No no, A Modest Proposal is about eating babies. And where do babies come from? Women! So without women, we can't have babies to eat. That's why we need to get more women into engineering, so we can all enjoy some delicious babies in the office. It all makes perfect sense.
Modern NAND flash is in fact not much more of a random access storage device than a hard drive. This is different from NOR flash, which is typically directly addressable like RAM (and much more expensive than NAND flash). These devices can only be accessed as block devices at the chip level. You certainly can't write to just one address, you need to erase the block and then serially feed in all the bytes to it. To read, you can address individual blocks and read their entire content. Further complicating it is that these high density multi-level flash chips are much more error-prone and require error correcting data to be stored. This precludes them being used as true random access devices.
Get a reference board from one of the chip vendors. You'll find that they've generally already built a board that does anything you want to do and more. Then you can strip the features you don't want, and the design work is essentially done.
In my experience, Cirrus Logic is very Linux friendly, with good driver support for their ARM processors and dev boards.
Technology sector analysts, the likes of Forrester and Gartner, are essentially paid mouthpieces for their biggest clients. Whether pumping your own products or badmounthing the competition, you can count on these guys to earn their money with totally bogus conclusions.
Find a big analyst company that will admit that Itanium is a colossal disaster, that businesses don't want and don't need Vista, that HP's supply line trouble and incompetent management are sinking the company (particularly during the Carly years), that Oracle is terribly insecure. You won't, because they all have contracts with Intel, Microsoft, HP, Oracle, etc. But they won't hesitate to beat up on Sun (how many times have they called for McNealy's resignation), AMD, Apple, and predict their doom*, and others that don't spend the kind of money on various analysis contracts.
So sure, iTunes sales are collapsing (according to Forrester), but nobody will call Zune a turd. It's all in a day's work.
*disclaimer: I might be considered a fanboy of one of these companies, and it's not Apple
Good analysis, but you've missed the point. A large government organization was willing to hand over truckloads of cash for an ill defined project with no clear path to the goals and no one in a position to understand how the money is used. The consulting agencies smelled blood. In fact, the kill was so big, they had to get their competitors in on the act to help them spend all of the money (or else the flow will stop). Why develop a system for just a few sites, with scalability in mind and slowly transition it in nationwide once it has proven itself? Instead, let's develop as much as we can, redundantly, in parallel, all over the country at once. Why plan ahead for integration? Let everyone do their own thing, and then we can charge more for integration later.
If I were a British citizen, I would be rather upset at the waste of my money. Were there ministers who were supposed to be overseeing this? Was there a committee? How could someone possibly spend $24 billion dollars for software? How could someone not have a deployment plan with phased transition for such a big project? I certainly hope that there is an investigation following this disaster.
That's just rubbish. Dell sold 37.3 million PCs last year, while Apple broke a record by selling 1.61 million Macs last quarter. Dell sells far more computers than Apple does.
Let me put it another way that might be more enlightening: The growth in Dell's volume (ie, the difference between the number of machines they sold this year and the number last year) is greater than Apple's entire volume for the corresponding time period*. Apple is a distant fifth worldwide behind Dell, HP, Acer, and Lenovo.
* Note, this has been true for the last few years, but this quarter may not be due to Dell's recent problems.
How Will Yahoo "Monetize" Their Social Networks?...and talked about leveraging these "assets" and targeting and profiling a large growing registered audience base
Yes, how "will" Yahoo "monetize" these "assets"? Inquiring "minds" want to "know".
It would be fairly simple to create a PAM module and daemon that, when detecting a USB device with certain information on it (say a passwd file), could mount that disk in/home/thatuser (overriding file permissions so that all items are owned by that user and nodev, nosuid), and allow that user to log in. It would not take any more modifications than that to make any Linux or BSD system be capable of doing roaming profiles on a removable drive. Quick, someone implement it!
There's a simple answer, and it's not about white and brown.
