I'd rather ask them things like how their business model is going to provide continued growth and revenue or will that growth meet current burn rates to prevent bankruptcy (for startups or troubled companies), and how this position I'm interviewing for fits into the corporate vision. Not only do I want to know the answer to those questions for myself, but sometimes it's fun to watch the prima donnas swallow their tongue.
That's not sessionless. When the server gets the announcement packet, it has a session with the client, and the client assumes it has a session with the server. What you described is TCP, except without ACKs. The server is pushing data to the client; the fact that the client initiated the connection is immaterial. Using elm over telnet in 1986 would be prior art. Other than the fact it partly tongue-in-cheek, who the heck said it was a session. What if, just if, it was done over UDP, or perhaps some other protocol entirely (there's quite a few in the wireless realm, like, say, GPRS)
If IIRC, elm required user input before updating the screen. It's been about 17 years since I've seen elm though. However, your point proves my point precisely, that the entire NTP patent is patently obvious.
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One of my friends made sure to cram for about 2 weeks prior to his Amazon interview for this reason. He actually said it was the hardest interview process he ever went through.
See above. Your very use of the word "cram" blows away any pretenses about the process of that selection. Ask an accomplished architect or industrial engineer or a world-class surgeon with, say, 30 years of practice what was the last time he or she "crammed" anything.
I'll second this, the only thing I'm "cramming" before an interview are the standard bits about the business and their space before the interview. Should I be asked "school" type questions that recall some of the tests I took long ago, I'd probably start thinking about my next interview, elsewhere. I've found that companies that engage in that sort of questioning usually are uninspiring places to work, or at least the position you're interviewing for will be.
Actually, they could go with a sessionless protocol (which they might) and that the server receives an announcement packet, which then gets "responded" to when email arrives. Then the originator responds with a new announcement packet when it's received the entire file, thus indicating receipt and kicking off the entire cycle again. That's far different than "push"....;)
Amen to that. I just dumped Vista to dual boot Ubuntu and XP. I have a feeling that enough people are getting bitten by WGA to make even Microsoft notice. I also have a feeling that they're getting a little worried about the reception Vista has gotten. I think they're more than a little worried. The fact that they're allowing "consumers" to buy XP licensed boxes can only mean that consumers were opting for non MS OS installed boxes instead of Vista. Rather than risk their revenue pipeline on forced Vista upgrades, they've opted to continue the flow via XP, hoping to stem the shift to something else.
Then you get to read the stories about DirectX10's massive failure on this round, and you'll see why they're worried. There's not a single reason to upgrade to Vista for anyone. HotHardware's reviews pretty much state that DX10 universally sucks despite their outlook on upcoming DX10 games (Only 1 game was truly playable in DX10 mode with all DX10 bells and whistles turned off. In all cases, the DX9 mode of the games were very playable, and DX10 modes resulted in lethargic framerates that destroyed playability). Creative deep six'd the audio portion.
Probably the most damning thing I saw was in a Fry's add: 4GB Vista memory kit. The perception for consumers is that you need 4GB to run the pig. Not good.
Sound isolation is preferred over noise cancellation, primary because something just causes my ears to ache with the two I've tried to this point. In general, I've yet to find earbuds I like, and the noise isolating ones require insertion into the ear canal to really have effective noise dampening.
It'd probably be too quiet (something about "if it's too loud..." comes to mind;) although I still like to go to concerts.
I can easily hear conversations when using earphones @ work. I even had to lower the default maximum sound on my iPod so I could adjust the volume level with some refinement (before, it was a click down - silence, a click up blaring, never mind the upper levels of the range). I'm now looking for some comfortable sound isolation earphones.
I don't know if my ears just became more sensitive to noise levels over time (should be just the opposite) or whether other people desensitize their ears with excessive volumes for long periods of time and my ears are closer to the norm?
As for being able to tell the difference in sound reproduction quality, at louder volumes I can definitely notice differences, as that's where the THD quickly becomes noticeable (the primary problem with cheaper systems).
you got it. Wireless connections are secondary citizens in my home network. They do not get full access to the "trusted" wired network. I don't care much about the internet access.
The real question is not whether they sound better, but whether the recorded music was tailored for them. After all, they were the forerunners that everything else was compared to.
If you want a really recent (sort of) example of this, check the first several batches of CD releases and compare them with their LP counterparts. The LPs sounded better because the CDs were manufactured with recordings optimized for LPs (highs were boosted a lot, mid-levels had some boost). This resulted in very tinny sounding CDs.
