Which is exactly my point. You are not supposed to buy Acrobat just to create PDF's from Word, Excel etc. Most people who buy Acrobat really only need functionality provided with free (and quite good) software.
IANAL either, so I'd like a little more explanation. For example, I would assume that the students would be subject to search at school grounds, but they would still be protected by privacy laws. For example a search would conclude by finding a cell phone, or a laptop etc. I would think that going through the private data of the device would fall under some privacy law violation. Or are there no privacy laws in this country? How about strip searches in schools, are they also legal? On another note, why would a teacher go through a students picture messages? Hey, I know, find nude pictures, copy them, call police;)
I do remember very well the "we can't remove IE" argument, and as I said I do not mind that as I expect an OS to have a browser. However for the other issue I said I do not recall anything and you provided no help "recalling" an incident. So please provide a link for your "MS forbade OEMs from supplying Netscape" or it didn't happen.
Well, obviously they would be liable for that. But I haven't heard of such a deal, was there any report of one? A bit off topic but it reminds me that there have been numerous reports of Intel giving discounts for not selling AMD, yet even there nothing has happened... But I only know that MS was refusing to remove IE, not that it forced OEMs NOT to install alternatives. Unless I missed that, of course...
But competing media players and browsers are free. Why force MS CHARGE users for inferior products? They give very basic functionality, yet they are crap, so they are free. A few eons ago - in computer time, i.e. less than 20 calendar years - the basic utilities that were considered part of the OS were a file manager perhaps a paint application etc. Well, in the age of the internet and media an OS HAS TO provide some basic functionality in these areas. How else are you going to download Opera without IE (or Firefox obviously)? Now, if you want to go after HP, DELL etc who sell PC's with bundled software, with that bundle not including any decent browser, media player etc and yet including some crap that serves advertisements, well I say go at it. It is certainly not Microsoft's fault. Now, the only thing you could force MS to do which would be fair, is to put a disclaimer when launching Media Player or Internet Explorer that says "this software sucks and it is here only because it comes with the OS". But then again, how could you force such a disclaimer to Media Player and not to the (not better IMO) Quicktime or a more severe disclaimer to the (much worse IMO) Real Player?
Wikipedia has an entry even for "Nucular". Right now it says that "some recognize it because of its increased usage", give it a little and it will say it is a fine spelling. The fact is that the greek "omicron upsilon" is translated as either "ou" or "u", so while Uroboros is fine, "Oroborus" is an obvious misspelling that probably originated from the fact that the "us" is a common latin suffix, while this particular word seems to have been originated directly from Greek and not gone through the not uncommon Greek->Latin->English route. In any case we should not be promoting misspellings and getting them to be accepted in the end. Now that said, most/. geeks do not care about linguistic analysis. So it is enough to say that "Ouroboros" is the official spelling of the Red Dwarf episode and that's it. Any other spelling is obviously rubbish.
What is this thing "digital TV transition" you guys are talking about? Is there something I need to do? Like a plugin? Or my regular VLC, Azureus etc updates will take care of things?
Uh oh, that is scary, because it is not that outlandish as the wheel so I could see Apple pulling that off and convincing everyone it is better (AKA "cooler"). I mean, imagine that reading the summary, for a moment, I actually thought Apple might be giving this a go! For example I remember how people were telling me for years that you only need one mouse button, especially when the mouse looks nice.
Anyway, this should not be on Slashdot front page unless it is April fools, but it is a great video nonetheless! "Virtually unbreakable unless dropped or hit"
(Matt's code always reduces the day count by 366. 1980 was a leap year.)
I see that daysInYear is recalculated at the end of each iteration. What is your problem with that?
Moreover, counting years must be a "CS 101 introduction to Jave" level problem. Why are we analyzing this? Look at the MS code, laugh at the programmer and their code review practices and move on!
The original comment was not a troll since he could have been referring to Windows Vista, or even a typical user's infested Windows XP. I also have an XP at home mainly as a HTPC, and it has never crashed in about a year of running 24/7 (similar record to my Suse desktop), but I would certainly not call myself a typical user (I don't have even an anti-virus installed). My friends' PC's that I have to fix from time to time though, are a much different story, due to the "typical" users inability to protect themselves from viruses, adware and installation of crap software. Now, Vista is a different "beast". I got one in the office for cases where a VM is not enough and the damn thing hangs and reboots randomly from the start, with only Visual Studio and Office installed. SP1 has not helped, so I still have to do everything I need from Windows on a VM. I must say that machine matches the original posts premise perfectly.
