Re:So, you programmers ready to give up your code?
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Yes.
But then again, what *would* you do with the little VB app I wrote to talk to my custom embedded board? Sure, you could run it... but you couldn't USE it without a piece of hardware of which there are 3 in the world.
There's a lot of that kind of software out there. Programmers will have a job.
Actually, Bell 202s were true 1200 baud, and Bell 201 2400 bps modems used a 1200 baud encoding system as well. V.26 (ITU 2400 bps spec) is 1200 baud too.
Congratulations on getting this thing out and released, Jason. I remember talking to you about it at multiple Rubicons, been looking forward to it for a while now.
I'm not sure if its more sad that you calculated the diagonal of standard letter paper, or that I felt the need to check that you had done it correctly.
And for those of us who think visually, I can draw a lot better on pen and paper than on a PDA - sure, they can capture my chicken scratch, but the difference between pad and pencil and trying to fit everything onto a tiny PDA input is night and day.
I draw *everything* - my whiteboard at work is continually covered with signal flow diagrams, three view drafts, transfer function graphics, and equations. When I need to send something to someone across the world, I employ this amazing invention called a *scanner*.
So, yes, the Jornada might address some people's needs, but it fails miserably for others.
I can pretty much guarantee that various automotive platform uses were, since the volumes on those yearly exceeds Gamecube's total installed base (which is ~18 million, IIRC). You'd be surprised how many cars have hardware running on some variant of PPC - pretty much every car GM makes includes at least one, and usually multiple, PPCs, and most other carmakers will have one or more parts (often in engine/transmission control) running on a PPC-based processor. I've worked on programs that had a yearly sales volume of ~1.5 million PPCs, over a 5 year life cycle. For one program, for one customer. And it wasn't even ECU/TCU hardware. Other embedded sectors might even surpass the automotive market for PPC, though I suspect automotive is the #1 customer on PPC derived chips.
Gamecube may be the most visible high-volume use, but it pales in comparison to the embedded markets.
All murderers are known to breathe. No one is suggesting that air causes people to become murderers.
While correlation does not mean that there is no relationship between the correlated qualities, at the same time it does *not*, as you imply, mean that there has to be a relationship. Correlation is useful as corroboration to a prediction of causation; in and of itself, it is essentially meaningless.
The statement was more in regard to the fact that the "programming" in linear programming does not refer to computer programming, but to an obscure/obsolete military usage of the term.
Of course you can use computers to perform LP. Then again, you can use computers to play chess as well, and no one would dispute that chess has little to do with computing.
I did part tour, part private (my family is Cuban, so we still have connections to people there, and the packaged tours don't exactly cater to people wishing to visit gravesites and old homes, etc.). The tour wasn't bad, though I thought Veradero was incredibly overrated.
The Havana Libre was a perfectly fine hotel, though, can't complain about that. The resort in Trinidad was gorgeous, although the food there wasn't great. A fair amount of the "tour" was decent. And the private restaurants we ate at, the families we stayed with in Cienfuegos, the visit to the Patronado and meeting the congregation there, all of the more individual events, those were nice too.
Like when you apply them to anything else, mass generalizations about Cuba are usually flawed. Please don't speak about experiences you didn't have, it makes you come off a twit.
As long as the reseller has no US operations, and MS didn't sell it to the reseller explicitly to be sold on to Cuba, and had no knowledge of the end user destination, yes, MS could do this.
(Interestingly, this is why arms manufacturers require an end user certificate for sale of weapons - to prevent their weapons being found in an opposing armies hands'. Although it can't eliminate the problem, it's a method of minimizing it for those in situations where your customers are limited in number and the possible legal ramifications of an error are high.)
My family and I walked through customs with 6 boxes, *declared*. 3 of them were taken away (we were told 2 boxes per person, customs only let us get away with 1.) The other 3 were taken home and, in due course of time, smoked. The only permit we had was a Treasury travel permit. So yes, as of 2001, you could in fact bring cigars back through customs legally.
And customs sealed the other 3 boxes into an evidence bag. They get burned; we actually asked the customs guys to please take them home and smoke them, as we'd rather *someone* got something out of them, but no, into the sealed bag and out to the burnpile.:(
Cuba would be wealthy once again if we were able to buy their sugar, tobacco, rum, beer, and other goods. (The beer there is good too! Bucanero all the way.) Not only that, but there would be more of an influx of doctors, lawyers, skilled farmers, skilled machinists (to keep things working in Cuba, you need to be good) and other professionals coming from Cuba.
Bucanero was alright; Cristal was piss, though. There was a third one I liked very much, but I can't remember the name. But yes, there's quite a bit of skilled trade in Cuba, including some specialties more or less wanting in the rest of the world (e.g. they have a number of people trained in reworking marble that's been attacked by semi-tropical conditions, because of all the old buildings they've worked to restore) and general education in Cuba is very high. Without the embargo, Cuba would likely be doing a lot better. Not well, necessarily, but significantly better.
