I'm sorry, but you said "IBM is about to try and redefine computing again."
Last time I checked, IBM has never "redefined" computing. Maybe IBM has changed the syntax of definitions of computing, but they have never changed the definition of computing.
IBM if you recall, never started out in the "computing" business. They entered after they saw the potential the market had. Now I'm not saying that IBM didn't innovate or create great things, they just have never shifted the paradigm to a degree that DEC, Seymour Cray, Apple, DARPA, or the UNIVAC corp did.
Well on my floor (a total of 15 rooms or so), I know two people with LCD TV's, both about 24 inches. As for plasma, we have one in our student center (well more like the 15+ that I can remember right now) and they all are 50 inches or bigger. If I ever get kicked out, I'm stealing one of those suckers.
You can still find nice gems (AppeNova) that exist due to the strength of their community. AN is not affiliated with any company (well they are linked to by Think Secret) but the site derives it's strength from a group of people that have been together for years, far outlasting a complete shutdown of the site, the arrest of Workerbee, oh and a revolution.
Amazing. My mind has just been blow. I though the democrats were the untouchable good guys, fighting the evil nazi republicans. Now I have no idea what to believe... must flip back and forth between Fox, CNN, and the BBC to understand how I should feel about this... and then blog about it...
It was taken offline for the upgrade to xServe G5's, allowing the system to take up much less space. I belive that they were still upgrading the system when the results needed to be submitted to the Top500.
The new Army xServe G5 system should do well in the next ranking too...
That is pretty cool. Can someone explain the phrase 'sol-gel'? Does that mean that it become more like a gelatinous subject when heated instead of a more 'solid' solid?
"Ricer" refers to the "moding" of "import" cars for looks and zero performance gain. I believe there are be far more derogatory words one could use to insult on of asian decent.
From the Urban Dictionary: Usually some 17-21 year old male with heavily modified "externals", "posing" in some Honda (typically a civic), giving a bad name to those real tuners who drive fast Hondas!
I am an election judge for the upcoming primary in MD, and we had to take a class on our new electronic voting machines, made by Diebold. Unlike the system described in the article, the ballots themselves are not encoded with the ballots, simply the party of the person voting. If your card has bits set the certain way, your ballot will pop-up for which ever party is encoded on the card. The only problems are when the card operator punches in the wrong party, then I would have to go over to the machine and cancel the ballot.
The only problems with the system that I can see are human. If you work with another election judge and, for instance, encode the wrong cards repeatedly for the other party and don't cancel the ballots, but submit them, then you can tamper the vote. The same thing could happen with a paper system, but admittedly it is harder and slower to cast lots of fake ballots.
In the end, it's up to the election judges and the local board of elections to make sure every vote counts, just as it would be with a paper system.
Wow, that's some pretty cool stuff. Now if ya could find out a way to slow down the "rotating cube" effect in Panther logins/outs I would be very impressed.
here are other Pixars "out there" just waiting to be taken under a big corp's wing (the MS/Bungie deal come to mind immediately, I don't know why...
Um, what? IMHO M$ has destroyed Bungie. Bungie may not have been one of the greatest sellers of games due to their early mac only development, but they were by far the best. Marathon was a mind-blowing game, who's story remained unsurpassed until Deus Ex. Who can forget the Marthon sequels, the Myth series, and the amazement when seeing the early Halo previews? Bungie was going to be huge.
Then M$ bought them. The original game code was scrapped. The PC and Mac versions got shelved. Oni was sold off to Take-Two. Halo was re-written for the X-Box. The result? A good game. NOT the great game it should have been. They didn't even use the original code for the PC or Mac versions. It was ported from the POS X-Box. No matter what anyone says, console games are dumbed down PC games. M$ crushed the spirit that was Bungie.
Wow, Cisco is on the list. Seems to me, that this list is kinda pointless. The ability to filter information is built in all Cisco router, and I'm sure in Windows too. Henceforth any company that makes software that can filter traffic and sells that product to firms in China (or the Chinese Government) can be accused of helping stifling human rights.
Now if Microsoft and Cisco knowingly sold products that censored the internet (or even if they helped them write access-lists and such) that would clearly be a separate matter.
Now how do we let China get away with some of these things? The censor the Internet to their General Populace, and we invite em into the WTO? WTF?
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Yes, a virtual library... with the erotica section you always imagined as a kid...
We can go to the moon! ... oh wait, Wallace and Grommet beat us there. Darn...
I'm sorry, but you said "IBM is about to try and redefine computing again."
Last time I checked, IBM has never "redefined" computing. Maybe IBM has changed the syntax of definitions of computing, but they have never changed the definition of computing.
IBM if you recall, never started out in the "computing" business. They entered after they saw the potential the market had. Now I'm not saying that IBM didn't innovate or create great things, they just have never shifted the paradigm to a degree that DEC, Seymour Cray, Apple, DARPA, or the UNIVAC corp did.
