I don't know about everyone else, but I just kind of assumed that all three systems would be featured at this year's e3. Probably in demo-modes, MAYBE partially playable (meaning they can load up one very pretty DOOM like level and let a reviewer run around, which is easy to mock up on just about anything).
If they want to sell these things in 2006, they HAVE to have them at the 2005 e3. That is the business. This is not news.
As to "playable" vs. "non-playable". Playable doesn't mean much. That means playable demo. If it were fully featured and playable in may, production would be ramped and we would see them in stores in june. The first to market will get a big boost in sales and title count.
"Fortran was used a lot in the scientific and engineering fields." [bold emphasis mine].
FORTRAN is STILL used heavily for scientific computing. Many supercomputers and vector computing systems have compilers that are heavily optimized for FORTRAN code.
I'm a "young'un", having only been coding for about ten years and only being out of college for about four. But I've had to work with FORTRAN for work before, and haven't found it to be a particularly bad language.
Interesting though, I did end up having to implement my own calling stack so that I could use a recursive algorithm (FORTRAN 77 does not support recursion). It was fun! And to think, I thought it was funny when my CS professor taught us how to do that in C++ a couple years earlier:)
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Any program you write completely from scratch with C++ could be compiled for any platform. But if you use a third party API in C++ chances are it is not available to you in source, so you are stuck.
The thing about java is that everyone is forced to distribute "source", or more specifically, bytecode, which amounts to the same thing for cross-system compatibility purposes.
Can you make non-portable "libraries" in Java? Yes.
But making (and finding) portable "libraries" in Java is much easier.
I would think the opposite would happen. The viability of social security has a lot to do with the ratio of time you spend working and the time you spend retired (also population growth, but I don't feel like trying to predict that:)
If you assume that the technologies that allow you to work for 900 years also keep you youthful for that time, you would not retire until age 965.
That's 35 years on SS, 944 years working (assuming entering the workforce at 21). So SS would have so much extra money that it wouldn't know what to do with it all:)
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According to the articles, the particulates are not absorbing solar radiation, they are reflecting it. Thus they don't get hotter, the just reflect the energy back out into space and it doesn't stay in the earth's thermodynamic system. Thus it causes cooling.
I would argue that it is becaue programmers are usually on deadlines, and properly checked code that avoids overruns takes much longer to write. If your boss doesn't care about it, you generally don't either. Programmers like being able to pay rent:)
If the target for these things are HDTV tuners, external drives, etc. Where is the market? With USB2.0 and Firewire already built into every laptop made (and most desktops), and both designed for exactly this sort of application, and both already industry standards, what is the advantage to adding new and potentially expensive tech?
I do find it very ironic that we have two distinct crowds, largely both in the Democrat leaning arena which desire to challenge the election results. There are those who want to challenge the electronic voting and those who want to challenge the paper voting. Each group implies the other system is the better system. You can't have it both ways.
No offence, but this is oversimplifying the situation, and assumes that the only choices are "paper" vs. "electronic".
Nobody (as far as I know) is against a verifiable paper trail, or the concept of a paper(physical) ballot being cast. The problems that people complain about with the old system was not that it was paper based, but thatthe paper system being used was cruddy. Likewise, people complaining about the electronic voting are complaining about the quality of the system (and lack of auditable trail). It is entirely possible to have a non-cruddy paper system (e.g. my county in MI used optical scan paper ballot, which I quite liked and thought was very simple and easy).
It isn't an issue of paper vs. electronic. It is an issue of cruddy vs. non-cruddy. When one complains about cruddy implimentation A, and it gets replaced with cruddy implimentation B, one has every right to also complain that B is also cruddy.
Good point. I expect that he would have to follow the same rules as a shooting range, as this sounds essentially like what he has set up. The only nasty part is that the gunner could be in another state, or country, which would complicate the issue, I am sure.
Worst nightmare? If the issues are ambiguous (I won't judge, I am neither a lawyer nor a hunter and am not qualified to talk about hunting laws) then involvement in such groundbreaking law could make a lawyer's career. Even if it doesn't, it is sure to keep him/her employed for a goodly amount of time.
If I were a lawyer (especially one specializing in the environment and DNR issues) I would be chewing at the bit to represent this guy. It is a lawyer's dream.
Of course, I could be wrong:) Any actual lawyers out there want to venture an opinion?
Urm. No. All encyclopedias do research to generate content. To do research, you have to go to reputable sources, or invent a time machine. I guarentee you that the Britanica is not written by a single really smart guy who simply "knows the truth about everything".
The article raises some very good points about the reliability of the data in the Wikipedia. However, the implication is that print encyclopedia are more accurate. In many cases, they may be, but I have encountered encyclopedia that were horrifically wrong. The difference is that I could do nothing about it.
