Actually, I believe you meant "This is not a good development for the US." The rest of us think being able to detect your stealth bombers is actually a good thing since it decreases the risk of your leaders deciding to "liberate" us for one reason or another (I'm in northern europe so this is unlikely but it is still nice to have some way of detecting possible threats).
Where are you from? Europe? If it weren't for the U.S., you'd be living under a communist dictatorship since WWII. The U.S. is far from perfect, but it still is the military protector of democracy.
Why is this flamebait? I feel the same way. I move around quite a bit and I'm sick and tired of Doctors not understanding my history when I try to explain the prior tests and lab results.
Thats because the majority of people in Japan don't have PCs and 20" flat-panel LCDs to browse a rich web environment. Yes, that is a generalization...but my Japanese friends tell me that a very very large percentage of the population do not own computers. Their sole method of communication is via small handsets...even at home. Maybe I am not mobile enough, but my computer does the heavy lifting for surfing the web and my cellular phone is for making phone calls. Call me old school.
The problem is that computer architecture research funding is drying up. DARPA no long funds it. NSF funding is there, but sparse. Intel makes lots of money off of university innovations and they could help out a little more.
Absolutely. DARPA is no longer funding broad projects in computer science and engineering. The NSF currently does not have enough funding to pick up the slack, so this is a great thing for researchers in computing. In general, Republicans are better for computing research (i.e. more applicable) than Democrats (who prefer finding a cure for cancer).
You think the U.S. Government will openly admit that the Middle East conflicts are all about a resource war? Throughout the last 2000 years, wars are usually fought over land and resources. Things are no different today, except that we will not admit it and instead cook up reasons (i.e., WMD).
Yes, taking care of citizens surely is the antithesis of "forward" progress. Oh, that silly congress!
Live in a big city in some of the shadier parts of town. Your opinion of welfare will change. Happened to me. I used to be a bleeding heart liberal until I was immersed in the lazy filth for 4 years.
You sound a bit envious. I don't own an iPhone, but after playing with a friends for an hour or so, I'm astounded by the usability of the device. The screen is amazingly sharp, the interface is intuitive, and Safari works very well.
I don't know why China and India shouldn't bear so much of the burden of the Kyoto Protocol. Oh, hang on, perhaps because they are poor, thrid world countries perhaps.
By your logic, we should give China and India a free ticket to pollute until they become first-world countries with a CO2/capita footprint the same as the U.S. Then they an abide by the rest of the world's regulations and try to change the way-of-live of their entire population-- all doing so without crashing their first-world economy that they built up by polluting like the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries.
I would happily buy a MacBook if it had the pointing_stick/nipple/TrackPoint/etc (the thing that sits between the G and H keys to move the mouse pointer).
I've been using Vista for 6 months now. I upgraded my XP Media Center edition. Upgrade took a long time, but everything works. No crashes. It is plenty stable and fast. I like the UI and especially the multimedia tools for photo and video. The only annoyance I've noticed is that DivX software likes to trigger the "Cancel or Allow" thingy.
I really hope AMD survives because then we are effectively down to a single commodity processor company. But AMD is struggling to survive. I don't care what the fanboys say, just look at their financial numbers. Third quarter in a row with massive losses. Intel opened the door a bit when they faltered with their Pentium4/Itanium strategy. But the door is swinging back shut. Nobody can keep pace with Intel on process technology...they will be ahead of the curve for the forseeable future. AMD is on such a tight-rope that they cannot afford a single mistake or major delay. Since acquiring ATI, nVidia has nearly all of the laptop chipset sales. You wonder if AMD overpaid for ATI. The "wow" factor that came with Opteron is not there with Barcelona. I'm skeptical...
Reminds me of the late 90s where AOL's crashing mail servers ended up bringing down my universities server (and many other organizations) because of the surge of load when AOL came back online and started sending backlogged mail.
