Sadly I don't expect the US to make any useful or moral decisions. That is unless a bunch of congressmen (and women) think they will be voted out of office over the issue!
Sounds like it might be time to buy more AMD stock.
I second the person that said programmers shouldn't be writing code to the cache size on a processor. How well your code fits in cache is not something you can control at run time. Different releases of the CPU often have different cache sizes. And frankly developers should always try to achieve tight efficent code, not develope to a particular cache size.
Re:PS3? No thanks, Sony; you screwed the pooch
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You are right that the divisions have little to do with each other. However if a very vocal boycot makes the person at the top realize that the music division is costing ALL other divisions money, then the boycot will decide who wins that infighting between hardware and music (or movies).
Years ago Eric R. gave a talk at the local LUG where he described DRM as the single biggest threat to OSS, because you can't control DRM if there are open general purpose computers. Or that was his arguement, anyway. His said Sony will make more money selling hardware to pirate their content than they will from selling their content in a pirate free environment.
I do enjoytext adventure games, although I haven't played in years. Best of all I could probably get away with playing them at work. All the windows folks would just think I'm writing perl scripts!;-)
I hope in the comments of this posting we get a wealth of links to freely avalible or even low cost text adventure games.
Well their reason for not selecting it might be zealotry, but I have to beleive that they can create a Redhat based distribution that will work with their hardware all the time. That is part of the Apple secret. If your hardware is a small handpicked set, then having an OS that just works is that much easier.
This is similar to an idea I had a while back, which is if I were in charge of the data center for a lean dot com, I would install laptops in the datacenter. They have built in UPS for up to about 2 hours of run time. They are powered directly off of DC, so there is no need for DC to AC conversion coming off of the DataCenters UPS. I suspect that Laptops would generate less heat, and be reasonably power efficient. Lots of cheap laptops on trays might be cost comparable to 1u server boxs at the same density.
This actually saves 2 conversions. One from data center UPS batteries to AC, and then back to DC in the server.
What does this mean for all the people who own computers with MS Windows installed on them, and have a real need to change the code to fix bugs that constantly reduce productivity?
Since the company in question broke the "locks" the copyright owner put in place, doesn't that violate the DCMA? Wouldn't the DCMA make their actions criminal (as apposed to just a civil case)?
Interesting that this has been posted on the same day I was home sick and reading Anne Rice. For the last hour I have been reading a description of creation as told to the Vampire Lestat by Memnoch, the Devil.
In Anne Rice's version there is both evolution and inteligent design. So if ID is taught in school's then I think Anne Rice's theory should be taught as well. To quote the book:
"I believe God worked back from a blueprint of Himself. He created a physical universe whose laws would result in the evolution of creatures who resemble Him."
I'm not trying to start a religion based on an Anne Rice novel (stranger things have happened). But I point this out because it seems so strange to me that so many people think that a belief in God and believing evolution are mutually exclusive.
I switched to a Mac as much because Mac hardware is just higher quality than most PC hardware. I am more comfortable on Linux than on Windows, so I joined the "cult of mac" because I was tired of my white (or black) boxes falling a part after 2 or 3 years of use. (built in ether net dies, parallel port dies, USB ports die, machine finally refuses to boot) Macs cost more, but they appear to be higher quality.
But I do agree that the iPod and iTunes has probably introduced many people to Apple. I realize I am not typical in my knowledge of the pros and cons of OS's.
If the cost of hydrocarbon fuels continues to grow, power demand will also fall.
Replacing hydrocarbon energy with clean energy is not the only way to reduce hydrocarbon use. Making things more efficient will also reduce power use. This can mean better insulation in buildings and homes; more efficient means of travel; more efficient lighting (LED?); more efficient heaters and air conditioners; etc.
I would be willing to pay up to about $3 less than buying the DVD in a local store (Target or Walmart). And I would do that only if I got content that was at least as high a resolution as what was on the DVD. I won't paymuch for a movie in iPod format as that wouldn't look too sweet on my HDTV.
Patrick
I think we would notice. Our governments might start behaving in a more logical manor. Any robot or computer smart enough to take over, has got to be better than our current "elected" leaders.
I have been thinking about this for a while now, since Oracle showed interest in Open source databases. I think the goal is to offer a barrier to attack moving up from the low end of the database market.
A few years ago a well placed Oracle employee gave a talk at the local LUG meeting. It was plain from his attitude that if you didn't have at least a 4 way box hosting your database he didn't see you as a customer or potential customer. Oracle appeared blind to the needs of small business. And of course that is where (IMHO anyway) MS SQL Server posses the biggest threat to Oracle.
I think Oracle will use MySQL and their own free offering as a way to compete with MS in the low end of the market.
Two things: First, my walmart has a $1 bin with DVD's containing double features of movies from the 50's and earlier. Two, your right its not worth it! Not because I wouldn't pay $0.50 a movie for a classic like the original House on Haunted Hill, but because it has got to be the worst conversion to DVD I have ever witnessed. This DVD was not up to iPod video standards.
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I agree with the parent post. XML's strengths are its near human readability. Which makes it easy to design or debug software that uses it to exchange data. But it is a wastefull format for storing information. XML is data bloat.
First of all why is the parent modded to 5? Obviously neither the author or the moderators read TFA.
They started using the iPod as a harddrive, but then with the photo iPod wrote software to convert the images so they could be displayed on the iPod it self.
This is not "break through" technology but the type I find interesting. Using existing technology in a totally different manner than it was intended.
Honestly for a Doctors office, a mac mini and other needed hardware are probably worth the investment if they need to share this data. I am sure it would be cheaper than dedicated hardware. Probably by an order of magnitude ($1,000 vs $10,000 to $50,000)
This is why I support school vouchers in the full hope and belief it will bring the feedback loop to the parents or destory the public school system. Both of which would be better than the current broken system.
