This is as much about shelf space as it is about choice of platform. The retailer doesn't give a monkeys about id's server stats - only about which boxes their customers pay for.
Most monitors are foreign manufacture.... better ones from Japan.
Checked the labels on your hardware recently? Most of the components in your system were manufactured outside of the US - although the final box was probably assembled in some giant plant in the midde of nowhere.
As for Japan, I'd classify that as a fairly expensive manufacturing base - yet their retail costs are still competitive.
No import duties, no shipping costs, and no overhead
The cost of shipping from Mexico is likely to be comparable to shipping from any part of the US - unless you know of some monitor teleportation device?
Remember, Mexico is dirt poor
So the American Dream is to blame for the loss of manufacturing to other countries? Face it, the US economy is not as dependent on manufacturing as it once was.
Would you rather those jobs go to your immediate neighbour, or to some tin-pot dictatorsip far away?
I'll cut you some slack as you're obviously a yokel just out of short trousers;)
Hercules is one of the oldest brands in the PC graphics business - all the way back to the IBM PC/XT.
Guillemot is well known in Europe and recently amongst the gaming community in the US. I don't know where you're shopping, but CDW, NECX and SPARCO have all got Guillemot cards in stock (I just bought one).
As for the plethora of monitor brands - whats wrong with competition? I for one wouldn't want to be restricted to choosing between Viewsonic and Optiquest (sarcasm - both are the same company).
Considering the competition to get kids into 'good' kindergartens (nursery schools), how long do you think it will take before the first wave of ultra-competitive parents decide to take the plunge?
Other posters have already made reference to the 'Gattaca' storyline and Huxley's Brave New World. Implausible as they may seem now, we all know how quickly things change.
Pharma companies costs are much greater than the manufacture of the dispensable drug. Their hit rate in drug discovery is very low. Of the compounds they 'discover', less than 1 in 20 actually make it through to the pharmacy.
In addition, the costs of running comprehensiv clinical trials in various countries can also stack up rapidly. Some companies are more ethical than others about this...
Unfortunately not all web developers have the choice. My current project requires me use to MS InterDev {shudder}.
After checking that my hand 'coded' style sheet works under both IE and NS, I add it to my InterDev project. I then add a subclass - InterDev promptly screws up the style sheet (drops a trailing squiggly bracket) so that it doesn't work properly on Netscape. Of course, IE will still correctly parse the style sheet - apparently it is more 'forgiving'.
To add insult to injury, it actually displays correctly formed source within the IDE - but doesn't save it as such.
Let's not forget, having a standards compliant browser isn't going to be enough. Developers may want to support standards, but they might not have a choice as to whose. Market acceptance is what will win the day.
I'd interested to see how many VB advocates would also be pushing for Linux:)
As for Delphi over C++, I suspect that many of those who responded are working under externally imposed deadlines. This makes their choice of tool come down to how easy it makes their job - as well as corporate 'standards'.
I got very annoyed at this "film". After an hour of watching three refugees from "The Real World" screaming at each other I walked out.
It felt as if it had been made by a couple of guys on a lark (the point I guess). The dialogue was embaressingly ad-hoc, and no character development was detectable to these jaded senses.
The group I saw it with had mixed reactions. Two thought it was hilarious, two hated it, and one thought it was 'chilling'.
My suggestion - wait until it comes out on video. You won't be missing anything.
The big PC manufacturers (Dell, HP and Micron for example) already have their logos appear on bootup. Theoretically (albeit unlikely), Gateway could buy the space for their ad:)
Realistically, the only people who are likely to see these ads are those who build their own systems - not necessarily the type of demographic that would be particularly receptive to intrusive advertising. Ironic isn't it.
What exactly will Macmillan be doing that is worth contributing back? All they're doing is bundling Mandrake with a version of Partition Magic and StarOffice. Have you forgotten about Caldera? These easier to install distros are great for spreading the gospel (I'm a Mandrake user myself).
As for the distribution network, I've seen RH in Barnes and Noble as well as Best Buy - exactly the same type of stores as I'd expect to see this in.
The money Mandrake receives from Macmillan (via a support contract) is probably going towards Lothar - which in turn will be released under the GPL. A fair exchange I think.
I don't think the mainstream media is likely to change it's use of 'hacker' anytime soon. It's a term that's become part of the 'popular' folklore.
How many films have we seen where the computer geek is described as a 'hacker'. Or the action of breaking into a computer system is described as 'hacking'.
Slashdot Mirror
Since when has the Slashdot population bothered to actually read a link they didn't like the look of? :)
I think you're both right - so long as a magazine has interesting columnists writing compelling material, the dead wood magazine will live.
To further emphasis your point, I can't take Salon.com on an eight hour flight across the Atlantic.
Perfect day for an oddity like me.
This is as much about shelf space as it is about choice of platform. The retailer doesn't give a monkeys about id's server stats - only about which boxes their customers pay for.
So to answer all your questions - Yes.
Most monitors are foreign manufacture.... better ones from Japan.
Checked the labels on your hardware recently? Most of the components in your system were manufactured outside of the US - although the final box was probably assembled in some giant plant in the midde of nowhere.
As for Japan, I'd classify that as a fairly expensive manufacturing base - yet their retail costs are still competitive.
