because it protects their "innovations." If you amass enough of these little stupid ideas, you can really lock other companies out. Spell check is a gay little feture that retard end users want -- imagine if you had a patent on that? You'd be one rich feller.
Many cell towers are equiped with UPSs to work for a couple hours or so, but hardly enough to cover an outage like what we've seen. We've concentrated on building these things cheap. I can't say I blame them -- who expects a two-day-long outage? Even so, many of the backups didn't even work. You could argue that they should have generators for backup, solar panels, gerbil-wheels, or what not, but its our capitalist nature to try and build these things as cheaply as possible.
I'd argue that, instead of relying on grungy old men with ham radios, that emergency personel should have access to ham radios. It'd probably cost a lot less to do that than to create a telecommunications infrastructure resistant to blackouts.
I think that you absolutely have to have a closed source algorithm for ranking pages, because otherwise you'll get people who will simply tune their pages to be high on the list. I can see how making the majority of the search engine open source would be beneficial, but the algorithm itself? Its like saying "Here's the keys to my car" and thinking that, because everyone has access to the keys, no one's going to drive away with it. Sure, everyone has the opportunity to make your search engine better, but never underestimate the tenacity of a web-wanna-be-millionaire.
Re:Too many games? (Score:2) by Astrorunner (316100) on Tuesday January 21, @10:06PM (#5131985) From the appearance of the case (they have a semi-transparent front-view on their site) it appears that it is a standard pc mother board in the case. I can make out 3 or 4 pci slots on the left side, cpu with heat sink, and apparently the power supply / fan on the right.
The only way, to my mind, they can truly claim to have 32,000 games to start would be that the system is basically a slimmed down windows machine capable of running today (or yesterday's) games.
Obviously, I'm simplifying things greatly -- they have to build the whole distribution method and so forth -- I can imagine them shipping games over broadband as ghost images. They'd only need to do a real install on one machine, take an image, etc etc.
The catch is, it will run today's games and yesterday's games, but it won't run *tomorrow's* games since you're really not going to be able to upgrade it. "
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I think here is how it works. albeit more about vacation than overtime:
If you have a high school diploma and you're working 9-5, say, changing oil, you won't be afraid to take vacation, since you're pretty much on the bottom rung anyways, and will be for the foreseeable future. Conversely, if you're a CEO or other high ranking big-wig, maybe you can afford to take the time off too?
I work at a university doing general tech stuff. I make a fair dollar, but I start out with four weeks a year.
Four *hell ya* weeks a year. That carry over.
I've been here for about three and a half years. I have about 9 weeks in the bank. So I've roughl taken a week a year. Sure I'd like to take all four weeks off, but I pressure myself into working more -- as if only slackers and CEOs take vacation. I suppose I kinda feel like I ought to work harder to get up to that next level where I may feel more comfortable taking vacation, and afraid that if I do take vacation, I'll come across like a slacker.
Well, I am a slacker, but that doesn't mean I want everyone to know it.
OMG, you mean benchmarks are subjective? Marketing execs get a hard on the size of Georgia when they hear the term "benchmark." Let us all hope and pray AMD and Intel don't hear about this, lest we never be able to trust an ad campaign again!
I started programming back in 7th grade... 1985 if I recall right.
I stared with GW Basic and the big honkin' book that came with DOS 3.3. Man, that was a great book. But I digress.
I knew GW Basic was pretty terrible, and eventually went on and two years later we had a screamin' fast 2400 baud modem. I downloaded a compiled basic called ASIC, but what really did it for me was PCC - the Personal C Compiler (God Bless you, Mark Desmet). Not exactly ANSI C but there wasn't exactly a clear ANSI standard at that time either.
Anyways, just because you can't fire up GW Basic on today's PCs doesn't mean you're out of luck. With easy access to the internet, any kid who wants to learn, can learn. Heck, you can still find copies of PCC out on the web (search for pcc12d.zip).
The problem was not the access to the tools, it was the access to *information*. I downloaded C tutorials off the local BBS, etc etc, but it can't compare to the vast amounts of info thats out on the web today. I look out there on the web and say "Damn, I wish I had this when I was just starting to program" now and again.
It's kind of a double-edged sword. I was enthralled with the idea of writing a virus. At that age I really lacked the talent to do so. By the time I got to college, I'd matured enough to, well, not write one. If I was 15 years old today, I'd have had a field day.
Where do you think all the variations of the I Love You virus etc come from?
your stomach problems were probably related to your diet. Coffee is nasty for your stomach in the first place. Caffeine causes your stomach to produce more acid.
My boss used to make black-death-coffee. Then I'd stop on the way home and have a beer or two. I was smoking at the time -- not that much, but still -- and that does the same thing. Combined, I ended up with gastritis and was on Prilosec for a couple months.
