And will be discussed a dozen times over and over again because slashdot editors insist in publishing every single download milestone firefox reaches.
To be fair, Slashdot editors take a break from telling us about Firefox milestones every once in a while to give us the news that someone at Google just farted.
Yeah, I can't stand the fact that everyone feels the need to use hugely overblown packages to do everything. Your idea seems pretty elegant, and with a bit of regexp-ing could probably be seamlessly integrated with a TeX-based system too for beautiful output....
You even have your choice of a wide variety of WYSIWYG web editors [geniisoft.com] if you need formatting capability.
Two comments deep and you have already gone from a simple text editor to a big piece of bloated software...
Think Google Earth, Picasa, and Gmail. But hey, Google buying up companies and offering the software for free to kill the competition is a honorable thing right? Not evil like when Microsoft did it.
Google also have an unusual combination of being both a) at the forefront of its market and b) good and ethical.
I love how everyone likes to put Google in the good and ethical category. Why is that? Because they use their money to buy up smaller companies and then offer their software for free (Keyhole, Picasa) to kill the competition? I remember another company that used that same strategy, I think they were called Microsomething..
The idea of running a system that costs absolutely nothing on the software side is a powerful one, and Windows and Mac OS X would have a difficult time competing against that.'
Yeah I mean, who uses Windows?! Their market share is only like 95%, they totally can't compete with Linux!
Wrong. From the lips of Steve Jobs himself: "The heart of Apple is OSX."
How can you call Apple a hardware company? Because they put everything in a well designed box? All the components are 3rd party... Apple doesn't make processors, Apple doesn't make memory, Apple doesn't make harddrives or video cards or sound cards. They buy them from hardware companies, put them in a shiny box and then run *their software* on it.
Ahhh, but you assume they will switch to x86. The only announcement is that they will use Intel chips, not which specific chipset. Personally, i doubt Apple would want x86 with it's legacy crap and register deficiency.
RTFA: Apple will offer a Developer Kit, which includes 3.6GHz Pentium 4. OS X 10.4.1 for Intel (preview release). Order today; available in two weeks.
Come on, 100M give or take 50M... what kind of statistic is that??
The article says that the giant tsunami would take out the east coast up to 20km inland. Then it goes on to list Philadelphia as a city that will be wiped out. Philadelphia is over 100km inland! Unless the tsunami travels up the Delaware River, I think we'll be ok.
Maybe I'll get flamed, but here is my take: take a look at the program your school offers and compare it to that of a "top shelf" school. If your school offers a solid CS cirriculum then you should find that your cirriculum nearly matches that of any other school offering CS.
I went to a state school as well, but if I take a look at MITs undergrad classes, they cover the same topics and use the exact same texts. Certainly the faculty at MIT may be much better than the faculty at my school, but when it comes down to it, it is the student who needs to make the most of the education they are getting.
Stop spreading disinformation. According to all major news sources (CNN just did a piece on the Philadelphia story), the votes on the machines in question are from previous elections and have no bearing on the votes for this election. They are just resident in memory.
The GOP are the ones who are trying to get these machines replaced -- not the Democrats.
The problem with VoIP has nothing to do with bandwidth problems, and everything to do with poor latency due to software switches along the way. VoIP needs to get data end to end with no hiccups at real time.
Ogg isn't going to kill the iPod, it isn't even a factor. Why? Because no one cares/knows what Ogg is except the nerd elite.. and I hate to break it to you, but the nerd elite are not the vast majority of consumers. You think my mom gives two shits whether or not her mp3 player supports Ogg?
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Blah blah blah, benchmarks are nice, but here's the real scoop:
Are you joking me? You basically said, "Tested metrics are worthless and my subjective (anonymous coward) opinion is gold."
Hate to break it to you bub, but the real scoop here is your opinion is worthless.
Have any of you ever had sexual relations with a female?
Human female that is.
And will be discussed a dozen times over and over again because slashdot editors insist in publishing every single download milestone firefox reaches.
To be fair, Slashdot editors take a break from telling us about Firefox milestones every once in a while to give us the news that someone at Google just farted.
Yeah, I can't stand the fact that everyone feels the need to use hugely overblown packages to do everything. Your idea seems pretty elegant, and with a bit of regexp-ing could probably be seamlessly integrated with a TeX-based system too for beautiful output. ...
You even have your choice of a wide variety of WYSIWYG web editors [geniisoft.com] if you need formatting capability.
Two comments deep and you have already gone from a simple text editor to a big piece of bloated software...
