While Intel is shoving Press-hot down consumers throats, AMD is doing a nice job.
You can't believe this is in the interest of fair trade, not in Japan, where business has the government firmly wrapped around its little finger? Surely you don't believe this was not at the behest of griping japanese electronics manufacturers who have had a difficult time competing with Intel on their home turf. This is the country that dumped consumer electronics and automobiles on the world, subsidized by taxing their own citizens. This is the country that negotiated hardball and grudgingly every millimeter of trade concessions for years.
When Japan, Inc. does things we like, like make handheld devices with Linux embedded, we applaud. When they do things we're less thrilled, we overlook. Japan, Inc. makes some damn fine stuff, but don't confuse that with government-industrial policies.
I would like to wave[sic] those options. He seemed confused by my response, and asked what I meant by waving[sic] those options.
Of course he could have assumed, by your bizarre american accent and through the audio quality limitations of the phone that, rather than waive those options you would like to have them. Yay! More fun for you when you blow your stack trying to get it sorted out over the phone...
A simple RFC fights in Vietnam, lives through the turbulent sixties, experiences the wide lapels and platforms of the drugged out seventies, and ends up a washed up April fool's pigeon joke.
It is found in declassified documents that Nixon was spying on it and Hoover considered putting a hit on it. That was the long silent gap in the tapes. The answer is finally known.
It's never too late, but your comments may not draw much serious attention.
I'm curious which model of Teletype they were using, back in 1969. My father still has a few Model 14 and I first used 33's on a visit to a corporate sponsor of my Explorer Post. I always did like the font from the Model 43, I used to run off most of my library copies of code on them for the easy to read font.
Ah the smell of printer ribbon ink in the spring...
It was 19 when I finally got a dialup connection to a server with a shell account. I know my life could have been spent more wisely...had I only been connected sooner.
How can you not be eligible for unemployment benefits? The US unemployment benefits scheme must be truly screwed up if you can be ineligible just for quitting a job, or refusing to do something degrading like training a replacement.
If you quit it is much harder to get unemp benefits. Better to be terminated if you figure you will be anyway. Pay for how much time do you expect to get? The prior poster seems to forget, when you are asked to train your replacement, because it's implied you will be replaced soon, you do need to question the employers loyalty to YOU and what carrot they plan to give you for your remaining loyalty.
I've heard enough about how EP:I and EP:II suck. I've seen bother at the theater and pretty much enjoyed watching them. Upon reflection and hearing all the gripes, I've wondered what could have been done to please those who complain so bitterly about these films and come back to the same realization in both cases. The viewer has to have gone in with no preconceptions of what it should be, should never have seen any other Star Wars pictures, all Sci-Fi movies which have benefited from Lucas' techniques and improvements in CGI never have been used, all films during the past 30 years would have to be westerns, romances, sharks eating beach-goers, etc. and last, the viewer needs to be 25 or younger.
While that's a lot to ask, it all does contribute mightily to the feelings of disappointment. The reality is everything else has gotten much better, catching up as it were. Sure, you could toss Jar Jar, but that character isn't the problem. The problem is the viewer. Therefore I only have the following to offer:
Achtung Alles Lootensteepers!
Das Star Wehrs filme is nicht fur fingerpointen und trashentalken. Ist easy kirisizen der Lucas produceren und karakter assailen mit poppenkorn und schpitzen sprayen. Ist nicht fur gevewen bei das dumkopfen was denk ein besser skripte geschreib mit einen hand behind der back haf geteid kann. Das opinionated seeren keepen dein kritisism zum dienselbst muss; relaxen und watchen das lichtsabre schnitten.
I was posting using assumptions off the top of my head, but checking around, it looks like Mandarin is spoken by twice as many people as English. Hell, Hindi almost matches English.
However, English is the language of commerce. There may well be millions more speaking Mandarin or Hindi, or even Spanish, but those with money speak English or hire someone to do it for them. The smart ones learn it for themselves so they don't get something interpreted wrongly.
