Things are expensive. It definitely would be nice to buy Windows by the piece instead of all at once. I can see it now:
Yes...I would like the Windows operating system, without the remote exploits and BSOD bugs. Also, add in Media Player but not the consumer activity record keeping feature - I dont' really need that.
As for Office: yes, please include a copy Powerpoint, Excel, and Outlook (without the automatic emailing to all my address book entries feature.)
Thank you.
Just because you aren't in a position to demand (and get) that amount of money from someone does not mean these people are being "over-payed" and ruining it for the next guy. Guess what? YOU wouldn't be making more money if those people were making less.
The problem with the "rock-n-roll" lifestyle is that people are fed up with supporting it: if they want to listen to something they might as well download it (pirate it! argh!) because the product is not worth the price when it could be had for free. This isn't a "class warfare, these people make too much and hold us peons down" problem - this is a failing business model that isn't keeping up with the times (think: buggy whips).
Well, I wanted to mention in the submission that it seems like the authors are pretty darned dumb
Then why did you submit it? "Crackpot claims Earth is flat" doesn't get submitted - so why should "Crackpot believes Google ate his brain"? We could, of course, submit it twice and people would be more than happy to make funny jokes about dupes - now that would be/. material.
Go is the Holy Grail, and they ain't even close. To date no one has made a Go playing program that can reasonably hold it's own against even a relative novice.
It is the "Holy Grail" only if the program created is able to beat a pro (even a high level amatuer) through thinking. If the Go program can beat Cho Chikun or Lee Changho only because of raw processing power (i.e. pattern recognition, reading moves into the future) then all we have done is create a faster, more powerful computer.
I don't know if one can say Go is "unsolvable". It is highly unlikely to happen, but there is a finite number of positions possible. So, theoretically, it could be solved...
That Slashdot chose to include the entire press release (since that is what this clear was) as part of the slashdot article. A pointer to a web page, perhaps --- the fact that Phil Zimmerman is behind a new commercial product that competes with original commercial version of PGP, perhaps. But the entire press release?
Just goes to show you can't please everyone. Maybe next time they will put a link to a webserver that can't handle the traffic. That would be better, right?
(Of course we could ask them to logically consider which links to post and which to mirror...naah)
A high-speed DSL Internet connection is for sharing across multiple computers. You can share an Internet connection across all the computers in an office or home over a single DSL phone line.
The underlying technology for sharing a DSL Internet connection among multiple computers is a local area network or LAN for short. Building a network for your home or business today is easy and affordable. Once you have a network, you can use a variety of inexpensive Internet connection sharing solutions. For example, routers can take only a couple of minutes to set up. They let you connect multiple computers to an Internet connection with only a single IP (Internet Protocol) address.
This is wrong in so many ways, I don't know where to begin.
Suffice to say, the ends do not justify the means.
How so? Obviously, while not commenting directly on this subject, you could still say that just throwing someone off a project for what amounts to a difference in opinion and manner of dealing with those differences is more wrong.
The end (gaining more civility in kernel discussions???) does not justify the means (kicking someone out). On that you are right.
In any case, programs have a purpose, they DO something. While it certainly makes sense to abstract where applicable, being circuitous is not a good programming method.
And many people in business (Americans mainly) would say that being nonconfrontational in conversation seems dumb as well.
The question brings up a good point, especially as more programming leaves the U.S. and heads overseas. What has become generally accepted programming paradigms may start shifting to better match the thinking process of those writing the code. It may be a stretch (for now, anyway) to expect kishotenketsu programming to work - computers can't grok what you really mean without being specifically told - but we will probably see examples of "nonstandard" programming techniques and, eventually, languages in the future.
I think the problem isn't so much that Bush is having bad luck but that the U.S. is having what appears to be a string of bad luck - whether it is really just luck or all to blame on Bush is open to debate.
While I agree with the sentiment that Bush is looking in the all the wrong places (for budget cuts, for enemies, for friends, for whatever...) I have come to one conclusion:
So far Bush has to one of the the unluckiest Presidents the U.S. has had in a while...
