Only if you specify which AJAX we're talking about. Remember, the one dies before the end of the war and the other soon after (so it's kind of a lose-lose situation). A better name might have been AENEAS (Asynchronous ECMAscrcipt Needing Erratic Access to Server), but what's done is done.
They did so for one reason: It turned out that those were the key ingredients for the development of the iPod
That sounds to me like he's saying the US government funded research of those technologies in order to develop the iPod. Bush boned his speech; the Slashdot article accurately summarizes the literal claim he made.
The only advertisements I've seen for AMD have been 1) on the backs of gamers' t-shirts, and/or 2) convinced me that AMD was for poseurs. Intel's ads have people in cool suits and catchy slogans. I think in this case "anti-trust action" is code for "our marketing team sucks and we think Intel should pay us for it."
People die working for government (mostly the military, but also people like firefighters and police officers) for stupid reasons all the time. Just offer a nice life insurance policy to someone with five kids that lives in Alabama and you'll find plenty of takers.
So the big question is, what happens if user mode breaks the promise, either intentionally or through lousy programming? If the program fucks up, well, then, I'd rather have FreeBSD's model (actually, I'd rather have someone come up with a thread-safe wrapper function, and keep I/O the way it's supposed ot be, i.e., atomic).
In the old days, you didn't put on a concert to sell albums; you sold albums to advertise for your live act (remember stadium rock?). Most artists back in the day put on shows because they liked putting on shows, selling records on a label with nation-wide distribution let you gain an audience in places you never visited before, so that when you first went to Madison, WI or wherever you already would have a fan base. But now, for a certain segment of the music market (i.e., Top 40+Country) producing music has become a lucrative industry focused on selling albums because making money that way requires less work. So today's artists (and that includes Madonna) aren't just talentless, they're also lazy. Thank God for Indie music of all kinds, and the Internet.
This is sort of symptomatic of the Bush bureaucracy's approach to accountability: find a way to hold everyone accountable for his performance, but only do it in meaningless ways (in terms of philosophy, it's of a feather with No Child Left Behind). This way, if anyone asks, "Yes, the TSA has found a way to make sure that employees pay attention to security screens," and no one bothers to follow up with, "Does it actually work?" or "Does it help them spot real terrorists?" A better solution, to my mind, would be to send someone in for a dry-run test periodically (like a secret shopper, but with a suitcase bomb). That way, if people are trigger-happy, don't pay attention, or insufficiently cautious they can be tested in a realistic fashion.
It would be important not to do it more often once a month for a given group of people, though, otherwise they still may become desensitized.
To be more precise, Adult Swim was joined from the Hanna-Barbara mash-ups (of which Space Ghost Coast-to-Coast was an early precursor) and the Late-night Toonami block (Toonami actually started out, in the beginning, resyndicating things that had already been on US TV, like Thundercats and I think Sailor Moon, and a bunch of 60s H-B superhero shorts in between; only later Toonami moved to an all-anime format). But the guys who created Sealab 2021 actually pitched it twice, but the first time Cartoon Network didn't really have a place for it. The second time, they made a place for it, which ended up swallowing the late-night Toonami whole (including the anime aspect). Then they continued to pick up out-of-syndication 'toons to add to their lineup, and most recently bought the rights to the Boondocks series that Fox decided not to go with.
I'd like to see them pick up some of the early-90s MTV Liquid Television stuff, that shit was OUT THERE.
It's simple: people like to be excited. Excitement makes people feel good, and for magazines in particular, if you're excited about an upcoming feature or review, it makes you buy the next issue of the magazine (in addition to the one you've already got). Negativity, on the other hand, is a turn-off; there are very few reviewers of any media that can consistently pan things and still be an interesting read (Anthony Lane of the New Yorker is one of them, FYI). So even if the game's final review makes it clear that it sucks, the preview (which is probably longer and more graphics-filled than the review) is enough to keep people happy and buying the magazine.
Or, it could simply be that they don't get the chance to play through the whole game and realize some of its faults during the preview, but when they get a final copy, they can spend enough time to find out where the problems are.
It's very simple, teenagers have the most disposable income compared to financial obligations (no rent, no house payments, no kids, no retirements funds, frequently no taxes cause their income is under the table or in the form of an allowance) of any age-group demographic in the country. Plus they're more likely to spend money on solitary entertainment since they see their friends all day at school anyway. Furthermore, many gamers are college students, who can game all day without having to be total recluses.
Well, not $750 (except maybe for a maxed-out 2x2 Power Mac), but the ADC discount is pretty good--for most models except the mini, it can even pay for itself with one purchase. Apple offers free shipping from time to time as well.
