Correct, companies that are experiencing (or anticipating) exponential growth in revenue grow their hardware by a similar amount. Hardware is replacing assembly line workers, in some industries, as the cost of production that has to scale with the size of business. Imagine if the same thing was said about a car company and assembly line workers? People would automatically know that exponential growth, or disasterous overreaching, were coming. But fuzz the logic by refering to computers and suddenly an assinine statement becomes news.
Damn social scientists unable to distingush correlation and causation.
Umm... the point is, if I let the telco turn off bluetooth filesharing (not headsets, they want to sell you those), they give you the phone at a discount, because they assume that you will use their over the air rather than learn how to plug a USB cable into your computer.
And where are your statistics coming from. My telco service is a great deal. I always have full connectivity, my cell phone was dirt cheap even after getting the various necessary add-ons. Granted I don't have GPS and don't use the web, so I cannot speak for it, but I don't really have a need for either of those anyway. I don't want a laptop/phone, as it will then be a crappy version of each (see the iPhone, too large for a phone, too keyboardless for a computer).
For example - When I taught physics, drawing a conclusion from a graph or statistical results, but failing to provide an equation or the work or all of the data that one used to come up to such a conclusion resulted in a failing grade. Period.
Did you teach me physics? Seriously though, what's the point of this principle, to prevent cheating? I understand the need to include the unanalyzed data, but why do I have to explain relatively simple things, especially to my physics professor? Example: If I have mass, initial velocity, final velocity and delta t, why not just state the impulse?
I never was able to understand that.
One time, I fell asleep on the last question of a problem set. While passed out, I dreamt the answer, dictated by green elves (go subconscious!) Unfortunately, when I turned it in, along with my work (passed out, had subconscious present the answer in the form of hallucinated green elves,) I got 0 points. What's wrong with work like that?
Yet nothing is more useless than an old copy of Windoze.
Several problems. You claim that old versions of Windows are useless because they are tied to specific hardware. So, I presume you are anticipating driver issues. How is this Windows's fault any more than the lack of Linux drivers is Linux's fault? I have a Win 95 box (well, laptop) used to play old games. I have an XP box used for newish games, and testing apps I write. I have a Vista box for ubernew games (still waiting on one of those worth buying actually), and compatibility testing apps I write. So, I suppose I disagree with your nortion that they are uselss.
Interestingly, you complain about emulation, and while I agree with you, it should be noted that even Apple was unable to make a good OS9 emulator for OSX. I just want to point out the difficulties involved.
Nonsense. I fondly remember many middle school afternoons playing D&D going into the forest and grinding against gradually larger and larger boars until I eventually hit level 20 and fought dragons.
Change from when? I went to Poland *scribbles on back of an envelope* in 1992 (+/- a year). No one seemed to care then in-country either (don't recall customs).
Not to be overly pedantic, parent and GP are discussing two seperate issues (I suggest we drop abortion from the topic of discussion.) True, rights are applied to a larger group of people, but the set of rights is smaller. To some degree this is inevitable (a woman/slave gaining rights means their husband/father/owner can no longer beat them as a "right"). But even in 1840, in the South, the idea that a person (then defined to include, white men above 21, now meaning any mentally functionally over 18 and emancipated minors) would have to show papers to travel would violate some notion of rights.
I live in America. I have an uncrippled phone, because I opted to buy my own. I could either buy an uncrippled phone, or let the telco subsidize my purchase, but they want to cripple the phone so I would end up paying more money in the long term. Ultimately, I decided that to replace my uncrippled phone with one crippled in ways I didn't care about, but that was superior in other ways.
Let's be clear, you can bitch about the loss of rights companies force on you. Just be prepared to pay full-price for those things. Alternatively, you can buy a phone where they cripple the bluetooth, just use USB to move things, and say, "Hey, bluetooth isn't worth $150 to me to buy an uncrippled version."
The brand-new dual-core system I built a few months ago totters off to sleep but never returns. I have to cold-start it to bring it back. This after replacing virtually every driver inside.
This is a driver issue. I'm using a Vista notebook, and the sleep/hibernate just work. The only issue I've noticed with networking and sleep mode is it not flushing the old networks automatically, at least promptly.
Keep in mind, hibernate, and sleep as well, depending on what devices they try to shut down, need to deal with drivers as well as RAM states.
But to be honest, my laptop takes about the same time to wake from sleep mode than my comprably sized LCD monitor.
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Walk into any high school and ask the history teachers why the War of 1812 was fought. I bet 99% of them will give some non-reasoning answer like "because the British attacked us," rather than the real answer: Britain was trying to keep American hemp out of France, in order to cripple the French navy.
Interesting example. Did you know that after a state of war was officially entered into, the British offered to remove their embargo that was preventing US ships from selling hemp to the French?
What about the impressment of American sailors, or the occassional skirmishes with Canada (an English holding) as alternate causes?
