Very true. not only that... learning to program really helps to teach you about how a computer works. you come to understand its abilities and its limitations and this can help you not only when writing a new program but also when using someone elses program (or OS). Suddenly you don't expect the computer to do the impossible... you arent intimidated by applications because you know how to write them (even if your skills are limited).
People using computers without understanding them is why IT budgets are so big... if we had a workforce that learned how computers actually work just the way the learned how algebra actually works we would probably see much greater productivity in our work force as people wouldn't always be waiting for someone else to figure things out and spoon feed the ideas to them.
well yea... but I have been using macs for over 2 decades... that doesnt mean that they arent more popular now than they were 10 years ago.
I think the original poster has a point... it definitly seems like there are more customized cars in the last few years as compared to the last decade as a whole. I would say this probably has to do with no only "the fast and the furious" but probably also the TV shows like "Pimp my ride" and "american hot rod" and all those. its definitely a growth market.
So when the New york times quotes a book in its book review section in order to attract readers so that they can sell add space on that page they are also violating the copyright?
People do this stuff all the time... the only reason anyone is getting up in arms is because google is trying to do it with every book. If what google is doing now is illegal then book reviews also cannot excerpt from a book and that whole web search thing? well there is no real difference between the IP on a web page and that of a book so you can pretty much stop doing that too...
100 years ago we wouldnt be having this conversation... even if the technology to do what google is doing suddenly appeared...
and most likely... if it went the other way around the guy from washington that bought a tax free computer in oregon is technically supposed to report that on his state tax return and pay his state tax on it.
at least thats the way it works here in mass... not that anyone actually does it..
there phone business is a buggy whip manufacturer though... lets say that ford had been a big manufacturer of buggy whips when they started pumping out cars... they didnt like how cars were cutting into their buggy whip profits so they charge everyone who buys one of their cars for a buggy whip as well whether they use it or not....
now ford isnt the only car company in town (and SBC isnt the only broadband provider... nor is DSL the only broadband technology) so people stop buying fords with their Buggy whip surcharge and go buy some other car, or maybe a motorcycle for their transportation.
sure... there are towns where SBC provides Broadband and the cable company doesn't, but if SBC starts charging their customers more, or cutting off their customers access to the services they want because those services wont pay a "use fee" all of a sudden there will be a big market for cable modems in those towns... and even if they arent provided right now it would provide just the kind of business opportunity that a cable company would be looking for to justify starting to grow a broadband business.
this could screw people in more remote locations for whom SBC is the only game in town... but even that would be temporary.
this kind of thing would only work if all the broadband providers (or at least most of them) got together and colluded to extort money from the big content and service providers like google and vontage
so Big content provider signs up with ISP "A" and pays them to let the content provider ship bits out onto the internet and to the consumers.
the consumers pay ISP "B" big money to let them recieve bits of content from the content provider.
this is not an unbalanced situation... it doesnt matter which way the bits are flowing only that they are flowing... neither ISP could exist without the other... if ISP "B" cuts off trafic from the content provider their customers will have no reason to keep using their service and big contetnt provider will have no reason to pay ISP "A" to let them ship bits out as there will be nobody to recieve them and we all go back to mail order catalogs and porno magazines...
this is just ridiculous... and I have little doubt it would fail... SBC tries this and they become AOL back in the bad old days, limited access to content based on who would pay them, except in this case without customer service or any content of their own... no content provider is going to pay their tax and their broadband customer base would dry up.
but hey... if they can convince all the content providers to pay them a tax on their customer base, then more power too them... I doubt they will get much out of this though...
oh come on now... you expect the mainstream media to report heavily on an OS and a web browser that havent been released yet? yea... they "may" be released next year or they may be bumped another 6 months to a year out.
Apple has been releasing new product at a mile a minute and grabbed tons of headline space announcing the move to intel... in the same time Microsoft hasn't released much but a few betas of the new system... how many articles did you see about OS 10.4 over a year before it was released.
