Christ, suggest donations. If the freeware is beating the fraudulent, at least suggest you donate to the developers in addition to using it.
I can't imagine the ridiculous crap these authors need to reverse hack. I bet they could write very amusing tomes on the subject of Windoze architecture and security.
What have we learned from the real world but that the truth between two options is the grey compromise?
Experience will trump education on a job-by-job interview, but consider what happened in the post-dot com boom, you NEEDED a CS degree. They wouldn't even consider you otherwise, unless you had a direct inside connection.
In times of plenty and demand for workers, education pales to the immediate need for experience, because they can always hire someone else if you don't fully pan out.
In times of lean, when companies need good people to fill their positions, they can be pickier, and you'll be interviewing against people with equivalent experience, and they will be more thorough with the evaluation. That's when education comes into play.
As a CS major (bachelor's only, not an ivory-tower PhD) who has dealt with many a non-CS IT worker, the difference in ability between those who took Computer Architecture, Algoritms, and Operating Systems versus those who just learned C or C++ on the job or in a night class is huge. Unfortunately, it's difficult to communicate on a resume, but on an actual ability standpoint, it will resonate, and that will build you a local network of people that respect you, and that will get you future jobs.
PS2 is a fraction of their assets? Maybe in accounting land, but in the heydey of the PSone, the profits from that division were solely responsible for the profitability of the entire company.
I haven't seen things on PS2, but I imagine it is on the same scale.
They're as obnoxious as Real when it comes to file extension stealing.
MIGHT be a coincidence, but given all the windows tricks of the past, I bet Steve Jobs just smells the money.
technewsworld had this as their last paragraph. If anything indicates the complete bullshit smell of this announcement, attaching it to a similarly wildyly overhyped fad tech would be it.
I bet it might hit 25 gigaflops with an "optimized demonstration algorithm" with no cache misses, no branch misses, and heck, all the data is in the registers at all times, so it doesn't even wait for the cache.
I don't know what cold-clime area you live in, but I live in Minneapolis, Minnesota, about as cold-clime as it gets in america, and about as cold and icy as an urban area gets. I routinely see:
- SUV drivers yapping on their cell phones while not providing any of your supposed extra stopping space or caution
- SUV drivers assuming that owning an SUV allows them to drive 70 mph on a highway with a foot of snow. I don't care if you have special tires, you're fucked at that speed no matter what
- SUV drivers flipped over or in the ditch during snow storms. I'm not saying they're out of proportion, but enough that I don't see any safety advantages of the SUV.
- A couple of SUV rollovers on dry pavement every year
- They drive as fast or generally faster than most cars.
Finally, as a small car driver, one SUV has the ability to restrict the viewing field of multiple small cars, especially in the growing congestion of Minneapolis. Why are small cars cutting off your precious SUV? Probably because they are desperate to get in front of you so they can fucking see again! Once again, your SUV is to blame for evoking more dangerous driving.
Given all that, it would seem that PICKUP truck drivers are more cautious. But that may be due to more rural sensibilities.
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Probably the corporate politics. Intel has sunk a lot of money and time into the Itanium architecture, almost a decade's worth.
I'm sure they have plan B's along the lines of AMD's approach, they just don't want to undercut the official stance of "everyone recompile for EPIC".
Granted I don't have the links to back this up, but I remember reading a trustworthy news article on Sony's profits on quarter, and the amount that the playstation 1 accounted for that.
It was basically the difference between profitability and losing money. Granted there's accounting involved here, but the playstation is critical to Sony's profitability these days.
Microsoft will not win in the long run because Sony owns Japan, and Microsoft will never own Japan. And the Japanese make the best console games.
Dude, you forgot the five layers of abstraction on the back-end:
XML-based Web services, connecting to your Application Server layer, which communicates with the Enterprise Application Integration Messaging/Queuing Layers, JDBC abstraction layers, CORBA, DCOM, interpreted/JIT-compiled ByteCode, plus all the TCP/IP messaging it all runs on across the eight servers.
Since the outsourcing companies are charging basically the same amount as if they had real employees, we should form companies that say they're outsourcing to India, but we're actually outsourcing to telecommuters in america.
