Nonsense. They're hardly going to build a manufacturing plant. They could (like Apple do) sub-contract to another manufacturer. But, in essence they've already done this with HTC making the bulk of Windows Mobile devices. I guess they could (like Google did) get HTC to build a Microsoft branded phone, but it wouldn't make a whole lot of difference as to what they have today.
As others have noted here in the past, the number of processing cores do not a powerful computer make.
For sure; but this is aimed at people who are would be rendering video on their desktop or other CPU heavy creative tasks (e.g. Photoshop on massively high resolution images).
This isn't aimed at your average Mac user, or even your 'power-user' - it's aimed at people who need huge amounts of CPU every now and then.
There is nothing in UK law that forces any of this (apart from paying taxes) on you. It may provide you with limited liability or tax advantages, but its still your decision.
It's been a year since I last flew out of there so I dunno if the thermite-panted idiot has changed things much there, but City has always been a cut above hellpits like Heathrow.
No, it has gotten even better - not just comparatively. In the last year, they've upgraded and extended the departure lounge - it's more comfortable now and not at all squashed; capacity has increased at the scanner area too, so there's still never any queues. And there's also a nice new bar - so if you are early for your flight (I usually turn up 20 minutes before departure, so I don't frequent the bar) you can get a pint. They're a tad over a fiver for a pint, but hey - you're flying from LCY, you can afford it.
If someone told me I had to use Emacs instead of VI I'd tell them that in doing so they would lose about 90% productivity, if told to go ahead anyways I would probably start looking for something else since management no longer respects my opinion.
Not necessarily. They may have asked around and found you were the only one who wanted to use VI, and that everyone else wanted to use Emacs.
Just because someone from management doesn't act upon your preference doesn't mean they didn't listen or value your opinion. They just may not have agreed with it, and given the position they are in they have the right - and mandate - to act accordingly.
If you're going to be a prima-donna and expect a company to bow to a developers wishes, then you are probably not going to be missed.
Not all people in management are PHB types - of course, most aren't. Lots are very clever people who deserve their positions and although you may not agree with them, that doesn't mean that they are wrong.
Fricking consultants. By the "You get what you pay for" scale you'd think $125-an-hour would buy you more than a huge pain in the ass like this.
I'm not sure what kind of consultant fees you've seen paid - but $125 an hour is bargain basement, and if they're that cheap well, you get what you pay for.
For a decent consultant - not a contractor - you can be looking at up to £480 ($1000) an hour, and beyond (certainly the case in the UK, anyway). Although you may get a discount depending on the type/duration of the work.
[blockquote]I dont mind buttons at all. In fact I think the biggest mistake with the ipod is the lack of buttons. A quick and easy way to switch tracks AND volume should be required on all mp3 devices.[/blockquote] What are you smoking? Press 'next track' on the wheel to move on a track, twiddle (is that the correct term? it's the one I use, anyway) the wheel to change the volume.
Granted, slightly different on the shuffle (and older generation ipods) but every ipod can do both change track and change volume easily.
This is true of some universities. It's hardly true of all. There are plenty of adult colleges, community colleges, and technical colleges for whom research is not even a secondary goal, much less a primary one.
Where I live, that's not a University - It's a college, technical college or something else branded under tertiary education.
A University should be *teaching*. No more no less. What is this crap about morality, fighting, powers that be etc? It's a plcae where you go to *study*. Everything else is BS.
I don't think you've thought it through. A University is for far more than teaching - in fact I'd go as far as to say teaching is secondary to research. Schools teach, community colleges teach but a proper University must do far more than teach. It must be a community of teachers and scholars - Universitas.
I know what you are getting at, but it's not quite the same - a credit card agreement is an agreement that you can cancel, a contract - not a license. When licensing software (or anything else) the contract is the acceptance of the license, not the license itself.
Except for all the software in SLES that was "GPLv2 or any later version"
Let's get over this one now. The "later version" thing in the GPLv2 allows the USER/CONSUMER (corportation, or individual etc.) choose which license to use. You obviously (at least I hope everyone can see it's obvious) can't legally bind someone to a future version of your license, it can only allow them to choose between the version distributed with the software and a future one.
If you could retrospectively apply the terms of a license which didn't exist at the time of distribution, you could put anything you like in the new version. That'd be plain silly, because by the drop of a hat the FSF could gain massive riches by making GPLv4 say that the price of the software you downloaded a few years ago has changed from free to a million dollars per copy. Hey, you're bound by "or later versions", aren't you? Erm, no. You're not.
Indeed Russell & Norvig is a very good book, well worth a read if you're interested in AI. All the same, when I did my BSc in Artificial Intelligence I found Rich & Knight a much better, more understandable book for the purposes of an introductory text. It is a little dated now, but so is Russell & Norvig, to be honest.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Apache have its own license agreement and doesn't use GPL? You are quite right. The current Apache license is at version 2.0, and Apache HTTP Server uses this, not any GPL license. Ignore the asshats higher in this thread that seem to think Apache (I assume they mean Apache HTTP Server) is licensed under the GPL at all, let along GPLv3.
Soap goes one step further: It works in midair. With this new-age pointing device, now under development at Microsoft Research, you can navigate your PC using nothing but a bare hand. You can lose the end table and the lap desk. You can even lose the couch and the bed, driving your machine while walking across the room. It's a bit like the Wii remote--only more accurate and far easier to use.
Quick... someone send a memo to Microsoft to let them know someone did this years ago. Nip over to your local computer shop and pick up a Gyration Ultra GT. Only problem is that your arms feel knackered after about 5 minutes of use. Pointless.
US's tourism accounts for 0.9% of GDP... that's nothing compared to china (5.4%), New Zealand (10%), Italy (12%), even Canada (2.5%)... get the point? It is insignificant to the US, but critical to many other areas of the world...
