The Turing award is slowly starting to recognize people who have designed, built, and deployed systems. Up until recently, it had been given solely to people in theory.
they spent so many years focusing on the Itanium future that they're really starting to hurt from the fact that nobody wants Itaniums
If you are implying that they were hedging their bets on Itanium, you are incorrect. They always had two divisions, and they never had any thought (at least not the people who make the final decisions) of getting rid of the IA32 line anytime in the near future.
Itanium will not sink the ship, I wish people would understand that Intel isn't stupid.
Sneaky and paranoid, yes, stupid, no.
I know this is going to get marked flamebait, but I have to ask...
What is it that people see in anime? I am actually curious. I have watched several different things, and I have thouroughly enjoyed many, but I have never understood the obsession.
So, what are the qualities that anime fans think raise it up as a great thing?
Just to let everybody know, this was the last semester that UT was using SSN's as id's. We are in the process of switching over to what they call the EID. The EID is just a text string (similar to a user login). This is what we have to use to access online services for several years. Within months it was going to be our official identifier in all of the university's systems.
Having TAed several courses now in Computer Science, (I'm a PhD student) I have truly come to believe that having students write large amounts of code is just a bad idea.
Not only is it a pain to grade, it puts too much stress on the student.
Code snippets are fine. Make the student show that they understand one isolated concept at a time. Also, having students analyze a given piece of code, I feel, is also very useful.
Binding them contractually to one entity,
ICANN, would create a single point of failure, possibly subject to
capture.
This is a fabulous point. From a technical standpoint, one of the fault tolerance features of the internet is its inherent sense of "multiple backups." Abstracting this to the organizational side, it becomes clear that to put all of the power into one group's hands is a weakness.
There should be one standard way of doing things, but several different groups doing it.
with the move towards having EFI as the intermediate between the BIOS and the OS, the GPT is a step to get rid of the one more legacy element in the PC. The MBR is considered a legacy agent, mainly by the fact to get to it, you have to use software interrupts.
These are trying to be phased out. Now, with the GPT, you can install as many OSs as you would like, they each just need an entry in the table (which is very easy to do) and a file on the harddrive that actually tells it where to go.
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Actually, it really doesn't matter if you have mod points since you can't post and mod the same thread. Haven't done this much, huh?
IA64 assembly was never meant to be written by a human. It is a processor design driven by compiler research.
They aren't taking more submissions. They are just picking twice as many people from the original batch of applicants.
Except for the Power processors and those mainframes that make so much of the companies money. Not to mention the cell processors...
I think "doesn't actually make anything" is a bit strong.
My comment should be reworded. It has mainly given to people for their theoretical contributions. Thompson and Ritchie were sort of an anomaly.
While I'm sure lots of the people on that list were fantastic practitioners, it was their more theoretical contributions that got them the award.
And you only mentioned a few people from a very large list.
The Turing Award people have only recently started to make the practitioners viable candidates every year.
The Turing award is slowly starting to recognize people who have designed, built, and deployed systems. Up until recently, it had been given solely to people in theory.
It's actually not in the Mac mini. Those still have G4's. Mac mini page.
Just out of curiosity, why would someone with a PhD ever want to work at a helpdesk? Getting a PhD should not be about getting an average job.
As annoying as the bag checker is, (think Fry's) he doesn't come home with me.
We keep hearing about the bad uses for RFID technology, but do people know of any good uses that don't invade on our privacy?
I know this is going to get marked flamebait, but I have to ask...
What is it that people see in anime? I am actually curious. I have watched several different things, and I have thouroughly enjoyed many, but I have never understood the obsession.
So, what are the qualities that anime fans think raise it up as a great thing?
Just to let everybody know, this was the last semester that UT was using SSN's as id's. We are in the process of switching over to what they call the EID. The EID is just a text string (similar to a user login). This is what we have to use to access online services for several years. Within months it was going to be our official identifier in all of the university's systems.
Having TAed several courses now in Computer Science, (I'm a PhD student) I have truly come to believe that having students write large amounts of code is just a bad idea.
Not only is it a pain to grade, it puts too much stress on the student.
Code snippets are fine. Make the student show that they understand one isolated concept at a time. Also, having students analyze a given piece of code, I feel, is also very useful.
Anyway, just my thoughts...
Has nobody made the required:
"hook this thing up to leisure suit larry" s&m joke...
I expected that to be the first post...
with the move towards having EFI as the intermediate between the BIOS and the OS, the GPT is a step to get rid of the one more legacy element in the PC. The MBR is considered a legacy agent, mainly by the fact to get to it, you have to use software interrupts. These are trying to be phased out. Now, with the GPT, you can install as many OSs as you would like, they each just need an entry in the table (which is very easy to do) and a file on the harddrive that actually tells it where to go.