I am starting to think that the customer is about to decide.
Why buy MS when you can get something that works. The reason MS is not working for the consumer is because it's not getting its money from the consumer.
Computers are becoming a commodity. By the time, if not already, the next windows/office comes out computers will be so cheap there will be little room for MS. Solid state multi capable CPUs should dramatically drop the cost.
You guys have been the reason possibly more than 300000 people were killed in Iraq Tortured a myriad or people on bullshit grounds Let alone promote conflict to further your ends and you judge others !??! You must be the biggest cancer this planet has ever seen.
No but consider it like a slashdot comment scoring.
If it is not interesting, it ends up with a -1.
If the value of a comment is more than one is willing to retrieve it... consider it lost.
The perpetual copying works very well. Look at ancient Greek manuscripts. Are any of the originals still alive. The library of Alexandria may have had 100,000 or more volumes but all the interesting stuff seems to have made it. The best philosophers, the best maths, the best art even. The best art pieces made it into themes again and again in Rome and Italy and moder art. History it self is an example of perpetual copying of knowledge.
Hey that bucket is one of the most amazing things in nature. If you look long enough you will find a left handed square profile M4x.1" pitch bolt.
Vista on the other hand is a bucket full of left handed square profile M4x.1" pitch bolts
G
?! That is such a bad attitude...
Think library of Alexandria where anybody was allowed to come and study, but whatever document was brought inside was taken and copied, and a copy was given to the scholar.
You will have credit for your work. Throughout your career you will either distinguish your self or you will fade but help others.
G
30% drop out in the first year 30% drop out by the end of the course Of what is left most pursue another disciplines.
Team projects are meant to suck because in the real word these things are tricky. The reason all this sucks to some people is to selectively get rid of them. Consider it intentional.
Now if you enjoy Engineering even though you went through this...
Congratulations you were meant to be an engineer. Many were sacrificed so that you can become one.
You have never met Amiga fans have you , there are few still left, their reality distortion field is such that their computers perform miracles even though the battery has long bios leaked all over the motherboard a long time ago.
G <ex Amiga user, I don't consider my self free unless I hit the 10 year without it mark>
This may reflect badly on them in the long run. The price has little to do with cost, but more to do with what you can get away with. Ultimately making the consumer more pessemistic
To sue, $cientology will have to claim copywrite and claim it as their own.
Well go ahead, just like claiming suing for copywrite about that the fruity Xenu story made them claim it as their own.
come on punk... do you feel lucky ?
G
A question, and this is a terrible thing to say. If we treat Aids this way don't we make sure it spreads rather than it contained ? We make sure the host lives longer and has more opportunities to spread to the uninfacted therefore doing it's work.
;-) You know the anthropomorphizing is your flaw. It may take 2000 years to beat humans in GO but by that measure computers can beet humans in a myriad of tasks. Humans will never be able to compete. The list is growing bigger all the time.
Computers or automated machines can do better in agriculture, transport, recoding of knowledge, retrieving knowledge and on an on...
Simply put you placed the marker at the Human level but you forget that Google can be thought of a sentient being. It employees people as benevolent parasites and just grows. It does not have sense of self, but you assume humans do.
Computers will become as intelligent as humans but for a very short period in time. After that it will have access to all of human knowledge, all of human creation. It is either scary or liberating
G
Slashdot Mirror
Yep .. it's called TV-B-Gone
I am starting to think that the customer is about to decide.
Why buy MS when you can get something that works. The reason MS is not working for the consumer is because it's not getting its money from the consumer.
Computers are becoming a commodity. By the time, if not already, the next windows/office comes out computers will be so cheap there will be little room for MS. Solid state multi capable CPUs should dramatically drop the cost.
I'd say paradigm shift to the rescue.
G
So why do you care about what I said ? You are conflicting then. Why bother with compassion at any level ?
Dunbars number explains it somewhat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number
or a humorous version of the above
http://www.cracked.com/article_14990_what-monkeysphere.html
There was no real war in Iraq. Just an ass wipe running the country. It could be argued that he was there because of the US.
The US moved in and foobared the whole place. Now you are just going through the motions.
Who is to blame for the untold dead ?
Much like the topic shifts from Quake -> Tibet -> Iraq is the next logical entry.
G
Sooooo ... dunbars number not withstanding you should just accept tragedy without compassion ?
