If you do good, you get six people
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Defining Google
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· Score: 1
The sixth person is "as appropriate", and if you get to the sixth, this means that at least three of the five people said "hire". The "as appropriate" guy has been with the company for at least 10 years and everybody thinks he knows people pretty well. Typically he does. He can veto team's decision in both directions, but he typically doesn't.
This must be painful to European space agency. Russians did a rover in 1970, americans did their first in 1997, and Europeans smashed their Beagle into Mars in 2004. I bet it would work, if they used NASA's landing technology.
Why? Because I'm sick and tired of paying bills every month already. Do they want to add another set of bills? I'll be using someone else's software/hardware. Apple is not buying this "software as a service" bullshit (yet). Linux vendors don't force support contract down your throat (they'd be glad to, but GPL and competition don't allow).
I think Microsoft is trying to become a smaller company after all. With, say 75% of the OS/Office apps market instead of 95%. They seem to want to get into a position where they maybe don't have as many customers in terms of market share, but every single customer pays them the money.
This is fair. Let them get there, but keep a legal "eye" on them. This will only foster competition. When Office becomes a $30 per month service, you can bet your ass people will start switching to competitive offerings. When Windows is $20 per month, you'll see a lot of folks migrate to Mac.
Let them jack up their prices and put everyone on the upgrade treadmill. It's in your best interest.
"Half-working" is the general state of Linux on la
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Linux On Your Tablet PC
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"Half-working" is the general state of Linux on laptops. Sad but true. I've tried Fedora on my Dell Inspiron, and getting wireless and ACPI to work was such a pain, I blew it off in the middle and put WinXP on it.
And tablets ain't ever going to work with Linux, because in order for them to work two things have to be in place: good handwriting recognition and applications understanding some kind of common protocol to input ink. Neither of these things is realistic under Linux. The former because of patents. The latter is because Linux developers can't implement frikkin' cut&paste.
Steering remotely wouldn't work for Mars. It barely worked for the Moon. The round trip was 5 seconds, so you had to steer very carefully. As far as whether it compares, I'd say it does. Just read the wikipedia article I've provided. That was an unbelievably advanced thing for the early 70's. Back then there weren't any computers.:0)
Still, they're larger than Lunokhod (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunokhod_1), which roamed the Moon in 1973 (!).
Wow, I didn't realize they were so BIG
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One Year on Mars
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· Score: 4, Interesting
For some reason I thought the rovers were MUCH smaller than they really are. Heck, this thing is bigger than the lunar "automobile" (the copy of it I've seen in Boeing museum).
Nobody spends any dough on long distance anymore, and almost everyone has a computer.
If I can save $240 a year (that's compared to the cheapest available calling cards!) by using MSN Messenger, you can bet your ass I'll be using MSN Messenger.
As soon as MS starts charging for Messenger I'll move on to something else, or roll my own. So I'm not worried about them becoming a force in VoIP market, because I'm sure a lot of folks will do the same thing.
Is the person you're talking to 6500 miles away? Skype audio is choppy, and there's a very noticeable delay. Skype just doesn't work for such long distances and low bandwidths.
It works halfway across the globe with slow analog modem on the other end. Even Skype dies in this configuration. Skype also has horrible echo problems (even with echo suppression) which MSN Messenger for some reason does not have.
So despite crappy UI, I have to use MSN Messenger. I save about $20 a month by doing so.
A protocol built into browsers that would allow the site to request passwords from your local cache automatically and securely. This should confirm the identity of the site. Passwords should never travel over the wire. Hashes should go over the wire strongly encrypted.
The benefits are: a. You only enter your password once. After this _browser_ asks you if you want the site to log you in automatically. b. This won't cost the web site using the service a dime to implement (if it's GPL/open source). c. This will decentralize password storage. d. This will force web sites to use encryption when doing authentication. e. This will prevent spoofing. f. This will probably be a lot more effective at killing Passport than posting on Slashdot.
