Hyperion can handle data larger than 12 GB?! Stop the presses! You could manage a company of 50, maybe even 60 employees with that! Hasn't Google been hiring aggressively recently? I'm pretty sure they have more than 60 employees...
Is Gap having worries about selling shirts already? Ars reports that Gap has announced yet another 'discount program' for shirts, but these new discounts work out to only about 10% off list price -- not much when you notice that retailers already sell shirts below list. To make matters worse, the discount program would still end up costing you $100 more than the older 'family' discount built around Really Nice Shirts in some situations. Ars spends seven paragraphs explaining this convoluted offer. Is all of this complexity supposed to help sell shirts?
If you must buy a shirt, it might be advisable to sit on your wallet for a while. The discounts are bound to get sweeter.
He might have been talking about the "time warp" feature that will ship in Vista. When I worked for Microsoft I was in the file systems group (left 2 years ago), and at the time we had a nice feature that we called time warp that was basically what time machine was (including a nice shell extension UI). I haven't been keeping up with what's gonna ship in Vista and what's not gonna ship in Vista since I left, so for all I know this feature may not even be shipping, or maybe it is shipping but they are calling it a different name...
i grew up on qwerty, then switched over entirely to dvorak sometime in college, then i graduated and started working (as a programmer).
at first i continued to use dvorak, both at home and at work, but this had a few problems: 1. whenever coworkers were at my computer (e.g. to debug a kernel dump) i had to switch it back to qwerty, which was a hassle, and 2. the keyboard shortcuts on visual studio (which is what we used) are much more convenient in a qwerty layout. so, i started using qwerty at work.
but i continued to use dvorak at home - on my home computer i mostly did emailing, web browsing, and IM-ing, so i preferred to use dvorak. for a couple weeks i was typing maybe 80% of my normal speed until i got used to switching back and forth . now i can switch between the two layouts with absolutely no effort, i.e. i'm completely "bilingual."
so i guess my advice to you is to give it a try. switching back and forth works great for me, of course ymmv.
you reminded me of how juggling works the same way. when i'm juggling a 5-ball cascade pattern (which i can keep up for maybe 60 seconds), my eyes are fixed on a point that is probably 2ft above my head. based on the path of the ball that i see in my field of vision in that frame, my brain somehow extrapolates the arc of that ball out, and tells me where to place my hand such that it will catch the ball (a good 5ft below where i sighted the ball, at its apex). now do that for 5 balls - it's a lot of processing.
it takes a lot of training, but once trained, the brain can do pretty cool things.
what you say is correct, the build numbers for the most part go +1 each day. but for releases and such, they have jumped numbers for convenience's sake (e.g. xp gold wasn't actually 2600, it was something like 25xx, but they made it 2600 b/c this is convenient.) also, they branched out the longhorn build while the xp build was still being finalized, so they made these start at 3000 (iirc) to keep them separately identifiable. so, 4053 doesn't nec. mean 1053 days after 3000.
the "fact" that they have pointy haired guys around? i work at microsoft, and i see *very* few phb's around (if any). no one in my entire group of over 100 people fit my definition of phb.
was this just speculation, or do you actually work there too and see plenty of phb's around?
"The open source community is not portrayed in positive light so you might want to skip reading this."
what the hell is that supposed to mean? don't read anything that portrays something in a negative light which i believe should be portrayed in a positive light, i.e. don't read anything that disagrees with my opinions?
i'm a developer in the windows group, in the storage services group (ntfs, lvm, etc.).
mod the parent down. it's an unsupported flamebait backed by nothing but speculation and zealotry.
there are some *very* ambitious things being done for longhorn, two of which are longhorn and the CRT (of the.net framework) - this is public knowledge. there is a lot of work left to do in these areas still, and it'll be finished when it's finished. the release estimate is descriptive, not prescriptive
no, you can't safely assume that. you can't even safely assume that the game was even BOUGHT. i find it more likely that they ripped it off some store, or got an older friend to buy it, or whatever.
yes, you must know more about all the epidemiologists at CDC, why don't you let them know about this insight that antibiotics don't actually do anything for the flu? it would be worth at least a nobel prize, i'm sure.
there are different kinds of flus. we don't know the entire story yet, but we do know that some are viruses and others are bacteria. antibiotics has a good chance of helping recover from the flu in most cases.
