I've been trying to think of good sci-fi movies since making my post. Blade Runner was the obvious one. 2001. There's really not many others. Some of Cameron's stuff is fun. Jurassic Park. The Fifth Element.
The best sci-fi has great special effects, or great writing and acting, or both. It probably gets more special effects awards than acting awards, due to a certain amount of snobbery against it. Gollum being barred (for acting through CGI) was totally unfair, but it's usually just an occupational hazard - actors in sci-fi or fantasy won't get as many awards.
A boring, brief admissions is what PR firms usually advise, right? It ends the news cycle, because there's nothing more to dig up. Then you drip feed out some good stuff.
Good PR firms don't spin when things are bad. They take control of the news cycle, but in a really boring way.
Foxconn doesn't want PR. They don't care what you think of them, as long as you stop talking about them. And the best way to do that is to release dry boring facts.
Rebuilding their reputation will take years. Remember Nike? They ran sweatshops. It's taken them over a decade to lose that stain, despite being good employers. Foxconn doesn't need good PR now. They need to shut down the speculation-driven media cycle, but putting out boring but informative releases. They need a good PR firm when they have something positive to work with, and when people don't hate them so much, in a year or so.
Really? apt-get is part of the OS. It's *not* part of the kernel, but it's arguably part of the OS. Exactly where the boundary of the OS lies is a flamewar roughly as old as operating systems.
Is the registry part of an OS? What if the registry sits in a DB, like on OSX? Is the database then part of the OS? Unless you take an extreme view (the microkernel is the OS, and bigger kernels are just wrong), then it's bound to be a wee bit fuzzy.
Not really. There's endless debates over what constitutes "proper" sci-fi. It can be "hard" (nothing which a few engineers, and slightly better tools can make), "medium" (hard, with one or two "breakthroughs"), "light" (lots of breakthroughs, ancient powers, remnant gods, aliens with unlimited power) and fantasy (anything goes).
Some of the best Sci-Fi is set ~30 years in the future.
> There are very little computers sold without the named OS, and that promotes stagnation
In other tab, I'm reading an article titled "Smartphone Sales To Beat PC Sales By 2011".
Ad in iPads, and there's big operating systems - Windows, OSX, and Android. Oh, and Linux is supreme in the server world.
Actually, I don't use my OS for anything. I use git, vim, a web browser, virtualbox, rsync, Nginx, Postgres, Redis, and Python. The OS just keeps these programs separate. If I have to use the OS for anything other than apt-getting a program, chowning a file, or SUDOing a process, I feel like I've lost. Actually, I feel like I've lost most of the times I chown or sudo.
I'm not a seismologist, but I've worked with them.
The general consensus is, predicting earthquakes is impossible. Even if you think a "big one" is coming, you don't know if it's minutes or decades away. The timing is impossible to predict. *Sometimes* they get lucky, but it's just that - luck.
The only thing you can do is predict the risk of quakes, and encourage local planners to enforce earthquake proof buildings. In earthquake-prone areas, wooden houses are a good idea, and unreinforced masonry is a death-trap. In hurricane-prone areas, masonry is better, and living below the flood-lines is a death-trap.
The bad decision was to let people live in unreinforced masonry death traps, in a quake-prone area.
OK, since no-one read TFA, let alone TFA's comments:
TFAuthor clarifies his position:
>Traditionally, the "patent troll" (or "[whatever-kind-of-IP] troll") term has been reserved for companies that buy underenforced IP and then make money by litigating it. FWIW, I have little inherent problem with this "trolling" act either because it's simply investing in an asset (the particular IP) that is obviously well in demand. The original creator wins by being able to realize a purchase price for his creation without having to go through the trouble of managing the IP, and the investor wins through selling licenses and/or getting judgments and/or settlements on violations. In practice, of course, there have been legal system abuses, but that should not speak to the inherent practice.
In other words, there's no problem with leaving a bunch of cookies on a table, then selling the rights to cookies to a debt collector, who shakes down everyone who ate one for a fair price (determined through a process of valuing their kneecaps).
useless tool makes a pile of money fucking everyone else in the world news at 11
Given the size of the company, and number of customers, $275k for a General Council or Head Engineer, $300k for a COO, and $500k for a CEO (plus potential 45% bonuses for all) is a pretty fair deal. Theses guys work long, hard hours, and have a lot of responsibility.
1) If you pay any reasonable price, more CPU and memory is generally wasted. My Macbook Air rarely fells slow, and it's running a crappy C2D. Any modern system (i5 and up) will be fine.
