Simplex communication. We tell everyone to hush up for a generation or two while we listen. After a while someone farts and the whole crowd generally loses interest in listening. This is the alien race's chance to listen, and they will likely go through the same excercise. Eventually someone on our planet will say "Shhhh! I heard it!" and our crowd will hush up.
The cell phone on the airplane is just the fart. We just need to hope that we are in the correct phase to listen to other chattering aliens.
When people do this, they want you to justify their decision. Their decision has already been made, they just want some "computer expert" to bless their decision, after which they can then pat themselves on the back and brag to their friends about how good a deal they got. Then when the problems come, they cover them up, because they know that they bragged about their superior decision to all their friends.
This is a common behavior, and not just for computers either.
A PC (aka "IBM PC clone") is more than just the microprocessor that runs it. There is quite a bit of legacy equipment and behavior that is included (like BIOS) that makes a computer a PC.
In short, a PC must be intel, but an intel based computer need not conform to the PC specifications.
It is a deposit. If you need your money, just request your deposit back when you are done with your books. You won't be able to borrow books until you put down another deposit, but at least you can now buy dinner.
Interest on the deposit is unlikely to be enough to buy a cheeseburger once a year. So this aspect of the argument is just plain silly.
I remember being a starving student and somehow I managed to come up with 20-30 each week for "recreational activities". Bitching because you can't set aside a small deposit (I'd guess that 50-100 would be typical) is arguing for arguments sake.
Remember, Communication 101 states that when communicating with the masses, your should target an 8th grade audience. Hence the lack of good information in the media.
We don't want Johnny Disadvantaged to be unable to understand the news.
It makes you wonder what stuff Google is working on now, that they haven't released. It is a good bet that Microsoft will be chasing Google in these areas for some time.
It is funny because the media seems to think that Google is just a search engine. It was a search engine back in 1999. Most people seem to be looking at this company as it was 5 years ago, not as it is today.
Stem cell research is not banned. Embryonic stem cell research is. The major political sticking point is that embryonic cells come mostly from abortions, which to the religious types is akin to profiting off of murder.
If these guys are smart, then they will describe an embryo as a fertilized egg. Since the harvested egg is never fertilized (they are just using the cell itself, not its nucleus) they might define this as a new category of material and get around the ban on embyotic stem cells.
I think the confusion came from the fact that you called it a "primary DOS partition". Primary partitions are a i386 thing. DOS partitions are partitions created to hold a DOS filesystem (FAT,FAT32,etc).
The primary partition does not need to be a DOS partition to install BSD.
None of these articles point to a "must". They are simply stating that military advantage is shifting back towards the Chinese and that they may take the opportunity, especially if provoked by a Taiwanese declaration of independance.
It is not like there is a treaty that mandates the return of Taiwan. This is also part of the natural posturing that goes on in politics.
You can do something like this with Busybox or BSD's crunchgen. I do embedded development and these tools esentially statically link everything together into one big program. It is handy, but I have not measured performance with it. The biggest issue is building the binary, since it would has to be built for the user's application selections. I'm sure someone could come up with a dynamic loader where each program is a library.
The language does not really matter. They all evaluate to ones and zeroes anyway.
Both of those approaches have points of value, but they are both extremes. The Agile way seems to be more appropriate for contracts for time, whereas the "Fragile" approach is more applicable to fixed price contracts.
Agile works as long as the customer is willing to pay for the changes. Agile is good because the customer sees progress. Agile is bad because an indecisive customer can flip-flop on features and cause significant headaches.
Fragile works better where the customer needs a specific solution. They list their demands and your company realizes those demands for a price. Changes are discouraged, but that should be fine as long as the customer knows exactly what they want. The company's process ensures that what is contracted for is met. This is not good for research type projects, where the best solution is not known and needs some experimentation.
Note: One would have trouble applying the Agile paradigm to any kind of regulatory environment. Telecom, medical, and military/government contracts pretty much mandate the use of the "Fragile" system.
They are subsidizing the cost of the phone with the income from your plan. The "free" phone is to get you to commit to a 1 year $40/month contract. Your "free" phone is costing you almost $500. Notice how you do not get a discount for bringing your own phone. They do not offer this because they want you on the hook for $500/year. Also the phones are responsible for the high-markup add-ons like car chargers, cases, earbuds, etc, where the markup can be 10 times the cost.
The service providers are interested in selling phones that will make them money.
Picture quality was better, but VHS could actually record a full movie. Betamax was limited to a one hour capacity. Which would you rather have a good picture that cut out in the middle of your movie or a mediocre picture that you could watch all the way through?
The market said the latter was "better".
BTW, this market, much like the internet, was initially driven by porn.
