The title is misleading - AMD did not launch anything, they announced it. Just the fact that some random hardware site got a sneak peek at the driver does not change anything...
Maybe for you the credit report shows only public transactions but for the rest of us (whose banks do not leave laptops with data scattered through the city) the loans and deposits are private transactions, between two parties. Sure, you can find out where I go during the day if you follow me, but any court would issue a restraining order against such a nosy stalker. But you can't follow me in my banks or attorney's office, nor medical facilities.
It seems to me that the government isn't trying to control ideas, it is trying to compete in the market place of ideas.
The government is going to "compete" in the same way the Chinese manufacturing is "competing" with the US: flooding the market with bad quality at cheap prices. Read "Manufacturing Consent" by Noam Chomsky on how this happened forever in this country - but apparently the self-censure of the for-profit media conglomerates is no longer as successful (or cheap).
I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America. The majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if the goes beyond them. - Alexis the Toqueville, "Democracy in America"
The key thing to remember is that a truly private company has a direct incentive to make things cost-effectively.
Indeed, at the expense of the environment, customers and shareholders. I wonder what kind of corners would they cut to get this "cost effective" launch.
There should be a clause in the contract saying that the CEO and CFO should be part of the crew of each mission. That will give them a good incentive to make things reliable-effectively.
And a lot of Germans and Japanese want them gone, as they are above the law of the countries they are stationed in. Remember the trials for the rapes in Japan?
The time is coming when you won't be able to distribute hammers unless you have presented the license to the user and their assent is necessary to hit the nail. Even free hammers. Our industry is maturing and we need to be more legally careful and rigorous.
Does something strike you as odd?
Are lawyers really that hungry that they need to feed on free software licensing arguments?
1. Changesets (aka patchsets) - remember a commit as a logical unit. "This changeset fixes ProblemReport #343242323".
2. Versioned directories - so you can track move/rename acurately and preserve the history of the contents of the file.
3. Work in a distributed environment: I don't mean: "let me checkout this directory from this server in Antarctica". I mean: "I have these three teams in my company, on three different continents , and I want to be able to syncronize them - without having a master that everybody depends upon. I want three separate (but related) repositories that can exchange changesets."
I apologize if the 3rd looks as it's only satisfied by BitKeeper. I haven't used BitKeeper but I used ClearCase and boy it sucks in a distributed environment: every three hours it syncs with remote servers and everything slows down...
How long till' people will drive using this as input? "Computer: what is that red sign over there?"... crunch scan crunch ocr crunch exception: macromedia plugin required crunch downloading...... 15 seconds later, from the car's wreckage: IT'S A STOP SIGN. REPEAT IT'S A STOP SIGN
On the site they list this as "Box Contents": # Windows 98, Windows 98SE, 2000, Millennium # Intel Pentium 200 MHz MMX or higher CPU # 32MB RAM # 16MB of available hard drive space # CD-ROM drive # PNA or Ethernet adapter for PC
Wouldn't it be nice if they gave you a case to put all that stuff? And they give out a beefy harddrive if it has all those windows and 16 Megs to spare.
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ClubIT sells them for $60, with free shipping: http://www.clubit.com/product_detail.cfm?itemno=A4842001#
I ordered one on Friday, so by tomorrow it should be here.
The title is misleading - AMD did not launch anything, they announced it. Just the fact that some random hardware site got a sneak peek at the driver does not change anything...
Maybe for you the credit report shows only public transactions but for the rest of us (whose banks do not leave laptops with data scattered through the city) the loans and deposits are private transactions, between two parties. Sure, you can find out where I go during the day if you follow me, but any court would issue a restraining order against such a nosy stalker. But you can't follow me in my banks or attorney's office, nor medical facilities.
"There is always a bigger fish."
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It seems to me that the government isn't trying to control ideas, it is trying to compete in the market place of ideas.
The government is going to "compete" in the same way the Chinese manufacturing is "competing" with the US: flooding the market with bad quality at cheap prices. Read "Manufacturing Consent" by Noam Chomsky on how this happened forever in this country - but apparently the self-censure of the for-profit media conglomerates is no longer as successful (or cheap).
I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America. The majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if the goes beyond them. - Alexis the Toqueville, "Democracy in America"
Wrong! It is "Patchy Parrot"...