Simply by the nature of apple being a hardware and software company as well as leading the portable music player industry means they release a lot more product than Microsoft does (much of Microsoft's release aren't even aimed at the average user... the mainstream media isn't going to report on the latest version of.NET or IIS)
Microsoft will have its own little flurry of releases and it will get corresponding press...
was that bradbury's TV show or outer limits? I remember seeing that episode... pretty decent... except the aliens were dinosaurs for some inadequately explained reason... that was rather odd.
the real threat to TIVO isnt that its relatively small customer base will dry up... its that new DVR customers are going to be more likely to get their DVR from their cable/sat provider and never give TIVO a first look... after all... why buy a box when you can get one from your cable company... sure, its like 7 bucks a month... but the TIVO subscription is more than that and you generally have to buy a box.
I dont think their superior interface will carry the day.
of course this is probably the reason that they agreed to write software for the comcast boxes... it is unlikely that they would succeed as competition so why not make your money selling their quality interface.
I had a motorola cell phone in the late 80's and you know what? It SUCKED. Why? because it was big, bulky and heavy... the sound quality was terrible and you could rarely get service anywhere. Carrying it around was more tiring than lugging around a traditional phone.
Cell phones are a stupid idea and so is any thing that has ever been tried before with inferior technology.
but with current housing prices going through the roof, it's financially prudent to rent as oppose to paying mortgage right now.
you know... people have been saying this around new england since my parrents first bought into the area in the mid 80s. the housing market had been going up for a long time and was way above its historical levels. every one told my parrents not to buy, to wait it out... but they bought anyway.
the housing market hasnt taken more than a slight dip since... its been pretty much the highest rate of return you can get at least in this area.
now thats not to say that this couldn't change any day now, but people have been saying it for 20 years and it hasn't happened. if you have the money to buy and the ability to hold your property (ie ride out dips in the market and not selling the first time your house is worth slightly less than it was a year ago) its probably not a bad idea to buy a home.
you could rent for a lifetime waiting for a "market correction"
nevermind the fact that your PHD holder could probably go get a job teaching highschool math of physics (including AP level classes) and get paid more than 30k per year.
I think it is unlikely that the market for skilled programmers in this country will fall below the level of a teachers salary, unless there are significant changes in a teachers starting salary.
yea... but if you think about it for about 10 seconds, what is the data that tells your computer that the word document you just finished editing is in the "My documents" folder? its metadata... there is nothing specific in the document (or data) itself that determines the files location on a hard drive.
thats all just automatic categorization of generic files via metadata.
basically all hierarchies are automatically generated via metadata of one kind or another.
in addition, I think you could probably find prior art that specifically used music metadata to create a hierarchical representation... but I don't have the time or energy to do so.
Im sorry... im going to have to ask you to leave. your clearly thinking critically about your post before you type it up and submit it... we cant let this kind of behavior stand.
besides... its making the other posters uncomfortable.
either shape up and start posting reactionary drivel or find a more appropriate website to post on:-)
That's why Fox News is #1 in cable news. They tell Americans how great Americans are and how pathetic every one else is and thats what Americans want to hear, along with how right the right is and how pathetic everyone else is.
see... this is misleading... Fox news is the #1 cable news network because the group of americans that likes to waste their day watching 24 hour repeats of the same crap over and over again like to hear how great america is.
the rest of us... you know... the ones that go to work every day... we dont watch 24 hour news channels on a regular or even semi regular basis. it seems likely that we are in the majority.
the thing is that the Japanese are experts at taking our big, expensive, untenable technology demonstrations and turning them into far more efficient, marketable economic successes down the road.
what if they cut the cost to fly in half or even better with modern technology and mass production? I would not be surprised to find out that a huge chunk of the cost of flying the concord was on the ground support and maintenance... something the Japanese excel at. that would make it quite marketable especially for the long trips that business people are often forced to take (regularly) across the pacific (which is far more of a bear of a flight than transatlantic)
Just because something isnt being done right now... or has not been profitable in the past does not mean that it will never be feasible in the future. What if people had given up on the car back when they were too expensive to be bought by anyone but the upper-class elite?
while this is true I think you would find it still quite economical for travel across the Pacific. Unlike the run from say, New york to Paris, the run from New york to Tokyo is very long. Even after the time spend accelerating and decelerating you would spend a large amount of time at cruising speeds taking less fuel and saving your passengers a ton of travel time.
