What they need to make the big leap, is to make every phone call, shake every hand, spend every dollar and do anything else necessary to bring some of those make-or-break apps to the platform with a "Built and tested with Ubuntu" sticker.
good luck with that, as it is, canonical cant even get their software stable enough that upgrading a working system to a new version consistently produces a still working system, never mind all the screwing around with the UI. If i were an app developer, i wouldnt want to be contractualy bound to support X on ubuntu up to version N
i really liked ubuntu, but it should have grown up, while wireless issues were excusable back in 2006, that shit doesnt fly anymore, but still ubuntu keeps focussing on being the newest hottest shit, without any regard for actually doing it well..
Hardly, chernobyl and fukushima were about as miss as you are going to get, reactors dont blow up in the same way that a fusion bomb does.
Granted, chernobyl has a 30 KM exclusion zone, and fukushima will likely need a permanent exclusion zone as well, but it's hardly game over for the human race. It would be a good idea to build these things far away from large cities (having tokyo inside the exclusion zone would suck), but in the grand scheme of things, these kind of events are rather survivable
No disrespect to the victims of chernobyl or fukushima by the way, i dont mean to trivialise their plight, just saying that on a world scale, this isnt that big of a deal
If we are talking race cars here, then there is no reason they couldn't design the battery pack to be swapped out as quickly as they change tires.
i doubt it, in a race car (or any car for that matter), you want the weight as much in board and down low as possible, if possible smack in the middle of the wheels, an inch above the road, that doesnt make for very easy access during a pit stop.
The only way i see a F1 pitstop style battery change if with the battery back right at the back of the car, and while some weight over the rear wheels is good for grip, this will really give an unbalanced car
Pretty much, if Hitler hadnt bitten of more then he could chew on the east-front, chances are they could have conquered britain, and where would the americans be in the european war without their largest aircraft carrier?
on topic, this performance is rather pathetic, 9:50 around the ring rather sucks. German ring specialist sabine schmitz did a 10:08 in a ford transit diesel.
at my manager's going away party two weeks ago, i saw this suit use his ipad as a tray for his beer... i imagine similar use-cases can be found by the dozen at mickey Ds
you do have a good point, and i do not hesitate to tell people at an interview that i sometimes code as a hobby, but i hardly think my hobbyed up ray-casting engine, or asteroid clone show off my strong points as a coder, they were fun to do, but not exactly my best quality work.
i do enjoy coding a lot, as in i cant think of anything i'd rather do for a living. But in my free time, i can think of thousands of things i'd rather spend my time on, so i hardly have any hobby-projects, certainly nothing that i would use to show off at a job interview.
Making your hobby into your job is a sure-fire way to lose it as a hobby by the way, all the managerial crap that comes with a work environment is not something you want to asociate with your hobby
i didnt say everyone had ICBMs, i said everyone has either ICBMs or suicide bomber. My point is that these days even a five man group with a suitably connected arms dealer could be a credible threat, and that you dont need a four carrier fleet with dive-bombers anymore.
Also, having the best cruise missiles doesnt mean anything in terms of defense, only in terms of retaliation.
Although i admit you once again have a point on the logistics, putting the same security measures in place would take more effort on hawaii then florida
you have a point on the logistics (and a good enough point to put the whole debate to bed right away i might add), but the bombing thing is totally irrelevant, in this day and age anyone who doesnt like the US space program either has ICBM and cruismissiles (and the subs to deploy them right off the coast), or suicide bombers, terrorists or just simply place a bomb on a shipping container from china. Bomber ranges might have mattered in 1941, but these days Florida is just as easy a target as Hawaii, or any other place on the globe.
obviously, but that assumes some realism about network equipment prices on the executive side, which rather likely, isnt there.
Lymond's out-of-the-blue number of $10000 might not be it, but chances are someone will be screaming "you need how much?" before that network is specced and set up how it should be..
Also, i agree with the root post, if you are a programmer, dont get sucked into network management. You dont have the skills and training right now, and unless there is a significant pay-raise asociated with the new title, you have nothing to gain and everything to lose.
