Very true. Nearly every Victorian town house owned by a doctor, engineer, or lawyer had a large study somewhere in the building.
At the time of the Industrial Revolution, it was the company owners who paid for the terraced housing next to their factories, and set up schools in order to educate their employees.
Go even further back to the Tudor times, and you'll see that merchants lived in four or five story buildings, with the shop at ground level, store rooms above and living quarters on the top levels. Although this arrangement may have had more to do with the shortage of land space and taxes based on the width of the property.
What might have saved clippy is if they added a feature where the user could, Black&White style, pimp slap him upside the head whenever he did something aggravating and proceeded to grin at you about it.
That would be a lot more fun than clicking the "[.] Do not ask this again" option.
Atari Basic/6502 1981-1987, At Home
Apple Basic . ..1984-1985, In High School
Pascal/8086 . ..1986-1987, 1st Year University
C . . . . . . ..1988-1994, 2nd Year University
C++ . . . . . ..1994, Postgraduate - as templates were being introduced
Around 1996, my high school moved to Pascal.
At present universities teach Java for the first year, then moves to C++. Recently the department had an open day for the final year students. Nearly all the projects were web based (XML/Visual Basic/CGI/Perl/JAVA) and I don't think there was a single project that was written in C++. I guess this is the influence of the requirementss being placed on C++ programmers:
Computer Science degree, 2:1 or better, must be from a red-brick university and have five years experience at a good software company.
Because your application or device driver may want to dynamically compile a function in real-time for maximum speed or to avoid code-bloat. The first software only implementation of OpenGL did this. Since code-segments are read-only, this leaves the only option of using data/stack segment memory for this task.
Surely these don't need to talk outside anything but a single discrete group of computers. My fear is that people tend to put web browsers, email clients etc on any system these days, for convenience, which is quite bad for security.
How else is Windows Update going to install patches automatically?
The problem I see is heat. Intel's latest chip design, the Prescott, puts out ~80 watts of heat at 3.4GHz. A dual-core, 4GHz version would put out around 150 watts. No air cooling system in the world can handle that sort of heat density.
By that time they'll probably have perfected the micro heat-exchange powered/dynamo cooling unit.
Too right... but progress is good. My supervisor recently bought a laptop - the embedded video card does hardware bump-mapping as well as multi-texturing. Ten years ago you would have been lucky to afford a workstation with that capability.
Today's roomful of rack-mounted systems is tomorrow's server unit.
Today's server unit is tomorrow's workstation.
Today's workstation is tomorrow's desktop.
Todays's desktop to tomorrow's laptop.
Today's laptop is tomorrow's PDA.
Today's PDA is tomorrow's wristwatch.
Yes, but according to the article, "...I'd advise to run your shower curtains through the clothes washer every few weeks...Better yet, get a glass door. Glass accumulates this biofilm slower.". I don't know about you, but I don't know many glass doors that fit in a clothes washer.:) I'll stick with vinyl.
But do make sure the washing machine is on a cool wash. Our neighbor used a high heat setting, and the vinyl turned into sticky gooey mass that has to be peeled from the washing machine.
That reminds of a story I once heard. Some thiefs hired a pickup truck and attempted to steal a high-voltage sub-transformer from the side of building. Of course, they had to cut through the copper wiring first. (Un)fortunately, they failed to consider the concept of switching the power off first, and got the shock of their lives.
What does the science lab do? It costs a hell of a lot of money with no return for the school system (at least in a short term/micro view) . Schools want to be viewed as prestigious institutions, and the number one way to do that is through athletics.
What about spelling-bee competitions, science fairs or debating competitions? Don't US high schools have those, just like as in Canada?
In the UK, (at least, in my highly subjective experience) this doesn't happen. I'm really geeky, and am recognised as such, but I've still got a lot of friends/girlfriends/social life, and I, nor any of my friends get "beaten up" or teased for being intelligent/liking science/computers etc.
It depends on the mix of income backgrounds. You hear of kids committing suicide because they were bullied for being academically successful in the small town ("townie") schools, where the career path for the majority of students is to go on the "social" and do casual labour. That doesn't happen in the exclusive or dominantly middle class schools, where the ethos is to prepare everyone for university.
they're going to have a hell of a time competing visually in a market where 1,000,000 poly models require a single artist to work for almost a month to make a single character look halfway decent.
