I don't think there's any library anywhere that will have dozens of copies of $150 textbooks just so that students don't have to buy their own copies. I went to a big ten school in the U.S. and for most engineering courses the library had a couple copies in reserve for a class of 100+ students. If you didn't have money, you had to run after the class to be first in line at the library to get the book from reserve and xerox the problems and whatever else you needed.
If you're rational about it, those clubs are almost despicable by definition. There's a good reason why Feynman dropped his National Academy of Sciences membership:
Honors, and from that day to this, always bothered me. I had trouble when I became a member of the National Academy of Science, and I had ultimately to resign. Because there was another organization, most of whose time was spent in choosing who was illustrious enough to be allowed to join us in our organization. Including such questions as: 'we physicists have to stick together because there's a very good chemist that they're trying to get in and we haven't got enough room...'. What's the matter with chemists? The whole thing was rotten . Because the purpose was mostly to decide who could have this honor. OK? I don't like honors.
I think you should try it out as a 1d problem -- so only look along Earth's orbit. I don't think you'll find a solution, even if you ignore the atmosphere.
I use CLI quite rarely. I only run Linux on servers, and there I generate all the configuration from one master file, using a python script. The master file is kept up to date using a web-based UI. For me, CLI is pretty much the equivalent of clicking an icon somewhere. I use OS X in my daily work, but spend about half the time in various VMs.
All I'm saying is that it'd be hard not to learn keyboard shortcuts for an office package that one supposedly uses day-in, day-out. And the complaints about MS changing to ribbon interface are just silly IMHO. Of course it's hard to switch. That's how we're built, it seems. If we didn't have that innate block, we'd spend all the time playing with new gadgets and not accomplishing anything. So we try to stick to what we know. But if it's obvious that MS is going the ribbon way, it should be no brainer to learn it in a day. From a usability viewpoint, ribbons use screen real estate more efficiently than a menu + a bunch of toolbars. I detest toolbars in OpenOffice and derivatives. I wish they switched to ribbons.
The Linux rant is IMHO entirely off-base. I don't use Linux on my desktop, and I like GUIs and usable interfaces as much as anyone. I can be very effective just mousing around in OS X. But one should have most of the shortcuts memorized if one really does this IT work for as long as you do. Your brain should be your cheatsheet. We used to have Linux at home for many years, but that was before we could afford an iMac. For what we used it for, it was a perfect fit (my engineering class work and my s.o.'s browsing and text editing/spreadsheets).
It'd perhaps be wise to educate the consumers that just as they don't stop their car almost everywhere ("just to make sure") as they did in their early days of driving, they should similarly pay attention to becoming an efficient user of what they paid good money for...
I've looked for completed sales on eBay, and it seems that more than a 100 of them sold for $400 and up! Almost a thousand sold for $200 and up. And they still keep on selling between $200 and $300. It seems that HP just doesn't know how to do marketing.
You missed AC's point. The deal is about breaking into the market. If you have cash to burn, why not waste a $0.1B or so just to get your foot into the market by selling below cost? While doing that, you can bootstrap the app and "fan" markets, and work on cost-optimized ver.2.
So the supposedly sell them at a big loss, yet they decided to make more of them? Either they're crazy, or those things cost way less than $99 to make in volume, and since they don't have to support them at all, their overheads on those sales are negligible.
Perhaps HP has just found that there's big market for cheap, no-support, hackable computing devices? Sometimes opportunity may be staring you in the eyes and you can miss it!
According to the Forbes article, one of the arresting police officers was "prudish" and found her naked pics "disgusting". The proper retort to this: keep your thoughts to yourself, dude. It's none of your business whether her photos are disgusting to you or not. She did nothing illegal by taking naked pics of herself. End of story. Sigh.
It's about fucking time. That's all I can say. After shuffling disk images without thinking much about it in OS X for 5 years, and on Linux for almost 15 years, it's always a letdown when I have to install 3rd party tools to do just that on Windows and deal with occasional hiccups and system hangs.
