A 44% increase in items sold is nice, if the kind of items are similar to those sold last year.
I wonder, however, what part of the raise comes from individual mp3 songs sold through their (very good) online music store.
They don't say, so it makes me wonder what the motivation for their silence is. Hmmm...
ITESM is a very well recognized technical university with several campuses all over Mexico. It is regarded as the MIT of Latin America and has many students from all over the world. Many U.S. companies recruit over there, including MS and Google. Right now I work in a large tech company in Austin and we have many engineers from this school. They're top notch.
You should check that one out.
National Instruments makes some cool PCI and USB oscilloscopes. They are small and you use them from a UI.
What's really cool about them is that it's trivially easy to write a program to control them (using C, LabVIEW, VB,.Net, etc) and to retrieve waveforms to the computer as an array.
You should check those out.
Most programming languages today are text-based and follow the flow of instructions. Parallel programming is inherently hard and unnatural on these (basically all) languages. Programmer needs to think of atomicity, mutexes, semaphores, deadlocks, race conditions... Add to that the fact that compilers may reorder some instructions to optimize for this or that CPU and things become trickier.
There is a language called LabVIEW by National Instruments. It's a Turing-complete data flow languange (not control-flow) and it happens to be completely graphical (sometimes it is refered to as G) - no typing required, just drawing wires that represent data to blocks that represent operations or functions. In this language, parallel programming is very, very natural. You just write your wires in parallel, they merge sometimes, they don't, etc. The scheduler in the runtime takes care of spawning threads and using available CPUs. While powerful, it is unfortunately very tailored for the test and measurement markets and there is no free version. If you are interested to try this completely different programming paradigm, however, I recommend you download a trial version and play with it. It's available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
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A 44% increase in items sold is nice, if the kind of items are similar to those sold last year. I wonder, however, what part of the raise comes from individual mp3 songs sold through their (very good) online music store. They don't say, so it makes me wonder what the motivation for their silence is. Hmmm...
ITESM is a very well recognized technical university with several campuses all over Mexico. It is regarded as the MIT of Latin America and has many students from all over the world. Many U.S. companies recruit over there, including MS and Google. Right now I work in a large tech company in Austin and we have many engineers from this school. They're top notch. You should check that one out.
National Instruments makes some cool PCI and USB oscilloscopes. They are small and you use them from a UI. What's really cool about them is that it's trivially easy to write a program to control them (using C, LabVIEW, VB, .Net, etc) and to retrieve waveforms to the computer as an array.
You should check those out.
...by the name of Carlos Slim.
Uh, just the richest man in the world. Funny how no one ever hears people refer to Bill Gates as "An American Billionaire by the name of Bill Gates".
Dear eldavojohn... you must be very ignorant.
Most programming languages today are text-based and follow the flow of instructions. Parallel programming is inherently hard and unnatural on these (basically all) languages. Programmer needs to think of atomicity, mutexes, semaphores, deadlocks, race conditions... Add to that the fact that compilers may reorder some instructions to optimize for this or that CPU and things become trickier. There is a language called LabVIEW by National Instruments. It's a Turing-complete data flow languange (not control-flow) and it happens to be completely graphical (sometimes it is refered to as G) - no typing required, just drawing wires that represent data to blocks that represent operations or functions. In this language, parallel programming is very, very natural. You just write your wires in parallel, they merge sometimes, they don't, etc. The scheduler in the runtime takes care of spawning threads and using available CPUs. While powerful, it is unfortunately very tailored for the test and measurement markets and there is no free version. If you are interested to try this completely different programming paradigm, however, I recommend you download a trial version and play with it. It's available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
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and then it will crash.
According to Mac OS X Hints Panther supports hebrew, arabic and farsi now.