If paying a developer cost him $2,000 per week, and it takes an extra week of time to test against rare, old browsers; then it takes two more weeks add all the hacks required to make it work properly in those rare, old browsers....
That's a great solution. If this video compression is so bad you notice it on your TV, get a smaller TV or move it farther away so you don't notice!
I have another idea: You could put Vaseline over the lenses of your glasses. You wouldn't be able to tell quality video from overcompressed video once you do that!
Or you could get a fog machine and have it blow smoke between your couch and your TV. You will see, then, that a good-quality video stream looks no different from an Apple-compressed stream!
Geeze, you demonstrate apologetic fanboyism at its finest.
Yes some group think comes into play but it's generally only on political matters.
Really? Have you ever tried criticizing Perl here? You will get buried so fast you won't know what hit you.
Hell, you can post Larry Wall's own criticisms of Perl5 VERBATIM (but without attribution) and get replies from 20 people "debunking" your claim (all at +5) while your comment sits at -1 Troll.
I work in a Human Resources department of a Fortune 50 company based in Springfield, NV. When screening applicants, we routinely read every post made by every person on all the major internet web forums and USENET. For each account, we try to build a profile out of every bit of information that person has said (such as: "a new Starbucks just opened down the street from me"), and then cross-reference it with our Big Database ("SELECT zip_code WHERE starbucks_opening_date > (NOW() - 2 weeks)"). Then, whenever we receive a resume for a potential candidate, we feed his info in to the system to see if there are any matches.
If there are matches, we read the comment history for those accounts, and try to find any that are disrespectful of Jesus, George Bush, or Traditional Family Values. If our search is successful, we immediately disqualify the applicant.
(I hope I made my point. Stop being paranoid--it's a waste of energy and a mental disease.)
with opensource being opensource you can easily just make your own kernels and build it all up no problems.
Ahh, the words of a college kid with no real-world experience, I see. People with actual jobs require vendor support and patching, using the vendor's tools to do so. Deploying 20 servers with custom kernels, which will all need to be updated by manually compiling new kernels if bug is later found... well... that sounds like a disaster.
Giving tax breaks for businesses does NOT allow independent inventors to innovate. Innovative businesses need the time to develop a product before there is any revenue. When there is no revenue, tax breaks can't pay for drugs and surgeries.
Tax breaks may encourage people to open their own drywall subcontracting business, but they don't help people come up with anything actually new. In a service/knowledge driven economy, new innovations are much more important.
Richard Swinburne, the foremost living philosopher of religion
No - the foremost living philosopher of religion is Richard Dawkins
Actually, Daniel Dennett is probably the best mind in the field today. He proposes many scientific tests for analyzing the propagation, benefits, and costs of religious ideas. He thinks memetics and evolutionary psychology provide the best way of understanding the state of religions.
He is also an atheist, and believes religion is in its death-throes in modern society.
yet lets the illegals who burden the system walk across the border without fear of repercussion.
Those would be the ones who ensure you never have to worry about affording basic groceries in Safeway.
Groceries are like 5% of my budget. I'll manage.
Also, an increase in labor costs in the agro industry would promote an investment in automation, which would lower the cost of food in the long run (and provide jobs for highly-skilled laborers, like engineers).
In significantly socialized countries, like the USA (face it: our medical industry is inefficiently and informally socialized right now), we should leave the immigration decisions up to the actual economists.
Open immigration only made sense back when the US was minimally socialized-- 50+ years ago.
It is by providing people with the freedom and opportunity to decide their own future that the US has become the great nation it is today,
Well, that and not getting our infrastructure blown-to-hell in WWII, like the rest of the industrialized world. Oh, and having lots of natural resources.
There were many reasons why our economy did well in the last half of the last century. It's hard to say exactly how much should be attributed to any one factor.
Personally, I think a more socialist economic stance could boost our economy. I have lots of business ideas I would like to explore, but I can't take on the risk of starting my own business. In the initial stages, I would not be able to afford medical care. If I fail in the long run, I would not be able to afford a comfortable retirement.
