Computers & Technology News Comments 2006-11-21
I wonder if this was a performance contest for a database network protocol or a performance contest for actual SQL performance? They didn’t give out that many details on the actual objective requirements and judging parameters. I bet some company got some great free IP. I wonder if the programmers got to keep a copy of their contest-code and share between each other if they so desire? If not and I particpated in these days of elevated copyright awareness and sueing, I probably would at least get disqualified given my big braggety mouth (and file sharing). Given the short deadline I think it was an SQL contest and it probably would be difficult to copy-out the code, but if I came up with something original (I’m not very good at sneaking), I’d probably have enough conceptual memorization to recreate it from scratch later if I wasn’t too lazy.
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Go open source! Definitly a WIP, with base hub in the UK. Google is rippable if you have a laptop that supports desktop panning (most do) to very high resolutions (not many do, but Alienware Area51m-7700 does), like 5000×5000. Then use Paint Shop Pro’s (ver 5,6,7,8 has it; too lazy to get 10 and try out a bunch of cracks) screen capture feature to screengrab humungous maps and sattelite pics. You could do this at more normal resolutions too, but it sucks for printing (if you want 300dpi), but still better than what you can print directly from google.
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I heard the bad-game count is in the low-200s. Out of 8000, that seems pretty good for any emulator. I guess some fairly mainstream games are among the 200-250 glitchy or non-functional games.
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Go nanotubes! Wonder if the world’s oil refineries can produce enough carbon from the crude oil? Maybe we could use some artificial photosynthesis (solar powered CO2-O2 conversion units; keep the C) units that will use solar panels to breath in CO2 and exhale O2 and mine the carbo for use in carbon-nanotubes and carbon-composites? And then we can have 50 billion people in luxurious VR-kits powered by nanotube-CPUs.
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If it isn’t $40-60 I probably don’t need one. 16x’s are $30-50 (Internal 5.25″). Probably will tolerate a $100-ish price tag for a 24x. A defragmented 5400RPM laptop drive will handle only 10x anyway. I think a 7200RPM SATA drive will handle 16x but not sure about 24x. USB 2.0 drive to internal burner or internal drive to USB 2.0 burner usually only hand 4x (on a hub) to 6x (direct PC port). USB2.0 drives to USB 2.0 burners are 2.4x (hub) to 4x (direct).
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Microsoft released a joke program that could get them sued for millions in these sue-happy days! It is pretty cool though. People who don’t look for corresponding HDD activity (LED or sound) get fooled easily. Being a screen saver, pressing a key should test and spoil the prank too, if you are a victim.
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Looks really cool. I wonder if there will be a generic machine that can read pdf/txt/doc/rtf off of flash media with the same display technology, with no DRM?