By that time, it'll probably be more cost-effective to laser-scan a real car, or get the geometry direct from the manufacturer.
But, where are the cards that can generate the sound of one arbitrary object hitting another? I don't just mean positional sound of pre-recorded samples, but really create the sounds from scratch (or an "audio-enabled model").
The problem is that you'd have to model every object at the atomic level, to capture the effect of friction, vibration or resonance. Consider a music classroom scene with chalk, desks, trash-can, and a teacher, and instruments. The teacher could run his/her nails along the blackboard (friction), or throw the chalk in the dustbin (resonance). The students could bang the desk-lids (resonance) or push the chairs back (friction). Playing musical instruments would require modelling the motion of strings and wind instruments. This is possible, but requires an incredible amount of computing power - there was an article on how researchers had used supercomputing technology to design a harmonically perfect bell, that didn't have any unwanted side tones.
I don't mean to sound funny in any way but this is a serious worry. I'm frightened by the over hype of Video Game consoles. I'm afriad when I see computers more powerful inside gamming machines that retail for 100 to 400 dollars
Believe it or not, it's an indirect consequence of the marketplace competition between Windows and UNIX for the business market. In the early days you just had mainframes and terminals. Then PC makers edged their way in by claiming that the PC put the power on the desktop, and continued to add features in order to keep sales up (higher resolutions, audio, DVD players). UNIX vendors fought back by offering thin clients (taking the computing power back into the computer room, and using the network to share it out when needed). Did business users really need to buy multimedia systems with DVD players, sub-woofers and 20 Gigabyte hard drives, if they're just accessing client records and replying to E-mail? Just to make sure, they also built workstations from PC components. It didn't help that computer shopper columns also advised home users to buy the cheapest system as possible, due to the fact technology changed so quickly.
This competition forced PC manufacturers to drastically reduce their profit margins, and thus to seek out new markets; embedded systems and the game console market. The game console market offered the advantage of selling the hardware for a loss and making a profit on the licensing of software. Also, veteran game developers preferred to work on console systems, as they only had to design to one or two hardware platforms.
This allowed Sony and Microsoft to use their engineering skills to push out the previous market leaders (Sega, Nintendo). So now you see low-cost PC's for business and home use, and high-performance consoles for entertainment (with maybe a small market for modded machines). But now the development costs for console systems are so high, that all the major players are going for the same configuration (PowerPC CPU, ATI graphics processor).
Britain, with a similar approach is also in the same boat (high GDP per capita, comparitavely low standard of living).
A first time buyers house in London costs around 120K pounds (250K dollars), then there's the risk of "housing chains" forming where a whole set of transactions end up deadlocking. A house in the leafy-green suburbs (within 1 hours train of central London) will cost around 500K pounds (750K+ dollars). Even in the North of England (previously the rustbelt of England), house prices in good areas are starting at 120K. School catchment areas have reduced from 2 miles down to 300 yards for the most popular schools. In the countryside, house prices have shot up as Londoners have sold their houses and moved out.
Edinburgh isn't much better as a family home will cost more than 250K pounds (400k dollars) and IT salaries for engineers are lucky to reach 30K pounds (45k dollars). Currently, there are 12 buyers for every house on the market. The shortage is blamed on everything from people living longer, lack of land to build new housing, the buy-to-let market and the construction of new office blocks.
France is better off since the health service is privately run, but everyone is require to contribute to a national health insurance scheme. Housing is cheaper (mainly due to the Great Plague which wiped out half the population, although Paris and coastal areas are expensive. Napoleonic housing laws don't help either.
Because as families are more financially stable and *can* support a greater number of kids
But, as the parents take more time to get an education, and as they have better health-care, there is less incentive for them to have large families. So the birth-rate slows down, and the population stabilises in size.
Yes, I should have said we take local backups on top of the regular incremental/full backups. I always make a 'freeze' copy before making any major structural changes.
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Very true. Nearly every Victorian town house owned by a doctor, engineer, or lawyer had a large study somewhere in the building.
At the time of the Industrial Revolution, it was the company owners who paid for the terraced housing next to their factories, and set up schools in order to educate their employees.