2) I think you are underestimating the current Intel GPUs. I'd still advise a basic dedicated GPU if you play any games at all, but Intel is finally making GPUs which are not complete crap. Intel on new chips is now comparable to low-end outdated dedicated GPUs.
The first generation Intel GPU was the GMA 900, in 2004, on P4 chipsets. The less said the better. Actually, it's big brother the 950 ran on Core2 mobiles - think early MacBooks. It was not good.
The next big redesign was the GMA X3000 in 2006, which also kind of sucked. It ran on the later Core 2s.
Finally, Intel put the GPU on the CPU, with Intel HD Graphics. The first lot (on Nehalm) was OK. The second lot (on Sandy Bridge) is actually good. The Atoms run some licensed 3rd party chipset, I think.
The problem now is, Intel's names are so confusing you don't know whether you've getting a good one or not.
Well, look at the lead time on a hard drive factory. You can probably get one up and running in what, a year?
Hard drives are still cheap, in historical terms, and HDD is the limiting factor for many systems - nobody runs out of CPU, only servers and power users (programmers, video editors, numerical scientists) run out of RAM, and Intel graphics are now sufficient for some tasks (gasp).
People held off because they were higher than usual, but now that the price is going down (not up) demand will pick up again. People don't "maximize utility" (as economists say), they just respond to *relative* price changes.
Voice commands aren't realtime. Initiation has to be realtime ("Listen for 'Siri'"), but cleaning up the whole command can be take a couple of seconds. Realtime software is stuff like synthesizing notes from an electronic keyboard - you don't want the note to play a second after you hit the key. Or cruise control on an airplane - lag is bad when you are trying to land.
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Schools will want them.
Something about instability?
We sign contracts now for 4 years to go to college?
So here's some advice.
1) Do your research before you go to college.
2) If you don't like your current school, you can *gasp* change schools.
I'm guessing your a lot older than most freshmen.
I've been trying to think of good sci-fi movies since making my post. Blade Runner was the obvious one. 2001. There's really not many others. Some of Cameron's stuff is fun. Jurassic Park. The Fifth Element.
The best sci-fi has great special effects, or great writing and acting, or both. It probably gets more special effects awards than acting awards, due to a certain amount of snobbery against it. Gollum being barred (for acting through CGI) was totally unfair, but it's usually just an occupational hazard - actors in sci-fi or fantasy won't get as many awards.
A boring, brief admissions is what PR firms usually advise, right? It ends the news cycle, because there's nothing more to dig up. Then you drip feed out some good stuff.
Good PR firms don't spin when things are bad. They take control of the news cycle, but in a really boring way.
Foxconn doesn't want PR. They don't care what you think of them, as long as you stop talking about them. And the best way to do that is to release dry boring facts.
Rebuilding their reputation will take years. Remember Nike? They ran sweatshops. It's taken them over a decade to lose that stain, despite being good employers. Foxconn doesn't need good PR now. They need to shut down the speculation-driven media cycle, but putting out boring but informative releases. They need a good PR firm when they have something positive to work with, and when people don't hate them so much, in a year or so.
Really? apt-get is part of the OS. It's *not* part of the kernel, but it's arguably part of the OS. Exactly where the boundary of the OS lies is a flamewar roughly as old as operating systems.
Is the registry part of an OS? What if the registry sits in a DB, like on OSX? Is the database then part of the OS? Unless you take an extreme view (the microkernel is the OS, and bigger kernels are just wrong), then it's bound to be a wee bit fuzzy.
Minority Report, Equilibrium, Firefly, Doctor Who, Battlestar Galactica, Serenity, District 9, Inception, Sucker Punch ... it wasn't all bad.
OK, the best were TV series. And yes, I was trolling with that last one.
Not really. There's endless debates over what constitutes "proper" sci-fi. It can be "hard" (nothing which a few engineers, and slightly better tools can make), "medium" (hard, with one or two "breakthroughs"), "light" (lots of breakthroughs, ancient powers, remnant gods, aliens with unlimited power) and fantasy (anything goes).
Some of the best Sci-Fi is set ~30 years in the future.
So, wages aren't too high?
I usually phrase it "you don't get what you don't pay for".
> There are very little computers sold without the named OS, and that promotes stagnation
In other tab, I'm reading an article titled "Smartphone Sales To Beat PC Sales By 2011".
Ad in iPads, and there's big operating systems - Windows, OSX, and Android. Oh, and Linux is supreme in the server world.
Actually, I don't use my OS for anything. I use git, vim, a web browser, virtualbox, rsync, Nginx, Postgres, Redis, and Python. The OS just keeps these programs separate. If I have to use the OS for anything other than apt-getting a program, chowning a file, or SUDOing a process, I feel like I've lost. Actually, I feel like I've lost most of the times I chown or sudo.