Nowadays, I don't smoke, drink once in a while, and have maybe a cup a day. On the weekends I end up running to the local convenience store and buying a cup of coffee in the morning. I can always tell when they've made it too strong because I'm bouncing off the walls by eleven and exhausted by one o'clock.
when you're typing on a conventional keyboard, you're pretty much pipelining your next couple keys. When you type "ASDF" as your pinkie is coming down, your next find is ready to depress the S and ther your middle finger should be resting on the D. You just can't do that on the keyboard in question. You have to use both hands to make every single letter -- you'd think that they would have made the left or ride side movements by themselves to type a vowel.
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Whoever modded me down as a troll obviously has no conception of what a troll is. RTFM,thankyouverymuch.
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As much as we hate junk (snail)mail, isn't it self limiting in that each advertisement represents a certain investment -- even if it cost only one penny to send a brochure through the postal system, you would only receive so much junk mail.
Now consider email. Sure, it sure is nice to be able to send an email for free to anyone. A single email is negligable.
Email, naturally, was developed by doe-eyed computer folk well before the commercial appeal of email was apparent. Isn't it our fundamental acceptance of this free model that puts us into the position we are in today? People will always be opportunists. Isn't it time to change the model? The post office charges folk irregardless if it is a personal or commercial mailing. Implement a pay-per-email system and you solve the problem.
Of course its not that easy. You can't just snap your fingers switch everyone to a pay-per-email system. No one wants to pay. It's all but impossible to get people to buy into something like this.
From the appearance of the case (they have a semi-transparent front-view on their site) it appears that it is a standard pc mother board in the case. I can make out 3 or 4 pci slots on the left side, cpu with heat sink, and apparently the power supply / fan on the right.
The only way, to my mind, they can truly claim to have 32,000 games to start would be that the system is basically a slimmed down windows machine capable of running today (or yesterday's) games.
Obviously, I'm simplifying things greatly -- they have to build the whole distribution method and so forth -- I can imagine them shipping games over broadband as ghost images. They'd only need to do a real install on one machine, take an image, etc etc.
The catch is, it will run today's games and yesterday's games, but it won't run *tomorrow's* games since you're really not going to be able to upgrade it.
First, you assume the first digit is a one -- so you're only left with remembering ten digits.
Of those remaining ten digits, three of them are the area code, which really amounts to remembering one digit: We have ten digit dialing here in North East Ohio, and we have two area codes in the local area (330, 234) and its simply remembering if it is 330, or not 330. I suspect it is a bit more complicated in NY as there are obviously quite a few more than the two we have here.
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already done. Junkyard wars... two remote control cars fighting to the death.
because it protects their "innovations." If you amass enough of these little stupid ideas, you can really lock other companies out. Spell check is a gay little feture that retard end users want -- imagine if you had a patent on that? You'd be one rich feller.
indeed. Using it now. It's not as refined as, say, zmud, but once you get over some of the oddities, it's fine. Even supports compression natively.
sorry, ran out of space in the subject line...
Many cell towers are equiped with UPSs to work for a couple hours or so, but hardly enough to cover an outage like what we've seen. We've concentrated on building these things cheap. I can't say I blame them -- who expects a two-day-long outage? Even so, many of the backups didn't even work. You could argue that they should have generators for backup, solar panels, gerbil-wheels, or what not, but its our capitalist nature to try and build these things as cheaply as possible.
I'd argue that, instead of relying on grungy old men with ham radios, that emergency personel should have access to ham radios. It'd probably cost a lot less to do that than to create a telecommunications infrastructure resistant to blackouts.
I think that you absolutely have to have a closed source algorithm for ranking pages, because otherwise you'll get people who will simply tune their pages to be high on the list. I can see how making the majority of the search engine open source would be beneficial, but the algorithm itself? Its like saying "Here's the keys to my car" and thinking that, because everyone has access to the keys, no one's going to drive away with it. Sure, everyone has the opportunity to make your search engine better, but never underestimate the tenacity of a web-wanna-be-millionaire.
*gloat gloat gloat*
Me fail English? That's unpossible!
I think here is how it works. albeit more about vacation than overtime:
If you have a high school diploma and you're working 9-5, say, changing oil, you won't be afraid to take vacation, since you're pretty much on the bottom rung anyways, and will be for the foreseeable future. Conversely, if you're a CEO or other high ranking big-wig, maybe you can afford to take the time off too?
I work at a university doing general tech stuff. I make a fair dollar, but I start out with four weeks a year.
Four *hell ya* weeks a year. That carry over.
I've been here for about three and a half years. I have about 9 weeks in the bank. So I've roughl taken a week a year. Sure I'd like to take all four weeks off, but I pressure myself into working more -- as if only slackers and CEOs take vacation. I suppose I kinda feel like I ought to work harder to get up to that next level where I may feel more comfortable taking vacation, and afraid that if I do take vacation, I'll come across like a slacker.
Well, I am a slacker, but that doesn't mean I want everyone to know it.
You're absolutely correct. I tip my hat to you.
