How does one get a 4 year degree in CS and not understand these concepts? This is supposed to be the difference between college graduated, and technical school graduates.
I would be writing a stern letter to your faculty if I were you, because you just wasted 4 years of your life.
Large companies act like several smaller companies. The XBox team has ntohing to do with the Windows team. The Xbox team has it's own budget and it it decides to spend that on having spare engineers, then that's their decision.
Outputting the resolution isn't processor intensive, it's decoding some of the codecs that takes a lot of processing. Try decoding Quick-time HD material or WMV9 on that $200 PC.
0.44% percent might not seem like much but the point the article is making is that how many millions of iPods have been sold since last year and iTunes sales have only gone DOWN. They should have gone up at the same rate as iPod sales.
I agree. When I use my laptop at home I am fine (unless I am near a window, or it's sunny at all:( ) but when I am in a school or work, where it's bright, I can barely see the screen.
Noise cancellers only work with repetitive sound. Noise cancelling works by emitting the opposite of sound at the same time so it has to be able to predict what's coming. They work well in airplanes because the humm of the engine is predictable and somewhat constant.
It would also work at home if you're furnace kicks in/
The shuffle has been known to have better sound quality than the regular iPod because the hard drive causes some interference which can lower the sound quality, apparently. The new nano should benefit in the same way.
Who compares cell phones based on operating system? It's not oven a PDA+Phone, just a regular phone (by today's standards). My phone has a 750mAh battery and still lasts twice as long.
Look at the screenshots that they advertise on the KDE site and see if the K button menu structure makes any sense.
Their naming is ridiculous.
Consumers don't want their Wifi Manager to be a SEPERATE PROGRAM, give the illusion of integration. I don't want to see "KWifi Manager" as a seperate application.
If I have wifi enabled, the manager should be part of my desktop. KDE should masqerade as the OS and all it's bundles applications should be an integral part of it, not options you can move around and delete.
So bug fixes, rewriting functions to be less susceptible to buffer over flows, and fixing bugs is impossible?
Right.
I think Microsoft knows they are losing traction because of their old and messy code that they can barely update and are taking this period to clean it up and try to fix and loop hopes in security and bugs. Why is this bad?
What else would they have been working on in the past 5 years after sending all their programmers for security training?
This is the first release (well not counting SP2) that will break some applications, which is a good thing. It means they are finally sacrificing compatibility to fix long standing issues.
Apparently most of Longhorn is a big rewrite of a lot of code. I suspect they are just taking this release to get all the code switched over while not stirring the boat too much. Once that's done and widely tested they can start adding on extra features.
This reminds me of then the Dreamcast came out. Most people didn't buy it because the PS2 "would be better". Thing is that the PS2 came out a year and a half later and it wasn't better, the graphics were slightly poorer (IMHO) than the Dreamcast and it was over a year late.
No one is forcing you to buy from iTunes. There are plenty of other places to get drm free music (read: store). You ACCEPT the EULA telling you that the song will have DRM and then try to convince everyone that it's ok to remove it.
It's not.
Anyone who removes the DRM and ignores the licensing of the song they accepted can no longer complain about anyone violating the GPL as you are just as bad.
Why is that anything related to Open Source has to have a terrible interface? This is only google page I do not like and it looks like it skipped the UI team.
My company uses a spam appliance called Meridius. It's based on some proprietary technology and uses spam assassin as a second layer. It has a very slick interface and stops about 97% of spam. Oh and it's made by a Canadian company called BlueCat Networks.
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How does one get a 4 year degree in CS and not understand these concepts? This is supposed to be the difference between college graduated, and technical school graduates.
I would be writing a stern letter to your faculty if I were you, because you just wasted 4 years of your life.
Large companies act like several smaller companies. The XBox team has ntohing to do with the Windows team. The Xbox team has it's own budget and it it decides to spend that on having spare engineers, then that's their decision.
