This late? Umm, they don't launch for 7 years, and aren't even in full production yet. This is EXACTLY when this type of change should be made, during the design process. If they were already in production and realized, oops, this thing shakes a lot, that would be late in the process.
Successful companies don't usually just pack it in and go home in market segments they've been in for a long time. Sure there are issues with some chipsets and certain features, but they're not going to just call it a day. Also, "failure to secure license"? So, what, Intel said "You can only make one bid to get a license," and nVidia failed and now quits? What about "ongoing negotiations"? This is for some IP, this isn't like the Yahoo-MS deal. It's in Intel's best interest to license QPI to nVidia, because it means more sales of Intel CPUs.
I don't usually comment on moderation, but I will this time. This guy should have been modded funny. Firefox started from zero, a dead stop. Don't talk about the Suite because as a Suite user, we had a couple million users tops. Firefox after 5 years is at hundreds of millions. IE started with Windows 95 and came bundled with 98, so that's a a couple hundred million without the user having to do ANYTHING, while they had to actively go and get Firefox. That's not inertia, that's active participation.
Firefox used to be better than IE, mostly because it had tabs. Now IE has tabs, and the playing field is level again.
See, this is laughable! Firefox is superior because of better security (and not just in raw numbers of holes, but used exploits, severity, etc), greater standards support, greater flexibility with extensions (which you said nary a one excited you, I'd think greasemonkey alone would be exciting for any geek), being a known quantity across platforms, open source, and yes, tabs.
Also, saying the playing field is level is laughable because while IE7 "has" tabs, the rest of the UI is a clusterfuck. One step forward, five steps back, and fourteen to the side.
Yeah, it's a public company, but if he really feels it's in the best interest of Yahoo's long term survival to stay independent from Microsoft (which it is) then YES it is ok he turned them down. He has NOT neglected his fiduciary duty to the company merely because this won't give Yahoo a big boost NOW. By looking out for the long term viability of the company he has an even STRONGER argument in his defense, because next quarter's numbers are irrelevant if the company folds, or is turned into a ghost of their former glory as a subsidiary, and his shareholders get crap in the end. I applaud him for NOT giving into the lethal tendency of business in this county to only look at next quarter's numbers, and instead do what's right for his company's (and thus shareholder's) long term interests. I'll gladly give up $40 a share now if it means I'll be worth 50 or 60 a share later. Just because most people wouldn't these days doesn't make them right.
Still isn't a "bug". It was never, "Oh shit, here, fix that line and poof, we're better with memory!" It was an entire set of circumstances that caused various paths to use memory in suboptimal ways, memory fragmentation, and a whole host of issues that took a lot of work in many areas to help make the code better with mem use. Further, it's not that Fx no longer "leaks" memory (which wasn't the root issue to start with), it's that Fx is all around more efficient with memory, and doesn't use as much to START with.
Actually, it's not that it's untrue, it's that he's confusing balanced with static. Everything in the universe is "balanced" in that there is the conservation of matter/energy, thermodynamics, etc. But that doesn't mean the universe is/static/, where in it stays the same all the time. Right now, we have ice caps because the global temp isn't hot enough to melt them. However, if Co2 rises more and the planet continues to warm, then it would be too warm to sustain such levels of ice, so in balance the ice melts. The heat energy is more balanced across the globe. But it's far from unchanging which is the critical point most (if not all) people who look at natural balances fair to see.
Thank you, you said everything I would have and more. There was a 20 year gap between the 3 and 4. We went from a rather healthy Republic to a very strong empire in a short time. Obviously the Republic's body was transformed (armies, gov't, etc), but there still was a change for the people etc. The formation of rebellion, was it truly a rebellion or was it merely some outlying remnants of the free Republic that the Empire CALLED "rebels" to frame them as outsiders against the Empire? Like you said, there is plenty of intrigue in that space, and plenty of things for Kenobi to run around to see/do so that the audience has familiar characters to hang on to. He's watching over Luke, that doesn't mean he's hiding behind a rock everywhere Luke goes. Luke's with his uncle, so surely Kenobi can take a few months here and there to keep an eye on the growing Empire, etc. As it stands, the transformation of Anakin to Vader was as flat as Hayden's acting.
Lucas was like Roddenberry, great ideas, but they need to let other more talented writers and such do the polishing of the raw stones into gems. When Gene was heavily involved in the early years of TNG, it was/terrible/, and I say this as a die hard trekkie. When his role was reduced, the show began to shine. all the facets of what Trek could be were able to be explored. And when untalented people got ahold of the franchise (most of Voyager, the first three seasons of Enterprise) it went into the toilet (Season 4 of ENT was genius, Manny Coto is one smart cookie). Same with Star Wars. I'm not a huge SW guy, but I liked the first three, and saw huge problems with the prequel set that a good editor and writer could have fixed very quickly.