My project recently switched from BitKeeper (Torvalds preferred system before the license issues) to SVN. BitKeeper is a nice system and I think it is better if you have a good development process. For my project with less than 10 developers and with a loose process, SVN is the better tool. SVN allows updates to single files and this really comes in handy whereas BitKeeper forces _everything_ as atomic changesets. For example, if a global.h in the trunk gets updated with new parameters and I only want to incorporate the changes to this file in a branch, it is no problem. But in BitKeeper, I could only make this update if a) the changes to global.h where the only changes in the ChangeSet, and b) if no other changesets were pushed prior to the trunk. BitKeeper does *not* allow cherry-picking of Changesets. I've tried doing so with scripts and patch files, but it is messy at best.
Russia is the same way. For example, Kiev Cameras are just Hasselblad clones.
When Ballmer claims that Linux is like communism, he may have a point. Before you mod me as a troll, consider that it is a clone (copy) of Unix and that KDE/Gnome rip off so many features from Windows its not even funny. How about some true innovation?
As FairPlay has proved, DRM technology does not have to be perfect in order to be effective. If DRM prevents 99.99% of users from pirating movies, then it is a success.
A family member has run a toner remanufacturing business for nearly 20 years now. They have a filtration system in the room where cartridges are stripped down to pieces, rebuilt, and then refilled. But the room is still filthy even with fancy filtration. In the next room over, they have about 20 laser printers for testing, but no special filtration.
In the 20 years of doing this, not one of their employees has had any lung problems.
Are you kidding? Of course you can use your Ipod with a Linux computer. There's Amarok (music app), KIO slaves for filesystem integration, GTKPod (dedicated Ipod client), Banshee (another music app) etc. Who needs Itunes?
I buy music through iTunes. Can I do that with all these Linux programs I've never heard of? And then there is the issue of Joe Newbie who installed Ubuntu because his friend told him it was leet. He goes to www.apple.com to download iTunes to sync music with his iPod. Of course he won't find what he is looking for and will resort to Googling "Linux iPod" to find some hackish pages about using hackish programs.
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Actually, I believe you meant "This is not a good development for the US." The rest of us think being able to detect your stealth bombers is actually a good thing since it decreases the risk of your leaders deciding to "liberate" us for one reason or another (I'm in northern europe so this is unlikely but it is still nice to have some way of detecting possible threats).
Where are you from? Europe? If it weren't for the U.S., you'd be living under a communist dictatorship since WWII. The U.S. is far from perfect, but it still is the military protector of democracy.
Why is this flamebait? I feel the same way. I move around quite a bit and I'm sick and tired of Doctors not understanding my history when I try to explain the prior tests and lab results.
Thats because the majority of people in Japan don't have PCs and 20" flat-panel LCDs to browse a rich web environment. Yes, that is a generalization...but my Japanese friends tell me that a very very large percentage of the population do not own computers. Their sole method of communication is via small handsets...even at home. Maybe I am not mobile enough, but my computer does the heavy lifting for surfing the web and my cellular phone is for making phone calls. Call me old school.
The problem is that computer architecture research funding is drying up. DARPA no long funds it. NSF funding is there, but sparse. Intel makes lots of money off of university innovations and they could help out a little more.
Absolutely. DARPA is no longer funding broad projects in computer science and engineering. The NSF currently does not have enough funding to pick up the slack, so this is a great thing for researchers in computing. In general, Republicans are better for computing research (i.e. more applicable) than Democrats (who prefer finding a cure for cancer).
You think the U.S. Government will openly admit that the Middle East conflicts are all about a resource war? Throughout the last 2000 years, wars are usually fought over land and resources. Things are no different today, except that we will not admit it and instead cook up reasons (i.e., WMD).
I doubt it...likely a local decision made at the local office in Israel. No doubt this Google manager is in for a shitstorm from the Mother Ship.
Yes, taking care of citizens surely is the antithesis of "forward" progress. Oh, that silly congress!
Live in a big city in some of the shadier parts of town. Your opinion of welfare will change. Happened to me. I used to be a bleeding heart liberal until I was immersed in the lazy filth for 4 years.
You sound a bit envious. I don't own an iPhone, but after playing with a friends for an hour or so, I'm astounded by the usability of the device. The screen is amazingly sharp, the interface is intuitive, and Safari works very well.
I don't know why China and India shouldn't bear so much of the burden of the Kyoto Protocol. Oh, hang on, perhaps because they are poor, thrid world countries perhaps.