If you account for inflation the Xbox 360 is *much* cheaper than some of its predecessors.
Atari 2600
1977 price: $199.95
Adjusted for inflation: $648.83
Colecovision
1982 price: $199.95
Adjusted: $405.63
Nintendo Entertainment System
1985 price: $199
Adjusted: $353.16
Inflation based on the Consumer Price Index.
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Think Netscape vs IE circa 2000 AD.
Netscape was dead by 2000.
Think Google Earth, Picasa, and Gmail. But hey, Google buying up companies and offering the software for free to kill the competition is a honorable thing right? Not evil like when Microsoft did it.
Google also have an unusual combination of being both a) at the forefront of its market and b) good and ethical.
I love how everyone likes to put Google in the good and ethical category. Why is that? Because they use their money to buy up smaller companies and then offer their software for free (Keyhole, Picasa) to kill the competition? I remember another company that used that same strategy, I think they were called Microsomething..
Who do you think gave him the tattoo?
It is a Dvorak story. Dvorak himself should have a perminant -10 Troll moderation tattoed to his forehead.
You mean one similar to the -10 Overrated moderation tattoed on your penis?
I prefer 8" floppy disks
Your wife doesn't! Believe me, I would know...
Haha, we actually used to have one of those. It was pretty sweet, basically two machines in one box.
The idea of running a system that costs absolutely nothing on the software side is a powerful one, and Windows and Mac OS X would have a difficult time competing against that.'
Yeah I mean, who uses Windows?! Their market share is only like 95%, they totally can't compete with Linux!
"Also Apple is at heart a hardware company."
Wrong. From the lips of Steve Jobs himself: "The heart of Apple is OSX."
How can you call Apple a hardware company? Because they put everything in a well designed box? All the components are 3rd party... Apple doesn't make processors, Apple doesn't make memory, Apple doesn't make harddrives or video cards or sound cards. They buy them from hardware companies, put them in a shiny box and then run *their software* on it.
Ahhh, but you assume they will switch to x86. The only announcement is that they will use Intel chips, not which specific chipset. Personally, i doubt Apple would want x86 with it's legacy crap and register deficiency.
RTFA: Apple will offer a Developer Kit, which includes 3.6GHz Pentium 4. OS X 10.4.1 for Intel (preview release). Order today; available in two weeks.
Yes but this could be the last time they do it, and it would give it more of a reassuring "once and for all" impression.
Yeah, I hope this is the last architecture change they ever make. I really want to be using x86 20-50 years down the line.
Can you make a point without phrasing it as a question? ... doh!
Can you make a point without quoting The Simpsons?
"already it boasts Full Speed Gameboy Colour Emulation"
But it only plays British games because the US releases are not in colour.
Is this news? Or is this some kid trying to stress test / plug his crap website? Dear Kez: you got slashdotted in 20 seconds flat. Your website sucks.
Come on, 100M give or take 50M... what kind of statistic is that??
The article says that the giant tsunami would take out the east coast up to 20km inland. Then it goes on to list Philadelphia as a city that will be wiped out. Philadelphia is over 100km inland! Unless the tsunami travels up the Delaware River, I think we'll be ok.
Maybe I'll get flamed, but here is my take: take a look at the program your school offers and compare it to that of a "top shelf" school. If your school offers a solid CS cirriculum then you should find that your cirriculum nearly matches that of any other school offering CS.
I went to a state school as well, but if I take a look at MITs undergrad classes, they cover the same topics and use the exact same texts. Certainly the faculty at MIT may be much better than the faculty at my school, but when it comes down to it, it is the student who needs to make the most of the education they are getting.
This is great news. I can't wait for this technology to come to the States in 4 years.
> As far as blogs go, I don't really have any good ones. Any other ones you guys like?
I like disjointed.org. Coverage from Philadelphia, Columbus and Ann Arbor.
Stop spreading disinformation. According to all major news sources (CNN just did a piece on the Philadelphia story), the votes on the machines in question are from previous elections and have no bearing on the votes for this election. They are just resident in memory.
The GOP are the ones who are trying to get these machines replaced -- not the Democrats.
The problem with VoIP has nothing to do with bandwidth problems, and everything to do with poor latency due to software switches along the way. VoIP needs to get data end to end with no hiccups at real time.
Ogg isn't going to kill the iPod, it isn't even a factor. Why? Because no one cares/knows what Ogg is except the nerd elite.. and I hate to break it to you, but the nerd elite are not the vast majority of consumers. You think my mom gives two shits whether or not her mp3 player supports Ogg?