I think the motivation there is to stuff the OS with download links so that people go to Live.com and download this crud from there instead. This is typical for people who have never offered any software for download and install from their web site. The harsh reality is that only a few percent of users will download, and out of those who do, not all will install. So they'll see a very temporary blip followed by people just going to Google instead. If I have to download, I might as well download Picasa and Thunderbird instead.
1. Buy $40B worth of stock 2. Wait for it to grow 3. Sell it for profit 4. Ruin AAPL/GOOG share price by a sudden influx of stock. 5. Lather, rinse, repeat. You also get voting rights as a major shareholder.
I don't "invest" in movies anymore. No point in buying them if I'll only watch them once. Music, on the other hand, is something I will not tolerate any DRM on, precisely because I buy it and listen to it many, many times.
By definition, people who buy Blu Ray right now are early adopters. Early adopters on average will have higher EQ which means they realize that it's pointless to buy a movie that you will only watch once, particularly if it's $25+, and Netflix offers Blu Ray rentals for the same exact price as normal DVDs. I have a Blu Ray 1080p setup with 7.1 sound, and the only BDs I buy are cartoons, because my kid watches them every day, a hundred times in a row. Everything else comes from Netflix. I have sold off most of my DVD collection on half.com, too. I don't know why I bought all those DVDs in the first place.
Their family income was 1.6 mil last year, if I'm not mistaken. Is he counting his net worth separately from his wife's? Then McCain is practically a bum, with not a dime to his name, since his wife owns everything.
I was at Microsoft at the time (though not in E&D division). It was immediately obvious to me that it would take over the motherfucking world. This sorta means that vision-wise, I'm better than those overpaid retards who keep pumping shareholder money into a console that will never provide any ROI. The worst part is (well, for them anyway), Sony PS3 will provide ROI in a year or two, when Blu Ray really takes off.
Cool. Nice to see Intel working in that direction, although currently I'd say processors and chipsets are not a major problem. Hard drives are. Would be nice to get one or two HD manufacturers involved. I'm not convinced 55 degrees centigrade is the highest operating temperature they can achieve.
As far as reducing humidity, you could do that as well by _slightly_ cooling the air and then only if humidity is high to begin with. That would lower relative humidity and water could be removed through condensation.
It's also the distance between the electrodes. The thinner the dielectric layer, the more charge the capacitor will hold. The problem is then to avoid the electrical breakdown of the dielectric.
Frankly, I think 5-hour job interviews are broken. They deter many good candidates, some candidates who are pretty darn good do poorly in them due to psychological pressure, and in the end the interviewer doesn't know much about a candidate anyway. You can't really find out much about a guy in less than 50 minutes, and you simply don't know how well he will work in your team.
Personally, I'd substitute this with a much lighter interview process, followed by the trial period of, say, 1 month. Sadly, this doesn't seem to be legally possible in the US, because people sue their former employers all the time for "wrongful termination", so you have to document a trail of non-performance before you give anyone the boot.
>> it's a pain in the ass to get a high-performance, non-bloatware infested Vista machine
Tell me about it. Just the other day I was looking for a PC laptop that would have a DVI connector on it. Believe it or not, in year 2008 I could not find a decent one. The best I could find were some obscure ASUS models (which, I hear, develop problems in their display hinge after a while). Do PC manufacturers even listen to their customers at all?
Could someone give the gory details on how this all is accomplished? In particular, whether all processes access (and draw in) the same graphical context somehow, or they're just a bunch of z-ordered overlapping windows that move together when dragged?
1. Latest. 3.0.1 2. Adobe Flash and several add-ins (Adblock, Greasemonkey, Firebug) 3. Windows (W2K8), Mac (Leopard, latest updates) 4. Latest patches are applied to everything
It does work OK, if you shut it down every now and then. I usually keep my browser windows open for days on end, since I just put my laptops to sleep at home and at work my computers are always on.
