Apple opened 1 Infinite Loop in 1991 - I remember the building went up very quickly but I don't think it took less than 2 yrs. Highway 85 from 280 to down to 101 opened in 1994 - major sections of it were paved and complete for almost a year before it opened though. If you zoom in on the area around Rainbow Drive you can see some sport where they've barely begun excavation - I think it was around 1987 when they "eminent domained" the last few nearby properties out of there.
Scrolling around the map you can also see some condo complexes completely missing, which were build around that time.
Based on these landmarks (and more) you can tell that MSN's data for cupertino and its surrounding area is over 15 years old! Pitiful!
That's great for Novell, but I don't think the rest of the world is going to migrate to the Linux desktop until we have some better desktop apps. Since I had fuck all to do today, I wrote a very useful one - maybe this will drive some people to our awesome platform:
If you want to monitor the whole house (as opposed to individual circuits) you can do it for less than $20 in parts plus a Linux machine. I made a system to do this a couple years ago - unfortunately I never hooked it up again after I moved, but it worked just fine.
If you're lucky enough to have the kind of electric meter with a blinking LED on it, you could do this much more simply. Also if I had to do this again I would ditch the op-amp circuit and feed the signal from the photo-resistor straight into the sound card and then do the filtering in software (if the photo-resistor is exposed to sunlight it can be a little tricky to tune using this circuit - software could be smarter).
The GPL motivates development because DEVELOPERS are enticed by the idea that derivatives of their code will REMAIN open, and that their projects will flourish.
If corporate consumers of free SW prefer BSD licensing, then they're free to choose from the tiny subset of free sw that's licensed under BSD. Their demand is NOT going to motivate the creation of significant additional BSD software.
You forgot the bit where you sell the cluster, and then lease it back from the company you sold it to - that way it comes out of the monthly current budget, and not the capital account!
This just goes to show the kind of amazing innovation that can still come out of a garage project. One guy working on his own can sometimes come up with ideas that the big guys like Intel etc are just too slow to be able to jump on. They're all fiddling around trying to get their buggy Verilog tools to work, while this guy just goes and wire wraps it in a few evenings. Bravo! I'll bet it takes the big semiconductor companies at least a year to catch up with this.
The elevator costs between $20,000 and £22,000. Sweet. My new Prius gets between 812448 RPH and 48 MPG. I think I've saved enough on gas to get one of these...
One, you can do prefetching without selling your soul to google. Allegrosurf is good at this.
Please explain how a piece of software on your computer can begin requesting the images in a web page before it has received the html for the web page itself. I don't think you understand the concept of prefetching as applied to embedded objects (not links). Two, pipelining. All modern browsers use pipelining, which severely limits the amount of handshaking that needs to be done to a server.
Pipelining is one optimization - this is another. There is some overlap in what latency they eliminate, but not 100%.
the Space Needle is shorter than most of the downtown buildings, but it looks tall because zoning keeps high-rise buildings away from it.
Speculating: given the range and line-of-sightness of the signal, this may actually make the space needle a fine spot - being uncrowded and high enough, from there you can hit all the office buildings straight-on, instead of towering over them. Maybe from the top of the B of A building you could get better range out to the city limits, but not as good coverage to the target market.
I can't really see what google (or anyone for that matter) can really do to accelerate web content on broadband connections. [...] There is no good reason to sign up for this.
The reason you're skeptical is because you don't know as much about the Internet as google does.
When you download a web page on your 6Mbps cable modem, do you think it instanly goes to 6Mbps throughput, transfers the page, and then drops to zero? It doesn't. The efficiency *decreases* as your connection gets faster (which is why google does not claim to speed up slow connections - there's little room for improvement). Here's why:
The TCP stack under your browser starts by establishing a connection (3 way handshake). Then it sends a packet with the HTTP request. Finally after those long round trip times of basically doing nothing, your browser starts receiving HTML. As the HTML comes in, the process repeats for the embedded stuff (images). If you have a fast link (and especially if the server is far away), your link spends a lot of time doing nothing while connections are established and transactions take place.
By routing your connection through google, many efficiencies can be gained. These are listed in, of all places TFA. It's not just caching, either. Prefetching, for example, is a trick where their servers will start requesting and transferring the images within a web page, even before your browser has requested them. Since the HTML already went through google's proxy, they know what your browser is going to request before your browser does.
So instead of just pooh-poohing it because you don't understand the technology, why don't you go download a copy of Ethereal, which will let you see these tricks in action. Then you can offer us a more educated opinion based on empirical fact, instead of a long diatribe amounting to "I don't understand how it works, therefore it sucks".
No they should not. They are not real persons, and by definitions have no interests except profits.
