Since Leopard is slated to come out some time early 2007, I'm thinking that this might be another blow to Microsoft.
OSX has released several versions since XP, and has been offering more and more of the features that Vista promises. It seems like MS has been trying to keep people hyped for the last few years, but at some point people are going to stop and realize that Apple is offering all of the features of Vista *now* and not X months from now.
I haven't used Windows as a personal OS for a while now... but I can see the huge potential for Vista Starter among gamers.
If I ever go back to windows, it would be for gaming and wouldn't care about the other bundled features of the OS (assuming OSX/Linux don't already have the game available)... assuming of course, that Starter version will support DirectX and all that multimedia stuff in order to play games.
Back in my day, a cup of coffee cost $0.50. Now it costs $2.50 at Starbucks and they burn the fucking beans. $2.50 for burnt coffee? And you get the pleasure of standing in line for 10 minutes, because all of the other coffee shops shut down.
"...like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. 'Give me five bees for a quarter,' you'd say."
Offtopic... but:
"Are you out of you mind! My mom wanted to pick my wife! I wouldn't let my mom pick my clothes! Imagine my mom walking in with this girl:
(in a thick Indian accent) 'I know she's a little big now, but you'll grow into
her!'"
So what is the relationship between Apple in Pixar? Is there a link between the two companies that doesn't involve Jobs in the middle?
Does Apple have the cash reserves to buy Pixar? I think Apple is powerful enough at this point to distribute Pixar movies online.
I think it would be a win-win situation for both companies as I've always believed that both shared a common sense of innovation.
Perhaps, but I think it's well warranted.
Considering that the problem here was already fixed with a patch and is only local to an older version 4.02 of the BES, I think they have good reason to halt trading until the BS clears.
I think there was too much focus on the coding itself in the guide. When it comes down to it, its the ability to solve problems.
The best way to practice for a programming competition is to treat it like a math competition. If you can think of efficient solutions and apply them quickly, you will do well. Remember that a lot of these competitions have runtime limits (usually 2-3 seconds on a predetermied isolated machine), so coding up the simplest solution won't always work.
Practice is also very important. Try ACSL, there are some sample problems available there, practice doing them and time yourself!
Also, for those who say that programming competitions are useless, they have no clue what they are talking about. What sets you apart in real-world development involves thinking up efficient solutions to difficult problems. Making the code easy to maintain and expand is just a simple step up when you do development in the industry.
I wonder how much the storage capacity will be for the phone. Somewhere on the page it says "pre-upgraded to support up to 100 song", I'm not sure if I should interpret that as the song capacity.
Also, by looking at this phone, there doesn't seem to be a trackwheel or any sort of simple buttons to press. I don't mean to sound like flamebait, but one of the major selling points for iPods was the look and the ease of use, it doesn't seem like this has either of those things.
I think the Zelda games should split into two different types of games. Darker-3D realism:
There could be a line of Zelda games that have realistic graphics but are also very dark, as how it seems this new Zelda game might be like. Target it toward an older audience, and not necessarily be full of gore, but perhaps just be overall darker ( think scarier, people dieing, etc. ).
Cartoony-topdown:
This would be of the old style of games, with it being top down and more cartoony. This doesn't mean that it should be targeted toward kids, but perhaps a little safer for kids, a Kids to Adult game. I think this would also appeal to the Classic Zelda fans who liked the older top-down style of play.
Here we are, on slashdot where there are probably 1 or 2 women reading the site at any point in time. At the same time we wonder why we never get dates, then I notice the title of this article.
Frankly, when it comes to dealing with women, none of that matters. It doesn't matter who's smarter, THEY are always right, regardless of how illogical it is and how little sense it makes.
On another note, there might be some light on why certain races may be less "intelligent" on average. I heard that back when slavery was common in the US, the smarter slaves were killed off with the fear of them eventually outsmarting their masters.
I hope this means that Pirate Bay's existence would be extended. I've been hearing that they are on the verge of being shut down due to a possiblity of copyright/patent laws being changed.
