I think this is more like McDonald's hiring Burger King managers than the usual tech employment, hence ne. This is retail, not what most/. readers would think as managerial positions.
Um, no. You don't have a grasp of the geography. It's not beaming a signal across the street, it's more like coast-to-coast, LA to NY. You have to go to space to get high up enough.
Yeah, TV and the desktop might be merging for you, but the rest of the world still sits on the couch for TV and at a desk for the computer. Until I can type comfortably in the same position I watch the TV the two are never going to be the same thing in use or purpose.
Computer video *ports* might be simply divergent, but the same criticisms you're aiming at HDMI can be extended to computer video, too. There's DVI, dual link DVI, HDMI (so computers can play in the travesty that is HDCP), mini DVI, plus a lot of other proprietary variants and the "VGA port" was just a common plug design. Analog computer video signals were and are a mess. Those port designs had next-to-nothing to do with the signals they could transmit.
1,000 feet might be roughly half the height of the WTC twin towers if you stacked them... The spire was 1,727 ft. The roof of building one was 1,368 ft, building two was shorter.
Seriously, wouldn't a 747, flying as close as witnesses seem to remember, actually destroy property? One article quotes one witness as suggesting the plane was "dozens" of feet from the Goldman Sachs Tower. Sure...
One of the Stanford grad students (Greg Humphreys) that was on that distributed GL system projects came to UVA last year. WireGL they call it. And it is really awesome.
1) Worldcom is MCI and UUNET. MCI is the first of the competitive long distance companies and the second largest telecom. UUNET is the first commercial ISP and one of the largest. Both may just go away now.
Technically UUNet was the second commercial ISP. PSINet switched from not-for-profit before they did but UUNet was formed first.
I always felt VA Tech was more for the real geeks and UVA was more for the business minded people. UVA is way too greek to be true geek (coo! I just made that up)
Eh? Take a look at the research (and quality thereof) at the two different schools. Really, neither school is particularly stellar but where does anyone get this idea? I don't know of anyone keeping records on the greekness of CS students, but I know that UVA SEAS supports three different fraternities by itself. With only a few hundred people in the school itself one might assume that even if UVAs CS people are particularly greek, they probably heard very tightly.
BTW, this collection actually resulted from basically never throwing stuff out. In stead of taking up previously unused lab space parts of the relics are mounted in cases in the upstairs hallways of Olsson hall.
I do admit VA Tek deserves props for requiring students to load FreeBSD on their machines early in the CS curriculum (they still do that, right?).
Um, cause putting it on a bunch of different pages would somehow make the data take up less space?
I mean, really. It looks like the images have "height" and "width" markers which allows any reasonable browser to lay out the pages after the (minimal amount of) text is downloaded. What would splitting up the page, a volunteer effort, do for viewers again?
Does anyone else see the irony in "pre-ordering" a product form a company that almost invented vapor-ware and floated their busines for months without delivering product?:-)
Margins on video game consoles have always been razor thin, or negative. The money is usually made in the games.
My real point is that the XBox, even if it doesn't have infant mortality rates any hirer than competitors, is fragile. Nintendo systems have, for ever, been running along with the cockroaches after the nuclear fallout. Basically, excusing contact problems with old games, they are virtually indestructable. While less so, Sony's and the rest have also been mostly sturdy. M$ has a problem with customer support AND a fragile device and while I don't have any evidence to actually show that they break easily, they do have something of a problem. New device that's more fragile and bad enough customer support that someone writes a story about it? Bad...
Besides, until I can get GT on an XBox and not my PS2 I don't really care about it.:-)
If you are in a dark alley somewhere, and there is one other person, and he draws a gun on you, indicates an intent to harm you, you have the right to use your weapon ONLY IF that is your last resort.
Actually, that's not true, at least in Virginia. There is little to no notion in American law requiring evasion on the part of the atackee. Virginia law reflects this allowing you to shoot before you run. In fact, you can respond with deadly force anytime your life is genuinely threatened (ie, not a little old lady beating you with a stick but a 6'4" giant beating you with a baseball bat). Most places in the US are the same way.
You are correct that there is no civil concept of self-defense. Those suggesting that a direct invasive response is anywhere close to appropriate as a response to a virus is kidding themselves.
and being told that they didn't sell to ISPs. Huh?! Their sales rep told me that ISPs fragment their network too much and are too difficult to maintain. By selling only to business customers they could keep their network in better condition for their customers.
