Iit doesn't make sense to code in ASM anymore. With computing expanding towards more and more parallelism, I can clearly see that one should learn to start coding in the most abstract of way and let the tools do the optimisation for him...
I second this choice. For some zealots it's hard to admit but the performance is really good, you have commercial backing of the biggest software company on the planet.
Recently a commercial company (Tuxera) was formed to provide commercial support for NTFS-3G and provide paid-for version of the driver for MacOS and Linux in addition to the free NTFS-3G.
So the future and cross platform access is looking really good.
On the other hand, if I were just a little bit more adventurous, I would much rather use Sun ZFS for storage to have even better reliability, flexibility than with equivalent hardware RAID. But this pretty much requires a separate NAS box running OpenSolaris just for that.
For me and many other garage hackers that just doesn't cut it, all I have is one laptop running a really fancy looking BSD and two external drives (NTFS) and some backup scattered over the Internet...
All I'm hoping for is that one day Apple will reintegrate ZFS support, it's already been promised, implemented and now ditched...
I don't think they're really charging much more for it, maybe an extra $1, although the one's I've looked at seem to contain more songs than the standard album.
The point is you buy the whole album and pay a lot more that you would just buying a song or two.
The whole sentence is an oxymoron. I sparingly code in my spare time, but if someone requires me to do that kind of misses the whole point. I'd recently given up on an otherwise very interesting job, just because they required me to complete an assignment - about two full days of coding, testing, etc (at the very least) on top of a 5 hours interview, even thought they were aware I'm already in a full-time job and that I might have some better things to do in the little bits of spare time that I have...
Seriously, if they'd stop to think about, they really should focus on giving players games that have lasting value and are re-playable. I bough Half-Life ages ago and still haven't sold my copy, because it allows me to play Counter-Strike. Later I bought Half-Life 2 Counter-Strike Source etc, but I keep the original as it's got it's own merits. This solves some major problems for the publisher: used games market and tight deadlines. If you keep players occupied for an entire year, you can probably charge a bit more for such game...
Currently EA publishes a new sport title every year. I think they should just admit it and start selling yearly updates, becuase those title are really not that revolutionary - they just contain up-to date player names, stats, maybe some minor graphic tweaks. No wonder that they have to spend so much on marketing, it would take a hell lot of an ad to convince me to buy fifa 09 if I had fifa 08 already (not that I have any)...
Those clashes between Marvel characters and DC Comics ones got boring so now it's time for: Daisy vs Wolverine Pinocchio vs Spiderman Cinderella vs Juggernaut
If they film any of those I am soo going to see this..
While I see quite a few members that I wasn't expecting (Creative Labs), my concern is that there are some companies that should definitely be participating in this but aren't. By that I mean gfx chip makers such as Via or S3, as for now it seems we're tied to the major players (nVidia, AMD, Intel) for desktop/laptop implementations and that's never good for the consumer.
Either way the spec itself is a great initiative and I can't wait to get my hands on beta bulids of Snow Leopard to try it out...
Don't go against the grain entirely, only encrypt partitions and folders where user data and profiles are stored. Get in touch with the policy makers that you want an exception clause in the policy for research/lab computers. I'm sure can email, call or talk to someone. Get some allies on that, get involved with the politics a little and youll save yourself trouble later on.
I'd probably even suggest to those policy makers not applying the FDE policy to stationary computers at all. After all, if it's in the office, physical security should suffice to prevent someone from the outside accessing. And if it's a disgruntled/bored employee, heshe will have passwords anyway, so FDE won't do much in such case.
Why is it that UK seems to lead in privacy-crippling, big-brother style techniques? All corners covered, CCTV, spying on each other and clearly, there's still no good evidence of any of this wrking twards any good results...
From my experience, if there are some really bad things happening, neighbour will not report, being too scared.
The fact that your Intranet is not standards compliant should not be a reason for Mozilla not to push updates. FF3 vs FF2 is faster (especially in js), has no memory leaks and renders more accurately. How much your 'developers' intend to work on this 'fix', if half a year is not enough then there is something wrong with your development process, not Firefox. Sorry if this sounds inflammatory, but I'd really rather have Moz devs focus on new features and improvements to the 3.x line.
It seems that all that needs to be done is to solve it is to upgrade the backbone to allow each user an average download of two x264 movies a day or so, circa 10-20GB. There is no one able to consume more than that, daily.
Problem is that processing power is cheaper than fiber these days, so they analyze and throttle the packets, instead of increasing the bandwidth.
To me that the natural directions - chips are getting smaller, consume less power, so getting ultra-portable gets more affordable.
Now the limiting factor in usability of those devices seem to be not the processing power, but human interaction.
Both the keyboard and the screen are inevitably small, which makes typing and reading a challenge. Some say that the future is in portable projectors and virtual keyboards, but that doesn't seem to be the ultimate solution - you need two flat surfaces and some headroom for those, which seems not to be the case for instance in an airplane.
I think challenges like efficient voice commands, or even brain waves (aka NIA) are the solution for input.
