You're right. Additionally, with the advent of this friend or foe system, people are using all five points on people they have marked as foes modding them down with "troll." So if you disagree with someone to the point they feel like you're a foe, watch out the next time they get mod points.
Get a computer engineering degree with a focus on hardware (in the later years you can take specialized classes,) and while you're in school enlist in the cooperative education program and do your co-ops with hardware companies.
But I have no clue where to start looking for ogg music files. With mp3 there's BearShare (gnutella), Morpheous, AudioGalaxy, etc... but what about ogg?
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Yes. It depends on what the processors are. Lookup PPC vs Pentium information.
I don't think this will signal the end of the Palm hardware line. From my personal experience people think of Palm as THE personal organizer. Yes, they are familiar with others, but they still refer to them as "Palms" rather than "personal organizers." Their market share may be slipping, but I don't see that meaning the end of their hardware.
It's interesting that they split the software division off. Microsoft is a well established software giant and having a company that only does software is not such a lucrative position with MS in the mix. Unless there's some contract that says Palm hardware has to use Palm software, I wouldn't be suprised if we eventually saw Palms running Windows CE and never saw Palm software again. Don't get me wrong, I'm in no way saying MS is better, I'm just pointing out the fact that they are bullies and they will do anything to destroy another software maker.
The technical consumer knows not to pay attention to clock frequency as the best chips (IBM/Motorola/Apple) are clocked lower than mainstream chips but are much faster and more powerful.
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... this guy's logic?
I know I haven't griped about this in a while, but if AMD switched to its new "MHz doesn't equal performance" naming scheme for its higher end Athlons (where one would assume that the users probably look at benchmarks) why is it sticking with GHz for "mainstream PC" chips (where you would imagine that users are less likely to look at benchmarks)?
Well, the reason they're naming their mainstream processors by clock rate is precisely because the users are less likely to look at benchmarks. The effect the clock rate has on the overall speed of a computer is minimal, but if you ask the everyday person, even your average best buy or gateway store worker, they'll tell you that high clock = fast. So, if you want people who don't know anything about benchmarks to buy your chip, just say it's got a high clock rate, and they'll think it's fast.
OK, I know that's extremely naive, but as long as someone keeps a close watch on their licensing activities having a big company like that own Red Hat just might lead to better software development for linux. I know, AOL sucks, it really does, but I don't think they'd fire the entire Red Hat staff, so having that sort of backing would just make them better at their job, or at least that's what we all should hope for...
It makes you wonder what educators are thinking. That's just a plain ignorant way of looking at things. A year ago I was working on a project using C to make a real time video game based on physical movement measured through digital cameras. If you told me to reproduce it right now, there's no way in hell I could. Professors are so quick to lose sight of the fact that people who haven't been doing the same thing for 30 years have a hard time remembering every little detail of it on the tests.
Future versions may have dual control to allow people to drive the cars from the nearest station off the track to their homes.
Now that's something I could buy into. Public transport is great and all, but the problem has always been (at least in the US) that once you get to your stop, there's still quite a ways to go. Also, Americans in general just plain and simple don't want to give up the mobility of having a car.
Personally, I live near Atlanta, GA. We have the MARTA trains to move you through the city. The only problem is, the city is huge, and MARTA has maybe a couple of dozen stops thorughout the city, and it doesn't even span out to where I live. The result is if I were to take the MARTA anywhere, I'd still end up travelling 2-5 miles, sometimes more, to my final destination. That's just plain useless.
Being able to drive your car onto a public transportation grid that would take control and send you whisking off to whatever exit you chose would be great. I don't know how it would handle tremendous volumes, but if they can get the process down pat I would be one of it's biggest supporters.
The most interesting from a domain-name point of view is this: With the rise of search tools that unerringly bring you to the page you want, the need for a highly specific domain name -- one that a casual Web user would be able to guess -- has practically disappeared.
I agree with this article for the most part; Google is a great search engine and it eliminates the need to memorize a bunch of URL's. There's a few assumptions the author is making that aren't exactly correct.