so, seems to me that this will just end up selecting the "fittest," where "fittest" is that which the vast majority of people find pleasing... this seems like a definite disconnect from what is "good" poetry.
it would be funny if this ended up generating britney spears songs after a million generations or whatever:)
i live in the seattle area, and this seems very useful. it is often the case that for the two bridges over lake washington (520 and 90 on the screen on the linked page), when one of them is clogged, the other is (significantly) less clogged. it's usually more often the case that 90 is less clogged than 520 than the reverse, but anyway, this device seems very useful.
as a juggler, i'd just like to put in a plug for juggling. as a geek i've also grown up playing video games, MUD's, etc., and this study's results make sense to me. the on-the-fly type of thinking that video games require is a transferable skill that is helpful in many arenas.
but in terms of visual coordination, i'd have to say juggling is leaps and bounds over video games. i wasn't young when i picked up juggling (about 18 years old), so i definitely have a basis for a before/after comparison. i started off not knowing how to even do a 3-ball cascade, and 4 years later (i'm 22 now), i'm now up to working on a 6-ball fountain and a 5-club cascade. it's immensely improved several types of tracking: 1. a round object moving quickly (think ping-pong or tennis), or 2. an object falling (think the scene in crouching tiger / hidden dragon when the cup falls off the table and the guy catching it), or 3. multiple objects moving independently (think 3-card monty where you have to keep track of EACH cup, not just one), etc.
as for the crouching tiger/hidden dragon reference, yes i come pretty close to what he does in the movie:) it's not even conscious - i see something falling, and i automatically reach for it. this would be bad if that something were burning hot, but anyway...
you're missing the point. no one is claiming that rehabilitation is impossible - anything is possible. the issue here is that of practicality. people use heuristics in every day life - if you meet a 25 yr old with 2 phd's from MIT, then chances are good that he's intelligent (but it's possible that he's not!), and if you meet a 5-time convicted felon, chances are good that he cannot be trusted with your corporation's security.
therefore, as a practical matter of heuristics, if i were in charge of hiring a security consultant for my corporation, i would rather hire the non-excon than the excon. of course it's *possible* that the excon would have been a better, more qualified candidate, but i'm not about to bet my company's security on it.
the idea that a company's employees should eat their own dogfood is not meant to suggest that we believe the products we produce are dogfood. rather, "dogfooding" refers to running development versions of [whatever product is being worked on] on our own machines, so that by actually using the product being developed, we would understand what improvements are needed and where the user feels the most pain. since when is stepping in the user's shoes a bad thing? and do all YOUR projects still in development run with no glitches or bugs, and you love exactly how it works? i didn't think so.
i have no idea what the developers for the paperclip were required to do:) but dogfooding means that windows developers run the nightly windows builds on their machines (perhaps not their main dev box, but definitely a secondary dev box or a test machine), and that the internal mail servers run RC's of outlook, and actually a couple thousand people internally are dogfooding office 11 right now. ya, you were trying to be funny, but it's not really a bad idea to do this now is it?
"True, they are still making money from the box itself, but they still want more, which i guess is thier perogative(sp)."
I don't know what the figure is right now, but as of about 4 months ago they were losing $200 on each xbox system they sell. they're RELYING on the games to make a profit.
my statements do not necessarily reflect the opinions of my employer.
I don't know about everyone else, but I find it a little annoying that it took them this long to find the problem/solution. These memory units started shipping in October '99, it's now July 2000: it took them 9 months to find this problem? It's understandable that a problem like this occurs, but I don't find it understandable it should take 9 months to find it.
I tend to agree with this. Reminds me of the poker saying, which says something to the effect: "You think it's immoral to take a chump's money? No, it's immoral to let a chump keep his money." If people don't even take the time to examine what they're getting into, then whose fault is it? Granted, it's not exactly ethical or desirable that they are advertising this, but even then, there really is no excuse.
I tend to agree with this. Reminds me of the poker saying, which says something to the effect: "You think it's immoral to take a chump's money? No, it's immoral to let a chump keep his money." If people don't even take the time to examine what they're getting into, then whose fault is it? Granted, it's not exactly ethical or desirable that they are advertising this, but even then, there really is no excuse.
