Ah ah ah. Slashdot crowd and I, really appreciate this kind of smart sarcasms, too bad you post it anonymously, you could have make progress toward an excellent karma !
Welcome to the future ! The time now is 11h45am PST, I can predict that several cars are going to finish the course this year, one might have been luck, 3 or 4 for is not. Sensors, but more than that, the actual programs that run the car is the key here. Heck even my own personal Lego Mindstrom creations can navigate their way inside my home ! mmm I may enlist a Lego based car bot next challenge !
Dell computer are like American cars, you can always find a deal, you will be crazy to buy a Dell computer, any Dell, Desktop or Laptop, at the official price; they always have a ton of rebates and other "special" or coupon codes all the time. For instance right now they are running a sale on the excellent UltraSharp 2005FPW 20" Widescreen LCD Monitor for $394.35. A good place to find about theses deal is at this page:
http://www.gottadeal.com/Deals/Store/dellhome
Alias sold for $182m in cash ! Wow that's cheap, given that Maya is THE software used to create all theses 3d animated motion picture that each gross several multiple of that.
Now if Autodesk is discontinue the Maya line, that is going to be a huge lost to the industry, I rather like Autodesk to use their newly acquire Premium product (Maya) to make a coherent product line, 3DStudio Max in the cheap low end, windows only and Maya for the expensive high end, with pricey Linux-clustering support.
If the solution includes buying a new DVD player, just when HD-DVD and Blu-Ray are about the launch, when DivX Certified DVD player are in full swing in Europe and Asia, this is not going to fly very long.
The actual concept has failed in much more interesting and subtle way (UV "bio" degradable discs that play on Standard DVD players), so I predict that one is not going to even make a ripple in the market.
Wait this is just strike me as I type, the article do not mention about anything related to DVD forum and the actual DVD format, I will not be surprised if theses disks are actually encoded using VC1, so that's mean that the cost of the "M$ play once DVD player" is going to be much more expensive than you generic DVD-only or even DivX Certified DVD Player. This effort is doomed !
It depends, some book do carry graphics, for instance the Slashdot friendly "Amusements in Mathematics" by Henry Ernest Dudeney, 1917 http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/16713 the Html zipped version do carry all the original drawings.
So after spending countless nights (and days) coding and fine tuning your software, after having burn all your saving trying to maintain a website and paid for the bandwidth, after having lost all humans relationship to a handful of porn-addicted-cubicles-geeks, after being on the edge of personal bankruptcy, your project finally catches up and a small but dedicated community is backing you up, then you only half way there !
VC seems not to take *any* risks when investing in Open-Source companies, you got to be *already* successful in order to be one of the lucky one that is being given some cash, and then, hopefully, you are not going to be asked to give up control in exchange for that well deserved life-saving money.
A resources wasting, spectator unfriendly, impossibly loud and let's face it unpopular new sport is ill-born. Expect the first and only season to be broadcasted at night on ESPN2 between Ginsu knife and Bowfex infomercial.
Form the press release: "During the initial release of this program, GenUX will be in a testing phase, and will be offering free support during this time"
Support is free for few weeks, then you have to paid the traditionally high support costs http://www.gen-ux.com/catalog
I think a large number of students have horrors story about their engineering studies time. In my case I study electrical engineering, get my diploma, but end up going back to university studying History of Art and Cinema. The funny thing is that 6 years after finishing school and after few years spend in the Cinema Production field, I come back to Engineering, software engineering this time, as a manager, and I realize that all the thing that I learn at the time where actually valuable !
In the long run no P2P application companies will the able to survive the RIAA/MPAA pressure, LimeWire, eDonkey and the others "commercial" P2P will have to go. But that is by no mean the end of P2P, Open Source client like eMule and for sure Open-from-the-start protocols like Bittorent are going to be the long run winner of the "underground" P2P community.
On the other hand P2P as a distribution system for legit purpose is gaining massive momentum, just look at Red Swoosh, iFilm and IGN.com are using it and the download speed are impressive, without hogging you connection like BT will do.
