this guy is one of the biggest string-theory whores out there.
there was a period of time - late 90's - where string theory was in high vogue, and this guy was everywhere: those stephen hawking shows on pbs, tv news programs, he even spoke at a mit convocation i believe.
when i saw his name in the byline, i was somewhat surprised -- until i saw the section entitled "String theory to the rescue?"
invest in string theory! this guy needs to get paid!
the reason for a mono-culture when it comes to on-campus computing is that it's much more easier (and therefore cheaper) to support and maintain. dells preloaded with win2k is probably gonna be hard to beat, esp. considering that the students are gonna be working on computers similar to ~95% of the rest of the world.
even the big schools aren't immune to such mono-culturism. the mit computing environment has always been unix based (well, since multics =). for a long time i believe they used dec's, then sun's running solaris, and now linux on commoditized hardware (with few exceptions, i believe there is a small mac lab and a small windows lab). the fact of the matter is, the singular environment makes the life of I/S so much easier - and the students work in the environment that they'll most likely see after they graduate (as they are engineers we're talking *nix - so that they can run magic, matlab, hspice, all that good stuff).
at sloan (the b-school) i believe just about everyone uses windows-based laptops and that's what the I/S dept. supports there.
it's just a matter of balancing functionality and price.
of course, i would hope that students aren't barred from using whatever environment they wish at home - tho this probably isn't the case. at mit, alot of effort was made to make sure course-specific software was made available on a range of platforms. but that's a different matter altogether.
but part of the beauty of the tivo is that the software can be easily and automatically upgraded through self-initiated downloads. you could wake up one morning and BAM! HMO
personally i'm glad that they decided to release to market as soon as the hardware was ready. now they can devote the bulk of their resources to upgrading the software while ppl are already enjoying the features present in this product.
as a recent graduate of one of those MA schools, i have to say that a large percentage of my fellow classmates (myself included) have decided to stay in-state. although i'm sure there are many reasons for this, i can think of two off the top of my head.
1. those wishing to create new technology startups often times choose to start them near or around the school they came from - as it is a) familiar ground b) an easy place to cull slave labor/interns/new recruits (which means more people staying in state).
2. spending 4+ years in any one location (hopefully) means you are ensconced in an environment and community that one may be hesitant to leave. by leaving, i mean a city and its culture/people, not college life - leaving which is healthy and normal (nothing more sad than seeing a 26 yr old "professional" at an undergrad party)
this is very unlikely as, it has been reported widely in the past, apple makes VERY little in pure profit on sales of songs - on the order of a penny or two a track.
i believe steve has even been quoted as saying that they expect to make all their profit from this foray into the music biz with the iPod (with which they have HUGE margins).
so, your analogy is somewhat correct, only reversed.
i agree with the original parent.. if the iPod turns out to retail at $99, it's a volume play, pure and simple. but i doubt it'll happen b/c apple will try to maximize profit.. esp. since this is a new product. maybe in a coupla months, the price will drop if the volume isn't as high as expected.
SARS and ethnicity are completely separate entities but they are only linked by the abundance of Korean people (Asian areas in general) that are plagued by SARS right now. Don't misinterperate their comments as racially motivated.
first, you're right.. i dunno if that comment was racially motivated or not. but its up to writers (if they are in any way professional) to make sure that kind of thing isn't even a question.
second, according to the WHO, south korea has had only 3 probably cases reported with 0 deaths. this is as much as sweden, and less then the u.k. to make false judgements of a person based on their skin color soudns pretty racist to me.
from the article about the grilled cheese sandwhich:
Tucked away inside Kentia Hall -- more commonly referred to as SARS Central -- just a few yards away from the Korean Gaming Pavilion and that guy hocking Dragon Ball Z stickers was The Big Cheese.
emphasis added by me.
now even as a non-asian person, i find this remark to be quite offensive. in fairness to the writers of the article, the whole convention was likely dubbing the area "SARS Central" -- but that's just worse. at best it's a tasteless and inappropriate joke and at worst, it's a very racist remark. i'm really disappointed in gamespy.. i'm used to them producing higher quality articles that don't have to resort to racial slurs to keep readers reading.
i wish the article looked into how the gov't insured that evildoers are not able to illegally hack cards to increase their value (or start counterfeiting cards)..
the article did mention card refills, so it would seem the chip on the card is (re)writable.
one summer when i interned in the bay area, i was schocked to discover that there was a superfund site right across the street from the building where i worked. even more incredible was the fact that they were building an office building right on it!
