Completely agree. Starting Forth is one of the best books ever written for how to look at (and into) a problem, break it into manageable chunks, and write a program to solve it. It's really a shame that no one here will ever read it.
I agree that it's the word "tricorder" that got them all worked up, although I'm sure they also think they're doing the legal requirements to keep their trademark franchise alive, vis the LCARS look-and-feel. Also the existence of a sanctioned/licensed iPad app further muddies that their motivations are.
I'm curious what their reaction will be when they see my new "Heisenberg compensator" App. It works very well, if I do say so myself.
The federal government has already given the telecom industry several large subsidies, purportedly to improve infrastructure, instead companies in the industry have used the money to buy each other, and pocketed the difference.
So (for example) ATT's rapacious greed and refusal to upgrade infrastructure (anywhere, particularly cross-country) is the fault of local governments? When it's the phone/cable companies who DEMAND those local monopolies to "recoup their investment"?
Holy shit, I've read some wildly delusional libertardian bullshit on/. before, but this one is deserving of some kind of award.
Comcast is simply being a good steward for the planet in this case. Whilst other companies fritter away bandwidth at an appalling rate, Comcast recognizes and respects that bandwidth is a non-renewable resource. Once you use up bandwidth, it's gone forever. This new research reminds me of nothing so much as an announcement of a new model Hummer that gets even WORSE mileage.
Don't be in such a hurry to use up all the bandwidth, leave some for your grandchildren!
Thank god for this. The slow bandwidth to Twitter is killing me. When one my friends goes out to lunch, or has a particularly noteworthy bowel movement, I want to know about it in nanoseconds, not milliseconds, goddamit.
HP looks at the way IBM dumped the (cutthroat margin) PC and laptop market and survives on consulting and big iron and fantasizes that they can do the same. The days when HP could produce ANY world-class widget ended when they stopped being an instrument company at heart, probably in Lou Platt's day, but certainly by the end of the Evil Queen's reign. By then, they'd lost (or gotten rid of) all their top engineering talent, and were no longer one of "the top 10 places to work in the world". The Compaq, later (attempted) PWC and finally (completed) EDS and Palm deals are just the fenceposts along the way of HP losing its soul.
I feel certain that if we add a few more hypothetical particles and their anti-particles, along with some new virtual particles to transmit forces between them and the rest of the particle zoo, and (at most) four new carefully tuned fudge factors^W^Wcosmological constants to make the math come out right, depending on how many extra space-like dimensions you postulate, that suddenly, miraculously, the Standard Model will become a thing of breathtakingly elegant simplicity and great descriptive and predictive power.
Please don't confuse the "Everybody thought the world was flat until Colombus!" crowd with facts. Telling them the ancient Greeks knew they were living on a sphere (from the shape of the shadow of the earth on the moon) won't disturb their firmly held articles of faith at all.
Because Windows is 99.2% of the market and nVidia throws engineers at Windows drivers like firemen throw water at an oil refinery fire? Because the nVidia marketing assholes have to be reminded on a daily basis that Linux (or OSX) even exists? Because the Linux nVidia staff is three guys in a room who get less respect than a vomiting crack whore in the Sistene Chapel?
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Well, he was first to file :D
According to the new rules, that makes him the winner.
Completely agree. Starting Forth is one of the best books ever written for how to look at (and into) a problem, break it into manageable chunks, and write a program to solve it. It's really a shame that no one here will ever read it.
AT&T has been using the Death Star as their logo since the 80's. Seems oddly appropriate.
Well played.
Except when you're watching/being shot at, then they can't hit the broad side of a barn.
x86 isn't "the CPU market". Less so every day.
I'm pretty sure I've seen you on Chatroulette.
Feh. Kids these days. Real men use VT52s and self-written EVE/TPU macros.
I agree that it's the word "tricorder" that got them all worked up, although I'm sure they also think they're doing the legal requirements to keep their trademark franchise alive, vis the LCARS look-and-feel. Also the existence of a sanctioned/licensed iPad app further muddies that their motivations are.
I'm curious what their reaction will be when they see my new "Heisenberg compensator" App. It works very well, if I do say so myself.
I once had a symbolic link to a great-grandparent directory. I have an infinite number of backups of it.
You can only observe the error by making it.
One error per bit per 50,000 logic operations should be accurate enough for non-technical people.
I know! And some idiot said I was "off topic" (whatever THAT is). Try to be environmentally conscious and people jump all over you.
The federal government has already given the telecom industry several large subsidies, purportedly to improve infrastructure, instead companies in the industry have used the money to buy each other, and pocketed the difference.
So it really could be a series of (pneumatic) tubes!
So (for example) ATT's rapacious greed and refusal to upgrade infrastructure (anywhere, particularly cross-country) is the fault of local governments? When it's the phone/cable companies who DEMAND those local monopolies to "recoup their investment"?
/. before, but this one is deserving of some kind of award.
Holy shit, I've read some wildly delusional libertardian bullshit on
Comcast is simply being a good steward for the planet in this case. Whilst other companies fritter away bandwidth at an appalling rate, Comcast recognizes and respects that bandwidth is a non-renewable resource. Once you use up bandwidth, it's gone forever. This new research reminds me of nothing so much as an announcement of a new model Hummer that gets even WORSE mileage.
Don't be in such a hurry to use up all the bandwidth, leave some for your grandchildren!
Thank god for this. The slow bandwidth to Twitter is killing me. When one my friends goes out to lunch, or has a particularly noteworthy bowel movement, I want to know about it in nanoseconds, not milliseconds, goddamit.
You young whipper-snapper, HP used to mean frequency generators/counters.
HP looks at the way IBM dumped the (cutthroat margin) PC and laptop market and survives on consulting and big iron and fantasizes that they can do the same. The days when HP could produce ANY world-class widget ended when they stopped being an instrument company at heart, probably in Lou Platt's day, but certainly by the end of the Evil Queen's reign. By then, they'd lost (or gotten rid of) all their top engineering talent, and were no longer one of "the top 10 places to work in the world". The Compaq, later (attempted) PWC and finally (completed) EDS and Palm deals are just the fenceposts along the way of HP losing its soul.
Hehhh. Hehhhh. You said "the rapist".
Luckily, I see "fucktard" isn't on the list, so we can still accurately describe the list's author.
Slept-ons are emitted when a futon decays.
I feel certain that if we add a few more hypothetical particles and their anti-particles, along with some new virtual particles to transmit forces between them and the rest of the particle zoo, and (at most) four new carefully tuned fudge factors^W^Wcosmological constants to make the math come out right, depending on how many extra space-like dimensions you postulate, that suddenly, miraculously, the Standard Model will become a thing of breathtakingly elegant simplicity and great descriptive and predictive power.
Please don't confuse the "Everybody thought the world was flat until Colombus!" crowd with facts. Telling them the ancient Greeks knew they were living on a sphere (from the shape of the shadow of the earth on the moon) won't disturb their firmly held articles of faith at all.
You probably think Quest for Fire is a documentary, too.
Because Windows is 99.2% of the market and nVidia throws engineers at Windows drivers like firemen throw water at an oil refinery fire?
Because the nVidia marketing assholes have to be reminded on a daily basis that Linux (or OSX) even exists?
Because the Linux nVidia staff is three guys in a room who get less respect than a vomiting crack whore in the Sistene Chapel?
Idiot.