No import duties, no shipping costs, and no overhead
The cost of shipping from Mexico is likely to be comparable to shipping from any part of the US - unless you know of some monitor teleportation device?
Remember, Mexico is dirt poor
So the American Dream is to blame for the loss of manufacturing to other countries? Face it, the US economy is not as dependent on manufacturing as it once was.
Would you rather those jobs go to your immediate neighbour, or to some tin-pot dictatorsip far away?
I'll cut you some slack as you're obviously a yokel just out of short trousers ;)
Hercules is one of the oldest brands in the PC graphics business - all the way back to the IBM PC/XT.
Guillemot is well known in Europe and recently amongst the gaming community in the US. I don't know where you're shopping, but CDW, NECX and SPARCO have all got Guillemot cards in stock (I just bought one).
As for the plethora of monitor brands - whats wrong with competition? I for one wouldn't want to be restricted to choosing between Viewsonic and Optiquest (sarcasm - both are the same company).
Can you imagine if they tried to film the Blair Witch Project in a forest of glowing trees.....
Or at least get the Mozilla team to add an about: link to it :)
/. readers have been out on more than two dates with the same woman?
Maybe time for a new poll - how many male
I thought Mag-lev has already been used for a train/subway system in Japan?
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Anyone notice the link on slashdot actually has a 'slashdot' directory in the path?
http://www.wired.com/news/news/slashdot/technol
Whereas the news page link is:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,318
Wonder if "Tired" are trying to counter the
Considering the competition to get kids into 'good' kindergartens (nursery schools), how long do you think it will take before the first wave of ultra-competitive parents decide to take the plunge?
Other posters have already made reference to the 'Gattaca' storyline and Huxley's Brave New World. Implausible as they may seem now, we all know how quickly things change.
Pharma companies costs are much greater than the manufacture of the dispensable drug. Their hit rate in drug discovery is very low. Of the compounds they 'discover', less than 1 in 20 actually make it through to the pharmacy.
In addition, the costs of running comprehensiv clinical trials in various countries can also stack up rapidly. Some companies are more ethical than others about this...
Unfortunately not all web developers have the choice. My current project requires me use to MS InterDev {shudder}.
After checking that my hand 'coded' style sheet works under both IE and NS, I add it to my InterDev project. I then add a subclass - InterDev promptly screws up the style sheet (drops a trailing squiggly bracket) so that it doesn't work properly on Netscape. Of course, IE will still correctly parse the style sheet - apparently it is more 'forgiving'.
To add insult to injury, it actually displays correctly formed source within the IDE - but doesn't save it as such.
Let's not forget, having a standards compliant browser isn't going to be enough. Developers may want to support standards, but they might not have a choice as to whose. Market acceptance is what will win the day.
I'd interested to see how many VB advocates would also be pushing for Linux :)
As for Delphi over C++, I suspect that many of those who responded are working under externally imposed deadlines. This makes their choice of tool come down to how easy it makes their job - as well as corporate 'standards'.
I felt the point of the film was to get the makers exposure (and make a shit load of money on the side). They certainly succeeded.
What was *your* point?
I got very annoyed at this "film". After an hour of watching three refugees from "The Real World" screaming at each other I walked out.
It felt as if it had been made by a couple of guys on a lark (the point I guess). The dialogue was embaressingly ad-hoc, and no character development was detectable to these jaded senses.
The group I saw it with had mixed reactions. Two thought it was hilarious, two hated it, and one thought it was 'chilling'.
My suggestion - wait until it comes out on video. You won't be missing anything.
A few years ago, Douglas Rushkoff wrote this essay on the demise of Wired UK.
Funny how some people seem to have more insight than others [check the flames at the door].
Now that's an image I didn't need - Taco and Hemos walking into an Andover board meeting wearing nothing but kipper ties....
Well done and all that.
Kai.
The big PC manufacturers (Dell, HP and Micron for example) already have their logos appear on bootup. Theoretically (albeit unlikely), Gateway could buy the space for their ad :)
Realistically, the only people who are likely to see these ads are those who build their own systems - not necessarily the type of demographic that would be particularly receptive to intrusive advertising. Ironic isn't it.
What exactly will Macmillan be doing that is worth contributing back? All they're doing is bundling Mandrake with a version of Partition Magic and StarOffice. Have you forgotten about Caldera? These easier to install distros are great for spreading the gospel (I'm a Mandrake user myself).
As for the distribution network, I've seen RH in Barnes and Noble as well as Best Buy - exactly the same type of stores as I'd expect to see this in.
The money Mandrake receives from Macmillan (via a support contract) is probably going towards Lothar - which in turn will be released under the GPL. A fair exchange I think.
I don't think the mainstream media is likely to change it's use of 'hacker' anytime soon. It's a term that's become part of the 'popular' folklore.
How many films have we seen where the computer geek is described as a 'hacker'. Or the action of breaking into a computer system is described as 'hacking'.
1) Launch apprunner.exe
:)
2) Read the release notes
Apprunner will launch the GUI and continue running in the background as a DOS box. Check out all the unresolved references as their logged
Loved the film, but isn't it a shame that so few sci-fi films really press our buttons like this?
Ignoring the obvious (the Jedi series, Terminator, 2001, Alien(s)), I can't think of too many Sci-Fi films that I wanted to recommend to my friends.