Actually, the service is a free add-on to NYC DSL subscription. you would need to register your wireless device and follow some authentication, but there is no other bill.
the "moneymaker" for Verizon is the added DSL subscribers in metro areas, rather than wireless bandwidth pricing.
you probably won't find too many databases on the 'net that need the kind of performance some commercial brands give. so i wouldn't say the drastic change is coming, unless companies start putting their payroll records for the web to see.
our company actually puts mysql onto websites, but no client comes (at least for us) and says 'can you replace my blah-blah db version blah point blah with mysql'. we usually put mysql as a replacement for product databases, forums, etc. which previously were stored in text files or worse. and we usually do this for clients who simply can't afford anything and haven't invested into updating their site in 1-2 years. if they can afford it, they usually already know what they want, and it usually doesn't come free in a cvs snapshot.
As far back as 1981, the videogame industry was pulling in more than Hollywood and Vegas combined; that year it raked in $5 billion, and for the most part did so one quarter at a time.
this seems like wishful thinking. Perhaps Hollywood could not have been a 5 billion dollar market (back then there probably weren't videos, dvds, omnipresent cable tv, product placement, etc.), but Vegas ?!? i really do not think there was a domestic market bigger than Vegas in 1981. maybe DoD... and oil... and cocaine...
I am not going to diss RPI. hell, i applied and contemplated it as well. but claiming that your school is the best after ONLY having experienced your school is silly.
RPI is decent, but does it rank among the best CS and engineering schools? my guess would be no. Albany is close to tons of other universities, each with just as many if not more accolades as RPI. SUNY/Binghampton is an hour south-west, Cornell -- 2 hours south-west, Syracuse -- 1 hour west, UofR -- 2 hours west, SUNY/Buffalo -- 3 hours west, UMass/Amherst -- 2 hours east, MIT -- 3 hours east, SUNY/Stony Brook -- 2 hours south.
of course, we are dangerously close to getting into state vs. private school debate, but claiming proximity to the "best" school around as a major factor in the decision to put a research lab in Albany is shortsighted. If Silicon Valley was there because of Stanford and Berkeley, shouldn't we see the same trend in Boston and Pittsburgh? yet, there hardly is a tech-boom near MIT and CMU comparable to that of northern california. similarly, a smaller tech-boom near DC is hardly attributed to proximity to UMD, UVA and VATech.
hehe. what can you do with a mountain? other than blow it up just to see if you can?
sorry, i am not trying to be difficult. but "because it's there" is not a good marketable skill. "because i wanted to learn more about it/myself/whatever" perhaps.
imagine a job interview: "Why did you break into that website?" "Because it was there." "Hired... NOT!"
'tis true. that would be my ex-gf. but the no style period extends much longer than that. thanks for the vote of confidence that i could keep one that long though.;)
using mysql for coding style irony is so passe! nowadays you need it to be non-transactional AND a memory hog to earn any real funny karma on slashdot. if it's insecure, you get a +1 Insightful bonus.
i've been style-free since 1980. just ask my girlfriend.
disclaimer: read between the sarcasm, i am not flaming.
barnes and noble is already out of stock on this book. amazon already had 14 day shipping period on it. so how fast do you think it will be until the booksellers are slashdotted?
Yes it sucks. This is straight from one of many Microsoft's HN intros, which I assume Code Complete also contains.
In conclusion, the name of our quantity would be coRed, provided that the color type co is properly documented. The value of the name will show later in program segments such as the following:
if co == coRed then *mpcopx[coRed]+=dx...
is that as unreadable to you as it is to me? the only thing i can extract from it is that i should read the documentation for the type co, rather than find out what this line does. sure, my dyslexia is not helping, but they could have done much better.
yes, outlawing turing machines would be bad, but it's not like you have one sitting on you desk, do you? ; )
I thought Spiderman lived in Chelsea. Please correct me if I am wrong. My whole world is warped.
how about for non-comic viewers?
