They face very stiff competition from other companies with much deeper pockets, so they are going to have it tough for a while. I like Netflix (their latest snafu with splitting the DVD rental / streaming plans didn't affect me - I'm streaming only), and as a technophile, I'm pleased that they have gone to great lengths to support such a diverse range of hardware. A lot of companies wouldn't have bothered with Wii, XBox, Android, etc. Netflix's decision to split off their DVD rental was simply waaaaay too early. That is an inevitability of course - anyone with the least bit of foresight can see that demand for physical media is going to drop off a great deal in the near future. However, Netflix must provide a mechanism to bolster the streaming support since the movies offered online are so hit and miss, and the only choice is DVD for now.
Take Lord of the Rings for example. Did you know that you can watch The Two Towers online, but not the first or third movies? Now what in the world is that about??? As long as that sort of garbage is going on, customers need a single unified interface and billing to get movies in whichever format is available.
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I've worked extensively with the Quake 1 and 2 sources (I ported them both to Pocket PC, which required rewriting a lot of the computationally expensive routines from floating point to fixed point math, as the ARM processors of that era did not have a FPU). I can say that no, you're not going to learn anything that way. The code has few if any comments at all, the routines are optimized, the data structures are optimized, tons of preprocessing of data happens both at the content level and during load time, plus any other trick Carmack could throw in there to increase performance. Unless you wanting to follow the path of execution as it relates to a specific data set or type of rendering, just to see the exact techniques used (obviously knowing specifically what you are looking for) then you're not going to learn that way.
Note: if you don't know what a "unidirectional ethernet cable" is, think standard Cat 5 with the TX wires clipped off on one end http://www.stearns.org/doc/one-way-ethernet-cable.html and YES they do work PC to PC with the right settings or by using a switch where you can force a port on without negotiation.
I don't see how TCP could possibly work over a unidirectional ethernet cable. Only UDP. And even then only if the higher level network code was designed to handle generic broadcast to an IP address without anything initiating the connection or any kind of handshaking, etc. My point being that virtually no software would work with such a cable unless it was specifically designed to handle that scenario.
I've always argued this point as well. With proper mixed-case you vastly increase the visual diversity of the words, which makes one word look less like another (all the ascenders and descenders in lower case letters, for example). But most of all, it's simply a matter of what we are used to reading most, which is NOT all caps. The visual recognition of mixed case words should be fastest because that is what our brains are most used to.
The difference in velocity between the asteroid and earth could be enormous. Just because it's coming close doesn't mean it's practical to land on it or orbit it. However we could always smash something into it then analyze the ejecta from earth.
Uh, what about if someone else is driving my car? Cars don't get moving violations - drivers do. Until a system can recognize the driver of the car unequivocally and correlate them to their operator's license number, then I don't see how these automated systems are legal in the first place.
It is natural that a lot of people would be going hog wild over Siri at first, greatly overusing that service for a while until they settled down into what would become the typical usage patterns. By rolling it out more incrementally, Apple didn't need a massive amount of infrastructure for just a short period of time, and thus they won't be stuck with a massive amount of unused surplus server power that was only really needed for the initial release of iOS5 (if Siri had been enabled on iPhone 4 devices).
This is the cheapest / most versatile option, but you would use QR codes or other 2D codes designed specifically for this kind of image scanning and not traditional 1D "barcodes". Issues to consider would be lighting, the camera's ability to capture clear images at whatever speed the vehicle is moving at, etc.
Hmm, I have an idea. A truly smart thermostat would lie. It would indicate it's set at some crazy temperature, but in reality it would apply a moderate setting. Or better yet, it would lie to everyone but me.
Don't let women use this thing. It will only learn two settings: the maximum temperature setting and the lowest temperature setting. At least that's how the females in my life use them.
Just think of the additional batteries you could fit in an area the size of a prosthetic limb. You could probably get upwards of a month of normal smartphone use without recharging.
I get the impression Ballmer hasn't even used an Android phone. Exactly what part of the OS is complicated to use? Really, that's just an absurd, out-there statement.
I don't understand this as well. Either this is simply a preexisting inaccuracy in all GPS readings due to relativity that has never been taken into consideration (highly unlikely), or there's something else going on that I don't grasp. I don't see how the neutrino motion relative to the motion of the satellites is a factor here, as no direct measurement between the two is being made in that way.
