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when today's undergraduates become tomorrow's IT decision-makers
Nice thought but the reality is that in a lot of cases the IT decisions are not made by graduates who have a experience in *nix, but more so by people that have completed a MIS course. People who have a lot of experience with windows and who have touched visual basic and mabye delphi (if thy're lucky), and "know" that the proper way to decide what soft/hardware they need it to get is to ask a MS rep.
aren't exactly vaporware, unlesss you consider vaporware to be something that is already designed, built and in operation.
OK so there was a lot of fuss made over them and unless your in Japan you're probably not going to get your hands on one. But realize that the phone companies buying 3G bandwidth was not a guarentee you were going to get the phones straight away, more like an insurance policy that the telco's would still be alive in a few years when they are providing it.
Also why does warIII make this list? It's just going into public beta, they could have at least selected 'World of Warcraft' instead.
You *should* clean up malloc'd memory but that doesn't mean you have to, e.g. in linux (or windows) the system frees the memory that isn't alrready free'd after the program exits, this is not the case in OS9.
Therefore memory leaks on OS9 carry on even when the program has terminated, this is a problem. Now you think all malloc'd memory should be free'd OK nice thought, but in reality it is often difficult to know ehn to do this (especially in c++), and especially difficult if you are learing to program. Remember I was talking about development machines in our university, for this function OS9 was very unsuitable.
after all what are the chances your going to survive the asteroid impacts, catastrophic earthquakes, global warming, ozone depletion and the global flooding after the melting of the polar ice caps?
YMMV but for me it was a nightmare, for a start macadmin and OS9 would randomly crash the machine -- by this I mean boot the machine and wait long enough without touching it and it would die in hours (sometimes days).
And if you didn't free up the memory you malloc'ed uh-oh the system doesn't release it either, time for a reboot.
Having said this I have never really used a mac, only programmed on them (we used them at my uni before changing to linux) so this may not be applicable to the average user.
I question why this is only used in HPs or why HP is the sole defendent?
Perhaps it is in a processor only made by HP, or in a company they have aquired. Or other companies using the chechnique have licensed it.
seems as though the professor should be the party suing HP
It's often the case that the University could end up owning the work he did, or at least a share of it. This is also true of some jobs, i.e. people develop something great in their own time, the company claims it.
So your saying that acdemic institutions shouldn't have any way of protecting their IP. Any hard work put in by the people there, the money donated by the institution, businesses and grants should count for nothing if a "company" wants to use the idea.
grow up
2002? I don't think so.
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Gadgets of 2002
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this article on some of the new gadgets we can expect to see in 2002
Or rather the article tells us the gadgets we already had and lets us in on the secret that some of these will be improved. It is full of informative advice like:
MP3 players will shrink in size but hold more songs
DVD players will be able to play audio DVDs
Tablets will be slimmer and lighter
Seriously this article doesn't discuss the cool new toys we will have; all it says is the technology we already have is likely to evolve to the next stage.
the integrated north-bridge only allows for PC133 ram and theres no DDR option. Personally I'd be a bit wary of buying anything that still uses PC133 but I guess if it's being used in embedded devices it might not be as much of a problem.
So because Ford published this newspaper in the past people should be allowed to fuck on the corporation these days when it is publically owned?
Nice logic there, does that means it's ok to fuck on America because they used to have slaves?
I happen to agree with you that you should be allowed to point your domain wherever you like but I don't think it's fair of you to try and rationalize it through the nazi connection.
Unfortunately this doesn't work on a window by window basis:-(
However it would be massively useful and just what I wan't if it did, but for the moment it's not much better than continuously hitting the images button.
to see in Mozilla is the ability to have multiple windows open, some of which always load graphics, some of which never load graphics. Of course this should be accomplished via a toggle button like in Opera not options in the preferences and hitting the image button every time I follow a link. It would be good if there were similar buttons for Java/script/cookies as well.
"NSA feels it has a responsibility in that area," Haigh said. "They understand better than anybody in the world the deficiencies of operating systems."
A previous version of the enigma machine was sent to the German embassy in Poland before WWII. The postal staff knew something was up because practically half the entire embassy staff turned up for the arrival. The staff closed the post office and told the Germans tough luck, come back tomorrow it's past closing time:-) Overnight the machine was disassembled and photographed in detail and reassembled for the morning.
this really must have been a wake up call to Gateway. People were not prepared to spend $599 for a Web-Surfing appliance, does this really surprise anyone?
The Ig Nobel with the most cosmic impact was in Astrophysics, awarded to Michigan televangelist Jack Van Impe for discovering that black holes meet all the technical requirements for being the location of hell.
Great so judjing by the article Bill Gates now has a mnopoly to black holes too.
I wouldn't say I had any great teachers in high school or for that matter in my first varsity (Canterbury - New Zealand), in fact this probably contributed to my bad grades and eventual dropout.
My second tertiary experience was at the University of Otago, I found this totally different from Canterbury. All the lecturers I had in my first year at Otago seemed genuinely interested in the students and it was obvious that they took the time to get to know us. One lecturer in particular, Willem Labuschagne, memorized all our names and faces before taking his first class. Now everyone likes hearing their own name, Willem didn't have to do this but the fact that he did was like telling us - "hey I'm not just here for money or research, I really wan't to help you guys learn".
I think it's great when staff and students feel comfortable enough that they will approach one another about anything, it makes learning more fun and criticism easier to take.
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when today's undergraduates become tomorrow's IT decision-makers
Nice thought but the reality is that in a lot of cases the IT decisions are not made by graduates who have a experience in *nix, but more so by people that have completed a MIS course.