Bottom line, this move is just a trick to try to survive a little longer from LimeWire, too bad it is going to backfire...
IBM is trying the save a piece of his bizness
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· Score: 4, Interesting
This article comes from IBM, this is no surprise, given that they must have the most interest in maintaining the "mature" workforce in the enterprise
Example of discussion:
Manager: We need to increase the throughput of our Mainframe system
Old engineer: Let's contact IBM, our mainframe hardware manufacturer and add a couple of processing units to the system
Young engineer: Nah, just let migrate to Linux, I can get you the same service, same performance, for a fraction of the price if we get a cluster of cheap Opterons, plus this will scale easily in the future and we will be vendor independent.
(Obviously the young engineer didn't had to deal with migration issues in the past, and obviously the manager is going to be sold on the bottom line)
Actually it was already part of Office XP and Office 2003, but people couldn't find it in the complex menu structure, so now it's exposed on the new super fancy icons bar !
If they use Windows embedded as OS, I can't wait (actually I can wait, I rather never have to see them) for the Star Wars moment where they all stop at once because of a worm like infection ! I guess the market value of Virus and Worm writer skillz just get a notch higher.
Imagine the applications in everyday cubicle's life: A smell map of the office to answer the eternal question: The more you smell, the better you code ?
Space jamming, EMP, Echelon and other unknown stuff, US definitely put the accent on the information war. Are all theses hi-tech gadgets really effective in today's world, where terrorists are the biggest treat ? A good old steganography algorithm, a Hotmail address and all theses fancy gadget are defeated...
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Ah ah ah. Slashdot crowd and I, really appreciate this kind of smart sarcasms, too bad you post it anonymously, you could have make progress toward an excellent karma !
Welcome to the future ! The time now is 11h45am PST, I can predict that several cars are going to finish the course this year, one might have been luck, 3 or 4 for is not. Sensors, but more than that, the actual programs that run the car is the key here. Heck even my own personal Lego Mindstrom creations can navigate their way inside my home ! mmm I may enlist a Lego based car bot next challenge !
That one is even better: http://www.gottadeal.com/dell.php
Dell computer are like American cars, you can always find a deal, you will be crazy to buy a Dell computer, any Dell, Desktop or Laptop, at the official price; they always have a ton of rebates and other "special" or coupon codes all the time.
For instance right now they are running a sale on the excellent UltraSharp 2005FPW 20" Widescreen LCD Monitor for $394.35.
A good place to find about theses deal is at this page: http://www.gottadeal.com/Deals/Store/dellhome
More information here:t ml
http://www.effi.org/tekijanoikeus/laki/index.en.h
Alias sold for $182m in cash ! Wow that's cheap, given that Maya is THE software used to create all theses 3d animated motion picture that each gross several multiple of that.
Now if Autodesk is discontinue the Maya line, that is going to be a huge lost to the industry, I rather like Autodesk to use their newly acquire Premium product (Maya) to make a coherent product line, 3DStudio Max in the cheap low end, windows only and Maya for the expensive high end, with pricey Linux-clustering support.
If the solution includes buying a new DVD player, just when HD-DVD and Blu-Ray are about the launch, when DivX Certified DVD player are in full swing in Europe and Asia, this is not going to fly very long.
The actual concept has failed in much more interesting and subtle way (UV "bio" degradable discs that play on Standard DVD players), so I predict that one is not going to even make a ripple in the market.
Wait this is just strike me as I type, the article do not mention about anything related to DVD forum and the actual DVD format, I will not be surprised if theses disks are actually encoded using VC1, so that's mean that the cost of the "M$ play once DVD player" is going to be much more expensive than you generic DVD-only or even DivX Certified DVD Player. This effort is doomed !
It depends, some book do carry graphics, for instance the Slashdot friendly "Amusements in Mathematics" by Henry Ernest Dudeney, 1917
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/16713 the Html zipped version do carry all the original drawings.
