Does this mean that I have to stop collecting $300 per call fees from those companies that I have told not to call me. Damn, I figured that I could retire in style off that money.
what a bunch of jerks that wont give away their hard work for free. Viva la information!
Seriously though, Title 17 states that all government works are to be free and available. There are state funded universities and libraries that maintain HUGE collections of government documents that you can use for absolutely no charge. These databases are Value-Added services. I dont go demand a free GPS unit from garmin because the satellites are owned by the govt.
Sure, REALLY, I (or anybody else) is REALLY going to pay NCR for inventing the internet. That's like claiming the invention of the road. It's part of international infrastructure, national security, and every business in the world. If they had a snowball's chance in hell we could worry.
If you are in a very small team, you obviously need to be aware and conscientious of the system as a whole, but on a larger team, if everybody has a view of the whole project with their own vision, everybody goes a different direction. It is better in this case to have each individual or group be concerned with following the specifications for their individual componant, and having lead programmers/designers integrate as needed. I've never worked in embeded systems, so I cant tell you if that holds up.
American Film Institute Awards
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Humanitas Prize
Screen Actors Guild Awards
This'll go on my tivo right after
American Film Institute Awards
Producers guild
British Academy of film & tv
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
Independent Spirit Awards
The Academy Awards
National Society of Film Critics Awards
Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards
National Board of Review Awards
Golden Globe Awards
Annual Directors Guild of America Awards
MTV Movie Awards
NAACP Image Awards
The Internet Entertainment Writers Association
American Cinema Foundation awards
Aurora Awards
Blockbuster Entertainment Awards
Bubakar Awards
FOX Teen Choice Awards
The Peoples Choice awards
Gemini Awards
Golden Raspberry Award Foundation
Humanitas Prize
Screen Actors Guild Awards
The Grammy Awards
Billboard Music Awards
American Music Awards
Country Music Association Awards
Pulitzer Prize in Music
BMI Awards
FOX Teen Choice Awards
The Peoples Choice awards
Blockbuster Entertainment Awards
LA Weekly Music Awards
Los Angeles Music Awards
MTV Video Music Awards
Radio Music Awards
World Music Awards
The Emmy® Awards
Daytime Emmy Awards
Golden Globe Awards
George Foster Peabody Awards
Alfred I. duPont Awards
Directors Guild of America Awards
FOX Teen Choice Awards
The Peoples Choice awards
Golden Raspberry Award Foundation
Humanitas Prize
Screen Actors Guild Awards
NT would be nice, but older ersions of business apps and management software dosent work right with the NT kernel. As an example of a company that is still on 98, look at At&T. (not my employer) Afaik, desktops and laptops are all supposed to be 98, FIRST EDITION.
I used to, and my dad still does install windows 98 on brand spanking new Dells. That is the corporately accepted operating system for a LOT of the big companies in this country. Employees and techies alike have no choice of what OS is on their desktop.
You know, most of you probabally dont use or need floppies, but that one time you have to install windows 98 fresh to get some old app running, you'll be the first one crying for an ol' reliable floppy disk.
The new amendment to existing Federal law making certain hacking offenses punishable by life in prison, without the possibility of parole, is ludicrous. More specifically, any person who recklessly or intentionaly causes serious bodily injury or death using a computer that affects interstate commerce, can be subject to this punishment.
So if I recklessly beat somebody on yahoo poker, and they get so depressed they kill themselves and yahoo stock goes down from the bad press, I can be locked up FOREVER? That seems a little harsh
It must be mandatory for candidate to pass some "IT certified user" exam with tests on how to use email (whitelist filter tuning, never don't open any executable/sriptable email attachment) in addition to other IT (and IQ?) tests. That should help to have less (by both amount and level) idiots representing the country internationally and publicly.
I think this is a question, and my answer is no, the candidates shouldnt have to know squat about computers, that's what their staff is for.
It's truly amazing that anybody could make an attempt to use their public email for official business. In general, three accounts is all that you need to never have to read spam again.