Story wise, Episode 1 needed cut down to about 15 minutes of intro for Episode 2, which is now Episode 1. This is a common problem with movies and TV shows, in that too many writers think we need to be introed to our characters at the dawn of time. It's much better when we join the story already at a decent pace and get the background filled in along the way. This lets the viewer/reader get interested in what's happening without having to spend time in school learning about the history of our characters first. If we wanted school, we'd read a textbook. Also, kill the midichlorian crap, excise JarJar Binks. Midichlorians stole the wonder from The force and JarJar wasn't taht great a merchandising tool anyway, as I STILL see Ep1 crap at the local Big Lots.
Episode 3 is now Episode 2, except for the last 15 minutes or so. This should end when Kenobi leaves Whinykin, er, Anakin, truncated on the volcano. Ep3 picks up there and we spend the next 2 hours seeing the creation of Darth Vader and how he builds the Empire and WHY. Only knowing that can we truly appreciate him turning on the emperor in Ep6, and what it means for him to look on his son with is own eyes.
I'll be modded down to hell and back for this, but what the hell? What kind of gimpy eyes do so many people have that glossy screens "hurt" your eyes? I hear so many fellow geeks bitch about glossy screens as if they were stabbing daggers in their eyes. Do you people live in caves and need a screen that dulls the image so your mole-eyes aren't offended? Yes, low end crappy screens are glossy to mask problems, but spend a few extra bucks to get a GOOD screen and the gloss makes it shine literally and figuratively. As for glare, LCDs are FLAT. Do you have some giant spotlight behind you so that the screen manages to shine the spotlight DIRECTLY into your face? Don't give me excuses about glasses either, I wear glasses and find glare to be an easily manageable problem by focusing on the plane of the monitor rather than the reflected objects several times further distant.
But then, I don't have problems talking to girls either...
Let's see, there's A and B, mini-A, mini-B 5 pin, two variants of the 4 pin (yes, unrecognized but out there), Micro-A -B and -AB, now USB3 Standard A, USB3 New-A, USB New-B, USB3 Micro-B, USB3 optical links, oh, and all of the above in in male and female. A few more than 4.
You're on crack. Firefox is based on Gecko, the ground-up new engine started in late 1998. What you remember from the Netscape 4.x days is gone, dead, history. Very very very little original code from those days is left. 98% of Firefox code is new compared to Netscape 4.x. The entire architecture of the app is radically different than 4.x in that's it's relatively sane. Huge and complex, but sane. the Mozilla platform implements a lot more basic structures than NS4 did, to implement things like XPCOM, XUL, etc. Your comparison is way off base.
There are oil based paintings many centuries old, and archival quality paper is designed to last at least a thousand years. We have papyrus scrolls several millennia old. Some plastics are thought to have similar life times.
Well that's a valid argument. The only place on earth that by gov't fiat is radio quiet and patrolled by radio detectors can't use this new braodband scheme so let's trash the whole idea.
it's not an Achilles heel because most providers still charge to receive SMS as well as send them, so you're only escaping the send charge, not the other guy's receive fee.
I was looking up what "prior art" really means, and I found this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_to_file_and_first_to_invent A cursory Google search seems to reinforce that the US is NOT first-to-file but first-to-invent. So, my question is how the hell do people still get patents on things already invented? The smartphone has been around for a long time now, and this patents is just continuation after continuation after continuation. How does this stuff make it through? Are patent examiners REALLY so stupid as to not understand cell phones have been doing these things for YEARS? Do they even LOOK at applications anymore? I honestly don't understand this level of absurdity.
Gravity waves traveling faster than c doesn't have to mean causality is violated. Gravity waves are waves in the fabric of spacetime, the universe itself, not matter, so there's no violation there. Even if they're massless graviton particles, there doesn't have to be causality violations. You would detect the gravity wanes before you see the GRB, but not before it happened, necessarily.
Patents are strictly offensive weapons. The only way that a patent can protect you is if you can threaten to use it against then one that is suing you. Ok, you're wrong twice. A) You describe a DEFENSIVE weapon. You're using it to defend yourself, that's not an offensive weapon. B) Patents are both defensive AND offensive weapons. You can threaten or actually countersue based on your portfolio if you're sued for infringement, or you can be the first mover and sue for infringement.
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This late? Umm, they don't launch for 7 years, and aren't even in full production yet. This is EXACTLY when this type of change should be made, during the design process. If they were already in production and realized, oops, this thing shakes a lot, that would be late in the process.
