AT&T research facilities are wonderful, magical places that shouldn't be allowed to shut down or see their demise. These things should be heavily subsidized by the government.
Bell Labs (now Lucent) is going down the shitter, and AT&T is closing the research labs that they still own. AT&T's research facilities (Bell in particular) are the people that brought us things like Unix, the laser, and the transister, not to mention countless other things. It's a real shame that they are closing down these facilities--like the article says, research facilities are delicate organisms, and they can't be reassembled after you've broken them up.
...is a brand new turn-based strategy game. It definitely allows for a quick alt-tab back to something that appears to be work. Unforutunately, you are sort of locked into turn-based strategy games when you are looking for something that allows a quick escape. For just about everything else, quick escapes put you at a serious disadvantage because losing track of where you are could spell death (or the equivalent in the game).
So instead of investigating existing car robberies, they use our tax money to buy a car that is meant to be stolen. Great.
I mean, yes, they find a guy who is stealing cars and take him off of the streets, but he or she will be back on the streets within a few years (if it is their first offense), probably doing the same thing. And yes, there is a CHANCE that they may find some kind of organized crime going on, but there is publicity for this car being left in the open to be stolen, so anyone in the area stealing cars that can pick up a newspaper is going to be on the lookout for it, so mostly, this is just a bunch of cops sitting around fishing for dumbass.
First of all, globalism is as much of a dream as communism. It looks good on paper, but people in general are too corrupt to make it work properly, so it will fail. Many Americans fail to see this because we live in a nation where our government's corruption is minimal RELATIVE TO MOST OTHER COUNTRIES (not meant to be flamebait--if you don't believe me, stop over in any South American or African country for a few days). Globalization will merely turn into an excuse to basically turn third world countries into slave nations. There will be no point in the rich trying to make themselves richer by exploiting people in their own country; they can already exploit the wealth gap that will be readily available in other countries! Don't believe me? It's already happening! And don't kid yourself with reform--PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY POLITICIANS, ARE INHERENTLY CORRUPT!
Secondly, how is this "news for nerds" or "stuff that matters?" Just because you mention RMS doesn't mean we're interested!
The new KDE is really pretty, and it seems to run a bit faster as well. My girlfriend doesn't make me reboot my computer into Windows when she wants to do something now because she likes the look of the new KDE so much!
Stallman interview
By uptight British network
Meant to excite me?
Re:They did NOT stop light!
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They stored the information AND the energy associated with light, didn't they? The medium absorbed the energy and the information associated with the photons in one side of the medium, then re-emited it out of the other side (albeit with stimulation), so how is that not stopping it?
Either the photons stopped, or they are floating around in the imaginary universe you live in (just kidding).
Just because you are storing it in a different form doesn't mean you aren't stopping it. Yeah, they may not be the exact same photons, but since photons are massless particles anyways, it's hard to define the Newtonian definition of "stopping" and "going."
There's all kinds of quantum parameters you could alter, and so you could do something like code data into the light's quantum parameters and be able to store HUGE amounts of data.
You could also do cool shit like make light transistors for quantum computers--they wouldn't get that hot, and they'd move SCREAMINGLY fast.
Talking on my phone
I twitch, about to sneeze hard.
Phone thinks I said "F*CK."
Re:Steve O'Shea's Discovery Channel Special RULES!
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He got several REALLY healthy ones that I think survived around a day...but I missed the part between the celebration when he caught the little guys and the time that they died, so it might have just been a few hours...
Steve O'Shea's Discovery Channel Special RULES!
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I watched this thing last night about O'Shea trying to catch Archetoothus (sp?), the giant squid. After pulling up all sorts of random deep-sea creatures, he caught several larval ones, but they all eventually died.
I laughed, I cried, I ate a box of Fig Newtons. It was great.
A while back, our company was looking into getting some content management software as well. This stuff (Hummingbird) looked really cool, but our small (less than 50 people) company couldn't validate the tens of thousands of dollars we'd have to spend to get it, not to mention the several thousand per year fee to continue using it.
You really have to ask yourself what you want. These software packages are REALLY expensive--sometimes more expensive than the annual salary for a new-grad CompSci major. Do you need all the features of a full-blown content management system, or do need something that someone at your company could dedicate some time to and write?
I've been playing UO on and off for about 5 years now. I tried EverQuest for a while, and although I could see how one could get into it, I still liked UO better.
