No not a waste. From what I've seen, the focus is to wire together all the institutions and services. Not so much a focus on individual homes, that would still be the area for ISPs.
This is actually a very good plan. 300M is really cheap for a governement with surplus budgets, so this sort of expendeture is not large. So we have a small amount of money that will build a provincial data infrastructure large enough to comfortably handle the next few years.
That's just the number from his example, so it's correct. Just to show it's not unrealistic, consider doing a search accross a distributed system, 1 sec to send request,.01 to do search,.99 to return results is 2 seconds.
Actually though, I'm really surprised at the amount of response over my nitpicking of his lack of details!
On that idea, take lots of math & philosophy of logic courses. Likewise courses on design are also helpful. You will use these things in your career as a programmer.
Avoid those courses that centre on specific technologies. They'll be obsolete by the time you graduate.
The exception, of course, is to do tech courses that are just really cool projects. For example, I'll never again have to do real-time systems programming under DOS, but the progect was much fun. In these cases, just research the prof ahead of time.
You should try to use DirectX istead of just reading the M$ marketing literature.
The reality of DirectX is that the API changes frequently and is often tailored to the newest buzzword features of video cards (mostly those of nvidia). The the DirectX APIs will diverge quickly and widely within 10-12 months after the XBox release.
Top that onto the fact that it's an allaround nightmare of a design to begin with and you end up with unhappy developpers.
Suffice to say that the "common ancestry" argument is less powerful than it seems once put into practice.
Coudn't have put that better myself. Making a cheap PC is a dead end for a console.
But, I think it needs to be added that the second nail in the X-Box will be a lack of first-party creativity from MS.
Right now, they have some really good 2nd & 3rd party software lined up, but these are only a few small dev studios. There is no lead in to new creative ideas from MS. Look at the way Nintendo pushes their own software to show what new and great things can be done. Sony does the same through the large game companies (Square, Enix, etc). MS has nothing to drive game design forward.
This leaves the outlook for X-Box software as a poor mirroring of PC games. Consequently, I doubt you will see many X-Box only titles.
I get that impression too. I've seen way to many.com's that forget to mention that they're selling items in US$, or only give local shipping rates. If the domain were.us, that woudn't be a problem, but I think.com/.net/.org sites should atttempt to be a little more global in scope.
Actually, from a cultural perspective, it makes a lot of sense to have country TLDs. Whenever I see a country TLD, I know immediately the culture and economy to whom the site belongs.
For example, being Canadian, I know I won't need to worry about currency conversions on a.ca ecommerce site. Likewise, a.ca news site would more relevant to me. With a.com/.org/.net, it's just hard to guess these things.
How those in the US identify with.us domain I don't know, but since it's less popular, I guess Americans don't attach the same value to.us as other countries do to theirs.
Actually, the impression I got on the Hurd web page is the microkernel architecture is a problem for apps written to work on a monolithic kernel (like most unices, especially Linux). So there are enough GNU utils that make it useable, but not important things like Quake;)
Of course, I'm not involved with HURD in any way outside of having done a bit of microkernel research, so I can't say for sure how well the project is going.
Anyways, I think that's all I'll say on this before I get modded 'off-topic'.
Seemingly, part of the reason that life thrives around underwater volcanoes is that lots of heat combined with the large myriad of chemicals in ocean water will yield some amino acids and other complex carbon molecules. This part is well understood (you could probably find details by searching around).
As far as I know, the part that is poorly understood is how the resulting chemical soop starts reproducing itself sufficiently to start things like DNA.
If anyone has more details about the later part, I'd be interested.
Per usual, the Slashdot editors forgot to verify the details.
The site states in several places that 'N-Cube' is just a best guess for the system name. The official name will not likely be announced until Spaceworld (Aug 24). For now, the official name still has yet to be released.
Not sure (I'm not a liscence expert), but at the least, I know it is not possible to distribute the MFC code, only the binaries. If there is ANY static linking in the download (which is very likely) then he is distributing a binary that can't be GPL'd. OTOH, I think the code that makes calls to the MFC libs might be OK.
However, this still doesn't address the issue that GPL code is linked to non-GPL coed (according to RMS, that's bad).
