Hmm. As a head programmer I'd imagine he has privledged access to Ximian's machines. Ximian may want to look into data storage if their own computers are taken...
You know, maybe its just because they get paid more to sell you on the installation, rather than a preconception that a specific gender is inept. I've been sold on installation before, but no nearly as smoothly as your hypothetical smooth operator.
I don't think we want to just leave the shuttles just lying around our lunar base front lawn. I'm pretty sure its in violation of an international neighborhood association or something.
Hey, be glad. They're going to trash the space shuttle program. Someone's finally had the guts to admit it was overcosted and didn't meet its goals of reuse nor capability. It needs booster rockets to achieve escape velocity, and additional payload rockets to place military satellites, for more than the conventional saturn rocket did.
On the other hand, a lunar base provides NASA with a place to test and innovate. I'd be interested to see the results of a thermocouple placed on the moon. Given that the temperatures fluctuate greatly between the sun light and dark sides of the moon, there may be a design that proffers a good deal of power to be found. But I'm hardly a knowledgable EE in the topic. More than likely they'll pursue a solar powered system, even though a full day on the moon lasts about 28 earth days. Some of the advantages of a lunar base: a lunar telescope, with a highly stable orbit. The moon does wobble some, but its estimated that only 51 percent of the face of the moon is visible from earth - this means a fairly stable location.
And there's no way in hell you'll be able to send a space shuttle to the moon. Even if you could, it wouldn't be coming back.
The above poster must have been born out of some bizzare-o world. The publishers (Take Two) of the arguably most popular game in existance (Grand Theft Auto) are under fierce scrutiny from government men in charge of finance, for overstating earnings. Two senior and influential men in the conception of the XBox have left Redmond.
The most popular online PC games are all in the range of five years old: Halflife with its mods still leads the FPS usage charts, and as I recall, Everquest still leads the way in subscription numbers. Then look at The Sims. Four years after first publication, EA is still pumping out expansions, the one EA way. And they top the charts.
None of these games are graphical masterpieces. For the most part their continued popularity rests on human interaction. Playing with and against other people in Halflife, forming parties and "guilds" in MMORPGs, and the general gameplay of The Sims. Graphical masterpieces need so many things these days. You need an advanced rendering engine capable of per pixel lighting and shading, high resolution textures, a growing number of levels with a growing level of detail (polys). Fluid character animation, a solid fps, etc. And none of this is directly related to gameplay in general.
Nowhere in the article is it mentioned that innovation won't happen without Nintendo's stuff. Its just that there's very little reward for pursuing graphical mastery alone anymore. I expect that their new hardware will emphasize human interaction. Perhaps a wireless transmitter/reciever that finds opponents for you when you turn it on. Like those little devices in Japan that are supposed to go off if someone "compatible" with you is carrying one as well.
Really, what I was saying, is that you don't get the choice of money or stop distributing or releasing code. You get the option for money (since they have broken your copyright without permission or fair use) AND they must still comply with the terms of the liscence, which either means stopping distribution or releasing the code. If they continue to do it, well, that will be substantially more money in your pocket, no? I don't think you can ask the court to force the code open, its not an available remedy specified by the law.
As usually, consult with your local legal Bar assiociation for people who can give you sound legal advice. Never trust idiots on the internet to provide you with trustworthy legal advice.
IANAL. Actually, I don't think that's entirely true. They can still be pursued for any damages the copyright holder may be entitled to, during the perioud of which the defendant was distributing their software without a GPL liscence. This is in addition to being forced to comply with the terms of the liscence. It seems that so far, no copyright holders have had the balls to put a case together against the infringer and bring it to court.
It also becomes very difficult to litigate when the copyright to the entire code is owned by multiple people. This is, in part, why the GNU Foundation requires assignment of copyright for submitted patches.
I think you might miss a point of irony you might otherswise notice by not applying deconstruction on the paper itself. Its written with those techniques in mind, after all. He clearly establishes a dichtomy between academics and engineers, and takes a side. The real question is whether his own paper undermines or supports his own paper. I'm not entirely sure how this sort of thing doesn't result in statements like "this statement is false."