No, playing a game where your input may or may not at all be linked to what happens is not fun.
one of the reasons why i dislike online games (except for with friends), in general other people online tend to mess up your experience. AI bots written by the developer are at least well behaved enough to somewhat conform to the game setting
they really screwed up with the phenom II x4 8x0 though, you have the 810, which had 4mb of l3, then nothing for a bit, and now they launched the 840, which has.. wait for it.. no L3 at all! (making it just a higher clocked athlon II X4)
i remember paying 200 euros for my x2 3800+, it was awesome, suddenly everything felt so much more responsive.
Then i was completely awe-struck after picking up a x2 7750 two years ago for 60 bucks, sure compared to all the phenom II goodness it seems like a limping two legged donkey, but the bang for the buck was undeniable. (and coupled with an SSD, the thing still rocks)
And now i'm seriously looking at putting a X6 into our main pc (has a x4 940), just for the hell of it, and cutting down handbrake runtimes a bit
This might not lead to a mass-exodus from the PS3 or anything, but people considering buying a PS4 might reconsider because of this (and off course anyone considering a PS4 for the other-OS option will think twice), just like lots of people will think twice about buying an xbox 720 after the whole RROD debacle.
The last sony product in my house is my PSP, which i like, it is a very good handheld gaming device, and ever since nintendo went all gimmicky, it fits better as a succesor to my GBA, but the NGP doesnt appeal to me, and buying something from Sony is pretty rapidly becomming a no-no. I just wish microsoft would launch an x-boy already, i dont even care if it only as powerfull as the original xbox, just give it to me!
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currency variations can be dealt with in-shop. Apple charges $1 for US based app-buys, while us europeans pay €0,79 for the same app
same goes for the android store
What they need to make the big leap, is to make every phone call, shake every hand, spend every dollar and do anything else necessary to bring some of those make-or-break apps to the platform with a "Built and tested with Ubuntu" sticker.
good luck with that, as it is, canonical cant even get their software stable enough that upgrading a working system to a new version consistently produces a still working system, never mind all the screwing around with the UI. If i were an app developer, i wouldnt want to be contractualy bound to support X on ubuntu up to version N
i really liked ubuntu, but it should have grown up, while wireless issues were excusable back in 2006, that shit doesnt fly anymore, but still ubuntu keeps focussing on being the newest hottest shit, without any regard for actually doing it well..
Miss one time, game over.
Hardly, chernobyl and fukushima were about as miss as you are going to get, reactors dont blow up in the same way that a fusion bomb does.
Granted, chernobyl has a 30 KM exclusion zone, and fukushima will likely need a permanent exclusion zone as well, but it's hardly game over for the human race. It would be a good idea to build these things far away from large cities (having tokyo inside the exclusion zone would suck), but in the grand scheme of things, these kind of events are rather survivable
No disrespect to the victims of chernobyl or fukushima by the way, i dont mean to trivialise their plight, just saying that on a world scale, this isnt that big of a deal
you forgot caravans
If we are talking race cars here, then there is no reason they couldn't design the battery pack to be swapped out as quickly as they change tires.
i doubt it, in a race car (or any car for that matter), you want the weight as much in board and down low as possible, if possible smack in the middle of the wheels, an inch above the road, that doesnt make for very easy access during a pit stop.
The only way i see a F1 pitstop style battery change if with the battery back right at the back of the car, and while some weight over the rear wheels is good for grip, this will really give an unbalanced car
Pretty much, if Hitler hadnt bitten of more then he could chew on the east-front, chances are they could have conquered britain, and where would the americans be in the european war without their largest aircraft carrier?
on topic, this performance is rather pathetic, 9:50 around the ring rather sucks. German ring specialist sabine schmitz did a 10:08 in a ford transit diesel.
You know, you could just start ignoring them right now.
i'll take all the freebies they are willing to give me, some extra games for my psp are more then welcome
That PSP though, will be my last sony device for the next ten years at the least
SONY Stands for..
System Online? Not Yet
The PSN stuff was rather lame, but this one nearly made me fall of my chair, kudos sir!
at my manager's going away party two weeks ago, i saw this suit use his ipad as a tray for his beer... i imagine similar use-cases can be found by the dozen at mickey Ds
you do have a good point, and i do not hesitate to tell people at an interview that i sometimes code as a hobby, but i hardly think my hobbyed up ray-casting engine, or asteroid clone show off my strong points as a coder, they were fun to do, but not exactly my best quality work.
i do enjoy coding a lot, as in i cant think of anything i'd rather do for a living. But in my free time, i can think of thousands of things i'd rather spend my time on, so i hardly have any hobby-projects, certainly nothing that i would use to show off at a job interview.
