I agree that what Amazon patented was fine, as a DEFENSIVE patent. Amazon, however, used it OFFENSIVELY, suing Barns & Noble with no previous provocation.
That's why I'm boycotting Amazon. They weren't using it defensively.
NOTE! EVERYTHING LOOKENSPEEPERS! The computermachine is not for gefingerpoken and mittengrabben. Easy snatches if that is branching factory, blowenfusen and poppencorken with sharpen-deactivate. Is not for trades with the dumpkopfen. Rubbernecken sichtseeren keepen the that cotten pickenen Hans in pockets must; relaxen and watchen that flash-light.
So, quick calculations show that the intel computers run at 8% of the alpha box, but at much less than 3% of the cost. Seems like I'd stick with...
a beowulf's of Intels.:) for cost/performance, at least.
A quick search on Google revealed that an
8x Pentium III (Xeon) at 500 MHz, SMP would run at 3996.06 BogoMips. Compared to 46170.90 BogoMIPS. Or about 8% of the box. Of course, I wonder how the price comparison point would be.:)
Ok, I finally tracked down the Alpha pricing. But I'll be danged if I can get it to work. Can someone else? yeeshk.
I truely believe that's what killed VR. I researched that topic, had a huge library of information, and it was really coming along. Then the media got a hold of it. Hyped the snot out of it. When people started seeing where it currently was, they got bored, and interest in what could occur dropped waaaaay down. If it hadn't, I'm positive that we would have more HMD's, as by now the cost to build them would be extremely cheap. (yes, there are the models like Sony has, but it doesn't do 6-degree location)
The Phoenix main library has a Braille Playboy, believe it or not.
From the FAQ: Does anybody really read Playboy for the articles?
The articles may not be the first part of the magazine most readers turn to, but judging from the letters we get, millions of Playboy readers also enjoy our award-winning journalism, humor and fiction. The only people who can rightfully claim to read it solely for the articles are the thousands of blind readers who peruse our Braille edition, which has been distributed by the Library of Congress since 1970.
"the black hole at the center of the galaxy is not pulling in other stars. " Why isn't it? And if it is, what did he mean?
A side note: The event horizon of such a massive black hole would be quite a distance from the surface itself. This would enable us to send a probe literally inches from the Schwarzschild Radii, (because of the cubes and squares and stuff).
Why not just cache the zipped files? Seems like you would save space, bandwidth, and CPU clocks. Especially for non-dynamic, large pages (such as slashdot's archived sites).
I never take race into account when assessing the performance of my co-workers. That said, 95% of the Visa contractors can't do their job. Of course, 90% of the American contractors can't either.
You're right. I got the name of their bug control software mixed up with their source-control product. I don't remember what their source-control product's name is, but that's the only detail that was wrong. Honest!
(that I know of! Don't sue! Not in the face! Not in the face!)
You should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.
I doubt it. There are many more isotopes, each with much greater half-lives than c14. Each is valid for a different range of years. For example, from http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-age-of-earth.html#howold: The most direct means for calculating the Earth's age is a Pb/Pb isochron age, derived from samples of the Earth and meteorites. This involves measurement of three isotopes of lead (Pb-206, Pb-207, and either Pb-208 or Pb-204). A plot is constructed of Pb-206/Pb-204 versus Pb-207/Pb-204.
I interviewed at Redmond once. Quite the grilling experience. At any rate, I asked what they used to source-control SourceSafe, and they said that none of their software was source-controlled by SourceSafe.
The interviewer elaborated that they use a product developed in house quite some time ago called R.A.I.D. (as in bug spray), and that SourceSafe just wasn't around when they developed much of the MS products, hence they continued to use the existing system.
Of course, after all the problems I've experienced with 1.5+GB SourceSafe databases, I doubt that they would migrate anytime soon.
You should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.
I was working at Best Western, and the developers and I were having quite an e-mail exchange. At one point someone said that I should include it as an easter egg (it detailed the travails of the project as the users changed everything every month.. bad project management).
I included it, but instead of saying "When the user presses alt AND shift AND control AND K", I accidentally wrote the code to say "When the user presses alt OR shift OR control OR K". Needless to say, it was interesting to watch the users reaction when they tested it and this huge email message pops up when they hit shift-K.
Doh!
You should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.
But I develop in Visual Basic for my full time job. It is increadibly fast to develop, intuitive, and compiles using the C++ 4.0 engine, so it's comparably fast to run as well.
The reason why I bring this up is, well, moving from SDI to MDI is a matter of two seconds work. Flip MDIChild to True, and add an MDIParent form to your project.
Why Visual Basic is continuously discounted as a good environment is beyond me. With IntelliSense available, development time is vastly reduced. The only two things I have never been able to do in VB are subclassing external process windows (either by creating a system-wide message hook, or injecting code using remote memory calls), and device drivers.
Heck, I've even created a multi-threaded owner-drawn ActiveX control without too much trouble. As for the dependancy of a Registry for ActiveX controls... Well... ActiveX runs in Windoze... and Windoze has a registry... so what's your point?
You should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.
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I agree that what Amazon patented was fine, as a DEFENSIVE patent. Amazon, however, used it OFFENSIVELY, suing Barns & Noble with no previous provocation.
That's why I'm boycotting Amazon. They weren't using it defensively.
NOTE! EVERYTHING LOOKENSPEEPERS!
The computermachine is not for gefingerpoken and mittengrabben. Easy snatches if that is branching factory, blowenfusen and poppencorken with sharpen-deactivate. Is not for trades with the dumpkopfen. Rubbernecken sichtseeren keepen the that cotten pickenen Hans in pockets must; relaxen and watchen that flash-light.
