I wrote some VoIP with pretty pictures stuff for the Zaurus (and the Ipod) last year. I think we used an SL-6500 though.
It's a PDA but I left it plugged in at my office - and sshed to it from home and used X11 forwarding to do GUI development on it from home (it was a python GUI but the libraries were sufficiently different to mean running it on the linux desktop machine wasn't close enough).
It seemed like a good idea at the time...
I even compiled some stuff on it, when I couldn't be bothered jumping through the hoops required to cross compile a python library. Compiling on the little Zaurus while you use your P4 desktop to read email is a strange allocation of resources.
You're also using the GST-inc price - the one that includes the 10% goods and services tax in Australia. Whereas the US price doesn't include sales tax.
So the price you should be comparing to is the AU$840 one for a 12.5% markup.
Then there's a 5% import duty as well, but I think that's calculated based on what the importer paid for it not what they then resell it for - but lets pretend not. In which case $840 includes a 5% tariff and hence is really $800 for a 7.2% markup. Of couse the US probably has an import duty too, but lets not let facts get in the way.
Considering relative population sizes and hence market size that doesn't seem unreasonable.
There's also the fact that the Australian minimum wage is AU$12.30 an hour, whereas in the USA it's US$5.15 or AU$6.70 (it's higher in some states...) so paying those shelf packers and so on will make Australian prices higher. Petrol is also more expensive so getting the stuff to the warehouse/store costs more, and so on and so on.
No I mean finding a one lane road and driving slow. Reasonably soon you will be at the front of a line of traffic. As opposed to at the back (which was apparently such an annoying thing)...
Let's see a one hour show. Assume 20 minutes of ads (pretend there are no network promos and so on which don't generate revenue from advertisers). Assume by several you mean four. Then 20*2*4000 $160000.
So they would need 80000 people to pay their $2. Except of course without those 20 minutes of ads it would be a 40 minute show, so they can fit more in a day (or have more time for shows with ads), 40/60*80000, so about 53000 people be enough.
Of course they all ready do "on demand" programming. I'd damn hope they don't have ads since they charge $4 for a movie - but I'll never know since I DVD rentals are $1 a few blocks away (or $2 just round the corner).
Surely the model would be show the new episodes at $2 a pop without ads and then a week (a few days, whatever) later show it as normal and hence generate ad revenue anyway...
It doesn't matter that it's not the same, people still have lots of experience with education (which is not usually the case with surgery). They have observed what worked and didn't work for them and those around them. Just because they are not trained in the educating half doesn't mean they can't provide any useful input.
They most likely even have experience with the educating half - since they have taught there children to speak. Unless they have are amazingly inept they have probably taught someone how to do some aspect of their job (or to play a game they knew how to play, or whatever).
Just because you happen to have picked a field in which almost everyone else happens to have some experience is no reason to pretend that those without formal training or extensive vocational experience can't have a valid opinion. Does it help make you feel smarter or something?
Most people have in fact experienced education - they went to school at some point and hence got a chance to observe things that worked and things that didn't. Got to experience how different ways of doing things affected their performance and their motivation and so on.
Whereas most people haven't spent a lot of time in operating theatres, let alone conscious in operating theatres. I suspect nurses could provide doctors with useful advice ("asking for X works better than jumping up and down pointing") even though they aren't doctors.
Truck drivers can probably provide useful input into how to improve traffic flow on highways, even though they probably don't have degrees in road planning and so on.
Of course lots of people are ignorant opinionated wankers, but that doesn't mean you have to be an Xer to provide useful input on how to X.
Surely a large part of the reason for cough syrups is that parents give them to children.
Giving cough syrup to my toddler is hard enough - giving him a pill would be next to impossible. I'd rather have him not choke to death thanks.
So my guess would be that cough syrups are syrups because that's what they were when we were kids and hence that's what we look for as adults?
As for Thera-Flu it's encouraging you drink some more fluids, which is a good thing - maybe the company is hoping that the increase in fluid intake will make people feel a little better and attribute that to the product?
As for overroasted coffee that might be what the market wants in America - which I blame on them drinking the dirty water they call coffee and then experiencing Starbucks (which truly is much better ). People who have drunk non-american coffee notice that Starbucks tastes crap - but in America they have no choice anyway, espresso everywhere else is just as bad...
And 150ml in 200ml seems high. There's about 100mg of caffeine in an espresso shot which is 30ml so about 30g of water. So 1:300 by weight. Since caffeine is a solid at room temp, I'm not sure how your 150ml was made (I'm guessing dissolved in water rather than melted, in which case it could contain anythng from 0mg to whatever the saturation limit is - which I can't be bothered looking up). Or are my recollections completely wrong?
