Actually, all of my course materials ARE on-line already. See http://spiff.rit.edu/classes. Anyone who wants to use these materials to teach himself -- go for it!
This!
There are vast amounts of great course-materials freely available online, for all sorts of classes, at top-tier universities. They're a wonderful resource for somebody that wants to learn about a subject, and has motivation and some basic grounding but not the time / money to attend a formal class. You can find course lecture notes, links to papers, examples, reading lists, etc. Discussion groups etc tend to be university-private (which makes sense), but there's tons of stuff available to the world at large.
Most major universities have been "online" in this very valuable (but apparently not so fashionable) sense for ages...
So one person pays for the physical space in a high-profile location, the other guy just pretends to be there and gets the location for free.
Is this fair?
But he doesn't really "get the location," he "gets" a shoddy half-assed and barely usable cellphone gimmick. It's not going to impact the real shop one iota (so no loss on their part), and the t-shirt guy isn't actually going to get any significant number of customers by doing this — nobody's going to travel to physical location just to get a shoddy cellphone app experience, so any kind of physical location linkage is quickly going to be discarded.
Er, well never mind that they're not paying to use MS tech, they're paying MS not to sue them over vague IP claims, but Casio makes vast quantities of things besides digital watches — cameras, digital pianos, printers, electronic dictionaries, lots of specialized business electronics (cash registers, that kind of thing), and, yes, smart phones (running android)...
No no no... stay away from Seattle. nothing to see here. it rains all the time!. this is not the city you seek. you want...Portland, yeah! Portland is much more friendly and bike-centric and mellow. Seattlites are all hyper-liberal coffee-drinking zombies... save yourself! stay away!....aaaaieeeee..... [end of transmission]
Hmm, my seattle-living-friend's big complaint is that Seattlelites are wayyyy too mellow and laid back; it drives her crazy. She's moving to NYC, of course...
[I spent a large part of my youth in Seattle, so I'm not so bothered by it... but I have utterly no desire to go back...]
Has anyone had any success running this in a linux vm?
I downloaded the 64-bit version, but my attempts to run it in qemu[*] don't yield happiness... it gets as far as writing "Window Developer Release" or something on the graphics screen, and then after a while it starts puking out weird messages (some numeric codes, and a message "you must reboot; hit the hardware reset key") in a loop and then reboots.
I used a service very much like this to detect that my partner in my last class had plagerized all 12 pages of our research paper. I was greatful to have spent the $5 and immediately wrote a new paper from scratch. What an asshole.
Indeed. What do you do in a situation like that...? Tell your partner "dude no way, we're gonna rewrite this"? Just ask to be split from your partner and not say anything? Tell the professor? If it's not a friend, the last is tempting...
I don't understand why there is not more of doing the obvious of having an audiobook as the soundtrack. People that don't have English as a first language could benefit from that, as could many native English speakers that use words that they have read but never heard.
Yes!
The notion of "sound effects for books" seems absurdly stupid, but the idea of synchronized voice for foreign-language learners is brilliant.
Moore's law is ending in most of our lifetimes. When, exactly, is somewhat unclear, but the horizon is less than 40 years, at which point our single-atom transistors will be so numerous they will occupy the volume of our houses.
Ah, but they've got a plan for that too — they'll just start making houses bigger!
(what, you thought McMansions were just a silly affectation?!)
Or, in other words, this was much ado about nothing.
Or to be more blunt, this story is a (painfully obvious) troll / astroturf / FUD.
Recently there's been a lot of this on Slashdot; I get the feeling somebody has realized that Slashdot, with its, er, extremely lax editorial standards, and reasonably large readership, is a great place to satisfy his daily quota of anti-Google activity...
Wouldn't it make sense to develop first to Xbox360 in that case, then?
That's certainly the conclusion MS wants developers to come to, but it doesn't make it any less of a douche move on MS's part.
Developing for the Xbox first may be a real hardship for some (especially small) developers -- for instance, a Japanese developer, whose main market is the PS3, but who wants to eventually sell to U.S. Xbox users as well. Or consider a big developer who does develop simultaneously, but runs into serious problems with the Xbox port, delaying it by a few months; they then have to simply not sell the PS3 version for months, until the Xbox version is ready...
