You can also run at lower clock speeds, which gives you better than a linear drop in power. So you can have the same performance with longer battery life.
And after they just gave me a pay raise. I was hoping to stick around to see if we get another phone this year. Is anyone from Microsoft accepting resumes?
OK, I was a Mac developer for ten years or so and I completely bought into the "Microsoft is Evil" bandwagon. But I have to say, boy was I ever wrong. First, companies like Blackwell and Haliburton showed us what evil really is. Then Mr. Jobs shows us that while Apple was a great and brilliant underdog, they are absolutely atrocious market leaders.
As much as I loathed Microsoft, they always competed on pure technical innovation, not on lawyers. First Apple sued Microsoft and now they are suing HTC. The patents are questionable and the new lawsuit won't protect iPhones any more than the old one did Macs. But the suit is classic FUD. Accept when Steve says it he is a true believer.
Just to spell it out, Open means you can run Flash on it. Open means you can have a keyboard if you want. Open means you can use a different carrier if you want. Open means you can have tethering and real multitasking if you want. Open means you can compile it yourself.
Remember the old toaster Mac? How can he keep making the same mistakes over and over. No user exapandibility doesn't make a better user experience. No true multi-tasking also doesn't improve the use experience. Being locked into AT&T doesn't improve the user experience. Not being able to use it in South America doesn't improve the user experience.
I'm not too big to admit I was wrong. Mr. Gates, and all of Microsoft, I apologize.
I got fed up with HOP after having a few inkjets last less than a year. They also seem to be one of the worst companies for predatory ink pricing. I just bought a new printer, and decided on a color laser. I went Lexmark. They are a good, engineering focussed company. The cost per print is a lot lower than HP. And they work for both Macs and Windows. Reviews say the print quality is high and I haven't been disappointed.
Google is not an OSS company. Little of what they do has been released as free software. How much have they changed linux to optimise their operations? Who would benefit from the same patches? Nobody knows. It is so backward to imply Google isn't supoprting open source. Check out this article from Linux Journal: http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000076
It's well known that Google runs its vast array of servers using a custom version of GNU/Linux. But this is only one aspect of its support for free software. Others include its Summer of Code, now well established as an incubator of both coding talent and projects, and more recently its open source code repository, which offers a useful alternative to Sourceforge.net. Similarly, in porting Picasa to GNU/Linux, Google has made contributions to Wine, while open source projects in Sri Lanka have been the beneficiaries of more direct help, to the tune of $25,000.
But Google is also operating behind the scenes to bolster free software in other ways. For example, it came as a surprise for most of us to learn that the Mozilla Foundation was earning some serious money - figures of $72 million were bandied around - from the use of Google search as the default for Firefox's search engine. This deal alone must effectively pay for a good chunk of the Mozilla project.
Google doesn't hide its identity when it crawls. Just check for user agent Googlebot and serve different pages. This won't help with Yahoo, ask or Windows Live, but neither will targeting specific capabilities.
I started trying out some of the queries. Google was third on intranets and nowhere to be found for restaurants. Google does have prime spot, including the blue bar on top for others.
Finally, even if there isn't a direct payment, there is an opportunity cost. Google promotes the ads that get clicked on the most so they make more money. If there is a Google ad in the top slot, that means they didn't get a click they could charge for.
I work at Google's engineering office in NYC. We are hundreds strong and work on core projects, so there is some choice. Google has a philosophy that you should hire people where they want to work. So we have engineering operations in Boston, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Bangalore, Brazil,... New York is the largest outside of Mountain View, though. I wouldn't give up living here for anything.
As far as being at work all the time at Google, it doesn't happen. You can't even schedule a meeting before 10:30 because people won't be in yet. Management is practically non-existent so nobody is clocking your time as long as you are getting your work done. We also tend to have work hour outings designed to make shy programmers interact. So we'll spend a day at Coney Island or go on a scavenger hunt.
It is definitely true that I spend more time with coworkers and sometimes technical topics come up. But that is because I like the people I work with, and technical topics are fun. We tend to discuss things like how much bandwidth you could get overnighting hard drives, and what sort of latency a data center on an aircraft carrier would have.
Our long documents are in html or Wiki. Most engineers are running Linux, so Word is out of the question. We do use OpenOffice, and also Writely. There is amazing adoption of our online spreadsheet internally.
I think there are some product managers who might use Office, but Google is a company of engineers, and no engineer would be caught dead using Word.
Personally, I like xemacs.
Besides, supporting Microsoft comflicts with our corporate motto: "Do no evil."
Do you work for a financial company? It may be a law instead of a pointy-haired-boss policy.
My company recently banned web mail because the SEC worries that we will use anonymous mail accounts or discussion boards to run stock scams.
We immediately laughed at the stupidity of it, since things like palms and cell phones can access the Internet. But it is possible they are trying to close that loophole as well.
Clearly in this case somebody is stupid and paranoid. But make sure it is your boss and not your congressman before you quit.
