And yet space exploration vehicles costing hundreds of millions of dollars are destroyed because someone forgot to convert between metric and imperial units.
Sometimes the most obvious things are so taken for granted that they can become overlooked.
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Palm One sold off Palm Source (the OS division) to a Chinese company. The newest Palm One product, the Treo 700, runs Windows Mobile.
As much as I love the Palm product (I've been using Palm devices since the Palm Pilot Pro), they're quickly being edged out by the cell phone market, they still dont have synchronization on 64bit Windows systems, and synchronization on OSX is nowhere near as integrated as everything else that uses iSync and hasn't been progressed for quite a while.
In short, they aren't in a good position, and don't seem to be making the right business moves to improve it either.
Do I ever... My father insisted on turning off the answering machine, because it was digital one that did voice stamps and other complex features, and the "virus could spread through the phone lines".
+1 to my dad for knowing that the answering machine did have a computer as a component -100 for thinking that it was susceptible to a virus dialing it up and infecting it
Erm... how was this list a super Mac related list? Only the first and last items (the Sketch thing and the iPod dock) are specifically for Apple products, the other three are general use USB and video items that have to alegence to Mac or PC specifically...
And Sketchup has been a cross platform app for several years. It might have been Windows first, but I can't remember. Oh, and the Google Earth plugin for Sketchup has been available for the Windows version since mid-November.
I'd love to see something similar to this in replacing our FDA. If the IDDD doesn't think a drug is worthy for consumers, a drug company might go to a manufacturer-run testing body.
Except that conflicts over wireless communication standards doesn't kill people. Putting an unsafe drug on the market (Viox anyone?) does.
What if it isn't the sun you are trying to capture, but the solar flares or solar wind that is coming off of it.
And again, if an event happens in a matter of hours (not days) then during the time between the two "frames" the event could have changed enough that you can't construct a 3D view of it because the frames don't match.
Yes, exactly, you get it. It's all about "where" you live. If you want to live in the tech or media centers of the US (I, not a programmer, pretty much have to live in LA because of the industry I'm in), its going to cost you a lot more to live.
Companies in LA need programmers. Companies in San Francisco need programmers. If they want to hire people to work there, they need to pay them appropriately for where they are living.
Sure, its cheaper to live in New Mexico. And you won't get paid as much either. It's also cheaper to live in Thailand, you won't get paid as much either... Hence why H1-B workers, are willing to work for so much less. They are used to the cost of living and salaries of their home countries which are much lower.
We'd like to get paid more in the US because things cost more.
Living in Los Angeles, on an approximately $50k/year salary (not a programmer) barely pays for my 5 year old car (bought used) and insurance, my single room apartment, and my school loans.
I barely scrape by as a single guy with no dependents. And you think that we're arrogant and just want to look down on other countries? I wouldn't mind making $25k in Thailand if it meant my expenses were only $10k. The difference between living expenses and salary in the US is much smaller than most outsourcing options. Thats why outsourcing is so cheap. Take what are highly-skilled people (by their local standards) and offer them an insanely good pay (again by their local standards) and it still is substantially less than the US employee who is a lot closer to scraping by (propotionately).
Now, take those same outsourced people, offer them a job in the US, that is even higher in pay, and costs you more (but you get them here instead of dealing with international communications) and they will jump at the chance. And you still get it cheaper than the US worker who isn't heading home seasonally to spend his earnings where the dollar can buy much more.
I can get pretty good video over a 4Mbps connection.
That's because the video is compressed. If you used 1996 compression techniques, you would not get nearly the quality of video you are seeing now within that 4Mbps pipe.
Cinema 4D, who's network rendering has the most painless licensing terms
How is it better than 3DSMax/Viz's network rendering terms? Simply install from your CD on the renderslaves (you can even use a demo installer if you want) and you're good to go for unlimited network rendering. You don't even have to "authenticate" or even ever startup the software on the renderslaves.
After years of fragmented Windows versions they finally made the one true merged OS that they had been praising for so long. Windows 2000 was really one OS to rule them all.
No. Win2k was only for business use and was not targeted at the home market. That's what WinME was for. WinXP was MS attempt at building both the Home and Business versions off the same core.
I can't help but wonder if the joy of driving will be entirely lost in 20-50 years.
Just like the joy of horseback riding has been lost? There will always be venues. And if you've ever been out to remote locations, you'd know that while these systems would work great in cities, it's usually completely unfeasible in a rural context.
What you'll see is automation replacing where people would normally be stuck in bumper to bumper traffic. Less used outskirt roads would rely on manual driving.
No amount of 'joy of driving' makes rush-hour traffic fun.
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And yet space exploration vehicles costing hundreds of millions of dollars are destroyed because someone forgot to convert between metric and imperial units.
Sometimes the most obvious things are so taken for granted that they can become overlooked.
Palm One sold off Palm Source (the OS division) to a Chinese company. The newest Palm One product, the Treo 700, runs Windows Mobile.
As much as I love the Palm product (I've been using Palm devices since the Palm Pilot Pro), they're quickly being edged out by the cell phone market, they still dont have synchronization on 64bit Windows systems, and synchronization on OSX is nowhere near as integrated as everything else that uses iSync and hasn't been progressed for quite a while.
