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I would love to see somebody perform a doctorate thesis on microbiology.:)
Since the first day I heard about this language, I have been excited about it. The more that I read about it, the more I can't wait to see that pretty little brown MSDN box come in the mail with my copy of Vis Studio 7.
As a Microsoft-whore, the ability to develop with the new tools of VS7 (which, BTW, features C#, VC++, Managed VC++, and VB all running in the same IDE with concurrent, multilanguage debugging... baby!) has taken over. I am working on a project that requires two WinCE portions and a data management system. The things I've read have made me make the conscious decision to do no code development on the data management portion until VS7 is in my hand and on my machine.
This month's Visual C++ Developers Journal has a cover to cover exposé on VS7. This is a link to the online article.
One point of fact: somehow or another (i don't know how, but i swear it's true) nuclear power creates masses of greenhouse gases. I can't back it up, and it makes no sense at all, but a fission plant can create a large fraction (like, 1/10th?) of the amount of greenhouse gases that a coal plant does.
Who in the world would want to put the Palm UI on a WinCE device?!?!?! Why ruin a perfectly good 240x320 screen in brilliant color by putting a grey and green 72x14 pixel UI (or whatever)?
One issue that could be addressed is creating a window manager that is built around vertical screens. I saw that the guy had the thing turned 90 degrees just to run the X WM. Certainly, the device is designed ergonomically to be used vertical.
I love my Jornada, but i'm hunting the stores everyday for an Ipaq. Thank goodness for the corporate American Express card!
The point wouldn't be to match CPU cycles to dollars. The point is for underfunded groups to get data processed quickly.
It would be FAR FAR FAR cheaper to hand the algorithms to the @home group, and let them give you the answer a reasonable time later. In addition, the @home group does not have to pay for the super computers required to do the work.
In the end, the bulk of the hardware cost is eaten up by the public. You'd find that it is far cheaper to set up a couple of modems in a bank than it is to buy a fast computer, much less each node in a 2048 chip computer.
It could be feasible that a piece of distributed computing software could be bundled with a browser and a dial-up account in a similiar fashion to AltaVista's free service. The big difference would be that instead of banner ads taking up your screen real estate, you have to install a screen saver that crunches data.
The business model would then be:
Company (or research institute) needs data crunched, but does not want to pay for computers ->
Company gives data and algorithms to @home service and pays a hefty sum ->
@home service divies out the algorithms to people across the land next time they login to their free dialup account ->
Data is crunched and sent back to the @home service at a reasonable rate ->
Everybody wins:)
Now somebody is going to get rich off of my idea... it's really painful being this dumb.
Anybody have a clue when the new PalmOS is coming out? I'm doing work with "Windows Powered Pocket PCs" (I hate marketing), and the WinCE operating system simply kicks PalmOS in the butt.
Besides the amazing hold Palms have on the market, what tricks do they have up their sleaves to maintain their position on top?
If this whole fiasco has taught us anything, it is that an institution like ABC does not mind having rogue "journalists" under its wings. It seems that Moody is not concerned with the credibility he is supposed to have as a journalist. And, as a representative of ABC, he shines a poor light on the credibility of the empire as a whole.
I think it is great that so many people are getting on his case about technical and statistical inaccuracies. If some corporate CEO decides one way or another because of something that spouted out of Moody's arse, then the world loses.
When Moody lowers himself to the level of a troll, it disgraces the whole of ABC. Beyond the click-throughs on the banner ads, the company loses out in the end. ABC has been my favorite national news source, but this type of article places a small nugget of doubt in my mind.
Free speech guarantees everybody a right to be an a-hole, but it also gives everyone else the right to call him on it.
If you look this list over, and measure each system's number of vulnerabilities against the number of its customers, Linux is arguably the worst operating-system product in history, and Microsoft's the best.
Shouldn't the math go more like: #Vulnerabilities x #Users = Severity in order to define how widespread the problem is?
The most meaningful posts in this thread that I have seen have been from hatless and magnushuckvale. The two things they stress: plan out your app (before writing your first piece of commitable code) and live a sustainable lifestyle. How many slashdot readers are dinosaurs? A lot of posts sound like they came from drones that take the spec, sit in a dark room getting a monitor-tan and turning a greenish hue from the Mountain Dew, and spitting out a chunk of code weeks later. Come on. We're better than this. We have the tools to completely build our project, without code, in a way that even non-techies can understand. That's how you get anybody sitting around to be able to help you with those nasty architecture problems. Finally, it is important to live a life outside of the green-hued (not so much anymore) light from the monitor.
Human->Productive member of society->Engineer->Programmer
The question I have is: Is it OK to tape a song played on the radio and then distribute it? It seems to be public domain. It seems, however, that once I distribute that recording in my own way (ie, Napster, etc), I become a Law-Breaking Grab-ass and Dr. Dre cuts off my Napster login.
I watched the broadcast from the senate hearing... they played a Creed song. Was that illegal that it was distributed to anyone that wanted to watch the hearing?
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I would love to see somebody perform a doctorate thesis on microbiology.
"Blue Elf shot the food!"
Since the first day I heard about this language, I have been excited about it. The more that I read about it, the more I can't wait to see that pretty little brown MSDN box come in the mail with my copy of Vis Studio 7.
