Our shop has a bunch of legacy pascal programs (don't ask). A couple years ago, we needed to integrate them with some new libraries, which would have meant rewriting/porting to C. Instead, we recompiled with Free Pascal. We needed to make a couple changes to the compiler, but it was a lot less work than rewriting.
latency. The time you get back from the NTP server is the time the server sent the request. The client has to count the time it took to get a response and use that as a fudge factor. More servers means your client can find a closer server and minimize the transport time.
I take a different approach: ordering extremely heavy products that qualify for free shipping and are eligible for special discounts that guarantee amazon loses money.
Around half of early iPhone sales weren't activated by AT&T. Translation: They're essentially being used as iTouch iPods. Now look at the typical cell phone business model: sell the phone below cost (or give it away) then make it up over the 2 year contract. (Apple gets $9/month or so from AT&T during the life of the contract).
With the iTouch available, people buying an iPhone are going to be using it as a cell phone and Apple will be able to recognize that monthly revenue, so the profit margin at the time of sale isn't as important.
$9/month * 24 months = $216.
Apple makes $16 more from someone buying a $400 iPhone with service than someone that buys a $600 iPhone and hacks it. (and that's not counting any money AT&T pays at time of activation and for bringing in new customers from other networks).
The default environment for Solaris 10/OpenSolaris is GNOME
Too bad. OpenStep was a joint standard between NeXT and Sun. Sun released a beta OpenStep for their SPARC machines, then went with Java instead (early java libraries looked a lot like the OpenStep foundation classes). We all know what happened with NeXT.
If OpenSolaris used OpenStep on the desktop (or better yet, contributed their code to GNUStep), they would have a competitive advantage over desktop linux (where GNUStep is ignored).
As it stands, I use OpenSolaris as a ZFS file server (but only until I trust FreeBSD/ZFS a little more).
Rick Rubin is listening. A song by a new band called the Gossip is playing, and he is concentrating. He appears to be in a trance. His eyes are tightly closed and he is swaying back and forth to the beat, trying at once to hear what is right and wrong about the music. Rubin, who resembles a medium-size bear with a long, gray beard, is curled into the corner of a tufted velvet couch in the library of a house he owns but where he no longer lives. This three-story 1923 Spanish villa steeped in music history -- Johnny Cash recorded in the basement studio; Jakob Dylan is recording a solo album there now -- is used by Rubin for meetings. And ever since May, when he officially became co-head of Columbia Records, Rubin has been having nearly constant meetings. Beginning in 1984, when he started Def Jam Recordings, until his more recent occupation as a career-transforming, chart-topping, Grammy Award-winning producer for dozens of artists, as diverse as the Dixie Chicks, Slayer, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Neil Diamond, Rubin, who is 44, has never gone to an office of any kind. One of his conditions for taking the job at Sony, which owns Columbia, was that he wouldn't be required to have a desk or a phone in any of the corporate outposts. That wasn't a problem: Columbia didn't want Rubin to punch a clock. It wanted him to save the company. And just maybe the record business.
What that means, most of all, is that the company wants him to listen. It is Columbia's belief that Rubin will hear the answers in the music -- that he will find the solution to its ever-increasing woes. The mighty music business is in free fall -- it has lost control of radio; retail outlets like Tower Records have shut down; MTV rarely broadcasts music videos; and the once lucrative album market has been overshadowed by downloaded singles, which mainly benefits Apple. "The music business, as a whole, has lost its faith in content," David Geffen, the legendary music mogul, told me recently. "Only 10 years ago, companies wanted to make records, presumably good records, and see if they sold. But panic has set in, and now it's no longer about making music, it's all about how to sell music. And there's no clear answer about how to fix that problem. But I still believe that the top priority at any record company has to be coming up with great music. And for that reason, Sony was very smart to hire Rick."
Though Rubin maintains that his intention is simply to hear music with the fresh ears of a true fan, he has built his reputation on the simultaneously mystical and entirely decisive way he listens to a song. As the Gossip, which is fronted by a large, raucous woman named Beth Ditto, shouts to a stop, Rubin opens his eyes and nods yes. This is the first new band signed to Columbia that he has been enthralled by, but he is not yet sure how to organize the Gossip's future. "Let's hear something else," Rubin says to Kevin Kusatsu, who would, at any other record company, be called an A & R executive. (Traditionally, A & R executives spot, woo, recruit and oversee the talent of a record company.) "We don't have any titles at the new Columbia," Rubin explains, as Kusatsu, the first person Rubin hired, slips a disc out of its sleeve. "I don't want to create a new hierarchy to replace the old hierarchy."
