Religious group's efforts to bring the design theory to schools is really an attempt to bring church to schools. And school is compulsory for children, hence church becomes compulsory.
The best and brightest from all over the world come to our universities because they are some of the best.
That's true now, but China is busy building it's own versions of these universities. They're already very good in many ways. And with U.S. immigration making it harder to get here, Chinese students will soon have fewer reasons to leave home.
You misundertand- I said anything made at a LOW WAGE is LOW QUALITY
Low wage compared to what? Compared to their previous non-jobs or taxi driving jobs? In reality, Indian tech labour is paid very well in comparison to other jobs in India, so those worker's standard of living is high. After all, what matters is that you can live well where you're living. Consider this, I make over $100K in my tech job in Boston, that's pretty decent for Boston, but it'd be harder to live on that in New York, and it'd be even harder to live on that in in London or Singapore. That doesn't mean I'm being taken advantage of though.
The difference being that the WTO and the governments of India and China are working very hard to keep the actual workers in poverty- knowing that the business will quickly go elsewhere if wages rise.
Everything I've ever bought at a WallMart has been of the lowest possible quality and value for the cost.
Then you're foolish to shop there. I think you're just racist, or at least short sighted, in insisting that something made in India or China means that it must be low quality. Many years ago, people equated Japanese products with low quality too.
One of the very positive effects of outsourcing is that it actually rasies people out of poverty. And poverty in India or China can be a lot worse than poverty in the U.S. Additionally, it seems morally wrong for very bright, well educated people in India to be driving taxis because they can't find a more challanging and rewarding job.
This fact is that it's easy to ignore the positive net effects of outsourcing in the U.S. and other developed countries, especially for people like myself who's job is threatened.
If they can get away with selling something that is worthless and cost $.01 to make for $5000, they will profit MORE than the guy selling something of great worth that cost him $1
Yes, but of course you can't get away with that which is why nobody does it. WallMart appartently does have a good price/value ratio, it's just that the price is low and (sometimes) so is the value. WallMart sucks, though, because they don't treat their employees like human beings. They also don't sell IBM blade servers, so I'm not sure how your original comment relates to this one.
More profit for the company ALWAYS means less value for the consumer and lower wages. And that- is immoral.
That's absurd. It doesn't make any sense to conclude that that the profit motive has an inverse effect on value. Companies profit by providing the most value for the cost. Value != cheap.
Okay, but *which* society gets to decide? I'm sure that an Indian society would feel very different on this issue from a U.S. or European society. A multinational company like IBM spans too many societies to make it accountable to just one. And today even small companies can easily be multi-national.
It's not the actual finish that I'm talking about (though I do apprecate tat too), what I wanted was a system pretty much exactly like the Sonos where once I'd ripped all my CDs, I'd never have to look at them again.
I also wanted a single remote control that would display information about the currently playing audio track. What I didn't want was a remote controled CD changer that forces you to remember the index number of the CD, and doesn't tell you song information. That kind of UI seems beyond useless given what's possible today.
That's true, but the Sonos isn't a stereo component like those other things are. It's an amp with an ethernet input and software to control what it reads from that input.
They're obviously not aiming this at people with CD/tape/record players. But honestly, those are ancient audio technology now.
Why would you want to connect a CD player? That seems crazy. Almost the whole point of this is to get rid of your CDs. Rip them to disk, then put them in storge. Now streaming support, that would be nice.
I'd say you are wrong. Unless those Dell's are small, silent and have a built-in 50 watt amplifier. Not to mention that if you wanted to play the same music in two rooms with no delay/echo you'd have a very difficult time.
they made it look like a Mac Mini, not like a stereo component
When my ancient stereo system gave up, I went to the audio store expecting to be wowed by all the new audio tech, instead I found myself in a timewarp back to 1980 or so.
Aside from remote controls, there hasn't been a significant advance in audio equipment UIs since the '70s or '80. The Sonous probably isn't for someone who still appreciates all those dreary kobs and switches, but it's exactly the thing I was looking for.
The best thing about Sonus is that you can control everything, including volume, from the remote. The problem with streaming devices like squeezebox is that, while you can control a lot of things via a web interface, volume isn't one of them. So you need at least two remotes. And, in my opinion, that just sucks too much.