Israel has a high standard of living in the ballpark of European and North American nations. Opening up a development plant in Israel, or Germany, or Ireland is not thought of as "outsourcing" because there is not a (significant) cost savings versus American employees, it's simply a matter of going to where the talent is. Outsourcing to India or China, on the other hand, is seen as a pure cost move because of those nations' considerable cost difference. While there may be many qualified Indians, the perception is always that America jobs were transitioned to India because of cost. People don't have that impression from jobs in Israel, because the view is that the jobs there are being done there because of short supply of talent in the US.
Yahoo filters out certain messages, and it has nothing to do with YouTube. Near as I can figure, the algorithm is like this:
If the first message you send to someone in a period of time contains only a URL (doesn't matter where it links to), it will be filtered out. I'm guessing this is to reduce spam.
Most game developers already know how to code, and probably have ideas as to how their plots will go. Here is a great book that addresses what most game developers don't know:
You fool, that's not how you get bought out by Google. What you have to do is write up an analysis of why they should buy you, put it in an email titled "Google Should Buy My Company" and mail it to yourself on your Gmail account. They'll be sure to read it, and if they're interested, they'll contact you via Google-talk.
If this plane is the same as what we Americans call the Vomit Comet, this surgery is soon to be followed by the first malpractice lawsuit in zero-gravity.
You are 100% correct, the fact that they don't let you see the catalog before signing in is absolute crap.
Luckily, if you go to their 404 page, you can start searching their catalog from there. Of course, once you do, you will discover (as you suspected) that their catalog has more holes than a fishing net.
The SNES released in 1991 for $200. Assuming 2% inflation per year, $200 in 1991 dollars is equal to $269.17 in 2006 dollars. The price of the console is going down!
I hate to burst your bubble, but you did not check the return code from printf. What if stdout is closed...
Your program fails to take into account the case that printf(), fprintf(), and write() printed less characters than those that you provided. It further does not handle getting an EINTR on write().
RETURN VALUE
On success, the number of bytes written are returned
Yes, they're public information. But lawyers have an amazing talent for taking words you've said and twisting them against you. The more you leave them to work with, particularly with comments regarding the case, the more you arm them against you.
The UltraSPARC T1 has an 8-core CPU out on the market today, with 4-thread hyperthreading. Ie, 32-threads at one time on a single CPU. It does this at 72 Watts. Intel and AMD are only talking about quad-core CPUs for next year.
Duuuuuude, shut up. You're ruining it for the rest of us. Give me a few more years to ride around on my Razor scooter between the Aeron chairs, developing cool software with no regard to ever making any money, getting company-sponsored lunch and free soda, and collecting worthless stock certificates for IPOs that will never happen. Those of you that missed the bubble the first time around: it's a good time to be an engineer, enjoy it. Find a job where culture is everything. Get a raise every six months. Meet a girl with a nose ring. Do cool shit, work hard, have fun, live it up. Eventually it will all blow over and we'll all have to get the blue out of our hair, so try to enjoy it while it lasts.
ZFS is an amazing file system. However, despite both Solaris and OSX having POSIX semantics and BSD heritage, porting ZFS to OSX is not a simple matter as, for example, porting UFS or EXT2 would be*. ZFS consumes the block driver, the volume manager, and the RAID layer into one giant entity. It further adds things like FS snapshots, compression, and dynamically resizable partitions that OSX may not be prepared to handle. If this is happening, it will take time. Lots of time. But hopefully, they'll do it. ZFS addresses shortcomings present in most (not-so-)modern file systems.
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No no, A Modest Proposal is about eating babies. And where do babies come from? Women! So without women, we can't have babies to eat. That's why we need to get more women into engineering, so we can all enjoy some delicious babies in the office. It all makes perfect sense.
Modern NAND flash is in fact not much more of a random access storage device than a hard drive. This is different from NOR flash, which is typically directly addressable like RAM (and much more expensive than NAND flash). These devices can only be accessed as block devices at the chip level. You certainly can't write to just one address, you need to erase the block and then serially feed in all the bytes to it. To read, you can address individual blocks and read their entire content. Further complicating it is that these high density multi-level flash chips are much more error-prone and require error correcting data to be stored. This precludes them being used as true random access devices.