1 - Google doesn't "unerringly bring you the page you want" because no matter what you type into the search field, it can't tell exactly what you're looking for. It gives great results most of the time, but it still stumbles once you move into more vague searches. This isn't Google's fault, it's just the fact of life that neither people or computers are psychic, we can't read each other's minds.
2 - Having a domain name that someone could guess, or that someone might not even know relates to your company, is still pretty desirable. People are familiar with having a.com after most websites, so if you put up toys.com, you'll probably get a lot of hits, no matter what your actual company is. I agree, typing in www.lucenttechnologies.com is a much worse method than going to Google and looking up "Lucent Technologies," but I think people have always preferred search engines for looking up specific companies.
3 - This is probably the most important point: domain names are about advertising in today's internet economy. The companies would like for people to be able to guess their website address, but what's more important to them is that customers can easily remember the address when they see it in advertisements. So, when you see a commercial for Nike Shoes, and they show you www.nikeshoes.com, you will easily remember that for the next time you're browsing the web. Now, it really wouldn't make a difference if it was www.nike.com, www.shoesbynike.com, www.gonike.com, or www.swoosh.com, because the point is they're giving you an easy to remember location. Now, if they gave you www.commercialwebsites.com/shoecompanies/nike/shoe s.html, it probably wouldn't stick in your mind very long, and you wouldn't just causally browse the site. Now, don't get me wrong, if that was the URL and you REALLY wanted to check out Nike, then you'd go look it up on Google, and you'd get there anyway. The point I'm trying to make is that it's not about the companies trying to guess what domain you'll type in, they're trying to make it easy for you to associate a website to their company, and that's why I think there's still a big demand for specific domain names.
The very reason languages like VHDL are "obtuse" is because hardware isn't the most intuitive thing out there. In order to make good chips, you have to thoroughly think things through, not just whip out some POS java script. VHDL is a good tool and I think taking C++ or Java code and making a chip out of it would only produce an extremely inefficient piece of hardware.
Hey jackass, what you don't mention is the countless hours of downtime due to the high school educated MCSE having to install upgrades, patches, etc every other day. MS software is not reliable, plain and simple. While it doesn't take a very smart person to be an MS admin, and maybe linux admins would cost a little more, you save the money tenfold in downtime.
Because there's no insight in that argument. I've personally known a crack whore baby factory, and the thought of her makes me sick. Welfare is shit, it's degrading to Americans, and it should be eliminated.
I just love statistics (sarcasm,) especially when used so gracefully. ...I see a large middle ground as preferable to a small (15%? I forget) portion of the populace controlling 80% of the wealth.
Sounds eerily similar to the bullshit campaign Gore used last time around. Let me explain why that stat is pure shit:
Let's say we have 5 people. Each person makes $1 per day at work base salary. One of those people is the manager, who gets $3 more per day because of his hard work and promotion to a higher position. So, that person gets paid $4 while the others just get $1, bringing the total amount paid to all employees $8. That's an atrocity!!! 20% of the workers now control 50% of the money!!! Oh GOD, let's ban capitalism right away and give that whole Communism thing another go-round!!!
OK I'll stop with the sensationalism. The point is that I have no problem with a few people being rich and a few people being poor, because I'm a competitor and I plan on being successful. If I fail, so be it, I'm not going to accept money from the government. If I succeed, I'm going to be extremely pissed off that 60% of my money goes to paying for slack asses to live. In life there are winners and losers, I believe Darwin referred to it as the process of natural selection. We need to stop forcing the winners to bail the losers out. Churches, community groups, families, things like that should be (and would be if people didn't have to pay so many taxes) the benefactors to the needy, not the government and my hard earned paycheck.
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Before the split, Palm wasn't using it's products to boost each other. THE product was the hardware AND software combo.
Anyway, that's beside the point, I wasn't even talking about them leveraging products. Ugh.
You're right. Additionally, with the advent of this friend or foe system, people are using all five points on people they have marked as foes modding them down with "troll." So if you disagree with someone to the point they feel like you're a foe, watch out the next time they get mod points.
As an avid GameCube fan/supporter I hope the WebTV/UltimateTV guys bring some of their bad luck with them to the XBox!!