So there you have it, crypto gurus. Now go write a server piece and a toolbar/firefox plugin for it.
Non-specialized hardware. It is widely known that specialized hardware blows the doors off a PC while often costing less. They've learned on their mistake with XBox, and XBox 2 will be a highly specialized platform. They may learn the same thing about Media centers, and turn it into a specialized platform also, simply to bring the prices down from their currently stratospheric level. Viable price point for Media Center is IMO $500-600.
of on-die full-speed L2 cache. The same amount as they have on Xeons. So if by "data intensive" you mean not just copying large blocks of RAM, but actually doing something with the data, I think P-M should be fairly competitive despite its lowish FSB speed.
"The ideal search engine is like the mind of God". Here we come, a hundred million "semantics aware" PCs and we get something resembling someone's mind.
decide what to use. For me, 200-300GB tape drive would be OK if I KNEW the data won't go bad in 25 years (at least) if cassettes are properly stored (cool, dry place, no strong magnetic fields).
And then I'd just dump all my data onto a few cassettes, and send one set to my relatives 5000 miles away.
100TB is useless if you know the data will "die" in a few years.
Now that's an awesome possibility. It's about time storage-related companies start worrying about reliability and longevity of their storage solutions instead of trying to impress everyone with capacity.
But this is a godsend for what's called "desktop" search right now. If it really works as advertised, that is, which I really doubt.
However, if Intel delivers the promised 10x boost in performance in the next 3 years (which I really doubt, too), who knows, we might see this in a centralized search engine, too.
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The sixth person is "as appropriate", and if you get to the sixth, this means that at least three of the five people said "hire". The "as appropriate" guy has been with the company for at least 10 years and everybody thinks he knows people pretty well. Typically he does. He can veto team's decision in both directions, but he typically doesn't.
This must be painful to European space agency. Russians did a rover in 1970, americans did their first in 1997, and Europeans smashed their Beagle into Mars in 2004. I bet it would work, if they used NASA's landing technology.
Why? Because I'm sick and tired of paying bills every month already. Do they want to add another set of bills? I'll be using someone else's software/hardware. Apple is not buying this "software as a service" bullshit (yet). Linux vendors don't force support contract down your throat (they'd be glad to, but GPL and competition don't allow).
I think Microsoft is trying to become a smaller company after all. With, say 75% of the OS/Office apps market instead of 95%. They seem to want to get into a position where they maybe don't have as many customers in terms of market share, but every single customer pays them the money.
This is fair. Let them get there, but keep a legal "eye" on them. This will only foster competition. When Office becomes a $30 per month service, you can bet your ass people will start switching to competitive offerings. When Windows is $20 per month, you'll see a lot of folks migrate to Mac.
Let them jack up their prices and put everyone on the upgrade treadmill. It's in your best interest.
"Half-working" is the general state of Linux on laptops. Sad but true. I've tried Fedora on my Dell Inspiron, and getting wireless and ACPI to work was such a pain, I blew it off in the middle and put WinXP on it.
And tablets ain't ever going to work with Linux, because in order for them to work two things have to be in place: good handwriting recognition and applications understanding some kind of common protocol to input ink. Neither of these things is realistic under Linux. The former because of patents. The latter is because Linux developers can't implement frikkin' cut&paste.
Steering remotely wouldn't work for Mars. It barely worked for the Moon. The round trip was 5 seconds, so you had to steer very carefully. As far as whether it compares, I'd say it does. Just read the wikipedia article I've provided. That was an unbelievably advanced thing for the early 70's. Back then there weren't any computers. :0)
And how is 6500 miles not long distance?
Also, I've spent zero dollars on software for my Windows box this year. No, I don't download shit off edonkey. I just didn't buy anything new.
The only software money I've spent this year was $99 for Final Cut Express that I purchased with my new iMac.
And no, I don't pay anything to MS for using their VoIP.
Still, they're larger than Lunokhod (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunokhod_1), which roamed the Moon in 1973 (!).