Rubin, wearing his usual uniform of loose khaki pants and billowing white T-shirt, his sunglasses in his pocket, his feet bare, fingers a string of lapis lazuli Buddhist prayer beads, believed to bring wisdom to the wearer. Since Rubin's beard and hair nearly cover his face, his voice, which is soft and reassuring, becomes that much more vivid. He seems to be one with the room, which is lined in floor-to-ceiling books, most of which are of a spiritual nature, whether about Buddhism, the Bible or New Age quests for enlightenment. The library and the house are filled with religious iconography mixed with mementos from the world of pop. A massive brass Buddha is flanked by equally enormous speakers; vintage cardboard cutouts of John, Paul, George a
no, this kills news websites (breitbart, apnews.myway.com, etc) that run nothing but wire stories. Currently, story selection etc is computer generated and supposedly fair. I suspect they'll set up something to do user news aggregation/selection/mashup (like drudge report) sooner or later.
Why should google redirect you to joe random's copy of the same AP story when they can display it themselves?
In a similar fashion, froogle/google products (and google in general) has a similar situation with dozens of e-commerce (often shitty osCommerce based) stores selling the same stuff from the same supplier, drop shippers, etc. Since google is an information company, they probably don't need to worry... yet.
If this helps kills off websites that add no value, then good riddance.
I also have a 3G iPod. I replaced the battery a few months back, but it's otherwise been rock solid. I haven't considered buying another one. Until I took a close look at my fuck-buddy's video iPod. Thinner, full color screen, (I don't care so much about the new combined scrollwheel, though). I would impulse purchase an iPhone-ish iPod (depending on the features).
An analysis of the parts/suppliers suggested that they have a pretty decent profit margin on the iPhone even if it's never activated. The monthly revenue (they have a similar deal with AT&T) is a nice bonus but doesn't keep them from bleeding red ink.
I had high hopes when I started using picassa... I was hoping for something like iTunes for photos, where you could create virtual photo albums based on criteria (such as resolution, tags, date, etc) and do random slide shows (this is for porn, of course). Picassa is ass.
Google Earth! came from Keyhole and was originally written cross-platform with Qt. Picassa came from Idealabs (which is a big MS shop) and was written for Windows (there isn't a Macintosh version). Google has acquired a lot of random stuff so it's kind of a hodge podge.
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Our shop has a bunch of legacy pascal programs (don't ask). A couple years ago, we needed to integrate them with some new libraries, which would have meant rewriting/porting to C. Instead, we recompiled with Free Pascal. We needed to make a couple changes to the compiler, but it was a lot less work than rewriting.
Hey, remember when Zonk and kdawson plotted a takeover of slashdot? too bad they succeeded.
latency. The time you get back from the NTP server is the time the server sent the request. The client has to count the time it took to get a response and use that as a fudge factor. More servers means your client can find a closer server and minimize the transport time.
Never forget 1-click.
I don't buy 3rd party items through amazon (I go to their regular website). This is for items sold by amazon.
I, for one, would like to implant my penis into her vagina.
I take a different approach: ordering extremely heavy products that qualify for free shipping and are eligible for special discounts that guarantee amazon loses money.
With the iTouch available, people buying an iPhone are going to be using it as a cell phone and Apple will be able to recognize that monthly revenue, so the profit margin at the time of sale isn't as important.
$9/month * 24 months = $216.
Apple makes $16 more from someone buying a $400 iPhone with service than someone that buys a $600 iPhone and hacks it. (and that's not counting any money AT&T pays at time of activation and for bringing in new customers from other networks).
I guess that's why no one uses it ... gnu/hippies hate to take baths.
The popularity of NSA bathroom sex linux is surprising, though.
Opera supports Server Sent Events.
Too bad. OpenStep was a joint standard between NeXT and Sun. Sun released a beta OpenStep for their SPARC machines, then went with Java instead (early java libraries looked a lot like the OpenStep foundation classes). We all know what happened with NeXT.
If OpenSolaris used OpenStep on the desktop (or better yet, contributed their code to GNUStep), they would have a competitive advantage over desktop linux (where GNUStep is ignored).
As it stands, I use OpenSolaris as a ZFS file server (but only until I trust FreeBSD/ZFS a little more).
I agree. Another thing: Bill Joy wrote the original BSD TCP stack.
show them lemonparty. They won't be interested any more. (then again, maybe they will).
however, if you punch him in the belly, he goes poop poop.
