The last time I went shopping for a CPU, I found that the "knee" (max(bang/buck)) in the price/MHz curve happened at about 85% of the top speed available.
Something that seems a bit disturbing to me about Brad Templeton's essay is the notion that putting a frame around someone else's web page constitutes a derivative work. Suppose that we consider Netscape Navagator (or any application) to be a "frame". Does this mean that if Microsoft were to put a legal restriction on their web site that it may only be accessed by IE, that they could take a $1000 (???) bite out of Netscape every time someone hit their site using Netscape?
Since when does copyright law have any notion of restricting _HOW_ someone uses a copyrighted work, other than using it at all, copying it, and redistributing it? Would it be legally enforceable to disallow people from flipping through a magazine backwards?
Do web site owners think that I have nothing better to do than sift through their horribly organized web sites to find the thing that someone else mentioned but were disallowed to link to? What a huge leap backwards! The other day there was mention of a story in the Washington Post but only a link to the front page of the Post. I got there and I couldn't frikkin find anything.
There are already enough technological problems with iteroperability, such as [all Microsoft products]. The last thing the web needs is legally enforced non-interoperability.
Not that I necessarily disagree, but they could have just called this "[Standard Recommendation #n-1]... "we recommend increased funding for the work that we happen to do."
Perhaps amazon.com's one-click patented technology will be less appealing after amazon.com's online customer database is ultimately hacked by 1337 h4x0r d00dz. What we really need is one-click class-action lawsuit technology.
The practice of keeping credit-card numbers around on an internet-accessible machine after a transaction has cleared is brain-damaged and companies that do that deserve to be sued.
When web sites tell their customers about how safe their transactions are because they are using secure sockets, etc., they should also be telling their customers that, after the safe, encrypted data has arrived on their server, it will be available in plain text to anyone who can type "system/manager".
I'm not an EE, but I don't think there would be too much current in the line. Neverminding the fact that carbon is an insulator, the cable will be basically geo-stationary. You get current when you move a wire through a magnetic field, not when you leave the wire still.
The IOC should just allow the sponsors to bid on the results. Then, they don't need to bother with athletes at all; they can just use realistic CGI animations. Or better still, they could just animate the logos competing against each other.
A CD is probably a good choice. Of course, there won't be any CD readers in even 50 years, but since it's an optical storage medium, scientists could look at the surface of the disc under a microscope and discover that there is a long spiral of long and short marks on it. From this, they would have to look at the patterns to see how the data is organized, rediscover ASCII, rediscover the current languages, etc.
I think that a book describing the formatting of the information would be much more useful than plans for building a CD player. If they can't reverse-engineer a CD player in 50,000 years, then we'll know that the DMCA did its job.
What I heard was that the SX chips were the chips that had defective floating-point units but the rest of the chip was okay. So, rather then throwing them in the garbage, they were stamped as SX and sold.
I remember reading the titles of the three movies a year or two ago. Maybe I only read rumors and Lucas plans to change the names at the last minute, but...
1. The Phantom Menace
2. The Rise of the Empire
3. The Fall of the Jedi
But for less experienced users, being able to say, "New message to Bob Jones, copy marketing team, blind copy Jon Bones. Dear Bob, I love you like the brother...." That's valuable, and would be quicker than CLI or GUI if it worked.
Are we talking about speech recognition or natural-language processing here? It seems to me that processing instructions like this generally and intelligently is a much more difficult task than recognizing which words have been spoken and will become practical (if ever) significantly after large-scale speech recognition is practical.
So, until natural-language processing is much more advanced, people using speech recognition will have to utter specific commands with specific options and syntaxes. Does this sound familiar? Will speech recognition offer significantly more than an aid for people who can't type very quickly?
You forgot the most widely used algorithm in the most widely used OS on the planet.... wait();
The most important one is sleep(-1). It's tricky to implement, but when used properly, it turns all other algorithms into O(1). NP-Completeness, my ass!
What's with all the numerical algorithms? Isn't this supposed to be about computing rather than engineering? The algorithm/data structure that comes to mind for me is the B-Tree. Database systems would be a lot less useable without it. "Your fingers are soaking in it now."
Productivity is down, morale is down, the only thing that isn't hurt is the fact that (in our opinions) we are still making the best software and are well-positioned to advance the state of computing in the next few years.
