During the heat of the space race in the 1960's, NASA decided it needed a ball point pen to write in the zero gravity confines of its space capsules. After considerable research and development, the Astronaut Pen was developed at a cost of $1 million. The pen worked and also enjoyed some modest success as a novelty item back here on earth.
The Soviet Union, faced with the same problem, used a pencil.
The key to getting a prefix established...is to just start using it. The rest of the world and ultimately standardizing bodies will adopt it eventually.
"He's not pining, he's passed on. This parrot is no more. He has ceased to be. He's expired and gone to meet his maker. He's a stiff, bereft of life, he rests in peace. If you hadn't have nailed him to the perch he'd be pushing up the daisies. He's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot!"
I am glad that I read through the comments before I started my detailed analysis of this load of crap too.
Slanted? The Leaning Tower of Piza is slanted, this patently horizontal!
I'm glad that I wasn't the only one that saw that in the article. It seems like a hit and run article by a Microsoft Fanboy that seems to be overlooking that most of the issues are of Microsoft OWN creation!
Blue-Ray: Bring out yer dead. Consumers: Here's one. Blue-Ray: That'll be ninepence. HD-DVD: I'm not dead. Blue-Ray: What? Consumers: Nothing. There's your ninepence. HD-DVD: I'm not dead. Blue-Ray: 'Ere, he says he's not dead. Consumers: Yes he is. HD-DVD: I'm not. Blue-Ray: He isn't. Consumers: Well, he will be soon, he's very ill. HD-DVD: I'm getting better. Consumers: No you're not, you'll be stone dead in a moment. Blue-Ray: Well, I can't take him like that. It's against regulations. HD-DVD: I don't want to go on the cart. Consumers: Oh, don't be such a baby. Blue-Ray: I can't take him. HD-DVD: I feel fine. Consumers: Oh, do me a favor. Blue-Ray: I can't. Consumers: Well, can you hang around for a couple of minutes? He won't be long. Blue-Ray: I promised I'd be at the Robinsons'. They've lost nine today. Consumers: Well, when's your next round? Blue-Ray: Thursday. HD-DVD: I think I'll go for a walk. Consumers: You're not fooling anyone, you know. Isn't there anything you could do? HD-DVD: I feel happy. I feel happy. [Blue-Ray glances up and down the street furtively, then silences HD-DVD with his a whack of his club] Consumers: Ah, thank you very much. Blue-Ray: Not at all. See you on Thursday. Consumers: Right.
In today's world, games are often times not just games. They are multimedia cash vehicles. So if you have hope of someday creating a franchise with movies, comicbooks, action figures, DVD's, etc. then you really have to have some sort of story to hang your hat on.
One of the reasons, in my opinion, that video game movies have done relatively poorly at the box office is because the characters and plots of the games are underdeveloped causing an almost unrecognizable movie script.
The movie goer isn't happy because the producers are trying to make the movie contain game elements and the video game player isn't happy because the movie departs severly from the limited plot points in the game.
Throwing in a "Dr. Carmack" here and there isn't going to save it if there is no story.
C++ vs. Java C vs. C++ C++ vs. Smalltalk Lisp vs. everybody Perl vs. PHP Javascript vs. VBscript VB vs. C++ Delphi vs. VB
Haven't we moved past this language is great but this language sucks yet?
You use the tool that will get the job done the best and easiest. If you tried hard enough, you could probably use the Lotus 123 macro language (showing my age) to write a web app, but would you want too? With someone of these languages, Python, Perl, PHP, Ruby, Java they are similar enough that they are all good enough for the same jobs. Languages are tools that programmers use to write applications. Personally, I like PHP and Ruby but I'm not knocking those that like Phython or Java.
Microsoft® Windows NT® Workstation 4.0 and Windows NT Server 4.0 include a change in the implementation of Win32® graphics-related application programming interfaces. These changes are transparent to applications and users, yet they result in a variety of improvements to graphics performance and memory requirements, as well as to simplify the design of the Windows NT Win32 subsystem. The improvements result from the move of certain operating system modules from a user-mode application process into a subsystem within the privileged portion of Windows NT, known as the Executive.
Changes to the code that operates in the kernel or privileged mode of any operating system can be of concern to application designers and system architects. Because such changes potentially affect the operating system's compatibility with existing applications, as well as its portability and reliability, such changes should be explained and justified.
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Troll?? Really? The OP said "Obligatory"...
During the heat of the space race in the 1960's, NASA decided it needed a ball point pen to write in the zero gravity confines of its space capsules.
After considerable research and development, the Astronaut Pen was developed at a cost of $1 million. The pen worked and also enjoyed some modest success as a novelty item back here on earth.
The Soviet Union, faced with the same problem, used a pencil.
The key to getting a prefix established...is to just start using it. The rest of the world and ultimately standardizing bodies will adopt it eventually.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Official-Petition-to-Establish-Hella-as-the-SI-Prefix-for-1027/277479937276?ref=search&sid=1050298974.3729275378..1
That's 1.8 x 10^-6 hellabytes for those of you keeping track.
You left out the ending where sadly, the CIO was found gently swinging from a ceiling fan, hung around the neck by his own CAT1 UTP.
No, no, no. You need to do something about the latency...
