I'm kind of offended by the "few guys they personally know and who make money using their MS knowledge" line in the main post. There are a lot of advantages to Linux or ANY coding system in use today. So Linux has a very large and vocal community. Does that mean you have to give people another reason to dislike you by flaunting it instead of just appreciating it? There are a lot more M$ coders out there than you think. Just look for the.asp pages on sites both small and large. [insert joke about hacking them next here]
This virus is completely reliant upon the "sa" administrator account to the SQL Server being left with a blank password. Frankly, anyone who leaves their system in this configuration is lazy and deserves to contract a virus to teach them a lesson. Now whether or not your average MCSE falls into that category . . .
No, I love GTA3. Notice that I said "other" great franchise games. My post was to point out that it's these sequel games that are driving sales and add-on sales are generated from people owning the consoles they "must have" to play their favorite franchise games. I think GTA3 IS a "killer game", I was simply pointing out that it was the "killer game" driving sales just like the "killer app" paradigm in computer sales.
Let's not forget other great franchise games like Final Fantasy X that led to the PS2 sales so people could buy other games. At least that's why I have one and now I've got two or three other games just cuz.
Instead of the Killer App, it's the Killer Game that drives the market and there are more serial games now than ever.
I was speaking about this particular situation as can be seen later in my comment where I mention whether or not the university pays out royalties. The article clearly stated that the prof was receiving royalties and that the student would have been eligible to receive some of that payout if their name had been on the patent app. Even if they had still decided not to pay out royalties to the student, career advancement alone is significant, but I think the real sign that this was likely to result in a payment to the student was that the prof lied to the student that the "invention" couldn't be patented and then patented it himself, afterwards firing the student. Apparently the professor thought there was something at stake or he wouldn't have reacted in this manor.
Chou was suing to be *included* on the patent, not to become the new patent holder. In reality, the patent goes to the University which payed for all the equipment, allowed the research at its facility, etc. But the student is entitled to some of the royalties because they were a major part of the research. The faculty-member would still, rightfully so, have their name at the top of the paper. This faculty-member stepped too far, however, and made his name the ONLY one at the top of the paper.
Note that it says "such as" a financial stake. I believe that by stating they must have "some interest" in the patent, they are trying to prevent unnecessary lawsuits. Even if something is financially worthless, as would be the case if the university (who owns the patent) didn't pay royalties or the product were to be given away for free, there may still be a significant interest in the ownership of the patent since such things tend to advance careers, etc.
I think you're short on RAM for XP. I'm running a 733Mhz with 256MB of RAM. I don't know what XP needs for sure, but I'm sure 64 is less than it needs for optimum performance. At least RAM is cheap these days. Bloat sucks.
It's hard to argue with statistics from an authoritative source, but I'm running XP right now and I have XPerienced no qualitative decrease in performance over my old Win2K install. I would say I fit into the power-user category since I usually multi-task through a couple of applications and run with about 8 windows of something or other open at a time. I can't benchmark with pretty graphs, but I don't think I'm losing 53 minutes a day or even five.
the science and art of military command exercised to meet the enemy in combat under advantageous conditions
but usually degrade heavily when it comes to tactics:
a method of employing forces in combat
The problem is that it's easy to implement strategy into RTS games. Sure, things like supply lines are lacking in most RTS games, but I think there are a few of them out there that have it. The strategy of the average RTS player is build a bunch of troops, send them in. The send-them-in part is where the improvement is needed. Advanced tactics like, "flank to the north with long range artillery to afford cover to our ground troops moving into position" are almost impossible in an RTS because the action is so quick and there are so many units. In real battles, the tactics and strategy are imparted to respective commanders who then handle the minutia of getting each unit where it belongs. You just don't have time to do that in most RTS games and even when you manage it, they don't provide enough of an advantage to you for doing it. The horde of medium troops often still wins.
Unfortunately, the only solution I can see would also kill the game. Slow it down. Some (like me) would still play and love it, but the vast majority of players (13-year-old hothead trash talkers) would get bored and frustrated when they get beaten by smarter opponents. And we all know the gaming industry is about selling to as many people as possible. That's why turn based strategy games take such a backseat to RTS games.