Successful companies don't usually just pack it in and go home in market segments they've been in for a long time. Sure there are issues with some chipsets and certain features, but they're not going to just call it a day. Also, "failure to secure license"? So, what, Intel said "You can only make one bid to get a license," and nVidia failed and now quits? What about "ongoing negotiations"? This is for some IP, this isn't like the Yahoo-MS deal. It's in Intel's best interest to license QPI to nVidia, because it means more sales of Intel CPUs.
I know the guy that made these, and in Fx3 they really fly (no pun intended.
http://ctho.ath.cx.nyud.net:8080/toys/rollercoaster.html
http://ctho.ath.cx.nyud.net:8080/toys/3d.html
Real 3D stuff, too. Well, as real as you get on a 3d screen.
I don't usually comment on moderation, but I will this time. This guy should have been modded funny. Firefox started from zero, a dead stop. Don't talk about the Suite because as a Suite user, we had a couple million users tops. Firefox after 5 years is at hundreds of millions. IE started with Windows 95 and came bundled with 98, so that's a a couple hundred million without the user having to do ANYTHING, while they had to actively go and get Firefox. That's not inertia, that's active participation.
See, this is laughable! Firefox is superior because of better security (and not just in raw numbers of holes, but used exploits, severity, etc), greater standards support, greater flexibility with extensions (which you said nary a one excited you, I'd think greasemonkey alone would be exciting for any geek), being a known quantity across platforms, open source, and yes, tabs.
Also, saying the playing field is level is laughable because while IE7 "has" tabs, the rest of the UI is a clusterfuck. One step forward, five steps back, and fourteen to the side.
It says right in the EULA that it's not to be used in a nuclear power plant!
Yeah, it's a public company, but if he really feels it's in the best interest of Yahoo's long term survival to stay independent from Microsoft (which it is) then YES it is ok he turned them down. He has NOT neglected his fiduciary duty to the company merely because this won't give Yahoo a big boost NOW. By looking out for the long term viability of the company he has an even STRONGER argument in his defense, because next quarter's numbers are irrelevant if the company folds, or is turned into a ghost of their former glory as a subsidiary, and his shareholders get crap in the end. I applaud him for NOT giving into the lethal tendency of business in this county to only look at next quarter's numbers, and instead do what's right for his company's (and thus shareholder's) long term interests. I'll gladly give up $40 a share now if it means I'll be worth 50 or 60 a share later. Just because most people wouldn't these days doesn't make them right.
Still isn't a "bug". It was never, "Oh shit, here, fix that line and poof, we're better with memory!" It was an entire set of circumstances that caused various paths to use memory in suboptimal ways, memory fragmentation, and a whole host of issues that took a lot of work in many areas to help make the code better with mem use. Further, it's not that Fx no longer "leaks" memory (which wasn't the root issue to start with), it's that Fx is all around more efficient with memory, and doesn't use as much to START with.
Actually, it's not that it's untrue, it's that he's confusing balanced with static. Everything in the universe is "balanced" in that there is the conservation of matter/energy, thermodynamics, etc. But that doesn't mean the universe is /static/, where in it stays the same all the time. Right now, we have ice caps because the global temp isn't hot enough to melt them. However, if Co2 rises more and the planet continues to warm, then it would be too warm to sustain such levels of ice, so in balance the ice melts. The heat energy is more balanced across the globe. But it's far from unchanging which is the critical point most (if not all) people who look at natural balances fair to see.
Thank you, you said everything I would have and more. There was a 20 year gap between the 3 and 4. We went from a rather healthy Republic to a very strong empire in a short time. Obviously the Republic's body was transformed (armies, gov't, etc), but there still was a change for the people etc. The formation of rebellion, was it truly a rebellion or was it merely some outlying remnants of the free Republic that the Empire CALLED "rebels" to frame them as outsiders against the Empire? Like you said, there is plenty of intrigue in that space, and plenty of things for Kenobi to run around to see/do so that the audience has familiar characters to hang on to. He's watching over Luke, that doesn't mean he's hiding behind a rock everywhere Luke goes. Luke's with his uncle, so surely Kenobi can take a few months here and there to keep an eye on the growing Empire, etc. As it stands, the transformation of Anakin to Vader was as flat as Hayden's acting.