Also, there is still the use of the MS artwork used for the buttons. Not sure what liscencing covers theses.
Conflicting with the MPL is bad enough, but there is also the question as to how the GPL can be applied to the Microsoft stuff in it. Looks like lots of MFC code, and MS artwork was obviously used for the buttons.
The good side to this is it makes the heavy lift rockets from Russia more available. Since some of these have a significantly higher capacity than those used by NASA, it opens some possibilities for larger satelites, ISS modules, Mars missions, etc.
The bad, however, is that this could significantly add to the amount of space junk already orbiting about earth. I hope that somewhere in this deal, someone is considering this.
Since you claim this isn't flaimbait, I'll assume you're just ignorant about the show.
If you're going to critique the CG, you should at least consider that reboots predates every other fully animated TV series. To compare it against FF movie and Gladiator is a bit like comparing a 486 to 1GHz Athlon. It's just a bad comparison.
The fact that this was done in the early '90's is actually a very important technological step in where CG stands today. You can probably find more history about the web somewhere.
BTW, REBOOT IS NOT ANIME. It was made by Mainframe, who are based ion Burnaby, BC (just outside Vancouver).
If you're looking for the best of sci-fi humour, you should definitely read "Tales from the White Hart" by Arthur C. Clarke.
It's the only humour novel I've found that is also real science fiction (as opposed to Douglas Adams works, which aren't really based on scientific ideas). It's also an interesting read in that it's the only venture into humour by Clarke and has that it has a heavy influence of form the Cold War (when it was written).
The one thing that I've always liked about.gif is the animations. So, does anyone have suggestions about an open source animated format to use in place of.gif?
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No not a waste. From what I've seen, the focus is to wire together all the institutions and services. Not so much a focus on individual homes, that would still be the area for ISPs.
This is actually a very good plan. 300M is really cheap for a governement with surplus budgets, so this sort of expendeture is not large. So we have a small amount of money that will build a provincial data infrastructure large enough to comfortably handle the next few years.
I want that gene grafted into my pancreas!
Wow, that article had enough details to let me know all about the case
Anyone have any real details as to what this case is? Links to a better article would be good.
That's just the number from his example, so it's correct. Just to show it's not unrealistic, consider doing a search accross a distributed system, 1 sec to send request, .01 to do search, .99 to return results is 2 seconds.
Actually though, I'm really surprised at the amount of response over my nitpicking of his lack of details!
If your array is sorted on a good hash key, it's not O(log(n)), it's O(1). That's still 2 seconds in your example.
technology changes, theorems don't.
On that idea, take lots of math & philosophy of logic courses. Likewise courses on design are also helpful. You will use these things in your career as a programmer.
Avoid those courses that centre on specific technologies. They'll be obsolete by the time you graduate.
The exception, of course, is to do tech courses that are just really cool projects. For example, I'll never again have to do real-time systems programming under DOS, but the progect was much fun. In these cases, just research the prof ahead of time.
... that number includes all the 'Hello Worlds' compiled under under Windows ;)
You should try to use DirectX istead of just reading the M$ marketing literature.
The reality of DirectX is that the API changes frequently and is often tailored to the newest buzzword features of video cards (mostly those of nvidia). The the DirectX APIs will diverge quickly and widely within 10-12 months after the XBox release.
Top that onto the fact that it's an allaround nightmare of a design to begin with and you end up with unhappy developpers.
Suffice to say that the "common ancestry" argument is less powerful than it seems once put into practice.
Coudn't have put that better myself. Making a cheap PC is a dead end for a console.
But, I think it needs to be added that the second nail in the X-Box will be a lack of first-party creativity from MS.
Right now, they have some really good 2nd & 3rd party software lined up, but these are only a few small dev studios. There is no lead in to new creative ideas from MS. Look at the way Nintendo pushes their own software to show what new and great things can be done. Sony does the same through the large game companies (Square, Enix, etc). MS has nothing to drive game design forward.
This leaves the outlook for X-Box software as a poor mirroring of PC games. Consequently, I doubt you will see many X-Box only titles.
I get that impression too. I've seen way to many .com's that forget to mention that they're selling items in US$, or only give local shipping rates. If the domain were .us, that woudn't be a problem, but I think .com/.net/.org sites should atttempt to be a little more global in scope.