Could you please provide a link to a valid source? I tried to find something, but I always come up with statements like "Xbox 360 has VMX128 while PS3 only has VMX", and on the IBM website the only mentions of VMX128 are about the Xbox's Xenon CPU.
"And if the CELL was just a custom-made core then why the need to commit $400 million over five years?"
You are confusing me, while your statement agrees with mine, you write as in disagreement. Which is it? I exactly said that while the Xenon IS just a custom-made triple core, the WHOLE POINT (and the money I guess) of the Cell is what lies beyond its PowerPC-derived core.
Still confused with your further comment on IamTheRealMike, did you just want to add the link for reference purposes? The link is what the poster said, while he also analyzed what "in order execution" means.
Maybe I have to read the book to get a better picture, it is possible that the article blows things out of proportion. So, I thought that the whole "deal" about the Cell are the SPE's. The Xenon CPU that powers the Xbox 360 is just a custom-made triple core PowerPC. Now, I guess the "customization" of that core is similar to what is done for the PPE of the Cell, so research there could have overlapped, but I would not think that the PPE is the "essence" of the Cell - at least that is what Sony's and IBM's own claims have made me believe. Additionally, I have to admit that I always thought the usage of the Cell processor a very bad (or, more precisely, very arrogant) decision. It is not just that it has many "cores"; the fact that they are asymmetric and that SPE's are not your usual general-purpose cores, was bound to make it very hard for developers to utilize them. If you wanted to develop for many platforms there is no way you would want to optimize for the SPE's when all other architectures (PC, Xbox...) use symmetric, general purpose cores. So, in my book, the Microsoft engineers knew much better what they were doing than the Sony ones. I guess they are not the same engineers responsible for gems like Me, Vista or Zune firmware. What I would like to know are the differences that the modified core has compared to a "classic" PowerPC core? So, if MS had not benefited at all from Cell research and got a triple-core whose cores were closer to the original PowerPC, would it be a much different CPU? Anybody knows? If the answer is not, the whole discussion about MS benefits from Sony is moot...
Of course, there are more problems with T9 than writing "l8r" (as your "a good T9 implementation" quote starts to hint). There are other systems (e.g. WordWise and LetterWise) that don't have many of the problems of T9, but you are usually stuck with what your phone has (or perhaps not if you have a smartphone). Back to topic though, I am trying to draw paths with one finger on my PDA, and it certainly takes me a lot more time and effort than tapping (usually with two fingers). And all this without actually being sure that their software will give me the right word... I think I'll pass!
Wow. The ggp most likely did not mean "driving in reverse", rather that old odometers are easy to tinker. So I was just joking, I didn't imagine there were actually cars with odometers counting down in reverse! Interesting...:)
Let me remind you that the Prescott was 103 Watts (@3.2GHz) for *ONE* *SLOW* core. Any comparison between that Netburst crap and today's processors from both companies is absurd. That said, Intel is currently ahead in the game in both max performance and TDP, so Phenom is good for existing AM2+ upgrades or for more "budget conscious" scenarios. For the sake of all of us I hope AMD catches up (I am old enough to remember CPU prices from when Intel had no competiti). In any case you should be more worried about the current graphics cards that tend to require twice the power of the CPU...:)
While Intro to Algorithms is considered the bible of algorithms, the Algorithm Design Manual might please some even more. Half the people I know love it for the extensive and very useful "Catalog of Algorithmic Problems". The other half like it for the entertaining yet educational "war stories".
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Which is exactly my point. You are not supposed to buy Acrobat just to create PDF's from Word, Excel etc. Most people who buy Acrobat really only need functionality provided with free (and quite good) software.
