While I agree with this sentiment for the most part, after using an 8MP camera to snap pictures of some bugs, I was happy to have the extra pixels so I could crop away boring parts of the picture and still have a high res picture of the subject itself. You can't really get close enough to have a caterpillar take up the entire frame.
Well, I think Motorola had far more to do with Apple's switch than Intel did. Though I was quite surprised to see Apple go with Intel rather than AMD, given AMD's clear performance advantage.
In short, Intel has found themselves unable to keep up with AMD on the technology side and is now rebranding its products as "platforms" and elevating the role of marketing to be as important as engineering within the company. I've always felt AMD has been terrible at marketing, remaining largely an unknown to the general home user populace.
[Paul Otellini]'s also is the first non-engineer to run the company. Otellini studied economics in college at the University of San Francisco and then joined Intel in 1974, straight out of B-school at the University of California at Berkeley. Many of the new employees he's bringing on aren't typical Intel hires either. They include software developers, sociologists, ethnographers, even doctors to help develop products. He lays particular emphasis on marketing expertise because he thinks the only way Intel can succeed in new markets is by communicating more clearly what the technology can do for customers. "To sell technology now, you have to do it in a way where it's much more simple," says Otellini. "You can't talk about the bits and the bytes."
The changes have created some angst among employees. In particular, many high-level engineers working on PC products feel they've been stripped of their star status. "The desktop group used to rule the company, and we liked it that way," says one former chip designer, adding that some engineers now feel "directionless." Other employees are simply uncomfortable with the new emphasis on marketing. "There definitely are people who are highly skeptical, who think this is all fluff, all just gloss -- that if you make good technology, you don't need the glitz," says Genevieve Bell, an in-house ethnographer who researches how people in emerging markets like China and India use technology.
Setup squid on your linux box, listening e.g. on port 3128. Verify that this is working by setting your browser to use it.
To get the tunnel working, I forget the exact settings in putty but there's a section for tunnels, tell it to create tunnel from local port 8128 to remote machine's port 3128. Then set your browser to use "localhost:8128" as your proxy.
The way to setup a tunnel between two Unix boxes (for me) is ssh -L 8128:192.168.0.1:3128 remote-host.
I'm something of a grammar Nazi myself, but over the years the internet's worn down my edge on most minor things. A "to" when there should be a "too" still jumps out at me, but I don't really care, as long as it's not something repeated over and over. I think Taco's sentiment towards grammar is probably correct for the focus of this site: it's secondary to content.
That said, I've seen mistakes on this site so egregious that I almost feel embarrassed for the author. The one that sticks out in my mind is Hemos's review of The Yellow Machine storage device. Some of the most horriffic errors were eventually corrected, but in its original form the review was jibberish (I quoted some of them). Hemos is not a random Joe Slashdot reader, he's someone who gets paid to work on the site, and I assume a pretty smart guy. If he'd taken the time to read his own writing before posting it he would have had to have caught those glaring problems with the story and fixed them before it went live. This again goes to the "do the editors even read this site?" argument that people drag out when dupes pop up.
A lot of it boils down to people who (whether they admit it or not) care about this site, and the apparent lack of caring by the people who run it when those types of incidents occur. Though I mentally complain about minor errors, I tend not to point out pedantic things, but glaring errors that can be caught by simply reading what you've written are tough to excuse.
In December 2004, I bought the ZBoard and the key plate for use with World of Warcraft. It was instantly apparent that it was a crappy product for the simple reason that the "special" keys were on the right side of the keyboard. 99% of gamers I know are familiar with wasd and use their left hand to move and use the right hand to control the mouse. Having the extra keys on the right side of the board means you either have to reach over to the right side with your left hand, or take your hand off the mouse to use them.
Another thing that contributed to the suckiness of the board was the fact that there was absolutely no facility to take a screenshot. This was right when WoW was new and I was taking screenshots all the time. There was some sort of hack they provided, I think on their website, that included a "screenshot.exe" type deal that you had to go configure so that when you pressed "custom1" key or something like that, it would take a screenshot. For a device whose selling point is convenience, I found this appalling. In general most of the special keys are just hard-coded existing key combos. E.g. if you can skip to hotkey bank 3 by pressing "Shift 3" then the ZBoard just presses "Shift 3" for you, so if you happen to leave focus in a text entry box and press that key, you'll see a "#". Big deal. I thought it was going to have some kind of API with the game that let you do more interesting things. Alas.
