No there shouldn't. I'm typing this message on a notebook computer and I can assure you that all of the critical components (processor, mainboard, etc) are not duplicated anywhere. If the thing were to suddenly have an unrecoverable hard failure, I'd at worst be out of a few hundred dollars. Point is that in a lot of cases, one can simply tolerate the downtime of performing a complete drop-in replacement in the event of failure.
From the article "Officials stressed, however, that no data was lost during the shutdown because of automatic nightly backups at an off-site location" So again, the criminal records system can a.) pay millions for a hot stand-by or say, you know what, when a 100 year old water-main breaks, we're gonna be done for a few days while we restore. My advice.... fuck the stand-by, save millions + recurring power/maintenance costs on something useful.
When IBM came and "created" a standard the standard SUCKED. The 8088 was a terrible CPU with a terrible ISA. Systems like the Atari ST, and Amiga which where cheaper, more powerful, and offered features that MS-DOS wouldn't have for years could never compete.
I think you train/car analogy is almost correct. I'd rather say put it this way... Are you going to sell your car now that your local transport agency provides bus routes past your house? I doubt it. Same thing with "cloud computing". The bus being available is a "service", but it's not a service I choose to use, because I like to be on my own schedule and the bus doesn't drive right by my house, it goes two blocks away, and I'm too lazy to walk the two blocks. The same issue will exist with cloud services. There WILL be lots of them, and everyone will want a slight variation of the exisiting services. I'll want a little laxed security, but with more bandwidth. Someone else will insist on very high security and lower performance. I'll insist on being able to make 2 orders in a batch instead of just the 1 at-a-time the service provides. This will ultimately drive up the cost of the "service providers" and they'll go the way the network computers went. At some super high level, it seems great (as does a lot of stuff), but once it's actually implemeted, people will realize they can do it themselves cheaper with those pc things.
And I'll write the app that creates a chat room and joins all the people who just received the offer, so they can collude and fix the price by all denying the offer. Of course, version 2.0 will require no user intervention. Eventually, I'll just call the power company, threaten to turn on my bank of 100 Air Conditioners, and they offer me free power for the weak in exchange for only using 1. Of course, by then, I've patented the process of extoring energy, whic means I license the process to all of you and I've effectively become the owner of the all the power generting facilities. Steve Jobs, goes on TV claiming, "yes there's an app for that".
Sort of. I have two older macs, a g4 ibook, and a g5 imac. I'd like to do some iphone/ipod hacking and maybe some hacking around with objective-c in general for kicks. To do so, I need an intel mac. BUT, I'm in the market for a new notebook and want one capable of being a all purpose machine, possible even running some vm software. i.e. run windows as a guest in a vm. To do this, I need something moderately powerful, and for the base price of a 13" macbook pro $1199, I could get a pretty powerful p.c... likely for a lot less. I do agree, I went into BestBuy the other day, and the macbook pros are wihtout a doubt nicer than the rest of the stuff on display.
I would also suggest applying your specific knowledge you may have gained in your experience working as a night guard. How many people writing code can say they know first-hand what it's like to work that job? Try building something like a time tracking tool for nigh watchman or some other app that may be useful for your job. Try applying basic object oriented design to to the project too. It may prove entertaining to you to model, in software, the things you are familiar with in real life. E.g. you can have a class called "Nightguard" and an instance for all the people you work with, and then finalize() the ones you don't like.
- mark-compact generational GC (ObjC one is a conservative mark & sweep, which means that it's both slower and suffers more from heap fragmentation)
Mono currently does not have a compacting garbage collector. One is in the works, and can be included as an unsupported feature when building from source.
I disagree. I've had the same yahoo.com address for a really long time and am not about to switch to something else simply because some other online email provider has become poplular. I belive that if you're working with someone dumb enough to make a professional assesment based on the domain of your email address, well... you go work for those guys, because they're probably a bunch of dumb shits. So let me put it this way. If you're interviewing someone for a job which email would you be most inclined to think represents the more "professional" person:
JoeStrummer@aol.com or
Pharmboy@tanningbeds4less.com
My guess is that it will be revealed to have been Bill G himself. This whole philanthropy thing is a cloak for his obsession with stealing html and changing the style sheets. Isn't that essentially how the web was built?
T-Mobile already has droid phones. I bought an HTC Magic with android 1.6 from craigslist. The phone WILL NOT operate without a sim card. On bootup, it just sits and says no sim card. The only thing you can do is dial 911. I went to t-mobile, and they gave me the same as verizon. I had to get the most expensive plan they could dream up. I paid $60.00 to get a SIM card and now I have a droid phone and no lock-in. Since I didn't get any subsidized phone from them, I have no contract. Now from here you can do a couple things.
1. You can get an unlock code. This apparently removes the t-mobile lock-in. I've never don't it, but I'm almost certainly going to try it.
