The problem with the usage dates back to the 1980s and IBM's launch of its original personal computer (called the PC). Within very few months PC had dual meanings - 'Personal Computer' and 'IBM PC -compatible'. That confuses continues to the present day.
I'm absolutely sure that the U.S tries to spy on Iranian nuclear facilities. Has it successful turned a number of facility workers? No idea, probably, but I've only got the Iranian spokesman's word for that. In the same way that I only really have the Iranian spokesman's word that the 'Green Revolution' was sponsored and organised by western intelligence agencies.
I don't use Twitter as any kind of social network, but when I tweet that "The school is closed to due to snow" I know that it isn't ignored, even if no replies are received. In fact, I do sometimes get replied - via e-mail.
... seems a rather odd word for a news source to use in this context. I probably would have gone with "claims" unless the Washington Post has concrete sources saying that such espionage has occurred.
Thank you both for this. Inform 7 actually looks like it could be a really fun way for kids to get the basic ideas behind programming and get an immediate buzz from creating something that their friends could have fun with. I'm going to investigate, but I suspect my 8 year old daughter could have a lot of fun with this. (Once I've learned how to use it:-) )
No, it wasn't a bullshit headline, at least if you consider eldavojohn's summary to be correct. The last line in his submission was: "After reviewing the paper, one researcher is confident Linux will remain viable for five to eight years without need for a major redesign."
Now, just because he buried that as the last line means nothing, any decent editor is going to see that and realise that it means: "Linux is likely to need a major redesign within 5-8 years to cope with multicore proliferation". They will also realise that this is a pretty important deal and should be brought to people's attention.
Having edited a few IT mags in my time, I think your summary was just too wordy, with the main thrust getting buried. Here's my attempt at subbing your submission down, without murdering the meaning or jettisoning the salient points
It seems current operating systems inevitability slow down as the number of cores they are running reaches around 48. An MIT teams's simulation shows the cause to be increasing memory congestion as data is forced to remain in memory as long as a core might need it. In their paper (PDF), they show how Linux can be adapted in the medium term by implementing counters to track which cores are working on the data. Even this approach eventually runs into problems as the OS spends an increasing proportion of its more time managing counters. The researchers caution that as the number of cores skyrockets, operating systems will have to be completely redesigned to handle managing these cores and SMP. Linux has got five to eight years until it needs a major redesign."
My headline would probably have been along the lines of: "'Multicore proliferation will force major Linux redesign say MIT team"
... it was fascinating, but frankly the commentary was too sketchy for someone like me to understand how it was functioning. I;d be very grateful for any clues.
Moreover the author provides no evidence that "boy wizards" are actually a myth. I'm shocked, shocked that the summary writer took the author's assertion at face value.
As far as I am aware, there are good examples of fairly young, talented coders actually creating some rather special applications that do take the world by storm. Heap may not be a wizard, but that doesn't mean the whole things is a myth.
Absolutely. The first version of Office for OS X - Office v.X was released in 2001 and (aside from the lack of a proper Outlook client) was at least as good (and aesthetically rather nicer) than the then current Windows version. Embarrassingly, it's the version I still use - I've never really seen any compelling reason to upgrade, though I may shell out for 2011.
Because the current theories on the development of life on Earth and the question of how life arose is a scientific discipline, as opposed to the the study of human history is not. What are you meant to say in a science class when evolution and natural selection comes up? "Oh I can explain to you about how evolution is working in these bacteria, or these warfrin-resistant rats, but I'm sorry, I can't talk about how these same mechanisms can account for the development of the eyeball"?
I'm reminded of the last sudden acceleration brouhaha in the 1980s. By 1987 6,000 instances had been recorded by the government supposedly causing 3,000 accidents, 2,000 injuries and 50+ deaths. The Audi 5,000 suddenly became implicated in the public mind with these incidents and the number of reported cases in this kind of car - it was reported on CBS 60 minutes and the following month 1,400 incidents were reported, compared to 13 over the previous 4 years. An exhaustive NHSTA report concluded that "Pedal misapplications are the likely cause of these incidents".
