That is the biggest reason I like Google Home. Standing in the kitchen "Hey google, add milk to the shopping list", don't even have to pick up a pen. Super convenient and easy. This is the reason I've never before used an app for a grocery list.
I think his point was, that in the one place where marketing has an effect AMD is outpacing Intel. Where consumers directly make a choice about their processor, AMD is doing well.
So, if you're talking about marketings effectiveness (which we were) then these are the real numbers you want to look at.
If you buy into the monopolistic view of Intel, then this is exactly what you would expect to see. AMD does well in direct to consumer marketing and Intel rules the world of the leveraged backroom deal.
Well, considering his post mentioned Ceres being cut out, I'd imagine he meant counting it among the rocky planets, yeilding the 5.
Considering 1 Ceres accounts for around 25% of the mass in the asteroid belt it is certainly the dominant object in that orbit, so there's a good argument to make for planethood.
The real problem with that line of argument (5 + 4 + 2) is there are a number of round TNO's out there besides Pluto/Charon and Xena. So, we'll end up with 17 planets (8 TNO's above 800km in diameter: Pluto, Charon, Quaoar, Sedna, Orcus, 2003 EL, 2005 FY9, and Xena) to start with and that's sure to grow.
I personally would repromote 1 Ceres to planethood and create a special designation for anything above 800km which has a highly eccentric orbit beyond Neptune. Some have suggested "Trans Neptuian Planet" (TNP). I think this is a good comprimise which leaves Pluto with some sort of planethood, and doesn't lead to 50 planets in the solar system.
Others have commented on the nature of language change and whether the change in vocabulary here is correct or not, but I'd like to say something about usage and nuance. Both verbs here could be correct in individual situations and which is chosen provides extra information.
Can you bring the table... says that one or both of us is going downstairs and you will need to "bring along" the table.
Can you take the table... implies that I may be staying here and I need you to transport the table.
Both are correct grammar, but say somewhat different things.
There's a CRPG game called slime forest which will teach you kana and a few hundred kanji. It's simply amazing, I learned hirogana the hard way and then found it and I was able to master a few hundred kanji within two weeks. And it's GPL to boot!
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i saw them about two years ago touring with a *gasp* real band. Quite a change from when I saw them on tour after they put out Flood with just John and John.
Anyway, the really neat thing was they pulled out a radio and started running through the dial. It was the real deal, you could hear all the crappy local stations. When they came across a song, the band picked up and started playing it. It was very amusing, but also, it showed some real musicianship to be able to do that.
That's what's missing from the music scene these days, pure musicianship.
Also, what's with people making phone calls from the public toilet? When I was at WWDC this year, I saw tons of people doing this, usually they were european. (No pun intended, but it's tempting.) Is this a cultural thing that I as an american don't understand? Seems to me the sound of background flushing would be a bit off-putting to a co-worker or potential customer.
Shortly after we got wifi at my company, someone I know was in a bathroom, and there's a guy in the stall talking on the phone. The guy says "Let me send you that file...", there's the sound of typing and he says "there you should have it".
The guy was actually connected to the network with his laptop from the bathroom!
HTML is a bad example and (especially) in the early days was a very loose standard. Partly that is inherent in the "describe structure not layout" mentality which is HTML. I'm not saying that is a bad thing, just a fact.
X11 on the other hand is a much tighter standard which has long history of multi-vendor interoperable implementations. The problem areas would lie in un-standardized extensions (xft, render, r&r) than in the core protocol.
Actually, it's not their name. Sybase used to have "Sybase SQL Server", which they licensed to Microsoft during version 4.1/4.2. Microsoft kept the SQL Server name and Sybase later changed theirs to the horriblly named "Adaptive Server Enterprise" (ASE)
There's a guy from ML on one of my projects who has submitted a wealth of code. kinda cool to see that this isn't an isolated thing but instead a culture within the company.
Unfortunately their firewall still prevents him from direct CVS checkins so everything has to be funneled through other committers.
The problem is that J2EE servers usually implement the standard and then have non-standard extensions. So, the reworking would basically involve removing the calls to the vendor specific pieces.
Yes, much like the original 68k (68000, 68010) chips could only address 16 meg, but the instruction set was 32 bit and therefore able to go to 4Gig with subsequent chips without any problems (well, except the Microsoft-written AmigaBasic used the 8 upper bits as flags and therefore broke when the 68020 wanted to actually treat those bits as part of the address....horrible, horrible kludge).
Anyway, future opterons will be able to address a larger amount of memory without modifying the instruction set, and let's face it, by the time 1 TB of memory is affordable/useful, that original opteron is going to be long surpased.
Sun paid Novell $82M a few years ago for a license to the SVR4 code base, which I assume means a royalty free license (who pay 82 million for the right to pay royalties after all). So Sun may genuinely be in the clear on this point.