Similar deal here. If Sony bribes you to release your content first on PSN, ok that is their right, and your right to accept the deal. Nobody is going to say you can't. However MS is not then interested in carrying your product.
That doesn't appear to be what MS is saying though (you didn't read the story, did you?).
MS are refusing to carry titles that launch first on the PSN for any reason -- e.g., a developer has limited resources and can't develop all platforms simultaneously (or runs into problems in the Xbox version, delaying it). There is no "exclusivity" money involved.
By contrast, Sony don't appear to care if you release a title on the PSN that first appeared on Xbox live.
haha, seriously... when I read the title, I honestly thought this story was going to be about how the lack of [variable] type declarations in scripting languages was causing people to type [on the keyboard] less! oO;
The "autonomous boats" are very small, and most of the mass is actually a fair distance below the surface, tethered to a surface float. If there's a collision, even with a very small ocean-going sailboat, it seems very likely that the sailboat is going to win...
Er, yes, once you become super famous and renowned, the concept of a "steady job" loses some of its allure, and you can do cool-but-risky things instead if you want to. The parameters of your risk equation change. But note that such behavior is not at all uncommon even amongst the non-famous — I know tons of people who left "secure" jobs with big companies to join startups — though it's easier when you're young (e.g., no family to support), and perhaps somewhat more attractive for the middle-aged (there's a sense of "now or never").
You can hardly blame Gosling — he's spent 20 years as "big name at big company", with all the crap that entails (even at "good" big companies), and is probably quite sick of it by now. Given that he does have the ability to do more quirky and interesting things without undue personal risk, and apparently hadn't put down any roots at Google, it doesn't seem particularly surprising that he made this choice.
They're state legislators from Missouri. Finding out what is and is not in the constitution would require reading it, which would limit their ability to call things they don't like "unconstitutional" and would limit their ability to propose quick fixes and powergrabs.
*twitch* You're using a PS3 on a CRT TV? That's like the A/V equivalent of buying a Ferrari and never driving over 30 mph. I think I'm going to have a seizure...
Hmm, I bought a PS3 (when the slim dropped the price a few years ago) because it had some games I wanted to play... The only TV I had was an old low-end 20" CRT, kinda fuzzy.. so that's what I used.
The games play just fine for the most part -- they're fun, look good, etc.
However... there is one significant exception: many games use absurdly small fonts, which look like they'd be appropriate for a big computer monitor, but work pretty badly on anything with lower-resolution. This can make text super annoying to decipher, as letters are often little more than vaguely shaped blobs (this is especially true with Japanese text, which tends to cram in a lot more detail into characters, but only increase the character size a little).
When the text in question is "scroll important info by quickly with no pause button" text, then... well... argh!... Must... Kill... Developers....
Yes. Paper isn't ancient history like buggy whips but it's definitely in its twilight years. Sort of like horse transportation in the '20s I guess.
Er, no. You clearly spend way too much time watching Apple adverts or reading Engadget or something...
There are certainly niches where paper usage is declining because of newer technology, but it's going to be a long, long, time -- if ever -- before paper can be described as being "in its twilight years."
Well, they can take their principled stance and use pi * $1B on lobbyists to get Congress to actually reform the patent system.
Of course if they did that, Apple, MS, Oracle, and other patent-abusers, would royally freak out and start throwing money in the opposite direction, trying to keep the patent system in it's current broken state. There'd end up being an awful lot of rich congressmen, but I'm not sure much else would change...
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Actually, all of my course materials ARE on-line already. See http://spiff.rit.edu/classes. Anyone who wants to use these materials to teach himself -- go for it!
This!
There are vast amounts of great course-materials freely available online, for all sorts of classes, at top-tier universities. They're a wonderful resource for somebody that wants to learn about a subject, and has motivation and some basic grounding but not the time / money to attend a formal class. You can find course lecture notes, links to papers, examples, reading lists, etc. Discussion groups etc tend to be university-private (which makes sense), but there's tons of stuff available to the world at large.
Most major universities have been "online" in this very valuable (but apparently not so fashionable) sense for ages...
... wait, didn't MS also say a while ago that they have no intention of ever supporting webgl...?
So is our gaming future basically a huge number of pretty variations on web solitaire...?
