OK, we all know Gates is the biggest douchebag in Silicon Valley, but who would win in a fight: Larry Paige & Sergey Brin vs. Gates & Ballmer?
I'm fairly certain Paige would thoroughly pound Gates into the floor; but Ballmer is really freakin' scary. That one I'm not so sure of. I'm picturing Ballmer being able to take out both Paige and Brin at the same time.
Then again, Ballmer having Gates as a tag team partner would actually be a hinderence, so I'm thinking Paige and Brin would just barely be able to People's Elbow his ass into submission.
What always amazes me about the Mozilla Foundation is the push to support the newest and latest.
Now everybody might be thinking this is good for security and all; but I like it because of other reasons: namely because it allows to me exude tech eliteness amongst normal Windows users. Yep, I'm serious. I'm an IT admin, and people will tell me, "Dude, how do I stop spyware?" What do I say?
I preach Firefoxism and nobody can argue back. What can they say? Um, IE has really awesome, um...Active-something controls...which causes the spyware in my computer to make my machine inoperable...um...yeah. It's great. And no matter what Microsoft puts out, it'll always be one step behind! Thanks Mozilla!
Why would they do that? I think the last company did that was Sega, and look where they are now. Last I heard, they were having trouble with their financial situation.
I don't know if I actually believe anti-trust laws are a good thing. I mean, let's take a look at the market, Intel had the crown in the beginning for a long time; then AMD put out something better (Athlon) and for a while, people were flocking towards AMD (be it for the cheaper prices or the underdog appeal).
During those times when the cut-throat competition between Intel and AMD brought about great changes on processor speed and performance (remember how fast we went from 266Mhz to 1Ghz?) it seemed there wasn't any need for lawsuits.
Now innovation is getting pretty stale and all of a sudden, we're seeing the lawsuits. Don't get me wrong, I use AMD for all my rigs; but is there really a need for the anti-trust laws today? The next company to build the better processor will get their advantage, instead of just watching who will win the next lawsuit.
First was IBM's results claiming Linux TCO was lowest, now it doesn't matter!?
OK, let's base it off something else...maybe security? Oh wait, I got it, who has the easiest to configure applications?
No...it has to be something more. Maybe we should see who has the better mascot. I think that's Linux, considering Windows doesn't really have a mascot; although personally I think I'd vote for Windows is their mascot was a caricature of Bill Gates getting pied in the face.
The WinXP user in me takes graphics and gui for granted. You turn on your PC and it just works, no matter what.
But when I run Linux, that isn't necessarily true. I've run Redhat, Mandrake, Fedora, and just last week, Kubuntu. It's always "just worked" for me, until I installed Kubuntu. I threw it on an old IBM laptop, and I couldn't connect to the X server for the life of me. Well, after several hours spent on Google Groups, I finally found the solution: my.conf file had the wrong PCI Bus address.
After fixing that, all worked wonderfully! Any of you who know X well enough to be able to do anything with it, props to you. Especially those developers who made it possible to just throw an install CD into a PC and have it automatically detect all the drivers AND set up X correctly. Very cool.
Are you kidding? That's what they said about "WebTV".
Besides, who wants to listen to a EULA agreement when you try to call up your grandma in Michigan? Or how would you exactly Ctrl+Alt+Delete a M$ VOIP Blue Screen of Death...wait, how exactly would you even KNOW it was a blue screen of death. I suppose they would call it the "White Noise of Imminent Demise".
When will the stupidity stop? It seems that everybody is out to patent everything that can't be patented. Hell, I bet you Apple/Creative/Nintendo is filing a patent for my comment!
Seriously, is there even a legitimate reason anymore for the USPTO? Talk about anti-free-market and stifling innovation.
That two "regular" guys like Tycho and Gabe have been able to become such icons in the gaming industry. I'm glad to see that it's more than just a few giant companies making all the rules when it comes to the form of entertainment I remember best during my childhood.
as the need for a Firefox or IE is almost eliminated...
I'm not really sure who uses Google Desktop; I certainly don't. I had the last version for about a week, and then I got bored with it. This is true for about 90% of the things I find online. Plus, what Google is doing now is starting to be the same thing Microsoft has been doing for the last few years: trying to get their hands into everything.
It's only a matter of time and probable lawsuits before the geek community starts to have a little falling out over this love affair we all seem to have with Google.
*Year 2007: Commence with the pie'ing Paige and Brin jokes.
Not only will we see a race for space weapons, but we're going to see the re-surfacing of a once-extinct Druidic cult form who can wield cosmic powers, which shall remain nameless right now.
