I use pidgin a lot. I'm typically connected on the four major protocols -- Yahoo, AIM, MSN, and Google. I "talk" with coworkers using all four, often at the same time.
So a change in the UI can be seriously jarring.
Furthermore, I never read any justification for the change that made the case for me.
I just hope this doesn't ruin a perfectly good tool.
I've been C programming for 22 years or so. For at least the last 12 of that compilers have been smarter at optimization than I am. That's assuming you use a good optimization setting, of course, and you code honestly. A good optimizing compiler can do things that aren't really feasable in C source.
There's a strong temptation to try coding assembly language in C, e.g. coding C with an eye to what the code generator will do. The problem is you end up losing track of the algorithm. If you really need assembly code, then go ahead and do it. There are ways with all the compilers to insert direct assembly. Good reasons are the need to use an instruction that just won't be generated by a C compiler (put something in THAT segment register) and a need to absolutely control the sequence and timing of instructions (typically related to I/O),
Spending the money to parallel the new system until its clear it works looks expensive until something like this happens -- then it looks cheap.
I also notice you have a PLAN for what to do if things go wrong. That is also very smart. When things break and everyone panics, it's good to be able to just pick up a procedure worked out in calmer moments and go with it.
1. I don't think that cartridge capacity could be
extended quite that far. When the cartridges
are made bigger everything on the printer
platform has to be bigger including possibly
the amount of RAM used by the printer itself.
If the increase in cartridge capacity forces
the heads further apart, then more RAM is
needed to hold data for the colors.
2. Let's say that the capacity stays about the
same but the price of a cartridge drops from
$30 to $2. I just pulled those numbers out
of a hat. The $1500 printer may be a better
deal, but.... First you have to come up with
the $1500 up front.
The serious question is --- Given the current way that printers are priced, could you be successfull selling $1500 printers?
OTOH, if the car companies sold a care for $2000 instead of $20,000 and made their money off the sale of special gasoline, then aftermarket performance chips might be treated with a lot more hostility.
For the printer companies, allowing third party inks in means that they have to do the hard part including formulating the inks and then someone else picks up the profit without having to make any of that investment.
As far as I know there is no Free Ink Foundation (FIF) that gives away free formulas for ink that you can mix up in your kitchen.
Many years ago I worked at a company that did large format inkjet printers/plotters. The ink bags (yes bags) had little Dallas Semi chips that we could identify and keep a count of ink usage.
I suggested that we burn in "Copyright xxxxx corp" into the chips, and make the software look for it. If you weren't xxxxx corp and you made a copy chip, then you would have to copy a copyright notice that wasn't yours.
As has been said by others, the printer companies don't make money on printers at $150 (or less) per unit. If you wan't to pay $1500 for the same printer (think of all those cartridges) and buy your ink just anywhere, that's a possibility. I wouldn't take bets on that as a viable business model, though. Can you imagine walking down the aisles at Comp USA,... hmmm $100, $150, $1000, $1500. Which would you pick?
This is hardly Spielbergs second film, but I just think there was too much of it. There are parts that are very skillfull, but the story doesn't need 20 hours to be told.
That's why I thought of the 2nd system effect. The series is bloated and includes practically one of everything. If "Taken" had been much shorter forcing the viewer to imagine the parts that couldn't be told, it might have been tighter, tenser and better.
Sometimes it helps to be an old fart.
I read about IBM VM operating systems while in
school.
I actually used it in 1976. I worked for a
company that was in the midst of a conversion
form DOS/VS to OS/VS1 on a System/370 158. The
idea was to run production and convert apps
on the same machine.
I would guess that this technology existed before
some of the folk at VOS were born!
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I use pidgin a lot. I'm typically connected on the four major protocols -- Yahoo, AIM, MSN, and Google. I "talk" with coworkers using all four, often at the same time.
So a change in the UI can be seriously jarring.
Furthermore, I never read any justification for the change that made the case for me.
I just hope this doesn't ruin a perfectly good tool.
Of course, don't check it out of the library because your library activity is fodder for DHS. You'd better pay cash if you buy it in a store.
... errrr laws ..., then the laws are whatever someone in authority claims they are.
Seriously, or not, I always come back to this exchange in "Guys and Dolls".
