But the other day, we got an urgent request from our support team to come up with a decent fix in 48 hours. I think they're a tiny bit unrealistic.
Well, we really can't answer that question with knowing how big the problem is. If it's an embarrassing typo on a dialog box, then 48 hours is reasonable. If it's a windows vista security patch, then 48 days would be unrealistic.
For some reason though we need to have live coverage as the polls close to find out who wins. It really doesn't matter all that much.
And it makes people further West on election day feel like their vote doesn't count. Think about poor Hawaii! Why would anyone there bother to go to the ballot box?
"Colossus marked the beginning of the modern age of computing, a heritage that we are planning to preserve by raising £6m to establish a world-class facility at Bletchley Park," said Tony Sale, co-founder of the National Museum of Computing.
Watch out! Don't connect that thing to the internet -- your 40 year old version of Norton won't be any good. Wouldn't want to turn six million pounds into just another botnet zombie:)
In the question and answer period following the screening, an Iraq veteran said he had pledged to protect his country "from all enemies foreign and domestic" and viewed the issues of voting machines as a domestic threat to voters across the country.
It's very nice to hear of a soldier truly understanding the role of patriotism and protection in America these days. Well done, Sir.
From the article: Democratic presidential candidates Barack Obama, Chris Dodd and Joe Biden all oppose granting immunity to the carriers. Other Democratic candidates, including Hillary Clinton, have not stated a position on immunity for telecom carriers.
No surprise there, seeing as Clinton won't give us an opinion on anything
Why would anyone vote for immunity for the telcos when we don't even know what they did wrong? Who in their right mind would excuse someone without knowing the crime?
I try to be a fan of as few things as possible, and instead buy on the technical merit.
In defense of the fan: always purchasing on technical merit is time consuming. If you value time more, and have had a good track record with a company, then I see no reason not to be a fan.
Getting an error on the first page, I clicked through for the full video on the page (http://video.aol.com/video/news-switched-shirky/2011535) and got an error message: "We're sorry, but this video is not available in your area." I didn't realize that AOL had to ship the video to England in order for me to see it. I guess I just don't understand how the internet works.
the robot seemed to hold its own--until its compensation software was turned off. "The difference was huge," Kamler says. "It was virtually impossible [for it] to tie a knot."
Well, you try turning off some vital part of the human surgon and see how well he does.
The human surgon did very well until we removed his eyes. "The difference was huge," said the robotic overload. "Not only could he barely tie a knot, but he also couldn't stop screaming."
From the article: The refrigerator-sized machine stored just 5Mb of data. Hoagland's PowerPoint presentation on the restoration project, at 9.16MB, would have crashed it.
I'll bet that the old guys who wrote it were smart enough to actually check the size of a file before copying it -- you know, actually worrying about resource management. Not like these young pups who think that CPU speeds and hard disk space are so large as to be infinite and not worth bothering with.
From the article: One of the first microprocessors on the market, the Intel 4004 introduced in 1971, featured 4-bit computing, a 750KHz clock, completed 75,000 instructions per second, held 4KB of ROM and 640 bytes of RAM.
"By today's standards, this is totally unremarkable," said Tim McNerney
Unremarkable is a 5-year old processor. But when things are the first of their kind, they will always be remarkable by any standard.
As a physics teacher in the UK, I didn't think things could get any lower. I wrote an article on how crap the new science syllabus is that's gotten a lot of attention. Glad to hear that they think the tests should be easier. Perhaps they should look at the test that I made up as an example.
Honestly, how hard is it to sign up for a facebook account now.
It's not hard like Fermat's last theorem hard, but there is some psychological resistance to overcome in signing up for the hundredth throw away account. Also, there is a certain amount of rudeness in putting up content in a walled garden that you then expect others to look at and comment on, even if they are not in the network themselves.
Then it will ship, after a four year development cycle (see, we beat Vista's development time!) and it will be wash rinse and repeat as people actually see it and realize it is Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows XP, Windows Vista all over again.
Yes, but Windows 8 is going to address that issue.
Microsoft is scoping Windows 7 development to a three-year time frame...
Somehow I think, like Visa, this will take a hell of a lot longer than expected. Anyone else think that MS will have to endure lots of we'll-see-it-in-seven-years jokes?
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But the other day, we got an urgent request from our support team to come up with a decent fix in 48 hours. I think they're a tiny bit unrealistic.
Well, we really can't answer that question with knowing how big the problem is. If it's an embarrassing typo on a dialog box, then 48 hours is reasonable. If it's a windows vista security patch, then 48 days would be unrealistic.