People who have a lot of experience with windows and who have touched visual basic and mabye delphi (if thy're lucky), and "know" that the proper way to decide what soft/hardware they need it to get is to ask a MS rep.
aren't exactly vaporware, unlesss you consider vaporware to be something that is already designed, built and in operation.
OK so there was a lot of fuss made over them and unless your in Japan you're probably not going to get your hands on one. But realize that the phone companies buying 3G bandwidth was not a guarentee you were going to get the phones straight away, more like an insurance policy that the telco's would still be alive in a few years when they are providing it.
Also why does warIII make this list? It's just going into public beta, they could have at least selected 'World of Warcraft' instead.
You *should* clean up malloc'd memory but that doesn't mean you have to, e.g. in linux (or windows) the system frees the memory that isn't alrready free'd after the program exits, this is not the case in OS9.
Therefore memory leaks on OS9 carry on even when the program has terminated, this is a problem. Now you think all malloc'd memory should be free'd OK nice thought, but in reality it is often difficult to know ehn to do this (especially in c++), and especially difficult if you are learing to program. Remember I was talking about development machines in our university, for this function OS9 was very unsuitable.
after all what are the chances your going to survive the asteroid impacts, catastrophic earthquakes, global warming, ozone depletion and the global flooding after the melting of the polar ice caps?
No, if you read my post more clearly you will see that I implied that OS9 would occasionally run for days.
:-)
Have you ever tried developing on a mac?
YMMV but for me it was a nightmare, for a start macadmin and OS9 would randomly crash the machine -- by this I mean boot the machine and wait long enough without touching it and it would die in hours (sometimes days).
And if you didn't free up the memory you malloc'ed uh-oh the system doesn't release it either, time for a reboot.
Having said this I have never really used a mac, only programmed on them (we used them at my uni before changing to linux) so this may not be applicable to the average user.
I question why this is only used in HPs or why HP is the sole defendent?
Perhaps it is in a processor only made by HP, or in a company they have aquired. Or other companies using the chechnique have licensed it.
seems as though the professor should be the party suing HP
It's often the case that the University could end up owning the work he did, or at least a share of it. This is also true of some jobs, i.e. people develop something great in their own time, the company claims it.
So your saying that acdemic institutions shouldn't have any way of protecting their IP. Any hard work put in by the people there, the money donated by the institution, businesses and grants should count for nothing if a "company" wants to use the idea.
grow up
this article on some of the new gadgets we can expect to see in 2002
Or rather the article tells us the gadgets we already had and lets us in on the secret that some of these will be improved. It is full of informative advice like:
MP3 players will shrink in size but hold more songs
DVD players will be able to play audio DVDs
Tablets will be slimmer and lighter
Seriously this article doesn't discuss the cool new toys we will have; all it says is the technology we already have is likely to evolve to the next stage.
the integrated north-bridge only allows for PC133 ram and theres no DDR option. Personally I'd be a bit wary of buying anything that still uses PC133 but I guess if it's being used in embedded devices it might not be as much of a problem.
So because Ford published this newspaper in the past people should be allowed to fuck on the corporation these days when it is publically owned?
Nice logic there, does that means it's ok to fuck on America because they used to have slaves?
I happen to agree with you that you should be allowed to point your domain wherever you like but I don't think it's fair of you to try and rationalize it through the nazi connection.
Unfortunately this doesn't work on a window by window basis :-(
However it would be massively useful and just what I wan't if it did, but for the moment it's not much better than continuously hitting the images button.
to see in Mozilla is the ability to have multiple windows open, some of which always load graphics, some of which never load graphics. Of course this should be accomplished via a toggle button like in Opera not options in the preferences and hitting the image button every time I follow a link. It would be good if there were similar buttons for Java/script/cookies as well.
of the article:
;-)
"NSA feels it has a responsibility in that area," Haigh said. "They understand better than anybody in the world the deficiencies of operating systems."
but we knew that all along anyway
A previous version of the enigma machine was sent to the German embassy in Poland before WWII. The postal staff knew something was up because practically half the entire embassy staff turned up for the arrival. The staff closed the post office and told the Germans tough luck, come back tomorrow it's past closing time :-) Overnight the machine was disassembled and photographed in detail and reassembled for the morning.
this really must have been a wake up call to Gateway. People were not prepared to spend $599 for a Web-Surfing appliance, does this really surprise anyone?
A full list of changes can be found here
The Ig Nobel with the most cosmic impact was in Astrophysics, awarded to Michigan televangelist Jack Van Impe for discovering that black holes meet all the technical requirements for being the location of hell.
Great so judjing by the article Bill Gates now has a mnopoly to black holes too.
Now I can use my PDA in the bath!
You have to be kidding me, 10 comments and the site is already down, poor guy slashdotted in minutes!
I wouldn't say I had any great teachers in high school or for that matter in my first varsity (Canterbury - New Zealand), in fact this probably contributed to my bad grades and eventual dropout.
My second tertiary experience was at the University of Otago, I found this totally different from Canterbury. All the lecturers I had in my first year at Otago seemed genuinely interested in the students and it was obvious that they took the time to get to know us. One lecturer in particular, Willem Labuschagne, memorized all our names and faces before taking his first class. Now everyone likes hearing their own name, Willem didn't have to do this but the fact that he did was like telling us - "hey I'm not just here for money or research, I really wan't to help you guys learn".
I think it's great when staff and students feel comfortable enough that they will approach one another about anything, it makes learning more fun and criticism easier to take.