kbytes/sec downstream and 16 kbytes/sec upstream and 200kbytes/sec downstream on a bad day. It may not be the best theoretical design but it works. Unfortunately most of the digital cable buildouts of the 90's have been terminated in lieu of wireless networks. Guess the 48kbyte/sec worshippers will get their award and we'll have only screenshots of 400kbytes/sec downloads in 30 years.
After 2 years most people figured out by now that the DVD rumers are just to get kids to shut up. I doubt George has any intention of releasing anything on such a high quality format which can be copied so easily.
I remember back when gesturing the right way to get a computer to do something was considered a joke. You only had to stand on one foot and wave the right way when Win 3.1 wouldn't boot. The "hold button down and slide left" gesture was your way of fingering the computer. On a good day "moving up and then down while holding the button" was a high five. Then again why else would we be in a recession if 1001 things to do with E-Commerce sites wasn't the invention of the day?
Like Dick Stallman always said, you shouldn't expect to make money on software. If you want to make money you should go into business or marketing. Software is worth less than the CD-R's it's backed up on right now. It's time we started viewing programmers more as starving artists than any kind of vital payroll component.
Compaq donated about half a million dollars in hardware to promote Broadcast 2000 at this year's National Association of Broadcasters convention so if that's the application which is to drive consumer sales, you're probably looking too high.
Really there is more effort being made to downsize all applications to handheld devices than there is for upsizing applications to supercomputers. Regardless of how smart the mainstream industry is being about this, one thing is for sure, consumers still prefer bigger SUV's over mopeds.
1 article on the X Box doesn't do it justice
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I believe we need to not just have 1 article feeling sorry for Microsoft we should have an entire website. VA Linux should underwrite "microsoftdotcom.org" because we're just not seeing enough attention given to the X Box. The reason the X Box hasn't materialized, indeed 99% of Microsoft's software hasn't materialized is because of the lack of fan sites. I'm now going to drive off a cliff out of sorrow for Microsoft.
Maybe I'm too old to be reading slashdot but the SR-71 achieved mach 3 and used the same "scooping enough oxygen to power the craft at those speeds on its own". They called it a ramjet. Reinventing the wheel is yet another fine use of our 39% tax bracket that the Clintons invented.
Historically recessions last 1/3 as long as expansions. Most economists believe the recession will last until 2005. Historically software engineers had to reach near total unemployment before a recovery started and we're not there yet. Either enough had to get disenchanted to drain the applicant pool or enough had to get fired to motivate startups before a recovery could happen. Unfortunately most CS majors who got laid off before 1993 left the industry and leave little perception of reality to today's CS majors.
Been trying to keep a rambus system up more than 2 hours. Dumps 194 ECC errors every time and crashes. The sticks heat up to 500` and say "warning hot surface" on top. And they call this memory. I'm suing for 3rd degree burns.
I remember 4 years ago they used to put downloadable movies showing the complete launch on the web. One was a 320x240 which cut between the onboard camera and the ground. Nowadays internet hosting budgets and staffs have been cut so far it's like we've stepped back 30 years.
Not since 2000 have we seen a new PC processor come out and current hard drives date back to 1999. The fact is no-one's making components for PC's anymore. You really have to think more about lower clockspeed CPU's for embedded systems, embedded storage devices, and doing more graphics in hardware. This of course is what a console does.
Actually "printed embedded data on GUI things" have a name. They're called UPC symbols. They store information on food packaging. You scan them with a light pen. How many generations need to be taught the same technology we've had since 1970?
VA Linux is about as far from paying for software as you can get but they had one of the largest staff reductions of the year on a percentage basis. Software licenses are 1/100th of the cost of one employee. Remember that insurance often costs more than the salary. It may seem academically correct for companies to defer sofware costs to employee salaries but the fact is no-one is going to tranfer assets when they can liquidate the employees and keep even more cash. Computer scientists in industry are more like fuel than valuable contributions. Stay in academia.
Normally I follow the general population in terms of what technology I should be using but for all its marketing success the handheld PC is still the first technological trend which I don't personally use.
When PC makers switched from 550Mhz computers to 133Mhz handhelds I switched from 550Mhz computers to dual 1Ghz computers. That was the turning point. Guess I'll never work in IT.