When you deconstuct a work, you create a paper which is impossible to fail on a theoretical basis, because each deconstruction is in fact its own theoretical entity.
Perhpas I misunderstand, but can I not create a new and yet wrong theory?
It could be the case that certain language and platforms are using precalculated tables. at least with embedded systems with weak processors, precalculated results are popular. It becomes a tradeoff between memory and accuracy which you can custom tailor to your needs. On modern desktops, you could probably add such tables out to excruiating standards and get away with it without being noticed. If the trig tables aren't used often, they'll slowly migrate to disk cache. If they are, they'll be in RAM in a hurry.
Indeed, if we consider benchmarking performance testing, then we need to consider accuracy and correctness first. This is one of the largest reasons gcc loses frequently -- it's one of the few that put correctness first.
Ever been faced with a boring situation you'd wish would hurry up (i.e. another boring cutscene, perhaps one you've already seen before)? Some players quickly become frustrated at the lack of control, almost viewing it as a punishment. I consider myself one of these players. The original Deus Ex had the right idea, with very few cutscenes and a lot of dialog happening in a "heads-up" manner.
Also I'd love to see the game guide that has to tell players how to cheat the emotional detection system!
What seems most likely to me is the hardware in question is some sort of keychain device for migratnig data to and from arcades. Nintendo has neglected its arcade potential until just recently, and I think they might be moving toward a more integrated experinece, just as they've tried to move the GBA and cube together (somewhat successfully). The F Zero game has arcade attachments, and I think its done well for them in Japan.
If its not that then it might be some sort of Hanfunda deal. I've wondered why Nintendo hasn't tried to introduce the world to the game they were founded on. It would have been pretty nifty to find an introduction and card game for the "No game has been inserted" software.
I've also heard that a certain powerful figure behind the company is interested in Go. Perhaps they've found a program that can compete at a stronger level than amateur against humans.
It may also be that they're reviving the Game & Watch series. Its not really a handheld, and its not really a console...
If its a computer program, then it won't be detracting from anything. Go is a notoriously difficult game to write an AI for that beats people. If this is an algorithm, the author has a cunning way of proving its strength, and can expect a long and wealthy life.
I don't pay marketing research companies for the nubmers I'd need for definitive claims, but I'd say that respect issue hasn't stopped Best Buy and WalMart from being the largest music retailers around. Sadly, I have no idea what percentage of cd sales are made at overpriced specialty stores. Nor do I feel like recounting a history of the pricing of music here.
Wal-Mart is a juggernaut of IT. They give universities hand me downs for the tax write offs. Stuff like 82 processer grids that just weren't up to snuff for their needs anymore. Its likely they've found a new use for these old titans, serving up music data and analyzing the results. And I know you don't use the walmart website, but there are plenty that do, and plenty more that will as the behemoth rolls out its marketing campaigns.
And as always, they will compete best in the one place Apple's marketing savvy can't match -- price. Convienience may be a factor, but many can't resist the urge to "shop" prices. Witness the people like my dear old mother, who always peruse the coupon ads section of the newspaper, cut them out and sort them away in her box. And few geeks don't recognize the pricing thermometer pricewatch.com.
One big problem as I see it is that most of the ideas we associate with Software Engineering fit closer to Software or Engineering Management. Metrics like Halsteads's "Software Science" we teach students these days are about measuring time to completion, rather than any sort of quality. Students at my university are not taught to use any tools to assist in the development process, like lint or oxygen. We do not teach performance measurement outside of a theoretical Big O guesstimate. And nor do we teach students about security problems inherant in the current popular languages such as C or C++, and how to deal with them, even though our own Software Engineering capstone requires the use of C++ because the professor (and perhaps the cirriculum committee) feels that students shouldn't graduate without a familiarity with C++.
In short, if you're looking to be a "Software Engineer," I can't recommend Kansas State University. I'm told we have a very prominent language group, however.
An old roommate of mine was president of the KSU solar car team. He was telling me how the batteries are among the heaviest components of the car. Lithium ion i think they use now, but the had to have a student spend his Masters work on building a power management system so that the batteries charged without exploding.