I'm using mpd now, which does allow you to control volume. So I use my laptop as a remote to one of mpd's web UIs, then I can hide the ugly sound system in a closet. It's not ideal, because it means you have to turn your amp up really high and attenuate it with your sound card, but it works well enough. The Sonous is so much cooler, though, so I'm thinking of switching.
I have no-the-fuck idea where you pulled *your* definition of communism from
Oooh, ooh, ooh! I think I know! I think his definition of Communisim is based on every single instance of communist government that exist or ever existed. Yeah, that's probably were he got that. Not based on a book that was written by some quack who didn't understand human nature, and who wouldn't have been able to live under his own system anyway, if he weren't the one in control.
Why not the following, I don't see a second class in the python example:
public class Hello{
String myMame = "Duke";
public void sayHello(){
System.out.println("Hello " + myName);
}
public static void main(String[] args){
Hello h = new Hello();
h.sayHello();
} }
Could be a coincidence, but I just noiticed today that Googlebot has been hammering the calendar section of a site I run, but not the rest of the site.
Huh, try telling that to Pixar. Rendering certainly is something that can be split up among multiple CPUs. I wrote a distributed rendering engine several years ago, so I have some experience with it. Any decent rendering engine will support viewports (or something simialar) that let you specify the portion of the scene to render. That makes it easy to divide the scene by the number of CPUs and give each one a part. You create a semaphore to wait for all parts to be done and the display the frame.
I have an implant myself and honestly I don't mind it at all. The only odd side effect is that I have inexplicably switched from Linux to Windows. Oh yeah, there's also a Windows logo in the bottom left hand side of my vision, like a T.V. station logo. I think that's because my implant's running WinCE.
I think the point is that it's much easier to inadvertently create security holes when you write code in lower level languages like C. Lots of excellent programmers have written code with security problems, simply because they're focusing on making their code work and not thinking about security. It's an extremely common problem, and while it may be a problem with the developer's focus, it's not generally a problem of low skill levels.
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Religious group's efforts to bring the design theory to schools is really an attempt to bring church to schools. And school is compulsory for children, hence church becomes compulsory.
Church is optional
For the moment
The best and brightest from all over the world come to our universities because they are some of the best.
That's true now, but China is busy building it's own versions of these universities. They're already very good in many ways. And with U.S. immigration making it harder to get here, Chinese students will soon have fewer reasons to leave home.
In Tivo's case, it actually is Java. The interface used to be very quick and snappy. Then they decided to push the Home Media Option out to all users
The problem with your reasoning is that the quick and snappy UI was also in Java.
You misundertand- I said anything made at a LOW WAGE is LOW QUALITY
Low wage compared to what? Compared to their previous non-jobs or taxi driving jobs? In reality, Indian tech labour is paid very well in comparison to other jobs in India, so those worker's standard of living is high. After all, what matters is that you can live well where you're living. Consider this, I make over $100K in my tech job in Boston, that's pretty decent for Boston, but it'd be harder to live on that in New York, and it'd be even harder to live on that in in London or Singapore. That doesn't mean I'm being taken advantage of though.
The difference being that the WTO and the governments of India and China are working very hard to keep the actual workers in poverty- knowing that the business will quickly go elsewhere if wages rise.
Really, how do you know this?
Everything I've ever bought at a WallMart has been of the lowest possible quality and value for the cost.
Then you're foolish to shop there. I think you're just racist, or at least short sighted, in insisting that something made in India or China means that it must be low quality. Many years ago, people equated Japanese products with low quality too.
One of the very positive effects of outsourcing is that it actually rasies people out of poverty. And poverty in India or China can be a lot worse than poverty in the U.S. Additionally, it seems morally wrong for very bright, well educated people in India to be driving taxis because they can't find a more challanging and rewarding job.
This fact is that it's easy to ignore the positive net effects of outsourcing in the U.S. and other developed countries, especially for people like myself who's job is threatened.
If they can get away with selling something that is worthless and cost $.01 to make for $5000, they will profit MORE than the guy selling something of great worth that cost him $1
Yes, but of course you can't get away with that which is why nobody does it. WallMart appartently does have a good price/value ratio, it's just that the price is low and (sometimes) so is the value. WallMart sucks, though, because they don't treat their employees like human beings. They also don't sell IBM blade servers, so I'm not sure how your original comment relates to this one.
More profit for the company ALWAYS means less value for the consumer and lower wages. And that- is immoral.
