Intel beat out the AMD in nearly every performance test. They try and make an argument for the AMD on power consumption. I'll paraphrase: The AMD chip uses less energy in an idle state and since most usage is idle, the AMD chip uses less energy.
AMD is clearly the overall winner if you don't use your computer.
From the article: "This is exactly the kind of innovation developers can make when they don't have to worry about selling as many licenses of their work as possible"
Translation: "This is exactly the kind of innovation developers can make when they don't have to worry about how many people find their software useful."
Toyota should offer higher milage options at the dealer. The tradeoff obviously is a smaller truck or say no back seat. BTW, gas in Atlanta is at $2.70 for regular now. My next car will definitely be a hybrid.
If I had 2 job candidates with equivalent experience, I would take the one with the CS degree.
In my experience, developers with a CS degree have a much better handle on the underlying concepts; however, I'm not sure that a degree from a big school makes that much of a difference.
Writing a web front end to a database certainly is computer science. Especially when you enter the realm of web-based enterprise software or use technologies like.NET.
* Object oriented design
* Reusable components
* Disconnect clients
* Distributed services
* Application integration
* Replication
* Remote objects Web applications raise the bar when you start talking about issues such as:
* Transactions
* Concurrency control
* Unpredictable user interactions
* Browser incompatibilities
* Security Even if you don't use the computational aspects of math it doesn't mean you aren't using math or that math isn't necessary for certain CS fields. Math is the basis of all CS. Without a good understanding of math and the critical thinking skills that go along with it a person in CS becomes the type that just gets the job done. A person with strong math skills is much more valuable.
Patent lawyers can be extremely pushy. Eventually they piss off the patent examiner reviewing the patent, and the examiner takes the attitude of, "I'll show him." They approve the patent and decide that when the company loses the patent in court, they'll go after the lawyer for all he/she's worth.
Kinda funny since a bunch of patent examiners go on to be patent lawyers...
As if the average Internet user wasn't confused enough as it is already! Most people don't know the difference between the Internet and a web browser. Now AOL is just blinding them further with their own ignorance.
I hope they run this school the right way. A lot of charter schools are poorly funded. They hire young teachers who'll work for less money and they don't hire enough faculty to handle the students. Charter schools can be very successful if run the right way, let's just hope Microsoft does something extraordinary with this opportunity. Really, more corporations should be doing this and the ones who already do, should do it more often.
Although your point is completely off topic, you should know that you are not in touch at all. I would say that 99% of the people at those shows would disagree with you as well. Maybe I'm 1/15 or you just don't have any taste in good music. It's true that there are drugs at these shows, but honestly, have you been to a single concert that draws a "party" crowd that doesn't? Try this link if you feel like reconsidering your opinion of modern rock. I would bet that Rolling Stone didn't know what they were talking about when they said that the top 5 guitarists of all time are Jimi Hendrix, Duane Allman, B.B. King, Eric Clapton, and Robert Johnson. I bet nobody did drugs at their shows or went just for a party though...
Think of how people don't even know how change their homepage from MSN to something a little more useful. As a result, they probably search from MSN all the time. When they investigate linux one day, they are returned a bunch of links on how to move from linux to Microsoft and they're search ends there. Sure, I understand that Microsoft is trying to protect their interests. If someone asked me about something I sold, I wouldn't point them to my better competitor. But, MSN is different. Microsoft is forcing people to view MSN. IE tries to default back to MSN even after you've changed your home page. This is exactly why the FCC shouldn't be allowed to loosen media ownership rules.
This quote is from Microsoft's web site regarding this vulnerability.
"... Remote Procedure Call (RPC) is a protocol used by the Windows operating system. RPC provides an inter-process communication mechanism that allows a program running on one computer to seamlessly execute code on a remote system. The protocol itself is derived from the Open Software Foundation (OSF) RPC protocol, but with the addition of some Microsoft specific extensions.