As for amps, at this point I personally feel that a decent mid-level amp produces a high enough quality sound that I really can no longer tell the difference with my current speakers. I will be replacing those someday in the near future, but even then I'll bet that at my listening levels I won't be able to tell a difference.
But he didn't say how he's connected to the internet. Perhaps he has a logging firewall on his router? My machines run without a "firewall" (it's not really a firewall, more a port interceptor/blocker). My router has a firewall and it works really really well, and has since about 1999 when I created a DMZ for my wireless AP and web server. Surely you don't run your wireless AP on your home network, much less let the malware bots hit your machines directly?
I don't know if one of us has been asleep, but the last thing I recall is an ATI R200 in one brand of console and nVidia based chipset in the other. Both chips are far beneath the current moderately good GPUs on offer for PCs. I can't argue with the $ amount, however. Consoles are less expensive, but the games cost more.
As for Macs, I think the future is going to be quite interesting. You can now play up to DirectX 8.1 games in Parallels, which should indicate that the APIs, at least, have been made to work. As the hardware is a subset of PC video hardware, hopefully they can convert that to something that will only be a simple recompile instead of a full-blown port. OpenGL would of course be preferred, and apparently Vista is now adding support to OpenAL due to the DRM cluster that is DirectX Audio.
Last time I checked, MS was losing roughly $1-2B/year on XBox consoles, and has been since the introduction of the original XBox. And since it just got spanked by the Wii on sales, I'd say it's not even a successful contender, much less profitable. Good thing Halo 3 added $170M to the coffers to at least offset the bleeding a little bit before the end of the year.
You do realize that local (metropolitan) backbones were hundreds of megabits even back in the late 90s, right?
And that the reason Akamai came about was to stream large amounts of data from a co-located node as close to the client as possible? It wasn't to keep that portion of the backbone from flooding, but to give the client a better experience.
The internet is basically a decentralized hub-spoke design. The more hops you have to take, the smaller the pipeline to your specific machine. It was never designed with any sort of ratio in mind as it was always meant to be expandable.
And finally, managed P2P could actually be the answer to those design limitations, but that puts a much bigger load on the edge, which ISPs have hopelessly borked by overselling and underprovisioning. Yet even with their failures, huge amounts of data flow across the network via unmanaged P2P, far more than these original designers would have believed possible.
Personally I'd want to help the police in an investigation anyway I can (as I have no plans on breaking any of the current laws. If future laws are enacted I felt the need to break my voluntary aid might come to a halt) so they can eliminate me as a suspect and move onto catching the real criminal. So, why are you a suspect in the first place?
After all, why do you send anything in an envelope instead of on postcards? 1) I don't send letters. I have however sent postcards Bills?
2) You can fit more onto letters You could send a bigger postcard....
3) Postcards can be read by anyone (including the mail staff). I might not feel like the whole world knowing what I write, now the police on the other hand I wouldn't care if they read. I think the light bulb just got a little brighter...but it flickered...
I think it's more of a "I want my privacy" issue than any need for "secrecy". Basically, don't stick your nose into my business. If I wanted you to read my super secret double delicious chocolate chip cookie recipe, I would have Cc'd you.
After all, why do you send anything in an envelope instead of on postcards? You don't have anything to hide, do you?
"After so many years of Quake having a freely usable game finder, why is it that Microsoft decided to charge for their service?"
Long answer is that the Xbox360 is a closed system and is subject to their policies. The PC is an open system and is open to anyone who can put code on that hardware. PC gamers won't want to pay for game finding when other services can ofter comparable alternatives or the individual in-game browsers themselves.
However on the Xbox360, you have to pay for multiplayer, or you don't get to play online. There are advantages to the closed console system, this is just an example of a disadvantage. You know, I read that a couple of times. Then I thought - why isn't the Mac also a game platform? It's closed, hardware wise, the current versions certainly outpower any console out there. It could easily come with Blue Tooth for wireless controllers a la Wii. And it can triple as a DVD player platform (HD-DVD/Blu-Ray would be nice in the near future). The Mac Mini is already the appropriate size and within the price point. The MacBook (Pro) already have all the necessary pieces.
Blame Noah Webster. For he single-handedly caused the major differences between British and American English. He was the one that decided on a single 'o' instead of "ou" in words like "color" and "honor". He also made many many other "simplifications".
In all fairness though, had he stuck with a 100% phonetic spelling ruleset, it probably still wouldn't have really helped since English absorbs so many foreign words, including their spellings, and makes them its own that no single ruleset would work unless all languages followed that same ruleset.
