This is the man that a year ago predicted that in 6 months, not only would OS X run on x86, Apple would produce a dual PPC/x86 computer to help ease the transistion. He wasn't even remotely right on either of these.
IE he gets paid a decent amount of money to talk out of his ass, and it's not really even worth thinking about a response to the drivel that spews from his (mouth/pen/keyboard?)
I wouldn't be surprised if Diebold bows out of the area. They have already receieved a lot of flack over the voting machines, and the machines are far from core to their business(atms are), and the CEO got what he wanted(whether or not he contributed to that through shady voting machines is another story).
Plus, if there is something wrong with their machines and they fight it and lose, the embarassment could cost them bigtime. My armchair quaterback position is that they quietly withdraw from the business of voting machines altogether.
Heh, you seem to think Microsoft software is a lot buggier than it actually is. A lot of the non-security(a whole other issue) bugs do come because Windows will run any piece of crap software on any piece of crap hardware.
That being said, I also do not forsee it taking off in markets like robotics because it is not flexible. You have very little control over what you install, it's all or nothing. Linux being open source allows it much greater flexibility. Plus there are already a ton of embedded distros to choose from, so more than likely someone has solved a similiar problem to the one you are working on and you can use that as a starting point.
some of them have slower connections that you can get for less money(though they don't like to advertise them). For example, the cable at home I can get for $25, or you can get a faster connection for about $40, of course YMMV
How many of them honestly desire a higher education versus how many just desire the status with being a PhD? To me, it seems like a status symbol more than anything else for a lot of the asian grad students at my school. Some of them aren't really even interested in the research, they just do what you tell them to in the hopes that they will get their PhD. It's the equivalent of a Mercedes where they come from.
You are ignoring the fact that yeah, things are going great now, but what is going to happen when things start to go south? They cannot grow forever, and nobody knows how the system will work when things aren't so rosy. Also, if you look at Chinese history, you will see a dizzying cycle of amazing highs where China really is the "Middle Kingdom" and dominates the region, and then almost instantaneously crashes and looks only inward.
Time will tell if this government is any different.
Probably because of credit card fees. If you have a bunch of small charges, the credit card fees makes collecting the money cost almost as much as what you collect. If they just have 1 charge per (month, year, eon whatever) the credit card companies collect a lot less.
Plus, if you subscribe then you are more likely to come back and make impulse buys:P
A line from TFA: At the same time, the government, which funds most scientific research in the country,
Does anyone else see something fundamentally wrong with that? I agree that the government should play a LIMITED role in R&D ie financing the stuff that nobody else is willing to take the risk and finance, but there is somethin fundamentally wrong with this country when the government needs to finance most of the scientific research in this country.
What ever happened to private R&D? Or is this just a symptom of the long term wrath of Carly Fiorna's, Sam Walton's, and Micheal Dell's actions: You don't need to make stuff, just market stuff. That is how you will get rich!
Dangerous precedent IMO.
local brothels will now be offering free penicillin with every night purchased! Come on down, any way it ends up, in a year you will be syphillis free!
Eh, not really. In a lot of the algorithms, there comes a point when adding nodes will make it SLOWER because the increases in communication time are greater than the decrease in computation time. Now granted this does depend a lot on a) what you are doing with the machine and b) the machines themselves, but just thinking that people who make these things love to just pile on hardware is a bit naive....
You would of at least thought they would have the decency to throw in a few example pictures taken on the Tokyo subway! Come on, don't tempt us lonely geeks like that on the day after Valentines!
I really doubt that a lot of that spam is being relayed through internet cafes. China only cares about stopping people from looking at new ideas, they hate stopping anything that makes money.
But also keep in mind Clinton oozed charisma, as does GW Bush. Honestly, the more and more I look at presidential politics, the more I become convinced that personality makes or breaks candidates. Why did union members vote Reagan, one of the most anti-union presidents in history(though ironically the only president to ever actually lead a union)? Because he was "standing tall".
It's pretty much been that way since WWII. The president who is more likeable usually ends up the winner.
