What Hillgiant said.
The MBA's "this is fungible" argument assumes software has uniform quality. Outsourcers' marketing plans exploit this assumption to the nines.
The DVD business is dying fast, and they know it. Direct content delivery is the growth industry that is disrupting DVDs (and eventually CDs, games, and packaged software) out of existence, and they're jumping to the new ship before the old one is sunk.
Explain that to RedBox.
RedBox should change their name to ReedBox to thank Mr. Hastings for all the new business he's driven their way.
Wonder how many people $1.2 billion could feed. Think they'll be able to see Somalia from on top of that tall building. Could someone do the math on that?
Quite a few, especially architects, engineers, construction laborers, logistics companies, and materials suppliers. After construction, a tourist industry and thousands of support staff, maintenance technicians, office managers, and other occupants, and a large supply chain for power, water, sewer, building services, decorators, etc.
Beyond the suggestions for tracking, etc., here, I'd like to print my own postage.
Today I either buy stamps, get a postage meter from Pitney-Bowes, or visit the PO (or local authorize PO reseller) to get exact postage. Why can't I simply print a QR (or similar) code directly onto the envelope? My inkjet printer is great for names and addresses and has the resolution to handle this easily.
Heck, with the address information encoded in the "stamp", mail could route itself. The code can contain a nonce, and that code could be registered in the database used to scan and forward the object. Tie the nonce to an account number, then charge my PayPal account for mailing/shipping as the item goes through, no need to worry about calculating postage a priori.
Word 2003 had a feature to print the postal Delivery Point Bar Code on envelopes. It worked great. Do the same for postage.
Finally cut the cord at the end of December last year and rely exclusively on AT&T U-verse (12 down, 2 up). We were early adopters in the neighborhood; most of the problems we had were around billing.
Full story is here: http://alternate-u-verse.blogspot.com/
CLI is not essential. It's a holdover from a time when we thought words were a good way to express function. And then left the 'e' off "creat" for kicks.
Everything can be done in a GUI. I don't see why not. We just haven't made that happen yet.
Yet you've expressed your opinion in words. Irony?
Never second-guess what users "need". Bill Gates famously once said no one would ever need more than 640 KB of memory. DEC's Ken Olsen bet the farm on department servers in the midst of the PC revolution, saying who would want a personal computer? IBM's TJ Watson estimated the world market for computers at five.
As Neal Stephenson writes in _The Diamond Age_, there are forgers (technology originators) and honers (incremental, after-market improvers). Honers adapt technology to unforeseen purposes, which in turn drives another cycle of innovation among forgers.
And the wheel turns.
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Aren't violations of contracts (like ToS) subject to civil law instead of criminal law?
November 2012 Wired covers "hot" machine rooms in its paean to Google's data centers. Usually by the time they've picked up a story, it's done.
and I cannot find the little floppy disk icon to save the item. Where'd it go?
Call Al Gore! We need an on-ramp to the ant-formation superhighway.
and does a nice bit of back reasearch Reason http://reason.com/archives/2012/04/03/can-most-cancer-research-be-trusted
What Hillgiant said. The MBA's "this is fungible" argument assumes software has uniform quality. Outsourcers' marketing plans exploit this assumption to the nines.
wherein swirling holes of stratospheric cold freeze the Earth -- The Day After Tomorrow?
There. I said it.
The DVD business is dying fast, and they know it. Direct content delivery is the growth industry that is disrupting DVDs (and eventually CDs, games, and packaged software) out of existence, and they're jumping to the new ship before the old one is sunk.
Explain that to RedBox.
RedBox should change their name to ReedBox to thank Mr. Hastings for all the new business he's driven their way.
...and coupled with Kernighan and Pike's The Practice of Programming .
Garbage. These companies exist to earn money, which they pay their employees and invest in new games.
What did YOU get in exchange? Entertainment. Don't want to pay? Don't play.
Wonder how many people $1.2 billion could feed. Think they'll be able to see Somalia from on top of that tall building. Could someone do the math on that?
Quite a few, especially architects, engineers, construction laborers, logistics companies, and materials suppliers. After construction, a tourist industry and thousands of support staff, maintenance technicians, office managers, and other occupants, and a large supply chain for power, water, sewer, building services, decorators, etc.
http://gigharbor365.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/fish-bowls-jumping-from-one-to-another.jpg
the CODASYL people they've fresh meat.
Nice back-of-the-envelope analysis from Tom Murphy at UCSD: http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2011/07/100-mpg-on-gasoline/
why isn't the tag line "from the more human than human" dept.?
Q: What do you call the student who graduates last in class at Med School?
A: Doctor.
Beyond the suggestions for tracking, etc., here, I'd like to print my own postage.
Today I either buy stamps, get a postage meter from Pitney-Bowes, or visit the PO (or local authorize PO reseller) to get exact postage. Why can't I simply print a QR (or similar) code directly onto the envelope? My inkjet printer is great for names and addresses and has the resolution to handle this easily.
Heck, with the address information encoded in the "stamp", mail could route itself. The code can contain a nonce, and that code could be registered in the database used to scan and forward the object. Tie the nonce to an account number, then charge my PayPal account for mailing/shipping as the item goes through, no need to worry about calculating postage a priori.
Word 2003 had a feature to print the postal Delivery Point Bar Code on envelopes. It worked great. Do the same for postage.
Finally cut the cord at the end of December last year and rely exclusively on AT&T U-verse (12 down, 2 up). We were early adopters in the neighborhood; most of the problems we had were around billing. Full story is here: http://alternate-u-verse.blogspot.com/
Ah. That explains why AT&T can't get signal to my phone today.
CLI is not essential. It's a holdover from a time when we thought words were a good way to express function. And then left the 'e' off "creat" for kicks.
Everything can be done in a GUI. I don't see why not. We just haven't made that happen yet.
Yet you've expressed your opinion in words. Irony?
Never second-guess what users "need". Bill Gates famously once said no one would ever need more than 640 KB of memory. DEC's Ken Olsen bet the farm on department servers in the midst of the PC revolution, saying who would want a personal computer? IBM's TJ Watson estimated the world market for computers at five. As Neal Stephenson writes in _The Diamond Age_, there are forgers (technology originators) and honers (incremental, after-market improvers). Honers adapt technology to unforeseen purposes, which in turn drives another cycle of innovation among forgers. And the wheel turns.
500 MHz of which spectrum? 4GS may already be colliding with GPS. http://www.gpsworld.com/gnss-system/news/data-shows-disastrous-gps-jamming-fcc-approved-broadcaster-11029
There'll be plenty o' whales, me boy-o, when we get the Japanese t' stop servin' 'em with sushi.
YARRRRRR!!!
We just need to collect some neutrinos to try it. We'll have to sneak Chekov aboard that aircraft carrier to get some first.