Their implementation is not even reliable across different versions.
But then again I'm not really surprised. IE also has problems with some MS-specific aspects of Microsoft's own Javascript dialect, even if you follow the specifications to the letter.
I've encountered plenty of bias and inaccuracies over the years, but it's often a good starting point along with Google.
What makes it a real pain in the ass is the ridiculous bureaucracy that has developed over the years. It's treated as a god-given truth, to be enforced by a swarm of rabid followers with a need to prove something to the world.
and their claims that you can't interact with widgets are out of date
That would be seriously out of date. Even my old Archos 5 tablet, whose stock firmware came with Android 1.6 supported widgets which worked as a remote for the Last.fm background process and other stuff.
Drones are simply a more efficient alternative for many tasks. If a drone is shot down the pilot is still safe, along with his experience and the ton of money that went into his training. And that's only one of many advantages (extreme miniaturization, further automation, more modularity, no restriction due to pilot's physiology,...).
Most workstations are still based on the desktop technology. Take a "gamer" mainboard, put in a powerful CPU, the maximum amount of RAM you can get your hands, garnish it with twin GFX cards (or a decent QuadroFX card) and desktop components become a decent graphics workstation. Servers are a different story, but if you look at components like Xeons and ECC-capable RAM many components are basically just a more specialised version of what consumers can buy.
The smaller demand now is mainly a niche which can open the door to more possibilities later on. Like the gaming sector going so over-the-top we ended up with the benefits of CUDA/OpenCL in completely different areas.
what "Desktop" user needs that much, or even runs an operating system that can address it?
Are you serious? The specs for Windows 7 list 192 GB as within its capabilities and even RHEL v6 had a theoretical limit of 1 TB. But it will be a while until desktops will have to deal with the 256 TB an amd64 CPU's 48-bit address space would allow in theory.
I'm not talking about the usual game kiddies who only want to impress others with system stats which they can't fully utilize anyway. Even if some people don't like to see them grouped with the little toy in a teenager's bedroom, regular professional workstations are still using desktop components. Areas like professional 3D work eat RAM and CPU cycles for breakfast. And there also are professions like developers and administrators who need to run several virtual machines in the background throughout the day. There certainly is demand
Happens to a former colleague of mine since he has started working now for one of the largest companies in the country. Often the developers have already done the preparations and are ready to start but can't do so until the suits are finished with their flash games and finally give the green light (budget lottery, last-minute rounds of buzzword bingo,...).
Personally I'm more looking forward to the octi-core units which are scheduled for in Q3 2011. Combined with a decent dedicated GFX card they'll make a good basis for a new 3D workstation.
Laptops are sometimes vital to the mental health of students! We had one CS professor where attendance was mandatory even though you only needed to read his book to pass the class. Actually listening to him was even counter-productive at times. Thanks to his teaching methods you sometimes left a lecture with less understanding of the topic of the day than you had at the beginning of the hour. That's why a bunch of us sometimes spent the lessons working on stuff like stuff like filters for virtualdub or to simply read up on the topic of the next class.
I doubt we were the only university with a professor like that. For the sake of such students' sanity let them keep using their laptops!
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Those developers being outsmarted by a teenage kid makes the idea of government involvement much more believable.
Their implementation is not even reliable across different versions.
But then again I'm not really surprised. IE also has problems with some MS-specific aspects of Microsoft's own Javascript dialect, even if you follow the specifications to the letter.
I've encountered plenty of bias and inaccuracies over the years, but it's often a good starting point along with Google.
What makes it a real pain in the ass is the ridiculous bureaucracy that has developed over the years. It's treated as a god-given truth, to be enforced by a swarm of rabid followers with a need to prove something to the world.
That would be seriously out of date. Even my old Archos 5 tablet, whose stock firmware came with Android 1.6 supported widgets which worked as a remote for the Last.fm background process and other stuff.
Not that far off, considering how often there's a riot in modern France.
It's still missing a car analogy.
QT -> QuickTime -> Trouble
Isn't that the usual line of thought?
It's Sony. They'll just install another rootkit without the user's permission and block the information that way.
This time the "ghost" scene will contain Anakin and Obi-Wan from the Clone Wars series.
And the Windows world will probably have to wait for another couple of years until something like gains traction.
Guess I'm spoiled from all those years of using Ubuntu and Debian for my coding work. :D
Drones are simply a more efficient alternative for many tasks. If a drone is shot down the pilot is still safe, along with his experience and the ton of money that went into his training. And that's only one of many advantages (extreme miniaturization, further automation, more modularity, no restriction due to pilot's physiology, ...).
In other news: The sky is blue!
Most workstations are still based on the desktop technology. Take a "gamer" mainboard, put in a powerful CPU, the maximum amount of RAM you can get your hands, garnish it with twin GFX cards (or a decent QuadroFX card) and desktop components become a decent graphics workstation.
Servers are a different story, but if you look at components like Xeons and ECC-capable RAM many components are basically just a more specialised version of what consumers can buy.
The smaller demand now is mainly a niche which can open the door to more possibilities later on. Like the gaming sector going so over-the-top we ended up with the benefits of CUDA/OpenCL in completely different areas.
Are you serious? The specs for Windows 7 list 192 GB as within its capabilities and even RHEL v6 had a theoretical limit of 1 TB. But it will be a while until desktops will have to deal with the 256 TB an amd64 CPU's 48-bit address space would allow in theory.
I'm not talking about the usual game kiddies who only want to impress others with system stats which they can't fully utilize anyway. Even if some people don't like to see them grouped with the little toy in a teenager's bedroom, regular professional workstations are still using desktop components.
Areas like professional 3D work eat RAM and CPU cycles for breakfast. And there also are professions like developers and administrators who need to run several virtual machines in the background throughout the day. There certainly is demand
I'd rather have them finally mass-produce 8 and 16 GB modules for the desktop market.
Obligatory xkcd reference:
http://xkcd.com/149/
Happens to a former colleague of mine since he has started working now for one of the largest companies in the country. ...).
Often the developers have already done the preparations and are ready to start but can't do so until the suits are finished with their flash games and finally give the green light (budget lottery, last-minute rounds of buzzword bingo,
Personally I'm more looking forward to the octi-core units which are scheduled for in Q3 2011.
Combined with a decent dedicated GFX card they'll make a good basis for a new 3D workstation.
Send the suits one of their cherished Excel sheets?
((downtime duration) * (customer's lost income per hour) * (customers))
+ ((bugfix duration) + (rollout duration)) * (hourly developer salary)
+ (overhead costs to appease angry customers)
Blackbirds? Didn't the military retire those years ago?
Sooner or later someone will upload a certain hello.jpg file.
Laptops are sometimes vital to the mental health of students!
We had one CS professor where attendance was mandatory even though you only needed to read his book to pass the class.
Actually listening to him was even counter-productive at times. Thanks to his teaching methods you sometimes left a lecture with less understanding of the topic of the day than you had at the beginning of the hour. That's why a bunch of us sometimes spent the lessons working on stuff like stuff like filters for virtualdub or to simply read up on the topic of the next class.
I doubt we were the only university with a professor like that.
For the sake of such students' sanity let them keep using their laptops!
Not surprising. It's measured in GPM (goatse per minute).
/b/tards with even more free time on their hands? Not a pretty picture.
These aren't the droi...weapons we're looking for?