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Is Gap having worries about selling shirts already? Ars reports that Gap has announced yet another 'discount program' for shirts, but these new discounts work out to only about 10% off list price -- not much when you notice that retailers already sell shirts below list. To make matters worse, the discount program would still end up costing you $100 more than the older 'family' discount built around Really Nice Shirts in some situations. Ars spends seven paragraphs explaining this convoluted offer. Is all of this complexity supposed to help sell shirts?
If you must buy a shirt, it might be advisable to sit on your wallet for a while. The discounts are bound to get sweeter.
He might have been talking about the "time warp" feature that will ship in Vista. When I worked for Microsoft I was in the file systems group (left 2 years ago), and at the time we had a nice feature that we called time warp that was basically what time machine was (including a nice shell extension UI). I haven't been keeping up with what's gonna ship in Vista and what's not gonna ship in Vista since I left, so for all I know this feature may not even be shipping, or maybe it is shipping but they are calling it a different name...
Will this make anyone look at OpenOffice.org?
No
i grew up on qwerty, then switched over entirely to dvorak sometime in college, then i graduated and started working (as a programmer).
at first i continued to use dvorak, both at home and at work, but this had a few problems: 1. whenever coworkers were at my computer (e.g. to debug a kernel dump) i had to switch it back to qwerty, which was a hassle, and 2. the keyboard shortcuts on visual studio (which is what we used) are much more convenient in a qwerty layout. so, i started using qwerty at work.
but i continued to use dvorak at home - on my home computer i mostly did emailing, web browsing, and IM-ing, so i preferred to use dvorak. for a couple weeks i was typing maybe 80% of my normal speed until i got used to switching back and forth . now i can switch between the two layouts with absolutely no effort, i.e. i'm completely "bilingual."
so i guess my advice to you is to give it a try. switching back and forth works great for me, of course ymmv.
there was an interesting NPR interview with greene about his new book last week:
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http://freshair.npr.org/day_fa.jhtml?display=da
you reminded me of how juggling works the same way. when i'm juggling a 5-ball cascade pattern (which i can keep up for maybe 60 seconds), my eyes are fixed on a point that is probably 2ft above my head. based on the path of the ball that i see in my field of vision in that frame, my brain somehow extrapolates the arc of that ball out, and tells me where to place my hand such that it will catch the ball (a good 5ft below where i sighted the ball, at its apex). now do that for 5 balls - it's a lot of processing.
it takes a lot of training, but once trained, the brain can do pretty cool things.
(i work at microsoft)
what you say is correct, the build numbers for the most part go +1 each day. but for releases and such, they have jumped numbers for convenience's sake (e.g. xp gold wasn't actually 2600, it was something like 25xx, but they made it 2600 b/c this is convenient.) also, they branched out the longhorn build while the xp build was still being finalized, so they made these start at 3000 (iirc) to keep them separately identifiable. so, 4053 doesn't nec. mean 1053 days after 3000.
the "fact" that they have pointy haired guys around? i work at microsoft, and i see *very* few phb's around (if any). no one in my entire group of over 100 people fit my definition of phb.
was this just speculation, or do you actually work there too and see plenty of phb's around?
you meant Floating Point Operations Per Second (FLOPS), right?
"The open source community is not portrayed in positive light so you might want to skip reading this."
what the hell is that supposed to mean? don't read anything that portrays something in a negative light which i believe should be portrayed in a positive light, i.e. don't read anything that disagrees with my opinions?
i'm a developer in the windows group, in the storage services group (ntfs, lvm, etc.).
.net framework) - this is public knowledge. there is a lot of work left to do in these areas still, and it'll be finished when it's finished. the release estimate is descriptive, not prescriptive
mod the parent down. it's an unsupported flamebait backed by nothing but speculation and zealotry.
there are some *very* ambitious things being done for longhorn, two of which are longhorn and the CRT (of the
no, you can't safely assume that. you can't even safely assume that the game was even BOUGHT. i find it more likely that they ripped it off some store, or got an older friend to buy it, or whatever.
yes, you must know more about all the epidemiologists at CDC, why don't you let them know about this insight that antibiotics don't actually do anything for the flu? it would be worth at least a nobel prize, i'm sure.
there are different kinds of flus. we don't know the entire story yet, but we do know that some are viruses and others are bacteria. antibiotics has a good chance of helping recover from the flu in most cases.
so, seems to me that this will just end up selecting the "fittest," where "fittest" is that which the vast majority of people find pleasing... this seems like a definite disconnect from what is "good" poetry.