Will Apple stay the dual-processor course when they move to Intel? I don't mean dual core Pentiums. I mean two slabs of silicon, like a dual Xeon setup.
I hope Apple does stay with the Dual-CPU theme they've been sticking with for their high end systems. I'm sure you could get just as much power out of a dual core system, but one thing that's appealed to me about Macs is that they are different. Computers aren't exactly appliances any more for a lot of people, they're being treated a lot like how cars are treated these days even though they aren't quite at the status symbol level yet.
Just like how a lot of people choose to buy a certain car over another because it's different, there's something appealing about having something that's different. That's why I wasn't so happy about the switch to Intel x86, even if that means we get better CPU's from the switch. Similarily, if I was in the market for an entry-level Luxury Sedan, I wouldn't go for a 3 Series, C Class or even an A4, I'd probably go for something like a Saab even if the other three were technically superior, I just wouldn't want to be driving what everyone else drives.
I'm not surprised to see this figure.
Face it, people are lazy. When I want a song these days, I just feel too lazy to load up IRC and go search for the song on a channel or BT or whatever.
Most songs I download are from different artists, and those artists whose songs I really like, I usually just go across the street and grab the CD. But for regular songs, 99 cents is a small price to pay to not have to deal with the mess of searching for the song in p2p which often ends up being corrupted.
we aren't quite at the point where we can pull out every single stop on making computer generated movies.
Some frames from the Jellyfish Scene from Finding Nemo took twelve hours per frame to render.
A study of raytracing which simulates how light behaves on a normal scale really gives one a good idea of how many intricacies there are in our world.
I'm not entirely sure here, but I'd assume that the older Mini would not have been as safe as the cars of today.
Adding all sorts of crumple zones and reinforcements around the cabin adds weight. Add to that all of the multiple airbags, and all of the ammenities that people expect in cars these days ( power windows, power door locks, heated seats, etc. etc. ) and the weight really grows even with lighter materials.
That's why the modern Mini Cooper is heavier than the older one.
Even though Microsoft has tons of money to spend, I think they will have a tough time beating the Blackberry.
I always thought PocketPC was kind of bloated, and suffered poor battery life mostly because Microsoft doesn't manufacture or develop the hardware as well.
However, RIM develops both the hardware and software ( with some minor exceptions ) and this makes it easier to make things efficient and more reliable. It's also the clean interface, you've got icons, a thumbpad and a trackwheel, I don't deed a bloody fingerprint scanner, or 3D acceleration to keep up with my daily schedule. This simplicity is what helped the low-end palm devices and the iPods sell very well.
The only weakness I see for RIM is MS Exchange. The Blackberry Enterprise Server(BES) works with the MS Exchange server to keep things in sync. I don't know if it would be legal for Microsoft to do this, but if Exchange suddenly refused to stop working with the BES, it might spell trouble for RIM.
Being a University of Waterloo student, I myself am rooting for RIM as they're a Canadian company and they're set up right next to campus.
I just hope the developers there get to keep their RIM-jobs. ... Sorry:)
Actually, a lot of applications still require the use of the serial port. Many security dongles ( little adapter-like thing that attaches to a serial port ) are required to unlock software.
I was a co-op for a tech company that required one to have one of these dongles attached in order to use an in-house utility, there's also a sound editing suite someone I know uses that requires this as well.
So will it go through my browsing history and delete records of the porn sites, cache, and cookies that one may have accidently visited while innocently browsing through the internet?
There are already cards with a lot of onboard memory made for these sorts of applications. Both NVIDIA and ATI have been making workstation class cards for ages that come with loads of onboard memory.
This card is supposed to be a gamers card as its optimized for such things. Workstation cards are the opposite, most of them perform poorly on games even though their specs may lead one to believe otherwise.
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Since Leopard is slated to come out some time early 2007, I'm thinking that this might be another blow to Microsoft.
OSX has released several versions since XP, and has been offering more and more of the features that Vista promises. It seems like MS has been trying to keep people hyped for the last few years, but at some point people are going to stop and realize that Apple is offering all of the features of Vista *now* and not X months from now.
