What does the poster mean by "is not capable of creating nuclear warheads". Does he mean, "does not create by-products or waste that, if refined and combined with additional hardware, could possibly be used to create a nuclear warhead". Do we currently have nuclear power plants that are also capable of producing nuclear warheads (warheads that actually react and go boom and not just spread radioactive waste everywhere)?
They still need to make money.
If you sell at a loss you don't make it up in volume, you just create a larger loss.
A number of posters will comment that they will make this up in Game sales. Understand that it is more than just that. Sony won the format war because of the PS3. Now BD makers, and content producers pay money to Sony to release both the BD players and BR content. That's a pretty big financial win for Sony. In addition, they earn revenue from the Sony online store. If they would uncripple the HV, I would purchase a second as a PC at the drop of a hat.
Sony, Please sell a new PS3 model. Get rid of the HV, change the color to white, call it the PS3 PC edition, and charge $749 for it. The thinkgeek crowd would eat it up.
open sourcing it would just be dumb when there's already 800 engineers working on it inside IBM. The number of developers that would contribute to it would drop dramatically.
Yes, apparently open sourcing an application now 'requires' that you fire/reassign all of your developers! We've all been misinterpreting section 5 of the GPL for years now!
Getting an SA/SE/NE job without a degree is fairly easy. The degree is only useful in passing the initial HR education check. I recommend that you bypass this check by having an insider get you an interview. Once you have your first job and foundation for a resume, finding other/better jobs becomes much easier. Passing the phone screen and interview will be entirely on you. Make sure your fundamental skills are sharp. Look over the job listing and invest 72 hours reviewing your weak spots. I conduct a number of phone screening and p2p interviews. I have a list of general questions ranging from basic to complex. For SAs, I usually start with the following.
In pseudo script (any language, bash, dos, etc)do the following:
copy a file from dir A to Dir B copy a file from server A dir A to server B dir B
copy all/only xml files from server A dir A to server B dir B
copy all files except xml files from Server A directory A (recursively) to servers B, C, D, E
As you see, the questions range from "are you retarted", to "are you useless" to "are you actually able to use what you know to solve something".
I really don't care if the candidate is 100% syntactically correct on the phone. What I do care about is "how" they think. Do they use a for loop and find combo (for foo in `find . -name *xml` ; do scp dirA/${foo} user@serverb:/dirb/ ; done ), or are they using ls/grep/xargs, or do they not know scp, ftp, or windows UNC path utilization and shouldn't be interviewing for an SA position. I have a set of questions for pretty much evey dicsipline that a job at my company would require (regex, sql, etc), and let the candidate use the language/commands that they are most comfortable with. I could care less if they know the intricacies of windows/unix/linux chattr/chown/chmod, I just need them to understand the concepts and be able to read, interpret, and implement the information in a man page. I've ended up converting a fair number of MCSEs to actual SAs this way.
Will a new particle system and planet generation improve the 30 minute black screen when jumping into a fleet battle? Did CCP change the shade of black?
No, the article is rubbish. The part was designed by ATI. ATI was not a "US"company as the article states, it was Canadian company. I have personal knowledge of this.
I still think that the perspective should be just a LITTLE bit more oriented towards the user.
Hello user. The reason they call it gnu/linux is because linux is the kernel, and only the kernel. Userspace issues fall under the "Gnu" part. Things like printers have their own userspace project (called CUPS). Scanners have their own set of specialists as well (SANE). When you (a user) have a problem with a particular piece of hardware, you should bring it to the attention of your Distro maintainers (Ubuntu, RH, SUSE, etc). They will upstream the the request to the correct party, or (hopefully) provide you with enough information for you to upstream it yourself.
I live in West Seattle (up 35th). Comcast internet was down when I got home yesterday at 5:00ish. It came back up around 7:30. Not sure where you live in Seattle, but cable wasn't up everywhere during the storm.
You've never played in a spontaneous gathering of people who don't regularly play together?
Of course I have, and each of them knew how to tune. I believe that you are referring to bass players. If someone doesn't want to "take the time to do that carefully with a tuner", then they shouldn't be playing with 4 other guitarists.
I am so glad I can't afford a real Les Paul.