Recently, I'm seeing some indirect evidence of memory corruption in FF. After a while it fails to download images or connect to the network, for example. You restart the process and it all works like buttah again. Heck, Internet Explorer is more stable than this.
I guess fixing hard to repro bugs is far less glorious a job than bolting on a new JS interpreter (even though the old one was OK to begin with) or tweaking the UI.
If the ad is shown using an iframe, then yes, Adblock works fine on that. If the ad is shown right within page HTML, then no. Someone needs to write some Hidden Markov Model code to recognize and bust those as well - they're getting annoying.
And now is a good time to join it, if you have experience - money and promotions will be thrown at those folks by the bucket load now that there's an actual threat.
Here's a crucial thing this browser should have: Mozilla-like extensibility, so that I could install the things without which I can't imagine a browser anymore:
This is a BETA. There are all kinds of things turned on that will be turned off in the final version. Make your RAM measurements once the final version comes out. And the number of threads doesn't mean anything, since most of them are asleep at any given time.
How could he write this drivel without even TALKING to the other side? It doesn't take a genius to see, that the guy is vehemently anti-Russian. Consequently, the only source he quotes is also vehemently anti-Russian.
Is this your idea of "unbiased information"? I could find some intensely anti-US nutcases in Russia for you, and they will tell you that the US is a nation of bloodthirsty retards with short memory span. Just because they say it doesn't make it true.
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That's what I wonder. If they do, how about cutting that as well?
Make this behavior too expensive for them to keep up and they'll drop it.
I think the motivation there is to stuff the OS with download links so that people go to Live.com and download this crud from there instead. This is typical for people who have never offered any software for download and install from their web site. The harsh reality is that only a few percent of users will download, and out of those who do, not all will install. So they'll see a very temporary blip followed by people just going to Google instead. If I have to download, I might as well download Picasa and Thunderbird instead.
1. Buy $40B worth of stock
2. Wait for it to grow
3. Sell it for profit
4. Ruin AAPL/GOOG share price by a sudden influx of stock.
5. Lather, rinse, repeat. You also get voting rights as a major shareholder.
I don't "invest" in movies anymore. No point in buying them if I'll only watch them once. Music, on the other hand, is something I will not tolerate any DRM on, precisely because I buy it and listen to it many, many times.
By definition, people who buy Blu Ray right now are early adopters. Early adopters on average will have higher EQ which means they realize that it's pointless to buy a movie that you will only watch once, particularly if it's $25+, and Netflix offers Blu Ray rentals for the same exact price as normal DVDs. I have a Blu Ray 1080p setup with 7.1 sound, and the only BDs I buy are cartoons, because my kid watches them every day, a hundred times in a row. Everything else comes from Netflix. I have sold off most of my DVD collection on half.com, too. I don't know why I bought all those DVDs in the first place.
Their family income was 1.6 mil last year, if I'm not mistaken. Is he counting his net worth separately from his wife's? Then McCain is practically a bum, with not a dime to his name, since his wife owns everything.
I was at Microsoft at the time (though not in E&D division). It was immediately obvious to me that it would take over the motherfucking world. This sorta means that vision-wise, I'm better than those overpaid retards who keep pumping shareholder money into a console that will never provide any ROI. The worst part is (well, for them anyway), Sony PS3 will provide ROI in a year or two, when Blu Ray really takes off.
Cool. Nice to see Intel working in that direction, although currently I'd say processors and chipsets are not a major problem. Hard drives are. Would be nice to get one or two HD manufacturers involved. I'm not convinced 55 degrees centigrade is the highest operating temperature they can achieve.
As far as reducing humidity, you could do that as well by _slightly_ cooling the air and then only if humidity is high to begin with. That would lower relative humidity and water could be removed through condensation.
from a few weeks ago?
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=947231&cid=24787415
>> PS: Your acting sucks too.
