Or they could be saving money on law suits for trade mark stuff.
If someone took googlemail.com and used it, they could lose their trade mark and cause confusion, with or without knowing it. Paying $200 for 5 or so years for a trademark'd domain is sure cheaper than keeping a lawyer in court.
Manhattan is what, 12 miles long from poitn to point. If it's coming from below, it can easily skirt manhatatn. If it was coming from the west and needed to go 6 miles up and then 6 miles down it shouldn't be a problem, considering newark and JFK are near by also.
You are assuming using the GPU technologies are possible in a CPU. Because something is applicable in one instance doesn't mean it is in all instances. Making some things efficient may take away from the efficiency of others, but in the case of such aa specialized chip, it may not matter.
It may be ok to compare the speed of a GPU and a CPU if they are infact different. If a GPU was a CPU used with cheaper material, yeah, it would be unfair. But as life goes, they both have their merits.. so why not? A GPU is prolly best at some matrix math transforms.. or not.:)
Which BSD kernel. Last I checked, they all don't interpolate with each other and you need to make sure the drivers work for each instance.
'sides, if they are smart enough to write an OS, i'm sure they are smart enough to target an OS like freebsd or netbsd, or even linux, and port the drivers over.
I've had an ipod for 2 years now. I use it so much, that I tend to have my battery lose power by the end of the day. When I'm at home, i usually have it hooked up and charging. Am I the one out of a million or something?
I don't think that's what the poster was getting at. What the poster was pointing out was that whereas it is possible to become skilled in your art and work to do a good job, if management keeps lowering the bar and demanding less and less skillful work, not only is this frustrating to the skilled labourer but it makes their argument of hiring less skilled cheaper labour more compelling, which adds insult to injury.
I dunno, but for me, living isn't learning, producing and then stopping. For me, it's to keep learning and to keep becoming more valuable not only to myself but the world around me.
Imagine if everyone who worked at mcdonalds went on to culinary school and became master chefs. Or imagine factory workers who learn how to build machines and can do what mechanical engineers do and progress at.
It'd be one interesting world of really smart people with a lot of drive. Tv would eventually become a past-time than an addiction:)
We all don't like learning the database language of a database. It's annoying that oracle, sybase, postgresql and mysql support different sets of ansi92 (or 98) sql, but they all have different gotchas..
limiting the # of rows of output is different between oracle, sybase and postresql/mysql.
None of them even have remotely the same stored proc language. Of course, everyone may embed a different language, but java seems to be a more common one.
Now when you go from sybase to oracle, you don't have to worry so much about the stored procedure code, since it'd all be in java anyway.. riight?
Now that's unfair. We hear about the exceptions to the rule, not the rule itself. In every company I worked for, cept one, every ceo worked quite hard.. even if a few failed.
There's a prison where people get to pound you in the ass? Uh.. I'm not touching this one with a 5 foot pole, or any pole let alone any pole I'd have my hands on...
There's a difference between steelwork and programming. The tools get more advanced or better at a faster rate than steelwork.
I'm not saying that steelwork is easy. Shit, I can't do it, so I'd be the first to hurt themselves. There are a few perceptions of programming. One is the science, another is engineering. A third is simple programming.
The science will live on for a long time. It's coming up with new ideas and new ways of doing stuff "better".
The engineering.. it's the architecture and making sure things run like well oiled machines in real life.
The simple programming unfortunately, is what's getting deported or seen as easier. Anyone can become one of these. It's the learning of the simple things and applying them. Writing a program to do factorials, writting something that throws some data into a database. Even web-applications. It's menial programming.
Stuff like writing a web browser, an OS, a painting program, an mp3 player.. HARDER stuff that takes some research and analysis of how it would be implemented for everyone's best interests will always be in demand. It's what gets released as shareware, sometimes freeware (winamp) or opensource, but more of the good ones tend to be commercial.
it's not a matter of knowing what's being done down to such a low level, but being able to spo trouble spots and defuse them, and once in a while, spot check for quality. other than that, he should be managing, making sure you get what you need done done and negotiating projects with people outside your smaller group, be it other programer managers, biz people or even relations with other companies (in the case of a CTO)
Right, but it helps to recognize what your underlings are doing, encourage some things, prevent mishaps. I don't see many failed programmers doing just that. Good managers, possibly.. but not the best of 'em.
It doesn't take a prior expert in the field to micromanage. It also doesn't take a fool not to micromanage. A good manager should know when to step back and when to get involved. But when my manager gets involved, I want him to fully understand what's going on and prevent bad things from happening, and encouraging the good.
My current manager isn't the most cluefull, but he's a good guy with good management skills. I try to make sure he understands w/o a doubt what i'm doing and why i'm doing it. Not to an atomic degree, but to a good general one.
Ack. Please don't go into management. If you can't develop, what are your chances of understanding the developers in which you lead? Not that all developers will be great managers, but I like having someone above me who understands what I'm doing though may not duplicate it.
Big difference is, apple can afford to do this. As apple has said, they want to make money for other devices that are promoted by the tunes-store.
And it's true, it is a bubble. Most fell down -- emusic and a few others tried to do what iTunes is doing now. Now napster 2 and all these other ones are coming out. Eventually, they'll all go away except for a few successful ones.
The same thing happened with housing, a bubble of people buying off of cheap loans on expensive houses, and now there are a lot of people declaring bancruptcy (s?).
Slashdot Mirror
Or they could be saving money on law suits for trade mark stuff.
If someone took googlemail.com and used it, they could lose their trade mark and cause confusion, with or without knowing it. Paying $200 for 5 or so years for a trademark'd domain is sure cheaper than keeping a lawyer in court.
So? Blame the developers. YOUR ignorance is showing. If you can't write something to detect the OS you are on, then it's your own fault.