For some reason I thought the rovers were MUCH smaller than they really are. Heck, this thing is bigger than the lunar "automobile" (the copy of it I've seen in Boeing museum).
Nobody spends any dough on long distance anymore, and almost everyone has a computer.
If I can save $240 a year (that's compared to the cheapest available calling cards!) by using MSN Messenger, you can bet your ass I'll be using MSN Messenger.
As soon as MS starts charging for Messenger I'll move on to something else, or roll my own. So I'm not worried about them becoming a force in VoIP market, because I'm sure a lot of folks will do the same thing.
Is the person you're talking to 6500 miles away? Skype audio is choppy, and there's a very noticeable delay. Skype just doesn't work for such long distances and low bandwidths.
It works halfway across the globe with slow analog modem on the other end. Even Skype dies in this configuration. Skype also has horrible echo problems (even with echo suppression) which MSN Messenger for some reason does not have.
So despite crappy UI, I have to use MSN Messenger. I save about $20 a month by doing so.
A protocol built into browsers that would allow the site to request passwords from your local cache automatically and securely. This should confirm the identity of the site. Passwords should never travel over the wire. Hashes should go over the wire strongly encrypted.
The benefits are:
a. You only enter your password once. After this _browser_ asks you if you want the site to log you in automatically.
b. This won't cost the web site using the service a dime to implement (if it's GPL/open source).
c. This will decentralize password storage.
d. This will force web sites to use encryption when doing authentication.
e. This will prevent spoofing.
f. This will probably be a lot more effective at killing Passport than posting on Slashdot.
So there you have it, crypto gurus. Now go write a server piece and a toolbar/firefox plugin for it.
Once again, Apple is in a class of its own.
http://www.apple.com
It's led by Natalie Portman, you, insensitive clod.
Non-specialized hardware. It is widely known that specialized hardware blows the doors off a PC while often costing less. They've learned on their mistake with XBox, and XBox 2 will be a highly specialized platform. They may learn the same thing about Media centers, and turn it into a specialized platform also, simply to bring the prices down from their currently stratospheric level. Viable price point for Media Center is IMO $500-600.
of on-die full-speed L2 cache. The same amount as they have on Xeons. So if by "data intensive" you mean not just copying large blocks of RAM, but actually doing something with the data, I think P-M should be fairly competitive despite its lowish FSB speed.
First of all, you will only find P4 "Mobile" in P4 laptops. Non mobile versions draw too much juice and have heat dissipation of at least 100W.
:0)
Second of all, Pentium-M blows the doors off P4 "Mobile" while at the same time running much cooler and consuming much less power.
Third, I type this from a 20" iMac G5. Envy me.
The current Nintendo Game Cube uses ATI video chip and IBM processor, BTW. So this market is by no means new for either of the companies.
When XBox 2 comes out neither Intel nor AMD will be the main players in the gaming market. The main players will be IBM, NVidia and ATI.
No, I didn't get tricked. I went to that page, saw a bunch of Google ads and it immediately became clear to me why this page was posted on slashdot.
So I think Google should pay him with Monopoly money or something.
"The ideal search engine is like the mind of God". Here we come, a hundred million "semantics aware" PCs and we get something resembling someone's mind.
decide what to use. For me, 200-300GB tape drive would be OK if I KNEW the data won't go bad in 25 years (at least) if cassettes are properly stored (cool, dry place, no strong magnetic fields).
And then I'd just dump all my data onto a few cassettes, and send one set to my relatives 5000 miles away.
100TB is useless if you know the data will "die" in a few years.
Now that's an awesome possibility. It's about time storage-related companies start worrying about reliability and longevity of their storage solutions instead of trying to impress everyone with capacity.
But this is a godsend for what's called "desktop" search right now. If it really works as advertised, that is, which I really doubt.
However, if Intel delivers the promised 10x boost in performance in the next 3 years (which I really doubt, too), who knows, we might see this in a centralized search engine, too.