Specifically for the parliment, I dont see why they dont just whitelist all other parliment members.
I really hadn't thought it through all the way, but I stand by my statement. Processor improvements come from investments. Investments come from usage, usage comes from applications. Sure, the big margins are on the server/workstation side of the boat, but what has allowed microsoft to make inroads into that market was 1)inexpensive hardware and 2)a desktop monopoly
What does this have to do with Processors? Everything. It's a lot easier to learn an OS/hardware combination at home, and translate that knowledge to a server than it is to REALLY learn a new and strange system. A HUGE volume of hastily trained, largely incapable, relatively inexpensive MCSEs is a major factor for the acceptance of Wintel in corporate America.
A lot of talk is happening about a platform rift between servers and desktops/workstations. The problem is that a rift already occurs, between BIG IRON and "everything else". There is a lot of money to be made in the VERY large and growing segment of low to mid range servers on the internet that are using DESKTOP versions of processors. They are fast enough, capable enough, and cheap enough to make a balanced cluster a more attractive option than a superpowered server. Hardware capabilities are outstripping software demands, and the volume produced processors may just become the mainstay of the corporate world.
IMHO, only a unified or completely compatible desktop/server platform will succeed in the "everything else" market of the near future. Intel has done VERY well in this segment, and now they seem to be abandoning it. Betting against the bigboys is a dangerous wager, but I think that AMD stands a hell of a chance.
What they REALLY need is a MORE heavy duty Opteron than they are planning to offer a complete lineup, with a unified architechture.
We all know that there is a much higher margin in servers than desktops, but real money has ALWAYS come from VOLUME. Whoever can make a real go at the consumer desktop will end up in front. Intel dosent seem interested in a 64 bit desktop whatsoever. They have created a platform (ia64)that suffers from the exact same problems as the ones that they displaced, namely price to performance ratio. If AMD can compel consumers to move to Athlon 64, they are in for good times and happiness. Personally I would like to see IBM make a go at the desktop with power5. Good luck getting a version of windows for it though.
Thank you very much for your insightful comments (a rarity on slashdot) Perhaps you can shed some light on why then Transmeta is producing a 256 bit chip. Is this just a trick to save electricity?
I am not a computer engineer. I know however that there are in fact 256 bit processors. Why are computers moving to 64? Do we not have the ability to go straight to 128, or for that matter 1024 bit? Is there some serious technological holdup? Would it make compilers too complicated? What am I missing?
Nobody is really FORCING you to read anything about release dates. Businesses and developers however have to have a product road map so that their stuff comes out at the right time and that they can plan for large expenditures. (like updating desktops) It's not like it's an Xbox where changing the release date pisses off fanboys like you. Microsoft would look pretty stupid if they started selling Windows XP 64 and the computers to run it werent available.
Another thought for you wannabe audiophiles. ALL digital music is by it's very nature a lossy format. When we convert from analog to digital, we decide which parts of the music we dont need. The CD consortium decided that we only need frequencies from 20(?) - 20,000 Hz, and 44khz sample rate. Real noise dosent have a sample rate, it's a convenient method we use to deal with audio to retain the information we need. The same goes for compression.
High quality music recording is great and all, but what's the point? Unless you are recording in it straight from the source, you are still limited by the frequency range and sampling rate of the delivery media. (i.e. a CD) I seriously challenge ANYBODY, even those with true HI-FI equipment to tell me the difference between a CD and a good quality MP3Pro.
On top of this, you are still limited by the response of the equipment you are playing it on. Maybe this would help a little if you had an optical connection to a good amp, but computer speakers will provide more interference than compression any ol day.
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Does this mean that I have to stop collecting $300 per call fees from those companies that I have told not to call me. Damn, I figured that I could retire in style off that money.
Seriously though, Title 17 states that all government works are to be free and available. There are state funded universities and libraries that maintain HUGE collections of government documents that you can use for absolutely no charge. These databases are Value-Added services. I dont go demand a free GPS unit from garmin because the satellites are owned by the govt.
