In this example, Team A won the world series because it won 4 out of 7. However Team B had 9 points in the series and team A only had 6 points in the series. Baseball (and the EC) says that Team A should have won the world series. People who dispute the EC would, if they applied their reasoning to baseball, believe that team B should have won the World Series because of their rally in the 7th game.
haha... one might also hypothesize that all windows will at some point blend transparently into one another.
If they were round, that image looks a lot like those described by people who have had near-death experiences. All that's missing are the voices of loved ones calling the user's name.
Ever since 2000 when Gore lost, it has been fashionable in leftward leaning circles to find fault in our system of voting. Many people are under the impression that the electoral college is flawed, when in fact it has been shown mathematically to increase voter power.
In a nutshell, removing the electoral college would be like deciding the outcome of the World Series on the basis of the total number of runs scored by each team over the course of the seven games.
The EC forces issues to be decided locally and forces politicians to campaign locally. If we didn't have the EC, then pols would campaign only in the most populous geographical areas. Why? Because a single set of issues is common to those areas: Immigration, urban issues, etc. The rest of us would be out of luck and would be underrepresented. The founding fathers knew this, and the constitutional justification for the EC is tied closely to a discussion of the importance of limiting the power of factions.
As for the article, everyone who voted for Nader would have chosen Gore as a next-best alternative. Most green party members are as disgusted with the Democrats as they are with the Republicans, and would have felt the need to send a message to Democrats that it's time to find a worthy candidate. The Borda Count allows voters to avoid making any tough decisions, and it forces third parties to attack a broad issue-base instead of aligning themselves 90% with one of the mainstream parties.
Too much math would lead to an unwanted amount of critical thinking in certain Social Science and Humanities classes.
Many soc/sci and some humanities classes are exercises in learning a dogma. The best way to succeed in those classes is to buy into that dogma quickly and write your papers accordingly.
In other words, many soc/sci and some humanities classes are about learning "the truth" about the area of study and have nothing to do with facilitating a sharing of ideas.
After all, if new ideas were easily added to the mix, what would the faculty members' experience memorizing and internalizing the old ideas be worth?
Much of this has to do with the way that many social sciences are rooted in some kind of activism. I call this "blinders with a purpose", and it accompanies the disdain felt by some social scientists for those who choose 'hard science' (aka science in which hypotheses are testable).
Sorry to rant. My point is, great job to K for attempting to enlighten the 'enlightened'.
.NET is a very well designed platform. Did you notice that the Middleware Company's business is dependent on their Java knowledge?!? Sounds like they're saying "Sun, get your act together".
How long till we have an adware+spyware freenet
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What's to stop someone from releasing an easy to use Freenet client that happens to contain Adware and Spyware?
Judging by the look of the GUI tools on the Freenet website and some of the comments posted above by people trying to get Freenet working on their PC, it probably won't be long.
actually, the car analogy would be more accurate if 200 people got together and pushed a car and then claimed that it had been able to acheive 200 miles per gallon.
Traditions, long careers, and research are aspects of a company that are very difficult to accurately value. Thus, if you are looking at a balance sheet to make your decisions you will likely undervalue them.
What do they mean? Maybe the tradition is to work 12 hour days before a major product release. Maybe long careers are built on the pride of accomplishments past and a look forward at a well-incentivized pension plan. Maybe a company hits the research jackpot frequently and attracts top talent because of how it handles rewards for new patents, etc.
All of these factors effect the competetiveness of a company, and any smart manager will take them seriously. All of the above are simply characteristics of a company. With poor management they will be undervalued and destroyed, and with good management they will be valued and encouraged, and the company will thrive.
You may not be able to declare profits each and every quarter, but that will help keep your stock from becoming overvalued and it will encourage the kind of investors that look deeper into a company than only at its stock price. This will lead to steady, sustained growth and less volitility than the competetor who is run by a short-sighted management team.
