Keep in mind that Microsoft is located in Redmond, Washington. The percentages there are probably much different than those of the tech industry in either San Jose, California or Austin, Texas.
I'm interested in buying a girlfriend, or maybe renting one for a while. Do you know how I could do that? Where does one go for that sort of thing?
Basically, I'd like to try out out for a while, see if
it's the right thing. If it's not, then I'd need a no-hassle return policy. Money back isn't an issue. Unless it's really expensive, like buying a car or a house or something.
The range is only 50 feet... so you won't get far w/o the signal fading. Also, the signal is probably analog 900MHz, not using any digital encoding (that would cost more). So you'll be more susceptible to interference from cordless phones and other 900MHz band devices.
However, I bet there's an easy way to boost the transmitter output and probably violate several FCC rules in the process.
Ahh, yes. purify is an amazing tool. I used it on a huge research project I was working on a few years back. It found so many obscure problems.
Unfortunately, it is completely useless now unless you're working on NT or Sun or one of the other few platforms it supports.
If you like GNU project software, there's a package called Checker which aims to do many of the things which purify does. I haven't used it much though, so I can't comment much on its usefulness.
The Meiji era is the era in which Japan was unified
under a single emperor. Before this era, there were
various kingdoms scattered around Japan. These were all
taken over either violently or peacefully. There were
various factions vying for power at the time. This was
a very bloody period around the early
1800's, if I recall correctly.
The Meiji era proper was an era of extraordinary peace.
This is the time when many cultural and industrial changes occurred.
Your use of the phrase "violent certainties of old Japan" betrays your pretense of understanding. By all
historical accounts, life in old Japan was anything but
certain. And most people were of course, not Samurai,
but serfs. No one with any brains would want to go back
to the way things were. Their view of the past is a similar fantasy to Americans' view of their founding
fathers.
If anything,
popular culture in Japan reflects the dualism of
Japanese modern society. On one hand, there is a
reverence for the past and the cultural heritage
of Japan. On the other, there is the need to be a
part of the modern international community. Japan
handles this duality marvelously. Women in kimono
ride the subway alongside salarymen and office ladies.
Neighborhood shrines sit next door to high rise office
buildings. If you are a wealthy Japanese man, you can
still buy the virginity of the maiko (women who will
become geisha). They call this tradition "mizu ageru"
by the way.
Also, you can make as many analyses of the unconscious
desires of the Japanese as you want, but they are
fundamentally unprovable.
What is provable is that there is a growing disinterest
among Japanese young people in the traditional Japanese
cultural properties. Young Japanese are more interested
in learning English than they are in learning to read
classical japanese literature. They are more interested
in listening to popular music than they are in studying
classical Japanese instruments. They are more
interested in drawing in popular styles like manga than they are in learning Japanese calligraphy.
So anyway, there isn't any angst over loss of culture
among most young people. And anime isn't made for the
older generations in general. So I can't really tell what you were getting at besides an attempt to say something profound.
Berlitz offers courses in basically all foreign languages, mainly tailored for business users and travelers.
They sit you down with a native speaker who talks to you and with you for as long as it takes (or as long as you can afford, whichever is shorter).
This is by far the most excellent way of learning a spoken language outside of living in a country where that language is spoken. It is also the most expensive way to learn. Private courses run about $100 per hour, if I recall.
Before going to Japan, I went with a friend of mine for 4 hours of refresher Japanese. It was immensely helpful. When taking large group classes with other people you tend to make the same mistakes as everyone else. So it's hard to correct those mistakes when just speaking with other beginners.
No, no no. You're not getting it. Nvidia WAS an underdog. Now they're the dominant player. AMD WAS an underdog, now they're the dominant player. Microsoft hasn't been an underdog since the days of PC-DOS 1.0.
The problem here is that the error patterns for certain media are "bursty". Meaning that while the overall error rate is 1 in 1,000,000, you are likely to have many bit errors in close proximity to each other in practice. I believe that this is the case with magnetic media such as magnetic tape.
So how much does it cost Microsoft to copy some CD's and manuals? $1 per CD, $5 per manual?
I'm sure they're not giving you tech support or access to the full Microsoft Developer Network.
So what you're getting for free would cost money if you had to buy it, but you're not getting everything that you would if you paid the money.
Also, you're getting less than what you would if you used free, open-source tools like GCC for Windows (Cygwin) and XEmacs for Windows. And why even use windows?
I assume that Microsoft is only providing you with "free" software, and not free hardware as well.
