Actually, you're wrong on your first point - Gamecube is second in worldwide sales, with Xbox taking third (it's close, though). GC sold 13.94 million units as of the end of 2003, while Xbox sold 13.7 million units. You can read more about it here. I fully agree with your other two points, though.
Well, while the addition of a garbage collection mechanism sounds appealing, it also sounds a little bit scarey when dealing with low-level code. Additionally, D has no macro preprocessing. I know some people out there consider this a feature, others will consider it a failing. However, I do think it's awesome in that it has STL-like data structures somewhat built in - STL saves a ton of time and code, regardless of whether or not you like it.
So was the term "frameworks" coined at Taligent? I couldn't determine from the story. For those of you that don't know, a framework is like a library bundled with the headers, and so instead of installing multiple objects (the library file(s), the headers, etc.) you can just copy over one framework and have the same functionality. Pretty clever actually. Never knew where the name came from, though.
Additionally, if you go here you will see legal speak about why it's not illegal to host other peoples' comments no matter how bad they are. To quote the link, It sounds as though you're familiar with 47 USC Section 230, the federal law that permits many entities to "host" other people's content without being liable for defamation/libel etc. "By its plain language, 230 creates a federal immunity to any cause of action that would make service providers liable for information originating with a third-party user of the service." Zeran v. AOL, 129 F.3d 327, 330 (4th Cir. 1997).
At one point in my life, I thought porn was disgusting, as was sex and all that stuff. As I grew a little older, all that changed. I feel that if the kids are old enough to want to look at porn, they're probably at the right age to look at stuff like that.
The electoral college. It made great sense even up until the late 1900's, but now with communication as fast as it is, it just isn't necessary. Why should my vote count any less than another citizen in California? It shouldn't. The basic idea is this: your state gets a certain number of electoral votes. Let's say you vote for X, who receives 45% of the votes, and loses to Y, who gets 55%. Your state's representatives at the electoral college give all of their votes to Y, and your vote doesn't count for a thing. I say to hell with the electoral college. One citizen's vote is just as good as any other citizen's vote.
Daniel M. Frommelt is the University World Wide Web Coordinator at the University of Wisconsin - Platteville, an executive committee member of the Campus Web Council of Wisconsin, and a web standards advocate. Daniel spends his free time brewing beer.
A good website to check out is selectsmart.com. It tells you candidate who best represents you. It told me stuff I value lends itself well to the democratic party, as the top three recommendations for me were democrats.
Yeah, 80% on _128_ machines... The more machines you add into the cluster, the more synchronization and locking you have to do. On a 2-way machine, that's nothing. As more and more CPUs compete for the same resources, though, contention becomes a huge problem, and the percentage of useful work continually goes down.
I don't think the ArsTechnica report said that the implementation was supposed to be worse - just that it was more of a hack. Just because something is a hack doesn't necessarily mean it can't perform well. In fact, most hacks are done for none other than performance reasons.
Well, considering the rocket will never really be blocked by anything (i.e. it will never be outside of "line of sight"), everything should work out well. Still, though, I'm not sure if any wireless card has a range of 50,000+ feet!
Isn't this approaching what the Matrix actually is? If you built a game which was real enough so that everything you did interacted with it, couldn't you just plug someone into this game from birth? How could you tell the difference? If you blow on a feather, and the feather moves away from you, if you didn't know you were in a game, how could anyone ever tell the difference?
Why do we need another mail standard? IMAP is pretty damn good. No one uses it yet, though... At least not a majority of people. POP is easier to set up and maintain, and is less tolling on the mailserver so a lot of ISPs/colleges go with that. But if IMAP hasn't become standard yet, why create another?
You would have seen the part where they mentioned that the song Dr. Dre is being charged with sampling has been sampled by other artists 80+ times. I think the copyright owners looked the other way with all of those other artists, but heard the Dr. Dre album and didn't like it, and decided to sue him. Targeting rappers for ripping you off makes sense to me, while not suing someone who uses your work in a way that you like is kind of hypocritical. But hey, that's the way our legal system works.
Well, if they could get the number of vendors that offer this type of memory to increase, then they could lower the price enough to make it cost effective. Also, this would make it great for sites that benchmark various video cards - making all of the video cards have the same/very similar types and speeds of memory would be excellent for comparison.
In the article, it said "...AMD links memory directly to each CPU", which right off the bat makes me think NUMA (Non Uniform Memory Access). NUMA machines are made up of nodes, which have a processor or two, and a bank of local memory. But one CPU can access any memory in the system, it just takes longer if it isn't local - hence the name NUMA. Did anyone else get that impression?
When I was an intern at Intel (summer 2000), I attended a small presentation at the end of the summer where they pitched 64-bit computing. One of the questions at the end was when it will be available on the desktop, and the answer, amazingly enough, was that it wouldn't be in the foreseeable future. And I'm just sitting there thinking "Bad move". Because they completely ruled out the geek factor. So I'm glad AMD is there to clean up after Intel's mistakes, and offer us a 64-bit desktop solution.
How about Shor's algorithm? As useful quantum computing gets closer to reality every day, undoubtedly quantum algorithms such as Shor's will become increasingly more important.
That if the user clicked on the link to download the hqx, that he would have run it after it finished downloading anyway? If I click something to download, at that point it really doesn't matter whether the browser runs it or I do.
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One of my professors this semester assigned a project comparing and contrasting the views of Joy, Dertouzos, and Kurzweil. The following articles shed some light about each one's perspective, respectively.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html
http://www.lcs.mit.edu/about/reason.html
http://www.lcs.mit.edu/about/kurzweil.html
Actually, you're wrong on your first point - Gamecube is second in worldwide sales, with Xbox taking third (it's close, though). GC sold 13.94 million units as of the end of 2003, while Xbox sold 13.7 million units. You can read more about it here. I fully agree with your other two points, though.