Now an affordable way to update your skills for what's left of the current job market. Unemployed programmers who had trouble keeping their budget below 100,000 lines of code seem to be the intention of this even if it's not stated.
Or you could just watch CNN
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You can pick a site and watch a 160x120 thumbnail reload every half hour or watch the internet appliance that was already there, the TV set.
What are we supposed to do now? Pay $960 for a motherboard? PC makers stopped production and component makers jacked up prices because everyone wanted appliances and now appliance makers stop production. Pretty soon we'll be milking our own cows.
People in the know about overclocking have been using this technology for years except in a larger scale. The problem is for every BTU of heat removed from one side of the device you create 2 BTU of heat on the other side so cooling the peltier or "micro cooler" itself becomes the problem. They're also expensive, making the $960 dual Athlon boards seem like biologist feed.
If web sites offered higher bandwidth connections for a fee they would make money. If you like watching 2 hours of 160x120 movies you might be willing to pay for faster connections to a streaming video site.
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So it doesn't offer much improvement over the PIV eh. That's nothing 5000 layoffs can't fix. It certainly looks exotic, like the ISA expansion panels of the late 80's. Either way I expect they'll have to pull a Cisco to return to profitability. Preferrably on the campus by 101. And keep the suicides off the freeway.
I first thought this was a joke but then realized this kid somehow figured it out in his head that hacking into a computer would set the government on his trail and sentence him to prison, a perception generated by many a web site news agency. What else does a 13 year old have to go on but what he reads on the internet?
When you read article after article day after day about the government trying to rule the world by squashing computer hackers into little bits, it raises a generation of kids who can think of nothing but how computer hacking is everything the universe is made of and when you're caught hacking into a school computer you've commited a crime against the government worse than murder, the government is going to send the armed forces after you, imprison you for life, and castrate your grandkids, when all you've done is hack into a computer.
Some people don't know when to quit hyping conspiracies and stop sending these kids home with nightmares for the rest of their lives. Thank God the media hasn't picked up burning toast as the next government conspiracy.
It looked like he had a whole bunch of experiments going on in a whole bunch of things but couldn't stay focused long enough to finish any of them. Now 3 months later it looks like his web site is one of them, with the last photos from February before taking another diversion and traveling to Russia. Even if he could finish just one of the things in his back yard, it would definitely take more concentration than he's shown to test it and learn to fly it.
After being unemployed for a while I've come to the conclusion that not having to pay for software is nice but after college you'd better start thinking about charging for it anyway. If you want learning and pedagogy get a MSEE under your company's tuition reimbursement plan.
As for accessing the source code, beyond a certain point the source code becomes an afterthought. If they can understand 110,000 lines of C++ they're more likely to write another one from scratch than study the existing source code. What really matters is not having to pay for the software.
I've never been much of a DSL fan as most slashdotters. It seems to be most popular for technical reasons other than bandwidth, like security and implementation. Cable modems while earning the despise of computer scientists have worked perfectly for me. I usually get 400 kbytes/sec downstream and 16 kbytes/sec upstream and 200kbytes/sec downstream on a bad day. It may not be the best theoretical design but it works. Unfortunately most of the digital cable buildouts of the 90's have been terminated in lieu of wireless networks. Guess the 48kbyte/sec worshippers will get their award and we'll have only screenshots of 400kbytes/sec downloads in 30 years.
After 2 years most people figured out by now that the DVD rumers are just to get kids to shut up. I doubt George has any intention of releasing anything on such a high quality format which can be copied so easily.
I remember back when gesturing the right way to get a computer to do something was considered a joke. You only had to stand on one foot and wave the right way when Win 3.1 wouldn't boot. The "hold button down and slide left" gesture was your way of fingering the computer. On a good day "moving up and then down while holding the button" was a high five. Then again why else would we be in a recession if 1001 things to do with E-Commerce sites wasn't the invention of the day?
Like Dick Stallman always said, you shouldn't expect to make money on software. If you want to make money you should go into business or marketing. Software is worth less than the CD-R's it's backed up on right now. It's time we started viewing programmers more as starving artists than any kind of vital payroll component.
