NT was actually more stable on Alpha than it ever was on x86...
Alpha NT was the best you could get at the time for Windows, but the FX86 or whatever software DEC offered to translate x86 to AXP can be very annoying, and after a while, not worth the additional hardware stability. The main benefit I got was that because I couldn't play very many games worth a damn, it got me off the game upgrade cycle so the computer lasted me eight years before I gave up, instead of two before I wanted to do major upgrades for the next game. I replaced it with a used Intel-based workstation, I've found that and succeeding workstations to be pretty much as stable. Maybe the lesson was to buy well-engineered and well-built components with good drivers.
I don't know about you, but electric cars aren't everywhere. I don't recall ever having seen a fully electric car on the road yet, the closest being a gas-electric Prius.
I don't know if software can solve this problem if it pulls down the voltage rails so much that the CPU doesn't operate reliably, remember, it is causing stalls and reboots. They probably would have to change hardware to add more robust power protection to those connectors.
Learn Pascal, and C is more like Pascal without the safety harness.
That's my impression too. Pascal is more typing and has fewer obtuse symbols, but the structure was so similar that it felt like just string replacements could could turn it into C code. It was possible to make useful applications in it if you actually wanted to.
There is very much a place for a class to teach typing, basic windowing interfaces, Office, etc., but calling it computer science is a stretch. My high school put typing, Word, Powerpoint kind of classes in a category called "computer application", which I think is reasonably descriptive.
I recall a story several years ago when one of the biggest group of people suckered by these scams were accountants and people in similar financial professions. In short, the people that are in a position to know better than anyone else, but they're more likely to be suckered by the 409 type of scam.
With your asbestos example, I think the connection is pretty clear, the anti-aging connection was assumed in the case of anti-oxidants, with (apparently) little effort to investigate to confirm the hypothesis.
I never did really understand the claims for anti-oxidants, it was always a vague argument from anti-oxidant proponents and food product packages. I'm sure they're good, but when people just go overboard on anything, it's usually not a good thing.
Something else to add, someone above posted links to instructions on how to make your own DIY CNC mill for $600 in parts. That might be worth it if you like to tinker. It gets you started. I wish it offered alternative parts for servomotor control rather than steppers though.
The thing is, investors want the value of their investments to grow. No growth means their share price isn't rising, some people call that stagnant. Stock traders just don't like that. Businesses can give dividends, but dividends are taxable under income tax rates and not the lower capital gains rates.
The think is, I don't think Anonymous needs popular support, so the PR tactic probably won't work. It's not like they need any kind of centralized funding, management or any of that, you just need several (hundred? thousand?) people that are are willing to go along with the idea.
You would need to have a customer base large enough to justify making it work in Linux. By every count I've seen, the number of Linux computers on the web as clients is a tenth of that of Macs, so I wouldn't hold my breath either.
One woman on Science Friday interview said something that throws it off is that when the US collects its numbers, it weighs the people sampled. In other countries, often they just ask, and people tend to give a number that's probably off by several percent. This might have changed in the last year or so, I don't know.
The free market retort doesn't work because cable companies have a government-granted monopoly on that technology. Even if someone wanted to, in most areas, they can't legally start a competing cable service, it has to use a different technology, so you're not going to have real like-for-like competition, you're not going to have DSL-for-DSL or cable vs. cable competition in the same area in most places. Fiber is faster, but you're also starting out the gate with a much more expensive system to lay.
Sounds sloppy to me. Doesn't the lack of a cease-and-desist give an opening to the defense to have the suit dismissed? The legal system is more about procedure than anything else, so not following procedure can really set you back if the other side catches on to it.
I don't know if education works optimally unless people have to earn the opportunity for an education, not just offering a way to earn a degree. You can give people tuition and they'll go, but if they don't have an appreciation for the cost of what they've been given, they're likely to spend as much of the time as possible partying, squandering the opportunity they've been given.
[quote]Granted, you would need to know how to make your own 3D toolpaths, but that is not, strictly speaking, terribly hard.[/quote]
There's quite a bit of complexity involved in making a program to generate 3D toolpaths for CNC machining. At one time, I thought so and started analyzing the problem in making software to make a tool path from a part file, but eventually realized that it wasn't a problem I wanted to deal with. I wish it were easy.