Your analysis makes sense until you throw out the accusation of bribery. In fact, no bribes would have been necesssary. The conversation probably went something like this between Bill Gates and Michael Dell:
Gates: We've noticed that you were the leading distributor of PC hardware last year. You were our biggest OEM customer... You sold $100 Million worth of Windows Licenses.
Dell: Our new distribution centers are really state of the art.
Gates: Microsoft is trying to come up with a way to save you money on the copies of Windows that you sell. In fact, if you buy a copy of Windows for every PC you sell, we'll sell each copy to you at a 50% discount.
Dell: (thinking to himself that Dell sells 90% of its PCs preloaded with Windows) Hmmm. That would save us quite a bit of money.
Gates: It sure would. Sign here please.
Now, Microsoft makes less money from Dell, but since Dell now has a strong advantage in the marketplace (it can sell PCs for less) other companies are willing to come on board with Microsoft for deals that are less sweet than the 50% that was given to Dell.
The next thing you know, Microsoft has created a pretty massive disincentive for Dell (and others) to look into other OS technology.
Also, every time the OEM license contracts are re-negotiated, Microsoft has benefitted more from the aforementioned disincentive and can ratchet the profits right back where the investors want 'em.
No bribes are necessary. All of the above is completely ethical and is fundamentally no different from lots of business agreements that are made. You may think Michael Dell is stupid for going along with something like that, but look where his company is today.
You can turn a cell phone off and the calls will still get voice mail. Landline phones just keep ringing and ringing, which is not good when telemarketers call very early on weekend mornings.
Also, most cell phones include caller-ID for free. This makes it easy to screen calls that you don't want (in your case, just let your Boss go through to voice mail).
As for your complaint about drivers with cell phones, there are earphones that allow a driver to keep both hands on the wheel.
Think of how much faster people are able to call 911 to report a stranded motorist or a crime being committed and how many lives are saved because of cell phones.
As for reception, if that's a big concern then get a phone that still works on the non-digital 800MHZ band where there's coverage across most of the US, even in very rural areas.
I still don't buy your argument. If you buy a new PC from an OEM, you get a copy of the latest Microsoft OS included.
What you really appear to be saying is that you think most consumers are sheep who see an ad for Windows XP and run out and spend their money on a new PC that they don't need.
Of course Microsoft wants to sell as much software as possible. That's why they keep putting new features and functionality into it. They do sell a lot of software via hardware OEMs, but a lot is sold directly to businesses.
If all you needed to do to get the additional functionality was pay $150 for a new copy of windows, why would Microsoft be so stupid as to effectively make the cost of having the new features be $150 + the cost of a new pc? This multiplies the price by a factor of 7 to 10 in most cases.
Sure, Microsoft is glad to have companies like Dell, Gateway, and HP mass producing x86 PCs pre-loaded with Windows... these companies advertise and support the hardware at a much lower profit margin than Microsoft has on its software.
Your argument just doesn't make economic sense. If I sell software and profit ONLY from software sales, why would I force you to pay for additional products in order to use that software? If the software is salable on its own, then your argument fails. If Microsoft could sell its software to run on bigger/better hardware, then your agument fails again. And if Microsoft sells the software at roughly the same price as the previous version, then your argument fails again.
You are way too cynical for your own good. Next thing you know you'll be sitting in a log cabin somewhere writing a manifesto. But seriously:
Of course companies like Dell are happy to hear that Microsoft is coming out with a new OS that will require more hardware... they'd be stupid not to.
Likewise, I'm sure that Linus, the developers of Apache, and anyone who uses Linux is pleased to hear that bigger/better hardware is coming out because it brings Linux one step closer to winning at the enterprise level.
Sure, Microsoft puts a fair bit of fluff into Windows XP. I'm talking about heavily animated menus, menus that "forget" about programs you haven't used in a while, etc. But don't think for a moment that Windows XP doesn't solve MANY of the problems that exist in Windows 95, 98, and ME. Doing all this and maintaining compatibility does require a lot of code and a fair bit of bloat.
