It will only be surprising if future releases of Java don't use GPL v3 after it is finalized. What would be most surprising to me is if Sun stops making it available in GPLv2 form, whether or not they also make available the GPLv3 license. It's hard to argue that adding a new incompatible, more restrictive open source license is going to improve the acceptance of such software, and I think Sun is wise enough not to fork their codebase. My guess is they'll require submissions to be able to be made available under either license (ie. no copying in GPLv3 code from external sources.)
We were actually told to deliver the free papers to any box we could, whether they asked for it or not, as long as the stack was gone when we were done. Ye gads, I hate that. I've been tempted at times to report the local paper boy for littering when he throws those papers on my lawn. They're the physical precursors to spam and I have as much sympathy for those involved as I do for spammers.
I, for one, hope more welfare mothers are like this one, and think about their kids. If I'd never had any video games, I'm not entirely sure I'd be a software engineer today. The more experiences the kid has, the more likely, I think, he is to make something of himself. If he sits in a dark room all day playing with wooden blocks, or wanders the streets hanging out with gangs instead, I think that would be worse parenting.
I'm guessing you're about 20, unmarried with no children or significant family responsibilities outside of your job, and pretty naive about what people on welfare go through. At least, that's the way you come across here. I'd say wait until you're a parent to pass judgement on other parents.
This survey also did not track sales from Apple Stores. Since it's quite likely Apple is selling an awful lot of iPods from Apple Stores, the percentages are probably way off. However, since Apple also doesn't sell SanDisk players, the ranking is probably accurate. My guess is that after the dust has settled, the iPod will have increased its market share over last year, and Microsoft will have taken some away from SanDisk and inherited some of Creative's previous market share.
As someone who works for a data visualization company, I can say that I doubt it makes any difference which of these degrees you get. It's a lot more important what research projects you associate yourself with, who you meet and what impression you make on them while a student, and what initiatives you take outside your strict coursework. The only value one of those degrees has over the other is how it affects those things.
For visualization work, you'd probably be better off taking a few art or design courses than game AI or game physics courses, and definitely bone up on the available HCI courses. Then spend some serious time on the resume (get it proof read by a writing friend), and show genuine enthusiasm for your own work and work related to your target company in the interview. My guess is that the attention paid by the future employer to the coursework and degree specifics in the hiring process will be about 1/20th or less the total.
1MB?! Yikes! That's going to take an extra 3 seconds to download!
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I like "White and Nerdy", but "All About the Pentiums" is my favorite geek-parody song, containing one of my favorite pseudo-gansta lyrics of all time: If I ever meet ya I'll CTRL-ALT-DELETE ya!
Actually, the article makes a lot of really good points, amidst some admittedly loaded prose. The GPLv2 versus GPLv3 battle can do nothing except weaken both. It's certainly not going to enhance either's status in the marketplace with the increased license burden and infighting. A linux distribution which contains half its shared libraries in GPLv2 and half in GPLv3 will be a mess. Especially if some are different forks of the same library. You're looking at KDE vs GNOME to the Nth power.
I agree that GPLv3 pretty much spells the beginning of the end for that area of open source. There will certainly still be hobbyists who stick with it, but it will have ceded a great opportunity to closed-source solutions without even a real fight. I guess the FSF got fed up with so much success and had to find another way to shoot themselves in the foot.
Yes, and because customers have preferred renting SO much more than buying everywhere else in the tech industry. I'm actually all for Microsoft going this route. It'll be the quickest way for them to flush their fortune down the toilet and put back some real competition and innovation in the software market.
I think the most fun thing about bringing T-Rex back would be when the folks a million years from now find the modern fossils after a million-year gap. It would pretty much be scientific proof for THEM that intelligent design exists.
We are coming to the end of the desktop computing era
Um, no. You might... MIGHT... be able to make that statement if there's ever a year in which the year-over-year growth of desktop PC sales (let alone usable installed base) decreases. For now, we appear to still be in the initial geometric expansion phase of desktop computing.