A well defined interface means that if you build 1 million holes in a plank and I deliver 1 million pegs, when they "meet" they fit.
A square hole and a round hole, one 1 inch in diameter and one 1 foot wide, all of them model the concept, but are utterly useless.
You can always go back and fill in the holes later.
No you cannot, otherwise we would all use Dvorak keyboards, not this stupid Qwerty. And we would have had HDTV 15 years ago. And...
The key thing to remember is that a truly private company has a direct incentive to make things cost-effectively.
Indeed, at the expense of the environment, customers and shareholders. I wonder what kind of corners would they cut to get this "cost effective" launch.
There should be a clause in the contract saying that the CEO and CFO should be part of the crew of each mission. That will give them a good incentive to make things reliable-effectively.
The blog is a bit misleading: "Details are scarce about the STELLA supercomputer, built by IBM using some of its Blue Gene/L technology."
Details are plenty since what IBM gave to the project is a couple of racks of BlueGene so everything applies, scaled proportionately.
Here are some details: http://www.research.ibm.com/bluegene/ and http://www.llnl.gov/asci/platforms/bluegenel/
ZOE: http://zoe.nu/ is a nice mail archiver/indexer/server. It has a nice web user interface, it is written in java and it is easy to install.
If it only handled IMAP...
Linux-2.6.0-test6
Samba 3.0
Apache 2.0.48
This is not Freshmeat.ne guys, it's Freshmeat.psychic.
And a lot of Germans and Japanese want them gone, as they are above the law of the countries they are stationed in. Remember the trials for the rapes in Japan?
ever notice how Windows installs got to needing more space than your entire first harddisk?
Even only Solitaire needs more libraries than my first hard disk.
a Beowolf cluster
*plonk*
Carrier Lost
Bah, that's waay easier in Python:
(a, b) = (b, a)
Oh, and world+dog make Firewire devices, I've never seen nor heard of an external USB 2 device.
So you've never been to a computer store? There are at least external CD-writers from Sony and TDK and external harddrives from Maxtor using USB 2.0
The time is coming when you won't be able to distribute hammers unless you have presented the license to the user and their assent is necessary to hit the nail. Even free hammers. Our industry is maturing and we need to be more legally careful and rigorous.
Does something strike you as odd?
Are lawyers really that hungry that they need to feed on free software licensing arguments?
1. Changesets (aka patchsets) - remember a commit as a logical unit. "This changeset fixes ProblemReport #343242323".
2. Versioned directories - so you can track move/rename acurately and preserve the history of the contents of the file.
3. Work in a distributed environment: I don't mean: "let me checkout this directory from this server in Antarctica". I mean: "I have these three teams in my company, on three different continents , and I want to be able to syncronize them - without having a master that everybody depends upon. I want three separate (but related) repositories that can exchange changesets."
I apologize if the 3rd looks as it's only satisfied by BitKeeper. I haven't used BitKeeper but I used ClearCase and boy it sucks in a distributed environment: every three hours it syncs with remote servers and everything slows down...
How long till' people will drive using this as input? "Computer: what is that red sign over there?" ... crunch scan crunch ocr crunch exception: macromedia plugin required crunch downloading... ... 15 seconds later, from the car's wreckage: IT'S A STOP SIGN. REPEAT IT'S A STOP SIGN
On the site they list this as "Box Contents":
# Windows 98, Windows 98SE, 2000, Millennium
# Intel Pentium 200 MHz MMX or higher CPU
# 32MB RAM
# 16MB of available hard drive space
# CD-ROM drive
# PNA or Ethernet adapter for PC
Wouldn't it be nice if they gave you a case to put all that stuff? And they give out a beefy harddrive if it has all those windows and 16 Megs to spare.
At the very top of the page it was a link: http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/N2613.osdn/B49638.2 ;sz=468x60;ord=101052438101052438
This is a bad joke. I will keep ad.doubleclick.net to 127.0.0.1 untill I find it on f***edcompany.com
I want vi keybindings!
... And don't get me started on Ctrl-C and friends.
It is too painfull to use on my laptop with , ,
It's the some problem as taking your New York dollars to Iowa.
You can't use online banking because your bank is boneheaded.
Of the banks I am working with, Wells Fargo doesn't work (not even with Netscape 6) while American Express, Discover and AT&T work just fine.