Asking whether it's good or bad is like asking whether it's strawberry or mint flavored. Completely illogical.
The Machine (which people love to rage against) isn't good or bad. It's stupid, unethical, and occasionally wrong. But it's not really good or bad. That's the job of individuals.
Prescriptivists claim that dictionaries and grammars should be style guides, or pedagogical tools. Descriptivists pretend to be more scientific.
The reality is, descriptivists are closet (or raging) liberals, who are happy to leave minorities in the ghetto, without a guide out. And prescriptivists are conservatives, who see themselves guiding the uneducated into the light.
The difference is, prescriptivists know both sides of the argument, as they were young and naive once too.
Computers is a good example. It's not advanced physics, but it's also a complex field that actually works. And it's not a car analogy.
I know how the internet works. I know that a request gets sent through the network, and that gets routed through to a web server, which sends a request back to the client, which (in the case of HTML) displays the web page in a browser window.
OK, I don't know how the request gets routed, or how web servers work, or how the client works. Nor do I know how computers work (though I do know a bit of C, assembly, digital systems design, electronics, and quantum physics). I know parts of it. And I know that if I draw up a diagram, I can drill down as far as I want and not get some idiotic "just trust me". I know that I can get to the bottom of things, though I probably won't have time to understand all of it.
The fact that I can verify any given part means I should be able to trust the whole (empirically). I'll also assume that lots of other curious people are looking at other bits and pieces, verifying that it's not just a cosmic hoax, and that the inventors of modern computers didn't sacrifice a dozen virgins to create my laptop, then cover it all up with an elaborate hoax involving "transistors". Because that would be lunacy.
Exactly. "Moderate" is a factor of 2 things - who's talking (Japanese laugh of 5s, while the 5.6 Newcastle quake was the most devastating earthquake in Australian history - it killed 13 people) and how far away you are (a deep earthquake 100 miles away is usually safe, but a 3.0 can kill you if you are in a mineshaft, close to the hypercenter).
Because Intel chips are currently better than AMD chips, clock for clock.
The only place where AMD has an edge is Zacate (AMD integrated graphics + a duel core Bobcat - it's Atom killer), and *maybe* Llano (too early to tell).
Those are budget systems, which leverage AMD's ATI acquisition. Intel HD is miles ahead of the old Intel graphics, but I think Zacate is better.
However, those are low-power consumer chips. Not server chips. Intel still owns the server.
Really? People in the service sector can be happy, as there are 7 billion potential customers.
People doing research *should* be happy, as while their research may not be the best in the world (due to all the competition), it can touch 7 billion lives. But I guess a lot of researchers suck at math.
This whole warrior-philosopher meme crops up a lot. Remember the Knights of the Round Table, and English Chivalry?
Here's how it works.Peasants just have a hovel, a plough, and a mule if they are lucky. They work 9 to 9, then go to bed because they can't afford a candle to read by. Only the upper class can reasonably afford the lastest military hardware (be it a tank, plate mail, or a katana and lacquered armour). They can also afford books, gardens, and servant-girls to... shall we say... woo.
Besides, only the upper class is allowed weapons. Anyone else is a bandit, or rebel.
So all the philosophers and warriors come from the same social circle. The philosophers need to learn to duel, so that they can defend their honor if their philosophy causes some kind of offense. The warriors learn philosophy, to help them woo the maids (or butlers). Both of these arts are seen as "gentlemanly", because otherwise said culture would be a stagnent backwater unable to innovate, or have it's ass handed to it the next time its neighbour decided to test its boundaries.
Lots of countries have culture. They all bitch and moan about how its been lost, but that's only because they just remember the good bits.
So if they are there to stop radical Islam, why don't they go to the source - Wahhabism? That's Islam's answer to the crazier Southern Baptist schools of thought. They spend about a billon dollars every year, encouraging radical Islam.
Ford used to have Ford shepherds, looking after Ford sheep, so they didn't have to share margins with wool manufactures. Vertical integration isn't a silver bullet.
Besides, Apple engages in resale price maintenance (which is kind of illegal), so they *don't* share margins. Companies who stack Apple hardware do so with only nominal profits (IIRC).
The reason the iPad sells is that its got a years headstart, and Apple has locked in all the good components, so it's also the best value. Plus it's got the Apple brand.
The Apple stores do help them, as a niche seller of iMacs. But iPads sell themselves.
So... most 8MP camera phones have 5MP of information, and 3MP of blur. The new Sony sensors will use backside illumination (hehe.. backside), which will give it a maximum of 8MP.
But it's all a wank anyway, because 90% of page views will be of a 25 kP thumbnail, and the rest will be 0.3 MP Facebook photos.