So one person pays for the physical space in a high-profile location, the other guy just pretends to be there and gets the location for free.
Is this fair?
But he doesn't really "get the location," he "gets" a shoddy half-assed and barely usable cellphone gimmick. It's not going to impact the real shop one iota (so no loss on their part), and the t-shirt guy isn't actually going to get any significant number of customers by doing this — nobody's going to travel to physical location just to get a shoddy cellphone app experience, so any kind of physical location linkage is quickly going to be discarded.
Er, well never mind that they're not paying to use MS tech, they're paying MS not to sue them over vague IP claims, but Casio makes vast quantities of things besides digital watches — cameras, digital pianos, printers, electronic dictionaries, lots of specialized business electronics (cash registers, that kind of thing), and, yes, smart phones (running android)...
No no no... stay away from Seattle. nothing to see here. it rains all the time!. this is not the city you seek. you want...Portland, yeah! Portland is much more friendly and bike-centric and mellow. Seattlites are all hyper-liberal coffee-drinking zombies... save yourself! stay away! ....aaaaieeeee..... [end of transmission]
Hmm, my seattle-living-friend's big complaint is that Seattlelites are wayyyy too mellow and laid back; it drives her crazy. She's moving to NYC, of course...
[I spent a large part of my youth in Seattle, so I'm not so bothered by it ... but I have utterly no desire to go back...]
That spells the end of a lot (not all) of Java's usefulness too.
Er, but nobody ever actually uses Java for web applets or whatever, they use it as a normal programming language to write traditional apps.
Has anyone had any success running this in a linux vm?
I downloaded the 64-bit version, but my attempts to run it in qemu[*] don't yield happiness ... it gets as far as writing "Window Developer Release" or something on the graphics screen, and then after a while it starts puking out weird messages (some numeric codes, and a message "you must reboot; hit the hardware reset key") in a loop and then reboots.
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[*] qemu-system-x86_64 -cpu core2duo -m 2048 -hda qemu-hda.disk -cdrom WinwsDeveloperPreview-64bit-English-Developer.iso
Somebody mod parent up, it's an insightful and well-reasoned response; a shame it was posted by AC...
I used a service very much like this to detect that my partner in my last class had plagerized all 12 pages of our research paper. I was greatful to have spent the $5 and immediately wrote a new paper from scratch. What an asshole.
Indeed. What do you do in a situation like that ...? Tell your partner "dude no way, we're gonna rewrite this"? Just ask to be split from your partner and not say anything? Tell the professor? If it's not a friend, the last is tempting...
I don't understand why there is not more of doing the obvious of having an audiobook as the soundtrack. People that don't have English as a first language could benefit from that, as could many native English speakers that use words that they have read but never heard.
Yes!
The notion of "sound effects for books" seems absurdly stupid, but the idea of synchronized voice for foreign-language learners is brilliant.
Thus naturally they're going for the former ... :[
Of all the things I will miss if I live long enough a good printed paperback is very close to the top, maybe even higher up than cheese...
Cheese is going to be replaced with ... what, echeese?!
Wait ... echeese ... oh yeah, I guess that's what this story is about...
It's just a bunch of benchmarks with commentary and no conclusion.
Could we possibly get ANY information on WHY?
Phoronix has a lonnnnng history of really crappy benchmarking...
Moore's law is ending in most of our lifetimes. When, exactly, is somewhat unclear, but the horizon is less than 40 years, at which point our single-atom transistors will be so numerous they will occupy the volume of our houses.
Ah, but they've got a plan for that too — they'll just start making houses bigger!
(what, you thought McMansions were just a silly affectation?!)
Or, in other words, this was much ado about nothing.
Or to be more blunt, this story is a (painfully obvious) troll / astroturf / FUD.
Recently there's been a lot of this on Slashdot; I get the feeling somebody has realized that Slashdot, with its, er, extremely lax editorial standards, and reasonably large readership, is a great place to satisfy his daily quota of anti-Google activity...
Wouldn't it make sense to develop first to Xbox360 in that case, then?
That's certainly the conclusion MS wants developers to come to, but it doesn't make it any less of a douche move on MS's part.
