I may be wrong, but doesn't Wild Tangent have a rep for being pseudo spyware? It certainly gets fladded on my system constantly. I know it comes bundled with AIM and some other applications, so I don't really consider it nefarious, but I still don't think highly of it.
It doesn't sound surprising to me that a company that sets of security flags as is, would be concerned about new security features. I'd be more interested in what the developers at ID, SOE, or EA have to say about how the features will affect the ability of them to develop games, in particular online offerings.
Does this guy sounds like the type of witty wonder who would think to put it on his own card while sitting at the store? Reading this he sounds about as sharp as a bowling ball.
I'm guessing they would have very easily put the money onto a different debit card, so long as he had the original reciept and it was still in the packaging.
Its also a matter of how you play certain games. I got Burnout for the 360 and was doing lots of multiplayer and online, with some minimal single player. Then I opted to unlock the whole game. I think I got to about 60% of the way through and only unlocked 1 achievment since I was just blasting through.
At least in THAT game, the achievements benefit you playing WELL, not just playing through it quickly. After I stopped and started really going for the absolute best scores/times on every single track, did I start to see more achievments.
Mind you, I'm also going through blind, having no idea what the achievments themselves are. I'm just not interested that much. I suspect its much easier to get them, if you know what they are and what you need to do.
That guy with 23 games and zero achievments probably has no idea what they are, and only plays each of his games for a little while, and doesn't really obcess over doing each particularly well.
That and taxes, they didn't like being taxed with no say in the matter. It always comes back to the all powerful dollar... Err pound in this case I guess.
Its actually not a terrible idea considering issues with supply for launch consoles historically. All the people who WANT a Wii at launch already have known about it for months, made their pre-orders and are waiting. These people don't need to be advertised to.
That being said, if you advertise to the "casual" gamer who they want to buy them to sustain the market, it creates more demand on launch, but for systems that will already be in low supply. Why risk alienating those people by preaching to them about your new system they can't even get. Let the early adoptors get theirs on launch day, then start advertisign. By the time those more casual people hit the stores a week or two later, there will be another shipment in stock.
I don't think he was speaking for all cases, but by and large he's right I think. First for background, I'm an avid car simulation buff, GT and Forza. I also autocross most weekends during the summer and have taken actual driver instruction.
That being said, driving on the road, and driving on a track are 2 very very very different things. Sure knowing your car and what forces act on it is ALWAYS a good thing, but your approach to driving will change in a track/race setting versus daily driving. The flow of traffic by itself has to be taken into consideration. Additionally you have to be mindful of the flow of traffic. I'm sorry but when I'm commuting to work, I'm not worried about finding the optimal apex of my turns and controling how I accelerate/decelerate into and out of turns. I worry about the drivers around me, and being mindful of where I'm at at all times.
It sounds very much like I should be just as scared of you on the road as I should be of that person flooring it on straights and slowing down incredibly in turns. You're still driving for speed (even if its speed in the sense of shortest path, and sustained velocity).
There is a reason that driver safety courses and a race driving course cover some of the same stuff and some different stuff. They are two seperate things that apply the same underlying vehicle forces.
That being said, learning how to handle a car in a racing situation WILL help you in knowing what actions cause what responses. These can be very useful things to train yourself for emergency situations. Accident avoidance, pour conditions, other eventualities all will benefit from learning this.
That said, I fear anyone who gets their driver solely from a game. Sure its a good practice tool for someone who's already informed, but I wouldn't trust anything I learned in a game without having had real world experience to couple it with.
This is additionally relevant as tomorrow is the US election day. Irregardless of whether everyone here at/. can vote in the US, its still signifcant. US court rulings on video games, affect everyone who play them. As the parent says, technology rulings are definately of interest to the/. community at large.
I don't think anyone questioned the USSR's resolve. The key being that if the Soviet's ever felt like the US had lost its resolve to retalliate, there was a real danger they would initiate. The US never would have initiated an attack on the Soviets no matter what their percieved weaknesses.
Whether this is true is a matter of historical interpritation, but I think thats the general basis on which he referred to the US only.
