That's fading away. Dell sold more computers to schools than Apple has (in 2000).
Of course, it may be that the elementary schoolers are geting Macs, while the middle/high schoolers get the Wintel machines (because high school computing has a major application bent).
Google does the same thing. See <a href="http://slashdot.org/yro/00/11/24/0131205.sht ml">this</a>/. article.
It's not really a privacy violation, though. It's designed to filter out junk sites that are keyword spamming. It's pretty easy to see if a site is keyword spamming based on the brief summary on the results page; thus they won't be clicked on as often. Eventually, this could affect the page ranking, by at least making sites whose summaries appear more relevant appear first.
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Uh, Google's not a metasearch... it uses its own database...
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Those aren't chips, they're DIMMs. A DIMM consists of either 4 or 8 chips on one board (I forget which number).
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512MB-1GB RAM chips will probably, more than anything else, push 64-bit architectures into end-user systems.
With these chips, 4+GB DIMMs should become fairly commonplace. With that sort of capacity, 32-bit addressing becomes very cramped (as cramped as can be, to be precise).
But my understanding is that when a Windows box with Office installs boots, a lot of office components are loaded at boot time. This makes the applications start up faster - at the expense of slowing your boot process, loading up your application memory with data, and loading up your windows kernel with resources like file descriptors, loaded DLL's and the like. I work at a computer shop and get $15 to defrag the hard drive and remove background startup tasks such as that. I certainly hope that M$ doesn't abandon Windows and Office!
I receied this for Xmas a few years ago, and I must heartily recommend it. The world would be a far different place were it not for the invention of the chronograph.
They're probably only using the commercial distros because IBM Has more experience with commercial suppliers. I doubt IBM could handle a non-commercial project like Debian or Slackware. Additionally, a lot of their customers would want a commercial distro, if only because they're used to the idea of centralized supply. For IBM to design/support on these systems with Debian/Slack would cost money and not generate too much corporate interest.
I can understand their logic (though I disagree with it)
According to the press release, Opera has experimental support for DOM. Then again, Netscape and IE don't exactly have sterling support for DOM, either.
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Opera beta 3 is out and it is very good. Anybody who hasn't given it a look <a href="http://www.opera.com/linux">should</a& gt;. I haven't tried Konqeror, though (I really dislike KDE).
TO extend what you say, the winner-take-all aspect should be done away with (simply done by state legislatures). Then in Illinois, for instance, the Daley machine in Chicago could only influence some 10 electoral votes, reducting even further the potential for fraud.
I remember reading that one of the Scandinavian countries had an income tax that could theoretically be greater than 100%.
I think it was in Guinness, but I'm not sure.
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But, newer programming classes fail to teach students some very basic important things. And what I speak of, is the often repeated line, that I've heard spoken in the classroom, and by a great many professional programmers, "RAM is cheap."
Very true. In my intro-level programming course (which I foolishly took because the UMass CS department revolves around Java, which I wasn't that experienced with; I'm more of a C++ person myself), one of the first examples we looked at was this Pet object that would be eating, or be sleeping, but never doing both. Instead of doing it the way I would do it, with a bit-field, the example given used two booleans to keep the state, even though only two states were possible. When I suggested that we use, depending on Java's bitwise limitations, that we either get rid of one boolean, or use C/C++ style bit fields, he essentially said that while that would make the code faster and more compact, it would never be necessary.
"There are many that are for a "flat" tax... If I make $250K/year (net), and get a $250 speeding ticket, that just cost me 1% of my annual income.... If I make $250K/year (net) and that just cost me 1/10th of a percent of my income."
Uh, the flat tax is based on the very speeding ticket idea you describe. Everybody pays 17%, or 19%, or whatever the particular plan calls for (with possible deductions for dependents).
<a href="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,458 6,2659221,00.html?chkpt=zdhpnews01">EMusic</ a> and Napstr are doing battle over EMusic's just unleashed acoustic fingerprinting, with EMusic monitoring Napster for trades of such MP3's.
IANA avid follower of events in this arena. Did EMusic publicize their fingerprints prior to unleashing them? Is EMusic's technique one of the ones that's part of SDMI?
Auction off the right to buy a 256MB PC100 DIMM three months from now for x dollars. If in three months, the market price is less than x, the option isn't exercised, the company's made some money and can sell the DIMM at the market price. The buyer of the option is only out for the value of the option, and can buy it at market if they see fit. The situation is reversed of course, if the price is greater than x. Then the company's out of a few bucks on the RAM (though the sale of the option may outweigh it), and the buyer has probably found themselves a great deal.
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That's fading away. Dell sold more computers to schools than Apple has (in 2000).
Of course, it may be that the elementary schoolers are geting Macs, while the middle/high schoolers get the Wintel machines (because high school computing has a major application bent).