You guys have been the reason possibly more than 300000 people were killed in Iraq
Tortured a myriad or people on bullshit grounds
Let alone promote conflict to further your ends
and you judge others !??! You must be the biggest cancer this planet has ever seen.
G
Can you read slashdot while in bed ?
Meet you guys there
G
No but consider it like a slashdot comment scoring. If it is not interesting, it ends up with a -1. If the value of a comment is more than one is willing to retrieve it ... consider it lost.
The perpetual copying works very well. Look at ancient Greek manuscripts. Are any of the originals still alive. The library of Alexandria may have had 100,000 or more volumes but all the interesting stuff seems to have made it. The best philosophers, the best maths, the best art even. The best art pieces made it into themes again and again in Rome and Italy and moder art. History it self is an example of perpetual copying of knowledge.
Hey that bucket is one of the most amazing things in nature. If you look long enough you will find a left handed square profile M4x.1" pitch bolt. Vista on the other hand is a bucket full of left handed square profile M4x.1" pitch bolts G
?! That is such a bad attitude ...
Think library of Alexandria where anybody was allowed to come and study, but whatever document was brought inside was taken and copied, and a copy was given to the scholar.
You will have credit for your work. Throughout your career you will either distinguish your self or you will fade but help others.
G
You see Arthur, no wonder the thumb is used for space travel.
There is another competitor that is killing the industry ...
Old CPUs. Just like Office 97 is 95% functional for what most people use office for.
The same way 5 year old CPUs are overkill for most computers.
All that is left is a race to the bottom. The bottom is overpopulated.
G
I thought a superconducting key ring would be a cool souvenir.
They don't sell it over the net.
So I tried eBay.
No luck, but there was some superconducting parafinelia for some $10K. So I asked
How much to ship to Iran
G
I would say you what is happening is what happened to poetry and some other forms of art
...
There was a time that a Poet was akin to a hero
Now anybody can write poetry, so to get "fans" is hard work.
When you have 1 musician for every 20 "fans" you will no longer have mega musicians.
An oversupply will erode the special quality.
Little cigarette size mp3 players with hundreds of thousand of songs kinda erodes the $ value per song.
So RIAA will loose their distribution channel out of greed.
The fans will loose the mega artists that huge money will create
Oh well
Giorgis
How about cars are dead, over cars are on their way
G
30% drop out in the first year
...
30% drop out by the end of the course
Of what is left most pursue another disciplines.
Team projects are meant to suck because in the real word these things are tricky.
The reason all this sucks to some people is to selectively get rid of them.
Consider it intentional.
Now if you enjoy Engineering even though you went through this
Congratulations you were meant to be an engineer. Many were sacrificed so that you can become one.
Go forth and engineer things
G
"none more zealous, than fans of Apple"
You have never met Amiga fans have you , there are few still left,
their reality distortion field is such that their computers perform miracles
even though the battery has long bios leaked all over the motherboard a long time ago.
G <ex Amiga user, I don't consider my self free unless I hit the 10 year without it mark>
It will be fun to be the first, but after that who would want to
pay to fly in the vomit comet ?
This may reflect badly on them in the long run.
The price has little to do with cost, but more to do with what you can get away with.
Ultimately making the consumer more pessemistic
G
To sue, $cientology will have to claim copywrite and claim it as their own. Well go ahead, just like claiming suing for copywrite about that the fruity Xenu story made them claim it as their own. come on punk ... do you feel lucky ?
G
A question, and this is a terrible thing to say.
If we treat Aids this way don't we make sure it spreads rather than it contained ?
We make sure the host lives longer and has more opportunities
to spread to the uninfacted therefore doing it's work.
G
If a paper airplane can survive reentry from the space shuttle, you can send up a pop bottle to rendezvous G
;-) You know the anthropomorphizing is your flaw. It may take 2000 years to beat humans in GO but by that measure computers can beet humans in a myriad of tasks. Humans will never be able to compete. The list is growing bigger all the time. Computers or automated machines can do better in agriculture, transport, recoding of knowledge, retrieving knowledge and on an on ...
Simply put you placed the marker at the Human level but you forget that Google can be thought of a sentient being. It employees people as benevolent parasites and just grows. It does not have sense of self, but you assume humans do.
Computers will become as intelligent as humans but for a very short period in time. After that it will have access to all of human knowledge, all of human creation. It is either scary or liberating
G
Damn your good, do you also not buy stuff from the US for the same reasons ?