So some salesman gave you a load of crap over the phone and wouldn't sell you product and that's how you know they would eventually go bankrupt? As far as I know there ws only one quarter EVER in PSINet's history in which being EBITDA prositive could be considered "in the black." You can't blame a company for your friend's lack of research.
But what counts as the "orginonal" PowerBook G3? I've got a pre-USB PowerBook with a G3 (commonly refered to as a "Wall Street" model). Anybody have any idea if OS X is going to work on my laptop or shall I just continue with LinuxPPC alone?
HAHAHAHA. I said I started READING/. a year ago, so what if I didn't register or start posting till later. talk about a retard.
So what, I started reading/. three years ago and I didn't get myself an ID for quite some time after that. Does that make my penis bigger? It obviously makes my ID lower and even *I* don't feel entitled to say "What happened to/.!"
You'd be correct if the files handled by the Package Manager were of the type R. However the actual file extension/file type being RPM the correct term would be RPM package manager. Going along your train of thought, deb package manager would also be incorrect.
Um... Yeah. Redhat package manager package manager? "deb" isn't an acronym, "rpm" is.
gcc 2.96 (C++) crashed on me, twice. Once was when it was compiling code with errors, which was mildly worrisome, and once while it was compiling perfectly good code, which was very worrisome.
One has to wonder if this is a compiler problem or a hardware problem. RedHat says they used this version *a lot* before sending it out and I've used it a bit and haven't had a lick of trouble. Something tells me that is a memory problem, as GCC (and other compilers) will find them and crash on them before most other applications.
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I think this is more like McDonald's hiring Burger King managers than the usual tech employment, hence ne. This is retail, not what most /. readers would think as managerial positions.
Um, no. You don't have a grasp of the geography. It's not beaming a signal across the street, it's more like coast-to-coast, LA to NY. You have to go to space to get high up enough.
Yeah, TV and the desktop might be merging for you, but the rest of the world still sits on the couch for TV and at a desk for the computer. Until I can type comfortably in the same position I watch the TV the two are never going to be the same thing in use or purpose.
Computer video *ports* might be simply divergent, but the same criticisms you're aiming at HDMI can be extended to computer video, too. There's DVI, dual link DVI, HDMI (so computers can play in the travesty that is HDCP), mini DVI, plus a lot of other proprietary variants and the "VGA port" was just a common plug design. Analog computer video signals were and are a mess. Those port designs had next-to-nothing to do with the signals they could transmit.
1,000 feet might be roughly half the height of the WTC twin towers if you stacked them... The spire was 1,727 ft. The roof of building one was 1,368 ft, building two was shorter.
Seriously, wouldn't a 747, flying as close as witnesses seem to remember, actually destroy property? One article quotes one witness as suggesting the plane was "dozens" of feet from the Goldman Sachs Tower. Sure...
Osmosis? They gain knowledge from us through the diffusion of water?
I am not even sure you can get 300 percent difference racing a 486 PC and a 1Gz PC in any test.
Um, let's say you have a 200MHz 486... 300% better is 600Mhz. Shock! I found one!
Hey, even pseudo-journalists have to contribute to be taken seriously. Bad journalism and bad pseudo-journalism are basically the same.
I had a root cannal done yesterday, so it might be the Percocet talking:
This article is total hackery. Any two comments will have better background and more insight than TFA.
It's just a "AMD is better!" article that mentions dual core CPUs for some reason. No context, no information.
Actually Slack was the first distro
No it wasn't. SLS was the first linux distro.
One of the Stanford grad students (Greg Humphreys) that was on that distributed GL system projects came to UVA last year. WireGL they call it. And it is really awesome.
Johann
If you have a palm, I recommend Strip. Been using it for years.
1) Worldcom is MCI and UUNET. MCI is the first of the competitive long distance companies and the second largest telecom. UUNET is the first commercial ISP and one of the largest. Both may just go away now.
Technically UUNet was the second commercial ISP. PSINet switched from not-for-profit before they did but UUNet was formed first.
I always felt VA Tech was more for the real geeks and UVA was more for the business minded people. UVA is way too greek to be true geek (coo! I just made that up)
Eh? Take a look at the research (and quality thereof) at the two different schools. Really, neither school is particularly stellar but where does anyone get this idea? I don't know of anyone keeping records on the greekness of CS students, but I know that UVA SEAS supports three different fraternities by itself. With only a few hundred people in the school itself one might assume that even if UVAs CS people are particularly greek, they probably heard very tightly.