Still I think my points valid. How can you claim HP isn't innovating at all, when in the scope of all the companies doing R&D HP ranked 4th out of ALL OF THEM. I've read a number of articles about HP putting something like 4% of revenue back into research, and the type of stuff going on in HP labs around nanotech and quantum computing. HP most certainly is still inovating. Its just being done in a heads down manner meant to productize it, while IBM flashes theres for PR cred.
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The vast majority of the products that got axed were the existing HP lines. The lines currently turning a profit for HP are the Proliant servers and Compaq laptops that were acquired as part of the deal. The vast majority of the products that overlapped between HP and Compaq have gone the Compaq direction.
Aside from digital zoom, you also have to consider image editing. Its probably not in the realm of most people's use of digital cameras, but I enjoy being able to take digital images and either blow up specific sections into seperate pictures, or crop/resize the relevant portions of a picture later. For the hobbiest photographer, who doesn't want to spend thousands and thousands on a camera, open source editing software (GIMP) and a high resolution point and shoot camera is a viable alternative. Even if the picture I get isn't great from a composition standpoint with that $200 camera, with a very high rez, I can edit it much more easily to get the pieces of the image I want.
How much of Dell's business though is home versus enterprise. Obviously they have a HUGE home market, and everything you said is true there, but Dell also does a very large amount of business selling to companies. The IT managers at those companies making purchasing decisions, are very likely the types to be informed and hold opinions similar to the slashdot crowd.
So was the mistake that you didn't remember that Pi is 3.1415, or that you didn't know how many syllables were in Blueberry?
I think you maintain more geek cred if you say you didn't know how to pronounce blueberry. Or maybe you stutter and it comes out with 4 syllables when you say it.
I know this is going to get lost in the sea of posts, but here goes. I AM a tech worker with a college degree. I see people around me losing jobs to outsourcing every day. I personally hate the idea. At the same time I've made a point of studying the economic theory behind much of this.
The common thread I keep seeing intoned over and over in threads here is all the doom and gloom, that everything can be done cheaper elsewhere and jobs will go and go never to return. To some extent this is true, jobs will leave. Things ARE cheaper in India. However what people neglect is how market conditions change in the target countries. In India for instance, the demand for that cheap labor is so high, that already you are seeing a substantial increase in wages over even 10 years ago (its still very small compared to US salaries, but it IS rising). This is generating that middle class spoken of in the article. At the same time these same engineers are creating a consumer class and discovering a sense of entitlement. Doesn't all this sound familiar, oh yeah, its what happened in the US over a span of 50-60 years or so. The general concept behind globalization isn't that the US economy and work for is destroyed and impoverished, but rather one of the world economy reaching parity. 10-15 years from now, the overall cost of labor will be comparable, or close to comparable between india and the US most likely. Companies won't offshore to india, it will instead be to china, or russsia, or some country in africa. The point to the theory is the that haves and the have nots will come closer together in a global economy. Workers in India will eventually earn the same rights and standards of employment as the US and Europe. At the same time Europe and the US will learn how to make its workers cost less to companies. And while all this is going on, new economic powers will be rising in the way india is now. The process in it ultimate form would have many many nations all competing on even footing, but before that can happen the process of realocation of resources needs to happen. Its painful, but its not the end of the world. Sure people will lose jobs, but we as people will adapt and move on. As has been mentioned we AREN'T entitled to anything by right, we work hard, we do jobs, we earn money. The US unemployment rate for all the doom and gloom is still one of the best in the world. There will always be people who suffer do to economics, and whenever thos people are concentrated in one sector they will complain loudly (look at the manufacturing sector of the past), but those same people always make do and move on.
Except that many many of these systems (the vast majority) will not be used for High end technical computing. They will be used in various business functions. I imagine billing, financial services, and DB work will be high on the list. Transactional processing is something we see in lots of the press material with regard to these. A large number of these tasks are still run in a serialized manner, which ends up needing large NUMA style machines. Until the tasks are parallelized, the renderfarm model of lots and lots of cheep systems won't work for many of these applications.
While you are correct with the matrices and such, the migration to a parallel algorithmic solution to many of these business cases hasn't happened yet. And until it does there is still a large amount of money to be made on these types of systems.
