I was thinking of the original price of the highest end one with all the bells & whistles I want. I can do roughly equivalent x86 based hardware for significantly less in any case, and that was the point.
Which is a damn shame, because I'd be really glad to pay Apple $100 - $150 to run MacOS X + on my Intel hardware, but I cannot convince my wife that it's worth $2000 for an iMac.
So why hasn't this worked with Drug Prohibition, which is quite similar to alcohol Prohibition, except that the government learned how to lead the sheep.....
Given that they were cartoon characters in a comic book to begin with, that's hardly a surprise. The original game was incredibly true to the artwork (given that the same guy did 'em hardly a surprise). And I think Max would gnaw your hands off if you called him very beautiful.
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Let's see. I was able to set up php in about 15 minutes. I looked into setting up mod_perl and was not able to do nearly as much in 15 minutes. QED.
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I came to perl because it was a powerful way to do things and didn't take me a huge long time to do them. However, I've recently found that PHP works much more intuitively and clearly for "active html" as opposed to perl cgi. Perhaps mod_perl might do the same for me, but honestly, I've already got mod_php loaded by default and it works great.
This is not to say that perl is obsolete, but php sure is a lot easier to use in that particular niche.
That argument doesn't hold a lot of water. Quite honestly, I don't see a lot of Universities caring how they spend taxpayer's money on other things, and the University I was at was a private school with no taxpayer funding that I was aware of. Certainly not in large part. Finally, corporations have exaxctly the same problem--train someone and then they leave for higher pay. Perhaps the pay bump is not quite so huge (I was getting twice my Uni salary within 3 years in the corporate world), but the issue still exists. As far as it goes, if Universities would pay people competetively, they might be able to keep them...provide competive pay and other reasonable benefits, and they should have no more trouble than any other IT employer.
See, I don't have much respect for the training situation in Universities. I was a sysadmin for a small private U for 7 years. I got no training, and one trip to Usenix in 7 years.
In the corporate world, I don't get a budget per se, and I have to get management approval for training and travel for training, but I have yet to have a single request denied. Even during the last year. I obviously think about the impact and the use of the class, but reasonable requests get reasonable answers. And I think the corporate world actually has a better understanding of the value of technical training than the University world does.
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Classifiers are an ability to Bottom line: Your wife has nothing to worry about:-). She'll still have a job for many years to come.
Unfortunately your post got mangled:-). I certainly meant to cast no aspersions on your research per se, nor am I concerned about my wife's career opportunities (she's taking time off for our child for a year or so anyway). I am mostly reacting to the tone of the original post, and the sense in which it implies that this was all Deaf people really needed to join the rest of us. And I figure that more slashdotters than not had no real idea about how sign language really works. Good luck with your research, and I hope it helps a lot of people.
What you describe is called signed english, and it is generally considered anathema to the Deaf community. You speak as someone who thinks that Deaf want to be hearing or english speakers, which as a rule they do not. Of course there are exceptions to every rule, but that's not what I'm talking about.
My wife is a sign language interpreter, so I have some experience from which to speak.
Anyone who's spent any time around those who speak ASL or any other sign language as their primary language know that there's a hell of a lot more to sign language than the hands. It's also body posture, relative positions of the hands, and especially facial expressions. The main distinguishment between a question and a statement, for example, is all in head posture and facial expression. Another thing that this doesn't address is what's known as classifiers, where the signing person identifies some hand shape and/or position in space as a particular object/person and then uses that same shape and space in the way we would use a pronoun. This is not something I can see software picking up from mere gloves. (BTW all of this is hyper-simplified both by the fact that I myself do not know ASL and by the fact that I'm not discussing this in an ASL-technical forum).
Bottom line: it may have some limited utility in some very special conditions, but it will not simply allow a deaf person to put on a pair of gloves and have an instant voice.
Do you really think the people of China have any say in this? This is a case of some people in China saying "yah, it's ok if you screw those people over there in China and pay me for the priveledge."
Guess how many workplaces I've been in my entire adult career? 2. Guess what? They've been "incredible places of learning and cameraderie". But that had to do with my Coworkers not my employer. My employer in the first case couldn't care less as long as they had a warm body in place willing to put up with the stresses of a University Sysadmin position and 24x7x365 oncall for a pittance salary. My employer in the second case again as a corporation doesn't give a damn either. My managers, my coworkers, are all fantastic people to work with, and we cover each others backs. But if it costs the corporation more money to keep me than to lose me, I have no illusions that I'll be gone, and all the happy management warm fuzzies in the world will not change that.
I have no "super inflated salary of the don't com boom". And as for the biggest super inflated salaries, well, I can't say I've seen a lot of CEO's taking pay cuts lately. (I'm talking real pay, not over-the-top options-inflated bonuses).
Don't confuse loyalty to your work group (which does count for a lot) with loyalty to "the company". Of course you want to do what's in the company's best interest, because that's what having a job is about. But you have to keep your own best interest ahead of that, and that includes being ready, willing, and able to move on when you need to, instead of shackling yourself to a sinking ship because of misplaced loyalty that is never going to be returned. Forgetting "loyalty" and leaving my first job was one of the best things I ever did for my career, my family, my mental health, and my quality of life.
You're kidding yourself. Your employer will only take care of you so long as they can make more money with you than without you. And sometimes the factors that plug into that equation are completely beyond your control. Employer/employee loyalty is good, but don't fool yourself that the corporate machine cares.
I think what's interesting is that, while you may not be able to copy the SACD data, if it plays as a regular CD in a regular CD player, then what the hell stops me from ripping it? As the others pointed out, ooh, so I can't rip the 4.7G data stream. I would be really surprised if I can't rip the regular CD audio.....
