Cisco gear just isn't that competitive these days. High-performance applications are dominated by names like Mellanox and Chelsio. Cisco is trading on name recognition, but they're somewhere around best of the shit, or shittiest of the best at this point.
Nah, CSMA/CA is half-duplex on one frequency (listen for some quiet before you talk). If they've come up with some form of code domain duplex that actually works, congratulations to them. I'd just like to see it implemented in something affordable before I get excited.
Instead, the like button is in an iframe, which is a different webpage stored in a frame in another webpage. Those don't require any sort of Ajax at all. Instead, clicking the gray icon uses JavaScript (which is definitely NOT Ajax) to replace their grayed-out like button with an iframe containing the actual one.
Yo, sup dawg. I herd you like web pages, so I put a web page in your web page, so you can click while you click.
At least the first hardware revision Motorola MicroTAC for AMPS networks had a dummy antenna that was just a piece of plastic. It also had a dummy microphone in the flip - the real microphone was in the hinge. I don't know of any other phones with dummy antennae, though. Every Nokia and Ericsson I looked inside had a real antenna.
My brother is a male nurse (planning to up his qualification to paramedic some time). I don't know about the older female nurses, but the younger female nurses are all over him all the time. Kind of like how girls in "geek" occupations are treated, I guess.
Quite seriously though, I'm a straight guy, and I make heavy use of exclamation marks, emoticons, "omg", "haha" and "love" in IM conversations, although not so much when blogging. I don't use Twitter, so one can't say whether I'd show these girly traits there.
And if he does that trick on a barely subcritical mass of uranium 235 or plutonium, it goes bang.
Not likely - the amount of fissile material in a typical nuclear bomb has to be compressed to a fraction of its size by the detonation mechanism in order to achieve criticality. Exposing it to neutron flux won't set it off.
"Fusion reactor" is dumbed-down terminology for the masses. What he's built is probably a Farnsworthâ"Hirsch Fusor which can be made quite small. It's not useful for generating energy as it's very inefficient, but it's a good neutron source. Also, you're missing the point of how his contraption is supposed to work. The radiation detector isn't the part that uses the fusor. The fusor is used to send a neutron beam through the package under test. If it contains enriched uranium or plutonium, the interaction with neutrons will cause it to emit far higher levels of neutron flux and gamma radiation than most other materials. If you see this effect, you might want to inspect the package. I don't know how effective it is in practice, but the premise of operation makes sense.
WebGL won't deliver that. It's just going to deliver the next generation of what are currently Flash games, that run on Linux anyway (just not RMS' GNU/Linux because the player isn't free as in beards).
Are you referring to Mobile Safari for iPhone/iPad? In that case, I think Microsoft have "pulled an Apple" already and failed to provide a plugin API for the Windows Phone 7 browser. If OTOH you're referring to IE for Windows, Apple's equivalent Safari for OSX supports plugins anyway. I don't see your point.
I don't get why so many stories are spinning this as though it's somehow CBA's fault. CBA detected the data breach, alerted the public, and cancelled affected cards. They failed to name and shame the company that suffered the breach, only indicating that it was a bank outside Australia. CBA deserves some credit for handling the situation as well as they could.
Actually the carriers would be very happy to do away with the SIM. That would make it harder to switch carriers, so they would get the customer lock-in they crave. It's only EU competition laws that force them to allow swappable SIMs.
It's non-volatile - the last data written will still be there. What you're probably thinking of is destructive read - you need to re-write the data after reading it, because the read operation results in the bit being erased.
No point - since they're a martyr, they go straight to paradise. Nothing you do to the body matters after that point. Yet another case of an armchair analyst not actually understanding what they're dealing with.
I don't think team lunches should be mandatory. Sometimes you want to clear your head, go for a walk and have some time to yourself. You may also want to check out cute girls in the food court, but I digress. Anyway, just because Joel likes his lunches that way doesn't mean it's the best thing for everyone. Where I work, they provide lunch for those who want it. Some people eat lunch in the rec room, chat, maybe play a game of table tennis or pool. Others take the supplied lunch to their desk to eat. Some people prefer to go out and buy lunch, but even they're a mixed bunch: go alone, go in groups, eat out, bring take-away back to their desks. You've got to give your people some space to move.