In this case the difference is that these are not OPTIONS. They are shares of the company the 2 of them own from founding the company. When it went public, as partial owners of the company they were most likely compensated for shares comensurate with percentage of the company they owned at the time of sale. Likely the same thing with the Chief Executive. It clarifies that he came in before the offering. At which time they could just offer him part ownership of the private company, then when it goes public he stands to earn a share as well.
Private companies are not held to the same reporting rules by the SEC and FTC as public companies. In the SEC case they have ZERO authority because well, they have no securitys being exchanged. The only reporting they would have to do is to the IRS.
Many public companies compensate their executives with salary and OPTIONS, which is to say they are awarded free shares, or shares at a reduced price. Since the company is already public, these shares come at a cost to the company. It is that cost that must not be reported per SEC rules. Or something like that.
They are handling it fairly well. Gabe just made a post saying they'd have intermittent issues as they make changes to deal with the load they are getting, but that they should be ok.
Well you can be fairly certain that those being used by major corporations are being used extensively, but very likely a huge portion of that traffic is masked from the outside world behind firewalls, NATing, tunnels, and any number of other things.
I know I'm responding to a troll, but out of curiousity I did a search. If you go to http://www.floridabar.org/ and do a search for last name Thompson, no Jack Thompson shows up.
I don't know if this really has any bearing on whether he's really a lawyer in FLA. Its possible that not all lawyers in florida are in that list, or that his real first name is James or something similar and he just goes by Jack.
I believe its also possible to pass the bar in states like New York, and be allowed to practice in other states because the standards to enter the bar in New York are tougher.
HP? IBM? MIT? Or anyone else who has a nice class A all to themselves;) HP I belive actually has two (the original HP 15, and the old DEC 16). These companies/institutions will never run our of v4 addresses, so they likely will only push as hard as they are made to by their partners/customers.
Are you saying that those applications specifically are running slower, or that YOUR application that uses Oracle and runs on REL is 15% slower. If it is your application, did you build it with the Intel ICC compiler, or did you use GCC? If GCC, then there's your performance hit right there, and then some.
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I may be wrong, but doesn't Wild Tangent have a rep for being pseudo spyware? It certainly gets fladded on my system constantly. I know it comes bundled with AIM and some other applications, so I don't really consider it nefarious, but I still don't think highly of it.
It doesn't sound surprising to me that a company that sets of security flags as is, would be concerned about new security features. I'd be more interested in what the developers at ID, SOE, or EA have to say about how the features will affect the ability of them to develop games, in particular online offerings.
Does this guy sounds like the type of witty wonder who would think to put it on his own card while sitting at the store? Reading this he sounds about as sharp as a bowling ball.
I'm guessing they would have very easily put the money onto a different debit card, so long as he had the original reciept and it was still in the packaging.
Its also a matter of how you play certain games. I got Burnout for the 360 and was doing lots of multiplayer and online, with some minimal single player. Then I opted to unlock the whole game. I think I got to about 60% of the way through and only unlocked 1 achievment since I was just blasting through.
At least in THAT game, the achievements benefit you playing WELL, not just playing through it quickly. After I stopped and started really going for the absolute best scores/times on every single track, did I start to see more achievments.
Mind you, I'm also going through blind, having no idea what the achievments themselves are. I'm just not interested that much. I suspect its much easier to get them, if you know what they are and what you need to do.
That guy with 23 games and zero achievments probably has no idea what they are, and only plays each of his games for a little while, and doesn't really obcess over doing each particularly well.
That and taxes, they didn't like being taxed with no say in the matter. It always comes back to the all powerful dollar... Err pound in this case I guess.
Its actually not a terrible idea considering issues with supply for launch consoles historically. All the people who WANT a Wii at launch already have known about it for months, made their pre-orders and are waiting. These people don't need to be advertised to.
That being said, if you advertise to the "casual" gamer who they want to buy them to sustain the market, it creates more demand on launch, but for systems that will already be in low supply. Why risk alienating those people by preaching to them about your new system they can't even get. Let the early adoptors get theirs on launch day, then start advertisign. By the time those more casual people hit the stores a week or two later, there will be another shipment in stock.
I don't think he was speaking for all cases, but by and large he's right I think. First for background, I'm an avid car simulation buff, GT and Forza. I also autocross most weekends during the summer and have taken actual driver instruction.