If we remove these risks, we will promote innovation.
I wouldn't say that. The sort of people who are willing to sink big money into pie-in-the-sky Alzheimer's research are probably going to forget what they did with that money after a few years, anyway.
Blood sugar levels have dramatic affects on personality. Does that mean that you don't eat, because it changes "a part of who you are as a person?"
Your memories define who you are. Every time you make a choice, you change who you are. Personally, I will always chose to improve myself, rather than stagnate. Perhaps, as technology provides us with more options for self-improvement, the human race will diverge. People with your philosophy toward "self" would eventually die off, or live only at the mercy of the self-improvers (because you certainly wouldn't be able to compete with super-intelligence).
However, it also presents some less optimistic possibilities: for example, someone might be able to "program" humans as we program computers today.
We already have this. It's called "religion," "nationalism," or "racism," depending on the form.
Note: If this seems offensive to you, and you have no doubts (faith) that your religion is the the one true religion, and your country is the best, surely you must admit that those other people over there have been "programmed" into falsely thinking that their religion is true and their country is best.
You honestly think water chlorination belongs on the same list with a wonder like the Voodoo 3? Come on! Chlorinated water doesn't even have AGP! And can water render video cards? No. Can video cards render water? Yes.
I worked at a research company that did polls like this. I had to do the cold calls, myself. The dirty secret that polling companies don't want anyone to know about is this:
Nobody responds to polls but lonely old ladies!
And guess what? In the 1920s, hardly any women got good educations. Almost everyone was ignorant the world outside their towns.
This poll does not represent America. It represents only our most lonely and senile citizens.
So you work for a cleaning company and you are also a regular slashdotter? It seems an odd match: like an atheist or a politician in a church. If you are interested in IT enough to enjoy slashdot, and you are knowledgeable enough about IT to understand slashdot, have you considered leaving the cleaning industry to work in IT for a 2x - 10x increase in pay?
if you want to receive something like fair compensation for your labor then you have to...
...allow the market to determine what a "fair" wage is.
People like you are the reason countries such as France have 2 to 3 times the unemployment rate of the US. Quit trying to fuck up our economy, you ignorant jackass.
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If paying a developer cost him $2,000 per week, and it takes an extra week of time to test against rare, old browsers; then it takes two more weeks add all the hacks required to make it work properly in those rare, old browsers....
well...
He just spent $6k to save $1.6k.
SL gets press because it allows anyone to alter the environment. That is a big deal.
That's a great solution. If this video compression is so bad you notice it on your TV, get a smaller TV or move it farther away so you don't notice!
I have another idea: You could put Vaseline over the lenses of your glasses. You wouldn't be able to tell quality video from overcompressed video once you do that!
Or you could get a fog machine and have it blow smoke between your couch and your TV. You will see, then, that a good-quality video stream looks no different from an Apple-compressed stream!
Geeze, you demonstrate apologetic fanboyism at its finest.
Hell, you can post Larry Wall's own criticisms of Perl5 VERBATIM (but without attribution) and get replies from 20 people "debunking" your claim (all at +5) while your comment sits at -1 Troll.
I work in a Human Resources department of a Fortune 50 company based in Springfield, NV. When screening applicants, we routinely read every post made by every person on all the major internet web forums and USENET. For each account, we try to build a profile out of every bit of information that person has said (such as: "a new Starbucks just opened down the street from me"), and then cross-reference it with our Big Database ("SELECT zip_code WHERE starbucks_opening_date > (NOW() - 2 weeks)"). Then, whenever we receive a resume for a potential candidate, we feed his info in to the system to see if there are any matches.
If there are matches, we read the comment history for those accounts, and try to find any that are disrespectful of Jesus, George Bush, or Traditional Family Values. If our search is successful, we immediately disqualify the applicant.