Sure, REALLY, I (or anybody else) is REALLY going to pay NCR for inventing the internet. That's like claiming the invention of the road. It's part of international infrastructure, national security, and every business in the world. If they had a snowball's chance in hell we could worry.
on the day they opened up the registry for .name, I tried to get both, and many more, but it wouldnt let me. What a rip
Yeah, I had it sorted by movies/music/tv, and there was some overlap. I was too lazy to pare it down
If you are in a very small team, you obviously need to be aware and conscientious of the system as a whole, but on a larger team, if everybody has a view of the whole project with their own vision, everybody goes a different direction. It is better in this case to have each individual or group be concerned with following the specifications for their individual componant, and having lead programmers/designers integrate as needed. I've never worked in embeded systems, so I cant tell you if that holds up.
THAT'S A GREAT IDEA.
"And the award for making a big deal about something that nobody cares about goes to... It's a 35 Way tie!!!"
That'll go on my Tivo Right after
Movie Awards
American Film Institute Awards
Producers guild
British Academy of film & tv
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
Independent Spirit Awards
The Academy Awards
National Society of Film Critics Awards
Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards
National Board of Review Awards
Golden Globe Awards
Annual Directors Guild of America Awards
MTV Movie Awards
NAACP Image Awards
The Internet Entertainment Writers Association
American Cinema Foundation awards
Aurora Awards
Blockbuster Entertainment Awards
Bubakar Awards
FOX Teen Choice Awards
The Peoples Choice awards
Gemini Awards
Golden Raspberry Award Foundation
Humanitas Prize
Screen Actors Guild Awards
Music Awards
The Grammy Awards
The Latin Grammy Awards
Billboard Music Awards
American Music Awards
Country Music Association Awards
Pulitzer Prize in Music
BMI Awards
FOX Teen Choice Awards
The Peoples Choice awards
Blockbuster Entertainment Awards
LA Weekly Music Awards
Los Angeles Music Awards
MTV Video Music Awards
Radio Music Awards
World Music Awards
Tv Awards
The Emmy® Awards
Daytime Emmy Awards
Golden Globe Awards
George Foster Peabody Awards
Alfred I. duPont Awards
Directors Guild of America Awards
FOX Teen Choice Awards
The Peoples Choice awards
Golden Raspberry Award Foundation
Humanitas Prize
Screen Actors Guild Awards
This'll go on my tivo right after American Film Institute Awards Producers guild British Academy of film & tv Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards New York Film Critics Circle Awards Independent Spirit Awards The Academy Awards National Society of Film Critics Awards Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards National Board of Review Awards Golden Globe Awards Annual Directors Guild of America Awards MTV Movie Awards NAACP Image Awards The Internet Entertainment Writers Association American Cinema Foundation awards Aurora Awards Blockbuster Entertainment Awards Bubakar Awards FOX Teen Choice Awards The Peoples Choice awards Gemini Awards Golden Raspberry Award Foundation Humanitas Prize Screen Actors Guild Awards The Grammy Awards Billboard Music Awards American Music Awards Country Music Association Awards Pulitzer Prize in Music BMI Awards FOX Teen Choice Awards The Peoples Choice awards Blockbuster Entertainment Awards LA Weekly Music Awards Los Angeles Music Awards MTV Video Music Awards Radio Music Awards World Music Awards The Emmy® Awards Daytime Emmy Awards Golden Globe Awards George Foster Peabody Awards Alfred I. duPont Awards Directors Guild of America Awards FOX Teen Choice Awards The Peoples Choice awards Golden Raspberry Award Foundation Humanitas Prize Screen Actors Guild Awards
Has anybody noticed the Microsoft ads on Slashdot?
NT would be nice, but older ersions of business apps and management software dosent work right with the NT kernel. As an example of a company that is still on 98, look at At&T. (not my employer) Afaik, desktops and laptops are all supposed to be 98, FIRST EDITION.