Outputting the resolution isn't processor intensive, it's decoding some of the codecs that takes a lot of processing. Try decoding Quick-time HD material or WMV9 on that $200 PC.
0.44% percent might not seem like much but the point the article is making is that how many millions of iPods have been sold since last year and iTunes sales have only gone DOWN. They should have gone up at the same rate as iPod sales.
I agree. When I use my laptop at home I am fine (unless I am near a window, or it's sunny at all :( ) but when I am in a school or work, where it's bright, I can barely see the screen.
Noise cancellers only work with repetitive sound. Noise cancelling works by emitting the opposite of sound at the same time so it has to be able to predict what's coming. They work well in airplanes because the humm of the engine is predictable and somewhat constant.
It would also work at home if you're furnace kicks in/
The shuffle has been known to have better sound quality than the regular iPod because the hard drive causes some interference which can lower the sound quality, apparently. The new nano should benefit in the same way.
Originally, yes. But now most apps depend on control clicking on things instead of right clicking.
Unfortunately that's just speculation, so I agree with the grand parent. I love submissions based on a 1 sentence speculation of an article.
And the battery life is still not impressive, which makes the one sentence irrelevant.
Who compares cell phones based on operating system? It's not oven a PDA+Phone, just a regular phone (by today's standards). My phone has a 750mAh battery and still lasts twice as long.
Those figures aren't impressive for a phone as all my phones in the past 3 years have lasted twice that long.
Mapquest is useless in Canada. It can't find many addresses I give it. Google maps has never stumbled on any address I give it.
Eval.google.com isn't down, it just doens't respond to you unless you're a known ip.
Then somebody else will.
Look at the screenshots that they advertise on the KDE site and see if the K button menu structure makes any sense.
Their naming is ridiculous.
Consumers don't want their Wifi Manager to be a SEPERATE PROGRAM, give the illusion of integration. I don't want to see "KWifi Manager" as a seperate application.
If I have wifi enabled, the manager should be part of my desktop. KDE should masqerade as the OS and all it's bundles applications should be an integral part of it, not options you can move around and delete.
All they need is hype? They need a good product.
It's technically fine but the interface is horrible and nothing is standardized. It will never catch with consumers in it's current form.
So bug fixes, rewriting functions to be less susceptible to buffer over flows, and fixing bugs is impossible?
Right.
I think Microsoft knows they are losing traction because of their old and messy code that they can barely update and are taking this period to clean it up and try to fix and loop hopes in security and bugs. Why is this bad?
What else would they have been working on in the past 5 years after sending all their programmers for security training?
This is the first release (well not counting SP2) that will break some applications, which is a good thing. It means they are finally sacrificing compatibility to fix long standing issues.
Apparently most of Longhorn is a big rewrite of a lot of code. I suspect they are just taking this release to get all the code switched over while not stirring the boat too much. Once that's done and widely tested they can start adding on extra features.
More stability, security, etc.
This reminds me of then the Dreamcast came out. Most people didn't buy it because the PS2 "would be better". Thing is that the PS2 came out a year and a half later and it wasn't better, the graphics were slightly poorer (IMHO) than the Dreamcast and it was over a year late.
Listen up you free loving morons.
No one is forcing you to buy from iTunes. There are plenty of other places to get drm free music (read: store). You ACCEPT the EULA telling you that the song will have DRM and then try to convince everyone that it's ok to remove it.
It's not.
Anyone who removes the DRM and ignores the licensing of the song they accepted can no longer complain about anyone violating the GPL as you are just as bad.
Why is that anything related to Open Source has to have a terrible interface? This is only google page I do not like and it looks like it skipped the UI team.
My company uses a spam appliance called Meridius. It's based on some proprietary technology and uses spam assassin as a second layer. It has a very slick interface and stops about 97% of spam. Oh and it's made by a Canadian company called BlueCat Networks.
And apparently your class can't spell.
The article linked to, and quoted, was published in September of 2003. There is no new delay to speak of.