Rick Rubin is listening. A song by a new band called the Gossip is playing, and he is concentrating. He appears to be in a trance. His eyes are tightly closed and he is swaying back and forth to the beat, trying at once to hear what is right and wrong about the music. Rubin, who resembles a medium-size bear with a long, gray beard, is curled into the corner of a tufted velvet couch in the library of a house he owns but where he no longer lives. This three-story 1923 Spanish villa steeped in music history -- Johnny Cash recorded in the basement studio; Jakob Dylan is recording a solo album there now -- is used by Rubin for meetings. And ever since May, when he officially became co-head of Columbia Records, Rubin has been having nearly constant meetings. Beginning in 1984, when he started Def Jam Recordings, until his more recent occupation as a career-transforming, chart-topping, Grammy Award-winning producer for dozens of artists, as diverse as the Dixie Chicks, Slayer, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Neil Diamond, Rubin, who is 44, has never gone to an office of any kind. One of his conditions for taking the job at Sony, which owns Columbia, was that he wouldn't be required to have a desk or a phone in any of the corporate outposts. That wasn't a problem: Columbia didn't want Rubin to punch a clock. It wanted him to save the company. And just maybe the record business.
What that means, most of all, is that the company wants him to listen. It is Columbia's belief that Rubin will hear the answers in the music -- that he will find the solution to its ever-increasing woes. The mighty music business is in free fall -- it has lost control of radio; retail outlets like Tower Records have shut down; MTV rarely broadcasts music videos; and the once lucrative album market has been overshadowed by downloaded singles, which mainly benefits Apple. "The music business, as a whole, has lost its faith in content," David Geffen, the legendary music mogul, told me recently. "Only 10 years ago, companies wanted to make records, presumably good records, and see if they sold. But panic has set in, and now it's no longer about making music, it's all about how to sell music. And there's no clear answer about how to fix that problem. But I still believe that the top priority at any record company has to be coming up with great music. And for that reason, Sony was very smart to hire Rick."
Though Rubin maintains that his intention is simply to hear music with the fresh ears of a true fan, he has built his reputation on the simultaneously mystical and entirely decisive way he listens to a song. As the Gossip, which is fronted by a large, raucous woman named Beth Ditto, shouts to a stop, Rubin opens his eyes and nods yes. This is the first new band signed to Columbia that he has been enthralled by, but he is not yet sure how to organize the Gossip's future. "Let's hear something else," Rubin says to Kevin Kusatsu, who would, at any other record company, be called an A & R executive. (Traditionally, A & R executives spot, woo, recruit and oversee the talent of a record company.) "We don't have any titles at the new Columbia," Rubin explains, as Kusatsu, the first person Rubin hired, slips a disc out of its sleeve. "I don't want to create a new hierarchy to replace the old hierarchy."
Rubin, wearing his usual uniform of loose khaki pants and billowing white T-shirt, his sunglasses in his pocket, his feet bare, fingers a string of lapis lazuli Buddhist prayer beads, believed to bring wisdom to the wearer. Since Rubin's beard and hair nearly cover his face, his voice, which is soft and reassuring, becomes that much more vivid. He seems to be one with the room, which is lined in floor-to-ceiling books, most of which are of a spiritual nature, whether about Buddhism, the Bible or New Age quests for enlightenment. The library and the house are filled with religious iconography mixed with mementos from the world of pop. A massive brass Buddha is flanked by equally enormous speakers; vintage cardboard cutouts of John, Paul, George a
no, this kills news websites (breitbart, apnews.myway.com, etc) that run nothing but wire stories. Currently, story selection etc is computer generated and supposedly fair. I suspect they'll set up something to do user news aggregation/selection/mashup (like drudge report) sooner or later.
Did you read the article? Google signed a deal with AFP to license/host AFP stories. They are on google now, not just excerpts.
Why should google redirect you to joe random's copy of the same AP story when they can display it themselves?
In a similar fashion, froogle/google products (and google in general) has a similar situation with dozens of e-commerce (often shitty osCommerce based) stores selling the same stuff from the same supplier, drop shippers, etc. Since google is an information company, they probably don't need to worry ... yet.
If this helps kills off websites that add no value, then good riddance.
I also have a 3G iPod. I replaced the battery a few months back, but it's otherwise been rock solid. I haven't considered buying another one. Until I took a close look at my fuck-buddy's video iPod. Thinner, full color screen, (I don't care so much about the new combined scrollwheel, though). I would impulse purchase an iPhone-ish iPod (depending on the features).
And how will you get that iPhone to begin with?
An analysis of the parts/suppliers suggested that they have a pretty decent profit margin on the iPhone even if it's never activated. The monthly revenue (they have a similar deal with AT&T) is a nice bonus but doesn't keep them from bleeding red ink.
I had high hopes when I started using picassa... I was hoping for something like iTunes for photos, where you could create virtual photo albums based on criteria (such as resolution, tags, date, etc) and do random slide shows (this is for porn, of course). Picassa is ass.
Google Earth! came from Keyhole and was originally written cross-platform with Qt. Picassa came from Idealabs (which is a big MS shop) and was written for Windows (there isn't a Macintosh version). Google has acquired a lot of random stuff so it's kind of a hodge podge.
like slashdot?
I just hope it's not chocolate rain!
The 6502 took 1 cycle per memory access. The 8086 took 4 cycles per memory access.