Well, while the addition of a garbage collection mechanism sounds appealing, it also sounds a little bit scarey when dealing with low-level code. Additionally, D has no macro preprocessing. I know some people out there consider this a feature, others will consider it a failing. However, I do think it's awesome in that it has STL-like data structures somewhat built in - STL saves a ton of time and code, regardless of whether or not you like it.
So was the term "frameworks" coined at Taligent? I couldn't determine from the story. For those of you that don't know, a framework is like a library bundled with the headers, and so instead of installing multiple objects (the library file(s), the headers, etc.) you can just copy over one framework and have the same functionality. Pretty clever actually. Never knew where the name came from, though.
Additionally, if you go here you will see legal speak about why it's not illegal to host other peoples' comments no matter how bad they are. To quote the link,
It sounds as though you're familiar with 47 USC Section 230, the federal law that permits many entities to "host" other people's content without being liable for defamation/libel etc. "By its plain language, 230 creates a federal immunity to any cause of action that would make service providers liable for information originating with a third-party user of the service." Zeran v. AOL, 129 F.3d 327, 330 (4th Cir. 1997).
At one point in my life, I thought porn was disgusting, as was sex and all that stuff. As I grew a little older, all that changed. I feel that if the kids are old enough to want to look at porn, they're probably at the right age to look at stuff like that.
The electoral college. It made great sense even up until the late 1900's, but now with communication as fast as it is, it just isn't necessary. Why should my vote count any less than another citizen in California? It shouldn't. The basic idea is this: your state gets a certain number of electoral votes. Let's say you vote for X, who receives 45% of the votes, and loses to Y, who gets 55%. Your state's representatives at the electoral college give all of their votes to Y, and your vote doesn't count for a thing. I say to hell with the electoral college. One citizen's vote is just as good as any other citizen's vote.
Daniel M. Frommelt is the University World Wide Web Coordinator at the University of Wisconsin - Platteville, an executive committee member of the Campus Web Council of Wisconsin, and a web standards advocate. Daniel spends his free time brewing beer.
I like the guy already.
Arima, as pointed out in this article. It says here that Walmart has already placed an order for 100,000 notebooks for their test-run.
A good website to check out is selectsmart.com. It tells you candidate who best represents you. It told me stuff I value lends itself well to the democratic party, as the top three recommendations for me were democrats.
Yeah, 80% on _128_ machines... The more machines you add into the cluster, the more synchronization and locking you have to do. On a 2-way machine, that's nothing. As more and more CPUs compete for the same resources, though, contention becomes a huge problem, and the percentage of useful work continually goes down.
The little parody that took the web by storm a few years ago is right here. Click on the two video links in the left bar. Go check it out!
Hey Balmer, I have four words for you:
"I
love
sweaty
pitstains".
Gross man.
I don't think the ArsTechnica report said that the implementation was supposed to be worse - just that it was more of a hack. Just because something is a hack doesn't necessarily mean it can't perform well. In fact, most hacks are done for none other than performance reasons.
Well, considering the rocket will never really be blocked by anything (i.e. it will never be outside of "line of sight"), everything should work out well. Still, though, I'm not sure if any wireless card has a range of 50,000+ feet!
Isn't this approaching what the Matrix actually is? If you built a game which was real enough so that everything you did interacted with it, couldn't you just plug someone into this game from birth? How could you tell the difference? If you blow on a feather, and the feather moves away from you, if you didn't know you were in a game, how could anyone ever tell the difference?
DVDs without scratches and no need to return the movie... Why didn't someone think of this sooner?
Why do we need another mail standard? IMAP is pretty damn good. No one uses it yet, though... At least not a majority of people. POP is easier to set up and maintain, and is less tolling on the mailserver so a lot of ISPs/colleges go with that. But if IMAP hasn't become standard yet, why create another?
You would have seen the part where they mentioned that the song Dr. Dre is being charged with sampling has been sampled by other artists 80+ times. I think the copyright owners looked the other way with all of those other artists, but heard the Dr. Dre album and didn't like it, and decided to sue him. Targeting rappers for ripping you off makes sense to me, while not suing someone who uses your work in a way that you like is kind of hypocritical. But hey, that's the way our legal system works.
Well, if they could get the number of vendors that offer this type of memory to increase, then they could lower the price enough to make it cost effective. Also, this would make it great for sites that benchmark various video cards - making all of the video cards have the same/very similar types and speeds of memory would be excellent for comparison.
In the article, it said "...AMD links memory directly to each CPU", which right off the bat makes me think NUMA (Non Uniform Memory Access). NUMA machines are made up of nodes, which have a processor or two, and a bank of local memory. But one CPU can access any memory in the system, it just takes longer if it isn't local - hence the name NUMA. Did anyone else get that impression?
When I was an intern at Intel (summer 2000), I attended a small presentation at the end of the summer where they pitched 64-bit computing. One of the questions at the end was when it will be available on the desktop, and the answer, amazingly enough, was that it wouldn't be in the foreseeable future. And I'm just sitting there thinking "Bad move". Because they completely ruled out the geek factor. So I'm glad AMD is there to clean up after Intel's mistakes, and offer us a 64-bit desktop solution.
How about Shor's algorithm? As useful quantum computing gets closer to reality every day, undoubtedly quantum algorithms such as Shor's will become increasingly more important.
That if the user clicked on the link to download the hqx, that he would have run it after it finished downloading anyway? If I click something to download, at that point it really doesn't matter whether the browser runs it or I do.
Or maybe just the script.
The fake trailer was just too much of a tease!
-Justin
PS
If it's not too much trouble, a geek girl would be
nice, too.