Alright, this thing is still strictly theoretical, right?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the internal combustion engine at the beginning of it's decline now? I mean, how long will it be before this effect is put to use? A decade? More?
I suppose since the article keeps talking about waste heat generated by the engine, rather than any features particular to the engine, there might be other uses than prolonging the life of a technology...but then why put everything in terms of "the Otto engine?"
Well, anyhow, I'm sure car buffs 20 or 30 years from now will be glad to have such a device to help keep their old 20th century vehicles street-legal.
They're desperate to have control of and royalties from a relevant format again.
I don't know what to make of their chances...I mean, it's before the total death of VHS, but also before HDTV has actually become widespread enough to make any difference (and also before HD DVD). So one of the advantages is still there, but the other one isn't here yet.
Well, you're seeing people going nuts here, because of linux/unix/mac zealots seeing someone actually saying something good about, even RECCOMENDING a Microsoft OS.
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Uhh....they would have been better able to hire people in smaller cities if they weren't all concentrated into a couple of big ones, if they were spread out more. Is a silicon valley neccesary to build a successful company, or is all that's really needed a good public school/university system nearby?
What the hell are you talking about? They are actually SELLING things which people might actually WANT, and be willing to pay for, and presenting said things in a manner that makes it easy to find what you are looking for.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't most people think "ad revenue" when you say "dot-com model?"
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How many internet companies (where it matters not to the customer where you are) do you think would have been doing much better if they had not headquartered in high-priced tech centers like Seattle and San Francisco?
Ah, I gotcha. No point even looking for copying on a "hello world" assignment, unless you have, say, a large group of students with identical indentation, spacing and capitalization throughout.
Copying code is a WORSE offense in a beginner's class, because these are people who are for the most part never going to progress beyond this in programming, so won't have opportunity later on to learn the lessons they should be learning now.
By copying each other's code...or more likely everyone copying one person's code, they are making it less likely that most people will learn the basic concepts of how a program works, even on a high level of abstraction.
They'll just be Lusers who can say they completed CS coursework.
A CS senior should already know what functions and variables and whatnot are. A freshman biology (or whatever) will not, and they won't learn later.
And don't think for a second that this doesn't help a person understand better how to be a better end-user.
Honestly, I had that figured out after about a MINUTE of using my first mac.
Click once on any open menus, or to do anything EXCEPT automatically launch an application, when you should click twice.. That really isn't complicated.
Honestly, though...for people who still can't get it, before they even TOUCH, even LOOK AT a computer, the first things that should be explained to them are the difference between a data file and an application, and the fact that icons and file names and whatnot are merely placeholders that point to the location of a file in a manner meaningful to a normal human.
It's fundamental (yet abstract) concepts that trip the (l)users up. They don't understand how things are related to each other, so they will never be able to do things on their own, so half of you will always be employable.
ALL of my Apple II floppies still work with no problems.
Back then they knew how to make them.
I'm sure they aren't going to last forever, but even if an Apple II disk is 20 years old, I'd trust it more than a modern floppy or hard disk, and if I were to back up to CDR, I'd make multiple copies (due to CDRs being of inconsistent durability).
Of course, though the media may be okay...the hardware gets gradually harder to come by.
When I was there last there were lots of crusoe models available in japan, from several manufacturers. Sony had the most, but yeah, there was Fujitsu, and NEC as well. If I'd got my notebook 6 months later I probably would have bought one myself. (They were pricey little toys to start off with)
I've had CDs WITH FOIL PEELING OFF still work without a hitch.
Anyhow, I haven't used them in a while, what with my only system with a CD burner being dead for the past year. Since they've dropped in price, have CDRs dropped in quality, too? (Same thing happened with floppy disks.)
The story can go to the one place everyone (can I assume everyone?) wanted to see more of...the FUTURE. Which, of course, has been negated.
Not only that, unlike brining Sigourney Weaver back in Alien 4, which was an absolutely impossible thing to do without it sucking, Schwartzenegger can be in this without making it seem stupid in any way, IF...he plays one or both of the terminators he played before. (It wouldn't make sense for skynet to make hundreds of terminators that look the same...it wouldn't even make sense to do two if it could make them all different, the only reason a second Arnold terminator makes sense is to convince John and Sarah that it's for real)
Anyhow, I want to see John Connor fighting to send his killer robot back in time.
In the terminator movies, the terminators looked human so they could infiltrate before they started terminating. If it looked like a snow-blower with a machine gun, you can be pretty sure that people would notice it before it got inside their defenses.
If Johnny 5 had been the terminator, no one would have thought Sarah Connor was crazy.
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Alright, this thing is still strictly theoretical, right?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the internal combustion engine at the beginning of it's decline now? I mean, how long will it be before this effect is put to use? A decade? More?
I suppose since the article keeps talking about waste heat generated by the engine, rather than any features particular to the engine, there might be other uses than prolonging the life of a technology...but then why put everything in terms of "the Otto engine?"
Well, anyhow, I'm sure car buffs 20 or 30 years from now will be glad to have such a device to help keep their old 20th century vehicles street-legal.
But which does your girlfriend enjoy more?