The suit has no merit anyway though, so the point may be rather academic.
You know it's funny that a lot of these companies that turn their nosees up at Python or Perl endorse VB or PowerBuilder which are essentially scripting languages...
OTOH I've seen people write a program in Java to locate files > n days old and delete them...First time it had a bug, I deleted it and added "find -ctime... -exec rm -f {} \;" to the cron;-)
M-Net is where I first learned to program Unix..We used to use the Merit dialouts to call into it from all over the state (Merit was a psuedo-public michigan educational network).
Ah, the days of asking Marcus Watts how to do this or that in C and Unix.
I spend many of my off-work hours working on free software (freetds.org among others). What do I get in return for this?
I never have to pay for software again. That's the deal as I see it. It's my time writing software in exchange for somebody elses time writing different software.
Of course you can bitch all you want about people who don't contribute but leave me out of your little rant. I simply don't pay for software anymore, but its not because I am cheap, it's because I've already spent my time in much larger quantities to ensure that.
How about Access? We have alot of data in access that I'd love to be able to get at from an apache/perl combination. I know some of the office documents are 'documented', but some of their docs are really lousy too.
Much as a shoemaker or smith of yore. There is a an artistic element to be sure, but there is a pratical result. Think of the guild system: apprentice, journeyman, and master. I think the parallels are strong. You can appreciate a handcrafted sterling teapot made by a master of his craft, but that's so different from a Picasso.
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To me WinModems and WinPrinters are two different situations. I print maybe a couple pages a month. I can deal with the slow down to save a few bucks. My modem OTOH is in almost constant use and it really is "stealing" CPU power from my machine. For those who have very light printing needs (an occasional resume) WinPrinters are great, I just wish they'd open up the specs.
ORBit basically says "The idl compilier is GPL. The code generated by it has no restrictions" I would think a similar disclaimer is all that is needed.
I've done some work on Dia (it's a REALLY cool program). Actually I think the coolest thing is it loads in like 1 second on my 166 Pentium compared to about 10 seconds for Visio to come up. Anyway, what's missing? network cloud is one, but what else? If you can explain what you need or draw it, it's a fairly simple matter to implement new objects in Dia. I created a whole class of Sybase objects for the diagrams I have to do at work, it was fairly simple. So anyway, write 'em up send them to me and I will make them for you.
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That is the biggest reason I like Google Home. Standing in the kitchen "Hey google, add milk to the shopping list", don't even have to pick up a pen. Super convenient and easy. This is the reason I've never before used an app for a grocery list.
I bet he does
I think his point was, that in the one place where marketing has an effect AMD is outpacing Intel. Where consumers directly make a choice about their processor, AMD is doing well.
So, if you're talking about marketings effectiveness (which we were) then these are the real numbers you want to look at.
If you buy into the monopolistic view of Intel, then this is exactly what you would expect to see. AMD does well in direct to consumer marketing and Intel rules the world of the leveraged backroom deal.
Well, considering his post mentioned Ceres being cut out, I'd imagine he meant counting it among the rocky planets, yeilding the 5.
Considering 1 Ceres accounts for around 25% of the mass in the asteroid belt it is certainly the dominant object in that orbit, so there's a good argument to make for planethood.
The real problem with that line of argument (5 + 4 + 2) is there are a number of round TNO's out there besides Pluto/Charon and Xena. So, we'll end up with 17 planets (8 TNO's above 800km in diameter: Pluto, Charon, Quaoar, Sedna, Orcus, 2003 EL, 2005 FY9, and Xena) to start with and that's sure to grow.
I personally would repromote 1 Ceres to planethood and create a special designation for anything above 800km which has a highly eccentric orbit beyond Neptune. Some have suggested "Trans Neptuian Planet" (TNP). I think this is a good comprimise which leaves Pluto with some sort of planethood, and doesn't lead to 50 planets in the solar system.
"Can you bring the table downstairs?"
Others have commented on the nature of language change and whether the change in vocabulary here is correct or not, but I'd like to say something about usage and nuance. Both verbs here could be correct in individual situations and which is chosen provides extra information.
Can you bring the table... says that one or both of us is going downstairs and you will need to "bring along" the table.
Can you take the table... implies that I may be staying here and I need you to transport the table.
Both are correct grammar, but say somewhat different things.
There's a CRPG game called slime forest which will teach you kana and a few hundred kanji. It's simply amazing, I learned hirogana the hard way and then found it and I was able to master a few hundred kanji within two weeks. And it's GPL to boot!
i saw them about two years ago touring with a *gasp* real band. Quite a change from when I saw them on tour after they put out Flood with just John and John.
Anyway, the really neat thing was they pulled out a radio and started running through the dial. It was the real deal, you could hear all the crappy local stations. When they came across a song, the band picked up and started playing it. It was very amusing, but also, it showed some real musicianship to be able to do that.
