Who the hell cares? If people want to pay Apple that much money then they can. Its their money, spend how you want people. Apple will charge what the market will allow. When their prices hurt the bottom line too much (or the iphone and ipod stop saving their arses) then you might see a shift in business model... but until then... stop all the damn bitching and whining. Its annoying.
I haven't used the Mandriva distro. I'm not sure what they use for package installation, but my guess is that it uses Apt-get? I'm sure it doesn't use RPM. Even so, go out, grab the source and compile. Its there to do.
If FF was "sort of integrated" due to various library dependencies then wouldn't that make it MORE likely to be available? All programs have library dependencies. At least you can uninstall FF from your machine if you don't like it. I haven't tried to uninstall IE recently, but I know I couldn't do it at all not too long ago.
It would be innovation if IE could ever catch FF. So why isn't it innovation when FF finds new and better ways to stay ahead of them?
Maybe if you WERE a developer, like I am, then you would understand how innovative FF has been and how much their "lack of innovation" has forced IE to be half as decent as it is today./end-pwn
People will use what you put in front of them. Every time I work on someone's machine I make the recommendation that they use FF. They never turn my idea down. They ask, "Why?". So I tell them that it is better and they go, "Oh, ok." They use what is at their finger tips. Its just a matter of time until all the "black-box" users are over onto FF and the only IE users that will be left will be the fan boys/girls.
Um.... no innovation? How about it destroys IE on standards compliance? Is more flexible? Has the Awesome bar (put the tomatoes down I have a right to my opinion!)? Runs javascript faster? Isn't integrated with windows? Runs on Linux without extra software?
Yeah, CL is a pain in the arse, but at the same time rather helpful. Just enough to be useful sometimes, but not useful enough to be used all the time. Its really rather strange.
Where I went to school I had professors that were mathematicians for GE, and programmers for IBM and the likes. And then I had other profs that I would call "institutionalized" profs. Who never saw a day of industry but had all the answers.
It would be interesting to see if the rates of professionals entering academia as profs has decreased over the last 25 years... I have a feeling that it has.
So Citibank is the potential thief? Is that why they referred me to the credit bureaus? It was legit. I was offered a year of free credit monitoring. I just had to notify the credit bureau with my special code from Citi so that I wouldn't be charged.
Once again, your statement wasn't Insightful, you could have meant it as Funny, but if you were serious, then you have no idea what you are talking about.
And you thought social security and medicare were in trouble NOW! wait until these retired old farts stop dying. That was the one saving grace of the program... China still prints money right? We could borrow from them... oh wait...
Even if we solve the problem of aging, that doesn't mean immortality. It just means its one less thing you die of. Don't forget that there's still cancer, heart disease, stroke, and on and on. Not to mention accidents and war. So you won't become feeble. But you'll still die from something!
Citibank has been run like shit for years. Hence the reason why I dumped their asses a couple months back. I got tired of their shit. Not to mention that before this happened, I had been notified by them at least twice that I could be at risk of having my identity stolen. I've never had those problems with my credit union or any other company I deal with.
5 years of experience far outweighs 4 years of college. There is an old saying that goes "I learned more in my first 4 months at work that I did in 4 years of college." Sure, I went to school for computer science and mathematics. I programmed in C++, Python, VB, HTML, Javascript and other math related languages. Now I'm doing database driven programming on the iSeries. I never saw a single line of RPG IV code or CL code when I was in college. But where I live, that is in demand. And a year into the job I know more than if it had been my main focus in college. Why? Because I'm doing meaningful work and not just busy work examples that most colleges push on their undergrad students.
CS programs need to not only teach basic theory (the reason why I could pick up new languages fast) but also real world industry examples and projects. Academia and Industry just aren't as closely related as they once were.
At first thought I would have maybe thought it was just a picture of the mountains on a foggy morning. What time were you flying?
Great blog by the way. What a treat.
How about renting out the spare time to smaller university professors that would like to do chemical modeling or something that they've been working on but don't have the raw computing power to speed up their work? I know there are some cool things being tried but the results take a long time because the models take a while to run on second rate (albeit pretty good) modeling setups.
You really expect the border agents to be using anything other than windows? They might be, but I would be surprised. Anybody know what they're using? That would make this speculation a whole lot more productive;)
Plus, my suggestion only works if the law changes and they can no longer take your data and copy it.
If they can't see it, they won't know its there. Out of sight, out of mind. You wouldn't even have to encrypt it. Hide the file, have "View Hidden Files" turned off.
The bartender is the retard? How did you end up so far out of the way as to be in Olean NY? You must have been headed to the casino at Salemanca and took a wrong turn?
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touche. this is a possibility that I had not considered. well played.
Who the hell cares? If people want to pay Apple that much money then they can. Its their money, spend how you want people. Apple will charge what the market will allow. When their prices hurt the bottom line too much (or the iphone and ipod stop saving their arses) then you might see a shift in business model... but until then... stop all the damn bitching and whining. Its annoying.
