The DoJ just announced they'll be paying more attention to anti-trust issues in general (apparently a reversal of a Bush mandate). So now may be a bad time for MS to scoop up the competition, even if Yahoo is currently at a bargain price. There's now a higher chance the purchase would be blocked, or later anti-trust action could be taken if they're not careful.
Alpha is meant to interpret natural language to figure out an answer. "Microsoft Apple" and "10 pounds kilograms" aren't natural language questions or common phrases. Those would be keyword searches, which is what you'd type into Google. Try "Compare Microsoft to Apple" or "How many kilograms are in 10 pounds" and you'd be using Alpha more appropriately.
Each system is a tool. If you don't use the tool as described you won't get the results you're looking for.
Rather than speculating, how about looking at reality? Many of the richest people in the US contribute to society in various ways. They don't all sit on their ass as you predict. Many keep working in executive positions when they could easily quit. Many work on pet projects. Many are angel investors.
Please stop projecting your laziness on the rest of us.
I saw OWA when it first came out. It was built with ActiveX. So there couldn't be FF or Safari support until it was completely rewritten. And then I'm sure there were compatibility issues as they focused on IE 6 support and less on standards.
I think if you were to hand the DoD a purchase order for a pallet load of marshmallow peeps, they'd only be to happy to certify their nuclear/chem/bio survivability and tactical necessity.
That would be a mistake. They should only certify Twinkies.
If Family Guy has taught me anything, it's that everyone should go to the nearest Twinkie factory in the event of a nuclear holocaust.
Colonel Sandurz: Try here. Stop. Dark Helmet: What the hell am I looking at? When does this happen in the movie? Colonel Sandurz: Now. You're looking at now, sir. Everything that happens now, is happening now. Dark Helmet: What happened to then? Colonel Sandurz: We passed it. Dark Helmet: When? Colonel Sandurz: Just now. We're at now now. Dark Helmet: Go back to then. Colonel Sandurz: When? Dark Helmet: Now. Colonel Sandurz: Now? Dark Helmet: Now. Colonel Sandurz: I can't. Dark Helmet: Why? Colonel Sandurz: We missed it. Dark Helmet: When? Colonel Sandurz: Just now. Dark Helmet: When will then be now? Colonel Sandurz: Soon.
On my Mac desktop I used OpenOffice for a long time. I find MS Office on the Mac to be a train wreck. But OO's performance really sucks on the Mac, even with Java turned off. I switched to Apple's own iWork '09 and it's fantastic, far superior to any alternative on the same OS. I prefer open document formats, but I need to get my job done.
My point is I hope the OO teams can focus more on performance across the board. I realize the difficulty when it's built for multiple platforms, but once performance is improved it'll be a much better contender.
I've played with the firehose a lot and still can't figure out how to pick what I want to see. There's just a color range and a text box. Are we going to get some documentation soon? I've simply given up trying.
It sounds like the device would be a thin client. No local storage and little processing other than graphics, maybe not even local 3D rendering. The device can probably be so cheap that they wouldn't mind the small percentage of loss to hackers. At $50/year they're really charging for the servers and service much more than the client hardware.
"blame me", which is political-speak for "screw you, it's done, get over it".
No, it's political speak for "the buck stops with me." In other words, something may be the fault of his staff, but the ultimate responsibility is with him. He's saying he won't simply throw someone else under the bus like previous presidents.
We KNEW AIG were crooks long before we gave them this money. Why did they do it?
My personal, uneducated opinion is that Obama felt it necessary to continue the plan that started under the last administration. During an emergency it would be very unnerving for the plan to drastically change. My guess is the hope to restore general confidence overcame the desire to fix this bungle. Also at play is the "Wall Street insiders" who laid out the last plan and continue to work for the Treasury and Fed.
At my last company I was part of a team of 16 software developers. Only two of us had CS degrees. The rest had degrees in finance, economics, electrical engineering, and math. We worked in a financial company, so economics degrees were a natural fit to solving the problems we were given.
So hopefully you could use your current knowledge to program within a certain domain.
As for experience, I suggest contributing to some open source projects and taking on small contract work if you feel you can handle it. I used open source contributions to switch from programming on Windows to programming for Linux. The experience helps get the job, and the added bonus of contributing to open source is that you can easily show interviewers your code.