Developing for the Xbox first may be a real hardship for some (especially small) developers -- for instance, a Japanese developer, whose main market is the PS3, but who wants to eventually sell to U.S. Xbox users as well. Or consider a big developer who does develop simultaneously, but runs into serious problems with the Xbox port, delaying it by a few months; they then have to simply not sell the PS3 version for months, until the Xbox version is ready...
Similar deal here. If Sony bribes you to release your content first on PSN, ok that is their right, and your right to accept the deal. Nobody is going to say you can't. However MS is not then interested in carrying your product.
That doesn't appear to be what MS is saying though (you didn't read the story, did you?).
MS are refusing to carry titles that launch first on the PSN for any reason -- e.g., a developer has limited resources and can't develop all platforms simultaneously (or runs into problems in the Xbox version, delaying it). There is no "exclusivity" money involved.
By contrast, Sony don't appear to care if you release a title on the PSN that first appeared on Xbox live.
haha, seriously ... when I read the title, I honestly thought this story was going to be about how the lack of [variable] type declarations in scripting languages was causing people to type [on the keyboard] less! oO;
The "autonomous boats" are very small, and most of the mass is actually a fair distance below the surface, tethered to a surface float. If there's a collision, even with a very small ocean-going sailboat, it seems very likely that the sailboat is going to win...
You can look at Liquid Robotic's (brief) Waver Glider specifications page for a bit more detail (mostly in this PDF file).
Er, yes, once you become super famous and renowned, the concept of a "steady job" loses some of its allure, and you can do cool-but-risky things instead if you want to. The parameters of your risk equation change. But note that such behavior is not at all uncommon even amongst the non-famous — I know tons of people who left "secure" jobs with big companies to join startups — though it's easier when you're young (e.g., no family to support), and perhaps somewhat more attractive for the middle-aged (there's a sense of "now or never").
You can hardly blame Gosling — he's spent 20 years as "big name at big company", with all the crap that entails (even at "good" big companies), and is probably quite sick of it by now. Given that he does have the ability to do more quirky and interesting things without undue personal risk, and apparently hadn't put down any roots at Google, it doesn't seem particularly surprising that he made this choice.
They're state legislators from Missouri. Finding out what is and is not in the constitution would require reading it, which would limit their ability to call things they don't like "unconstitutional" and would limit their ability to propose quick fixes and powergrabs.
Also it would require them to be able to read...
He's escapin' !
Flash Cookies. The article is about websites caught using Flash cookies instead of browser cookies.
See, asshole-who-wrote-the-article, that wasn't hard. Flash cookies.
Soooooo, can't you just delete the Flash cookie directory? That seems like it'd nuke 'em pretty good...
*twitch* You're using a PS3 on a CRT TV? That's like the A/V equivalent of buying a Ferrari and never driving over 30 mph. I think I'm going to have a seizure...
Hmm, I bought a PS3 (when the slim dropped the price a few years ago) because it had some games I wanted to play... The only TV I had was an old low-end 20" CRT, kinda fuzzy.. so that's what I used.
The games play just fine for the most part -- they're fun, look good, etc.
However ... there is one significant exception: many games use absurdly small fonts, which look like they'd be appropriate for a big computer monitor, but work pretty badly on anything with lower-resolution. This can make text super annoying to decipher, as letters are often little more than vaguely shaped blobs (this is especially true with Japanese text, which tends to cram in a lot more detail into characters, but only increase the character size a little).
When the text in question is "scroll important info by quickly with no pause button" text, then ... well ... argh! ... Must ... Kill ... Developers....
Yes. Paper isn't ancient history like buggy whips but it's definitely in its twilight years. Sort of like horse transportation in the '20s I guess.
Er, no. You clearly spend way too much time watching Apple adverts or reading Engadget or something...
There are certainly niches where paper usage is declining because of newer technology, but it's going to be a long, long, time -- if ever -- before paper can be described as being "in its twilight years."
Well, they can take their principled stance and use pi * $1B on lobbyists to get Congress to actually reform the patent system.
Of course if they did that, Apple, MS, Oracle, and other patent-abusers, would royally freak out and start throwing money in the opposite direction, trying to keep the patent system in it's current broken state. There'd end up being an awful lot of rich congressmen, but I'm not sure much else would change...