The only reason I considered prime was for the lending library which is advertised as having 500k books to borrow. Turns out you have buy a Kindle device to use the library. You cannot use the Kindle app on your phone or non-Amazon tablet for it. So, I bought a Kindle and then realized they only let you borrow one book a month. So, the whole 500k books to borrow ad is a little misleading. Cancelled my trial of Prime and returned the Kindle. Netflix has better content for online videos and we don't need the free 2-day shipping enough to justify even $79 per year.
"We ourselves are not going after the e-voting market or the nuclear reactor control market," Gates said.
Who is the leader in the Nuclear Reactor Control market right now ? (I mean, what OS is running in nuclear reactors? I for one hope it's not Windows ME)
I cannot search their collection without first registering (free albeit). Why should I register without knowing what they have first? Sorry, I am not a potential customer.
as there are no referees to make wrong calls, and judges to give wrong scores.
But, cheating is still possible with the help of latest technology. In an on board match, you could have some person watching your game and suggest moves after checking in a computer. This is more true of non Grandmaster games. Its almost impossible to do this in GrandMaster games as necessary precautions are taken.
Now, in internet chess, cheating is even more likely to occur. It is very difficult to hold a fair tournament completely online anytime soon. Something like our elections.
Dude! Nobody will arrest you if you take a camcorder into a theatre. If you leave a theatre with a camcorder and they see that the camcorder has the movie recorded in it, then they will arrest you. if you want the convenience of taking a camcorder to the the theathre, you have to pay by having your comcorder inspected on exit.
THere is nothing wrong with this law as far as I can tell. They made the movie to make money off it and they are ensuring that they will make money off it by preventing illegal copies.
Anyway, if the movie is worth watching people will pay to watch it in theatres rather than watch a crappy video off kazaa. So, if they make a good movie, they need not worry about losing millions due to such copies.
THe idea was to give licenses to only those who can actually drive safely. But, if they really implement that there will be very few people with licenses and car companies will go bankrupt ( no more wars maybe??). So, they give this easy test for the license and every TD&H can drive. Of course we have had over 40,000 fatalities and 2 million crashes every year in the US for past 20 years.
Similarly, the licensing scheme will again create a dearth of licened software professionals,leading to high salaries for the licensed initially and then the bubble will burst. Everyone will have a license eventually, and we will be back to square one. So, the solution is to come up with better error prevention and correction methods for existing software professionals/ (drivers) rather than try to create licensed professionals. SO, as of now OSS still rocks and it will be good to see more OSS testing volunteers rather than just OSS developers.
Benchmarking:
Again, I do not have any benchmarks on CPU performance to show off. I did run the povray benchmark, but looking over the Povray benchmark page I see P4 3.0GHz machines getting beat out by Athlon 2800's and vice-versa, so I have little faith in the results (or at least in peoples postings to the site). Other sites on the net have run benchmarks on the Opteron, but without a 64 bit OS, and without 64 bit compiled benchmarks, I also have little faith in them. They should be used as a "touchy-feely-sort-of-may-bee" mark at best, in my opinion.
He says in his book "Age of Spiritual Machines" that if aliens existed and were advanced enough to send us signals, they would in all probability have mastered the use of nano-technology and could probably fit a lot of things into extremely small spaces. So, if they actually wanted to probe earth, they might be sending in virus sized particles which we might not be detecting at all. A very novel idea, considering our view of aliens has been more in terms of flying saucers and ET etc.
In the future there are two roads. One is to look backward and hang on to what we think we're entitled to. The other is to recognize what has made America. Our virtues lie in a flexible and open, technology friendly, risk-taking, entrepreneurial, market-driven system. This is exactly the same type of challenge farmers went through in the late 1800's, sweatshop workers went through in the early 1900's, and manufacturing workers did in the first half of the 80's. We've got to focus on setting in motion a debate that pushes us into new sources of job creation rather than bemoaning the loss. There are Republicans and Democrats alike who are involved in this protectionist backlash. They're very vocal right now, and they need to be challenged.
Bioinformatics, wireless technologies, AI, robotics, there are so many fields which are budding. So many opportunites. Why do we have to look back at the financial software jobs that went away? We have much more interesting projects to be done.