First, the election is a disaster by any measure, putting the results in doubt and casting a negative light on the Presidency already.
Second, the economy begins a downward cycle right before he takes office. His father, by most accounts, lost because of the economy - now the son inherits a crappy economy...
Third - 9/11. This gives Bush a huge popularity boost because of his leadership (and the public's need for a leader) but results in the economy's downward spiral accelerating...
Now the Shuttle blows. 'Nuff said.
Next, we will probably have an unpopular war with Iraq (admittedly, mostly Bush's fault...)
How useful would cash be in the event of a nuclear attack?!?! Now if they had been hording gold, some secret anti-radiation devices reverse engineered from alien technology, or Spam and Twinkies I could understand - cash would be the LAST thing I would take from some after a nuclear attack!
Well, if you put your entire MP3 collection up for sharing over a P2P network at work, I think you have a lot more to worry about than the RIAA coming to your door.
Actually, that number probably isn't that far off the mark. The semiconductor industry is notorious for being wasteful.
Most of the material used to make a microchip is consumed, at least as far the semiconductor manufacturer is concerned, because it can't be reused. Certainly that 32Kg of water could probably be cleaned and reused somewhere else.
What this report fails to demostrate, though, is the effluent coming out of a fab when making computer chips - that is where the danger lies. The materials that are not consumed but are used and then discarded, pose the real threat.
Oh yea - playing around with highly concentrated HF is a lot fun...
This reminds me of the running joke surrounding the Pentagon's Office of Propoganda (or whatever it was called) that they later abandoned...
The first rule of an organization like this would be to make people believe it doesn't exist.
Of course...this being an Oakland Raider game, it would be hard to recognize anyone's face, given the extremes to which Raider fans paint their faces...
I'm assuming that is sarcasm. How much of the State's budget goes to upkeep of the Internet?
A couple of good points have come up though:
1. How do you verify location of buyer? Do you pay taxes on something bought from a company out of state?
2. If you do pay taxes for out of state purchases - isn't that taxation across state borders, which is illegal?
3. Someone else mentioned that "maybe they wouldn't need to tax internet sales if Bush weren't pushing a $674 Billion Tax Cut", which would be fine and dandy - if that tax cut was coming out of state taxes and not the federal taxes.
imacat tried to raise his karma by writing: Otherwise, they will have no recourse when a tourist from Texas is jailed in Europe for keeping a firearm in his house.
Why do people always make it look like Dmitry was arrested for writing the software? It was the distribution in the US - which he and his company were doing willingly - that was the problem, not writing the software.
What you really happened was closer to: "...a tourist from Texas is jailed in Europre for keeping a firearm in his hotel room in Europe.".
Now, I agree that the law is no good - but don't obfuscate the issue by misrepresenting what really happened. That does no one any good.
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I don't know what you were thinking about. Looking at that picture it probably shouldn't be "breast", though, because there aren't any.
I would comment on this but I live in the U.S. so I better not.
Buy on rumor;
Sell on news.
Learn it, use it, and make or lose money with everyone else that follows the same.
The problem with the "rock-n-roll" lifestyle is that people are fed up with supporting it: if they want to listen to something they might as well download it (pirate it! argh!) because the product is not worth the price when it could be had for free. This isn't a "class warfare, these people make too much and hold us peons down" problem - this is a failing business model that isn't keeping up with the times (think: buggy whips).
Then why did you submit it? "Crackpot claims Earth is flat" doesn't get submitted - so why should "Crackpot believes Google ate his brain"? We could, of course, submit it twice and people would be more than happy to make funny jokes about dupes - now that would be /. material.
Well, considering that no one thinks before posting, it would be quite pointless for someone to be thinking when reading...
It is the "Holy Grail" only if the program created is able to beat a pro (even a high level amatuer) through thinking. If the Go program can beat Cho Chikun or Lee Changho only because of raw processing power (i.e. pattern recognition, reading moves into the future) then all we have done is create a faster, more powerful computer.