IANAL either, so I'd like a little more explanation. For example, I would assume that the students would be subject to search at school grounds, but they would still be protected by privacy laws. For example a search would conclude by finding a cell phone, or a laptop etc. I would think that going through the private data of the device would fall under some privacy law violation. Or are there no privacy laws in this country? How about strip searches in schools, are they also legal? ;)
On another note, why would a teacher go through a students picture messages? Hey, I know, find nude pictures, copy them, call police
I do remember very well the "we can't remove IE" argument, and as I said I do not mind that as I expect an OS to have a browser. However for the other issue I said I do not recall anything and you provided no help "recalling" an incident. So please provide a link for your "MS forbade OEMs from supplying Netscape" or it didn't happen.
Ehm... you were buying Acrobat licenses to create PDF documents out of office? Haven't you heard of PDFCreator?
Well, obviously they would be liable for that. But I haven't heard of such a deal, was there any report of one?
A bit off topic but it reminds me that there have been numerous reports of Intel giving discounts for not selling AMD, yet even there nothing has happened...
But I only know that MS was refusing to remove IE, not that it forced OEMs NOT to install alternatives. Unless I missed that, of course...
But competing media players and browsers are free. Why force MS CHARGE users for inferior products? They give very basic functionality, yet they are crap, so they are free.
A few eons ago - in computer time, i.e. less than 20 calendar years - the basic utilities that were considered part of the OS were a file manager perhaps a paint application etc. Well, in the age of the internet and media an OS HAS TO provide some basic functionality in these areas. How else are you going to download Opera without IE (or Firefox obviously)?
Now, if you want to go after HP, DELL etc who sell PC's with bundled software, with that bundle not including any decent browser, media player etc and yet including some crap that serves advertisements, well I say go at it. It is certainly not Microsoft's fault.
Now, the only thing you could force MS to do which would be fair, is to put a disclaimer when launching Media Player or Internet Explorer that says "this software sucks and it is here only because it comes with the OS". But then again, how could you force such a disclaimer to Media Player and not to the (not better IMO) Quicktime or a more severe disclaimer to the (much worse IMO) Real Player?
What is this "TV" you speak of?
And does it run Linux?
Wikipedia has an entry even for "Nucular". Right now it says that "some recognize it because of its increased usage", give it a little and it will say it is a fine spelling. The fact is that the greek "omicron upsilon" is translated as either "ou" or "u", so while Uroboros is fine, "Oroborus" is an obvious misspelling that probably originated from the fact that the "us" is a common latin suffix, while this particular word seems to have been originated directly from Greek and not gone through the not uncommon Greek->Latin->English route. In any case we should not be promoting misspellings and getting them to be accepted in the end. /. geeks do not care about linguistic analysis. So it is enough to say that "Ouroboros" is the official spelling of the Red Dwarf episode and that's it. Any other spelling is obviously rubbish.
Now that said, most
Ok, you got me, I haven't *really* gone through the bible, so I don't know what I am talking about... No need to start throwing rocks...
Depends on your translation/edition. So, it could be:
Shut the purgatory up, you condemned donkey harlot!
Still a strong statement of course...
What is this thing "digital TV transition" you guys are talking about?
Is there something I need to do? Like a plugin? Or my regular VLC, Azureus etc updates will take care of things?
Uh oh, that is scary, because it is not that outlandish as the wheel so I could see Apple pulling that off and convincing everyone it is better (AKA "cooler").
I mean, imagine that reading the summary, for a moment, I actually thought Apple might be giving this a go!
For example I remember how people were telling me for years that you only need one mouse button, especially when the mouse looks nice.
Anyway, this should not be on Slashdot front page unless it is April fools, but it is a great video nonetheless! "Virtually unbreakable unless dropped or hit"
(Matt's code always reduces the day count by 366. 1980 was a leap year.)
I see that daysInYear is recalculated at the end of each iteration. What is your problem with that?
Moreover, counting years must be a "CS 101 introduction to Jave" level problem. Why are we analyzing this? Look at the MS code, laugh at the programmer and their code review practices and move on!
Because a troll had mod points? :)
The original comment was not a troll since he could have been referring to Windows Vista, or even a typical user's infested Windows XP.
I also have an XP at home mainly as a HTPC, and it has never crashed in about a year of running 24/7 (similar record to my Suse desktop), but I would certainly not call myself a typical user (I don't have even an anti-virus installed). My friends' PC's that I have to fix from time to time though, are a much different story, due to the "typical" users inability to protect themselves from viruses, adware and installation of crap software.