Sony isn't preempting hackers with its PS2 Linux release, or at least that is way down the list of motivations.
If Sony is going to expand to set-top land for home computing, they don't want to use Windows systems. Do they want to make their own propeitary OS and apps? That never worked before.
They're going to use linux for any productivity or surfing or email needs of people. I think this will flesh out better in the PS-3. Linux wasn't nearly as full-featured when the PS-2 launched, but that will all be different for the PS-3.
I call Apples to Oranges. If there are corporations effectively competing, then that government service isn't needed anymore, it just exists due to inertia.
FedEx and UPS wasn't around in the 1650s, 1700s, or 1800s, only the post office. Once the service became mature, then corporations could effectively step in and outcompete the government.
The first (REAL) space and moon stations will be huge money pits, so they won't get corporations and investors since they won't pay off on a quarterly basis. Once the first federal station is up, private ones will crop up, and then its off to the races.
Space represents the only positive long-term hope for humanity. Considering that we already have too many people on the earth should standards of living continue to rise, not in terms of food, but actual resources such as fresh drinking water, reasonable space for a functioning biosphere, and energy and power, the only viable expansion frontier is space.
A couple of millionaires playing space cowboy won't get us there, corporate competetion would help, but the government myust lay the groundwork with technologies and basic infrastructure (a REAL space station would be nice, a moon colony, etc).
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Christ, suggest donations. If the freeware is beating the fraudulent, at least suggest you donate to the developers in addition to using it. I can't imagine the ridiculous crap these authors need to reverse hack. I bet they could write very amusing tomes on the subject of Windoze architecture and security.
What have we learned from the real world but that the truth between two options is the grey compromise?
Experience will trump education on a job-by-job interview, but consider what happened in the post-dot com boom, you NEEDED a CS degree. They wouldn't even consider you otherwise, unless you had a direct inside connection.
In times of plenty and demand for workers, education pales to the immediate need for experience, because they can always hire someone else if you don't fully pan out.
In times of lean, when companies need good people to fill their positions, they can be pickier, and you'll be interviewing against people with equivalent experience, and they will be more thorough with the evaluation. That's when education comes into play.
As a CS major (bachelor's only, not an ivory-tower PhD) who has dealt with many a non-CS IT worker, the difference in ability between those who took Computer Architecture, Algoritms, and Operating Systems versus those who just learned C or C++ on the job or in a night class is huge. Unfortunately, it's difficult to communicate on a resume, but on an actual ability standpoint, it will resonate, and that will build you a local network of people that respect you, and that will get you future jobs.
???You mean like showing its image in a mirror???
But you speak so well :-)
Some psychopath being treated with a pleasure center stimulator.
Unfortunately, he built up resistance and eventually the thing did nothing, and exacerbated his condition, and he went on a killing spree.
Granted its fiction, but it seems at least passably grounded in science.
Consoles are all about polygon power, more than processor. I didn't see any mention of NVidia vs. ATI vs. the rest.
WEll it was a good run. Google will suck within 2 years of going IPO.
PS2 is a fraction of their assets? Maybe in accounting land, but in the heydey of the PSone, the profits from that division were solely responsible for the profitability of the entire company.
I haven't seen things on PS2, but I imagine it is on the same scale.
They're as obnoxious as Real when it comes to file extension stealing. MIGHT be a coincidence, but given all the windows tricks of the past, I bet Steve Jobs just smells the money.
I'm guessing....Nope.
technewsworld had this as their last paragraph. If anything indicates the complete bullshit smell of this announcement, attaching it to a similarly wildyly overhyped fad tech would be it.
I bet it might hit 25 gigaflops with an "optimized demonstration algorithm" with no cache misses, no branch misses, and heck, all the data is in the registers at all times, so it doesn't even wait for the cache.
I don't know what cold-clime area you live in, but I live in Minneapolis, Minnesota, about as cold-clime as it gets in america, and about as cold and icy as an urban area gets. I routinely see:
- SUV drivers yapping on their cell phones while not providing any of your supposed extra stopping space or caution
- SUV drivers assuming that owning an SUV allows them to drive 70 mph on a highway with a foot of snow. I don't care if you have special tires, you're fucked at that speed no matter what
- SUV drivers flipped over or in the ditch during snow storms. I'm not saying they're out of proportion, but enough that I don't see any safety advantages of the SUV.