The following fortune quote accompanied this story for me:
It is not good for a man to be without knowledge, and he who makes haste with his feet misses his way. -- Proverbs 19:2
Disturbingly appropriate, considering the story is about people jumping all over a false assumption. But I'm constantly surprised at the number of times a Windows installation with full multilingual support trips anti-malware or anti-virus software. Don't these guys even use their MSDN subscriptions to get a full set of Windows installs to test against?
Then please explain: in implementation (on either platform), what is the functional difference between Enter and Return?
In spreadsheets, Return accepts the value entered and moves focus down one line while Enter accepts the value entered without moving focus. Some older Mac applications with text-based interfaces treat Return as end-of-line and Enter as end-of-file. With the advent of OSX, the Enter key has become less important, and has almost become a second Return, but it used to function as a kind of "accept data" command under classic MacOS.
Also, one thing that hasn't been brought up yet (that I've seen) is the misbehaving Home and End keys. They're supposed to move the input cursor to the beginning and end of the current line of input, not... whatever it is they do under OS X â" I've never managed to figure out exactly what that is.
On a Mac, like since forever, Cmd-Left/Right move the insertion point to the beginning/end of a line. Home/End scroll to the top/bottom of the document without moving the insertion point (Cmd-Up/Down move the insertion point to the beginning/end of the document). From a Mac user's POV, it's Windows that has misbehaving Home/End keys. It's possible to change the bindings under OSX using some obscure XML files inherited from NeXT, or possibly through the Keyboard pane in System Preferences since 10.5 or so.
I have a Dell with ATI running Windows at work, and I'm using a certain ancient version of the video drivers because newer video drivers all cause stability issues. Another guy at work has an NVIDIA card and runs Ubuntu, but since the latest X release, enabling Compiz causes the machine to lock up on resizing a window (that's with binary blob drivers).
At home I have a MacBook Pro i7 with Intel HD plus NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M. When I got it, there was a bug that caused the image to "disintegrate" on the automatic switch from NVIDIA to Intel on closing all OpenGL applications (some system update fixed it, though). I have a MacBook Core Duo with Intel GMA950, and it has issues hanging under heavy RAM/CPU load (e.g. 2xGCC + Eclipse) if an external display is connected. I've had no luck with any video card manufacturer.
I don't give a shit about which is faster. Neither seem to be able to consistently write stable drivers. Video driver stability issues are far more of a problem than being 0.1% slower than the competition.
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Cisco gear just isn't that competitive these days. High-performance applications are dominated by names like Mellanox and Chelsio. Cisco is trading on name recognition, but they're somewhere around best of the shit, or shittiest of the best at this point.
Nah, CSMA/CA is half-duplex on one frequency (listen for some quiet before you talk). If they've come up with some form of code domain duplex that actually works, congratulations to them. I'd just like to see it implemented in something affordable before I get excited.
Yo, sup dawg. I herd you like web pages, so I put a web page in your web page, so you can click while you click.
At least the first hardware revision Motorola MicroTAC for AMPS networks had a dummy antenna that was just a piece of plastic. It also had a dummy microphone in the flip - the real microphone was in the hinge. I don't know of any other phones with dummy antennae, though. Every Nokia and Ericsson I looked inside had a real antenna.
My brother is a male nurse (planning to up his qualification to paramedic some time). I don't know about the older female nurses, but the younger female nurses are all over him all the time. Kind of like how girls in "geek" occupations are treated, I guess.
Quite seriously though, I'm a straight guy, and I make heavy use of exclamation marks, emoticons, "omg", "haha" and "love" in IM conversations, although not so much when blogging. I don't use Twitter, so one can't say whether I'd show these girly traits there.
Why can't it be a troll under the bridge? That would be so much more cool.
MSDN developer documentation and admin reference. People do write Windows software and administer all those systems, you know.
Not likely - the amount of fissile material in a typical nuclear bomb has to be compressed to a fraction of its size by the detonation mechanism in order to achieve criticality. Exposing it to neutron flux won't set it off.
"Fusion reactor" is dumbed-down terminology for the masses. What he's built is probably a Farnsworthâ"Hirsch Fusor which can be made quite small. It's not useful for generating energy as it's very inefficient, but it's a good neutron source. Also, you're missing the point of how his contraption is supposed to work. The radiation detector isn't the part that uses the fusor. The fusor is used to send a neutron beam through the package under test. If it contains enriched uranium or plutonium, the interaction with neutrons will cause it to emit far higher levels of neutron flux and gamma radiation than most other materials. If you see this effect, you might want to inspect the package. I don't know how effective it is in practice, but the premise of operation makes sense.
