Last year, which was my senior year, I took the AP Computer Science course which was billed as the hardest course I'll ever take in highschool.
Well, speaking strictly from the perspective of a 15-year-old (that's 10th grade), AP Computer Science AB ended up being my easiest midterm exam, and I didn't even have to study for it(!). The class started off really well, too, with our teacher explaining OOP to us in the second week of class.
From what he tells me, we will be writing our own classes by the end of the year, as well as learning about binary trees, stacks, queues, linked lists, and most certainly pointers. Perhaps you were taking the "A" class instead of the "AB" class, but even then, I think our "A" class last year learned about pointers at least.
I think a problem that these intro to CS classes have is that they pander to harshly to the 'non-nerd'. They try to get Jonny QuarterBack to take the course.
Well, actually, this year we have a (*gasp*) girl in our "AB" class, and she actually knew nothing about computers before taking the class. Actually, the same goes for almost everyone there except for me, and one kid who took the "A" course last year (this is the first year they offer the "AB" course). We're all progressing fine.
I also did the same thing as you, but for different reasons. It seems that distributed.net had simply stopped counting any work that I submitted, despite my running it on two fairly fast computers.
Monopoly is bad for consumers, with media or 3D cards. Like I said, this is bad.
Your analogy is a little flawed there. What AOL/TW is attempting to do is called vertical integration, which is just as bad. Vertical integration basically means they are eliminating any middlemen in their delivery of "content" to consumers. A comparable situation is that of TV networks also owning studios that produce shows, thereby having their own studios sell them shows at lower prices than competing studios, forcing smaller studios out of business.
However, you are correct in stating that 3dfx/NVidia is the beginnings of the consolidation of a monopoly. There will still be competition, but as you stated, it will be trivial.
As soon as you get medical equipment running Red Hat, some script kiddie with half a brain is going to make sure that some poor vet is going to also have to live with half a brain...
I think millions of mail system administrators and mail users everywhere have just been avenged...
*sigh*... You and other system administrators wouldn't have to worry about getting vengence on spammers in the first place if you use an MTA like PostFix or qmail. They're a lot easier to configure to filter out all the crap. They're pretty secure, too.
This is pretty depressing for me. I was talking with the systems administrators at my school the other day, and they were talking to me about how they were going to run a streaming audio station from the school's T-1, kind of like a school radio station (this is a high school, btw.). However, they had decided against doing it, because of the legal "grey area" that existed there. I was really looking forward to some decision that was more or less the opposite of this. They taught a class for the last two weeks of school last year that was on the history of modern music. They had a very eclectic collection of music, and I rather enjoyed the course, and the music in particular.
It's really too bad about this, but I guess streaming music can be recorded on the recieving end, and the record companies/artists should be paid for that kind of use. Its just so damn depressing. There's no way that a school radio station can start now, my school's tech department is already overbudget for the year:-(.
Excuse me, but outside of your world, a substantial part of the internet is not controlled nor provided by your CO (I can assure you that the connection I am writing from (Comcast@Home) doesn't use telco equipment.). Besides, ISPs should have the right to pass any IP traffic they want to over their pipes, as long as it doesn't involve DoSing or cracking remote hosts.
VoIP would also open up the market for voice service, breaking the stranglehold that most local telcos have on the pricing. Remember, competition is a Good Thing(TM).
Finally, if the telcos want to keep their voice business, they damn well better adapt to changing market conditions introduced by VoIP. It's not the role of the government to provide welfare for the telco industry through illogical regulations such as this, and I hope it doesn't turn out like this in the U.S.
Maybe we can use this wonderful advance in medicine to help out the poor, unfortunate people in the US Patent Office, who seem to be in urgent need of this procedure...
This bill is obviously a result of a conspiracy between all hard drive manufacturers in order to make a huge profit off of the British Government. There can be no other possible answer.
Tools like these already exist to somewhat prevent total system compromise through the compromise of one application. chroot and jail() are good examples, although I am uncertain whether OpenBSD has jail() (FreeBSD does, so it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to say OpenBSD does...).