Because iTunes is made by Apple. Really, it works like this: people are always interested in Apple because they do neat, interesting new stuff (like make money off of online music sales, sell 64-bit personal computers, offload GUI processing to the GPU, jump-start USB, FireWire, WiFI, etc etc etc). But, since it's also cool (on/. and elsewhere) to speak truth to power, people will criticize Apple for any perceived or even invented shortcomings in their products, like "17-inch PowerBooks suck; if I wanted a portable display that size I'd bring my 30-inch flatscreen and three-foot-tall dual-proc tower with freon cooling with me everywhere" or "iMovie sucks; it can't even output to celluloid" or "Safari 2.0 sucks; at least with Firefox 2 you get 21 free critical vulnerabilities patched!" It's like meeting Lexington Steele and saying, "Yeah, but at least I don't have guys watching me have sex!"
Poor registry programming is MS's fault for the same reason that shitty C++ spaghetti code is Stroustrop's (and, to a lesser extent, ANSI/ISO's) fault. If you design a programming toolset that encourages poor program, either because it's easier than doing it right or because needed functionality is unavailable otherwise, then you are responsible for the abuses of that toolset.
It's perfectly possible to write clean code in any non-toy language, but the best designs are those that make excessive use of dangerous interfaces unnecessary. For example, *nix handles all I/O through a single, easy to use and well-designed API (read/write/etc), which makes directly accessing hardware programatically completely extraneous (not to mention much harder).
The same applies to write() vs the standard C printf(), and to a lesser extent the various "safe" string copy functions (str[ln]cat, str[ln]cpy, xstrdup, etc). C may allow some sloppy programming, but it could be a hell of a lot worse.
Let's see, 5400 people @ $12.99/month (or more), that's about $800k a year--easily enough funds for a half-dozen developers' salaries+benefits+perks. So when Blizz's income drops by close to a million per year, who got axed?
With Windows goes the x86. If Open Source software (not just operating systems but applications too) really takes off, what particular platform you have won't matter nearly as much, since you can compile your own binary anyway (this of course depends on things being written in a reasonably architecture-independent fashion, which we know doesn't always happen). Since SPARC is apparently free to use, that means that Texas Instruments, Motorola, or one of those guys could start building SPARC chips for calculators, phones, etc. Or a new company could put together a fab plant and pull an AMD on everybody but with a POWER chip.
I think this will begin to make more sense in terms of finances and opportunities as people expect embedded electronic systems to have more features, more power, and the ability to interact better with other items (could you imagine writing a TCP/IP stack with an 8-bit chip? Even 16-bit would be pretty sucky if you have to add in this like IPSec or SSL). Manufacturers will want to use a mature, tried & test 32- or 64-bit design, and if they can license SPARC (or eventually POWER) for free they'll probably go with that. Is it a guarantee? No. But it's a very interesting possibility, one that's appealing enough to justify the move.
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Only if you specify which AJAX we're talking about. Remember, the one dies before the end of the war and the other soon after (so it's kind of a lose-lose situation). A better name might have been AENEAS (Asynchronous ECMAscrcipt Needing Erratic Access to Server), but what's done is done.
I'm waiting for the iPod Femto.
That sounds to me like he's saying the US government funded research of those technologies in order to develop the iPod. Bush boned his speech; the Slashdot article accurately summarizes the literal claim he made.
The only advertisements I've seen for AMD have been 1) on the backs of gamers' t-shirts, and/or 2) convinced me that AMD was for poseurs. Intel's ads have people in cool suits and catchy slogans. I think in this case "anti-trust action" is code for "our marketing team sucks and we think Intel should pay us for it."
I'm sure someone said the same thing about the total size of segmented ICMP packets.
Don't tell Mom, but I heard you can curse on the Internet and no one will tell on you.
People die working for government (mostly the military, but also people like firefighters and police officers) for stupid reasons all the time. Just offer a nice life insurance policy to someone with five kids that lives in Alabama and you'll find plenty of takers.
So the big question is, what happens if user mode breaks the promise, either intentionally or through lousy programming? If the program fucks up, well, then, I'd rather have FreeBSD's model (actually, I'd rather have someone come up with a thread-safe wrapper function, and keep I/O the way it's supposed ot be, i.e., atomic).
In the old days, you didn't put on a concert to sell albums; you sold albums to advertise for your live act (remember stadium rock?). Most artists back in the day put on shows because they liked putting on shows, selling records on a label with nation-wide distribution let you gain an audience in places you never visited before, so that when you first went to Madison, WI or wherever you already would have a fan base. But now, for a certain segment of the music market (i.e., Top 40+Country) producing music has become a lucrative industry focused on selling albums because making money that way requires less work. So today's artists (and that includes Madonna) aren't just talentless, they're also lazy. Thank God for Indie music of all kinds, and the Internet.
This is sort of symptomatic of the Bush bureaucracy's approach to accountability: find a way to hold everyone accountable for his performance, but only do it in meaningless ways (in terms of philosophy, it's of a feather with No Child Left Behind). This way, if anyone asks, "Yes, the TSA has found a way to make sure that employees pay attention to security screens," and no one bothers to follow up with, "Does it actually work?" or "Does it help them spot real terrorists?" A better solution, to my mind, would be to send someone in for a dry-run test periodically (like a secret shopper, but with a suitcase bomb). That way, if people are trigger-happy, don't pay attention, or insufficiently cautious they can be tested in a realistic fashion.