For the output again a direct interface to the nerves or to the eye, or else, there will still be need for full sized peripherals, so it won't matter how small can the computers themselves get.
Back when I were in school, we had no other choice than to use Windows. Even back then, I realized the clever tactic of Microsoft - if everyone is taught to use Windows the have plenty of market. But Microsoft is just too greedy, instead of giving the software away to educators, which, in the en would result in bigger market share, insist on licensing and charging everyone - which in turn makes initiatives like these worthwhile.
The only marketing methods I've been exposed to as admin for a bunch of libraries, is the scare and bribery methods they used on a country-wide level, which resulted in M$ centric solutions being shoved down our throats.
The director of the libraries I've working on, has been told that installing Linux will result in BSA audit. We did, nothing happened, obviously, but all the other libraries are still using Windows servers.
And paying for that, instead of buying books or journals.
Well, morals aside, many Power Users, FXPers and People of the Scene (TM) are using using up massive amounts of traffic without actually ever watching the content that flows through their servers, so the amount of traffic can not be tied to increase in piracy and certainly not to increased losses. It might only mean that some people are getting what they want faster and in higher quality. x264 releases - 4.5GB, ale slowly replacing the xVid releases, which were 700MB, hence the growth in traffic.
I currently working on my Masters Thesis, touching, among other things on issues related to totalitarian societies. Even very quick research shows that Great Britain already resembles the grim visions of '1984', 'Brasil' or 'A Clockwork Orange'. CCTV is widespread, despite showing little or no effect on stopping crime, its usage is spreading. Old people are already testing the high-frequency buzzers, to annoy and scare teenagers (it's a prime example of being guilty by default). A visit to any UK international airport terminal leaves no doubt either - you are a dangerous terrorist until proven otherwise.
And now this, which isn't really new either, just a development on what's been going on for some quite time already.
And worst of all, most UK (or US for that matter) citizens don't seem to mind or care. This is very much reminiscent of a pre-WWII Germany.
I don't mean to sound radical or anything, but remember: "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing"
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Iit doesn't make sense to code in ASM anymore.
With computing expanding towards more and more parallelism, I can clearly see that one should learn to start coding in the most abstract of way and let the tools do the optimisation for him...
I second this choice.
For some zealots it's hard to admit but the performance is really good, you have commercial backing of the biggest software company on the planet.
Recently a commercial company (Tuxera) was formed to provide commercial support for NTFS-3G and provide paid-for version of the driver for MacOS and Linux in addition to the free NTFS-3G.
So the future and cross platform access is looking really good.
On the other hand, if I were just a little bit more adventurous, I would much rather use Sun ZFS for storage to have even better reliability, flexibility than with equivalent hardware RAID. But this pretty much requires a separate NAS box running OpenSolaris just for that.
For me and many other garage hackers that just doesn't cut it, all I have is one laptop running a really fancy looking BSD and two external drives (NTFS) and some backup scattered over the Internet...
All I'm hoping for is that one day Apple will reintegrate ZFS support, it's already been promised, implemented and now ditched...
I don't think they're really charging much more for it, maybe an extra $1, although the one's I've looked at seem to contain more songs than the standard album.
The point is you buy the whole album and pay a lot more that you would just buying a song or two.
It would also be quite impossible to play FPS or other kinds of games with this type of setup.
I think Quake 3 engine has been open-sourced a while ago.
I wonder if it'd be possible to use that game (and maybe other games, apps) as a benchmark to test the efficiency of various input methods.
If you can win on Nightmare on q3dm17, it's good/quick enough for me at least.
The whole sentence is an oxymoron.
I sparingly code in my spare time, but if someone requires me to do that kind of misses the whole point.
I'd recently given up on an otherwise very interesting job, just because they required me to complete an assignment - about two full days of coding, testing, etc (at the very least) on top of a 5 hours interview, even thought they were aware I'm already in a full-time job and that I might have some better things to do in the little bits of spare time that I have...
Seriously, if they'd stop to think about, they really should focus on giving players games that have lasting value and are re-playable.
I bough Half-Life ages ago and still haven't sold my copy, because it allows me to play Counter-Strike. Later I bought Half-Life 2 Counter-Strike Source etc, but I keep the original as it's got it's own merits.
This solves some major problems for the publisher: used games market and tight deadlines.
If you keep players occupied for an entire year, you can probably charge a bit more for such game...
Currently EA publishes a new sport title every year. I think they should just admit it and start selling yearly updates, becuase those title are really not that revolutionary - they just contain up-to date player names, stats, maybe some minor graphic tweaks.
No wonder that they have to spend so much on marketing, it would take a hell lot of an ad to convince me to buy fifa 09 if I had fifa 08 already (not that I have any)...
Finally...
Those clashes between Marvel characters and DC Comics ones got boring so now it's time for:
Daisy vs Wolverine
Pinocchio vs Spiderman
Cinderella vs Juggernaut
If they film any of those I am soo going to see this..
Oops.. I just noticed S3 is on the list, they managed to get a lot of companies on board after all.
While I see quite a few members that I wasn't expecting (Creative Labs), my concern is that there are some companies that should definitely be participating in this but aren't.