About 20 years ago I though Japanese might rival English, with the tremendous amount of world commerce channeled through Japan and the country's acquired wealth. It didn't last. Will Mandarin succeed? Probably not, if history has anything to say about it. Most Mandarin and Hindi speakers are peasants in the hinterlands. They may get internet, but they will not control large amounts of capital.
"Oh swell, we'll be conducted by #011278-TY-42 again, always has to have a flair for the dramatic. Too bad old
#006273-UO-88 got a virus and it addled his core, he may have had a lazy servo or two, but he was easy to follow."
To me the authors are vandals not revolutionaries, and may have ensured WMA becomes the standard."
The problem with incredibly clever people is inevitably they come up with something you don't want. Who's to say they weren't
WMA or even (shudder) RIAA proponents, bent on showing the public can't be trusted and DMCA is the right approach?
Thank goodness I don't listen to music/radio on my computer. You never know where such a thing could lead to.
Hi from Napster! We've been tracking your listening habits and suggest the following music...Barry Manilow, Air Supply, Leo Sayer. If you act now and buy, we won't tell your friends or neighbors.
I think the point is some people don't think about/realize that the ability to integrate information like that is so easy.
meanwhile we get all these warm fuzzies about private industry playing around with rockets. We also know private industry keeps records on us and swaps information with their buddies.
How long before there's a satellite scanning your town, every few days, and the information available to commercial clients?
"Hi, I'm Lionel Hutz, I saw on the internet that you were at home today, so I thought I'd drop by."
And I think it's for the better too... Sci-Fi Mini Series.
Yes! I could only stand a few sci-fi series for a few episodes, until I got the feel of the shallow writing, (dripping with moral lessons) or lame conflict ("It would be my honor to run away screaming like a little girl from that ravenous bugblatter beast for you, Captain") That some series dragged on for years longer than they should have only, IMHO, harmed sci-fi series.
A quick story, with no commitment to continuity, would work for me, and I'd possibly get back to watching more of it. (I've felt simlarly about sitcoms, but you know how networks think, they want a season, something they can count on, drag it out for years, etc.)
Wow. First Microsoft adds a project to Sourceforge and now Real has admitted that not everyone likes being bombarded by pushy bookmarks and shortcuts of unusual size. What next? SCO admiting that maybe they didn't invent sliced bread?
Maybe RealPlayer 10 is crammed with Spyware(tm). I mean, if they give away the player and it doesn't blast you with ads and Real is footing the bandwidth for NPR, what's the business model?
Imagine coming up with pneumatic tires for such a thing. I suppose they'd need to be tubulars, as a clincher simply wouldn't work out. Then there's the non-uniform pressure, which means some parts of the tire wear out faster.
The real engineering isn't these catenaries, but try making an actual usable vehicle from them.
Ok, this would have been impressive when I was 12.
Being a bit of a bike nut I notice this bike would have some issues with turning and fixing flats. Notice that massive saddle (probably gel.) The closest i could find to a real world application of this would be cog trains which have existed in europe for probably a hundred years (notably in the Alps.)
Isn't this kinda light-weight for slashdot? I mean, where's the tech angle?
Maybe I could wire up my Zaurus as a trip computer.
To protect the perpetrator I won't mention his name, but here's a warning about people developing off in a corner, by themseleves rather than collaborating with their peers.
I worked for two years at one job before learning there was another programmer (besides the other two I worked with.) The group I worked with remained within the same office or no more than a room away and we frequently bounced ideas off each other, creating some damn fine products (if I do say so myself.) The other guy, actually a personal friend of the director, always worked on his own. When he retired and I inherited his work I was truly pissed off. The code was horrible and reflected the skills of a novice (a poor one at that) and was littered with GOTO statements and demonstrated a severly retarded understanding of documentation, coding style (i.e. 3000 line for-next loop with GOTOs out and back in again) and zero knowledge of library functions, which would have cut hundreds of lines from the code. (Since the code would be replaced by a full system a year later, all I had to do was just keep it running and fix corrupt data, which was frequent.)