I don't know if one can say Go is "unsolvable". It is highly unlikely to happen, but there is a finite number of positions possible. So, theoretically, it could be solved...
Just goes to show you can't please everyone. Maybe next time they will put a link to a webserver that can't handle the traffic. That would be better, right?
(Of course we could ask them to logically consider which links to post and which to mirror...naah)
How so? Obviously, while not commenting directly on this subject, you could still say that just throwing someone off a project for what amounts to a difference in opinion and manner of dealing with those differences is more wrong.
The end (gaining more civility in kernel discussions???) does not justify the means (kicking someone out). On that you are right.
And many people in business (Americans mainly) would say that being nonconfrontational in conversation seems dumb as well.
The question brings up a good point, especially as more programming leaves the U.S. and heads overseas. What has become generally accepted programming paradigms may start shifting to better match the thinking process of those writing the code. It may be a stretch (for now, anyway) to expect kishotenketsu programming to work - computers can't grok what you really mean without being specifically told - but we will probably see examples of "nonstandard" programming techniques and, eventually, languages in the future.
Janis's stance on MP3's is admirable, but it was probably the reference on "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" that had the largest impact on sales...
I think the problem isn't so much that Bush is having bad luck but that the U.S. is having what appears to be a string of bad luck - whether it is really just luck or all to blame on Bush is open to debate.
So far Bush has to one of the the unluckiest Presidents the U.S. has had in a while...
First, the election is a disaster by any measure, putting the results in doubt and casting a negative light on the Presidency already.
Second, the economy begins a downward cycle right before he takes office. His father, by most accounts, lost because of the economy - now the son inherits a crappy economy...
Third - 9/11. This gives Bush a huge popularity boost because of his leadership (and the public's need for a leader) but results in the economy's downward spiral accelerating...
Now the Shuttle blows. 'Nuff said.
Next, we will probably have an unpopular war with Iraq (admittedly, mostly Bush's fault...)
What else could go wrong???
I'm just glad "First Stroke" wasn't also a link to that goatse.cx guy...
How useful would cash be in the event of a nuclear attack?!?! Now if they had been hording gold, some secret anti-radiation devices reverse engineered from alien technology, or Spam and Twinkies I could understand - cash would be the LAST thing I would take from some after a nuclear attack!
ni-ji-se = second generation, roughly, in Japanese, right? Oh the fun that could be had with that...
Well, if you put your entire MP3 collection up for sharing over a P2P network at work, I think you have a lot more to worry about than the RIAA coming to your door.
Most of the material used to make a microchip is consumed, at least as far the semiconductor manufacturer is concerned, because it can't be reused. Certainly that 32Kg of water could probably be cleaned and reused somewhere else.
What this report fails to demostrate, though, is the effluent coming out of a fab when making computer chips - that is where the danger lies. The materials that are not consumed but are used and then discarded, pose the real threat.
Oh yea - playing around with highly concentrated HF is a lot fun...
The first rule of an organization like this would be to make people believe it doesn't exist.
Of course...this being an Oakland Raider game, it would be hard to recognize anyone's face, given the extremes to which Raider fans paint their faces...
Well, great - that just sent me to Slashdot that had an article about Google not getting as much "quality time..."
And I didn't see any ads...what's the world coming to...
A couple of good points have come up though:
1. How do you verify location of buyer? Do you pay taxes on something bought from a company out of state?
2. If you do pay taxes for out of state purchases - isn't that taxation across state borders, which is illegal?
3. Someone else mentioned that "maybe they wouldn't need to tax internet sales if Bush weren't pushing a $674 Billion Tax Cut", which would be fine and dandy - if that tax cut was coming out of state taxes and not the federal taxes.
Why do people always make it look like Dmitry was arrested for writing the software? It was the distribution in the US - which he and his company were doing willingly - that was the problem, not writing the software.
What you really happened was closer to: "...a tourist from Texas is jailed in Europre for keeping a firearm in his hotel room in Europe.".
Now, I agree that the law is no good - but don't obfuscate the issue by misrepresenting what really happened. That does no one any good.