Making your hobby into your job is a sure-fire way to lose it as a hobby by the way, all the managerial crap that comes with a work environment is not something you want to asociate with your hobby
i didnt say everyone had ICBMs, i said everyone has either ICBMs or suicide bomber. My point is that these days even a five man group with a suitably connected arms dealer could be a credible threat, and that you dont need a four carrier fleet with dive-bombers anymore.
Also, having the best cruise missiles doesnt mean anything in terms of defense, only in terms of retaliation.
Although i admit you once again have a point on the logistics, putting the same security measures in place would take more effort on hawaii then florida
Also, the comment system still fucking sucks
it's already been bombed by a foreign power once.
you have a point on the logistics (and a good enough point to put the whole debate to bed right away i might add), but the bombing thing is totally irrelevant, in this day and age anyone who doesnt like the US space program either has ICBM and cruismissiles (and the subs to deploy them right off the coast), or suicide bombers, terrorists or just simply place a bomb on a shipping container from china. Bomber ranges might have mattered in 1941, but these days Florida is just as easy a target as Hawaii, or any other place on the globe.
obviously, but that assumes some realism about network equipment prices on the executive side, which rather likely, isnt there.
Lymond's out-of-the-blue number of $10000 might not be it, but chances are someone will be screaming "you need how much?" before that network is specced and set up how it should be..
Also, i agree with the root post, if you are a programmer, dont get sucked into network management. You dont have the skills and training right now, and unless there is a significant pay-raise asociated with the new title, you have nothing to gain and everything to lose.
bah, slashdot ate my tags
$PROGRAMMING_LANGUAGE motherfucker, do you type it?
But, maybe they were forced to do it while John Travolta held a gun to their head and Halle Berry gave them a blowjob.
Where do i sign up?
Bonus points if Samuel L. Jackson is also in the room screaming " motherfucker, do you type it?"
You know that, i know that, but the CEO who just had his nephew set up wifi covering *his whole house* with a $80 netgear router doesnt know that..
Well, i do consider the idiots, trolls and griefers part of the experience, and that total experience is something i dont care for
No, playing a game where your input may or may not at all be linked to what happens is not fun.
one of the reasons why i dislike online games (except for with friends), in general other people online tend to mess up your experience. AI bots written by the developer are at least well behaved enough to somewhat conform to the game setting
they really screwed up with the phenom II x4 8x0 though, you have the 810, which had 4mb of l3, then nothing for a bit, and now they launched the 840, which has.. wait for it.. no L3 at all! (making it just a higher clocked athlon II X4)
i remember paying 200 euros for my x2 3800+, it was awesome, suddenly everything felt so much more responsive.
Then i was completely awe-struck after picking up a x2 7750 two years ago for 60 bucks, sure compared to all the phenom II goodness it seems like a limping two legged donkey, but the bang for the buck was undeniable. (and coupled with an SSD, the thing still rocks)
And now i'm seriously looking at putting a X6 into our main pc (has a x4 940), just for the hell of it, and cutting down handbrake runtimes a bit
a four core phenom II running 100% has no trouble putting out 125 watts of heat
which reminds me, i have to clean out the heatsink on my x4 940, having to run handbrake on 3 cores because it overheats on 4 sucks
This might not lead to a mass-exodus from the PS3 or anything, but people considering buying a PS4 might reconsider because of this (and off course anyone considering a PS4 for the other-OS option will think twice), just like lots of people will think twice about buying an xbox 720 after the whole RROD debacle.
The last sony product in my house is my PSP, which i like, it is a very good handheld gaming device, and ever since nintendo went all gimmicky, it fits better as a succesor to my GBA, but the NGP doesnt appeal to me, and buying something from Sony is pretty rapidly becomming a no-no. I just wish microsoft would launch an x-boy already, i dont even care if it only as powerfull as the original xbox, just give it to me!
yeah, he's full of shit, an FPGA can do anything any other piece of silicon can, just not as fast.
I've worked with FPGAs which had "soft-core" cpu's loaded, running generic ARM code, the same is possible for any cpu architecture