...would be to fix the hole that allows the license circumvention. I know that fixing security issues isn't a normal Microsoft priority but that doesn't make ignoring it one of ours.
Typically you don't need to scan for ideas, the ideas are brought to market by the implementors reading the books initially. The implementors that have the proper mindset will seek these book out on thier own. That's one of the reasons I like reading hard/technical science fiction. It does make sense since it gives you a large number of "concept" people that aren't limited by formal training. I do agree that it really is strange that they would fund a program to explicitly do this since the typical engineers in these programs are of the type that would read it anyway. Maybe it's just a perk that they wanted to fund people's libraries 8^)
Very similar to the japanese version I read about. They were marketing theirs towards movie theaters. Were you able to get a price? The email info request form never completed/submitted.
see above on the crash part. I just wish there was something I could do about the people I see reading the paper with two hands and driving with their knees. I commute an hour each way and the stuff that goes on is insane. I can almost believe the joke about the guy that puts it on cruise control and then climbs in the back seat to go through his briefcase. When I read the article on the japanese jammers I contacted the company about them but the frequencies we use are different than theirs. I even thought about the EMP gun in Cryptonomicon 8^)
Ok, so you don't tailgate when you switch on so you can swerve around the guy when he eats the guardrail. Besides, the guy is already weaving due to USING the phone.
I'd like a cellphone jammer so I could get the clueless drivers to pay more attention to the road than the phone and notepad. I know the Japanese have a device that has about a 150 meter range that they use in theaters but I want something I can use in my car on the highway, possibly even directional so I can take out specific callers. There's got to be a couple of hardware hackers out there that could throw a design out open source for some field trials 8^)
Well, the most likely developers of an interface for the visually impaired is going to be someone that has to use the interface. This is a foothold so these people can get in and do more for it. Just like you need an initial top notch hacker to get in when a project is fragile and barely stable to improve it and make it more robust, you need an initial effort in order to build on and make improvements
Yeah, and how many hours of downloading and ripping to get the content onto the disk? It's one thing to have the content available on a preloaded media (like a CD/DVD) but it's totally another to spend the amount of time needed to load all that music (and verify it) so you can not hear the same song for 10 weeks. Not to mention the backup and single failure issues.
It's not IF the patient will die, the point is WHEN the patient will die. As someone else mentioned, the point was to extend the life long enouh fo a donor to be found.
The line that bothered me more was the point about higher primates being a better match but pigs being more morally acceptable. Sure, hack apart a "meat" animal that you don't have a problem sending the rest to the slaughter house but don't think about raising something we might identify with for the process. I keep flashing back toi the Hithchicker's Guide where the meat animal in the Restaurant at the End of the Universe marketted it butt off, literally. It would be so much more acceptable to mutate it into something grown in an artificial womb with no other organs/body parts so you could just pluck it out as having no othe purpose...
People keep thinking of a tiny R2D2 unit crawling around in your body. The truth of the matter is that the resemblence at the nano level won't be there. We're already doing this with the molecules that key into receptor sites (like beta blockers) so the bad reaction can't take place as well as molecules that assist the use of the bodies own chemicals (like diabetic meds for type II diabetes) that help bond to ill formed receptor sites. This is also the reason why a large portion of the currently working nanotechnologists are in the chemistry and biology fields rather than mechanical engineers.
It was the winner of design of the year awards. I think it was unique enough to justify the patent. Anyone else could have taken the marketing risk and done it first. Why do you think Jobs announced it as "Insanely Great!"?
The prices of the older chips will drop with the introduction of the higher rated chips. If you pay attention you'll find that the high end systems always stay about the same price, just the speed increases and that trickles down the family line. 2nd fastest will be 80-85% of fastest, then 75%, 60%, 50% and so forth. We can see some of this in the announcement 1000mhz (1ghz) @ $1299, 950mhz @ $999, 900mhz @ $899 and so forth. As the supplies of these chips come in, the demand for the available 750mhz chips will drop off (from the system manufacturers) and the onesy twosy prices will drop as well. The onesy market doesn't drive prices, it's the system people that are scarfing up the 1000 piece lots that make a dent in demand. Keep in mind they're announcing a new speed bump, not the availability of more affordable middle speed range chips. Also, look at where the price has gone already on the chips (700mhz) that were top of the line 3-4 months ago.
It drives down the costs of the middle (read 700mhz) processors and the true test of who's in better shape will be to see the availability of the systems. I get the feeling AMD's yeilds are much better than Intel's at this hairy edge of speed.
