Yeah when I bought my panel I was choosing between a couple in the LG range, 42" of either 1080 or 768.
Getting the (reluctant) salesman to play the 1080p demo disk thru the 768 tv, and then sitting back where my couch would be clearly demonstrated that a 1080p screen wasnt necessary (especially at twice the price). I couldn't tell with motion, there was only slightly less detail in stills.
1080p is a waste of cash, the 768 panels do decent enough downsampling.
The average customer probably sees that its not worth it over DVD. They probably haven't heard of, and don't give two shits about DRM.
Well, you see the earth weighs around 6 * 10^21 tonnes.
Shoving a 10 tonne counterweight 60ks in orbit is going to shift the center of mass of the earth about 10^-19m.
I'd be a leetle more worried about the 10^20 tonnes of moon causing our orbit to wobble. I know its been around for a lot of 10000 year periods, but... does that mean we're due for a horrible disaster?
I was going to revert a removal of a popular ORM tool in the "List of VS Addins". Turns out someone with a vendetta has expunged all references to it, and added it to some spam list.
Oddly enough the AU$250 eeeeepc manages to fit XP on its flash. I have NFI why the OLPC people can't fit it to be honest - back when I had XP installed I remember upgrading to a staggering 6gb drive and being amazed that I didn't have to juggle game installs any more;)
Once again, you're used to a far better standard of Internet than these children.
Hah. I'm from Australia. Our internet speeds are as low as our population density.:(
Sounds like you are advocating DRM on the laptop;) TBH what is needed is a decent recovery partition with either OS.
I honestly dont think that having to download a package to program is an unnecessary hurdle. *shrug*
Its not a big deal to me - I see this as an idealistic argument, not a practical one. At the moment MS has enough money to spend giving out laptops... call it marketing. If its MS's "marketing" budget that gets disadvantaged kids learning tools then I don't really care.
People in Africa need pencils and paper. I have no problem with Coca-Cola dumping a whole lot of branded crap over there.
I'd be calling superior access controls on XP personally. Especially things like the registry tree having ACLs on every node - thats like being able to permission up every section of a file in/etc individually.
What I found easier was a crappy guide to C I found in the library. There was no damn way I could understand even the most trivial of applications. Its not like I was going to be pulling my kernel apart...
I was on DOS, with a copy of DJGPP. I had no interest in the source to the compiler, or the OS. I had enough trouble with basic pointers when I was starting off.
TBH, its probably better that they tinker with coding on Windows, and they install a more tinkerable OS when they skill up a bit. Otherwise we're just going to end up with a bunch of bricks. Seriously, back when I had the time to be playing with other OS's I was forced to reinstall plenty of times, due to messing up some bloody config file.
The quickest way you are going to turn a 14 year old kid into someone who is interested in programming, is to give them a copy of bloody Windows and XNA Game Studio.
Let them deal with the idealistic crap later, if they feel it. Shit do we really have to be software missionarys jamming religion down their throat?
Makes me imagine a bunch of Christians: "Hey natives, you can have running water and irrigation! But you have to sit in church on sundays and real the true gospel of stallman". Want to help these kids? Keep your damn ideology to yourself.
Excellent point. Any kid that is at all interested in hacking it is going to dual boot. Its not like every kid in Peru would otherwise suddenly going to pick up the code and start hacking it.
I take them. Gives me a great insight into their coding practices.
A few contracts ago I was tasked with "adding a column to a table" for their "DVD Library" application. That showed me that they used some shitty code-generator to build some horribly inflexible middle tier ("industry best practices"), which had to be tweaked by hand ("dynamic"), that the coding conventions sucked cocks ("best practices again.." i'm kinda lost), and that I really didn't want to work there.
So I completed it, and submitted it with a short note saying that I was not interested in an offer.
Home repair is fun anyway. I'm actually sad I was too busy to tile my back room - laying tiles looked pretty damn relaxing.
Fixing walls and things is fun. The key is to grow some balls and realise its damn hard to screw up and damn easy to fix anything you do with a little bit of research. Plaster = fun. Powertools (especially nailguns) = fun.
I sanded and sealed 250sqm of floorboards. I suggest getting a pro in to do the sealing though - the chemical crap is just annoying to work with.
Mozilla runs a for-profit company (selling branded crap) as well as the non-profit Foundation. They have worked long and hard building up a legion of fanboys to the Firefox brand. The number of Firefox fans pretty much places a value on Mozilla corp as a whole - Google is happy to pay its $60m a year to own their online souls^W^W^W^W be their search provider - so thats an indication of how much the brand is worth.
The difference is that Mozilla is running a business, building and milking a community. I doubt theres another OSS product with a strong enough brand that would be worth protecting atm (or from someone with the foresight/intent of making a profit from their efforts).
Why the hell would the 'average user' care about an EULA?
Besides, Mozillas design decisions revolve around 'What would be best for Google?'. Quite rightly too, its not like 'the community' is paying the bills. They're just for free advertising and crap skins.
The planning committee has considered your proposal, and has found that it violates Zoning Law 22. We have no choice but to deny your application to compete with us. Bwahahahaha! Its good to be king!
This is why the people making the rules don't get to play as well.
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If you cant afford a 2 gig stick of ram you can't afford the power to run a computer. Or food.
Get a job, hippy.
Yeah when I bought my panel I was choosing between a couple in the LG range, 42" of either 1080 or 768.
Getting the (reluctant) salesman to play the 1080p demo disk thru the 768 tv, and then sitting back where my couch would be clearly demonstrated that a 1080p screen wasnt necessary (especially at twice the price). I couldn't tell with motion, there was only slightly less detail in stills.
1080p is a waste of cash, the 768 panels do decent enough downsampling.