I don't know about project managers being more advanced than coders, but I am sure architects are more advanced than coders. SO, if the project manager is an architect, yes he is more advanced than the coder.
Linus on Darl
"If Darl McBride was in charge, he'd probably make marriage unconstitutional too, since clearly it de-emphasizes the commercial nature of normal human interaction and probably is a major impediment to the commercial growth of prostitution."
For every job replaced by a robot, there will be many more created, and the overall productivity of the robot+humans teams will be higher than the only human teams.
and that helped me a long way in my life till now, all though I never used any of those directly. I can see so many people who have tough time in college because they did not learn at least one language or workings of a computer in school. Teaching basic computer skills is very esstential now more than ever as our future depends more and more on computers.
okay teaching Powerpoint and saying its not helping kids at all is not very good strategy. Teach atleast basics of one programming language. High school students can understand math and that will help them understand computers easily.
But, how will you make sure teens will not play mature games? What if daddy buys them a copy of the game himself? How about all the kids buying drinks with fake IDs? Won't they use the same fake IDs to get these games if they want? If you want to enforce this legislation, it has to go beyond sell no-sell decision. You need to make the software have recognition systems and authorization procedures to make sure a teen is not playing it. But, hey, how many copies will you sell that way? And who is going to make all the software for that?
The main purpose of the documentary 'Modern Day Gamer 2' is to ask whether we will ever see gaming become a mainstream spectator sport.
The reason specatator sports are so popular is that it takes a lot of years of effort and strenous training to be competetive at professional level. People enjoy these sports vicariously. That is not the case with gaming. Gaming is something people like to take active part in. That's the whole reason games are so popular. It would take lot of years of practise for someone to achieve a professional level 'worth watching' status in games and by then that game would be outdated.
Anyway, I will correct my opinions if there are wrong by watching the documentary. Thanks!
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The only reason I considered prime was for the lending library which is advertised as having 500k books to borrow. Turns out you have buy a Kindle device to use the library. You cannot use the Kindle app on your phone or non-Amazon tablet for it. So, I bought a Kindle and then realized they only let you borrow one book a month. So, the whole 500k books to borrow ad is a little misleading. Cancelled my trial of Prime and returned the Kindle. Netflix has better content for online videos and we don't need the free 2-day shipping enough to justify even $79 per year.
$26.39 at Amazon.com. $31.99 at BN.com
"We ourselves are not going after the e-voting market or the nuclear reactor control market," Gates said.
Who is the leader in the Nuclear Reactor Control market right now ? (I mean, what OS is running in nuclear reactors? I for one hope it's not Windows ME)
I cannot search their collection without first registering (free albeit). Why should I register without knowing what they have first? Sorry, I am not a potential customer.
as there are no referees to make wrong calls, and judges to give wrong scores.
But, cheating is still possible with the help of latest technology. In an on board match, you could have some person watching your game and suggest moves after checking in a computer. This is more true of non Grandmaster games. Its almost impossible to do this in GrandMaster games as necessary precautions are taken.
Now, in internet chess, cheating is even more likely to occur. It is very difficult to hold a fair tournament completely online anytime soon. Something like our elections.
Computers do not settle for draws like humans do in face of complications. This will guarentee some extremely interesting endings.
Also, since Ken Thompson is making great progress on building endgame databases, the games might be all played to end.
that does not mean 27% of internet users use Windows 98. THere are many people who just use e-mail and hardly ever use google.
Dude! Nobody will arrest you if you take a camcorder into a theatre. If you leave a theatre with a camcorder and they see that the camcorder has the movie recorded in it, then they will arrest you. if you want the convenience of taking a camcorder to the the theathre, you have to pay by having your comcorder inspected on exit.
THere is nothing wrong with this law as far as I can tell. They made the movie to make money off it and they are ensuring that they will make money off it by preventing illegal copies.
Anyway, if the movie is worth watching people will pay to watch it in theatres rather than watch a crappy video off kazaa. So, if they make a good movie, they need not worry about losing millions due to such copies.
THe idea was to give licenses to only those who can actually drive safely. But, if they really implement that there will be very few people with licenses and car companies will go bankrupt ( no more wars maybe??). So, they give this easy test for the license and every TD&H can drive. Of course we have had over 40,000 fatalities and 2 million crashes every year in the US for past 20 years.
