Ok that's it. Starting now, anyone else who posts a "Just don't... that way" gets modded redundant. Seriously. It's over. And not just in this thread. Forever. Obviously, since I've already posted, someone else will have to do my dirty work this time...
Yeah. Funny how all the service people are so eager to come to your girlfriend's house and solve her problems. Dude. Get a clue. Half the pornos in the world start out that way.
UPS isn't going to come to your house on a rural route in the backwoods of Kentucky and pick up a piece of shit you wrote, and put it on an airplane to Wyoming for $.44 . (credit to Jon Stewart for that quote). A properly functioning, reliable service that serves 100% of all residents everywhere is vital to a modern economy. Our post office is so good that the legal system considers proof of mailing (not delivery) as proof of service. Live in italy or mexico for 6 months, and you'll get some perspective.
It's only 17% for customers who turn their DVDs around ASAP. My wife and I mostly subscribe for the online content, and often have a couple of DVDs sitting around for a few days before we get around to watching them. Obviously, high volume customers will get less value from their subscription. But I think it's a mistake to extrapolate a 17% overall savings from this.
Also, this will tend to cause more of a surge on Mondays outgoing mail / Tuesday and Wednesday's incoming at Netflix. This will also tend to reduce the positive effect for Netflix. Most companies prefer to have a constant workload across all of their shifts and days, rather than dealing with surges. Like a power company, or a tax consultant, they have to size their capital investment to deal with surges, even though that is not fully utilized most of the time.
Also, not updating his facebook with a better, less sullen and crazy looking photo. Before I ever do something like that, I'm going to get a photo of me like playing with kittens or something. Let 'em run that on the news. Not "American Gothic minus the Daughter..."
It's been awhile since I got my Canadian Ham license
You need a license for that up there? Dang. That's harsh. Here in the US you can get Canadian Ham by just walking into a McDonalds and ordering an Egg McMuffin. Except we call it "Canadian Bacon".
Because that would be wrong. Open source software needs to set an example by respecting the licenses under which code is provided. Otherwise, we have no moral authority to go after companies that violate the GPL and demand that they post their code. DVD decoding is a bit different story, because of the fuzzyness of various laws that protect content, and your ability to use it in ways to make it compatible with your system.
About 10 years ago I got really into the game "Midtown Madness" which features races where you race free-form through downtown Chicago picking your own route to hit a number of checkpoints. The game requires you to read traffic patterns, lights, etc far in advance. After playing the game, I found that I was doing the same thing in real traffic. My brain had been trained to observe and anticipate as if I were driving through city traffic at 80MPH rather than 35. I became much more aware of what was happening on cross streets, and in lanes other than mine. It faded back to normal, though, as I moved on to other games.
I do wonder, however, if being able to crash a car repeatedly with no real consequences has an impact on your subconcious risk-assesment of various manuvers.
Who cares. All it is is a way to generate interest. It's called marketing.
I remember the first time I went to the Embedded Systems Conference, in 2000. Motorola (not freescale yet...) was pushing "Digital DNA" that year as part of thie microcontroller marketing. After I got through the first line of sales guys to an application engineer, I asked "What's Digital DNA?", nievely expecting some sort of new techology. Answer: "The same stuff we've been selling for years. But now they're branding it differently." What a let-down. But I still remember. And that's the point.
If you want the steak, you need the sizzle. Products only come to market if there's a sufficient market there to come to. Far to many great technical ideas and products have come to market and failed because no one was able to show the sizzle.
Yes. That's what it does. There's a light in the back of the iPhone, followed by an LCD grid, which filters the light, which goes to the lens of your eye, which projects an image on your retina. So it seems like Steve pretty much hit the nail on the head. It's a system that projects an image into your retina.
You know you're not supposed to be surfing, what is that? Slashdot? What the hell is Slashdot? It's not Discover Card applications, I know that for damn sure. If you want to keep working here, get the fuck back to work. And quit bitching about the headset. You see anybody else complaining?
majority of them have proven themselves willing to take frivolous or evil cases
Citation???? "Majority" is a very specific word, with a specific meaning, which is not equal to "lots"
In short, this is utter bullshit. Most lawers never set foot in a courtroom and take "Cases" in the adversarial us vs them sense. They are the people who write contracts, advise clients on how to be compliant with truckloads of government regulations, etc.
