As long as there was no China, the Taiwanese could make decent money on the bottom. Actually, the Taiwanese were trying to move "up the tree" long before mainland China started it's current economic ascent. They basically looked, saw that they could either compete on the wage end (who can do it the cheapest) or on the tech end (who can create the coolest). This isn't new, and was more proactive than reactive.
I'm not sure what we could in the US to do the same. We don't want the low wages of CHinese laborer jobs at this point (we can't afford that, our cost of living is so much higher), and sadly I don't feel we have the same culture of sacrifice (for education, for long term planning in general) that it would take to turn the culture around.
Hats off to Trent. I'm a big fan of NIN, and have most of their "normal" albums, and some of the remixes. Downward Spiral was one of the best albums ever.
Public Enemy released the new tracks for Revolverlution before the record went out, let people remix, and submit back to PE. They picked the best remixes and put them on the album. Sorta like open source music.
From the submission... The cost is $110 for a double occupancy room on the night of the 6th along with conference registration." Double occupancy, are they implying that a programmer might actually have a girlfriend? Why, this is news!!!
UNC Chapel Hill (besides being home of the Dean Dome) has one of the nations, possibly the world's best visualization labs. The fact they were doing GPU research is not a surprise to me.
I have some pride that my otherwise crappy school (UIC) is also at the relative forefront of visualization as well.
as far as generally available co-processors, GPUs are by far the most common. therefore you get general availability on a number of machines, and economies of scale to lower the price somewhat.
Though this particular implementation (sorting) probably won't revolutionize the world, it can be seen as a step, a way of learning how to use the GPU in a more general fashion. Maybe we should see this more as "Hello World" in a new programming language on a new system rather than an end in itself.
I always wondered how nobody knew about him being batman, where he's got all this high tech stuff that sometimes gets blown up (the batmobile in Batman and robin). Do they kill the contractors after they're done? There's gotta be one guy who gets drunk in a bar and says "you think you're job is cool, i just fixed the anti-lock brakes on the batmoboile at wayne manor"
LiveScript was the first name, then Netscape called it JavaScript. ECMAScript came WAY later after MS came out with JScript, and they wanted to standardize the language, so they submitted it to ECMA. They obviously couldn't come up with a real name either, IIRC that was an interim name but no one could come up with a better one so it stuck.
Evidently they didn't release the hme driver without scrubbing, I'd guarantee a few fuck's in that one...
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Hmm, you don't mention what version of FreeBSD you're talking about, so it may have been a beta. You don't mention what filesystem, so could have been extfs2 support for all we know (which is specifically mentioned as unstable). Some developer lost an unknown amount of time because his project was on a local disk with no backup, and not in a central source control. (You mention FreeBSD on client machines only, so I don't believe you corrupted your central CVS repository).
As others have mentioned, you should have been fired for not having backups or source control for the projects that you run.
Second of all: This joke is getting progressively lamer as the day goes on. In Soviet Russia, Netcraft would confirm that Scott Meyer poured hot grits down Natalie Portman's pants.
Who among us doesn't have files saved in an old version of, say, Word, which can no longer be read correctly in a newer version of Word? Ironically, many people use OO.o for this, seems to be better at deciphering older Word docs than MS does.
The whole spaces in path thing may be a good idea, but was poorly executed. Microsoft decided to be compatible with a lot of older applications which didn't expect spaces, nor did they deal with them. The problem is there still are hacks all over the place for apps that don't do it right, hacks that basically ignore IFS. A good program may spawn off: "C:\Program Files\Fred Co\fred.exe" A bad program might just spawn off C:\Program Files\Fred Co\fred.exe
Microsoft chose to additionally support the latter. Unfortunately it's a security hole, since it needs to possibly run "C:\Program" with the args "Files\Fred" "Co\Fred.exe" (and other combinations). I don't know what default C:\ perms are, but this could be used for local privilege escalation.
If a person is too stupid to realize whether or not they're logging into THEIR bank or not, perhaps they don't deserve the privilege of online banking. DNS spoofing Spyware host file poisoning. Spyware taking over your entire browser, pointing you to sites you don't want. IE bug where what you see in address bar is not the site you're on.
Phishing is a comlicated problem with multiple vectors. Saying that a user that doesn't know all vectors at every given time is stupid is unwarranted.
Interesting post. But one major error I just wanted to point out that evolution doesn't breed antibiotic-resistant bacteria without bacteria being exposed to antibiotics. Actualy, evolution does breed them. Evolution states that random mutations happen all the time, including the ones that create antibiotic resistant bacteria. What you're talking about is the environment is changing the dominant type of bacteria, in this case, all the non-resistant bacteria get killed, and only the resitant ones survive.