However, both companies still have an advantage over all the newcomers--they have a game engine that they have been tweaking for a long, long time. I think that when the new generation of these MMORPGs come out and drag players away from UO/Everquest, Origin and whoever makes Everquest (I forget) will wise up and start selling an engine to the next generation of MMORPG makers so that they can implement a (hopefully) more debugged game more rapidly. It just seems logical; when your itellectual property stops making money in one arena, move to another... ...but that's just my 2 cents, and that's about all it's worth.
It didn't look like he was getting paid for doing the work, so why is it even any of Apple's business how old the kid is?
Kids are getting better and better at programming at younger and younger ages...I'm kind of excited to see what the next generation of programmers comes up with, but at the same time, I'm kind of scared of some of these kids coming along and knocking me out of a job!
...definitely sucks ass in Linux. I don't know if it is better or worse in other OSes, but we have several dual processor machines and two quad Xeon machines at work running Linux, and it seems as though if the first processor is running at max capacity, then you're just kind of shit outta luck if you try to start a process--it sometimes takes as 5-10 seconds before it'll even notice you've tried to run something and assign it to another processor that isn't doing anything.
Does anyone else have this problem? I'm hoping it's just some kind of dumbass configuration mistake on my part and not just the way it is...
I have lived in three neighborhoods in Texas during the past 4 years, and during all but the past years, everytime I went on a drive, I could see construction trucks with spools of thick fiber lines being buried underground.
However, this all stopped about 4 months before I got layed off from Alcatel, one of the largest suppliers of fiber-optic cable in the world. There's just not as much business as there used to be, and people aren't willing to speculate on putting fiber down when they won't immediately see profits from it in this kind of market.
I don't, however, think we are going to see a shortage of bandwidth anytime soon...at least in big cities and suburban America (judging from the state of things in Texas). There's more cable underground than I care to think about, and I know for a fact you can get more bandwidth up and running in less than 9 months--the timespan that this article suggests. If there's a big enough market for it, telcos will have it in tomorrow! We threw up huge testbeds at Alcatel in under a month that could easily have served a small city a good amount more bandwidth.
Basically, this article is a bunch of speculative horseshit supported by quotes from people that either don't know what they are talking about, or have alterior motives for giving the quotes.
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AT&T research facilities are wonderful, magical places that shouldn't be allowed to shut down or see their demise. These things should be heavily subsidized by the government. Bell Labs (now Lucent) is going down the shitter, and AT&T is closing the research labs that they still own. AT&T's research facilities (Bell in particular) are the people that brought us things like Unix, the laser, and the transister, not to mention countless other things. It's a real shame that they are closing down these facilities--like the article says, research facilities are delicate organisms, and they can't be reassembled after you've broken them up.
...is a brand new turn-based strategy game. It definitely allows for a quick alt-tab back to something that appears to be work. Unforutunately, you are sort of locked into turn-based strategy games when you are looking for something that allows a quick escape. For just about everything else, quick escapes put you at a serious disadvantage because losing track of where you are could spell death (or the equivalent in the game).
...there's a website that monitors it 24 hours a day with a webcam.
So instead of investigating existing car robberies, they use our tax money to buy a car that is meant to be stolen. Great.
I mean, yes, they find a guy who is stealing cars and take him off of the streets, but he or she will be back on the streets within a few years (if it is their first offense), probably doing the same thing. And yes, there is a CHANCE that they may find some kind of organized crime going on, but there is publicity for this car being left in the open to be stolen, so anyone in the area stealing cars that can pick up a newspaper is going to be on the lookout for it, so mostly, this is just a bunch of cops sitting around fishing for dumbass.
If I would have had this during my undergrad career as an engineer, maybe I could have gotten a degree AND had a social life!
Yeah, but Verisign IS in the USA--everything that they don't control would have a country's extension (.uk, .de, etc.) after it.
Microsoft smiling...
Lawyers call products "viral",
Court can't get source code.
First of all, globalism is as much of a dream as communism. It looks good on paper, but people in general are too corrupt to make it work properly, so it will fail. Many Americans fail to see this because we live in a nation where our government's corruption is minimal RELATIVE TO MOST OTHER COUNTRIES (not meant to be flamebait--if you don't believe me, stop over in any South American or African country for a few days). Globalization will merely turn into an excuse to basically turn third world countries into slave nations. There will be no point in the rich trying to make themselves richer by exploiting people in their own country; they can already exploit the wealth gap that will be readily available in other countries! Don't believe me? It's already happening! And don't kid yourself with reform--PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY POLITICIANS, ARE INHERENTLY CORRUPT!
Secondly, how is this "news for nerds" or "stuff that matters?" Just because you mention RMS doesn't mean we're interested!
The new KDE is really pretty, and it seems to run a bit faster as well. My girlfriend doesn't make me reboot my computer into Windows when she wants to do something now because she likes the look of the new KDE so much!
