I gotta say... My dad falls for this stuff. I mean, he warned me about the Klingerman Virus, and countless other hoaxes and such which he fell for completely. I love the guy, but he just grew up in a different time...
A bunch of new laptop computers were announced today by a number of PC laptop makers. All of them are better than the previous versions by those laptop makers. Some are really small, some are really fast, some have nice graphics capabilities. Prices have come down for the older models, which will eventually be phased out. The overall pricing strategy seems to be that the latest and greatest cost about the same as what once was the latest and greatest. These are sure exciting days for fans of the PC laptop.
'Though the patents may seem broad, "when you seek a patent, you try to get it as broad as possible," said Walker [PanIP's lawyer]. "You don't want to limit it to just what you think it's going to be used for."'
In other words, the point of filing for patents is to undermine innovation by making them broad enough to cover things you never thought of. To see it put so plainly into words by someone who actually supports this approach makes me sick.
I had a Logitech Cordless Mouseman Optical which only lasted about a month. Then, at one point, I was just mousing along, and suddenly my mouse made a loud bang, which I heard, felt, and saw. Man did that scare the crap out of me. This was about a year ago, before the whole D.C. sniper news, but my first thought was seriously that a sniper had shot the mouse out of my hand.
Anyhow, I ended up deciding it must have been a buildup of gas leaking from the batteries. However, now I'd bet my money on a capacitor exploding, since it still kind of worked after that, but mouse control would be spastic, possibly indicating failure in voltage regulating circuits.
"Robert Metcalfe, the co-inventor of the Ethernet office networking standard, who is a friend of Mr. Kamen, told me via e- mail: 'Some months ago when speculation was running high, I said that Kamen's It was more important than the Internet, but not as important as cold fusion, had cold fusion worked out. The It I was talking about, which I did not disclose, was NOT Segway. That's all I can say.'"
This is actually a fairly common practice in Gamecube programming, only using audio ram. The GC has a measly 24 Megs of main ram and a whopping 16 Megs of audio ram. The transfer is reasonably fast, and it certainly makes it easier to port a PS2 engine which from the PS which has 32 Megs. There was an article in Game Developer not too long ago about automating this as virtual ram using the PowerPC's memory-mapping capabilities rather than the manual approach usually taken.
Code quality actually improves with longer hours. It was recently proven that:
cq = hw * k
where cq is code quality, hw is hours worked, and k is a constant which is roughly equal to pi/e.
Recent papers in related fields definitively shows that late hours and working long weekends maintains productivity, and, in fact, can actually increase the value of k in the above equation.
For crying out loud, doesn't anyone do their research before posting on Slashdot?!
Oh, yeah, and you spelled "affect" wrong, in case nobody mentioned it.
Amen. After finding that ActiveX control (written in VB of course) which does syntax highlighting in Word, I never code in anything else. My productivity has never been higher, with the smart, though seemingly random, indentation rules Word applies. Of course, my compiler's not too sure what to do with.doc files, but my code prints quite nicely.
In gamespy's coverage of quakecon, Carmack says Doom3 will be, "believe it or not, based around the technology that became available with GeForce1-level hardware." (That's a quote from the article writer, not Carmack himself.) But if you buy the new ATI card, you'll see its advanced technology put to good use in 2-3 years.
"The castle of Aaaaahh? Perhaps he was dictating."
I have a feeling the CEO was dictating this quote to someone. He probably paused in the middle of the word for so long, the secretary had no choice but to add a hyphen.
He also apparently mispronounced "proprietary" by saying "propriety". Unless, of course, he was trying to say that the use of Windows avoids the problems associated with a "politeness" operating environment.
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These boxer shorts feature the Zounds Youth Rock Ministry logo with the inspirational words "Radically Abstinent, Saved & Saving it!" A great way to show the youths that abstinence is "where its at".
Like, hey, check out my abstinence boxers. I'll just take off my pants to show you...
I think 2% is actually quite high. This is comparable to the percentage of shareware users who register their software. And given that the readership here consists largely of people who believe in free (both as in beer and as in speech) software, one in 50 people paying ain't bad at all.
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I gotta say... My dad falls for this stuff. I mean, he warned me about the Klingerman Virus, and countless other hoaxes and such which he fell for completely. I love the guy, but he just grew up in a different time...