Excuse me, flame whore, but most of the people who use any of the *BSDs have much better reasons to than simply "I don't want to be trendy." For example, people who have some really weird hardware or old hardware like a 286 will probably be using NetBSD, simply because Linux won't run on their machines. There are even contradictions in your argument relating to this:
Where will these people go then? Darwin?
Oh no! But according to your logic, they would never use Darwin! It would be used by tens of thousands of Mac users all over the world! That would be very trendy.
the BSD'ers have no problems with restrictive liscences.
Ha ha! This is a good one! Please feel free to explain exactly how the BSD license is restrictive. Which you probably won't, because that is a pretty baseless claim if I ever saw one.
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I think that with all this new 3D hardware that has come out in the last 6 months, and then the addition of the rumor of this chip, developers are going to have a hard time actually creating worlds complex enough for gamers to actually tell the difference in what card they are using.
For example, this chipset is 7 times faster in rendering complex scenes, but only 2 times faster for rendering simple 3D scenes. I know that things like shadowing and lighting effects can be built into the gaming engine, but, still, isn't there a lot left to the developer's imagination (such as actually modeling and skinning characters and the objects in the world)?
I can see this bumping up the development time for games slightly more every 6 months...
network-tools.com is a site that lets you ping, traceroute, resolve, or otherwise mess with an IP or DNS address. You can always try pinging Yahoo!s SMTP servers or cnn.com from there, at least. Not the most elegant solution, but it works.
The 900mhz was referring to the radio band it operated on, much like many cordless phones. You didn't think you were buying an awesome processor when you last bought a phone, did you?
I know you're talking about speed, but remember these are not high-speed tracks capable of Woe the day when gasoline hits $7.00 in the US. 185mph. Plus, the US is so subburbanized that there are few places you can move trains that fast.... gots to "protect the children" as the mother lobby calls it.
Actually, back on the 7th, a ballot referendum in Florida passed which adds an amendment to our state's constitution that requires that a high-speed rail system be built between the 5 most populus cities in FL by 2002. From what I have read in the paper about the proposed systems, they are talking about serious speed using MagLev trains or something similar.
Users continue to query the network primarily for audio, video, image, and program files
Well, THAT just about covers EVERY file in EXISTENCE! Seriously, though, I thought that video and image would be in the vast majority. We all know that people would would waste their time with the seriously slow download speeds of Gnutella are probably the kind who don't get out much, and, well... you get the picture.
This is just more of the arrogant French attitude that says that the world revolves around them.
This isn't the only case of this, either. The French forced all Airport networking products (from Apple Computer) to run on a totally different frequency than any of the other Airport products sold around the world. Why? Because it just so happens that the French military uses the same spectrum for their radio communications. They said that it could "interfere" with communications. Why the French military runs on this frequency is beyond me, as no one else in the world needs different Airport networking equipment, only the French. Just ludicrous.
I wouldn't be too surprised if a French judge decided to rule that the sky is green, or 1+1 equals 3, or war is peace. They can say it all they want, but that won't make it happen.
What is the big problem with subscription-based software like Office 10? I mean, it's kind of like the idea of leasing a computer, except you aren't just throwing money away through not being able to resell the software when you're done with it, because you wouldn't be able to (legally) resell the software anyway. New version comes out, your lease just happend to expire yesterday, go buy the cheap new version. Could someone explain what the problem with that is?
What I want to know is this: how will these two processors perform against each other in dual-processor configurations?
The answer is that the Pentium 4s were designed to not be SMP capable, while the Athlons will be using the same SMP architecture that is used currently on DEC Alpha systems, which means that each processor has two dedicated connections to the North Bridge of the motherboard, as opposed to Intel's Xeon SMP configurations, which require all the processors to share bandwidth to the North Bridge.
Do I understand this correctly in that they are taking on an entire industry? This is a do-or-die situation for Rambus now. Either they win their lawsuits, own the entire industry, gain legitimacy and generally make their stockholders cream in their pants, or they lose everything and get laughed out of business. Right now, with the state of patent law, it looks like it could go either way, where in reality, it shouldn't really be a question at all.