Get a computer engineering degree with a focus on hardware (in the later years you can take specialized classes,) and while you're in school enlist in the cooperative education program and do your co-ops with hardware companies.
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That's a mouthful!
Awesome. Great Idea!
But I have no clue where to start looking for ogg music files. With mp3 there's BearShare (gnutella), Morpheous, AudioGalaxy, etc... but what about ogg?
Yes. It depends on what the processors are. Lookup PPC vs Pentium information.
I don't think this will signal the end of the Palm hardware line. From my personal experience people think of Palm as THE personal organizer. Yes, they are familiar with others, but they still refer to them as "Palms" rather than "personal organizers." Their market share may be slipping, but I don't see that meaning the end of their hardware.
It's interesting that they split the software division off. Microsoft is a well established software giant and having a company that only does software is not such a lucrative position with MS in the mix. Unless there's some contract that says Palm hardware has to use Palm software, I wouldn't be suprised if we eventually saw Palms running Windows CE and never saw Palm software again. Don't get me wrong, I'm in no way saying MS is better, I'm just pointing out the fact that they are bullies and they will do anything to destroy another software maker.
The technical consumer knows not to pay attention to clock frequency as the best chips (IBM/Motorola/Apple) are clocked lower than mainstream chips but are much faster and more powerful.
... this guy's logic?
I know I haven't griped about this in a while, but if AMD switched to its new "MHz doesn't equal performance" naming scheme for its higher end Athlons (where one would assume that the users probably look at benchmarks) why is it sticking with GHz for "mainstream PC" chips (where you would imagine that users are less likely to look at benchmarks)?
Well, the reason they're naming their mainstream processors by clock rate is precisely because the users are less likely to look at benchmarks. The effect the clock rate has on the overall speed of a computer is minimal, but if you ask the everyday person, even your average best buy or gateway store worker, they'll tell you that high clock = fast. So, if you want people who don't know anything about benchmarks to buy your chip, just say it's got a high clock rate, and they'll think it's fast.
OK, I know that's extremely naive, but as long as someone keeps a close watch on their licensing activities having a big company like that own Red Hat just might lead to better software development for linux. I know, AOL sucks, it really does, but I don't think they'd fire the entire Red Hat staff, so having that sort of backing would just make them better at their job, or at least that's what we all should hope for...
when a plan comes together.
I tell you what though, if Mr. T said "settle down fool, I'll have email back up in a minute!" I don't think I'd call more than once.
They'll use the A-Team Bus!!!
It makes you wonder what educators are thinking. That's just a plain ignorant way of looking at things. A year ago I was working on a project using C to make a real time video game based on physical movement measured through digital cameras. If you told me to reproduce it right now, there's no way in hell I could. Professors are so quick to lose sight of the fact that people who haven't been doing the same thing for 30 years have a hard time remembering every little detail of it on the tests.
That's a good one, wish I had some mod points!
Has the US passed a law that effectively reduces CD bootlegging?
Sure, they have the laws, but everyone and their brother seems to be pumping out MP3 based cd's these days.
I can't imagine the motivation behind this... I loved my old Apple IIe but damn that was like 15 years ago!
Of course, you can never get too much Oregon Trail... I wonder how fast it runs with these mods!
Future versions may have dual control to allow people to drive the cars from the nearest station off the track to their homes.
Now that's something I could buy into. Public transport is great and all, but the problem has always been (at least in the US) that once you get to your stop, there's still quite a ways to go. Also, Americans in general just plain and simple don't want to give up the mobility of having a car.
Personally, I live near Atlanta, GA. We have the MARTA trains to move you through the city. The only problem is, the city is huge, and MARTA has maybe a couple of dozen stops thorughout the city, and it doesn't even span out to where I live. The result is if I were to take the MARTA anywhere, I'd still end up travelling 2-5 miles, sometimes more, to my final destination. That's just plain useless.
Being able to drive your car onto a public transportation grid that would take control and send you whisking off to whatever exit you chose would be great. I don't know how it would handle tremendous volumes, but if they can get the process down pat I would be one of it's biggest supporters.
