they just happen to have this insane amount of cash. I much prefer their way of spending the cash to the microsoft way : buying patents & sueing people.
The filosophy of all the semeingly nutty google projects is pretty simple : start 10 projects in the hope that one of them becomes wildly successfull. The other 9 are just duds
l33ts who want Doom3 at 100+fps can also benefit from massive paralellism : the graphics are offloaded to the GPU anyway, so what's left for the CPU is projectile & object positioning, and AI.
imagine a future PC with 32656 CPUs, all running at a measly 40MHz, but each one dedicated to a single object in the game. All they have to do is calc the position of that single object. Might give some interesting results
although probblably modded funny, the code below will most often just work !
{
printf ("hi, this is your bank. really. Look at the logo at the top. Trust me. I'm your bank. Now enter your VISA number and any personal information you can come up with. Maybe you'll win a pony");
scanf("%s", &visanumberbuffer);// duh... buffer overrun anyone:-)
}
well, i think size is a hindrance in a certain way : there are more peopple to communicate with, and each node in that process is prone to misinterpretation or self-overestimating.
however, i think that that hindrance (which is also an advantage as microsoft shows often enough) can be compensated by strong and smart leadership. I think that is the factor determining the quality of apple and the crappiness of microsoft. The bigger the ship, the better the captain needs to be !
what I find the strangest, it that they need so much time to develop it... they have such a pile of cash, and have used it before to pump out software at breakneck speeds (and actually break their neck as with internet explorer) to crush competitors.
The fact that this CLI will take so long to develop means that either they don't take it seriously and won't invest big bucks, or means that they take it very seriously and don't want to screw it up again.
but even in the last case : the proposed planning is a very careful one
I seriously doubt it. Right now, Intel is not really leading he pack in processor terms. All you hear about these days is IBM (both PS3 and XBox360 are IBM powered) and AMD on the 64bit front. With OSX being the most widely spread 64bit consumer OS, I can hardly believe Apple switching to the least-represented CPU manufacturer.
If anything, they could perhaps use some non-x86 intel stuff for portables devices where the PPC sucks up too much power. Remember that Intel is more than only x86
i bought one, and I'm not really happy with it : if you attach the drive at your keychain, you can NOT insert the drive in a USB port without the keys : the litlle cord is FIXED on the drive ! This is very annoying, since I have quite a bunch of keys (10+.. hey, there's a poll suggestion) and the whole mess tends to get tangled between the KVM cables.
if you buy a drive : make sure you can unplug it from whatever it is attached to. But make sure that the drive itself doesn't unplug too easily : I lost my previous drive cause the click-'n-hold system wore off and it would unplug at the slightest pull
well, all the time gained thanks to the amazing search powers of the internet is lost to pr0n anyway, so the net result is zero. And getting cought by your mum while surfing pr0n is a lot more likely nowadays than when you had the excuse of "gotta look up something in the library about this neurofisiological retrogression thing" while you went out to have a smoke with other 14 year olds while you peeked the lingerie catalog behind the bushes...
this is probably an argument that most slashdotters will dismiss blindly, but I dare say that the quality of spam has changed as well : while we still do get a whole lot of G3T R1CH F4ST crap, there is a marginal increase in 'reasonable' spam for products that do exist and might perhaps be interesting to a small percentage of the population. A bit like dead tree spam : I skip trhough it in a glimpse, but once in a while something interesting catches my attention.
Maybe the percentage the article talks about, is just that small increase in quality ?
And while I'm bashing WinXP, what is it with the 'documents' fixation at MS ??? There shuold NOT be a 'my documents' ! There should be a 'my applications' and a 'my system+prefs'. ALL THE REST IS YOUR DATA !!! Yet another thing where OSX got it right and where this screenshot seems to prove that Longhorn is just going further down the idiotic part of system-enforced instead of user-enforced data management.
It almost makes you wish they lose their monopoly....
at the bottom is a bigger-than-ever status bar with info about the selected item. It seems like very little info is in tat area that is not already displayed in the list itself.