I have two, both 5 piece 70's models (the heavy ones). One Deluxe cherry sunburst, one deep brown. Both exhibit this problem with DD XL.10's. It's something you learn to "play around". I have played one LP out of dozens that didn't exhibit the problem, but it was a reissue (played like a 61).
I generally use the LPs I have for lead or single-string flat picking rhythm parts. For straight rhythm, I prefer a tele or a strat (legacy or asat since I'm a G&L guy). Don't get me wrong, the LP is a great instrument, but it has its shortcomings. I haven't played many new ones as I generally don't play cheap machine cut guitars. Even the reissues seem to have gone to crap. Gibson seems to go through a QC cycle about every 10 years. I'll swing by emerald city this week to see if things have changed again recelenty.
Fast tuning changes mid-song (need to be in drop-D for a stretch).
Why not just start the song in dropped D? Is there something that can be played in stock tuning that you can't play in drop D tuning?
If you left it on, the ability to instantly correct minor variations in pitch would make setting up the guitar almost a non-issue instead of a pain.
The only pain I experience when setting up a Les Paul is finding a decent luthier. Once a Les Paul is "set up", it tends to stay that way as long as you stay within 1 string guage. I just set my Pauls up for 10's, and I'm set for the next 2 years.
If you can make it cheap enough, it wouldn't matter if you didn't let the neck cure long enough
Pitch shifting doesn't fix buzzing strings. You can't polish a turd.
It would be great when you're playing with four other guitar players and nobody seems to agree on the pitch.
I'm speechless.
A guitar is a lute. It's strings resonating a piece of wood that is amplified by a hole or a pickup. Put a computer in a guitar so that the original sound is not being amplified, and it's no longer a guitar. Call it something else, like an e-tar.
Last thing I have to say... It's not a Les Paul unless the G string is "always" out of tune.
One of the big issues with education in the USA is poor preparation by parents
I agree to some extent. The issue is with a small minority of parents though. The problem is that the "rotten" kids behavior cascades out to their peers. 1 rotten apple turns into 3 or 4.
The goal, he said in an interview last week, is to better prepare children
How about we "better prepare the adults". I'd sure like a free diploma. I never got to go to college and I've been in the IT industry for years. I'd love a free ride.
It is all that my memory can recall from the "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" game that Infocom released. I used to play it on my Apple IIe along with the Zork games.
I've done it. It's pretty darn easy. Listen to the cymbals and the kick drum.
For me the snare is a dead giveaway. A snare has two distinct sounds (a sizzle and a snap). Many mp3 files less than 320kbps blend them into a single "dutsh" sound.
That said, not all MP3 encoders are created equal, and not all settings for for every type of song. MP3 is a wonderful transportable music format that allows you to grab a song quickly and give it a listen. I wonder if adding a 2 pass VBR encoding to Lame would help? For me, all the music I listen to often is in FLAC format. All the bands I rarely listen to are encoded with Vorbis at the highest quality settings (approx 400-500kbps). With 1TB HDDs on the market, there's really no excuse for an audiophile to not go with FLAC.
I would happily pay double my existing taxes to get a country with effective universal health care
Dumb question, but why don't you? I'm in Vienna right now, and taxes take a whopping 50% of every paycheck. A lot of it goes to a pension I will never see, dental care I am not allowed to use and must go out of the country to get, or healthcare that I have to be extremely careful with when selecting a provider.
Move here. Apathy is just a plane ticket away! (you'll probably want to learn German first)
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What does the poster mean by "is not capable of creating nuclear warheads". Does he mean, "does not create by-products or waste that, if refined and combined with additional hardware, could possibly be used to create a nuclear warhead". Do we currently have nuclear power plants that are also capable of producing nuclear warheads (warheads that actually react and go boom and not just spread radioactive waste everywhere)?
BBH
Yeah, because it would be a smart idea for IBM to give up a billion dollars year in licensing
Thanks for explaining how free software works. You might wish to notify Redhat and Sun of this amazing discovery.
BBH
They still need to make money. If you sell at a loss you don't make it up in volume, you just create a larger loss.
A number of posters will comment that they will make this up in Game sales. Understand that it is more than just that. Sony won the format war because of the PS3. Now BD makers, and content producers pay money to Sony to release both the BD players and BR content. That's a pretty big financial win for Sony. In addition, they earn revenue from the Sony online store. If they would uncripple the HV, I would purchase a second as a PC at the drop of a hat.