I used to, and my dad still does install windows 98 on brand spanking new Dells. That is the corporately accepted operating system for a LOT of the big companies in this country. Employees and techies alike have no choice of what OS is on their desktop.
You know, most of you probabally dont use or need floppies, but that one time you have to install windows 98 fresh to get some old app running, you'll be the first one crying for an ol' reliable floppy disk.
So if I recklessly beat somebody on yahoo poker, and they get so depressed they kill themselves and yahoo stock goes down from the bad press, I can be locked up FOREVER? That seems a little harsh
This is the greatest comment of all time. A 4 dosent do it justice.
I think this is a question, and my answer is no, the candidates shouldnt have to know squat about computers, that's what their staff is for.
Specifically for the parliment, I dont see why they dont just whitelist all other parliment members.
1)inexpensive hardware and
2)a desktop monopoly
What does this have to do with Processors? Everything. It's a lot easier to learn an OS/hardware combination at home, and translate that knowledge to a server than it is to REALLY learn a new and strange system. A HUGE volume of hastily trained, largely incapable, relatively inexpensive MCSEs is a major factor for the acceptance of Wintel in corporate America.
A lot of talk is happening about a platform rift between servers and desktops/workstations. The problem is that a rift already occurs, between BIG IRON and "everything else". There is a lot of money to be made in the VERY large and growing segment of low to mid range servers on the internet that are using DESKTOP versions of processors. They are fast enough, capable enough, and cheap enough to make a balanced cluster a more attractive option than a superpowered server. Hardware capabilities are outstripping software demands, and the volume produced processors may just become the mainstay of the corporate world.
IMHO, only a unified or completely compatible desktop/server platform will succeed in the "everything else" market of the near future. Intel has done VERY well in this segment, and now they seem to be abandoning it. Betting against the bigboys is a dangerous wager, but I think that AMD stands a hell of a chance.
What they REALLY need is a MORE heavy duty Opteron than they are planning to offer a complete lineup, with a unified architechture.
We all know that there is a much higher margin in servers than desktops, but real money has ALWAYS come from VOLUME. Whoever can make a real go at the consumer desktop will end up in front. Intel dosent seem interested in a 64 bit desktop whatsoever. They have created a platform (ia64)that suffers from the exact same problems as the ones that they displaced, namely price to performance ratio. If AMD can compel consumers to move to Athlon 64, they are in for good times and happiness. Personally I would like to see IBM make a go at the desktop with power5. Good luck getting a version of windows for it though.
Thank you very much for your insightful comments (a rarity on slashdot) Perhaps you can shed some light on why then Transmeta is producing a 256 bit chip. Is this just a trick to save electricity?
I am not a computer engineer. I know however that there are in fact 256 bit processors. Why are computers moving to 64? Do we not have the ability to go straight to 128, or for that matter 1024 bit? Is there some serious technological holdup? Would it make compilers too complicated? What am I missing?
Nobody is really FORCING you to read anything about release dates. Businesses and developers however have to have a product road map so that their stuff comes out at the right time and that they can plan for large expenditures. (like updating desktops) It's not like it's an Xbox where changing the release date pisses off fanboys like you. Microsoft would look pretty stupid if they started selling Windows XP 64 and the computers to run it werent available.
Another thought for you wannabe audiophiles. ALL digital music is by it's very nature a lossy format. When we convert from analog to digital, we decide which parts of the music we dont need. The CD consortium decided that we only need frequencies from 20(?) - 20,000 Hz, and 44khz sample rate. Real noise dosent have a sample rate, it's a convenient method we use to deal with audio to retain the information we need. The same goes for compression.
Wow, I had better go erase all of my 44Khz MP3s then...
On top of this, you are still limited by the response of the equipment you are playing it on. Maybe this would help a little if you had an optical connection to a good amp, but computer speakers will provide more interference than compression any ol day.