(It's a sore point. My SO nags me to carry a DSLR, so she can take photos to post up for internet friends to gawk at. I *told* her that a Canon S95 would be almost as good. She doesn't care, as the DSLR makes us look more fashionable. Apparently. I only agree because it lets me play with lenses and stuff.)
Isn't he also the bad guy (or dummy bad guy) from Charlie's Angles 2. Also, a minor villain from Angel (War Zone, Lenny Edwards?) seems to be based on him.
Of course, Larry is just a Russian accent, hairless cat and giant laser away from being a parody of a Bond villian.
So it's a couple of thousand for the treatment, $5,000 for the operating room (fair enough, I guess), then $7,000 for a bed.
Now, that $7,000 for a clean bed, and a nurse who checks in on you every now and then, and a couple of orderlies (or whatever you call them) to clean up any "spills". They might also need a resident doctor, but she will be split between about 30 beds (or more). So it's SFA for the staff (a doctor walking pas your bed, and a paraprofessional or two can't cost much), then a shit-ton of money for something that's not dissimilar to a backpacker's dorm.
What else is folded into the "bed" fees? "Management" overhead?
OSX is a *great* operating system. It's just not a great web server, and it doesn't have a great package manager, and it's not close enough to debian that you won't notice the difference.
Likewise, a BMW is a *great* car, it's just not very good at transporting standard shipping containers. You need a truck for that.
Huh? Birds are a lot smaller, so scaling is on their side. Also, they are built of flight, unlike human pilots. And I wouldn't like to see a bird get *close* to Mach 1.
UAV will be much more impressive. But the Air Force doesn't like them, as it makes pilots obsolete.
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They would also flag it "written, informal". Meaning, don't use it in spoken conversation, and don't use it in a school paper.
Asking whether it's good or bad is like asking whether it's strawberry or mint flavored. Completely illogical.
The Machine (which people love to rage against) isn't good or bad. It's stupid, unethical, and occasionally wrong. But it's not really good or bad. That's the job of individuals.
Prescriptivists claim that dictionaries and grammars should be style guides, or pedagogical tools. Descriptivists pretend to be more scientific.
The reality is, descriptivists are closet (or raging) liberals, who are happy to leave minorities in the ghetto, without a guide out. And prescriptivists are conservatives, who see themselves guiding the uneducated into the light.
The difference is, prescriptivists know both sides of the argument, as they were young and naive once too.
It's a management technique. Developers better have their patches aboard, or it will ship without them.
Computers is a good example. It's not advanced physics, but it's also a complex field that actually works. And it's not a car analogy.
I know how the internet works. I know that a request gets sent through the network, and that gets routed through to a web server, which sends a request back to the client, which (in the case of HTML) displays the web page in a browser window.
OK, I don't know how the request gets routed, or how web servers work, or how the client works. Nor do I know how computers work (though I do know a bit of C, assembly, digital systems design, electronics, and quantum physics). I know parts of it. And I know that if I draw up a diagram, I can drill down as far as I want and not get some idiotic "just trust me". I know that I can get to the bottom of things, though I probably won't have time to understand all of it.
The fact that I can verify any given part means I should be able to trust the whole (empirically). I'll also assume that lots of other curious people are looking at other bits and pieces, verifying that it's not just a cosmic hoax, and that the inventors of modern computers didn't sacrifice a dozen virgins to create my laptop, then cover it all up with an elaborate hoax involving "transistors". Because that would be lunacy.
Exactly. "Moderate" is a factor of 2 things - who's talking (Japanese laugh of 5s, while the 5.6 Newcastle quake was the most devastating earthquake in Australian history - it killed 13 people) and how far away you are (a deep earthquake 100 miles away is usually safe, but a 3.0 can kill you if you are in a mineshaft, close to the hypercenter).
Because Intel chips are currently better than AMD chips, clock for clock.
The only place where AMD has an edge is Zacate (AMD integrated graphics + a duel core Bobcat - it's Atom killer), and *maybe* Llano (too early to tell).
Those are budget systems, which leverage AMD's ATI acquisition. Intel HD is miles ahead of the old Intel graphics, but I think Zacate is better.
However, those are low-power consumer chips. Not server chips. Intel still owns the server.
Really? People in the service sector can be happy, as there are 7 billion potential customers.
People doing research *should* be happy, as while their research may not be the best in the world (due to all the competition), it can touch 7 billion lives. But I guess a lot of researchers suck at math.
It will probably make them a lot more cold-blooded, which is probably good. Especially as it makes them easier to supervise.
For every psycho who attacks civillians out of malice, you can bet there's two guys who just shot because they were feeling scared.
This whole warrior-philosopher meme crops up a lot. Remember the Knights of the Round Table, and English Chivalry?