You might get the impression that the lone coder was chaotic, but you would have it backward. His procedure was orderly, straight forward, rarely diverging from his approach or skill set. The three (of which I was part) was Chaos -- we thought outside the box, tried things, introduced new approaches to old problems. Where we once would say, "no, that can't be done", we went to, "Yes, that can be done, and has, furhter, it's more useful and versitile than you ever imagined."
I've been beta-testing Sim-Litigation for a while and it's a pretty gut wrenching thing to go through. The game is like most Sim Games, but in this one every Sim becomes a Sim-Lawyer or someone hiring one, it takes seeming years to play and when the revolution came and the Sim Lawyers all went up agains the wall there was nobody left to fire the bullets.
I noticed Sim-SCO was one of the first to die off.
Not really, it's just more "Shared Source", but probably a bone tossed in apeasement in connection with the anti-trust settlement. Interesting reading.
Slashdot Mirror
You can't believe this is in the interest of fair trade, not in Japan, where business has the government firmly wrapped around its little finger? Surely you don't believe this was not at the behest of griping japanese electronics manufacturers who have had a difficult time competing with Intel on their home turf. This is the country that dumped consumer electronics and automobiles on the world, subsidized by taxing their own citizens. This is the country that negotiated hardball and grudgingly every millimeter of trade concessions for years.
When Japan, Inc. does things we like, like make handheld devices with Linux embedded, we applaud. When they do things we're less thrilled, we overlook. Japan, Inc. makes some damn fine stuff, but don't confuse that with government-industrial policies.
Of course he could have assumed, by your bizarre american accent and through the audio quality limitations of the phone that, rather than waive those options you would like to have them. Yay! More fun for you when you blow your stack trying to get it sorted out over the phone...
Reference to old gag.
Of course if IBM had bought a similarly staffed US or European company, it would have cost 5 times more.
*rimshot*
I did find that 1200 baud was the right speed for watching Godzilla vs. Bambi on a VT52.
It is found in declassified documents that Nixon was spying on it and Hoover considered putting a hit on it. That was the long silent gap in the tapes. The answer is finally known.
It's never too late, but your comments may not draw much serious attention.
I'm curious which model of Teletype they were using, back in 1969. My father still has a few Model 14 and I first used 33's on a visit to a corporate sponsor of my Explorer Post. I always did like the font from the Model 43, I used to run off most of my library copies of code on them for the easy to read font.
Ah the smell of printer ribbon ink in the spring...
It was 19 when I finally got a dialup connection to a server with a shell account. I know my life could have been spent more wisely...had I only been connected sooner.
If you quit it is much harder to get unemp benefits. Better to be terminated if you figure you will be anyway. Pay for how much time do you expect to get? The prior poster seems to forget, when you are asked to train your replacement, because it's implied you will be replaced soon, you do need to question the employers loyalty to YOU and what carrot they plan to give you for your remaining loyalty.
Sorry, it's not in my job description.
While that's a lot to ask, it all does contribute mightily to the feelings of disappointment. The reality is everything else has gotten much better, catching up as it were. Sure, you could toss Jar Jar, but that character isn't the problem. The problem is the viewer. Therefore I only have the following to offer:
However, English is the language of commerce. There may well be millions more speaking Mandarin or Hindi, or even Spanish, but those with money speak English or hire someone to do it for them. The smart ones learn it for themselves so they don't get something interpreted wrongly.
About 20 years ago I though Japanese might rival English, with the tremendous amount of world commerce channeled through Japan and the country's acquired wealth. It didn't last. Will Mandarin succeed? Probably not, if history has anything to say about it. Most Mandarin and Hindi speakers are peasants in the hinterlands. They may get internet, but they will not control large amounts of capital.