Well, if it wasn't for the rush to the magic number (and the record books) we never would have seen this so soon. Intel is going to be hard pressed to get their yields up to where they can keep up with AMD's deliveries. I think we're seeing the changing of the guard at this point where AMD takes over the market leadership role and is going to drive Intel's product development rather than the opposite as has been the case in the past. Even with the superior performance in a "mhz even" case for AMD, they haven't stood still to have to prove equivalent benchmarks, they've attacked Intel in the forum Intel chose, clock rates. Congrats to AMD! Lead on!
It's not for analyzing, it's for simulation and emulation to verify designs without physical testing. The simultanious equations to do these things are pretty extensive and a hugely parallel processor is very useful. Remember, all the interesting things happen in the first millionth of a second, beyond that it's an expansion/compression issue of the blast propogation.
Where would this be placed in the current supercomputer ranking?
Chances are, if you do it right, you'll get a lot of free coverage in the media. I don't know too many companies where that doesn't carry some weight. The fact that it would be positive coverage is even better 8^) It will certainly give you a public forum for being responsive to your customers/user group.
I would think that the Linux Community would submit courtesy pointers when some new release/feature was coming out. Hell, I can't imagine that CNN has a reporter camped at most of the sites they do stories on./. has enough industry visibility now that it should get the leads and prepublishing pointers like the other news services. Maybe they do and it's just the story submission queue that's getting too long. I know I stopped submitting stories after about 50 because they never got credited and always had a 2 day lag to the site. Someone the other day mentioned a reply that stated "rejected" for a submission. I've never gotten anything back. A nice "duplicate" with a credit and timestamp would be nice too. Hell, if we could get some of the "first post" energy redirected to submissions, they might BE first tier.
I guess my point was that the source of the articles used to be more industry based (LinuxWorld, PC Weekly, etc.) rather than mainstream media (which in many cases is getting stories either "covered everywhere" or stories rejected from the industry press). I will go read CNN and other sites like that for my general knowledge news but I also go to specific industry sites (not just computers) for specific news. Take for example the X-38 project. I found out that it was scrubbed for a month on saturday, CNN covered it midday monday, if/. covers it 24-48 hours later, it's approaching a week old. I always considered/. to be that first tier reference, not third tier.
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I think groups should show up at the presentations she's giving and openly confront her about this at the Q&A sessions.
>Didn't y'all read the article on here a few weeks ago, "Why not MySQL?"
Maybe because that decision was based on another one, made a couple of years before the article?
...would be to fix the hole that allows the license circumvention. I know that fixing security issues isn't a normal Microsoft priority but that doesn't make ignoring it one of ours.
like there isn't enough BSD around Berkley. Don't you think we should get these guys to see more of the country and "get out" a bit more? 8^)
Typically you don't need to scan for ideas, the ideas are brought to market by the implementors reading the books initially. The implementors that have the proper mindset will seek these book out on thier own. That's one of the reasons I like reading hard/technical science fiction. It does make sense since it gives you a large number of "concept" people that aren't limited by formal training. I do agree that it really is strange that they would fund a program to explicitly do this since the typical engineers in these programs are of the type that would read it anyway. Maybe it's just a perk that they wanted to fund people's libraries 8^)
or just reimplemented in an undocumented way?
Even paranoids have enemies
I had thought that the nuclear propulsion method Niven/Pournelle proposed in Footfall had actually been a cold war design at one point.
Very similar to the japanese version I read about. They were marketing theirs towards movie theaters. Were you able to get a price? The email info request form never completed/submitted.
see above on the crash part. I just wish there was something I could do about the people I see reading the paper with two hands and driving with their knees. I commute an hour each way and the stuff that goes on is insane. I can almost believe the joke about the guy that puts it on cruise control and then climbs in the back seat to go through his briefcase. When I read the article on the japanese jammers I contacted the company about them but the frequencies we use are different than theirs. I even thought about the EMP gun in Cryptonomicon 8^)
Ok, so you don't tailgate when you switch on so you can swerve around the guy when he eats the guardrail. Besides, the guy is already weaving due to USING the phone.
I'd like a cellphone jammer so I could get the clueless drivers to pay more attention to the road than the phone and notepad. I know the Japanese have a device that has about a 150 meter range that they use in theaters but I want something I can use in my car on the highway, possibly even directional so I can take out specific callers. There's got to be a couple of hardware hackers out there that could throw a design out open source for some field trials 8^)
Well, the most likely developers of an interface for the visually impaired is going to be someone that has to use the interface. This is a foothold so these people can get in and do more for it. Just like you need an initial top notch hacker to get in when a project is fragile and barely stable to improve it and make it more robust, you need an initial effort in order to build on and make improvements
>75 gigs is like 1500 hours worth of MP3s
Yeah, and how many hours of downloading and ripping to get the content onto the disk? It's one thing to have the content available on a preloaded media (like a CD/DVD) but it's totally another to spend the amount of time needed to load all that music (and verify it) so you can not hear the same song for 10 weeks. Not to mention the backup and single failure issues.