The other thing is, the SACD player won't play non-watermarked CDs? So if I want to play music by my friend Dave, I can't? To hell with that. Why would I buy such a restrictive player, when everything else on the market says "plays CDR & MP3!"
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I was thinking of the original price of the highest end one with all the bells & whistles I want. I can do roughly equivalent x86 based hardware for significantly less in any case, and that was the point.
Which is a damn shame, because I'd be really glad to pay Apple $100 - $150 to run MacOS X + on my Intel hardware, but I cannot convince my wife that it's worth $2000 for an iMac.
And they found more effective ways to demonize it as well.
So why hasn't this worked with Drug Prohibition, which is quite similar to alcohol Prohibition, except that the government learned how to lead the sheep.....
Given that they were cartoon characters in a comic book to begin with, that's hardly a surprise. The original game was incredibly true to the artwork (given that the same guy did 'em hardly a surprise). And I think Max would gnaw your hands off if you called him very beautiful.
But that's what the DMCA is for!
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Can I intermix perl & html without having to use
This is not to say that perl is obsolete, but php sure is a lot easier to use in that particular niche.
That argument doesn't hold a lot of water. Quite honestly, I don't see a lot of Universities caring how they spend taxpayer's money on other things, and the University I was at was a private school with no taxpayer funding that I was aware of. Certainly not in large part. Finally, corporations have exaxctly the same problem--train someone and then they leave for higher pay. Perhaps the pay bump is not quite so huge (I was getting twice my Uni salary within 3 years in the corporate world), but the issue still exists. As far as it goes, if Universities would pay people competetively, they might be able to keep them...provide competive pay and other reasonable benefits, and they should have no more trouble than any other IT employer.
In the corporate world, I don't get a budget per se, and I have to get management approval for training and travel for training, but I have yet to have a single request denied. Even during the last year. I obviously think about the impact and the use of the class, but reasonable requests get reasonable answers. And I think the corporate world actually has a better understanding of the value of technical training than the University world does.
Unfortunately your post got mangled :-). I certainly meant to cast no aspersions on your research per se, nor am I concerned about my wife's career opportunities (she's taking time off for our child for a year or so anyway). I am mostly reacting to the tone of the original post, and the sense in which it implies that this was all Deaf people really needed to join the rest of us. And I figure that more slashdotters than not had no real idea about how sign language really works. Good luck with your research, and I hope it helps a lot of people.
What you describe is called signed english, and it is generally considered anathema to the Deaf community. You speak as someone who thinks that Deaf want to be hearing or english speakers, which as a rule they do not. Of course there are exceptions to every rule, but that's not what I'm talking about.
Anyone who's spent any time around those who speak ASL or any other sign language as their primary language know that there's a hell of a lot more to sign language than the hands. It's also body posture, relative positions of the hands, and especially facial expressions. The main distinguishment between a question and a statement, for example, is all in head posture and facial expression. Another thing that this doesn't address is what's known as classifiers, where the signing person identifies some hand shape and/or position in space as a particular object/person and then uses that same shape and space in the way we would use a pronoun. This is not something I can see software picking up from mere gloves. (BTW all of this is hyper-simplified both by the fact that I myself do not know ASL and by the fact that I'm not discussing this in an ASL-technical forum).
Bottom line: it may have some limited utility in some very special conditions, but it will not simply allow a deaf person to put on a pair of gloves and have an instant voice.
in the solder, most likely.
Trees are also being cut down in the rainforests for lumber.
Do you really think the people of China have any say in this? This is a case of some people in China saying "yah, it's ok if you screw those people over there in China and pay me for the priveledge."
And instead simply encoding the same ideas that the abuses were accomplishing into law.
How do you bill back someone sending SMS messages from, say, ICQ?
Guess how many workplaces I've been in my entire adult career? 2. Guess what? They've been "incredible places of learning and cameraderie". But that had to do with my Coworkers not my employer. My employer in the first case couldn't care less as long as they had a warm body in place willing to put up with the stresses of a University Sysadmin position and 24x7x365 oncall for a pittance salary. My employer in the second case again as a corporation doesn't give a damn either. My managers, my coworkers, are all fantastic people to work with, and we cover each others backs. But if it costs the corporation more money to keep me than to lose me, I have no illusions that I'll be gone, and all the happy management warm fuzzies in the world will not change that.
I have no "super inflated salary of the don't com boom". And as for the biggest super inflated salaries, well, I can't say I've seen a lot of CEO's taking pay cuts lately. (I'm talking real pay, not over-the-top options-inflated bonuses).
Don't confuse loyalty to your work group (which does count for a lot) with loyalty to "the company". Of course you want to do what's in the company's best interest, because that's what having a job is about. But you have to keep your own best interest ahead of that, and that includes being ready, willing, and able to move on when you need to, instead of shackling yourself to a sinking ship because of misplaced loyalty that is never going to be returned. Forgetting "loyalty" and leaving my first job was one of the best things I ever did for my career, my family, my mental health, and my quality of life.
That's easy. You just draw the arrows on the other end of the lines.
You're kidding yourself. Your employer will only take care of you so long as they can make more money with you than without you. And sometimes the factors that plug into that equation are completely beyond your control. Employer/employee loyalty is good, but don't fool yourself that the corporate machine cares.
Singly linked or doubly linked list?
Um. No. At least not any crappier than any sound today.
The other thing is, the SACD player won't play non-watermarked CDs? So if I want to play music by my friend Dave, I can't? To hell with that. Why would I buy such a restrictive player, when everything else on the market says "plays CDR & MP3!"