Yes, if you're upgrading from Windows 98 to Windows XP then you'll likely need a new PC, but for what you're getting it's money well spent. NT5 and newer have been pretty solid operating systems, and running them takes decent hardware. Please don't tell me that you're under the impression that that old machine that's running Windows 98 is going to be able to easily handle the latest RedHat or Mandrake and XFree 4.2?
Some of the other posts below border on the bizarre and discuss conspiracy theories, so I'll reply to yours:
Think of all of the processing power and lines of code that go into the little gui effects in Windows XP or KDE. Think of the extra clock cycles and bytes of code required to run a ReiserFS filesystem than to run a minix filesystem.
Some people's ideal would be to have everything written in assembly. In my opinion, languages like Java, LISP, Objective C, and C# allow for much greater efficiency in the programming and design of systems, but at some cost in terms of the overall efficiency of the code. Despite this, Common Lisp and any of the other languages mentioned above can do many things as fast as well-written C, and even faster than the kind of C written by many programmers.
In order to make higher level languages practical, the hardware has to be capable of more than if it only had to run well-written assembly.
Of course, some people like to see their menus animated, etc., and that is a residual effect.
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Sure... Let's take teams A and B:
Game 1:
A: 0
B: 1
Game 2:
A: 1
B: 0
Game 3:
A: 0
B: 1
Game 4:
A: 1
B: 0
Game 5:
A: 1
B: 0
Game 6:
A: 1
B: 0
Game 7:
A: 2
B: 7
In this example, Team A won the world series because it won 4 out of 7. However Team B had 9 points in the series and team A only had 6 points in the series. Baseball (and the EC) says that Team A should have won the world series. People who dispute the EC would, if they applied their reasoning to baseball, believe that team B should have won the World Series because of their rally in the 7th game.
I guess for some it's easier to litigate than it is to spend time/money on developing better products.
To see how confident Wall Street feels about this strategy, look here.
haha... one might also hypothesize that all windows will at some point blend transparently into one another.
If they were round, that image looks a lot like those described by people who have had near-death experiences. All that's missing are the voices of loved ones calling the user's name.
Ever since 2000 when Gore lost, it has been fashionable in leftward leaning circles to find fault in our system of voting. Many people are under the impression that the electoral college is flawed, when in fact it has been shown mathematically to increase voter power.
In a nutshell, removing the electoral college would be like deciding the outcome of the World Series on the basis of the total number of runs scored by each team over the course of the seven games.
The EC forces issues to be decided locally and forces politicians to campaign locally. If we didn't have the EC, then pols would campaign only in the most populous geographical areas. Why? Because a single set of issues is common to those areas: Immigration, urban issues, etc. The rest of us would be out of luck and would be underrepresented. The founding fathers knew this, and the constitutional justification for the EC is tied closely to a discussion of the importance of limiting the power of factions.
As for the article, everyone who voted for Nader would have chosen Gore as a next-best alternative. Most green party members are as disgusted with the Democrats as they are with the Republicans, and would have felt the need to send a message to Democrats that it's time to find a worthy candidate. The Borda Count allows voters to avoid making any tough decisions, and it forces third parties to attack a broad issue-base instead of aligning themselves 90% with one of the mainstream parties.
It seems a bit silly to me that you feel like you need to be a nazi about the way people try to help your project. RELAX!
Maybe you should create a web form that makes it easy for people to search the existing bug list and to formulate their submissions properly.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that beggars can't be choosers. If managing the project is so unpleasant to you then quit.
Ranting about how dumb the people who are trying to help you make the product better are is rediculous.
Try 20 or more Dual Athlon boxes for the same price!!!
Too much math would lead to an unwanted amount of critical thinking in certain Social Science and Humanities classes.
Many soc/sci and some humanities classes are exercises in learning a dogma. The best way to succeed in those classes is to buy into that dogma quickly and write your papers accordingly.
In other words, many soc/sci and some humanities classes are about learning "the truth" about the area of study and have nothing to do with facilitating a sharing of ideas.