Of course, how many of those errors are in the microcode?
I think the Maine/Nebraska style allocation would be the most effective way to reform the system.
Yeah, and I notice every day what OS is being used as a POS terminal.
Sam Goody could put a sign up saying "These cash registers are running linux" and most Sam Goody shoppers wouldn't notice.
#3 might be arguable.
Didn't excite use link popularity to rank pages? Maybe Google's is an extension of excite's, but the idea is definitely not theirs.
Google does the same thing. See <a href="http://slashdot.org/yro/00/11/24/0131205.sht ml">this</a> /. article.
It's not really a privacy violation, though. It's designed to filter out junk sites that are keyword spamming. It's pretty easy to see if a site is keyword spamming based on the brief summary on the results page; thus they won't be clicked on as often. Eventually, this could affect the page ranking, by at least making sites whose summaries appear more relevant appear first.
Uh, Google's not a metasearch... it uses its own database...
Those aren't chips, they're DIMMs. A DIMM consists of either 4 or 8 chips on one board (I forget which number).
512MB-1GB RAM chips will probably, more than anything else, push 64-bit architectures into end-user systems.
With these chips, 4+GB DIMMs should become fairly commonplace. With that sort of capacity, 32-bit addressing becomes very cramped (as cramped as can be, to be precise).
But my understanding is that when a Windows box with Office installs boots, a lot of office components are loaded at boot time. This makes the applications start up faster - at the expense of slowing your boot process, loading up your application memory with data, and loading up your windows kernel with resources like file descriptors, loaded DLL's and the like. I work at a computer shop and get $15 to defrag the hard drive and remove background startup tasks such as that. I certainly hope that M$ doesn't abandon Windows and Office!
I receied this for Xmas a few years ago, and I must heartily recommend it. The world would be a far different place were it not for the invention of the chronograph.
Ever hear of "Preview"?
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Iridium is either an element or a satellite commenications system devised by Motorola.
Though, if Itanium is a sign of a new naming scheme, I suppose it's successor could be "Ridium"
They're probably only using the commercial distros because IBM Has more experience with commercial suppliers. I doubt IBM could handle a non-commercial project like Debian or Slackware. Additionally, a lot of their customers would want a commercial distro, if only because they're used to the idea of centralized supply. For IBM to design/support on these systems with Debian/Slack would cost money and not generate too much corporate interest.
I can understand their logic (though I disagree with it)
What happens is Opera asks you on close whether you want to save the state of your browsing. So if you're visiting a certain goatse site...
According to the press release, Opera has experimental support for DOM. Then again, Netscape and IE don't exactly have sterling support for DOM, either.
Opera beta 3 is out and it is very good. Anybody who hasn't given it a look <a href="http://www.opera.com/linux">should</a& gt;. I haven't tried Konqeror, though (I really dislike KDE).
TO extend what you say, the winner-take-all aspect should be done away with (simply done by state legislatures). Then in Illinois, for instance, the Daley machine in Chicago could only influence some 10 electoral votes, reducting even further the potential for fraud.
I seem to remember hearing that MS was having ungodly amounts of trouble porting the NT kernel to IA64.
Also, I believe the Netherlands effectively requires English, French, German, and Dutch to graduate from High School.
Ben Franklin, iirc, found that knowing Latin made it easier to learn French.
I also found that while studying French, I gined a greater technical understanding of English (the logic behind certain constructions, mainly).
I remember reading that one of the Scandinavian countries had an income tax that could theoretically be greater than 100%.
I think it was in Guinness, but I'm not sure.
"There are many that are for a "flat" tax... If I make $250K/year (net), and get a $250 speeding ticket, that just cost me 1% of my annual income.... If I make $250K/year (net) and that just cost me 1/10th of a percent of my income."
Uh, the flat tax is based on the very speeding ticket idea you describe. Everybody pays 17%, or 19%, or whatever the particular plan calls for (with possible deductions for dependents).
<a href="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,458 6,2659221,00.html?chkpt=zdhpnews01">EMusic</ a> and Napstr are doing battle over EMusic's just unleashed acoustic fingerprinting, with EMusic monitoring Napster for trades of such MP3's.
IANA avid follower of events in this arena. Did EMusic publicize their fingerprints prior to unleashing them? Is EMusic's technique one of the ones that's part of SDMI?
And options might also be an option.
Auction off the right to buy a 256MB PC100 DIMM three months from now for x dollars. If in three months, the market price is less than x, the option isn't exercised, the company's made some money and can sell the DIMM at the market price. The buyer of the option is only out for the value of the option, and can buy it at market if they see fit. The situation is reversed of course, if the price is greater than x. Then the company's out of a few bucks on the RAM (though the sale of the option may outweigh it), and the buyer has probably found themselves a great deal.