BTW, this collection actually resulted from basically never throwing stuff out. In stead of taking up previously unused lab space parts of the relics are mounted in cases in the upstairs hallways of Olsson hall.
I do admit VA Tek deserves props for requiring students to load FreeBSD on their machines early in the CS curriculum (they still do that, right?).
Um, cause putting it on a bunch of different pages would somehow make the data take up less space?
I mean, really. It looks like the images have "height" and "width" markers which allows any reasonable browser to lay out the pages after the (minimal amount of) text is downloaded. What would splitting up the page, a volunteer effort, do for viewers again?
Does anyone else see the irony in "pre-ordering" a product form a company that almost invented vapor-ware and floated their busines for months without delivering product? :-)
Johann
Margins on video game consoles have always been razor thin, or negative. The money is usually made in the games.
My real point is that the XBox, even if it doesn't have infant mortality rates any hirer than competitors, is fragile. Nintendo systems have, for ever, been running along with the cockroaches after the nuclear fallout. Basically, excusing contact problems with old games, they are virtually indestructable. While less so, Sony's and the rest have also been mostly sturdy. M$ has a problem with customer support AND a fragile device and while I don't have any evidence to actually show that they break easily, they do have something of a problem. New device that's more fragile and bad enough customer support that someone writes a story about it? Bad...
Besides, until I can get GT on an XBox and not my PS2 I don't really care about it. :-)
If you are in a dark alley somewhere, and there is one other person, and he draws a gun on you, indicates an intent to harm you, you have the right to use your weapon ONLY IF that is your last resort.
Actually, that's not true, at least in Virginia. There is little to no notion in American law requiring evasion on the part of the atackee. Virginia law reflects this allowing you to shoot before you run. In fact, you can respond with deadly force anytime your life is genuinely threatened (ie, not a little old lady beating you with a stick but a 6'4" giant beating you with a baseball bat). Most places in the US are the same way.
You are correct that there is no civil concept of self-defense. Those suggesting that a direct invasive response is anywhere close to appropriate as a response to a virus is kidding themselves.
Assign a number to each letter of the alphabet in order. A=1, B=2, C=3, etc..
12345? I've got the same combination on my luggage! -- Spaceballs
and being told that they didn't sell to ISPs. Huh?! Their sales rep told me that ISPs fragment their network too much and are too difficult to maintain. By selling only to business customers they could keep their network in better condition for their customers.
So some salesman gave you a load of crap over the phone and wouldn't sell you product and that's how you know they would eventually go bankrupt? As far as I know there ws only one quarter EVER in PSINet's history in which being EBITDA prositive could be considered "in the black." You can't blame a company for your friend's lack of research.
But what counts as the "orginonal" PowerBook G3? I've got a pre-USB PowerBook with a G3 (commonly refered to as a "Wall Street" model). Anybody have any idea if OS X is going to work on my laptop or shall I just continue with LinuxPPC alone?
HAHAHAHA. I said I started READING /. a year ago, so what if I didn't register or start posting till later. talk about a retard.
So what, I started reading /. three years ago and I didn't get myself an ID for quite some time after that. Does that make my penis bigger? It obviously makes my ID lower and even *I* don't feel entitled to say "What happened to /.!"
Or NIC card, Or RPMs...
Yeah, mea culpa: RPMs like the engine term... Or, revolutions per minutes?
You'd be correct if the files handled by the Package Manager were of the type R. However the actual file extension/file type being RPM the correct term would be RPM package manager. Going along your train of thought, deb package manager would also be incorrect.
Um... Yeah. Redhat package manager package manager? "deb" isn't an acronym, "rpm" is.
Or NIC card, Or RPMs...
gcc 2.96 (C++) crashed on me, twice. Once was when it was compiling code with errors, which was mildly worrisome, and once while it was compiling perfectly good code, which was very worrisome.
One has to wonder if this is a compiler problem or a hardware problem. RedHat says they used this version *a lot* before sending it out and I've used it a bit and haven't had a lick of trouble. Something tells me that is a memory problem, as GCC (and other compilers) will find them and crash on them before most other applications.