After all, if new ideas were easily added to the mix, what would the faculty members' experience memorizing and internalizing the old ideas be worth?
Much of this has to do with the way that many social sciences are rooted in some kind of activism. I call this "blinders with a purpose", and it accompanies the disdain felt by some social scientists for those who choose 'hard science' (aka science in which hypotheses are testable).
Sorry to rant. My point is, great job to K for attempting to enlighten the 'enlightened'.
.NET is a very well designed platform. Did you notice that the Middleware Company's business is dependent on their Java knowledge?!? Sounds like they're saying "Sun, get your act together".
What's to stop someone from releasing an easy to use Freenet client that happens to contain Adware and Spyware?
Judging by the look of the GUI tools on the Freenet website and some of the comments posted above by people trying to get Freenet working on their PC, it probably won't be long.
actually, the car analogy would be more accurate if 200 people got together and pushed a car and then claimed that it had been able to acheive 200 miles per gallon.
Traditions, long careers, and research are aspects of a company that are very difficult to accurately value. Thus, if you are looking at a balance sheet to make your decisions you will likely undervalue them.
What do they mean? Maybe the tradition is to work 12 hour days before a major product release. Maybe long careers are built on the pride of accomplishments past and a look forward at a well-incentivized pension plan. Maybe a company hits the research jackpot frequently and attracts top talent because of how it handles rewards for new patents, etc.
All of these factors effect the competetiveness of a company, and any smart manager will take them seriously. All of the above are simply characteristics of a company. With poor management they will be undervalued and destroyed, and with good management they will be valued and encouraged, and the company will thrive.
You may not be able to declare profits each and every quarter, but that will help keep your stock from becoming overvalued and it will encourage the kind of investors that look deeper into a company than only at its stock price. This will lead to steady, sustained growth and less volitility than the competetor who is run by a short-sighted management team.
Your analysis makes sense until you throw out the accusation of bribery. In fact, no bribes would have been necesssary. The conversation probably went something like this between Bill Gates and Michael Dell:
Gates: We've noticed that you were the leading distributor of PC hardware last year. You were our biggest OEM customer... You sold $100 Million worth of Windows Licenses.
Dell: Our new distribution centers are really state of the art.
Gates: Microsoft is trying to come up with a way to save you money on the copies of Windows that you sell. In fact, if you buy a copy of Windows for every PC you sell, we'll sell each copy to you at a 50% discount.
Dell: (thinking to himself that Dell sells 90% of its PCs preloaded with Windows) Hmmm. That would save us quite a bit of money.
Gates: It sure would. Sign here please.
Now, Microsoft makes less money from Dell, but since Dell now has a strong advantage in the marketplace (it can sell PCs for less) other companies are willing to come on board with Microsoft for deals that are less sweet than the 50% that was given to Dell.
The next thing you know, Microsoft has created a pretty massive disincentive for Dell (and others) to look into other OS technology.
Also, every time the OEM license contracts are re-negotiated, Microsoft has benefitted more from the aforementioned disincentive and can ratchet the profits right back where the investors want 'em.
No bribes are necessary. All of the above is completely ethical and is fundamentally no different from lots of business agreements that are made. You may think Michael Dell is stupid for going along with something like that, but look where his company is today.
It's not on my VTECH $29 cordless...
You can turn a cell phone off and the calls will still get voice mail. Landline phones just keep ringing and ringing, which is not good when telemarketers call very early on weekend mornings.
Also, most cell phones include caller-ID for free. This makes it easy to screen calls that you don't want (in your case, just let your Boss go through to voice mail).
As for your complaint about drivers with cell phones, there are earphones that allow a driver to keep both hands on the wheel.
Think of how much faster people are able to call 911 to report a stranded motorist or a crime being committed and how many lives are saved because of cell phones.
As for reception, if that's a big concern then get a phone that still works on the non-digital 800MHZ band where there's coverage across most of the US, even in very rural areas.
What you really appear to be saying is that you think most consumers are sheep who see an ad for Windows XP and run out and spend their money on a new PC that they don't need.