One of the things the GPS system helped prove was that relativity is real and must be accounted for in systems of that sort, otherwise accuracy will suffer. So I find it very unlikely that something that fundamental was overlooked in the GPS measurements generically.
If I were paid enough, I'd code in Notepad, save my work on floppy discs and use dot-matrix printouts on fanfold paper for version control (again). Maybe the submitter is making hella money at this company, in which case #1 is moot in my book.
Yes, we hashed through all this last time. The "monkeys" generate 9 character blocks of random letters, then that chunk of text is fitted wherever it can be into the actual works of Shakespeare. And as I said last time around, it would be vastly more efficient, and just as pointless, to generate random SINGLE characters and fit those into works of Shakespeare instead.
The commercial version is almost certainly subsidized too, but obviously not as much. It says the government plans on purchasing 100,000. So since they aren't even manufacturing them in bulk yet, the real-world price isn't even known. However for them to have set an exact price for both shows that the government is willing to kick in to some extent to meet a specific price point.
As the article more tactfully states, these things might be unusable junk. They probably use the cheaper (and less patent incumbered) resistive touch screens, and obviously they won't be including the best in battery technology either.
Also, the slashdot story contains more information than the linked article provides. Wonder what the source of those hard numbers is?
He said "IF" he had IDE hardware capable of interfacing with the drive. He doesn't, so the act of physically destroying the drive isn't some massive security precaution, but one of simple convenience.
Exactly. So if it's going to be done in this way, then why not break it down into INDIVIDUAL characters. Have a monkey generate a single letter, and see if that happens to match something one of Shakespeare's works. I bet that algorithm would be even faster.
Just out of curiosity, why does this story link to an Australian news site for an event that happened in Nevada? That's one of the things I dislike about Google News, is it features articles from news sources geographically distant from the story (or worse, from "news" organizations like Xinhua). It's obvious they are getting the information 2nd and 3rd hand. So I'm curious why this news source was chosen from the hundreds of copy / pastes from an Associated Press (or similar) news feed.
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They face very stiff competition from other companies with much deeper pockets, so they are going to have it tough for a while. I like Netflix (their latest snafu with splitting the DVD rental / streaming plans didn't affect me - I'm streaming only), and as a technophile, I'm pleased that they have gone to great lengths to support such a diverse range of hardware. A lot of companies wouldn't have bothered with Wii, XBox, Android, etc. Netflix's decision to split off their DVD rental was simply waaaaay too early. That is an inevitability of course - anyone with the least bit of foresight can see that demand for physical media is going to drop off a great deal in the near future. However, Netflix must provide a mechanism to bolster the streaming support since the movies offered online are so hit and miss, and the only choice is DVD for now.
Take Lord of the Rings for example. Did you know that you can watch The Two Towers online, but not the first or third movies? Now what in the world is that about??? As long as that sort of garbage is going on, customers need a single unified interface and billing to get movies in whichever format is available.
I've worked extensively with the Quake 1 and 2 sources (I ported them both to Pocket PC, which required rewriting a lot of the computationally expensive routines from floating point to fixed point math, as the ARM processors of that era did not have a FPU). I can say that no, you're not going to learn anything that way. The code has few if any comments at all, the routines are optimized, the data structures are optimized, tons of preprocessing of data happens both at the content level and during load time, plus any other trick Carmack could throw in there to increase performance. Unless you wanting to follow the path of execution as it relates to a specific data set or type of rendering, just to see the exact techniques used (obviously knowing specifically what you are looking for) then you're not going to learn that way.
Note: if you don't know what a "unidirectional ethernet cable" is, think standard Cat 5 with the TX wires clipped off on one end http://www.stearns.org/doc/one-way-ethernet-cable.html and YES they do work PC to PC with the right settings or by using a switch where you can force a port on without negotiation.
I don't see how TCP could possibly work over a unidirectional ethernet cable. Only UDP. And even then only if the higher level network code was designed to handle generic broadcast to an IP address without anything initiating the connection or any kind of handshaking, etc. My point being that virtually no software would work with such a cable unless it was specifically designed to handle that scenario.
uTorrent - the gift that keeps on giving.
I've always argued this point as well. With proper mixed-case you vastly increase the visual diversity of the words, which makes one word look less like another (all the ascenders and descenders in lower case letters, for example). But most of all, it's simply a matter of what we are used to reading most, which is NOT all caps. The visual recognition of mixed case words should be fastest because that is what our brains are most used to.