Also, your last point doesn't make sense three ways. You can buy hemp rope now. Hemp != marijuana (trying smoking hemp, it's a lot like smoking cotton.) A better example to achieve you aim would be to state, without elaboration, that Washington and Jefferson used to grow cannibus.
According to Einstein's special theory of relativity, it would require an infinite amount of energy to accelerate any object beyond the speed of light.
Disclaimer: IANAP, and it's actually two questions...
Doesn't the special theory of relativity say to accelerate an object to light speed, not past it, and making it a limit that can never slow things moving quickly below it? Therefore, starting with photons (already moving at the speed of light) is cheating.
Isn't the SToR premised on the idea that nothing can travel faster than light. In other words, invoking it to say it breaks the laws of science begs the question.
They just want complete and total tracking over who reads the articles so they can measure their worth in ad dollars. Much like music, except they pretend that it is so the artists can be compensated for every person who hears the music.
Copyright becomes trackingright to squeeze every possible cent out of the work. If you dare come up with a new way to derive enjoyment from a work, they'll seek ways to ensure they get paid for that too.
Knowing how many people view their content seems like a reasonable goal for a content creator. Whether for bragging rights, the ability to get interviews/demos, or even, the third hated level of ads, it seems like the main reason that people create freely available web content is so that other people will see it, and they will know that other people are seeing it.
And for what it's worth, as long as the tracking isn't personally identifiable, I'd rather the ads support pages I like keeping them up and running and letting other sites die from a (relative) lack of popularity.
ft. The problem with these "market penetration" schemes is that they don't do you any good unless you can convert that penetration into profit, and Microsoft haven't yet shown any ability to do this, despite running a great many penetration schemes in a great many different markets.
You fail to understand MS's brilliance. The XBox, Zune, etc don't need to make money, because they keep people locked into the OS, (and in the 360's case, argue for upgrading). Mostly they need to prevent other people from achieving any kind of foothold that can curve back. And since consoles are starting to become computers hooked to TVs (although I keep my Console as a Console and my PC connected to the TV the web srufing machine), MS needs that market not to go to someone else. iPods gave Apple more cachet, which is dangerous, etc.
P.S. I know I put a typo in surfing, but I don't believe in backtracking to fix typos.
If Big Brother wants to know your spending habbits they just need a warent and pull your bank information.
Hah, the jokes on you. The only withdrawals I make from the bank are to pay for housing/utilities/ATMs/Credit Cards. Now, if they pulled my Visa bill...
Most of those 93 warning labels aren't there to actually warn you about anything, they're there to reduce the manufacturer's legal exposure to the lawsuits of stupid people. Though in the case of 245mW lasers, you might consider paying attention to them.
I was wondering if I ever injured myself using a product where the one non-intuitive/important warning was #47/93 or so, if I could sue them for FUBARing my S/N ratio, thus eliminating the efficacy of that warning.
the defense industry needs to eat, too! What, you expect them to go out of business in times of peace?
Don't forget, the defense industry includes many varied things like school lunches for poor children and inner city technical education. At least in the US
You can crash IE? Really? With a webpage? Who would have thought?
I have yet to use a browser that cannot be crashed with a webpage (except for Opera *eyes glitter*). And the list includes IE, FireFox, and Safari on Max.
My mayor ran on the promising of "fixing any pothole within 24 hours of discovery." Of course the roads are still filled with potholes. Turns out, it was 24 hours of any confirmed pothole, which is trivially easy as the pothole confirmation team is as slow/backed up as the pothole filling team.
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Most websites I go to extol their collection of rare, lone(ly) stars near me, and even offer to put me in direct contact with them. Take that SETI.
No, my Bob Sagat stock will plummet. SELL SELL SELL.
Correct, companies that are experiencing (or anticipating) exponential growth in revenue grow their hardware by a similar amount. Hardware is replacing assembly line workers, in some industries, as the cost of production that has to scale with the size of business. Imagine if the same thing was said about a car company and assembly line workers? People would automatically know that exponential growth, or disasterous overreaching, were coming. But fuzz the logic by refering to computers and suddenly an assinine statement becomes news.
Damn social scientists unable to distingush correlation and causation.
Umm... the point is, if I let the telco turn off bluetooth filesharing (not headsets, they want to sell you those), they give you the phone at a discount, because they assume that you will use their over the air rather than learn how to plug a USB cable into your computer.
And where are your statistics coming from. My telco service is a great deal. I always have full connectivity, my cell phone was dirt cheap even after getting the various necessary add-ons. Granted I don't have GPS and don't use the web, so I cannot speak for it, but I don't really have a need for either of those anyway. I don't want a laptop/phone, as it will then be a crappy version of each (see the iPhone, too large for a phone, too keyboardless for a computer).
Did you teach me physics? Seriously though, what's the point of this principle, to prevent cheating? I understand the need to include the unanalyzed data, but why do I have to explain relatively simple things, especially to my physics professor? Example: If I have mass, initial velocity, final velocity and delta t, why not just state the impulse?
I never was able to understand that.