How much do you think the children working the coal mines and textile mills in England in the 19th century got paid? And what were the working conditions like?
How about today?
Ever considered that maybe this exploitation of the poor is a step on the path to a middle class and a better standard of living for the poor? Subsistance farming is not a pleasant life, and neither is third world factory work. But in England and America at least the increase in overall wealth resulted in the poor being better off in an absolute sense.
After all what really matters is that the wealth is kept in the hands of the wealthy and as little as possible ends up in the hands of those dirty poor people.
This is the first time I've seen that conflict be able to move away from the violent, and that's a big step for video games. This has the chance to change the nature of gaming away from the shoot-em-up mentality into something larger.
All I was trying to point out is just because a nutjob who thinks governments are manipulating the weather or aliens are running the UN also thinks theory X is true doesn't mean theory X is complete whackjobbery.
It also doesn't mean theory X isn't complete whackjobbery of course.
There are lots of places to argue against this "electric universe" theory - but pointing out that one of the people who argue for it is a nutjob isn't one of those places.
As for Newton, he made an amazing contribution to science. He was also deeply involved in atrology and alchemy, searching for "bible codes", and literally interpreting the Bible.
Which brings up the flip side, just because an amazingly smart scientific mind believes something doesn't mean it isn't whackjobbery...
And the biggest proponent of those whackjob motion theories (you know, F=ma and all that crap when clearly when you stop pushing something it slows down) happens to be Isaac Newton, whose other claims include such gems as transmuting lead into gold.
To this day I still get questions about that variable name (it's a good filter..., a programmer who brings that question is not one who I want working with that code).
A programmer who would question why you have a variable name that is just asking for future errors when it is "mistyped" correctly is one you don't want working on the code?
You prefer people who don't notice such things? And just introduce bugs instead?
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I wrote some VoIP with pretty pictures stuff for the Zaurus (and the Ipod) last year. I think we used an SL-6500 though.
It's a PDA but I left it plugged in at my office - and sshed to it from home and used X11 forwarding to do GUI development on it from home (it was a python GUI but the libraries were sufficiently different to mean running it on the linux desktop machine wasn't close enough).
It seemed like a good idea at the time...
I even compiled some stuff on it, when I couldn't be bothered jumping through the hoops required to cross compile a python library. Compiling on the little Zaurus while you use your P4 desktop to read email is a strange allocation of resources.
You're also using the GST-inc price - the one that includes the 10% goods and services tax in Australia. Whereas the US price doesn't include sales tax.
So the price you should be comparing to is the AU$840 one for a 12.5% markup.
Then there's a 5% import duty as well, but I think that's calculated based on what the importer paid for it not what they then resell it for - but lets pretend not. In which case $840 includes a 5% tariff and hence is really $800 for a 7.2% markup. Of couse the US probably has an import duty too, but lets not let facts get in the way.
Considering relative population sizes and hence market size that doesn't seem unreasonable.
There's also the fact that the Australian minimum wage is AU$12.30 an hour, whereas in the USA it's US$5.15 or AU$6.70 (it's higher in some states...) so paying those shelf packers and so on will make Australian prices higher. Petrol is also more expensive so getting the stuff to the warehouse/store costs more, and so on and so on.
Anyway <8% is a little under 200%.
No he didn't deserve to die. Given the situation though it's not surprising or unexpected that he did.
The power of retards in groups.
No I mean finding a one lane road and driving slow. Reasonably soon you will be at the front of a line of traffic. As opposed to at the back (which was apparently such an annoying thing)...
Yes, being at the front of a line of cars is much better. And simple too - just drive under the speed limit and wait a little while.
Let's see a one hour show. Assume 20 minutes of ads (pretend there are no network promos and so on which don't generate revenue from advertisers). Assume by several you mean four. Then 20*2*4000 $160000.
So they would need 80000 people to pay their $2. Except of course without those 20 minutes of ads it would be a 40 minute show, so they can fit more in a day (or have more time for shows with ads), 40/60*80000, so about 53000 people be enough.
Of course they all ready do "on demand" programming. I'd damn hope they don't have ads since they charge $4 for a movie - but I'll never know since I DVD rentals are $1 a few blocks away (or $2 just round the corner).
Surely the model would be show the new episodes at $2 a pop without ads and then a week (a few days, whatever) later show it as normal and hence generate ad revenue anyway...
It doesn't matter that it's not the same, people still have lots of experience with education (which is not usually the case with surgery). They have observed what worked and didn't work for them and those around them. Just because they are not trained in the educating half doesn't mean they can't provide any useful input.
