That's true, but they wouldn't have to license the tech if they didn't copy it too closely (even if they did, look at the size of their legal fund). If they made something somewhat similar and didn't outright copy the controller there there probably isn't much Nintendo or Immersion could do about it.
I'd like to point out that it would probably take less than a minute for the US to refuse an initiative from another country (the first 59 seconds of the minute being spent laughing). Isn't it great how the US is happy to impose itself on everyone else, but baulks at it's sovereignty being infringed upon.
The above poster is correct, MS will probably just copy it rather than doing that. Making an adapter sounds like a bit a waste of resources anyway (doing something to allow you to use a controller that many/the majority? of 360 users won't own, etc)
I would suggest that there are plenting of things in office that take more than 5 minutes to figure out. Moving to OO.org, if you already know how to more advanced stuff like making TOC's and indexes, you can't expect to instantly figure out how to do that in a new program. Just because it's different doesn't mean it's bad.
Speaking of smooth, does anyone else get a brief (1 second) pause when loading large pages in Slashdot? It seems to load part of the page, then it freezes for a second, then renders the rest of the page. It also happens on Photo.net, but there the whole discussion page reloads itself after loading once. Just a strange thing I noticed about Firefox.
I have the same problem probably. On some sites like rotten tomatoes, ff's cpu usage stays over 90% and the scrolling momentarily freezes. I reported it on IRC but neither of the people I asked could duplicate it, it might be an XP only problem.
They changed a few things from Dear Park a2, they disable incompatible extensions now. In particular, the Google Toolbar caused a few problems like the slow script warning and spell check only working sporadically.
That isn't the best analogy since IT is a real mixed back of technologies and strategies. Plumbers and electricians can work for a decade or two and basically do the same job, aside from building code changes and the odd new piece of material. If you look at software development, it's a lot more variable. A person who has 6 years of J2EE experience is senior because they've been using it more than half as long as the technology has been around. Alternatively, to be considered a senior C programmer, you probably would have had to have been at it since the early 90's or before. Maybe senior is thrown around a bit loosely sometimes, but you can probably blame that on HR.
I'm not sure if you're right there. I don't think tar uses any compression, and that is the reson for using gzip or bz2 afterwards. I did a couple tests with the version of tar with Cygwin to compress some text files and the tar files were much bigger than the sum original file sizes.
Gov't are pretty good at finding ways to spend money. So when they find one place where they can save money , they will probably find somewhere else to spend those savings. So it's probably more likely that the state and the taxpayers would be getting more bang for their buck than a reduction in spending.
Even if the RSX had turned out to be slower than the 7800, why would that give the XBox360 an edge in graphics. I don't know what ATI chip is in the XBox but unless they get their fab problems straightened out, they won't have anything comparable to the 7800.
I think that in a lot of cases this is just because companies know that they can find someone who already has the skills they need. In cases where a company doesn't have the resources to hire someone with all the skills. This could be because people that have the skills earn premium wages or the company is too small to attract people with the experience they need. In that case, companies are probably much more willing to train someone on the job.
It's nice for people in the work place to have a basic understanding of computer science, but I don't know how useful it is. Someone going into marketing, business admin, hr etc still aren't going to have a good understanding of the kind of software projects being undertaken these days. At the very least you would probably need a minor (or equivalent experience) for cs to be any use to you.
That makes sense i guess.
I don't know if all of the separate bureaucracies in Washington have an absolute interest in keeping each of the others around.
A law based on those points wouldn't be very effective. People already know what applications to use to get movies, music, etc so it's hardly necessary to advertise the fact. Can you reduce advertisement to the point where you can't even say a program is for filesharing?
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That's true, but they wouldn't have to license the tech if they didn't copy it too closely (even if they did, look at the size of their legal fund). If they made something somewhat similar and didn't outright copy the controller there there probably isn't much Nintendo or Immersion could do about it.
I'd like to point out that it would probably take less than a minute for the US to refuse an initiative from another country (the first 59 seconds of the minute being spent laughing). Isn't it great how the US is happy to impose itself on everyone else, but baulks at it's sovereignty being infringed upon.
The above poster is correct, MS will probably just copy it rather than doing that. Making an adapter sounds like a bit a waste of resources anyway (doing something to allow you to use a controller that many/the majority? of 360 users won't own, etc)
I would suggest that there are plenting of things in office that take more than 5 minutes to figure out. Moving to OO.org, if you already know how to more advanced stuff like making TOC's and indexes, you can't expect to instantly figure out how to do that in a new program. Just because it's different doesn't mean it's bad.
It's not like anyone is going to be building one any time soon. It would probably take years just to gather the raw materials.
Is there any reason why you can't remove the read privs in /lib and put any other necessary libs in another readable directory??
They changed a few things from Dear Park a2, they disable incompatible extensions now. In particular, the Google Toolbar caused a few problems like the slow script warning and spell check only working sporadically.
That isn't the best analogy since IT is a real mixed back of technologies and strategies. Plumbers and electricians can work for a decade or two and basically do the same job, aside from building code changes and the odd new piece of material. If you look at software development, it's a lot more variable. A person who has 6 years of J2EE experience is senior because they've been using it more than half as long as the technology has been around. Alternatively, to be considered a senior C programmer, you probably would have had to have been at it since the early 90's or before. Maybe senior is thrown around a bit loosely sometimes, but you can probably blame that on HR.
I'm not sure if you're right there. I don't think tar uses any compression, and that is the reson for using gzip or bz2 afterwards. I did a couple tests with the version of tar with Cygwin to compress some text files and the tar files were much bigger than the sum original file sizes.
Gov't are pretty good at finding ways to spend money. So when they find one place where they can save money , they will probably find somewhere else to spend those savings. So it's probably more likely that the state and the taxpayers would be getting more bang for their buck than a reduction in spending.
Even if the RSX had turned out to be slower than the 7800, why would that give the XBox360 an edge in graphics. I don't know what ATI chip is in the XBox but unless they get their fab problems straightened out, they won't have anything comparable to the 7800.
I think that in a lot of cases this is just because companies know that they can find someone who already has the skills they need. In cases where a company doesn't have the resources to hire someone with all the skills. This could be because people that have the skills earn premium wages or the company is too small to attract people with the experience they need. In that case, companies are probably much more willing to train someone on the job.
No, but you might consider some of them to be general improvements that will help gaim become more mainstream.
That's certainly true, you need something to apply your knowledge to.
The reasoning behind google sponsoring so many people to work on GAIM for summer of code? Maybe they will release a gaim based client?
It's nice for people in the work place to have a basic understanding of computer science, but I don't know how useful it is. Someone going into marketing, business admin, hr etc still aren't going to have a good understanding of the kind of software projects being undertaken these days. At the very least you would probably need a minor (or equivalent experience) for cs to be any use to you.
Now the question is how Intel's roadmap compares to AMD's. Will Intel get back on top in terms of proformance or will AMD still be king?
When people have 'c' recorded, it's assumed that it's referring light in a vacuum and it's not messed around with. So the values can stay the same.
Now there's going to be ten posts about welcoming our crocodile-human hybrid overloards.
Typical, WE know what the consumer whats so that is what we are going to give you (by ramming it down your throat if necessary).
Obviously another case of blame first, never ask any questions.
That makes sense i guess. I don't know if all of the separate bureaucracies in Washington have an absolute interest in keeping each of the others around.
Gov't agencies get downsized and eliminated too.
A law based on those points wouldn't be very effective. People already know what applications to use to get movies, music, etc so it's hardly necessary to advertise the fact. Can you reduce advertisement to the point where you can't even say a program is for filesharing?