Standardization will make it easier for competitors to offer compatible product. Which could reduce profit.
But standardization also increases the size of the market, which can increase profit. It also reduces risks.
Are you holding off buying an HD DVD player to see whether Blu-Ray or HD-DVD wins? Standarization would reduce the risk to the consumer, and to the producer, that they'll invest in the unpopular choice.
So, on the whole, standardization is frequently viewed as a good thing.
Someone made a tradeoff in favor of short-term cost savings that imposed long-term cost burdens on the company. It "did the job at hand", but left the company dependent on Microsoft's tender mercies.
The thing about Yesterday's Enterprise, which I also think of as among the top TNG episodes, is that, in the primary time-line, nothing ever happened. All the heroics of the heroes of the alternative universe just made sure that the alternative wouldn't happen.
The point is that one can have "account creation" priviledges, or even "priviledge granting" privildedges, without having "ability to deliver signals to any process in the system" priviledges.
In unix, "root" has all the permissions. There is no way to grant someone permission to do one extraordinary thing without giving that user permission to do a whole host of extraordinary things.
Iraq... so that the people there have things that tax paying American citizens don't even have
Yeah. Now that we've invaded, Iraqis don't have jobs. They don't have security. Some of them don't have parents, because of W. For that, they hate us.
Many Iraqis have the freedom of a pine box. Their relatives are not happy with us.
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Windows is built by a company that mastered the business practice of ensuring the customer had to pay them, without regard to whether their product was the customer's choice.
Viruses. Malware. These are aspects of Microsoft's operating system, and no other. Why? Because potential customers need them?
Move to the midwest. House prices here aren't going up much at all. I bought in 1994 for $87,000, put $10,000 into the house (new plumbing, new windows, new roof, refinished floors), and then sold it for $108,000 in 2001. And then I had to buy out my ex wife for $10,000.
Fox news viewers are significantly more likely than consumers of other news outlets to believe things that are not true. Things that happen to be pushed by conservative and administration sources.
On the other hand the pro-"leave it as it is" crowd rarely mention the coming boom of retirees and the growth in the number of retirees combined with a shrinking work force. For example; if people live too 100 in stead of 80 because of better nutrition, care and medicine it could cause problem with much higher health care costs than previously though. And the existing solution fail to account for the the slackers that work far less than they could.
The coming boom in retirees was forseen twenty two years ago, and they enacted a plan to take care of them: they raised taxes to create the Social Security Surplus.
There is no SS crisis. And the privatization plan being floated cuts benefits more than the "do nothing" approach under the most pessimistic economic assumptions.
There were no WMDs, either. Judge the folks by their track record.
PR is what made the public believe that Hussein's Iraq possessed Weapons of Mass Destruction that threatened the United States. PR is what the Bush administration is using to make the public falsely believe that Social Security is in a crisis now. PR is what the Bush administration is using to make the public believe that destroying Social Security is a good thing.
Energy will be the issue. If a robot can use hydrocarbon fuels at whatever temperature the engineers can contain, they will have more energy available, and they will win.
If they are restricted in their power sources to roughly the same energy density as carbohydrates and muscle, then it's a much greater challenge. They will be making the same tradeoffs as humans: sprint now to get there, if it means being winded for a little while afterward?
Where do the robots get their energy from? Batteries? Then the robots have to worry about energy management as well. The humans can just keep the ball moving at all times, and away from the robot team, making them burn fuel until they're out of gas, and then go for the win.
He was pointing to an even less worthy Gateway. Take the Gateway, upgrade the video (can you?), upgrade to CD-RW/DVD, add in virus protection and a one-year warrenty, and shipping, and you're up to $800 (before rebate).
With the mini Mac, you get iLife (iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, iTunes, and GarageBand) so you can edit and organize songs, photos, and movies, burn the movies to DVD, and then put together some music. Plus AppleWorks (better than MS-Works) and the rest of the usual suspects.
And if something goes wrong, you have Gateway's sub-par service, vs. Apple's Best of the Bunch.
