My school gives B.Eng in Computer Science (go figure!) but the truth is they are one and the same thing.
Some could say Comp. Eng. is more market driven and Comp. Sci. is more research driven, but at undergraduate level they're really the same. It's almost impossible for an undergrad to participate in research -- they just get taught how to build software and understand methodologies.
I take an Atrificial Intelligence degree, which is definitely science... but software engineering and derivatives could definitel be classed as engineering.
It doesn't look too good for them, when it turns very sour for them net there will be nobody to bale them out this time.
Why would anyone bother, they have nothing to offer. A sub-standard drawing program, and a poor Linux implementation. They've dug their own grave, and they should jump into it now.
This Sparc is not the most high powered machine going (it's only an Ultrasparc II). But it's going to take the UNIX world by storm. It's veeeery cheap, and along with the Netra X1 it shows Sun's commitment to producing high quality, low cost Sparc hardware.
It also spoells the death of Solaris x86, since the only reason to use it was because you couldn't afford Sparc hardware.
In fact, I'd go as far to say it will make a huge dent in Linux market share -- I know I would prefer a Solaris Sparc machine to intel box any day. Many others would, especially at the server end, where the Netra really shines.
Tux, you're going to have to do something really good to keep me on board!
Here in Europe, most people still have to pay by time spent online -- we pay for what we use.
Some ISP's have imposed maximum times (you get disconnected after an hour, and have to redial, annoying!)
The people who are online are downloading much more data than a few years ago, and this is clogging up the bandwidth. You can really notice this. Friends of mine jam up AOL lines all day downloading MP3's -- it's not fair to other users and they are getting more than their money's worth.
However, with DSL and cable, things don't work the same.
Charging my the meg would solve the problem (and create lots more) for permanent connections rather than flat charges. But, for dial-up this would not work very well since a double-charge could be imposed.
In my opinion, access charges should be high for "unlimited" plans, while they could be based upon data transfer with lower monthly charges.
They allow some really big ads (up to 140x800) but the maximum file size is 20k.
We have to learn to live with adverts -- you have them on TV (unless you watch the BBC in the UK), the net will have to use more advertising to survive, but it's important to be sensible. Check out what ZDNET think... they seem quite sensible.
The more and more "in your face" that banner advertising gets, the more and more likely it is people will use filtering software.
I don't use JunkBuster becuase to be honest, banner ads don't bother me. I see them, hell, I even click on them from time to time... but it they got really big, I'd block them.
It seems counter-productive in the long term to annoy the consumer.
Think about the ads on the TV that are best... they're funny ones, ones you like. You're not going to be affected so well by an ad that you don't like.
1. Break staroffice as a package apart and building it into an opensource office package made up of CORBA objects so it could be used in different GNOME applications?
Umm... they're doing it right now. It's not about making it of CORBA objects, which wouldn't work anyway! But they're linking UNO to talk to CORBA, which will allow bonobo embedding in StarOffice in the future. Right now the focus is on getting CORBA and UNO talking.
2. When will solaris be shipped with GNOME as the default desktop?
Solaris 9. It can't be put in a point release.
3. When will SUN ship it's systems with a protocol a bit less bloated than X? (Ica?)
Why would they do this? They'd be segregating themself from everyone else, which is a bad idea (openwindows!) and alienating themself from the Open Group. Bad idea.
Excuse me for that getting cut off...
Including where you can see a picture of BiDi interfaces, and Bidi text manipulation.
Because Pango uses Unicode, every language can be rendered faithfully. I am unsure if Pango can do vertical typefaces, I think Mandarain uses this system.
Pango does an excellent job of renderinig bidirectional fonts (Hebrew, Arabic)
When you couple it with the new XRender extensions it makes lovely looking text. Also, some examples using Pango have surfaced with not only the text in reverse, but also the button arrangment. Picture here!"
Buttons are to the right of a list, not the left like we are used to. Similarly with a spin control even.
That's pure crap. There were problems in the 80's - mainly due to X/OR problems, relating to hebbian steps making the feature space difficult to align. Much has gone on since then, and NN's now accommodate themselves to solve X/OR, but distancing themselves somewhat from the raditional model of a neuron.
No, you guys only wear the armour becuase you wear the armour!
I know it sounds confusing, but if you didn't wear armour, you wouldn't need it to defend yourself. As players use stronger armour, players need stronger armour to defend themselves!
In rugby, the players are not pussies and take a hell of a bashing compared to your American football nancy boys. Cauliflowered ears, burst eyes - it's a regular thing.