But what about type safety? Java has no generic typed containers, like the STL. This means you tend to find errors at runtime instead of at compile time.
I need to know that my code is as safe as possible. I don't want a user to find a bug because my hand tests didn't get 100% code coverage every time.
And how about predictable performance. I would much rather know that this function will tak 200ms all of the time instead of 100ms most of the time a 10 s due to garbage collection occasionally.
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We aren't all nerds.
How many of us couldn't get a date in high school? How many of us were better in math than phys ed? How many read Ender's Game and really, really felt it deep in their heart? How many know and enjoy a joke that makes a pun on ergs? Even today, how many of us stand out immediately in a room as the nerd?
I was a nerd before it was cool. I was a nerd while it was cool. And I am a nerd now that it is becoming less cool after the dot com crash.
Would be nice if spam companies such as this who periodically engage in widespread consumer fraud could, by court order, have all assets liquidated and the funds distributed to a state task force designed to root out further spam comanies.
This is what happens with drug cases, and it is badly abused. You will see cases like "The State of Florida vs. a really cool looking Mercedes."
The agency who seizes the property gets to use it, which is a huge conflict of interest. And since the property doesn't have rights, innocent until proven guilty is out the window. You need to prove you weren't using the Mercedes to transport drugs to get it back.
There was awell publicized cases where a charter airplane was seized when the renters used it for smuggling, even though the owners did nothing wrong.
We need to eliminate existing civil forfeiture laws, not create new ones.
My kernel currently runs in 640K, with about 700K reserved, but I have a lavish 16M, so I can be free with RAM. I am doing wasteful things like building in sound and PPP support, and using a decent sized cache. I even have multiple fs types.
You can customize out a lot of stuff to reduce size: networking, mouse support, SCSI support, CD-ROM support... It all takes up RAM.
I love the line: they may have been subject to physical abuse. They may also be Microsoft employees, or NSA plants. This is the sort of stuff I expect governments to fund. "They may be male, although others may be female."
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You can also run at lower clock speeds, which gives you better than a linear drop in power. So you can have the same performance with longer battery life.
And after they just gave me a pay raise. I was hoping to stick around to see if we get another phone this year. Is anyone from Microsoft accepting resumes?
OK, I was a Mac developer for ten years or so and I completely bought into the "Microsoft is Evil" bandwagon. But I have to say, boy was I ever wrong. First, companies like Blackwell and Haliburton showed us what evil really is. Then Mr. Jobs shows us that while Apple was a great and brilliant underdog, they are absolutely atrocious market leaders.
As much as I loathed Microsoft, they always competed on pure technical innovation, not on lawyers. First Apple sued Microsoft and now they are suing HTC. The patents are questionable and the new lawsuit won't protect iPhones any more than the old one did Macs. But the suit is classic FUD. Accept when Steve says it he is a true believer.
Just to spell it out, Open means you can run Flash on it. Open means you can have a keyboard if you want. Open means you can use a different carrier if you want. Open means you can have tethering and real multitasking if you want. Open means you can compile it yourself.
Remember the old toaster Mac? How can he keep making the same mistakes over and over. No user exapandibility doesn't make a better user experience. No true multi-tasking also doesn't improve the use experience. Being locked into AT&T doesn't improve the user experience. Not being able to use it in South America doesn't improve the user experience.
I'm not too big to admit I was wrong. Mr. Gates, and all of Microsoft, I apologize.
I got fed up with HOP after having a few inkjets last less than a year. They also seem to be one of the worst companies for predatory ink pricing. I just bought a new printer, and decided on a color laser. I went Lexmark. They are a good, engineering focussed company. The cost per print is a lot lower than HP. And they work for both Macs and Windows. Reviews say the print quality is high and I haven't been disappointed.
http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000076 It's well known that Google runs its vast array of servers using a custom version of GNU/Linux. But this is only one aspect of its support for free software. Others include its Summer of Code, now well established as an incubator of both coding talent and projects, and more recently its open source code repository, which offers a useful alternative to Sourceforge.net. Similarly, in porting Picasa to GNU/Linux, Google has made contributions to Wine, while open source projects in Sri Lanka have been the beneficiaries of more direct help, to the tune of $25,000.
But Google is also operating behind the scenes to bolster free software in other ways. For example, it came as a surprise for most of us to learn that the Mozilla Foundation was earning some serious money - figures of $72 million were bandied around - from the use of Google search as the default for Firefox's search engine. This deal alone must effectively pay for a good chunk of the Mozilla project.
http://pics.nerdnirvana.org/v/technology/myhouse_g oogle_com.jpg.html
Google doesn't hide its identity when it crawls. Just check for user agent Googlebot and serve different pages. This won't help with Yahoo, ask or Windows Live, but neither will targeting specific capabilities.
I started trying out some of the queries. Google was third on intranets and nowhere to be found for restaurants. Google does have prime spot, including the blue bar on top for others.