I didn't like Veradero. Then again, when I was there, there were storms and I was sick, so I didn't exactly get the best of it.
I guess the only thing left to do is to wait for the old man to die, then see what happens after that.
Hope that Raul dies first; he's the likely successor, and he has none of Fidel's good qualities; he's a thug, pure and simple.
No, they can't. That would still be illegal, and would result in the same actions against MS-US as MS-US doing it would. Please read the applicable export control laws before commenting with your incorrect crap.
There where rumours that non-USians are permitted to bring 50 Cuban cigars for personal consumption. Unfortunately this is bollocks.
Not bollocks. Unfortunately, also not 50. Basically, you can bring back one box for personal consumption, if you're traveling legally as a US citizen. (this information true as of Jan. 2001 - if it has changed since then, I'm probably wrong)
Both. Not having partaken when I visited, I don't recall the going rate for either, but it was glaringly obvious what was going on.
For what it's worth, the most desirable jobs for your average Cuban? Tour guide, waiter in restaurants catering to foreign visitors. Nobody in Cuba makes shit for a salary, but the *tips* put them into what would be the top tax bracket.
Except MNCs with a US presence. Also, the tourist market for Cuba would be *huge* - seriously, expecting a double-digit percentage point growth in their GDP solely from US tourism is not at all unlikely, were the embarge to end. While the government is a problem, the US embargo is just as much of one (before you argue - I've been there, have you?).
There are plenty of military dictatorships in the world.
The US doesn't maintain crippling economic embargos against most of them.
If you think the US attitude towards Cuba is *anything* other than a relic of the Cold War and the political consequence of the relatively large power wielded by exiles in the arena of Florida politics, you are sadly mistaken. And the sad truth is, Cuba does have the high ground in this.
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Yes.
But then again, what *would* you do with the little VB app I wrote to talk to my custom embedded board? Sure, you could run it... but you couldn't USE it without a piece of hardware of which there are 3 in the world.
There's a lot of that kind of software out there. Programmers will have a job.
You just need a new sig.
You know, there are lots of games where twitch mouse response aren't important.
So for the large proportion of humanity that couldn't care less about FPSes, wireless are okay.
(I still use a 4 button Microsoft optical corded mouse, even though I don't play games. Never got the wireless thing. Just saying, though.)
Actually, Bell 202s were true 1200 baud, and Bell 201 2400 bps modems used a 1200 baud encoding system as well. V.26 (ITU 2400 bps spec) is 1200 baud too.
Congratulations on getting this thing out and released, Jason. I remember talking to you about it at multiple Rubicons, been looking forward to it for a while now.
There's always a scanner and OCR. If you print quasi-legible block letters, OCR won't do a half-bad job on them.
I'm not sure if its more sad that you calculated the diagonal of standard letter paper, or that I felt the need to check that you had done it correctly.
And for those of us who think visually, I can draw a lot better on pen and paper than on a PDA - sure, they can capture my chicken scratch, but the difference between pad and pencil and trying to fit everything onto a tiny PDA input is night and day.
I draw *everything* - my whiteboard at work is continually covered with signal flow diagrams, three view drafts, transfer function graphics, and equations. When I need to send something to someone across the world, I employ this amazing invention called a *scanner*.
So, yes, the Jornada might address some people's needs, but it fails miserably for others.
Uhm, no, it wasn't.
I can pretty much guarantee that various automotive platform uses were, since the volumes on those yearly exceeds Gamecube's total installed base (which is ~18 million, IIRC). You'd be surprised how many cars have hardware running on some variant of PPC - pretty much every car GM makes includes at least one, and usually multiple, PPCs, and most other carmakers will have one or more parts (often in engine/transmission control) running on a PPC-based processor. I've worked on programs that had a yearly sales volume of ~1.5 million PPCs, over a 5 year life cycle. For one program, for one customer. And it wasn't even ECU/TCU hardware. Other embedded sectors might even surpass the automotive market for PPC, though I suspect automotive is the #1 customer on PPC derived chips.
Gamecube may be the most visible high-volume use, but it pales in comparison to the embedded markets.
All murderers are known to breathe. No one is suggesting that air causes people to become murderers.
While correlation does not mean that there is no relationship between the correlated qualities, at the same time it does *not*, as you imply, mean that there has to be a relationship. Correlation is useful as corroboration to a prediction of causation; in and of itself, it is essentially meaningless.
They are both causally connected to, and correlated with, the idiocy of using correlation to prove causation.
As well as having a more useful interface for those of us who actually *live* here, as opposed to the /. gawkers.
"Oh my god, big city crime! Aaagh!"