In 1988 they and Apple released AppleLink. After Apple and Quantum parted in 1989, they changed the name to AOL.
It actually sounds like our stories are pretty close. The key point I think most people forget is how much the Mac (if not Apple) was driving app and net services innovation in the late 80's.
Yep... that was back when your CompuServe userid was something like "72127,3112". Then GEnie came out and it was the "user friendly" system and actually had some of the first 2400bps modem pools so you could download porn^H^H^H^Hphotos from their photo forum. A few years later Apple came out with AppleLink Personal Edition, and the people who they licensed to create it eventually turned it into America Online after getting a Windows client released...
At the time I had moved from the Commodore stuff to the Macintosh, and ran a BBS on Red Ryder Host, which was a pretty fun system to tinker with. Later set one up at my school using Hermes (a very powerful and responsive BBS for its day with a horrible interface), and wrote a couple of plug-ins for it. Those were the days...
the simple fact is that the AMD NUMA offerings are not substantially more expensive than the intel chips, and in configurations with four or more processors, they perform better than the intel stuff because of the inherent advantages of the architecture.
That fact is not quite that simple. It depends on where the cores are. Two dual-core processors, at least in terms of the Mac Pro, have two paths to the northbridge, so each pair of cores is sharing a path. That's probably pretty reasonable, considering caching and offsetting loads and stores. Two four-core CPUs, though, have four cores per memory path, and it probably gets pretty congested.
I'm wondering what the Mac specs will look like. Mid-range Macs have built-in monitors (iMacs), so the requirement that things be HDCP and a secure video path might not be as big a deal with the studios on the Mac.
I'm tempted to say "Bullshit!" but that might be just a little TOO good a comeback. It's true that the nitrogen fertilizers we use are manufactured and transported using a lot of fossil fuels, but fertilizer is, essentially, decaying waste of any previously living thing (which can also be made artificially). Proper crop rotation and more sustainable methods can replace a lot of fertilizer, and if you add genetically modified plants to the mix it helps even more.
If it's that critical, and you're not yourself an ISP, then you shouldn't be pretending you are. Pay some ISP to do their job and get all the critical services off-site immediately. This is one case where you get what you pay for, and if your company is on the line, it's worth more than a single T1 without redundancy. Whoever decided on that setup should probably be replaced by someone who knows how to set up a company's infrastructure.
Perhaps. I'm using the same "swirly" kind mentioned in the article, though. Maybe the voltage is off in my house or something? They last about 1-2 years (not 5-10 as in the article) and skin definitely looks yellower under them than under incandescent (I was a little worried about my infant until I looked again under incandescent). Anyway, I haven't done prism tests but the lower end of the spectrum definitely seems to be less well represented by these bulbs. Maybe I'm just more sensitive to the lower end of the spectrum or something.
The only time I use them in areas where the light really matters, I try to mix them with low-Wattage incandescents to mellow out the light a little bit. (ie. in a "globe with arms" type of ceiling fan light, put a 1000 lumens CFL in the center under the globe and a few low-Wattage clear incandescent bulbs on the arms.)
I use the CFL's in the basement, front porch, above-shower, work areas, etc. They really are hugely energy efficient. However, the light they produce is horribly un-ergonomic. Skin takes on a yellow tinge under them so everyone looks like they have hepatitis. The unsteady and specific-wavelength light seems to be harder to read under. They can't dim (if you try they make scary crackling noises). And while they switch on fast these days, they still take a minute or so to reach full brightness. They even seem to fail at about the same rate as normal bulbs, at least in my house.
Energy efficient, yes. But they still have a long way to go.
I'm not sure if it's too out of date at this point, but I've also had excellent results with hpijs for some of the older printers whose extra features may not be handled by the built-in MacOS X drivers.
I program out the channels I don't watch. Works kinda like adblock.
You're still paying for them, though.
Probably not. The cable service probably would cost exactly the same with or without them. In fact, not including them might lose the cable companies some ad revenue and increase costs.
