But the New York-based research firm is winning converts among hedge funds who say its brand of Web-based quantitative analysis can be more accurate than traditional Wall Street research forecasts.
Possibly because "traditional Wall Street research" involves reading tea leaves and throwing down chicken bones while watching Alan Greenspan do a rain dance to the gods in hopes that our economy will pick up.
Economics and future fiscal predictions are completely theoretical. There are just too many variables involved, folks.
For those of you who don't remember what Tetris used to be like, enjoy the Unofficial Homepage.
Oh come on, the squeal of joy and flash when you got a full fledged Tetris was clearly an electronic orgasm. And don't get me started on the phallic nature of the only piece that will get you a Tetris...
I can see the two types of posts that will ensue from this article.
Type A: This is another shill lawsuit brought against a corporation for playing the capitalism game. It's not their fault that they are so successful at raking in cash, leave them alone.
Type B: It's about time we realized how horrible a monopoly this company has going for them. If we hope to have a healthy market in this area, we need to split them up and make them compete for the customer's benefit.
In reality, there's a happy medium that we should be striving for. Where the Apple lawsuit falls, I'm not sure. Hopefully the judge can decide that and do the system some justice.
The American justice system has developed a set of laws that seem to be in the middle and have satisfied both sides. Unfortunately for Apple, it's hard to interpret what is and isn't a monopoly. Fortunately for Apple, companies like Microsoft that have violated anti-trust laws seemingly escaped unscathed through great legal action and repeals. So it's a matter of how much resource can you throw at it. Don't ignore it like Mama Bell did way back when or there may be baby Apples (Applets? lol) competing against each other with Mac users completely confused as to which flavor of Apple they want.
I wonder how this news is seen in Microsoft's eyes?
1. A security flaw that needs to be analyzed and fixed in a possible firmware update.
2. A sign that players want a sort of "utilities" disc that allows them access to hardware in the machine. Much like the Linux kit that was made available for the PS2.
3. A possible idea to expand upon and a valuable tool for their developers to learn from.
4. Rest of the world? That doesn't exist inside Microsoft so this utility program actually was never written. We know what our customers want and that's that.
So there are already sites out there for Dreamcast, Xbox, PS2 and a multitude of other consoles/handhelds. This will make it a lot easier for homebrew execution to get started on the Xbox 360 for those who welcome it. It technically isn't legal since these developers don't have developer licenses but since they don't sell their homebrew apps, they usually aren't targeted.
What a lot of people are interested in will probably be the porting of older consoles through known emulators to the Xbox 360. I don't want an Xbox 360 but we'll see how well this development takes off. I long for an emulator that plays my old SNES games as it is kind of cumbersome to have many many systems to hook up. A fully functioning Link to the Past on Xbox 360 would make me buy it.
For those of you looking for free game ISOs to dump from the internet to your Xbox 360, this is not something that will allow this yet as from the article:
Note: Before people try to launch crazy ideas again: No this does not allow you to copy retail games (signed for XBOX360DVD media only) to the HD and play them. It's a tool that gives you access to the Xbox 360 HD and Memcard from a PC, it does not hack/bypass any security.
So there's no free games yet. On top of that, you can't shell out the boot sequence from a disc to use it for launching your own homemade application. Hopefully we'll see that in a few more months. I myself am not really interested in "free" games, just want to be able to use my Xbox as a real toy instead of the confines of those who can afford the insane developer's license fee.
Anyone else notice that this article reads like an advertisement for 360gamesaves? There's three links to it.
As Eddie Izzard said regarding human communication in Dress to Kill:
All that people care about is the look, because there's figures on this. 70% of what people react to is the look, you know, it's how you look; and 20% is about how you sound; and only 10% is what you say.
And if your message depends heavily on that 90% of presentation, then you're in trouble because you need to hope that the 10% conveys precisely how you feel.
I think that because we are using advanced forms of technology to send information, we feel the need to make things develop more quickly.
If you and your friend are having an argument through e-mail, you probably feel that you have to cover the whole spectrum of abrasiveness with each e-mail you send. In real life, you would have the social tact to start out with statements and leave room for yourself to retract what you've said or to give a little ground and end up mutually agreeing on something.