- A couple of SUV rollovers on dry pavement every year
- They drive as fast or generally faster than most cars.
Finally, as a small car driver, one SUV has the ability to restrict the viewing field of multiple small cars, especially in the growing congestion of Minneapolis. Why are small cars cutting off your precious SUV? Probably because they are desperate to get in front of you so they can fucking see again! Once again, your SUV is to blame for evoking more dangerous driving.
Given all that, it would seem that PICKUP truck drivers are more cautious. But that may be due to more rural sensibilities.
Probably the corporate politics. Intel has sunk a lot of money and time into the Itanium architecture, almost a decade's worth.
I'm sure they have plan B's along the lines of AMD's approach, they just don't want to undercut the official stance of "everyone recompile for EPIC".
Much like Konqueror and Safari, If Apple had half a brain, it would devote a good team to brushing up Bochs to perfection.
Granted I don't have the links to back this up, but I remember reading a trustworthy news article on Sony's profits on quarter, and the amount that the playstation 1 accounted for that.
It was basically the difference between profitability and losing money. Granted there's accounting involved here, but the playstation is critical to Sony's profitability these days.
Microsoft will not win in the long run because Sony owns Japan, and Microsoft will never own Japan. And the Japanese make the best console games.
Well, technically speaking if there was a hardware coprocessor chip for java code execution there would be good chances of it beating C++ code.
But then again, once it goes to hardware, it's not about the language, it's about the skill of the hardware designer.
Sun abandoned java-in-hardware, but with all the server-side java code, why not have a java bytecode machine?
Dude, you forgot the five layers of abstraction on the back-end:
XML-based Web services, connecting to your Application Server layer, which communicates with the Enterprise Application Integration Messaging/Queuing Layers, JDBC abstraction layers, CORBA, DCOM, interpreted/JIT-compiled ByteCode, plus all the TCP/IP messaging it all runs on across the eight servers.
Huh?
As someone who once wrote a cross-device content delivery platform for PDAs, WML/HDML phones, and browsers, I repeat:
Huh?
Craptastic.
Since the outsourcing companies are charging basically the same amount as if they had real employees, we should form companies that say they're outsourcing to India, but we're actually outsourcing to telecommuters in america.
a DVD-R is a couple of gigs. BLu-rays are about 25 gigs. I'll skip a generation, thanks.
Sony isn't preempting hackers with its PS2 Linux release, or at least that is way down the list of motivations.
If Sony is going to expand to set-top land for home computing, they don't want to use Windows systems. Do they want to make their own propeitary OS and apps? That never worked before.
They're going to use linux for any productivity or surfing or email needs of people. I think this will flesh out better in the PS-3. Linux wasn't nearly as full-featured when the PS-2 launched, but that will all be different for the PS-3.
Kick off transfer, go to sleep. If it takes three more hours, who cares? You aren't burning wet cycles yourself.
And, befitting my moniker, it's better for the environment.
I call Apples to Oranges. If there are corporations effectively competing, then that government service isn't needed anymore, it just exists due to inertia.
FedEx and UPS wasn't around in the 1650s, 1700s, or 1800s, only the post office. Once the service became mature, then corporations could effectively step in and outcompete the government.
The first (REAL) space and moon stations will be huge money pits, so they won't get corporations and investors since they won't pay off on a quarterly basis. Once the first federal station is up, private ones will crop up, and then its off to the races.
Space represents the only positive long-term hope for humanity. Considering that we already have too many people on the earth should standards of living continue to rise, not in terms of food, but actual resources such as fresh drinking water, reasonable space for a functioning biosphere, and energy and power, the only viable expansion frontier is space.
A couple of millionaires playing space cowboy won't get us there, corporate competetion would help, but the government myust lay the groundwork with technologies and basic infrastructure (a REAL space station would be nice, a moon colony, etc).
Very good points, and I'm a diehard java fan. I was thinking the same thing when I read this article. LIttle quick on the troll bomb there, mods.