I stopped worrying after getting modded down so low to bad that I could only post once a day... it's not like my posts are actually read anyways since by the time I get a chance to post, the article has over a gillion comments...
What about GeoIP lookup, I'm sure you can narrow it down. Not all IP's can be GeoIP looked up but checkout those IP's at geoiptool.com Hope you get some answers.
What always amazes me (besides the argument that SETI project will never know if it actually has anything) is the fact that a lot of the data could be processed faster on the GPU than the CPU. Why not use some OpenCL or Cuda or DirectCompute to harness parallel computing power ON TOP of the current schema? Processing Perlin Noise on the CPU is ~5x slower than on the GPU these days so why not map the data to a texture and run the filters on the GPU instead?
While I'm not at all opposed to the idea, I can't help but think this is unnecessary. If you can't afford housing in London, isn't there something like welfare or section-8 that can help you? Here in the states, if you can't afford housing you can get a subsidized place via section-8. The idea here is sound but in the end I think the only persons it will benefit is you sir, because you can't afford housing in London why do you stay?
I'm very curious as to what CPU/GPU config this thing has. The original xbox360, while being quite dated now by chip standards, still has amazing graphics due to it's gpu capabilities. I wanna know what's under the hood. More cores? Radeon HD? Gimme specs!!!
...so it's no wonder he's looking at porn, or bikini clad women. What's worse is he's republican and they were debating an abortion bill and women's rights... ironic to say the least that he's there surfing the net and looking at porn pics and doggie videos. I bet he does that all the time and completely wastes tax payers money. I live in florida and I can tell you it's the perv capitol of the world. Florida has the most sex offenders, the most perv's, and the most lying republican politicians....
Now, when people call you Sir.... It will bring a whole new meaning to it. Great job and hopefully this experience has humbled you and hopefully will bring at least a little closure to know that your efforts are appreciated. More often than not, FOSS developers never get to hear what a different their code or software makes, now you know.....
We may find that in his sentencing, he may be barred from doing that line of work in the future. I don't think anyone would hire him in an IT department after doing a simple background check on him (this being a felony would definitely show up). So the question I propose is, was it worth it? I know a lot of IT Admins that have this "Holier than thou" attitude and unfortunately for Mr. Childs, it bit him where it hurts.
i completely agree. While I love my iPhone and I own a MacBook, I know Apple's "platform" is completely closed. You can't call your platform "open" and have to review everything that gets submitted for "quality assurance". That's not open, that's a closed system. Adobe's Flash may be proprietary but at least there are open source options to generate flash content. Until Apple has an open source option to build apps for the iPhone and iPad, I'm sorry to say but Steve, your completely wrong.
While I don't want thousands of crappy flash apps on my phone or iPad, I still would like to option to have them if I so choose. The first thing my daughter did when she played with my iPad was visit Nitrome.com.........completely flash. Needless to say, she said "This iPad sucks!"
Invasion of Privacy argument doesn't apply when your walking down the sidewalk!!
+1 for stupidity....
+1 again for trying to fight it with a weak argument...
I see Apple's new restrictions in two ways. Yes, one is to eliminate competition, no Flash, no Mono, only c/c++/obj-c code native to apple's platform. And there lies the second, the Apple platform. Apple restricted it's policy on iPhone and iPad SDK because they want you to use XCode, why? so you have to go out and buy a Mac if you don't have one already. So, you wanna make an app but don't have a mac, you have to buy one ~$1,800 as well as the device itself (~$599 or so for a decent iPad). Then you can test and debug your apps to sell them for pennies. I see it as a marketing move to get more people to buy macs. Period.
VS2010 is really a whole revamp of the traditional visual studio. I'm been using it now for a few months and I must say, once you get used to the new layout and views......it's far better than 2005 or 2008. There are (of course, with microsoft) a few crashing bugs dealing with intellisense but still. Very easy to use and makes other IDE's look legacy now. If only XCode had intellisense the way Visual Studio does. (I know about hitting escape within XCode, still, it's not the same).
haha, so true. I actually support Adobe on this one. If people want flash, give them flash, I personally will stick to HTML5. But we should still have the option....
Four Square has been all the rage since last years SXSW conference. Even more so this past SXSW.... I think that the "offer" might have had more to do with ownership rather than funding. If the offer required Four Square to give up seats on their board then I totally agree with them turning it down. After all, who gets total control when the board is made up of a bunch of gents from other companies? Bold move indeed, but evidently a right one.
