Well, I was trying to help my niece set up her new Shuffle and buy some songs with her gift card on Tuesday -- and we were locked out of the music store.
There was a huge explosion on the Sun in January 2005? This may be a dumb question, but does that have anything to do with 2005 being the warmest year on record? I know that some scientists think that some of the recent warming trend has to do with increased sunspot activity. Is this something similar?
I guess Nokia has a good marketing department. I've always had a good impression of them -- even though I've never owned one of their phones. I was looking forward to the 770 because it seemed to be the form-factor I've been wanting. It seems the engineers did a nice job making a cool new product. They made the software open and "hackable" -- exactly what I wanted. Too bad all of their good will was ruined for me by their sales department.
I signed up for email updates on the 770 before it was released. I never got a single email from them (it's been out for a while).
I ordered it online three days before it was supposed to ship. It didn't ship one time (not even close). No email. Nothing. When I called two weeks later to ask what happened the customer service rep was pretty rude and explained that I'd ordered a "pre-order" item -- and they had no idea when it would ship. And, if I'd read the fine print I'd know that I agreed that they could ship it whenever they wanted and even change the price, thank you very much.
So I finally got it today (four weeks after it was supposed to be shiped to me) -- and it was used. That's right, the box had been opened and re-sealed. The packaging was missing. The RS-MMC card was replaced by an (apparently) defective MMC card (it didn't work hanging out of the device at all). There were finger prints all over the device. I just can't believe they would send out a used device like that.
I've never had such a bad experience buying something from a company.
One of the problems with the way Kyoto is implemented is that it doesn't take into consideration the growth in your population. So as your population grows and you use more energy, you don't get a larger cap.
This is fine for Europe whose population is stagnating. But the US is growing faster (due to immigration and a higher birth rate). So the effect of Kyoto will be less fair as we move down the road.
Also, the population (and indistrial output) of Russia is shrinking. That is how the Europeans got them to (finally) sign on. The Russians will automagically be under their cap without doing any work. Then they can sell credits to the rest of Europe which wasn't going to make its caps otherwise.
If people start using KDE apps on Windows insread of Word, etc. The next time they buy a computer they won't bother paying for Windows -- all the apps they need run on a "free" OS.
Just in time code generation != just in time compilation
Uh, well I don't know what source code generation has to do with protected memory. So I assumed they meant binary code generation which is one phase of JIT.
The great bulk of applications will not be affected by memory protection. The number one that leaps to mind is execution environments with just-in-time code generation.
Is this supposed to mean that Java will stop working?
The problem is that these systems will also eliminate jobs in massive numbers. As a nation, we have no way to understand or handle the level of unemployment that we will see in our economy over the next several decades.
Every year the productivity of the US (and most developed countries) improves. What that means is that it takes less manpower to do things. What it also means it that a person can produce more. Which means they can buy more. Which opens or expands other industries. Which creates more jobs.
None of this is new. When ATMs came out did you see bank tellers starving in the streets? When automated gas stations becames popular were gas attendants staning in line at the soup kitchen? No.
When fast food workers are replaced by machines, they'll go on to do more productive things -- and I'm sure they'll be happier for it.
Personally I love automated check-out lines. I'm only upset that technology isn't moving fast enough.
The author seems to make a claim, then dwell on it for entirely too long -- boring you to tears. If the book was rewritten, I imagine it'd be half as long, if not shorter.
I'm with you. This book should have been a 10 page paper. I kept thinking there was going to be a big revelation. But there wasn't. He just kept rehashing the same thing over:
If you want to bring down the air traffic system, it would be more effective to take out a couple of big airports rather than a couple of small ones.
If you want to take down the internet, it would be easier to do so by removing the more heavily trafficked nodes than the undertrafficked, small nodes.
And on and on...
The first couple of chapters were interesting, but even those were inflated with historical digresssions.
I also had watched the Russian version the night before, so maybe that had an effect.
Whether or not it is a 'Sci Fi' movie or a character study set in outer space I think is irrelevant. It was a sharp contemplative movie that was filmed beautifully and dealt with a man's guilt over the sucide of his wife.
And, by the way, no one said the planet was 'sentient' --it may have been, they were never able to communicate with it. But if it was, it probably had little understanding of the humans. Its creation of the 'visitors' was probably its attempt at communication. But you never know (since they couldn't communicate).
I think it was a smart movie based on an original story. Don't be afraid to see it.
I agree. The best thing to do would be to charge a filing fee (approved or not approved) and to not approve obvious patents (ya know, like the law says).
So companies that file a thousand goofball patents hoping to have IP rights to the hyperlink (or soemthing silly like that) will effectively be paying more. While Joe Inventor who files a real patent from his garage will only have to pay that fee once.
I've got no problems for screening for dieases. It's when they start screening for eye color or height or male-pattern baldness I don't think it's such a good idea.
Imagine you work from home sometimes and you use your home phone to make business phone calls. Do you think you should be prevented from making those calls unless your order "business" phone service?
I don't. And I think it's the same thing.
Personally, I say give me a bandwith limit and a QOS agreement and keep your nose out of my business.
Not that it's really what your asking, but if you're afraid of leaving the key in your car, just cut the 'key' part off. The electrontic thing is in the black plastic part of the key that's really more of a handle.
Not only that, it's probably tax deductable. They'll chalk up $900M in settlement charges (which cost them $200M), getting a tax break of, oh say, $400M. That's a net profit of $200M.