Doesn't "The smallest number not describable in less than 100 words" fall under the category
of the "busy beaver problem"? The Busy Beaver problem is this: "Find p(n), where n is a
number of states, and p(n) is the most productive Turing machine of n states. Productive
means that it will output a large number of '1's on a tape, and then terminate. It cannot
enter an endless loop. If I recall correctly, this problem was prooven to be unsolvable by computers.
The point I addressed above wasn't so much to justify progressive taxation, but simply to show that the wealthy do get
real value out of the higher taxes that they pay.
Obviously you're not one of the ones in the highest tax brackets. If anything,
the wealthy are less in need of the services of the government, and thus get
even LESS for their tax money.
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80% of the quality for 20% of the cost is good enough for more people. see: law of diminishing returns.
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Basically, I'd like to try out out for a while, see if it's the right thing. If it's not, then I'd need a no-hassle return policy. Money back isn't an issue. Unless it's really expensive, like buying a car or a house or something.
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However, I bet there's an easy way to boost the transmitter output and probably violate several FCC rules in the process.
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Unfortunately, it is completely useless now unless you're working on NT or Sun or one of the other few platforms it supports.
If you like GNU project software, there's a package called Checker which aims to do many of the things which purify does. I haven't used it much though, so I can't comment much on its usefulness.
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The Meiji era proper was an era of extraordinary peace. This is the time when many cultural and industrial changes occurred.
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If anything, popular culture in Japan reflects the dualism of Japanese modern society. On one hand, there is a reverence for the past and the cultural heritage of Japan. On the other, there is the need to be a part of the modern international community. Japan handles this duality marvelously. Women in kimono ride the subway alongside salarymen and office ladies. Neighborhood shrines sit next door to high rise office buildings. If you are a wealthy Japanese man, you can still buy the virginity of the maiko (women who will become geisha). They call this tradition "mizu ageru" by the way.
Also, you can make as many analyses of the unconscious desires of the Japanese as you want, but they are fundamentally unprovable. What is provable is that there is a growing disinterest among Japanese young people in the traditional Japanese cultural properties. Young Japanese are more interested in learning English than they are in learning to read classical japanese literature. They are more interested in listening to popular music than they are in studying classical Japanese instruments. They are more interested in drawing in popular styles like manga than they are in learning Japanese calligraphy.
So anyway, there isn't any angst over loss of culture among most young people. And anime isn't made for the older generations in general. So I can't really tell what you were getting at besides an attempt to say something profound.
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Um. No... the high end X86 machines for gaming.
Um... AMD controls the high end?
They sit you down with a native speaker who talks to you and with you for as long as it takes (or as long as you can afford, whichever is shorter).
This is by far the most excellent way of learning a spoken language outside of living in a country where that language is spoken. It is also the most expensive way to learn. Private courses run about $100 per hour, if I recall.
Before going to Japan, I went with a friend of mine for 4 hours of refresher Japanese. It was immensely helpful. When taking large group classes with other people you tend to make the same mistakes as everyone else. So it's hard to correct those mistakes when just speaking with other beginners.
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No, no no. You're not getting it. Nvidia WAS an underdog. Now they're the dominant player. AMD WAS an underdog, now they're the dominant player. Microsoft hasn't been an underdog since the days of PC-DOS 1.0.
The problem here is that the error patterns for certain media are "bursty". Meaning that while the overall error rate is 1 in 1,000,000, you are likely to have many bit errors in close proximity to each other in practice. I believe that this is the case with magnetic media such as magnetic tape.
So what you're getting for free would cost money if you had to buy it, but you're not getting everything that you would if you paid the money.
Also, you're getting less than what you would if you used free, open-source tools like GCC for Windows (Cygwin) and XEmacs for Windows. And why even use windows?
I assume that Microsoft is only providing you with "free" software, and not free hardware as well.
Shouldn't this be an "Ask Slashdot" article?
Doesn't "The smallest number not describable in less than 100 words" fall under the category of the "busy beaver problem"? The Busy Beaver problem is this: "Find p(n), where n is a number of states, and p(n) is the most productive Turing machine of n states. Productive means that it will output a large number of '1's on a tape, and then terminate. It cannot enter an endless loop. If I recall correctly, this problem was prooven to be unsolvable by computers.
It's incentive. It's better for society for the wealthy to invest their money than it is for them to stuff it in a matress.
A sales tax would basically be a "flat tax".
Obviously you're not one of the ones in the highest tax brackets. If anything, the wealthy are less in need of the services of the government, and thus get even LESS for their tax money.