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Well, speaking strictly from the perspective of a 15-year-old (that's 10th grade), AP Computer Science AB ended up being my easiest midterm exam, and I didn't even have to study for it(!). The class started off really well, too, with our teacher explaining OOP to us in the second week of class.
From what he tells me, we will be writing our own classes by the end of the year, as well as learning about binary trees, stacks, queues, linked lists, and most certainly pointers. Perhaps you were taking the "A" class instead of the "AB" class, but even then, I think our "A" class last year learned about pointers at least.
I think a problem that these intro to CS classes have is that they pander to harshly to the 'non-nerd'. They try to get Jonny QuarterBack to take the course.Well, actually, this year we have a (*gasp*) girl in our "AB" class, and she actually knew nothing about computers before taking the class. Actually, the same goes for almost everyone there except for me, and one kid who took the "A" course last year (this is the first year they offer the "AB" course). We're all progressing fine.
I also did the same thing as you, but for different reasons. It seems that distributed.net had simply stopped counting any work that I submitted, despite my running it on two fairly fast computers.
Your analogy is a little flawed there. What AOL/TW is attempting to do is called vertical integration, which is just as bad. Vertical integration basically means they are eliminating any middlemen in their delivery of "content" to consumers. A comparable situation is that of TV networks also owning studios that produce shows, thereby having their own studios sell them shows at lower prices than competing studios, forcing smaller studios out of business.
However, you are correct in stating that 3dfx/NVidia is the beginnings of the consolidation of a monopoly. There will still be competition, but as you stated, it will be trivial.
Well, seeing as most large corporations such as Cisco and Microsoft don't pay taxes anyway, does that mean that the corporate revolution has begun?
Dumbass.
err... I mean, diagnostic equipment.
Ooops...
As soon as you get medical equipment running Red Hat, some script kiddie with half a brain is going to make sure that some poor vet is going to also have to live with half a brain...
*sigh*... You and other system administrators wouldn't have to worry about getting vengence on spammers in the first place if you use an MTA like PostFix or qmail. They're a lot easier to configure to filter out all the crap. They're pretty secure, too.
This is pretty depressing for me. I was talking with the systems administrators at my school the other day, and they were talking to me about how they were going to run a streaming audio station from the school's T-1, kind of like a school radio station (this is a high school, btw.). However, they had decided against doing it, because of the legal "grey area" that existed there. I was really looking forward to some decision that was more or less the opposite of this. They taught a class for the last two weeks of school last year that was on the history of modern music. They had a very eclectic collection of music, and I rather enjoyed the course, and the music in particular.
It's really too bad about this, but I guess streaming music can be recorded on the recieving end, and the record companies/artists should be paid for that kind of use. Its just so damn depressing. There's no way that a school radio station can start now, my school's tech department is already overbudget for the year :-(.
Excuse me, but outside of your world, a substantial part of the internet is not controlled nor provided by your CO (I can assure you that the connection I am writing from (Comcast@Home) doesn't use telco equipment.). Besides, ISPs should have the right to pass any IP traffic they want to over their pipes, as long as it doesn't involve DoSing or cracking remote hosts.
VoIP would also open up the market for voice service, breaking the stranglehold that most local telcos have on the pricing. Remember, competition is a Good Thing(TM).
Finally, if the telcos want to keep their voice business, they damn well better adapt to changing market conditions introduced by VoIP. It's not the role of the government to provide welfare for the telco industry through illogical regulations such as this, and I hope it doesn't turn out like this in the U.S.
Now, if only we could somehow use this on George W. Bush...
Maybe we can use this wonderful advance in medicine to help out the poor, unfortunate people in the US Patent Office, who seem to be in urgent need of this procedure...
This bill is obviously a result of a conspiracy between all hard drive manufacturers in order to make a huge profit off of the British Government. There can be no other possible answer.
;-)
Tools like these already exist to somewhat prevent total system compromise through the compromise of one application. chroot and jail() are good examples, although I am uncertain whether OpenBSD has jail() (FreeBSD does, so it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to say OpenBSD does...).