That being said, driving on the road, and driving on a track are 2 very very very different things. Sure knowing your car and what forces act on it is ALWAYS a good thing, but your approach to driving will change in a track/race setting versus daily driving. The flow of traffic by itself has to be taken into consideration. Additionally you have to be mindful of the flow of traffic. I'm sorry but when I'm commuting to work, I'm not worried about finding the optimal apex of my turns and controling how I accelerate/decelerate into and out of turns. I worry about the drivers around me, and being mindful of where I'm at at all times.
It sounds very much like I should be just as scared of you on the road as I should be of that person flooring it on straights and slowing down incredibly in turns. You're still driving for speed (even if its speed in the sense of shortest path, and sustained velocity).
There is a reason that driver safety courses and a race driving course cover some of the same stuff and some different stuff. They are two seperate things that apply the same underlying vehicle forces.
That being said, learning how to handle a car in a racing situation WILL help you in knowing what actions cause what responses. These can be very useful things to train yourself for emergency situations. Accident avoidance, pour conditions, other eventualities all will benefit from learning this.
That said, I fear anyone who gets their driver solely from a game. Sure its a good practice tool for someone who's already informed, but I wouldn't trust anything I learned in a game without having had real world experience to couple it with.
This is additionally relevant as tomorrow is the US election day. Irregardless of whether everyone here at /. can vote in the US, its still signifcant. US court rulings on video games, affect everyone who play them. As the parent says, technology rulings are definately of interest to the /. community at large.
I don't think anyone questioned the USSR's resolve. The key being that if the Soviet's ever felt like the US had lost its resolve to retalliate, there was a real danger they would initiate. The US never would have initiated an attack on the Soviets no matter what their percieved weaknesses.
Whether this is true is a matter of historical interpritation, but I think thats the general basis on which he referred to the US only.
Still I think my points valid. How can you claim HP isn't innovating at all, when in the scope of all the companies doing R&D HP ranked 4th out of ALL OF THEM. I've read a number of articles about HP putting something like 4% of revenue back into research, and the type of stuff going on in HP labs around nanotech and quantum computing. HP most certainly is still inovating. Its just being done in a heads down manner meant to productize it, while IBM flashes theres for PR cred.
The vast majority of the products that got axed were the existing HP lines. The lines currently turning a profit for HP are the Proliant servers and Compaq laptops that were acquired as part of the deal. The vast majority of the products that overlapped between HP and Compaq have gone the Compaq direction.
You neglect to mention who those other companies are that IBM is just ahead of oh. Yeah, HP, is consistently #2 or #3 annually in patents.
Aside from digital zoom, you also have to consider image editing. Its probably not in the realm of most people's use of digital cameras, but I enjoy being able to take digital images and either blow up specific sections into seperate pictures, or crop/resize the relevant portions of a picture later. For the hobbiest photographer, who doesn't want to spend thousands and thousands on a camera, open source editing software (GIMP) and a high resolution point and shoot camera is a viable alternative. Even if the picture I get isn't great from a composition standpoint with that $200 camera, with a very high rez, I can edit it much more easily to get the pieces of the image I want.
How much of Dell's business though is home versus enterprise. Obviously they have a HUGE home market, and everything you said is true there, but Dell also does a very large amount of business selling to companies. The IT managers at those companies making purchasing decisions, are very likely the types to be informed and hold opinions similar to the slashdot crowd.
So was the mistake that you didn't remember that Pi is 3.1415, or that you didn't know how many syllables were in Blueberry?
I think you maintain more geek cred if you say you didn't know how to pronounce blueberry. Or maybe you stutter and it comes out with 4 syllables when you say it.
I know this is going to get lost in the sea of posts, but here goes. I AM a tech worker with a college degree. I see people around me losing jobs to outsourcing every day. I personally hate the idea. At the same time I've made a point of studying the economic theory behind much of this.