Lucas was like Roddenberry, great ideas, but they need to let other more talented writers and such do the polishing of the raw stones into gems. When Gene was heavily involved in the early years of TNG, it was /terrible/, and I say this as a die hard trekkie. When his role was reduced, the show began to shine. all the facets of what Trek could be were able to be explored. And when untalented people got ahold of the franchise (most of Voyager, the first three seasons of Enterprise) it went into the toilet (Season 4 of ENT was genius, Manny Coto is one smart cookie). Same with Star Wars. I'm not a huge SW guy, but I liked the first three, and saw huge problems with the prequel set that a good editor and writer could have fixed very quickly.
Story wise, Episode 1 needed cut down to about 15 minutes of intro for Episode 2, which is now Episode 1. This is a common problem with movies and TV shows, in that too many writers think we need to be introed to our characters at the dawn of time. It's much better when we join the story already at a decent pace and get the background filled in along the way. This lets the viewer/reader get interested in what's happening without having to spend time in school learning about the history of our characters first. If we wanted school, we'd read a textbook. Also, kill the midichlorian crap, excise JarJar Binks. Midichlorians stole the wonder from The force and JarJar wasn't taht great a merchandising tool anyway, as I STILL see Ep1 crap at the local Big Lots.
Episode 3 is now Episode 2, except for the last 15 minutes or so. This should end when Kenobi leaves Whinykin, er, Anakin, truncated on the volcano. Ep3 picks up there and we spend the next 2 hours seeing the creation of Darth Vader and how he builds the Empire and WHY. Only knowing that can we truly appreciate him turning on the emperor in Ep6, and what it means for him to look on his son with is own eyes.
Well then, you're obviously a murderer.
Solution: Put the politicians in Yucca mountain with the waste.
I'll be modded down to hell and back for this, but what the hell? What kind of gimpy eyes do so many people have that glossy screens "hurt" your eyes? I hear so many fellow geeks bitch about glossy screens as if they were stabbing daggers in their eyes. Do you people live in caves and need a screen that dulls the image so your mole-eyes aren't offended? Yes, low end crappy screens are glossy to mask problems, but spend a few extra bucks to get a GOOD screen and the gloss makes it shine literally and figuratively. As for glare, LCDs are FLAT. Do you have some giant spotlight behind you so that the screen manages to shine the spotlight DIRECTLY into your face? Don't give me excuses about glasses either, I wear glasses and find glare to be an easily manageable problem by focusing on the plane of the monitor rather than the reflected objects several times further distant. But then, I don't have problems talking to girls either...
This means rocket science is once again hard. You may now resume saying "Well, this isn't rocket science" until they solve this.
Let's see, there's A and B, mini-A, mini-B 5 pin, two variants of the 4 pin (yes, unrecognized but out there), Micro-A -B and -AB, now USB3 Standard A, USB3 New-A, USB New-B, USB3 Micro-B, USB3 optical links, oh, and all of the above in in male and female. A few more than 4.
You're on crack. Firefox is based on Gecko, the ground-up new engine started in late 1998. What you remember from the Netscape 4.x days is gone, dead, history. Very very very little original code from those days is left. 98% of Firefox code is new compared to Netscape 4.x. The entire architecture of the app is radically different than 4.x in that's it's relatively sane. Huge and complex, but sane. the Mozilla platform implements a lot more basic structures than NS4 did, to implement things like XPCOM, XUL, etc. Your comparison is way off base.
Quantum Wikipedia is of immeasurable quality.
There are oil based paintings many centuries old, and archival quality paper is designed to last at least a thousand years. We have papyrus scrolls several millennia old. Some plastics are thought to have similar life times.
Where in PA? My dad worked on the design and construction phase of Beaver's Unit 1 plant.
Everyone knows cubits are longer when you're measuring something around, and shorter when you're measuring straight across.
Well that's a valid argument. The only place on earth that by gov't fiat is radio quiet and patrolled by radio detectors can't use this new braodband scheme so let's trash the whole idea.
it's not an Achilles heel because most providers still charge to receive SMS as well as send them, so you're only escaping the send charge, not the other guy's receive fee.
I was looking up what "prior art" really means, and I found this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_to_file_and_first_to_invent
A cursory Google search seems to reinforce that the US is NOT first-to-file but first-to-invent. So, my question is how the hell do people still get patents on things already invented? The smartphone has been around for a long time now, and this patents is just continuation after continuation after continuation. How does this stuff make it through? Are patent examiners REALLY so stupid as to not understand cell phones have been doing these things for YEARS? Do they even LOOK at applications anymore? I honestly don't understand this level of absurdity.
Gravity waves traveling faster than c doesn't have to mean causality is violated. Gravity waves are waves in the fabric of spacetime, the universe itself, not matter, so there's no violation there. Even if they're massless graviton particles, there doesn't have to be causality violations. You would detect the gravity wanes before you see the GRB, but not before it happened, necessarily.