Apparently the result of a battery explosion is a large cloud of gaseous material. Supposedly not very flammable but extremely reactive with things like car materials and people. Battery technology hasn't really moved a whole ton in the consumer market lately, but there are a few interesting new ideas. One involves a wrapped cylindrical design, sort of like a fruit rollup, if you were a child of the 80s. Not sure about the benefits outside of a lighter battery, though.
I remember seeing a one handed SNES controller in a magazine back in the day. Of course, the manufacturer claimed it was for players who wanted one hand free to take notes and such. I guess it works, because there were a lot of RPGs in Japan for the SNES. That or a lot of porno games.
In reality, I think you could get away with a joystick and maybe one or two buttons. Basically an NES controller. You saw a lot of menu based games back then, now you know why. A) Confirm B) Cancel.
Are there people who are anti-environment? Reminds me of Orson Card's commentary about feminine issues like rape: he didnt think it was really a social issue because he didnt know of anyone pro-rape.
Not to rain on any biomass parade, but more than one person has looked at using food for energy and came up short on energy consumption. I mean, if biodiesel and alcohol are such impressive renewable resource, then surely we'd expect a few biodiesel farming implements around. But John Deere refuses warantee work as a result of using biodiesel in excess of 5 percent of the total mix, and only in their larger engines. And they still warn buyers that its prone to water damage and environmental breakdown.
But you don't even need to look at how the market is handling renewable biological energy. The real problem is that several people don't believe that ethanol actually produces more energy than it uses. In other words, if we switched the whole process over to ethanol powered systems, we'd run out.
Too many people run around championing causes in the name of the environment. They're not bad people, but if they truely wish to serve the environment, an objective look at how well your proposed means solves the goal. At this time, I do not believe that ethonal based fuels and biodiesel actually benefit Americans. But I wholly encourage Congress to consider research initiatives to improve the process, so that it may someday improve.
There is a difference between understanding and using. Intel has announced that they are using strained silicon in a production environment. The big difference here is scaling the process up. As they mentioned in the article, they have disclosed their use of, but not how their strained silicon electronics are made.
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Hmm. As a head programmer I'd imagine he has privledged access to Ximian's machines. Ximian may want to look into data storage if their own computers are taken...
You know, maybe its just because they get paid more to sell you on the installation, rather than a preconception that a specific gender is inept. I've been sold on installation before, but no nearly as smoothly as your hypothetical smooth operator.
I don't think we want to just leave the shuttles just lying around our lunar base front lawn. I'm pretty sure its in violation of an international neighborhood association or something.
Hey, be glad. They're going to trash the space shuttle program. Someone's finally had the guts to admit it was overcosted and didn't meet its goals of reuse nor capability. It needs booster rockets to achieve escape velocity, and additional payload rockets to place military satellites, for more than the conventional saturn rocket did.
On the other hand, a lunar base provides NASA with a place to test and innovate. I'd be interested to see the results of a thermocouple placed on the moon. Given that the temperatures fluctuate greatly between the sun light and dark sides of the moon, there may be a design that proffers a good deal of power to be found. But I'm hardly a knowledgable EE in the topic. More than likely they'll pursue a solar powered system, even though a full day on the moon lasts about 28 earth days. Some of the advantages of a lunar base: a lunar telescope, with a highly stable orbit. The moon does wobble some, but its estimated that only 51 percent of the face of the moon is visible from earth - this means a fairly stable location.
And there's no way in hell you'll be able to send a space shuttle to the moon. Even if you could, it wouldn't be coming back.
The above poster must have been born out of some bizzare-o world. The publishers (Take Two) of the arguably most popular game in existance (Grand Theft Auto) are under fierce scrutiny from government men in charge of finance, for overstating earnings. Two senior and influential men in the conception of the XBox have left Redmond.
The most popular online PC games are all in the range of five years old: Halflife with its mods still leads the FPS usage charts, and as I recall, Everquest still leads the way in subscription numbers. Then look at The Sims. Four years after first publication, EA is still pumping out expansions, the one EA way. And they top the charts.
None of these games are graphical masterpieces. For the most part their continued popularity rests on human interaction. Playing with and against other people in Halflife, forming parties and "guilds" in MMORPGs, and the general gameplay of The Sims. Graphical masterpieces need so many things these days. You need an advanced rendering engine capable of per pixel lighting and shading, high resolution textures, a growing number of levels with a growing level of detail (polys). Fluid character animation, a solid fps, etc. And none of this is directly related to gameplay in general.