By your logic, we should give China and India a free ticket to pollute until they become first-world countries with a CO2/capita footprint the same as the U.S. Then they an abide by the rest of the world's regulations and try to change the way-of-live of their entire population-- all doing so without crashing their first-world economy that they built up by polluting like the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries.
Macs lack a TrackPoint. Its a show-stopper for me. Dell Latitude and Thinkpads have them.
I would happily buy a MacBook if it had the pointing_stick/nipple/TrackPoint/etc (the thing that sits between the G and H keys to move the mouse pointer).
I can't stand the Trackpad.
Just look at the job postings:
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/egr/408676278.html
I've been using Vista for 6 months now. I upgraded my XP Media Center edition. Upgrade took a long time, but everything works. No crashes. It is plenty stable and fast. I like the UI and especially the multimedia tools for photo and video. The only annoyance I've noticed is that DivX software likes to trigger the "Cancel or Allow" thingy.
I really hope AMD survives because then we are effectively down to a single commodity processor company. But AMD is struggling to survive. I don't care what the fanboys say, just look at their financial numbers. Third quarter in a row with massive losses. Intel opened the door a bit when they faltered with their Pentium4/Itanium strategy. But the door is swinging back shut. Nobody can keep pace with Intel on process technology...they will be ahead of the curve for the forseeable future. AMD is on such a tight-rope that they cannot afford a single mistake or major delay. Since acquiring ATI, nVidia has nearly all of the laptop chipset sales. You wonder if AMD overpaid for ATI. The "wow" factor that came with Opteron is not there with Barcelona. I'm skeptical...
Reminds me of the late 90s where AOL's crashing mail servers ended up bringing down my universities server (and many other organizations) because of the surge of load when AOL came back online and started sending backlogged mail.
My project recently switched from BitKeeper (Torvalds preferred system before the license issues) to SVN. BitKeeper is a nice system and I think it is better if you have a good development process. For my project with less than 10 developers and with a loose process, SVN is the better tool. SVN allows updates to single files and this really comes in handy whereas BitKeeper forces _everything_ as atomic changesets. For example, if a global.h in the trunk gets updated with new parameters and I only want to incorporate the changes to this file in a branch, it is no problem. But in BitKeeper, I could only make this update if a) the changes to global.h where the only changes in the ChangeSet, and b) if no other changesets were pushed prior to the trunk. BitKeeper does *not* allow cherry-picking of Changesets. I've tried doing so with scripts and patch files, but it is messy at best.
The year of the desktop has come and past. The desktop is dying.
Vista's fully-indexed search is worth the upgrade IMHO. I'm not an organized guy and I need help with finding my docs.
Russia is the same way. For example, Kiev Cameras are just Hasselblad clones.
When Ballmer claims that Linux is like communism, he may have a point. Before you mod me as a troll, consider that it is a clone (copy) of Unix and that KDE/Gnome rip off so many features from Windows its not even funny. How about some true innovation?
As FairPlay has proved, DRM technology does not have to be perfect in order to be effective. If DRM prevents 99.99% of users from pirating movies, then it is a success.
A state-of-the-art MRI or CT scanner cost upwards of $5 million. $40,000? Easily within the reach of even your local general practitioner.
But using sound to create an image? This is exactly what an ultrasound does.
Western Europe would be communist if it weren't for all the intervention by the U.S.
A family member has run a toner remanufacturing business for nearly 20 years now. They have a filtration system in the room where cartridges are stripped down to pieces, rebuilt, and then refilled. But the room is still filthy even with fancy filtration. In the next room over, they have about 20 laser printers for testing, but no special filtration.
In the 20 years of doing this, not one of their employees has had any lung problems.
Are you kidding? Of course you can use your Ipod with a Linux computer. There's Amarok (music app), KIO slaves for filesystem integration, GTKPod (dedicated Ipod client), Banshee (another music app) etc. Who needs Itunes?
I buy music through iTunes. Can I do that with all these Linux programs I've never heard of? And then there is the issue of Joe Newbie who installed Ubuntu because his friend told him it was leet. He goes to www.apple.com to download iTunes to sync music with his iPod. Of course he won't find what he is looking for and will resort to Googling "Linux iPod" to find some hackish pages about using hackish programs.