Beyond that if you refuse to use flash you can't really whine about inability to access content.
Replace "flash" with "Microsoft Word" and I think you'll understand some people's sentiments... having done some Flash work, there are some benifits to it, but as with any proprietary technology, some downsides as well, especially when things become entirely dependent on it.
Give your users quotas. Setup a periodic check that lets users know they're reaching their quota, with a message saying that if they hit it, they will not receive any new mail. When their mailbox fills up, they'll quickly learn the values of keeping it clean.
Just because some desktop users don't need 8 cores doesn't mean that nobody does.
Outside of my web browser and email client, 3 of the 5 applications I use on a daily basis for very intensive computing take full advantage of multi-processor threading, and all 3 of those would take full advantages of 8 cores (compared to the 2 I currently have and the 4 my next machine will have).
As a side note, why does "realist" now refer to people who give up on ethics (and other such long term concerns) for short-run gains?
Because the client could give a rat's ass about whether their site complies with some standards ("They're more of guidelines anyways") from a group they've never heard of. Especially when following those standards to a T means that they can't have certain features on their site. The client wants their site to work as designed, and to work the same way to as many of their clients as possible. Excluding IE because it doesn't follow standards, or providing IE users with a different, lesser experience is not what the client wants. Don't confuse a developer's agenda with his client's agenda. The client is paying for a product, not excuses or technical explanations about why the dominant web browser is substandard or should be avoided.
India was probably more of a contingency if they couldn't expand in Cupertino
A hundred or so people in India is not anywhere close to a "contingency" for the corporate offices of a multi-billion dollar international company. Apple probably has more people than that in their accounting department alone.
Now, while I agree that the sweatshops of the kind used by almost every overseas manufacturer is despicable, your twisting of the argument by fudging the numbers doesn't help your case. Remember, "C" is considered an average rating. If 60% of their factories are above average, thats pretty good. And only 25% fall into the "serious problems" category. That means that 15% are in the average range. If anything, Nike should be commended for making such a turn-around from their historic sweatshop past, and for having the guts to publish this kind of information about themselves. You can't go from horrible to perfect overnight. Lets see how they improve the bad factories in the future.
I think a 'tiered' internet is trouble from the start, but what about this scenerio: Your VOIP provider starts providing 911 service, and your 911 call gets squashed by your neighbor's video download. Under strict 'net neutrality', it is possible for this to happen, if unlikely.
Conversely, what if your neighbor's call to 911 through their VOIP provider is squashed by your call to Aunt Martha because you chose to use the ISP's VOIP service (free for the first 30 days with any new HBO+Cinemax subscription!), whereas your neighbor chose Skype or Vonage? I think in the case of tierd connections, this is a much more likely scenario than the port/protocol neutral one you provided.
We have 54 employees going through one firewall, and having one external IP address. On our company website, only that one IP address shows... So for that IP, it is not 1/10th of a unique visitor, it is 54 unique visitors. His numbers are baseless and skewed.
This is UC Berkeley's Architecture school. Older architects, who learned how to do everything by hand, have been bitching and moaning about the reduced skillsets of students since computers were introduced in architecture schools.
Yes it's true. But computers in architecture are here to stay. Drafting by hand is extremely inefficient and not done by the vast majority of architecture firms. Hand drawing skills are still to be desired however. Spending the extra time drawing by hand forces you to think more about the importance of every line you draw. When you draw in CAD, its very easy to zoom in and out and lose the sense of what should or should not be visible in a particular drawing, depending on the scale it will be displayed at. When working by hand however, you are very concious that you don't need to draw that toilette paper holder in the bathroom stall because its barely a dot or smudge on the paper.
If you can draw and draft compelling works by hand, your skills can be translated to CAD. The reverse is not true.
The remedy to this is not to take computers out of architecture schools, the remedy is to require more hand-drawing classes. If you want the students to have art skills, make them take art classes.
But, like I said, this is not a new debate... the exact same things were being said when I was in architecture school 9 years ago. And people older than me say the same things were said when they were in school. Old-timers like to bitch and moan about "the good old days". The irony is that these same old-timers were criticised by their respective predicessors for the exact same thing: newer drafting tools meant that students were getting worse at freehand drawing; newer modeling tools and materials (i.e. plastics and precut small hardwoods) meant that students were getting worse at woodworking; newer art materials (cheap watercolors, latex paints) meant that students were getting worse at guache and oil painting.
