The company I work for had about a dozen 19" and larger they were throwing away. I intervened thinking somebody would want them. When a charity that puts together low end systems for needy children turned me down I gave up. The monitors went to a recycler. CRT monitors are officially not worth what it costs to move them.
Let's see...seven pounds of weight loss times 3500 cal/pound of fat = an average loss of 24500 calories. Divide by 12 weeks, and 7 days, and we get an average weight loss of about 290 calories per day. Not bad for one light exercise session daily, and still eating all the crap you normally eat if you ask me. I don't see the news in this.
Twitter and FB statuses where useful and/or interesting because the amount of data was manageable. When you have 50 friends auto-tweeting channel changes and every other bit of daily minutia, the data will only be useful to other computers (ie marketers and advertisers).
Unfortunately a lot of science is dogmatic as well. If I were to claim that I invented a machine that produced more energy than I put in, would I get a fair hearing?
There is a difference between a theory that is rooted in dogma (ID), and a theory that is rooted in science (evolution) but often accepted dogmatically by the masses. And FWIW, Orbo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steorn) got a fair hearing, and failed at every step.
What an awesome straw-man this is. Unbelievable. "If you only study the areas where organic and conventional foods are the same, then we find no difference between the two." Really? I would never have guessed.
Sega Master System had 0 impact on the console market, and failed to take any major market share in the larger markets. How exactly does the nostalgia of a couple of geeks prove any point?
I would accept that in order to build a global community of cooperating developers contributing to a collection of related projects, a common language would be pretty much essential. The software world is much more diverse than that. You don't need to be fluent in any particular language to understand the symbols in a programming language, even if they do use the Latin alphabet and resemble English words. Besides, is "vsprintf" really intrinsically any more comprehensible to English speakers than to anyone else?
Either way under the current rules the guy gets money for work he did over 20 years ago. I wish my wages worked like that!
If you'e willing to defer most of your wages, get paid slowly over time instead of for once up front, and only get paid if your work is commercially successful, then I'm sure you and your boss can work something out.
It's not fair to complain about people wanting to be paid under the compensation scheme that they agreed to when they did the work, and especially when it involves deferred and conditional compensation. I wouldn't work under those terms, but if I did, I'd make damn sure I got what was owed to me.
Linux: "I'm a PC. Because you see Linux actually runs on PC hardware, so it's a fallacy to refer to only Windoze machines a PCs.
Mac: "ummm..."
Linux (standing up, and brushing cheeto dust from beard): "In fact, to be pedantic, Mac's are PCs too in the more general sense of the term since PC stands for personal computer, and Mac's are certainly computers designed for personal use. Really we are all PCs. I really hate how M$ has appropriated that term for it's own platforms when the term is equally applicable to linux machines as well..."
The only thing in TFA that actually surprises me is that this father of a murdered boy is referred to as an advisor to the PM on knife crime. How can such a person provide any kind of rational and objective advice on the subject? Do they have felons as advisers championing the opposing view?
This is victim's rights run amok as it generally seems to do. Let's let the aggrieved and the emotionally scarred determine public policy. That should work out well for the most people right?
TFA is pretty vague and somewhat inaccurate. This is about out of print books, not out of copyright. Well, it's about both really, but there's no contention around books in the public domain.
Out of print or out of copyright? There is a very important difference. I thought Google Books was only giving full text for books that are out of copyright, and therefore they can do whatever they want and there is no consent required.
I only skimmed the actual agreement, but it looks like Google is claiming the right by default to sell any book that they determine is not "commercially available" (ie out of print), and to pay royalties on that book. The rights holder as the right to opt out of that at any time, but by default Google is claiming that the settlement gives them that right.
IANAL, but I don't see how a settlement of a class action suit AGAINST Google can actually transfer rights to them from class members.
I won't even get into the hard-drive argument as I don't really know if they can get costs down to where it's a profitable sale at $100. The fact remains that this is the 3rd place console in the market, and it will be discontinued much sooner than either the Wii or the 360. It may hit 100 bucks before that happens, but not in the good way that the PS2 did. The PS2 was the clear market winner of it's generation, and is still marketable. The PS3 is looking more and more like the clear market loser. It's a different world when you're on the bottom of the heap. The PS3 won't be a successful $100 game platform for the same reason the gamecube isn't.
The real question that Sony should ask themselves is if people are going to buy a 9 year-old console to play a cool game?
Good point. More importantly IMO is the question of how much longer PS3 will even be on the market. For me, I don't see how it's remotely possible for this product to make it through a 9 year cycle, as they are way behind both MS and Nintendo right now. They better have a next-gen product plan that's a lot more market friendly than the PS3 if they plan to ever be a player in this market again.
Are you serious? With that logic, any company that has been put out of business by better technology and services should be compensated for their "lost revenue". Please, not every company needs to try the RIAA tactic when losing customers.
I'm not going to weigh in with a position either way in this one, but I think there's something wrong with thinking it's okay for a packaging technology to drive it's own content authors out of business via "better technologies and services".