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so anyone familiar with the comic book will like it, but how about someone like me, who simply never read them? sure, flame me, but you could say i am from a different generation. still, is the movie good?
the reasoning was that while studying a game with a really strong opponent, they would be able to fix and tune up their program. it is difficult to analyze a computer's game from the grandmaster's point of view unless a grandmaster is involved somehow. also, top players usually give a post-mortem after the game, explaining what happened.
naturally, the reasoning behind the grandmasters' actions was to limit the future advances of computers. a strategic move, i suppose, but enough programs still have gotten really good.
ok, without going into a flame war... sure there are excellent packages available for C++. even some libraries that people use, like sockets, STL, perhaps even system libraries that you can throw in the mix. i was a little too brief there.
but Java made so many packages beyond that.
yes, there are XML parsers for C++, but everyone uses the Java one. (not the least of the reasons is that Java looks more web-friendly)
yes, it's conceivable to write a servlet/ODBC solution in C++, but Java does that so fresh and so clean (ok, mostly clean...).
yes, C++ has a mechanism for extensibility, but Java even has reflection that beats everyone's pants off when it comes to enterprise solutions.
in short, when you don't want to sit and program all day, but simply want to customize someone else's application, much like what the web services want you to do, you simply go with Java, because you won't need to start your Java application from scratch.
yes, i realize that a lot of these reasons are due to marketing, but they are real concerns for enterprises.
the problem with C++ was that exactly zero of code was reused, even though it was supposed to be made simpler. Java code actually reuses itself pretty darn well, and last I checked J2EE library just keeps growing and growing, and largely its success is in that.
as for C#, i doubt anyone except Microsoft is interested in seeing more packages of it. it becomes pointless to have non-object code in C# if you are planning to devise a framework for other people to work with.
anyways, if Java only has five years life in it, why would you stake your life on C# of all things? wouldn't you expect that in five years people would be switching to something newer than the love-child of Java and Microsoft that didn't overtake its predecessor and hardly had any advantages except probably back-doors into the Windows kernel?
Don't you remember how much better Slashdot was in March 2000? I could read it for hours. Nowadays, I only go into comments for karma.
a few facts straight Re:Oscars are a "Good Ole Bo
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The only reason Russel Crowe won last year was because people felt he should have won for LA Confidential. His acting was nothing phenominal.
LA Confidential is a movie from 1997, and Russel Crowe was not nominated for it. He was nominated for the Insider in 1999, but the Oscar went to Kevin Spacey. Many felt that Russel's performance in the Insider was superior (phenominal? [sic]) to that in Gladiator, but he certainly did deserve it last year. Aside from the visual eye candy, Gladiator was carried by little more than Crowe's character. He was the whole story and the (almost) whole movie.
I am yet to see several nominated performances, such as A Beautiful Mind, but Training Day really did have two incredible actors in it. I was a little disappointed that Washington's character was so much like his previous roles, but nonetheless that image fit the part very well. Remember that the Oscar is not for the Best Acting, but for the Best Performance. Pending a screening of A Beautiful Mind, I am willing to say that perhaps Denzel deserved the award.
there are still ONLY 17 films dating back to 1990 in the top 50. and although i disagree with some selections like The Sixth Sense, Requiem for a Dream and Shrek, in the past 11 years advances in film-making both technological (Matrix, LOTR, Toy Story, ), production-wise (Saving Private Ryan, LOTR, Titanic [thank god it didn't make top 50]), and screenplay-wise (The Usual Suspects, American Beauty, Fight Club) have raised the standard for movies.
While it is difficult to match your first experience at the movies or the first time you saw Star Wars and Godfather, when you go to the movies you simply expect to see more. And while the audience does or does not realize it, they DO see more (Scary Movie notwithstanding:). I think that explains to some degree why over 35 percent of the IMDB is so recent, and that it is not completely undeservingly so.
that's because the deal is a big deal for RHAT but a far lesser deal for IBM.
If you think about it, IBM could probably do better with AIX. The price drop simply reflects that in the short term there will be AIX to Linux migration issues which may cause IBM extra money spent. But in the long run, it is a better deal.
