Second, have you actually _looked_ at the returned HTML from a Google search? It does use CSS within the returned page (see the style section), and it's very compact CSS and HTML.
There are a few oddities in there, though - a lot of <span class=f><font size=-1>blah</font></span> type stuff, where they could have just put the font size into the CSS styling of the span class. My verdict: good, but could do better.
In case you haven't heard: the IT economy ain't doing so hot. Getting a new job isn't quite as easy as you are implying.
That's why he said "you need to start looking for a new job", not "you need to tell your manager to take this job and shove it, and walk out the door".
It'll be interesting to see what happens to "hyperthreading" when dual and quad processors come standard on desktop systems for home users.
Well, if you look at the benchmarks that guy did, almost all were won by the dual Xeons with HT enabled, i.e. 2 physical CPUs, 4 logical CPUs. HT is by no means an alternative to multiple CPUs, it's just one of many techniques to get better performance out of a CPU, regardless of whether it is running alone or as part of a multi-CPU system.
So if dual and quad processor boxes become standard for home users, and if Intel is still dominating the market at that time, I daresay you will see a lot of home boxes with 4 or 8 logical CPUs thanks to their 2 or 4 hyperthreaded Pentium 6's (or whatever).
The "in an effort to induce change" bit is key. If no-one knows that you're doing it, or at least why you're doing it, then how can you possibly induce change?
Well, he told everyone on Slashdot he was doing it. And he got modded up, so even more people will see his declaration! What more do you want!?
Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
Always pleasing to see a Christian modded +5, Funny. Slashdot, I salute you. Carry on laughing.
I think Jobs was being cagey on that one. Look at the interview - every question gets a longer, considered answer, except the one about the iTunes Movie Store. That gets shot down cold. I wouldn't be surprised if they were working on it right now, so that when sufficient bandwidth for quick & easy movie downloading is cheap and available, they're ready to jump in and start selling.
It is ludicrous to suggest that 20% of ISP's revenue comes from people illegally downloading music. Such a figure would not leave customers with nearly enough bandwidth for illegally downloading movies and games, both of which feature far larger file sizes than mp3s.
I was waiting for George Clinton to weigh in to the council's deliberations in Matrix: Revolutions. But he just sat there and let all the white councillors do the talking. I was hoping to see the bop-gunners deployed against the sentinels.
Are they going to completely erase the Shire portion? That would be madness indeed.
Yes, they are going to completely erase the scouring of the Shire, as they have said in every goddamn interview for the last three goddamn years. Christ, Slashdot today is like the Young Ones. "Oh, have we got a video!?"
You could check out some of the approximately 5000 "mp3 categorising" programs on freshmeat. ID3 tag fixers are the single most popular project for novice programmers, I'm sure you can find one that will zing down your directory structure and construct the tags appropriately.
agent oranje is right, Slashdot is wrong - Maya Personal Learning Edition has been free to download for a LONG time, this news article, if you'd bothered to read it, is announcing the "highly anticipated" release of Maya PLE v5.0, not the first free download availability of Maya.
Once you've read it, you might want to give Judge Edward W. Nottingham a call on (303) 844-5018 to discuss some points of law with him. Or at least try to sell him some aluminium siding.
Err, an "open letter" is one that you send to the recipient and the press. They didn't just put this on a website and hope that someone from the European Parliament would notice.
So far, the only people who've flat out said "This thing is a joke, a lie to sucker stupid venture capitalists out of their money with flashy marketing for a product that doesn't exist" is Penny Arcade.
Nice idea, problem is it'll also screw your legion of fans looking for info on your band on the web. Their pain will be reminiscent of that suffered by lovers of early-90's UK indie who have tried googling for Lush, Blur, Ride, Curve and other bands of that ilk.;-)
Hmmmm! At this rate they'll fade away in a couple of weeks or so.
McBride: That's like if someone comes into your house while you're sleeping, takes your jewels, and as you start chasing them down...
They are claiming the whitespace. I'd say a few SCO execs are likely to get a call from our friends at the SEC, and they ain't gonna be talking about whether or not Tennessee's going to a bowl game this year. I can't decide which is funnier - the point about IBM orchestrating all the outrage, or the point that SCO is somehow more "relevant" to the tech community because they've filed a bunch of press releases! I think he is just going to replace the 'offending' code with a big ASCII middle finger.
why not a website that lists independent artists' music only, to let people know of an alternative?
I don't know if this is exactly what you're after, but RIAA Radar allows you to check whether a given album was released by an RIAA-member label or not. For those situations where you already know of an artist and want to decide whether to buy the CD or warez it.:-)
5. Had consensual sex with a 17 year old in a county or state where the age of consent is 18, regardless of whether you knew that or not. Ignorance of the law isn't an excuse.
Given that he's posting on Slashdot, I think it's a fairly safe bet that he's never broken that particular law.
Slashdot Mirror
Another quality dupe from the crack (smoking) editorial team at Slashdot! Hurrah!!
(pTerry's next book, A Hat Full of Sky will be out in a couple months.)
..and it will be much the same as the last couple of dozen Discworld books.
Second, have you actually _looked_ at the returned HTML from a Google search? It does use CSS within the returned page (see the style section), and it's very compact CSS and HTML.
