This is a major PR issue! I'm sure if you contact them, the New York Times will run a front page article about the lack of a guaranteed response time for Verizon's whitelisting service. That is, unless anything else at all happens on the planet today.
Really the most shocking part of this whole article is the fact the Cringely said something that actually kinda makes sense. I guess a stopped clock really can be right once in a while.
Comparing Cringely to a stopped clock is an insult to stopped clocks everywhere.
Nintendo's for people with good taste and who appreciate the finer things in life.
Darling, don't forget that after the polo match, we have dinner with the Addisons, then cocktails on the veranda, followed by the fundraiser at the Museum of Modern Art, and then the Pokemon tournament. Don't forget to bring a couple bottles of Dom and the DS.
I thought it just distributed the workload as evenly as possible across the two processors regardless of how many processes are running. That's wouldn't really lead to a game on one proc and scan on the other proc scenario the article implies, or am I missing something and/or assuming incorrectly?
To some extent, you are correct: it isn't a simple one process to one processor mapping. Indeed, any modern OS has many processes that need to get CPU time on occasion. However, if you have 2 processes that are CPU-bound, a dual-proc machine will have CPU available for each most of the time - they will spend much more time running than waiting in the OS scheduler. So it works out to each having roughly the equivalent of a dedicated processor.
You aren't getting it then. What's this "it" that I don't get? I was simply saying that Eclipse is an IDE for Java development. I was responding to someone who seemed to think it was primarily a "gateway drug" to WSAD. None of the developers I've worked with see it this way.
Eclipse is an application framework that makes developing applications (I mean complete end to end applications) much easier. Indeed. We use the Eclipse framework for our GUI applications. Like you said, not WSAD applications. But when a developer tells me he's using Eclipse, 99% of the time they mean the IDE.
Eclipse is not what you may think it is. Eclipse is the community front-end for the expensive IBM WSAD environment.
I find your definition odd. Eclipse is an IDE for Java development. My team and I use it to develop server applications, JBoss services, and SWT - based GUIs. At a previous job, I worked with people who were using it as a C++ development environment. I actually had to google for "WSAD" to even know what you were even talking about.
He could change the DNS name, but then every legitimate user would have to change their configuration, and there's no guarantee D-Link wouldn't just update the firmware with the new name.
How many end users actually update their router firmware, or even know what that means? Even if D-Link makes a firmware update, he will still have all those non-updated routers banging on his ntp server. I'm not saying he shouldn't try to push D-Link (legally or through bad PR) to fix their firmware - they should. But server administrators who run BGP sessions to DIX are far more likely to fix their ntp configuration than several million home router end-users, disbursed globally, who aren't even aware there's a problem.
The project, championed by Mayor Gavin Newsom, is intended to boost the city's technology credentials and help bridge the digital divide between the Internet haves and have-nots.
The folks sleeping on the streets of the Tenderloin want their WiFi!
>> I wish there was a nice library function 'char *readfile(stream)' in ANSI C
> Again, try getline. Really, none of this is hard, unless I miss your intentions.
His intentions are clear. ANSI C. Right there in the sentence you quoted. getline is C++.
Now post C code for implementing the same functionality, making sure it's O(n log n) in time or better, where n is the number of characters in the stream, which you don't know in advance. The parent obviously recognizes this as a nontrivial problem, whereas you don't. Who's the "real" programmer?
Forbes: "With more than five million units sold in Japan since its December 2004 regional launch, the DS has become the fastest-selling gaming machine in the country's history. Japanese gamers have also bought more than a million copies of four different titles within one year of the system's launch: Nintendogs--a game where users play with, train, pet, and wash a virtual dog, Animal Crossing, Wild World, Brain Age, and Brain Flex." - Chris Noon
Gamespot: "With more than 5 million units sold in Japan since its December 2004 regional launch, the DS has become the fastest-selling gaming machine in Japan's history. In another first, Japanese gamers have scooped up more than a million copies of four different titles within one year of a system's launch: Nintendogs, Animal Crossing: Wild World, Brain Age, and Brain Flex." - Tim Surette
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This is a major PR issue! I'm sure if you contact them, the New York Times will run a front page article about the lack of a guaranteed response time for Verizon's whitelisting service. That is, unless anything else at all happens on the planet today.
Everybody wants cheap renewable energy, nobody wants to have it generated in their own back yard.
Actually, I'd be thrilled if my back yard was large enough to site a windmill for personal energy generation.
But didn't you like the headless nurses with big boobs minigame scene? Brilliant stuff.
Really the most shocking part of this whole article is the fact the Cringely said something that actually kinda makes sense. I guess a stopped clock really can be right once in a while.
Comparing Cringely to a stopped clock is an insult to stopped clocks everywhere.
"Wasn't Spike TV supposed to be the channel for men?"
What, we only get one? You guys have Lifetime, that Oprah channel, and that other one whose name escapes me at the moment.
I think you are referring to the Estrogen channel.
But I'm still waiting for the last Ubuntu release to finish compiling on my computer!!!
Oh, wait... Wrong distro joke.
