I've been learning Haskell for my Computer Science degree (it's a purely functional language). Having no looping structures (other than recursion) and embedded IFs has transferred to my sex life.
I get in fast, achieve my goal, and get the hell out...
Schools of economic thought seem to be 30-50 years long, and people from the same niche often make the same assumptions. The Microsoft anit-trust case and the anti-Microsoft attitude of/. go hand-in-hand, as so we assume that competition is always a good thing.
I don't think Google makes an awfully large amount of profit. Slashdot has documented Google's recent advertising changes, but this has been putting paid links to the side of the users search query. Google has never considered including pay-for-ranking positioning in their search results which is a stance of integrity.
I like the service Google provides, and it's actually one of the few sites where I don't mind seeing a banner ad. I have always hated Slashdot's banner ads because they're often bright and/or animated at a fast pace. Very irritating. But I support/. too because I like their product, they're non-profit ideals and the outlay of time and money it requires by its operators.
Competition in an industry that does not generate a large profit in this case is bad. Google has always been admirable for their service, and the introduction of new product from another source can only and will hurt Google.
Google is very good. Competition is not always a good thing.
"Oh, and I had a great version of spacewars that I used to play on a portable PC (Compaq with like a 5 inch green screen and a wopping 4 mhz!) when I was short. I loved that game.
Open the CAD data files to the public! I want one! I want one! ( : In all seriousness, unless the creator plans to make more (250 hours?), we can all benefit by learning from his design, if it only educates us a little more about good (or bad) techniques.
... as far as I am aware. They own the patent to the DLP protocol and produce the only processor (or decoder for computer freaks). Christie are one company to 'license' this chip (i.e. purchase them at royalty rates and put them in their 'DLP' projectors).
I'm really disappointed by this. I'm a projectionist and I was able to see the film [just a little] early (*smile*), and it was by no means a 'masterpiece'.
What Peter Jackson has done is take the intricate plot with texture and character insight, and stripped it down to short movements of conflict. By doing this he has removed much of the overall tension that we experience in the novel. Frodo's flight from Bag End to Rivendell, for example, is one long stretch, and they convert this into 3 movements (the first ending by Frodo jumping onto a raft!).
Book 1 has an on-screen duration of 45-60 minutes, and Book 2 is 120-125. This emphases my point that Jackson's focus was the conclusion of the film (and the dialogue-replacing-sword-fights), and sadly not the experiences of each character.
On a positive note, the cinematography is very attractive and so are the special effects (this, it seems is all it takes to displace epic films).
I have much more to say, but for now: Disappointing.
I've always understood the difference between MB and MiB (1,048,576 bytes) however the terminology is new to me. ( : After some [minor] research found that often hard disk manufacturers published specs for their product in MiB (real space) and that very often network products were in terms of MB. Quite the transfer scam. ( :
"From the development team who tries to break every development speed record (last month they released KDE 2.2.2) comes KDE 3.0 beta 1, with lots of new features, new QT (3.0.1). It is beta 1 so expect crashes.
One argument tending away from Linux and to *BSD is the advantage of maturity. Another important trait is the slow implementation of new features (eliminating many bugs). Introduce two features simultaneously and something breaks, which was to blame?
I think it's funny that so much attention is paid to your origin (i.e. location and language) in advertising engines, and the fact that it's an article about Linux is ignored. I got a random Windows advert here. Check it out.
"The 144 Petabyte figure is obtained by raising two to the power of 48, and multiplying it by 512. A big arse number."
How did this fellow become a journo?
Jeff Bridges vs. Kurt Douglas.
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A perfect example of production companies producing similar films, and then the distributors competitive nature.
The distributors, if they have a comparable film competing for the same niche as another distribution company, will either release them together to share the same market simulteneously. Or if one film is getting positive criticism, they will stagnate the release of the second film to play off the popularity of the first (such as Don't Say a Word before this.
MacOS Rumors has some information here which details how secretive it is (under heading similar to, and along the lines of, 'non-project workers kept in dark until Monday').
As development of AtheOS reaches nearer your initial goals for the system, and the userbase increases in size, what is your strategy to attract developers to your platform (or write compatible applications)?
Some (okay many) people consider XWindows a pain to program, Windows is different again, and other small (non-X) GUIs such as QNX's Photon are also different APIs, a new GUI can only clutter and confuse?
I have two C books, A Book On C (if you have this one, burn it now and never follow the advice of that who recommended it to thou), and Kernighan and Ritchie (contact it to protect against rouge coffee and never, never remove it from your desk).
Libraries are resources. Resources must to be broad in scope and concise in economies. This is why the prior is shudas, and the latter optimus.
Telstra hasn't shut down (hehe), however they recently added a 3Gb limit to their 'Freedom' (a.k.a. "unlimited") plans./. has done some articles.
My friend Louis deserves the credit for this link to A UTS student's personal page where he liberates the hardware that they may want back someday. *smile*
There's more of a revenge angle here, as opposed to utilising it as a web server.
Slashdot Mirror
I've been learning Haskell for my Computer Science degree (it's a purely functional language).
Having no looping structures (other than recursion) and embedded IFs has transferred to my sex life.
I get in fast, achieve my goal, and get the hell out...
"Prototype models can also chemically analyze urine using lasers."
"An adult male's recommended dietary allowances for vitamin C is 60 mg per day."
If my urine is yellow I don't need a computer with lasers to tell me I've had my daily intake of vitamin C.
Schools of economic thought seem to be 30-50 years long, and people from the same niche often make the same assumptions. The Microsoft anit-trust case and the anti-Microsoft attitude of /. go hand-in-hand, as so we assume that competition is always a good thing.
