> So yesterday, IBM posted great profits that beat wall street estimates. And today they're > doing layoffs? That makes no financial sense to me. Why should any company lay off people > just because "Everyone else is doing it"?
Imagine a sales department with 100 employees. Business drop by 25%, so there's 25% less work to do. It makes sense to reduce the workforce accordingly, even if you are still making profit.
Soory to disagree, but the metric system was invented by the French, because they were crap at maths and had problems multiplying by 12. The liter is a meaningless arbitary measurement, while the pint is the result of several 100 years of reseach of the perfect measure to drink beer.
"The fumble to press the right button" is not the fault of PC Pro, it's the fiddly nature multitouch interface. Also, notice how the screen froze for a few seconds when it was resized. All this just makes the PC Pro video a very realistic simulation of how the iPhone performs in real life
SSDs make use of bulk read/writing to give an average i/o speed that's quite high, however reading and writing hundreds of small files that aren't located sequentially throws a spanner in the works. I'd like to see some real world benchmarks
Smart guy. Was one of the first to get his game in the app store and got in ahead of the pack. Unforunately, now most of the easy casual games have been done. Still lots of money to be made, but you'll have to work bit harder.
Not really a fare critisim. Maybe they don't realise that iphone is running OS X. Mac is the natural development platform, becuase the iphone emulator is practically running native code. As well as that I wouldn't expect Windows IDEs to be able to debug Objective C half as good as XCode.
Really. I find it quite hard and I've being doing c++ for years. It was much easier for me to switch from c++ to java. The worst thing is thing is the square bracket mess.
So now we have a shit load of cores all we have to do is wait for the developers to put some multi-threading goodness in their apps.... or maybe not. The PS3 was ment to be faster than any other system because of it's multi-cores cell architecture, but in a interview John Carmack said, "Although it's interesting that almost all of the PS3 launch titles hardly used any Cells at all."
We finally decided that the vendor that's involved there just isn't going to play ball and we're rewriting the code from scratch. That's going to be done within the next couple of months.
Just shows how well their tightfisted policy served them. That company whoever they were get zero dollars and their software fades into obsecurity JSR-184 seems to be going the same way. The patent holders won't play ball and release the source code.
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There's also the LiMo Foundation. Don't know how they fit into the equation. I look forward to Nokia bringing out Qt phones and eventually replacing Symbian. Symbian is such a horrible OS to develop for.
No problem, they just have to add a qualifier... world record for most downloads of an application that starts with the letter "F"... err, wait a minute
Nokia's new N-Gage game platform will make extensive use of DRM. I myself doubt the effectiveness of DRM. There is no such thing as an unhackable system, as we all know. It's just seen as a challange to the Hackers. Also it creates a whole lot of extra work for the developers to implement, not to mention inconvience for the customers - it makes the installation process more complicated. However, Nokia had no chance of attracting any serious game developers to their new platform unless it had DRM, so I'd say that's where the real push is coming.
One of the more annoying HTML features is the auto-complete = off parameter. It allows moron webmasters to disable your password manager. Other browsers like Opera, correctly ignore the tag and let the user decide. (Really this is in the same class as the blink tag and pop-ups) There was a script that you run to tempory disable the tag, but now becuase of a "bug fix" in the latest firefox (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=362576), this hack is no longer effective. Thanks Mozilla
Pretty defensive there, bud. The OP did not claim that America was the only country, he's just saying that a western democratic country is doing it. Shouldn't a rich country like America be setting some standard for others to follow?
vote for powerpoint! If it gets enough votes the goverment will shut it down. That's the way it works, right? Finally we will be free from those brainless "funny" chain emails that waste all your mail space.
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> So yesterday, IBM posted great profits that beat wall street estimates. And today they're > doing layoffs? That makes no financial sense to me. Why should any company lay off people > just because "Everyone else is doing it"?
Imagine a sales department with 100 employees. Business drop by 25%, so there's 25% less work to do. It makes sense to reduce the workforce accordingly, even if you are still making profit.
> Microsoft saw that 10% of their employees were hanging around on /. all day hoping for a first post.
so what were the other 7% doing?
