I just bought a new PC, and when compaired to all the available options, the the AMD64 option (I got an AMD64 2800+) was best. Slightly more expensive than the equivalent XP, cheaper than the p4. And they run so cool, its the first PC I've had in years where I don't have to worry about the temperature. When I bought an XP 2600+ last year, I spent almost half the chips price again on cooling.
Just because I'm running a 32bit win XP on it doesn't make it a bad purchase.
Also, I'm one of those people who bought a 386 instead of a 486 (then later a 486 instead of a pentium 1) because of the price difference. The price difference nowadays is nowhere near comparable to what it was then.
These structures will find their first application in routing devices for fiber-optic communications. At present, information that travels at the speed of light through optical fibers must be converted at the end into electrical signals that are processed on conventional electronic chips. These electrical signals can in turn be converted back into optical signals for re-transmission, which in the end makes this an extremely slow process. The all-optical switch enables routing signals without the need of conversion to electronics.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but as I understand it the only way Google makes money is via paid ads. And the best way for them to sell those paid ads is by having tons of free applications that people WANT to use.
I think, in the industry they're in (that is search and anything they can link search to), that it really is in their best interests to NOT become yet another corporation. If they did, MS would eat them alive in no time.
Being beaten by someone who he obviously thought was undeserving could quite easily drive someone to drink. It's not because of the money, it's the fame, and the fact that people say Bill Gates invented something that in reality he felt was his creation.
The "theft" of something you create can burn the soul much more than any loss of money.
Isn't most of IE's security issues a result of MS's desire to make things user friendly. By user friendly I mean IE will, or at least used to pre SP2, run pretty much any activex program (plus whatever else). This combined with that fact that most users had root access meant that IE was a security nightmare that did not need any malformed html to be bad.
I had 3 monitors at work for a while, with the one switching between my server and the 3rd screen of my coding box.
I found the 3rd monitor ended up just staying on the server because I almost never needed it on my main machine. While I often have many windows open, it seems I am never using more than 2 at a time. Coding + help file, slashdot + email, Movie + pretend work.;) The only drawback to multiple screens for me was the fact that I often look at a screen and start typing without giving that application focus. While code usually just stops compiling because of that, I have found quite a few snippets of my IRC conversations buried deep within comments.
Of course working at home with a single monitor is absolute hell.:(
Hmm lets see. Their audience is a bunch of gamers who read their site because its game related. Sure they could hold a charity to donate food and clothes to children in Sudan (cos they sure as hell will not benifit from a game console), but they'd probably end up doing a whole lot less good since their audience would be spending a whole lot less.
Just because somewhere in the world there are people with even less, doesn't mean they shouldn't concentrate on an area where they cam do the most good.
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Actually it was two questions, and although the analogy was flawed, I doubt someone of his intelligence could claim not to see the actual question.
I'd assume that google consider the yahoo one just fine for the job. Google focuses on making things better, its not often you see them do something unless they can make it so much better that we all wonder how we survived without it before. No point wasting time when there are other things to create.
But consider no atmosphere, and with no atmosphere no weather to interfere. While 1000 may have been a thumb suck, I think there are many benifits other than gravity.
Surely our biggest problem is getting to the point where most, if not all of solar system and beyond voyages are launched from the moon, with a spaceship that is made on the moon (or in the surrounding space). Whilst getting off earth will become cheaper as better methods are found, getting a fully functional industrialised moon base will make launches like this a thousand times more doable. Eventually you want the only thing coming off earth to be astronauts returning from a family holiday.
Well I read the article, it doesn't say whether the linux takes up part of that 128/256megs (or my reading is up to shit, quite possible considering how little sleep I've had).
I'd be pretty pissed off if I bought a 128 meg mp3 player and found half the space gone.
What people fail to realise, is that if we had all listened to Bill in the beginning and realised that the internet was not going to get big and thus never "forced" him to destroy netscape, we wouldn't have this problem.;)
You know, now 90% of my mail is done through GMail. All my searching on the internet is done through Google. Now all my searching my PC will be done by Google.