This makes me think about the utterly stupid winXP feature that displays the number of files in a selected zipfile... is that usefull for anybody ? Why do you zip files in 99% of the cases ? TO REDUCE SIZE. so what do you want to know about the selected zip ? Right : it's size. For all other items, the filesize is shown, except for zips.... DUH !!!!
The person who suggested that feature should be shot with a ripe banana until dead ensures... twice !
I think this sums it up nicely : the field of IT is not what it ws 15 years ago. Today, 95% of the so called IT staff are project managers & planners. In other words : suits.
It's common knowledge that that kind of jobs is still a highly men-only world.
So it's not the number of women that declines, but the number of male boneheads that increases.
Now we are letting inanimate objects raise our kids!
You mean "as opposed to the warm and healthy TV-education kids have been raised by in the past 15 years" ? At least this robot might create the opportunity to go play outside.
define 'evil' please. First of all, there is evil such as microsft, evil such as SCO, evil like IBM , evil like PayPal, evil like Apple... Even charity organisations can turn evil...
The chances are indeed big that Google will one day drop some of its ethics for cash. But the odds taht they'd drop all their ethics are small. And even if they do, it won't be overnight, so the community will have time to form a counterforce and make backups.
Let's wait until they hire Carly... then we know they're evil:-)
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especially with the next generation of consoles coming out. What Sony or MS should do, is sell a PS3 or XBox2 on a PCI card, with possibility to use the PC audio card & storage. Then hardcore PC gamers can still look down on the cheapo console players:-)
right now, it was easier to spread corporate (or educational) keys. Many of these don't require activation at all. Once MS disables this, crackers will resort to patching the activation code... It's just a matter of time, like the XBox was cracked eventually.
On the other hand : this will just make the difference between Windows and OSX/linux even more apparent. Every user-restricting move of microsoft is, in the long run, a shot in its own foot
how nerd can you be : when I see 1337 on a computerscreen, I'm simply not capable anymore to see it as a number... It's impossible to read it outside l33tspeak.
because, even for europeans, 'space' equals 'NASA'. I'll be the first on the barricades to bash your president and your international politics, but that does not degrade in any way the contributions your space agency has made to space exploration. Space exploration, in my space-uneducated head, is still mostly visualized by Armstrong on the moon, or Saturn rockets taking off. ESA has blasted a lot of stuff into orbit as well, but few of it is as breath taking as what NASA did, especially from a n00b point of view. So when I talk of 'NASA', I mean 'all kewl dudes that get to play with rockets, regardless of what nation, continent, agency or language they speak'. Space unites us all, man
oh puhlease... Must everyone always turn everything into a debate ? Okay, so what. congrats to ESA as well. My post was not about Nasa or esa or Uso or wtf... It's about people being persistent and believing in a solution and an outcome, no matter how big the problem may seem, and no matter how big the fuckup to work around.
if it eases your xenophobia : I'm european as well.
well, this reminds me of an issue with the car of my dad-in-law. A big, shiny (and way over my budget) mercedes 330(i think. could be 340 or 430 or any other number with a 3 and a 0... me and number). All eletronic shit. He was proud on it like a 2year old on his first potty-dump.
One day, the damd thing would not start at all. Nada. zips. The only things that worked were the windows (oh the irony !) He did all he could, restarting time after time, until I somehow got a stupid idea : let's all get OUT of the car, lock it remotely, and the unlock it, get back in and try to start.
(drum roll)
It started ! Somehow, the car software did not do a full reboot if one did not actually LEAVE the car and lock/unlock it (a lock/unlock while being inside implicated that the system did not shut down, since I noticed that the inside lights stayed on)
One day, only programmers will be able to start their mercedes 16600 CLK-S-TDI-BS-RTFM
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they just happen to have this insane amount of cash. I much prefer their way of spending the cash to the microsoft way : buying patents & sueing people.