That's absurd. It doesn't make any sense to conclude that that the profit motive has an inverse effect on value. Companies profit by providing the most value for the cost. Value != cheap.
Okay, but *which* society gets to decide? I'm sure that an Indian society would feel very different on this issue from a U.S. or European society. A multinational company like IBM spans too many societies to make it accountable to just one. And today even small companies can easily be multi-national.
oops, yes I did. Thanks!
It's not the actual finish that I'm talking about (though I do apprecate tat too), what I wanted was a system pretty much exactly like the Sonos where once I'd ripped all my CDs, I'd never have to look at them again.
I also wanted a single remote control that would display information about the currently playing audio track. What I didn't want was a remote controled CD changer that forces you to remember the index number of the CD, and doesn't tell you song information. That kind of UI seems beyond useless given what's possible today.
That's true, but the Sonos isn't a stereo component like those other things are. It's an amp with an ethernet input and software to control what it reads from that input.
They're obviously not aiming this at people with CD/tape/record players. But honestly, those are ancient audio technology now.
Why would you want to connect a CD player? That seems crazy. Almost the whole point of this is to get rid of your CDs. Rip them to disk, then put them in storge. Now streaming support, that would be nice.
I'd say you are wrong. Unless those Dell's are small, silent and have a built-in 50 watt amplifier. Not to mention that if you wanted to play the same music in two rooms with no delay/echo you'd have a very difficult time.
they made it look like a Mac Mini, not like a stereo component
When my ancient stereo system gave up, I went to the audio store expecting to be wowed by all the new audio tech, instead I found myself in a timewarp back to 1980 or so.
Aside from remote controls, there hasn't been a significant advance in audio equipment UIs since the '70s or '80. The Sonous probably isn't for someone who still appreciates all those dreary kobs and switches, but it's exactly the thing I was looking for.
The best thing about Sonus is that you can control everything, including volume, from the remote. The problem with streaming devices like squeezebox is that, while you can control a lot of things via a web interface, volume isn't one of them. So you need at least two remotes. And, in my opinion, that just sucks too much.
I'm using mpd now, which does allow you to control volume. So I use my laptop as a remote to one of mpd's web UIs, then I can hide the ugly sound system in a closet. It's not ideal, because it means you have to turn your amp up really high and attenuate it with your sound card, but it works well enough. The Sonous is so much cooler, though, so I'm thinking of switching.
I have no-the-fuck idea where you pulled *your* definition of communism from
Oooh, ooh, ooh! I think I know! I think his definition of Communisim is based on every single instance of communist government that exist or ever existed. Yeah, that's probably were he got that. Not based on a book that was written by some quack who didn't understand human nature, and who wouldn't have been able to live under his own system anyway, if he weren't the one in control.
From your link: I haven't used it a lot myself, thankfully, but to me it seems too complicated
Wow, now that's going to be some really valuable criticisim.
The File class is in the java.io package. Standard java packages start with java. or javax. You could do this instead:
import java.io.File;
File myFile = new File( "filename" );
Very much like Python's packages.
Why not the following, I don't see a second class in the python example:
public class Hello{
String myMame = "Duke";
public void sayHello(){
System.out.println("Hello " + myName);
}
public static void main(String[] args){
Hello h = new Hello();
h.sayHello();
}
}
Could be a coincidence, but I just noiticed today that Googlebot has been hammering the calendar section of a site I run, but not the rest of the site.
rendering ..[is].. a purely sequential problem
Huh, try telling that to Pixar. Rendering certainly is something that can be split up among multiple CPUs. I wrote a distributed rendering engine several years ago, so I have some experience with it. Any decent rendering engine will support viewports (or something simialar) that let you specify the portion of the scene to render. That makes it easy to divide the scene by the number of CPUs and give each one a part. You create a semaphore to wait for all parts to be done and the display the frame.
I have an implant myself and honestly I don't mind it at all. The only odd side effect is that I have inexplicably switched from Linux to Windows. Oh yeah, there's also a Windows logo in the bottom left hand side of my vision, like a T.V. station logo. I think that's because my implant's running WinCE.
I think the point is that it's much easier to inadvertently create security holes when you write code in lower level languages like C. Lots of excellent programmers have written code with security problems, simply because they're focusing on making their code work and not thinking about security. It's an extremely common problem, and while it may be a problem with the developer's focus, it's not generally a problem of low skill levels.