First there's all the stories about comic book movies aimed at 12-year olds, now we're getting spammed about another crappy film you couldn't pay me to see, written by what seems to be a third-grader. Since when did Slashdot become "news for nerds with room temperature IQs?"
Looks like Juno got the short end of the design stick. Where the other two characters got custom beards, tools and whatnot...she got flowing hair and a frying pan?
It is clear that going from 10-20 is twice as much as going 20-30....But in my head 20-40 also seems like twice as much.
Let's say you're traveling 240 miles. At 10mpg, you use 24g. At 20mpg, you use 12g. At 30mpg, you use 8g. At 40mpg, you use 6g. At 80mpg, you use 3g.
By bumping from 10mpg to 20mpg you're saving HALF the gas originally required. But no matter how much more you improve efficiency, you'll never be able to save all of the other half.
In other words, the poster's point was that you run into diminishing returns pretty quickly: the first 10mpg saves you half the original gas, but it takes another 20mpg to save another quarter of the original gas. And another 40 mpg to save another eighth of the original gas. (Make sense?)
Deputy head of Roskosmos space agency Vitaly Davydov said: "We will deorbit the International Space Station...unless you give us (duhn duhn da) one MILLION dollars!"
Sorry - that was the first thought in my head this morning.
outgoing federal CIO Vivek Kundra said the same IT contractors keep getting government business not because they are necessarily providing the best technology, but because they understand the procurement system. He described it as almost an "IT cartel" within federal IT.
...and you fixed that...how? Don't let the door hit you on the ass...
Perhaps peer code reviews were less important 30 years ago. The constraints around running code were much tighter. There were fewer layers in the stack where bugs could lurk. Memory was scarce, instruction sets were limited. Computer applications were like my 1973 AMC Gremlin: fewer moving parts, so it was easier to see which parts weren't working correctly and predict when they would fail.
Welcome to the industry, Chris. This might have been the funniest thing I read all week.
The "if I don't make it out of here alive" comment, the use of such a public forum, shooting at the cops and the eventual self-inflicted shot to the chest make me think he was trying "suicide by police".
$100 says that Facebook will shortly come out with an "emergency channel" that police and other emergency crews can use to "break in" and talk to anyone, regardless of friend status.
IBM = Innovator? Not in my lifetime.
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IBM as an innovator? Didn't see that coming.
When I was growing up, it was the Personal Computer revolution, led by Microsoft, Apple and (for a while) Commodore. IBM missed the boat on what PCs meant to corporate computing and let something called a "server" into the datacenter as a result. In response, IBM retreated and launched its insanely profitable services division built around...wait for it...selling other people's innovations ("best of breed" solutions). And then there was the world wide web.
Anyway, while there have been some gimmicks (the chess-playing computer, the Jeopardy-playing computer), as long as I've been around (thirty-some years), IBM is not what I think when someone says "innovation".
So, we get this story about servers being cooled by "fresh air" at the same time the same data center is being derided for pulling most of its energy from coal-fired plants. (http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/17/youre-so-coal-trying-to-shame-facebook/)
I'm not saying Facebook is evil here, but this story looks like a PR plant do downplay the environmental concerns here.
...such as 2001's HQ3X (http://www.hiend3d.com/hq3x.html) which both awesome and as common as dirt ten years later.
Article author Sebastian Anthony looks like a tech nitwit with the "at long last, we might be able to play Super Mario Bros. on a big screen without stretching our beloved plumber's pixels to breaking point" comment.
I call shenanigans. The username of this "Windows developer" is "javaman". He names the major Windows dev and SQL Server brands but doesn't mention Azure. He refers to "continuous integration" but pretends that setting up SQL Server is hard. Methinks this is a plant...though I'm not sure for what.
Every try to talk your government? They'll send you to a website.
Ever file taxes? It's a two-tier system where electronic filers get their money from the government regardless of shutdowns while paper filers wait.
Under these circumstances, yes, it seems right to expect the government that demands people use Internet services provide Internet services to those who otherwise could not participate.
I'm a 6-figure making Virgin Mobile pay-as-you-go (month to month fixed price) customer. I lay out $25/mo for an unlimited data plan and 300 voice minutes. I use the data plan like a rented mule - voice only occasionally.
Only chumps pay more. Cell phone contracts are for the weak-of-mind who think that their modern-day beeper is some kind of status symbol.
There might be something to be learned from the spiller. Rather than wasting anyone's time to "clean up" a "bogged down" desktop, it sounds like at least one of your users would have been perfectly happy with an annual drive wipe. There might be more like her.
It was also "all over" Slashdot...last week...
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It was also "all over" Slashdot...last week. Is this what happens when editors go on vacation?
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The moon never pulls shit like this.
(Apologies to The Onion - kind of sad when that site beats SlashDot to news like this.)
Plus Apes wreck stuff. It's pretty awesome.
First there's all the stories about comic book movies aimed at 12-year olds, now we're getting spammed about another crappy film you couldn't pay me to see, written by what seems to be a third-grader. Since when did Slashdot become "news for nerds with room temperature IQs?"
a magnifying glass, because she can "peer into the heart of Jupiter"
Then they should have made that part out of transparent aluminum. ;)
Looks like Juno got the short end of the design stick. Where the other two characters got custom beards, tools and whatnot...she got flowing hair and a frying pan?
Burn energy to save energy - what's not to like?
