Comment Re:Of course (Score 1) 287
why only drink and fuck on fridays? =P
What Google's Chromium OS Is Reaching For 216
MojoKid sends in a piece that takes a step back from Google's much-analyzed OS to look at what it is trying to accomplish. "Last week, Google open-sourced its Chromium OS project, more than a year before the operating system is scheduled for release. In doing so, Google hopes a variety of developers and companies will become involved in the project, and has pledged to release regular updates as well as a comprehensive log of bug reports and fixes. This article takes a look at Google's design vision for Chromium, the unique benefits it offers, and a bit of why Google is throwing its hat into this particular ring in the first place. Chromium, after all, is a Linux-based OS entering the smartbook/netbook market at a time when the product segment is already being well served by a variety of Linux distros, XP, and Windows 7. In the midst of all these options, do we need another operating system? We just might."
Comment Re:GOTO ... (Score 1) 269
that would be the JMP instruction. =P
Comment font anti-aliasing?!? (Score 1) 477
In addition to better performance, this technology shift also increases font quality and readability with sub-pixel positioning:
they say "sub-pixel positioning", but the example shows aliased vs. anti-aliased font rendering.... *really*? that's their "closing the gap w/ rivals" strategy? WOW.
Comment Re:It's about social status... (Score 1) 836
math and computer science exercise very similar critical thinking and problem solving skills. not to mention, once you're beyond for loops and object inheritance, *many* areas of computer science boil down to applied mathematics. granted, it's more from discrete math, abstract algebra or diffeq, but you have to learn to walk before you can learn to run.
Comment Re:Lecture Fruit! (Score 1) 475
in college we used to call "ackee" "icky", after an incident where a friend cooked it for a group of us. =P
Comment Re:too old (Score 1) 507
where can you buy an iphone 3gs for $100? here in the states it costs $100 + $70/month*24 months = $1780
Comment Re:TYPO, sorry (Score 1) 458
i second this interpretation. =P
Comment Re:Palm Got What They Deserved (Score 2) 600
Since the main selling point of the Pre was unauthorized iTunes sync. Serves them right.
says who? trust me, the software the phone runs is the "main selling point". i've never even used the itunes syncing feature.
Burglar Logs Into Facebook On Victim's Computer 337
yet-another-lobbyist writes to mention that Facebook addiction has finally caused real world consequences, at least for one would-be burglar. It seems that 19-year-old Jonathan Parker couldn't stay away from the popular social networking site, even long enough to rob a house. Parker not only stopped mid-robbery to check his Facebook status on the victim's computer, but left it logged in to his account when he left.
NVIDIA Predicts 570x GPU Performance Boost 295
Gianna Borgnine writes "NVIDIA is predicting that GPU performance is going to increase a whopping 570-fold in the next six years. According to TG Daily, NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang made the prediction at this year's Hot Chips symposium. Huang claimed that while the performance of GPU silicon is heading for a monumental increase in the next six years — making it 570 times faster than the products available today — CPU technology will find itself lagging behind, increasing to a mere 3 times current performance levels. 'Huang also discussed a number of "real-world" GPU applications, including energy exploration, interactive ray tracing and CGI simulations.'"
Comment Re:damn kids (Score 1) 316
i was a LS-120 fan personally. poor misunderstood superdisk....
Comment Re:Google is IT done right... (Score 1) 217
Oh, and you'll find the commercial world is vastly less impressed by a PhD then you think. Skills are all that matter. A PhD is like a shortwave radio - only other people with a shortwave care, and everyone else thinks you're a little nuts
depends on the sector. writing webapps for fedex? yeah, they don't care. developing an entity recogniser for a question-answering system? or an automated arabic/english translator? or a voice or image recognition algorithm? it starts to be important.
for the record, i don't have mine yet. and i worked for nearly a decade in the corporate and/or DoD space before i even contemplated grad school. (and very glad i did)
Comment Re:Never... (Score 1) 303
it's a shame thinkgeek stopped making that t-shirt. always was one of my favorites.
Comment Re:Google is IT done right... (Score 1) 217
what pipe are you smoking? there was nothing on the market in 1998 even remotely close to being able to handle was google's crawlers and indexers needed.
also, to think google was ignorant of the history of distributed file research is mind-boggling. as you said, it's standard fair in any graduate level CS program. for my school, it was a required course for even the masters.
the beauty of gfs was that it knew *which* constraints in which theories they needed to design for, and which they could simplify for performance reasons. they purposely relaxed what traditionally constitutes a file system to achieve an order of magnitude more scalability than anyone had previously ever been able to achieve.
also, google almost single-handedly made it OK to be a phd in the commercial sector again. (for which i'm eternally grateful) and i would be willing to be they have the world's highest percent-grad-education in their workforce.