Heck, I had to read the entire thing in the original old English text. The grammar alone is a bit mind-bending, much less word choice. We also had the Canterbury Tales and Hamlet on either side of that assignment. Heck, I just now finished Lewis Carrol's Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Those are only about 100 years old and even those display a rather large difference in word choice and grammar.
English is a living and rapidly growing language. French, per your reference, is somewhat more controlled, and sometimes completely artificial, in trying to remain "not English". See the wonderful rationalization of the argument against "email". There in lies a major difference between English and French. English just absorb words. The French try to avoid absorbing words, because it wouldn't sound like or be "French". (Which makes me wonder what they think when English absorbs yet another French word....)
But it would have been really helpful to have a story on the original decision linked, such as to the Slashdot post, or, perhaps, even a direct link to the original rejection?
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I'd rather ask them things like how their business model is going to provide continued growth and revenue or will that growth meet current burn rates to prevent bankruptcy (for startups or troubled companies), and how this position I'm interviewing for fits into the corporate vision. Not only do I want to know the answer to those questions for myself, but sometimes it's fun to watch the prima donnas swallow their tongue.
If IIRC, elm required user input before updating the screen. It's been about 17 years since I've seen elm though. However, your point proves my point precisely, that the entire NTP patent is patently obvious.
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See above. Your very use of the word "cram" blows away any pretenses about the process of that selection. Ask an accomplished architect or industrial engineer or a world-class surgeon with, say, 30 years of practice what was the last time he or she "crammed" anything.
I'll second this, the only thing I'm "cramming" before an interview are the standard bits about the business and their space before the interview. Should I be asked "school" type questions that recall some of the tests I took long ago, I'd probably start thinking about my next interview, elsewhere. I've found that companies that engage in that sort of questioning usually are uninspiring places to work, or at least the position you're interviewing for will be.Actually, they could go with a sessionless protocol (which they might) and that the server receives an announcement packet, which then gets "responded" to when email arrives. Then the originator responds with a new announcement packet when it's received the entire file, thus indicating receipt and kicking off the entire cycle again. That's far different than "push".... ;)
Then you get to read the stories about DirectX10's massive failure on this round, and you'll see why they're worried. There's not a single reason to upgrade to Vista for anyone. HotHardware's reviews pretty much state that DX10 universally sucks despite their outlook on upcoming DX10 games (Only 1 game was truly playable in DX10 mode with all DX10 bells and whistles turned off. In all cases, the DX9 mode of the games were very playable, and DX10 modes resulted in lethargic framerates that destroyed playability). Creative deep six'd the audio portion.
Probably the most damning thing I saw was in a Fry's add: 4GB Vista memory kit. The perception for consumers is that you need 4GB to run the pig. Not good.
Sound isolation is preferred over noise cancellation, primary because something just causes my ears to ache with the two I've tried to this point. In general, I've yet to find earbuds I like, and the noise isolating ones require insertion into the ear canal to really have effective noise dampening.
It'd probably be too quiet (something about "if it's too loud..." comes to mind ;) although I still like to go to concerts.
I can easily hear conversations when using earphones @ work. I even had to lower the default maximum sound on my iPod so I could adjust the volume level with some refinement (before, it was a click down - silence, a click up blaring, never mind the upper levels of the range). I'm now looking for some comfortable sound isolation earphones.
I don't know if my ears just became more sensitive to noise levels over time (should be just the opposite) or whether other people desensitize their ears with excessive volumes for long periods of time and my ears are closer to the norm?
As for being able to tell the difference in sound reproduction quality, at louder volumes I can definitely notice differences, as that's where the THD quickly becomes noticeable (the primary problem with cheaper systems).
you got it. Wireless connections are secondary citizens in my home network. They do not get full access to the "trusted" wired network. I don't care much about the internet access.
The real question is not whether they sound better, but whether the recorded music was tailored for them. After all, they were the forerunners that everything else was compared to.
If you want a really recent (sort of) example of this, check the first several batches of CD releases and compare them with their LP counterparts. The LPs sounded better because the CDs were manufactured with recordings optimized for LPs (highs were boosted a lot, mid-levels had some boost). This resulted in very tinny sounding CDs.
As for amps, at this point I personally feel that a decent mid-level amp produces a high enough quality sound that I really can no longer tell the difference with my current speakers. I will be replacing those someday in the near future, but even then I'll bet that at my listening levels I won't be able to tell a difference.
Now if we could only have a 3'er chime in, or if I could actually remember my original login from 97....