And, in rugby the players don't get more time resting than playing because of your advertisment dominated pathetic excuse for a game!
Do you think that people who put razor bars around their stereo equipment can be sued by the theif who loses a finger?
Actually, in most countries in Europe, yes. There have been many cases of thieves sueing because they cut their hands on razor wire on a wall they were trying to climb over. Theives regularly take action if beaten up in someone elses home. It's all down to "necessary force" - you cartainly can't kill a thief (someone did recently, and went to prison) but you can incapacitate him; whatever that means.
The shocking this is that they obviously required very expensive expertise to make this work. And boy, did it work.
If only they had been careful in the first place, they would never have needed to do this.
At the end of the day, it boils down to that legitimate DirecTV customers have to pay for the pirates TV, directly through the revenue lost for non-payment for services, and indirectly through the costs of hiring the people to fix it.
They just don't get it.
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That want Napster to "pull" copyrighted songs?! Do they still just not get it.
This makes me gag almost as much as Yahoo! refering to Napster as a "Web Site."
I don't understand what they are trying to do. Even if they succeeded to get Napster to close down operations in the morning, they'd have gotten themselves absoloutly nowhere. There would be something else in it's place before you could say "Chocolate Spread!"
But, don't you just know that something will manage to eat up all this incredible speed. A 1GHz chip would have conjuered up unthinkable speeds 10 years ago... but now it still runs Windows 2000 like a slug.
For every great speed increase, theres always a pig of an application waiting to ruin it.
Would the next generation programmers write in "logic language" instead of C++?
Most likely not - but automatic verification of programs using logical constructs is a big growth area.
You can test a program with all possible inputs, and have a clean run. But this does not mean the program is 100% reliable. You must prove the program is correct if you want to be sure it is good enough for circumstances such as shuttle or aeroplane flight.
With all the complexities of semaphore control in parallel computing, you really have to make sure a program enters and leaves critical sessions at the correct times, without anything else running (that has been designated mutually exclusive).
Many expertes believe that some Airbus crashes were caused by incorrect verification.
On a single processor machine, this is much easier, but how many space shuttles do you know of that only have one CPU!
Have a look at some of the links at Dr. Mark Ryan's page (university of Birmingham) for some more info.
To me, the biggest problem with Boo was a combination of it's very odd interface which was as annoying as Tripod pop-ups, and the glaringly obvious fact that clothes are not the best thing to sell online.
I would buy a gimmick t-shirt online. I would buy a pair of Nike/Reebok shoes online too - after all, I probably know the shoes already, and they're just cheaper online. But I'm not going to buy a brand of clothes, which is not particularly cheap online. I don't know if they will fit, or if the colour is the same as on-screen. The material could be horrible. You just don't know.
Unless you know exactly what you are getting, you are unlikely to buy it online, and with clothes you're never going to know exactly what they are like until you pick them up.
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Some could say Comp. Eng. is more market driven and Comp. Sci. is more research driven, but at undergraduate level they're really the same. It's almost impossible for an undergrad to participate in research -- they just get taught how to build software and understand methodologies.
I take an Atrificial Intelligence degree, which is definitely science... but software engineering and derivatives could definitel be classed as engineering.
Their web server must be having trouble with all the eloop's it must be encountering :-)
$99 sounds like a scam to me!
It doesn't look too good for them, when it turns very sour for them net there will be nobody to bale them out this time.
Why would anyone bother, they have nothing to offer. A sub-standard drawing program, and a poor Linux implementation. They've dug their own grave, and they should jump into it now.
Of course, I put this in my submission about this story, along with the link to the machine itself but it got rejected :-(
It also spoells the death of Solaris x86, since the only reason to use it was because you couldn't afford Sparc hardware.
In fact, I'd go as far to say it will make a huge dent in Linux market share -- I know I would prefer a Solaris Sparc machine to intel box any day. Many others would, especially at the server end, where the Netra really shines.
Tux, you're going to have to do something really good to keep me on board!
Some ISP's have imposed maximum times (you get disconnected after an hour, and have to redial, annoying!)
The people who are online are downloading much more data than a few years ago, and this is clogging up the bandwidth. You can really notice this. Friends of mine jam up AOL lines all day downloading MP3's -- it's not fair to other users and they are getting more than their money's worth.
However, with DSL and cable, things don't work the same.
Charging my the meg would solve the problem (and create lots more) for permanent connections rather than flat charges. But, for dial-up this would not work very well since a double-charge could be imposed.