By your argument, that is exactly why Microsoft seeks to dominate the entire industry. It realizes that dominating these other markets and unseating the incumbant company is "thrilling and exciting". It also gets Microsoft rich. They are simply behaving like all the other startups, except they have a larger budget.
The number refers to the diagonal of the screen. Most 17" notebooks have the 17" widescreen in the 1440x900 range.
You want the 4:3 aspect ratio of a conventional ("normal") monitor.
It just depends on the work you do. For some work (spreadsheets, video) the wider format is nioce because you can get more columns or longer timelines on the screen without having to scroll. But many programmers are going to favor the taller format because code is generally formatted vertically so the extra area to the side is unused.
Also, long thin rectangles are generally easier to travel with compared to square-ish objects.
Higher education folks want to expand their budgets. They do this by increasing enrollment.
Companies can use student labor and foriegners here on student visas to further depress the local job market. Furthermore, when those foriegn students go back to their country, all the practical job skills they learned here are exported back to their countries. It is this exporting of skills that is the real problem behind H1b. Companies would rather retrain someone every 6 years (3 year term with a 3 year extension IIRC) than hire a local candidate demanding local wages.
The best thing you can do is to give students and workers that come into the country a green card. Once they have the freedom to stay, many will and they will start demanding local wages. If we are spending resources training them, we should try to recoup that investment instead of kicking them out after graduation.
But something frightens me about companies using open source as a loss leader. It makes me think they're missing the point.
Why is this frightening? This is common sense. If people are willing to develop a comparable product for free, why pay someone? Put that person onto a more profitable venture (add-ons, extra tools, support, etc).
That's why we age - and why we fall apart much more rapidly after child-rearing age is past.
The reason we age is because there is no selection mechanism for longevity. Diseases that affect us after we pass on our genes do not affect our ability to pass on our genes. Once people have their children, their genes are passed on and they are deemed "successful". People who die shortly after the birth of their children are on the same footing as those who live to 100, from a natural selection point of view.
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Simplex communication. We tell everyone to hush up for a generation or two while we listen. After a while someone farts and the whole crowd generally loses interest in listening. This is the alien race's chance to listen, and they will likely go through the same excercise. Eventually someone on our planet will say "Shhhh! I heard it!" and our crowd will hush up.
The cell phone on the airplane is just the fart. We just need to hope that we are in the correct phase to listen to other chattering aliens.
When people do this, they want you to justify their decision. Their decision has already been made, they just want some "computer expert" to bless their decision, after which they can then pat themselves on the back and brag to their friends about how good a deal they got. Then when the problems come, they cover them up, because they know that they bragged about their superior decision to all their friends.
This is a common behavior, and not just for computers either.
If it were GPL, it'd be a digital virus.
Not to mention that more drivers and more time driving increases our exposure to risk. The typical European drives a fraction of the typical American.
A PC (aka "IBM PC clone") is more than just the microprocessor that runs it. There is quite a bit of legacy equipment and behavior that is included (like BIOS) that makes a computer a PC.
In short, a PC must be intel, but an intel based computer need not conform to the PC specifications.
It is a deposit. If you need your money, just request your deposit back when you are done with your books. You won't be able to borrow books until you put down another deposit, but at least you can now buy dinner.
Interest on the deposit is unlikely to be enough to buy a cheeseburger once a year. So this aspect of the argument is just plain silly.
I remember being a starving student and somehow I managed to come up with 20-30 each week for "recreational activities". Bitching because you can't set aside a small deposit (I'd guess that 50-100 would be typical) is arguing for arguments sake.
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
Remember, Communication 101 states that when communicating with the masses, your should target an 8th grade audience. Hence the lack of good information in the media.
We don't want Johnny Disadvantaged to be unable to understand the news.
It makes you wonder what stuff Google is working on now, that they haven't released. It is a good bet that Microsoft will be chasing Google in these areas for some time.
It is funny because the media seems to think that Google is just a search engine. It was a search engine back in 1999. Most people seem to be looking at this company as it was 5 years ago, not as it is today.
Stem cell research is not banned. Embryonic stem cell research is. The major political sticking point is that embryonic cells come mostly from abortions, which to the religious types is akin to profiting off of murder.
If these guys are smart, then they will describe an embryo as a fertilized egg. Since the harvested egg is never fertilized (they are just using the cell itself, not its nucleus) they might define this as a new category of material and get around the ban on embyotic stem cells.
Just my $0.02 USD.
I think the confusion came from the fact that you called it a "primary DOS partition". Primary partitions are a i386 thing. DOS partitions are partitions created to hold a DOS filesystem (FAT,FAT32,etc).
The primary partition does not need to be a DOS partition to install BSD.
None of these articles point to a "must". They are simply stating that military advantage is shifting back towards the Chinese and that they may take the opportunity, especially if provoked by a Taiwanese declaration of independance.
