To steal a phrase, we do these things not because they are easy but because they are hard - because the struggle to climb this mountain teaches us more than the view from the summit does. And when we climb down this mountain we know things that enable us to go further and faster than anyone who hasn't been where we've been and done what we've done. We have learned how to do well with little, the value of a microsecond, the value of doing things the right way rather than the easy or convenient way.
A '386 is quite a lot of processor. It's the minimum hardware to run Windows NT, or most forms of BSD and Linux for example. But it's getting expensive to get any lower in processor performance than that, even for embedded applications, so '386 it is.
Yeah, the new Nehalems and Opterons totally rock. But if you want to get the most out of that platform get your code from the guy who earned his stripes on a '386 and then school him up on multithreading. If Microsoft understood this and best practice and a few other things, there would have been no Vista. They knew these things once - NT was built on non-x86 architectures and ported to the x86 platform for good reason.
Would also be interested in Android, however the hardware choices are overwhelming (Motorola, HTC et al). At least with the Palm or Apple, you are only required to choose from one or two models.
Not sure if serious... Um, too much choice is bad? Really? You're going to go with that?
I liked the article. I don't agree with everything, but it was a well researched article with lots of citations. I don't see Android as an iPhone killer, but more of an everything-else killer and a cool tool in its own right. It's also being used for the Nook ebook reader and some other things.
Certainly WiMo is dead. It's killed every pocket computer it ever ran on. The prospect of being required to use that dog practically killed the category. To try and release a new product on it would require some serious amnesia.
If the bug isn't fixed in the source code, the bug isn't fixed. This solution becomes a crutch upon which poor programmers depend until everything stops working altogether.
If that's how you, as an individual, learn, then whining about it and trying to get the professor fired for failing to accomodate your special needs is a selfish jerk thing to do. If you're that special the obvious cure is to skip physical attendance, take the handouts and the video and transcribe the event at your leisure.
But no, you're enough of a jerk to impose the limitations of your special needs on all of the normally abled people.
A bare Windows install isn't like Ubuntu or a Mac. It comes with only one browser, no way to play DVD's, no audio editor, no productivity applications. It doesn't even have an antivirus that we need Windows users to have from the start so as to delay their inevitable pwndom. It doesn't have shared repositories with thousands of free applications for every need. The poor users need some help bootstrapping from that to a useful platform, and the OEMs are driven to serve that need.
It's plausible that these two photons left 0.1 seconds apart, and in their journey the distance between them expanded with the rest of the universe around them until at their arrival they were 0.9 light seconds apart. The event was observed to be 2.2 seconds long from our point of view but in local time at the event it took much less time (0.27 seconds). At least that's my understanding of 8.2 redshift.
//Copyright symbolset (c) 2009 //License: GPL 2.0 or any later version. Use and share it all you want - but if you publish executables compiled from derived code you have to publish the source under this license. int main(int argc, char **argv) { //This comment is unique to Symbolset's GPL Code Template. }
Now any government agency can take that template, expand it to do anything they want, and it's GPL rather than public domain.
We think it's funny. We know you don't think it's funny. That's part of why it's funny. You want to fucking kill google, and all you can do is thrash furniture. Your team can't even keep a fucking SideKick working and you want to take on Android. What is it, a decade of WiMo, and 6.5 is the best you can do?
Get over it. You're Wile E. Coyote and Google is your Roadrunner. That's some funny shit there. If they call their app store ACME that would complete the joke. Somebody get Sergey on the horn.
Mark Shuttleworth really isn't worried about it. He can lose money at this rate for twenty years and still not feel it. Somehow I don't think that's how it's going to work out.
Seriously, why is overpopulation rarely mentioned by environmentalists?
I know... hypothetical question. I'll answer it anyway. To say there are too many people, and too many being born implies that some are excess. It's too easy to defeat that logical answer by asking you to define which group is excess.
Also the only solution besides war, famine and plague involves the total cooperation of everyone at once.
Slashdot Mirror
To steal a phrase, we do these things not because they are easy but because they are hard - because the struggle to climb this mountain teaches us more than the view from the summit does. And when we climb down this mountain we know things that enable us to go further and faster than anyone who hasn't been where we've been and done what we've done. We have learned how to do well with little, the value of a microsecond, the value of doing things the right way rather than the easy or convenient way.