Probably because it's seems to imply that the editors of the site don't even read the articles posted here. That goes to a lack of caring, and for readers who do care it can seem like a personal affront when the people in charge of it do not.
Also for anyone who's paid for a "subscription" it can seem like you're paying for a pretty poor service. You sort of implicitly expect a certain level of quality, and dupes (and other otherwise shoddy posts) detract from that.
After downloading the JDK and Eclipse and setting the CLASSPATH and JAVA_HOME vars, all I had to do to get Eclipse running was type./eclipse. So what's your idea of "a long time?" Why don't you just try IntelliJ and see if you like it? Nobody else's opinion is really going to be much help in a "what's better?" debate anyway.
... but calling Google Analytics a glorified hit counter is seriously misleading, and overlooks one of its main functions: it allows the advertiser to link ad performance to conversion rate. If a particular ad generates 20,000 clicks it may appear to be more effective than one that generates only 1000 clicks. But if the ad that generates 20,000 clicks only generates 100 conversions (orders) and the ad that generates 1000 clicks leads to 200 conversions, the second ad is obviously more valuable to the advertiser. That's the kind of metric a "hit counter" can't give you, but Google Analytics (and other SEM products) can.
The money going to Stanford will certainly be put to good use, and I don't know anything about Coverity, but why would we give money to Symantec? They're ostensibly a (private) "security" company, and seem to be raking in money, so why do they need grant money? I don't know about anyone else, but outside of Norton Antivirus I don't see what Symantec really has to do with security these days. Most people I've spoken to find products like Zone Alarm better than the Symantec offerings for end-user firewalls. It just seems like they're more of a one-trick pony - Windows antivirus - so why would they even be considered for "Open Source Security"?
USB flash drives are already smaller than this, they just came up with new packaging. You could embed such a device in a Frisbee or a racquetball or practically anything. So?
That's not correct. What you described is illegally leveraging a monopoly to hurt potential competitors, not the state of being a monopoly. There's nothing inherently wrong with a monopoly. If a company makes the best product then it's reasonable to assume a vast majority of people would use it, at which point they may have a monopoly. This is only a problem if they use their monopoly status to destroy competitors, which Microsoft has a long history of doing.
Despite the old saying that there are no dumb questions, the question "which should I learn" always strikes me as dumb, . Learn one, then learn the other. If the question is "which one should I learn in school," then as others have said, learn the one being taught by the better professor.
The most important thing is to learn the concepts - algorithms, data structures, object-orientedness. Which language you learn them in shouldn't matter too much, especially for languages as similar as Java and C#. If you are a self-proclaimed "Linux zealot" then I don't see why you'd even consider learning a language created by Microsoft, it seems like you'd just be setting yourself up to get pissed off.
In the end, knowing more things will only help you, so learn both.
If you run these queries right after each other then it would only be natural for the second to execute faster as the table has already been loaded into memory on the DB. I've interchanged '123' with 123 in queries that go against integer fields with no performance difference whatsoever. Maybe there's a penalty if you run that type of query against a text/char field, but text is always supposed to be single quoted.
What version of postgres are you running? We run 8.0.3 in production and do 1000 transactions a second with ease.
You're probably better off coming up with better up-front estimates on how long a project will take and then billing against that, or just billing on a per-project or per-milestone project.
As for a way to keep track of how you're using your time, I don't think there's any software that can possibly help you. You just need to discipline yourself to stay on task for a given period of time. If you don't like working in an 8-hour block then do an hour on and 20 minutes off or something like that, and just note your start and stop times.
All that said, I find looking through the svn (or cvs) log is frequently the best way to get a record of what you've done. If you see an entry in the log for Nov 18th that says "rewrote the entire shopping cart module" it will do a lot to spark your memory and you'll likely recall that it took you 6 hours to make that change. Between that and your email history you can probably piece together your work on a project pretty well.
According to RFC 2616, Location: headers are supposed to be absolute URIs, not relative ones. I understand that it's a relatively common practice to do relative URIs on 302 redirects, but it's wrong. I don't know if this has anything to do with the Safari problem, though.
The Location response-header field is used to redirect the recipient to a location other than the Request-URI for completion of the request or identification of a new resource. For 201 (Created) responses, the Location is that of the new resource which was created by the request. For 3xx responses, the location SHOULD indicate the server's preferred URI for automatic redirection to the resource. The field value consists of a single absolute URI.