Exactly, Microsoft may be down, but it still has monopolies in three different mass-consumer markets: desktop operating systems, office-productivity applications, and web browsers. Maintaining these monopolies will be vastly profitable for all the forseeable future, even without attempting to leverage them illegally.
So, when does Bill Gates' perjury trial start?
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I know what you mean. I'm 31 and I've been programming in C for 12 years and I've been starting to feel a bit left out by various new technologies. I managed to get through undergrad studies before OOP and C++ became happenin' things.
Fortunately enough, over the years I've developed a somewhat "object-based" methodology, as an important part of my present job is to write C libraries for other programmers to use, including polymorphism hacked with function pointers and switch statements.
I finally read a book on C++ last week, and basically it represents a formalization of the methodologies I have been using for some time now. Mostly, the language features give you a way to organize library components more easily (objects), to name them more concisely (dotted-member syntax), to use them more conveniently (overloading & default parameters), and to extend them more easily (inheritence & polymorphism).
After doing a couple of projects in C++, I'll have to start reading up on Java and other web-o-rific technologies.
The solution to this kind of embrace-and-extend attack on an open standard isn't too hard. Basically, a GPL-like license needs to be developed to cover the specifications (not necessarily code), one that says that all extensions to the specification must be made publicly available with no restrictions to anyone who asks.
The IETF and W3C had better do something like this before Microsoft embraces and extends them (more).
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Hell, just be safe and move to Canada!
The last time I went shopping for a CPU, I found that the "knee" (max(bang/buck)) in the price/MHz curve happened at about 85% of the top speed available.
"Bill Gates is just a monocle and a Persian Cat away from being one of the bad guys in a James Bond movie." - Dennis Miller
"No, Meester Bond, I expect you to upgrade!" - Dennis Miller
Why is it that so many of the +5 moderated messages that I see start with something like:
Go ahead. Mark this as flamebait. Mark me down, bring up the same complaints already voiced in other threads as if they're unique...but
Something that seems a bit disturbing to me about Brad Templeton's essay is the notion that putting a frame around someone else's web page constitutes a derivative work. Suppose that we consider Netscape Navagator (or any application) to be a "frame". Does this mean that if Microsoft were to put a legal restriction on their web site that it may only be accessed by IE, that they could take a $1000 (???) bite out of Netscape every time someone hit their site using Netscape?
Since when does copyright law have any notion of restricting _HOW_ someone uses a copyrighted work, other than using it at all, copying it, and redistributing it? Would it be legally enforceable to disallow people from flipping through a magazine backwards?
Do web site owners think that I have nothing better to do than sift through their horribly organized web sites to find the thing that someone else mentioned but were disallowed to link to? What a huge leap backwards! The other day there was mention of a story in the Washington Post but only a link to the front page of the Post. I got there and I couldn't frikkin find anything.
There are already enough technological problems with iteroperability, such as [all Microsoft products]. The last thing the web needs is legally enforced non-interoperability.
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Is this the quote of the day?
and more funding for research in the field
Not that I necessarily disagree, but they could have just called this "[Standard Recommendation #n-1]... "we recommend increased funding for the work that we happen to do."
Perhaps amazon.com's one-click patented technology will be less appealing after amazon.com's online customer database is ultimately hacked by 1337 h4x0r d00dz. What we really need is one-click class-action lawsuit technology.
The practice of keeping credit-card numbers around on an internet-accessible machine after a transaction has cleared is brain-damaged and companies that do that deserve to be sued.
When web sites tell their customers about how safe their transactions are because they are using secure sockets, etc., they should also be telling their customers that, after the safe, encrypted data has arrived on their server, it will be available in plain text to anyone who can type "system/manager".
I'm sure that lockless data structHowever, they may not work well in practice.ures work in theory.
I'm not an EE, but I don't think there would be too much current in the line. Neverminding the fact that carbon is an insulator, the cable will be basically geo-stationary. You get current when you move a wire through a magnetic field, not when you leave the wire still.
Obviously, using Microsoft software identifies you as a sucker. I wonder if they also ship you the defective merchandise returned by other people...
(7) Become a new customer every time you make a purchase!