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I, for one, hope more welfare mothers are like this one, and think about their kids. If I'd never had any video games, I'm not entirely sure I'd be a software engineer today. The more experiences the kid has, the more likely, I think, he is to make something of himself. If he sits in a dark room all day playing with wooden blocks, or wanders the streets hanging out with gangs instead, I think that would be worse parenting.
I'm guessing you're about 20, unmarried with no children or significant family responsibilities outside of your job, and pretty naive about what people on welfare go through. At least, that's the way you come across here. I'd say wait until you're a parent to pass judgement on other parents.
This survey grouped all iPods together.
This survey also did not track sales from Apple Stores. Since it's quite likely Apple is selling an awful lot of iPods from Apple Stores, the percentages are probably way off. However, since Apple also doesn't sell SanDisk players, the ranking is probably accurate. My guess is that after the dust has settled, the iPod will have increased its market share over last year, and Microsoft will have taken some away from SanDisk and inherited some of Creative's previous market share.
As someone who works for a data visualization company, I can say that I doubt it makes any difference which of these degrees you get. It's a lot more important what research projects you associate yourself with, who you meet and what impression you make on them while a student, and what initiatives you take outside your strict coursework. The only value one of those degrees has over the other is how it affects those things.
For visualization work, you'd probably be better off taking a few art or design courses than game AI or game physics courses, and definitely bone up on the available HCI courses. Then spend some serious time on the resume (get it proof read by a writing friend), and show genuine enthusiasm for your own work and work related to your target company in the interview. My guess is that the attention paid by the future employer to the coursework and degree specifics in the hiring process will be about 1/20th or less the total.
The article doesn't say. Will Java be GPLv2 or GPLv3?
1MB?! Yikes! That's going to take an extra 3 seconds to download!
I like "White and Nerdy", but "All About the Pentiums" is my favorite geek-parody song, containing one of my favorite pseudo-gansta lyrics of all time:
If I ever meet ya
I'll CTRL-ALT-DELETE ya!
Actually, the article makes a lot of really good points, amidst some admittedly loaded prose. The GPLv2 versus GPLv3 battle can do nothing except weaken both. It's certainly not going to enhance either's status in the marketplace with the increased license burden and infighting. A linux distribution which contains half its shared libraries in GPLv2 and half in GPLv3 will be a mess. Especially if some are different forks of the same library. You're looking at KDE vs GNOME to the Nth power.
I agree that GPLv3 pretty much spells the beginning of the end for that area of open source. There will certainly still be hobbyists who stick with it, but it will have ceded a great opportunity to closed-source solutions without even a real fight. I guess the FSF got fed up with so much success and had to find another way to shoot themselves in the foot.
Loved the "tab remember" feature where you can close the browser and it will remember all the pages you had open in the previous session.
This was one of my favorite features from Opera 4-5 years ago. Glad to see the idea finally spreading.
Yes, and because customers have preferred renting SO much more than buying everywhere else in the tech industry. I'm actually all for Microsoft going this route. It'll be the quickest way for them to flush their fortune down the toilet and put back some real competition and innovation in the software market.
I think the most fun thing about bringing T-Rex back would be when the folks a million years from now find the modern fossils after a million-year gap. It would pretty much be scientific proof for THEM that intelligent design exists.
We are coming to the end of the desktop computing era
Um, no. You might... MIGHT... be able to make that statement if there's ever a year in which the year-over-year growth of desktop PC sales (let alone usable installed base) decreases. For now, we appear to still be in the initial geometric expansion phase of desktop computing.
In 1988 they and Apple released AppleLink. After Apple and Quantum parted in 1989, they changed the name to AOL.
It actually sounds like our stories are pretty close. The key point I think most people forget is how much the Mac (if not Apple) was driving app and net services innovation in the late 80's.