Unfortunately, this article strays from reviewing the motherboard to take shots at Intel. Now, normally I have no problem with this, but it fails to take into account the new instruction set the P4 is designed for while the AMD's xHammers offerings are still running on the old PIII-level and below instruction set. In tests I saw reported in PC Magazine the P4 destroyed AMD in floating point calculations (though it was only narrowly better in integer math).
Now of course this isn't going to make any difference on most current software, but if you're a business or individual looking to cash in on high processor speeds that won't be caught by slowly advancing software, then the P4 may be your way to go.
There are a number of good things about the P4's new instruction set and architecture like 128 integer and 128 floating point registers, not to mention making use of predication and data speculation at the hardware level.
This guy should have stuck to the motherboard instead of trying to attack Intel. They may actually be doing something competitive other than being huge and having vendor buddies this time around.
The very facts you present are exactly what makes my point. He's reiterating previous concerns, but only the ones that advance his own personal agenda. I cannot see his account as insightful or really even meaningful when he unnecessarily flames a leader of our country. Inflammatory rhetoric such as this serves only its own agenda and as such must be questioned. When you say, "find out for yourself" that is exactly what I proposed doing because I cannot trust the views of this person not to be faulted by his obviously colored glasses. It's not a question of Bush vs. Gore or anyone else, it's a case of someone putting their personal views above the needs of our country to stand together. When your soccer teammate gets captain unfairly and then takes a hard foul from the opposing team, you still support them. Using it as an opportunity to kick them while they're down just shows you're a bad sport and a bad teammate. Stallman has shown himself to be a poor example as well.
I'm afraid your thinking is actually less clear. I didn't say I disagreed with his statement. Nor did I say I did agree. The problem is, with one slanted opinion comes many other in support of it and I believe that this comment destroys the credibility of the information gained from this person's view. The argument may prove worthy in the end, but I won't heed it until I see it from someone less partisan.
Agreed. There might have been a good point here, but now I'm forced to throw out most of what he said because he's thrown his motives into doubt, and thus the credibility of his facts and interpretations.
Sure, what Brazil is doing sounds like a great and humane thing to do for all those suffering from AIDS without enough money to pay for drug treatment, but consider what the long-term effects of this are. If you eliminate the profit of selling the AIDS drugs, then the companies that spend millions and millions of dollars on research and development will stop doing it.
Where do you think they're going to get the money to research a cure or a vaccine if they can't sell what they've got now?
This may be great for the people currently suffering from AIDS in Brazil, but it's a tragedy for those who will suffer in the future and across the whole world if the money they're leaching might have contributed to a cure or a vaccine.
As stated in my post, I don't necessarily defend that it is "right", but it is definitely legal and if you ran a company and could take a tax deduction you would be very foolish not to do so. However, the DO still have to pay payroll taxes, benefits, etc. etc.. And if you do a little research you'll find it's not so difficult to lower your personal income taxes significantly.
Microsoft didn't pay taxes in 1999 because stock options their employees exercised took up all their taxable profits. They get a deduction equal to the difference between what their employees paid for the stock and what the stock was worth at the time. Lots of companies do it. I'm not sure whether I consider it "wrong" or not, but I think the idea behind it is that their essentially being rewarded for distributing wealth to their employees. Anyway, food for thought.
It may seem like that, but then you never know until you discover something. Electricity was "just a toy" when it was first being researched. It turned out pretty well. No, I don't know what calculating pi to this extent could possibly produce that would be worth all the effort, and it probably won't be, but then again . . . .
I don't think that's the case. When you install SQL, it has the master "sa" account. You have to set a good password for this since it has the power to do anything.
