The comments there are mixed... I sided with the ones who said that it was a great story, which could have used a little more polish...
I liked it because it was close to home: in the IT world, and revolving around the perils of being a startup. (I was involved with a couple of startups who were,at the time, trying to get their "First $20 million" - this was in 2002, after the tech bust).
I picked up my copy of the book for AU$3 at a market stall here in Melbourne... then went back the next week to pick up a few more copies to circulate around my friends... Those who were final-year EE students and those running the startups... Only one negative reaction to it...
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/Recently watched The First $20 Million is Always the Hardest - dumb movie...
Haven't seen the movie, but I have read the book... it was a fun read. I heard that the movie played more on the romance and less on the tech; is that true? If so, then I'd be inclined to agree with you... the good part of the book was following the trials and tribulations of Andy and the crew... I thought that Alisa was an "extra" in the story...
Page 7 of 10-Q (Page 12 of the PDF) lists the following revenue sources for the nine months ended September 30, 2004:
Google Web Sites Advertising Revenue: 1,058,645 thousand dollars Google Network Web Sites Ad Revenue: 1,064,263 thousand dollars
Total Advertising Revenue: 2,122,908 thousand dollars Licencing and other Revenues: 34,814 thousand dollars
Total Revenues: 2,157,722 thousand dollars
So, out of their $2.1 billion revenue in nine months last year, just $35 million was from licencing their "very very good technology" and the other $2.1 billion was from advertising... I think that they probably classify as an "advertising company"...
This really came "full circle" a few years back in a bunch of lawsuits nicknamed "Sony vs Sony". See this cNet article for details.
(The gist of it: Sony Music, as a member of the RIAA was up against the Consumer Electronics Association, of which Sony Electronics is a member, as well as some companies which Sony is an investor...)
And a different question: Why would you compile with different options in the test and production builds? That would kind of invalidate the testing.
You shouldn't compile with different options between test and production, but you should do so (for things like -DDEBUG) between dev and test... developers need their extra debugging statements, and asserts, but they interfere with appropriate user interfacing in production.
As I see it, the steps are: 1. Develop 2. Test in production mimiced environment with -DDEBUG (still part of development phase) 3. Hand off to QA phase to test in production mimiced environment without -DDEBUG ("production version") 4. Release "production version" to production.
Say if I am logged into a secure website, when I switch back I will need to relogin.
That seems unlikely... When I get on to the folks' XP machine at home, fast user switching saves state fine... Sure, if you remain switched for some time, some sites may auto-logout, but that's not the fault of the switch... If you switch, do something, then switch back (like someone wants to check her email, while you're updating something for another user) returning has always worked for me...
I agree with you about the slowness of it all though... And I don't choose XP for my laptop.
There are several - I usually go to http://www.linux.org/dist/index.html and select the "LiveCD" Category. This suggests a range of options, each with different advantages. I try out a new one every few months, just to get some variety.
One I tried recently, which is close to your needs is FeatherLinux (http://featherlinux.berlios.de/). I'm not sure about XL/Powerpoint in the default install, but it can install OpenOffice if you wish.
$ bc bc 1.06 Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. For details type `warranty'. 0.015*983571056 14753565.840 scale= 6 65000/983571056.000066
That's 14 million feet in 15 milliseconds - or 66 microseconds propagation delay for 65K feet.
Agreed... Visual Basic (as a language) is not evil - but:
* it allows clueless people to make evil programs. * it is owned and manipulated by an evil entity.
I've written plenty of non-evil programs in VB, and even some in Flash. It's just that I've seen far far more garbage in VB and Flash, because brain-dead people can actually write programs in those languages.
In summary, I think that VB and Flash are worthwhile tools, and that this (embedded systems) is actually the RIGHT place to be using Flash. It's just that those of us who have a clue should be spared the agony of dealing with the products of those who don't know any better.
Cold fusion refers to fusion taking place at temperatures almost a million times colder than that - around room temperature, 25 degrees Celsius.
An interesting cold fusion product is available from Clean Energy Technologies Inc. A news article about is found here: http://www.padrak.com/ine/CFARNOSIX.html.
And what's sad is that I'm sitting in the same university that's hosting the conference, and this is the first I'm hearing of it...
Just rechecked my staff email, to see if I even got one of those global emails that everyone ignores which mentioned it, but there's no reference to it...
I suspect that JanneM was accusing the AC of whining in responding to you - the AC was the one who was accusing you of whining about US-centrism (which you didn't mention).
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That was probably Hotjava ... It has been EOL'd now...x .html
http://java.sun.com/products/archive/hotjava/inde
As a side note, the current version of the Java FAQ lists the current version of HotJava as 1.1beta1...
http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/faq.html#A6
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0380 816245/qid=1107159582/sr=1-4/ref=sr_1_4/104-160977 3-7938347?v=glance&s=books
The comments there are mixed... I sided with the ones who said that it was a great story, which could have used a little more polish...
I liked it because it was close to home: in the IT world, and revolving around the perils of being a startup. (I was involved with a couple of startups who were,at the time, trying to get their "First $20 million" - this was in 2002, after the tech bust).
I picked up my copy of the book for AU$3 at a market stall here in Melbourne... then went back the next week to pick up a few more copies to circulate around my friends... Those who were final-year EE students and those running the startups... Only one negative reaction to it...
/Recently watched The First $20 Million is Always the Hardest - dumb movie...
Haven't seen the movie, but I have read the book... it was a fun read. I heard that the movie played more on the romance and less on the tech; is that true? If so, then I'd be inclined to agree with you... the good part of the book was following the trials and tribulations of Andy and the crew... I thought that Alisa was an "extra" in the story...
