What a slapdash piece of junk this article is. It looks like the cut and pasted out of intel's press release cut sheet. They didn't even proofread their work, apparently, since the section titled "Backpanel I/O" has a graphic of the front of the case. I mean, come on you dolts! The caption they put under the picture says "The back side of a standard BTX system", and right above the caption is the label in the picture saying "Front panel USB, Audio, 1394"!
Nah, that's just an artifact of generator design, with the sine wave coming off each of three coil sections in succession. Ternary needs three different states in one "place", whereas 3-phase AC is just 3 AC sine waves 120 degrees different from each other on three separate wires. Not really useful because it is, at best, a clock pulse and not a form of memory.
What would happen if a nuclear power plant computer was programmed to silently vent small quatities of nuclear waste over a period of months or years?
And what if a nuclear warhead was "programmed" to sneak out of the silo in the middle of the night, crawl 1500miles down the interstate, and detonate itself in Central Park? Sounds absurd, doesn't it? Well, it's about as plausible as your "programmed waste leak" scenario. I won't go into painful detail why your absurdly uninformed "what if" is wrong; suffice to say that it'd require, among other things, a jackhammer rather than a compiler.
we literally used computers to kill people in Siberia in the 80's.
No, if you RTFA, you'd know that nobody was even injured. THe explosion happened in the middle of siberia. No one was killed, literally or figuratively.
It means that the US military is to be structured as local militias, who arm themselves, as protection of the state's liberty.
Not the state's liberty, the people's liberty. It's not the right of the state to keep and bear arms.
Well, we have, since the Revolution, instead created a half-trillion dollar a year standing (and fighting) military. We should either drop that military in favor of an 18th Century militia self-armed structure, in keeping with the Constitution, or drop that incoherent amendment.
If you remember your history, the men who wrote that amendment had just recently won a revolution against their own government's regular, uniformed military. Dropping the 2nd amendment because we have a standing army is the last thing they'd have intended. Part of the rationale for arming the population is to keep the government mindfull of who, exactly, is in power.
The actions of "gun-nuts" usually involve trying to decrease the possibility of dangerous weapons making it into the hands of those idiots and morons you mention. For some reason, most gun owners automatically think they are being targetted by those activities.
Yes, because most of those actions treat EVERYONE as if they're idiots and morons because "idiocy" is a very subjective thing. To many an anti-gun nut, an idiot is anyone who wants a gun and isn't a policeman or (if they're feeling generous) a strictly hunting-only shooter. You can't legislate away the effects of idiocy.
Does that say something about your self-image?
It says we don't like to be treated like idiots and morons?
Business.
Learn all you can. Then learn plumbing. afer thet, start your own plumbing business. If you still want to program, do some work on OS.
If I had been spending the last 10 years as a plumber, I would be making at least twice what I currently make as a software developer.
Yeah, but that would be 10 years of installing sewer lines and crawling under houses in the mud (or worse) to fix leaks. I've never been a terd-herder myself; I'm an electrician. But I have to go into the same places plumbers do, only I don't have to deal with effluvia. My job isn't so great, so I imagine plumbing is probably worse. I don't think plumbers make enough for the crap (both literal and figurative) they have to deal with.
Let's be honest, the US is generally regarded to be the most anally retentive country in the world when it comes to immigration.
No it's not. At least not by anyone who's tried to get legal status elsewhere. Let's see you try to go to Switzerland or Austria and get resident alien status. Good fucking luck.
I would like to point out that YNHH is not a hospital where only the poor people go. In fact, it is rated as one of the top research hospitals in the US. While I would be the last to agree that YNHH is problem-free, I don't think that YNHH is a racist or classist hospital.
County-USC in Los Angeles is a fairly prestegious hospital as well. This has little to do with the emergency room there. I can't speak for YNHH, but County-USC's emergency services are operated by the County of Los Angeles, therefore they have to treat everyone who comes in. Also, C-USC is located in the middle of the city in a fairly poor area, so it's not surprising that uninsured people end up there. I never said YNHH was racist; I only meant that it was probably had a government-funded emergency room and therefore got EVERYONE who doesn't have insurance. My primary point was that ALL hospitals in canada are public-funded, so the level of care is probably pretty homogenous. In the US, we have various levels of care depending on how much you can afford to pay. If YNHH, like C-USC, takes all the uninsured and/or indigent patients, it will naturally be on a lower rung than a private hospital that only treats people who can afford to pay.
To begin with, I don't see why you would choose market cap over revenue as your yardstick.
Are you daft? Revenue is not a measure of size, that's why.
Put it this way, if Walmart starts branding the computers they sell, does that make them the largest computer company in the world?
No, because computers aren't their core business. As soon as IBM starts selling crappy soda and phone cards I'll give your silly analogy more thought, but for the time being IBM is in the computer software, hardware, and services business. Get a clue, wouldja?