Intel will definitely work this out. They're almost forced to license x86 to prevent being labeled a monopoly. Many believe the only reason they licensed it in the first place was to prevent legal action by the justice department. With a competitor making similar chips it's hard to claim they strong-arm computer manufacturers into using their products.
It takes about two hours at most to do it from scratch on one system image, then you can reimage as many computers that come up with the problem.
Except new holes and malware will keep appearing and the process will need to be done over and over. Add it all up and it's a lot of hours. In the long run it might be cheaper to switch OSs and retrain if that new OS is generally more secure and easier to harden up front.
do you think we really have time to go through every submission?
No, of course not. But once you pick a post to send to the front page it should then go through an edit process. Can't the select few that are deemed worthy of the front page get a decent edit? It's only 10 to 20 per day.
The only reason we come here daily (besides the commentary) is the edited posts. If I wanted unedited submissions I'd go to digg or reddit. It's the human touch that makes/. special, so let's focus on it and make it as good as possible.
Their "ultra portable" laptop is still a full featured laptop. My boss uses one all day and it performs very well. A netbook would be less powerful and not serve well as a full time desktop replacement. Their implementation of a tablet would likely be the same. Since these wouldn't be the equivalent of portable desktops I'd expect them to cost less than their cheapest laptop.
In my experience ActiveX seems to be used most often in internal business applications (intranets). When you're on a homogeneous environment it's easy to build for the specific platform. Using ActiveX often allowed for continual updates without deployment issues. Thankfully it doesn't appear to be popular for new projects, but there's a lot of old business systems out there.
Or just plug in an external drive. I use an external firewire drive and it performs extremely well. Use a mobile drive and you won't need an extra power source, either. I don't see the need to upgrade the internal drive.
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The DoJ just announced they'll be paying more attention to anti-trust issues in general (apparently a reversal of a Bush mandate). So now may be a bad time for MS to scoop up the competition, even if Yahoo is currently at a bargain price. There's now a higher chance the purchase would be blocked, or later anti-trust action could be taken if they're not careful.
Alpha is meant to interpret natural language to figure out an answer. "Microsoft Apple" and "10 pounds kilograms" aren't natural language questions or common phrases. Those would be keyword searches, which is what you'd type into Google. Try "Compare Microsoft to Apple" or "How many kilograms are in 10 pounds" and you'd be using Alpha more appropriately.
Each system is a tool. If you don't use the tool as described you won't get the results you're looking for.
So, in other words, you want a laptop.
Rather than speculating, how about looking at reality? Many of the richest people in the US contribute to society in various ways. They don't all sit on their ass as you predict. Many keep working in executive positions when they could easily quit. Many work on pet projects. Many are angel investors.
Please stop projecting your laziness on the rest of us.
I saw OWA when it first came out. It was built with ActiveX. So there couldn't be FF or Safari support until it was completely rewritten. And then I'm sure there were compatibility issues as they focused on IE 6 support and less on standards.
I think if you were to hand the DoD a purchase order for a pallet load of marshmallow peeps, they'd only be to happy to certify their nuclear/chem/bio survivability and tactical necessity.
That would be a mistake. They should only certify Twinkies.
If Family Guy has taught me anything, it's that everyone should go to the nearest Twinkie factory in the event of a nuclear holocaust.
Colonel Sandurz: Try here. Stop.
Dark Helmet: What the hell am I looking at? When does this happen in the movie?
Colonel Sandurz: Now. You're looking at now, sir. Everything that happens now, is happening now.
Dark Helmet: What happened to then?
Colonel Sandurz: We passed it.
Dark Helmet: When?
Colonel Sandurz: Just now. We're at now now.
Dark Helmet: Go back to then.
Colonel Sandurz: When?
Dark Helmet: Now.
Colonel Sandurz: Now?
Dark Helmet: Now.
Colonel Sandurz: I can't.
Dark Helmet: Why?
Colonel Sandurz: We missed it.
Dark Helmet: When?
Colonel Sandurz: Just now.
Dark Helmet: When will then be now?
Colonel Sandurz: Soon.
Epeen stroking? Just please, please keep it in your pants.