Compaq donated about half a million dollars in hardware to promote Broadcast 2000 at this year's National Association of Broadcasters convention so if that's the application which is to drive consumer sales, you're probably looking too high.
Really there is more effort being made to downsize all applications to handheld devices than there is for upsizing applications to supercomputers. Regardless of how smart the mainstream industry is being about this, one thing is for sure, consumers still prefer bigger SUV's over mopeds.
I believe we need to not just have 1 article feeling sorry for Microsoft we should have an entire website. VA Linux should underwrite "microsoftdotcom.org" because we're just not seeing enough attention given to the X Box. The reason the X Box hasn't materialized, indeed 99% of Microsoft's software hasn't materialized is because of the lack of fan sites. I'm now going to drive off a cliff out of sorrow for Microsoft.
Maybe I'm too old to be reading slashdot but the SR-71 achieved mach 3 and used the same "scooping enough oxygen to power the craft at those speeds on its own". They called it a ramjet. Reinventing the wheel is yet another fine use of our 39% tax bracket that the Clintons invented.
Historically recessions last 1/3 as long as expansions. Most economists believe the recession will last until 2005. Historically software engineers had to reach near total unemployment before a recovery started and we're not there yet. Either enough had to get disenchanted to drain the applicant pool or enough had to get fired to motivate startups before a recovery could happen. Unfortunately most CS majors who got laid off before 1993 left the industry and leave little perception of reality to today's CS majors.
Been trying to keep a rambus system up more than 2 hours. Dumps 194 ECC errors every time and crashes. The sticks heat up to 500` and say "warning hot surface" on top. And they call this memory. I'm suing for 3rd degree burns.
I remember 4 years ago they used to put downloadable movies showing the complete launch on the web. One was a 320x240 which cut between the onboard camera and the ground. Nowadays internet hosting budgets and staffs have been cut so far it's like we've stepped back 30 years.
Not since 2000 have we seen a new PC processor come out and current hard drives date back to 1999. The fact is no-one's making components for PC's anymore. You really have to think more about lower clockspeed CPU's for embedded systems, embedded storage devices, and doing more graphics in hardware. This of course is what a console does.
Actually "printed embedded data on GUI things" have a name. They're called UPC symbols. They store information on food packaging. You scan them with a light pen. How many generations need to be taught the same technology we've had since 1970?
VA Linux is about as far from paying for software as you can get but they had one of the largest staff reductions of the year on a percentage basis. Software licenses are 1/100th of the cost of one employee. Remember that insurance often costs more than the salary. It may seem academically correct for companies to defer sofware costs to employee salaries but the fact is no-one is going to tranfer assets when they can liquidate the employees and keep even more cash. Computer scientists in industry are more like fuel than valuable contributions. Stay in academia.
and since you work for VA Linux you should delay your april fools jokes until not just New England but headquarters hits April 1.
Normally I follow the general population in terms of what technology I should be using but for all its marketing success the handheld PC is still the first technological trend which I don't personally use.
When PC makers switched from 550Mhz computers to 133Mhz handhelds I switched from 550Mhz computers to dual 1Ghz computers. That was the turning point. Guess I'll never work in IT.
Now an affordable way to update your skills for what's left of the current job market. Unemployed programmers who had trouble keeping their budget below 100,000 lines of code seem to be the intention of this even if it's not stated.
You can pick a site and watch a 160x120 thumbnail reload every half hour or watch the internet appliance that was already there, the TV set.
What are we supposed to do now? Pay $960 for a motherboard? PC makers stopped production and component makers jacked up prices because everyone wanted appliances and now appliance makers stop production. Pretty soon we'll be milking our own cows.
People in the know about overclocking have been using this technology for years except in a larger scale. The problem is for every BTU of heat removed from one side of the device you create 2 BTU of heat on the other side so cooling the peltier or "micro cooler" itself becomes the problem. They're also expensive, making the $960 dual Athlon boards seem like biologist feed.
If web sites offered higher bandwidth connections for a fee they would make money. If you like watching 2 hours of 160x120 movies you might be willing to pay for faster connections to a streaming video site.
None of the MPEG-4 decoders work on Itanium or Alpha.