Do you know what "by definition" means? On slashdot it seems to mean "really" or "obviously". In reality it means "because the definition says so". I'll help you: here's the definition of "corporation".
A corp is just a legal construct - minimally just a few papers in a drawer somewhere. They can be put to whatever purpose their owners like. Microsoft is perfectly free to support gay rights legislation if that's what shareholders want.
I want devices grouped by how I use and abuse them.
Sure you do, until the price/performance/convenience reality hits you. Would you pay $100 for a phone, plus $300 for an iPod, plus $200 for a still cam, plus $400 for a camcoder, plus $300 for a PDA, plus $20 for a USB keychain disk, etc etc, or $300 for one device that fits in your pocket and does all of this?
Today, you might prefer separate devices to do each of these things because the multifuction devices are all shitty at any given function.
However, all of these devices need approximately the same kind of storage, CPU, IO, battery, UI, buttons and so on, even though you only ever use one function at at a time. However, tying the functions together (eg taking a picture and then instantly sending it to someone on your phone list) is damn compelling - that's why they're converging.
Apple have to have some DRM in place to keep their corporate music-land clients happy,
Will you please stop propagating this nonsense?
The DRM is not about placating the music companies, and it never was. For Apple, it is about platform lock-in. The DMCA gives Apple the ability to lock out competition by a means that, although technically trivial to circumvent, is now illegal to hack in any way. At least in the USA, land of the free, where you can't do certain things with stuff you've paid for.
Many of the chips fail inspection prior to going into the package, and then some more fail functional test after that. Probably more than half the price of a chip is the factory itself and the R&D work which is amortized over so many zillions of parts, and much of the rest is all the handling, packaging, shipping, and middlemen. I'd guess less than 10% is per-part materials and labor.
Therefor throwing away a $2 chip during production doesn't cost $2. It's only worth $2 by the time the customer pays for it.
Sure you could sell the defects at some discount, but it's only worth the trouble for some high volume part like RAM where defects are easily useable, and definitely NOT a part where the impact of some particular defect in the end user's application could be really hard to characterize (like a CPU).
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Apple opened 1 Infinite Loop in 1991 - I remember the building went up very quickly but I don't think it took less than 2 yrs. Highway 85 from 280 to down to 101 opened in 1994 - major sections of it were paved and complete for almost a year before it opened though. If you zoom in on the area around Rainbow Drive you can see some sport where they've barely begun excavation - I think it was around 1987 when they "eminent domained" the last few nearby properties out of there.
Scrolling around the map you can also see some condo complexes completely missing, which were build around that time.
Based on these landmarks (and more) you can tell that MSN's data for cupertino and its surrounding area is over 15 years old! Pitiful!
If you can read the wheel then you can test its accuracy. Just turn a known load on and off and measure the change.
You can do that with just a stop watch and some math.
If you're lucky enough to have the kind of electric meter with a blinking LED on it, you could do this much more simply. Also if I had to do this again I would ditch the op-amp circuit and feed the signal from the photo-resistor straight into the sound card and then do the filtering in software (if the photo-resistor is exposed to sunlight it can be a little tricky to tune using this circuit - software could be smarter).
The GPL motivates development because DEVELOPERS are enticed by the idea that derivatives of their code will REMAIN open, and that their projects will flourish.
If corporate consumers of free SW prefer BSD licensing, then they're free to choose from the tiny subset of free sw that's licensed under BSD. Their demand is NOT going to motivate the creation of significant additional BSD software.
You forgot the bit where you sell the cluster, and then lease it back from the company you sold it to - that way it comes out of the monthly current budget, and not the capital account!
Let me get you over to automotive....
You forgot the link:
Arnold calls gateway
This just goes to show the kind of amazing innovation that can still come out of a garage project. One guy working on his own can sometimes come up with ideas that the big guys like Intel etc are just too slow to be able to jump on. They're all fiddling around trying to get their buggy Verilog tools to work, while this guy just goes and wire wraps it in a few evenings. Bravo! I'll bet it takes the big semiconductor companies at least a year to catch up with this.
Have you ever wondered why fat parents have fat children? Or why Chinese parents have Chinese children? It's no coincidence.
Everything was fine pre-DMCA.
The elevator costs between $20,000 and £22,000.
Sweet. My new Prius gets between 812448 RPH and 48 MPG. I think I've saved enough on gas to get one of these...
One, you can do prefetching without selling your soul to google. Allegrosurf is good at this.
Please explain how a piece of software on your computer can begin requesting the images in a web page before it has received the html for the web page itself. I don't think you understand the concept of prefetching as applied to embedded objects (not links).
Two, pipelining. All modern browsers use pipelining, which severely limits the amount of handshaking that needs to be done to a server.