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A bunch of new laptop computers were announced today by a number of PC laptop makers. All of them are better than the previous versions by those laptop makers. Some are really small, some are really fast, some have nice graphics capabilities. Prices have come down for the older models, which will eventually be phased out. The overall pricing strategy seems to be that the latest and greatest cost about the same as what once was the latest and greatest. These are sure exciting days for fans of the PC laptop.
'Though the patents may seem broad, "when you seek a patent, you try to get it as broad as possible," said Walker [PanIP's lawyer]. "You don't want to limit it to just what you think it's going to be used for."'
In other words, the point of filing for patents is to undermine innovation by making them broad enough to cover things you never thought of. To see it put so plainly into words by someone who actually supports this approach makes me sick.
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Anyhow, I ended up deciding it must have been a buildup of gas leaking from the batteries. However, now I'd bet my money on a capacitor exploding, since it still kind of worked after that, but mouse control would be spastic, possibly indicating failure in voltage regulating circuits.
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"Robert Metcalfe, the co-inventor of the Ethernet office networking standard, who is a friend of Mr. Kamen, told me via e- mail: 'Some months ago when speculation was running high, I said that Kamen's It was more important than the Internet, but not as important as cold fusion, had cold fusion worked out. The It I was talking about, which I did not disclose, was NOT Segway. That's all I can say.'"
"Broadband's killer application -- the one activity that dwarfs all others -- is online gaming"
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... use Microsoft Passport!?
This is actually a fairly common practice in Gamecube programming, only using audio ram. The GC has a measly 24 Megs of main ram and a whopping 16 Megs of audio ram. The transfer is reasonably fast, and it certainly makes it easier to port a PS2 engine which from the PS which has 32 Megs. There was an article in Game Developer not too long ago about automating this as virtual ram using the PowerPC's memory-mapping capabilities rather than the manual approach usually taken.
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I actually was killed by an asteroid. Once.
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Code quality actually improves with longer hours. It was recently proven that:
cq = hw * k
where cq is code quality, hw is hours worked, and k is a constant which is roughly equal to pi/e.
Recent papers in related fields definitively shows that late hours and working long weekends maintains productivity, and, in fact, can actually increase the value of k in the above equation.
For crying out loud, doesn't anyone do their research before posting on Slashdot?!
Oh, yeah, and you spelled "affect" wrong, in case nobody mentioned it.
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Amen. After finding that ActiveX control (written in VB of course) which does syntax highlighting in Word, I never code in anything else. My productivity has never been higher, with the smart, though seemingly random, indentation rules Word applies. Of course, my compiler's not too sure what to do with .doc files, but my code prints quite nicely.
In gamespy's coverage of quakecon, Carmack says Doom3 will be, "believe it or not, based around the technology that became available with GeForce1-level hardware." (That's a quote from the article writer, not Carmack himself.) But if you buy the new ATI card, you'll see its advanced technology put to good use in 2-3 years.
Recall that car and cdr are the names of hardware registers of the first lisp machines...
Of course, I still have an old 486, but my case rocks!
Atomic Commits!!!
Well, there are FPGA's...
It's ahhh Bunnahabhain. Also from Islay, but with a distinctively (much) less peat-y flavor.
"The castle of Aaaaahh? Perhaps he was dictating."
I have a feeling the CEO was dictating this quote to someone. He probably paused in the middle of the word for so long, the secretary had no choice but to add a hyphen.
He also apparently mispronounced "proprietary" by saying "propriety". Unless, of course, he was trying to say that the use of Windows avoids the problems associated with a "politeness" operating environment.
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First 'Can You Imagine A beowulf Cluster Of These' Post!
(Well, OK, you beat me...)
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> it still makes an unsightly bulge in my pockets
> (no puns please.)
Is that a large, rectangular bodily appendage in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
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These boxer shorts feature the Zounds Youth Rock Ministry logo with the inspirational words "Radically Abstinent, Saved & Saving it!" A great way to show the youths that abstinence is "where its at".
Like, hey, check out my abstinence boxers. I'll just take off my pants to show you...
I think 2% is actually quite high. This is comparable to the percentage of shareware users who register their software. And given that the readership here consists largely of people who believe in free (both as in beer and as in speech) software, one in 50 people paying ain't bad at all.
It was like 10 words long and said "I like PARC". This lame, trolling post of mine has more content.