Agreed, but is that last 20% functionality compelling enough to make users shell out for Microsoft products? For my own home use, the answer is no way in hell, and if I can get my colleagues to feel the same way about things, it'll be the same answer at work; maybe it'll be the same 80/20 ratio that adopts Google vs. sticks with MS, but least it's a viable competitor. I don't see that happening, at least in my organization, with other alternatives like OpenOffice that require IT administration.
The human brain didn't really start getting bigger until we began walking upright. Ironically, that made birthing more difficult; the head has to be aligned just right to pass through the hip bones on the way out the birth canal, or there are birth complications.
Clearly, those of us (males) with big brains should mate with females that can safely deliver our big-brained offspring.
Full disclosure: both my kids were delivered by c-sections. (Don't do as I do, just do as I say.)
Benford's Law deals with the likely occurrence of a particular first digit in the values in a data set. It exists because Frank Benford noticed which pages in log tables got the most wear. The pages with the ones digits were always heavily used, followed by the twos and so on, and the nines digits barely got any use at all. Hard to imagine how he would have made that particular observation on the Internet.
You're not three times more likely to be killed in a car crash if using a cell phone makes you four times more likely to be in that car crash in the first place. Any probability wiz care to run with this?
because the Nano's bra is the only one I have any chance of taking off. (No, I don't live in my parents' basement, I am married with young kids. The effect on one's sex life is the same.)
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not because you need wheels, but because you need inventors." Not sure who first said that.
I don't know what size organization you have, but mine is small. I can tell you that the economics of developing anything in-house are quickly shifting to prohibitive. For the applications that we have deployed recently, it was cheaper to just have the vendor host the data rather than build out our own infrastructure and host it ourselves. It's true that when our connection has a problem, we're dead in the water, but compared to the cost of staff to maintain the infrastructure and applications, it is negligible.
At first, I thought the card with the Jawas might be showing them picking over Santa's sleigh, maybe loading the scavenged contents into the sand crawler. And Santa? Captive of the Sand People, I would reckon. Obviously, that's too dark humor for Lucas.
Yeah, but they probably aren't the low end, now, are they? I think a lot of people are fed up with virus software updates and other fine Windows features. The high end of the market is moving to Mac, and the low end -- at least the more knowledgeable among them -- are moving to Linux. I live near Howard County, Maryland, which has an award-winning public library system. The free internet access is spectacular there; walk in, sit down, start using, no waiting, no library card required. Guess what operating system and applications it uses? And no one complains about it not being Windows.
Don't be impressed by the big accounting word ("amortized," in case you missed it). If they're forced into maintaining the XP code base longer than they had planned, those are real expenses.
1985 -- I was in my freshman year of college, with high hopes and fond memories (not) of my high school computer math and statistics class, in which we sat in front of TRS-80's networked to a printer. Every day our class president would write a little basic program to print "(teacher's name) is a dick" over and over. The teacher would notice that the printer was running and would dutifully walk over to it, examine the output, and say "Heyyyyy.... ummmm," and that's when the class president would restart his machine to destroy the evidence. Good times. My, how networking and the high school tech experience has changed.
a lot shorter. Well, I guess the writers can come up with some other convention whereby four or more elite and highly-paid doctors can discuss a single patient ad nauseum.
one with a touch interface and the ability to play movies and music, too. Guess what other, cheaper product has that same ability: yes, the iPod Touch, for (by the time Kindle comes out) probably hundreds less. For me, and from what I've read others agree, the two-finger touch on Safari is the most compelling feature of the iPhone. I don't need its phone capabilities, I just want a web browser with wifi that navigates easily, and that's the iPod Touch, isn't it?
As a high school math teacher, I am familiar with some of the details of Thomas Hales' proof of Kepler's "Cannonball" Conjecture, concerning the most efficient way to stack spheres. When he first published his proof in 1996, he included the source code for the programs that were used to do the calculations for the thousands of possible sphere configurations. I think most of the code was actually written by his graduate assistant. At first that struck me as cheating -- "... and then this program runs. Q.E.D." -- but then I realized that if anyone else was to verify his results, they would need the programs. There are just too many calculations to perform without software, which is why the conjecture went unproven for four hundred years. But without the source code, it would smack of charlatanism.
It's a quiet Sunday morning here on slashdot, only six replies on this story so far, and yet I think we've overwhelmed his little database:
Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Can't connect to MySQL server on 'database.icepick.com' (4) in/home/.guenivere/icepick/public_html/php/livedata.php on line 6 Error connecting to mysql
Check the books; that's got to be some kind of record.
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Either way you say it, girls look at you and say, "Dork."
Agreed, but is that last 20% functionality compelling enough to make users shell out for Microsoft products? For my own home use, the answer is no way in hell, and if I can get my colleagues to feel the same way about things, it'll be the same answer at work; maybe it'll be the same 80/20 ratio that adopts Google vs. sticks with MS, but least it's a viable competitor. I don't see that happening, at least in my organization, with other alternatives like OpenOffice that require IT administration.