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Actually, the service is a free add-on to NYC DSL subscription. you would need to register your wireless device and follow some authentication, but there is no other bill.
the "moneymaker" for Verizon is the added DSL subscribers in metro areas, rather than wireless bandwidth pricing.
actually we do.
you probably won't find too many databases on the 'net that need the kind of performance some commercial brands give. so i wouldn't say the drastic change is coming, unless companies start putting their payroll records for the web to see.
our company actually puts mysql onto websites, but no client comes (at least for us) and says 'can you replace my blah-blah db version blah point blah with mysql'. we usually put mysql as a replacement for product databases, forums, etc. which previously were stored in text files or worse. and we usually do this for clients who simply can't afford anything and haven't invested into updating their site in 1-2 years. if they can afford it, they usually already know what they want, and it usually doesn't come free in a cvs snapshot.
As far back as 1981, the videogame industry was pulling in more than Hollywood and Vegas combined; that year it raked in $5 billion, and for the most part did so one quarter at a time.
this seems like wishful thinking. Perhaps Hollywood could not have been a 5 billion dollar market (back then there probably weren't videos, dvds, omnipresent cable tv, product placement, etc.), but Vegas ?!? i really do not think there was a domestic market bigger than Vegas in 1981. maybe DoD... and oil... and cocaine...
sorry, off topic.
it probably cost that three times that much in liquor over the three months...
I am not going to diss RPI. hell, i applied and contemplated it as well. but claiming that your school is the best after ONLY having experienced your school is silly.
RPI is decent, but does it rank among the best CS and engineering schools? my guess would be no. Albany is close to tons of other universities, each with just as many if not more accolades as RPI. SUNY/Binghampton is an hour south-west, Cornell -- 2 hours south-west, Syracuse -- 1 hour west, UofR -- 2 hours west, SUNY/Buffalo -- 3 hours west, UMass/Amherst -- 2 hours east, MIT -- 3 hours east, SUNY/Stony Brook -- 2 hours south.
of course, we are dangerously close to getting into state vs. private school debate, but claiming proximity to the "best" school around as a major factor in the decision to put a research lab in Albany is shortsighted. If Silicon Valley was there because of Stanford and Berkeley, shouldn't we see the same trend in Boston and Pittsburgh? yet, there hardly is a tech-boom near MIT and CMU comparable to that of northern california. similarly, a smaller tech-boom near DC is hardly attributed to proximity to UMD, UVA and VATech.
just MHO...
hehe. what can you do with a mountain? other than blow it up just to see if you can?
sorry, i am not trying to be difficult. but "because it's there" is not a good marketable skill. "because i wanted to learn more about it/myself/whatever" perhaps.
imagine a job interview:
"Why did you break into that website?"
"Because it was there."
"Hired... NOT!"
'tis true. that would be my ex-gf. but the no style period extends much longer than that. thanks for the vote of confidence that i could keep one that long though. ;)
using mysql for coding style irony is so passe! nowadays you need it to be non-transactional AND a memory hog to earn any real funny karma on slashdot. if it's insecure, you get a +1 Insightful bonus.
i've been style-free since 1980. just ask my girlfriend.
disclaimer: read between the sarcasm, i am not flaming.
barnes and noble is already out of stock on this book. amazon already had 14 day shipping period on it. so how fast do you think it will be until the booksellers are slashdotted?
Yes it sucks. This is straight from one of many Microsoft's HN intros, which I assume Code Complete also contains.
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In conclusion, the name of our quantity would be coRed, provided that the color type co is properly documented. The value of the name will show later in program segments such as the following:
if co == coRed then *mpcopx[coRed]+=dx
is that as unreadable to you as it is to me? the only thing i can extract from it is that i should read the documentation for the type co, rather than find out what this line does. sure, my dyslexia is not helping, but they could have done much better.
yes, outlawing turing machines would be bad, but it's not like you have one sitting on you desk, do you? ; )
ever play bughouse?
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I thought Spiderman lived in Chelsea. Please correct me if I am wrong. My whole world is warped.
so anyone familiar with the comic book will like it, but how about someone like me, who simply never read them? sure, flame me, but you could say i am from a different generation. still, is the movie good?
