"Land of the free and the home of the brave." This has never been true. The slaves weren't free and the braves were slaughtered. "Land of the willing propaganda swallowers" would have been closer to the mark.
Microsoft have had 64bit Windows on Itanium for years now, so it couldn't have been hard to port Windows to amd64. They even had a public beta almost two years ago, but the release date just keeps on slipping.
Why? To keep Intel sweet when Itanium support is dropped, by giving Intel time to get an amd64 competitor into the market?
The brazil nut experiment reminded me of this fascinating result. If you shake a container of granular material, the granular material spontaneously collects together in one place.
The same page also has a cool video of granular eruption.
Some have argued in favor of touch-screen voting systems, citing the millions of dollars that are handled every day by ATMs and other computerized financial systems. That argument ignores another vital characteristic of voting systems: anonymity. Computerized financial systems get most of their security from audit. If a problem is suspected, auditors can go back through the records of the system and figure out what happened. And if the problem turns out to be real, the transaction can be unwound and fixed. Because elections are anonymous, that kind of security just isn't possible.
I'm posting from a 366MHz AMD K6 that cost me $20. It's adequate not just for web browsing and email, but even for serious programming as long as you're not trying to use a heavyweight IDE.
The only thing it's not good for is consuming videos and games.
To get that proper old-school movie computer vibe, I much prefer comms rooms. Standing amongst the banks of routers, switches and modems with their endlessly blinking lights and festoons of cable, it's easy to imagine yourself in a supervillian's control center.
It's great living in the 21st century. Victorian evils such as freak shows have been abolished. We respect people's privacy.
Oh, hang on...
I guess his daddy's got to earn a dollar.
WordPerfect did have the monopoly, the mind share and the lock-in back in the late eighties, early nineties. That they managed to lose it (and it wasn't because they were playing nice) is one of the classic stories of atrocious mismanagement.
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The GamerCentric website was launched just four days ago, so it's not surprising if the publishers are a little circumspect about sending them free review copies.
That's not a bug. Suppose lots of sites link to page X, and many of the links contain the text "to be or not to be". Then Google will think page X has something to do with "to be or not to be", even if page X doesn't contain that text.
It isn't atomic. But this is less of a problem, again because of cultural differences.
In my (limited) UNIX experience, big servers scale by running many (sometimes thousands) of copies of processes. Processes are being launched constantly so the atomicity of updates is essential. In contrast, Windows tends to have a small, fixed set of processes running with scalability achieved through multithreading. Once these processes are launched it doesn't matter if the exes and dlls are unavailable for a short while, because nothing will be looking for them.
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"Land of the free and the home of the brave." This has never been true. The slaves weren't free and the braves were slaughtered. "Land of the willing propaganda swallowers" would have been closer to the mark.
Microsoft have had 64bit Windows on Itanium for years now, so it couldn't have been hard to port Windows to amd64. They even had a public beta almost two years ago, but the release date just keeps on slipping.
Why? To keep Intel sweet when Itanium support is dropped, by giving Intel time to get an amd64 competitor into the market?
The brazil nut experiment reminded me of this fascinating result. If you shake a container of granular material, the granular material spontaneously collects together in one place.
The same page also has a cool video of granular eruption.
RTFA:
Some have argued in favor of touch-screen voting systems, citing the millions of dollars that are handled every day by ATMs and other computerized financial systems. That argument ignores another vital characteristic of voting systems: anonymity. Computerized financial systems get most of their security from audit. If a problem is suspected, auditors can go back through the records of the system and figure out what happened. And if the problem turns out to be real, the transaction can be unwound and fixed. Because elections are anonymous, that kind of security just isn't possible.
As long as they are making huge profits, EA are not going to change their practices unless their employees or the law force them to.
If, as the article says, EA are acting illegally then the author should report them or sue them.
If not, the employees can organize or quit.
Doing nothing is not an option. No company ever changed because someone whined at them.
I'm posting from a 366MHz AMD K6 that cost me $20. It's adequate not just for web browsing and email, but even for serious programming as long as you're not trying to use a heavyweight IDE. The only thing it's not good for is consuming videos and games.
There's no legal path from seller code theft to client culpability
That's right. But there is a legal path from vendor patent infringement to client culpability.
To get that proper old-school movie computer vibe, I much prefer comms rooms. Standing amongst the banks of routers, switches and modems with their endlessly blinking lights and festoons of cable, it's easy to imagine yourself in a supervillian's control center.
humblecoder my arse. You are Uriah Heep.
(And no, I'm not referring to the piss-poor rock band.)
For fuck's sake. One in Kate Bush is worth ten in the hand. Haven't you seen her early videos?
If the test is accurate, fair, and relevant
Get a grip. It will weed out the 'tards, nothing more.
Oops. I meant everyone from Chile northwards. Displaying my northern bias there!
I would point out that he'd never even been to Africa or America
Canada is in America. Everyone from Chile upwards is American.
It's great living in the 21st century. Victorian evils such as freak shows have been abolished. We respect people's privacy. Oh, hang on... I guess his daddy's got to earn a dollar.
There are 247 countries as far as internet domains are concerned. It all depends on who's counting.
WordPerfect did have the monopoly, the mind share and the lock-in back in the late eighties, early nineties. That they managed to lose it (and it wasn't because they were playing nice) is one of the classic stories of atrocious mismanagement.
The GamerCentric website was launched just four days ago, so it's not surprising if the publishers are a little circumspect about sending them free review copies.
OK, so Google has a bug in its documentation. That's not uncommon.
That's not a bug. Suppose lots of sites link to page X, and many of the links contain the text "to be or not to be". Then Google will think page X has something to do with "to be or not to be", even if page X doesn't contain that text.
Actually, it's the EU that decided to give EU (including UK) databases to the US in breach of EU directives. Go figure.
Companies should be able to participate in any legal activity they want to
Obviously. And they can. And they do. Until we decide that companies have an unfair advantage and then we make the activity illegal.
The fact that's it's legal at the moment is irrelevant to the argument about whether it's a good thing.
HF = hydrofluoric acid
It's a different trick today. One of the links posts the contents of your clipboard as a slashdot comment.
No, I'm not registered. Although it is being very slow today.
It isn't atomic. But this is less of a problem, again because of cultural differences.
In my (limited) UNIX experience, big servers scale by running many (sometimes thousands) of copies of processes. Processes are being launched constantly so the atomicity of updates is essential. In contrast, Windows tends to have a small, fixed set of processes running with scalability achieved through multithreading. Once these processes are launched it doesn't matter if the exes and dlls are unavailable for a short while, because nothing will be looking for them.