It should be noted that one should NEVER just take the word of one source as fact. If there is only one source available, then the information should be treated as non-corroborated, no matter the source.
Hell, if you really need to strip it down, you could always use cat!:)
Point is though, that vi is standard on most barebones environments. I once had to set up a bunch of X servers that were talking to some specialized hardware. All their configs got messed up and I ended up with a > prompt, no shell, and about the only things on their tiny HDs were sh, vi, and some config files. Fortunately that was enough to make everything proper. Granted, this isnt' to say that emacs would not have worked just as well had it been installed instead, but emacs is not quite the historical standard that vi is. I can just about guarantee that any system that has emacs will have vi. The converse is not true.
That depends. If you are configuring a thin client, or [mostly] dumb X terminal, or a barebones rescue boot OS, it is VERY likely that vi will be available and emacs will not. vi pre-dates emacs, and is generally considered an essentiall low level system tool. emacs is great for power editing, customization, and for getting gui style multi-tasking when you don't have a GUI, but it isn't as universal.
Note that have NO problem with emacs, even though I am a vi user (for some of the reasons mentioned above, but mostly because in the first unix book I read, the chapter on vi came first and once I knew how to use one powerful text editor, I didn't have the patience to learn another:)
But I agree with the sentiment about the alias. Why would anyone want to type emacs to launch vi? That is just willfully making your computer less usable.
You see, this is exactly the problem. The job is in such high demand, that the employer gets away with working the employees into the ground, because it is the employers market. Remember the industrial revolution? You know all of thos mills and assembly plants that were being staffed by workers who effectively had no rights? This was the reason the weekend was started in the first place, the reason we have unions, the reasons we have overtime laws.
The old laws apply mostly to unskilled labor, because the skilled labor was usually in short enough supply that it wasn't an issue. But in an increasingly educated society, an information based society, when certain "skills" like programming are more common than the jobs available, and there are software "factories" around, in this case you can't compare such jobs with "skilled labor". The conditions in the information labor market are disturbingly close to those in the industrial labor market in the bad old days.
When an assembly line worker complained about lack of sleep and blisters and hand cramps from working 80-90 hours a week just to make quota, then complained about it. I am sure there were plenty of managers and executives who said "Waaah! Life is tough. If you don't like it, quit!"
From the news post:
"It is the first complete Linux package to harness both the improved Linux kernel 2.6 and the recently enhanced GNOME 2.6 and KDE 3.3 user desktop environments."
Just plain false. Mandrake 10.1 Official was released two days ago (on the 27th) and offers all of kernel 2.6, GNOME 2.6 and KDE 3.3.
Now, I'm not trying to bash SuSE. Both SuSE and Mandrake are good distributions. Still, it is false that SuSE is "first".
This isn't a refutation or rebuttal or corroberation of anyone's point of view, but I'm reading a lot of people on this thread talking about the difference between code and data. This scares me. CS 101 stuff here. There is no difference between code and data as far as a computer is concerned. This is the reason buffer overruns are bad, because data is being interpreted as code (it's all 1s and 0s to the CPU afterall).
mangu is correct in calling the HTML code. Even more so if a buffer overrun occurs.
I would understand not answering a question about when you have made a mistake (in today's political environment, answering that question would be opening oneself to attack).
However, this wasn't even a question about mistakes. It was a question about changing ones mind after getting more info:
"Tell us about a time when you had an honest change of opinion on a topic of national importance."
Note also, that he did not answer the question at all. If he truly didn't change his mind on anything (or at least believes he didn't), then it would be easy to answer "I haven't changed my mind about anything." Instead he simply didn't answer, which I feel is a show of gross disrespect to those posing a legitimate question.
If you have issues with capacity, you should check out NeurosAudio.com.
You can get 60 and 80GB versions. It has a ton of features the iPod doesn't, and a much cheaper battery replacement system (I think it is like $12, and he battery lasts 1-3 years).
The only drawback is that it is a little bigger than the iPod.
OTOH, for the same HD capacities (and a lot more features) it is cheaper than an iPod. The 60GB Neuros is the same price as a 40GB iPod, and the 80GB version is only $50 more. Plus, the backpacks are exchangable, and can be ordered seperately. So you could split music up on different backpacks, then just swap them around. (or, one for music, another for data, etc).
iPods are cool for style and miniturization. But if you need high capacity and utility, there are better alternatives available. Alternatives that have upgrade paths as opposed to "buy a whole new device every two years when a niftier one comes out".