Yep... that was back when your CompuServe userid was something like "72127,3112". Then GEnie came out and it was the "user friendly" system and actually had some of the first 2400bps modem pools so you could download porn^H^H^H^Hphotos from their photo forum. A few years later Apple came out with AppleLink Personal Edition, and the people who they licensed to create it eventually turned it into America Online after getting a Windows client released...
At the time I had moved from the Commodore stuff to the Macintosh, and ran a BBS on Red Ryder Host, which was a pretty fun system to tinker with. Later set one up at my school using Hermes (a very powerful and responsive BBS for its day with a horrible interface), and wrote a couple of plug-ins for it. Those were the days...
the simple fact is that the AMD NUMA offerings are not substantially more expensive than the intel chips, and in configurations with four or more processors, they perform better than the intel stuff because of the inherent advantages of the architecture.
That fact is not quite that simple. It depends on where the cores are. Two dual-core processors, at least in terms of the Mac Pro, have two paths to the northbridge, so each pair of cores is sharing a path. That's probably pretty reasonable, considering caching and offsetting loads and stores. Two four-core CPUs, though, have four cores per memory path, and it probably gets pretty congested.
I'm wondering what the Mac specs will look like. Mid-range Macs have built-in monitors (iMacs), so the requirement that things be HDCP and a secure video path might not be as big a deal with the studios on the Mac.
I'm tempted to say "Bullshit!" but that might be just a little TOO good a comeback. It's true that the nitrogen fertilizers we use are manufactured and transported using a lot of fossil fuels, but fertilizer is, essentially, decaying waste of any previously living thing (which can also be made artificially). Proper crop rotation and more sustainable methods can replace a lot of fertilizer, and if you add genetically modified plants to the mix it helps even more.
^Many scientists^There exist scientists who
If it's that critical, and you're not yourself an ISP, then you shouldn't be pretending you are. Pay some ISP to do their job and get all the critical services off-site immediately. This is one case where you get what you pay for, and if your company is on the line, it's worth more than a single T1 without redundancy. Whoever decided on that setup should probably be replaced by someone who knows how to set up a company's infrastructure.
You must be using the wrong bulbs.
Perhaps. I'm using the same "swirly" kind mentioned in the article, though. Maybe the voltage is off in my house or something? They last about 1-2 years (not 5-10 as in the article) and skin definitely looks yellower under them than under incandescent (I was a little worried about my infant until I looked again under incandescent). Anyway, I haven't done prism tests but the lower end of the spectrum definitely seems to be less well represented by these bulbs. Maybe I'm just more sensitive to the lower end of the spectrum or something.
The only time I use them in areas where the light really matters, I try to mix them with low-Wattage incandescents to mellow out the light a little bit. (ie. in a "globe with arms" type of ceiling fan light, put a 1000 lumens CFL in the center under the globe and a few low-Wattage clear incandescent bulbs on the arms.)
I use the CFL's in the basement, front porch, above-shower, work areas, etc. They really are hugely energy efficient. However, the light they produce is horribly un-ergonomic. Skin takes on a yellow tinge under them so everyone looks like they have hepatitis. The unsteady and specific-wavelength light seems to be harder to read under. They can't dim (if you try they make scary crackling noises). And while they switch on fast these days, they still take a minute or so to reach full brightness. They even seem to fail at about the same rate as normal bulbs, at least in my house.
Energy efficient, yes. But they still have a long way to go.
I'm not sure if it's too out of date at this point, but I've also had excellent results with hpijs for some of the older printers whose extra features may not be handled by the built-in MacOS X drivers.
http://www.linuxprinting.org/macosx/hpijs/
There is a good article about this in August's Scientific American by W Wayt Gibbs. It's only a couple pages but worth picking up a paper issue, or if you have one of their digital subscriptions here: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa001&arti cleID=000637F9-3815-14C0-AFE483414B7F4945
I program out the channels I don't watch. Works kinda like adblock.
You're still paying for them, though.
Probably not. The cable service probably would cost exactly the same with or without them. In fact, not including them might lose the cable companies some ad revenue and increase costs.