The real question is, what does it cost to build and maintain these panes.
I think you misunderstand me... as I understood the question the job was to design an in car coffee maker and the respondent did that... sounded like he did a pretty good job too.
but their complaint was that it wasnt wirelessly linked up to an alarm clock, which would be a requirement that should be outlined at the begining of the design phase... not a feature that you should expect an engineer to include.
although if you look at the evey app does every thing bloatware audited that Microsoft has maybe this isnt so surprising.
Im just saying that a wireless hookup to your alarm is a breathtakingly stupid feature... not that I wouldnt build it if that was the requirement... but in this case he was supposed to come up with that feature on his own.
his failure to do so is not an indication of his lack of skill as an engineer.
if the idea is to get you going in the morning faster than you dont want the coffee maker in the car. Nobody goes from hitting the alarm clock to being in the car in less time then it takes for coffee to brew... plus you would have to have gone out to the car the night before to make sure you had water and coffee in the maker.
a remote wireless coffee maker is a great idea, but it belongs next to your door so you can grab the cup on the way out after you put on some damn pants!
that question is unbelievably stupid... or at least their expected answer is.
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Very true. not only that... learning to program really helps to teach you about how a computer works. you come to understand its abilities and its limitations and this can help you not only when writing a new program but also when using someone elses program (or OS). Suddenly you don't expect the computer to do the impossible... you arent intimidated by applications because you know how to write them (even if your skills are limited).
People using computers without understanding them is why IT budgets are so big... if we had a workforce that learned how computers actually work just the way the learned how algebra actually works we would probably see much greater productivity in our work force as people wouldn't always be waiting for someone else to figure things out and spoon feed the ideas to them.
well yea... but I have been using macs for over 2 decades... that doesnt mean that they arent more popular now than they were 10 years ago.
I think the original poster has a point... it definitly seems like there are more customized cars in the last few years as compared to the last decade as a whole. I would say this probably has to do with no only "the fast and the furious" but probably also the TV shows like "Pimp my ride" and "american hot rod" and all those. its definitely a growth market.
So when the New york times quotes a book in its book review section in order to attract readers so that they can sell add space on that page they are also violating the copyright?
People do this stuff all the time... the only reason anyone is getting up in arms is because google is trying to do it with every book. If what google is doing now is illegal then book reviews also cannot excerpt from a book and that whole web search thing? well there is no real difference between the IP on a web page and that of a book so you can pretty much stop doing that too...
100 years ago we wouldnt be having this conversation... even if the technology to do what google is doing suddenly appeared...
our whole concept of IP is throughly broken...
and most likely... if it went the other way around the guy from washington that bought a tax free computer in oregon is technically supposed to report that on his state tax return and pay his state tax on it.
at least thats the way it works here in mass... not that anyone actually does it..
there phone business is a buggy whip manufacturer though... lets say that ford had been a big manufacturer of buggy whips when they started pumping out cars... they didnt like how cars were cutting into their buggy whip profits so they charge everyone who buys one of their cars for a buggy whip as well whether they use it or not....
now ford isnt the only car company in town (and SBC isnt the only broadband provider... nor is DSL the only broadband technology) so people stop buying fords with their Buggy whip surcharge and go buy some other car, or maybe a motorcycle for their transportation.