(I hope I made my point. Stop being paranoid--it's a waste of energy and a mental disease.)
Digg forces all users to register to post. Digg is great.
Slashdot does NOT force users to register to post. Slashdot sucks.
Huh?? You like to be anonymous, yet you prefer digg to slashdot? You are insane. Seriously. Your reasoning directly contradicts your conclusions.
Since I've never, in my life, even met such a person, the system isn't working very well.
Giving tax breaks for businesses does NOT allow independent inventors to innovate. Innovative businesses need the time to develop a product before there is any revenue. When there is no revenue, tax breaks can't pay for drugs and surgeries.
Tax breaks may encourage people to open their own drywall subcontracting business, but they don't help people come up with anything actually new. In a service/knowledge driven economy, new innovations are much more important.
State-sponsored medical care and significant retirement pensions aren't "socialist?"
He proposes many scientific tests for analyzing the propagation, benefits, and costs of religious ideas. He thinks memetics and evolutionary psychology provide the best way of understanding the state of religions.
He is also an atheist, and believes religion is in its death-throes in modern society.
Games may keep things like that in RAM, not in a database. It's not so easy to query a block of memory...
Groceries are like 5% of my budget. I'll manage.
Also, an increase in labor costs in the agro industry would promote an investment in automation, which would lower the cost of food in the long run (and provide jobs for highly-skilled laborers, like engineers).
In significantly socialized countries, like the USA (face it: our medical industry is inefficiently and informally socialized right now), we should leave the immigration decisions up to the actual economists.
Open immigration only made sense back when the US was minimally socialized-- 50+ years ago.
There were many reasons why our economy did well in the last half of the last century. It's hard to say exactly how much should be attributed to any one factor.
Personally, I think a more socialist economic stance could boost our economy. I have lots of business ideas I would like to explore, but I can't take on the risk of starting my own business. In the initial stages, I would not be able to afford medical care. If I fail in the long run, I would not be able to afford a comfortable retirement.
If we remove these risks, we will promote innovation.
I wouldn't say that. The sort of people who are willing to sink big money into pie-in-the-sky Alzheimer's research are probably going to forget what they did with that money after a few years, anyway.
Blood sugar levels have dramatic affects on personality. Does that mean that you don't eat, because it changes "a part of who you are as a person?"
Your memories define who you are. Every time you make a choice, you change who you are. Personally, I will always chose to improve myself, rather than stagnate. Perhaps, as technology provides us with more options for self-improvement, the human race will diverge. People with your philosophy toward "self" would eventually die off, or live only at the mercy of the self-improvers (because you certainly wouldn't be able to compete with super-intelligence).
Note: If this seems offensive to you, and you have no doubts (faith) that your religion is the the one true religion, and your country is the best, surely you must admit that those other people over there have been "programmed" into falsely thinking that their religion is true and their country is best.
You honestly think water chlorination belongs on the same list with a wonder like the Voodoo 3? Come on! Chlorinated water doesn't even have AGP! And can water render video cards? No. Can video cards render water? Yes.
I worked at a research company that did polls like this. I had to do the cold calls, myself. The dirty secret that polling companies don't want anyone to know about is this:
Nobody responds to polls but lonely old ladies!
And guess what? In the 1920s, hardly any women got good educations. Almost everyone was ignorant the world outside their towns.
This poll does not represent America. It represents only our most lonely and senile citizens.
I have never heard of anyone sweeping their carpet before vacuuming. Do you live in a carpeted barn or something?
Thanks for the info.
So you work for a cleaning company and you are also a regular slashdotter? It seems an odd match: like an atheist or a politician in a church. If you are interested in IT enough to enjoy slashdot, and you are knowledgeable enough about IT to understand slashdot, have you considered leaving the cleaning industry to work in IT for a 2x - 10x increase in pay?
People like you are the reason countries such as France have 2 to 3 times the unemployment rate of the US. Quit trying to fuck up our economy, you ignorant jackass.