What seems to be my problem with e-mail is that I send a message and I run the topic into the ground in that first e-mail (saying everything about it). Now, that's written in stone like a Slashdot comment. No backsies.
And the fact that he might not get the e-mail for a while makes me want to accelerate the severity of the issue since we don't want to take two weeks discussing it. Had we been more gradual at accelerating the argument, things said could probably have been avoided.
The Secret Cause of Flame Wars
Secret? Not quite. I might end an e-mail with "...screw Oasis and Weezer, every Beatles' album is far greater than all of theirs combined." Now, in real life, I'd say that with a malevolent shit-eating grin on my face signaling that I know it's not true. But my friend might read it and imagine me with a stone faced militant music-nazi expression and my finger pointing into his chest. What ensues is a standard flame war. The cause of this is no secret.
This may seem like an inane question but why don't I see more of a push to get Linux into the realm of academia?
I know that Ubuntu has made strides to incorporate themselves into learning environments but where is the effort to alert students (primarily other than computer science majors) to the benefits of Linux?
When I was a freshman at the University of Minnesota, a friend handed me a CD distribution of Debian that would change my life. I knew of the Linux labs in the University but only now did they interest me. I'm now getting my masters at George Mason University and I don't believe there's a single Linux machine on campus. In fact, the whole Computer Science department has only two Sun servers to offer me an account on! Everything else is Microsoft!
Now you may lay claim that every computer science major these days is running Linux anyway. But how about the other areas of study? I used to take music theory and people would rant and rave about their Macs or one of various composing suites in Windows. I tried explaining that Linux has (certainly more affordable) solutions to offer in this department too but no one would even listen to me. It's not like they were mixing platinum selling records, they were just looking for software to write sheet music with.
I think that both Apple and Microsoft realize that the toys people have in college become the toys they demand in real life. So there are all theseefforts to garner the student's interest hoping that they will use them in their careers.
They make it free (which Linux already is), they make it easy and they make it available.
So how about it? Why isn't the Linux community minting install discs and distributing literature on campuses? Why isn't Linux tailoring cheap solutions to K-12 schools that don't have the money for Windows anyway? Why do we risk letting someone leave academia without ever experiencing the real fruits of it?
If you are doing this (and I just don't know about it), what steps have you taken?
According to the San Francisco Chronicle: 'Yahoo Inc. is considering offering free music downloads, discounts on DVD rentals and frequent-flier miles to users who make the Web site their primary search engine.
And, in fact, when I search on Yahoo I am not offered any chance to win anything.
Why do the editors of Slashdot feel the need to spin stories so that the headlines read like it's actually news? Someone mentioned this to the press and suddenly it's headlines that they're doing it. Please don't fall victim to the ways of other news providers, that's why I read Slashdot because it's not using shock reporting to get my attention.
Yahoo wants this. You're a tool if you print it like this.
"Stay tuned for a very special local Fox affiliate news report about how just going to school can be harmful for your children. They may already be dead! Find out how at nine."
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I'd really like to know why their computers are even online. I could see in the doctor offices and maybe a computer lab to check e-mails etc. But really they should just buy hosting from a company and wire their hospital up on a fiber optics WAN, or even just a LAN if they don't need to multiple hospitals up. Hell I'm pretty sure even wal mart just uses a fiber optic WAN to connect all the stores up (at least in canada).
I see you're confused. This happened in the United States of America. Your hospitals and health care have the money to do this. In the US, we get fined if we say "hospital" or "health care." Hell, I'm sure this hospital was just tickled pink to be able to put cat5e cables in two rocks and monitor patients while playing songs from iTunes to drown out the moans in the background.
I see you're one of the few individuals on this planet that has yet to see Office Space. You should watch it, perhaps it'd make you laugh (though I can't be certain considering your statements).
I was quoting a main character from the movie. It's funny, laugh.
wow, you certainly are a logical, sensible person.
Wait a minute, I may be logical and I may be sensible but I am definitely not... what was the third thing you called me?
if only our soldiers were as brave as you, we wouldnt have lost vietnam.
Thank you, sir, for confusing the hell out of me. Where did that last sentence come from? Remember, I'm a logical person here... if A then B, folks--it's not that hard.