Note: The Content-Location header field (section 14.14) differs
from Location in that the Content-Location identifies the original
location of the entity enclosed in the request. It is therefore
possible for a response to contain header fields for both Location
and Content-Location. Also see section 13.10 for cache
requirements of some methods.
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Probably for the same reason they call it "marketing" rather than "lying."
While I agree with this sentiment for the most part, after using an 8MP camera to snap pictures of some bugs, I was happy to have the extra pixels so I could crop away boring parts of the picture and still have a high res picture of the subject itself. You can't really get close enough to have a caterpillar take up the entire frame.
A nice VG controller "family tree": http://www.axess.com/twilight/console/
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Previous Slashdot blurbs on the subject of controller evolution:
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/09
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/14
Well, I think Motorola had far more to do with Apple's switch than Intel did. Though I was quite surprised to see Apple go with Intel rather than AMD, given AMD's clear performance advantage.
Inside Intel - Paul Otellini's plan will send the chipmaker into uncharted territory. And founder Andy Grove applauds the shift
In short, Intel has found themselves unable to keep up with AMD on the technology side and is now rebranding its products as "platforms" and elevating the role of marketing to be as important as engineering within the company. I've always felt AMD has been terrible at marketing, remaining largely an unknown to the general home user populace.
Setup squid on your linux box, listening e.g. on port 3128. Verify that this is working by setting your browser to use it.
To get the tunnel working, I forget the exact settings in putty but there's a section for tunnels, tell it to create tunnel from local port 8128 to remote machine's port 3128. Then set your browser to use "localhost:8128" as your proxy.
The way to setup a tunnel between two Unix boxes (for me) is ssh -L 8128:192.168.0.1:3128 remote-host.
I'm something of a grammar Nazi myself, but over the years the internet's worn down my edge on most minor things. A "to" when there should be a "too" still jumps out at me, but I don't really care, as long as it's not something repeated over and over. I think Taco's sentiment towards grammar is probably correct for the focus of this site: it's secondary to content.
That said, I've seen mistakes on this site so egregious that I almost feel embarrassed for the author. The one that sticks out in my mind is Hemos's review of The Yellow Machine storage device. Some of the most horriffic errors were eventually corrected, but in its original form the review was jibberish (I quoted some of them). Hemos is not a random Joe Slashdot reader, he's someone who gets paid to work on the site, and I assume a pretty smart guy. If he'd taken the time to read his own writing before posting it he would have had to have caught those glaring problems with the story and fixed them before it went live. This again goes to the "do the editors even read this site?" argument that people drag out when dupes pop up.
A lot of it boils down to people who (whether they admit it or not) care about this site, and the apparent lack of caring by the people who run it when those types of incidents occur. Though I mentally complain about minor errors, I tend not to point out pedantic things, but glaring errors that can be caught by simply reading what you've written are tough to excuse.
In December 2004, I bought the ZBoard and the key plate for use with World of Warcraft. It was instantly apparent that it was a crappy product for the simple reason that the "special" keys were on the right side of the keyboard. 99% of gamers I know are familiar with wasd and use their left hand to move and use the right hand to control the mouse. Having the extra keys on the right side of the board means you either have to reach over to the right side with your left hand, or take your hand off the mouse to use them.
Another thing that contributed to the suckiness of the board was the fact that there was absolutely no facility to take a screenshot. This was right when WoW was new and I was taking screenshots all the time. There was some sort of hack they provided, I think on their website, that included a "screenshot.exe" type deal that you had to go configure so that when you pressed "custom1" key or something like that, it would take a screenshot. For a device whose selling point is convenience, I found this appalling. In general most of the special keys are just hard-coded existing key combos. E.g. if you can skip to hotkey bank 3 by pressing "Shift 3" then the ZBoard just presses "Shift 3" for you, so if you happen to leave focus in a text entry box and press that key, you'll see a "#". Big deal. I thought it was going to have some kind of API with the game that let you do more interesting things. Alas.
Today that keyboard is serving as a USB hub.
Probably because it's seems to imply that the editors of the site don't even read the articles posted here. That goes to a lack of caring, and for readers who do care it can seem like a personal affront when the people in charge of it do not.