It is not like there is a treaty that mandates the return of Taiwan. This is also part of the natural posturing that goes on in politics.
You can do something like this with Busybox or BSD's crunchgen. I do embedded development and these tools esentially statically link everything together into one big program. It is handy, but I have not measured performance with it. The biggest issue is building the binary, since it would has to be built for the user's application selections. I'm sure someone could come up with a dynamic loader where each program is a library.
The language does not really matter. They all evaluate to ones and zeroes anyway.
Both of those approaches have points of value, but they are both extremes. The Agile way seems to be more appropriate for contracts for time, whereas the "Fragile" approach is more applicable to fixed price contracts.
Agile works as long as the customer is willing to pay for the changes. Agile is good because the customer sees progress. Agile is bad because an indecisive customer can flip-flop on features and cause significant headaches.
Fragile works better where the customer needs a specific solution. They list their demands and your company realizes those demands for a price. Changes are discouraged, but that should be fine as long as the customer knows exactly what they want. The company's process ensures that what is contracted for is met. This is not good for research type projects, where the best solution is not known and needs some experimentation.
Note: One would have trouble applying the Agile paradigm to any kind of regulatory environment. Telecom, medical, and military/government contracts pretty much mandate the use of the "Fragile" system.
They are subsidizing the cost of the phone with the income from your plan. The "free" phone is to get you to commit to a 1 year $40/month contract. Your "free" phone is costing you almost $500. Notice how you do not get a discount for bringing your own phone. They do not offer this because they want you on the hook for $500/year. Also the phones are responsible for the high-markup add-ons like car chargers, cases, earbuds, etc, where the markup can be 10 times the cost.
The service providers are interested in selling phones that will make them money.
Picture quality was better, but VHS could actually record a full movie. Betamax was limited to a one hour capacity. Which would you rather have a good picture that cut out in the middle of your movie or a mediocre picture that you could watch all the way through?
The market said the latter was "better".
BTW, this market, much like the internet, was initially driven by porn.
By your argument, that is exactly why Microsoft seeks to dominate the entire industry. It realizes that dominating these other markets and unseating the incumbant company is "thrilling and exciting". It also gets Microsoft rich. They are simply behaving like all the other startups, except they have a larger budget.
"If PacMan had affected us as kids we'd be running around in dark rooms, munching pills, and listening to loud, repetitive electronic music."
- Someone else
A man walks into the doctor's office complaining of a discolored penis. Doctor gives him a pill and asks him to return in a week.
He comes back the following week with the same condition. Doctor tries a stronger medication and again asks for a follow up.
The third visit shows no improvement so the doctor asks what he's been doing with it lately.
"Same thing I do every night. Come home from work, grab a beer and a bag of Cheetos(TM) and watch some porn."
The number refers to the diagonal of the screen. Most 17" notebooks have the 17" widescreen in the 1440x900 range.
You want the 4:3 aspect ratio of a conventional ("normal") monitor.
It just depends on the work you do. For some work (spreadsheets, video) the wider format is nioce because you can get more columns or longer timelines on the screen without having to scroll. But many programmers are going to favor the taller format because code is generally formatted vertically so the extra area to the side is unused.
Also, long thin rectangles are generally easier to travel with compared to square-ish objects.
Higher education folks want to expand their budgets. They do this by increasing enrollment.
Companies can use student labor and foriegners here on student visas to further depress the local job market. Furthermore, when those foriegn students go back to their country, all the practical job skills they learned here are exported back to their countries. It is this exporting of skills that is the real problem behind H1b. Companies would rather retrain someone every 6 years (3 year term with a 3 year extension IIRC) than hire a local candidate demanding local wages.
The best thing you can do is to give students and workers that come into the country a green card. Once they have the freedom to stay, many will and they will start demanding local wages. If we are spending resources training them, we should try to recoup that investment instead of kicking them out after graduation.
The first part is the journalist who wishes to sensationalize his/her story and the second part is the company trying to downplay the whole fiasco.
My guess is that the true answer is in between (probably closer to Cisco's story).
I just hope that they are not playing "Macarena" on the eleveator. You know how it is when you get a song in your head.
But something frightens me about companies using open source as a loss leader. It makes me think they're missing the point.
Why is this frightening? This is common sense. If people are willing to develop a comparable product for free, why pay someone? Put that person onto a more profitable venture (add-ons, extra tools, support, etc).
That's why we age - and why we fall apart much more rapidly after child-rearing age is past.
The reason we age is because there is no selection mechanism for longevity. Diseases that affect us after we pass on our genes do not affect our ability to pass on our genes. Once people have their children, their genes are passed on and they are deemed "successful". People who die shortly after the birth of their children are on the same footing as those who live to 100, from a natural selection point of view.