John Kerry and Al Gore didn't have as much charisma as Bush, but they were also not nearly as wooden as the media made them out to be. The media wanted the election to play out as a soap opera, and it did. They cast George W. Bush as the affable but dim witted Texan when really he is as New England blue blood as Kerry. They made Kerry out to be the very stuffy New England blue blood when really he was quite lively in person.
Seriously, you can do a quick study on your own. cnn.com always manages to take the worst pictures of people, ie the pictures that "capture" the emotion they want to ascribe to them(they do Dems and Reps the same dis-service). All throughout the election they chose the most wooden picture of Kerry they could find, and Bush's picture almost always seemed to show him with a dumbfounded look, but if you watch both men you will realize that Kerry isn't all that wooden and Bush isn't all that mentally vacant......
Any particular reason that linux distros are having so much trouble with airport extreme? What is the difficulty in doing so?
I've been considering tinkering with linux on my iBook, but not until they get the whole wireless thing down.
being a CD and DVD player, digital video recorder, game console, as well as a machine for traditional data processing and Internet.except for the last part. And unless you are single, that is a good thing. Why? Because if you have a family, different members of the household want to be doing different things at the same time. If you have everything rolled up into 1 box, you are going to have some real fights over who gets to use said box...
I'll just take everything seperate thank you very much
can get you sent to prison. A dude made porn sites that were common typos of Disney and Disney names, ie targetting children. He got thrown in jail....
Heh, the biggest problem is that the "open beta/load testing" period was WAAAY to short, esp. given how long it took to download the whole thing. By the time most people got it, they pretty much got to run around a little bit and that was it.
If they would have kept the beta servers up for another week or 2, they may have caught a lot of these problems in the beta, were they are easier to fix(not to mention in betas, people don't have nearly the expectation of service that they have in production systems.
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This is the man that a year ago predicted that in 6 months, not only would OS X run on x86, Apple would produce a dual PPC/x86 computer to help ease the transistion. He wasn't even remotely right on either of these.
IE he gets paid a decent amount of money to talk out of his ass, and it's not really even worth thinking about a response to the drivel that spews from his (mouth/pen/keyboard?)
I wouldn't be surprised if Diebold bows out of the area. They have already receieved a lot of flack over the voting machines, and the machines are far from core to their business(atms are), and the CEO got what he wanted(whether or not he contributed to that through shady voting machines is another story).
Plus, if there is something wrong with their machines and they fight it and lose, the embarassment could cost them bigtime. My armchair quaterback position is that they quietly withdraw from the business of voting machines altogether.
One can hope that it's better than your grammar or else we are all fucked.
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seriously, if it's a person you want to talk to they will leave a message, otherwise they won't. End of story.
You gotta love these top ---- of all time articles on /., it's like VH1 for Nerds, countdowns that don't matter.
Heh, you seem to think Microsoft software is a lot buggier than it actually is. A lot of the non-security(a whole other issue) bugs do come because Windows will run any piece of crap software on any piece of crap hardware.
That being said, I also do not forsee it taking off in markets like robotics because it is not flexible. You have very little control over what you install, it's all or nothing. Linux being open source allows it much greater flexibility. Plus there are already a ton of embedded distros to choose from, so more than likely someone has solved a similiar problem to the one you are working on and you can use that as a starting point.
some of them have slower connections that you can get for less money(though they don't like to advertise them). For example, the cable at home I can get for $25, or you can get a faster connection for about $40, of course YMMV
How many of them honestly desire a higher education versus how many just desire the status with being a PhD? To me, it seems like a status symbol more than anything else for a lot of the asian grad students at my school. Some of them aren't really even interested in the research, they just do what you tell them to in the hopes that they will get their PhD. It's the equivalent of a Mercedes where they come from.
You are ignoring the fact that yeah, things are going great now, but what is going to happen when things start to go south? They cannot grow forever, and nobody knows how the system will work when things aren't so rosy. Also, if you look at Chinese history, you will see a dizzying cycle of amazing highs where China really is the "Middle Kingdom" and dominates the region, and then almost instantaneously crashes and looks only inward.