Back to the idiots: all sorts of people get created, some tall, some short, some risk takers, some coservative, some thoughtful, some careless, some athletic, some that are klutzes. The nexus of risk taking careless, klutzy people tend to die off. Whether or not that is tragic, that risk takers (even stupid ones) are needed to forward the species, that's a different debate.
There's an old Chinese curse "may you live in interesting times". There was a copy of that somewhere in the kernel file (a.k.a. System file) for MacOS 7 that said "may you code in interesting times".
Languages are tools. I prefer mine to be predictable, allowing the real wizardry to be in what you do with them, not with knowing how it deals with some particular edge condition.
Back in school, the local Mac wizard was named Rich. He loved his beer.
My friend and coworker Ronny asked him a silly question. Rich says "OK Ronny, I feel this is a simple question you could answer yourself if you spent 5 minutes looking in the manual. If you don't value my time, I do, and that answer will cost you a beer". Ronny thinks about it, and says "OK". Rich tells him, for one Sam Adams. Hmm, Ronny thinks of another question, asks Rich, Rich says "Ronny, that's in the same category. A simple question, one you can answer yourself, and will cost a beer". Ronny Says OK.
By the end of the conversation, Ronny owes Rich a sixpack of Sam Adams, not sure if he ever paid off.
I hate flamewars, but as been said by many people many times, RMS does not get to define opensource. OpenSource existed long before RMS, and will exist after his demise. If you want to talk about fighting for open code, remember that the Regents of UCB fought for opensource code in a court case, and can say that they won.
RMS is very important, but he's a zealot, and a lot of people don't agree with his views (I for one don't on a lot of issues). Don't get caught up in the whole Saint iGNUcious thing.
I don't think you can say message passing is a feature of microkernels exclusively. DragonFly BSD uses a message passing interface internally to it's (IIRC) macrokernel. I did some work to a new device driver model that is now part of UnixWare that is definitely more message passing than API calls.
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I read this as:
Bad news for SCO group all around. Which I feel it is.
All depends on context.
I thought that Sun had bought out the rights a long time ago, something even more ironclad than what IBM had (and SCO subsequently tried to revoke).
Any help here?
Amazon.org jokes?
As long as there was no China, the Taiwanese could make decent money on the bottom.
Actually, the Taiwanese were trying to move "up the tree" long before mainland China started it's current economic ascent. They basically looked, saw that they could either compete on the wage end (who can do it the cheapest) or on the tech end (who can create the coolest). This isn't new, and was more proactive than reactive.
I'm not sure what we could in the US to do the same. We don't want the low wages of CHinese laborer jobs at this point (we can't afford that, our cost of living is so much higher), and sadly I don't feel we have the same culture of sacrifice (for education, for long term planning in general) that it would take to turn the culture around.
Hats off to Trent. I'm a big fan of NIN, and have most of their "normal" albums, and some of the remixes. Downward Spiral was one of the best albums ever.
Public Enemy released the new tracks for Revolverlution before the record went out, let people remix, and submit back to PE. They picked the best remixes and put them on the album. Sorta like open source music.
From the submission...
The cost is $110 for a double occupancy room on the night of the 6th along with conference registration."
Double occupancy, are they implying that a programmer might actually have a girlfriend? Why, this is news!!!
UNC Chapel Hill (besides being home of the Dean Dome) has one of the nations, possibly the world's best visualization labs. The fact they were doing GPU research is not a surprise to me.
I have some pride that my otherwise crappy school (UIC) is also at the relative forefront of visualization as well.
as far as generally available co-processors, GPUs are by far the most common. therefore you get general availability on a number of machines, and economies of scale to lower the price somewhat.
Though this particular implementation (sorting) probably won't revolutionize the world, it can be seen as a step, a way of learning how to use the GPU in a more general fashion. Maybe we should see this more as "Hello World" in a new programming language on a new system rather than an end in itself.
I always wondered how nobody knew about him being batman, where he's got all this high tech stuff that sometimes gets blown up (the batmobile in Batman and robin). Do they kill the contractors after they're done? There's gotta be one guy who gets drunk in a bar and says "you think you're job is cool, i just fixed the anti-lock brakes on the batmoboile at wayne manor"
LiveScript was the first name, then Netscape called it JavaScript. ECMAScript came WAY later after MS came out with JScript, and they wanted to standardize the language, so they submitted it to ECMA. They obviously couldn't come up with a real name either, IIRC that was an interim name but no one could come up with a better one so it stuck.
http://web.archive.org/bountyquest.com/patentinfo/ oneclickart.htm now has a 301 redirect to http://intranet/
Evidently they didn't release the hme driver without scrubbing, I'd guarantee a few fuck's in that one...