I for one, welcome our new Mactel overlords
Well on my floor (a total of 15 rooms or so), I know two people with LCD TV's, both about 24 inches. As for plasma, we have one in our student center (well more like the 15+ that I can remember right now) and they all are 50 inches or bigger. If I ever get kicked out, I'm stealing one of those suckers.
You can still find nice gems (AppeNova) that exist due to the strength of their community. AN is not affiliated with any company (well they are linked to by Think Secret) but the site derives it's strength from a group of people that have been together for years, far outlasting a complete shutdown of the site, the arrest of Workerbee, oh and a revolution.
Fun times.
Amazing. My mind has just been blow. I though the democrats were the untouchable good guys, fighting the evil nazi republicans. Now I have no idea what to believe... must flip back and forth between Fox, CNN, and the BBC to understand how I should feel about this... and then blog about it...
Why do I think of Tom Clancy? Maybe he has superpowers too...
Does this mean that I can continue to drive my gas-guzzling tank? I am so for this, I terrorizing people on the road more so than the environment!
Mostly we use WiFi laptops and have like two PS2s and 2 Gamecubes set up.
Bear in mind, we usually play Starcraft, Old School style.
It was taken offline for the upgrade to xServe G5's, allowing the system to take up much less space. I belive that they were still upgrading the system when the results needed to be submitted to the Top500.
The new Army xServe G5 system should do well in the next ranking too...
That is pretty cool. Can someone explain the phrase 'sol-gel'? Does that mean that it become more like a gelatinous subject when heated instead of a more 'solid' solid?
It's been a long time since I've taken chem.
This is cool. I can see my house! Now if my neighbor had been sunbathing at the time...
It's kinda cheesy, but I did my bit and chipped in $10. If Wikipedia gets any faster as a result, I'll be happy.
I'm sure people won't mind tech support people that they can actually understand, unlike the Indians, eh?
Wow, and that proves how mach users are immature how?
It's rather nice to have a cause you can believe in.
Why not say "Turning Machine?" It's bound to get laughs at the helpdesk (well, the more sophisticated kind), at least.
OR maybe I'm just not funny.
Dude, this is just confirmation of what all Mac users know. The computer for the rest of us is now the computer for the best of us.
Poor guy.
"Ricer" refers to the "moding" of "import" cars for looks and zero performance gain. I believe there are be far more derogatory words one could use to insult on of asian decent.
From the Urban Dictionary:
Usually some 17-21 year old male with heavily modified "externals", "posing" in some Honda (typically a civic), giving a bad name to those real tuners who drive fast Hondas!
I am an election judge for the upcoming primary in MD, and we had to take a class on our new electronic voting machines, made by Diebold. Unlike the system described in the article, the ballots themselves are not encoded with the ballots, simply the party of the person voting. If your card has bits set the certain way, your ballot will pop-up for which ever party is encoded on the card. The only problems are when the card operator punches in the wrong party, then I would have to go over to the machine and cancel the ballot.
The only problems with the system that I can see are human. If you work with another election judge and, for instance, encode the wrong cards repeatedly for the other party and don't cancel the ballots, but submit them, then you can tamper the vote. The same thing could happen with a paper system, but admittedly it is harder and slower to cast lots of fake ballots.
In the end, it's up to the election judges and the local board of elections to make sure every vote counts, just as it would be with a paper system.
Wow, that's some pretty cool stuff. Now if ya could find out a way to slow down the "rotating cube" effect in Panther logins/outs I would be very impressed.
here are other Pixars "out there" just waiting to be taken under a big corp's wing (the MS/Bungie deal come to mind immediately, I don't know why...
Um, what? IMHO M$ has destroyed Bungie. Bungie may not have been one of the greatest sellers of games due to their early mac only development, but they were by far the best. Marathon was a mind-blowing game, who's story remained unsurpassed until Deus Ex. Who can forget the Marthon sequels, the Myth series, and the amazement when seeing the early Halo previews? Bungie was going to be huge.
Then M$ bought them. The original game code was scrapped. The PC and Mac versions got shelved. Oni was sold off to Take-Two. Halo was re-written for the X-Box. The result? A good game. NOT the great game it should have been. They didn't even use the original code for the PC or Mac versions. It was ported from the POS X-Box. No matter what anyone says, console games are dumbed down PC games. M$ crushed the spirit that was Bungie.
Wow, Cisco is on the list. Seems to me, that this list is kinda pointless. The ability to filter information is built in all Cisco router, and I'm sure in Windows too. Henceforth any company that makes software that can filter traffic and sells that product to firms in China (or the Chinese Government) can be accused of helping stifling human rights.
Now if Microsoft and Cisco knowingly sold products that censored the internet (or even if they helped them write access-lists and such) that would clearly be a separate matter.
Now how do we let China get away with some of these things? The censor the Internet to their General Populace, and we invite em into the WTO? WTF?