Hey, I'm using his regexp. Ask him.
tr/\W//d is faster if that's perl
Redoing the machines, since I didn't like the base install took about 2 hours, not including the copy-from-cd issue.
Each app required tending to and what not. Other than that, the only maint i have to do is when the drives get full.
Manhattan is what, 12 miles long from poitn to point. If it's coming from below, it can easily skirt manhatatn. If it was coming from the west and needed to go 6 miles up and then 6 miles down it shouldn't be a problem, considering newark and JFK are near by also.
Then you may wanna go to sites like arstechnica instead.
Yup. No different from the linux polarized messages we see from time to time. Nothign to see here.. just some people proud of their work :)
You are assuming using the GPU technologies are possible in a CPU. Because something is applicable in one instance doesn't mean it is in all instances. Making some things efficient may take away from the efficiency of others, but in the case of such aa specialized chip, it may not matter.
:)
It may be ok to compare the speed of a GPU and a CPU if they are infact different. If a GPU was a CPU used with cheaper material, yeah, it would be unfair. But as life goes, they both have their merits.. so why not? A GPU is prolly best at some matrix math transforms.. or not.
Which BSD kernel. Last I checked, they all don't interpolate with each other and you need to make sure the drivers work for each instance.
'sides, if they are smart enough to write an OS, i'm sure they are smart enough to target an OS like freebsd or netbsd, or even linux, and port the drivers over.
Time to make a mini hat for my cell phone..
(if I had one -- a phone that is)
I've had an ipod for 2 years now. I use it so much, that I tend to have my battery lose power by the end of the day. When I'm at home, i usually have it hooked up and charging. Am I the one out of a million or something?
I dunno, but for me, living isn't learning, producing and then stopping. For me, it's to keep learning and to keep becoming more valuable not only to myself but the world around me.
Imagine if everyone who worked at mcdonalds went on to culinary school and became master chefs. Or imagine factory workers who learn how to build machines and can do what mechanical engineers do and progress at.
It'd be one interesting world of really smart people with a lot of drive. Tv would eventually become a past-time than an addiction
We all don't like learning the database language of a database. It's annoying that oracle, sybase, postgresql and mysql support different sets of ansi92 (or 98) sql, but they all have different gotchas..
limiting the # of rows of output is different between oracle, sybase and postresql/mysql.
None of them even have remotely the same stored proc language. Of course, everyone may embed a different language, but java seems to be a more common one.
Now when you go from sybase to oracle, you don't have to worry so much about the stored procedure code, since it'd all be in java anyway.. riight?
Now that's unfair. We hear about the exceptions to the rule, not the rule itself. In every company I worked for, cept one, every ceo worked quite hard.. even if a few failed.
Yeah, the CEO can have you replaced, but you can't replace the CEO. :)
..and sent to federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison.
There's a prison where people get to pound you in the ass? Uh.. I'm not touching this one with a 5 foot pole, or any pole let alone any pole I'd have my hands on...
There's a difference between steelwork and programming. The tools get more advanced or better at a faster rate than steelwork.
I'm not saying that steelwork is easy. Shit, I can't do it, so I'd be the first to hurt themselves. There are a few perceptions of programming. One is the science, another is engineering. A third is simple programming.
The science will live on for a long time. It's coming up with new ideas and new ways of doing stuff "better".
The engineering.. it's the architecture and making sure things run like well oiled machines in real life.
The simple programming unfortunately, is what's getting deported or seen as easier. Anyone can become one of these. It's the learning of the simple things and applying them. Writing a program to do factorials, writting something that throws some data into a database. Even web-applications. It's menial programming.
Stuff like writing a web browser, an OS, a painting program, an mp3 player.. HARDER stuff that takes some research and analysis of how it would be implemented for everyone's best interests will always be in demand. It's what gets released as shareware, sometimes freeware (winamp) or opensource, but more of the good ones tend to be commercial.
find me a manager who'd have the time for that.
it's not a matter of knowing what's being done down to such a low level, but being able to spo trouble spots and defuse them, and once in a while, spot check for quality. other than that, he should be managing, making sure you get what you need done done and negotiating projects with people outside your smaller group, be it other programer managers, biz people or even relations with other companies (in the case of a CTO)
Right, but it helps to recognize what your underlings are doing, encourage some things, prevent mishaps. I don't see many failed programmers doing just that. Good managers, possibly.. but not the best of 'em.
It doesn't take a prior expert in the field to micromanage. It also doesn't take a fool not to micromanage. A good manager should know when to step back and when to get involved. But when my manager gets involved, I want him to fully understand what's going on and prevent bad things from happening, and encouraging the good.
My current manager isn't the most cluefull, but he's a good guy with good management skills. I try to make sure he understands w/o a doubt what i'm doing and why i'm doing it. Not to an atomic degree, but to a good general one.
Ack. Please don't go into management. If you can't develop, what are your chances of understanding the developers in which you lead? Not that all developers will be great managers, but I like having someone above me who understands what I'm doing though may not duplicate it.
oragami that's not oragami...
patches not patching..
servers not serving...
5 golden rings!
It's meant as tongue in cheek, I know.
:)
But mirrors don't work at night or when someone shines a bright light at them, and into your eyes
Big difference is, apple can afford to do this. As apple has said, they want to make money for other devices that are promoted by the tunes-store.
.com era.
And it's true, it is a bubble. Most fell down -- emusic and a few others tried to do what iTunes is doing now. Now napster 2 and all these other ones are coming out. Eventually, they'll all go away except for a few successful ones.
The same thing happened with housing, a bubble of people buying off of cheap loans on expensive houses, and now there are a lot of people declaring bancruptcy (s?).
Same thing happened in the