The average customer probably sees that its not worth it over DVD. They probably haven't heard of, and don't give two shits about DRM.
Quite easily. Its just finding a nugget of unobtanium in the exact shape you want that is the difficult part :P
Well, you see the earth weighs around 6 * 10^21 tonnes.
Shoving a 10 tonne counterweight 60ks in orbit is going to shift the center of mass of the earth about 10^-19m.
I'd be a leetle more worried about the 10^20 tonnes of moon causing our orbit to wobble. I know its been around for a lot of 10000 year periods, but... does that mean we're due for a horrible disaster?
So we don't have to build it as long?
BONUS!
Seconded. Why should anyone else besides a bunch of blindly patriotic flag waving rednecks give a toss?
I was going to revert a removal of a popular ORM tool in the "List of VS Addins". Turns out someone with a vendetta has expunged all references to it, and added it to some spam list.
Gday ;)
I bet you are one of those bastards that gets more than the 4mbit I get out of my dsl2 :P
Oddly enough the AU$250 eeeeepc manages to fit XP on its flash. I have NFI why the OLPC people can't fit it to be honest - back when I had XP installed I remember upgrading to a staggering 6gb drive and being amazed that I didn't have to juggle game installs any more ;)
Once again, you're used to a far better standard of Internet than these children.
Hah. I'm from Australia. Our internet speeds are as low as our population density. :(
Sounds like you are advocating DRM on the laptop ;) TBH what is needed is a decent recovery partition with either OS.
I honestly dont think that having to download a package to program is an unnecessary hurdle. *shrug*
Its not a big deal to me - I see this as an idealistic argument, not a practical one. At the moment MS has enough money to spend giving out laptops... call it marketing. If its MS's "marketing" budget that gets disadvantaged kids learning tools then I don't really care.
People in Africa need pencils and paper. I have no problem with Coca-Cola dumping a whole lot of branded crap over there.
I'd be calling superior access controls on XP personally. Especially things like the registry tree having ACLs on every node - thats like being able to permission up every section of a file in /etc individually.
What I found easier was a crappy guide to C I found in the library. There was no damn way I could understand even the most trivial of applications. Its not like I was going to be pulling my kernel apart...
I was on DOS, with a copy of DJGPP. I had no interest in the source to the compiler, or the OS. I had enough trouble with basic pointers when I was starting off.
TBH, its probably better that they tinker with coding on Windows, and they install a more tinkerable OS when they skill up a bit. Otherwise we're just going to end up with a bunch of bricks. Seriously, back when I had the time to be playing with other OS's I was forced to reinstall plenty of times, due to messing up some bloody config file.
Depends on who is doing the raping?
Sign me up for Virtual Getting Raped By A Pack of Hot Bisexual Chicks 3D.
Suffering?
The quickest way you are going to turn a 14 year old kid into someone who is interested in programming, is to give them a copy of bloody Windows and XNA Game Studio.
Let them deal with the idealistic crap later, if they feel it. Shit do we really have to be software missionarys jamming religion down their throat?
Makes me imagine a bunch of Christians: "Hey natives, you can have running water and irrigation! But you have to sit in church on sundays and real the true gospel of stallman". Want to help these kids? Keep your damn ideology to yourself.
Excellent point. Any kid that is at all interested in hacking it is going to dual boot. Its not like every kid in Peru would otherwise suddenly going to pick up the code and start hacking it.
Hey you better actually post when Slashdot prempts you, unless you want to right royally fuck up the space-time continuum with your laziness.
I take them. Gives me a great insight into their coding practices.
A few contracts ago I was tasked with "adding a column to a table" for their "DVD Library" application. That showed me that they used some shitty code-generator to build some horribly inflexible middle tier ("industry best practices"), which had to be tweaked by hand ("dynamic"), that the coding conventions sucked cocks ("best practices again.." i'm kinda lost), and that I really didn't want to work there.
So I completed it, and submitted it with a short note saying that I was not interested in an offer.
Search results in 500ms or your adwords are free?
Oh.... Successful MoonLIGHTing for Greeks!
My bad... so what did the Greeks invent again? Surely we can find SOMETHING hes naturally good at? ;)
Home repair is fun anyway. I'm actually sad I was too busy to tile my back room - laying tiles looked pretty damn relaxing.
Fixing walls and things is fun. The key is to grow some balls and realise its damn hard to screw up and damn easy to fix anything you do with a little bit of research. Plaster = fun. Powertools (especially nailguns) = fun.
I sanded and sealed 250sqm of floorboards. I suggest getting a pro in to do the sealing though - the chemical crap is just annoying to work with.
Only a moron like you would deny Natures Perfect Time-Cube.
Mod parent up +1 Helpful.
I'll chip in $10 for the video.
Mozilla runs a for-profit company (selling branded crap) as well as the non-profit Foundation. They have worked long and hard building up a legion of fanboys to the Firefox brand. The number of Firefox fans pretty much places a value on Mozilla corp as a whole - Google is happy to pay its $60m a year to own their online souls^W^W^W^W be their search provider - so thats an indication of how much the brand is worth.
The difference is that Mozilla is running a business, building and milking a community. I doubt theres another OSS product with a strong enough brand that would be worth protecting atm (or from someone with the foresight/intent of making a profit from their efforts).
Why the hell would the 'average user' care about an EULA?
Besides, Mozillas design decisions revolve around 'What would be best for Google?'. Quite rightly too, its not like 'the community' is paying the bills. They're just for free advertising and crap skins.
Dear Sir,
You are a lying sack of shit.
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Its not slander if you only say it to their face.
The planning committee has considered your proposal, and has found that it violates Zoning Law 22. We have no choice but to deny your application to compete with us. Bwahahahaha! Its good to be king!
This is why the people making the rules don't get to play as well.