Now for karma whoring: The Neuros is also Linux friendly.:)
At the current penetration levels of computers into the home, I don't see a huge difference between the markets. I don't know anyone who doesn't have at least one computer for every television in their home. For families, you will often have a single TV, but several computers. If you factor in the corporate world, where most cube farms have a computer or two in every cube, and zero TVs, I would say the computer display market isn't that far behind the tv market (plus, most replace computer displays more often than TVs because TVs generally last longer).
The only problem with this is that, in general, the algorithms that mark something as spam for person A are not necessarily the ones that work for person B. I might actually have a relative in Nigeria who regualarly asks me for money:) (I know, that situation could be handled by whitelists, but its just an -admittedly poor- example).
Basically, the classification of what actually IS "spam" is very personalized, so a shared community solution is not always the best. While many spam filters have such a standard set of base rules, those rules, the real competition comes in the individual training of the filters to an individual's email history.
Just re-read post, and realized I ignore the placebo claim. Placebo effect just means that something can happen because you "think" it will happen. So, I didn't address your point that one can tell the difference between beer and non-alcoholic beer. Sorry for not reading clearly.
In response to this, I would say that a good european stout may only have about 3% alcohol by volume. That is pretty low, and someone who drinks beer could very easily not notice any alcoholic effect from drinking one. (which doens't mean that it doesn't affect them, just that they dont' notice it. Don't drink and drive kids!:)
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Ah. Point. Sowwy. Didn't mean to sound quite so contradictory; I agree with your comment.
If they want to sell these things in 2006, they HAVE to have them at the 2005 e3. That is the business. This is not news.
As to "playable" vs. "non-playable". Playable doesn't mean much. That means playable demo. If it were fully featured and playable in may, production would be ramped and we would see them in stores in june. The first to market will get a big boost in sales and title count.
FORTRAN is STILL used heavily for scientific computing. Many supercomputers and vector computing systems have compilers that are heavily optimized for FORTRAN code.
I'm a "young'un", having only been coding for about ten years and only being out of college for about four. But I've had to work with FORTRAN for work before, and haven't found it to be a particularly bad language.
Interesting though, I did end up having to implement my own calling stack so that I could use a recursive algorithm (FORTRAN 77 does not support recursion). It was fun! And to think, I thought it was funny when my CS professor taught us how to do that in C++ a couple years earlier :)
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Q: Is God REAL?
A: Yes, unless declared INTEGER
The thing about java is that everyone is forced to distribute "source", or more specifically, bytecode, which amounts to the same thing for cross-system compatibility purposes.
Can you make non-portable "libraries" in Java? Yes.
But making (and finding) portable "libraries" in Java is much easier.
If you assume that the technologies that allow you to work for 900 years also keep you youthful for that time, you would not retire until age 965.
That's 35 years on SS, 944 years working (assuming entering the workforce at 21). So SS would have so much extra money that it wouldn't know what to do with it all:)
According to the articles, the particulates are not absorbing solar radiation, they are reflecting it. Thus they don't get hotter, the just reflect the energy back out into space and it doesn't stay in the earth's thermodynamic system. Thus it causes cooling.
I would argue that it is becaue programmers are usually on deadlines, and properly checked code that avoids overruns takes much longer to write. If your boss doesn't care about it, you generally don't either. Programmers like being able to pay rent:)
If the target for these things are HDTV tuners, external drives, etc. Where is the market? With USB2.0 and Firewire already built into every laptop made (and most desktops), and both designed for exactly this sort of application, and both already industry standards, what is the advantage to adding new and potentially expensive tech?
Insight and humor are not mutually exclusive.
Yes. Check out the Neuros at www.neurosaudio.com. It isn't the prettiest thing on the planet, but feature for price it is one of the most robust.
No offence, but this is oversimplifying the situation, and assumes that the only choices are "paper" vs. "electronic".
Nobody (as far as I know) is against a verifiable paper trail, or the concept of a paper(physical) ballot being cast. The problems that people complain about with the old system was not that it was paper based, but thatthe paper system being used was cruddy. Likewise, people complaining about the electronic voting are complaining about the quality of the system (and lack of auditable trail). It is entirely possible to have a non-cruddy paper system (e.g. my county in MI used optical scan paper ballot, which I quite liked and thought was very simple and easy).
It isn't an issue of paper vs. electronic. It is an issue of cruddy vs. non-cruddy. When one complains about cruddy implimentation A, and it gets replaced with cruddy implimentation B, one has every right to also complain that B is also cruddy.
Good point. I expect that he would have to follow the same rules as a shooting range, as this sounds essentially like what he has set up. The only nasty part is that the gunner could be in another state, or country, which would complicate the issue, I am sure.
If I were a lawyer (especially one specializing in the environment and DNR issues) I would be chewing at the bit to represent this guy. It is a lawyer's dream.
