Um. Did he claim it was comprehensive? If not, why are you whining? I can't speak for the original poster, but I'm whining because this article made the front page, along with a summary that describes it as "a really good comparison of the speeds of IDE and SCSI drives".
But in 1433, the new Ming emperor and his bureaucrats grew afraid of the rapidly expanding merchant class, who were growing wealthy through international trade, and began to pass laws to limit economic growth, to keep political power firmly in the hands of the Dynasty. By 1500 it was a capital offense to own or construct a vessel with more than 2 masts.
The rest of your post focuses on the apparently negative consequences of this decision, but I'd have to say that the emperor did assess the threat correctly. In Europe, at about the same time, the rise of the merchant class was contributing to the downfall of the nobility. Would China's strong central government -- an institution that persists today and which, one could argue, is essential to the creation and execution of long-range national plans -- have survived if merchant power had gone unchecked?
Has anyone had experience with processors dying prematurely due to a constant, heavy load, or is usage pretty inconsequential? What about other components, like harddrives? And how much does a 100% processor load increase your power bill versus a 1-2% idle load over the course of a year?
Those are all surprisingly complex and computationally intensive questions. In order to find the answer, I'll soon be releasing "@home@home", a distributed application designed to calculate the true cost of itself.
Um no. There are plenty of companies that have affiliate programs with thousands of members. There's no way to keep track of how each of your members are advertising. The results you'll get will be putting lots of innocent companies out of business.
I think I speak for millions when I say, "too fucking bad."
Seriously, to suggest that these companies are "innocent" is ridiculous. They're downright complicit.
I'm surprised that I haven't seen more comments congratulating the speaker for recognizing that what the industry is providing and what viewers want are increasingly becoming two different things, and that furthermore viewers are finding their own ways around the problem (which, as the RIAA and MPAA have found, is not to the industry's benefit):
And as an industry, we should be more active in creating legitimate content download products, whether that's as a pay-model, or rights-cleared for free. We need to help consumers leap-frog the illegal downloading issues that have wrecked havoc on the music industry.
Too bad the music and film industries lack members so enlightened.
Absolutely true, and given that MMORPGs are descended from them, it's surprising that the author of the article didn't make any reference to them. One would think that considering what makes PnP RPGs work where their MMO descendants fail would be quite valuable.
Incredible. Spider reminds us that there are no cod left in the Grand Banks and that America has taken over the world, but can't figure out why people like escapist fantasy and don't care as much about space travel as they used to.
Does anyone know of supplemental cladding (preferably something more sophisticated than a thick layer of duct tape) that can be added to the cable at critical points to prevent excessive bending while still allowing a reasonable degree of flexibility?
Like most such arguments, this one will be resolved in a time-honoured fashion. Physicists will debate whether or not such a device is theoretically possible, and engineers will build one and see if it works.
Re:No, sounds like something else...
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A workaholic with a joyless job, no friends who's life falls apart because of an inexplicable bug? Sounds like the Metamorphosis, Kafka's classic.
Yes! Good! The bug is borne of the coder; the bug would not exist without the coder, though the coder seeks to destroy the bug. Yet, we see that the bug defines the coder -- it gives him purpose, even identity. So, in a sense, he *is* the bug...coder creates bug creates coder. I wonder if, to defeat the bug, he becomes the bug, which he does by realizing that he already is the bug, because, uh, that stuff I already said. And in doing so, he destroys himself, but becomes the instrument of his own rebirth because the bug is replaced with new code. It's all very existential-y and Zen-y with a nice cyber-y Matrix-y angle to keep it current.
Anyway, I'm not sure what I just said, but I'm confident that there's an M.A. thesis in there somewhere if this book ever becomes recognized as literature by academia.
Seems to me that if I was spending 100K plus on a software package (or system) I would test it first to make sure it fit my needs, as opposed to listening to a marketing drone...
That only seems logical, but in my experience it's not quite that simple. Many very expensive software packages (e.g., ERPs like the article-cited Oracle 11i) require an extensive implementation, so testing them in anything other than a manufacturer-supplied configuration (which is hardly a reliable test) is just not practical. You find yourself relying very heavily on RFP responses, vendor presentations, and references. Ultimately, it's a bit of a crap shoot.
Not surprisingly, to concur with the article, it's also been my experience that less feature-laden packages are preferable not only because they tend to be less expensive, but also because the evaluation process is less complex and hence more reliable.
Some people withing Sun seem to be scared though that an Open-Source Java standard could be "polluted" by Microsoft.
I wouldn't put anything past Microsoft, but I don't see how they could do this without some pretty blatant backpedalling. MS has already gone to great lengths to reject both Java and Open Source...it's hard to imagine them participating in an Open-Source Java effort in any way.
