Sounds like Cryptonomicon's theory of identifying morse code messengers by their "wrist" (is that the term he used?). Apparantly the individuals could be identified based on their morse-code styles.
I suspect the same would be true if we were all disciplined typists, like the stereotypical 1940's-era business offices crammed with female typists pounding on keyboards round-the-clock.
I think this method would require that the person to be identified has been typing for some time. A newbie typist would require several months (years?) to develop a distinct style.
It could be that they are targeting Asia only because Palm has been too busy with the US to expand overseas. It would be a good testbed given APAC's voracious appetite for new, cheap & portable technology. ---
Anyone who as ever been part of a local music scene (and is slightly cynical) would rank the first 20 minutes of Ishtar as classic comedy! The film absolutely nails the stereotype of bad musicians who think that they rock hard and will be famous!
I still laugh whenever I go to an open mic night and I see it again and again... and no one has the heart to tell them.
The rest of the movie is only barely entertaining, however. I'll grant critics that much.
Shadowrun was written before microsoft was in 90% of all computers, in 1989???
huh?
i think what he's pointed out is a result of suburbs. we all know they are the places where corporate america workers are pretty much forced to live, and they tend to lack any stimulus or aesthetic qualities (except a lawn, couch and TV, and perhaps a small park or community pool). why doesn't it makes sense that he would romanticize the creative discontent youthful techies trapped the sterility of corporate suburbs?
The utility of the game is yet another way to imagine yourself out of your blindingly dull surroundings, (I'm all for delusion), but it sounds like a D&D retooled for the '00s.
Tom has been pushing the 133Bx for some time (don't know why intel never made one). But the follow up to 810E will have 133 fsb/sdram and agp4x, so there is hope. ---
What would a separate Micrsoft IE company lack that would make the verdict action a punishment? With the exception of being in a physically different location, and having all new legal/corporate paperwork, what exactly is the difference?
Information is still going to flow freely from MS to MS-IE Corp. Isn't it? I would assume all of the IE programmers just move to a different building and keep on doing the same work.
Can someone explain why this would be a punishment.
- integrating with ridiculous legacy systems and protocols
- trying to figure out what exactly the customer wants when he doesn't even know himself
- hacking up a workaround for some bug in the latest OS/compiler/language du jour
You make many excellent points!
I have been coding for fun since I was 11, and didn't start getting paid for it until I was 21 (lazy, what can I say). But of all the jobs I've had in the EE/CS world, pure programming jobs are my least favorite.
In 6 years of professional coding I was never able start fresh with a plan or spec or at least definition before coding. It was always working on crusty old code that had been hacked on for years.
Personally, I would recommend that if you really like to code, don't do it for a living: find a job where you can use coding as a tool to other ends. A-la some sort of engineering... I chose computer architecture. I can use whatever OS I want, and engineer my own projects to get results. And no one knows that I spend 80% of my time writing my own code.
I think the biggest problem is that universities crank out programmers who really don't know how to program, or really want to. The result: tons of shitty code that really good programmers eventually have to fix. And as far as I can tell, only the most stalwart contractors really have the desire and brainpower to fix this stuff.
Anyway, code because you want to, not because you have to
Anyone who refers to Mac as an acronym (MAC) should not be taken seriously. It shows their total lack of insight in the industry. Unless your are refering to an ethernet MAC address....
Oops, I meant "Mac", not "MAC". Am I insightful again?
3)PPC is a next gen technology. x86 is yesterday's chip.
Please define "next gen" and why "x86" is yesterday's chip. Is the statement based on instruction set? No? Perhaps you meant archiecture? Hmm. That couldn't be your intent because of both AMD's Athlon and Intel's Wilamette are excellent x86 designs, which are severely cutting-edge. Sure they use the x86 instruction set, but they are deftly ahead of any PowerPC architecture. Of course you could point to the Altivac vector processor as an improvement, but it's not: it's a retrofit -- a coprocessor on die.
get SUPERIOR font and color handling...stuff Windows/Linux can not touch
Sarcasm aside, I'd like to know what MAC-only applications you are referring to in this statement.
Your statement is ill-informed: SUN's 8MB is off-die. On die, UltraSPARC III has 64kB data cache, 32kB inst. cache, 2kB prefetch cache, anda 2kB write cache. Only the tags for the 8MB cache are on die. This is from ISSCC, but I don't know if the backside bus frequency is the same as the core. Doubtful. Don't know about G4.
Ok, looks really artistic and professional: I really dig the translucent thing. But where is the value added? Every freakin' paradigm is still the same as Windows/MacOS/Motif/Fvwm/Solaris/Gnome, just fruitier!
1. How do you like your Icons? Big or Small? 2....List or details? 3. What color do you want your background? 4...Your hilighted selection? 5. What font should the icon text be? 6. What font should the window text be? 7. Do you fold or crumple your toilet paper?
Argh. Just once I'd like to see new GUI that demonstrates a FRACTION of the abstraction as measured by the delta between a CP/M command-line and the original Xerox desktop.
It's like pop music.
...but still... i can't resist those jolly candylike buttons...
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Sounds like Cryptonomicon's theory of identifying morse code messengers by their "wrist" (is that the term he used?). Apparantly the individuals could be identified based on their morse-code styles.
