Something tells me that the nVidia NForce chipset helped out in a few of those benchmarks. Still, the Athlon is quite impressive, and I have heard it will overclock all the way to 2.6 GHz.
I happen to be a young programmer. Before this I was a young tech. In the first case I was given a little, and allowed to grow to my full potential (many people were encouraging me to go full time from what was a summer position). I decided that I wanted to become a programmer, and so far I've been given progressively more interesting and important work with every assignment. At first I was worried what would happen, not because of descrimination, but because of my lack of corporate experience. Again, my coworkers have been very helpful, and I find myself able to reach my full potential.
Yeah, but the assumption that this would be deployed in an office environment would lead you to believe that the consumer is a network admin, who undoubtably knows what a VPN is. Put that admin in a software development shop (such as the one that I work in) and you're dealing with an admin whose system already does everything that this puppy could supposedly do for you and more.
I love how many of these laws have that "if a computer is involved." Going on.
There is a whole section dedicated to kiddie porn.
I suppose that it's worse when some HS kid hits an IRC room for underage pics (even though he's underage), than when some dirty old man passes around polaroids.
You're talking about a bust on a money laundering front for terrorists. The government's been watching these people for a good while. I doubt that they got this wrong.
Good for Somalia. The US took action against a company, not the country, just because it happens to be the only provider in that country doesn't make them any different. Do you think that the US Government shouldnt' split MS since the public thinks they're the only thing on the desktop?
Just shitlist any site that is obviously reaching for hits? If a porn site has the words "Alan Turing" in its metadata and doesn't mention anything about Turing later in the site, list them as not being allowed to participate in your search.
Hell, an engine that did that would almost be useful.
Another cause of this is, not to be offensive to anybody out there, the heterogenous nature of the talent in the open source community.
My experience has been that unless I knew the people that I tried to develop with something ahead of time (IE, someone I chatted with regularly on perlmonks or irc or something), the odds were that I would end up with a few really talented people and a lot of people with little talent (but much ego), and a rather precarious social situation.
In the end it comes down to a shutdown in progress so as not to bruise any egos. Eventually with everybody packing up and going home.
Also, since nobody closese, scraps, and deletes projects on sourceforge, there are a good number that are just out there for the web space that will never actually change again, or that failed long ago that were never removed.
Threading - It has been my experience that since various operating systems handle threads differently, your thread behavior will be slightly different on each OS, however, the threading code will remain the same. This code should be portable with no problems as long as you do it in a standard (ANSI, ISO that is) kind of way. The only problems that may come up are timing issues, but these are easily solvable (like a day of labor for a real brain stinger), and rarely come up as long as you didn't do anything unorthodox.
Network - Again, as long as you don't do anything funky, and just use portable ansi/iso code, socket programming shouldn't pose a problem. Dont' go below port 1024 if your program won't run with root permissions, as many *nix's will only let root access those ports.
Serial - Ok, this could be a nightmare, find a good library.
You should know that most jobs that ask for a CS degree have little to do with computer science anyway. Just start browsing through your local IT job listings and start picking. A lot of the jobs are looking for photoshop and graphics arts capabilities for websites, or other business jobs rather than CS jobs.
Personally, I think that there was a breakdown in communication between rambus and intel, and that with everybody looking out for their own interests and the interest of meeting deadlines, things just got a little out of hand.
I'm waiting for the PV (unless my PIII starts bugging me too much before that), the PIV line is just too plagued for me to touch. Which of course is not Intel's fault and all, but who cares? Maybe if I find a REAL STEAL on eBay.
First let me say that I am a Linux user and an open source advovate.
Now let me compare this to a judge I once met, who said that men have more tickets in general, but women always follow too close.
This is interesting, but if we further evaluate, one could conclude that women are just as bad (equally so), but perhaps people were lighter on them along the way. A police officer might have let her off, and so forth (this isn't to sound mysogynist of course, but I know women who get let off all of the time).
Instead, following too close is an easy prelude to... an accident. After all, when your bumpers are crushed together, you're too close.
Now think of error handling. "Open Souce Software handles errors poorly," is another way of saying that it too crashes a lot. Perhaps other people get caught for other things, but we only rag on open source when it crashes.
This isn't to say ALL open source software though.... but lets be perfectly honest. Programming is a difficult profession that a lot of people think they can just pick up. How many people would volunteer to do surgery without med school because they read a book on the subject? How many people get offended when you flash some important programming credentials in front of them that they don't have?
The trick is sifting the wheat from the chaff. Sure, a 14 year old with a little ambition can whip up a pretty impressive looking windowed program in X... but he doesn't have the sophistication of a well educated programmer... generally. There are plenty of good programmers and bad programmers in open source. The key is to know whats good and whats bad. If you can't figure that out, then buy a distro made by people who do.
If we are to live in the land of the free and the home of the brave. We should exercise another of our freedoms to protect what we hold so dear. Few Americans know that this was passed or understand what it implies.
I have never organized a protest before, but I will gladly stand next to whoever does to protest this act.
If my product line was about to become illegal and wasn't selling well to begin with. I'd sell to the highest bidder too (and I'm sure it will sell high).
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Something tells me that the nVidia NForce chipset helped out in a few of those benchmarks. Still, the Athlon is quite impressive, and I have heard it will overclock all the way to 2.6 GHz.
I happen to be a young programmer. Before this I was a young tech. In the first case I was given a little, and allowed to grow to my full potential (many people were encouraging me to go full time from what was a summer position). I decided that I wanted to become a programmer, and so far I've been given progressively more interesting and important work with every assignment. At first I was worried what would happen, not because of descrimination, but because of my lack of corporate experience. Again, my coworkers have been very helpful, and I find myself able to reach my full potential.