A '386 is quite a lot of processor. It's the minimum hardware to run Windows NT, or most forms of BSD and Linux for example. But it's getting expensive to get any lower in processor performance than that, even for embedded applications, so '386 it is.
Yeah, the new Nehalems and Opterons totally rock. But if you want to get the most out of that platform get your code from the guy who earned his stripes on a '386 and then school him up on multithreading. If Microsoft understood this and best practice and a few other things, there would have been no Vista. They knew these things once - NT was built on non-x86 architectures and ported to the x86 platform for good reason.
Would also be interested in Android, however the hardware choices are overwhelming (Motorola, HTC et al). At least with the Palm or Apple, you are only required to choose from one or two models.
Not sure if serious... Um, too much choice is bad? Really? You're going to go with that?
I liked the article. I don't agree with everything, but it was a well researched article with lots of citations. I don't see Android as an iPhone killer, but more of an everything-else killer and a cool tool in its own right. It's also being used for the Nook ebook reader and some other things.
Certainly WiMo is dead. It's killed every pocket computer it ever ran on. The prospect of being required to use that dog practically killed the category. To try and release a new product on it would require some serious amnesia.
XP is going out of support. It's time to upgrade right away!
Trust me.
Some problems can be solved by throwing money at them.
Lightpeak may be your answer next year.
If the bug isn't fixed in the source code, the bug isn't fixed. This solution becomes a crutch upon which poor programmers depend until everything stops working altogether.
The research did continue. I would give details, but I'm afraid my comment posting module prevents it for some reason.
If that's how you, as an individual, learn, then whining about it and trying to get the professor fired for failing to accomodate your special needs is a selfish jerk thing to do. If you're that special the obvious cure is to skip physical attendance, take the handouts and the video and transcribe the event at your leisure.
But no, you're enough of a jerk to impose the limitations of your special needs on all of the normally abled people.
Space is not only really big, it's also mostly empty. That may be why they call it "space".
/Oh, and it takes a lot of mass to block gamma rays - a 1 cm thick lead panel will only block half of the photons.
They're more reliable than the Microsoft Danger servers I believe. People are still reporting data loss on their SideKicks today.
A bare Windows install isn't like Ubuntu or a Mac. It comes with only one browser, no way to play DVD's, no audio editor, no productivity applications. It doesn't even have an antivirus that we need Windows users to have from the start so as to delay their inevitable pwndom. It doesn't have shared repositories with thousands of free applications for every need. The poor users need some help bootstrapping from that to a useful platform, and the OEMs are driven to serve that need.
It's plausible that these two photons left 0.1 seconds apart, and in their journey the distance between them expanded with the rest of the universe around them until at their arrival they were 0.9 light seconds apart. The event was observed to be 2.2 seconds long from our point of view but in local time at the event it took much less time (0.27 seconds). At least that's my understanding of 8.2 redshift.
Here's a template for a C or C++ program:
Now any government agency can take that template, expand it to do anything they want, and it's GPL rather than public domain.
Sprinkle Aspartame.
Hell, I warned them about the trap of commercial software when it was fairly new.
People don't really remember that almost all software used to be FOSS.
openfiler.com offers support for openfiler - the open source iSCSI SAN.
No, I do no business with them. But there's a lot of folk excited about this at work.
We think it's funny. We know you don't think it's funny. That's part of why it's funny. You want to fucking kill google, and all you can do is thrash furniture. Your team can't even keep a fucking SideKick working and you want to take on Android. What is it, a decade of WiMo, and 6.5 is the best you can do?
Get over it. You're Wile E. Coyote and Google is your Roadrunner. That's some funny shit there. If they call their app store ACME that would complete the joke. Somebody get Sergey on the horn.
Malthus.
So burn a few hundred discs and sell it on Amazon. Sheesh!
Mark Shuttleworth really isn't worried about it. He can lose money at this rate for twenty years and still not feel it. Somehow I don't think that's how it's going to work out.
Use LightScribe. It looks nice and official - Microsoft's doing it now.
Seriously, why is overpopulation rarely mentioned by environmentalists?
I know... hypothetical question. I'll answer it anyway. To say there are too many people, and too many being born implies that some are excess. It's too easy to defeat that logical answer by asking you to define which group is excess.
Also the only solution besides war, famine and plague involves the total cooperation of everyone at once.
Photoacoustic transducer (1998).
My offspring and their offspring probably have the eco-footprint of a coal-fired electric plant.
What to do...