Well, he sure looks like Jesus...
Stallman interview
By uptight British network
Meant to excite me?
They stored the information AND the energy associated with light, didn't they? The medium absorbed the energy and the information associated with the photons in one side of the medium, then re-emited it out of the other side (albeit with stimulation), so how is that not stopping it?
Either the photons stopped, or they are floating around in the imaginary universe you live in (just kidding).
Just because you are storing it in a different form doesn't mean you aren't stopping it. Yeah, they may not be the exact same photons, but since photons are massless particles anyways, it's hard to define the Newtonian definition of "stopping" and "going."
There's all kinds of quantum parameters you could alter, and so you could do something like code data into the light's quantum parameters and be able to store HUGE amounts of data.
You could also do cool shit like make light transistors for quantum computers--they wouldn't get that hot, and they'd move SCREAMINGLY fast.
...stop that damn beam of light that hits my eyes every friggin' morning at 6:30am.
Actually, bibliothèque is the French word for library. Discothèque is the French word for discotheque, or "place where the records (discs) are."
Talking on my phone
I twitch, about to sneeze hard.
Phone thinks I said "F*CK."
He got several REALLY healthy ones that I think survived around a day...but I missed the part between the celebration when he caught the little guys and the time that they died, so it might have just been a few hours...
I watched this thing last night about O'Shea trying to catch Archetoothus (sp?), the giant squid. After pulling up all sorts of random deep-sea creatures, he caught several larval ones, but they all eventually died.
I laughed, I cried, I ate a box of Fig Newtons. It was great.
A while back, our company was looking into getting some content management software as well. This stuff (Hummingbird) looked really cool, but our small (less than 50 people) company couldn't validate the tens of thousands of dollars we'd have to spend to get it, not to mention the several thousand per year fee to continue using it.
You really have to ask yourself what you want. These software packages are REALLY expensive--sometimes more expensive than the annual salary for a new-grad CompSci major. Do you need all the features of a full-blown content management system, or do need something that someone at your company could dedicate some time to and write?
I've been playing UO on and off for about 5 years now. I tried EverQuest for a while, and although I could see how one could get into it, I still liked UO better.
...but that's just my 2 cents, and that's about all it's worth.
However, both companies still have an advantage over all the newcomers--they have a game engine that they have been tweaking for a long, long time. I think that when the new generation of these MMORPGs come out and drag players away from UO/Everquest, Origin and whoever makes Everquest (I forget) will wise up and start selling an engine to the next generation of MMORPG makers so that they can implement a (hopefully) more debugged game more rapidly. It just seems logical; when your itellectual property stops making money in one arena, move to another...
Finally! Cybiko for adults! Now I don't have to be the creepy old guy talking to pre-teenagers!
It didn't look like he was getting paid for doing the work, so why is it even any of Apple's business how old the kid is?
Kids are getting better and better at programming at younger and younger ages...I'm kind of excited to see what the next generation of programmers comes up with, but at the same time, I'm kind of scared of some of these kids coming along and knocking me out of a job!
Scary...
What happens when your batteries run out?!?
...definitely sucks ass in Linux. I don't know if it is better or worse in other OSes, but we have several dual processor machines and two quad Xeon machines at work running Linux, and it seems as though if the first processor is running at max capacity, then you're just kind of shit outta luck if you try to start a process--it sometimes takes as 5-10 seconds before it'll even notice you've tried to run something and assign it to another processor that isn't doing anything.
Does anyone else have this problem? I'm hoping it's just some kind of dumbass configuration mistake on my part and not just the way it is...
I have lived in three neighborhoods in Texas during the past 4 years, and during all but the past years, everytime I went on a drive, I could see construction trucks with spools of thick fiber lines being buried underground.
However, this all stopped about 4 months before I got layed off from Alcatel, one of the largest suppliers of fiber-optic cable in the world. There's just not as much business as there used to be, and people aren't willing to speculate on putting fiber down when they won't immediately see profits from it in this kind of market.
I don't, however, think we are going to see a shortage of bandwidth anytime soon...at least in big cities and suburban America (judging from the state of things in Texas). There's more cable underground than I care to think about, and I know for a fact you can get more bandwidth up and running in less than 9 months--the timespan that this article suggests. If there's a big enough market for it, telcos will have it in tomorrow! We threw up huge testbeds at Alcatel in under a month that could easily have served a small city a good amount more bandwidth.
Basically, this article is a bunch of speculative horseshit supported by quotes from people that either don't know what they are talking about, or have alterior motives for giving the quotes.