I don't think the Kinect is going to have anywhere near the precision that you'd want for replicating parts. You're probably right on stereoscoptic analysys software, provided you have good quality cameras and a good setup, though I suspect the tolerances might not be there, depending on what you're looking to do.
Then there's the question of where you get the original part. If you're replacing a broken part, then you need to fix it up well enough to get a part scan, or scan it in and fix it up in a modeling program. Hopefully the damage isn't severe enough to provide a distorted, out of tolerance scan.
It seems to me that they could use "legacy compatible" keyboards and let everyone else go on their merry way. I don't see the need to have it on a netbook when retail point of sale doesn't use netbooks. When you're designing a netbook, you really do need to take a very hard look at everything to make sure it's necessary, because there is so little space to be had.
In all fairness though, I'd say there are too many mobile apps on many platforms that are really just a media redistribution app for a single media business, which is what this is. Having a native app that displays articles and images fetched from the internet seems a little contrived when there is a web browser built into the device. It's very different from games and other software that need local resources to a greater degree than can be used from a web page.
That's an ideal, but I just don't see it. Given how flagrant and shameless this man sounded, I'd be skeptical of any repentance if it was ever made. Feigned repentance is usually a con's way of trying to get out of being punished.
The analogy doesn't quite fit though, because in the highway analogy, cops need to defend themselves immediately, they don't have much, if any time to plan what to do, they have to fall back to training and experience and handle the situation immediately.
When you have a standing house, they can take the time and plan the response. I'm not convinced that they're even making the best choices here, it's probably the most convenient choices. I do realize that I probably don't have all the information, nor an I an expert, but I've seen enough bungling on the part of large bureaucratic organizations, be it corporate or government, that I understand that they should not be trusted by their words.
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NT was actually more stable on Alpha than it ever was on x86...
Alpha NT was the best you could get at the time for Windows, but the FX86 or whatever software DEC offered to translate x86 to AXP can be very annoying, and after a while, not worth the additional hardware stability. The main benefit I got was that because I couldn't play very many games worth a damn, it got me off the game upgrade cycle so the computer lasted me eight years before I gave up, instead of two before I wanted to do major upgrades for the next game. I replaced it with a used Intel-based workstation, I've found that and succeeding workstations to be pretty much as stable. Maybe the lesson was to buy well-engineered and well-built components with good drivers.
The sad thing is Slashdot got "scooped" by a newspaper on a tech story.
I don't know about you, but electric cars aren't everywhere. I don't recall ever having seen a fully electric car on the road yet, the closest being a gas-electric Prius.
I don't know if software can solve this problem if it pulls down the voltage rails so much that the CPU doesn't operate reliably, remember, it is causing stalls and reboots. They probably would have to change hardware to add more robust power protection to those connectors.
Learn Pascal, and C is more like Pascal without the safety harness.
That's my impression too. Pascal is more typing and has fewer obtuse symbols, but the structure was so similar that it felt like just string replacements could could turn it into C code. It was possible to make useful applications in it if you actually wanted to.
There is very much a place for a class to teach typing, basic windowing interfaces, Office, etc., but calling it computer science is a stretch. My high school put typing, Word, Powerpoint kind of classes in a category called "computer application", which I think is reasonably descriptive.
I recall a story several years ago when one of the biggest group of people suckered by these scams were accountants and people in similar financial professions. In short, the people that are in a position to know better than anyone else, but they're more likely to be suckered by the 409 type of scam.
With your asbestos example, I think the connection is pretty clear, the anti-aging connection was assumed in the case of anti-oxidants, with (apparently) little effort to investigate to confirm the hypothesis.
I never did really understand the claims for anti-oxidants, it was always a vague argument from anti-oxidant proponents and food product packages. I'm sure they're good, but when people just go overboard on anything, it's usually not a good thing.
Something else to add, someone above posted links to instructions on how to make your own DIY CNC mill for $600 in parts. That might be worth it if you like to tinker. It gets you started. I wish it offered alternative parts for servomotor control rather than steppers though.
Sure, I'll just pull out my $21,000.00 mill... oh...
I've paid about a third less for a production CNC machine, used. But a new one often starts at twice your figure if it's any good.