There is a vulnerability in the part of RPC that deals with message exchange over TCP/IP...."
It makes it sound like RPC has the flaw instead of Microsoft's implementation of RPC being the problem.
If you notice, their web site is running on Microsoft.NET, which cannot handle the slashdot effect very well... Of course, most servers can't but I thought I would make note of it.
I know a company that was having similar problems. They built the moral of the employees and got them behind the company to work those 60 hour weeks. They even got employees to "loan" the company some of their paychecks. The result? Over half of the employees got laid off within 6 months. The "loans" were never paid back. And the employees are still working 60+ hour weeks. I'm not sure a walk-out is going to solve your problem. Start looking for another job...
I also know of another company that again had, a similar problem. Instead of walking out, the core development team got together and started their own company. They sold their services to the company they left at a lower rate than it cost to employ them. The company they started has been around for 9 years now and is still growing.
With digitial cable, you can scroll through a list of movies grouped by category, title, etc. Once you select it, you can watch the movie and use fast forward, rewind, pause, etc to control the video. I'm not a patent examiner, but this still sounds like prior art to me too.
a controversial new state law that makes it a felony to possess software capable of concealing the existence or source of any electronic communication.
What about software that writes to removeable media (CD, floppy, etc)? It doesn't record who wrote to the media. Should we outlaw these devices?
What about all the machines which transmit communications anonymously? Remote controls, FM transmitter, etc. Should these all be outlawed?
I'm having a hard time thinking of other examples. Feel free to add onto this list.
Kind of like how they threw in the towel at Visual Studio.NET! Its a brand new product and they have only released a minor patch for a very specific problem in it. It still crashes several times a day and we are all going to be forced to upgrade to Visual Studio.NET 2003 instead.
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Agreed. ThinkFree hasn't even finished deploying the upgrade to their servers yet.
Intel beat out the AMD in nearly every performance test. They try and make an argument for the AMD on power consumption. I'll paraphrase: The AMD chip uses less energy in an idle state and since most usage is idle, the AMD chip uses less energy.
AMD is clearly the overall winner if you don't use your computer.
How will companies like BlueTie compete with Google?
From the article:
"This is exactly the kind of innovation developers can make when they don't have to worry about selling as many licenses of their work as possible"
Translation:
"This is exactly the kind of innovation developers can make when they don't have to worry about how many people find their software useful."
Toyota should offer higher milage options at the dealer. The tradeoff obviously is a smaller truck or say no back seat. BTW, gas in Atlanta is at $2.70 for regular now. My next car will definitely be a hybrid.
I would hate to be a tester for this game.
If I had 2 job candidates with equivalent experience, I would take the one with the CS degree.
In my experience, developers with a CS degree have a much better handle on the underlying concepts; however, I'm not sure that a degree from a big school makes that much of a difference.
It would be cool to see an animation of this image over time. You would see the lights growing.
Writing a web front end to a database certainly is computer science. Especially when you enter the realm of web-based enterprise software or use technologies like .NET.
* Object oriented design
* Reusable components
* Disconnect clients
* Distributed services
* Application integration
* Replication
* Remote objects
Web applications raise the bar when you start talking about issues such as:
* Transactions
* Concurrency control
* Unpredictable user interactions
* Browser incompatibilities
* Security
Even if you don't use the computational aspects of math it doesn't mean you aren't using math or that math isn't necessary for certain CS fields. Math is the basis of all CS. Without a good understanding of math and the critical thinking skills that go along with it a person in CS becomes the type that just gets the job done. A person with strong math skills is much more valuable.
Patent lawyers can be extremely pushy. Eventually they piss off the patent examiner reviewing the patent, and the examiner takes the attitude of, "I'll show him." They approve the patent and decide that when the company loses the patent in court, they'll go after the lawyer for all he/she's worth.
Kinda funny since a bunch of patent examiners go on to be patent lawyers...
As if the average Internet user wasn't confused enough as it is already! Most people don't know the difference between the Internet and a web browser. Now AOL is just blinding them further with their own ignorance.