Sony, Please sell a new PS3 model. Get rid of the HV, change the color to white, call it the PS3 PC edition, and charge $749 for it. The thinkgeek crowd would eat it up.
BBH
open sourcing it would just be dumb when there's already 800 engineers working on it inside IBM. The number of developers that would contribute to it would drop dramatically.
Yes, apparently open sourcing an application now 'requires' that you fire/reassign all of your developers! We've all been misinterpreting section 5 of the GPL for years now!
BBH
Getting an SA/SE/NE job without a degree is fairly easy. The degree is only useful in passing the initial HR education check. I recommend that you bypass this check by having an insider get you an interview. Once you have your first job and foundation for a resume, finding other/better jobs becomes much easier. Passing the phone screen and interview will be entirely on you. Make sure your fundamental skills are sharp. Look over the job listing and invest 72 hours reviewing your weak spots. I conduct a number of phone screening and p2p interviews. I have a list of general questions ranging from basic to complex. For SAs, I usually start with the following.
/commands that they are most comfortable with. I could care less if they know the intricacies of windows/unix/linux chattr/chown/chmod, I just need them to understand the concepts and be able to read, interpret, and implement the information in a man page. I've ended up converting a fair number of MCSEs to actual SAs this way.
In pseudo script (any language, bash, dos, etc)do the following:
copy a file from dir A to Dir B
copy a file from server A dir A to server B dir B
copy all/only xml files from server A dir A to server B dir B
copy all files except xml files from Server A directory A (recursively) to servers B, C, D, E
As you see, the questions range from "are you retarted", to "are you useless" to "are you actually able to use what you know to solve something". I really don't care if the candidate is 100% syntactically correct on the phone. What I do care about is "how" they think. Do they use a for loop and find combo (for foo in `find . -name *xml` ; do scp dirA/${foo} user@serverb:/dirb/ ; done ), or are they using ls/grep/xargs, or do they not know scp, ftp, or windows UNC path utilization and shouldn't be interviewing for an SA position. I have a set of questions for pretty much evey dicsipline that a job at my company would require (regex, sql, etc), and let the candidate use the language
Will a new particle system and planet generation improve the 30 minute black screen when jumping into a fleet battle? Did CCP change the shade of black?
BBH
But without Pure managers in IT, who would make facial expressions during Scrums? Where would we get our positive social affirmation from?
BBH
Pulse detonation engines: This used to be called "piston engine"
Correct, except these don't have the pistons, rods, flywheel, or cam shaft(s).
It's more like a bunch of PVC potatoe guns duct-taped together, sans potatoes, hooked up to a distributer cap and battery.
There, I just dumbed it down enough for FOX news.
BBH
No, the article is rubbish. The part was designed by ATI. ATI was not a "US"company as the article states, it was Canadian company. I have personal knowledge of this.
BBH
Take it further with an evening gown and swimsuit "competition".
BBH
I still think that the perspective should be just a LITTLE bit more oriented towards the user.
Hello user. The reason they call it gnu/linux is because linux is the kernel, and only the kernel. Userspace issues fall under the "Gnu" part. Things like printers have their own userspace project (called CUPS). Scanners have their own set of specialists as well (SANE). When you (a user) have a problem with a particular piece of hardware, you should bring it to the attention of your Distro maintainers (Ubuntu, RH, SUSE, etc). They will upstream the the request to the correct party, or (hopefully) provide you with enough information for you to upstream it yourself.
BBH
nouveau.freedesktop.org
BBH
Hi there,
Good post. s/D3D/OGL. Probably was a typo/brainFart.
BBH
Hi there,
I live in West Seattle (up 35th). Comcast internet was down when I got home yesterday at 5:00ish. It came back up around 7:30. Not sure where you live in Seattle, but cable wasn't up everywhere during the storm.
BBH
I find that the first, and most important, thing to do in any catastrophe is "Assign Blame".
Cause you never know exactly how bad it's gonna get.
BBH
You've never played in a spontaneous gathering of people who don't regularly play together?
.10's. It's something you learn to "play around". I have played one LP out of dozens that didn't exhibit the problem, but it was a reissue (played like a 61).
