Right. So all he needs ia a few years of education, so then he will be a scientist, and of course any scientist can make perfect sense of the untranslated documents.
I agree with the parent completely - I was hoping to see translations too. Considering the amount of money that has been spent to acquire this imagery, it would be ludicrous to assume that some very knowledgeable people in this field are not translating the text as soon as it is revealed.
MS is just trying to grab a few sales away from Apple at the expense of the OEMs. Why not? MS doesn't have anything to loose on this one - the OEMs are the ones taking the risk.
A little known fact is that this bill was pushed through by the lobbying of sites that have been shut down by the slashdot affect. Their reasoning is that by denying public access to Slashdot, the amount of traffic directed to a site by Slashdot will be lessened, which would be the first step in reducing the power Slashdot wields.
It's just unfortunate that so many other sites would be affected by this bill.
using formulas known as Bessel functions to cut the processing time down to between 15 and 30 seconds and form characters
That sure makes it sound like the calculations involved are so great that the computer takes that long to process (as opposed to a physical delay in the hardware or medium). Certainly that could be reduced substantially either by optimization or throwing more CPUs at the problem. If that is indeed the issue then they could also precalculate the math for various shapes, and recall them instantly on demand. I also wonder if this is a purely virtual simulation inside the software, or if the system requires feedback from sensors in the real world to fine-tune the oscillations to produce the desired effect. In that case it may take that much time to stabilize the system because of chaos and the like. I have a hunch that must be what's going on, because certainly these people are smart enough and have enough funding so that processing speed alone isn't the issue.
Their memory usage charts cannot possibly be right:
Memory Usage Loading Six Tabs Firefox 2 Beta 1: 73K Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3: 70K Opera 9.0: 52K IE 6.0: 155K Firefox 1.5.0.4: 56K
A single image on one of those pages could require more RAM than what the entire program is consuming. That's way, way off. What's even more amazing is, going by their charts, Opera actually consumes LESS ram with 6 pages loaded than when it first starts up! 53k -> 52k
What you quoted is in reference to adding a new tab. They complained FireFox hasn't a single-click method of adding a new tab. The first thing I do when I install FireFox on a new computer is add the "New Tab" toolbar button (right-click on an existing toolbar button, select "Customize..." then drag "New Tab" onto the toolbar). Apparently the author of the article is not aware the toolbar is customizable?
The most potent repellent chemical were then isolated by strapping miniature electrodes to the antennae of female mosquitoes and checking their responses to specific compounds. Logan will not divulge the names of the chemicals until they are patented.
How in the world can a chemical that every human produces be patented? Isn't that prior art? Ridiculous. I could understand if it were some new compound they synthesized, but this is a nothing more than greed.
the top sales associate before being offered the job as CEO.
How does being a good salesman equate with the leadership and organizational ability required of a CEO? I understand, CEOs must to some extent "sell their company", but many great CEOs are very introverted, out-of-the-limelight type of people.
I worked at a Radio Shack (a company owned store) for a few years, and the pressure to sell people expensive items, whether or not they needed them, was intense. Batteries were (and still are) the big killer profit-maker for them. They really beat it into our heads to sell those batteries. Why do you think Radio Shack gave out those coupons for free flashlights all the time? Because if just a few takers would buy batteries for them then they did very well.
Anyone that excels in sales in that type of environment plays dirty. Period. So the fact that he was a leading salesman tells me enough about his character to know that he is not someone that should be in charge.
As transistor-based microchips hit the limits of Moore's Law
The submitter speaks of Moore's law as if it were some actual law governing the physics of silicon based integrated circuits. His "law" was nothing more than an observation regarding the time it took the industry to pack more transistors into a given space. It makes no assertions regarding maximum transistor density, heat dissipation, or any of the other physical limitations chip manufacturers keep overcoming.
My first computer was a TI-99/4A which I got for Christmas when I was 10. It was supposed to be a Christmas present, but I saw my mom carrying the box in the store (Sears maybe?), so my parents decided to give it to me a couple days later as an early Christmas present (even though it was my big gift).