Soory to disagree, but the metric system was invented by the French, because they were crap at maths and had problems multiplying by 12.
The liter is a meaningless arbitary measurement, while the pint is the result of several 100 years of reseach of the perfect measure to drink beer.
"The fumble to press the right button" is not the fault of PC Pro, it's the fiddly nature multitouch interface. Also, notice how the screen froze for a few seconds when it was resized. All this just makes the PC Pro video a very realistic simulation of how the iPhone performs in real life
SSDs make use of bulk read/writing to give an average i/o speed that's quite high, however reading and writing hundreds of small files that aren't located sequentially throws a spanner in the works. I'd like to see some real world benchmarks
You said it.
I was impressed by Xcode, but I think it's better for Objective C than c++, especially as doesn't fully support templates.
Smart guy. Was one of the first to get his game in the app store and got in ahead of the pack. Unforunately, now most of the easy casual games have been done.
Still lots of money to be made, but you'll have to work bit harder.
Not really a fare critisim. Maybe they don't realise that iphone is running OS X. Mac is the natural development platform, becuase the iphone emulator is practically running native code. As well as that I wouldn't expect Windows IDEs to be able to debug Objective C half as good as XCode.
; A related submission from David Gerard points out that BoycottNovell has leaked the ISO OOXML documents,
; which ISO has kept behind passwords.
So, what was the terrible secret that ISO were hiding??
Really.
I find it quite hard and I've being doing c++ for years.
It was much easier for me to switch from c++ to java.
The worst thing is thing is the square bracket mess.
that's motorway millage. Normally the figure is for combined motorway/urban
That's ok, but pretty much the norm these days for a small diesel car. The Ibiza Ecomotive does 74 mpg.
There was a similar EULA for Matlab - prohibited development, of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons... Weapons of Maths destruction
You mean now is the time to short Nvidia?
So now we have a shit load of cores all we have to do is wait for the developers to put some multi-threading goodness in their apps.... or maybe not.
The PS3 was ment to be faster than any other system because of it's multi-cores cell architecture, but in a interview John Carmack said, "Although it's interesting that almost all of the PS3 launch titles hardly used any Cells at all."
http://www.gameinformer.com/News/Story/200708/N07.0803.1731.12214.htm
At least Ireland did
There is a wrapper for OpenGL es, but that is something else.
jsr-184 is really a mini 3d engine
Just shows how well their tightfisted policy served them.
That company whoever they were get zero dollars and their software fades into obsecurity
JSR-184 seems to be going the same way. The patent holders won't play ball and release the source code.
There's also the LiMo Foundation. Don't know how they fit into the equation.
I look forward to Nokia bringing out Qt phones and eventually replacing Symbian. Symbian is such a horrible OS to develop for.
No problem, they just have to add a qualifier... world record for most downloads of an application that starts with the letter "F"... err, wait a minute
Nokia's new N-Gage game platform will make extensive use of DRM. I myself doubt the effectiveness of DRM. There is no such thing as an unhackable system, as we all know. It's just seen as a challange to the Hackers. Also it creates a whole lot of extra work for the developers to implement, not to mention inconvience for the customers - it makes the installation process more complicated.
However, Nokia had no chance of attracting any serious game developers to their new platform unless it had DRM, so I'd say that's where the real push is coming.
One of the more annoying HTML features is the auto-complete = off parameter. It allows moron webmasters to disable your password manager.
Other browsers like Opera, correctly ignore the tag and let the user decide. (Really this is in the same class as the blink tag and pop-ups)
There was a script that you run to tempory disable the tag, but now becuase of a "bug fix" in the latest firefox (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=362576), this hack is no longer effective. Thanks Mozilla
That's like saying that we were only investigating the possiblility of creating concentration camps for disendents, while Stalin actually did it.
Pretty defensive there, bud. The OP did not claim that America was the only country, he's just saying that a western democratic country is doing it.
Shouldn't a rich country like America be setting some standard for others to follow?
vote for powerpoint! If it gets enough votes the goverment will shut it down. That's the way it works, right?
Finally we will be free from those brainless "funny" chain emails that waste all your mail space.