The Audi 5000's pedals weren't substantially closer together than many other European-sourced cars, but they were a favourite with the.. ahem... more senior demographic.
Personally, I think that a slighthly tweaked Windows Phone 7 is probably the OS that Microsoft should put on its tablets. Whereas Apples iOS was stretched moving from phone to iPad, the videos of WP7 look as it might be better suited to a pad than a phone.
Of course Microsoft will never go down this route.
I don't find it annoying per se, but I do find it diminishes my enjoyment of the game by 'flattening' the experience. Typically a football match is enhanced by the crowd noise in my experience. The roar of excitement as the strikers approach the goal; the collective groan/cheer when the goal fails to go in.
Add to that the interesting diversity of chants, songs and musical instruments bought by different countries' supporters to the average World Cup and you have something rather special, particularly when you get good competition between the supporters, answering the other's chant.
By contrast, this year's contrast has been literally monotonous. Which is a shame.
Indeed. My take on this is that Reader could actually substantially diminish the need to install Adblock. This benefits the publishers since the whole page (including ads) loads and the user gets a chance to look at the full page before invoking reader.
... what are you saying, that when you lease allowance to use their servers, they have permission to do whatever they want to your local machine and define what software you can and can't run on it? because that's the issue here.,.
No, the original poster is saying that when you lease allowance to use their servers it is reasonable for them to control your interaction with their servers. Because that's the issue here. Or at least, it is clearly a reasonable issue for them to have a say in.
... and he'll be able to write the definitive guide to Views in Drupal 7. CCK got integrated into the core, but Views didn't. I suspect getting Views ported is going to be a pain.
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The problem with the usage dates back to the 1980s and IBM's launch of its original personal computer (called the PC). Within very few months PC had dual meanings - 'Personal Computer' and 'IBM PC -compatible'. That confuses continues to the present day.
I'm absolutely sure that the U.S tries to spy on Iranian nuclear facilities. Has it successful turned a number of facility workers? No idea, probably, but I've only got the Iranian spokesman's word for that. In the same way that I only really have the Iranian spokesman's word that the 'Green Revolution' was sponsored and organised by western intelligence agencies.
I don't use Twitter as any kind of social network, but when I tweet that "The school is closed to due to snow" I know that it isn't ignored, even if no replies are received. In fact, I do sometimes get replied - via e-mail.
... seems a rather odd word for a news source to use in this context. I probably would have gone with "claims" unless the Washington Post has concrete sources saying that such espionage has occurred.
Meters square? Pshaw I want it in Square meters.
Thank you both for this. Inform 7 actually looks like it could be a really fun way for kids to get the basic ideas behind programming and get an immediate buzz from creating something that their friends could have fun with. I'm going to investigate, but I suspect my 8 year old daughter could have a lot of fun with this. (Once I've learned how to use it :-) )
"Possibly"
And that's why India is still part of the British Empire and why we didn't hand Hong Kong back a few years ago.
No, it wasn't a bullshit headline, at least if you consider eldavojohn's summary to be correct. The last line in his submission was: "After reviewing the paper, one researcher is confident Linux will remain viable for five to eight years without need for a major redesign."
Now, just because he buried that as the last line means nothing, any decent editor is going to see that and realise that it means: "Linux is likely to need a major redesign within 5-8 years to cope with multicore proliferation". They will also realise that this is a pretty important deal and should be brought to people's attention.
Having edited a few IT mags in my time, I think your summary was just too wordy, with the main thrust getting buried. Here's my attempt at subbing your submission down, without murdering the meaning or jettisoning the salient points
It seems current operating systems inevitability slow down as the number of cores they are running reaches around 48. An MIT teams's simulation shows the cause to be increasing memory congestion as data is forced to remain in memory as long as a core might need it. In their paper (PDF), they show how Linux can be adapted in the medium term by implementing counters to track which cores are working on the data. Even this approach eventually runs into problems as the OS spends an increasing proportion of its more time managing counters. The researchers caution that as the number of cores skyrockets, operating systems will have to be completely redesigned to handle managing these cores and SMP. Linux has got five to eight years until it needs a major redesign."