Of course Microsoft wants to sell as much software as possible. That's why they keep putting new features and functionality into it. They do sell a lot of software via hardware OEMs, but a lot is sold directly to businesses.
If all you needed to do to get the additional functionality was pay $150 for a new copy of windows, why would Microsoft be so stupid as to effectively make the cost of having the new features be $150 + the cost of a new pc? This multiplies the price by a factor of 7 to 10 in most cases.
Sure, Microsoft is glad to have companies like Dell, Gateway, and HP mass producing x86 PCs pre-loaded with Windows... these companies advertise and support the hardware at a much lower profit margin than Microsoft has on its software.
Your argument just doesn't make economic sense. If I sell software and profit ONLY from software sales, why would I force you to pay for additional products in order to use that software? If the software is salable on its own, then your argument fails. If Microsoft could sell its software to run on bigger/better hardware, then your agument fails again. And if Microsoft sells the software at roughly the same price as the previous version, then your argument fails again.
Of course companies like Dell are happy to hear that Microsoft is coming out with a new OS that will require more hardware... they'd be stupid not to.
Likewise, I'm sure that Linus, the developers of Apache, and anyone who uses Linux is pleased to hear that bigger/better hardware is coming out because it brings Linux one step closer to winning at the enterprise level.
Sure, Microsoft puts a fair bit of fluff into Windows XP. I'm talking about heavily animated menus, menus that "forget" about programs you haven't used in a while, etc. But don't think for a moment that Windows XP doesn't solve MANY of the problems that exist in Windows 95, 98, and ME. Doing all this and maintaining compatibility does require a lot of code and a fair bit of bloat.
Yes, if you're upgrading from Windows 98 to Windows XP then you'll likely need a new PC, but for what you're getting it's money well spent. NT5 and newer have been pretty solid operating systems, and running them takes decent hardware. Please don't tell me that you're under the impression that that old machine that's running Windows 98 is going to be able to easily handle the latest RedHat or Mandrake and XFree 4.2?
Think of all of the processing power and lines of code that go into the little gui effects in Windows XP or KDE. Think of the extra clock cycles and bytes of code required to run a ReiserFS filesystem than to run a minix filesystem.
Some people's ideal would be to have everything written in assembly. In my opinion, languages like Java, LISP, Objective C, and C# allow for much greater efficiency in the programming and design of systems, but at some cost in terms of the overall efficiency of the code. Despite this, Common Lisp and any of the other languages mentioned above can do many things as fast as well-written C, and even faster than the kind of C written by many programmers.
In order to make higher level languages practical, the hardware has to be capable of more than if it only had to run well-written assembly.
Of course, some people like to see their menus animated, etc., and that is a residual effect.
Smallest Word 2000 File: 19KB
Smallest Word HTML File: 1.5KB
RedHat 8 and Mandrake 9 both shipped with GCC 3.2 which is BROKEN! This is a problem, in my opinion. I'm not sure about the latest SuSE.
As for the DMA/harddrive settings, if you perform an Expert install it allows you to choose whether or not you want to use the 'risky' hdparm flags.
As for me, I prefer to use just the KDE/Gnome apps and stick with one of the smaller & lighter window managers such as IceWM or WindowMaker.
this could to a large extent to handled in the software, especially with the addition of a third sensor to add more data.
Isn't this what scwm is for?
Step 1: Stack 5 or 6 of these into a tall ATX case.
Step 2: Put an ethernet switch inside the case and connect ethernet cables.
Step 3: Put a power-strip inside the case and plug in all hardware.
Step 4: Install one or two case fans in the ATX case.
Step 5: Bring the contraption to your local colocation provider and plug it in.
Step 6: Enjoy the fact that you have 5 or 6 colocated servers for the price of one!
It's WINE, not WHINE.
In your opinion, what are the main strengths of Access? I don't know all that much about its extended capabilities.
raising the bard? What does this story have to do with Shakespeare?