My mom has a picture of me asleep on the bed with the computer lying there next to me (not connected to anything - just the console) the night I got it. I just couldn't part with it.:) So she has the ultimate blackmail pic revealing my true geek nature that she likes to share to embarrass me at various strategic moments.
Each month I looked forward to getting the next edition of Compute! so I could spend hours typing in the various BASIC programs. Unfortunately the real cutting edge stuff was always on the C-64 (like the checksum tool that helped catch mistakes as each line was entered). It's no wonder I learned how to program, having typed in so many lines of code. My dad would often read the listings to me, and he was impressed that I would sometimes enter statements before he read them, as I learned the syntax of the language and general programming rudiments. Then there was the intense drive to make modifications - starting with the basic stuff like giving me more lives in a game, to advanced stuff, like creating new enemies and the like.
I've been wondering how to introduce my kids to programming in a similar way - exposing them to source code in a rewarding way. Unfortunately the scenario I was in is probably gone for good. Now they have dozens of GBA SP, DS and GameCube games (not to mention the stuff on PC), so the reward for messing around with an extremely simple game (ie one that they would even have a chance to make sense of the algorithms) is pretty much nil.
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Right. So all he needs ia a few years of education, so then he will be a scientist, and of course any scientist can make perfect sense of the untranslated documents.
I agree with the parent completely - I was hoping to see translations too. Considering the amount of money that has been spent to acquire this imagery, it would be ludicrous to assume that some very knowledgeable people in this field are not translating the text as soon as it is revealed.
Dan East
$s="What ";
$s+="could ";
$s+="possibly ";
$s+="be ";
$s+="bad ";
$s+="about ";
$s+="using ";
$s+="php ";
$s+="for ";
$s+="static ";
$s+="pages?";
echo $s;
It can be spelled either way. Google for "supersedes" and "supercedes" and you'll find 7 times more results for the former.
Dan East
Sorry, trying to get First Post supersedes grammar in all cases. I just checked my pocket grammar guide and that is indeed the rule.
On another note, yeah, word misuse like that bugs me. Thanks for pointing it out and taking away some of the satisfaction of a nicely modded post!
Dan East
MS is just trying to grab a few sales away from Apple at the expense of the OEMs. Why not? MS doesn't have anything to loose on this one - the OEMs are the ones taking the risk.
Dan East
When I was a kid UI...
So what's your last name? Windows, X Windows, OS X?
Dan East
A little known fact is that this bill was pushed through by the lobbying of sites that have been shut down by the slashdot affect. Their reasoning is that by denying public access to Slashdot, the amount of traffic directed to a site by Slashdot will be lessened, which would be the first step in reducing the power Slashdot wields.
It's just unfortunate that so many other sites would be affected by this bill.
Dan East
using formulas known as Bessel functions to cut the processing time down to between 15 and 30 seconds and form characters
That sure makes it sound like the calculations involved are so great that the computer takes that long to process (as opposed to a physical delay in the hardware or medium). Certainly that could be reduced substantially either by optimization or throwing more CPUs at the problem. If that is indeed the issue then they could also precalculate the math for various shapes, and recall them instantly on demand. I also wonder if this is a purely virtual simulation inside the software, or if the system requires feedback from sensors in the real world to fine-tune the oscillations to produce the desired effect. In that case it may take that much time to stabilize the system because of chaos and the like. I have a hunch that must be what's going on, because certainly these people are smart enough and have enough funding so that processing speed alone isn't the issue.
Dan East
Their memory usage charts cannot possibly be right:
Memory Usage Loading Six Tabs
Firefox 2 Beta 1: 73K
Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3: 70K
Opera 9.0: 52K
IE 6.0: 155K
Firefox 1.5.0.4: 56K
A single image on one of those pages could require more RAM than what the entire program is consuming. That's way, way off. What's even more amazing is, going by their charts, Opera actually consumes LESS ram with 6 pages loaded than when it first starts up! 53k -> 52k
Dan East
What you quoted is in reference to adding a new tab. They complained FireFox hasn't a single-click method of adding a new tab. The first thing I do when I install FireFox on a new computer is add the "New Tab" toolbar button (right-click on an existing toolbar button, select "Customize..." then drag "New Tab" onto the toolbar). Apparently the author of the article is not aware the toolbar is customizable?
