For a moment I thought "oh my god, the MIT Media lab for once actually did something useful", but then I read the article and realized that the computer exists only on paper. The article is just press-seeking vaporware release, all hype and little substance in true Media Lab style.
MIT Media Lab motto: purveyors of snake oil since 1985.
I have to waits eons for a large pdf file to be displayed, because the text is mostly rendered at the "client" (the server side) and sent over in bitmap form to the "server" (the supposedly dumb terminal). Contrast this with OSX, where the communication takes place at a very compact and high level postscript derivative and the rendering takes place on the intelligent terminal.
Really, you should read up on GUI technology X is a shameful piece of garbage and the earlier *nix gets rid of it, the faster it will take over the Windows world.
X11 is a piece of crap. This is well known, however Linux groupies have come to believe that *nix is the word of the Prophet, created in His image, and thus perfect. So you are not allowed to criticize it, lest the imams launch a fatwa on your ass.
I'm surprised your post has been up this long and you haven't yet gotten a reply either blaming you for X11 being so bad or accusing you of working for Redmond. This invariable happens everytime anyone hints here that there is anything that could be done better in *nix world.
in all my years admining linux systems i have never seen ANYTHING even remotely close to a windows blue screen style crash.
My linux boxen with minimal use has barfed on me twice during the last two years, which is about the same number of times my XP box has barfed on me (neither is ever turned off).
First of all, you are comparing to one of the few professions that trumps engineering salaries (those are, in no particular order: economics, law and medicine). Second of all, well paid finance types work way past 5:00pm. These are the sleep-with-the-phone-under-the-pillow-types.
As a CS person I make more money than almost all of my highschool classmates, the sole exception being a TV executive, who gets paid more AND gets to sleep with startlets...
But you know what? there isn't a degree called "TV executive", he got there by the sent of his pants. What was his degree in? Actuarial science....
I wonder if Akamai secretly pays Commander Taco to slashdot commercial sites, so that they learn their lesson and pay for protection^H^H^H^H^H^H^H content distribution from them.
What is with the fixation with monorails? why is one rail supposed to be so much better than two?
For some reason in the mid 50's monorails became equated with high tech, thus EPCOT and the Seattle monorail. All evidence suggests that there is nothing special about monorails. The fastest and most advanced in-use trains in Europe to this date still run on two rails.
Or is this just a case of "my monorail is bigger than yours"?
I also wrote an app for multiplatforms and there was a lot more than a header file for compatibility. All the low level file open, lock, write, malloc etc where slightly different. Just enough so that the compatibility library extend over half a dozen medium size files.
When did Microsoft win the Server? I must not have been paying attention when they handed out that award!
You were distracted for sure. Every single one of the server companies is out of that business with the exception of Sun, which is trading at the same price it was back in 1996. Essentially when NT 3.51 came out, companies started migrating massively away from Unix based servers and into Windows servers. The few who didn't choose M$ moved to Linux. How do I know? I was working at a company that sold server software that ran in many platforms. Before NT 3.51 our sales mix included SGI, DEC, Sun, Siemens and HP. Within a year of the release NT 3.51 we would pretty much only get requests for NT or Sun, with the Sun share fading gradually over time.
A hundred years ago one could have said there was no reason to have a base in Antarctica. Today, we know that is teeming with natural resources (including oil) and all the nations that had the foresight of exploring it at the turn of the century can lay a rightful claim to a part of it.
Eric Raymond is an idiot. He was known as an idiot in the usenet world, and he is known as an idiot in the OSS world. In between those he wrote a very thoughtful essay called "The Cathedral and the Bazaar", but he went back to idiot mode right after he wrote the last word in that essay.
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It sure looks like they have a surplus of money and a shortage of ideas what to do with it. So heck, let's hire Turing Award medal winners just for kicks.
Successful jocks collect supermodels, successful nerds collect supergeeks, I guess.
Saw the same thing in Seattle. It is curious to see these former lumberjacks basking in their wealth complaining about the Californians who made that wealth possible in the first place.
As they say, you can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it drink...
70K in Manhattan is bat-shit-crap! Taxes are near 50%, so you take home 40K, then you substract 24K for rent and you are left with 16K for living expenses. Now you need to send your two-year old kid to daycare, which costs 15K-20K a year, if it passes the interview examination (I'm not kidding) so you have somewhere between -4K and 1K to make a living...
I wouldn't take a starter job in Manhattan that paid anything less than a $100K, and if it assumes previous experience, around $170K.
that in a paper where the author complains about generalizations from small data samples, he himself generalizes his observations on epidemiology papers to all sciences?