That's what's missing from the music scene these days, pure musicianship.
Shortly after we got wifi at my company, someone I know was in a bathroom, and there's a guy in the stall talking on the phone. The guy says "Let me send you that file...", there's the sound of typing and he says "there you should have it".
The guy was actually connected to the network with his laptop from the bathroom!
HTML is a bad example and (especially) in the early days was a very loose standard. Partly that is inherent in the "describe structure not layout" mentality which is HTML. I'm not saying that is a bad thing, just a fact.
X11 on the other hand is a much tighter standard which has long history of multi-vendor interoperable implementations. The problem areas would lie in un-standardized extensions (xft, render, r&r) than in the core protocol.
SQL7 was only 1.0 if you ignore versions 4.2, 6.0 and 6.5.
Actually, it's not their name. Sybase used to have "Sybase SQL Server", which they licensed to Microsoft during version 4.1/4.2. Microsoft kept the SQL Server name and Sybase later changed theirs to the horriblly named "Adaptive Server Enterprise" (ASE)
Google news has been running the headline:
"Microsoft restores faulty Hotmail service"
I thought that said it all.
There's a guy from ML on one of my projects who has submitted a wealth of code. kinda cool to see that this isn't an isolated thing but instead a culture within the company.
Unfortunately their firewall still prevents him from direct CVS checkins so everything has to be funneled through other committers.
The problem is that J2EE servers usually implement the standard and then have non-standard extensions. So, the reworking would basically involve removing the calls to the vendor specific pieces.
Yes, much like the original 68k (68000, 68010) chips could only address 16 meg, but the instruction set was 32 bit and therefore able to go to 4Gig with subsequent chips without any problems (well, except the Microsoft-written AmigaBasic used the 8 upper bits as flags and therefore broke when the 68020 wanted to actually treat those bits as part of the address....horrible, horrible kludge).
Anyway, future opterons will be able to address a larger amount of memory without modifying the instruction set, and let's face it, by the time 1 TB of memory is affordable/useful, that original opteron is going to be long surpased.
Sun paid Novell $82M a few years ago for a license to the SVR4 code base, which I assume means a royalty free license (who pay 82 million for the right to pay royalties after all). So Sun may genuinely be in the clear on this point.
The suit has no merit anyway though, so the point may be rather academic.
You know it's funny that a lot of these companies that turn their nosees up at Python or Perl endorse VB or PowerBuilder which are essentially scripting languages...
... -exec rm -f {} \;" to the cron ;-)
OTOH I've seen people write a program in Java to locate files > n days old and delete them...First time it had a bug, I deleted it and added "find -ctime
M-Net is where I first learned to program Unix..We used to use the Merit dialouts to call into it from all over the state (Merit was a psuedo-public michigan educational network).
Ah, the days of asking Marcus Watts how to do this or that in C and Unix.
Cheap net availability basically destroyed it.
I spend many of my off-work hours working on free software (freetds.org among others). What do I get in return for this?
I never have to pay for software again. That's the deal as I see it. It's my time writing software in exchange for somebody elses time writing different software.
Of course you can bitch all you want about people who don't contribute but leave me out of your little rant. I simply don't pay for software anymore, but its not because I am cheap, it's because I've already spent my time in much larger quantities to ensure that.
How about Access? We have alot of data in access that I'd love to be able to get at from an apache/perl combination. I know some of the office documents are 'documented', but some of their docs are really lousy too.
That episode had the greatest simpsons quote of all time. "They have the internet on computers now!"
Much as a shoemaker or smith of yore. There is a an artistic element to be sure, but there is a pratical result. Think of the guild system: apprentice, journeyman, and master. I think the parallels are strong. You can appreciate a handcrafted sterling teapot made by a master of his craft, but that's so different from a Picasso.
To me WinModems and WinPrinters are two different
situations. I print maybe a couple pages a month.
I can deal with the slow down to save a few bucks.
My modem OTOH is in almost constant use and it
really is "stealing" CPU power from my machine. For
those who have very light printing needs (an occasional
resume) WinPrinters are great, I just wish they'd
open up the specs.
ORBit basically says "The idl compilier is GPL. The code generated by it has no restrictions"
I would think a similar disclaimer is all that is needed.
I've done some work on Dia (it's a REALLY cool program). Actually I think the coolest thing is it loads in like 1 second on my 166 Pentium compared to about 10 seconds for Visio to come up.
Anyway, what's missing? network cloud is one, but what else? If you can explain what you need or draw it, it's a fairly simple matter to implement new objects in Dia. I created a whole class of Sybase objects for the diagrams I have to do at work, it was fairly simple.
So anyway, write 'em up send them to me and I will make them for you.