In short, they aren't in a good position, and don't seem to be making the right business moves to improve it either.
Do I ever... My father insisted on turning off the answering machine, because it was digital one that did voice stamps and other complex features, and the "virus could spread through the phone lines".
+1 to my dad for knowing that the answering machine did have a computer as a component
-100 for thinking that it was susceptible to a virus dialing it up and infecting it
Not that I follow Anne Rand's socioeconomic agenda, but sometimes her point is valid.
The irony is that they could sell the data without any penalties, but if someone breaks into their system they get in trouble.
I can't see any reason why the US states can't do the same.
Because in the US, the individual states don't do the Federal tax collection, the federal tax collection agency (IRS) does.
Erm... how was this list a super Mac related list? Only the first and last items (the Sketch thing and the iPod dock) are specifically for Apple products, the other three are general use USB and video items that have to alegence to Mac or PC specifically...
And Sketchup has been a cross platform app for several years. It might have been Windows first, but I can't remember. Oh, and the Google Earth plugin for Sketchup has been available for the Windows version since mid-November.
I'd love to see something similar to this in replacing our FDA. If the IDDD doesn't think a drug is worthy for consumers, a drug company might go to a manufacturer-run testing body.
Except that conflicts over wireless communication standards doesn't kill people. Putting an unsafe drug on the market (Viox anyone?) does.
I'm sorry, I have a patent on that particular gene sequence, you'll have to use another.
Focus, people!
On slashdot? You must be new here...
And I'm sure if thats all they wanted, they wouldn't have planned for a set of satellites.
Oh, and the grandparent said wait for the Earth to rotate around the Sun... that takes around 365.25 days to go 360 degrees last I checked...
What if it isn't the sun you are trying to capture, but the solar flares or solar wind that is coming off of it.
And again, if an event happens in a matter of hours (not days) then during the time between the two "frames" the event could have changed enough that you can't construct a 3D view of it because the frames don't match.
A couple of degrees = a couple of days.
Perhaps they'd like to capture events that occur in a matter of hours rather than days...
Yes, exactly, you get it. It's all about "where" you live. If you want to live in the tech or media centers of the US (I, not a programmer, pretty much have to live in LA because of the industry I'm in), its going to cost you a lot more to live.
Companies in LA need programmers. Companies in San Francisco need programmers. If they want to hire people to work there, they need to pay them appropriately for where they are living.
Sure, its cheaper to live in New Mexico. And you won't get paid as much either. It's also cheaper to live in Thailand, you won't get paid as much either... Hence why H1-B workers, are willing to work for so much less. They are used to the cost of living and salaries of their home countries which are much lower.
We'd like to get paid more in the US because things cost more.
Living in Los Angeles, on an approximately $50k/year salary (not a programmer) barely pays for my 5 year old car (bought used) and insurance, my single room apartment, and my school loans.
I barely scrape by as a single guy with no dependents. And you think that we're arrogant and just want to look down on other countries? I wouldn't mind making $25k in Thailand if it meant my expenses were only $10k. The difference between living expenses and salary in the US is much smaller than most outsourcing options. Thats why outsourcing is so cheap. Take what are highly-skilled people (by their local standards) and offer them an insanely good pay (again by their local standards) and it still is substantially less than the US employee who is a lot closer to scraping by (propotionately).
Now, take those same outsourced people, offer them a job in the US, that is even higher in pay, and costs you more (but you get them here instead of dealing with international communications) and they will jump at the chance. And you still get it cheaper than the US worker who isn't heading home seasonally to spend his earnings where the dollar can buy much more.
That might work, except for the fact that Apu is Indian not Arab.
I can get pretty good video over a 4Mbps connection.
That's because the video is compressed. If you used 1996 compression techniques, you would not get nearly the quality of video you are seeing now within that 4Mbps pipe.
TAHT'S WHY I'M PORTING MYSELF TO A SILICON BASED LIFE FORM! WHO'S WITH ME?
Sorry, it's been patented.
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Cinema 4D, who's network rendering has the most painless licensing terms
How is it better than 3DSMax/Viz's network rendering terms? Simply install from your CD on the renderslaves (you can even use a demo installer if you want) and you're good to go for unlimited network rendering. You don't even have to "authenticate" or even ever startup the software on the renderslaves.
It's only been a year?
Oh God, we are soooo screwed.
After years of fragmented Windows versions they finally made the one true merged OS that they had been praising for so long. Windows 2000 was really one OS to rule them all.
No. Win2k was only for business use and was not targeted at the home market. That's what WinME was for. WinXP was MS attempt at building both the Home and Business versions off the same core.
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In short, as of posting, no. There is 1 error in the CSS (and 2 warnings) and 8 errors in the HTML, all of which look to be fairly trivial to correct.
I can't help but wonder if the joy of driving will be entirely lost in 20-50 years.
Just like the joy of horseback riding has been lost? There will always be venues. And if you've ever been out to remote locations, you'd know that while these systems would work great in cities, it's usually completely unfeasible in a rural context.
What you'll see is automation replacing where people would normally be stuck in bumper to bumper traffic. Less used outskirt roads would rely on manual driving.
No amount of 'joy of driving' makes rush-hour traffic fun.
Or to the contrary, use the list as execution orders.
Defeat the resistence pre-emptively and all.