Hmm, you don't mention what version of FreeBSD you're talking about, so it may have been a beta. You don't mention what filesystem, so could have been extfs2 support for all we know (which is specifically mentioned as unstable). Some developer lost an unknown amount of time because his project was on a local disk with no backup, and not in a central source control. (You mention FreeBSD on client machines only, so I don't believe you corrupted your central CVS repository).
As others have mentioned, you should have been fired for not having backups or source control for the projects that you run.
Or this is just a troll.
Second of all: This joke is getting progressively lamer as the day goes on.
In Soviet Russia, Netcraft would confirm that Scott Meyer poured hot grits down Natalie Portman's pants.
Jokes on slashdot live forever...
I always thought that the pic that scott put on the books make him look like a lost member of spinal tap
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http://www.spcspringboard.com/Speaker%20Images/me
However, gzip is slowly being replazed by bzip2 nowadays
Can't be totally replaced. bzip2 can't compress streams, but more efficient to compress files.
Who among us doesn't have files saved in an old version of, say, Word, which can no longer be read correctly in a newer version of Word?
Ironically, many people use OO.o for this, seems to be better at deciphering older Word docs than MS does.
The whole spaces in path thing may be a good idea, but was poorly executed. Microsoft decided to be compatible with a lot of older applications which didn't expect spaces, nor did they deal with them. The problem is there still are hacks all over the place for apps that don't do it right, hacks that basically ignore IFS.
A good program may spawn off:
"C:\Program Files\Fred Co\fred.exe"
A bad program might just spawn off
C:\Program Files\Fred Co\fred.exe
Microsoft chose to additionally support the latter. Unfortunately it's a security hole, since it needs to possibly run "C:\Program" with the args "Files\Fred" "Co\Fred.exe" (and other combinations). I don't know what default C:\ perms are, but this could be used for local privilege escalation.
If a person is too stupid to realize whether or not they're logging into THEIR bank or not, perhaps they don't deserve the privilege of online banking.
DNS spoofing
Spyware host file poisoning.
Spyware taking over your entire browser, pointing you to sites you don't want.
IE bug where what you see in address bar is not the site you're on.
Phishing is a comlicated problem with multiple vectors. Saying that a user that doesn't know all vectors at every given time is stupid is unwarranted.
Netcraft is dying....
Interesting post. But one major error
I just wanted to point out that evolution doesn't breed antibiotic-resistant bacteria without bacteria being exposed to antibiotics.
Actualy, evolution does breed them. Evolution states that random mutations happen all the time, including the ones that create antibiotic resistant bacteria.
What you're talking about is the environment is changing the dominant type of bacteria, in this case, all the non-resistant bacteria get killed, and only the resitant ones survive.
Back to the idiots: all sorts of people get created, some tall, some short, some risk takers, some coservative, some thoughtful, some careless, some athletic, some that are klutzes. The nexus of risk taking careless, klutzy people tend to die off. Whether or not that is tragic, that risk takers (even stupid ones) are needed to forward the species, that's a different debate.
There's an old Chinese curse "may you live in interesting times". There was a copy of that somewhere in the kernel file (a.k.a. System file) for MacOS 7 that said "may you code in interesting times".
Languages are tools. I prefer mine to be predictable, allowing the real wizardry to be in what you do with them, not with knowing how it deals with some particular edge condition.
Back in school, the local Mac wizard was named Rich. He loved his beer.
My friend and coworker Ronny asked him a silly question. Rich says "OK Ronny, I feel this is a simple question you could answer yourself if you spent 5 minutes looking in the manual. If you don't value my time, I do, and that answer will cost you a beer". Ronny thinks about it, and says "OK". Rich tells him, for one Sam Adams. Hmm, Ronny thinks of another question, asks Rich, Rich says "Ronny, that's in the same category. A simple question, one you can answer yourself, and will cost a beer". Ronny Says OK.
By the end of the conversation, Ronny owes Rich a sixpack of Sam Adams, not sure if he ever paid off.
I hate flamewars, but as been said by many people many times, RMS does not get to define opensource. OpenSource existed long before RMS, and will exist after his demise. If you want to talk about fighting for open code, remember that the Regents of UCB fought for opensource code in a court case, and can say that they won.
RMS is very important, but he's a zealot, and a lot of people don't agree with his views (I for one don't on a lot of issues). Don't get caught up in the whole Saint iGNUcious thing.
I don't think you can say message passing is a feature of microkernels exclusively. DragonFly BSD uses a message passing interface internally to it's (IIRC) macrokernel. I did some work to a new device driver model that is now part of UnixWare that is definitely more message passing than API calls.