These dice ain't got no spots on 'em, there blank!
Oh I had the spots removed for luck, but I remember where the spots formerly were.
Very seriously, if nobody gets to see the spots
Not good.
with sincere apologies to Julius Caesar.
I've been C programming for 22 years or so. For at least the last 12 of that compilers have been smarter at optimization than I am. That's assuming you use a good optimization setting, of course, and you code honestly. A good optimizing compiler can do things that aren't really feasable in C source.
There's a strong temptation to try coding assembly language in C, e.g. coding C with an eye to what the code generator will do. The problem is you end up losing track of the algorithm. If you really need assembly code, then go ahead and do it. There are ways with all the compilers to insert direct assembly. Good reasons are the need to use an instruction that just won't be generated by a C compiler (put something in THAT segment register) and a need to absolutely control the sequence and timing of instructions (typically related to I/O),
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083197/
It's called "Threshold" and it's about a non-beating (turbine) artificial heart.
What do you know? Art actually beat Life to the punch!
So the systematic purging of likely Democratic voters from the 2000 Florida roles was an accident?
The attempt to repeat this same action in 2004 was also an accident?
When the same accident happens over and over, I get suspicious.
You are very right.
Spending the money to parallel the new system until its clear it works looks expensive until something like this happens -- then it looks cheap.
I also notice you have a PLAN for what to do if things go wrong. That is also very smart. When things break and everyone panics, it's good to be able to just pick up a procedure worked out in calmer moments and go with it.
I believe this quote is from JFK (or maybe he stole
it from Truman).
"Don't tip high and say vote Democrat; tip
low and say vote Republican".
God doesn't have delusions of being Larry Ellison.
There you are with your Windows CE based heart regulator.
.... Blue Screen of DEATH?
What do you do when a Blue Screen of Death becomes a well
Hmmm. That's a thought.
1. I don't think that cartridge capacity could be
extended quite that far. When the cartridges
are made bigger everything on the printer
platform has to be bigger including possibly
the amount of RAM used by the printer itself.
If the increase in cartridge capacity forces
the heads further apart, then more RAM is
needed to hold data for the colors.
2. Let's say that the capacity stays about the
same but the price of a cartridge drops from
$30 to $2. I just pulled those numbers out
of a hat. The $1500 printer may be a better
deal, but.... First you have to come up with
the $1500 up front.
The serious question is --- Given the current
way that printers are priced, could you be
successfull selling $1500 printers?
OTOH, if the car companies sold a care for $2000 instead of $20,000 and made their money off the sale of special gasoline, then aftermarket performance chips might be treated with a lot more hostility.
For the printer companies, allowing third party inks in means that they have to do the hard part including formulating the inks and then someone else picks up the profit without having to make any of that investment.
As far as I know there is no Free Ink Foundation (FIF) that gives away free formulas for ink that you can mix up in your kitchen.
Many years ago I worked at a company that did large format inkjet printers/plotters. The ink bags (yes bags) had little Dallas Semi chips that we could identify and keep a count of ink usage.
... hmmm $100, $150, $1000, $1500. Which would you pick?
I suggested that we burn in "Copyright xxxxx corp" into the chips, and make the software look for it. If you weren't xxxxx corp and you made a copy chip, then you would have to copy a copyright notice that wasn't yours.
As has been said by others, the printer companies don't make money on printers at $150 (or less) per unit. If you wan't to pay $1500 for the same printer (think of all those cartridges) and buy your ink just anywhere, that's a possibility. I wouldn't take bets on that as a viable business model, though. Can you imagine walking down the aisles at Comp USA,
This is hardly Spielbergs second film, but I
just think there was too much of it. There are
parts that are very skillfull, but the story
doesn't need 20 hours to be told.
That's why I thought of the 2nd system effect.
The series is bloated and includes practically
one of everything. If "Taken" had been much
shorter forcing the viewer to imagine the parts
that couldn't be told, it might have been tighter,
tenser and better.
Sometimes it helps to be an old fart. I read about IBM VM operating systems while in school. I actually used it in 1976. I worked for a company that was in the midst of a conversion form DOS/VS to OS/VS1 on a System/370 158. The idea was to run production and convert apps on the same machine. I would guess that this technology existed before some of the folk at VOS were born!