Yes, I used that before OO had native support for OS X. Neooffice appears to run on top of Java, so the newer native OO is much better.
On my Mac desktop I used OpenOffice for a long time. I find MS Office on the Mac to be a train wreck. But OO's performance really sucks on the Mac, even with Java turned off. I switched to Apple's own iWork '09 and it's fantastic, far superior to any alternative on the same OS. I prefer open document formats, but I need to get my job done.
My point is I hope the OO teams can focus more on performance across the board. I realize the difficulty when it's built for multiple platforms, but once performance is improved it'll be a much better contender.
I'm not sure which is funnier: posting your vote, or getting moderated informative.
I've played with the firehose a lot and still can't figure out how to pick what I want to see. There's just a color range and a text box. Are we going to get some documentation soon? I've simply given up trying.
They should just move all the GET parameters to POST. Problem solved. ;)
It sounds like the device would be a thin client. No local storage and little processing other than graphics, maybe not even local 3D rendering. The device can probably be so cheap that they wouldn't mind the small percentage of loss to hackers. At $50/year they're really charging for the servers and service much more than the client hardware.
The end result is the same.
"blame me", which is political-speak for "screw you, it's done, get over it".
No, it's political speak for "the buck stops with me." In other words, something may be the fault of his staff, but the ultimate responsibility is with him. He's saying he won't simply throw someone else under the bus like previous presidents.
We KNEW AIG were crooks long before we gave them this money. Why did they do it?
My personal, uneducated opinion is that Obama felt it necessary to continue the plan that started under the last administration. During an emergency it would be very unnerving for the plan to drastically change. My guess is the hope to restore general confidence overcame the desire to fix this bungle. Also at play is the "Wall Street insiders" who laid out the last plan and continue to work for the Treasury and Fed.
At my last company I was part of a team of 16 software developers. Only two of us had CS degrees. The rest had degrees in finance, economics, electrical engineering, and math. We worked in a financial company, so economics degrees were a natural fit to solving the problems we were given.
So hopefully you could use your current knowledge to program within a certain domain.
As for experience, I suggest contributing to some open source projects and taking on small contract work if you feel you can handle it. I used open source contributions to switch from programming on Windows to programming for Linux. The experience helps get the job, and the added bonus of contributing to open source is that you can easily show interviewers your code.
BGRR? That works. Harder to pronounce, but easier to type.
Intel will definitely work this out. They're almost forced to license x86 to prevent being labeled a monopoly. Many believe the only reason they licensed it in the first place was to prevent legal action by the justice department. With a competitor making similar chips it's hard to claim they strong-arm computer manufacturers into using their products.
It takes about two hours at most to do it from scratch on one system image, then you can reimage as many computers that come up with the problem.
Except new holes and malware will keep appearing and the process will need to be done over and over. Add it all up and it's a lot of hours. In the long run it might be cheaper to switch OSs and retrain if that new OS is generally more secure and easier to harden up front.
do you think we really have time to go through every submission?
No, of course not. But once you pick a post to send to the front page it should then go through an edit process. Can't the select few that are deemed worthy of the front page get a decent edit? It's only 10 to 20 per day.
The only reason we come here daily (besides the commentary) is the edited posts. If I wanted unedited submissions I'd go to digg or reddit. It's the human touch that makes /. special, so let's focus on it and make it as good as possible.
Their "ultra portable" laptop is still a full featured laptop. My boss uses one all day and it performs very well. A netbook would be less powerful and not serve well as a full time desktop replacement. Their implementation of a tablet would likely be the same. Since these wouldn't be the equivalent of portable desktops I'd expect them to cost less than their cheapest laptop.
Their lowest-end laptop currently costs $999. So a tablet or netbook would almost definitely cost less.
In my experience ActiveX seems to be used most often in internal business applications (intranets). When you're on a homogeneous environment it's easy to build for the specific platform. Using ActiveX often allowed for continual updates without deployment issues. Thankfully it doesn't appear to be popular for new projects, but there's a lot of old business systems out there.
Or just plug in an external drive. I use an external firewire drive and it performs extremely well. Use a mobile drive and you won't need an extra power source, either. I don't see the need to upgrade the internal drive.