They most likely even have experience with the educating half - since they have taught there children to speak. Unless they have are amazingly inept they have probably taught someone how to do some aspect of their job (or to play a game they knew how to play, or whatever).
Just because you happen to have picked a field in which almost everyone else happens to have some experience is no reason to pretend that those without formal training or extensive vocational experience can't have a valid opinion. Does it help make you feel smarter or something?
Most people have in fact experienced education - they went to school at some point and hence got a chance to observe things that worked and things that didn't. Got to experience how different ways of doing things affected their performance and their motivation and so on.
Whereas most people haven't spent a lot of time in operating theatres, let alone conscious in operating theatres. I suspect nurses could provide doctors with useful advice ("asking for X works better than jumping up and down pointing") even though they aren't doctors.
Truck drivers can probably provide useful input into how to improve traffic flow on highways, even though they probably don't have degrees in road planning and so on.
Of course lots of people are ignorant opinionated wankers, but that doesn't mean you have to be an Xer to provide useful input on how to X.
There's three and a half months left. Most people probably still haven't got their group certificates yet...
Surely a large part of the reason for cough syrups is that parents give them to children.
Giving cough syrup to my toddler is hard enough - giving him a pill would be next to impossible. I'd rather have him not choke to death thanks.
So my guess would be that cough syrups are syrups because that's what they were when we were kids and hence that's what we look for as adults?
As for Thera-Flu it's encouraging you drink some more fluids, which is a good thing - maybe the company is hoping that the increase in fluid intake will make people feel a little better and attribute that to the product?
As for overroasted coffee that might be what the market wants in America - which I blame on them drinking the dirty water they call coffee and then experiencing Starbucks (which truly is much better ). People who have drunk non-american coffee notice that Starbucks tastes crap - but in America they have no choice anyway, espresso everywhere else is just as bad...
And 150ml in 200ml seems high. There's about 100mg of caffeine in an espresso shot which is 30ml so about 30g of water. So 1:300 by weight. Since caffeine is a solid at room temp, I'm not sure how your 150ml was made (I'm guessing dissolved in water rather than melted, in which case it could contain anythng from 0mg to whatever the saturation limit is - which I can't be bothered looking up). Or are my recollections completely wrong?
Because, in comparison with what they claim is "coffee" in America Starbucks is amazingly tasty.
Of course compared with coffee everywhere else I've had the pleasure of drinking it Starbucks is swill, but it's all relative.
Why wouldn't they? The PATH terminal isn't exactly small.
How much do you think the children working the coal mines and textile mills in England in the 19th century got paid? And what were the working conditions like?
How about today?
Ever considered that maybe this exploitation of the poor is a step on the path to a middle class and a better standard of living for the poor? Subsistance farming is not a pleasant life, and neither is third world factory work. But in England and America at least the increase in overall wealth resulted in the poor being better off in an absolute sense.
Recovering and reusing the boosters after they smash into the ground at 55 mph would be problematic.
After all what really matters is that the wealth is kept in the hands of the wealthy and as little as possible ends up in the hands of those dirty poor people.
This is the first time I've seen that conflict be able to move away from the violent, and that's a big step for video games. This has the chance to change the nature of gaming away from the shoot-em-up mentality into something larger.
Pong was violent?
They are a matter of 9fs.
All I was trying to point out is just because a nutjob who thinks governments are manipulating the weather or aliens are running the UN also thinks theory X is true doesn't mean theory X is complete whackjobbery.
It also doesn't mean theory X isn't complete whackjobbery of course.
There are lots of places to argue against this "electric universe" theory - but pointing out that one of the people who argue for it is a nutjob isn't one of those places.
As for Newton, he made an amazing contribution to science. He was also deeply involved in atrology and alchemy, searching for "bible codes", and literally interpreting the Bible.
Which brings up the flip side, just because an amazingly smart scientific mind believes something doesn't mean it isn't whackjobbery...
And the biggest proponent of those whackjob motion theories (you know, F=ma and all that crap when clearly when you stop pushing something it slows down) happens to be Isaac Newton, whose other claims include such gems as transmuting lead into gold.
And people dare claim innovation is getting slower.
So you'd rather them to have ruled that configuring your web browser to block ads or setting up a proxy to do the same was illegal?
To this day I still get questions about that variable name (it's a good filter..., a programmer who brings that question is not one who I want working with that code).
A programmer who would question why you have a variable name that is just asking for future errors when it is "mistyped" correctly is one you don't want working on the code?
You prefer people who don't notice such things? And just introduce bugs instead?
Have some sympathy for the Judges whose decision was smacked down 9-0.
Something to leave off the CV...
Seems more of a guilty-until-proven-innocent system.