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I'm kind of offended by the "few guys they personally know and who make money using their MS knowledge" line in the main post. There are a lot of advantages to Linux or ANY coding system in use today. So Linux has a very large and vocal community. Does that mean you have to give people another reason to dislike you by flaunting it instead of just appreciating it? There are a lot more M$ coders out there than you think. Just look for the .asp pages on sites both small and large. [insert joke about hacking them next here]
This virus is completely reliant upon the "sa" administrator account to the SQL Server being left with a blank password. Frankly, anyone who leaves their system in this configuration is lazy and deserves to contract a virus to teach them a lesson. Now whether or not your average MCSE falls into that category . . .
Love your sig. Can't wait to show it to my friends.
No, I love GTA3. Notice that I said "other" great franchise games. My post was to point out that it's these sequel games that are driving sales and add-on sales are generated from people owning the consoles they "must have" to play their favorite franchise games. I think GTA3 IS a "killer game", I was simply pointing out that it was the "killer game" driving sales just like the "killer app" paradigm in computer sales.
Yes, it's shipped more now, but the report is for last year and FFX sales didn't get fully off the ground until January. GTA3 was out in October.
Let's not forget other great franchise games like Final Fantasy X that led to the PS2 sales so people could buy other games. At least that's why I have one and now I've got two or three other games just cuz.
Instead of the Killer App, it's the Killer Game that drives the market and there are more serial games now than ever.
I was speaking about this particular situation as can be seen later in my comment where I mention whether or not the university pays out royalties. The article clearly stated that the prof was receiving royalties and that the student would have been eligible to receive some of that payout if their name had been on the patent app. Even if they had still decided not to pay out royalties to the student, career advancement alone is significant, but I think the real sign that this was likely to result in a payment to the student was that the prof lied to the student that the "invention" couldn't be patented and then patented it himself, afterwards firing the student. Apparently the professor thought there was something at stake or he wouldn't have reacted in this manor.
Chou was suing to be *included* on the patent, not to become the new patent holder. In reality, the patent goes to the University which payed for all the equipment, allowed the research at its facility, etc. But the student is entitled to some of the royalties because they were a major part of the research. The faculty-member would still, rightfully so, have their name at the top of the paper. This faculty-member stepped too far, however, and made his name the ONLY one at the top of the paper.
Note that it says "such as" a financial stake. I believe that by stating they must have "some interest" in the patent, they are trying to prevent unnecessary lawsuits. Even if something is financially worthless, as would be the case if the university (who owns the patent) didn't pay royalties or the product were to be given away for free, there may still be a significant interest in the ownership of the patent since such things tend to advance careers, etc.
It's funny when the ~12th comment posted to an article is redundant just because replies to earlier posts say the same thing only later in time-scale.
Okay, I'm done whining.
No problem. I was pretty sure your intention was to be humorous and I took it that way. But I still thought I'd better throw out my disclaimer :)
I think you're short on RAM for XP. I'm running a 733Mhz with 256MB of RAM. I don't know what XP needs for sure, but I'm sure 64 is less than it needs for optimum performance. At least RAM is cheap these days. Bloat sucks.
Hey, I didn't say I ran XP at home, just where I work.
It's hard to argue with statistics from an authoritative source, but I'm running XP right now and I have XPerienced no qualitative decrease in performance over my old Win2K install. I would say I fit into the power-user category since I usually multi-task through a couple of applications and run with about 8 windows of something or other open at a time. I can't benchmark with pretty graphs, but I don't think I'm losing 53 minutes a day or even five.
Games like Starcraft do have a lot of strategy:
the science and art of military command exercised to meet the enemy in combat under advantageous conditions
but usually degrade heavily when it comes to tactics:
a method of employing forces in combat
The problem is that it's easy to implement strategy into RTS games. Sure, things like supply lines are lacking in most RTS games, but I think there are a few of them out there that have it. The strategy of the average RTS player is build a bunch of troops, send them in. The send-them-in part is where the improvement is needed. Advanced tactics like, "flank to the north with long range artillery to afford cover to our ground troops moving into position" are almost impossible in an RTS because the action is so quick and there are so many units. In real battles, the tactics and strategy are imparted to respective commanders who then handle the minutia of getting each unit where it belongs. You just don't have time to do that in most RTS games and even when you manage it, they don't provide enough of an advantage to you for doing it. The horde of medium troops often still wins.