The filosophy of all the semeingly nutty google projects is pretty simple : start 10 projects in the hope that one of them becomes wildly successfull. The other 9 are just duds
l33ts who want Doom3 at 100+fps can also benefit from massive paralellism : the graphics are offloaded to the GPU anyway, so what's left for the CPU is projectile & object positioning, and AI.
imagine a future PC with 32656 CPUs, all running at a measly 40MHz, but each one dedicated to a single object in the game. All they have to do is calc the position of that single object. Might give some interesting results
although probblably modded funny, the code below will most often just work ! { printf ("hi, this is your bank. really. Look at the logo at the top. Trust me. I'm your bank. Now enter your VISA number and any personal information you can come up with. Maybe you'll win a pony"); scanf("%s", &visanumberbuffer); // duh... buffer overrun anyone :-)
}
well, i think size is a hindrance in a certain way : there are more peopple to communicate with, and each node in that process is prone to misinterpretation or self-overestimating. however, i think that that hindrance (which is also an advantage as microsoft shows often enough) can be compensated by strong and smart leadership. I think that is the factor determining the quality of apple and the crappiness of microsoft. The bigger the ship, the better the captain needs to be !
what I find the strangest, it that they need so much time to develop it... they have such a pile of cash, and have used it before to pump out software at breakneck speeds (and actually break their neck as with internet explorer) to crush competitors. The fact that this CLI will take so long to develop means that either they don't take it seriously and won't invest big bucks, or means that they take it very seriously and don't want to screw it up again. but even in the last case : the proposed planning is a very careful one
do not look at truck with remaining eye !
It's hardly rocket science
um.. no... or there would have to be a rocket involved, not ?
I seriously doubt it. Right now, Intel is not really leading he pack in processor terms. All you hear about these days is IBM (both PS3 and XBox360 are IBM powered) and AMD on the 64bit front. With OSX being the most widely spread 64bit consumer OS, I can hardly believe Apple switching to the least-represented CPU manufacturer.
If anything, they could perhaps use some non-x86 intel stuff for portables devices where the PPC sucks up too much power. Remember that Intel is more than only x86
i bought one, and I'm not really happy with it : if you attach the drive at your keychain, you can NOT insert the drive in a USB port without the keys : the litlle cord is FIXED on the drive ! This is very annoying, since I have quite a bunch of keys (10+.. hey, there's a poll suggestion) and the whole mess tends to get tangled between the KVM cables.
if you buy a drive : make sure you can unplug it from whatever it is attached to. But make sure that the drive itself doesn't unplug too easily : I lost my previous drive cause the click-'n-hold system wore off and it would unplug at the slightest pull
well, all the time gained thanks to the amazing search powers of the internet is lost to pr0n anyway, so the net result is zero. And getting cought by your mum while surfing pr0n is a lot more likely nowadays than when you had the excuse of "gotta look up something in the library about this neurofisiological retrogression thing" while you went out to have a smoke with other 14 year olds while you peeked the lingerie catalog behind the bushes...
not that I did smoke though. yikes... filthy !
ladies and gentlemen, worship this new math genius !
How about 0+x = x ????
this is probably an argument that most slashdotters will dismiss blindly, but I dare say that the quality of spam has changed as well : while we still do get a whole lot of G3T R1CH F4ST crap, there is a marginal increase in 'reasonable' spam for products that do exist and might perhaps be interesting to a small percentage of the population. A bit like dead tree spam : I skip trhough it in a glimpse, but once in a while something interesting catches my attention.
Maybe the percentage the article talks about, is just that small increase in quality ?
And while I'm bashing WinXP, what is it with the 'documents' fixation at MS ??? There shuold NOT be a 'my documents' ! There should be a 'my applications' and a 'my system+prefs'. ALL THE REST IS YOUR DATA !!! Yet another thing where OSX got it right and where this screenshot seems to prove that Longhorn is just going further down the idiotic part of system-enforced instead of user-enforced data management.
It almost makes you wish they lose their monopoly....
uh... did I say that ?
at the bottom is a bigger-than-ever status bar with info about the selected item. It seems like very little info is in tat area that is not already displayed in the list itself.
