Re:Please don't give 'Funny' comments to interview
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Or maybe "funny" comments shouldn't be counted against the 10 that will be submitted. Make it optional for the interviewee to answer the funny extra questions, and this way they don't infringe on the 10 important ones.
On the Mac, in my experience, Mozilla has gotten slower as time has passed. And it seemed that that was true for a while on Windows as well, but now I have returned, and 1.3a just burns.
I don't have anything againt paying for software, but I very much prefer to get it for free. Yea, Mozilla!
They weren't overnight. They've been working on them since Friday and wanted the announcement to come on Thursday so that they could properly test the fixes.
Opera didn't announce the exploits, idiot. They requested that the people who discovered them wait to announce them for TWO DAYS so that a fix could be released before the exploits became publicly known. The exploit discoverers did not comply. Opera did everything right, and it is impressive that they are working so fast and so hard to fix the problems.
Additionally, even without the initial cost of the product being taken into consideration, a Linux sysadmin can do more for less than a Windows admin. MCSE gets you a job, but no skills.
All the arguments I've seen in which Linux doesn't beat the crap out of Windows are simply lies.
THe processor in the Xbox is basically a 700 MHz cross between a Celeron and a Pentium III. They don't really make very many 700Mhz chips any more, and since those days the Pentium 3 and Celeron have probably been updated so that pin compatibility isn't that hot. I'd bet around 800-1000 MHz is where the revision would have come, but I'm not positive. Intel can't update their fab (which I'm sure they would like to do), because they have to make these Celeron 700 chips, which are basically worthless but no cheaper to produce than a Celeron 1400 which is incompatible.
Xbox is having trouble despite its commodity hardware because the chip they used from Intel was already on the way out of the market by the time the Xbox was released, and soon it was totally off the market. So, Intel had to continue production of an inferior processor just to sell it to MS, which makes it no longer a commodity item, but rather a specialty item. Because of this, they lost all the value of using that processor in the first place: it will not get cheaper, and it will not get faster, and it will not get smaller. Really, it's a shame. If they'd included a much faster processor, it would have been much more expensive at first, but it would have taken longer for the processor to leave the real market, and their prices would have plummeted (people would be encouraged by this, even if they were spending a lot), and the system would be considerably faster.
I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft actually owned all of the modchip companies. Every few months they release a new version of the Xbox with updated security and everyone who had modded their old system has to buy a new chip (when their old Xbox breaks or doesn't work with a new game or something). That way MS can augment their sales to people who don't buy as many games with an extra $60 that really costs them nothing.
I don't think any ad agencies count every download as a "hit" anymore. Isn't it only a hit if someone clicks on it, and isn't that impossible if it is invisible?
FreeBSD isn't a company. Their product doesn't have to be about the users. Using the BSD license, it could just as well be for themselves or for the fun of coding it. Which would give credence to the claim that he was kicked out because he was not treating the other developers with respect.
Not only the dollar per hour basis, but I've been able to do things with the Xbox that I could not have done at all, otherwise. For example, taking the Xbox to someone else's house and playing networked Halo, Nascar, Ghost Recon, etc. 16 players get together and spend the whole night playing video games, and it's much cheaper to do that than for everyone to lug in their own PC gaming rig and spend 15 minutes and 2 outlets per person getting everything set up, plus huge, expensive network switches. Most of my friends don't have a PC on the same level as mine, so we don't have LAN parties. They do have Xboxes, so we have Xbox parties. You just can't do that with either of the other systems.
I would expect the tech companies to continue researching their products and advancing them at the same exponential rate, but not to release every iteration to the public: only release the ones that make a significant difference in the marketplace. It has pretty much already been demonstrated that people will no longer just buy it because it's new and expensive.
The S-video adapter for the PS2 also costs extra ($30 when I bought it), and dialup users are left in the dark by the PS2 even after they buy the $40 broadband adapter.
The 8MB card runs out pretty quickly if you actually play a lot of games and save a lot of data, so having 1000x as much is a pretty big deal. And, by the way, you can get a memory unit for the Xbox too, it plugs into the controller. In order to save anything on your PS2, you have to go out and buy the ridiculously expensive 8MB of storage, whereas you only need to buy that for the Xbox if you need the portable functionality.
They would never include the killer app for the system in the system package: Halo is a game that everyone who buys an Xbox will pay another $50 to get their hands on. They don't want the two prices to seem married, even though they are. They included two other games that would not have made much money anyway (and GT racing is actually pretty fun), to add value while minimizing the decrease in game sale revenues.
The difference between 1987 and 2003 is that Intel expects their product to be snatched up instantly, whereas in 1987 hte companies involved were patient enough to let the migration happen on its own. Interestingly, when the companies were being patient, there was widespread demand for a new architecture, but now that there really isn't that widespread demand, the companies are anxious to roll it out.
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Or maybe "funny" comments shouldn't be counted against the 10 that will be submitted. Make it optional for the interviewee to answer the funny extra questions, and this way they don't infringe on the 10 important ones.
On the Mac, in my experience, Mozilla has gotten slower as time has passed. And it seemed that that was true for a while on Windows as well, but now I have returned, and 1.3a just burns.