Of course I have, and each of them knew how to tune. I believe that you are referring to bass players. If someone doesn't want to "take the time to do that carefully with a tuner", then they shouldn't be playing with 4 other guitarists.
I am so glad I can't afford a real Les Paul.
I have two, both 5 piece 70's models (the heavy ones). One Deluxe cherry sunburst, one deep brown. Both exhibit this problem with DD XL
I generally use the LPs I have for lead or single-string flat picking rhythm parts. For straight rhythm, I prefer a tele or a strat (legacy or asat since I'm a G&L guy). Don't get me wrong, the LP is a great instrument, but it has its shortcomings. I haven't played many new ones as I generally don't play cheap machine cut guitars. Even the reissues seem to have gone to crap. Gibson seems to go through a QC cycle about every 10 years. I'll swing by emerald city this week to see if things have changed again recelenty.
BBH
Fast tuning changes mid-song (need to be in drop-D for a stretch).
Why not just start the song in dropped D? Is there something that can be played in stock tuning that you can't play in drop D tuning?
If you left it on, the ability to instantly correct minor variations in pitch would make setting up the guitar almost a non-issue instead of a pain.
The only pain I experience when setting up a Les Paul is finding a decent luthier. Once a Les Paul is "set up", it tends to stay that way as long as you stay within 1 string guage. I just set my Pauls up for 10's, and I'm set for the next 2 years.
If you can make it cheap enough, it wouldn't matter if you didn't let the neck cure long enough
Pitch shifting doesn't fix buzzing strings. You can't polish a turd.
It would be great when you're playing with four other guitar players and nobody seems to agree on the pitch.
I'm speechless.
A guitar is a lute. It's strings resonating a piece of wood that is amplified by a hole or a pickup. Put a computer in a guitar so that the original sound is not being amplified, and it's no longer a guitar. Call it something else, like an e-tar.
Last thing I have to say... It's not a Les Paul unless the G string is "always" out of tune.
BBH
There go all my childhood fantasies. Instead of being scary, they ran around looking like Liberace.
You have the wrong flamboyant pianist. It's Elton John that wears the feathers.
BBH
One of the big issues with education in the USA is poor preparation by parents
I agree to some extent. The issue is with a small minority of parents though. The problem is that the "rotten" kids behavior cascades out to their peers. 1 rotten apple turns into 3 or 4.
The goal, he said in an interview last week, is to better prepare children
How about we "better prepare the adults". I'd sure like a free diploma. I never got to go to college and I've been in the IT industry for years. I'd love a free ride.
BBH
It is all that my memory can recall from the "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" game that Infocom released. I used to play it on my Apple IIe along with the Zork games.
BBH
Where's the Tylenol?
I believe the steps are something like this...
Turn on light. Get up. Get Gown. Wear gown. Open pocket. Swallow analgesic.
BBH
I've done it. It's pretty darn easy. Listen to the cymbals and the kick drum.
For me the snare is a dead giveaway. A snare has two distinct sounds (a sizzle and a snap). Many mp3 files less than 320kbps blend them into a single "dutsh" sound.
That said, not all MP3 encoders are created equal, and not all settings for for every type of song. MP3 is a wonderful transportable music format that allows you to grab a song quickly and give it a listen. I wonder if adding a 2 pass VBR encoding to Lame would help? For me, all the music I listen to often is in FLAC format. All the bands I rarely listen to are encoded with Vorbis at the highest quality settings (approx 400-500kbps). With 1TB HDDs on the market, there's really no excuse for an audiophile to not go with FLAC.
BBH
I would happily pay double my existing taxes to get a country with effective universal health care
Dumb question, but why don't you? I'm in Vienna right now, and taxes take a whopping 50% of every paycheck. A lot of it goes to a pension I will never see, dental care I am not allowed to use and must go out of the country to get, or healthcare that I have to be extremely careful with when selecting a provider.
Move here. Apathy is just a plane ticket away! (you'll probably want to learn German first)
BBH
There is a great answer to the "Have you been drinking?" question:
"I don't drink."
That pretty much ends the line of questioning.
BBH
You have also been able to rule out all the physiological differences noted among homosexuals as compared to heterosexuals,
I assure you that any physiological difference between homo and hetro is entirely imaginary.
BBH