Nowhere in the article is it mentioned that innovation won't happen without Nintendo's stuff. Its just that there's very little reward for pursuing graphical mastery alone anymore. I expect that their new hardware will emphasize human interaction. Perhaps a wireless transmitter/reciever that finds opponents for you when you turn it on. Like those little devices in Japan that are supposed to go off if someone "compatible" with you is carrying one as well.
You're not in the industry without a job, so that would be zero percent, Bob.
Really, what I was saying, is that you don't get the choice of money or stop distributing or releasing code. You get the option for money (since they have broken your copyright without permission or fair use) AND they must still comply with the terms of the liscence, which either means stopping distribution or releasing the code. If they continue to do it, well, that will be substantially more money in your pocket, no? I don't think you can ask the court to force the code open, its not an available remedy specified by the law.
As usually, consult with your local legal Bar assiociation for people who can give you sound legal advice. Never trust idiots on the internet to provide you with trustworthy legal advice.
IANAL. Actually, I don't think that's entirely true. They can still be pursued for any damages the copyright holder may be entitled to, during the perioud of which the defendant was distributing their software without a GPL liscence. This is in addition to being forced to comply with the terms of the liscence. It seems that so far, no copyright holders have had the balls to put a case together against the infringer and bring it to court.
It also becomes very difficult to litigate when the copyright to the entire code is owned by multiple people. This is, in part, why the GNU Foundation requires assignment of copyright for submitted patches.
Probably because nobody's stupid enough to try it and then tell the developers. You're welcome to do just that, of course.
I think you might miss a point of irony you might otherswise notice by not applying deconstruction on the paper itself. Its written with those techniques in mind, after all. He clearly establishes a dichtomy between academics and engineers, and takes a side. The real question is whether his own paper undermines or supports his own paper. I'm not entirely sure how this sort of thing doesn't result in statements like "this statement is false."
When you deconstuct a work, you create a paper which is impossible to fail on a theoretical basis, because each deconstruction is in fact its own theoretical entity. Perhpas I misunderstand, but can I not create a new and yet wrong theory?
It could be the case that certain language and platforms are using precalculated tables. at least with embedded systems with weak processors, precalculated results are popular. It becomes a tradeoff between memory and accuracy which you can custom tailor to your needs. On modern desktops, you could probably add such tables out to excruiating standards and get away with it without being noticed. If the trig tables aren't used often, they'll slowly migrate to disk cache. If they are, they'll be in RAM in a hurry.
Indeed, if we consider benchmarking performance testing, then we need to consider accuracy and correctness first. This is one of the largest reasons gcc loses frequently -- it's one of the few that put correctness first.
Ever been faced with a boring situation you'd wish would hurry up (i.e. another boring cutscene, perhaps one you've already seen before)? Some players quickly become frustrated at the lack of control, almost viewing it as a punishment. I consider myself one of these players. The original Deus Ex had the right idea, with very few cutscenes and a lot of dialog happening in a "heads-up" manner.
Also I'd love to see the game guide that has to tell players how to cheat the emotional detection system!
What seems most likely to me is the hardware in question is some sort of keychain device for migratnig data to and from arcades. Nintendo has neglected its arcade potential until just recently, and I think they might be moving toward a more integrated experinece, just as they've tried to move the GBA and cube together (somewhat successfully). The F Zero game has arcade attachments, and I think its done well for them in Japan.
If its not that then it might be some sort of Hanfunda deal. I've wondered why Nintendo hasn't tried to introduce the world to the game they were founded on. It would have been pretty nifty to find an introduction and card game for the "No game has been inserted" software.
I've also heard that a certain powerful figure behind the company is interested in Go. Perhaps they've found a program that can compete at a stronger level than amateur against humans.
It may also be that they're reviving the Game & Watch series. Its not really a handheld, and its not really a console...
If its a computer program, then it won't be detracting from anything. Go is a notoriously difficult game to write an AI for that beats people. If this is an algorithm, the author has a cunning way of proving its strength, and can expect a long and wealthy life.