By that I mean gfx chip makers such as Via or S3, as for now it seems we're tied to the major players (nVidia, AMD, Intel) for desktop/laptop implementations and that's never good for the consumer.
Either way the spec itself is a great initiative and I can't wait to get my hands on beta bulids of Snow Leopard to try it out...
Don't go against the grain entirely, only encrypt partitions and folders where user data and profiles are stored.
Get in touch with the policy makers that you want an exception clause in the policy for research/lab computers.
I'm sure can email, call or talk to someone. Get some allies on that, get involved with the politics a little and youll save yourself trouble later on.
I'd probably even suggest to those policy makers not applying the FDE policy to stationary computers at all.
After all, if it's in the office, physical security should suffice to prevent someone from the outside accessing.
And if it's a disgruntled/bored employee, heshe will have passwords anyway, so FDE won't do much in such case.
Or you can still live in your mother's basement like most geeks do...
If you're working full time in IT and can't afford your own place to live, time to cut on your MMORPG subscriptions...
I bought Seagate's 1.5TB last week, can you google?
Why is it that UK seems to lead in privacy-crippling, big-brother style techniques?
All corners covered, CCTV, spying on each other and clearly, there's still no good evidence of any of this wrking twards any good results...
From my experience, if there are some really bad things happening, neighbour will not report, being too scared.
Can anyone confirm which way IE8 actually does it?
Will it be be possible to trick IE8 into thinking it's not Intranet, without having to modify the HTML?
The fact that your Intranet is not standards compliant should not be a reason for Mozilla not to push updates.
FF3 vs FF2 is faster (especially in js), has no memory leaks and renders more accurately.
How much your 'developers' intend to work on this 'fix', if half a year is not enough then there is something wrong with your development process, not Firefox.
Sorry if this sounds inflammatory, but I'd really rather have Moz devs focus on new features and improvements to the 3.x line.
IMHO, the real problem is stupid people, worrying about the wrong kind of things.
That makes me feel much better. Although, how on earth a micro-blackhole on Earth end up with the mass of Earth...?
There fixed it for ya.
Can you tell us mire about this?
It seems that all that needs to be done is to solve it is to upgrade the backbone to allow each user an average download of two x264 movies a day or so, circa 10-20GB.
There is no one able to consume more than that, daily.
Problem is that processing power is cheaper than fiber these days, so they analyze and throttle the packets, instead of increasing the bandwidth.
To me that the natural directions - chips are getting smaller, consume less power, so getting ultra-portable gets more affordable.
Now the limiting factor in usability of those devices seem to be not the processing power, but human interaction.
Both the keyboard and the screen are inevitably small, which makes typing and reading a challenge.
Some say that the future is in portable projectors and virtual keyboards, but that doesn't seem to be the ultimate solution - you need two flat surfaces and some headroom for those, which seems not to be the case for instance in an airplane.
I think challenges like efficient voice commands, or even brain waves (aka NIA) are the solution for input.
For the output again a direct interface to the nerves or to the eye, or else, there will still be need for full sized peripherals, so it won't matter how small can the computers themselves get.
This is very important.
Back when I were in school, we had no other choice than to use Windows. Even back then, I realized the clever tactic of Microsoft - if everyone is taught to use Windows the have plenty of market.
But Microsoft is just too greedy, instead of giving the software away to educators, which, in the en would result in bigger market share, insist on licensing and charging everyone - which in turn makes initiatives like these worthwhile.
The only marketing methods I've been exposed to as admin for a bunch of libraries, is the scare and bribery methods they used on a country-wide level, which resulted in M$ centric solutions being shoved down our throats.
The director of the libraries I've working on, has been told that installing Linux will result in BSA audit. We did, nothing happened, obviously, but all the other libraries are still using Windows servers.
And paying for that, instead of buying books or journals.
This has happened in EU approx 3 years ago.
Well, morals aside, many Power Users, FXPers and People of the Scene (TM) are using using up massive amounts of traffic without actually ever watching the content that flows through their servers, so the amount of traffic can not be tied to increase in piracy and certainly not to increased losses.
It might only mean that some people are getting what they want faster and in higher quality.
x264 releases - 4.5GB, ale slowly replacing the xVid releases, which were 700MB, hence the growth in traffic.
Remember kids: Data must flow (TM).
You must be new here.
I currently working on my Masters Thesis, touching, among other things on issues related to totalitarian societies.
Even very quick research shows that Great Britain already resembles the grim visions of '1984', 'Brasil' or 'A Clockwork Orange'.
CCTV is widespread, despite showing little or no effect on stopping crime, its usage is spreading.
Old people are already testing the high-frequency buzzers, to annoy and scare teenagers (it's a prime example of being guilty by default).
A visit to any UK international airport terminal leaves no doubt either - you are a dangerous terrorist until proven otherwise.
And now this, which isn't really new either, just a development on what's been going on for some quite time already.
And worst of all, most UK (or US for that matter) citizens don't seem to mind or care. This is very much reminiscent of a pre-WWII Germany.
I don't mean to sound radical or anything, but remember:
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing"