The only insight here is a load of pre-pubescent kids will continue to act pre-pubescent online. They can be just as obxnoxious in the cyberscape as they are in real life, the only difference being you can't reach out and slap them in the face.
I don't care much for gimmicky names like Monster. What sort of name is that for a job recruitment site??
Anyway, my last two jobs were found through Jobserve. A nice, simple, easy-to-use site with a lot of listed jobs and a half decent search engine. It's worked for me twice in a row getting work in a large multinational IT company so I can't complain. Certainly a LOT easier than the traditional paper based job hunting techniques.
As far as I am aware, Apple make practically no money on iTunes. In fact, I think it's literally break even. All the profit goes straight to our good friends at the RIAA. Hardware sales are presumably where the money comes from.
Do bear in mind this was written by the North American business correspondant - clearly he's been influenced by the american culture and is doing his bit for sensationalist reporting:)
Tivo are collecting information to help them make their service better. It doesn't matter which way you look at it, whether you believe them straight off or think they are selling your information to Bill Gates so he can attack you with Windows XP CD's on your way to work.
If Tivo get ZERO feedback from users (privacy fanatics), they won't have a clue if their stuff is good or not. They NEED feedback. Seems tracking 20,000 over superbowl is a pretty good way of getting it. I mean if they really are recording all those button presses, they'll be able to tell if people are having problems with a particular function. Maybe they are hitting buttons waiting for a menu to update, and in the next iteration of Tivo - bang, no more slow menus...
Now that I can't surf the web freely at work, I have to save up all the stuff I want to look at for when I get home.
So all the slashdot articles that come out during the day.. are slashdotted:(
Thanks a lot guys, you ruin it for us slow folk;)
I dunno if it's just me, but I find it odd that computers still take as long to boot as they do.
I hit the power button on mine, and I'm not even clear of the bios for 3-4 seconds. Then my hard disk controller takes a couple of seconds to 'see' what is connected.
And then we hit Windows.
Why is this a problem? Well, we're talking about a mostly-electronic system. Electrons, flying around at speeds somewhat incomprehensible to the average human brain, able to go from A to B to C to D hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of times a second. Yet we are talking fractions of MINUTES to get a computer into a usable state.
Bizarre.. I must be missing something fundamental. Either that or I've read too much Sci-Fi and haven't gotten used to how primitive this planet really is.
I figured I would post a comment about AMD and their 64 bit chip benchmarks.
Then I realised I was already beaten to it by about eleventy billion other people.
Guess I should at least do a FIND through the comments before posting in future!
If AMD market their Athlon 64 3200 as being 10% faster than a generic 32bit Athlon 3200, where is the speed difference coming from? This article seems to imply the only advantage to having 64 bits is being able to sport a greater quantity of RAM.
In case you haven't seen it yet...
I loaded up IE instead of Mozilla to take a look at this new ad system. Went to lycos.com, looked at a couple pages eventually getting a Wired page. While reading the first couple of lines I noticed my bandwidth spike. Didn't last long being on DSL. Thinking that was it, I closed the page and lo and behold, the advert appeared. Not exactly 'full screen' - I run 1280x1024 and it was very centered. It can't have been more than 640x480, and looked to have mild-to-high compression. Fun advert too.
Only problem is, I forgot what it was advertising:( Sorry Unicast, I think I just cost you $412 or something in wasted capital!
Man made diamonds have much less problems handling heat and Intel is ignoring this while their competitors are on the fast track
I'd wager they aren't ignoring it at all. Rather, Intel will be keeping any progress on such a jump in technology very, very closely guarded to their chest.
I was not amazed that humans could understand R2D2 because they can't. It's a FILM and so they just pretended he could. I'm sorry if I broke your illusions:)
I'm not in a hurry to ditch any of my 32-bit machines, so long as I get them replaced by 2038
By 2038 I suspect what we know as 'computers' will not be measured by something so simplistic as bits...:)
"The article also talks about some of the amazing supercomputers in the planning stages. The sort of stuff that will make Big Mac look like that old TI-85 collecting dust in your drawer."
Well no, not really... they may be fast relative to the mac cluster but in absolute terms, where it matters, the mac cluster is still -fast-.
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nah your post isn't useless. just leave them be and hope they mature at some point. otherwise then they really are lost causes.
The only insight here is a load of pre-pubescent kids will continue to act pre-pubescent online. They can be just as obxnoxious in the cyberscape as they are in real life, the only difference being you can't reach out and slap them in the face.