There is no business difference between someone who telecommutes from India or Indiana.
Except the minor point of the former not likely being a native speaker of the english language (ex-colony, sure, but they usually learn hindi first). This can sometimes turn into a fairly big problem.
As a Canadian citizen and US greencard holder, I can say that I've not noticed any inferiority that you appear to be implying in Canadian healthcare. In fact, I've been treated immediately at an ER in Toronto for a minor injury that would have cost me an entire day at Yale New Haven.
Sorry, your experience is anecdotal and deosn't give you enough information to judge accurately. Yale-New Haven is hardly a representative benchmark of all US emergency rooms. Here in Los Angeles, we have County-USC: you'll wait in line for hours there in a room full of undocumented immigrants waiting to be seen. Go to the Northridge Trauma Center and you're treated quickly-- if you have insurance. If you don't (and you're critically injured), Northridge stabilizes you and sends you to County-USC. I suspect you're used to getting the same treatment everywhere and didn't know that YNHH is where only the poor people go. Poor people wait in line here.
So the article doesn't really cover the issue I'm most curious about - are the x86-64 extensions (yamhill) compatable with AMD's Opteron or will they require different 64-bit binaries?
I suspect that Intel wants to jump on the bandwagon with AMD rather than releasing a 64-bit part that requires a THIRD version of windows. Even if they could convince MS to come up with "WIN64-yamhill", how long would it take? Every day AMD can sell the Opteron because it has x86-64 Windows and Intel can't sell Yamhill is another day of loss. They can't afford to let AMD get that much of a lead.
They don't 'need' 64-bit machines, the machines were built before the software was written. It is the way things work...
I think, perhaps, that the word "need" is the wrong word. It's more a question of demand than of need. After all, it could be said that nobody has a "need" of anything more than a bit of raw meat and a cave to hide in.
ever consider working harder? trying to be all you can be? taking pride in your work? doing your job?...just curious.
Ever consider that Verizon's biggest problem isn't that techs aren't working fast enough, it's that the management laid off most everyone with more than 20 years field experience (salaries too high) and then didn't hire anyone to fill the gaps? Or that Verizon techs here in Cali work just as hard as the ones in NY, but they've never had to blow sunshine up management's ass ("shakin' the tree boss!") like they do back east, making the boss think you're doing three people's worth of work (even though you're doing "only" 1.5 people's worth) so he doesn't try to squeeze more out of you? Or that sometimes one must take a crap, GPS be damned?
Your questions are irrelevant anyway, as it happens, because I don't work for Verizon. I work for a private interconnect installing inside infrastructure for phone and data. I just come into contact with a lot of Verizon techs.
When I first started reading the article, I figured they were talking about New York versus California. I've worked on bi-coastal projects, and the cultural differences in how things get decided (and even coding styles) are palpable.
When bell atlantic combined with GTE to become verizon, the powerrs-that-be decided to make bell atlantic the "management" and replaced all the west coast GTE exec positions with BA people. The stodgy east coast guys were infuriated by the laid-back california work style, so they installed GPS transponders on all trucks and instituted random monitoring. Now if you stop to take a crap, they'll page you and demand to know what you're doing at a [gas station/restaurant/whatever] for more than a couple minutes. It's insane.
And this is rather pathetic, because IBM put the SysRq key on their keyboards ever since the original PC for exactly that purpose. Leave it to Microsoft to completely ignore the way things are supposed to be and play in their own, Not-Invented-Here universe instead.
Quoted from/. blurb: "AP reports that IBM'er David Bradley, who came up with the (in)famous Ctrl-Alt-Delete key combination, is retiring. "
It appears it wasn't Microsoft's invention. If IBM didn't use SysRq, why would MS change that after years of continuity?
I'm wondering where the.1 is in 5.1. It's typically the discreet channel, widely known as the subwoofer channel.
Strap on kidney belt that uses a solenoid to punch you in the gut with every bass thump? (probably not)
I imagine the bass channel is piped in equally to both ears along with the center channel. The reason they still call it "5.1" is probably to indicate that it takes 5.1 audio as input.
Dying quickly is fine. Think about your remains falling 15+ miles to the ground and how horrific that must be for the family of that individual...
I'll never understand people's veneration of corpses. Once they're dead, it's just a chunk of meat. Why is it horrifying to think about a piece of meat falling 15+ miles to the ground?
Being that he's not in America, wasn't prosecuted by Americans, nor was he prosecuted at the provable behest of any American entity, suing the Recording Industry Association of America from Norway is a lame suggestion.
Using a butterknife to tighten a screw may sound like an admirable way to deal with the lack of a screwdriver, but any moron with a knife, a screw, and no screwdriver, will come up with the same solution, even in isolation.