My headline would probably have been along the lines of: "'Multicore proliferation will force major Linux redesign say MIT team"
... it was fascinating, but frankly the commentary was too sketchy for someone like me to understand how it was functioning. I;d be very grateful for any clues.
Moreover the author provides no evidence that "boy wizards" are actually a myth. I'm shocked, shocked that the summary writer took the author's assertion at face value.
As far as I am aware, there are good examples of fairly young, talented coders actually creating some rather special applications that do take the world by storm. Heap may not be a wizard, but that doesn't mean the whole things is a myth.
Absolutely. The first version of Office for OS X - Office v.X was released in 2001 and (aside from the lack of a proper Outlook client) was at least as good (and aesthetically rather nicer) than the then current Windows version. Embarrassingly, it's the version I still use - I've never really seen any compelling reason to upgrade, though I may shell out for 2011.
Because the current theories on the development of life on Earth and the question of how life arose is a scientific discipline, as opposed to the the study of human history is not. What are you meant to say in a science class when evolution and natural selection comes up? "Oh I can explain to you about how evolution is working in these bacteria, or these warfrin-resistant rats, but I'm sorry, I can't talk about how these same mechanisms can account for the development of the eyeball"?
Mine does just that - it;s brilliant!
It has one knob for temperature and the other that turns on the water. I leave the temnperature knob where I want it to be and .... it STAYS THERE !!
Like a rather desperate attempt to repurpose the rather nice technology they developed for a rather poor game and make it saleable.
I'm reminded of the last sudden acceleration brouhaha in the 1980s. By 1987 6,000 instances had been recorded by the government supposedly causing 3,000 accidents, 2,000 injuries and 50+ deaths. The Audi 5,000 suddenly became implicated in the public mind with these incidents and the number of reported cases in this kind of car - it was reported on CBS 60 minutes and the following month 1,400 incidents were reported, compared to 13 over the previous 4 years. An exhaustive NHSTA report concluded that "Pedal misapplications are the likely cause of these incidents".
The Audi 5000's pedals weren't substantially closer together than many other European-sourced cars, but they were a favourite with the .. ahem... more senior demographic.
iTunes for Windows running via WINE?
Eeek
Personally, I think that a slighthly tweaked Windows Phone 7 is probably the OS that Microsoft should put on its tablets. Whereas Apples iOS was stretched moving from phone to iPad, the videos of WP7 look as it might be better suited to a pad than a phone.
Of course Microsoft will never go down this route.
That's great. Now. Are there any actual inaccuracies in the story? No?
.and that's why all guns, roads, footwear and helicopters must be destroyed immediately.
I don't find it annoying per se, but I do find it diminishes my enjoyment of the game by 'flattening' the experience. Typically a football match is enhanced by the crowd noise in my experience. The roar of excitement as the strikers approach the goal; the collective groan/cheer when the goal fails to go in.
Add to that the interesting diversity of chants, songs and musical instruments bought by different countries' supporters to the average World Cup and you have something rather special, particularly when you get good competition between the supporters, answering the other's chant.
By contrast, this year's contrast has been literally monotonous. Which is a shame.
Indeed. My take on this is that Reader could actually substantially diminish the need to install Adblock. This benefits the publishers since the whole page (including ads) loads and the user gets a chance to look at the full page before invoking reader.
No, the original poster is saying that when you lease allowance to use their servers it is reasonable for them to control your interaction with their servers. Because that's the issue here. Or at least, it is clearly a reasonable issue for them to have a say in.
... and he'll be able to write the definitive guide to Views in Drupal 7. CCK got integrated into the core, but Views didn't. I suspect getting Views ported is going to be a pain.