I don't have anything againt paying for software, but I very much prefer to get it for free. Yea, Mozilla!
It really isn't faster that Mozilla anymore. After 1.0, Gecko has been faster than Opera (I used to use both, until Mozilla was faster).
They weren't overnight. They've been working on them since Friday and wanted the announcement to come on Thursday so that they could properly test the fixes.
Opera didn't announce the exploits, idiot. They requested that the people who discovered them wait to announce them for TWO DAYS so that a fix could be released before the exploits became publicly known. The exploit discoverers did not comply. Opera did everything right, and it is impressive that they are working so fast and so hard to fix the problems.
Sun isn't doing that great.
That's why it is constantly improving, and at least as quickly as Windows.
Additionally, even without the initial cost of the product being taken into consideration, a Linux sysadmin can do more for less than a Windows admin. MCSE gets you a job, but no skills.
All the arguments I've seen in which Linux doesn't beat the crap out of Windows are simply lies.
Star Trek is dying.
BSD is dying.
Star Trek is BSD?
Doesn't FUD get slapped onto the front page of slashdot more than anything? Except dupes, that is...
THe processor in the Xbox is basically a 700 MHz cross between a Celeron and a Pentium III. They don't really make very many 700Mhz chips any more, and since those days the Pentium 3 and Celeron have probably been updated so that pin compatibility isn't that hot. I'd bet around 800-1000 MHz is where the revision would have come, but I'm not positive. Intel can't update their fab (which I'm sure they would like to do), because they have to make these Celeron 700 chips, which are basically worthless but no cheaper to produce than a Celeron 1400 which is incompatible.
Xbox is having trouble despite its commodity hardware because the chip they used from Intel was already on the way out of the market by the time the Xbox was released, and soon it was totally off the market. So, Intel had to continue production of an inferior processor just to sell it to MS, which makes it no longer a commodity item, but rather a specialty item. Because of this, they lost all the value of using that processor in the first place: it will not get cheaper, and it will not get faster, and it will not get smaller. Really, it's a shame. If they'd included a much faster processor, it would have been much more expensive at first, but it would have taken longer for the processor to leave the real market, and their prices would have plummeted (people would be encouraged by this, even if they were spending a lot), and the system would be considerably faster.
I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft actually owned all of the modchip companies. Every few months they release a new version of the Xbox with updated security and everyone who had modded their old system has to buy a new chip (when their old Xbox breaks or doesn't work with a new game or something). That way MS can augment their sales to people who don't buy as many games with an extra $60 that really costs them nothing.
... I was just kidding.
I don't think any ad agencies count every download as a "hit" anymore. Isn't it only a hit if someone clicks on it, and isn't that impossible if it is invisible?
FreeBSD isn't a company. Their product doesn't have to be about the users. Using the BSD license, it could just as well be for themselves or for the fun of coding it. Which would give credence to the claim that he was kicked out because he was not treating the other developers with respect.
Play Madden (or any other game) over a modem and then tell me who's left out in the dark. You just need broadband to play online.
Not only the dollar per hour basis, but I've been able to do things with the Xbox that I could not have done at all, otherwise. For example, taking the Xbox to someone else's house and playing networked Halo, Nascar, Ghost Recon, etc. 16 players get together and spend the whole night playing video games, and it's much cheaper to do that than for everyone to lug in their own PC gaming rig and spend 15 minutes and 2 outlets per person getting everything set up, plus huge, expensive network switches. Most of my friends don't have a PC on the same level as mine, so we don't have LAN parties. They do have Xboxes, so we have Xbox parties. You just can't do that with either of the other systems.
Or, better yet, buy $200 worth of food. Mmmm... pizza...
BSD is dead.
Is this supposed to be a flame war, or what?
I would expect the tech companies to continue researching their products and advancing them at the same exponential rate, but not to release every iteration to the public: only release the ones that make a significant difference in the marketplace. It has pretty much already been demonstrated that people will no longer just buy it because it's new and expensive.
The S-video adapter for the PS2 also costs extra ($30 when I bought it), and dialup users are left in the dark by the PS2 even after they buy the $40 broadband adapter.
The 8MB card runs out pretty quickly if you actually play a lot of games and save a lot of data, so having 1000x as much is a pretty big deal. And, by the way, you can get a memory unit for the Xbox too, it plugs into the controller. In order to save anything on your PS2, you have to go out and buy the ridiculously expensive 8MB of storage, whereas you only need to buy that for the Xbox if you need the portable functionality.
They would never include the killer app for the system in the system package: Halo is a game that everyone who buys an Xbox will pay another $50 to get their hands on. They don't want the two prices to seem married, even though they are. They included two other games that would not have made much money anyway (and GT racing is actually pretty fun), to add value while minimizing the decrease in game sale revenues.
The difference between 1987 and 2003 is that Intel expects their product to be snatched up instantly, whereas in 1987 hte companies involved were patient enough to let the migration happen on its own. Interestingly, when the companies were being patient, there was widespread demand for a new architecture, but now that there really isn't that widespread demand, the companies are anxious to roll it out.
HP would be much more likely to support their own processor (the Alpha) than to jump in with AMD in the event that the Itanic sinks.