Here's how it works.Peasants just have a hovel, a plough, and a mule if they are lucky. They work 9 to 9, then go to bed because they can't afford a candle to read by. Only the upper class can reasonably afford the lastest military hardware (be it a tank, plate mail, or a katana and lacquered armour). They can also afford books, gardens, and servant-girls to ... shall we say ... woo.
Besides, only the upper class is allowed weapons. Anyone else is a bandit, or rebel.
So all the philosophers and warriors come from the same social circle. The philosophers need to learn to duel, so that they can defend their honor if their philosophy causes some kind of offense. The warriors learn philosophy, to help them woo the maids (or butlers). Both of these arts are seen as "gentlemanly", because otherwise said culture would be a stagnent backwater unable to innovate, or have it's ass handed to it the next time its neighbour decided to test its boundaries.
Lots of countries have culture. They all bitch and moan about how its been lost, but that's only because they just remember the good bits.
So if they are there to stop radical Islam, why don't they go to the source - Wahhabism? That's Islam's answer to the crazier Southern Baptist schools of thought. They spend about a billon dollars every year, encouraging radical Islam.
Oh wait, stopping them would piss off the Saudis.
Ford used to have Ford shepherds, looking after Ford sheep, so they didn't have to share margins with wool manufactures. Vertical integration isn't a silver bullet.
Besides, Apple engages in resale price maintenance (which is kind of illegal), so they *don't* share margins. Companies who stack Apple hardware do so with only nominal profits (IIRC).
The reason the iPad sells is that its got a years headstart, and Apple has locked in all the good components, so it's also the best value. Plus it's got the Apple brand.
The Apple stores do help them, as a niche seller of iMacs. But iPads sell themselves.
OK, so why don't you just copy stuff that's been on the market for (say) 10 years?
How do you know it was them?
Pirates don't just compete with a single company. They directly compete with one company, and indirectly compete with (and cheapen) the whole market.
A vigilante developer would benefit, whether or not he targeted his own app, or a competitors.
Open source also cheapens the industry a bit, but I find open source users a lot more reluctant to use pirate copies. But that's another thread ...
So ... most 8MP camera phones have 5MP of information, and 3MP of blur. The new Sony sensors will use backside illumination (hehe .. backside), which will give it a maximum of 8MP.
But it's all a wank anyway, because 90% of page views will be of a 25 kP thumbnail, and the rest will be 0.3 MP Facebook photos.
(It's a sore point. My SO nags me to carry a DSLR, so she can take photos to post up for internet friends to gawk at. I *told* her that a Canon S95 would be almost as good. She doesn't care, as the DSLR makes us look more fashionable. Apparently. I only agree because it lets me play with lenses and stuff.)
Isn't he also the bad guy (or dummy bad guy) from Charlie's Angles 2. Also, a minor villain from Angel (War Zone, Lenny Edwards?) seems to be based on him.
Of course, Larry is just a Russian accent, hairless cat and giant laser away from being a parody of a Bond villian.
That's an extremely good breakdown.
So it's a couple of thousand for the treatment, $5,000 for the operating room (fair enough, I guess), then $7,000 for a bed.
Now, that $7,000 for a clean bed, and a nurse who checks in on you every now and then, and a couple of orderlies (or whatever you call them) to clean up any "spills". They might also need a resident doctor, but she will be split between about 30 beds (or more). So it's SFA for the staff (a doctor walking pas your bed, and a paraprofessional or two can't cost much), then a shit-ton of money for something that's not dissimilar to a backpacker's dorm.
What else is folded into the "bed" fees? "Management" overhead?
Especially not Jobs. The guy who wouldn't recognize his daughter, probably to avoid paying alimony.
>>> hospital bill about $15,000 for 35 hour stay
Holy shit, where did they put you? The Paris Hilton? Did they throw in Paris Hilton? No, your back was bad ...
I hope the food was good ...
OSX is a *great* operating system. It's just not a great web server, and it doesn't have a great package manager, and it's not close enough to debian that you won't notice the difference.
Likewise, a BMW is a *great* car, it's just not very good at transporting standard shipping containers. You need a truck for that.
Which is roughly equivalent to a boy getting paid to fix computers these days.
How about - focus on hardware, UI, marketing, distribution, and operations; and ride on someone else's app* store.
* application, sorry Steve.
Huh? Birds are a lot smaller, so scaling is on their side. Also, they are built of flight, unlike human pilots. And I wouldn't like to see a bird get *close* to Mach 1.
UAV will be much more impressive. But the Air Force doesn't like them, as it makes pilots obsolete.
I think I have a couple. I used them to sign up to things I didn't want polluting my gmail account.
If Microsoft China employs engineers who wear pirated Nike t-shirts, can Nike sue Microsoft?