I get the point, alright. It seems the rest of the world are more interested in visiting places other than the USA!
Oh, and PS. It's not insignificant. ~1% of direct GDP accounts for a hell of a lot of indirect employment. Many, many people in your country would be up the creek without the proverbial paddle, claiming jobless assistance and generally severely weakening your economy in a quite short time.
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Nonsense. They're hardly going to build a manufacturing plant. They could (like Apple do) sub-contract to another manufacturer. But, in essence they've already done this with HTC making the bulk of Windows Mobile devices. I guess they could (like Google did) get HTC to build a Microsoft branded phone, but it wouldn't make a whole lot of difference as to what they have today.
For sure; but this is aimed at people who are would be rendering video on their desktop or other CPU heavy creative tasks (e.g. Photoshop on massively high resolution images).
This isn't aimed at your average Mac user, or even your 'power-user' - it's aimed at people who need huge amounts of CPU every now and then.
Umm, IR35?
No, it has gotten even better - not just comparatively. In the last year, they've upgraded and extended the departure lounge - it's more comfortable now and not at all squashed; capacity has increased at the scanner area too, so there's still never any queues. And there's also a nice new bar - so if you are early for your flight (I usually turn up 20 minutes before departure, so I don't frequent the bar) you can get a pint. They're a tad over a fiver for a pint, but hey - you're flying from LCY, you can afford it.
Erm, 'fewer accidents'.
You've never seen a MiniDV camera, then?
About the same as an iPhone, then?
Harvey also has the shoutiest ads in Ireland ....
Have a listed to this - you'll get a giggle.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=d9S4Z7cER0o
So, basically the same idea we had at Sun years ago (about 10!) with StarPortal?!
Plus ca change.
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And you haven't been fired yet? Or, if you're self employed have you not fired yourself yet?
Sell it, on the condition that you can keep your email address on the domain.
Win-win!
Not necessarily. They may have asked around and found you were the only one who wanted to use VI, and that everyone else wanted to use Emacs.
Just because someone from management doesn't act upon your preference doesn't mean they didn't listen or value your opinion. They just may not have agreed with it, and given the position they are in they have the right - and mandate - to act accordingly.
If you're going to be a prima-donna and expect a company to bow to a developers wishes, then you are probably not going to be missed.
Not all people in management are PHB types - of course, most aren't. Lots are very clever people who deserve their positions and although you may not agree with them, that doesn't mean that they are wrong.
I'm not sure what kind of consultant fees you've seen paid - but $125 an hour is bargain basement, and if they're that cheap well, you get what you pay for.
For a decent consultant - not a contractor - you can be looking at up to £480 ($1000) an hour, and beyond (certainly the case in the UK, anyway). Although you may get a discount depending on the type/duration of the work.
Is there anything to stop me getting a reasonable sized mirror to bounce this back and make the police the ones that puke?
[blockquote]I dont mind buttons at all. In fact I think the biggest mistake with the ipod is the lack of buttons. A quick and easy way to switch tracks AND volume should be required on all mp3 devices.[/blockquote]
What are you smoking? Press 'next track' on the wheel to move on a track, twiddle (is that the correct term? it's the one I use, anyway) the wheel to change the volume.
Granted, slightly different on the shuffle (and older generation ipods) but every ipod can do both change track and change volume easily.
Headline fixed by the editors. Must be a record for correcting a mistake?!
It's QANTAS, not QANTIS.
Queensland And Northern Territory Aerial Services.
Where I live, that's not a University - It's a college, technical college or something else branded under tertiary education.
I don't think you've thought it through. A University is for far more than teaching - in fact I'd go as far as to say teaching is secondary to research. Schools teach, community colleges teach but a proper University must do far more than teach. It must be a community of teachers and scholars - Universitas.
I know what you are getting at, but it's not quite the same - a credit card agreement is an agreement that you can cancel, a contract - not a license. When licensing software (or anything else) the contract is the acceptance of the license, not the license itself.
Let's get over this one now. The "later version" thing in the GPLv2 allows the USER/CONSUMER (corportation, or individual etc.) choose which license to use. You obviously (at least I hope everyone can see it's obvious) can't legally bind someone to a future version of your license, it can only allow them to choose between the version distributed with the software and a future one.
If you could retrospectively apply the terms of a license which didn't exist at the time of distribution, you could put anything you like in the new version. That'd be plain silly, because by the drop of a hat the FSF could gain massive riches by making GPLv4 say that the price of the software you downloaded a few years ago has changed from free to a million dollars per copy. Hey, you're bound by "or later versions", aren't you? Erm, no. You're not.
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Indeed Russell & Norvig is a very good book, well worth a read if you're interested in AI. All the same, when I did my BSc in Artificial Intelligence I found Rich & Knight a much better, more understandable book for the purposes of an introductory text. It is a little dated now, but so is Russell & Norvig, to be honest.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Apache have its own license agreement and doesn't use GPL?
You are quite right. The current Apache license is at version 2.0, and Apache HTTP Server uses this, not any GPL license. Ignore the asshats higher in this thread that seem to think Apache (I assume they mean Apache HTTP Server) is licensed under the GPL at all, let along GPLv3.
D.
Quick... someone send a memo to Microsoft to let them know someone did this years ago. Nip over to your local computer shop and pick up a Gyration Ultra GT. Only problem is that your arms feel knackered after about 5 minutes of use. Pointless.
D.
I get the point, alright. It seems the rest of the world are more interested in visiting places other than the USA!
Oh, and PS. It's not insignificant. ~1% of direct GDP accounts for a hell of a lot of indirect employment. Many, many people in your country would be up the creek without the proverbial paddle, claiming jobless assistance and generally severely weakening your economy in a quite short time.