2. You can "root" it. This allows you to take any droid image and flash in onto the phone. I've have absolutely no experience with doing this, but there are articles on the web with detailed instructions.
* I don't know if 1 is required to do 2.
If you want to phone for hacking, I just laid out the plan for you. Buy one used from ebay or craigslist or wherever, get a month-to-month SIM card (if you don't already have one). and you're off and running.
One more thing. All these posts about how verizon sucks with their cancellation fees, nickel-and-diming you for everything, making it impossible to figure out what you're going to be charged for is exactly what these people want to turn the web into.
Anyone who has ever been to Lowe's home improvement store will quickly recognize that the terminals all over the place are running OS/2. I'm cure it's probabl eComStation or whatever they call now... I swear I saw it at Bed-Bath-And-Beyond also, another chain retailer that sells household stuff. I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for Warp.
Or just post your messages as a reply in some forum like slashdot. Most people would probably mod up some random garble as either funny or interesting thinking it was some cryptogram.
I doubt any of these patents have anything to do with a gaming console. We all read how much money it takes to enter the console gaming market. The console are subsidized, etc. Apple is into big margins not paying you to buy their stuff and make it up later.
My guess is that all these patents are just interesting ideas by engineers at apple. Anyone who's worked for a tech company with money knows they pay you to file patents. And every jack-ass in sight is busy cranking them out for that extra few grand every year. Besides, the patents are intentionally vague to make it harder to understand what the fuck they're talking about. Notice how the article starts making assumptions as to what they're actually saying. Proof-in-point, they're supposed to be hard to figure out. This way the patent covers as board of a range as possible, therefore, making it more valuable.
As far as the hiring of the gaming execs and chip designers. I don't know, maybe they're there to beef up the hand-held gaming on iphones and ipod touches. That's more likely than a console.
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Do these two numbers actually differ by one bit? 0x0000000000001a70 0x401a70 It looks to me like a byte is getting zero'd somewhere. Bad ram.
Ya, but it still looks really cool.
Considering the current price, the NASA folks just assumed that Macs included "Space Storm Resiliency". (Unibody models only).
No there shouldn't. I'm typing this message on a notebook computer and I can assure you that all of the critical components (processor, mainboard, etc) are not duplicated anywhere. If the thing were to suddenly have an unrecoverable hard failure, I'd at worst be out of a few hundred dollars. Point is that in a lot of cases, one can simply tolerate the downtime of performing a complete drop-in replacement in the event of failure. From the article "Officials stressed, however, that no data was lost during the shutdown because of automatic nightly backups at an off-site location" So again, the criminal records system can a.) pay millions for a hot stand-by or say, you know what, when a 100 year old water-main breaks, we're gonna be done for a few days while we restore. My advice.... fuck the stand-by, save millions + recurring power/maintenance costs on something useful.
When IBM came and "created" a standard the standard SUCKED. The 8088 was a terrible CPU with a terrible ISA. Systems like the Atari ST, and Amiga which where cheaper, more powerful, and offered features that MS-DOS wouldn't have for years could never compete.
sort of like the iPad and printing?
I think you train/car analogy is almost correct. I'd rather say put it this way... Are you going to sell your car now that your local transport agency provides bus routes past your house? I doubt it. Same thing with "cloud computing". The bus being available is a "service", but it's not a service I choose to use, because I like to be on my own schedule and the bus doesn't drive right by my house, it goes two blocks away, and I'm too lazy to walk the two blocks. The same issue will exist with cloud services. There WILL be lots of them, and everyone will want a slight variation of the exisiting services. I'll want a little laxed security, but with more bandwidth. Someone else will insist on very high security and lower performance. I'll insist on being able to make 2 orders in a batch instead of just the 1 at-a-time the service provides. This will ultimately drive up the cost of the "service providers" and they'll go the way the network computers went. At some super high level, it seems great (as does a lot of stuff), but once it's actually implemeted, people will realize they can do it themselves cheaper with those pc things.
And I'll write the app that creates a chat room and joins all the people who just received the offer, so they can collude and fix the price by all denying the offer. Of course, version 2.0 will require no user intervention. Eventually, I'll just call the power company, threaten to turn on my bank of 100 Air Conditioners, and they offer me free power for the weak in exchange for only using 1. Of course, by then, I've patented the process of extoring energy, whic means I license the process to all of you and I've effectively become the owner of the all the power generting facilities. Steve Jobs, goes on TV claiming, "yes there's an app for that".
Sort of. I have two older macs, a g4 ibook, and a g5 imac. I'd like to do some iphone/ipod hacking and maybe some hacking around with objective-c in general for kicks. To do so, I need an intel mac. BUT, I'm in the market for a new notebook and want one capable of being a all purpose machine, possible even running some vm software. i.e. run windows as a guest in a vm. To do this, I need something moderately powerful, and for the base price of a 13" macbook pro $1199, I could get a pretty powerful p.c... likely for a lot less. I do agree, I went into BestBuy the other day, and the macbook pros are wihtout a doubt nicer than the rest of the stuff on display.