If it's in Canada, wouldn't it be called... err... a ColdSpot?
I haven't used Windows as a personal OS for a while now... but I can see the huge potential for Vista Starter among gamers.
If I ever go back to windows, it would be for gaming and wouldn't care about the other bundled features of the OS (assuming OSX/Linux don't already have the game available)... assuming of course, that Starter version will support DirectX and all that multimedia stuff in order to play games.
Back in my day, a cup of coffee cost $0.50. Now it costs $2.50 at Starbucks and they burn the fucking beans. $2.50 for burnt coffee? And you get the pleasure of standing in line for 10 minutes, because all of the other coffee shops shut down.
"...like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. 'Give me five bees for a quarter,' you'd say."
Offtopic... but:
"Are you out of you mind! My mom wanted to pick my wife! I wouldn't let my mom pick my clothes! Imagine my mom walking in with this girl:
(in a thick Indian accent) 'I know she's a little big now, but you'll grow into her!'"
I also heard a rumor that it's going to weigh 8 pounds and have a 10 inch screen.
So what is the relationship between Apple in Pixar? Is there a link between the two companies that doesn't involve Jobs in the middle?
Does Apple have the cash reserves to buy Pixar? I think Apple is powerful enough at this point to distribute Pixar movies online.
I think it would be a win-win situation for both companies as I've always believed that both shared a common sense of innovation.
Perhaps, but I think it's well warranted.
Considering that the problem here was already fixed with a patch and is only local to an older version 4.02 of the BES, I think they have good reason to halt trading until the BS clears.
I think there was too much focus on the coding itself in the guide. When it comes down to it, its the ability to solve problems.
The best way to practice for a programming competition is to treat it like a math competition. If you can think of efficient solutions and apply them quickly, you will do well. Remember that a lot of these competitions have runtime limits (usually 2-3 seconds on a predetermied isolated machine), so coding up the simplest solution won't always work.
Practice is also very important. Try ACSL, there are some sample problems available there, practice doing them and time yourself!
Also, for those who say that programming competitions are useless, they have no clue what they are talking about. What sets you apart in real-world development involves thinking up efficient solutions to difficult problems. Making the code easy to maintain and expand is just a simple step up when you do development in the industry.
I wonder how much the storage capacity will be for the phone. Somewhere on the page it says "pre-upgraded to support up to 100 song", I'm not sure if I should interpret that as the song capacity.
Also, by looking at this phone, there doesn't seem to be a trackwheel or any sort of simple buttons to press.
I don't mean to sound like flamebait, but one of the major selling points for iPods was the look and the ease of use, it doesn't seem like this has either of those things.
I think the Zelda games should split into two different types of games.
Darker-3D realism:
There could be a line of Zelda games that have realistic graphics but are also very dark, as how it seems this new Zelda game might be like. Target it toward an older audience, and not necessarily be full of gore, but perhaps just be overall darker ( think scarier, people dieing, etc. ).
Cartoony-topdown:
This would be of the old style of games, with it being top down and more cartoony. This doesn't mean that it should be targeted toward kids, but perhaps a little safer for kids, a Kids to Adult game. I think this would also appeal to the Classic Zelda fans who liked the older top-down style of play.
I mean, who really needs a countdown timer to the next episode of Battlestar Galactica just one keypress away at any moment?
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Frankly, when it comes to dealing with women, none of that matters. It doesn't matter who's smarter, THEY are always right, regardless of how illogical it is and how little sense it makes.
On another note, there might be some light on why certain races may be less "intelligent" on average. I heard that back when slavery was common in the US, the smarter slaves were killed off with the fear of them eventually outsmarting their masters.
Whenever an average Joe sees my modded PC, they always ask me "does it make toast too?". Finally I'm one step closer to actually saying yes!
John Carmack will never, ever be regaurded the same way that John Lennon is.
Haven't you heard of John Carmack style glasses? Instead of a watermarked peace symbol, it's a Quake logo
I hope this means that Pirate Bay's existence would be extended. I've been hearing that they are on the verge of being shut down due to a possiblity of copyright/patent laws being changed.