GoDaddy has my credit card information
There fixed that for you.
Well, I stand corrected. You learn something new every day. Like I said, I've never used Mandriva, or even looked into it for that matter.
I haven't used the Mandriva distro. I'm not sure what they use for package installation, but my guess is that it uses Apt-get? I'm sure it doesn't use RPM. Even so, go out, grab the source and compile. Its there to do.
If FF was "sort of integrated" due to various library dependencies then wouldn't that make it MORE likely to be available? All programs have library dependencies. At least you can uninstall FF from your machine if you don't like it. I haven't tried to uninstall IE recently, but I know I couldn't do it at all not too long ago.
It would be innovation if IE could ever catch FF. So why isn't it innovation when FF finds new and better ways to stay ahead of them?
/end-pwn
Maybe if you WERE a developer, like I am, then you would understand how innovative FF has been and how much their "lack of innovation" has forced IE to be half as decent as it is today.
People will use what you put in front of them. Every time I work on someone's machine I make the recommendation that they use FF. They never turn my idea down. They ask, "Why?". So I tell them that it is better and they go, "Oh, ok." They use what is at their finger tips. Its just a matter of time until all the "black-box" users are over onto FF and the only IE users that will be left will be the fan boys/girls.
Um.... no innovation? How about it destroys IE on standards compliance? Is more flexible? Has the Awesome bar (put the tomatoes down I have a right to my opinion!)? Runs javascript faster? Isn't integrated with windows? Runs on Linux without extra software?
/end-rant
Dwight Shrute? Is that you?
Yeah, CL is a pain in the arse, but at the same time rather helpful. Just enough to be useful sometimes, but not useful enough to be used all the time. Its really rather strange.
Where I went to school I had professors that were mathematicians for GE, and programmers for IBM and the likes. And then I had other profs that I would call "institutionalized" profs. Who never saw a day of industry but had all the answers.
It would be interesting to see if the rates of professionals entering academia as profs has decreased over the last 25 years... I have a feeling that it has.
So Citibank is the potential thief? Is that why they referred me to the credit bureaus? It was legit. I was offered a year of free credit monitoring. I just had to notify the credit bureau with my special code from Citi so that I wouldn't be charged.
Once again, your statement wasn't Insightful, you could have meant it as Funny, but if you were serious, then you have no idea what you are talking about.
Canes? They won't age, they won't have a need for canes. They'll be shaking other appendages that are succumbing to the forces of gravity however...
The thought is kind of disturbing...
And you thought social security and medicare were in trouble NOW! wait until these retired old farts stop dying. That was the one saving grace of the program... China still prints money right? We could borrow from them... oh wait...
I wish I hadn't already posted above, I would mod +1 insightful.
Even if we solve the problem of aging, that doesn't mean immortality. It just means its one less thing you die of. Don't forget that there's still cancer, heart disease, stroke, and on and on. Not to mention accidents and war. So you won't become feeble. But you'll still die from something!
Citibank has been run like shit for years. Hence the reason why I dumped their asses a couple months back. I got tired of their shit. Not to mention that before this happened, I had been notified by them at least twice that I could be at risk of having my identity stolen. I've never had those problems with my credit union or any other company I deal with.
Thanks to Bit Torrent Photoshop IS for the average user :)
5 years of experience far outweighs 4 years of college. There is an old saying that goes "I learned more in my first 4 months at work that I did in 4 years of college." Sure, I went to school for computer science and mathematics. I programmed in C++, Python, VB, HTML, Javascript and other math related languages. Now I'm doing database driven programming on the iSeries. I never saw a single line of RPG IV code or CL code when I was in college. But where I live, that is in demand. And a year into the job I know more than if it had been my main focus in college. Why? Because I'm doing meaningful work and not just busy work examples that most colleges push on their undergrad students.
CS programs need to not only teach basic theory (the reason why I could pick up new languages fast) but also real world industry examples and projects. Academia and Industry just aren't as closely related as they once were.
At first thought I would have maybe thought it was just a picture of the mountains on a foggy morning. What time were you flying? Great blog by the way. What a treat.
How about renting out the spare time to smaller university professors that would like to do chemical modeling or something that they've been working on but don't have the raw computing power to speed up their work? I know there are some cool things being tried but the results take a long time because the models take a while to run on second rate (albeit pretty good) modeling setups.
IMHO
Screw you guys.... I'm goin' home.
You really expect the border agents to be using anything other than windows? They might be, but I would be surprised. Anybody know what they're using? That would make this speculation a whole lot more productive ;)
Plus, my suggestion only works if the law changes and they can no longer take your data and copy it.
Two words, Hidden Files.
If they can't see it, they won't know its there. Out of sight, out of mind. You wouldn't even have to encrypt it. Hide the file, have "View Hidden Files" turned off.
The bartender is the retard? How did you end up so far out of the way as to be in Olean NY? You must have been headed to the casino at Salemanca and took a wrong turn?
Or an incentive for them to return their hangers, such as $.40 off each garment with a returned hanger?