They might as well just write a bloody all-in-one operating system and get it over with.:P
Seriously, I'd love to see them make a linux distro. Maybe it'd suck, but with their track record I'm betting it wouldn't.
Looks like some of them failed to perform and were "fired".;) I figure every time they fail we should see this number drop. *can just see the article in a few months time "Korea's 34 man hacker army"
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It would be nice if the patent law was modified to make it so anyone can use your patent, they are just forced by law to give a set percentage of their income from that patent to the patent holder.
I suppose this would be open to abuse, but the benifits from this as I see them are that patent holders cannot hold back use of the patent but they are guaranteed to gain from its use.
No. The point is anyone can look at it, anyone can use it, if they want to make money off it, they have to pay up.
Given that there is concrete evidence for what the patent is about (the source code), it becomes much harder for companies to claim that patents have been violated. It also becomes harder for patents to be put forward for such simple stuff as "one-click purchasing", patents would then have to be awarded on innovative algorithms.
I use wikipedia. If I know exactly what I'm searching for, wikipedia is where I go to look. If however I sort of know (as in this case where I had read it once before and couldn't remember the term "dark state") I use Google.
When using Google, I will use the first correct link I find. In this case it was freedictionary. The information is identical to the stub in wikipedia (I just checked), so I'm not terribly worried about posting it. We can get into the moral issues here, but as I said, I was only interested in posting the information.
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I just bought a new PC, and when compaired to all the available options, the the AMD64 option (I got an AMD64 2800+) was best. Slightly more expensive than the equivalent XP, cheaper than the p4. And they run so cool, its the first PC I've had in years where I don't have to worry about the temperature. When I bought an XP 2600+ last year, I spent almost half the chips price again on cooling.
Just because I'm running a 32bit win XP on it doesn't make it a bad purchase.
Also, I'm one of those people who bought a 386 instead of a 486 (then later a 486 instead of a pentium 1) because of the price difference. The price difference nowadays is nowhere near comparable to what it was then.
I'm running 1.0PR (not RC1) here and having the slashdot RSS as a live bookmark on the bookmark toolbar absolutely rocks.
No more loading up the page to see if there are new articles, just refresh the bookmark and see whats new.
from the article itself.
My parents still have my original XT (turboed up to 12mhz if IIRC).
Every PC I've had since then has died (barring my current two), but that XT just keeps going.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but as I understand it the only way Google makes money is via paid ads. And the best way for them to sell those paid ads is by having tons of free applications that people WANT to use.
I think, in the industry they're in (that is search and anything they can link search to), that it really is in their best interests to NOT become yet another corporation. If they did, MS would eat them alive in no time.
Being beaten by someone who he obviously thought was undeserving could quite easily drive someone to drink. It's not because of the money, it's the fame, and the fact that people say Bill Gates invented something that in reality he felt was his creation.
The "theft" of something you create can burn the soul much more than any loss of money.
Isn't most of IE's security issues a result of MS's desire to make things user friendly. By user friendly I mean IE will, or at least used to pre SP2, run pretty much any activex program (plus whatever else). This combined with that fact that most users had root access meant that IE was a security nightmare that did not need any malformed html to be bad.
I had 3 monitors at work for a while, with the one switching between my server and the 3rd screen of my coding box.
;) The only drawback to multiple screens for me was the fact that I often look at a screen and start typing without giving that application focus. While code usually just stops compiling because of that, I have found quite a few snippets of my IRC conversations buried deep within comments.
:(
I found the 3rd monitor ended up just staying on the server because I almost never needed it on my main machine. While I often have many windows open, it seems I am never using more than 2 at a time. Coding + help file, slashdot + email, Movie + pretend work.
Of course working at home with a single monitor is absolute hell.
Hmm lets see. Their audience is a bunch of gamers who read their site because its game related. Sure they could hold a charity to donate food and clothes to children in Sudan (cos they sure as hell will not benifit from a game console), but they'd probably end up doing a whole lot less good since their audience would be spending a whole lot less.