I totally agree, you need to get rid of all your old cabling before all the ether is completely gone.
We replaced all of our Type 1 cabling at my company after the tokens started falling out.
1.) Install in garage rack ...
2.) Configure Beowolf cluster
3.)
4.) Profit!
It's a TRAP!!
http://welcome.overlords
1.) Offered Knighthood ...
2.) Refuse Knighthood
3.) Profit!
"He's not pining, he's passed on. This parrot is no more. He has ceased to be. He's expired and gone to meet his maker. He's a stiff, bereft of life, he rests in peace. If you hadn't have nailed him to the perch he'd be pushing up the daisies. He's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot!"
I have little doubt that this is another "grassroots" attempt by some Microsoft public relations robot spreading the typical crap.
I am glad that I read through the comments before I started my detailed analysis of this load of crap too. Slanted? The Leaning Tower of Piza is slanted, this patently horizontal!
I'm glad that I wasn't the only one that saw that in the article. It seems like a hit and run article by a Microsoft Fanboy that seems to be overlooking that most of the issues are of Microsoft OWN creation!
Or you could have just saved time and welcomed our new miniaturized laser wielding Overlords...
Blue-Ray: Bring out yer dead.
Consumers: Here's one.
Blue-Ray: That'll be ninepence.
HD-DVD: I'm not dead.
Blue-Ray: What?
Consumers: Nothing. There's your ninepence.
HD-DVD: I'm not dead.
Blue-Ray: 'Ere, he says he's not dead.
Consumers: Yes he is.
HD-DVD: I'm not.
Blue-Ray: He isn't.
Consumers: Well, he will be soon, he's very ill.
HD-DVD: I'm getting better.
Consumers: No you're not, you'll be stone dead in a moment.
Blue-Ray: Well, I can't take him like that. It's against regulations.
HD-DVD: I don't want to go on the cart.
Consumers: Oh, don't be such a baby.
Blue-Ray: I can't take him.
HD-DVD: I feel fine.
Consumers: Oh, do me a favor.
Blue-Ray: I can't.
Consumers: Well, can you hang around for a couple of minutes? He won't be long.
Blue-Ray: I promised I'd be at the Robinsons'. They've lost nine today.
Consumers: Well, when's your next round?
Blue-Ray: Thursday.
HD-DVD: I think I'll go for a walk.
Consumers: You're not fooling anyone, you know. Isn't there anything you could do?
HD-DVD: I feel happy. I feel happy.
[Blue-Ray glances up and down the street furtively, then silences HD-DVD with his a whack of his club]
Consumers: Ah, thank you very much.
Blue-Ray: Not at all. See you on Thursday.
Consumers: Right.
Well then...DWARF spot...
I believe that we need to come up with a new definition for what makes up a storm. Obviously this is NOT a storm but actually a DWARF storm.
First Pluto isn't a planet NOW Jupiter doesn't have a single red spot??!??!
Boy I can't wait to see the teeshirts and protests on this one.
What else is going to change in the universe? What...a new president every four years? New Pepsi??? When does it end?!??!
In today's world, games are often times not just games. They are multimedia cash vehicles. So if you have hope of someday creating a franchise with movies, comicbooks, action figures, DVD's, etc. then you really have to have some sort of story to hang your hat on.
One of the reasons, in my opinion, that video game movies have done relatively poorly at the box office is because the characters and plots of the games are underdeveloped causing an almost unrecognizable movie script.
The movie goer isn't happy because the producers are trying to make the movie contain game elements and the video game player isn't happy because the movie departs severly from the limited plot points in the game.
Throwing in a "Dr. Carmack" here and there isn't going to save it if there is no story.
It's a UNIX system! I know this!
Just another religious war.
C++ vs. Java
C vs. C++
C++ vs. Smalltalk
Lisp vs. everybody
Perl vs. PHP
Javascript vs. VBscript
VB vs. C++
Delphi vs. VB
Haven't we moved past this language is great but this language sucks yet?
You use the tool that will get the job done the best and easiest. If you tried hard enough, you could probably use the Lotus 123 macro language (showing my age) to write a web app, but would you want too? With someone of these languages, Python, Perl, PHP, Ruby, Java they are similar enough that they are all good enough for the same jobs. Languages are tools that programmers use to write applications. Personally, I like PHP and Ruby but I'm not knocking those that like Phython or Java.
Why knock that someone likes another language?
Why another religious war over Ruby vs. Java?
Everything old is new again!
Here is a link to an article on Microsoft's Technet discussing the benefits of moving it from userspace to kernelspace.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/archive/winntas/
Here is the overview:
Microsoft® Windows NT® Workstation 4.0 and Windows NT Server 4.0 include a change in the implementation of Win32® graphics-related application programming interfaces. These changes are transparent to applications and users, yet they result in a variety of improvements to graphics performance and memory requirements, as well as to simplify the design of the Windows NT Win32 subsystem. The improvements result from the move of certain operating system modules from a user-mode application process into a subsystem within the privileged portion of Windows NT, known as the Executive.
Changes to the code that operates in the kernel or privileged mode of any operating system can be of concern to application designers and system architects. Because such changes potentially affect the operating system's compatibility with existing applications, as well as its portability and reliability, such changes should be explained and justified.