The most interesting from a domain-name point of view is this: With the rise of search tools that unerringly bring you to the page you want, the need for a highly specific domain name -- one that a casual Web user would be able to guess -- has practically disappeared.
.com after most websites, so if you put up toys.com, you'll probably get a lot of hits, no matter what your actual company is. I agree, typing in www.lucenttechnologies.com is a much worse method than going to Google and looking up "Lucent Technologies," but I think people have always preferred search engines for looking up specific companies.
e s.html, it probably wouldn't stick in your mind very long, and you wouldn't just causally browse the site. Now, don't get me wrong, if that was the URL and you REALLY wanted to check out Nike, then you'd go look it up on Google, and you'd get there anyway. The point I'm trying to make is that it's not about the companies trying to guess what domain you'll type in, they're trying to make it easy for you to associate a website to their company, and that's why I think there's still a big demand for specific domain names.
I agree with this article for the most part; Google is a great search engine and it eliminates the need to memorize a bunch of URL's. There's a few assumptions the author is making that aren't exactly correct.
1 - Google doesn't "unerringly bring you the page you want" because no matter what you type into the search field, it can't tell exactly what you're looking for. It gives great results most of the time, but it still stumbles once you move into more vague searches. This isn't Google's fault, it's just the fact of life that neither people or computers are psychic, we can't read each other's minds.
2 - Having a domain name that someone could guess, or that someone might not even know relates to your company, is still pretty desirable. People are familiar with having a
3 - This is probably the most important point: domain names are about advertising in today's internet economy. The companies would like for people to be able to guess their website address, but what's more important to them is that customers can easily remember the address when they see it in advertisements. So, when you see a commercial for Nike Shoes, and they show you www.nikeshoes.com, you will easily remember that for the next time you're browsing the web. Now, it really wouldn't make a difference if it was www.nike.com, www.shoesbynike.com, www.gonike.com, or www.swoosh.com, because the point is they're giving you an easy to remember location. Now, if they gave you www.commercialwebsites.com/shoecompanies/nike/sho
"I don't care if it runs fast, programming it is EASY"
Damn CS majors...
The very reason languages like VHDL are "obtuse" is because hardware isn't the most intuitive thing out there. In order to make good chips, you have to thoroughly think things through, not just whip out some POS java script. VHDL is a good tool and I think taking C++ or Java code and making a chip out of it would only produce an extremely inefficient piece of hardware.
Hey jackass, what you don't mention is the countless hours of downtime due to the high school educated MCSE having to install upgrades, patches, etc every other day. MS software is not reliable, plain and simple. While it doesn't take a very smart person to be an MS admin, and maybe linux admins would cost a little more, you save the money tenfold in downtime.
Because there's no insight in that argument. I've personally known a crack whore baby factory, and the thought of her makes me sick. Welfare is shit, it's degrading to Americans, and it should be eliminated.
...I see a large middle ground as preferable to a small (15%? I forget) portion of the populace controlling 80% of the wealth.
I just love statistics (sarcasm,) especially when used so gracefully.
Sounds eerily similar to the bullshit campaign Gore used last time around. Let me explain why that stat is pure shit:
Let's say we have 5 people. Each person makes $1 per day at work base salary. One of those people is the manager, who gets $3 more per day because of his hard work and promotion to a higher position. So, that person gets paid $4 while the others just get $1, bringing the total amount paid to all employees $8. That's an atrocity!!! 20% of the workers now control 50% of the money!!! Oh GOD, let's ban capitalism right away and give that whole Communism thing another go-round!!!
OK I'll stop with the sensationalism. The point is that I have no problem with a few people being rich and a few people being poor, because I'm a competitor and I plan on being successful. If I fail, so be it, I'm not going to accept money from the government. If I succeed, I'm going to be extremely pissed off that 60% of my money goes to paying for slack asses to live. In life there are winners and losers, I believe Darwin referred to it as the process of natural selection. We need to stop forcing the winners to bail the losers out. Churches, community groups, families, things like that should be (and would be if people didn't have to pay so many taxes) the benefactors to the needy, not the government and my hard earned paycheck.
They make an 'ass' out of 'u' and 'me'.