Not hundreds of millions of dollars worth: SpaceX pulled off entire Falcon 1 -- avionics, two new engines, tanks, tooling, testing, launch complex, fuel, hauling by the sea for a couple hundred mil. I don't think they were using very advanced materials either. Of course you can't exactly make pressure tanks designed with factor of safety (F.S.) 1.5 using materials of unknown provenance. But they may well design it first just so that it flies its own weight, with 0 effective payload. You increase factors of safety, get it flying, and then decrease them as you learn what's important and what isn't. I'm pretty sure they can learn from other's mistakes -- for example, if someone asked me how to make tanks for a new rocket, I'd say: do what SpaceX did -- stir welding. The tooling for that can be probably had for a tens of thousands if you are in an area with cheap supply of "junk". You can always do crack inspection for any plates you want to reuse.
As for fifty year old mills of eBay: of course you have to do a full stripdown and refurb, add digital readouts, possibly NC drives, but that's what you always do if you want a nice machine out of a used one. The cast iron body is probably better when aged for 50 years:) The main driver in make-vs-buy is often labor cost. Where labor is almost free, you can make a lot of cool stuff affordably.
?! Ctrl-S was save. I don't even know what Ctrl-Alt-S was. Obviously my days of using MS Office ended a decade ago. Now I only install it once in a while on someone's machine.
If remembering 40 keyboard shortcuts is "hard" to someone, maybe they should revisit how they approach their work and mastery of their tools. A computer with software running on it is a tool. If you can't be bothered to learn to use the software efficiently, you're a lazy bummer that I have no respect for. I'm pretty sure I can recall more than 100 shortcuts -- that includes ones for WordStar/NewWord/joe, some vi commands, MS Office/Windows shortcuts, Apple OS X shortcuts, Visual Studio shortcuts, Qt Creator shortcuts (love those!), shortcuts in the project I work on, LyX shortcuts... And that's without trying particularly hard on my end -- I consider myself somewhat lazy.
I don't think Ballmer has much in the way of input into any UI design. He sees the demos, makes a comment here and there, and that's it. Because, as you said, he's not Gates. DUH.
I don't think that Office toolbars are very useful at all. When I recently installed Office 2010 and checked it out on a sample document, I didn't even touch the mouse. That confirmed, in my mind, that people have a rather irrational fear of new stuff, and they overblow their concerns. If you're a mouse-driving person, it shouldn't take longer than a day to become fully proficient in Office's ribbon bar. It's not rocket science, you just have to know how to learn stuff. Over the last decade I went through 4 processor architectures in my designs, every one required relearning everything as their peripherals, organization, programming languages and idiomatic approaches to common problems (patterns) were all different.
PS. Yep, I used NewWord on Memotech MTX 512 and Morrow MD-3. At one point I got it to run on ABC 80, and then ABC 802.
I somewhat agree. After Ike I was without power for a week in central Ohio of all places. Managed just fine boiling bath water in a turkey pan on the grill. Our daughter loved eating dinner by candlelight, too.
If such a storm were to come again, on the same track, in 2012, there'd be almost no loss of power. Wind doesn't directly take out power lines. It's always stuff it throws on the wires -- usually it's trees or weak structures (sign posts, etc).
Main reason for that I'd think: no winds of that speed for a good while. Trees overgrow and then you get branches taking out power left, right and center. That's what happened in Ohio after IIRC hurricane Ike. We were without power for almost a week. We got winds of similar speeds about two years later and there was negligible loss of power -- because everything that was weak or overgrown was mulched or turned into firewood long ago.
I've been running Fedora Core on an iMac for a good while. Mostly to play Doom 3 and Quake 4 -- somehow those games never get tiring for me. Yep, I'm too cheap to shell $50 or so out for an OS X version of the same:)
Is it possible to use a needle inserted into the vessel, that you then simply take out by poking a hole in the vessel? Perhaps the vessel can stretch so that a you won't have a big gash in it? How stretchable are small blood vessels"
Slashdot Mirror
I don't think there's any library anywhere that will have dozens of copies of $150 textbooks just so that students don't have to buy their own copies. I went to a big ten school in the U.S. and for most engineering courses the library had a couple copies in reserve for a class of 100+ students. If you didn't have money, you had to run after the class to be first in line at the library to get the book from reserve and xerox the problems and whatever else you needed.