a friend later told me that the area has alot of superfund sites due to the dumping of chemicals and pollutants that are byproducts of chip design and fab processes and other engineering type methods.
now i dunno the validity of this statement, but if parents are working on top of superfund sites being exposed to all kinds of wonderful chemicals, is it all to surprising that effects are showing up in their progeny?
so i'm guessing that this is the first iteration of this proc. (even tho from what i read, it just a stripped down version of the chips they use in their own servers). and that their roadmap indicates some kind of wild and crazy ramping up in chip speed (since 1.8GHz will be puny compared to whatever intel and amd have out by then). cuz that's the only way they'll stay competitive with x86 hoopla (unless somehow consumers magically understand the difference b/w chip clock and the speed of the chip
anyone know if ibm's powerpc architecture allows them to do this?
i'm personally waiting for next year's escape offering from ford.
it's an HEV and looks like it shares alot of the characteristics/fuel-saving properties of the ULEV honda civic. (hybrid, regenerative braking, etc)
it's only about 40 mpg, but that's still pretty impressive for an SUV when other big cars have ridiculous mileage (ie: escalade : 11 mpg).
i drove an escape for an entire summer once while i had a summer internship and they paid for it (sigh...those were the days), and that car is damned fun.
according to the "auspicious MIT Tech", the comic was attributed to the daughter of one of the professors/researchers working on the proposal. So the researchers only erred in trusting his daughter. Who's not guilty of that?
say goodbye to computer security as you know it.
what else is our there that can replace our current systems that are based on hard factorizations of large numbers?
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this guy is one of the biggest string-theory whores out there.
there was a period of time - late 90's - where string theory was in high vogue, and this guy was everywhere: those stephen hawking shows on pbs, tv news programs, he even spoke at a mit convocation i believe.
when i saw his name in the byline, i was somewhat surprised -- until i saw the section entitled "String theory to the rescue?"
invest in string theory! this guy needs to get paid!
.. a borg cube! it even has mini-cube satellites that make me think of decentralized systems (i know it's not, but that's what it makes me think of)
the reason for a mono-culture when it comes to on-campus computing is that it's much more easier (and therefore cheaper) to support and maintain. dells preloaded with win2k is probably gonna be hard to beat, esp. considering that the students are gonna be working on computers similar to ~95% of the rest of the world.
even the big schools aren't immune to such mono-culturism. the mit computing environment has always been unix based (well, since multics =). for a long time i believe they used dec's, then sun's running solaris, and now linux on commoditized hardware (with few exceptions, i believe there is a small mac lab and a small windows lab). the fact of the matter is, the singular environment makes the life of I/S so much easier - and the students work in the environment that they'll most likely see after they graduate (as they are engineers we're talking *nix - so that they can run magic, matlab, hspice, all that good stuff).
at sloan (the b-school) i believe just about everyone uses windows-based laptops and that's what the I/S dept. supports there.
it's just a matter of balancing functionality and price.
of course, i would hope that students aren't barred from using whatever environment they wish at home - tho this probably isn't the case. at mit, alot of effort was made to make sure course-specific software was made available on a range of platforms. but that's a different matter altogether.
from the links, i'd have to agree with you.
but part of the beauty of the tivo is that the software can be easily and automatically upgraded through self-initiated downloads. you could wake up one morning and BAM! HMO
personally i'm glad that they decided to release to market as soon as the hardware was ready. now they can devote the bulk of their resources to upgrading the software while ppl are already enjoying the features present in this product.
as a recent graduate of one of those MA schools, i have to say that a large percentage of my fellow classmates (myself included) have decided to stay in-state. although i'm sure there are many reasons for this, i can think of two off the top of my head.
1. those wishing to create new technology startups often times choose to start them near or around the school they came from - as it is a) familiar ground b) an easy place to cull slave labor/interns/new recruits (which means more people staying in state).
2. spending 4+ years in any one location (hopefully) means you are ensconced in an environment and community that one may be hesitant to leave. by leaving, i mean a city and its culture/people, not college life - leaving which is healthy and normal (nothing more sad than seeing a 26 yr old "professional" at an undergrad party)
this is very unlikely as, it has been reported widely in the past, apple makes VERY little in pure profit on sales of songs - on the order of a penny or two a track. i believe steve has even been quoted as saying that they expect to make all their profit from this foray into the music biz with the iPod (with which they have HUGE margins). so, your analogy is somewhat correct, only reversed. i agree with the original parent .. if the iPod turns out to retail at $99, it's a volume play, pure and simple. but i doubt it'll happen b/c apple will try to maximize profit .. esp. since this is a new product. maybe in a coupla months, the price will drop if the volume isn't as high as expected.