A Texas jury has awarded $133 million in damages
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death in Texas. - Oscar Wilde
I have to wonder what exactly is the money spent on? Does anyone know?
I know. The answer is http://www.hermanmiller.com/aeron/
Nintendo's for people with good taste and who appreciate the finer things in life.
Darling, don't forget that after the polo match, we have dinner with the Addisons, then cocktails on the veranda, followed by the fundraiser at the Museum of Modern Art, and then the Pokemon tournament. Don't forget to bring a couple bottles of Dom and the DS.
I thought it just distributed the workload as evenly as possible across the two processors regardless of how many processes are running. That's wouldn't really lead to a game on one proc and scan on the other proc scenario the article implies, or am I missing something and/or assuming incorrectly?
To some extent, you are correct: it isn't a simple one process to one processor mapping. Indeed, any modern OS has many processes that need to get CPU time on occasion. However, if you have 2 processes that are CPU-bound, a dual-proc machine will have CPU available for each most of the time - they will spend much more time running than waiting in the OS scheduler. So it works out to each having roughly the equivalent of a dedicated processor.
Rescue on Fractalus II.
No, seriously.
To be even more accurate, the apes are subdivided into two groups; the great apes(humans, chimps, gorillas, etc) and the lesser apes(gibbons)
You missed the third category. The great grape ape.
You aren't getting it then.
What's this "it" that I don't get? I was simply saying that Eclipse is an IDE for Java development. I was responding to someone who seemed to think it was primarily a "gateway drug" to WSAD. None of the developers I've worked with see it this way.
Eclipse is an application framework that makes developing applications (I mean complete end to end applications) much easier.
Indeed. We use the Eclipse framework for our GUI applications. Like you said, not WSAD applications. But when a developer tells me he's using Eclipse, 99% of the time they mean the IDE.
Is everyone on Slashdot insane?
You're new here, aren't you?
the surrounding area suffered more dessertification
Indeed. Several bushes near the Altamont Pass wind farm turned into ice cream sundaes, and some of the rocks became chocolate chip cookies.
Eclipse is not what you may think it is. Eclipse is the community front-end for the expensive IBM WSAD environment.
I find your definition odd. Eclipse is an IDE for Java development. My team and I use it to develop server applications, JBoss services, and SWT - based GUIs. At a previous job, I worked with people who were using it as a C++ development environment. I actually had to google for "WSAD" to even know what you were even talking about.
He could change the DNS name, but then every legitimate user would have to change their configuration, and there's no guarantee D-Link wouldn't just update the firmware with the new name.
How many end users actually update their router firmware, or even know what that means? Even if D-Link makes a firmware update, he will still have all those non-updated routers banging on his ntp server. I'm not saying he shouldn't try to push D-Link (legally or through bad PR) to fix their firmware - they should. But server administrators who run BGP sessions to DIX are far more likely to fix their ntp configuration than several million home router end-users, disbursed globally, who aren't even aware there's a problem.
The project, championed by Mayor Gavin Newsom, is intended to boost the city's technology credentials and help bridge the digital divide between the Internet haves and have-nots.
The folks sleeping on the streets of the Tenderloin want their WiFi!
"1. Reduces backup storage capacity 25X or more!"
So, after you buy their product, you'll have less backup storage capacity than you had before.
>> I wish there was a nice library function 'char *readfile(stream)' in ANSI C
> Again, try getline. Really, none of this is hard, unless I miss your intentions.
His intentions are clear. ANSI C. Right there in the sentence you quoted. getline is C++.
Now post C code for implementing the same functionality, making sure it's O(n log n) in time or better, where n is the number of characters in the stream, which you don't know in advance. The parent obviously recognizes this as a nontrivial problem, whereas you don't. Who's the "real" programmer?
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No matter what the outcome of the case, TiVo is screwed.
a blevision+DVR+plan/2100-1033_3-6056149.html
http://news.com.com/Comcast%2C+Time+Warner+back+C
The Dreamcast computer game Shenmue cost $20 million to develop
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"Enter the Matrix": estimated $30 million
http://www.armchairempire.com/Reviews/PC%20Games/
"Daikatana": estimated $25 million (from an article on my former employer, LGS)
http://dir.salon.com/story/tech/feature/2000/06/2
Forbes:
"With more than five million units sold in Japan since its December 2004 regional launch, the DS has become the fastest-selling gaming machine in the country's history. Japanese gamers have also bought more than a million copies of four different titles within one year of the system's launch: Nintendogs--a game where users play with, train, pet, and wash a virtual dog, Animal Crossing, Wild World, Brain Age, and Brain Flex."
- Chris Noon
Gamespot:
"With more than 5 million units sold in Japan since its December 2004 regional launch, the DS has become the fastest-selling gaming machine in Japan's history. In another first, Japanese gamers have scooped up more than a million copies of four different titles within one year of a system's launch: Nintendogs, Animal Crossing: Wild World, Brain Age, and Brain Flex."
- Tim Surette
This is exciting news. Perhaps Panasonic's US R&D division employees can use their Christmas bonuses to go visit the new facility.