Yeah, but the assumption that this would be deployed in an office environment would lead you to believe that the consumer is a network admin, who undoubtably knows what a VPN is. Put that admin in a software development shop (such as the one that I work in) and you're dealing with an admin whose system already does everything that this puppy could supposedly do for you and more.
Does that make someone who writes only HTML a programmer?
I rather dislike web based services... but if anybody is considering such a solution. You can get a pop account at tfz.net www.tfz.net.
What with the domain portion of our e-mail addresses be?
This is a war. Would people be bitching and moaning if Somalia was in war and cut a supply off to us?
*cough cough*
OIL
*cough cough*
I love how many of these laws have that "if a computer is involved." Going on.
There is a whole section dedicated to kiddie porn.
I suppose that it's worse when some HS kid hits an IRC room for underage pics (even though he's underage), than when some dirty old man passes around polaroids.
You're talking about a bust on a money laundering front for terrorists. The government's been watching these people for a good while. I doubt that they got this wrong.
Good for Somalia. The US took action against a company, not the country, just because it happens to be the only provider in that country doesn't make them any different. Do you think that the US Government shouldnt' split MS since the public thinks they're the only thing on the desktop?
Just shitlist any site that is obviously reaching for hits? If a porn site has the words "Alan Turing" in its metadata and doesn't mention anything about Turing later in the site, list them as not being allowed to participate in your search.
Hell, an engine that did that would almost be useful.
*cough cough*
Actually, I was referring to the article.
Let me be blunt.
Never serve me anything that includes semen as an ingredient.
I seem to remember insulting food by saying that's an incredient, now they want to squeeze sea urchins for it.
Another cause of this is, not to be offensive to anybody out there, the heterogenous nature of the talent in the open source community.
My experience has been that unless I knew the people that I tried to develop with something ahead of time (IE, someone I chatted with regularly on perlmonks or irc or something), the odds were that I would end up with a few really talented people and a lot of people with little talent (but much ego), and a rather precarious social situation.
In the end it comes down to a shutdown in progress so as not to bruise any egos. Eventually with everybody packing up and going home.
Also, since nobody closese, scraps, and deletes projects on sourceforge, there are a good number that are just out there for the web space that will never actually change again, or that failed long ago that were never removed.
Oh well, it's still a good system.
Wow, odd. I suppose that it makes sense to form a standard surrounding graphics formats to be used in web documents.
While I'm not debating your view. I would like to make the observation that png is not a web standard, it is an image format.
Threading - It has been my experience that since various operating systems handle threads differently, your thread behavior will be slightly different on each OS, however, the threading code will remain the same. This code should be portable with no problems as long as you do it in a standard (ANSI, ISO that is) kind of way. The only problems that may come up are timing issues, but these are easily solvable (like a day of labor for a real brain stinger), and rarely come up as long as you didn't do anything unorthodox.
Network - Again, as long as you don't do anything funky, and just use portable ansi/iso code, socket programming shouldn't pose a problem. Dont' go below port 1024 if your program won't run with root permissions, as many *nix's will only let root access those ports.
Serial - Ok, this could be a nightmare, find a good library.
You should know that most jobs that ask for a CS degree have little to do with computer science anyway. Just start browsing through your local IT job listings and start picking. A lot of the jobs are looking for photoshop and graphics arts capabilities for websites, or other business jobs rather than CS jobs.
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Personally, I think that there was a breakdown in communication between rambus and intel, and that with everybody looking out for their own interests and the interest of meeting deadlines, things just got a little out of hand.
I'm waiting for the PV (unless my PIII starts bugging me too much before that), the PIV line is just too plagued for me to touch. Which of course is not Intel's fault and all, but who cares? Maybe if I find a REAL STEAL on eBay.
First let me say that I am a Linux user and an open source advovate.
Now let me compare this to a judge I once met, who said that men have more tickets in general, but women always follow too close.
This is interesting, but if we further evaluate, one could conclude that women are just as bad (equally so), but perhaps people were lighter on them along the way. A police officer might have let her off, and so forth (this isn't to sound mysogynist of course, but I know women who get let off all of the time).
Instead, following too close is an easy prelude to... an accident. After all, when your bumpers are crushed together, you're too close.
Now think of error handling. "Open Souce Software handles errors poorly," is another way of saying that it too crashes a lot. Perhaps other people get caught for other things, but we only rag on open source when it crashes.
This isn't to say ALL open source software though.... but lets be perfectly honest. Programming is a difficult profession that a lot of people think they can just pick up. How many people would volunteer to do surgery without med school because they read a book on the subject? How many people get offended when you flash some important programming credentials in front of them that they don't have?
The trick is sifting the wheat from the chaff. Sure, a 14 year old with a little ambition can whip up a pretty impressive looking windowed program in X... but he doesn't have the sophistication of a well educated programmer... generally. There are plenty of good programmers and bad programmers in open source. The key is to know whats good and whats bad. If you can't figure that out, then buy a distro made by people who do.
After all, he plays quirky engineers in movies.
He DID save the world from aliens after all!
If we are to live in the land of the free and the home of the brave. We should exercise another of our freedoms to protect what we hold so dear. Few Americans know that this was passed or understand what it implies.
I have never organized a protest before, but I will gladly stand next to whoever does to protest this act.
If my product line was about to become illegal and wasn't selling well to begin with. I'd sell to the highest bidder too (and I'm sure it will sell high).