WebGL won't deliver that. It's just going to deliver the next generation of what are currently Flash games, that run on Linux anyway (just not RMS' GNU/Linux because the player isn't free as in beards).
Are you referring to Mobile Safari for iPhone/iPad? In that case, I think Microsoft have "pulled an Apple" already and failed to provide a plugin API for the Windows Phone 7 browser. If OTOH you're referring to IE for Windows, Apple's equivalent Safari for OSX supports plugins anyway. I don't see your point.
I don't get why so many stories are spinning this as though it's somehow CBA's fault. CBA detected the data breach, alerted the public, and cancelled affected cards. They failed to name and shame the company that suffered the breach, only indicating that it was a bank outside Australia. CBA deserves some credit for handling the situation as well as they could.
Actually the carriers would be very happy to do away with the SIM. That would make it harder to switch carriers, so they would get the customer lock-in they crave. It's only EU competition laws that force them to allow swappable SIMs.
To introduce errors that we can all laugh at, of course! Daily lulz!
It's non-volatile - the last data written will still be there. What you're probably thinking of is destructive read - you need to re-write the data after reading it, because the read operation results in the bit being erased.
That was a gangbang they survived - not quite as dramatic as the big bang.
No point - since they're a martyr, they go straight to paradise. Nothing you do to the body matters after that point. Yet another case of an armchair analyst not actually understanding what they're dealing with.
I don't think team lunches should be mandatory. Sometimes you want to clear your head, go for a walk and have some time to yourself. You may also want to check out cute girls in the food court, but I digress. Anyway, just because Joel likes his lunches that way doesn't mean it's the best thing for everyone. Where I work, they provide lunch for those who want it. Some people eat lunch in the rec room, chat, maybe play a game of table tennis or pool. Others take the supplied lunch to their desk to eat. Some people prefer to go out and buy lunch, but even they're a mixed bunch: go alone, go in groups, eat out, bring take-away back to their desks. You've got to give your people some space to move.
I'd be more worried about having a population who doesn't know the difference between departments and debts.
The following fortune quote accompanied this story for me:
Disturbingly appropriate, considering the story is about people jumping all over a false assumption. But I'm constantly surprised at the number of times a Windows installation with full multilingual support trips anti-malware or anti-virus software. Don't these guys even use their MSDN subscriptions to get a full set of Windows installs to test against?
In spreadsheets, Return accepts the value entered and moves focus down one line while Enter accepts the value entered without moving focus. Some older Mac applications with text-based interfaces treat Return as end-of-line and Enter as end-of-file. With the advent of OSX, the Enter key has become less important, and has almost become a second Return, but it used to function as a kind of "accept data" command under classic MacOS.
On a Mac, like since forever, Cmd-Left/Right move the insertion point to the beginning/end of a line. Home/End scroll to the top/bottom of the document without moving the insertion point (Cmd-Up/Down move the insertion point to the beginning/end of the document). From a Mac user's POV, it's Windows that has misbehaving Home/End keys. It's possible to change the bindings under OSX using some obscure XML files inherited from NeXT, or possibly through the Keyboard pane in System Preferences since 10.5 or so.
I have a Dell with ATI running Windows at work, and I'm using a certain ancient version of the video drivers because newer video drivers all cause stability issues. Another guy at work has an NVIDIA card and runs Ubuntu, but since the latest X release, enabling Compiz causes the machine to lock up on resizing a window (that's with binary blob drivers).
At home I have a MacBook Pro i7 with Intel HD plus NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M. When I got it, there was a bug that caused the image to "disintegrate" on the automatic switch from NVIDIA to Intel on closing all OpenGL applications (some system update fixed it, though). I have a MacBook Core Duo with Intel GMA950, and it has issues hanging under heavy RAM/CPU load (e.g. 2xGCC + Eclipse) if an external display is connected. I've had no luck with any video card manufacturer.
I don't give a shit about which is faster. Neither seem to be able to consistently write stable drivers. Video driver stability issues are far more of a problem than being 0.1% slower than the competition.
Downloadable capture-the-babe game for PS3. If you haven't played Fat Princess, you're missing out.