In my opinion, access charges should be high for "unlimited" plans, while they could be based upon data transfer with lower monthly charges.
Lucent have a division called Lucent Optical which are (unsurprisingly) world leaders at this sort of thing.
A good article about what they do can be found here
Incidentally, a company called Global Crossing plan to implement a network based upon lasers.
They allow some really big ads (up to 140x800) but the maximum file size is 20k.
We have to learn to live with adverts -- you have them on TV (unless you watch the BBC in the UK), the net will have to use more advertising to survive, but it's important to be sensible. Check out what ZDNET think... they seem quite sensible.
I don't use JunkBuster becuase to be honest, banner ads don't bother me. I see them, hell, I even click on them from time to time... but it they got really big, I'd block them.
It seems counter-productive in the long term to annoy the consumer.
Think about the ads on the TV that are best... they're funny ones, ones you like. You're not going to be affected so well by an ad that you don't like.
Well, it might have been Ed Zander, I don't know! But it is going to be the default interface in Solaris 9.
-- Dave
Excuse me for that getting cut off... Including where you can see a picture of BiDi interfaces, and Bidi text manipulation. Because Pango uses Unicode, every language can be rendered faithfully. I am unsure if Pango can do vertical typefaces, I think Mandarain uses this system.
When you couple it with the new XRender extensions it makes lovely looking text. Also, some examples using Pango have surfaced with not only the text in reverse, but also the button arrangment. Picture here!"
Buttons are to the right of a list, not the left like we are used to. Similarly with a spin control even.
You can read more about Pango here including seeing a picture of
That's pure crap. There were problems in the 80's - mainly due to X/OR problems, relating to hebbian steps making the feature space difficult to align. Much has gone on since then, and NN's now accommodate themselves to solve X/OR, but distancing themselves somewhat from the raditional model of a neuron.
I know it sounds confusing, but if you didn't wear armour, you wouldn't need it to defend yourself. As players use stronger armour, players need stronger armour to defend themselves!
In rugby, the players are not pussies and take a hell of a bashing compared to your American football nancy boys. Cauliflowered ears, burst eyes - it's a regular thing.
And, in rugby the players don't get more time resting than playing because of your advertisment dominated pathetic excuse for a game!
Rugby rulez!
Actually, in most countries in Europe, yes. There have been many cases of thieves sueing because they cut their hands on razor wire on a wall they were trying to climb over. Theives regularly take action if beaten up in someone elses home. It's all down to "necessary force" - you cartainly can't kill a thief (someone did recently, and went to prison) but you can incapacitate him; whatever that means.
If only they had been careful in the first place, they would never have needed to do this.
At the end of the day, it boils down to that legitimate DirecTV customers have to pay for the pirates TV, directly through the revenue lost for non-payment for services, and indirectly through the costs of hiring the people to fix it.
This makes me gag almost as much as Yahoo! refering to Napster as a "Web Site."
I don't understand what they are trying to do. Even if they succeeded to get Napster to close down operations in the morning, they'd have gotten themselves absoloutly nowhere. There would be something else in it's place before you could say "Chocolate Spread!"
For every great speed increase, theres always a pig of an application waiting to ruin it.
Let's face it... iPlanet has everything covered. Why go elsewhere? Price would be the only reason.
I only read USENET for the articles.
Most likely not - but automatic verification of programs using logical constructs is a big growth area.
You can test a program with all possible inputs, and have a clean run. But this does not mean the program is 100% reliable. You must prove the program is correct if you want to be sure it is good enough for circumstances such as shuttle or aeroplane flight.
With all the complexities of semaphore control in parallel computing, you really have to make sure a program enters and leaves critical sessions at the correct times, without anything else running (that has been designated mutually exclusive).
Many expertes believe that some Airbus crashes were caused by incorrect verification.
On a single processor machine, this is much easier, but how many space shuttles do you know of that only have one CPU!
Have a look at some of the links at Dr. Mark Ryan's page (university of Birmingham) for some more info.
I would buy a gimmick t-shirt online. I would buy a pair of Nike/Reebok shoes online too - after all, I probably know the shoes already, and they're just cheaper online. But I'm not going to buy a brand of clothes, which is not particularly cheap online. I don't know if they will fit, or if the colour is the same as on-screen. The material could be horrible. You just don't know.
Unless you know exactly what you are getting, you are unlikely to buy it online, and with clothes you're never going to know exactly what they are like until you pick them up.