sure... there are towns where SBC provides Broadband and the cable company doesn't, but if SBC starts charging their customers more, or cutting off their customers access to the services they want because those services wont pay a "use fee" all of a sudden there will be a big market for cable modems in those towns... and even if they arent provided right now it would provide just the kind of business opportunity that a cable company would be looking for to justify starting to grow a broadband business.
this could screw people in more remote locations for whom SBC is the only game in town... but even that would be temporary.
this kind of thing would only work if all the broadband providers (or at least most of them) got together and colluded to extort money from the big content and service providers like google and vontage
sounds like this guy should really lay off the pipe for a while...
so Big content provider signs up with ISP "A" and pays them to let the content provider ship bits out onto the internet and to the consumers.
the consumers pay ISP "B" big money to let them recieve bits of content from the content provider.
this is not an unbalanced situation... it doesnt matter which way the bits are flowing only that they are flowing... neither ISP could exist without the other... if ISP "B" cuts off trafic from the content provider their customers will have no reason to keep using their service and big contetnt provider will have no reason to pay ISP "A" to let them ship bits out as there will be nobody to recieve them and we all go back to mail order catalogs and porno magazines...
this is just ridiculous... and I have little doubt it would fail... SBC tries this and they become AOL back in the bad old days, limited access to content based on who would pay them, except in this case without customer service or any content of their own... no content provider is going to pay their tax and their broadband customer base would dry up.
but hey... if they can convince all the content providers to pay them a tax on their customer base, then more power too them... I doubt they will get much out of this though...
oh come on now... you expect the mainstream media to report heavily on an OS and a web browser that havent been released yet? yea... they "may" be released next year or they may be bumped another 6 months to a year out.
Apple has been releasing new product at a mile a minute and grabbed tons of headline space announcing the move to intel... in the same time Microsoft hasn't released much but a few betas of the new system... how many articles did you see about OS 10.4 over a year before it was released.
Simply by the nature of apple being a hardware and software company as well as leading the portable music player industry means they release a lot more product than Microsoft does (much of Microsoft's release aren't even aimed at the average user... the mainstream media isn't going to report on the latest version of
Microsoft will have its own little flurry of releases and it will get corresponding press...
was that bradbury's TV show or outer limits? I remember seeing that episode... pretty decent... except the aliens were dinosaurs for some inadequately explained reason... that was rather odd.
still... cant remember the name...
the real threat to TIVO isnt that its relatively small customer base will dry up... its that new DVR customers are going to be more likely to get their DVR from their cable/sat provider and never give TIVO a first look... after all... why buy a box when you can get one from your cable company... sure, its like 7 bucks a month... but the TIVO subscription is more than that and you generally have to buy a box.
I dont think their superior interface will carry the day.
of course this is probably the reason that they agreed to write software for the comcast boxes... it is unlikely that they would succeed as competition so why not make your money selling their quality interface.
I had a motorola cell phone in the late 80's and you know what? It SUCKED. Why? because it was big, bulky and heavy... the sound quality was terrible and you could rarely get service anywhere. Carrying it around was more tiring than lugging around a traditional phone.
Cell phones are a stupid idea and so is any thing that has ever been tried before with inferior technology.
but with current housing prices going through the roof, it's financially prudent to rent as oppose to paying mortgage right now.
you know... people have been saying this around new england since my parrents first bought into the area in the mid 80s. the housing market had been going up for a long time and was way above its historical levels. every one told my parrents not to buy, to wait it out... but they bought anyway.
the housing market hasnt taken more than a slight dip since... its been pretty much the highest rate of return you can get at least in this area.
now thats not to say that this couldn't change any day now, but people have been saying it for 20 years and it hasn't happened. if you have the money to buy and the ability to hold your property (ie ride out dips in the market and not selling the first time your house is worth slightly less than it was a year ago) its probably not a bad idea to buy a home.
you could rent for a lifetime waiting for a "market correction"
nevermind the fact that your PHD holder could probably go get a job teaching highschool math of physics (including AP level classes) and get paid more than 30k per year.