Between the constant misspellings and duplicate articles, it hurts slashdot... ...
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Life is too short to proofread.
Irony (n): Signing off with a sig which is in direct contrast to your main argument...
Page 7 of 10-Q (Page 12 of the PDF) lists the following revenue sources for the nine months ended September 30, 2004:So, out of their $2.1 billion revenue in nine months last year, just $35 million was from licencing their "very very good technology" and the other $2.1 billion was from advertising
This really came "full circle" a few years back in a bunch of lawsuits nicknamed "Sony vs Sony". See this cNet article for details.
(The gist of it: Sony Music, as a member of the RIAA was up against the Consumer Electronics Association, of which Sony Electronics is a member, as well as some companies which Sony is an investor...)
And a different question: Why would you compile with different options in the test and production builds? That would kind of invalidate the testing.
You shouldn't compile with different options between test and production, but you should do so (for things like -DDEBUG) between dev and test... developers need their extra debugging statements, and asserts, but they interfere with appropriate user interfacing in production.
As I see it, the steps are:
1. Develop
2. Test in production mimiced environment with -DDEBUG (still part of development phase)
3. Hand off to QA phase to test in production mimiced environment without -DDEBUG ("production version")
4. Release "production version" to production.
(obligatory...
5. ???
6. CODE NIRVANA! )
Say if I am logged into a secure website, when I switch back I will need to relogin.
That seems unlikely... When I get on to the folks' XP machine at home, fast user switching saves state fine... Sure, if you remain switched for some time, some sites may auto-logout, but that's not the fault of the switch... If you switch, do something, then switch back (like someone wants to check her email, while you're updating something for another user) returning has always worked for me...
I agree with you about the slowness of it all though... And I don't choose XP for my laptop.
There are several - I usually go to http://www.linux.org/dist/index.html and select the "LiveCD" Category. This suggests a range of options, each with different advantages. I try out a new one every few months, just to get some variety.
One I tried recently, which is close to your needs is FeatherLinux (http://featherlinux.berlios.de/). I'm not sure about XL/Powerpoint in the default install, but it can install OpenOffice if you wish.
A nano-light second is a foot...
That's very good... despite seeing the number and being mathematically inclined, I didn't notice the simplification...
I'll put it down to being a metric system kid, and leave it at that...
And let's not forget, the ultimate winner - the High-tech Low-tech Pervert!
http://www.google.com.au/search?q=speed+of+light+i n+feet+per+second
= 6 .000066
the speed of light = 983 571 056 feet per second
$ bc
bc 1.06
Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details type `warranty'.
0.015*983571056
14753565.840
scale
65000/983571056
That's 14 million feet in 15 milliseconds - or 66 microseconds propagation delay for 65K feet.
I thought there was even a JavaScript implementation somewhere, though I can't seem to find it.
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FWIW...
http://www.alltheweb.com/search?q=javascript+SHA-
http://www.pajhome.org.uk/crypt/md5/sha1src.html
wouldn't it be nicer to name your inc variables xxx ? ... it's fun!
Which reminds me of my favourite sites to visit when my internet access is through monitored firewalls (corporate or university systems)
http://xxx.lanl.gov/
http://xxx.arxiv.cornell.edu/
http://xxx.adelaide.edu.au/
http://xxx.uni-augsburg.de/
Yep, folks - Governments and Universities worldwide, hosting xxx sites. And for what it's worth, xxx.lanl.gov was the original!
Agreed... Visual Basic (as a language) is not evil - but:
* it allows clueless people to make evil programs.
* it is owned and manipulated by an evil entity.
I've written plenty of non-evil programs in VB, and even some in Flash. It's just that I've seen far far more garbage in VB and Flash, because brain-dead people can actually write programs in those languages.
In summary, I think that VB and Flash are worthwhile tools, and that this (embedded systems) is actually the RIGHT place to be using Flash. It's just that those of us who have a clue should be spared the agony of dealing with the products of those who don't know any better.
My thought was the reverse; install linux on a spare hard drive, and fit that in the PIC. Eliminate the CF card, and see if this is a linux problem...
From there, we can work backwards...
(I was also interested in the partitioning structures though... I had the same first step...)
Unless you were just playing around -- in which case, you're unlikely to be using Oracle because of the cost!
Actually, oracle would love for you to play around with their database, just ask them for it...
Maybe, maybe not... http://enight.dos.state.fl.us/elections/resultsarc hive/Index.asp?ElectionDate=11/5/02&DATAMODE=
You do realise that that's the same article as is linked in the summary, don't you?
You said:
Yes, it's completely unscientific, but a 1-year old child does a great job of increasing the disorder in any given system...
The "Cold" in Cold fusion relates to the fusion phenomenon occuring at temperatures way colder than current (working) fusion reactors work at.
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Normal thermonuclear fusion reactors operate at around 100 million degrees Celsius. (see abstract at http://www.osti.gov/energycitations/product.bibli
In the sun, at extremely high densities, thermonuclear fusion is able to take place at much colder temperatures, around 15 million degrees Celsius. (see http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/astro/
Cold fusion refers to fusion taking place at temperatures almost a million times colder than that - around room temperature, 25 degrees Celsius.
An interesting cold fusion product is available from Clean Energy Technologies Inc. A news article about is found here: http://www.padrak.com/ine/CFARNOSIX.html.
HTH.
And what's sad is that I'm sitting in the same university that's hosting the conference, and this is the first I'm hearing of it...
Just rechecked my staff email, to see if I even got one of those global emails that everyone ignores which mentioned it, but there's no reference to it...
I suspect that JanneM was accusing the AC of whining in responding to you - the AC was the one who was accusing you of whining about US-centrism (which you didn't mention).
I guess we'd all best chill...