Dan East
Certainly, the ESA and NASA have something to be proud of when they actually manage to get stuff into orbit :).
What about Russia?
Dan East
Amiga has had long filename support since it was first released in 1985.
Dan East
The most potent repellent chemical were then isolated by strapping miniature electrodes to the antennae of female mosquitoes and checking their responses to specific compounds. Logan will not divulge the names of the chemicals until they are patented.
How in the world can a chemical that every human produces be patented? Isn't that prior art? Ridiculous. I could understand if it were some new compound they synthesized, but this is a nothing more than greed.
Dan East
JSP vs .NET / ASP / IIS / C#
This string exists only to appease the lame lameness filter.
Dan East
if Pocket Internet Explorer on a PDA was anything more than a toy, I wouldn't need it at all
Have you tried Opera for Pocket PC?
Dan East
I thought astronomers searched the obvious places first. They really should have looked for these things around Uranus.
Dan East
No, it means that people are willing to spend moderation points just to prove someone wrong in an ironic sort of way.
Dan East
This reminds me of a past Slashdot story.
Dan East
I don't know about that, but I am wondering how we can flag story tags ("boom") as flamebait.
Dan East
2 bit coding? I thought coding for 8 bit CPUs was pretty old school, but that takes the cake.
Dan East
How about Web 2.0?
Dan East
the top sales associate before being offered the job as CEO.
How does being a good salesman equate with the leadership and organizational ability required of a CEO? I understand, CEOs must to some extent "sell their company", but many great CEOs are very introverted, out-of-the-limelight type of people.
I worked at a Radio Shack (a company owned store) for a few years, and the pressure to sell people expensive items, whether or not they needed them, was intense. Batteries were (and still are) the big killer profit-maker for them. They really beat it into our heads to sell those batteries. Why do you think Radio Shack gave out those coupons for free flashlights all the time? Because if just a few takers would buy batteries for them then they did very well.
Anyone that excels in sales in that type of environment plays dirty. Period. So the fact that he was a leading salesman tells me enough about his character to know that he is not someone that should be in charge.
Dan East
As transistor-based microchips hit the limits of Moore's Law
The submitter speaks of Moore's law as if it were some actual law governing the physics of silicon based integrated circuits. His "law" was nothing more than an observation regarding the time it took the industry to pack more transistors into a given space. It makes no assertions regarding maximum transistor density, heat dissipation, or any of the other physical limitations chip manufacturers keep overcoming.
Dan East
My first computer was a TI-99/4A which I got for Christmas when I was 10. It was supposed to be a Christmas present, but I saw my mom carrying the box in the store (Sears maybe?), so my parents decided to give it to me a couple days later as an early Christmas present (even though it was my big gift).
:) So she has the ultimate blackmail pic revealing my true geek nature that she likes to share to embarrass me at various strategic moments.
My mom has a picture of me asleep on the bed with the computer lying there next to me (not connected to anything - just the console) the night I got it. I just couldn't part with it.
Each month I looked forward to getting the next edition of Compute! so I could spend hours typing in the various BASIC programs. Unfortunately the real cutting edge stuff was always on the C-64 (like the checksum tool that helped catch mistakes as each line was entered). It's no wonder I learned how to program, having typed in so many lines of code. My dad would often read the listings to me, and he was impressed that I would sometimes enter statements before he read them, as I learned the syntax of the language and general programming rudiments. Then there was the intense drive to make modifications - starting with the basic stuff like giving me more lives in a game, to advanced stuff, like creating new enemies and the like.
I've been wondering how to introduce my kids to programming in a similar way - exposing them to source code in a rewarding way. Unfortunately the scenario I was in is probably gone for good. Now they have dozens of GBA SP, DS and GameCube games (not to mention the stuff on PC), so the reward for messing around with an extremely simple game (ie one that they would even have a chance to make sense of the algorithms) is pretty much nil.
Dan East
The two phrases most often overheard in that datacenter:
You're a chip off the old block.
You must have a chip on your shoulder.
Dan East