I hope they run this school the right way. A lot of charter schools are poorly funded. They hire young teachers who'll work for less money and they don't hire enough faculty to handle the students. Charter schools can be very successful if run the right way, let's just hope Microsoft does something extraordinary with this opportunity. Really, more corporations should be doing this and the ones who already do, should do it more often.
Although your point is completely off topic, you should know that you are not in touch at all. I would say that 99% of the people at those shows would disagree with you as well. Maybe I'm 1/15 or you just don't have any taste in good music. It's true that there are drugs at these shows, but honestly, have you been to a single concert that draws a "party" crowd that doesn't? Try this link if you feel like reconsidering your opinion of modern rock. I would bet that Rolling Stone didn't know what they were talking about when they said that the top 5 guitarists of all time are Jimi Hendrix, Duane Allman, B.B. King, Eric Clapton, and Robert Johnson. I bet nobody did drugs at their shows or went just for a party though...
Think of how people don't even know how change their homepage from MSN to something a little more useful. As a result, they probably search from MSN all the time. When they investigate linux one day, they are returned a bunch of links on how to move from linux to Microsoft and they're search ends there. Sure, I understand that Microsoft is trying to protect their interests. If someone asked me about something I sold, I wouldn't point them to my better competitor. But, MSN is different. Microsoft is forcing people to view MSN. IE tries to default back to MSN even after you've changed your home page. This is exactly why the FCC shouldn't be allowed to loosen media ownership rules.
Who's to say all homeless people have a social security number?
This quote is from Microsoft's web site regarding this vulnerability.
..."
"... Remote Procedure Call (RPC) is a protocol used by the Windows operating system. RPC provides an inter-process communication mechanism that allows a program running on one computer to seamlessly execute code on a remote system. The protocol itself is derived from the Open Software Foundation (OSF) RPC protocol, but with the addition of some Microsoft specific extensions.
There is a vulnerability in the part of RPC that deals with message exchange over TCP/IP.
It makes it sound like RPC has the flaw instead of Microsoft's implementation of RPC being the problem.
If you notice, their web site is running on Microsoft.NET, which cannot handle the slashdot effect very well... Of course, most servers can't but I thought I would make note of it.
I know a company that was having similar problems. They built the moral of the employees and got them behind the company to work those 60 hour weeks. They even got employees to "loan" the company some of their paychecks. The result? Over half of the employees got laid off within 6 months. The "loans" were never paid back. And the employees are still working 60+ hour weeks. I'm not sure a walk-out is going to solve your problem. Start looking for another job...
I also know of another company that again had, a similar problem. Instead of walking out, the core development team got together and started their own company. They sold their services to the company they left at a lower rate than it cost to employ them. The company they started has been around for 9 years now and is still growing.
With digitial cable, you can scroll through a list of movies grouped by category, title, etc. Once you select it, you can watch the movie and use fast forward, rewind, pause, etc to control the video. I'm not a patent examiner, but this still sounds like prior art to me too.
What about software that writes to removeable media (CD, floppy, etc)? It doesn't record who wrote to the media. Should we outlaw these devices?
What about all the machines which transmit communications anonymously? Remote controls, FM transmitter, etc. Should these all be outlawed?
I'm having a hard time thinking of other examples. Feel free to add onto this list.
My brother is a teacher and always complains about his school software. This one looks promising.
For those of you working in K-12 education, there are some really nice school management systems finally coming out. Check this one out.
June 2001 press release
April 2003 press release
There are some other really cool school management applications like this one. If you work in K-12 education, I think you should take a look!
Kind of like how they threw in the towel at Visual Studio.NET! Its a brand new product and they have only released a minor patch for a very specific problem in it. It still crashes several times a day and we are all going to be forced to upgrade to Visual Studio.NET 2003 instead.
Is it possible to write an add-in for Office that will save your document in a standard XML format?