Excuse me, flame whore, but most of the people who use any of the *BSDs have much better reasons to than simply "I don't want to be trendy." For example, people who have some really weird hardware or old hardware like a 286 will probably be using NetBSD, simply because Linux won't run on their machines. There are even contradictions in your argument relating to this:
Where will these people go then? Darwin?
Oh no! But according to your logic, they would never use Darwin! It would be used by tens of thousands of Mac users all over the world! That would be very trendy.
the BSD'ers have no problems with restrictive liscences.
Ha ha! This is a good one! Please feel free to explain exactly how the BSD license is restrictive. Which you probably won't, because that is a pretty baseless claim if I ever saw one.
I think that with all this new 3D hardware that has come out in the last 6 months, and then the addition of the rumor of this chip, developers are going to have a hard time actually creating worlds complex enough for gamers to actually tell the difference in what card they are using.
For example, this chipset is 7 times faster in rendering complex scenes, but only 2 times faster for rendering simple 3D scenes. I know that things like shadowing and lighting effects can be built into the gaming engine, but, still, isn't there a lot left to the developer's imagination (such as actually modeling and skinning characters and the objects in the world)? I can see this bumping up the development time for games slightly more every 6 months...
network-tools.com is a site that lets you ping, traceroute, resolve, or otherwise mess with an IP or DNS address. You can always try pinging Yahoo!s SMTP servers or cnn.com from there, at least. Not the most elegant solution, but it works.
The 900mhz was referring to the radio band it operated on, much like many cordless phones. You didn't think you were buying an awesome processor when you last bought a phone, did you?
I know you're talking about speed, but remember these are not high-speed tracks capable of Woe the day when gasoline hits $7.00 in the US. 185mph. Plus, the US is so subburbanized that there are few places you can move trains that fast.... gots to "protect the children" as the mother lobby calls it.
Actually, back on the 7th, a ballot referendum in Florida passed which adds an amendment to our state's constitution that requires that a high-speed rail system be built between the 5 most populus cities in FL by 2002. From what I have read in the paper about the proposed systems, they are talking about serious speed using MagLev trains or something similar.
Well, I guess there is always ASCII pr0n...
CmdrTaco, expect a letter in the mail shortly from our lawyers.
Users continue to query the network primarily for audio, video, image, and program files
Well, THAT just about covers EVERY file in EXISTENCE! Seriously, though, I thought that video and image would be in the vast majority. We all know that people would would waste their time with the seriously slow download speeds of Gnutella are probably the kind who don't get out much, and, well... you get the picture.
This is just more of the arrogant French attitude that says that the world revolves around them.
This isn't the only case of this, either. The French forced all Airport networking products (from Apple Computer) to run on a totally different frequency than any of the other Airport products sold around the world. Why? Because it just so happens that the French military uses the same spectrum for their radio communications. They said that it could "interfere" with communications. Why the French military runs on this frequency is beyond me, as no one else in the world needs different Airport networking equipment, only the French. Just ludicrous.
I wouldn't be too surprised if a French judge decided to rule that the sky is green, or 1+1 equals 3, or war is peace. They can say it all they want, but that won't make it happen.
(end rant)
What is the big problem with subscription-based software like Office 10? I mean, it's kind of like the idea of leasing a computer, except you aren't just throwing money away through not being able to resell the software when you're done with it, because you wouldn't be able to (legally) resell the software anyway. New version comes out, your lease just happend to expire yesterday, go buy the cheap new version. Could someone explain what the problem with that is?
What I want to know is this: how will these two processors perform against each other in dual-processor configurations?
The answer is that the Pentium 4s were designed to not be SMP capable, while the Athlons will be using the same SMP architecture that is used currently on DEC Alpha systems, which means that each processor has two dedicated connections to the North Bridge of the motherboard, as opposed to Intel's Xeon SMP configurations, which require all the processors to share bandwidth to the North Bridge.
Do I understand this correctly in that they are taking on an entire industry? This is a do-or-die situation for Rambus now. Either they win their lawsuits, own the entire industry, gain legitimacy and generally make their stockholders cream in their pants, or they lose everything and get laughed out of business. Right now, with the state of patent law, it looks like it could go either way, where in reality, it shouldn't really be a question at all.