Of course, I could be wrong:) Any actual lawyers out there want to venture an opinion?
The article raises some very good points about the reliability of the data in the Wikipedia. However, the implication is that print encyclopedia are more accurate. In many cases, they may be, but I have encountered encyclopedia that were horrifically wrong. The difference is that I could do nothing about it.
It should be noted that one should NEVER just take the word of one source as fact. If there is only one source available, then the information should be treated as non-corroborated, no matter the source.
Point is though, that vi is standard on most barebones environments. I once had to set up a bunch of X servers that were talking to some specialized hardware. All their configs got messed up and I ended up with a > prompt, no shell, and about the only things on their tiny HDs were sh, vi, and some config files. Fortunately that was enough to make everything proper. Granted, this isnt' to say that emacs would not have worked just as well had it been installed instead, but emacs is not quite the historical standard that vi is. I can just about guarantee that any system that has emacs will have vi. The converse is not true.
Note that have NO problem with emacs, even though I am a vi user (for some of the reasons mentioned above, but mostly because in the first unix book I read, the chapter on vi came first and once I knew how to use one powerful text editor, I didn't have the patience to learn another:)
But I agree with the sentiment about the alias. Why would anyone want to type emacs to launch vi? That is just willfully making your computer less usable.
The old laws apply mostly to unskilled labor, because the skilled labor was usually in short enough supply that it wasn't an issue. But in an increasingly educated society, an information based society, when certain "skills" like programming are more common than the jobs available, and there are software "factories" around, in this case you can't compare such jobs with "skilled labor". The conditions in the information labor market are disturbingly close to those in the industrial labor market in the bad old days.
When an assembly line worker complained about lack of sleep and blisters and hand cramps from working 80-90 hours a week just to make quota, then complained about it. I am sure there were plenty of managers and executives who said "Waaah! Life is tough. If you don't like it, quit!"
History repeats.
From the news post: "It is the first complete Linux package to harness both the improved Linux kernel 2.6 and the recently enhanced GNOME 2.6 and KDE 3.3 user desktop environments."
Just plain false. Mandrake 10.1 Official was released two days ago (on the 27th) and offers all of kernel 2.6, GNOME 2.6 and KDE 3.3.
Now, I'm not trying to bash SuSE. Both SuSE and Mandrake are good distributions. Still, it is false that SuSE is "first".
mangu is correct in calling the HTML code. Even more so if a buffer overrun occurs.
I would understand not answering a question about when you have made a mistake (in today's political environment, answering that question would be opening oneself to attack).
However, this wasn't even a question about mistakes. It was a question about changing ones mind after getting more info:
"Tell us about a time when you had an honest change of opinion on a topic of national importance."
Note also, that he did not answer the question at all. If he truly didn't change his mind on anything (or at least believes he didn't), then it would be easy to answer "I haven't changed my mind about anything." Instead he simply didn't answer, which I feel is a show of gross disrespect to those posing a legitimate question.
You can get 60 and 80GB versions. It has a ton of features the iPod doesn't, and a much cheaper battery replacement system (I think it is like $12, and he battery lasts 1-3 years).
The only drawback is that it is a little bigger than the iPod.
OTOH, for the same HD capacities (and a lot more features) it is cheaper than an iPod. The 60GB Neuros is the same price as a 40GB iPod, and the 80GB version is only $50 more. Plus, the backpacks are exchangable, and can be ordered seperately. So you could split music up on different backpacks, then just swap them around. (or, one for music, another for data, etc).
iPods are cool for style and miniturization. But if you need high capacity and utility, there are better alternatives available. Alternatives that have upgrade paths as opposed to "buy a whole new device every two years when a niftier one comes out".
Now for karma whoring: The Neuros is also Linux friendly. :)
At the current penetration levels of computers into the home, I don't see a huge difference between the markets. I don't know anyone who doesn't have at least one computer for every television in their home. For families, you will often have a single TV, but several computers. If you factor in the corporate world, where most cube farms have a computer or two in every cube, and zero TVs, I would say the computer display market isn't that far behind the tv market (plus, most replace computer displays more often than TVs because TVs generally last longer).
Basically, the classification of what actually IS "spam" is very personalized, so a shared community solution is not always the best. While many spam filters have such a standard set of base rules, those rules, the real competition comes in the individual training of the filters to an individual's email history.
Um...my digital watch has a compass on it.
In response to this, I would say that a good european stout may only have about 3% alcohol by volume. That is pretty low, and someone who drinks beer could very easily not notice any alcoholic effect from drinking one. (which doens't mean that it doesn't affect them, just that they dont' notice it. Don't drink and drive kids! :)