The human brain didn't really start getting bigger until we began walking upright. Ironically, that made birthing more difficult; the head has to be aligned just right to pass through the hip bones on the way out the birth canal, or there are birth complications.
Clearly, those of us (males) with big brains should mate with females that can safely deliver our big-brained offspring.
Full disclosure: both my kids were delivered by c-sections. (Don't do as I do, just do as I say.)
Benford's Law deals with the likely occurrence of a particular first digit in the values in a data set. It exists because Frank Benford noticed which pages in log tables got the most wear. The pages with the ones digits were always heavily used, followed by the twos and so on, and the nines digits barely got any use at all. Hard to imagine how he would have made that particular observation on the Internet.
You're not three times more likely to be killed in a car crash if using a cell phone makes you four times more likely to be in that car crash in the first place. Any probability wiz care to run with this?
C'mon, that's subtle stuff right there.
... any recommendations for the following:
Real cleaning software for the Mac, that you've actually used and deemed worth continuing to use?
Best web sites to learn about Mac security?
because the Nano's bra is the only one I have any chance of taking off. (No, I don't live in my parents' basement, I am married with young kids. The effect on one's sex life is the same.)
not because you need wheels, but because you need inventors." Not sure who first said that.
the "Matrix" premise of robots using human beings as "batteries" might have been made a little more plausible... if slightly more disgusting.
I don't know what size organization you have, but mine is small. I can tell you that the economics of developing anything in-house are quickly shifting to prohibitive. For the applications that we have deployed recently, it was cheaper to just have the vendor host the data rather than build out our own infrastructure and host it ourselves. It's true that when our connection has a problem, we're dead in the water, but compared to the cost of staff to maintain the infrastructure and applications, it is negligible.
At first, I thought the card with the Jawas might be showing them picking over Santa's sleigh, maybe loading the scavenged contents into the sand crawler. And Santa? Captive of the Sand People, I would reckon. Obviously, that's too dark humor for Lucas.
Integrated Clapper (tm) so you can turn them turn on and off without having to get up.
Ironclad, even.
"people who want Windows will pay for it"
Yeah, but they probably aren't the low end, now, are they? I think a lot of people are fed up with virus software updates and other fine Windows features. The high end of the market is moving to Mac, and the low end -- at least the more knowledgeable among them -- are moving to Linux. I live near Howard County, Maryland, which has an award-winning public library system. The free internet access is spectacular there; walk in, sit down, start using, no waiting, no library card required. Guess what operating system and applications it uses? And no one complains about it not being Windows.
Don't be impressed by the big accounting word ("amortized," in case you missed it). If they're forced into maintaining the XP code base longer than they had planned, those are real expenses.
1985 -- I was in my freshman year of college, with high hopes and fond memories (not) of my high school computer math and statistics class, in which we sat in front of TRS-80's networked to a printer. Every day our class president would write a little basic program to print "(teacher's name) is a dick" over and over. The teacher would notice that the printer was running and would dutifully walk over to it, examine the output, and say "Heyyyyy.... ummmm," and that's when the class president would restart his machine to destroy the evidence. Good times. My, how networking and the high school tech experience has changed.
Spam Arrest could change their name to Arrest Arrest Arrest Arrest Spam Arrest; that's got less spam in it.
a lot shorter. Well, I guess the writers can come up with some other convention whereby four or more elite and highly-paid doctors can discuss a single patient ad nauseum.
one with a touch interface and the ability to play movies and music, too. Guess what other, cheaper product has that same ability: yes, the iPod Touch, for (by the time Kindle comes out) probably hundreds less. For me, and from what I've read others agree, the two-finger touch on Safari is the most compelling feature of the iPhone. I don't need its phone capabilities, I just want a web browser with wifi that navigates easily, and that's the iPod Touch, isn't it?
As a high school math teacher, I am familiar with some of the details of Thomas Hales' proof of Kepler's "Cannonball" Conjecture, concerning the most efficient way to stack spheres. When he first published his proof in 1996, he included the source code for the programs that were used to do the calculations for the thousands of possible sphere configurations. I think most of the code was actually written by his graduate assistant. At first that struck me as cheating -- "... and then this program runs. Q.E.D." -- but then I realized that if anyone else was to verify his results, they would need the programs. There are just too many calculations to perform without software, which is why the conjecture went unproven for four hundred years. But without the source code, it would smack of charlatanism.
Douglas Quaid: "Ever heard of Mikrosoft? They sell those fake memories."
Lori Quaid: "MIKROSOFT?! You went to those brain butchers?!"
How many of these are production systems and not just developer's toys? If production systems, how many are mission-critical?
It's a quiet Sunday morning here on slashdot, only six replies on this story so far, and yet I think we've overwhelmed his little database:
/home/.guenivere/icepick/public_html/php/livedata.php on line 6
Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Can't connect to MySQL server on 'database.icepick.com' (4) in
Error connecting to mysql
Check the books; that's got to be some kind of record.
"You're terminated, fucker."