Author's guild has a legitimate concern. Aside from the big names, author's make very little, and losing a billion dollar revenue stream is bound to be a serious problem. There should certainly be some dialog on the issue whatever the resolution is ultimately.
As near as I can tell, Starter Edition doesn't really exist as a viable product, and is simply there so MS can list Windows as starting at some low price in their marketing material. Honestly...who's going to use it with this kind of restriction?
So using your numbers, the computer market in Iran (11 % of 70m, or 7.7m) is many times larger than Kuwait's and UAE's put together. It's also about the same size as Israel's. It's about 1/3rd the size of Canada's (the size of Ontario's market for example).
This is not negligible, especially in a market with restricted access to many competing products.
I reject this logic. I can't believe that, given the same amount of time and familiarity, that users will find Gnome or KDE less user friendly than Windows.
And I in turn reject yours. So I'm a naive Windows user installing linux for the first time. What the hell is a Gnome or a KDE? Which one do I want? In fact, which distro do I want? This is a whole layer of confusion that Windows and OSX don't have.
In fact diversity might just be one of Linux's biggest problems in the desktop market. Too many distros. Too many desktop/window managers. Too many package formats and package managers. (Not enough vendor support).
It's not out of the box, but it's simple enough, and it worked for me twice already on 2 different laptops.
While I appreciate the pointer, you're missing the point somewhat. It shouldn't take research to get these things working. If it's simple, it should be incorporated into the install/config process. "Desktop users" are not going to dig though forums to figure out how to make things work. They will conclude that it's broken, and move on.
I'm with you. If my laptop Broadcom wireless worked out of the box on Ubuntu, I'd be using that instead of Windows. I used to know plenty about setting up a Linux system (back in the 90s), but I have better things to do with my time than figuring out how to make something work that should "just work" after installation.
I don't see it getting better. I don't really see a lot of money for vendors in better supporting Linux. Personally I don't care enough about the OS to buy hardware based on Linux support. Hardware shopping for me is about comparing price vs capabilities. It should be a given that the machine will work. I'm at the point now where if I ever buy another "Unix" system, it will almost certainly be a Mac.
How can Linux win me back? Whatever machine I bring home from Best Buy has to "just work" at the end of the install/config program. Is that too much to ask for?
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The company I work for had about a dozen 19" and larger they were throwing away. I intervened thinking somebody would want them. When a charity that puts together low end systems for needy children turned me down I gave up. The monitors went to a recycler. CRT monitors are officially not worth what it costs to move them.
Let's see...seven pounds of weight loss times 3500 cal/pound of fat = an average loss of 24500 calories. Divide by 12 weeks, and 7 days, and we get an average weight loss of about 290 calories per day. Not bad for one light exercise session daily, and still eating all the crap you normally eat if you ask me. I don't see the news in this.
Fail classified document is fail?
Twitter and FB statuses where useful and/or interesting because the amount of data was manageable. When you have 50 friends auto-tweeting channel changes and every other bit of daily minutia, the data will only be useful to other computers (ie marketers and advertisers).
I call it 'getting together with them for drinks....'
Interesting. Is that patented?
The union of the sets "Animal rights activist" and "Terrorist" is not empty.
Union doesn't mean what you think it means.
Unfortunately a lot of science is dogmatic as well. If I were to claim that I invented a machine that produced more energy than I put in, would I get a fair hearing?
There is a difference between a theory that is rooted in dogma (ID), and a theory that is rooted in science (evolution) but often accepted dogmatically by the masses. And FWIW, Orbo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steorn) got a fair hearing, and failed at every step.
What an awesome straw-man this is. Unbelievable. "If you only study the areas where organic and conventional foods are the same, then we find no difference between the two." Really? I would never have guessed.
Sega Master System had 0 impact on the console market, and failed to take any major market share in the larger markets. How exactly does the nostalgia of a couple of geeks prove any point?
Can we get a "+1 Delicious" mod over here please?
What language is "{" anyway?
I would accept that in order to build a global community of cooperating developers contributing to a collection of related projects, a common language would be pretty much essential. The software world is much more diverse than that. You don't need to be fluent in any particular language to understand the symbols in a programming language, even if they do use the Latin alphabet and resemble English words. Besides, is "vsprintf" really intrinsically any more comprehensible to English speakers than to anyone else?
Either way under the current rules the guy gets money for work he did over 20 years ago. I wish my wages worked like that!
If you'e willing to defer most of your wages, get paid slowly over time instead of for once up front, and only get paid if your work is commercially successful, then I'm sure you and your boss can work something out.
It's not fair to complain about people wanting to be paid under the compensation scheme that they agreed to when they did the work, and especially when it involves deferred and conditional compensation. I wouldn't work under those terms, but if I did, I'd make damn sure I got what was owed to me.
Mac: "I'm a Mac."
Linux: "I'm a PC. Because you see Linux actually runs on PC hardware, so it's a fallacy to refer to only Windoze machines a PCs.