It's not IF the patient will die, the point is WHEN the patient will die. As someone else mentioned, the point was to extend the life long enouh fo a donor to be found.
The line that bothered me more was the point about higher primates being a better match but pigs being more morally acceptable. Sure, hack apart a "meat" animal that you don't have a problem sending the rest to the slaughter house but don't think about raising something we might identify with for the process. I keep flashing back toi the Hithchicker's Guide where the meat animal in the Restaurant at the End of the Universe marketted it butt off, literally. It would be so much more acceptable to mutate it into something grown in an artificial womb with no other organs/body parts so you could just pluck it out as having no othe purpose...
People keep thinking of a tiny R2D2 unit crawling around in your body. The truth of the matter is that the resemblence at the nano level won't be there. We're already doing this with the molecules that key into receptor sites (like beta blockers) so the bad reaction can't take place as well as molecules that assist the use of the bodies own chemicals (like diabetic meds for type II diabetes) that help bond to ill formed receptor sites. This is also the reason why a large portion of the currently working nanotechnologists are in the chemistry and biology fields rather than mechanical engineers.
It was the winner of design of the year awards. I think it was unique enough to justify the patent. Anyone else could have taken the marketing risk and done it first. Why do you think Jobs announced it as "Insanely Great!"?
Here's the URLs:
The Nasa Watch site
Boeing's missing tanks not explosive
Pay for the snafu
Space Station parts go in trash
Workers Seek Space Station Parts
The prices of the older chips will drop with the introduction of the higher rated chips. If you pay attention you'll find that the high end systems always stay about the same price, just the speed increases and that trickles down the family line. 2nd fastest will be 80-85% of fastest, then 75%, 60%, 50% and so forth. We can see some of this in the announcement 1000mhz (1ghz) @ $1299, 950mhz @ $999, 900mhz @ $899 and so forth. As the supplies of these chips come in, the demand for the available 750mhz chips will drop off (from the system manufacturers) and the onesy twosy prices will drop as well. The onesy market doesn't drive prices, it's the system people that are scarfing up the 1000 piece lots that make a dent in demand. Keep in mind they're announcing a new speed bump, not the availability of more affordable middle speed range chips. Also, look at where the price has gone already on the chips (700mhz) that were top of the line 3-4 months ago.
It drives down the costs of the middle (read 700mhz) processors and the true test of who's in better shape will be to see the availability of the systems. I get the feeling AMD's yeilds are much better than Intel's at this hairy edge of speed.
Well, if it wasn't for the rush to the magic number (and the record books) we never would have seen this so soon. Intel is going to be hard pressed to get their yields up to where they can keep up with AMD's deliveries. I think we're seeing the changing of the guard at this point where AMD takes over the market leadership role and is going to drive Intel's product development rather than the opposite as has been the case in the past. Even with the superior performance in a "mhz even" case for AMD, they haven't stood still to have to prove equivalent benchmarks, they've attacked Intel in the forum Intel chose, clock rates. Congrats to AMD! Lead on!
It's not for analyzing, it's for simulation and emulation to verify designs without physical testing. The simultanious equations to do these things are pretty extensive and a hugely parallel processor is very useful. Remember, all the interesting things happen in the first millionth of a second, beyond that it's an expansion/compression issue of the blast propogation.
Where would this be placed in the current supercomputer ranking?
Don't worry, she'll still have time to change your diapers.
Chances are, if you do it right, you'll get a lot of free coverage in the media. I don't know too many companies where that doesn't carry some weight. The fact that it would be positive coverage is even better 8^) It will certainly give you a public forum for being responsive to your customers/user group.
I would think that the Linux Community would submit courtesy pointers when some new release/feature was coming out. Hell, I can't imagine that CNN has a reporter camped at most of the sites they do stories on. /. has enough industry visibility now that it should get the leads and prepublishing pointers like the other news services. Maybe they do and it's just the story submission queue that's getting too long. I know I stopped submitting stories after about 50 because they never got credited and always had a 2 day lag to the site. Someone the other day mentioned a reply that stated "rejected" for a submission. I've never gotten anything back. A nice "duplicate" with a credit and timestamp would be nice too. Hell, if we could get some of the "first post" energy redirected to submissions, they might BE first tier.
I guess my point was that the source of the articles used to be more industry based (LinuxWorld, PC Weekly, etc.) rather than mainstream media (which in many cases is getting stories either "covered everywhere" or stories rejected from the industry press). I will go read CNN and other sites like that for my general knowledge news but I also go to specific industry sites (not just computers) for specific news. Take for example the X-38 project. I found out that it was scrubbed for a month on saturday, CNN covered it midday monday, if /. covers it 24-48 hours later, it's approaching a week old. I always considered /. to be that first tier reference, not third tier.