That's the same idea that the founders of ATI and NVidia had, when they were SGI employees. SGI's management didn't listen, so they went off and started their own companies.
Microsoft bought all those patents, while Apple and MS's cross-license agreement was in effect. Anything Apple wants from SGI, they can buy without assuming the obligations of a failing company.
Some of these guys are fairly well-known in the community, but I can't think of any example of them exerting influence on Apple, the developers, or the users.. Aaron does a good job of introducing new Cocoa developers to what I'd consider best coding practices, though...
The problem isn't merely that there are left-wingers in the unions and administration, it's that as long as there is a near-monopoly on schooling (not education, mind you), someone is going to demand that the schooling aparatus push their agenda.
What a refreshing thing to read. I'm damned sick of people complaining that the schools are failing their kids, but leaving them there to have every last bit of creativity, independence and imagination ground out of them.
The problem is, it's becoming more and more evident that kids won't learn in a classroom, either
Classrooms worked well for centuries in this country, and other countries seem to get far better results than the USA with their classrooms.
Personally, I'm inclined to blame teacher's unions for demanding nothing but more funding, all the time. They fight like hell against any move to allow choice among schools, to allow teachers to be compensated on any basis other than seniority, etc, etc.
MS had much success when it made an OS that just worked,
When was that?
I was there, from 1982 on... Dealing with interrupt conflicts, overlay managers, the Lotus-Intel-Microsoft extended memory specification, extended versus expanded memory, etc, etc..
plenty of Ipod users that are irritated that the repeated requests for features
How many?
You can be sure that Apple is quite aware of just how many people care enough about any particular feature and whether it makes sense to add the cost of said feature to every unit. That's why the radio tuner for the iPod is a separate accessory, for example.
Mercy of whatever bone Job's feels like throwing at the users.
Why get so dramatic about it? Buy it if you like it, don't buy it if you want something different. So far, several million people a year like it.
The gambling companies will just add a level of indirection, and continue business as usual. Gamblers won't stop, and neither will the credit card processors.
Basically, the impact of a energetic particle, whether it's a cosmic ray, a gamma particle, etc, is able to cause a local current, which if the device is small enough, can induce a field that weakens or flips the existing field. For a given feature size, the magnet probably is more robust, but the radiation resistance of an MRAM won't be anything close to that of core memory.
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just make graphics cards
That's the same idea that the founders of ATI and NVidia had, when they were SGI employees. SGI's management didn't listen, so they went off and started their own companies.
Too bad for SGI's shareholders...
-jcr
If XFS is what you want, why not just use it on Linux?
-jcr
Microsoft bought all those patents, while Apple and MS's cross-license agreement was in effect. Anything Apple wants from SGI, they can buy without assuming the obligations of a failing company.
-jcr
Ah, so a wikipedia article proves that it's a design flaw in Windows?
Clever dodge, but can you refute the quoted statement?
That's OK, we'll wait.
-jcr
Dear Bill and Monkey-boy:
You suck at searching. We're eating your lunch. Take it like a man, or we'll slap WINE on Ubuntu and liberate your victims.
Hugs,
Google.
It means you're thinking too small?
-jcr
Sssh! Everybody will want one!
-jcr
Hey, if people actually followed your advice it would be a good thing, but I sure saw a lot of code from people who didn't.. ;-)
-jcr
So, by replying to me, you pretend to ignore him?
He's right, you're wrong. Go cope.
-jcr
I am not even going to bother to reply to the parent as he is more interested in belittling me, and telling me to "sit down and shut the fuck up",
So, you don't like him treating you like a kid in a public school, eh?
-jcr
Why didn't Dvorvack make the list?
Because trolling doesn't count as "influence".
-jcr
Some of these guys are fairly well-known in the community, but I can't think of any example of them exerting influence on Apple, the developers, or the users.. Aaron does a good job of introducing new Cocoa developers to what I'd consider best coding practices, though...
-jcr
The problem isn't merely that there are left-wingers in the unions and administration, it's that as long as there is a near-monopoly on schooling (not education, mind you), someone is going to demand that the schooling aparatus push their agenda.
-jcr
Umm... I really wouldn't cite Keynes as an example of a positive contributor to society. Try Turing instead.
-jcr
What a refreshing thing to read. I'm damned sick of people complaining that the schools are failing their kids, but leaving them there to have every last bit of creativity, independence and imagination ground out of them.
You have a very lucky little girl.
-jcr
The problem is, it's becoming more and more evident that kids won't learn in a classroom, either
Classrooms worked well for centuries in this country, and other countries seem to get far better results than the USA with their classrooms.
Personally, I'm inclined to blame teacher's unions for demanding nothing but more funding, all the time. They fight like hell against any move to allow choice among schools, to allow teachers to be compensated on any basis other than seniority, etc, etc.
-jcr
You just bought a product where the developer doesn't care about you, the customer.
More like, the developer did the math and decided that supporting linux users wouldn't be profitable.
-jcr
it would pretty much nail M$ to the wall.
Like OS/2 or BeOS?
Been there, evaluated that.
-jcr
MS had much success when it made an OS that just worked,
When was that?
I was there, from 1982 on... Dealing with interrupt conflicts, overlay managers, the Lotus-Intel-Microsoft extended memory specification, extended versus expanded memory, etc, etc..
MS's success was a gift from IBM.
-jcr
plenty of Ipod users that are irritated that the repeated requests for features
How many?
You can be sure that Apple is quite aware of just how many people care enough about any particular feature and whether it makes sense to add the cost of said feature to every unit. That's why the radio tuner for the iPod is a separate accessory, for example.
Mercy of whatever bone Job's feels like throwing at the users.
Why get so dramatic about it? Buy it if you like it, don't buy it if you want something different. So far, several million people a year like it.
-jcr
The gambling companies will just add a level of indirection, and continue business as usual. Gamblers won't stop, and neither will the credit card processors.
-jcr
instead of your nice ad-loaded page,
Not my page, dude.. It was the first one I found when I googled for the part number.
-jcr
Oh, be fair... The Z80 SoftCard was a nice bit of work.
-jcr
Basically, the impact of a energetic particle, whether it's a cosmic ray, a gamma particle, etc, is able to cause a local current, which if the device is small enough, can induce a field that weakens or flips the existing field. For a given feature size, the magnet probably is more robust, but the radiation resistance of an MRAM won't be anything close to that of core memory.
-jcr
Here it is.
-jcr