Time will tell if this government is any different.
Probably because of credit card fees. If you have a bunch of small charges, the credit card fees makes collecting the money cost almost as much as what you collect. If they just have 1 charge per (month, year, eon whatever) the credit card companies collect a lot less.
:P
Plus, if you subscribe then you are more likely to come back and make impulse buys
A line from TFA: At the same time, the government, which funds most scientific research in the country,
Does anyone else see something fundamentally wrong with that? I agree that the government should play a LIMITED role in R&D ie financing the stuff that nobody else is willing to take the risk and finance, but there is somethin fundamentally wrong with this country when the government needs to finance most of the scientific research in this country.
What ever happened to private R&D? Or is this just a symptom of the long term wrath of Carly Fiorna's, Sam Walton's, and Micheal Dell's actions: You don't need to make stuff, just market stuff. That is how you will get rich!
Dangerous precedent IMO.
local brothels will now be offering free penicillin with every night purchased! Come on down, any way it ends up, in a year you will be syphillis free!
Eh, not really. In a lot of the algorithms, there comes a point when adding nodes will make it SLOWER because the increases in communication time are greater than the decrease in computation time. Now granted this does depend a lot on a) what you are doing with the machine and b) the machines themselves, but just thinking that people who make these things love to just pile on hardware is a bit naive....
You would of at least thought they would have the decency to throw in a few example pictures taken on the Tokyo subway! Come on, don't tempt us lonely geeks like that on the day after Valentines!
I really doubt that a lot of that spam is being relayed through internet cafes. China only cares about stopping people from looking at new ideas, they hate stopping anything that makes money.
But also keep in mind Clinton oozed charisma, as does GW Bush. Honestly, the more and more I look at presidential politics, the more I become convinced that personality makes or breaks candidates. Why did union members vote Reagan, one of the most anti-union presidents in history(though ironically the only president to ever actually lead a union)? Because he was "standing tall".
It's pretty much been that way since WWII. The president who is more likeable usually ends up the winner.
John Kerry and Al Gore didn't have as much charisma as Bush, but they were also not nearly as wooden as the media made them out to be. The media wanted the election to play out as a soap opera, and it did. They cast George W. Bush as the affable but dim witted Texan when really he is as New England blue blood as Kerry. They made Kerry out to be the very stuffy New England blue blood when really he was quite lively in person.
Seriously, you can do a quick study on your own. cnn.com always manages to take the worst pictures of people, ie the pictures that "capture" the emotion they want to ascribe to them(they do Dems and Reps the same dis-service). All throughout the election they chose the most wooden picture of Kerry they could find, and Bush's picture almost always seemed to show him with a dumbfounded look, but if you watch both men you will realize that Kerry isn't all that wooden and Bush isn't all that mentally vacant......
Any particular reason that linux distros are having so much trouble with airport extreme? What is the difficulty in doing so?
I've been considering tinkering with linux on my iBook, but not until they get the whole wireless thing down.
being a CD and DVD player, digital video recorder, game console, as well as a machine for traditional data processing and Internet.except for the last part. And unless you are single, that is a good thing. Why? Because if you have a family, different members of the household want to be doing different things at the same time. If you have everything rolled up into 1 box, you are going to have some real fights over who gets to use said box...
I'll just take everything seperate thank you very much
can get you sent to prison. A dude made porn sites that were common typos of Disney and Disney names, ie targetting children. He got thrown in jail....
Including me since I cannot type http correctly
no ads on slsshdot, but it is for sale for all you porn vendors who target geeks who cannot type properly.
They are also nutritious and delcious!
Heh, the biggest problem is that the "open beta/load testing" period was WAAAY to short, esp. given how long it took to download the whole thing. By the time most people got it, they pretty much got to run around a little bit and that was it.
If they would have kept the beta servers up for another week or 2, they may have caught a lot of these problems in the beta, were they are easier to fix(not to mention in betas, people don't have nearly the expectation of service that they have in production systems.
Um, no, it wasn't Clinton, it was his secretary of state, Madeline Albright who went to NK.....