Go even further back to the Tudor times, and you'll see that merchants lived in four or five story buildings, with the shop at ground level, store rooms above and living quarters on the top levels. Although this arrangement may have had more to do with the shortage of land space and taxes based on the width of the property.
and a great reason for the pirates to switch to free software
Unfortunately, the pirates can't make a profit from trying to sell free software.
What might have saved clippy is if they added a feature where the user could, Black&White style, pimp slap him upside the head whenever he did something aggravating and proceeded to grin at you about it.
That would be a lot more fun than clicking the "[.] Do not ask this again" option.
Ever swim in a heavily chlorinated pool? You'll be seeing coronas welll outside the pool area.
I usually try to avoid drinking the water.
From the screenshots, it looks as if they already have the kitchen sink.
That sounds like a piece of knowledge inherited from the days of BASIC programming.
Man, that makes me feel old...
.1984-1985, In High School .1986-1987, 1st Year University .1988-1994, 2nd Year University .1994, Postgraduate - as templates were being introduced
Atari Basic/6502 1981-1987, At Home
Apple Basic . .
Pascal/8086 . .
C . . . . . . .
C++ . . . . . .
Around 1996, my high school moved to Pascal. At present universities teach Java for the first year, then moves to C++. Recently the department had an open day for the final year students. Nearly all the projects were web based (XML/Visual Basic/CGI/Perl/JAVA) and I don't think there was a single project that was written in C++. I guess this is the influence of the requirementss being placed on C++ programmers:
Computer Science degree, 2:1 or better, must be from a red-brick university and have five years experience at a good software company.
When I first saw this article, I thought SCO were trying to sue the NRA.
Why would you execute something that isn't code?
Because your application or device driver may want to dynamically compile a function in real-time for maximum speed or to avoid code-bloat. The first software only implementation of OpenGL did this. Since code-segments are read-only, this leaves the only option of using data/stack segment memory for this task.
No Execute can be selectively disabled for a particular application," Brunner said.
As long as they don't put the option into Outlook Express attachments, this may just work.
Surely these don't need to talk outside anything but a single discrete group of computers. My fear is that people tend to put web browsers, email clients etc on any system these days, for convenience, which is quite bad for security.
How else is Windows Update going to install patches automatically?
The problem I see is heat. Intel's latest chip design, the Prescott, puts out ~80 watts of heat at 3.4GHz. A dual-core, 4GHz version would put out around 150 watts. No air cooling system in the world can handle that sort of heat density.
By that time they'll probably have perfected the micro heat-exchange powered/dynamo cooling unit.
They're nearly there. You can get a television wristwatch. All they need to do is add a wireless transmitter.
That's what early graphis accelerator boards were like in the 1980's - Vectrix VX 384
Too right ... but progress is good. My supervisor recently bought a laptop - the embedded video card does hardware bump-mapping as well as multi-texturing. Ten years ago you would have been lucky to afford a workstation with that capability.
Today's roomful of rack-mounted systems is tomorrow's server unit.
Today's server unit is tomorrow's workstation.
Today's workstation is tomorrow's desktop.
Todays's desktop to tomorrow's laptop.
Today's laptop is tomorrow's PDA.
Today's PDA is tomorrow's wristwatch.
Yes, but according to the article, "...I'd advise to run your shower curtains through the clothes washer every few weeks...Better yet, get a glass door. Glass accumulates this biofilm slower.". I don't know about you, but I don't know many glass doors that fit in a clothes washer. :) I'll stick with vinyl.
But do make sure the washing machine is on a cool wash. Our neighbor used a high heat setting, and the vinyl turned into sticky gooey mass that has to be peeled from the washing machine.
That reminds of a story I once heard. Some thiefs hired a pickup truck and attempted to steal a high-voltage sub-transformer from the side of building. Of course, they had to cut through the copper wiring first. (Un)fortunately, they failed to consider the concept of switching the power off first, and got the shock of their lives.
What does the science lab do? It costs a hell of a lot of money with no return for the school system (at least in a short term/micro view) . Schools want to be viewed as prestigious institutions, and the number one way to do that is through athletics.
What about spelling-bee competitions, science fairs or debating competitions? Don't US high schools have those, just like as in Canada?
In the UK, (at least, in my highly subjective experience) this doesn't happen. I'm really geeky, and am recognised as such, but I've still got a lot of friends/girlfriends/social life, and I, nor any of my friends get "beaten up" or teased for being intelligent/liking science/computers etc.