Slowly there will form a federation of merchants and traders while the rest of the population will join a vast intergalactic republic.
Then somebody will start marketing Jar Jar Binks lunchboxes, and everything will go to hell.
So, are you saying that an experienced coder will not look at the "code", but the structure?
This makes sense. I remember that e-mail that asks you to read:
Teh qicuk bowrn fox jmups oevr teh dog.
and magically, we know what it is. There's no deciphering of letters or rearranging. We know what it is because we don't actually read the words, we just read the structure (the first and last letter intact).
One major new angle is using the results from studies in cognitive psychology to try and figure out how developers comprehend code.
I believe that developers comprehend code just like a computer, one line at a time. We store things in memory (short-term memory) and "run" them through our minds, simulating what the computer might do. Of course, our human syntax checkers can sometime don't catch, but the logic is there.
I've always thought that there must be a better way to write high-level code than writing a large code using snippets of simple logic. Of course, we can only write code similarily to the way our minds work. When we solve problems, we just don't think about it and it happens, we run through several scenarios, if-then situations, and logic tests before we come to conclusions.
The better question is how to get a computer to produce code autonomously by asking it the final objective. For example, it would be nice to have the computer figure out the "how" as opposed to us programming it in.
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The Mafia coerces businesses in order to make money. They will offer "protection", "special services", or "special status" in order to "help" the business. Of course, they make a ton of cash for these services.
The government "helps" businesses in order to ensure "economic liberty". They offer "protection (subsidizing)", "special services (special interest legislation)", or "special status (anti-trust laws)" in order to "help" the business. Of course, they make a ton of cash for these services.
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I would've driven around a USB-powered scooter that is connected somehow, fantastically, to a Beowulf cluster.
I know I'm lame, but I'm consistent, and lame.
That's why we have harpooons.
...for Jon Stewart. Folks say that man has been known to cease CrossFires that are just full of hot air. ATI had better deliver.
OK, we all know Gates is the biggest douchebag in Silicon Valley, but who would win in a fight: Larry Paige & Sergey Brin vs. Gates & Ballmer?
I'm fairly certain Paige would thoroughly pound Gates into the floor; but Ballmer is really freakin' scary. That one I'm not so sure of. I'm picturing Ballmer being able to take out both Paige and Brin at the same time.
Then again, Ballmer having Gates as a tag team partner would actually be a hinderence, so I'm thinking Paige and Brin would just barely be able to People's Elbow his ass into submission.
What always amazes me about the Mozilla Foundation is the push to support the newest and latest.
Now everybody might be thinking this is good for security and all; but I like it because of other reasons: namely because it allows to me exude tech eliteness amongst normal Windows users. Yep, I'm serious. I'm an IT admin, and people will tell me, "Dude, how do I stop spyware?" What do I say?
I preach Firefoxism and nobody can argue back. What can they say? Um, IE has really awesome, um...Active-something controls...which causes the spyware in my computer to make my machine inoperable...um...yeah. It's great. And no matter what Microsoft puts out, it'll always be one step behind! Thanks Mozilla!
Why would they do that? I think the last company did that was Sega, and look where they are now. Last I heard, they were having trouble with their financial situation.
Let's get retarded.
I don't know if I actually believe anti-trust laws are a good thing. I mean, let's take a look at the market, Intel had the crown in the beginning for a long time; then AMD put out something better (Athlon) and for a while, people were flocking towards AMD (be it for the cheaper prices or the underdog appeal).
During those times when the cut-throat competition between Intel and AMD brought about great changes on processor speed and performance (remember how fast we went from 266Mhz to 1Ghz?) it seemed there wasn't any need for lawsuits.
Now innovation is getting pretty stale and all of a sudden, we're seeing the lawsuits. Don't get me wrong, I use AMD for all my rigs; but is there really a need for the anti-trust laws today? The next company to build the better processor will get their advantage, instead of just watching who will win the next lawsuit.
First was IBM's results claiming Linux TCO was lowest, now it doesn't matter!?
OK, let's base it off something else...maybe security? Oh wait, I got it, who has the easiest to configure applications?
No...it has to be something more. Maybe we should see who has the better mascot. I think that's Linux, considering Windows doesn't really have a mascot; although personally I think I'd vote for Windows is their mascot was a caricature of Bill Gates getting pied in the face.
Actually, I know that's an exaggeration; however (in my experience), I see more CEO's screaming ROI, than I do TCO.
To them, I suppose they see everything as similar, and "What's going to make my company stand out?".
