High end PC: $2000. Netbook: $400. Kindle: $300. Smart phone: $600.
That's less than $4k dollars. In an era where the average programmer makes $80k, that's a tiny amount to have a full array of cool tech. Just 5% of income for the sort of things men would once give kingdoms to posses.
You have got to be kidding! I have a netbook and an ebook reader, and they are absolutely not replacements or each other! OK, I'll spell it out for you in detail.
Things the Kindle can do that the Netbook can't:
eink display: It's easy on the eyes, works in bright sunlight, has the same viewing angle as paper.
Three weeks of battery life. The best netbooks can run for seven hours. The Kindle is in an entirely different class
Free, unlimited 3G internet connection that works anywhere a cell phone works.
Onboard GPS
Access to Amazon's ebook store: This should not be easily dismissed. I read scifi novels, and every one I have looked up has been available. They are also several dollars cheaper than printed books, and I can buy them without getting out of bed:-)
I have a high-end PC, a netbook, an ebook reader, and a smart phone. I am very glad I have all of them. Each of these devices has capabilities or conveniences not available on the other devices. These are great times to bee a technophile; anyone who dismisses this tech is pointless has no idea what he is talking about.
If all of Sun's JRuby developers left to work for Engine Yard, what possible impact might this have on the JRuby project? Will Sun continue to support JRuby development? Does this decrease the chances of Ruby someday becoming a mainstream part of Java?
We didn't think we were doing anything pioneering at the time
This is why the article we had yesterday, which argued that technological growth is slowing down, was a total hogwash. Technological growth is speeding up! What is constant is our inability to recognize great technological advancement except in hindsight.
Well, this is a poster child for why the US should not follow such conventions. Killing someone with a laser while risking eye damage to those nearby is far more humane than bombing the entire neighborhood. Screw the inhumane convention.
Compared to a missile, this does little to no collateral damage, because most targets don't walk around wearing mirror-covered suits. Do you understand now?
Your post contains twelve sentences. The majority of those sentences (seven) end in exclamation points. This is in a post regarding tab placement in computer software.
Beneath your amusing impotent rage, it looks like you still don't understand. Let me explain: More viruses -> more mutations -> more likely to jump species. Therefore, a higher population of the original host animal means a higher probability of cross-species mutations.
That's not how it works. Viruses don't all-of-a-sudden start to mutate when they "need" to. They mutate all the time. If a virus could "jump ship" to another species, it is most likely to do that when its first host species is common, not when that species is going extinct.
Your post is an example of a bad analogy substituting for intelligence. That's a common mistake. It's sort of like when your car won't start...
Once this is in place, my plan will come to fruition! I will threated to launch disco balls into the power beam unless Japan pays me... *pinky to mouth*one million dollars!
People alive today were tortured by this forced-sterilization policy the British used against their own citizens. Some of their torturers are still alive, too. That puts in in a totally different category from ancient Roman history.
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High end PC: $2000. Netbook: $400. Kindle: $300. Smart phone: $600.
That's less than $4k dollars. In an era where the average programmer makes $80k, that's a tiny amount to have a full array of cool tech. Just 5% of income for the sort of things men would once give kingdoms to posses.
You have got to be kidding! I have a netbook and an ebook reader, and they are absolutely not replacements or each other! OK, I'll spell it out for you in detail.
Things the Kindle can do that the Netbook can't:
I have a high-end PC, a netbook, an ebook reader, and a smart phone. I am very glad I have all of them. Each of these devices has capabilities or conveniences not available on the other devices. These are great times to bee a technophile; anyone who dismisses this tech is pointless has no idea what he is talking about.
If all of Sun's JRuby developers left to work for Engine Yard, what possible impact might this have on the JRuby project? Will Sun continue to support JRuby development? Does this decrease the chances of Ruby someday becoming a mainstream part of Java?
Wrong. Depth is the third "D", and this tech provides depth perception.
You should have said "I am mostly blind in one eye" instead of "I have a dominant eye." This would clear up the confusion.
This is why the article we had yesterday, which argued that technological growth is slowing down, was a total hogwash. Technological growth is speeding up! What is constant is our inability to recognize great technological advancement except in hindsight.
Well, this is a poster child for why the US should not follow such conventions. Killing someone with a laser while risking eye damage to those nearby is far more humane than bombing the entire neighborhood. Screw the inhumane convention.
Compared to a missile, this does little to no collateral damage, because most targets don't walk around wearing mirror-covered suits. Do you understand now?
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Your post contains twelve sentences. The majority of those sentences (seven) end in exclamation points. This is in a post regarding tab placement in computer software.
You really need to switch to decaf. Seriously.
Are you saying that with the more expensive system, disks never fail and nobody ever has to get up in the night?
Your insults are really odd. Are you translating them verbatim from another language?
PS: Sorry the facts got in the way of your karma. You sure take things hard, though.
Beneath your amusing impotent rage, it looks like you still don't understand. Let me explain: More viruses -> more mutations -> more likely to jump species. Therefore, a higher population of the original host animal means a higher probability of cross-species mutations.
That's not how it works. Viruses don't all-of-a-sudden start to mutate when they "need" to. They mutate all the time. If a virus could "jump ship" to another species, it is most likely to do that when its first host species is common, not when that species is going extinct.
Your post is an example of a bad analogy substituting for intelligence. That's a common mistake. It's sort of like when your car won't start...
Once this is in place, my plan will come to fruition! I will threated to launch disco balls into the power beam unless Japan pays me... *pinky to mouth* one million dollars!
Contact lenses cover more than the pupil. A recording device located over the iris would not interfere with vision.
It turned me into a newt!
Perhaps he was trying to save his money from Uncle Sam so that he could use it for charity rather than for war? Tax dodging can be quite ethical.
You might want to review your logic textbook from college. From "p -> q", it does not follow that "~p -> ~q".
Buffer overflows aren't about whether an algorithm can be "reversed," and there is a hell of a lot more to infosec than crypto and buffer overflows.
The first category of their "comparison" is the OS name? Really? That's enough for me to stop reading. The article doesn't even take itself seriously.
Your comment isn't very intelligible. Are you confusing cryptography with computer security, perhaps?
HTML can add a lot to the expressiveness of your email. This is a good thing, as it improves communication.
It would be a whole lot cheaper to buy the poor netbooks than to maintain dead-tree book repositories.
People alive today were tortured by this forced-sterilization policy the British used against their own citizens. Some of their torturers are still alive, too. That puts in in a totally different category from ancient Roman history.