Of course, there's still a long way to go before the automotive industry is using it, but it is good news nonetheless.
.. maybe call this "mr. hydrogen" instead?
anyone else get the image of doc brown tossing in some banana peels and beer into "mr. fusion"??
they could probably ask the ppl who set up bryant park in manhattan.
SARS and ethnicity are completely separate entities but they are only linked by the abundance of Korean people (Asian areas in general) that are plagued by SARS right now. Don't misinterperate their comments as racially motivated.
.. i dunno if that comment was racially motivated or not. but its up to writers (if they are in any way professional) to make sure that kind of thing isn't even a question.
first, you're right
second, according to the WHO, south korea has had only 3 probably cases reported with 0 deaths. this is as much as sweden, and less then the u.k. to make false judgements of a person based on their skin color soudns pretty racist to me.
from the article about the grilled cheese sandwhich:
.. i'm used to them producing higher quality articles that don't have to resort to racial slurs to keep readers reading.
Tucked away inside Kentia Hall -- more commonly referred to as SARS Central -- just a few yards away from the Korean Gaming Pavilion and that guy hocking Dragon Ball Z stickers was The Big Cheese.
emphasis added by me.
now even as a non-asian person, i find this remark to be quite offensive. in fairness to the writers of the article, the whole convention was likely dubbing the area "SARS Central" -- but that's just worse. at best it's a tasteless and inappropriate joke and at worst, it's a very racist remark. i'm really disappointed in gamespy
i wish the article looked into how the gov't insured that evildoers are not able to illegally hack cards to increase their value (or start counterfeiting cards) ..
the article did mention card refills, so it would seem the chip on the card is (re)writable.
but the korean girls are HOT
that is, when they're not pelting you with rocks. "yankee go home!"
try googlism.
usually more fun (but less accurate/informative).
hmm..i just ordered the T720 from T-Mobile
does anyone know if T-Mobile uses J2ME or BREW?
a chance to get back at slashdot editors and give them a taste of their own medicine.
melt malda's server to the ground!
this is the dumbest post i have ever seen. and no, i'm not new here. someone mod that down! (this one too)
one summer when i interned in the bay area, i was schocked to discover that there was a superfund site right across the street from the building where i worked. even more incredible was the fact that they were building an office building right on it!
a friend later told me that the area has alot of superfund sites due to the dumping of chemicals and pollutants that are byproducts of chip design and fab processes and other engineering type methods.
now i dunno the validity of this statement, but if parents are working on top of superfund sites being exposed to all kinds of wonderful chemicals, is it all to surprising that effects are showing up in their progeny?
so i'm guessing that this is the first iteration of this proc. (even tho from what i read, it just a stripped down version of the chips they use in their own servers). and that their roadmap indicates some kind of wild and crazy ramping up in chip speed (since 1.8GHz will be puny compared to whatever intel and amd have out by then). cuz that's the only way they'll stay competitive with x86 hoopla (unless somehow consumers magically understand the difference b/w chip clock and the speed of the chip
anyone know if ibm's powerpc architecture allows them to do this?
haha, i find it amusing that you prioritized putting a ps2 signal on your monitor over your little bro.
i thought blood was thicker than a vga signal.
i guess not.
I think the real question is, what would Jesus do to be on Slashdot?
Kill the trolls.
or rather, save them.
i'm personally waiting for next year's escape offering from ford.
it's an HEV and looks like it shares alot of the characteristics/fuel-saving properties of the ULEV honda civic. (hybrid, regenerative braking, etc)
it's only about 40 mpg, but that's still pretty impressive for an SUV when other big cars have ridiculous mileage (ie: escalade : 11 mpg).
i drove an escape for an entire summer once while i had a summer internship and they paid for it (sigh...those were the days), and that car is damned fun.
according to the "auspicious MIT Tech", the comic was attributed to the daughter of one of the professors/researchers working on the proposal. So the researchers only erred in trusting his daughter. Who's not guilty of that?
again...the geeks have fulfilled your dreams
fun stuff.
seen on slahsdot before, i believe.
say goodbye to computer security as you know it. what else is our there that can replace our current systems that are based on hard factorizations of large numbers?