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Also, Google has only 51.41% of the search market, which means the search ad market:
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid
Last I heard, 51% isn't a monopoly.
Finally, even if there isn't a direct payment, there is an opportunity cost. Google promotes the ads that get clicked on the most so they make more money. If there is a Google ad in the top slot, that means they didn't get a click they could charge for.
I work at Google's engineering office in NYC. We are hundreds strong and work on core projects, so there is some choice. Google has a philosophy that you should hire people where they want to work. So we have engineering operations in Boston, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Bangalore, Brazil, ... New York is the largest outside of Mountain View, though. I wouldn't give up living here for anything.
As far as being at work all the time at Google, it doesn't happen. You can't even schedule a meeting before 10:30 because people won't be in yet. Management is practically non-existent so nobody is clocking your time as long as you are getting your work done. We also tend to have work hour outings designed to make shy programmers interact. So we'll spend a day at Coney Island or go on a scavenger hunt.
It is definitely true that I spend more time with coworkers and sometimes technical topics come up. But that is because I like the people I work with, and technical topics are fun. We tend to discuss things like how much bandwidth you could get overnighting hard drives, and what sort of latency a data center on an aircraft carrier would have.
Google is a great place to work.
Our long documents are in html or Wiki. Most engineers are running Linux, so Word is out of the question. We do use OpenOffice, and also Writely. There is amazing adoption of our online spreadsheet internally.
I think there are some product managers who might use Office, but Google is a company of engineers, and no engineer would be caught dead using Word.
Personally, I like xemacs.
Besides, supporting Microsoft comflicts with our corporate motto: "Do no evil."
Do you work for a financial company? It may be a law instead of a pointy-haired-boss policy.
My company recently banned web mail because the SEC worries that we will use anonymous mail accounts or discussion boards to run stock scams.
We immediately laughed at the stupidity of it, since things like palms and cell phones can access the Internet. But it is possible they are trying to close that loophole as well.
Clearly in this case somebody is stupid and paranoid. But make sure it is your boss and not your congressman before you quit.
Most people have a fatal reaction to water, taken in large enough doses.
You can buy various brands. I like San Pellorino.
OK, Speed does matter a lot.
But what about type safety? Java has no generic typed containers, like the STL. This means you tend to find errors at runtime instead of at compile time.
I need to know that my code is as safe as possible. I don't want a user to find a bug because my hand tests didn't get 100% code coverage every time.
And how about predictable performance. I would much rather know that this function will tak 200ms all of the time instead of 100ms most of the time a 10 s due to garbage collection occasionally.
We aren't all nerds.
How many of us couldn't get a date in high school?
How many of us were better in math than phys ed?
How many read Ender's Game and really, really felt it deep in their heart?
How many know and enjoy a joke that makes a pun on ergs?
Even today, how many of us stand out immediately in a room as the nerd?
I was a nerd before it was cool.
I was a nerd while it was cool.
And I am a nerd now that it is becoming less cool after the dot com crash.
Two of the top businesses in the state are telemarketers:
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http://www.state.ok.us/osfdocs/budget/table1.pd
At least Walmart has more employees.
Most of the telemarketing firms are in these backwater states. I'll bet he was getting pressured by local businesses to strike it down.
Ruling for business over private citizens. Now that's something that takes real guts in the US.
65% of successful attacks came against SCO, which MUST be running Linux since they developed it.
Now that Godwin's law has killed this thread, can we PLEASE go back to RIAA?
And when do we get to start bashing Microsoft again?
If you really want to kill a company, hire away all of its people. Refusing to hire SCO people seems counterproductive.
Instead, whittle them down to Daryl and a fax machine.
Would be nice if spam companies such as this who periodically engage in widespread consumer fraud could, by court order, have all assets liquidated and the funds distributed to a state task force designed to root out further spam comanies.
This is what happens with drug cases, and it is badly abused. You will see cases like "The State of Florida vs. a really cool looking Mercedes."
The agency who seizes the property gets to use it, which is a huge conflict of interest. And since the property doesn't have rights, innocent until proven guilty is out the window. You need to prove you weren't using the Mercedes to transport drugs to get it back.
There was awell publicized cases where a charter airplane was seized when the renters used it for smuggling, even though the owners did nothing wrong.
We need to eliminate existing civil forfeiture laws, not create new ones.
It didn't really happen.
My kernel currently runs in 640K, with about 700K reserved, but I have a lavish 16M, so I can be free with RAM. I am doing wasteful things like building in sound and PPP support, and using a decent sized cache. I even have multiple fs types.
You can customize out a lot of stuff to reduce size: networking, mouse support, SCSI support, CD-ROM support... It all takes up RAM.
You can run Linux on a 386 with 640K, if you don't mind compiling kernels. Who could ask for anything more? He was right.
I love the line: they may have been subject to physical abuse. They may also be Microsoft employees, or NSA plants. This is the sort of stuff I expect governments to fund. "They may be male, although others may be female."