Anyway, my last two jobs were found through Jobserve. A nice, simple, easy-to-use site with a lot of listed jobs and a half decent search engine. It's worked for me twice in a row getting work in a large multinational IT company so I can't complain. Certainly a LOT easier than the traditional paper based job hunting techniques.
As far as I am aware, Apple make practically no money on iTunes. In fact, I think it's literally break even. All the profit goes straight to our good friends at the RIAA. Hardware sales are presumably where the money comes from.
Good news for 'pro' wrestlers then!
This article has nothing to do with ONLINE RIGHTS. Boo.
A minor detail like "mortality rate" wouldn't put me off THAT job!
Do bear in mind this was written by the North American business correspondant - clearly he's been influenced by the american culture and is doing his bit for sensationalist reporting :)
Tivo are collecting information to help them make their service better. It doesn't matter which way you look at it, whether you believe them straight off or think they are selling your information to Bill Gates so he can attack you with Windows XP CD's on your way to work.
If Tivo get ZERO feedback from users (privacy fanatics), they won't have a clue if their stuff is good or not. They NEED feedback. Seems tracking 20,000 over superbowl is a pretty good way of getting it. I mean if they really are recording all those button presses, they'll be able to tell if people are having problems with a particular function. Maybe they are hitting buttons waiting for a menu to update, and in the next iteration of Tivo - bang, no more slow menus...
Is a Government responsible for the actions of every single person within its countries borders?
No.
So why should P2P companies be liable for the actions of every single one of their users on their networks?
Why? We support windows OS desktops and mainframe stuff. What good will this do except make my boss wonder why I'm on the 'net instead of working? :)
Now that I can't surf the web freely at work, I have to save up all the stuff I want to look at for when I get home. So all the slashdot articles that come out during the day.. are slashdotted :(
Thanks a lot guys, you ruin it for us slow folk ;)
I hit the power button on mine, and I'm not even clear of the bios for 3-4 seconds. Then my hard disk controller takes a couple of seconds to 'see' what is connected.
And then we hit Windows.
Why is this a problem? Well, we're talking about a mostly-electronic system. Electrons, flying around at speeds somewhat incomprehensible to the average human brain, able to go from A to B to C to D hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of times a second. Yet we are talking fractions of MINUTES to get a computer into a usable state.
Bizarre.. I must be missing something fundamental. Either that or I've read too much Sci-Fi and haven't gotten used to how primitive this planet really is.
I figured I would post a comment about AMD and their 64 bit chip benchmarks. Then I realised I was already beaten to it by about eleventy billion other people. Guess I should at least do a FIND through the comments before posting in future!
If AMD market their Athlon 64 3200 as being 10% faster than a generic 32bit Athlon 3200, where is the speed difference coming from? This article seems to imply the only advantage to having 64 bits is being able to sport a greater quantity of RAM.
"Most noticeable however is the scroll wheel, Apple holds patents (pending) on scroll wheel design"
Oh guys, guys, GUYS! This is NOT a scroll wheel! A scroll wheel is something a mouse has! This is a JOG DIAL!
In case you haven't seen it yet ...
I loaded up IE instead of Mozilla to take a look at this new ad system. Went to lycos.com, looked at a couple pages eventually getting a Wired page. While reading the first couple of lines I noticed my bandwidth spike. Didn't last long being on DSL. Thinking that was it, I closed the page and lo and behold, the advert appeared. Not exactly 'full screen' - I run 1280x1024 and it was very centered. It can't have been more than 640x480, and looked to have mild-to-high compression. Fun advert too.
Only problem is, I forgot what it was advertising :( Sorry Unicast, I think I just cost you $412 or something in wasted capital!
Man made diamonds have much less problems handling heat and Intel is ignoring this while their competitors are on the fast track
I'd wager they aren't ignoring it at all. Rather, Intel will be keeping any progress on such a jump in technology very, very closely guarded to their chest.
I was not amazed that humans could understand R2D2 because they can't. It's a FILM and so they just pretended he could. I'm sorry if I broke your illusions :)
I'm not in a hurry to ditch any of my 32-bit machines, so long as I get them replaced by 2038 By 2038 I suspect what we know as 'computers' will not be measured by something so simplistic as bits ... :)
"The article also talks about some of the amazing supercomputers in the planning stages. The sort of stuff that will make Big Mac look like that old TI-85 collecting dust in your drawer." Well no, not really... they may be fast relative to the mac cluster but in absolute terms, where it matters, the mac cluster is still -fast-.