The difference in velocity between the asteroid and earth could be enormous. Just because it's coming close doesn't mean it's practical to land on it or orbit it. However we could always smash something into it then analyze the ejecta from earth.
Uh, what about if someone else is driving my car? Cars don't get moving violations - drivers do. Until a system can recognize the driver of the car unequivocally and correlate them to their operator's license number, then I don't see how these automated systems are legal in the first place.
It is natural that a lot of people would be going hog wild over Siri at first, greatly overusing that service for a while until they settled down into what would become the typical usage patterns. By rolling it out more incrementally, Apple didn't need a massive amount of infrastructure for just a short period of time, and thus they won't be stuck with a massive amount of unused surplus server power that was only really needed for the initial release of iOS5 (if Siri had been enabled on iPhone 4 devices).
This is the cheapest / most versatile option, but you would use QR codes or other 2D codes designed specifically for this kind of image scanning and not traditional 1D "barcodes". Issues to consider would be lighting, the camera's ability to capture clear images at whatever speed the vehicle is moving at, etc.
Hmm, I have an idea. A truly smart thermostat would lie. It would indicate it's set at some crazy temperature, but in reality it would apply a moderate setting. Or better yet, it would lie to everyone but me.
Don't let women use this thing. It will only learn two settings: the maximum temperature setting and the lowest temperature setting. At least that's how the females in my life use them.
Just think of the additional batteries you could fit in an area the size of a prosthetic limb. You could probably get upwards of a month of normal smartphone use without recharging.
I get the impression Ballmer hasn't even used an Android phone. Exactly what part of the OS is complicated to use? Really, that's just an absurd, out-there statement.
I don't understand this as well. Either this is simply a preexisting inaccuracy in all GPS readings due to relativity that has never been taken into consideration (highly unlikely), or there's something else going on that I don't grasp. I don't see how the neutrino motion relative to the motion of the satellites is a factor here, as no direct measurement between the two is being made in that way.
One of the things the GPS system helped prove was that relativity is real and must be accounted for in systems of that sort, otherwise accuracy will suffer. So I find it very unlikely that something that fundamental was overlooked in the GPS measurements generically.
If I were paid enough, I'd code in Notepad, save my work on floppy discs and use dot-matrix printouts on fanfold paper for version control (again). Maybe the submitter is making hella money at this company, in which case #1 is moot in my book.
Yes, we hashed through all this last time. The "monkeys" generate 9 character blocks of random letters, then that chunk of text is fitted wherever it can be into the actual works of Shakespeare. And as I said last time around, it would be vastly more efficient, and just as pointless, to generate random SINGLE characters and fit those into works of Shakespeare instead.
A small reminder that no amount of wealth or power can overcome our mortality. RIP Mr. Jobs.
The commercial version is almost certainly subsidized too, but obviously not as much. It says the government plans on purchasing 100,000. So since they aren't even manufacturing them in bulk yet, the real-world price isn't even known. However for them to have set an exact price for both shows that the government is willing to kick in to some extent to meet a specific price point.
As the article more tactfully states, these things might be unusable junk. They probably use the cheaper (and less patent incumbered) resistive touch screens, and obviously they won't be including the best in battery technology either.
Also, the slashdot story contains more information than the linked article provides. Wonder what the source of those hard numbers is?
Given the electrons show up 30 minutes BEFORE an earthquake, isn't it obvious that earthquakes are caused by electrons in the atmosphere?
Case closed.
Good catch there. So if the globe was surrounded by tinfoil, the electrons would be dissipated, and voila - no more earthquakes!
He said "IF" he had IDE hardware capable of interfacing with the drive. He doesn't, so the act of physically destroying the drive isn't some massive security precaution, but one of simple convenience.
Exactly. So if it's going to be done in this way, then why not break it down into INDIVIDUAL characters. Have a monkey generate a single letter, and see if that happens to match something one of Shakespeare's works. I bet that algorithm would be even faster.
srand (time(NULL));
while (1)
if (rand()==1234)
puts("OMGOOSES!");
Kinda a waste of CPU cycles...
I actually checked the date to be sure.
It wasn't an air show, it was a race.
Just out of curiosity, why does this story link to an Australian news site for an event that happened in Nevada? That's one of the things I dislike about Google News, is it features articles from news sources geographically distant from the story (or worse, from "news" organizations like Xinhua). It's obvious they are getting the information 2nd and 3rd hand. So I'm curious why this news source was chosen from the hundreds of copy / pastes from an Associated Press (or similar) news feed.