They're desperate to have control of and royalties from a relevant format again.
I don't know what to make of their chances...I mean, it's before the total death of VHS, but also before HDTV has actually become widespread enough to make any difference (and also before HD DVD). So one of the advantages is still there, but the other one isn't here yet.
Big media is MORE protected by it, because they can afford the lawyers.
On the upside, if anyone tries it, my curiosity as to what such a corpse looks like after a few years will no doubt be satisfied.
Well, you're seeing people going nuts here, because of linux/unix/mac zealots seeing someone actually saying something good about, even RECCOMENDING a Microsoft OS.
Uhh....they would have been better able to hire people in smaller cities if they weren't all concentrated into a couple of big ones, if they were spread out more. Is a silicon valley neccesary to build a successful company, or is all that's really needed a good public school/university system nearby?
What the hell are you talking about? They are actually SELLING things which people might actually WANT, and be willing to pay for, and presenting said things in a manner that makes it easy to find what you are looking for.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't most people think "ad revenue" when you say "dot-com model?"
How many internet companies (where it matters not to the customer where you are) do you think would have been doing much better if they had not headquartered in high-priced tech centers like Seattle and San Francisco?
Ah, I gotcha. No point even looking for copying on a "hello world" assignment, unless you have, say, a large group of students with identical indentation, spacing and capitalization throughout.
Copying code is a WORSE offense in a beginner's class, because these are people who are for the most part never going to progress beyond this in programming, so won't have opportunity later on to learn the lessons they should be learning now.
By copying each other's code...or more likely everyone copying one person's code, they are making it less likely that most people will learn the basic concepts of how a program works, even on a high level of abstraction.
They'll just be Lusers who can say they completed CS coursework.
A CS senior should already know what functions and variables and whatnot are. A freshman biology (or whatever) will not, and they won't learn later.
And don't think for a second that this doesn't help a person understand better how to be a better end-user.
Ebay has their OWN payment service. ("Billpoint" AKA "Ebay payments") It is the sellers on Ebay who sometimes (maybe 1/2?) accept paypal.
And the reason FSF doesn't use them...I dunno...maybe it's 'cause paypal sucks?
Looks like the lameness filter is on vacation.
Honestly, I had that figured out after about a MINUTE of using my first mac.
Click once on any open menus, or to do anything EXCEPT automatically launch an application, when you should click twice.. That really isn't complicated.
Honestly, though...for people who still can't get it, before they even TOUCH, even LOOK AT a computer, the first things that should be explained to them are the difference between a data file and an application, and the fact that icons and file names and whatnot are merely placeholders that point to the location of a file in a manner meaningful to a normal human.
It's fundamental (yet abstract) concepts that trip the (l)users up. They don't understand how things are related to each other, so they will never be able to do things on their own, so half of you will always be employable.
"Fast, cheap and reliable; pick two"
I guess with the apple II, we're looking at cheap and reliable.
ALL of my Apple II floppies still work with no problems.
Back then they knew how to make them.
I'm sure they aren't going to last forever, but even if an Apple II disk is 20 years old, I'd trust it more than a modern floppy or hard disk, and if I were to back up to CDR, I'd make multiple copies (due to CDRs being of inconsistent durability).
Of course, though the media may be okay...the hardware gets gradually harder to come by.
And who at the companies were you sending these to? I should think HR departments should expect it. Others might not be so tolerant.
SGI would be hurting even more if it did have one. High-end scientific and engineering applications sometimes require fortran.
Maybe they should be doing this at regular intervals. Have monthly patch collections. Quarterly.
Perhaps hourly wouldn't be overkill.
I mean can you just leave the thing sitting without losing data.
You cannot do this with most newer floppies (and yet all of my old apple II floppies still work.)
When I was there last there were lots of crusoe models available in japan, from several manufacturers. Sony had the most, but yeah, there was Fujitsu, and NEC as well. If I'd got my notebook 6 months later I probably would have bought one myself. (They were pricey little toys to start off with)
I've had CDs WITH FOIL PEELING OFF still work without a hitch.
Anyhow, I haven't used them in a while, what with my only system with a CD burner being dead for the past year. Since they've dropped in price, have CDRs dropped in quality, too? (Same thing happened with floppy disks.)
The story can go to the one place everyone (can I assume everyone?) wanted to see more of...the FUTURE. Which, of course, has been negated.
Not only that, unlike brining Sigourney Weaver back in Alien 4, which was an absolutely impossible thing to do without it sucking, Schwartzenegger can be in this without making it seem stupid in any way, IF...he plays one or both of the terminators he played before. (It wouldn't make sense for skynet to make hundreds of terminators that look the same...it wouldn't even make sense to do two if it could make them all different, the only reason a second Arnold terminator makes sense is to convince John and Sarah that it's for real)
Anyhow, I want to see John Connor fighting to send his killer robot back in time.
In the terminator movies, the terminators looked human so they could infiltrate before they started terminating. If it looked like a snow-blower with a machine gun, you can be pretty sure that people would notice it before it got inside their defenses.
If Johnny 5 had been the terminator, no one would have thought Sarah Connor was crazy.
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