Get a reference board from one of the chip vendors. You'll find that they've generally already built a board that does anything you want to do and more. Then you can strip the features you don't want, and the design work is essentially done.
In my experience, Cirrus Logic is very Linux friendly, with good driver support for their ARM processors and dev boards.
It shall be called Web.Net
Technology sector analysts, the likes of Forrester and Gartner, are essentially paid mouthpieces for their biggest clients. Whether pumping your own products or badmounthing the competition, you can count on these guys to earn their money with totally bogus conclusions.
Find a big analyst company that will admit that Itanium is a colossal disaster, that businesses don't want and don't need Vista, that HP's supply line trouble and incompetent management are sinking the company (particularly during the Carly years), that Oracle is terribly insecure. You won't, because they all have contracts with Intel, Microsoft, HP, Oracle, etc. But they won't hesitate to beat up on Sun (how many times have they called for McNealy's resignation), AMD, Apple, and predict their doom*, and others that don't spend the kind of money on various analysis contracts.
So sure, iTunes sales are collapsing (according to Forrester), but nobody will call Zune a turd. It's all in a day's work.
*disclaimer: I might be considered a fanboy of one of these companies, and it's not Apple
20. Jack Stanfield, Firewall (2006)
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19. J-Bone, Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
jbone
18. Lazlo Hollyfeld, Real Genius (1985)
lazlo
17. Wyatt Donnelly, Weird Science (1985)
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16. Milo Hoffman, Antirust (2001)
milo_400
15. Dennis Nedry, Jurassic Park (1993)
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14. Gus Gorman, Superman III (1983)
gus_400
13. Kevin Mitnick, Takedown (2000)
mitnick
12. Boris Grishenko, Goldeneye (1995)
borisgrishenko
11. John 'Captain Crunch' Draper, Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999)
crunch
10. Michael Bolton & Samir Nagheenanajar, Office Space (1999)
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9. Theodore Donald 'Rat' Finch, The Core (2003)
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8. The Puppet Master, Ghost In The Shell (1995)
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7. Stanley Jobson, Swordfish (2001)
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6. Jobe Smith, Lawnmower Man (1992)
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5. Kevin Flynn, Tron (1982)
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4. David Lightman, WarGames (1983)
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3. Dade 'Crash Override' Murphy, Hackers (1995)
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2. Martin Bishop, Sneakers (1992)
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1. Thomas 'Neo' Anderson, The Matrix (1999)
neo
"No charge."
Don't be confused. This particle has no charge, it's free as in beer.
Good analysis, but you've missed the point. A large government organization was willing to hand over truckloads of cash for an ill defined project with no clear path to the goals and no one in a position to understand how the money is used. The consulting agencies smelled blood. In fact, the kill was so big, they had to get their competitors in on the act to help them spend all of the money (or else the flow will stop). Why develop a system for just a few sites, with scalability in mind and slowly transition it in nationwide once it has proven itself? Instead, let's develop as much as we can, redundantly, in parallel, all over the country at once. Why plan ahead for integration? Let everyone do their own thing, and then we can charge more for integration later.
If I were a British citizen, I would be rather upset at the waste of my money. Were there ministers who were supposed to be overseeing this? Was there a committee? How could someone possibly spend $24 billion dollars for software? How could someone not have a deployment plan with phased transition for such a big project? I certainly hope that there is an investigation following this disaster.
How can I tell if this is a trap?
That's just rubbish. Dell sold 37.3 million PCs last year, while Apple broke a record by selling 1.61 million Macs last quarter. Dell sells far more computers than Apple does.
Let me put it another way that might be more enlightening: The growth in Dell's volume (ie, the difference between the number of machines they sold this year and the number last year) is greater than Apple's entire volume for the corresponding time period*. Apple is a distant fifth worldwide behind Dell, HP, Acer, and Lenovo.
* Note, this has been true for the last few years, but this quarter may not be due to Dell's recent problems.
How Will Yahoo "Monetize" Their Social Networks? ...and talked about leveraging these "assets" and targeting and profiling a large growing registered audience base
Yes, how "will" Yahoo "monetize" these "assets"? Inquiring "minds" want to "know".