Mac: "ummm..."
Linux (standing up, and brushing cheeto dust from beard): "In fact, to be pedantic, Mac's are PCs too in the more general sense of the term since PC stands for personal computer, and Mac's are certainly computers designed for personal use. Really we are all PCs. I really hate how M$ has appropriated that term for it's own platforms when the term is equally applicable to linux machines as well..."
Mac: "please...kill me now."
The only thing in TFA that actually surprises me is that this father of a murdered boy is referred to as an advisor to the PM on knife crime. How can such a person provide any kind of rational and objective advice on the subject? Do they have felons as advisers championing the opposing view?
This is victim's rights run amok as it generally seems to do. Let's let the aggrieved and the emotionally scarred determine public policy. That should work out well for the most people right?
TFA is pretty vague and somewhat inaccurate. This is about out of print books, not out of copyright. Well, it's about both really, but there's no contention around books in the public domain.
Out of print or out of copyright? There is a very important difference. I thought Google Books was only giving full text for books that are out of copyright, and therefore they can do whatever they want and there is no consent required.
I only skimmed the actual agreement, but it looks like Google is claiming the right by default to sell any book that they determine is not "commercially available" (ie out of print), and to pay royalties on that book. The rights holder as the right to opt out of that at any time, but by default Google is claiming that the settlement gives them that right.
IANAL, but I don't see how a settlement of a class action suit AGAINST Google can actually transfer rights to them from class members.
Okay why can't the PS3 hit $100?
I won't even get into the hard-drive argument as I don't really know if they can get costs down to where it's a profitable sale at $100. The fact remains that this is the 3rd place console in the market, and it will be discontinued much sooner than either the Wii or the 360. It may hit 100 bucks before that happens, but not in the good way that the PS2 did. The PS2 was the clear market winner of it's generation, and is still marketable. The PS3 is looking more and more like the clear market loser. It's a different world when you're on the bottom of the heap. The PS3 won't be a successful $100 game platform for the same reason the gamecube isn't.
The real question that Sony should ask themselves is if people are going to buy a 9 year-old console to play a cool game?
Good point. More importantly IMO is the question of how much longer PS3 will even be on the market. For me, I don't see how it's remotely possible for this product to make it through a 9 year cycle, as they are way behind both MS and Nintendo right now. They better have a next-gen product plan that's a lot more market friendly than the PS3 if they plan to ever be a player in this market again.
Are you serious? With that logic, any company that has been put out of business by better technology and services should be compensated for their "lost revenue". Please, not every company needs to try the RIAA tactic when losing customers.
I'm not going to weigh in with a position either way in this one, but I think there's something wrong with thinking it's okay for a packaging technology to drive it's own content authors out of business via "better technologies and services".
Author's guild has a legitimate concern. Aside from the big names, author's make very little, and losing a billion dollar revenue stream is bound to be a serious problem. There should certainly be some dialog on the issue whatever the resolution is ultimately.
As near as I can tell, Starter Edition doesn't really exist as a viable product, and is simply there so MS can list Windows as starting at some low price in their marketing material. Honestly...who's going to use it with this kind of restriction?
So using your numbers, the computer market in Iran (11 % of 70m, or 7.7m) is many times larger than Kuwait's and UAE's put together. It's also about the same size as Israel's. It's about 1/3rd the size of Canada's (the size of Ontario's market for example).
This is not negligible, especially in a market with restricted access to many competing products.
I reject this logic. I can't believe that, given the same amount of time and familiarity, that users will find Gnome or KDE less user friendly than Windows.
And I in turn reject yours. So I'm a naive Windows user installing linux for the first time. What the hell is a Gnome or a KDE? Which one do I want? In fact, which distro do I want? This is a whole layer of confusion that Windows and OSX don't have.
In fact diversity might just be one of Linux's biggest problems in the desktop market. Too many distros. Too many desktop/window managers. Too many package formats and package managers. (Not enough vendor support).
It's not out of the box, but it's simple enough, and it worked for me twice already on 2 different laptops.
While I appreciate the pointer, you're missing the point somewhat. It shouldn't take research to get these things working. If it's simple, it should be incorporated into the install/config process. "Desktop users" are not going to dig though forums to figure out how to make things work. They will conclude that it's broken, and move on.
I'm with you. If my laptop Broadcom wireless worked out of the box on Ubuntu, I'd be using that instead of Windows. I used to know plenty about setting up a Linux system (back in the 90s), but I have better things to do with my time than figuring out how to make something work that should "just work" after installation.
I don't see it getting better. I don't really see a lot of money for vendors in better supporting Linux. Personally I don't care enough about the OS to buy hardware based on Linux support. Hardware shopping for me is about comparing price vs capabilities. It should be a given that the machine will work. I'm at the point now where if I ever buy another "Unix" system, it will almost certainly be a Mac.
How can Linux win me back? Whatever machine I bring home from Best Buy has to "just work" at the end of the install/config program. Is that too much to ask for?