Sure, somethings are bad for you, but caffeine ain't one of them. After extensive research very few and minor side effects have been found for caffeine, and pro-inflammatory isn't one of them.
Puritans like to believe that if something feels good then it has to be bad for you. Be it sex, coffee, or just even a hearty dance have all been at some point condemned by puritanical societies who cannot possibly believe that certain things are fun and harmless at the same time.
The parent is all a subtle joke. Coffee is not called a "vampire crop" nor does it cause insomnia for people who drink it regularly (your body becomes accostumed to the caffeine pretty soon). You don't believe me? Here's a quote:
Sleep apnea is the number one physical cause and is mostly due to the weight problem Oceania is experiencing.
You see, the post is a joke, and the joke is on us. The author is saying "look at the garbage I can write and have it modded 'Interesting' in slashdot."
Keeping a search engine index up to date requires massive amounts of bandwidth. In fact more money is spent on crawling bandwidth than on buying/providing CPU power for search operations. We are talking millions of dollars of bandwith a month. A large customer like that can get special treatment in how their traffic is priced and handled. Say, per IP address prices. Then Google crawls all data locally using a few distributed data centers across the USA and the rest of the world, and then ships only the updated data in compressed form over their newly acquired dark fiber.
The question of what those 600+ PhDs are doing is quite a natural one. It seems that it takes that much brain power to keep the system running smoothly. Can you imagine how difficult is to mine the daily amount of data that is produced? or intelligent ways to foil google spammers? or to distinguish what is dark web garbage from what is dark web gold?
Microsoft history's shows that a company can grow tremendously big on the basis of a single insight that is never replicated (the single insight of M$ is "software is where the money is, not hardware").
Google's hasn't even had a single unique insight. The Page ranking algorithm (which is quite clever), was more or less independently co-discovered by Altavista. The rest has been good execution over an Inktomi-style platform. But the point is, that this is all Google might ever need. Good execution and rather incremental hidden improvements.
The proper spelling is Windoze, not Windowsz. Leave it to a potshoting/.'er to not even get the joke right. (Hey Taco, I hear that newer databases have this option called "update" which allows for edits. You should look into it).
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For a moment I thought "oh my god, the MIT Media lab for once actually did something useful", but then I read the article and realized that the computer exists only on paper. The article is just press-seeking vaporware release, all hype and little substance in true Media Lab style.
MIT Media Lab motto: purveyors of snake oil since 1985.
i dont know the last time you actually used X11
Like, right this very minute...
i have no problems with stablity or performance.
I have to waits eons for a large pdf file to be displayed, because the text is mostly rendered at the "client" (the server side) and sent over in bitmap form to the "server" (the supposedly dumb terminal). Contrast this with OSX, where the communication takes place at a very compact and high level postscript derivative and the rendering takes place on the intelligent terminal.
Really, you should read up on GUI technology X is a shameful piece of garbage and the earlier *nix gets rid of it, the faster it will take over the Windows world.
X11 is a piece of crap. This is well known, however Linux groupies have come to believe that *nix is the word of the Prophet, created in His image, and thus perfect. So you are not allowed to criticize it, lest the imams launch a fatwa on your ass.
I'm surprised your post has been up this long and you haven't yet gotten a reply either blaming you for X11 being so bad or accusing you of working for Redmond. This invariable happens everytime anyone hints here that there is anything that could be done better in *nix world.
in all my years admining linux systems i have never seen ANYTHING even remotely close to a windows blue screen style crash.
My linux boxen with minimal use has barfed on me twice during the last two years, which is about the same number of times my XP box has barfed on me (neither is ever turned off).
First of all, you are comparing to one of the few professions that trumps engineering salaries (those are, in no particular order: economics, law and medicine). Second of all, well paid finance types work way past 5:00pm. These are the sleep-with-the-phone-under-the-pillow-types.
As a CS person I make more money than almost all of my highschool classmates, the sole exception being a TV executive, who gets paid more AND gets to sleep with startlets...
But you know what? there isn't a degree called "TV executive", he got there by the sent of his pants. What was his degree in? Actuarial science....
I wonder if Akamai secretly pays Commander Taco to slashdot commercial sites, so that they learn their lesson and pay for protection^H^H^H^H^H^H^H content distribution from them.
What is with the fixation with monorails? why is one rail supposed to be so much better than two?
For some reason in the mid 50's monorails became equated with high tech, thus EPCOT and the Seattle monorail. All evidence suggests that there is nothing special about monorails. The fastest and most advanced in-use trains in Europe to this date still run on two rails.
Or is this just a case of "my monorail is bigger than yours"?
I also wrote an app for multiplatforms and there was a lot more than a header file for compatibility. All the low level file open, lock, write, malloc etc where slightly different. Just enough so that the compatibility library extend over half a dozen medium size files.