In fact, today we are treating many more patients and types of problems through the help of computers.
To me, the phrase "shut down" means to close up shop. I know they didn't do this but it makes me wonder how much have hospitals suffered in capabilities by accepting automation?
Advanced life support system may need to be on the network to send signals. But what about the EKG machine? The intravenous drip? These things should not be dependant on computers yet I know from a friend who works in a hospital that IVs have small computers on them to regulate the flow. I hope to god they are a safely restricted from internet access.
So who's really at fault here? The students? The hospital for not securing their computers and network? Or the adware companies for providing the incentive?
The students, clearly.
Colt manufactures guns. Man opens fire in public with a Colt pistol. Who's at fault? The shooter, of course.
I don't want to hear any psychology bullshit claiming it's not their fault--that it's society's fault for making them desire more money. I don't want to hear any bullshit that they didn't know what they were doing or the hospital should have had better security. This is an aggressive act against a public service--the internet. Computer savvy students implement code that shuts down many computers for the purpose of advertising profit. They didn't realize what they were doing? Oh, come on. Even if they didn't, it's a valuable lesson and a few less spammers to ruin the world when they graduate. Tough. You like computers? How about five to ten in federal-pound-me-in-the-ass prison?
I'll bet they wished they had enrolled in Computer Ethics 101 before going on this capital venture. As an additional punishment, they should be forced to code software to stop stuff like this from happening and tailor it for medical equipment/computers.
And what kind of intensive care unit is "shut down" when they can't use computers? It's not like their work would have to grind to a stand still. I don't want to sound like a luddite but are we really that dependent on computers? They're medical professionals, I hope they did just shut down and stop working when the computers crashed.
This student is in deep trouble. He chose actions that had grave consequences and now he'll face the charges resulting from those actions.
Inignot: Your stereo is now his stereo by way of my actions. Shake: Yes meatwad, with actions.
(AP) At the NYSE, soul trading closed down five and a quarter points Friday afternoon. The worth of an average human soul has plummeted recently to a value not seen since the great depression. Disney has been pioneering the movement of trading souls regularly for concepts, legal action or maybe just a few dollars more.
Michael Eisner wasn't competent enough to comment.
I am a 3D graphics programmer I left SGI a long time ago. I've since worked with PCs, consoles and even mobile devices in a range of application areas including games covering advanced rendering algorithms content paths/tools.
Congratulations.
I can safely say that you are a fucking moron. A prize fucktard who doesn't know what the hell he's talking about.
I relayed a story of my experiences with SGI. Care to tell the readers what it is, precisely, that I'm mistaken on? I know I had to work with an SGI server. I know that I dreaded it. I know that my coworker said they used to be the shit. I'm pretty sure I know about these events and that I explained them correctly.
SGI is as good as dead and for good reason...
Please, by all means, elaborate as to what that reason is. You just claimed you used to work there, tell us about your experiences. Here's a crazy idea, add something to this thread of discussion instead of waisting bytes thinking up names to call me. Novel idea, isn't it? Tell us some stories about back in the day when SGI had you and you were the sole reason they used to make good machines.
... but you are still an ignorant clueless fucktard excuse of a graphics developer.
At what point did I claim to be a graphics developer? I'm a fresh from college moron working in a corporation. I know I'm stupid but I'm not sure what a 'fucktard' is. Out of curiosity, is the reason SGI went out because all their graphics developers are assholes?
That your post is modded +5 only tells me that the moderators can't tell shit from shinola when it comes to 3D graphics commentary like yours.
You don't understand Slashdot and it isn't likely that you ever will. Move along.
Recently I was working on a project that involved an SGI server. It was initially just for simulation but it needed to render LADAR images and also show pretty graphics of planes flying over terrain.
When I got up to present it, I had made a video that captured the output through a capture device of the SGI box. It was a real pain in the ass to capture that in high quality but I did. One of the females in the audience (and it was a large audience) raised her hand and asked me why it looked like shit. I told her that it was because SGI servers concentrate on points of location--not really graphics. She balked at my explanation and kind of scoffed at me for not finding another alternative that sold better. She told me her son's PS2 rendered better graphics than that. I agreed though I said her son's PS2 wasn't concerned about exact locations and LADAR images.