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Well, if point #1 is true (which it probably is, see other comments about being a simple Windows install because of one driver package) and if point #2 is false, then Apple will be able to make another great, disingenous marketing claim:
Think outside of your tiny world of single-pc households and do the math. There are a lot more Linux installations than there are Firefox installations.
And considering every cellphone that will have the ability to use this feature will also most likely already include at least a WAP browser (if not a full HTML browser).... what was your point again?
Step 1) Create high demand, but easily scratchable MP3 player. Step 2) Sell cases to prevent scratches to said easily scratchable MP3 player. Step 3) Profit!!!
And San Francisco proper is not a great "brain base". The Silicon Valley, nearby, is much cheaper. Most of the biotech in CA is already in San Diego, which is also substantially cheaper, and has regions within it that are far far cheaper than anything in San Francisco.
Religous people trying to stop research. Or people with a sense of fiscal responsibility perhaps? Nice anti-religion troll.
I have no problem with Stem Cell Research. In fact, I think it should be encouraged and funded with public dollars (as long as the public funding it gets the royalties, patents, or benefits - not private corporations). However, this was a ballot measure in California to distribute billions of dollars to a new research institute with virtually no oversight. It isn't part of an existing California State Agency, it is its own ambiguous entity with required funding levels outside of any state-run controls. Already, the fiscal irresponsibility of this program has been proven by their choise for location: one of the highest rent districts in California, San Francisco. (Remember the dot-com stupidity?)
California is already running a budget that is aproximately $15,000,000,000 in deficit. This program would tack on several billion dollars more in state spending a year. It is fiscally irresponsible and was passed entirely as a "feel-good" measure and played exclusively off of general anti-Bush sentiments in the California voting public. How, and who it allocates funds to isn't clearly defined. Ownership of any technologies produced through its programs isn't clearly defined. It doesn't have clear goals other than the broad term "stem cell research". It has an enormous budget, without restrictions, and without oversight controls for abuses. It is, in short, a money pit.
It was a bad ballot measure, pure and simple.
California is problematic, in that it keeps passing mandatory expenditures through ballot proposals, therebye completely bypassing both the legislature and the governator and causing huge unforseen consequences. (For another great example of this, take a look at "Proposition 13" which locked in property taxes and has completely screwed up school and other local funding, and is now nearly impossible to fix or overturn).
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Here's a better comparison:
Company WidgetWorks makes generic soda vending machines. This machine works perfectly fine dispensing both Coke and Pepsi products. WidgetWorks then sticks in a single, small pieces of plastic into the vertical storage slots, in such a way so that if you load up the machine, both Coke and Pepsi fit, but only Coke bottles will pass the obstructed piece that was added. You can load up anything beneath the piece of plastic, but only Coke can be inserted above the piece of plastic. Now, lets assume that the piece of plastic is placed so that 50% of the storage space is obstructed by it, and lets assume that they still claim their product to be a generic vending machine.
WidgetWorks has arbitrarily cut the capacity of the machine in half for non-Coke products. If it can be determined that they did it at the prompting of Coca-Cola as an attempt to cut off competition from Pepsi-Co. then it quickly qualifies as unfair business practices, especially if Coca-Cola is already in trouble for monopolistic practices.
"For example, they fault Linux OpenOffice desktops for not having all the features in Microsoft Windows Office, even though few actually use all of the Microsoft stuff. So, in essence, they're saying they want desktops cluttered with unnecessary features."
Someone needs a wacking with the clue stick. I don't use all the unnecessary features of Microsoft Office. But at some future unspecified point, I may need one of those obscure features. If a client sends me a particular file that uses one of them, or if I have to perform a function that is part of one of them. People don't want desktops cluttered with things they don't need. But if there is a chance that they will need it, they'd like it to be there ready and waiting.
The article said that the platform (held up by baloons) at the end of the teather was a mile up. The climbing device reached 1500 feet, 500 feet further than previous attempts, but still quite a bit short of a mile.
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Replace "flash" with "Microsoft Word" and I think you'll understand some people's sentiments... having done some Flash work, there are some benifits to it, but as with any proprietary technology, some downsides as well, especially when things become entirely dependent on it.