I think it is unlikely that the market for skilled programmers in this country will fall below the level of a teachers salary, unless there are significant changes in a teachers starting salary.
dude... mod this guy up... ON WEED!!!
yea... but if you think about it for about 10 seconds, what is the data that tells your computer that the word document you just finished editing is in the "My documents" folder? its metadata... there is nothing specific in the document (or data) itself that determines the files location on a hard drive.
thats all just automatic categorization of generic files via metadata.
basically all hierarchies are automatically generated via metadata of one kind or another.
in addition, I think you could probably find prior art that specifically used music metadata to create a hierarchical representation... but I don't have the time or energy to do so.
Im sorry... im going to have to ask you to leave. your clearly thinking critically about your post before you type it up and submit it... we cant let this kind of behavior stand.
besides... its making the other posters uncomfortable.
either shape up and start posting reactionary drivel or find a more appropriate website to post on
That's why Fox News is #1 in cable news. They tell Americans how great Americans are and how pathetic every one else is and thats what Americans want to hear, along with how right the right is and how pathetic everyone else is.
see... this is misleading... Fox news is the #1 cable news network because the group of americans that likes to waste their day watching 24 hour repeats of the same crap over and over again like to hear how great america is.
the rest of us... you know... the ones that go to work every day... we dont watch 24 hour news channels on a regular or even semi regular basis. it seems likely that we are in the majority.
you can have one
http://www.bikemenu.com/turbine.html
not a great link, but the first I came up with... these things seem pretty cool if impractical.
the thing is that the Japanese are experts at taking our big, expensive, untenable technology demonstrations and turning them into far more efficient, marketable economic successes down the road.
what if they cut the cost to fly in half or even better with modern technology and mass production? I would not be surprised to find out that a huge chunk of the cost of flying the concord was on the ground support and maintenance... something the Japanese excel at. that would make it quite marketable especially for the long trips that business people are often forced to take (regularly) across the pacific (which is far more of a bear of a flight than transatlantic)
Just because something isnt being done right now... or has not been profitable in the past does not mean that it will never be feasible in the future. What if people had given up on the car back when they were too expensive to be bought by anyone but the upper-class elite?
while this is true I think you would find it still quite economical for travel across the Pacific. Unlike the run from say, New york to Paris, the run from New york to Tokyo is very long. Even after the time spend accelerating and decelerating you would spend a large amount of time at cruising speeds taking less fuel and saving your passengers a ton of travel time.
The real question is, what does it cost to build and maintain these panes.
dont forget the sq. footage (meterage?) in a building for the person to work in, as well as the cost of heating and cooling that space!
depends on if he dies immideately after replaying the 12 hours...
roll back or not if you spent the last 12 hours of your life on WOW then you certainly did waste it
am I supposed to be impressed that it insalls on a machine that was only 3 years old when win2000 came out.
I think you misunderstand me... as I understood the question the job was to design an in car coffee maker and the respondent did that... sounded like he did a pretty good job too.
but their complaint was that it wasnt wirelessly linked up to an alarm clock, which would be a requirement that should be outlined at the begining of the design phase... not a feature that you should expect an engineer to include.
although if you look at the evey app does every thing bloatware audited that Microsoft has maybe this isnt so surprising.
Im just saying that a wireless hookup to your alarm is a breathtakingly stupid feature... not that I wouldnt build it if that was the requirement... but in this case he was supposed to come up with that feature on his own.
his failure to do so is not an indication of his lack of skill as an engineer.
that is unbelievably silly!
if the idea is to get you going in the morning faster than you dont want the coffee maker in the car. Nobody goes from hitting the alarm clock to being in the car in less time then it takes for coffee to brew... plus you would have to have gone out to the car the night before to make sure you had water and coffee in the maker.
a remote wireless coffee maker is a great idea, but it belongs next to your door so you can grab the cup on the way out after you put on some damn pants!
that question is unbelievably stupid... or at least their expected answer is.