Mensa: the World's smartest idiots. Should go into someone's sig!
If you're rational about it, those clubs are almost despicable by definition. There's a good reason why Feynman dropped his National Academy of Sciences membership:
Honors, and from that day to this, always bothered me. I had trouble when I became a member of the National Academy of Science, and I had ultimately to resign. Because there was another organization, most of whose time was spent in choosing who was illustrious enough to be allowed to join us in our organization. Including such questions as: 'we physicists have to stick together because there's a very good chemist that they're trying to get in and we haven't got enough room...'. What's the matter with chemists? The whole thing was rotten . Because the purpose was mostly to decide who could have this honor. OK? I don't like honors.
Xnest was a bystander. It was probably a binary where the backdoor/exploit was living after the original intrusion.
I think you should try it out as a 1d problem -- so only look along Earth's orbit. I don't think you'll find a solution, even if you ignore the atmosphere.
I use CLI quite rarely. I only run Linux on servers, and there I generate all the configuration from one master file, using a python script. The master file is kept up to date using a web-based UI. For me, CLI is pretty much the equivalent of clicking an icon somewhere. I use OS X in my daily work, but spend about half the time in various VMs.
All I'm saying is that it'd be hard not to learn keyboard shortcuts for an office package that one supposedly uses day-in, day-out. And the complaints about MS changing to ribbon interface are just silly IMHO. Of course it's hard to switch. That's how we're built, it seems. If we didn't have that innate block, we'd spend all the time playing with new gadgets and not accomplishing anything. So we try to stick to what we know. But if it's obvious that MS is going the ribbon way, it should be no brainer to learn it in a day. From a usability viewpoint, ribbons use screen real estate more efficiently than a menu + a bunch of toolbars. I detest toolbars in OpenOffice and derivatives. I wish they switched to ribbons.
The Linux rant is IMHO entirely off-base. I don't use Linux on my desktop, and I like GUIs and usable interfaces as much as anyone. I can be very effective just mousing around in OS X. But one should have most of the shortcuts memorized if one really does this IT work for as long as you do. Your brain should be your cheatsheet. We used to have Linux at home for many years, but that was before we could afford an iMac. For what we used it for, it was a perfect fit (my engineering class work and my s.o.'s browsing and text editing/spreadsheets).
It'd perhaps be wise to educate the consumers that just as they don't stop their car almost everywhere ("just to make sure") as they did in their early days of driving, they should similarly pay attention to becoming an efficient user of what they paid good money for...
The eBay sales are secondary market. HP doesn't see a cent of that.
Gave me good laugh for the end of the day. Thanks!
AC, you hit the nail on the head. Thank you!
I've looked for completed sales on eBay, and it seems that more than a 100 of them sold for $400 and up! Almost a thousand sold for $200 and up. And they still keep on selling between $200 and $300. It seems that HP just doesn't know how to do marketing.
You missed AC's point. The deal is about breaking into the market. If you have cash to burn, why not waste a $0.1B or so just to get your foot into the market by selling below cost? While doing that, you can bootstrap the app and "fan" markets, and work on cost-optimized ver.2.
So the supposedly sell them at a big loss, yet they decided to make more of them? Either they're crazy, or those things cost way less than $99 to make in volume, and since they don't have to support them at all, their overheads on those sales are negligible.
Perhaps HP has just found that there's big market for cheap, no-support, hackable computing devices? Sometimes opportunity may be staring you in the eyes and you can miss it!
According to the Forbes article, one of the arresting police officers was "prudish" and found her naked pics "disgusting". The proper retort to this: keep your thoughts to yourself, dude. It's none of your business whether her photos are disgusting to you or not. She did nothing illegal by taking naked pics of herself. End of story. Sigh.
It's about fucking time. That's all I can say. After shuffling disk images without thinking much about it in OS X for 5 years, and on Linux for almost 15 years, it's always a letdown when I have to install 3rd party tools to do just that on Windows and deal with occasional hiccups and system hangs.