16k ebooks to choose from today, more to come, no Google, no Yahoo.
http://www.gutenberg.org/
So after spending countless nights (and days) coding and fine tuning your software, after having burn all your saving trying to maintain a website and paid for the bandwidth, after having lost all humans relationship to a handful of porn-addicted-cubicles-geeks, after being on the edge of personal bankruptcy, your project finally catches up and a small but dedicated community is backing you up, then you only half way there !
VC seems not to take *any* risks when investing in Open-Source companies, you got to be *already* successful in order to be one of the lucky one that is being given some cash, and then, hopefully, you are not going to be asked to give up control in exchange for that well deserved life-saving money.
A resources wasting, spectator unfriendly, impossibly loud and let's face it unpopular new sport is ill-born.
Expect the first and only season to be broadcasted at night on ESPN2 between Ginsu knife and Bowfex infomercial.
Form the press release: "During the initial release of this program, GenUX will be in a testing phase, and will be offering free support during this time"
Support is free for few weeks, then you have to paid the traditionally high support costs
http://www.gen-ux.com/catalog
I think a large number of students have horrors story about their engineering studies time. In my case I study electrical engineering, get my diploma, but end up going back to university studying History of Art and Cinema. The funny thing is that 6 years after finishing school and after few years spend in the Cinema Production field, I come back to Engineering, software engineering this time, as a manager, and I realize that all the thing that I learn at the time where actually valuable !
I was not thinking of the dolphins but to the men that mount darts on them.
Which is the most stupid ?
In the long run no P2P application companies will the able to survive the RIAA/MPAA pressure, LimeWire, eDonkey and the others "commercial" P2P will have to go. But that is by no mean the end of P2P, Open Source client like eMule and for sure Open-from-the-start protocols like Bittorent are going to be the long run winner of the "underground" P2P community.
On the other hand P2P as a distribution system for legit purpose is gaining massive momentum, just look at Red Swoosh, iFilm and IGN.com are using it and the download speed are impressive, without hogging you connection like BT will do.
Bottom line, this move is just a trick to try to survive a little longer from LimeWire, too bad it is going to backfire...
This article comes from IBM, this is no surprise, given that they must have the most interest in maintaining the "mature" workforce in the enterprise
Example of discussion:
Manager: We need to increase the throughput of our Mainframe system
Old engineer: Let's contact IBM, our mainframe hardware manufacturer and add a couple of processing units to the system
Young engineer: Nah, just let migrate to Linux, I can get you the same service, same performance, for a fraction of the price if we get a cluster of cheap Opterons, plus this will scale easily in the future and we will be vendor independent.
(Obviously the young engineer didn't had to deal with migration issues in the past, and obviously the manager is going to be sold on the bottom line)
Actually it was already part of Office XP and Office 2003, but people couldn't find it in the complex menu structure, so now it's exposed on the new super fancy icons bar !
If they use Windows embedded as OS, I can't wait (actually I can wait, I rather never have to see them) for the Star Wars moment where they all stop at once because of a worm like infection ! I guess the market value of Virus and Worm writer skillz just get a notch higher.
Imagine the applications in everyday cubicle's life: A smell map of the office to answer the eternal question: The more you smell, the better you code ?
Damnit, monsieur ! Je ne suis pas celui que vous croyez...
Aren't we supposed to be the good guys ? Why the rest of the world would want to band together against us ?
Space jamming, EMP, Echelon and other unknown stuff, US definitely put the accent on the information war. Are all theses hi-tech gadgets really effective in today's world, where terrorists are the biggest treat ? A good old steganography algorithm, a Hotmail address and all theses fancy gadget are defeated...
That's perfectly fits with yesterday's news about Mozilla foundation being more reactive to security fixes than M$.
Open-source Full disclosure vs Close-source Please-wait-for-us-to-fix-the-vulnerability-before -publishing-it-else-we-sue