There are a few oddities in there, though - a lot of <span class=f><font size=-1>blah</font></span> type stuff, where they could have just put the font size into the CSS styling of the span class. My verdict: good, but could do better.
In case you haven't heard: the IT economy ain't doing so hot. Getting a new job isn't quite as easy as you are implying.
That's why he said "you need to start looking for a new job", not "you need to tell your manager to take this job and shove it, and walk out the door".
Alright. So... um... who maintains New Zealand's defense?
"God Defend New Zealand" isn't just the national anthem, it's also the defence policy.
It'll be interesting to see what happens to "hyperthreading" when dual and quad processors come standard on desktop systems for home users.
Well, if you look at the benchmarks that guy did, almost all were won by the dual Xeons with HT enabled, i.e. 2 physical CPUs, 4 logical CPUs. HT is by no means an alternative to multiple CPUs, it's just one of many techniques to get better performance out of a CPU, regardless of whether it is running alone or as part of a multi-CPU system.
So if dual and quad processor boxes become standard for home users, and if Intel is still dominating the market at that time, I daresay you will see a lot of home boxes with 4 or 8 logical CPUs thanks to their 2 or 4 hyperthreaded Pentium 6's (or whatever).
The "in an effort to induce change" bit is key. If no-one knows that you're doing it, or at least why you're doing it, then how can you possibly induce change?
Well, he told everyone on Slashdot he was doing it. And he got modded up, so even more people will see his declaration! What more do you want!?
Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain, or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
Always pleasing to see a Christian modded +5, Funny. Slashdot, I salute you. Carry on laughing.
I think Jobs was being cagey on that one. Look at the interview - every question gets a longer, considered answer, except the one about the iTunes Movie Store. That gets shot down cold. I wouldn't be surprised if they were working on it right now, so that when sufficient bandwidth for quick & easy movie downloading is cheap and available, they're ready to jump in and start selling.
If you call your computers "boxen", I hope they get cracked and rootkitted.
It is ludicrous to suggest that 20% of ISP's revenue comes from people illegally downloading music. Such a figure would not leave customers with nearly enough bandwidth for illegally downloading movies and games, both of which feature far larger file sizes than mp3s.
I was waiting for George Clinton to weigh in to the council's deliberations in Matrix: Revolutions. But he just sat there and let all the white councillors do the talking. I was hoping to see the bop-gunners deployed against the sentinels.
How long will people pay spammers $50 a referral once it becomes clear that 99% of said referrals are for non-existent names and addresses?
Are they going to completely erase the Shire portion? That would be madness indeed.
Yes, they are going to completely erase the scouring of the Shire, as they have said in every goddamn interview for the last three goddamn years. Christ, Slashdot today is like the Young Ones. "Oh, have we got a video!?"
You could check out some of the approximately 5000 "mp3 categorising" programs on freshmeat. ID3 tag fixers are the single most popular project for novice programmers, I'm sure you can find one that will zing down your directory structure and construct the tags appropriately.
The article said 66Kb, not 66K. Half a megabit (512 kilobits) reduced to 66 kilobits.
agent oranje is right, Slashdot is wrong - Maya Personal Learning Edition has been free to download for a LONG time, this news article, if you'd bothered to read it, is announcing the "highly anticipated" release of Maya PLE v5.0, not the first free download availability of Maya.
I preferred the mirror which did not keep the CSS intact.. man, that's one ass-ugly font he chose for that piece..
Once you've read it, you might want to give Judge Edward W. Nottingham a call on (303) 844-5018 to discuss some points of law with him. Or at least try to sell him some aluminium siding.
Err, an "open letter" is one that you send to the recipient and the press. They didn't just put this on a website and hope that someone from the European Parliament would notice.
So far, the only people who've flat out said "This thing is a joke, a lie to sucker stupid venture capitalists out of their money with flashy marketing for a product that doesn't exist" is Penny Arcade.
HardOCP are also pretty much calling it as a scam.
Nice idea, problem is it'll also screw your legion of fans looking for info on your band on the web. Their pain will be reminiscent of that suffered by lovers of early-90's UK indie who have tried googling for Lush, Blur, Ride, Curve and other bands of that ilk. ;-)
Hmmmm! At this rate they'll fade away in a couple of weeks or so.
McBride: That's like if someone comes into your house while you're sleeping, takes your jewels, and as you start chasing them down...
They are claiming the whitespace. I'd say a few SCO execs are likely to get a call from our friends at the SEC, and they ain't gonna be talking about whether or not Tennessee's going to a bowl game this year. I can't decide which is funnier - the point about IBM orchestrating all the outrage, or the point that SCO is somehow more "relevant" to the tech community because they've filed a bunch of press releases! I think he is just going to replace the 'offending' code with a big ASCII middle finger.
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why not a website that lists independent artists' music only, to let people know of an alternative?
I don't know if this is exactly what you're after, but RIAA Radar allows you to check whether a given album was released by an RIAA-member label or not. For those situations where you already know of an artist and want to decide whether to buy the CD or warez it. :-)
5. Had consensual sex with a 17 year old in a county or state where the age of consent is 18, regardless of whether you knew that or not. Ignorance of the law isn't an excuse.
Given that he's posting on Slashdot, I think it's a fairly safe bet that he's never broken that particular law.
Aww, shit, I'm posting on Slashdot! Nooooo!!