What I'm trying to say is that they've been surpassed in quality.
Oh, and another thing, I had to get these LADAR images across the network onto a Windows machine that was running a webservice. Let me tell you that the support for NTFS and SAMBA servers on SGI servers is really not there anymore. I barely got something to work and that was pretty ganky.
My coworker (who is ten years older than I) told me that those purple boxes used to sell for ~$125k. Now, he says you can pick up the newer ones for around $25k. That's quite the drop in market dominance.
Goodbye SGI, I'm sorry things didn't work out better for you. You lost site of what kept you floating. In the long long ago, I hear tell you made the product. Today, that foothold has crumbled.
People, please, the great grandparent thread has already been purchased in a $5 acquiring by Uwe Bool.
Boll initially tried to make this into a full feature movie but it lacked something mildly important to Boll--a plot line.
He hired round the clock game designers to code up a game called Bust-A-Move VI: The Black Hole. The game consists of the dinosaurs from Bust-A-Move trying to stop a falling black hole by firing balls at it. The first level contains a kill screen scenario which caused critics to pan it.
However, Boll was quoted as saying, "It look good."
In the movie, two dinosaurs have to race against the clock as they try to figure out ways to stop a falling black hole from reaching the earth's core. In many scenes, you can hear in the background Uwe grunting hard as he runs the laws of physics down his leg.
Boll revealed a few key plot points prior to the movie's release and summed them all up into one sentence, "... [the public] wants to see two naked dinosaurs doing it and I won't let them down."
Imagine a Venn Diagram with two overlapping circles. One circle is truth, the other is opinion and fiction. Now, any statement made by an individual fits in one of these two circles but is it in the overlapping area?
Wikipedia needs to decide whether it should accept those which fall in the middle overlapping area or reject them outright. It seems that for some issues Wikipedia allows the overlapping area (like String Theory) to remain as long as there is a footnote or notation that this is opinion, theoretical or possibly untrue. So perhaps they should make it clear that if a piece of information lies in the overlap, you need to state so or it will be deleted.
Many people put fogs over their past and history is hard to verify. For these people, their biographical entries in Wikipedia may need to be covered with disclaimers saying that very little is verifiable about their background because of the individual's actions and unclear testimonials from people surrounding them. It's a shame that the majority of these people are politicians... but bad-mouthing politicians is all too easy so I'll leave that to someone else.
Since our political system is divided in a very childish way (two parties), I have always dreamed to see the day that the GPO releases two volumes one year after each president has left office. Each volume would be an account from either side of congress commenting on the actions of the president. The preface could be all public documents proving actions taken by the president while in his presidency. These two books could be made available very cheaply (as a type of public service) and the public could enjoy that for free... say, why not do a webpage instead (even cheaper) and have Wikipedia send a liaison to Congress to record it?
Problems and needs are naturally occurring things.
They take on unforeseen forms with non-standard characteristics. If your tool can't solve the problem or satisfy the need, you build a new tool that does. It's the human way.
Likewise, your company can standardize methodologies and practices all it wants. But should they ever standardize the tools they use to solve problems... well, let's just say it won't be long before a problem or need comes along that the standard doesn't fit.
And then someone might be tempted to work hard at trying to make your standard fix it and work. They might spend hours re-inventing the wheel. And what will that get them?
Why, the ability to say, "Yep, and we did it all with one language."
The customer doesn't care how a solution is created. They care that it works and meets their requirements. Rarely have I seen requirements that read "... and it must all be done in the same language."
I am a computer programmer. I make computing devices do what I want. I will use any tool at my disposal, to hell with my employer's proposed "beneficial" restrictions.
In my dictionary, fatalism is the inability to cope with change. Adapt or fail. I am required to adapt to each new language I learn and I hope I never get rusty at that. Confining employees to one language does just that, it gives them a false sense of security and teaches them to think inside their box.
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Economics and future fiscal predictions are completely theoretical. There are just too many variables involved, folks.
For those of you who don't remember what Tetris used to be like, enjoy the Unofficial Homepage.
...