Unfortunately, the only solution I can see would also kill the game. Slow it down. Some (like me) would still play and love it, but the vast majority of players (13-year-old hothead trash talkers) would get bored and frustrated when they get beaten by smarter opponents. And we all know the gaming industry is about selling to as many people as possible. That's why turn based strategy games take such a backseat to RTS games.
I wish it wasn't so.
Thanks for the chuckle, oh fan of the great Spaceballs!
Unfortunately, this article strays from reviewing the motherboard to take shots at Intel. Now, normally I have no problem with this, but it fails to take into account the new instruction set the P4 is designed for while the AMD's xHammers offerings are still running on the old PIII-level and below instruction set. In tests I saw reported in PC Magazine the P4 destroyed AMD in floating point calculations (though it was only narrowly better in integer math).
Now of course this isn't going to make any difference on most current software, but if you're a business or individual looking to cash in on high processor speeds that won't be caught by slowly advancing software, then the P4 may be your way to go.
There are a number of good things about the P4's new instruction set and architecture like 128 integer and 128 floating point registers, not to mention making use of predication and data speculation at the hardware level.
This guy should have stuck to the motherboard instead of trying to attack Intel. They may actually be doing something competitive other than being huge and having vendor buddies this time around.
The very facts you present are exactly what makes my point. He's reiterating previous concerns, but only the ones that advance his own personal agenda. I cannot see his account as insightful or really even meaningful when he unnecessarily flames a leader of our country. Inflammatory rhetoric such as this serves only its own agenda and as such must be questioned. When you say, "find out for yourself" that is exactly what I proposed doing because I cannot trust the views of this person not to be faulted by his obviously colored glasses. It's not a question of Bush vs. Gore or anyone else, it's a case of someone putting their personal views above the needs of our country to stand together. When your soccer teammate gets captain unfairly and then takes a hard foul from the opposing team, you still support them. Using it as an opportunity to kick them while they're down just shows you're a bad sport and a bad teammate. Stallman has shown himself to be a poor example as well.
I'm afraid your thinking is actually less clear. I didn't say I disagreed with his statement. Nor did I say I did agree. The problem is, with one slanted opinion comes many other in support of it and I believe that this comment destroys the credibility of the information gained from this person's view. The argument may prove worthy in the end, but I won't heed it until I see it from someone less partisan.
Agreed. There might have been a good point here, but now I'm forced to throw out most of what he said because he's thrown his motives into doubt, and thus the credibility of his facts and interpretations.
Sure, what Brazil is doing sounds like a great and humane thing to do for all those suffering from AIDS without enough money to pay for drug treatment, but consider what the long-term effects of this are. If you eliminate the profit of selling the AIDS drugs, then the companies that spend millions and millions of dollars on research and development will stop doing it.
Where do you think they're going to get the money to research a cure or a vaccine if they can't sell what they've got now?
This may be great for the people currently suffering from AIDS in Brazil, but it's a tragedy for those who will suffer in the future and across the whole world if the money they're leaching might have contributed to a cure or a vaccine.
As stated in my post, I don't necessarily defend that it is "right", but it is definitely legal and if you ran a company and could take a tax deduction you would be very foolish not to do so. However, the DO still have to pay payroll taxes, benefits, etc. etc.. And if you do a little research you'll find it's not so difficult to lower your personal income taxes significantly.
Microsoft didn't pay taxes in 1999 because stock options their employees exercised took up all their taxable profits. They get a deduction equal to the difference between what their employees paid for the stock and what the stock was worth at the time. Lots of companies do it. I'm not sure whether I consider it "wrong" or not, but I think the idea behind it is that their essentially being rewarded for distributing wealth to their employees. Anyway, food for thought.
It may seem like that, but then you never know until you discover something. Electricity was "just a toy" when it was first being researched. It turned out pretty well. No, I don't know what calculating pi to this extent could possibly produce that would be worth all the effort, and it probably won't be, but then again . . . .
I don't think that's the case. When you install SQL, it has the master "sa" account. You have to set a good password for this since it has the power to do anything.