I must say, chemistry experiments have always been more fun. The begonias start talking to you.
the reasoning was that while studying a game with a really strong opponent, they would be able to fix and tune up their program. it is difficult to analyze a computer's game from the grandmaster's point of view unless a grandmaster is involved somehow. also, top players usually give a post-mortem after the game, explaining what happened.
naturally, the reasoning behind the grandmasters' actions was to limit the future advances of computers. a strategic move, i suppose, but enough programs still have gotten really good.
Here's a link to a terribly useful site for converting your postscripts and word docs into pdf or jpeg.
please don't go off spouting crap like that
ok, without going into a flame war... sure there are excellent packages available for C++. even some libraries that people use, like sockets, STL, perhaps even system libraries that you can throw in the mix. i was a little too brief there.
but Java made so many packages beyond that.
yes, there are XML parsers for C++, but everyone uses the Java one. (not the least of the reasons is that Java looks more web-friendly)
yes, it's conceivable to write a servlet/ODBC solution in C++, but Java does that so fresh and so clean (ok, mostly clean...).
yes, C++ has a mechanism for extensibility, but Java even has reflection that beats everyone's pants off when it comes to enterprise solutions.
in short, when you don't want to sit and program all day, but simply want to customize someone else's application, much like what the web services want you to do, you simply go with Java, because you won't need to start your Java application from scratch.
yes, i realize that a lot of these reasons are due to marketing, but they are real concerns for enterprises.
haven't they said something like this before?
the problem with C++ was that exactly zero of code was reused, even though it was supposed to be made simpler. Java code actually reuses itself pretty darn well, and last I checked J2EE library just keeps growing and growing, and largely its success is in that.
as for C#, i doubt anyone except Microsoft is interested in seeing more packages of it. it becomes pointless to have non-object code in C# if you are planning to devise a framework for other people to work with.
anyways, if Java only has five years life in it, why would you stake your life on C# of all things? wouldn't you expect that in five years people would be switching to something newer than the love-child of Java and Microsoft that didn't overtake its predecessor and hardly had any advantages except probably back-doors into the Windows kernel?
just my two cents...
There are likely to be many others like it.
what? you didn't get the memo? I'd say these guys are like many before them.
Don't you remember how much better Slashdot was in March 2000? I could read it for hours. Nowadays, I only go into comments for karma.
The only reason Russel Crowe won last year was because people felt he should have won for LA Confidential. His acting was nothing phenominal.
;)
LA Confidential is a movie from 1997, and Russel Crowe was not nominated for it. He was nominated for the Insider in 1999, but the Oscar went to Kevin Spacey. Many felt that Russel's performance in the Insider was superior (phenominal? [sic]) to that in Gladiator, but he certainly did deserve it last year. Aside from the visual eye candy, Gladiator was carried by little more than Crowe's character. He was the whole story and the (almost) whole movie.
I am yet to see several nominated performances, such as A Beautiful Mind, but Training Day really did have two incredible actors in it. I was a little disappointed that Washington's character was so much like his previous roles, but nonetheless that image fit the part very well. Remember that the Oscar is not for the Best Acting, but for the Best Performance. Pending a screening of A Beautiful Mind, I am willing to say that perhaps Denzel deserved the award.
IMHO, of course,
there are still ONLY 17 films dating back to 1990 in the top 50. and although i disagree with some selections like The Sixth Sense, Requiem for a Dream and Shrek, in the past 11 years advances in film-making both technological (Matrix, LOTR, Toy Story, ), production-wise (Saving Private Ryan, LOTR, Titanic [thank god it didn't make top 50]), and screenplay-wise (The Usual Suspects, American Beauty, Fight Club) have raised the standard for movies.
:). I think that explains to some degree why over 35 percent of the IMDB is so recent, and that it is not completely undeservingly so.
While it is difficult to match your first experience at the movies or the first time you saw Star Wars and Godfather, when you go to the movies you simply expect to see more. And while the audience does or does not realize it, they DO see more (Scary Movie notwithstanding
that's because the deal is a big deal for RHAT but a far lesser deal for IBM.
If you think about it, IBM could probably do better with AIX. The price drop simply reflects that in the short term there will be AIX to Linux migration issues which may cause IBM extra money spent. But in the long run, it is a better deal.
this sent RedHat shares flying, as well as some other Linux stocks, such as Caldera and VA Systems.