But seriously - this is a cool idea. When the price drops to around $2-3 an outlet, I'll outfit my house.
Google+ is and will be useless to Google Apps users like me until Google gets its stuff together.
Please quit with the Google+ hype and get back to the labs!!!
It is clear that going from 10-20 is twice as much as going 20-30....But in my head 20-40 also seems like twice as much.
Let's say you're traveling 240 miles.
At 10mpg, you use 24g.
At 20mpg, you use 12g.
At 30mpg, you use 8g.
At 40mpg, you use 6g.
At 80mpg, you use 3g.
By bumping from 10mpg to 20mpg you're saving HALF the gas originally required. But no matter how much more you improve efficiency, you'll never be able to save all of the other half.
In other words, the poster's point was that you run into diminishing returns pretty quickly: the first 10mpg saves you half the original gas, but it takes another 20mpg to save another quarter of the original gas. And another 40 mpg to save another eighth of the original gas. (Make sense?)
Deputy head of Roskosmos space agency Vitaly Davydov said: "We will deorbit the International Space Station...unless you give us (duhn duhn da) one MILLION dollars!"
Sorry - that was the first thought in my head this morning.
outgoing federal CIO Vivek Kundra said the same IT contractors keep getting government business not because they are necessarily providing the best technology, but because they understand the procurement system. He described it as almost an "IT cartel" within federal IT.
...and you fixed that...how? Don't let the door hit you on the ass...
Perhaps peer code reviews were less important 30 years ago. The constraints around running code were much tighter. There were fewer layers in the stack where bugs could lurk. Memory was scarce, instruction sets were limited. Computer applications were like my 1973 AMC Gremlin: fewer moving parts, so it was easier to see which parts weren't working correctly and predict when they would fail.
Welcome to the industry, Chris. This might have been the funniest thing I read all week.
The "if I don't make it out of here alive" comment, the use of such a public forum, shooting at the cops and the eventual self-inflicted shot to the chest make me think he was trying "suicide by police".
$100 says that Facebook will shortly come out with an "emergency channel" that police and other emergency crews can use to "break in" and talk to anyone, regardless of friend status.
IBM as an innovator? Didn't see that coming.
When I was growing up, it was the Personal Computer revolution, led by Microsoft, Apple and (for a while) Commodore. IBM missed the boat on what PCs meant to corporate computing and let something called a "server" into the datacenter as a result. In response, IBM retreated and launched its insanely profitable services division built around...wait for it...selling other people's innovations ("best of breed" solutions). And then there was the world wide web.
Anyway, while there have been some gimmicks (the chess-playing computer, the Jeopardy-playing computer), as long as I've been around (thirty-some years), IBM is not what I think when someone says "innovation".
How will your business change when countries regulate exchanges?
How do you ensure your exchange isn't being used for illicit purposes (to avoid being shut down by government authorities)?
e.g., http://wnflam.com/news/articles/2011/jun/08/senators-seek-crackdown-on-bitcoin-currency/
See comment on "testing" - if we simply targeted standards, we'd never deliver product.
BTW, this happens in other industries too. Life is harder than college - get used to it.
So, we get this story about servers being cooled by "fresh air" at the same time the same data center is being derided for pulling most of its energy from coal-fired plants. (http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/17/youre-so-coal-trying-to-shame-facebook/)
I'm not saying Facebook is evil here, but this story looks like a PR plant do downplay the environmental concerns here.
...such as 2001's HQ3X (http://www.hiend3d.com/hq3x.html) which both awesome and as common as dirt ten years later.
Article author Sebastian Anthony looks like a tech nitwit with the "at long last, we might be able to play Super Mario Bros. on a big screen without stretching our beloved plumber's pixels to breaking point" comment.
This is news? Anyone else run a NES on those dozen or so emulators that already has pixel-smoothing options?
I call shenanigans. The username of this "Windows developer" is "javaman". He names the major Windows dev and SQL Server brands but doesn't mention Azure. He refers to "continuous integration" but pretends that setting up SQL Server is hard. Methinks this is a plant...though I'm not sure for what.
Note that the actual paper appears to be behind some crappy paywall
Then don't post it until you find a reference w/o a paywall. Period.
Like Amazon. Three years later. And costs more?
Yawn. Wake me up when the world realizes these are ultracommodities and the real price wars begin.
Zzz...animated gifs...zzz...1997...zzz...256 colors...zzzzzzz....
Please. Wake me up when we've invented animated PNGs.
Every try to talk your government? They'll send you to a website.
Ever file taxes? It's a two-tier system where electronic filers get their money from the government regardless of shutdowns while paper filers wait.
Under these circumstances, yes, it seems right to expect the government that demands people use Internet services provide Internet services to those who otherwise could not participate.
I'm a 6-figure making Virgin Mobile pay-as-you-go (month to month fixed price) customer. I lay out $25/mo for an unlimited data plan and 300 voice minutes. I use the data plan like a rented mule - voice only occasionally.
Only chumps pay more. Cell phone contracts are for the weak-of-mind who think that their modern-day beeper is some kind of status symbol.
There might be something to be learned from the spiller. Rather than wasting anyone's time to "clean up" a "bogged down" desktop, it sounds like at least one of your users would have been perfectly happy with an annual drive wipe. There might be more like her.
It was also "all over" Slashdot...last week. Is this what happens when editors go on vacation?