Oh come on, the squeal of joy and flash when you got a full fledged Tetris was clearly an electronic orgasm. And don't get me started on the phallic nature of the only piece that will get you a Tetris
Was anyone else offended/confused that Ars Technica writes an article with Judge James Ware in it yet puts a picture up of Judge Judy?
I'm not an idiot, you know.
It's almost like they're saying, "You don't know what a judge looks like, so we're going to give you the only image you can conceive a judge having."
I can see the two types of posts that will ensue from this article.
Type A: This is another shill lawsuit brought against a corporation for playing the capitalism game. It's not their fault that they are so successful at raking in cash, leave them alone.
Type B: It's about time we realized how horrible a monopoly this company has going for them. If we hope to have a healthy market in this area, we need to split them up and make them compete for the customer's benefit.
In reality, there's a happy medium that we should be striving for. Where the Apple lawsuit falls, I'm not sure. Hopefully the judge can decide that and do the system some justice.
The American justice system has developed a set of laws that seem to be in the middle and have satisfied both sides. Unfortunately for Apple, it's hard to interpret what is and isn't a monopoly. Fortunately for Apple, companies like Microsoft that have violated anti-trust laws seemingly escaped unscathed through great legal action and repeals. So it's a matter of how much resource can you throw at it. Don't ignore it like Mama Bell did way back when or there may be baby Apples (Applets? lol) competing against each other with Mac users completely confused as to which flavor of Apple they want.
I wonder how this news is seen in Microsoft's eyes?
1. A security flaw that needs to be analyzed and fixed in a possible firmware update.
2. A sign that players want a sort of "utilities" disc that allows them access to hardware in the machine. Much like the Linux kit that was made available for the PS2.
3. A possible idea to expand upon and a valuable tool for their developers to learn from.
4. Rest of the world? That doesn't exist inside Microsoft so this utility program actually was never written. We know what our customers want and that's that.
What a lot of people are interested in will probably be the porting of older consoles through known emulators to the Xbox 360. I don't want an Xbox 360 but we'll see how well this development takes off. I long for an emulator that plays my old SNES games as it is kind of cumbersome to have many many systems to hook up. A fully functioning Link to the Past on Xbox 360 would make me buy it.
For those of you looking for free game ISOs to dump from the internet to your Xbox 360, this is not something that will allow this yet as from the article: So there's no free games yet. On top of that, you can't shell out the boot sequence from a disc to use it for launching your own homemade application. Hopefully we'll see that in a few more months. I myself am not really interested in "free" games, just want to be able to use my Xbox as a real toy instead of the confines of those who can afford the insane developer's license fee.
Anyone else notice that this article reads like an advertisement for 360gamesaves? There's three links to it.
Set your phone to vibrate. It's been working for me for years. Non-invasive when doing anything in my daily routine.
Is there really a reason I should have to enter my schedule into my phone? Because it's not going to happen.
If you and your friend are having an argument through e-mail, you probably feel that you have to cover the whole spectrum of abrasiveness with each e-mail you send. In real life, you would have the social tact to start out with statements and leave room for yourself to retract what you've said or to give a little ground and end up mutually agreeing on something.
What seems to be my problem with e-mail is that I send a message and I run the topic into the ground in that first e-mail (saying everything about it). Now, that's written in stone like a Slashdot comment. No backsies.
And the fact that he might not get the e-mail for a while makes me want to accelerate the severity of the issue since we don't want to take two weeks discussing it. Had we been more gradual at accelerating the argument, things said could probably have been avoided. Secret? Not quite. I might end an e-mail with "...screw Oasis and Weezer, every Beatles' album is far greater than all of theirs combined." Now, in real life, I'd say that with a malevolent shit-eating grin on my face signaling that I know it's not true. But my friend might read it and imagine me with a stone faced militant music-nazi expression and my finger pointing into his chest. What ensues is a standard flame war. The cause of this is no secret.
This may seem like an inane question but why don't I see more of a push to get Linux into the realm of academia?
I know that Ubuntu has made strides to incorporate themselves into learning environments but where is the effort to alert students (primarily other than computer science majors) to the benefits of Linux?