Actually, from a cultural perspective, it makes a lot of sense to have country TLDs. Whenever I see a country TLD, I know immediately the culture and economy to whom the site belongs.
.ca ecommerce site. Likewise, a .ca news site would more relevant to me. With a .com/.org/.net, it's just hard to guess these things.
.us domain I don't know, but since it's less popular, I guess Americans don't attach the same value to .us as other countries do to theirs.
For example, being Canadian, I know I won't need to worry about currency conversions on a
How those in the US identify with
Actually, the impression I got on the Hurd web page is the microkernel architecture is a problem for apps written to work on a monolithic kernel (like most unices, especially Linux). So there are enough GNU utils that make it useable, but not important things like Quake ;)
Of course, I'm not involved with HURD in any way outside of having done a bit of microkernel research, so I can't say for sure how well the project is going.
Anyways, I think that's all I'll say on this before I get modded 'off-topic'.
Try GNU HURD (http://www.fsf.org/software/hurd/hurd.html).
It's a reasonably mature microkernel that is open source (under GPL). As an OS, it does quite well, but it needs more apps.
Thanks for the pic. I was wondering what sort of substatiation they had for the claim.
The link the in question seems to have dissappeared. The fourth link is now to Harvard University, not to a DeCSS mirror.
Someone at CNN/Time-Warner must have noticed.
"... they're just plain text... and they won't blink annoyingly."
;)
Assuming they don't use the BLINK tag of course
Seemingly, part of the reason that life thrives around underwater volcanoes is that lots of heat combined with the large myriad of chemicals in ocean water will yield some amino acids and other complex carbon molecules. This part is well understood (you could probably find details by searching around).
As far as I know, the part that is poorly understood is how the resulting chemical soop starts reproducing itself sufficiently to start things like DNA.
If anyone has more details about the later part, I'd be interested.
Per usual, the Slashdot editors forgot to verify the details.
The site states in several places that 'N-Cube' is just a best guess for the system name. The official name will not likely be announced until Spaceworld (Aug 24). For now, the official name still has yet to be released.
Not sure (I'm not a liscence expert), but at the least, I know it is not possible to distribute the MFC code, only the binaries. If there is ANY static linking in the download (which is very likely) then he is distributing a binary that can't be GPL'd. OTOH, I think the code that makes calls to the MFC libs might be OK.
However, this still doesn't address the issue that GPL code is linked to non-GPL coed (according to RMS, that's bad).
Also, there is still the use of the MS artwork used for the buttons. Not sure what liscencing covers theses.
Conflicting with the MPL is bad enough, but there is also the question as to how the GPL can be applied to the Microsoft stuff in it. Looks like lots of MFC code, and MS artwork was obviously used for the buttons.
Picky technical point, but it would have to be C++ code. As far as I know Qt doesn't have a C library, only C++.
The good side to this is it makes the heavy lift rockets from Russia more available. Since some of these have a significantly higher capacity than those used by NASA, it opens some possibilities for larger satelites, ISS modules, Mars missions, etc.
The bad, however, is that this could significantly add to the amount of space junk already orbiting about earth. I hope that somewhere in this deal, someone is considering this.
Since you claim this isn't flaimbait, I'll assume you're just ignorant about the show.
If you're going to critique the CG, you should at least consider that reboots predates every other fully animated TV series. To compare it against FF movie and Gladiator is a bit like comparing a 486 to 1GHz Athlon. It's just a bad comparison.
The fact that this was done in the early '90's is actually a very important technological step in where CG stands today. You can probably find more history about the web somewhere.
BTW, REBOOT IS NOT ANIME. It was made by Mainframe, who are based ion Burnaby, BC (just outside Vancouver).
If you're looking for the best of sci-fi humour, you should definitely read "Tales from the White Hart" by Arthur C. Clarke.
It's the only humour novel I've found that is also real science fiction (as opposed to Douglas Adams works, which aren't really based on scientific ideas). It's also an interesting read in that it's the only venture into humour by Clarke and has that it has a heavy influence of form the Cold War (when it was written).
The one thing that I've always liked about .gif is the animations. So, does anyone have suggestions about an open source animated format to use in place of .gif?