Slashdot's junk character filter prevents me from posting this: http://www.asciipr0n.com/pr0n/pinups/pinup09.txt
You get what you pay for. Academics are paid to publish, and (to a lessor extent) get good student ratings.
1) Registar an organization called "Electronic Freedom Foundation"
2) ...
3) Profit!
Been there, never thought I'd see so many three wheeled trucks.
So, would the current Cherry cars and Jac trucks be new?
Could be worse. Have you ever heard this one? http://youtu.be/qFjP-OJ7Bh4
Cocoa isn't exactly very productive. Maybe when neXt first came out :/
If you want to use Apple's Interface Builder, it's OK, but virtually nobody writes the GUI code by hand. wx and Qt run circles round it.
I'm not a seismologist, but I've worked with them.
The general consensus is, predicting earthquakes is impossible. Even if you think a "big one" is coming, you don't know if it's minutes or decades away. The timing is impossible to predict. *Sometimes* they get lucky, but it's just that - luck.
The only thing you can do is predict the risk of quakes, and encourage local planners to enforce earthquake proof buildings. In earthquake-prone areas, wooden houses are a good idea, and unreinforced masonry is a death-trap. In hurricane-prone areas, masonry is better, and living below the flood-lines is a death-trap.
The bad decision was to let people live in unreinforced masonry death traps, in a quake-prone area.
Isn't funny how many countries with good medical systems have free (or at least, cheap) education for doctors, and more sane malpractice laws?
OK, since no-one read TFA, let alone TFA's comments:
TFAuthor clarifies his position:
>Traditionally, the "patent troll" (or "[whatever-kind-of-IP] troll") term has been reserved for companies that buy underenforced IP and then make money by litigating it. FWIW, I have little inherent problem with this "trolling" act either because it's simply investing in an asset (the particular IP) that is obviously well in demand. The original creator wins by being able to realize a purchase price for his creation without having to go through the trouble of managing the IP, and the investor wins through selling licenses and/or getting judgments and/or settlements on violations. In practice, of course, there have been legal system abuses, but that should not speak to the inherent practice.
In other words, there's no problem with leaving a bunch of cookies on a table, then selling the rights to cookies to a debt collector, who shakes down everyone who ate one for a fair price (determined through a process of valuing their kneecaps).
useless tool makes a pile of money fucking everyone else in the world news at 11
Given the size of the company, and number of customers, $275k for a General Council or Head Engineer, $300k for a COO, and $500k for a CEO (plus potential 45% bonuses for all) is a pretty fair deal. Theses guys work long, hard hours, and have a lot of responsibility.
1) If you pay any reasonable price, more CPU and memory is generally wasted. My Macbook Air rarely fells slow, and it's running a crappy C2D. Any modern system (i5 and up) will be fine.
2) I think you are underestimating the current Intel GPUs. I'd still advise a basic dedicated GPU if you play any games at all, but Intel is finally making GPUs which are not complete crap. Intel on new chips is now comparable to low-end outdated dedicated GPUs.
The first generation Intel GPU was the GMA 900, in 2004, on P4 chipsets. The less said the better. Actually, it's big brother the 950 ran on Core2 mobiles - think early MacBooks. It was not good.
The next big redesign was the GMA X3000 in 2006, which also kind of sucked. It ran on the later Core 2s.
Finally, Intel put the GPU on the CPU, with Intel HD Graphics. The first lot (on Nehalm) was OK. The second lot (on Sandy Bridge) is actually good. The Atoms run some licensed 3rd party chipset, I think.
The problem now is, Intel's names are so confusing you don't know whether you've getting a good one or not.
Well, look at the lead time on a hard drive factory. You can probably get one up and running in what, a year?
Hard drives are still cheap, in historical terms, and HDD is the limiting factor for many systems - nobody runs out of CPU, only servers and power users (programmers, video editors, numerical scientists) run out of RAM, and Intel graphics are now sufficient for some tasks (gasp).
People held off because they were higher than usual, but now that the price is going down (not up) demand will pick up again. People don't "maximize utility" (as economists say), they just respond to *relative* price changes.
Voice commands aren't realtime. Initiation has to be realtime ("Listen for 'Siri'"), but cleaning up the whole command can be take a couple of seconds. Realtime software is stuff like synthesizing notes from an electronic keyboard - you don't want the note to play a second after you hit the key. Or cruise control on an airplane - lag is bad when you are trying to land.