So, quick calculations show that the intel computers run at 8% of the alpha box, but at much less than 3% of the cost. Seems like I'd stick with... :) for cost/performance, at least.
a beowulf's of Intels.
A quick search on Google revealed that an 8x Pentium III (Xeon) at 500 MHz, SMP would run at 3996.06 BogoMips. Compared to 46170.90 BogoMIPS. Or about 8% of the box. Of course, I wonder how the price comparison point would be. :)
Ok, I finally tracked down the Alpha pricing. But I'll be danged if I can get it to work. Can someone else? yeeshk.
I truely believe that's what killed VR. I researched that topic, had a huge library of information, and it was really coming along. Then the media got a hold of it. Hyped the snot out of it. When people started seeing where it currently was, they got bored, and interest in what could occur dropped waaaaay down. If it hadn't, I'm positive that we would have more HMD's, as by now the cost to build them would be extremely cheap. (yes, there are the models like Sony has, but it doesn't do 6-degree location)
The Phoenix main library has a Braille Playboy, believe it or not.
From the FAQ:
Does anybody really read Playboy for the articles?
The articles may not be the first part of the magazine most readers turn to, but judging from the letters we get, millions of Playboy readers also enjoy our award-winning journalism, humor and fiction. The only people who can rightfully claim to read it solely for the articles are the thousands of blind readers who peruse our Braille edition, which has been distributed by the Library of Congress since 1970.
"the black hole at the center of the galaxy is not pulling in other stars. " Why isn't it? And if it is, what did he mean?
A side note: The event horizon of such a massive black hole would be quite a distance from the surface itself. This would enable us to send a probe literally inches from the Schwarzschild Radii, (because of the cubes and squares and stuff).
Yeah, yeah, flame away.
Why not just cache the zipped files? Seems like you would save space, bandwidth, and CPU clocks. Especially for non-dynamic, large pages (such as slashdot's archived sites).
How the hell are we supposed to find out?? That's the scary part. The government isn't run by us anymore, and hence is no longer accountable to us. :(
I second your percentages.
sigh.
Hmm, I didn't mean race.. I meant nationality.
Doh!
I never take race into account when assessing the performance of my co-workers. That said, 95% of the Visa contractors can't do their job.
Of course, 90% of the American contractors can't either.
sigh.
You're right. I got the name of their bug control software mixed up with their source-control product. I don't remember what their source-control product's name is, but that's the only detail that was wrong. Honest!
(that I know of! Don't sue! Not in the face! Not in the face!)
You should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.
Shouldn't it be a "science" piece? At least then we'd have a picture of good 'ol Al.
(I know. Realistically it should be Enlightenment or some such).
I really don't think it's funny to joke about extinct races.
I doubt it. There are many more isotopes, each with much greater half-lives than c14. Each is valid for a different range of years. For example, from http://www.talkorigins .org/faqs/faq-age-of-earth.html#howold:
The most direct means for calculating the Earth's age is a Pb/Pb isochron age, derived from samples of the Earth and meteorites. This involves measurement of three isotopes of lead (Pb-206, Pb-207, and either Pb-208 or Pb-204). A plot is constructed of Pb-206/Pb-204 versus Pb-207/Pb-204.
How about... "Previously prohibitively expensive."
I interviewed at Redmond once. Quite the grilling experience. At any rate, I asked what they used to source-control SourceSafe, and they said that none of their software was source-controlled by SourceSafe.
The interviewer elaborated that they use a product developed in house quite some time ago called R.A.I.D. (as in bug spray), and that SourceSafe just wasn't around when they developed much of the MS products, hence they continued to use the existing system.
Of course, after all the problems I've experienced with 1.5+GB SourceSafe databases, I doubt that they would migrate anytime soon.
You should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.
I think you have your dates backwards... OOG wrote unix before he wrote the abacus before the human race was created?
odd.
You should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.
I should put subliminal messages into the mp3s. "Send money to:....", and no one would be the wiser!
You should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.
Um, why?
You should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.
So, like, 10 cents?
You should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.
X-MEN, the wonderful mutants, of course had their genes modified. I can't wait till that stuff is true.
:)
I know, I know.. what a nerd.
You should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.
I was working at Best Western, and the developers and I were having quite an e-mail exchange. At one point someone said that I should include it as an easter egg (it detailed the travails of the project as the users changed everything every month.. bad project management).
I included it, but instead of saying "When the user presses alt AND shift AND control AND K", I accidentally wrote the code to say "When the user presses alt OR shift OR control OR K". Needless to say, it was interesting to watch the users reaction when they tested it and this huge email message pops up when they hit shift-K.
Doh!
You should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.
But I develop in Visual Basic for my full time job. It is increadibly fast to develop, intuitive, and compiles using the C++ 4.0 engine, so it's comparably fast to run as well.
The reason why I bring this up is, well, moving from SDI to MDI is a matter of two seconds work. Flip MDIChild to True, and add an MDIParent form to your project.
Why Visual Basic is continuously discounted as a good environment is beyond me. With IntelliSense available, development time is vastly reduced. The only two things I have never been able to do in VB are subclassing external process windows (either by creating a system-wide message hook, or injecting code using remote memory calls), and device drivers.
Heck, I've even created a multi-threaded owner-drawn ActiveX control without too much trouble. As for the dependancy of a Registry for ActiveX controls... Well... ActiveX runs in Windoze... and Windoze has a registry... so what's your point?
You should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.