Yes, the original article was in the April 2007 issue of Road and Track magazine and in the Side Glances column entitled "A Pound of Feathers" by Peter Egan. Excellent article; people leave issues of R&T around my office... I have a xeroxed copy on my cubicle wall.
Port a language with better scalability and modularity, not more of the same.
But that's exactly the point, exactly the point. The wins for Microsoft are two-fold: keep developers busy with yet another language ANDincrease the need for beefier microprocessors by using a language whose implementation is known to be abysmally slow[1] (Intel likes this)
Wow, I had no idea. These examples demonstrate an Indian foreign policy that favors peace, human rights and diplomacy -- values clearly in conflict with current U.S. foreign policy.
Why does the media focus on scandal and drama? It sells (advertising) better. The media's job is to sell ads. If consumers shunned trashy news for more thoughtful fair the media would adapt. They don't.
This is a natural result of games requiring relatively secure, sane environments and Windows not being able to provide one. Thus, game companies take matters into their own hands.
Funny, a plan for destructive, unrestricted growth with the hopes of eventual relocation reminded me of one thing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer is a disease characterized by a population of cells that grow and divide without respect to normal limits, invade and destroy adjacent tissues, and may spread to distant anatomic sites...
Trashing our home in the hopes we can get off this rock before the big one hits makes several paranoid and dangerous assumptions. Are you a military man by chance?
Check out your underclocking options on your current machine; I found that Linux's 'ondemand' cpufreq policy governor made a real difference on my machine: http://parseerror.com/~pizza/cpufreq.html
You can also check around in your BIOS to underclock your machine; but the disadvantage there is that the change is permanent; with Linux's CPU governors and a modern CPU your machine runs at full clockspeed only when the cycles are needed; I believe Windows has similar options.
In my experience it is fine to not be satisfied with your current work and be actively seeking another; but it is a mistake to leave a job without something else waiting for you.
what people don't realize is that the "solution" to the hijacker/bomber has already been implemented in various forms. civil rights have been reduced, law enforcement power has been increased; potential plane hijackers/bombers are more likely to be caught in the planning stages. airport security has been upgraded from a complete joke to slightly less useless. but most importantly, the crew and passengers are much more likely to put up a resistance, as they did in Flight 93 on 9/11 and against the "shoe bomber" Richard Reed.
in this case the solution is a social one not a technological one. the most powerful force on a plane are its passengers.
If you want to be green, how about *not* buying a shiny new energy-guzzling behemoth of machine in order to satisfy Vista's minimum requirements and running Linux on it instead:-P I have looked into the energy-efficient UPSs though
with compilers/tools meant for programming it. before virtual memory programmers had to program for their machine's RAM size and manually manage their memory using "overlays" (or so i've read), but now this concept seems horrid to younger programmers. a generation from now, programmers will read about how computers used to only have one logical core and think it ludicrous.
my uninformed, amateur guess is that functional languages will become more popular for programming massively multi-core machines (this coming from a C programmer). they will start to become faster than imperative languages because their workloads can be more easily recognized and farmed out to multiple cores.
New users can't tell the difference between the URL box at the top of the browser and the search box at the top of search engine pages. At a previous web dev job we had a customer that did the same thing, that one was fun to troubleshoot.
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Yes, the original article was in the April 2007 issue of Road and Track magazine and in the Side Glances column entitled "A Pound of Feathers" by Peter Egan. Excellent article; people leave issues of R&T around my office... I have a xeroxed copy on my cubicle wall.
Like any resource wind distribution is irregular; you can't just plop an industrial wind farm down anywhere.
Wow, I had no idea. These examples demonstrate an Indian foreign policy that favors peace, human rights and diplomacy -- values clearly in conflict with current U.S. foreign policy.
Why does the media focus on scandal and drama? It sells (advertising) better. The media's job is to sell ads. If consumers shunned trashy news for more thoughtful fair the media would adapt. They don't.
Worse yet: editors from their "news for nerds" website posted a similar article 10 billion years ago.
This is a natural result of games requiring relatively secure, sane environments and Windows not being able to provide one. Thus, game companies take matters into their own hands.
"Software is decelerating faster than hardware is accelerating."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth's_Law
let's check the edit history!
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/01/business/media/0 1mag.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
nuf said.
Check out your underclocking options on your current machine; I found that Linux's 'ondemand' cpufreq policy governor made a real difference on my machine: http://parseerror.com/~pizza/cpufreq.html You can also check around in your BIOS to underclock your machine; but the disadvantage there is that the change is permanent; with Linux's CPU governors and a modern CPU your machine runs at full clockspeed only when the cycles are needed; I believe Windows has similar options.
and you can install software, just use VMWare.
In my experience it is fine to not be satisfied with your current work and be actively seeking another; but it is a mistake to leave a job without something else waiting for you.
in this case the solution is a social one not a technological one. the most powerful force on a plane are its passengers.
likely just an attempt to get a better deal from Microsoft. an attempt that will likely succeed.
Americans are just stupid.
If you want to be green, how about *not* buying a shiny new energy-guzzling behemoth of machine in order to satisfy Vista's minimum requirements and running Linux on it instead :-P I have looked into the energy-efficient UPSs though
I thought storage-related redundancy was supposed to be a good thing ;)
yes, but not everyone applies every patch the instant it becomes available.
Wrong. Simply offering consumers an alternative by enforcing a phase-out of damaging products/technology can be enough, as was the case of ozone-damaging CFCs.
with compilers/tools meant for programming it. before virtual memory programmers had to program for their machine's RAM size and manually manage their memory using "overlays" (or so i've read), but now this concept seems horrid to younger programmers. a generation from now, programmers will read about how computers used to only have one logical core and think it ludicrous.
my uninformed, amateur guess is that functional languages will become more popular for programming massively multi-core machines (this coming from a C programmer). they will start to become faster than imperative languages because their workloads can be more easily recognized and farmed out to multiple cores.
New users can't tell the difference between the URL box at the top of the browser and the search box at the top of search engine pages. At a previous web dev job we had a customer that did the same thing, that one was fun to troubleshoot.