The common thread I keep seeing intoned over and over in threads here is all the doom and gloom, that everything can be done cheaper elsewhere and jobs will go and go never to return. To some extent this is true, jobs will leave. Things ARE cheaper in India. However what people neglect is how market conditions change in the target countries. In India for instance, the demand for that cheap labor is so high, that already you are seeing a substantial increase in wages over even 10 years ago (its still very small compared to US salaries, but it IS rising). This is generating that middle class spoken of in the article. At the same time these same engineers are creating a consumer class and discovering a sense of entitlement. Doesn't all this sound familiar, oh yeah, its what happened in the US over a span of 50-60 years or so. The general concept behind globalization isn't that the US economy and work for is destroyed and impoverished, but rather one of the world economy reaching parity. 10-15 years from now, the overall cost of labor will be comparable, or close to comparable between india and the US most likely. Companies won't offshore to india, it will instead be to china, or russsia, or some country in africa. The point to the theory is the that haves and the have nots will come closer together in a global economy. Workers in India will eventually earn the same rights and standards of employment as the US and Europe. At the same time Europe and the US will learn how to make its workers cost less to companies. And while all this is going on, new economic powers will be rising in the way india is now. The process in it ultimate form would have many many nations all competing on even footing, but before that can happen the process of realocation of resources needs to happen. Its painful, but its not the end of the world. Sure people will lose jobs, but we as people will adapt and move on. As has been mentioned we AREN'T entitled to anything by right, we work hard, we do jobs, we earn money. The US unemployment rate for all the doom and gloom is still one of the best in the world. There will always be people who suffer do to economics, and whenever thos people are concentrated in one sector they will complain loudly (look at the manufacturing sector of the past), but those same people always make do and move on.
Except that many many of these systems (the vast majority) will not be used for High end technical computing. They will be used in various business functions. I imagine billing, financial services, and DB work will be high on the list. Transactional processing is something we see in lots of the press material with regard to these. A large number of these tasks are still run in a serialized manner, which ends up needing large NUMA style machines. Until the tasks are parallelized, the renderfarm model of lots and lots of cheep systems won't work for many of these applications.
While you are correct with the matrices and such, the migration to a parallel algorithmic solution to many of these business cases hasn't happened yet. And until it does there is still a large amount of money to be made on these types of systems.
In this case the difference is that these are not OPTIONS. They are shares of the company the 2 of them own from founding the company. When it went public, as partial owners of the company they were most likely compensated for shares comensurate with percentage of the company they owned at the time of sale. Likely the same thing with the Chief Executive. It clarifies that he came in before the offering. At which time they could just offer him part ownership of the private company, then when it goes public he stands to earn a share as well.
Private companies are not held to the same reporting rules by the SEC and FTC as public companies. In the SEC case they have ZERO authority because well, they have no securitys being exchanged. The only reporting they would have to do is to the IRS.
Many public companies compensate their executives with salary and OPTIONS, which is to say they are awarded free shares, or shares at a reduced price. Since the company is already public, these shares come at a cost to the company. It is that cost that must not be reported per SEC rules. Or something like that.
They are handling it fairly well. Gabe just made a post saying they'd have intermittent issues as they make changes to deal with the load they are getting, but that they should be ok.
I smell junk mail....
I wonder who he'd try blaming THAT on?
My bad. If you check the PA letter it lists his name as John B Thompson.
If you check the flabar.org site, he's in there as John Bruce Thompson, Coral Gables Florida. Does have his contact info though.
Well you can be fairly certain that those being used by major corporations are being used extensively, but very likely a huge portion of that traffic is masked from the outside world behind firewalls, NATing, tunnels, and any number of other things.
I know I'm responding to a troll, but out of curiousity I did a search. If you go to http://www.floridabar.org/ and do a search for last name Thompson, no Jack Thompson shows up.
I don't know if this really has any bearing on whether he's really a lawyer in FLA. Its possible that not all lawyers in florida are in that list, or that his real first name is James or something similar and he just goes by Jack.
I believe its also possible to pass the bar in states like New York, and be allowed to practice in other states because the standards to enter the bar in New York are tougher.
HP? IBM? MIT? Or anyone else who has a nice class A all to themselves ;) HP I belive actually has two (the original HP 15, and the old DEC 16). These companies/institutions will never run our of v4 addresses, so they likely will only push as hard as they are made to by their partners/customers.
Except that HP has been performing better now than it has in years, if not a decade.
Are you saying that those applications specifically are running slower, or that YOUR application that uses Oracle and runs on REL is 15% slower. If it is your application, did you build it with the Intel ICC compiler, or did you use GCC? If GCC, then there's your performance hit right there, and then some.