:)
it would be funny if this ended up generating britney spears songs after a million generations or whatever
i live in the seattle area, and this seems very useful. it is often the case that for the two bridges over lake washington (520 and 90 on the screen on the linked page), when one of them is clogged, the other is (significantly) less clogged. it's usually more often the case that 90 is less clogged than 520 than the reverse, but anyway, this device seems very useful.
as a juggler, i'd just like to put in a plug for juggling. as a geek i've also grown up playing video games, MUD's, etc., and this study's results make sense to me. the on-the-fly type of thinking that video games require is a transferable skill that is helpful in many arenas.
:) it's not even conscious - i see something falling, and i automatically reach for it. this would be bad if that something were burning hot, but anyway...
but in terms of visual coordination, i'd have to say juggling is leaps and bounds over video games. i wasn't young when i picked up juggling (about 18 years old), so i definitely have a basis for a before/after comparison. i started off not knowing how to even do a 3-ball cascade, and 4 years later (i'm 22 now), i'm now up to working on a 6-ball fountain and a 5-club cascade. it's immensely improved several types of tracking: 1. a round object moving quickly (think ping-pong or tennis), or 2. an object falling (think the scene in crouching tiger / hidden dragon when the cup falls off the table and the guy catching it), or 3. multiple objects moving independently (think 3-card monty where you have to keep track of EACH cup, not just one), etc.
as for the crouching tiger/hidden dragon reference, yes i come pretty close to what he does in the movie
you're missing the point. no one is claiming that rehabilitation is impossible - anything is possible. the issue here is that of practicality. people use heuristics in every day life - if you meet a 25 yr old with 2 phd's from MIT, then chances are good that he's intelligent (but it's possible that he's not!), and if you meet a 5-time convicted felon, chances are good that he cannot be trusted with your corporation's security.
therefore, as a practical matter of heuristics, if i were in charge of hiring a security consultant for my corporation, i would rather hire the non-excon than the excon. of course it's *possible* that the excon would have been a better, more qualified candidate, but i'm not about to bet my company's security on it.
"The FX could probably render toy story in real time, that is pretty amazing."
um, you're joking, right?
i work at MS.
:) but dogfooding means that windows developers run the nightly windows builds on their machines (perhaps not their main dev box, but definitely a secondary dev box or a test machine), and that the internal mail servers run RC's of outlook, and actually a couple thousand people internally are dogfooding office 11 right now. ya, you were trying to be funny, but it's not really a bad idea to do this now is it?
the idea that a company's employees should eat their own dogfood is not meant to suggest that we believe the products we produce are dogfood. rather, "dogfooding" refers to running development versions of [whatever product is being worked on] on our own machines, so that by actually using the product being developed, we would understand what improvements are needed and where the user feels the most pain. since when is stepping in the user's shoes a bad thing? and do all YOUR projects still in development run with no glitches or bugs, and you love exactly how it works? i didn't think so.
i have no idea what the developers for the paperclip were required to do
"True, they are still making money from the box itself, but they still want more, which i guess is thier perogative(sp)."
I don't know what the figure is right now, but as of about 4 months ago they were losing $200 on each xbox system they sell. they're RELYING on the games to make a profit.
my statements do not necessarily reflect the opinions of my employer.
I don't know about everyone else, but I find it a little annoying that it took them this long to find the problem/solution. These memory units started shipping in October '99, it's now July 2000: it took them 9 months to find this problem? It's understandable that a problem like this occurs, but I don't find it understandable it should take 9 months to find it.
I tend to agree with this. Reminds me of the poker saying, which says something to the effect: "You think it's immoral to take a chump's money? No, it's immoral to let a chump keep his money." If people don't even take the time to examine what they're getting into, then whose fault is it? Granted, it's not exactly ethical or desirable that they are advertising this, but even then, there really is no excuse.
I tend to agree with this. Reminds me of the poker saying, which says something to the effect: "You think it's immoral to take a chump's money? No, it's immoral to let a chump keep his money." If people don't even take the time to examine what they're getting into, then whose fault is it? Granted, it's not exactly ethical or desirable that they are advertising this, but even then, there really is no excuse.