You're missing a big point.
You designed your car. You can sell cars you make, but you retain the rights to the design. You can make more cars from that design and continue to make money. Other people can't make your car, since you own the rights to the design. In fact, you could probably sell your design for much more than you could sell 1 car.
Same thing with IP. You can sell a copy of a song for cheap, but you can also sell the rights to that song (for much more money), which gives the buyer the right to make money from the song.
I've noticed that Google's results tend to heavily favour businesses. If you're looking for reviews rather than stores, you'll get better results from Yahoo or some other search engine.
Yep, my Celebrity and Grand Am (Quad 4 - the worst Grand Am engine ever) both died around 210,000 KM (transmission on both). The Saturn was the best of the bunch. My Civic is currently at 255,000 KM and running fine!:-)
I've heard good things about the older Camaro's (as far as reliability). But in my personal experience of owning 3 GM cars, none has lasted beyond 250,000 KM (a Grand Am, Chevy Celebrity and a Saturn).
Another reason Microsoft is like GM: If they made a product that was so good that it would last a long time, people would have no reason to buy a new one in a few years.
It's the same with focus stealing imo. The OS should monitor keystrokes, and not allow a new window to take focus until a specified timeout period (probably a second or less). Ideally there could be several levels of 'urgency' in the API with different timeouts. Urgent pops up 1 second after typing ceases. No activity for a minute, deal with level 2 urgency. I can't count the number of times I've been typing only to have a dialog pop in mid sentence. It flashes briefly, and goes away because my typing activated one of it's shortcut keys. I'm left wondering just want the hell I told my computer to do, and hoping it was something harmless.
I believe Windows XP does do that. The delay is very small, though, maybe around 1/10th of a second. If I'm typing very quickly, the window I'm typing to will retain the focus, if I'm typing slowly, it may not. (I know this because it happens to me every day at work - one app I use pops up windows unexpectedly and frequently). I agree that time increment should be changed to 2 seconds or so.
I agree that there is a certain amount of intertia. People are told to believe Japanese cars are more reliable, so they perceive them that way. But there's more to it than that. Some companies just design their cars better. The initial design, the way the manufacturing process is set up, the quality programs in place, there are a lot of factors.
I don't pretend to be an expert in manufacturing, but based on my own experience with cars I've owned, I'll never buy another American car.
And regarding your comment about the Izuzu Rodeo, I think that was more about fashion than anything. The same reason people buy Nike's when they could buy shoes just as good from another manufacturer at half the price. It's about appearance. Driving a Honda is just cooler than driving an Izuzu!:-)
Just look at the automotive industry. Toyota, Honda, Hyundai, Mazda, Nissan, not to mention the European brands, all have a reputation for building better and more reliable cars than the American big three. But it's not a simple issue, all these companies build there cars in North America, so it's not just the workers that are the problem.
All the good modern chess programs use the brute force method of playing chess (calculating the value of every possible position which could occur based on the current position). There are some optimizations that they do (caching the positions, using an opening moves library, etc), but there has been limited success in making a chess program that approaches the game similar to how a human does. There's tonnes of info on the net about this, which is pretty interesting. And also the tactics you can use when playing a computer are interesting (such as not exchanging pieces to keep the game as complex as possible, forcing the computer to calculate more positions, among other things).
Cany anyone explain to my why this is better than touch-sensitive screens that have been around for years? An LCD touch screen, lying on it's back would be cheaper and have a much better frame rate!;)
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You're missing a big point. You designed your car. You can sell cars you make, but you retain the rights to the design. You can make more cars from that design and continue to make money. Other people can't make your car, since you own the rights to the design. In fact, you could probably sell your design for much more than you could sell 1 car. Same thing with IP. You can sell a copy of a song for cheap, but you can also sell the rights to that song (for much more money), which gives the buyer the right to make money from the song.
Let me guess, you've never created anything worth protecting?
I've noticed that Google's results tend to heavily favour businesses. If you're looking for reviews rather than stores, you'll get better results from Yahoo or some other search engine.
And will this make my PC as loud as my vacuum cleaner?
Another similarity to the George Forman grill: You can also cook on it, apparently.
Yep, my Celebrity and Grand Am (Quad 4 - the worst Grand Am engine ever) both died around 210,000 KM (transmission on both). The Saturn was the best of the bunch. My Civic is currently at 255,000 KM and running fine! :-)
Btw, nice sig, that's probably my favorite movie!
In the UK he's called Henry Six-pints.
Yep, we call it ground beef in Canada too. Not many people here call it hamburger (and nobody calls it mince).
I've heard good things about the older Camaro's (as far as reliability). But in my personal experience of owning 3 GM cars, none has lasted beyond 250,000 KM (a Grand Am, Chevy Celebrity and a Saturn).
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Another reason Microsoft is like GM: If they made a product that was so good that it would last a long time, people would have no reason to buy a new one in a few years.
I believe Windows XP does do that. The delay is very small, though, maybe around 1/10th of a second. If I'm typing very quickly, the window I'm typing to will retain the focus, if I'm typing slowly, it may not. (I know this because it happens to me every day at work - one app I use pops up windows unexpectedly and frequently). I agree that time increment should be changed to 2 seconds or so.
No, you missed my point. If you only want to chose between chocolate and vanilla, do so. The other 29 flavours are irrelevant.
I don't pretend to be an expert in manufacturing, but based on my own experience with cars I've owned, I'll never buy another American car.
And regarding your comment about the Izuzu Rodeo, I think that was more about fashion than anything. The same reason people buy Nike's when they could buy shoes just as good from another manufacturer at half the price. It's about appearance. Driving a Honda is just cooler than driving an Izuzu! :-)
That's what I was thinking .. Having that in your front pocket when it shreds the casing and escapes could cause serious personal damage.
Baskin Robin's has chocolate and vanilla.
Just look at the automotive industry. Toyota, Honda, Hyundai, Mazda, Nissan, not to mention the European brands, all have a reputation for building better and more reliable cars than the American big three. But it's not a simple issue, all these companies build there cars in North America, so it's not just the workers that are the problem.
Sounds like a great new MTV show: Pimp My OS
This "agile" philosophy seems to lead to projects being in Beta forever. I wonder if Duke Nuke'm Forever is being developed by agile developers.
Women love long-distance relationships. All talking and no sex.
All the good modern chess programs use the brute force method of playing chess (calculating the value of every possible position which could occur based on the current position). There are some optimizations that they do (caching the positions, using an opening moves library, etc), but there has been limited success in making a chess program that approaches the game similar to how a human does. There's tonnes of info on the net about this, which is pretty interesting. And also the tactics you can use when playing a computer are interesting (such as not exchanging pieces to keep the game as complex as possible, forcing the computer to calculate more positions, among other things).
And if he were a hot chick, that wouldn't be yogurt.
I used to suffer from the same problem. Try opening the container from the other side.
Cany anyone explain to my why this is better than touch-sensitive screens that have been around for years? An LCD touch screen, lying on it's back would be cheaper and have a much better frame rate! ;)
PC Anywhere version 10 was probably the worst main-stream "mature" software product I've ever seen.