It would be fairly simple to create a PAM module and daemon that, when detecting a USB device with certain information on it (say a passwd file), could mount that disk in /home/thatuser (overriding file permissions so that all items are owned by that user and nodev, nosuid), and allow that user to log in. It would not take any more modifications than that to make any Linux or BSD system be capable of doing roaming profiles on a removable drive. Quick, someone implement it!
There's a simple answer, and it's not about white and brown.
Israel has a high standard of living in the ballpark of European and North American nations. Opening up a development plant in Israel, or Germany, or Ireland is not thought of as "outsourcing" because there is not a (significant) cost savings versus American employees, it's simply a matter of going to where the talent is. Outsourcing to India or China, on the other hand, is seen as a pure cost move because of those nations' considerable cost difference. While there may be many qualified Indians, the perception is always that America jobs were transitioned to India because of cost. People don't have that impression from jobs in Israel, because the view is that the jobs there are being done there because of short supply of talent in the US.
Yahoo filters out certain messages, and it has nothing to do with YouTube. Near as I can figure, the algorithm is like this:
If the first message you send to someone in a period of time contains only a URL (doesn't matter where it links to), it will be filtered out. I'm guessing this is to reduce spam.
Way to overreact, Slashdot.
Most game developers already know how to code, and probably have ideas as to how their plots will go. Here is a great book that addresses what most game developers don't know:
Game Development Business and Legal Guide by Ashley Salisbury
Highly recommended
You fool, that's not how you get bought out by Google. What you have to do is write up an analysis of why they should buy you, put it in an email titled "Google Should Buy My Company" and mail it to yourself on your Gmail account. They'll be sure to read it, and if they're interested, they'll contact you via Google-talk.
If this plane is the same as what we Americans call the Vomit Comet, this surgery is soon to be followed by the first malpractice lawsuit in zero-gravity.
You are 100% correct, the fact that they don't let you see the catalog before signing in is absolute crap.
Luckily, if you go to their 404 page, you can start searching their catalog from there. Of course, once you do, you will discover (as you suspected) that their catalog has more holes than a fishing net.
The SNES released in 1991 for $200. Assuming 2% inflation per year, $200 in 1991 dollars is equal to $269.17 in 2006 dollars. The price of the console is going down!
Don't get too excited. The Register reports that just one of these blades will cost you $18,995.
Your program fails to take into account the case that printf(), fprintf(), and write() printed less characters than those that you provided. It further does not handle getting an EINTR on write().
Yes, they're public information. But lawyers have an amazing talent for taking words you've said and twisting them against you. The more you leave them to work with, particularly with comments regarding the case, the more you arm them against you.
The UltraSPARC T1 has an 8-core CPU out on the market today, with 4-thread hyperthreading. Ie, 32-threads at one time on a single CPU. It does this at 72 Watts. Intel and AMD are only talking about quad-core CPUs for next year.
Duuuuuude, shut up. You're ruining it for the rest of us. Give me a few more years to ride around on my Razor scooter between the Aeron chairs, developing cool software with no regard to ever making any money, getting company-sponsored lunch and free soda, and collecting worthless stock certificates for IPOs that will never happen. Those of you that missed the bubble the first time around: it's a good time to be an engineer, enjoy it. Find a job where culture is everything. Get a raise every six months. Meet a girl with a nose ring. Do cool shit, work hard, have fun, live it up. Eventually it will all blow over and we'll all have to get the blue out of our hair, so try to enjoy it while it lasts.
ZFS is an amazing file system. However, despite both Solaris and OSX having POSIX semantics and BSD heritage, porting ZFS to OSX is not a simple matter as, for example, porting UFS or EXT2 would be*. ZFS consumes the block driver, the volume manager, and the RAID layer into one giant entity. It further adds things like FS snapshots, compression, and dynamically resizable partitions that OSX may not be prepared to handle. If this is happening, it will take time. Lots of time. But hopefully, they'll do it. ZFS addresses shortcomings present in most (not-so-)modern file systems.
* example only, I imagine these exist already.