The thing is, investors want the value of their investments to grow. No growth means their share price isn't rising, some people call that stagnant. Stock traders just don't like that. Businesses can give dividends, but dividends are taxable under income tax rates and not the lower capital gains rates.
The think is, I don't think Anonymous needs popular support, so the PR tactic probably won't work. It's not like they need any kind of centralized funding, management or any of that, you just need several (hundred? thousand?) people that are are willing to go along with the idea.
You would need to have a customer base large enough to justify making it work in Linux. By every count I've seen, the number of Linux computers on the web as clients is a tenth of that of Macs, so I wouldn't hold my breath either.
I heard that a lot, it's worth checking. At the very least, I didn't find it on Snopes.
It's just USA Today, but this is what I found so far:
http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/2003-09-16-cleancar_x.htm
One woman on Science Friday interview said something that throws it off is that when the US collects its numbers, it weighs the people sampled. In other countries, often they just ask, and people tend to give a number that's probably off by several percent. This might have changed in the last year or so, I don't know.
The free market retort doesn't work because cable companies have a government-granted monopoly on that technology. Even if someone wanted to, in most areas, they can't legally start a competing cable service, it has to use a different technology, so you're not going to have real like-for-like competition, you're not going to have DSL-for-DSL or cable vs. cable competition in the same area in most places. Fiber is faster, but you're also starting out the gate with a much more expensive system to lay.
Sounds sloppy to me. Doesn't the lack of a cease-and-desist give an opening to the defense to have the suit dismissed? The legal system is more about procedure than anything else, so not following procedure can really set you back if the other side catches on to it.
I don't know if education works optimally unless people have to earn the opportunity for an education, not just offering a way to earn a degree. You can give people tuition and they'll go, but if they don't have an appreciation for the cost of what they've been given, they're likely to spend as much of the time as possible partying, squandering the opportunity they've been given.
[quote]Granted, you would need to know how to make your own 3D toolpaths, but that is not, strictly speaking, terribly hard.[/quote]
There's quite a bit of complexity involved in making a program to generate 3D toolpaths for CNC machining. At one time, I thought so and started analyzing the problem in making software to make a tool path from a part file, but eventually realized that it wasn't a problem I wanted to deal with. I wish it were easy.
I don't think the Kinect is going to have anywhere near the precision that you'd want for replicating parts. You're probably right on stereoscoptic analysys software, provided you have good quality cameras and a good setup, though I suspect the tolerances might not be there, depending on what you're looking to do.
Then there's the question of where you get the original part. If you're replacing a broken part, then you need to fix it up well enough to get a part scan, or scan it in and fix it up in a modeling program. Hopefully the damage isn't severe enough to provide a distorted, out of tolerance scan.
It seems to me that they could use "legacy compatible" keyboards and let everyone else go on their merry way. I don't see the need to have it on a netbook when retail point of sale doesn't use netbooks. When you're designing a netbook, you really do need to take a very hard look at everything to make sure it's necessary, because there is so little space to be had.
In all fairness though, I'd say there are too many mobile apps on many platforms that are really just a media redistribution app for a single media business, which is what this is. Having a native app that displays articles and images fetched from the internet seems a little contrived when there is a web browser built into the device. It's very different from games and other software that need local resources to a greater degree than can be used from a web page.
That's an ideal, but I just don't see it. Given how flagrant and shameless this man sounded, I'd be skeptical of any repentance if it was ever made. Feigned repentance is usually a con's way of trying to get out of being punished.
The analogy doesn't quite fit though, because in the highway analogy, cops need to defend themselves immediately, they don't have much, if any time to plan what to do, they have to fall back to training and experience and handle the situation immediately.
When you have a standing house, they can take the time and plan the response. I'm not convinced that they're even making the best choices here, it's probably the most convenient choices. I do realize that I probably don't have all the information, nor an I an expert, but I've seen enough bungling on the part of large bureaucratic organizations, be it corporate or government, that I understand that they should not be trusted by their words.
I doubt Facebook is as big of a time waster as TV is, where is your angst against TV?
Also, I don't think you'd want a typical Facebook programmer anything near a product that flies.
Whoever made the summary really screwed up, they didn't link to a sample profile, it's basically a link to Facebook's list of supported browsers.