I suspect the same would be true if we were all disciplined typists, like the stereotypical 1940's-era business offices crammed with female typists pounding on keyboards round-the-clock.
I think this method would require that the person to be identified has been typing for some time. A newbie typist would require several months (years?) to develop a distinct style.
But I can see where they got the idea.
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It could be that they are targeting Asia only because Palm has been too busy with the US to expand overseas. It would be a good testbed given APAC's voracious appetite for new, cheap & portable technology.
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Anyone who as ever been part of a local music scene (and is slightly cynical) would rank the first 20 minutes of Ishtar as classic comedy! The film absolutely nails the stereotype of bad musicians who think that they rock hard and will be famous!
I still laugh whenever I go to an open mic night and I see it again and again... and no one has the heart to tell them.
The rest of the movie is only barely entertaining, however. I'll grant critics that much.
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Shadowrun was written before microsoft was in 90% of all computers, in 1989???
huh?
i think what he's pointed out is a result of suburbs. we all know they are the places where corporate america workers are pretty much forced to live, and they tend to lack any stimulus or aesthetic qualities (except a lawn, couch and TV, and perhaps a small park or community pool). why doesn't it makes sense that he would romanticize the creative discontent youthful techies trapped the sterility of corporate suburbs?
The utility of the game is yet another way to imagine yourself out of your blindingly dull surroundings, (I'm all for delusion), but it sounds like a D&D retooled for the '00s.
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Tom has been pushing the 133Bx for some time (don't know why intel never made one). But the follow up to 810E will have 133 fsb/sdram and agp4x, so there is hope.
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I'm missing something obvious here:
What would a separate Micrsoft IE company lack that would make the verdict action a punishment? With the exception of being in a physically different location, and having all new legal/corporate paperwork, what exactly is the difference?
Information is still going to flow freely from MS to MS-IE Corp. Isn't it? I would assume all of the IE programmers just move to a different building and keep on doing the same work.
Can someone explain why this would be a punishment.
Thanks
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- integrating with ridiculous legacy systems and protocols
- trying to figure out what exactly the customer wants when he doesn't even know himself
- hacking up a workaround for some bug in the latest OS/compiler/language du jour
You make many excellent points!
I have been coding for fun since I was 11, and didn't start getting paid for it until I was 21 (lazy, what can I say). But of all the jobs I've had in the EE/CS world, pure programming jobs are my least favorite.
In 6 years of professional coding I was never able start fresh with a plan or spec or at least definition before coding. It was always working on crusty old code that had been hacked on for years.
Personally, I would recommend that if you really like to code, don't do it for a living: find a job where you can use coding as a tool to other ends. A-la some sort of engineering... I chose computer architecture. I can use whatever OS I want, and engineer my own projects to get results. And no one knows that I spend 80% of my time writing my own code.
I think the biggest problem is that universities crank out programmers who really don't know how to program, or really want to. The result: tons of shitty code that really good programmers eventually have to fix. And as far as I can tell, only the most stalwart contractors really have the desire and brainpower to fix this stuff.
Anyway, code because you want to, not because you have to
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that only the poorly informed would seperate the instruction set from the architecture
if they're inseperable, why is there a K7 and P6? same instruction set, different architecture.
Sure. Links to numbers would be appreciated. Back your statements, rather than spouting opinion, please.
www.spec.org
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Anyone who refers to Mac as an acronym (MAC) should not be taken seriously. It shows their total lack of insight in the industry. Unless your are refering to an ethernet MAC address....
Oops, I meant "Mac", not "MAC". Am I insightful again?
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3)PPC is a next gen technology. x86 is yesterday's chip.
Please define "next gen" and why "x86" is yesterday's chip. Is the statement based on instruction set? No? Perhaps you meant archiecture? Hmm. That couldn't be your intent because of both AMD's Athlon and Intel's Wilamette are excellent x86 designs, which are severely cutting-edge. Sure they use the x86 instruction set, but they are deftly ahead of any PowerPC architecture. Of course you could point to the Altivac vector processor as an improvement, but it's not: it's a retrofit -- a coprocessor on die.
get SUPERIOR font and color handling...stuff Windows/Linux can not touch
Sarcasm aside, I'd like to know what MAC-only applications you are referring to in this statement.
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Your statement is ill-informed: SUN's 8MB is off-die. On die, UltraSPARC III has 64kB data cache, 32kB inst. cache, 2kB prefetch cache, anda 2kB write cache. Only the tags for the 8MB cache are on die. This is from ISSCC, but I don't know if the backside bus frequency is the same as the core. Doubtful. Don't know about G4.
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Ok, looks really artistic and professional: I really dig the translucent thing. But where is the value added? Every freakin' paradigm is still the same as Windows/MacOS/Motif/Fvwm/Solaris/Gnome, just fruitier!
...List or details? ..Your hilighted selection?
1. How do you like your Icons? Big or Small?
2.
3. What color do you want your background?
4.
5. What font should the icon text be?
6. What font should the window text be?
7. Do you fold or crumple your toilet paper?
Argh. Just once I'd like to see new GUI that demonstrates a FRACTION of the abstraction as measured by the delta between a CP/M command-line and the original Xerox desktop.
It's like pop music.
...but still... i can't resist those jolly candylike buttons...
URGE... TO... LICK... SCREEN... TOO... STRONG!!!
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