We lost it too. In wet bags called stomachs IIRC. Yay for candlelight eating binges :)
Not hundreds of millions of dollars worth: SpaceX pulled off entire Falcon 1 -- avionics, two new engines, tanks, tooling, testing, launch complex, fuel, hauling by the sea for a couple hundred mil. I don't think they were using very advanced materials either. Of course you can't exactly make pressure tanks designed with factor of safety (F.S.) 1.5 using materials of unknown provenance. But they may well design it first just so that it flies its own weight, with 0 effective payload. You increase factors of safety, get it flying, and then decrease them as you learn what's important and what isn't. I'm pretty sure they can learn from other's mistakes -- for example, if someone asked me how to make tanks for a new rocket, I'd say: do what SpaceX did -- stir welding. The tooling for that can be probably had for a tens of thousands if you are in an area with cheap supply of "junk". You can always do crack inspection for any plates you want to reuse.
As for fifty year old mills of eBay: of course you have to do a full stripdown and refurb, add digital readouts, possibly NC drives, but that's what you always do if you want a nice machine out of a used one. The cast iron body is probably better when aged for 50 years :) The main driver in make-vs-buy is often labor cost. Where labor is almost free, you can make a lot of cool stuff affordably.
?! Ctrl-S was save. I don't even know what Ctrl-Alt-S was. Obviously my days of using MS Office ended a decade ago. Now I only install it once in a while on someone's machine.
If remembering 40 keyboard shortcuts is "hard" to someone, maybe they should revisit how they approach their work and mastery of their tools. A computer with software running on it is a tool. If you can't be bothered to learn to use the software efficiently, you're a lazy bummer that I have no respect for. I'm pretty sure I can recall more than 100 shortcuts -- that includes ones for WordStar/NewWord/joe, some vi commands, MS Office/Windows shortcuts, Apple OS X shortcuts, Visual Studio shortcuts, Qt Creator shortcuts (love those!), shortcuts in the project I work on, LyX shortcuts... And that's without trying particularly hard on my end -- I consider myself somewhat lazy.
I don't think Ballmer has much in the way of input into any UI design. He sees the demos, makes a comment here and there, and that's it. Because, as you said, he's not Gates. DUH.
I don't think that Office toolbars are very useful at all. When I recently installed Office 2010 and checked it out on a sample document, I didn't even touch the mouse. That confirmed, in my mind, that people have a rather irrational fear of new stuff, and they overblow their concerns. If you're a mouse-driving person, it shouldn't take longer than a day to become fully proficient in Office's ribbon bar. It's not rocket science, you just have to know how to learn stuff. Over the last decade I went through 4 processor architectures in my designs, every one required relearning everything as their peripherals, organization, programming languages and idiomatic approaches to common problems (patterns) were all different.
PS. Yep, I used NewWord on Memotech MTX 512 and Morrow MD-3. At one point I got it to run on ABC 80, and then ABC 802.
s/you can limit its distribution/you can't limit its distribution/
I somewhat agree. After Ike I was without power for a week in central Ohio of all places. Managed just fine boiling bath water in a turkey pan on the grill. Our daughter loved eating dinner by candlelight, too.
If such a storm were to come again, on the same track, in 2012, there'd be almost no loss of power. Wind doesn't directly take out power lines. It's always stuff it throws on the wires -- usually it's trees or weak structures (sign posts, etc).
Main reason for that I'd think: no winds of that speed for a good while. Trees overgrow and then you get branches taking out power left, right and center. That's what happened in Ohio after IIRC hurricane Ike. We were without power for almost a week. We got winds of similar speeds about two years later and there was negligible loss of power -- because everything that was weak or overgrown was mulched or turned into firewood long ago.
I've been running Fedora Core on an iMac for a good while. Mostly to play Doom 3 and Quake 4 -- somehow those games never get tiring for me. Yep, I'm too cheap to shell $50 or so out for an OS X version of the same :)
No, yes or no, no?
Is it possible to use a needle inserted into the vessel, that you then simply take out by poking a hole in the vessel? Perhaps the vessel can stretch so that a you won't have a big gash in it? How stretchable are small blood vessels"
Applause