When I was a freshman at the University of Minnesota, a friend handed me a CD distribution of Debian that would change my life. I knew of the Linux labs in the University but only now did they interest me. I'm now getting my masters at George Mason University and I don't believe there's a single Linux machine on campus. In fact, the whole Computer Science department has only two Sun servers to offer me an account on! Everything else is Microsoft!
Now you may lay claim that every computer science major these days is running Linux anyway. But how about the other areas of study? I used to take music theory and people would rant and rave about their Macs or one of various composing suites in Windows. I tried explaining that Linux has (certainly more affordable) solutions to offer in this department too but no one would even listen to me. It's not like they were mixing platinum selling records, they were just looking for software to write sheet music with.
I think that both Apple and Microsoft realize that the toys people have in college become the toys they demand in real life. So there are all these efforts to garner the student's interest hoping that they will use them in their careers.
They make it free (which Linux already is), they make it easy and they make it available.
So how about it? Why isn't the Linux community minting install discs and distributing literature on campuses? Why isn't Linux tailoring cheap solutions to K-12 schools that don't have the money for Windows anyway? Why do we risk letting someone leave academia without ever experiencing the real fruits of it?
If you are doing this (and I just don't know about it), what steps have you taken?
Why do the editors of Slashdot feel the need to spin stories so that the headlines read like it's actually news? Someone mentioned this to the press and suddenly it's headlines that they're doing it. Please don't fall victim to the ways of other news providers, that's why I read Slashdot because it's not using shock reporting to get my attention.
Yahoo wants this. You're a tool if you print it like this.
"Stay tuned for a very special local Fox affiliate news report about how just going to school can be harmful for your children. They may already be dead! Find out how at nine."
*remembers the agony*
I blame Jesus.
I was quoting a main character from the movie. It's funny, laugh. Wait a minute, I may be logical and I may be sensible but I am definitely not
I agree with you completely.
In fact, today we are treating many more patients and types of problems through the help of computers.
To me, the phrase "shut down" means to close up shop. I know they didn't do this but it makes me wonder how much have hospitals suffered in capabilities by accepting automation?
Advanced life support system may need to be on the network to send signals. But what about the EKG machine? The intravenous drip? These things should not be dependant on computers yet I know from a friend who works in a hospital that IVs have small computers on them to regulate the flow. I hope to god they are a safely restricted from internet access.
Colt manufactures guns. Man opens fire in public with a Colt pistol. Who's at fault? The shooter, of course.
I don't want to hear any psychology bullshit claiming it's not their fault--that it's society's fault for making them desire more money. I don't want to hear any bullshit that they didn't know what they were doing or the hospital should have had better security. This is an aggressive act against a public service--the internet. Computer savvy students implement code that shuts down many computers for the purpose of advertising profit. They didn't realize what they were doing? Oh, come on. Even if they didn't, it's a valuable lesson and a few less spammers to ruin the world when they graduate. Tough. You like computers? How about five to ten in federal-pound-me-in-the-ass prison?
I'll bet they wished they had enrolled in Computer Ethics 101 before going on this capital venture. As an additional punishment, they should be forced to code software to stop stuff like this from happening and tailor it for medical equipment/computers.
And what kind of intensive care unit is "shut down" when they can't use computers? It's not like their work would have to grind to a stand still. I don't want to sound like a luddite but are we really that dependent on computers? They're medical professionals, I hope they did just shut down and stop working when the computers crashed.
This student is in deep trouble. He chose actions that had grave consequences and now he'll face the charges resulting from those actions.
Inignot: Your stereo is now his stereo by way of my actions.
Shake: Yes meatwad, with actions.
(AP) At the NYSE, soul trading closed down five and a quarter points Friday afternoon. The worth of an average human soul has plummeted recently to a value not seen since the great depression. Disney has been pioneering the movement of trading souls regularly for concepts, legal action or maybe just a few dollars more.
Michael Eisner wasn't competent enough to comment.
Recently I was working on a project that involved an SGI server. It was initially just for simulation but it needed to render LADAR images and also show pretty graphics of planes flying over terrain.