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This is life, not a freakin' soap opera. Woz owns iPhones, he owns an iPad, he has iPods and macbooks and probably at least one of everything Apple ever made. Oh yeah, and he has a bootload of Apple stock that keeps him rich as God. Obviously he's bitter and cries himself to sleep every night.
If that's what losing an epic geek battle looks like, bring it on...
Your right. He has a bunch of Apple stock and as of recently, it's worth quite a bit now. Woz will always be my hardware engineering hero. You Rule Woz!!! I don't think you (the article poster) can really argue that the iPad is like the Apple Two. It's two completely different worlds. One, the iPad is taking the tablet pc to the masses in a new form factor and a new marketplace. The Apple Two was trying to introduce thousands that yes, they too can have a computer in their home. I still remember the Apple IIc and how much different it was from, say, a traditional word processor or command line TRS-80. Apple introduced the Apple II to fix manufacturing issues with the Apple I and make it easier to get. The iPad is simply delivering a larger iPod Touch as a tablet pc only, without the PC part.
I doubt that this case would have gotten the attention it did had it not been for the fact that she emailed her lawyer. Attorney / Client privilege is something that US law takes seriously so kudos for her and kudos to the judge that recognized this, even if it was a battle over privacy...
umm, the Church System? Does it come complete with molestation? How about cover ups? Does it support cover ups? Seriously, what a terrible name for a "cognitive AI" system.
dude, that's hilarious and sooo true. Problem is, most companies that want to monitor facebook etc for private posts are also not utilizing it's corporate pages to build a following. Like at my work. OpenDNS block, which is ok by me, but what about the potential for all those customers? All 430 million of them. Seems like a step backward.
I say learn as much as you are able to. Programming is a learning and research field anyway... I read Dr.Dobbs while taking a dump. I go over math formulas in my head while taking a shower. I come to work and put it all in code.... I never stop learning. Which is why I'll never stop programming...
Sure, a web developer is a little different than a hard core programmer, but tell that to Recruiters and hiring managers who don't know the difference between PHP and Java.
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I stopped worrying after getting modded down so low to bad that I could only post once a day... it's not like my posts are actually read anyways since by the time I get a chance to post, the article has over a gillion comments...
haha, this made me laugh... there's always a war between the developers here at work on whether to use spaces or tabs...
Sounds like the studiers are jealous.... can we stop making facetious studies to try to stereotype people....
I stand corrected then sir. It's been a while since I've participated in SETI@Home. Seems they've kept with the times.
What about GeoIP lookup, I'm sure you can narrow it down. Not all IP's can be GeoIP looked up but checkout those IP's at geoiptool.com Hope you get some answers.
What always amazes me (besides the argument that SETI project will never know if it actually has anything) is the fact that a lot of the data could be processed faster on the GPU than the CPU. Why not use some OpenCL or Cuda or DirectCompute to harness parallel computing power ON TOP of the current schema? Processing Perlin Noise on the CPU is ~5x slower than on the GPU these days so why not map the data to a texture and run the filters on the GPU instead?
While I'm not at all opposed to the idea, I can't help but think this is unnecessary. If you can't afford housing in London, isn't there something like welfare or section-8 that can help you? Here in the states, if you can't afford housing you can get a subsidized place via section-8. The idea here is sound but in the end I think the only persons it will benefit is you sir, because you can't afford housing in London why do you stay?
I'm very curious as to what CPU/GPU config this thing has. The original xbox360, while being quite dated now by chip standards, still has amazing graphics due to it's gpu capabilities. I wanna know what's under the hood. More cores? Radeon HD? Gimme specs!!!
...so it's no wonder he's looking at porn, or bikini clad women. What's worse is he's republican and they were debating an abortion bill and women's rights... ironic to say the least that he's there surfing the net and looking at porn pics and doggie videos. I bet he does that all the time and completely wastes tax payers money. I live in florida and I can tell you it's the perv capitol of the world. Florida has the most sex offenders, the most perv's, and the most lying republican politicians....
Now, when people call you Sir.... It will bring a whole new meaning to it. Great job and hopefully this experience has humbled you and hopefully will bring at least a little closure to know that your efforts are appreciated. More often than not, FOSS developers never get to hear what a different their code or software makes, now you know.....
