But it's a tradeoff. The more you worry about efficiency, the longer it will take to write software and the less you can accomplish. I'm not so sure what is the point in calling out Billy (Bill Gates) specifically. As they are generally no worse in creating efficient code as any other software company.
...A study by Sharman Networks shows that CD sales are hurting file downloads on their popular file sharing network Kazaa, and have been for some time. Sharman Networks proposes a tax on every CD sold to accomodate for these losses...
Well lets see. To recoup this fine, Microsoft would have to sell 3,424,581 xboxes, 3,065,000 copies of windows xp home edition, or 1,228,456 copies of office. Yep, doesn't sound like peanuts to me. I doubt microsoft nets much more than than in an entire year, maybe less.
iTunes, Napster, and others probably have a lot more to do with decreased usage of Kazaa than the RIAA lawsuits. Eventually Kazaa just becomes too much of a pain in the ass to use considering the alternatives.
I'm sure other people have come across this. It's when you do a search, and the resulting page contains the keyword, but only as part of a list of other somewhat related terms. For example, if you search for "Malamute" and google returns a page which is a list of every single dog breed. Kind of a tricky problem though.
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Yea, and I want to get cancer just for the remission. Good thinking.
We could have chosen another format, but that would have created more confusion for our customers.' He added, 'Most customers don't care about the format they're downloading.
What does the format people download have to do with the formats their version of ipod supports? We already know what format they will be downloading if they are using itunes music store. The question is if the ipod can support formats not downloaded from the store. I think people would care if they downloaded a wma file that wouldn't run in their ipod.
Researchers in Alabama are working on a system which converts all music on the internet into a single Menudo mp3 file. EIEIO reports the first public use will be to create a single mp3 file that results in trilllions of dollars in royalties to the RIAA when traded illegally.
The first real life model of the phantom game console was also show at CES. There are pictures of it at gamespot . Not sure if this is a working model or not.
Yea its definately not a comparison on languages. Its more a test on compilers. Problem is it ignores the different ways these languages access memory, which can have a more severe effect on performance. Java and C# have well optimized bounds checking and garbage collection, but there are still circumstances you may come across where these bytecoded languages cannot optimize memory access to the speed of C. Sometimes overhead just can't be avoided.
For one thing, it will play a wide variety of video formats, where simular products focused on a specific format or codec. I don't see it having much to do with an iPod though. This is a video player not an mp3 player. It plays mp3 and stills as well because it would be stupid for it not to.
Through its analysis, Reasoning concluded that the commercial average defect density--covering 200 recent projects and totaling 35 million lines of commercial code--came to 0.57 defects per thousand lines of code
Um, so they just guessed that the code was six times better. Okay.
Maybe Apple doesn't make any money on their music store. But the record companies basically get a free distribution system and extra profit at no expense. Money IS being made from this.
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But it's a tradeoff. The more you worry about efficiency, the longer it will take to write software and the less you can accomplish. I'm not so sure what is the point in calling out Billy (Bill Gates) specifically. As they are generally no worse in creating efficient code as any other software company.
I hate spam more than I hate crackers
But yet combining spam and crackers can be quite a tasty treat.
...A study by Sharman Networks shows that CD sales are hurting file downloads on their popular file sharing network Kazaa, and have been for some time. Sharman Networks proposes a tax on every CD sold to accomodate for these losses...
Well lets see. To recoup this fine, Microsoft would have to sell 3,424,581 xboxes, 3,065,000 copies of windows xp home edition, or 1,228,456 copies of office. Yep, doesn't sound like peanuts to me. I doubt microsoft nets much more than than in an entire year, maybe less.
But I wonder how long the time lag will be between the probe finding life, and a leak in the radioactive heater wiping all of it out
The same time it would take for a drill in your head to find a brain.
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Not sure what this means, but that is what it says.
iTunes, Napster, and others probably have a lot more to do with decreased usage of Kazaa than the RIAA lawsuits. Eventually Kazaa just becomes too much of a pain in the ass to use considering the alternatives.
...Say Hello to the Installation Screen of Torture.
I'm sure other people have come across this. It's when you do a search, and the resulting page contains the keyword, but only as part of a list of other somewhat related terms. For example, if you search for "Malamute" and google returns a page which is a list of every single dog breed. Kind of a tricky problem though.
Yea, and I want to get cancer just for the remission. Good thinking.
Joe Computer #1: Hey, how do i get to my search engine?
Joe Computer #2: Just look it up on google.
Phantom Game Console isn't exactly vaporware. Photos of it are here. Not sure if this is a working model though.
There must be gold and oil in them thar rocks.
After 1 comment, the mirror site is definitely very slow, but I managed to get a mirror of the mirror before the mirror server went down in....
We could have chosen another format, but that would have created more confusion for our customers.' He added, 'Most customers don't care about the format they're downloading.
What does the format people download have to do with the formats their version of ipod supports? We already know what format they will be downloading if they are using itunes music store. The question is if the ipod can support formats not downloaded from the store. I think people would care if they downloaded a wma file that wouldn't run in their ipod.
Researchers in Alabama are working on a system which converts all music on the internet into a single Menudo mp3 file. EIEIO reports the first public use will be to create a single mp3 file that results in trilllions of dollars in royalties to the RIAA when traded illegally.
The first real life model of the phantom game console was also show at CES. There are pictures of it at gamespot . Not sure if this is a working model or not.
Yea its definately not a comparison on languages. Its more a test on compilers. Problem is it ignores the different ways these languages access memory, which can have a more severe effect on performance. Java and C# have well optimized bounds checking and garbage collection, but there are still circumstances you may come across where these bytecoded languages cannot optimize memory access to the speed of C. Sometimes overhead just can't be avoided.
On second thought, this may be a better read if you're *not* interested in OS X!
But if I wasn't interested, then why would I be reading it?
For one thing, it will play a wide variety of video formats, where simular products focused on a specific format or codec. I don't see it having much to do with an iPod though. This is a video player not an mp3 player. It plays mp3 and stills as well because it would be stupid for it not to.
Through its analysis, Reasoning concluded that the commercial average defect density--covering 200 recent projects and totaling 35 million lines of commercial code--came to 0.57 defects per thousand lines of code
Um, so they just guessed that the code was six times better. Okay.
No way. If I ever read a book, it was by accident.
Yea, but would you want your local nuclear power plant running off some old japanese nantucket haiku jingle? Yea, I didn't think so.
Maybe Apple doesn't make any money on their music store. But the record companies basically get a free distribution system and extra profit at no expense. Money IS being made from this.