It depends on the mix of income backgrounds. You hear of kids committing suicide because they were bullied for being academically successful in the small town ("townie") schools, where the career path for the majority of students is to go on the "social" and do casual labour. That doesn't happen in the exclusive or dominantly middle class schools, where the ethos is to prepare everyone for university.
It's more of a financial thing.
they're going to have a hell of a time competing visually in a market where 1,000,000 poly models require a single artist to work for almost a month to make a single character look halfway decent.
By that time, it'll probably be more cost-effective to laser-scan a real car, or get the geometry direct from the manufacturer.
But, where are the cards that can generate the sound of one arbitrary object hitting another? I don't just mean positional sound of pre-recorded samples, but really create the sounds from scratch (or an "audio-enabled model").
The problem is that you'd have to model every object at the atomic level, to capture the effect of friction, vibration or resonance. Consider a music classroom scene with chalk, desks, trash-can, and a teacher, and instruments. The teacher could run his/her nails along the blackboard (friction), or throw the chalk in the dustbin (resonance). The students could bang the desk-lids (resonance) or push the chairs back (friction). Playing musical instruments would require modelling the motion of strings and wind instruments. This is possible, but requires an incredible amount of computing power - there was an article on how researchers had used supercomputing technology to design a harmonically perfect bell, that didn't have any unwanted side tones.
I don't mean to sound funny in any way but this is a serious worry. I'm frightened by the over hype of Video Game consoles. I'm afriad when I see computers more powerful inside gamming machines that retail for 100 to 400 dollars
Believe it or not, it's an indirect consequence of the marketplace competition between Windows and UNIX for the business market. In the early days you just had mainframes and terminals. Then PC makers edged their way in by claiming that the PC put the power on the desktop, and continued to add features in order to keep sales up (higher resolutions, audio, DVD players). UNIX vendors fought back by offering thin clients (taking the computing power back into the computer room, and using the network to share it out when needed). Did business users really need to buy multimedia systems with DVD players, sub-woofers and 20 Gigabyte hard drives, if they're just accessing client records and replying to E-mail? Just to make sure, they also built workstations from PC components. It didn't help that computer shopper columns also advised home users to buy the cheapest system as possible, due to the fact technology changed so quickly.
This competition forced PC manufacturers to drastically reduce their profit margins, and thus to seek out new markets; embedded systems and the game console market. The game console market offered the advantage of selling the hardware for a loss and making a profit on the licensing of software. Also, veteran game developers preferred to work on console systems, as they only had to design to one or two hardware platforms. This allowed Sony and Microsoft to use their engineering skills to push out the previous market leaders (Sega, Nintendo). So now you see low-cost PC's for business and home use, and high-performance consoles for entertainment (with maybe a small market for modded machines). But now the development costs for console systems are so high, that all the major players are going for the same configuration (PowerPC CPU, ATI graphics processor).
Britain, with a similar approach is also in the same boat (high GDP per capita, comparitavely low standard of living).
A first time buyers house in London costs around 120K pounds (250K dollars), then there's the risk of "housing chains" forming where a whole set of transactions end up deadlocking. A house in the leafy-green suburbs (within 1 hours train of central London) will cost around 500K pounds (750K+ dollars). Even in the North of England (previously the rustbelt of England), house prices in good areas are starting at 120K. School catchment areas have reduced from 2 miles down to 300 yards for the most popular schools. In the countryside, house prices have shot up as Londoners have sold their houses and moved out.
Edinburgh isn't much better as a family home will cost more than 250K pounds (400k dollars) and IT salaries for engineers are lucky to reach 30K pounds (45k dollars). Currently, there are 12 buyers for every house on the market. The shortage is blamed on everything from people living longer, lack of land to build new housing, the buy-to-let market and the construction of new office blocks.
France is better off since the health service is privately run, but everyone is require to contribute to a national health insurance scheme. Housing is cheaper (mainly due to the Great Plague which wiped out half the population, although Paris and coastal areas are expensive. Napoleonic housing laws don't help either.
Because as families are more financially stable and *can* support a greater number of kids
But, as the parents take more time to get an education, and as they have better health-care, there is less incentive for them to have large families. So the birth-rate slows down, and the population stabilises in size.
Yes, I should have said we take local backups on top of the regular incremental/full backups. I always make a 'freeze' copy before making any major structural changes.