I still love reading their responses to legal threats.
Who cares about Picard, I'm still waiting for advances in Biotechnology to bring us Seven of Nine.
Will Apple stay the dual-processor course when they move to Intel? I don't mean dual core Pentiums. I mean two slabs of silicon, like a dual Xeon setup.
I hope Apple does stay with the Dual-CPU theme they've been sticking with for their high end systems. I'm sure you could get just as much power out of a dual core system, but one thing that's appealed to me about Macs is that they are different. Computers aren't exactly appliances any more for a lot of people, they're being treated a lot like how cars are treated these days even though they aren't quite at the status symbol level yet.
Just like how a lot of people choose to buy a certain car over another because it's different, there's something appealing about having something that's different. That's why I wasn't so happy about the switch to Intel x86, even if that means we get better CPU's from the switch. Similarily, if I was in the market for an entry-level Luxury Sedan, I wouldn't go for a 3 Series, C Class or even an A4, I'd probably go for something like a Saab even if the other three were technically superior, I just wouldn't want to be driving what everyone else drives.
I'm not surprised to see this figure.
Face it, people are lazy. When I want a song these days, I just feel too lazy to load up IRC and go search for the song on a channel or BT or whatever.
Most songs I download are from different artists, and those artists whose songs I really like, I usually just go across the street and grab the CD. But for regular songs, 99 cents is a small price to pay to not have to deal with the mess of searching for the song in p2p which often ends up being corrupted.
we aren't quite at the point where we can pull out every single stop on making computer generated movies.
Some frames from the Jellyfish Scene from Finding Nemo took twelve hours per frame to render.
A study of raytracing which simulates how light behaves on a normal scale really gives one a good idea of how many intricacies there are in our world.
I'm not entirely sure here, but I'd assume that the older Mini would not have been as safe as the cars of today.
Adding all sorts of crumple zones and reinforcements around the cabin adds weight. Add to that all of the multiple airbags, and all of the ammenities that people expect in cars these days ( power windows, power door locks, heated seats, etc. etc. ) and the weight really grows even with lighter materials.
That's why the modern Mini Cooper is heavier than the older one.
Even though Microsoft has tons of money to spend, I think they will have a tough time beating the Blackberry.
... Sorry :)
I always thought PocketPC was kind of bloated, and suffered poor battery life mostly because Microsoft doesn't manufacture or develop the hardware as well.
However, RIM develops both the hardware and software ( with some minor exceptions ) and this makes it easier to make things efficient and more reliable. It's also the clean interface, you've got icons, a thumbpad and a trackwheel, I don't deed a bloody fingerprint scanner, or 3D acceleration to keep up with my daily schedule. This simplicity is what helped the low-end palm devices and the iPods sell very well.
The only weakness I see for RIM is MS Exchange. The Blackberry Enterprise Server(BES) works with the MS Exchange server to keep things in sync. I don't know if it would be legal for Microsoft to do this, but if Exchange suddenly refused to stop working with the BES, it might spell trouble for RIM.
Being a University of Waterloo student, I myself am rooting for RIM as they're a Canadian company and they're set up right next to campus.
I just hope the developers there get to keep their RIM-jobs.
Actually, a lot of applications still require the use of the serial port. Many security dongles ( little adapter-like thing that attaches to a serial port ) are required to unlock software.
I was a co-op for a tech company that required one to have one of these dongles attached in order to use an in-house utility, there's also a sound editing suite someone I know uses that requires this as well.
So will it go through my browsing history and delete records of the porn sites, cache, and cookies that one may have accidently visited while innocently browsing through the internet?
There are already cards with a lot of onboard memory made for these sorts of applications. Both NVIDIA and ATI have been making workstation class cards for ages that come with loads of onboard memory.
This card is supposed to be a gamers card as its optimized for such things. Workstation cards are the opposite, most of them perform poorly on games even though their specs may lead one to believe otherwise.