I cannot wait for the NX (no execute) bit to become part of the mainstream PC archtecture and operating systems. I wonder why it couldn't have happened years ago. Some mainframe systems had it decades ago.
it's not as if people who bought their music from Apple weren't aware of the "limitations" of it's use
Hey, Apple, the RIAA, and the rest of the industry ought to be happy that the people are buying and paying for this music, rather than just going KaZaA-ing for it. I really do have to believe that PlayFair users are more likely just wanting to unlock the music for their own use without restrictions, rather than sharing it. The sharers would have gotten their copies for free to start with.
In short, the Apple bullet is probably hitting the wrong targets.
Anyone who didn't learn the lesson when W.A.S.T.E. was posted, and taken down the next day, should learn from this to grab the interesting stuff when you hear about it, and not wait until you think you have a use for it.
I have an original Rick Sternbach signed and numbered print (73/120) of Ringworld that includes the Golden Arches[tm]. I expect to see this McDonalds in the mini-series.
(As the story goes, for those of you newer to Niven, it was commented that the Ringworld was large enough to contain one of everything, so when asked if there was a McDonalds there, Rick added a tiny pair of golden arches.)
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Only because it's on a slow broadband link suffering a DDoS attack while the kid up the block is downloading The RIAA's Greatest Hits (literally) over the same cable loop.
Well, given that Stretch was one of the most successful research efforts in computer architecture ever, I have no clue why would you consider it to be a bad thing to put on one's resume.
Could it be because they sold about one of them, and that was to the government who buys all kinds of stuff they don't really get their money's worth out of afterwards? (The San Diego Supercomputer Center is another example of having bought a dud or two of research projects that have never worked as promised.)
You may argue that the research was valuable, however before you attempt that your should visit this page on argument fallacies to ensure that you are not using any of the 42 fallacies presented. I especially refer you to the Red Herring.
Point is that Stretch was a miserable failure for its intended market. Renaming it a research effort doesn't change that.
Are you really saying that the POWER3 was built with the same 15M transistors as the POWER2?
Also, when you say that POWER4/PPC970 can process 200 instructions at once, you need to explain a bit better what having "instructions in flight" really means. It's not that it can do 200 instructions every clock cycle.
Submitted this on the feedback form at the bottom of the article as well. The above just don't ring right as expressed.
Just don't be surprised if in the future there's cameras along the highway that take a picture of your licence plate, and later in the mail each and every one of you get a ticket.
And don't be surprised if the low-tech solution to that, when it becomes annoying enough, is a simple can of spray paint and too much time on your hands.
Every true Geek knows that Pluto is actually a moon of the 8th planet of this system, which was knocked out of orbit around that planet and left to wander around the Sun in a highly elipitical orbit by the impact at a good fraction of light speed by a stasis field encased slave of a Slaver, about a billion years ago, give or take.
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I cannot wait for the NX (no execute) bit to become part of the mainstream PC archtecture and operating systems. I wonder why it couldn't have happened years ago. Some mainframe systems had it decades ago.
Hey, Apple, the RIAA, and the rest of the industry ought to be happy that the people are buying and paying for this music, rather than just going KaZaA-ing for it. I really do have to believe that PlayFair users are more likely just wanting to unlock the music for their own use without restrictions, rather than sharing it. The sharers would have gotten their copies for free to start with.
In short, the Apple bullet is probably hitting the wrong targets.
Anyone who didn't learn the lesson when W.A.S.T.E. was posted, and taken down the next day, should learn from this to grab the interesting stuff when you hear about it, and not wait until you think you have a use for it.
Shooting spammers when you find and convict them might make it a less attractive field to enter.
(As the story goes, for those of you newer to Niven, it was commented that the Ringworld was large enough to contain one of everything, so when asked if there was a McDonalds there, Rick added a tiny pair of golden arches.)
Not if it hit the anti-matter iceberg.
Maybe it's time to make Ringworld into Square World.
Playfair was a famous cipher a century ago. Makes it a great name for a program now, in addition to its obvious play on "Fair Play".
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Only because it's on a slow broadband link suffering a DDoS attack while the kid up the block is downloading The RIAA's Greatest Hits (literally) over the same cable loop.
Sorry, but it's already been determined that it will sing "Daisy".
And I was always told that was the wrong approach to use.
You mean like AT&T?
Could it be because they sold about one of them, and that was to the government who buys all kinds of stuff they don't really get their money's worth out of afterwards? (The San Diego Supercomputer Center is another example of having bought a dud or two of research projects that have never worked as promised.)
You may argue that the research was valuable, however before you attempt that your should visit this page on argument fallacies to ensure that you are not using any of the 42 fallacies presented. I especially refer you to the Red Herring.
Point is that Stretch was a miserable failure for its intended market. Renaming it a research effort doesn't change that.
The two comments that stick with me from the earlier days of IBM are:
1. The guy who gets the rights to put the IBM logo on an office trashcan will make a fortune selling them.
2. Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM.
Also, when you say that POWER4/PPC970 can process 200 instructions at once, you need to explain a bit better what having "instructions in flight" really means. It's not that it can do 200 instructions every clock cycle.
Submitted this on the feedback form at the bottom of the article as well. The above just don't ring right as expressed.
Not sure I'd want that on my resume. Wasn't IBM's greatest success -- even given their unmatched maketing department.
How about one useless iPod after the battery has died: $1.
Now will someone please mod me Insightful.
And considering that it plays music, and Apple is known for frequent updates, would the next model be jLoJack?
And you probably can't wait for them to add a sub-woofer in the next model.
iPod -- with LoJack!
It re-ignites/increses an interest in music overall more than any other one thing.
If you can't understand why that's a good thing, then I probably can't explain it to you any better.
A number of the posters here on Slashdot.
And don't be surprised if the low-tech solution to that, when it becomes annoying enough, is a simple can of spray paint and too much time on your hands.
Every true Geek knows that Pluto is actually a moon of the 8th planet of this system, which was knocked out of orbit around that planet and left to wander around the Sun in a highly elipitical orbit by the impact at a good fraction of light speed by a stasis field encased slave of a Slaver, about a billion years ago, give or take.