I must say this is something i have been hoping they would do for a long time. I love transformers, there are about 12 of them in my cube now:) I got my copy pre-ordered and the beer chilling in the fridge. Who's up for a season 1 party?
Phil
So IBM is no longer selling harddrives, not to big of a deal. One company can't be the best at everything and IBM is learning that. The question at hand is IBM currently has over 90% of the hard disk patents out there will they continue there r&d into the latest disk storage technologies? Heck, IBM probably makes more money off there patents on harddrives then they ever did by selling them.
I'm kinda surprised to see that this computer is actually running on intel proccessors. Typically when this kind of horse power is required while a risc processor gets chosen. I'm not real familiar with the itanium other than i know it's a 64bit proc, and the workstations are REAL expensive:) The question is how does the itanium compare to it's oppenents like the POWER3-II copper based chip?
If the bots don't tell the children that there bots couldn't this be a legal issue? I'm not a law expert by any means but this just seems down right fishy, and a lawsuit waiting to happen from a group of angry parents.
Cheating is a problem, and copying someone else's work should result in immediate explusion but this is just blatently ridiculous. The first thing they need to teach CS students is how to work with a team of programmers. To share ideas, not hide ideas from one another. Learning and teaching from another is something that I love about being a programmer. And for godsake what we don't want to encourge is the M$ attitude on our future software developers.
Could the rebirth of the browser war make web masters follow the w3c standards more closely. It seems to me that over the past 2 years since netscape lost the browser war more and more web pages do not format well under mozilla. Let's hope that the web masters realize it's not just geeks bitching any more!
I've used Ximian's pay-for-play red-carpet service and have been thourougly dissapointed. The pay-for-play service doesn't provide the 'high speed' that it promises, typically maxing out around 150kbps. There's no command line interface. It crashes frequently, and apt-get is far superior and free. What are the plans for red-carpet in the future, and how do you plan on marketing this service to a buisness for multiple users when they can just have one pay-for-play account mirroring on a server and point all of the internal clients to it.
my biggest gripe with the powerbook is only having one damn mouse button. I mean i get annoyed if i only have two yet alone one. On a plus though once you know all the keyboard shortcuts it's not as annoying. but for being so famous for it's graphics premise how would someone work in maya with only one mouse button?
We've got one of these little badboys here where i work. Although from reading the article i think ours is an older model. The robot is controlled by rf signals through small stations that are positioned throughout the hospital. If you look up in the elevetor you see a small antennae protruding.. thats for the robot. I'm not sure what frequency they operate on, but they dont conflict with 802.11 at all. Other interesting points is that the robot is controlled via an IBM RS6000 running AIX, no NT thank god or the robot may start despensing morphine to a baby.. Our robot doesnt talk at all though, it just kinda cruises around dispenses medicine. Other uses that these robots can be used for is delivering mail and flowers to patient rooms!
What about trolltech. There buisness model seems to be working for them. Granted I don't know how they are financially but by dual licsencing software you get the best of both worlds.
Phil
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This is quite amusing, but a software bug in my field can result in patients lives being lost. It's kind of scary sometimes :)
Is anyone actually surprised by this. I mean come on, he's probably an MCSE too ;)
I must say this is something i have been hoping they would do for a long time. I love transformers, there are about 12 of them in my cube now :) I got my copy pre-ordered and the beer chilling in the fridge. Who's up for a season 1 party?
Phil
So IBM is no longer selling harddrives, not to big of a deal. One company can't be the best at everything and IBM is learning that. The question at hand is IBM currently has over 90% of the hard disk patents out there will they continue there r&d into the latest disk storage technologies? Heck, IBM probably makes more money off there patents on harddrives then they ever did by selling them.
lol, "Ram is like sex, it's better when it's real"
lol, amd is evil, intel is the borg.. what about 1800 POWER3-II procs... mmmm more power. thats it i have ram envy
I'm kinda surprised to see that this computer is actually running on intel proccessors. Typically when this kind of horse power is required while a risc processor gets chosen. I'm not real familiar with the itanium other than i know it's a 64bit proc, and the workstations are REAL expensive :) The question is how does the itanium compare to it's oppenents like the POWER3-II copper based chip?
If the bots don't tell the children that there bots couldn't this be a legal issue? I'm not a law expert by any means but this just seems down right fishy, and a lawsuit waiting to happen from a group of angry parents.
Cheating is a problem, and copying someone else's work should result in immediate explusion but this is just blatently ridiculous. The first thing they need to teach CS students is how to work with a team of programmers. To share ideas, not hide ideas from one another. Learning and teaching from another is something that I love about being a programmer. And for godsake what we don't want to encourge is the M$ attitude on our future software developers.
Could the rebirth of the browser war make web masters follow the w3c standards more closely. It seems to me that over the past 2 years since netscape lost the browser war more and more web pages do not format well under mozilla. Let's hope that the web masters realize it's not just geeks bitching any more!
I've used Ximian's pay-for-play red-carpet service and have been thourougly dissapointed. The pay-for-play service doesn't provide the 'high speed' that it promises, typically maxing out around 150kbps. There's no command line interface. It crashes frequently, and apt-get is far superior and free. What are the plans for red-carpet in the future, and how do you plan on marketing this service to a buisness for multiple users when they can just have one pay-for-play account mirroring on a server and point all of the internal clients to it.
my biggest gripe with the powerbook is only having one damn mouse button. I mean i get annoyed if i only have two yet alone one. On a plus though once you know all the keyboard shortcuts it's not as annoying. but for being so famous for it's graphics premise how would someone work in maya with only one mouse button?
hugs vim
Someone will probably submit freshmeat saying "Look at all this software you can download with out paying for, it's gota be priacy!".. Long live FSF!
We've got one of these little badboys here where i work. Although from reading the article i think ours is an older model. The robot is controlled by rf signals through small stations that are positioned throughout the hospital. If you look up in the elevetor you see a small antennae protruding.. thats for the robot. I'm not sure what frequency they operate on, but they dont conflict with 802.11 at all. Other interesting points is that the robot is controlled via an IBM RS6000 running AIX, no NT thank god or the robot may start despensing morphine to a baby.. Our robot doesnt talk at all though, it just kinda cruises around dispenses medicine. Other uses that these robots can be used for is delivering mail and flowers to patient rooms!
uh huh.. sure, now show me proof!
What about trolltech. There buisness model seems to be working for them. Granted I don't know how they are financially but by dual licsencing software you get the best of both worlds. Phil http://captnscooby.org