So let me get this straight... I can go to Google, type in "oil spill" then click on one of BP's sponsored links. And in the act of doing this, I can magically transfer money, real money, from a company that fucked up the environment to one that gives me free software like Chrome, and Google Earth, and Android?
I expect that Apple will host all of the ads. That would allow them to set standards on ads with regards to bandwidth. Perhaps one standard for those using WiFi, and another for 3G. They'll use their 800 pound gorilla
Are you going to keep them tied up for 8 months? I'm thinking the only viable alternative would be to kill them and put them in some sort of storage container / big ziploc bag. I'm guessing this part of the mission plan won't be part of the PR packet...
On the higher end platforms, this is true. Projects based on ARM, PowerPC, Infineon Tri-Core, etc projects are definately using a higher level of abstraction, with more developers programming at those levels, and a small number working in device drivers and board-support packages. \
But the flipside is that intellegence is being distributed into lots of devices (automotive being the best example, but also appliances, utility meters, medical devices, etc). Most of these run on small, self-contained micros which cost only a few dollars. C is far and away the language of choice on these platforms. Developers with the knowledge to allow you to get every last drop of performance out of a $2.37 micro, so you don't have to buy the $2.52 one, are in great demand. When you build 100,000 of something, you can afford some up-front development cost to save $.15
Embedded Systems. There's lots of work there. And we're getting more valuable all the time, because Universities are increasingly teaching C#, Java, etc. The number of people out there who can program a microprocessor right down to the metal is dropping each year.
At the risk of going all nationalistic, I believe that this is one of the advantages that companies located in North American and Europe have in recruiting people. In NA/Eur people pick engineering / comp-sci. In Asia, your parents often pick it for you. The result is that a higher percentage of people in the field here have "The Knack".
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Ok that's it. Starting now, anyone else who posts a "Just don't ... that way" gets modded redundant. Seriously. It's over. And not just in this thread. Forever. Obviously, since I've already posted, someone else will have to do my dirty work this time...
Yeah. Funny how all the service people are so eager to come to your girlfriend's house and solve her problems. Dude. Get a clue. Half the pornos in the world start out that way.
I've had seven dells, and they've all been perfect!
I've had two dells, and both died early! I'll never buy dell again
FIRST POST!
People know Dell squeezes component suppliers. What do they expect?
Of course it had defective components! What do you call Windows?
This is why I buy Macs
So what? Are you saying Macs don't use capacitors?
Dude! You're...Insert Whitty variation here...
now move along. Nothing else to see here...
So you were spending like 4 or 5 hours a day watching DVDs? A bit of self-examination may be in order...
UPS isn't going to come to your house on a rural route in the backwoods of Kentucky and pick up a piece of shit you wrote, and put it on an airplane to Wyoming for $.44 . (credit to Jon Stewart for that quote). A properly functioning, reliable service that serves 100% of all residents everywhere is vital to a modern economy. Our post office is so good that the legal system considers proof of mailing (not delivery) as proof of service. Live in italy or mexico for 6 months, and you'll get some perspective.
It's only 17% for customers who turn their DVDs around ASAP. My wife and I mostly subscribe for the online content, and often have a couple of DVDs sitting around for a few days before we get around to watching them. Obviously, high volume customers will get less value from their subscription. But I think it's a mistake to extrapolate a 17% overall savings from this.
Also, this will tend to cause more of a surge on Mondays outgoing mail / Tuesday and Wednesday's incoming at Netflix. This will also tend to reduce the positive effect for Netflix. Most companies prefer to have a constant workload across all of their shifts and days, rather than dealing with surges. Like a power company, or a tax consultant, they have to size their capital investment to deal with surges, even though that is not fully utilized most of the time.
Also, not updating his facebook with a better, less sullen and crazy looking photo. Before I ever do something like that, I'm going to get a photo of me like playing with kittens or something. Let 'em run that on the news. Not "American Gothic minus the Daughter..."
It's been awhile since I got my Canadian Ham license
You need a license for that up there? Dang. That's harsh. Here in the US you can get Canadian Ham by just walking into a McDonalds and ordering an Egg McMuffin. Except we call it "Canadian Bacon".