I need lawyers like that. Maybe if I kill someone I can retire!
But do 'open protocols' mean Patent Free protocols. It wouldn't do much good if implementing a certain protocol required the use of patented technology where Microsoft was able to set the royalty fee (and make open-source impossible).
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Well, I was trying to help my niece set up her new Shuffle and buy some songs with her gift card on Tuesday -- and we were locked out of the music store.
;)
So, there you go, anecdotal evidence
--t
There was a huge explosion on the Sun in January 2005? This may be a dumb question, but does that have anything to do with 2005 being the warmest year on record? I know that some scientists think that some of the recent warming trend has to do with increased sunspot activity. Is this something similar?
Thanks,
tim
So this is as good as it gets?!
--t
I guess Nokia has a good marketing department. I've always had a good impression of them -- even though I've never owned one of their phones. I was looking forward to the 770 because it seemed to be the form-factor I've been wanting. It seems the engineers did a nice job making a cool new product. They made the software open and "hackable" -- exactly what I wanted. Too bad all of their good will was ruined for me by their sales department.
I signed up for email updates on the 770 before it was released. I never got a single email from them (it's been out for a while).
I ordered it online three days before it was supposed to ship. It didn't ship one time (not even close). No email. Nothing. When I called two weeks later to ask what happened the customer service rep was pretty rude and explained that I'd ordered a "pre-order" item -- and they had no idea when it would ship. And, if I'd read the fine print I'd know that I agreed that they could ship it whenever they wanted and even change the price, thank you very much.
So I finally got it today (four weeks after it was supposed to be shiped to me) -- and it was used. That's right, the box had been opened and re-sealed. The packaging was missing. The RS-MMC card was replaced by an (apparently) defective MMC card (it didn't work hanging out of the device at all). There were finger prints all over the device. I just can't believe they would send out a used device like that.
I've never had such a bad experience buying something from a company.
--t
This is fine for Europe whose population is stagnating. But the US is growing faster (due to immigration and a higher birth rate). So the effect of Kyoto will be less fair as we move down the road.
Also, the population (and indistrial output) of Russia is shrinking. That is how the Europeans got them to (finally) sign on. The Russians will automagically be under their cap without doing any work. Then they can sell credits to the rest of Europe which wasn't going to make its caps otherwise.
--t
If people start using KDE apps on Windows insread of Word, etc. The next time they buy a computer they won't bother paying for Windows -- all the apps they need run on a "free" OS.
--t
Oh, and BTW, bravo on the porn collection. I'm going to make a backup before I sell your laptop on eBay.
--t
Uh, well I don't know what source code generation has to do with protected memory. So I assumed they meant binary code generation which is one phase of JIT.
--t
Is this supposed to mean that Java will stop working?
--t
Well, a year and a couple million invested and all they have is a 'repository' and a (real ugly) 'gui framework'.
Check it out.
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Every year the productivity of the US (and most developed countries) improves. What that means is that it takes less manpower to do things. What it also means it that a person can produce more. Which means they can buy more. Which opens or expands other industries. Which creates more jobs.
None of this is new. When ATMs came out did you see bank tellers starving in the streets? When automated gas stations becames popular were gas attendants staning in line at the soup kitchen? No.
When fast food workers are replaced by machines, they'll go on to do more productive things -- and I'm sure they'll be happier for it.
Personally I love automated check-out lines. I'm only upset that technology isn't moving fast enough.
--t
That's billion, with a 'B'.
--t
I'm with you. This book should have been a 10 page paper. I kept thinking there was going to be a big revelation. But there wasn't. He just kept rehashing the same thing over:
If you want to bring down the air traffic system, it would be more effective to take out a couple of big airports rather than a couple of small ones.
If you want to take down the internet, it would be easier to do so by removing the more heavily trafficked nodes than the undertrafficked, small nodes.
And on and on...
The first couple of chapters were interesting, but even those were inflated with historical digresssions.
--t
What happened to Arc? I think their spam tools are (to be) written in their (paulgraham.com) new dialect of lisp called Arc.
There seemed to be a lot of activity about it months ago, but I haven't heard anything since. And the website has not been updated.
Anybody have any news?
--t
I also had watched the Russian version the night before, so maybe that had an effect.
Whether or not it is a 'Sci Fi' movie or a character study set in outer space I think is irrelevant. It was a sharp contemplative movie that was filmed beautifully and dealt with a man's guilt over the sucide of his wife.
And, by the way, no one said the planet was 'sentient' --it may have been, they were never able to communicate with it. But if it was, it probably had little understanding of the humans. Its creation of the 'visitors' was probably its attempt at communication. But you never know (since they couldn't communicate).
I think it was a smart movie based on an original story. Don't be afraid to see it.
--t
So companies that file a thousand goofball patents hoping to have IP rights to the hyperlink (or soemthing silly like that) will effectively be paying more. While Joe Inventor who files a real patent from his garage will only have to pay that fee once.
--t
--t
I don't. And I think it's the same thing.
Personally, I say give me a bandwith limit and a QOS agreement and keep your nose out of my business.
--tim
Not that it's really what your asking, but if you're afraid of leaving the key in your car, just cut the 'key' part off. The electrontic thing is in the black plastic part of the key that's really more of a handle.
--tim
Sounds like a great service to me...
--tim
Yeah, right, you just want to hide your pr0n from your wife!
--tim
I need lawyers like that. Maybe if I kill someone I can retire!
-tim
--tim