Similarly, the licensing scheme will again create a dearth of licened software professionals,leading to high salaries for the licensed initially and then the bubble will burst. Everyone will have a license eventually, and we will be back to square one. So, the solution is to come up with better error prevention and correction methods for existing software professionals/ (drivers) rather than try to create licensed professionals. SO, as of now OSS still rocks and it will be good to see more OSS testing volunteers rather than just OSS developers.
...is not far away! If they can make money off it, tehy will make money off it!
Yes, it's big, yes it's heavy, yes it's loud and yes it does get your CPU and GPU cold, very cold.
You talking about my wife?
Benchmarking: Again, I do not have any benchmarks on CPU performance to show off. I did run the povray benchmark, but looking over the Povray benchmark page I see P4 3.0GHz machines getting beat out by Athlon 2800's and vice-versa, so I have little faith in the results (or at least in peoples postings to the site). Other sites on the net have run benchmarks on the Opteron, but without a 64 bit OS, and without 64 bit compiled benchmarks, I also have little faith in them. They should be used as a "touchy-feely-sort-of-may-bee" mark at best, in my opinion.
The only result of this kind of attack will be tarnishing of the image of Open source developers. But, there is nothing much anyone can do about it.
He says in his book "Age of Spiritual Machines" that if aliens existed and were advanced enough to send us signals, they would in all probability have mastered the use of nano-technology and could probably fit a lot of things into extremely small spaces. So, if they actually wanted to probe earth, they might be sending in virus sized particles which we might not be detecting at all. A very novel idea, considering our view of aliens has been more in terms of flying saucers and ET etc.
In the future there are two roads. One is to look backward and hang on to what we think we're entitled to. The other is to recognize what has made America. Our virtues lie in a flexible and open, technology friendly, risk-taking, entrepreneurial, market-driven system. This is exactly the same type of challenge farmers went through in the late 1800's, sweatshop workers went through in the early 1900's, and manufacturing workers did in the first half of the 80's. We've got to focus on setting in motion a debate that pushes us into new sources of job creation rather than bemoaning the loss. There are Republicans and Democrats alike who are involved in this protectionist backlash. They're very vocal right now, and they need to be challenged.
Bioinformatics, wireless technologies, AI, robotics, there are so many fields which are budding. So many opportunites. Why do we have to look back at the financial software jobs that went away? We have much more interesting projects to be done.
I don't know about project managers being more advanced than coders, but I am sure architects are more advanced than coders. SO, if the project manager is an architect, yes he is more advanced than the coder.
Linus on Darl
"If Darl McBride was in charge, he'd probably make marriage unconstitutional too, since clearly it de-emphasizes the commercial nature of normal human interaction and probably is a major impediment to the commercial growth of prostitution."
Therefore
don't worry
and that helped me a long way in my life till now, all though I never used any of those directly. I can see so many people who have tough time in college because they did not learn at least one language or workings of a computer in school. Teaching basic computer skills is very esstential now more than ever as our future depends more and more on computers.
okay teaching Powerpoint and saying its not helping kids at all is not very good strategy. Teach atleast basics of one programming language. High school students can understand math and that will help them understand computers easily.
But, how will you make sure teens will not play mature games? What if daddy buys them a copy of the game himself? How about all the kids buying drinks with fake IDs? Won't they use the same fake IDs to get these games if they want? If you want to enforce this legislation, it has to go beyond sell no-sell decision. You need to make the software have recognition systems and authorization procedures to make sure a teen is not playing it. But, hey, how many copies will you sell that way? And who is going to make all the software for that?
Antivirus software makers did this
The main purpose of the documentary 'Modern Day Gamer 2' is to ask whether we will ever see gaming become a mainstream spectator sport.
The reason specatator sports are so popular is that it takes a lot of years of effort and strenous training to be competetive at professional level. People enjoy these sports vicariously. That is not the case with gaming. Gaming is something people like to take active part in. That's the whole reason games are so popular. It would take lot of years of practise for someone to achieve a professional level 'worth watching' status in games and by then that game would be outdated.
Anyway, I will correct my opinions if there are wrong by watching the documentary. Thanks!
If there was a road to Mars, the Japs would have got there first.
some state court says that's unconstitutional and lets spammers spam?