Because that would be wrong. Open source software needs to set an example by respecting the licenses under which code is provided. Otherwise, we have no moral authority to go after companies that violate the GPL and demand that they post their code. DVD decoding is a bit different story, because of the fuzzyness of various laws that protect content, and your ability to use it in ways to make it compatible with your system.
About 10 years ago I got really into the game "Midtown Madness" which features races where you race free-form through downtown Chicago picking your own route to hit a number of checkpoints. The game requires you to read traffic patterns, lights, etc far in advance. After playing the game, I found that I was doing the same thing in real traffic. My brain had been trained to observe and anticipate as if I were driving through city traffic at 80MPH rather than 35. I became much more aware of what was happening on cross streets, and in lanes other than mine. It faded back to normal, though, as I moved on to other games.
I do wonder, however, if being able to crash a car repeatedly with no real consequences has an impact on your subconcious risk-assesment of various manuvers.
Who cares. All it is is a way to generate interest. It's called marketing.
I remember the first time I went to the Embedded Systems Conference, in 2000. Motorola (not freescale yet...) was pushing "Digital DNA" that year as part of thie microcontroller marketing. After I got through the first line of sales guys to an application engineer, I asked "What's Digital DNA?", nievely expecting some sort of new techology. Answer: "The same stuff we've been selling for years. But now they're branding it differently." What a let-down. But I still remember. And that's the point.
If you want the steak, you need the sizzle. Products only come to market if there's a sufficient market there to come to. Far to many great technical ideas and products have come to market and failed because no one was able to show the sizzle.
Yes. That's what it does. There's a light in the back of the iPhone, followed by an LCD grid, which filters the light, which goes to the lens of your eye, which projects an image on your retina. So it seems like Steve pretty much hit the nail on the head. It's a system that projects an image into your retina.
"the resolution/DPI is so dense that your eyes won't be able to distinguish individual pixels"(TM). OR...
"Retina Display"(TM).
You know you're not supposed to be surfing, what is that? Slashdot? What the hell is Slashdot? It's not Discover Card applications, I know that for damn sure. If you want to keep working here, get the fuck back to work. And quit bitching about the headset. You see anybody else complaining?
Actually, it's 'tech'. Sigh.
Old Spice.
majority of them have proven themselves willing to take frivolous or evil cases
Citation???? "Majority" is a very specific word, with a specific meaning, which is not equal to "lots"
In short, this is utter bullshit. Most lawers never set foot in a courtroom and take "Cases" in the adversarial us vs them sense. They are the people who write contracts, advise clients on how to be compliant with truckloads of government regulations, etc.
Hell yeah!
I expect that Apple will host all of the ads. That would allow them to set standards on ads with regards to bandwidth. Perhaps one standard for those using WiFi, and another for 3G. They'll use their 800 pound gorilla
Are you going to keep them tied up for 8 months? I'm thinking the only viable alternative would be to kill them and put them in some sort of storage container / big ziploc bag. I'm guessing this part of the mission plan won't be part of the PR packet...
Not a blog? Doing a couple of dozen google searches and typing the numbers into Excel doesn't exactly strike me as hard-core Journalism...
On the higher end platforms, this is true. Projects based on ARM, PowerPC, Infineon Tri-Core, etc projects are definately using a higher level of abstraction, with more developers programming at those levels, and a small number working in device drivers and board-support packages. \ But the flipside is that intellegence is being distributed into lots of devices (automotive being the best example, but also appliances, utility meters, medical devices, etc). Most of these run on small, self-contained micros which cost only a few dollars. C is far and away the language of choice on these platforms. Developers with the knowledge to allow you to get every last drop of performance out of a $2.37 micro, so you don't have to buy the $2.52 one, are in great demand. When you build 100,000 of something, you can afford some up-front development cost to save $.15
Embedded Systems. There's lots of work there. And we're getting more valuable all the time, because Universities are increasingly teaching C#, Java, etc. The number of people out there who can program a microprocessor right down to the metal is dropping each year.
At the risk of going all nationalistic, I believe that this is one of the advantages that companies located in North American and Europe have in recruiting people. In NA/Eur people pick engineering / comp-sci. In Asia, your parents often pick it for you. The result is that a higher percentage of people in the field here have "The Knack".