Give your users quotas. Setup a periodic check that lets users know they're reaching their quota, with a message saying that if they hit it, they will not receive any new mail. When their mailbox fills up, they'll quickly learn the values of keeping it clean.
a raytracer comes close on complex scenes
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Which is most of my workload
Compositing will also take advantage of multiple cores.
Just because some desktop users don't need 8 cores doesn't mean that nobody does.
Outside of my web browser and email client, 3 of the 5 applications I use on a daily basis for very intensive computing take full advantage of multi-processor threading, and all 3 of those would take full advantages of 8 cores (compared to the 2 I currently have and the 4 my next machine will have).
Because the client could give a rat's ass about whether their site complies with some standards ("They're more of guidelines anyways") from a group they've never heard of. Especially when following those standards to a T means that they can't have certain features on their site. The client wants their site to work as designed, and to work the same way to as many of their clients as possible. Excluding IE because it doesn't follow standards, or providing IE users with a different, lesser experience is not what the client wants. Don't confuse a developer's agenda with his client's agenda. The client is paying for a product, not excuses or technical explanations about why the dominant web browser is substandard or should be avoided.
How can that be news? The shrinter is already available from thinkgeek.
India was probably more of a contingency if they couldn't expand in Cupertino
A hundred or so people in India is not anywhere close to a "contingency" for the corporate offices of a multi-billion dollar international company. Apple probably has more people than that in their accounting department alone.
How does a quarter of factories equal 40%?
Now, while I agree that the sweatshops of the kind used by almost every overseas manufacturer is despicable, your twisting of the argument by fudging the numbers doesn't help your case. Remember, "C" is considered an average rating. If 60% of their factories are above average, thats pretty good. And only 25% fall into the "serious problems" category. That means that 15% are in the average range. If anything, Nike should be commended for making such a turn-around from their historic sweatshop past, and for having the guts to publish this kind of information about themselves. You can't go from horrible to perfect overnight. Lets see how they improve the bad factories in the future.
Do they have their own private IM service they are planning on offering?
No, but they do charge for text messaging. They don't want to allow their users to get around the extra services they can charge for.
I think a 'tiered' internet is trouble from the start, but what about this scenerio: Your VOIP provider starts providing 911 service, and your 911 call gets squashed by your neighbor's video download. Under strict 'net neutrality', it is possible for this to happen, if unlikely.
Conversely, what if your neighbor's call to 911 through their VOIP provider is squashed by your call to Aunt Martha because you chose to use the ISP's VOIP service (free for the first 30 days with any new HBO+Cinemax subscription!), whereas your neighbor chose Skype or Vonage? I think in the case of tierd connections, this is a much more likely scenario than the port/protocol neutral one you provided.
We have 54 employees going through one firewall, and having one external IP address. On our company website, only that one IP address shows... So for that IP, it is not 1/10th of a unique visitor, it is 54 unique visitors. His numbers are baseless and skewed.
Duh. What do you expect?
Remember, Apple followers have been trained to believe that anything from Apple "Just Works"(tm).
Well, if you've ever been to Denver, you know that the airport is essentially one big building surrounded by literally miles and miles of nothing.
This is UC Berkeley's Architecture school. Older architects, who learned how to do everything by hand, have been bitching and moaning about the reduced skillsets of students since computers were introduced in architecture schools.
Yes it's true. But computers in architecture are here to stay. Drafting by hand is extremely inefficient and not done by the vast majority of architecture firms. Hand drawing skills are still to be desired however. Spending the extra time drawing by hand forces you to think more about the importance of every line you draw. When you draw in CAD, its very easy to zoom in and out and lose the sense of what should or should not be visible in a particular drawing, depending on the scale it will be displayed at. When working by hand however, you are very concious that you don't need to draw that toilette paper holder in the bathroom stall because its barely a dot or smudge on the paper.
If you can draw and draft compelling works by hand, your skills can be translated to CAD. The reverse is not true.
The remedy to this is not to take computers out of architecture schools, the remedy is to require more hand-drawing classes. If you want the students to have art skills, make them take art classes.
But, like I said, this is not a new debate... the exact same things were being said when I was in architecture school 9 years ago. And people older than me say the same things were said when they were in school. Old-timers like to bitch and moan about "the good old days". The irony is that these same old-timers were criticised by their respective predicessors for the exact same thing: newer drafting tools meant that students were getting worse at freehand drawing; newer modeling tools and materials (i.e. plastics and precut small hardwoods) meant that students were getting worse at woodworking; newer art materials (cheap watercolors, latex paints) meant that students were getting worse at guache and oil painting.