OMG, you mean benchmarks are subjective? Marketing execs get a hard on the size of Georgia when they hear the term "benchmark." Let us all hope and pray AMD and Intel don't hear about this, lest we never be able to trust an ad campaign again!
SFTU.
This man knows what he's talking about. Good book:
Death March
I started programming back in 7th grade... 1985 if I recall right.
I stared with GW Basic and the big honkin' book that came with DOS 3.3. Man, that was a great book. But I digress.
I knew GW Basic was pretty terrible, and eventually went on and two years later we had a screamin' fast 2400 baud modem. I downloaded a compiled basic called ASIC, but what really did it for me was PCC - the Personal C Compiler (God Bless you, Mark Desmet). Not exactly ANSI C but there wasn't exactly a clear ANSI standard at that time either.
Anyways, just because you can't fire up GW Basic on today's PCs doesn't mean you're out of luck. With easy access to the internet, any kid who wants to learn, can learn. Heck, you can still find copies of PCC out on the web (search for pcc12d.zip).
The problem was not the access to the tools, it was the access to *information*. I downloaded C tutorials off the local BBS, etc etc, but it can't compare to the vast amounts of info thats out on the web today. I look out there on the web and say "Damn, I wish I had this when I was just starting to program" now and again.
It's kind of a double-edged sword. I was enthralled with the idea of writing a virus. At that age I really lacked the talent to do so. By the time I got to college, I'd matured enough to, well, not write one. If I was 15 years old today, I'd have had a field day.
Where do you think all the variations of the I Love You virus etc come from?
Kids.
Well, kids and adults who can't get laid.
There hasn't been a capacitor born yet that can kill a full grown canajian.
Shiiiiit.
Lets see him do that with a regular CRT. This mod ranks up there with the guy that encased his mboard in foam insulation.
Seriously though, he may as well put it in a lunch box or something original. Maybe I'd be more impressed if he put a CRT in his old PC-AT case.
Go ahead. Mod me down. You know you want to.
oh contraire...
your stomach problems were probably related to your diet. Coffee is nasty for your stomach in the first place. Caffeine causes your stomach to produce more acid.
My boss used to make black-death-coffee. Then I'd stop on the way home and have a beer or two. I was smoking at the time -- not that much, but still -- and that does the same thing. Combined, I ended up with gastritis and was on Prilosec for a couple months.
Nowadays, I don't smoke, drink once in a while, and have maybe a cup a day. On the weekends I end up running to the local convenience store and buying a cup of coffee in the morning. I can always tell when they've made it too strong because I'm bouncing off the walls by eleven and exhausted by one o'clock.
when you're typing on a conventional keyboard, you're pretty much pipelining your next couple keys. When you type "ASDF" as your pinkie is coming down, your next find is ready to depress the S and ther your middle finger should be resting on the D. You just can't do that on the keyboard in question. You have to use both hands to make every single letter -- you'd think that they would have made the left or ride side movements by themselves to type a vowel.
Whoever modded me down as a troll obviously has no conception of what a troll is. RTFM,thankyouverymuch.
Now consider email. Sure, it sure is nice to be able to send an email for free to anyone. A single email is negligable.
Email, naturally, was developed by doe-eyed computer folk well before the commercial appeal of email was apparent. Isn't it our fundamental acceptance of this free model that puts us into the position we are in today? People will always be opportunists. Isn't it time to change the model? The post office charges folk irregardless if it is a personal or commercial mailing. Implement a pay-per-email system and you solve the problem.
Of course its not that easy. You can't just snap your fingers switch everyone to a pay-per-email system. No one wants to pay. It's all but impossible to get people to buy into something like this.
Boobies = higher ratings.
To this day, the combination of white/cyan/magenta make me want to puke.
Oranges.
From the appearance of the case (they have a semi-transparent front-view on their site) it appears that it is a standard pc mother board in the case. I can make out 3 or 4 pci slots on the left side, cpu with heat sink, and apparently the power supply / fan on the right.
The only way, to my mind, they can truly claim to have 32,000 games to start would be that the system is basically a slimmed down windows machine capable of running today (or yesterday's) games.
Obviously, I'm simplifying things greatly -- they have to build the whole distribution method and so forth -- I can imagine them shipping games over broadband as ghost images. They'd only need to do a real install on one machine, take an image, etc etc.
The catch is, it will run today's games and yesterday's games, but it won't run *tomorrow's* games since you're really not going to be able to upgrade it.
Its not a problem.
First, you assume the first digit is a one -- so you're only left with remembering ten digits.
Of those remaining ten digits, three of them are the area code, which really amounts to remembering one digit: We have ten digit dialing here in North East Ohio, and we have two area codes in the local area (330, 234) and its simply remembering if it is 330, or not 330. I suspect it is a bit more complicated in NY as there are obviously quite a few more than the two we have here.
did your bunghole ever get "hax0red"?