The IOC should just allow the sponsors to bid on the results. Then, they don't need to bother with athletes at all; they can just use realistic CGI animations. Or better still, they could just animate the logos competing against each other.
A CD is probably a good choice. Of course, there won't be any CD readers in even 50 years, but since it's an optical storage medium, scientists could look at the surface of the disc under a microscope and discover that there is a long spiral of long and short marks on it. From this, they would have to look at the patterns to see how the data is organized, rediscover ASCII, rediscover the current languages, etc.
I think that a book describing the formatting of the information would be much more useful than plans for building a CD player. If they can't reverse-engineer a CD player in 50,000 years, then we'll know that the DMCA did its job.
This suit might reduce the attraction of business models based on generating patents and suing, rather than bringing products to market.
Hey, no one's allowed to do that without paying me royalties!
Method and Apparatus for Business Model to Acquire Revenue with no Innovation or Societal Contribution of Any Kind
U.S. Patent #6,251,666
Step 1: Generate a bogus business-model patent, like this one.
Step 2: Sue everyone else who accidentally uses it.
What I heard was that the SX chips were the chips that had defective floating-point units but the rest of the chip was okay. So, rather then throwing them in the garbage, they were stamped as SX and sold.
I remember reading the titles of the three movies a year or two ago. Maybe I only read rumors and Lucas plans to change the names at the last minute, but...
1. The Phantom Menace
2. The Rise of the Empire
3. The Fall of the Jedi
The best strategy would be to continue to use the current system but reprogram it to report itself as Microsoft IIS!
But for less experienced users, being able to say, "New message to Bob Jones, copy marketing team, blind copy Jon Bones. Dear Bob, I love you like the brother...." That's valuable, and would be quicker than CLI or GUI if it worked.
Are we talking about speech recognition or natural-language processing here? It seems to me that processing instructions like this generally and intelligently is a much more difficult task than recognizing which words have been spoken and will become practical (if ever) significantly after large-scale speech recognition is practical.
So, until natural-language processing is much more advanced, people using speech recognition will have to utter specific commands with specific options and syntaxes. Does this sound familiar? Will speech recognition offer significantly more than an aid for people who can't type very quickly?
You forgot the most widely used algorithm in the most widely used OS on the planet.... wait();
The most important one is sleep(-1). It's tricky to implement, but when used properly, it turns all other algorithms into O(1). NP-Completeness, my ass!
What's with all the numerical algorithms? Isn't this supposed to be about computing rather than engineering? The algorithm/data structure that comes to mind for me is the B-Tree. Database systems would be a lot less useable without it. "Your fingers are soaking in it now."
Productivity is down, morale is down, the only thing that isn't hurt is the fact that (in our opinions) we are still making the best software and are well-positioned to advance the state of computing in the next few years.
Exactly, Microsoft may be down, but it still has monopolies in three different mass-consumer markets: desktop operating systems, office-productivity applications, and web browsers. Maintaining these monopolies will be vastly profitable for all the forseeable future, even without attempting to leverage them illegally.
So, when does Bill Gates' perjury trial start?
I know what you mean. I'm 31 and I've been programming in C for 12 years and I've been starting to feel a bit left out by various new technologies. I managed to get through undergrad studies before OOP and C++ became happenin' things.
Fortunately enough, over the years I've developed a somewhat "object-based" methodology, as an important part of my present job is to write C libraries for other programmers to use, including polymorphism hacked with function pointers and switch statements.
I finally read a book on C++ last week, and basically it represents a formalization of the methodologies I have been using for some time now. Mostly, the language features give you a way to organize library components more easily (objects), to name them more concisely (dotted-member syntax), to use them more conveniently (overloading & default parameters), and to extend them more easily (inheritence & polymorphism).
After doing a couple of projects in C++, I'll have to start reading up on Java and other web-o-rific technologies.
The solution to this kind of embrace-and-extend
attack on an open standard isn't too hard. Basically, a GPL-like license needs to be developed to cover the specifications (not necessarily code), one that says that all extensions to the specification must be made publicly available with no restrictions to anyone who asks.
The IETF and W3C had better do something like this before Microsoft embraces and extends them (more).
Who is the bigger fool? The fool who demands the impossible or the fool who comes in on weekends to do it?
(now if you'll pardon me, I'm just on my way in to work... literally...)