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Firefox just recently passed the 150 million download mark.
Redhat alone sold 215,000 sold 215,000 Linux licenses in just the 2nd quarter of 2005.
Think outside of your tiny world of single-pc households and do the math. There are a lot more Linux installations than there are Firefox installations.
And considering every cellphone that will have the ability to use this feature will also most likely already include at least a WAP browser (if not a full HTML browser).... what was your point again?
Step 1) Create high demand, but easily scratchable MP3 player.
Step 2) Sell cases to prevent scratches to said easily scratchable MP3 player.
Step 3) Profit!!!
Thats billion, not trillion... and yes, it is that high. 15,000 million dollars.
2005 State Budget Deficits
And San Francisco proper is not a great "brain base". The Silicon Valley, nearby, is much cheaper. Most of the biotech in CA is already in San Diego, which is also substantially cheaper, and has regions within it that are far far cheaper than anything in San Francisco.
Religous people trying to stop research.
Or people with a sense of fiscal responsibility perhaps? Nice anti-religion troll.
I have no problem with Stem Cell Research. In fact, I think it should be encouraged and funded with public dollars (as long as the public funding it gets the royalties, patents, or benefits - not private corporations). However, this was a ballot measure in California to distribute billions of dollars to a new research institute with virtually no oversight. It isn't part of an existing California State Agency, it is its own ambiguous entity with required funding levels outside of any state-run controls. Already, the fiscal irresponsibility of this program has been proven by their choise for location: one of the highest rent districts in California, San Francisco. (Remember the dot-com stupidity?)
California is already running a budget that is aproximately $15,000,000,000 in deficit. This program would tack on several billion dollars more in state spending a year. It is fiscally irresponsible and was passed entirely as a "feel-good" measure and played exclusively off of general anti-Bush sentiments in the California voting public. How, and who it allocates funds to isn't clearly defined. Ownership of any technologies produced through its programs isn't clearly defined. It doesn't have clear goals other than the broad term "stem cell research". It has an enormous budget, without restrictions, and without oversight controls for abuses. It is, in short, a money pit.
It was a bad ballot measure, pure and simple.
California is problematic, in that it keeps passing mandatory expenditures through ballot proposals, therebye completely bypassing both the legislature and the governator and causing huge unforseen consequences. (For another great example of this, take a look at "Proposition 13" which locked in property taxes and has completely screwed up school and other local funding, and is now nearly impossible to fix or overturn).
Here's a better comparison:
Company WidgetWorks makes generic soda vending machines. This machine works perfectly fine dispensing both Coke and Pepsi products. WidgetWorks then sticks in a single, small pieces of plastic into the vertical storage slots, in such a way so that if you load up the machine, both Coke and Pepsi fit, but only Coke bottles will pass the obstructed piece that was added. You can load up anything beneath the piece of plastic, but only Coke can be inserted above the piece of plastic. Now, lets assume that the piece of plastic is placed so that 50% of the storage space is obstructed by it, and lets assume that they still claim their product to be a generic vending machine.
WidgetWorks has arbitrarily cut the capacity of the machine in half for non-Coke products. If it can be determined that they did it at the prompting of Coca-Cola as an attempt to cut off competition from Pepsi-Co. then it quickly qualifies as unfair business practices, especially if Coca-Cola is already in trouble for monopolistic practices.
'nuff said.
"For example, they fault Linux OpenOffice desktops for not having all the features in Microsoft Windows Office, even though few actually use all of the Microsoft stuff. So, in essence, they're saying they want desktops cluttered with unnecessary features."
Someone needs a wacking with the clue stick. I don't use all the unnecessary features of Microsoft Office. But at some future unspecified point, I may need one of those obscure features. If a client sends me a particular file that uses one of them, or if I have to perform a function that is part of one of them. People don't want desktops cluttered with things they don't need. But if there is a chance that they will need it, they'd like it to be there ready and waiting.
The article said that the platform (held up by baloons) at the end of the teather was a mile up. The climbing device reached 1500 feet, 500 feet further than previous attempts, but still quite a bit short of a mile.