That moron better have a good lawyer, because if the butterknife is in any way ornamental, he's in big trouble.
Seriously though, whatever did happen to the "non-obvious" thing with regard to patents?
Eventually, I got sick of it. So the next time I was asked, I answered honestly. "I can sometimes have narrow vision. That is, I'm type-A and can focus all my energies on one thing. This often yeilds stellar results for that task, but at the expense of other important things that I may have neglected. However, I'm aware that I have this tendency and am working to improve my multi-tasking abilities."
I got the job. They even commented that they admired my honesty and self-deprecating candor.
Snork! You did give a stock answer. There are several of them, as you know, having listed some already. The hackneyed classic triumverate are perfectionist, workaholic, and self-competitor. What you inadvertently did was re-state a variation of "perfectionist" in a new and interesting way. Because it actually is a weakness, you were able to do so truthfully; and because you didn't say something that sounded like "I tend to work overtime on one thing till it's perfect, then plan to beat my own record on the next project", it didn't sound like the same old bullshit. As far as weaknesses go, difficulty multi-tasking is small change. Nobody multi-tasks as well as they single-task, so it's an easy answer for generating empathy. It's clearly not anyone's GREATEST weakness, so it is a bit of a bullshit answer.
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What a slapdash piece of junk this article is. It looks like the cut and pasted out of intel's press release cut sheet. They didn't even proofread their work, apparently, since the section titled "Backpanel I/O" has a graphic of the front of the case. I mean, come on you dolts! The caption they put under the picture says "The back side of a standard BTX system", and right above the caption is the label in the picture saying "Front panel USB, Audio, 1394"!
Nah, that's just an artifact of generator design, with the sine wave coming off each of three coil sections in succession. Ternary needs three different states in one "place", whereas 3-phase AC is just 3 AC sine waves 120 degrees different from each other on three separate wires. Not really useful because it is, at best, a clock pulse and not a form of memory.
And what if a nuclear warhead was "programmed" to sneak out of the silo in the middle of the night, crawl 1500miles down the interstate, and detonate itself in Central Park? Sounds absurd, doesn't it? Well, it's about as plausible as your "programmed waste leak" scenario. I won't go into painful detail why your absurdly uninformed "what if" is wrong; suffice to say that it'd require, among other things, a jackhammer rather than a compiler.
No, if you RTFA, you'd know that nobody was even injured. THe explosion happened in the middle of siberia. No one was killed, literally or figuratively.
Not the state's liberty, the people's liberty. It's not the right of the state to keep and bear arms.
Well, we have, since the Revolution, instead created a half-trillion dollar a year standing (and fighting) military. We should either drop that military in favor of an 18th Century militia self-armed structure, in keeping with the Constitution, or drop that incoherent amendment.
If you remember your history, the men who wrote that amendment had just recently won a revolution against their own government's regular, uniformed military. Dropping the 2nd amendment because we have a standing army is the last thing they'd have intended. Part of the rationale for arming the population is to keep the government mindfull of who, exactly, is in power.
Yes, because most of those actions treat EVERYONE as if they're idiots and morons because "idiocy" is a very subjective thing. To many an anti-gun nut, an idiot is anyone who wants a gun and isn't a policeman or (if they're feeling generous) a strictly hunting-only shooter. You can't legislate away the effects of idiocy.
Does that say something about your self-image?
It says we don't like to be treated like idiots and morons?
Yeah, but that would be 10 years of installing sewer lines and crawling under houses in the mud (or worse) to fix leaks. I've never been a terd-herder myself; I'm an electrician. But I have to go into the same places plumbers do, only I don't have to deal with effluvia. My job isn't so great, so I imagine plumbing is probably worse. I don't think plumbers make enough for the crap (both literal and figurative) they have to deal with.
No it's not. At least not by anyone who's tried to get legal status elsewhere. Let's see you try to go to Switzerland or Austria and get resident alien status. Good fucking luck.
County-USC in Los Angeles is a fairly prestegious hospital as well. This has little to do with the emergency room there. I can't speak for YNHH, but County-USC's emergency services are operated by the County of Los Angeles, therefore they have to treat everyone who comes in. Also, C-USC is located in the middle of the city in a fairly poor area, so it's not surprising that uninsured people end up there. I never said YNHH was racist; I only meant that it was probably had a government-funded emergency room and therefore got EVERYONE who doesn't have insurance. My primary point was that ALL hospitals in canada are public-funded, so the level of care is probably pretty homogenous. In the US, we have various levels of care depending on how much you can afford to pay. If YNHH, like C-USC, takes all the uninsured and/or indigent patients, it will naturally be on a lower rung than a private hospital that only treats people who can afford to pay.