I don't pay marketing research companies for the nubmers I'd need for definitive claims, but I'd say that respect issue hasn't stopped Best Buy and WalMart from being the largest music retailers around. Sadly, I have no idea what percentage of cd sales are made at overpriced specialty stores. Nor do I feel like recounting a history of the pricing of music here.
Wal-Mart is a juggernaut of IT. They give universities hand me downs for the tax write offs. Stuff like 82 processer grids that just weren't up to snuff for their needs anymore. Its likely they've found a new use for these old titans, serving up music data and analyzing the results. And I know you don't use the walmart website, but there are plenty that do, and plenty more that will as the behemoth rolls out its marketing campaigns.
And as always, they will compete best in the one place Apple's marketing savvy can't match -- price. Convienience may be a factor, but many can't resist the urge to "shop" prices. Witness the people like my dear old mother, who always peruse the coupon ads section of the newspaper, cut them out and sort them away in her box. And few geeks don't recognize the pricing thermometer pricewatch.com.
One big problem as I see it is that most of the ideas we associate with Software Engineering fit closer to Software or Engineering Management. Metrics like Halsteads's "Software Science" we teach students these days are about measuring time to completion, rather than any sort of quality. Students at my university are not taught to use any tools to assist in the development process, like lint or oxygen. We do not teach performance measurement outside of a theoretical Big O guesstimate. And nor do we teach students about security problems inherant in the current popular languages such as C or C++, and how to deal with them, even though our own Software Engineering capstone requires the use of C++ because the professor (and perhaps the cirriculum committee) feels that students shouldn't graduate without a familiarity with C++.
In short, if you're looking to be a "Software Engineer," I can't recommend Kansas State University. I'm told we have a very prominent language group, however.
An old roommate of mine was president of the KSU solar car team. He was telling me how the batteries are among the heaviest components of the car. Lithium ion i think they use now, but the had to have a student spend his Masters work on building a power management system so that the batteries charged without exploding.
Apparently the result of a battery explosion is a large cloud of gaseous material. Supposedly not very flammable but extremely reactive with things like car materials and people. Battery technology hasn't really moved a whole ton in the consumer market lately, but there are a few interesting new ideas. One involves a wrapped cylindrical design, sort of like a fruit rollup, if you were a child of the 80s. Not sure about the benefits outside of a lighter battery, though.
I remember seeing a one handed SNES controller in a magazine back in the day. Of course, the manufacturer claimed it was for players who wanted one hand free to take notes and such. I guess it works, because there were a lot of RPGs in Japan for the SNES. That or a lot of porno games.
In reality, I think you could get away with a joystick and maybe one or two buttons. Basically an NES controller. You saw a lot of menu based games back then, now you know why. A) Confirm B) Cancel.
Are there people who are anti-environment? Reminds me of Orson Card's commentary about feminine issues like rape: he didnt think it was really a social issue because he didnt know of anyone pro-rape.
Not to rain on any biomass parade, but more than one person has looked at using food for energy and came up short on energy consumption. I mean, if biodiesel and alcohol are such impressive renewable resource, then surely we'd expect a few biodiesel farming implements around. But John Deere refuses warantee work as a result of using biodiesel in excess of 5 percent of the total mix, and only in their larger engines. And they still warn buyers that its prone to water damage and environmental breakdown.
But you don't even need to look at how the market is handling renewable biological energy. The real problem is that several people don't believe that ethanol actually produces more energy than it uses. In other words, if we switched the whole process over to ethanol powered systems, we'd run out.
Too many people run around championing causes in the name of the environment. They're not bad people, but if they truely wish to serve the environment, an objective look at how well your proposed means solves the goal. At this time, I do not believe that ethonal based fuels and biodiesel actually benefit Americans. But I wholly encourage Congress to consider research initiatives to improve the process, so that it may someday improve.
There is a difference between understanding and using. Intel has announced that they are using strained silicon in a production environment. The big difference here is scaling the process up. As they mentioned in the article, they have disclosed their use of, but not how their strained silicon electronics are made.
Ironic, that they were in Arizona to cut costs and Titan A.E. bankrupted Fox Animation anyways.