It would be important not to do it more often once a month for a given group of people, though, otherwise they still may become desensitized.
To be more precise, Adult Swim was joined from the Hanna-Barbara mash-ups (of which Space Ghost Coast-to-Coast was an early precursor) and the Late-night Toonami block (Toonami actually started out, in the beginning, resyndicating things that had already been on US TV, like Thundercats and I think Sailor Moon, and a bunch of 60s H-B superhero shorts in between; only later Toonami moved to an all-anime format). But the guys who created Sealab 2021 actually pitched it twice, but the first time Cartoon Network didn't really have a place for it. The second time, they made a place for it, which ended up swallowing the late-night Toonami whole (including the anime aspect). Then they continued to pick up out-of-syndication 'toons to add to their lineup, and most recently bought the rights to the Boondocks series that Fox decided not to go with.
I'd like to see them pick up some of the early-90s MTV Liquid Television stuff, that shit was OUT THERE.
April: 1
May: 2
June: 3
July: 4
August: 5
September: 7 (kickin' into overdrive)
October: 10
Nover: 12
December: 1,000,000
Good plan.
It's simple: people like to be excited. Excitement makes people feel good, and for magazines in particular, if you're excited about an upcoming feature or review, it makes you buy the next issue of the magazine (in addition to the one you've already got). Negativity, on the other hand, is a turn-off; there are very few reviewers of any media that can consistently pan things and still be an interesting read (Anthony Lane of the New Yorker is one of them, FYI). So even if the game's final review makes it clear that it sucks, the preview (which is probably longer and more graphics-filled than the review) is enough to keep people happy and buying the magazine.
Or, it could simply be that they don't get the chance to play through the whole game and realize some of its faults during the preview, but when they get a final copy, they can spend enough time to find out where the problems are.
That's true, when XP has software problems the screen just stays exactly the way it is.
it's called, appropriately enough, X Windows.
It's very simple, teenagers have the most disposable income compared to financial obligations (no rent, no house payments, no kids, no retirements funds, frequently no taxes cause their income is under the table or in the form of an allowance) of any age-group demographic in the country. Plus they're more likely to spend money on solitary entertainment since they see their friends all day at school anyway. Furthermore, many gamers are college students, who can game all day without having to be total recluses.
Why does a Mac user often confuse Windows with girls? He loves the fact that they both suck.
Why is Windows Vista better than a period? Because when Vista is late, you can just buy a Mac.
Well, not $750 (except maybe for a maxed-out 2x2 Power Mac), but the ADC discount is pretty good--for most models except the mini, it can even pay for itself with one purchase. Apple offers free shipping from time to time as well.
Because iTunes is made by Apple. Really, it works like this: people are always interested in Apple because they do neat, interesting new stuff (like make money off of online music sales, sell 64-bit personal computers, offload GUI processing to the GPU, jump-start USB, FireWire, WiFI, etc etc etc). But, since it's also cool (on /. and elsewhere) to speak truth to power, people will criticize Apple for any perceived or even invented shortcomings in their products, like "17-inch PowerBooks suck; if I wanted a portable display that size I'd bring my 30-inch flatscreen and three-foot-tall dual-proc tower with freon cooling with me everywhere" or "iMovie sucks; it can't even output to celluloid" or "Safari 2.0 sucks; at least with Firefox 2 you get 21 free critical vulnerabilities patched!" It's like meeting Lexington Steele and saying, "Yeah, but at least I don't have guys watching me have sex!"
Uhh, every Cocoa app supports built-in spellchecking using the system spell-checker. Don't believe me? Get a real browser.
It's perfectly possible to write clean code in any non-toy language, but the best designs are those that make excessive use of dangerous interfaces unnecessary. For example, *nix handles all I/O through a single, easy to use and well-designed API (read/write/etc), which makes directly accessing hardware programatically completely extraneous (not to mention much harder).
The same applies to write() vs the standard C printf(), and to a lesser extent the various "safe" string copy functions (str[ln]cat, str[ln]cpy, xstrdup, etc). C may allow some sloppy programming, but it could be a hell of a lot worse.
Let's see, 5400 people @ $12.99/month (or more), that's about $800k a year--easily enough funds for a half-dozen developers' salaries+benefits+perks. So when Blizz's income drops by close to a million per year, who got axed?
Where has all the rum gone?
G.I. 1: If I ever find the guy, I will @#$%ing bury him. I've done it before and I've done it again.
(Throws chair)
I think this will begin to make more sense in terms of finances and opportunities as people expect embedded electronic systems to have more features, more power, and the ability to interact better with other items (could you imagine writing a TCP/IP stack with an 8-bit chip? Even 16-bit would be pretty sucky if you have to add in this like IPSec or SSL). Manufacturers will want to use a mature, tried & test 32- or 64-bit design, and if they can license SPARC (or eventually POWER) for free they'll probably go with that. Is it a guarantee? No. But it's a very interesting possibility, one that's appealing enough to justify the move.