One time, I fell asleep on the last question of a problem set. While passed out, I dreamt the answer, dictated by green elves (go subconscious!) Unfortunately, when I turned it in, along with my work (passed out, had subconscious present the answer in the form of hallucinated green elves,) I got 0 points. What's wrong with work like that?
Several problems. You claim that old versions of Windows are useless because they are tied to specific hardware. So, I presume you are anticipating driver issues. How is this Windows's fault any more than the lack of Linux drivers is Linux's fault? I have a Win 95 box (well, laptop) used to play old games. I have an XP box used for newish games, and testing apps I write. I have a Vista box for ubernew games (still waiting on one of those worth buying actually), and compatibility testing apps I write. So, I suppose I disagree with your nortion that they are uselss.
Interestingly, you complain about emulation, and while I agree with you, it should be noted that even Apple was unable to make a good OS9 emulator for OSX. I just want to point out the difficulties involved.
Nonsense. I fondly remember many middle school afternoons playing D&D going into the forest and grinding against gradually larger and larger boars until I eventually hit level 20 and fought dragons.
Isn't that how everyone else played?
Hey, if you're going to steal identities, why not go for the gold?
*ducks*
Change from when? I went to Poland *scribbles on back of an envelope* in 1992 (+/- a year). No one seemed to care then in-country either (don't recall customs).
Not to be overly pedantic, parent and GP are discussing two seperate issues (I suggest we drop abortion from the topic of discussion.) True, rights are applied to a larger group of people, but the set of rights is smaller. To some degree this is inevitable (a woman/slave gaining rights means their husband/father/owner can no longer beat them as a "right"). But even in 1840, in the South, the idea that a person (then defined to include, white men above 21, now meaning any mentally functionally over 18 and emancipated minors) would have to show papers to travel would violate some notion of rights.
I live in America. I have an uncrippled phone, because I opted to buy my own. I could either buy an uncrippled phone, or let the telco subsidize my purchase, but they want to cripple the phone so I would end up paying more money in the long term. Ultimately, I decided that to replace my uncrippled phone with one crippled in ways I didn't care about, but that was superior in other ways.
Let's be clear, you can bitch about the loss of rights companies force on you. Just be prepared to pay full-price for those things. Alternatively, you can buy a phone where they cripple the bluetooth, just use USB to move things, and say, "Hey, bluetooth isn't worth $150 to me to buy an uncrippled version."
It's actually more freedom in the US.
Interesting example. Did you know that after a state of war was officially entered into, the British offered to remove their embargo that was preventing US ships from selling hemp to the French?
What about the impressment of American sailors, or the occassional skirmishes with Canada (an English holding) as alternate causes?
Also, your last point doesn't make sense three ways. You can buy hemp rope now. Hemp != marijuana (trying smoking hemp, it's a lot like smoking cotton.) A better example to achieve you aim would be to state, without elaboration, that Washington and Jefferson used to grow cannibus.
Disclaimer: IANAP, and it's actually two questions...
Knowing how many people view their content seems like a reasonable goal for a content creator. Whether for bragging rights, the ability to get interviews/demos, or even, the third hated level of ads, it seems like the main reason that people create freely available web content is so that other people will see it, and they will know that other people are seeing it.
And for what it's worth, as long as the tracking isn't personally identifiable, I'd rather the ads support pages I like keeping them up and running and letting other sites die from a (relative) lack of popularity.
A way to have the intuitive easy to use GUI of Photoshop spread to applications I use more often.
You fail to understand MS's brilliance. The XBox, Zune, etc don't need to make money, because they keep people locked into the OS, (and in the 360's case, argue for upgrading). Mostly they need to prevent other people from achieving any kind of foothold that can curve back. And since consoles are starting to become computers hooked to TVs (although I keep my Console as a Console and my PC connected to the TV the web srufing machine), MS needs that market not to go to someone else. iPods gave Apple more cachet, which is dangerous, etc.
P.S. I know I put a typo in surfing, but I don't believe in backtracking to fix typos.
I've never tried Lynx. I suppose if you're suggesting it you think its worth a look?
Hah, the jokes on you. The only withdrawals I make from the bank are to pay for housing/utilities/ATMs/Credit Cards. Now, if they pulled my Visa bill...
I was wondering if I ever injured myself using a product where the one non-intuitive/important warning was #47/93 or so, if I could sue them for FUBARing my S/N ratio, thus eliminating the efficacy of that warning.
Any reasonably competent dentist (of whatever variet(y/ies) makes crowns) could give you fangs. They just wouldn't let you suck blood.
Don't forget, the defense industry includes many varied things like school lunches for poor children and inner city technical education. At least in the US
I have yet to use a browser that cannot be crashed with a webpage (except for Opera *eyes glitter*). And the list includes IE, FireFox, and Safari on Max.
My mayor ran on the promising of "fixing any pothole within 24 hours of discovery." Of course the roads are still filled with potholes. Turns out, it was 24 hours of any confirmed pothole, which is trivially easy as the pothole confirmation team is as slow/backed up as the pothole filling team.