Just because somewhere in the world there are people with even less, doesn't mean they shouldn't concentrate on an area where they cam do the most good.
Actually it was two questions, and although the analogy was flawed, I doubt someone of his intelligence could claim not to see the actual question.
Focusing on the bad analogy was a cop out.
Most likely you're going to have adverts showing on some part of the chat window changing as you chat about different things.
Might be an interesting concept. A friend asks a question and the google im picks it up and posts links to sites.
I'd assume that google consider the yahoo one just fine for the job. Google focuses on making things better, its not often you see them do something unless they can make it so much better that we all wonder how we survived without it before. No point wasting time when there are other things to create.
Well my take is. To get to Mars once, putting up a moon base is definitely not cost effective. 10 times, maybe not even then. But 1000 times? More?
Eventually, the moon base becomes the best way to do it.
Well strictly in terms of gravity, yes.
But consider no atmosphere, and with no atmosphere no weather to interfere. While 1000 may have been a thumb suck, I think there are many benifits other than gravity.
I'll probably get flamed for saying this...
Surely our biggest problem is getting to the point where most, if not all of solar system and beyond voyages are launched from the moon, with a spaceship that is made on the moon (or in the surrounding space). Whilst getting off earth will become cheaper as better methods are found, getting a fully functional industrialised moon base will make launches like this a thousand times more doable. Eventually you want the only thing coming off earth to be astronauts returning from a family holiday.
Well I read the article, it doesn't say whether the linux takes up part of that 128/256megs (or my reading is up to shit, quite possible considering how little sleep I've had).
I'd be pretty pissed off if I bought a 128 meg mp3 player and found half the space gone.
What people fail to realise, is that if we had all listened to Bill in the beginning and realised that the internet was not going to get big and thus never "forced" him to destroy netscape, we wouldn't have this problem. ;)
You know, now 90% of my mail is done through GMail. All my searching on the internet is done through Google. Now all my searching my PC will be done by Google.
:P
They might as well just write a bloody all-in-one operating system and get it over with.
Seriously, I'd love to see them make a linux distro. Maybe it'd suck, but with their track record I'm betting it wouldn't.
Well a week ago it was 600 hackers.
Looks like some of them failed to perform and were "fired". ;) I figure every time they fail we should see this number drop. *can just see the article in a few months time "Korea's 34 man hacker army"
http://www.oqo.com/hardware/basics/
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The official marketing version.
Well for one I don't think making it 10% would be silly.
But even today, writing something which uses a large number of patents becomes prohibativly expensive.
Of course they could put an upper cap on the amount, so 1% (pure thumb suck number) could never be more than $10 (another thumb suck number).
It would be nice if the patent law was modified to make it so anyone can use your patent, they are just forced by law to give a set percentage of their income from that patent to the patent holder.
I suppose this would be open to abuse, but the benifits from this as I see them are that patent holders cannot hold back use of the patent but they are guaranteed to gain from its use.
No. The point is anyone can look at it, anyone can use it, if they want to make money off it, they have to pay up.
Given that there is concrete evidence for what the patent is about (the source code), it becomes much harder for companies to claim that patents have been violated. It also becomes harder for patents to be put forward for such simple stuff as "one-click purchasing", patents would then have to be awarded on innovative algorithms.
Okay, lets put this another way.
I use wikipedia. If I know exactly what I'm searching for, wikipedia is where I go to look. If however I sort of know (as in this case where I had read it once before and couldn't remember the term "dark state") I use Google.
When using Google, I will use the first correct link I find. In this case it was freedictionary. The information is identical to the stub in wikipedia (I just checked), so I'm not terribly worried about posting it. We can get into the moral issues here, but as I said, I was only interested in posting the information.
I'm sorry I offended you so much...
Please make anonymous cowards post as themselves. ;)
Personally I could care less what site it comes from.