Why should companies be prevented by the government from doing product placement? Now, if a program sucks because of product placement, people will stop watching the program, and the company that makes the product will stop doing the product placement. Let the market control how shitty TV programs are and stop bringing government into every damn thing.
A lot of the course notes aren't particularly useful without a teacher actually explaining things to you. For example, look at the following link .
While some of the notes may be useful and educational, I don't think it replaces a real, live professor explaning things and available to answer questions.
Ok, so he chose Ctrl-Alt-Del to do a warm boot. Maybe he could have chose alt-x-y-5-* or ctrl-alt-f1-f2-f7........ Why's this being written about as if it is some innovative rocketery? Someone had a computer system. They wanted to be able to do a warm boot fast. Therefore they made a key-sequence to allow it. And this is a story . . .
The Indian government asked ISPs to block ONE specific yahoo group. Many ISPs had no idea how to block just one group and blocked everything. Bullshit headlines like "India blocks yahoo groups" are misleading. I know many people in India using various ISPs who are still able to access Yahoo groups.
Let me get this straight... If you use GPL, you are supposed to reveal ALL the code you have even if it parts of it was designed completely independently? You want companies to reveal all their silicon secrets just because they are using Linux to access the silicon? They should give credit where credit is due but there is no reason for them to reveal the internal workings of their silicon, etc. Get real.
Engineers make recommendations. Managers disregard them. Things like impressing VPs, etc are way more important to get ahead in an organisation unfortunately.
But the most interesting discussion came from Intel's David Tennenhouse. He noted that we've passed the one person, one computer milestone. The next wave will include networked embedded computers that give real-time information, enabling proactive computing that can anticipate our needs. Enabling technologies for that trend include physical control of biological and chemical elements; ubiquitous computing in the form of smart dust, RFID, and software radio; planetary-scale distributed systems (PlanetLab is one example); and new probabilistic methods of machine learning.
One issue with HT performance is in the case of Floating point code. There is only only FPU in the chip. Another issue with HT performance is when there are tight loops in the threads. Intel recommends using a "pause" instruction when there are idle loops. Not using a pause instruction tends to make all the threads contend for the same functional units, decreasing performance.
The poll in the following article indicate that 40% of people believe in literal creation as described in the bible:
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/03/08/creationism.vs.ev olution/
Didn't realise that politicians could overrule a court ruling. What if it was truly about a constitutional issue? What if the politicians voted to reinstate slavery for example. Can they overrule a judge?
While 50 million Americans may be right in this case, they can DEFINITELY be wrong.
For example. more than 50 million Americans believe that the earth is 6000 years old (or whatever bullshit theory that is). One cannot automatically assume that a large number of people are right. That's plain bullshit mobocracy.
There are exploits in every product, opensource or not. It's just a matter of you taking necessary precautions like using a decent firewall and patching regularly.
This whole thing is turning out to be like a war. The RIAA war machine goes and attacks indiscriminately. It gets bad guys and the good guys. Wonder if they'll also spin it as - It's ok if we get some good guys. Since they're good, God will take them to a better place.
If someone makes a large number of long distance calls, it is more sensible to use Voice over IP anyway rather than use a regular phone. There are many reasonably priced Voice over IP services out there for people in colleges that don't provide this.
I'll wait until they actually come out with applications that use the 64-bit extensions to the x86 instruction set. Doesn't seem like its worth it to pay big bucks and buy this for 32-bit applications
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Why should companies be prevented by the government from doing product placement? Now, if a program sucks because of product placement, people will stop watching the program, and the company that makes the product will stop doing the product placement. Let the market control how shitty TV programs are and stop bringing government into every damn thing.
A lot of the course notes aren't particularly useful without a teacher actually explaining things to you. For example, look at the following link .
While some of the notes may be useful and educational, I don't think it replaces a real, live professor explaning things and available to answer questions.
Ok, so he chose Ctrl-Alt-Del to do a warm boot. Maybe he could have chose alt-x-y-5-* or ctrl-alt-f1-f2-f7........ Why's this being written about as if it is some innovative rocketery? Someone had a computer system. They wanted to be able to do a warm boot fast. Therefore they made a key-sequence to allow it. And this is a story . . .
Here's the html link
The Indian government asked ISPs to block ONE specific yahoo group. Many ISPs had no idea how to block just one group and blocked everything. Bullshit headlines like "India blocks yahoo groups" are misleading. I know many people in India using various ISPs who are still able to access Yahoo groups.
Let me get this straight... If you use GPL, you are supposed to reveal ALL the code you have even if it parts of it was designed completely independently? You want companies to reveal all their silicon secrets just because they are using Linux to access the silicon? They should give credit where credit is due but there is no reason for them to reveal the internal workings of their silicon, etc. Get real.
This guy seems like a case of curry up the rear. Must burn like hell
Engineers make recommendations. Managers disregard them. Things like impressing VPs, etc are way more important to get ahead in an organisation unfortunately.
We are Borg?
One issue with HT performance is in the case of Floating point code. There is only only FPU in the chip. Another issue with HT performance is when there are tight loops in the threads. Intel recommends using a "pause" instruction when there are idle loops. Not using a pause instruction tends to make all the threads contend for the same functional units, decreasing performance.
This article indicates that 45% of Americans believe in young earth creationism
Here's the correct link : Creationism vs Evolution
The poll in the following article indicate that 40% of people believe in literal creation as described in the bible: http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/03/08/creationism.vs.ev olution/
Didn't realise that politicians could overrule a court ruling. What if it was truly about a constitutional issue? What if the politicians voted to reinstate slavery for example. Can they overrule a judge?
While 50 million Americans may be right in this case, they can DEFINITELY be wrong. For example. more than 50 million Americans believe that the earth is 6000 years old (or whatever bullshit theory that is). One cannot automatically assume that a large number of people are right. That's plain bullshit mobocracy.
1. Have no business plan 2. Send extortion letters 3. ???? 4. Profit
. . . all the "I used to travel 5 miles in snow, uphill both ways to buy a 500 byte floppy drive to install in a 1 Hz system"
Hyperthreading is another factor to consider. I wonder if there are any HT optimizations
How about wearing jammers that confuse the electronics trying to track you?
There are exploits in every product, opensource or not. It's just a matter of you taking necessary precautions like using a decent firewall and patching regularly.
The mob is fickle
This whole thing is turning out to be like a war. The RIAA war machine goes and attacks indiscriminately. It gets bad guys and the good guys. Wonder if they'll also spin it as - It's ok if we get some good guys. Since they're good, God will take them to a better place.
Do students have high data transfer needs or high data transfer wants? There's a big difference between wants and needs
If someone makes a large number of long distance calls, it is more sensible to use Voice over IP anyway rather than use a regular phone. There are many reasonably priced Voice over IP services out there for people in colleges that don't provide this.
I'll wait until they actually come out with applications that use the 64-bit extensions to the x86 instruction set. Doesn't seem like its worth it to pay big bucks and buy this for 32-bit applications