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As a Microsoft-whore, the ability to develop with the new tools of VS7 (which, BTW, features C#, VC++, Managed VC++, and VB all running in the same IDE with concurrent, multilanguage debugging... baby!) has taken over. I am working on a project that requires two WinCE portions and a data management system. The things I've read have made me make the conscious decision to do no code development on the data management portion until VS7 is in my hand and on my machine.
This month's Visual C++ Developers Journal has a cover to cover exposé on VS7. This is a link to the online article.
http://www.devx.com/upload/free/features/vcdj/200
"Blue Elf has destroyed the food!"
One point of fact: somehow or another (i don't know how, but i swear it's true) nuclear power creates masses of greenhouse gases. I can't back it up, and it makes no sense at all, but a fission plant can create a large fraction (like, 1/10th?) of the amount of greenhouse gases that a coal plant does.
"Blue Elf has destroyed the food!"
Who in the world would want to put the Palm UI on a WinCE device?!?!?! Why ruin a perfectly good 240x320 screen in brilliant color by putting a grey and green 72x14 pixel UI (or whatever)?
One issue that could be addressed is creating a window manager that is built around vertical screens. I saw that the guy had the thing turned 90 degrees just to run the X WM. Certainly, the device is designed ergonomically to be used vertical.
I love my Jornada, but i'm hunting the stores everyday for an Ipaq. Thank goodness for the corporate American Express card!
"Blue Elf has destroyed the food!"
The point wouldn't be to match CPU cycles to dollars. The point is for underfunded groups to get data processed quickly.
It would be FAR FAR FAR cheaper to hand the algorithms to the @home group, and let them give you the answer a reasonable time later. In addition, the @home group does not have to pay for the super computers required to do the work.
In the end, the bulk of the hardware cost is eaten up by the public. You'd find that it is far cheaper to set up a couple of modems in a bank than it is to buy a fast computer, much less each node in a 2048 chip computer.
"Blue Elf has destroyed the food!"
It could be feasible that a piece of distributed computing software could be bundled with a browser and a dial-up account in a similiar fashion to AltaVista's free service. The big difference would be that instead of banner ads taking up your screen real estate, you have to install a screen saver that crunches data. :)
The business model would then be:
Company (or research institute) needs data crunched, but does not want to pay for computers ->
Company gives data and algorithms to @home service and pays a hefty sum ->
@home service divies out the algorithms to people across the land next time they login to their free dialup account ->
Data is crunched and sent back to the @home service at a reasonable rate ->
Everybody wins
Now somebody is going to get rich off of my idea... it's really painful being this dumb.
"Blue Elf has destroyed the food!"
Anybody have a clue when the new PalmOS is coming out? I'm doing work with "Windows Powered Pocket PCs" (I hate marketing), and the WinCE operating system simply kicks PalmOS in the butt.
Besides the amazing hold Palms have on the market, what tricks do they have up their sleaves to maintain their position on top?
"Blue Elf has destroyed the food!"
If this whole fiasco has taught us anything, it is that an institution like ABC does not mind having rogue "journalists" under its wings. It seems that Moody is not concerned with the credibility he is supposed to have as a journalist. And, as a representative of ABC, he shines a poor light on the credibility of the empire as a whole.
I think it is great that so many people are getting on his case about technical and statistical inaccuracies. If some corporate CEO decides one way or another because of something that spouted out of Moody's arse, then the world loses.
When Moody lowers himself to the level of a troll, it disgraces the whole of ABC. Beyond the click-throughs on the banner ads, the company loses out in the end. ABC has been my favorite national news source, but this type of article places a small nugget of doubt in my mind.
Free speech guarantees everybody a right to be an a-hole, but it also gives everyone else the right to call him on it.
The Ping heard 'round the world!
I love his logic:
If you look this list over, and measure each system's number of vulnerabilities against the number of its customers, Linux is arguably the worst operating-system product in history, and Microsoft's the best.
Shouldn't the math go more like:
#Vulnerabilities x #Users = Severity
in order to define how widespread the problem is?
I love numbers too!
The most meaningful posts in this thread that I have seen have been from hatless and magnushuckvale. The two things they stress: plan out your app (before writing your first piece of commitable code) and live a sustainable lifestyle.
How many slashdot readers are dinosaurs? A lot of posts sound like they came from drones that take the spec, sit in a dark room getting a monitor-tan and turning a greenish hue from the Mountain Dew, and spitting out a chunk of code weeks later.
Come on. We're better than this. We have the tools to completely build our project, without code, in a way that even non-techies can understand. That's how you get anybody sitting around to be able to help you with those nasty architecture problems.
Finally, it is important to live a life outside of the green-hued (not so much anymore) light from the monitor.
Human->Productive member of society->Engineer->Programmer
The question I have is: Is it OK to tape a song played on the radio and then distribute it? It seems to be public domain. It seems, however, that once I distribute that recording in my own way (ie, Napster, etc), I become a Law-Breaking Grab-ass and Dr. Dre cuts off my Napster login.
I watched the broadcast from the senate hearing... they played a Creed song. Was that illegal that it was distributed to anyone that wanted to watch the hearing?
Wow... What a nut... Course, that probably means he's not far off.