Haven't noticed it with any other site, be it SWF or java based.
When did Microsoft win the Server? I must not have been paying attention when they handed out that award!
You were distracted for sure. Every single one of the server companies is out of that business with the exception of Sun, which is trading at the same price it was back in 1996. Essentially when NT 3.51 came out, companies started migrating massively away from Unix based servers and into Windows servers. The few who didn't choose M$ moved to Linux. How do I know? I was working at a company that sold server software that ran in many platforms. Before NT 3.51 our sales mix included SGI, DEC, Sun, Siemens and HP. Within a year of the release NT 3.51 we would pretty much only get requests for NT or Sun, with the Sun share fading gradually over time.
There is no reason a browser should mysteriously slow down your computer.
Really? Firefox dramatically slows the de-hibernation procedure in my laptop if I happened to access the CNN page before sometime before hibernating.
A hundred years ago one could have said there was no reason to have a base in Antarctica. Today, we know that is teeming with natural resources (including oil) and all the nations that had the foresight of exploring it at the turn of the century can lay a rightful claim to a part of it.
Q: Why don't the physicians post their side of the story and let the public decide who is more correct?
The same way as ratemyprofessors.com has an area for teachers to post a rebuttal... erh, never mind.
Eric Raymond is an idiot. He was known as an idiot in the usenet world, and he is known as an idiot in the OSS world. In between those he wrote a very thoughtful essay called "The Cathedral and the Bazaar", but he went back to idiot mode right after he wrote the last word in that essay.
It sure looks like they have a surplus of money and a shortage of ideas what to do with it. So heck, let's hire Turing Award medal winners just for kicks.
Successful jocks collect supermodels, successful nerds collect supergeeks, I guess.
Remember; Don't Californicate Oregon.
Saw the same thing in Seattle. It is curious to see these former lumberjacks basking in their wealth complaining about the Californians who made that wealth possible in the first place.
As they say, you can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it drink...
How about money for a wife and kids?
70K in Manhattan is bat-shit-crap! Taxes are near 50%, so you take home 40K, then you substract 24K for rent and you are left with 16K for living expenses. Now you need to send your two-year old kid to daycare, which costs 15K-20K a year, if it passes the interview examination (I'm not kidding) so you have somewhere between -4K and 1K to make a living...
I wouldn't take a starter job in Manhattan that paid anything less than a $100K, and if it assumes previous experience, around $170K.
that in a paper where the author complains about generalizations from small data samples, he himself generalizes his observations on epidemiology papers to all sciences?
but some things are just bad for you
Sure, somethings are bad for you, but caffeine ain't one of them. After extensive research very few and minor side effects have been found for caffeine, and pro-inflammatory isn't one of them.
Puritans like to believe that if something feels good then it has to be bad for you. Be it sex, coffee, or just even a hearty dance have all been at some point condemned by puritanical societies who cannot possibly believe that certain things are fun and harmless at the same time.
Mod the parent funny, not interesting!
The parent is all a subtle joke. Coffee is not called a "vampire crop" nor does it cause insomnia for people who drink it regularly (your body becomes accostumed to the caffeine pretty soon). You don't believe me? Here's a quote:
Sleep apnea is the number one physical cause and is mostly due to the weight problem Oceania is experiencing.
You see, the post is a joke, and the joke is on us. The author is saying "look at the garbage I can write and have it modded 'Interesting' in slashdot."
Keeping a search engine index up to date requires massive amounts of bandwidth. In fact more money is spent on crawling bandwidth than on buying/providing CPU power for search operations. We are talking millions of dollars of bandwith a month. A large customer like that can get special treatment in how their traffic is priced and handled. Say, per IP address prices. Then Google crawls all data locally using a few distributed data centers across the USA and the rest of the world, and then ships only the updated data in compressed form over their newly acquired dark fiber.
The question of what those 600+ PhDs are doing is quite a natural one. It seems that it takes that much brain power to keep the system running smoothly. Can you imagine how difficult is to mine the daily amount of data that is produced? or intelligent ways to foil google spammers? or to distinguish what is dark web garbage from what is dark web gold?
Microsoft history's shows that a company can grow tremendously big on the basis of a single insight that is never replicated (the single insight of M$ is "software is where the money is, not hardware").
Google's hasn't even had a single unique insight. The Page ranking algorithm (which is quite clever), was more or less independently co-discovered by Altavista. The rest has been good execution over an Inktomi-style platform. But the point is, that this is all Google might ever need. Good execution and rather incremental hidden improvements.
The proper spelling is Windoze, not Windowsz. Leave it to a potshoting