Pipelining is one optimization - this is another. There is some overlap in what latency they eliminate, but not 100%.
the Space Needle is shorter than most of the downtown buildings, but it looks tall because zoning keeps high-rise buildings away from it.
Speculating: given the range and line-of-sightness of the signal, this may actually make the space needle a fine spot - being uncrowded and high enough, from there you can hit all the office buildings straight-on, instead of towering over them. Maybe from the top of the B of A building you could get better range out to the city limits, but not as good coverage to the target market.
Anyway it makes for a better story.
I can't really see what google (or anyone for that matter) can really do to accelerate web content on broadband connections. [...] There is no good reason to sign up for this.
The reason you're skeptical is because you don't know as much about the Internet as google does.
When you download a web page on your 6Mbps cable modem, do you think it instanly goes to 6Mbps throughput, transfers the page, and then drops to zero? It doesn't. The efficiency *decreases* as your connection gets faster (which is why google does not claim to speed up slow connections - there's little room for improvement). Here's why:
The TCP stack under your browser starts by establishing a connection (3 way handshake). Then it sends a packet with the HTTP request. Finally after those long round trip times of basically doing nothing, your browser starts receiving HTML. As the HTML comes in, the process repeats for the embedded stuff (images). If you have a fast link (and especially if the server is far away), your link spends a lot of time doing nothing while connections are established and transactions take place.
By routing your connection through google, many efficiencies can be gained. These are listed in, of all places TFA. It's not just caching, either. Prefetching, for example, is a trick where their servers will start requesting and transferring the images within a web page, even before your browser has requested them. Since the HTML already went through google's proxy, they know what your browser is going to request before your browser does.
So instead of just pooh-poohing it because you don't understand the technology, why don't you go download a copy of Ethereal, which will let you see these tricks in action. Then you can offer us a more educated opinion based on empirical fact, instead of a long diatribe amounting to "I don't understand how it works, therefore it sucks".
Haha - except the amphitheatre didn't exist until 1986, much less Google headquarters on Amphitheatre Parkway.
No they should not. They are not real persons, and by definitions have no interests except profits.
Do you know what "by definition" means? On slashdot it seems to mean "really" or "obviously". In reality it means "because the definition says so". I'll help you: here's the definition of "corporation".
A corp is just a legal construct - minimally just a few papers in a drawer somewhere. They can be put to whatever purpose their owners like. Microsoft is perfectly free to support gay rights legislation if that's what shareholders want.
"There are levels of survival we are prepared to accept."
What the hell is that a quote from that I'm struggling to remember?
Try Google
It's good for looking up stuff.
I love it. How are "not functioning pixels" "not a sign of malfunction"?
I've bought well over a dozen LCD montitors from Apple, Dell, and Philips in recent months and I have not seen a single dead pixel on any of them.
This is just a case of Sony reducing cost by widening manufacturing tolerances. It's fine as long as you manage expectations properly.
I want devices grouped by how I use and abuse them.
Sure you do, until the price/performance/convenience reality hits you. Would you pay $100 for a phone, plus $300 for an iPod, plus $200 for a still cam, plus $400 for a camcoder, plus $300 for a PDA, plus $20 for a USB keychain disk, etc etc, or $300 for one device that fits in your pocket and does all of this?
Today, you might prefer separate devices to do each of these things because the multifuction devices are all shitty at any given function.
However, all of these devices need approximately the same kind of storage, CPU, IO, battery, UI, buttons and so on, even though you only ever use one function at at a time. However, tying the functions together (eg taking a picture and then instantly sending it to someone on your phone list) is damn compelling - that's why they're converging.
Apple have to have some DRM in place to keep their corporate music-land clients happy,
Will you please stop propagating this nonsense?
The DRM is not about placating the music companies, and it never was. For Apple, it is about platform lock-in. The DMCA gives Apple the ability to lock out competition by a means that, although technically trivial to circumvent, is now illegal to hack in any way. At least in the USA, land of the free, where you can't do certain things with stuff you've paid for.
Many of the chips fail inspection prior to going into the package, and then some more fail functional test after that. Probably more than half the price of a chip is the factory itself and the R&D work which is amortized over so many zillions of parts, and much of the rest is all the handling, packaging, shipping, and middlemen. I'd guess less than 10% is per-part materials and labor.
Therefor throwing away a $2 chip during production doesn't cost $2. It's only worth $2 by the time the customer pays for it.
Sure you could sell the defects at some discount, but it's only worth the trouble for some high volume part like RAM where defects are easily useable, and definitely NOT a part where the impact of some particular defect in the end user's application could be really hard to characterize (like a CPU).
...if only there were some way to use physical congress as a means of conveying the actual sensations...
That was 77 words.