Adding 64K (1/16th of a megabyte) to an Apple//e was $199 at introduction in 1983, IIRC (the//e memory slot expansion board that provided 80 columns and bank-switched memory. Later on, double-high-res graphics). 64KBit chips were the highest tech. I can go home and dig out some magazines for exact prices. And that was in 1983 dollars, which are worth twice what a dollar is today.
I was proud when I tallied up all the memory in that computer and came up with 480 K. Nearly half a megabyte. More than even the folks with IBM PCs had bothered to install.
RTFA, and see that the pharmacy at this hospital fills 380,000 syringes per year, that's an average of over a thousand syringes per day. That will take a few staff, and coordination about what goes where, and be an incredibly boring job.
Automating repetitive jobs is a way to see that they get done reliably. And you can automate checks that the dosage is within the allowed range of mg/patient kgs.
Of course, there is still the potential that the medicine that the robot thinks it is dispensing in to the syringe isn't the same as the medicine that the robot is actually dispensing into the syringe. The person filling the robot put the right flavors into the right dispensers.
I have programmed professionally in at least 8 languages, including C, C++, perl, and PL-SQL, and have worked in several others in academic or limited settings.
I have been doing Java since 2000, coming from C++.
Java isn't bad. It is complete; it has a threading model with appropriate concurrency controls. It isn't that different from other imperitive object-oriented languages. It has automatic garbage collection. After startup, on our applications, the performance difference with C++ is negligible, and what we save with automatic GC is quite bankable.
My employer used two strengths of Java to justify the move from C++: platform independence, and garbage collection.
I don't know what jbich wants to see in a language.
He can click the buzzer faster than any human mind could comprehend. He wins becuase no one else gets a chance to answer
That's not how Jeopardy is played. A half second after Alex finishes reading the question, a light goes on. If you buzz in before the light goes on, you're locked out for a little while.
The trick is to be the first person to buzz in after the light goes on. If you're waiting for the light to go on, you'll not get in. You have to get into Alex's reading tempo and the speed of the guy running the light, so that you anticipate the light going on and not wait for your reflexes to react to the light.
I'm jonesing for a new Mac. Really, I'm jonesing for MacOS X, but money is tight, and $130 for the OS, and $50 for iLife, and $80 for Appleworks adds up to a third of the cost of an eMac. So I'm waiting, impatiently, for the bank account to fill and the processors to get a little bit faster and for Tiger, and...
Current machine is a Lime 400 MHz iMac with a busted ethernet port, plain old airport, a gig o' RAM and a 40 GB HD running MacOS 9.2.2. External 4x CD burner, firewire. I also have a PowerMac 6100 AV with 17" multiscan monitor, a Mac Plus, a PowerBook 520c (most recent addition, battery doesn't work, and I'd gladly accept an HDI-30 to DB-25 SCSI converter from anyone who has a spare), and an Apple//e in the computer museum in the attic.
$500 for the iCheap (with Tiger and iLife and AppleWorks and a game or two and Quicken) with the old monitor, and I think I'd pry open the wallet and pray that my car doesn't break down.
And then buy an iPod for my wife, and start stuffing her CD collection into it. I am getting tired of dragging a bag of CDs on our road trips... and neither of our computers are new enough to support an iPod.
Oh, and a RAM upgrade. And the DVD burner.
Sheesh, where did all the money go?
64-bit is nice, and the new iMacs just have to be seen to be believed. But that starts going north of $2,000 once the toys are added, and I can't buy that right now.
With such a machine, after the dust settles, I'd be tempted to put an Apple flat-screen monitor on my list for next Christmas. I want to get more years out of the display than I get out of the computer. Separating them makes it easier to do that. How long will DVI stay around?
Anyway, from personal introspection I can see how having a cheap box could lead to more sales overall. Let consumers take smaller steps, so they can step more often.
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Nice case of portable goal-posts.
Apple reps have said that, contrary to your earlier assertion, that upgrading the RAM will not void your warrenty.
On the other hand, breaking internal parts will void your warrenty.
Standardization will make it easier for competitors to offer compatible product. Which could reduce profit.