Now, Vista is a different "beast". I got one in the office for cases where a VM is not enough and the damn thing hangs and reboots randomly from the start, with only Visual Studio and Office installed. SP1 has not helped, so I still have to do everything I need from Windows on a VM. I must say that machine matches the original posts premise perfectly.
Could you please provide a link to a valid source? I tried to find something, but I always come up with statements like "Xbox 360 has VMX128 while PS3 only has VMX", and on the IBM website the only mentions of VMX128 are about the Xbox's Xenon CPU.
"And if the CELL was just a custom-made core then why the need to commit $400 million over five years?"
You are confusing me, while your statement agrees with mine, you write as in disagreement. Which is it?
I exactly said that while the Xenon IS just a custom-made triple core, the WHOLE POINT (and the money I guess) of the Cell is what lies beyond its PowerPC-derived core.
Still confused with your further comment on IamTheRealMike, did you just want to add the link for reference purposes? The link is what the poster said, while he also analyzed what "in order execution" means.
Maybe I have to read the book to get a better picture, it is possible that the article blows things out of proportion. So, I thought that the whole "deal" about the Cell are the SPE's. The Xenon CPU that powers the Xbox 360 is just a custom-made triple core PowerPC. Now, I guess the "customization" of that core is similar to what is done for the PPE of the Cell, so research there could have overlapped, but I would not think that the PPE is the "essence" of the Cell - at least that is what Sony's and IBM's own claims have made me believe.
Additionally, I have to admit that I always thought the usage of the Cell processor a very bad (or, more precisely, very arrogant) decision. It is not just that it has many "cores"; the fact that they are asymmetric and that SPE's are not your usual general-purpose cores, was bound to make it very hard for developers to utilize them. If you wanted to develop for many platforms there is no way you would want to optimize for the SPE's when all other architectures (PC, Xbox...) use symmetric, general purpose cores. So, in my book, the Microsoft engineers knew much better what they were doing than the Sony ones. I guess they are not the same engineers responsible for gems like Me, Vista or Zune firmware.
What I would like to know are the differences that the modified core has compared to a "classic" PowerPC core? So, if MS had not benefited at all from Cell research and got a triple-core whose cores were closer to the original PowerPC, would it be a much different CPU? Anybody knows? If the answer is not, the whole discussion about MS benefits from Sony is moot...
Of course, there are more problems with T9 than writing "l8r" (as your "a good T9 implementation" quote starts to hint). There are other systems (e.g. WordWise and LetterWise) that don't have many of the problems of T9, but you are usually stuck with what your phone has (or perhaps not if you have a smartphone).
Back to topic though, I am trying to draw paths with one finger on my PDA, and it certainly takes me a lot more time and effort than tapping (usually with two fingers). And all this without actually being sure that their software will give me the right word... I think I'll pass!
Wow. The ggp most likely did not mean "driving in reverse", rather that old odometers are easy to tinker. So I was just joking, I didn't imagine there were actually cars with odometers counting down in reverse! Interesting... :)
Because you can turn those back, at least on older cars
No, that is just an urban legend. Even Ferris fell for that once, and, boy, what trouble he got his friend into!
Well, yeah, that's what she said!
Oh... wait... Sir Lewk...?
What is this "woman" thing you speak of?
Oh, come on, you know them. They look nice, they are generally flat and sometimes folded in the middle.
Let me remind you that the Prescott was 103 Watts (@3.2GHz) for *ONE* *SLOW* core. :)
Any comparison between that Netburst crap and today's processors from both companies is absurd.
That said, Intel is currently ahead in the game in both max performance and TDP, so Phenom is good for existing AM2+ upgrades or for more "budget conscious" scenarios. For the sake of all of us I hope AMD catches up (I am old enough to remember CPU prices from when Intel had no competiti).
In any case you should be more worried about the current graphics cards that tend to require twice the power of the CPU...
While Intro to Algorithms is considered the bible of algorithms, the Algorithm Design Manual might please some even more. Half the people I know love it for the extensive and very useful "Catalog of Algorithmic Problems". The other half like it for the entertaining yet educational "war stories".