We may find that in his sentencing, he may be barred from doing that line of work in the future. I don't think anyone would hire him in an IT department after doing a simple background check on him (this being a felony would definitely show up). So the question I propose is, was it worth it? I know a lot of IT Admins that have this "Holier than thou" attitude and unfortunately for Mr. Childs, it bit him where it hurts.
i completely agree. While I love my iPhone and I own a MacBook, I know Apple's "platform" is completely closed. You can't call your platform "open" and have to review everything that gets submitted for "quality assurance". That's not open, that's a closed system. Adobe's Flash may be proprietary but at least there are open source options to generate flash content. Until Apple has an open source option to build apps for the iPhone and iPad, I'm sorry to say but Steve, your completely wrong. While I don't want thousands of crappy flash apps on my phone or iPad, I still would like to option to have them if I so choose. The first thing my daughter did when she played with my iPad was visit Nitrome.com..... ....completely flash. Needless to say, she said "This iPad sucks!"
Invasion of Privacy argument doesn't apply when your walking down the sidewalk!! +1 for stupidity.... +1 again for trying to fight it with a weak argument...
as a floridian I'm offended, Matlock isn't the only show..... There's still Murder She Wrote and Dances with the Stars....
I see Apple's new restrictions in two ways. Yes, one is to eliminate competition, no Flash, no Mono, only c/c++/obj-c code native to apple's platform. And there lies the second, the Apple platform. Apple restricted it's policy on iPhone and iPad SDK because they want you to use XCode, why? so you have to go out and buy a Mac if you don't have one already. So, you wanna make an app but don't have a mac, you have to buy one ~$1,800 as well as the device itself (~$599 or so for a decent iPad). Then you can test and debug your apps to sell them for pennies. I see it as a marketing move to get more people to buy macs. Period.
Enforceable, probably not, deviously hilarious, absolutely....
VS2010 is really a whole revamp of the traditional visual studio. I'm been using it now for a few months and I must say, once you get used to the new layout and views... ...it's far better than 2005 or 2008. There are (of course, with microsoft) a few crashing bugs dealing with intellisense but still. Very easy to use and makes other IDE's look legacy now. If only XCode had intellisense the way Visual Studio does. (I know about hitting escape within XCode, still, it's not the same).
haha, so true. I actually support Adobe on this one. If people want flash, give them flash, I personally will stick to HTML5. But we should still have the option....
Four Square has been all the rage since last years SXSW conference. Even more so this past SXSW.... I think that the "offer" might have had more to do with ownership rather than funding. If the offer required Four Square to give up seats on their board then I totally agree with them turning it down. After all, who gets total control when the board is made up of a bunch of gents from other companies? Bold move indeed, but evidently a right one.
This is life, not a freakin' soap opera. Woz owns iPhones, he owns an iPad, he has iPods and macbooks and probably at least one of everything Apple ever made. Oh yeah, and he has a bootload of Apple stock that keeps him rich as God. Obviously he's bitter and cries himself to sleep every night. If that's what losing an epic geek battle looks like, bring it on...
Your right. He has a bunch of Apple stock and as of recently, it's worth quite a bit now. Woz will always be my hardware engineering hero. You Rule Woz!!! I don't think you (the article poster) can really argue that the iPad is like the Apple Two. It's two completely different worlds. One, the iPad is taking the tablet pc to the masses in a new form factor and a new marketplace. The Apple Two was trying to introduce thousands that yes, they too can have a computer in their home. I still remember the Apple IIc and how much different it was from, say, a traditional word processor or command line TRS-80. Apple introduced the Apple II to fix manufacturing issues with the Apple I and make it easier to get. The iPad is simply delivering a larger iPod Touch as a tablet pc only, without the PC part.
I doubt that this case would have gotten the attention it did had it not been for the fact that she emailed her lawyer. Attorney / Client privilege is something that US law takes seriously so kudos for her and kudos to the judge that recognized this, even if it was a battle over privacy...
umm, the Church System? Does it come complete with molestation? How about cover ups? Does it support cover ups? Seriously, what a terrible name for a "cognitive AI" system.
dude, that's hilarious and sooo true. Problem is, most companies that want to monitor facebook etc for private posts are also not utilizing it's corporate pages to build a following. Like at my work. OpenDNS block, which is ok by me, but what about the potential for all those customers? All 430 million of them. Seems like a step backward.
I say learn as much as you are able to. Programming is a learning and research field anyway... I read Dr.Dobbs while taking a dump. I go over math formulas in my head while taking a shower. I come to work and put it all in code.... I never stop learning. Which is why I'll never stop programming...
Sure, a web developer is a little different than a hard core programmer, but tell that to Recruiters and hiring managers who don't know the difference between PHP and Java.