But standardization also increases the size of the market, which can increase profit. It also reduces risks.
Are you holding off buying an HD DVD player to see whether Blu-Ray or HD-DVD wins? Standarization would reduce the risk to the consumer, and to the producer, that they'll invest in the unpopular choice.
So, on the whole, standardization is frequently viewed as a good thing.
Someone made a tradeoff in favor of short-term cost savings that imposed long-term cost burdens on the company. It "did the job at hand", but left the company dependent on Microsoft's tender mercies.
The thing about Yesterday's Enterprise, which I also think of as among the top TNG episodes, is that, in the primary time-line, nothing ever happened. All the heroics of the heroes of the alternative universe just made sure that the alternative wouldn't happen.
The point is that one can have "account creation" priviledges, or even "priviledge granting" privildedges, without having "ability to deliver signals to any process in the system" priviledges.
In unix, "root" has all the permissions. There is no way to grant someone permission to do one extraordinary thing without giving that user permission to do a whole host of extraordinary things.
Yeah. Now that we've invaded, Iraqis don't have jobs. They don't have security. Some of them don't have parents, because of W. For that, they hate us.
Many Iraqis have the freedom of a pine box. Their relatives are not happy with us.
Windows is built by a company that mastered the business practice of ensuring the customer had to pay them, without regard to whether their product was the customer's choice.
Viruses. Malware. These are aspects of Microsoft's operating system, and no other. Why? Because potential customers need them?
Move to the midwest. House prices here aren't going up much at all. I bought in 1994 for $87,000, put $10,000 into the house (new plumbing, new windows, new roof, refinished floors), and then sold it for $108,000 in 2001. And then I had to buy out my ex wife for $10,000.
CBSs claims about Bush's military service were accurate. Not erroneous.
Fox news viewers are significantly more likely than consumers of other news outlets to believe things that are not true. Things that happen to be pushed by conservative and administration sources.
Why is that?
The coming boom in retirees was forseen twenty two years ago, and they enacted a plan to take care of them: they raised taxes to create the Social Security Surplus.
There is no SS crisis. And the privatization plan being floated cuts benefits more than the "do nothing" approach under the most pessimistic economic assumptions.
There were no WMDs, either. Judge the folks by their track record.
The documents lacked provenance.
The truth is that Bush _was_ AWOL. Did not meet his committments. Guardsmen today who did what Bush did would be in the brig for a long time or wose.
PR is what made the public believe that Hussein's Iraq possessed Weapons of Mass Destruction that threatened the United States. PR is what the Bush administration is using to make the public falsely believe that Social Security is in a crisis now. PR is what the Bush administration is using to make the public believe that destroying Social Security is a good thing.
Energy will be the issue. If a robot can use hydrocarbon fuels at whatever temperature the engineers can contain, they will have more energy available, and they will win.
If they are restricted in their power sources to roughly the same energy density as carbohydrates and muscle, then it's a much greater challenge. They will be making the same tradeoffs as humans: sprint now to get there, if it means being winded for a little while afterward?
It's not just the soldiers that die. The US invasion and occupation of Iraq, ordered by George Bush, killed 10,000 to 100,000 civilians.
If he were the leader of almost any other country, he'd be in the dock at the Hague awaiting a War Crimes trial.
Where do the robots get their energy from? Batteries? Then the robots have to worry about energy management as well. The humans can just keep the ball moving at all times, and away from the robot team, making them burn fuel until they're out of gas, and then go for the win.
He was pointing to an even less worthy Gateway. Take the Gateway, upgrade the video (can you?), upgrade to CD-RW/DVD, add in virus protection and a one-year warrenty, and shipping, and you're up to $800 (before rebate).
With the mini Mac, you get iLife (iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, iTunes, and GarageBand) so you can edit and organize songs, photos, and movies, burn the movies to DVD, and then put together some music. Plus AppleWorks (better than MS-Works) and the rest of the usual suspects.
And if something goes wrong, you have Gateway's sub-par service, vs. Apple's Best of the Bunch.
LEDs are also monochromatic.