This makes me think about the utterly stupid winXP feature that displays the number of files in a selected zipfile... is that usefull for anybody ? Why do you zip files in 99% of the cases ? TO REDUCE SIZE. so what do you want to know about the selected zip ? Right : it's size. For all other items, the filesize is shown, except for zips.... DUH !!!!
The person who suggested that feature should be shot with a ripe banana until dead ensures... twice !
we're talking about IT, right ?
I think this sums it up nicely : the field of IT is not what it ws 15 years ago. Today, 95% of the so called IT staff are project managers & planners. In other words : suits.
It's common knowledge that that kind of jobs is still a highly men-only world.
So it's not the number of women that declines, but the number of male boneheads that increases.
Now we are letting inanimate objects raise our kids!
You mean "as opposed to the warm and healthy TV-education kids have been raised by in the past 15 years" ? At least this robot might create the opportunity to go play outside.
Stop seeing everything so negative
define 'evil' please. First of all, there is evil such as microsft, evil such as SCO, evil like IBM , evil like PayPal, evil like Apple... Even charity organisations can turn evil...
:-)
The chances are indeed big that Google will one day drop some of its ethics for cash. But the odds taht they'd drop all their ethics are small. And even if they do, it won't be overnight, so the community will have time to form a counterforce and make backups.
Let's wait until they hire Carly... then we know they're evil
especially with the next generation of consoles coming out. What Sony or MS should do, is sell a PS3 or XBox2 on a PCI card, with possibility to use the PC audio card & storage. Then hardcore PC gamers can still look down on the cheapo console players :-)
right now, it was easier to spread corporate (or educational) keys. Many of these don't require activation at all. Once MS disables this, crackers will resort to patching the activation code. .. It's just a matter of time, like the XBox was cracked eventually.
On the other hand : this will just make the difference between Windows and OSX/linux even more apparent. Every user-restricting move of microsoft is, in the long run, a shot in its own foot
how nerd can you be : when I see 1337 on a computerscreen, I'm simply not capable anymore to see it as a number... It's impossible to read it outside l33tspeak.
OMG... i n33d pr0f3ssion4l help->$this... any1 3ls h4v3 $this s7ndr0m ?
/me thinks they used iTunes screensaver for this :-)
because, even for europeans, 'space' equals 'NASA'. I'll be the first on the barricades to bash your president and your international politics, but that does not degrade in any way the contributions your space agency has made to space exploration. Space exploration, in my space-uneducated head, is still mostly visualized by Armstrong on the moon, or Saturn rockets taking off. ESA has blasted a lot of stuff into orbit as well, but few of it is as breath taking as what NASA did, especially from a n00b point of view. So when I talk of 'NASA', I mean 'all kewl dudes that get to play with rockets, regardless of what nation, continent, agency or language they speak'. Space unites us all, man
oh puhlease... Must everyone always turn everything into a debate ? Okay, so what. congrats to ESA as well. My post was not about Nasa or esa or Uso or wtf... It's about people being persistent and believing in a solution and an outcome, no matter how big the problem may seem, and no matter how big the fuckup to work around.
if it eases your xenophobia : I'm european as well.
if anyone at nasa is dumb enough to read slashdot : you guys rock !
Seriously : most people would give up, blaming someone else. It takes a true fighting spirit to try and recover from what someone else has fucked up.
well, this reminds me of an issue with the car of my dad-in-law. A big, shiny (and way over my budget) mercedes 330(i think. could be 340 or 430 or any other number with a 3 and a 0... me and number). All eletronic shit. He was proud on it like a 2year old on his first potty-dump.
One day, the damd thing would not start at all. Nada. zips. The only things that worked were the windows (oh the irony !) He did all he could, restarting time after time, until I somehow got a stupid idea : let's all get OUT of the car, lock it remotely, and the unlock it, get back in and try to start.
(drum roll)
It started ! Somehow, the car software did not do a full reboot if one did not actually LEAVE the car and lock/unlock it (a lock/unlock while being inside implicated that the system did not shut down, since I noticed that the inside lights stayed on)
One day, only programmers will be able to start their mercedes 16600 CLK-S-TDI-BS-RTFM