CORRELATION IS NOT CAUSATION! CORRELATION IS NOT CAUSATION!
My statistics professors are currently:
a) rolling in their graves
b) suffering cranial detonations
c) weeping like Baby Jesus
There's a world of difference between a scientist, a professor, and a teacher.
The statement was more in regard to the fact that the "programming" in linear programming does not refer to computer programming, but to an obscure/obsolete military usage of the term.
Of course you can use computers to perform LP. Then again, you can use computers to play chess as well, and no one would dispute that chess has little to do with computing.
I did part tour, part private (my family is Cuban, so we still have connections to people there, and the packaged tours don't exactly cater to people wishing to visit gravesites and old homes, etc.). The tour wasn't bad, though I thought Veradero was incredibly overrated.
The Havana Libre was a perfectly fine hotel, though, can't complain about that. The resort in Trinidad was gorgeous, although the food there wasn't great. A fair amount of the "tour" was decent. And the private restaurants we ate at, the families we stayed with in Cienfuegos, the visit to the Patronado and meeting the congregation there, all of the more individual events, those were nice too.
Like when you apply them to anything else, mass generalizations about Cuba are usually flawed. Please don't speak about experiences you didn't have, it makes you come off a twit.
As long as the reseller has no US operations, and MS didn't sell it to the reseller explicitly to be sold on to Cuba, and had no knowledge of the end user destination, yes, MS could do this.
(Interestingly, this is why arms manufacturers require an end user certificate for sale of weapons - to prevent their weapons being found in an opposing armies hands'. Although it can't eliminate the problem, it's a method of minimizing it for those in situations where your customers are limited in number and the possible legal ramifications of an error are high.)
My family and I walked through customs with 6 boxes, *declared*. 3 of them were taken away (we were told 2 boxes per person, customs only let us get away with 1.) The other 3 were taken home and, in due course of time, smoked. The only permit we had was a Treasury travel permit. So yes, as of 2001, you could in fact bring cigars back through customs legally.
:(
And customs sealed the other 3 boxes into an evidence bag. They get burned; we actually asked the customs guys to please take them home and smoke them, as we'd rather *someone* got something out of them, but no, into the sealed bag and out to the burnpile.
I think the 46 years of blockade, economic warfare, and *military attacks* put paid to that debt a while ago, myself.
Cuba would be wealthy once again if we were able to buy their sugar, tobacco, rum, beer, and other goods. (The beer there is good too! Bucanero all the way.) Not only that, but there would be more of an influx of doctors, lawyers, skilled farmers, skilled machinists (to keep things working in Cuba, you need to be good) and other professionals coming from Cuba.
Bucanero was alright; Cristal was piss, though. There was a third one I liked very much, but I can't remember the name. But yes, there's quite a bit of skilled trade in Cuba, including some specialties more or less wanting in the rest of the world (e.g. they have a number of people trained in reworking marble that's been attacked by semi-tropical conditions, because of all the old buildings they've worked to restore) and general education in Cuba is very high. Without the embargo, Cuba would likely be doing a lot better. Not well, necessarily, but significantly better.
I didn't like Veradero. Then again, when I was there, there were storms and I was sick, so I didn't exactly get the best of it.
I guess the only thing left to do is to wait for the old man to die, then see what happens after that.
Hope that Raul dies first; he's the likely successor, and he has none of Fidel's good qualities; he's a thug, pure and simple.
No, they can't. That would still be illegal, and would result in the same actions against MS-US as MS-US doing it would. Please read the applicable export control laws before commenting with your incorrect crap.
There where rumours that non-USians are permitted to bring 50 Cuban cigars for personal consumption. Unfortunately this is bollocks.
Not bollocks. Unfortunately, also not 50. Basically, you can bring back one box for personal consumption, if you're traveling legally as a US citizen. (this information true as of Jan. 2001 - if it has changed since then, I'm probably wrong)
Both. Not having partaken when I visited, I don't recall the going rate for either, but it was glaringly obvious what was going on.
For what it's worth, the most desirable jobs for your average Cuban? Tour guide, waiter in restaurants catering to foreign visitors. Nobody in Cuba makes shit for a salary, but the *tips* put them into what would be the top tax bracket.
Except MNCs with a US presence. Also, the tourist market for Cuba would be *huge* - seriously, expecting a double-digit percentage point growth in their GDP solely from US tourism is not at all unlikely, were the embarge to end. While the government is a problem, the US embargo is just as much of one (before you argue - I've been there, have you?).
There are plenty of military dictatorships in the world.
The US doesn't maintain crippling economic embargos against most of them.
If you think the US attitude towards Cuba is *anything* other than a relic of the Cold War and the political consequence of the relatively large power wielded by exiles in the arena of Florida politics, you are sadly mistaken. And the sad truth is, Cuba does have the high ground in this.