"Magnolia" (by P.T. Anderson) removes all doubt about badassity of Tom Cruise as an actor. He's just unbelievably good in that movie.
Why did they even need such a huge datacenter? I guess things can get out of hand when you play with other people's money.
It's also the distance between the electrodes. The thinner the dielectric layer, the more charge the capacitor will hold. The problem is then to avoid the electrical breakdown of the dielectric.
Frankly, I think 5-hour job interviews are broken. They deter many good candidates, some candidates who are pretty darn good do poorly in them due to psychological pressure, and in the end the interviewer doesn't know much about a candidate anyway. You can't really find out much about a guy in less than 50 minutes, and you simply don't know how well he will work in your team.
Personally, I'd substitute this with a much lighter interview process, followed by the trial period of, say, 1 month. Sadly, this doesn't seem to be legally possible in the US, because people sue their former employers all the time for "wrongful termination", so you have to document a trail of non-performance before you give anyone the boot.
You don't need the "fiddly QUERTY nonsense" anymore to enter Chinese/Japanese/Korean. Not since iPhone 2.0.
>> it's a pain in the ass to get a high-performance, non-bloatware infested Vista machine
Tell me about it. Just the other day I was looking for a PC laptop that would have a DVI connector on it. Believe it or not, in year 2008 I could not find a decent one. The best I could find were some obscure ASUS models (which, I hear, develop problems in their display hinge after a while). Do PC manufacturers even listen to their customers at all?
Could someone give the gory details on how this all is accomplished? In particular, whether all processes access (and draw in) the same graphical context somehow, or they're just a bunch of z-ordered overlapping windows that move together when dragged?
1. Latest. 3.0.1
2. Adobe Flash and several add-ins (Adblock, Greasemonkey, Firebug)
3. Windows (W2K8), Mac (Leopard, latest updates)
4. Latest patches are applied to everything
It does work OK, if you shut it down every now and then. I usually keep my browser windows open for days on end, since I just put my laptops to sleep at home and at work my computers are always on.
Recently, I'm seeing some indirect evidence of memory corruption in FF. After a while it fails to download images or connect to the network, for example. You restart the process and it all works like buttah again. Heck, Internet Explorer is more stable than this.
I guess fixing hard to repro bugs is far less glorious a job than bolting on a new JS interpreter (even though the old one was OK to begin with) or tweaking the UI.
If the ad is shown using an iframe, then yes, Adblock works fine on that. If the ad is shown right within page HTML, then no. Someone needs to write some Hidden Markov Model code to recognize and bust those as well - they're getting annoying.
And now is a good time to join it, if you have experience - money and promotions will be thrown at those folks by the bucket load now that there's an actual threat.
Here's a crucial thing this browser should have: Mozilla-like extensibility, so that I could install the things without which I can't imagine a browser anymore:
1. Ad blocker (AdBlock Plus)
2. Developer extensions
3. Debugger (Firebug)
4. FTP (FireFTP)
5. Javascript extensibility (Greasemonkey)
Of course they'll be called something else, but without this set (and particularly #1), they might as well forget about it.
This is a BETA. There are all kinds of things turned on that will be turned off in the final version. Make your RAM measurements once the final version comes out. And the number of threads doesn't mean anything, since most of them are asleep at any given time.
How could he write this drivel without even TALKING to the other side? It doesn't take a genius to see, that the guy is vehemently anti-Russian. Consequently, the only source he quotes is also vehemently anti-Russian.
Is this your idea of "unbiased information"? I could find some intensely anti-US nutcases in Russia for you, and they will tell you that the US is a nation of bloodthirsty retards with short memory span. Just because they say it doesn't make it true.
Read up on Saakashvili in this article on Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/29/AR2008082902336.html
Compared to him, Putin as an etalon of democracy.
I suggest that he titles it "Restoring constitutional order by dropping cluster bombs on civilians":
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5je4oTliESokD-zge0diVbbczCPIgD92TT2VG0