But he didn't say how he's connected to the internet. Perhaps he has a logging firewall on his router? My machines run without a "firewall" (it's not really a firewall, more a port interceptor/blocker). My router has a firewall and it works really really well, and has since about 1999 when I created a DMZ for my wireless AP and web server. Surely you don't run your wireless AP on your home network, much less let the malware bots hit your machines directly?
I think that's the purpose of releases like this, to make the previous unreasonable statements look like acceptable alternatives.
We should actually draw the line in the sand and tell the entire RIAA to get bent.
Gamestop bought EB within the last year sometime (fuzzy on when, as I don't care;)
I don't know if one of us has been asleep, but the last thing I recall is an ATI R200 in one brand of console and nVidia based chipset in the other. Both chips are far beneath the current moderately good GPUs on offer for PCs. I can't argue with the $ amount, however. Consoles are less expensive, but the games cost more.
As for Macs, I think the future is going to be quite interesting. You can now play up to DirectX 8.1 games in Parallels, which should indicate that the APIs, at least, have been made to work. As the hardware is a subset of PC video hardware, hopefully they can convert that to something that will only be a simple recompile instead of a full-blown port. OpenGL would of course be preferred, and apparently Vista is now adding support to OpenAL due to the DRM cluster that is DirectX Audio.
Last time I checked, MS was losing roughly $1-2B/year on XBox consoles, and has been since the introduction of the original XBox. And since it just got spanked by the Wii on sales, I'd say it's not even a successful contender, much less profitable. Good thing Halo 3 added $170M to the coffers to at least offset the bleeding a little bit before the end of the year.
You do realize that local (metropolitan) backbones were hundreds of megabits even back in the late 90s, right?
And that the reason Akamai came about was to stream large amounts of data from a co-located node as close to the client as possible? It wasn't to keep that portion of the backbone from flooding, but to give the client a better experience.
The internet is basically a decentralized hub-spoke design. The more hops you have to take, the smaller the pipeline to your specific machine. It was never designed with any sort of ratio in mind as it was always meant to be expandable.
And finally, managed P2P could actually be the answer to those design limitations, but that puts a much bigger load on the edge, which ISPs have hopelessly borked by overselling and underprovisioning. Yet even with their failures, huge amounts of data flow across the network via unmanaged P2P, far more than these original designers would have believed possible.
Don't go to those loser Gamestop stores....
PC gaming is alive and well.
I think it's more of a "I want my privacy" issue than any need for "secrecy". Basically, don't stick your nose into my business. If I wanted you to read my super secret double delicious chocolate chip cookie recipe, I would have Cc'd you.
After all, why do you send anything in an envelope instead of on postcards? You don't have anything to hide, do you?
Long answer is that the Xbox360 is a closed system and is subject to their policies. The PC is an open system and is open to anyone who can put code on that hardware. PC gamers won't want to pay for game finding when other services can ofter comparable alternatives or the individual in-game browsers themselves.
However on the Xbox360, you have to pay for multiplayer, or you don't get to play online. There are advantages to the closed console system, this is just an example of a disadvantage. You know, I read that a couple of times. Then I thought - why isn't the Mac also a game platform? It's closed, hardware wise, the current versions certainly outpower any console out there. It could easily come with Blue Tooth for wireless controllers a la Wii. And it can triple as a DVD player platform (HD-DVD/Blu-Ray would be nice in the near future). The Mac Mini is already the appropriate size and within the price point. The MacBook (Pro) already have all the necessary pieces.
Blame Noah Webster. For he single-handedly caused the major differences between British and American English. He was the one that decided on a single 'o' instead of "ou" in words like "color" and "honor". He also made many many other "simplifications".
In all fairness though, had he stuck with a 100% phonetic spelling ruleset, it probably still wouldn't have really helped since English absorbs so many foreign words, including their spellings, and makes them its own that no single ruleset would work unless all languages followed that same ruleset.
Heck, I had to read the entire thing in the original old English text. The grammar alone is a bit mind-bending, much less word choice. We also had the Canterbury Tales and Hamlet on either side of that assignment. Heck, I just now finished Lewis Carrol's Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Those are only about 100 years old and even those display a rather large difference in word choice and grammar.
English is a living and rapidly growing language. French, per your reference, is somewhat more controlled, and sometimes completely artificial, in trying to remain "not English". See the wonderful rationalization of the argument against "email". There in lies a major difference between English and French. English just absorb words. The French try to avoid absorbing words, because it wouldn't sound like or be "French". (Which makes me wonder what they think when English absorbs yet another French word....)
But it would have been really helpful to have a story on the original decision linked, such as to the Slashdot post, or, perhaps, even a direct link to the original rejection?