/. too because I like their product, they're non-profit ideals and the outlay of time and money it requires by its operators.
I don't think Google makes an awfully large amount of profit. Slashdot has documented Google's recent advertising changes, but this has been putting paid links to the side of the users search query. Google has never considered including pay-for-ranking positioning in their search results which is a stance of integrity.
I like the service Google provides, and it's actually one of the few sites where I don't mind seeing a banner ad. I have always hated Slashdot's banner ads because they're often bright and/or animated at a fast pace. Very irritating. But I support
Competition in an industry that does not generate a large profit in this case is bad. Google has always been admirable for their service, and the introduction of new product from another source can only and will hurt Google.
Google is very good. Competition is not always a good thing.
I was browsing www.apple.com.au and noticed the change of one of their disclaimers to: "Don't steal CONTENT." (See here -- bottom of page).
"Oh, and I had a great version of spacewars that I used to play on a portable PC (Compaq with like a 5 inch green screen and a wopping 4 mhz!) when I was short. I loved that game.
"But can it run Linux?"
Open the CAD data files to the public! I want one! I want one! ( : In all seriousness, unless the creator plans to make more (250 hours?), we can all benefit by learning from his design, if it only educates us a little more about good (or bad) techniques.
... as far as I am aware. They own the patent to the DLP protocol and produce the only processor (or decoder for computer freaks). Christie are one company to 'license' this chip (i.e. purchase them at royalty rates and put them in their 'DLP' projectors).
I'm really disappointed by this. I'm a projectionist and I was able to see the film [just a little] early (*smile*), and it was by no means a 'masterpiece'.
What Peter Jackson has done is take the intricate plot with texture and character insight, and stripped it down to short movements of conflict. By doing this he has removed much of the overall tension that we experience in the novel. Frodo's flight from Bag End to Rivendell, for example, is one long stretch, and they convert this into 3 movements (the first ending by Frodo jumping onto a raft!).
Book 1 has an on-screen duration of 45-60 minutes, and Book 2 is 120-125. This emphases my point that Jackson's focus was the conclusion of the film (and the dialogue-replacing-sword-fights), and sadly not the experiences of each character.
On a positive note, the cinematography is very attractive and so are the special effects (this, it seems is all it takes to displace epic films).
I have much more to say, but for now: Disappointing.
I've always understood the difference between MB and MiB (1,048,576 bytes) however the terminology is new to me. ( : After some [minor] research found that often hard disk manufacturers published specs for their product in MiB (real space) and that very often network products were in terms of MB. Quite the transfer scam. ( :
"From the development team who tries to break every development speed record (last month they released KDE 2.2.2) comes KDE 3.0 beta 1, with lots of new features, new QT (3.0.1). It is beta 1 so expect crashes.
One argument tending away from Linux and to *BSD is the advantage of maturity. Another important trait is the slow implementation of new features (eliminating many bugs). Introduce two features simultaneously and something breaks, which was to blame?
I think it's funny that so much attention is paid to your origin (i.e. location and language) in advertising engines, and the fact that it's an article about Linux is ignored. I got a random Windows advert here. Check it out.
Forget arguing about the definition of a 'cluster'. This is the technology that differentiates between PCs, servers, and mainframes.
IBM and Unisys mainframes (perhaps others, I've worked with these) have hardware partitions where CPUs are divided up. Linux is there now too.
"The 144 Petabyte figure is obtained by raising two to the power of 48, and multiplying it by 512. A big arse number."
How did this fellow become a journo?
A perfect example of production companies producing similar films, and then the distributors competitive nature.
The distributors, if they have a comparable film competing for the same niche as another distribution company, will either release them together to share the same market simulteneously. Or if one film is getting positive criticism, they will stagnate the release of the second film to play off the popularity of the first (such as Don't Say a Word before this.
MacOS Rumors has some information here which details how secretive it is (under heading similar to, and along the lines of, 'non-project workers kept in dark until Monday').
"...that the hugely successful worm attacks were due to 'tardy' sysadmins."
Uhm, yeah, and 'stupid' MS programmers packaging programs with 'default' options enabled.
"the phone is crippled - only stores crippled AAC files, not unencumbered mp3's. A shame."
Kinda defeats the purpose of the article itself, doesn't it?
"Nokia have released a phone to give the RIAA nightmares."
"Programming is like sex. Make one mistake and support it for the rest of your life."
As development of AtheOS reaches nearer your initial goals for the system, and the userbase increases in size, what is your strategy to attract developers to your platform (or write compatible applications)?
Some (okay many) people consider XWindows a pain to program, Windows is different again, and other small (non-X) GUIs such as QNX's Photon are also different APIs, a new GUI can only clutter and confuse?
"I'm thinking its time to build my game machine."
Will he be using Windows (at all, perhaps dual boot)? ( :
Will they allow replicants like Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer) to compete? He did help J.F. Sebastian beat Mr Tyrell.
I have two C books, A Book On C (if you have this one, burn it now and never follow the advice of that who recommended it to thou), and Kernighan and Ritchie (contact it to protect against rouge coffee and never, never remove it from your desk).
Libraries are resources. Resources must to be broad in scope and concise in economies. This is why the prior is shudas, and the latter optimus.
Non-interlaced? I somehow don't think so. *smile*
Telstra hasn't shut down (hehe), however they recently added a 3Gb limit to their 'Freedom' (a.k.a. "unlimited") plans. /. has done some articles.
My friend Louis deserves the credit for this link to A UTS student's personal page where he liberates the hardware that they may want back someday. *smile*
There's more of a revenge angle here, as opposed to utilising it as a web server.