Are you daft? Revenue is not a measure of size, that's why.
Put it this way, if Walmart starts branding the computers they sell, does that make them the largest computer company in the world?
No, because computers aren't their core business. As soon as IBM starts selling crappy soda and phone cards I'll give your silly analogy more thought, but for the time being IBM is in the computer software, hardware, and services business. Get a clue, wouldja?
Except the minor point of the former not likely being a native speaker of the english language (ex-colony, sure, but they usually learn hindi first). This can sometimes turn into a fairly big problem.
Sorry, your experience is anecdotal and deosn't give you enough information to judge accurately. Yale-New Haven is hardly a representative benchmark of all US emergency rooms. Here in Los Angeles, we have County-USC: you'll wait in line for hours there in a room full of undocumented immigrants waiting to be seen. Go to the Northridge Trauma Center and you're treated quickly-- if you have insurance. If you don't (and you're critically injured), Northridge stabilizes you and sends you to County-USC. I suspect you're used to getting the same treatment everywhere and didn't know that YNHH is where only the poor people go. Poor people wait in line here.
I suspect that Intel wants to jump on the bandwagon with AMD rather than releasing a 64-bit part that requires a THIRD version of windows. Even if they could convince MS to come up with "WIN64-yamhill", how long would it take? Every day AMD can sell the Opteron because it has x86-64 Windows and Intel can't sell Yamhill is another day of loss. They can't afford to let AMD get that much of a lead.
I think, perhaps, that the word "need" is the wrong word. It's more a question of demand than of need. After all, it could be said that nobody has a "need" of anything more than a bit of raw meat and a cave to hide in.
Ever consider that Verizon's biggest problem isn't that techs aren't working fast enough, it's that the management laid off most everyone with more than 20 years field experience (salaries too high) and then didn't hire anyone to fill the gaps? Or that Verizon techs here in Cali work just as hard as the ones in NY, but they've never had to blow sunshine up management's ass ("shakin' the tree boss!") like they do back east, making the boss think you're doing three people's worth of work (even though you're doing "only" 1.5 people's worth) so he doesn't try to squeeze more out of you? Or that sometimes one must take a crap, GPS be damned?
Your questions are irrelevant anyway, as it happens, because I don't work for Verizon. I work for a private interconnect installing inside infrastructure for phone and data. I just come into contact with a lot of Verizon techs.
When bell atlantic combined with GTE to become verizon, the powerrs-that-be decided to make bell atlantic the "management" and replaced all the west coast GTE exec positions with BA people. The stodgy east coast guys were infuriated by the laid-back california work style, so they installed GPS transponders on all trucks and instituted random monitoring. Now if you stop to take a crap, they'll page you and demand to know what you're doing at a [gas station/restaurant/whatever] for more than a couple minutes. It's insane.
Quoted from /. blurb: "AP reports that IBM'er David Bradley, who came up with the (in)famous Ctrl-Alt-Delete key combination, is retiring. "
It appears it wasn't Microsoft's invention. If IBM didn't use SysRq, why would MS change that after years of continuity?
I didde totally spraye mine cuppe of beer oute my nose!
This is the funniest thing I've seen on slashdot EVER.
The hobbyist/hobbiest thing drives me insane. Likewise with the word "lobbyist".
I recently got an HP iPaq (fairly new one) for under $65 because it was listed as "HP iPad".
Strap on kidney belt that uses a solenoid to punch you in the gut with every bass thump? (probably not)
I imagine the bass channel is piped in equally to both ears along with the center channel. The reason they still call it "5.1" is probably to indicate that it takes 5.1 audio as input.
I'll never understand people's veneration of corpses. Once they're dead, it's just a chunk of meat. Why is it horrifying to think about a piece of meat falling 15+ miles to the ground?
Being that he's not in America, wasn't prosecuted by Americans, nor was he prosecuted at the provable behest of any American entity, suing the Recording Industry Association of America from Norway is a lame suggestion.
That moron better have a good lawyer, because if the butterknife is in any way ornamental, he's in big trouble.
Seriously though, whatever did happen to the "non-obvious" thing with regard to patents?
Snork! You did give a stock answer. There are several of them, as you know, having listed some already. The hackneyed classic triumverate are perfectionist, workaholic, and self-competitor. What you inadvertently did was re-state a variation of "perfectionist" in a new and interesting way. Because it actually is a weakness, you were able to do so truthfully; and because you didn't say something that sounded like "I tend to work overtime on one thing till it's perfect, then plan to beat my own record on the next project", it didn't sound like the same old bullshit. As far as weaknesses go, difficulty multi-tasking is small change. Nobody multi-tasks as well as they single-task, so it's an easy answer for generating empathy. It's clearly not anyone's GREATEST weakness, so it is a bit of a bullshit answer.