...that makes my WinXP resemble my Linux box...but without all of those neat little security features and everything.
The WinXP user in me takes graphics and gui for granted. You turn on your PC and it just works, no matter what.
.conf file had the wrong PCI Bus address.
But when I run Linux, that isn't necessarily true. I've run Redhat, Mandrake, Fedora, and just last week, Kubuntu. It's always "just worked" for me, until I installed Kubuntu. I threw it on an old IBM laptop, and I couldn't connect to the X server for the life of me. Well, after several hours spent on Google Groups, I finally found the solution: my
After fixing that, all worked wonderfully! Any of you who know X well enough to be able to do anything with it, props to you. Especially those developers who made it possible to just throw an install CD into a PC and have it automatically detect all the drivers AND set up X correctly. Very cool.
Are you kidding? That's what they said about "WebTV".
Besides, who wants to listen to a EULA agreement when you try to call up your grandma in Michigan? Or how would you exactly Ctrl+Alt+Delete a M$ VOIP Blue Screen of Death...wait, how exactly would you even KNOW it was a blue screen of death. I suppose they would call it the "White Noise of Imminent Demise".
When will the stupidity stop? It seems that everybody is out to patent everything that can't be patented. Hell, I bet you Apple/Creative/Nintendo is filing a patent for my comment!
Seriously, is there even a legitimate reason anymore for the USPTO? Talk about anti-free-market and stifling innovation.
That two "regular" guys like Tycho and Gabe have been able to become such icons in the gaming industry. I'm glad to see that it's more than just a few giant companies making all the rules when it comes to the form of entertainment I remember best during my childhood.
as the need for a Firefox or IE is almost eliminated...
I'm not really sure who uses Google Desktop; I certainly don't. I had the last version for about a week, and then I got bored with it. This is true for about 90% of the things I find online. Plus, what Google is doing now is starting to be the same thing Microsoft has been doing for the last few years: trying to get their hands into everything.
It's only a matter of time and probable lawsuits before the geek community starts to have a little falling out over this love affair we all seem to have with Google.
*Year 2007: Commence with the pie'ing Paige and Brin jokes.
Yes, Microsoft PR had a look at his answers before he sent them.
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Not only will we see a race for space weapons, but we're going to see the re-surfacing of a once-extinct Druidic cult form who can wield cosmic powers, which shall remain nameless right now.
Slowly there will form a federation of merchants and traders while the rest of the population will join a vast intergalactic republic.
Then somebody will start marketing Jar Jar Binks lunchboxes, and everything will go to hell.
Nah, my idea is better. Re-wire a retina scanner to output a DVD stream, and then you've got the BIGGEST picture of them all.
Although I did see Matrix 3 in the IMAX, and it was a little scary to see Morpheus's face. I mean, the dude had like 2-foot pores!
Finally, now not only can I hook up wirelessly and access the net from anywhere, but I can hook up wirelessly AND be trendy and sexy at the same time!
Props to Apple for making me cool!
So, are you saying that an experienced coder will not look at the "code", but the structure?
This makes sense. I remember that e-mail that asks you to read:
Teh qicuk bowrn fox jmups oevr teh dog.
and magically, we know what it is. There's no deciphering of letters or rearranging. We know what it is because we don't actually read the words, we just read the structure (the first and last letter intact).
One major new angle is using the results from studies in cognitive psychology to try and figure out how developers comprehend code.
I believe that developers comprehend code just like a computer, one line at a time. We store things in memory (short-term memory) and "run" them through our minds, simulating what the computer might do. Of course, our human syntax checkers can sometime don't catch, but the logic is there.
I've always thought that there must be a better way to write high-level code than writing a large code using snippets of simple logic. Of course, we can only write code similarily to the way our minds work. When we solve problems, we just don't think about it and it happens, we run through several scenarios, if-then situations, and logic tests before we come to conclusions.
The better question is how to get a computer to produce code autonomously by asking it the final objective. For example, it would be nice to have the computer figure out the "how" as opposed to us programming it in.
but I nearly fell off my chair when I read...
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Ronald Dumsfeld...hilarious!
If you told the robot:
rm -f *
The Mafia coerces businesses in order to make money. They will offer "protection", "special services", or "special status" in order to "help" the business. Of course, they make a ton of cash for these services.
The government "helps" businesses in order to ensure "economic liberty". They offer "protection (subsidizing)", "special services (special interest legislation)", or "special status (anti-trust laws)" in order to "help" the business. Of course, they make a ton of cash for these services.
The difference? One is legal, and one isn't.