When I got up to present it, I had made a video that captured the output through a capture device of the SGI box. It was a real pain in the ass to capture that in high quality but I did. One of the females in the audience (and it was a large audience) raised her hand and asked me why it looked like shit. I told her that it was because SGI servers concentrate on points of location--not really graphics. She balked at my explanation and kind of scoffed at me for not finding another alternative that sold better. She told me her son's PS2 rendered better graphics than that. I agreed though I said her son's PS2 wasn't concerned about exact locations and LADAR images.
What I'm trying to say is that they've been surpassed in quality.
Oh, and another thing, I had to get these LADAR images across the network onto a Windows machine that was running a webservice. Let me tell you that the support for NTFS and SAMBA servers on SGI servers is really not there anymore. I barely got something to work and that was pretty ganky.
My coworker (who is ten years older than I) told me that those purple boxes used to sell for ~$125k. Now, he says you can pick up the newer ones for around $25k. That's quite the drop in market dominance.
Goodbye SGI, I'm sorry things didn't work out better for you. You lost site of what kept you floating. In the long long ago, I hear tell you made the product. Today, that foothold has crumbled.
People, please, the great grandparent thread has already been purchased in a $5 acquiring by Uwe Bool.
Boll initially tried to make this into a full feature movie but it lacked something mildly important to Boll--a plot line.
He hired round the clock game designers to code up a game called Bust-A-Move VI: The Black Hole. The game consists of the dinosaurs from Bust-A-Move trying to stop a falling black hole by firing balls at it. The first level contains a kill screen scenario which caused critics to pan it.
However, Boll was quoted as saying, "It look good."
In the movie, two dinosaurs have to race against the clock as they try to figure out ways to stop a falling black hole from reaching the earth's core. In many scenes, you can hear in the background Uwe grunting hard as he runs the laws of physics down his leg.
Boll revealed a few key plot points prior to the movie's release and summed them all up into one sentence, "... [the public] wants to see two naked dinosaurs doing it and I won't let them down."
The part of the black hole will be played by Alicia Silverstone's cranium.
Imagine a Venn Diagram with two overlapping circles. One circle is truth, the other is opinion and fiction. Now, any statement made by an individual fits in one of these two circles but is it in the overlapping area?
... but bad-mouthing politicians is all too easy so I'll leave that to someone else.
... say, why not do a webpage instead (even cheaper) and have Wikipedia send a liaison to Congress to record it?
Wikipedia needs to decide whether it should accept those which fall in the middle overlapping area or reject them outright. It seems that for some issues Wikipedia allows the overlapping area (like String Theory) to remain as long as there is a footnote or notation that this is opinion, theoretical or possibly untrue. So perhaps they should make it clear that if a piece of information lies in the overlap, you need to state so or it will be deleted.
Many people put fogs over their past and history is hard to verify. For these people, their biographical entries in Wikipedia may need to be covered with disclaimers saying that very little is verifiable about their background because of the individual's actions and unclear testimonials from people surrounding them. It's a shame that the majority of these people are politicians
Since our political system is divided in a very childish way (two parties), I have always dreamed to see the day that the GPO releases two volumes one year after each president has left office. Each volume would be an account from either side of congress commenting on the actions of the president. The preface could be all public documents proving actions taken by the president while in his presidency. These two books could be made available very cheaply (as a type of public service) and the public could enjoy that for free
Problems and needs are naturally occurring things.
... well, let's just say it won't be long before a problem or need comes along that the standard doesn't fit.
They take on unforeseen forms with non-standard characteristics. If your tool can't solve the problem or satisfy the need, you build a new tool that does. It's the human way.
Likewise, your company can standardize methodologies and practices all it wants. But should they ever standardize the tools they use to solve problems
And then someone might be tempted to work hard at trying to make your standard fix it and work. They might spend hours re-inventing the wheel. And what will that get them?
Why, the ability to say, "Yep, and we did it all with one language."
The customer doesn't care how a solution is created. They care that it works and meets their requirements. Rarely have I seen requirements that read "... and it must all be done in the same language."
I am a computer programmer. I make computing devices do what I want. I will use any tool at my disposal, to hell with my employer's proposed "beneficial" restrictions.
In my dictionary, fatalism is the inability to cope with change. Adapt or fail. I am required to adapt to each new language I learn and I hope I never get rusty at that. Confining employees to one language does just that, it gives them a false sense of security and teaches them to think inside their box.