Adding 64K (1/16th of a megabyte) to an Apple //e was $199 at introduction in 1983, IIRC (the //e memory slot expansion board that provided 80 columns and bank-switched memory. Later on, double-high-res graphics). 64KBit chips were the highest tech. I can go home and dig out some magazines for exact prices. And that was in 1983 dollars, which are worth twice what a dollar is today.
I was proud when I tallied up all the memory in that computer and came up with 480 K. Nearly half a megabyte. More than even the folks with IBM PCs had bothered to install.
Loading a syringe properly is no problem.
RTFA, and see that the pharmacy at this hospital fills 380,000 syringes per year, that's an average of over a thousand syringes per day. That will take a few staff, and coordination about what goes where, and be an incredibly boring job.
Automating repetitive jobs is a way to see that they get done reliably. And you can automate checks that the dosage is within the allowed range of mg/patient kgs.
Of course, there is still the potential that the medicine that the robot thinks it is dispensing in to the syringe isn't the same as the medicine that the robot is actually dispensing into the syringe. The person filling the robot put the right flavors into the right dispensers.
My employer used to run custom C++ applications for back-end web processing. Now we run Java/J2EE applications for back-end web processing.
Switching to Java had a negligable change in our hardware budget. "More money for servers" is a myth.
I have programmed professionally in at least 8 languages, including C, C++, perl, and PL-SQL, and have worked in several others in academic or limited settings.
I have been doing Java since 2000, coming from C++.
Java isn't bad. It is complete; it has a threading model with appropriate concurrency controls. It isn't that different from other imperitive object-oriented languages. It has automatic garbage collection. After startup, on our applications, the performance difference with C++ is negligible, and what we save with automatic GC is quite bankable.
My employer used two strengths of Java to justify the move from C++: platform independence, and garbage collection.
I don't know what jbich wants to see in a language.
That's not how Jeopardy is played. A half second after Alex finishes reading the question, a light goes on. If you buzz in before the light goes on, you're locked out for a little while.
The trick is to be the first person to buzz in after the light goes on. If you're waiting for the light to go on, you'll not get in. You have to get into Alex's reading tempo and the speed of the guy running the light, so that you anticipate the light going on and not wait for your reflexes to react to the light.
I'm jonesing for a new Mac. Really, I'm jonesing for MacOS X, but money is tight, and $130 for the OS, and $50 for iLife, and $80 for Appleworks adds up to a third of the cost of an eMac. So I'm waiting, impatiently, for the bank account to fill and the processors to get a little bit faster and for Tiger, and...
//e in the computer museum in the attic.
Current machine is a Lime 400 MHz iMac with a busted ethernet port, plain old airport, a gig o' RAM and a 40 GB HD running MacOS 9.2.2. External 4x CD burner, firewire. I also have a PowerMac 6100 AV with 17" multiscan monitor, a Mac Plus, a PowerBook 520c (most recent addition, battery doesn't work, and I'd gladly accept an HDI-30 to DB-25 SCSI converter from anyone who has a spare), and an Apple
$500 for the iCheap (with Tiger and iLife and AppleWorks and a game or two and Quicken) with the old monitor, and I think I'd pry open the wallet and pray that my car doesn't break down.
And then buy an iPod for my wife, and start stuffing her CD collection into it. I am getting tired of dragging a bag of CDs on our road trips... and neither of our computers are new enough to support an iPod.
Oh, and a RAM upgrade. And the DVD burner.
Sheesh, where did all the money go?
64-bit is nice, and the new iMacs just have to be seen to be believed. But that starts going north of $2,000 once the toys are added, and I can't buy that right now.
With such a machine, after the dust settles, I'd be tempted to put an Apple flat-screen monitor on my list for next Christmas. I want to get more years out of the display than I get out of the computer. Separating them makes it easier to do that. How long will DVI stay around?
Anyway, from personal introspection I can see how having a cheap box could lead to more sales overall. Let consumers take smaller steps, so they can step more often.
gas/oil was a lot cheaper, after inflation, in 1994-1998. It has gone up a lot faster than inflation between 1998 and now...