I would seriously like a serious opinion from other people. Are apple's machines, in particluar their notebooks overpriced?
I would also suggest applying your specific knowledge you may have gained in your experience working as a night guard. How many people writing code can say they know first-hand what it's like to work that job? Try building something like a time tracking tool for nigh watchman or some other app that may be useful for your job. Try applying basic object oriented design to to the project too. It may prove entertaining to you to model, in software, the things you are familiar with in real life. E.g. you can have a class called "Nightguard" and an instance for all the people you work with, and then finalize() the ones you don't like.
- mark-compact generational GC (ObjC one is a conservative mark & sweep, which means that it's both slower and suffers more from heap fragmentation)
Mono currently does not have a compacting garbage collector. One is in the works, and can be included as an unsupported feature when building from source.
I disagree. I've had the same yahoo.com address for a really long time and am not about to switch to something else simply because some other online email provider has become poplular. I belive that if you're working with someone dumb enough to make a professional assesment based on the domain of your email address, well... you go work for those guys, because they're probably a bunch of dumb shits. So let me put it this way. If you're interviewing someone for a job which email would you be most inclined to think represents the more "professional" person: JoeStrummer@aol.com or Pharmboy@tanningbeds4less.com
Sounds a little like the "Hitler Youth" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Youth
What about a hand job, do you want it to do that too?
Apparently you've never served in the military. Most people are in their early to mid twenties. Hardly "grown ups".
My guess is that it will be revealed to have been Bill G himself. This whole philanthropy thing is a cloak for his obsession with stealing html and changing the style sheets. Isn't that essentially how the web was built?
Unless they release the signing keys, you won't be able to install anything on it.
I'll save this quote for a later date. :)
Ya, and some guy will post step-by-step instructions on the web on how to flash a clean ubuntu install onto and I'll remove your adware garbage.
T-Mobile already has droid phones. I bought an HTC Magic with android 1.6 from craigslist. The phone WILL NOT operate without a sim card. On bootup, it just sits and says no sim card. The only thing you can do is dial 911. I went to t-mobile, and they gave me the same as verizon. I had to get the most expensive plan they could dream up. I paid $60.00 to get a SIM card and now I have a droid phone and no lock-in. Since I didn't get any subsidized phone from them, I have no contract. Now from here you can do a couple things. 1. You can get an unlock code. This apparently removes the t-mobile lock-in. I've never don't it, but I'm almost certainly going to try it. 2. You can "root" it. This allows you to take any droid image and flash in onto the phone. I've have absolutely no experience with doing this, but there are articles on the web with detailed instructions. * I don't know if 1 is required to do 2. If you want to phone for hacking, I just laid out the plan for you. Buy one used from ebay or craigslist or wherever, get a month-to-month SIM card (if you don't already have one). and you're off and running. One more thing. All these posts about how verizon sucks with their cancellation fees, nickel-and-diming you for everything, making it impossible to figure out what you're going to be charged for is exactly what these people want to turn the web into.
Build a Man a Fire, and He'll Be Warm for a Day, Teach a mean to build his own fire and ruin a perfectly good business opportunity.
Anyone who has ever been to Lowe's home improvement store will quickly recognize that the terminals all over the place are running OS/2. I'm cure it's probabl eComStation or whatever they call now... I swear I saw it at Bed-Bath-And-Beyond also, another chain retailer that sells household stuff. I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for Warp.
Or just post your messages as a reply in some forum like slashdot. Most people would probably mod up some random garble as either funny or interesting thinking it was some cryptogram.
you'd probably just tweak the tcp stack to flip between two modes. normal and fakey nack.
There's apparently now analog to this when using a mac since the internet always works when using a mac, and mac users are smarter.
I doubt any of these patents have anything to do with a gaming console. We all read how much money it takes to enter the console gaming market. The console are subsidized, etc. Apple is into big margins not paying you to buy their stuff and make it up later. My guess is that all these patents are just interesting ideas by engineers at apple. Anyone who's worked for a tech company with money knows they pay you to file patents. And every jack-ass in sight is busy cranking them out for that extra few grand every year. Besides, the patents are intentionally vague to make it harder to understand what the fuck they're talking about. Notice how the article starts making assumptions as to what they're actually saying. Proof-in-point, they're supposed to be hard to figure out. This way the patent covers as board of a range as possible, therefore, making it more valuable. As far as the hiring of the gaming execs and chip designers. I don't know, maybe they're there to beef up the hand-held gaming on iphones and ipod touches. That's more likely than a console.