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Sadly I don't expect the US to make any useful or moral decisions. That is unless a bunch of congressmen (and women) think they will be voted out of office over the issue!
I second the person that said programmers shouldn't be writing code to the cache size on a processor. How well your code fits in cache is not something you can control at run time. Different releases of the CPU often have different cache sizes. And frankly developers should always try to achieve tight efficent code, not develope to a particular cache size.
You are right that the divisions have little to do with each other. However if a very vocal boycot makes the person at the top realize that the music division is costing ALL other divisions money, then the boycot will decide who wins that infighting between hardware and music (or movies).
Years ago Eric R. gave a talk at the local LUG where he described DRM as the single biggest threat to OSS, because you can't control DRM if there are open general purpose computers. Or that was his arguement, anyway. His said Sony will make more money selling hardware to pirate their content than they will from selling their content in a pirate free environment.
ROTFL
I agree, in the grand scheme this might be a good thing.
And if for nothing else this has been very funny to watch the problems snow ball for Sony.
I do enjoytext adventure games, although I haven't played in years. Best of all I could probably get away with playing them at work. All the windows folks would just think I'm writing perl scripts! ;-)
I hope in the comments of this posting we get a wealth of links to freely avalible or even low cost text adventure games.
Well their reason for not selecting it might be zealotry, but I have to beleive that they can create a Redhat based distribution that will work with their hardware all the time. That is part of the Apple secret. If your hardware is a small handpicked set, then having an OS that just works is that much easier.
This is similar to an idea I had a while back, which is if I were in charge of the data center for a lean dot com, I would install laptops in the datacenter. They have built in UPS for up to about 2 hours of run time. They are powered directly off of DC, so there is no need for DC to AC conversion coming off of the DataCenters UPS. I suspect that Laptops would generate less heat, and be reasonably power efficient. Lots of cheap laptops on trays might be cost comparable to 1u server boxs at the same density.
This actually saves 2 conversions. One from data center UPS batteries to AC, and then back to DC in the server.
Since the company in question broke the "locks" the copyright owner put in place, doesn't that violate the DCMA? Wouldn't the DCMA make their actions criminal (as apposed to just a civil case)?
I have seen this article posted several places recently. I'm gald this one has pictures. I kept picturing a giant eggbeater.
In Anne Rice's version there is both evolution and inteligent design. So if ID is taught in school's then I think Anne Rice's theory should be taught as well. To quote the book:
I'm not trying to start a religion based on an Anne Rice novel (stranger things have happened). But I point this out because it seems so strange to me that so many people think that a belief in God and believing evolution are mutually exclusive.I switched to a Mac as much because Mac hardware is just higher quality than most PC hardware. I am more comfortable on Linux than on Windows, so I joined the "cult of mac" because I was tired of my white (or black) boxes falling a part after 2 or 3 years of use. (built in ether net dies, parallel port dies, USB ports die, machine finally refuses to boot) Macs cost more, but they appear to be higher quality.
But I do agree that the iPod and iTunes has probably introduced many people to Apple. I realize I am not typical in my knowledge of the pros and cons of OS's.
Replacing hydrocarbon energy with clean energy is not the only way to reduce hydrocarbon use. Making things more efficient will also reduce power use. This can mean better insulation in buildings and homes; more efficient means of travel; more efficient lighting (LED?); more efficient heaters and air conditioners; etc.
It might even mean smarter stoplights.
But hey, I'm willing to advertise Firefox (and most other non-IE browsers) for free.
I would be willing to pay up to about $3 less than buying the DVD in a local store (Target or Walmart). And I would do that only if I got content that was at least as high a resolution as what was on the DVD. I won't paymuch for a movie in iPod format as that wouldn't look too sweet on my HDTV. Patrick
Sounds like an encryption arms race, and one they are not likely to ever win.
I think we would notice. Our governments might start behaving in a more logical manor. Any robot or computer smart enough to take over, has got to be better than our current "elected" leaders.
I have been thinking about this for a while now, since Oracle showed interest in Open source databases. I think the goal is to offer a barrier to attack moving up from the low end of the database market.
A few years ago a well placed Oracle employee gave a talk at the local LUG meeting. It was plain from his attitude that if you didn't have at least a 4 way box hosting your database he didn't see you as a customer or potential customer. Oracle appeared blind to the needs of small business. And of course that is where (IMHO anyway) MS SQL Server posses the biggest threat to Oracle.
I think Oracle will use MySQL and their own free offering as a way to compete with MS in the low end of the market.
Expect that installing Linux on an unprotected Windows box would be funny!
Two things: First, my walmart has a $1 bin with DVD's containing double features of movies from the 50's and earlier. Two, your right its not worth it! Not because I wouldn't pay $0.50 a movie for a classic like the original House on Haunted Hill, but because it has got to be the worst conversion to DVD I have ever witnessed. This DVD was not up to iPod video standards.
I agree with the parent post. XML's strengths are its near human readability. Which makes it easy to design or debug software that uses it to exchange data. But it is a wastefull format for storing information. XML is data bloat.
They started using the iPod as a harddrive, but then with the photo iPod wrote software to convert the images so they could be displayed on the iPod it self.
This is not "break through" technology but the type I find interesting. Using existing technology in a totally different manner than it was intended.
Honestly for a Doctors office, a mac mini and other needed hardware are probably worth the investment if they need to share this data. I am sure it would be cheaper than dedicated hardware. Probably by an order of magnitude ($1,000 vs $10,000 to $50,000)
Thanks. I hate the lite on science in main stream reporting!
This is why I support school vouchers in the full hope and belief it will bring the feedback loop to the parents or destory the public school system. Both of which would be better than the current broken system.