-Grey
And it makes people further West on election day feel like their vote doesn't count. Think about poor Hawaii! Why would anyone there bother to go to the ballot box?
-Grey
"Colossus marked the beginning of the modern age of computing, a heritage that we are planning to preserve by raising £6m to establish a world-class facility at Bletchley Park," said Tony Sale, co-founder of the National Museum of Computing.
:)
Watch out! Don't connect that thing to the internet -- your 40 year old version of Norton won't be any good. Wouldn't want to turn six million pounds into just another botnet zombie
-Grey
In the question and answer period following the screening, an Iraq veteran said he had pledged to protect his country "from all enemies foreign and domestic" and viewed the issues of voting machines as a domestic threat to voters across the country.
It's very nice to hear of a soldier truly understanding the role of patriotism and protection in America these days. Well done, Sir.
-Grey
From the article: Democratic presidential candidates Barack Obama, Chris Dodd and Joe Biden all oppose granting immunity to the carriers. Other Democratic candidates, including Hillary Clinton, have not stated a position on immunity for telecom carriers.
No surprise there, seeing as Clinton won't give us an opinion on anything
-Grey
Why would anyone vote for immunity for the telcos when we don't even know what they did wrong? Who in their right mind would excuse someone without knowing the crime?
-Grey
In defense of the fan: always purchasing on technical merit is time consuming. If you value time more, and have had a good track record with a company, then I see no reason not to be a fan.
-Grey
Getting an error on the first page, I clicked through for the full video on the page (http://video.aol.com/video/news-switched-shirky/2011535) and got an error message: "We're sorry, but this video is not available in your area." I didn't realize that AOL had to ship the video to England in order for me to see it. I guess I just don't understand how the internet works.
-Grey
the robot seemed to hold its own--until its compensation software was turned off. "The difference was huge," Kamler says. "It was virtually impossible [for it] to tie a knot."
Well, you try turning off some vital part of the human surgon and see how well he does.
The human surgon did very well until we removed his eyes. "The difference was huge," said the robotic overload. "Not only could he barely tie a knot, but he also couldn't stop screaming."
-Grey
Someone needs to take a thermodynamics class
From the article: The refrigerator-sized machine stored just 5Mb of data. Hoagland's PowerPoint presentation on the restoration project, at 9.16MB, would have crashed it.
I'll bet that the old guys who wrote it were smart enough to actually check the size of a file before copying it -- you know, actually worrying about resource management. Not like these young pups who think that CPU speeds and hard disk space are so large as to be infinite and not worth bothering with.
-Grey
From the article: One of the first microprocessors on the market, the Intel 4004 introduced in 1971, featured 4-bit computing, a 750KHz clock, completed 75,000 instructions per second, held 4KB of ROM and 640 bytes of RAM.
"By today's standards, this is totally unremarkable," said Tim McNerney
Unremarkable is a 5-year old processor. But when things are the first of their kind, they will always be remarkable by any standard.
-Grey
True, but I bet you'd like the doctor on call at the local hospital to get the call right away.
-Grey
Quick Sir, get yourself to a hospital, you are suffering from RAS syndrome!
-Grey
Right, that, or it can lead to a happy marriage.
As a physics teacher in the UK, I didn't think things could get any lower. I wrote an article on how crap the new science syllabus is that's gotten a lot of attention. Glad to hear that they think the tests should be easier. Perhaps they should look at the test that I made up as an example.
-Grey
If you think that Europe is a bastion of future scientists, think again. (At least for England)
Grey
Just like metric!
-Grey
It's not hard like Fermat's last theorem hard, but there is some psychological resistance to overcome in signing up for the hundredth throw away account. Also, there is a certain amount of rudeness in putting up content in a walled garden that you then expect others to look at and comment on, even if they are not in the network themselves.
-Grey
There are better locks in the third world because there *have to be*.
-Grey
Get a 3M Ergonomic Mouse. I switched to one two months ago when I started a project to reduce my RSI and it's worked great. -Grey
At this stage I would pay the people behind Duke Nukem Forever to release anything just so I don't have to read any more Duke Nukem Forever jokes.
-Grey
Yes, but Windows 8 is going to address that issue.
-Grey
Microsoft is scoping Windows 7 development to a three-year time frame...
Somehow I think, like Visa, this will take a hell of a lot longer than expected. Anyone else think that MS will have to endure lots of we'll-see-it-in-seven-years jokes?
-Grey
On a German plain...
-Grey