The problem with incredibly clever people is inevitably they come up with something you don't want. Who's to say they weren't WMA or even (shudder) RIAA proponents, bent on showing the public can't be trusted and DMCA is the right approach?
Hi from Napster! We've been tracking your listening habits and suggest the following music...Barry Manilow, Air Supply, Leo Sayer. If you act now and buy, we won't tell your friends or neighbors.
meanwhile we get all these warm fuzzies about private industry playing around with rockets. We also know private industry keeps records on us and swaps information with their buddies.
How long before there's a satellite scanning your town, every few days, and the information available to commercial clients?
"Hi, I'm Lionel Hutz, I saw on the internet that you were at home today, so I thought I'd drop by."
Seems something like this happened not so long ago in California and somebody got upset.
Yes! I could only stand a few sci-fi series for a few episodes, until I got the feel of the shallow writing, (dripping with moral lessons) or lame conflict ("It would be my honor to run away screaming like a little girl from that ravenous bugblatter beast for you, Captain") That some series dragged on for years longer than they should have only, IMHO, harmed sci-fi series.
A quick story, with no commitment to continuity, would work for me, and I'd possibly get back to watching more of it. (I've felt simlarly about sitcoms, but you know how networks think, they want a season, something they can count on, drag it out for years, etc.)
I need something like a Nearscape, as my eyesight is not what it was when I was still a young man, gadding about in my salad days.
Maybe RealPlayer 10 is crammed with Spyware(tm). I mean, if they give away the player and it doesn't blast you with ads and Real is footing the bandwidth for NPR, what's the business model?
Imagine coming up with pneumatic tires for such a thing. I suppose they'd need to be tubulars, as a clincher simply wouldn't work out. Then there's the non-uniform pressure, which means some parts of the tire wear out faster.
The real engineering isn't these catenaries, but try making an actual usable vehicle from them.
I'm sure Wankle started out something like this.
And you could forget rim brakes.
i wonder if this could revive the Peugeot bicycle brand...
Being a bit of a bike nut I notice this bike would have some issues with turning and fixing flats. Notice that massive saddle (probably gel.) The closest i could find to a real world application of this would be cog trains which have existed in europe for probably a hundred years (notably in the Alps.)
Isn't this kinda light-weight for slashdot? I mean, where's the tech angle?
Maybe I could wire up my Zaurus as a trip computer.
You wish.
To protect the perpetrator I won't mention his name, but here's a warning about people developing off in a corner, by themseleves rather than collaborating with their peers.
I worked for two years at one job before learning there was another programmer (besides the other two I worked with.) The group I worked with remained within the same office or no more than a room away and we frequently bounced ideas off each other, creating some damn fine products (if I do say so myself.) The other guy, actually a personal friend of the director, always worked on his own. When he retired and I inherited his work I was truly pissed off. The code was horrible and reflected the skills of a novice (a poor one at that) and was littered with GOTO statements and demonstrated a severly retarded understanding of documentation, coding style (i.e. 3000 line for-next loop with GOTOs out and back in again) and zero knowledge of library functions, which would have cut hundreds of lines from the code. (Since the code would be replaced by a full system a year later, all I had to do was just keep it running and fix corrupt data, which was frequent.)
You might get the impression that the lone coder was chaotic, but you would have it backward. His procedure was orderly, straight forward, rarely diverging from his approach or skill set. The three (of which I was part) was Chaos -- we thought outside the box, tried things, introduced new approaches to old problems. Where we once would say, "no, that can't be done", we went to, "Yes, that can be done, and has, furhter, it's more useful and versitile than you ever imagined."
Seize chaos, it's your real friend.
I noticed Sim-SCO was one of the first to die off.
Not really, it's just more "Shared Source", but probably a bone tossed in apeasement in connection with the anti-trust settlement. Interesting reading.