Also for anyone who's paid for a "subscription" it can seem like you're paying for a pretty poor service. You sort of implicitly expect a certain level of quality, and dupes (and other otherwise shoddy posts) detract from that.
After downloading the JDK and Eclipse and setting the CLASSPATH and JAVA_HOME vars, all I had to do to get Eclipse running was type ./eclipse. So what's your idea of "a long time?" Why don't you just try IntelliJ and see if you like it? Nobody else's opinion is really going to be much help in a "what's better?" debate anyway.
Yeah, Slashdot is gay.
... but calling Google Analytics a glorified hit counter is seriously misleading, and overlooks one of its main functions: it allows the advertiser to link ad performance to conversion rate. If a particular ad generates 20,000 clicks it may appear to be more effective than one that generates only 1000 clicks. But if the ad that generates 20,000 clicks only generates 100 conversions (orders) and the ad that generates 1000 clicks leads to 200 conversions, the second ad is obviously more valuable to the advertiser. That's the kind of metric a "hit counter" can't give you, but Google Analytics (and other SEM products) can.
Some firms that provide these types of services are listed here: http://www.sempo.org/home
The money going to Stanford will certainly be put to good use, and I don't know anything about Coverity, but why would we give money to Symantec? They're ostensibly a (private) "security" company, and seem to be raking in money, so why do they need grant money? I don't know about anyone else, but outside of Norton Antivirus I don't see what Symantec really has to do with security these days. Most people I've spoken to find products like Zone Alarm better than the Symantec offerings for end-user firewalls. It just seems like they're more of a one-trick pony - Windows antivirus - so why would they even be considered for "Open Source Security"?
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aslashdot.org +space+tourism
USB flash drives are already smaller than this, they just came up with new packaging. You could embed such a device in a Frisbee or a racquetball or practically anything. So?
Maybe it's time to block ScuttleMonkey too. His stories are starting to creep into Zonk-levels of stupidity.
... spyware/adware does bad things to your PC. /yawn
That's not correct. What you described is illegally leveraging a monopoly to hurt potential competitors, not the state of being a monopoly. There's nothing inherently wrong with a monopoly. If a company makes the best product then it's reasonable to assume a vast majority of people would use it, at which point they may have a monopoly. This is only a problem if they use their monopoly status to destroy competitors, which Microsoft has a long history of doing.
Despite the old saying that there are no dumb questions, the question "which should I learn" always strikes me as dumb, . Learn one, then learn the other. If the question is "which one should I learn in school," then as others have said, learn the one being taught by the better professor.
The most important thing is to learn the concepts - algorithms, data structures, object-orientedness. Which language you learn them in shouldn't matter too much, especially for languages as similar as Java and C#. If you are a self-proclaimed "Linux zealot" then I don't see why you'd even consider learning a language created by Microsoft, it seems like you'd just be setting yourself up to get pissed off.
In the end, knowing more things will only help you, so learn both.
If you run these queries right after each other then it would only be natural for the second to execute faster as the table has already been loaded into memory on the DB. I've interchanged '123' with 123 in queries that go against integer fields with no performance difference whatsoever. Maybe there's a penalty if you run that type of query against a text/char field, but text is always supposed to be single quoted.
What version of postgres are you running? We run 8.0.3 in production and do 1000 transactions a second with ease.
Maybe, like me, CmdrTaco blocks Zonk's stories? This was news to me!
You're probably better off coming up with better up-front estimates on how long a project will take and then billing against that, or just billing on a per-project or per-milestone project.
As for a way to keep track of how you're using your time, I don't think there's any software that can possibly help you. You just need to discipline yourself to stay on task for a given period of time. If you don't like working in an 8-hour block then do an hour on and 20 minutes off or something like that, and just note your start and stop times.
All that said, I find looking through the svn (or cvs) log is frequently the best way to get a record of what you've done. If you see an entry in the log for Nov 18th that says "rewrote the entire shopping cart module" it will do a lot to spark your memory and you'll likely recall that it took you 6 hours to make that change. Between that and your email history you can probably piece together your work on a project pretty well.
I predict many tumbleweeds blowing through this story.
Grammer tip: 'Effect' is used as a noun. 'Affect' is used as a verb.
Not sure if this is tongue-in-cheek or not, but 'Effect' is also a verb, meaning 'to bring about,' e.g., to effect a change.
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14