This reminds me of the debate that erupted when they invented phonograph arms that could be manually moved to any point on the record, and again when they added "fast forward" and "rewind" buttons to tape players, and yet again when they gave CD players the ability to skip directly to a track and to shuffle play. The argument was that, since the consumer could now listen to the album in a non-sequential fashion, the artistic integrity of the album was destroyed.
Oh, wait, there were no such debates.
I guess this one must be about something else, then.
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how was the Governor able to enroll the -whole state- without anyone knowing?
Maybe he used to work for a cable company.
Maybe the kid who got the small present will share the five bucks with his brother and teach you something, sensei.
I received a wonderful gift in my e-mail box from the King of Nigeria this morning.
Wenceslas, I presume?
Even if IBM have to pay loads, it would be a big calculated whammy to HP....
At which point HP sues IBM.
You'll have to buy one and open the box to find out.
even if the latest offering only added a tint control
:-)
I'd mod this up, but there's no "+1: Obscure Bloom County reference" option
Um. Did he claim it was comprehensive? If not, why are you whining?
I can't speak for the original poster, but I'm whining because this article made the front page, along with a summary that describes it as "a really good comparison of the speeds of IDE and SCSI drives".
But in 1433, the new Ming emperor and his bureaucrats grew afraid of the rapidly expanding merchant class, who were growing wealthy through international trade, and began to pass laws to limit economic growth, to keep political power firmly in the hands of the Dynasty. By 1500 it was a capital offense to own or construct a vessel with more than 2 masts.
The rest of your post focuses on the apparently negative consequences of this decision, but I'd have to say that the emperor did assess the threat correctly. In Europe, at about the same time, the rise of the merchant class was contributing to the downfall of the nobility. Would China's strong central government -- an institution that persists today and which, one could argue, is essential to the creation and execution of long-range national plans -- have survived if merchant power had gone unchecked?
Has anyone had experience with processors dying prematurely due to a constant, heavy load, or is usage pretty inconsequential? What about other components, like harddrives? And how much does a 100% processor load increase your power bill versus a 1-2% idle load over the course of a year?
Those are all surprisingly complex and computationally intensive questions. In order to find the answer, I'll soon be releasing "@home@home", a distributed application designed to calculate the true cost of itself.
Um no. There are plenty of companies that have affiliate programs with thousands of members. There's no way to keep track of how each of your members are advertising. The results you'll get will be putting lots of innocent companies out of business.
I think I speak for millions when I say, "too fucking bad."
Seriously, to suggest that these companies are "innocent" is ridiculous. They're downright complicit.
I'm surprised that I haven't seen more comments congratulating the speaker for recognizing that what the industry is providing and what viewers want are increasingly becoming two different things, and that furthermore viewers are finding their own ways around the problem (which, as the RIAA and MPAA have found, is not to the industry's benefit):
And as an industry, we should be more active in creating legitimate content download products, whether that's as a pay-model, or rights-cleared for free. We need to help consumers leap-frog the illegal downloading issues that have wrecked havoc on the music industry.
Too bad the music and film industries lack members so enlightened.
Or perhaps "Heralded".
Pencil&Paper RPG still rock.
Absolutely true, and given that MMORPGs are descended from them, it's surprising that the author of the article didn't make any reference to them. One would think that considering what makes PnP RPGs work where their MMO descendants fail would be quite valuable.
Incredible. Spider reminds us that there are no cod left in the Grand Banks and that America has taken over the world, but can't figure out why people like escapist fantasy and don't care as much about space travel as they used to.
Uh, isn't that just a link to the CNN version of the same story? Rather redundant to those who have RTFA.
"Look at the "pet rocks" that sold in the 70's."
I'd have to say you missed the point of the Pet Rock. The product was actually the (moderately) funny book that came with the rock.
Yours came with a book?
Crap.
Does anyone know of supplemental cladding (preferably something more sophisticated than a thick layer of duct tape) that can be added to the cable at critical points to prevent excessive bending while still allowing a reasonable degree of flexibility?
Like most such arguments, this one will be resolved in a time-honoured fashion. Physicists will debate whether or not such a device is theoretically possible, and engineers will build one and see if it works.
A workaholic with a joyless job, no friends who's life falls apart because of an inexplicable bug? Sounds like the Metamorphosis, Kafka's classic.
Yes! Good! The bug is borne of the coder; the bug would not exist without the coder, though the coder seeks to destroy the bug. Yet, we see that the bug defines the coder -- it gives him purpose, even identity. So, in a sense, he *is* the bug...coder creates bug creates coder. I wonder if, to defeat the bug, he becomes the bug, which he does by realizing that he already is the bug, because, uh, that stuff I already said. And in doing so, he destroys himself, but becomes the instrument of his own rebirth because the bug is replaced with new code. It's all very existential-y and Zen-y with a nice cyber-y Matrix-y angle to keep it current.
Anyway, I'm not sure what I just said, but I'm confident that there's an M.A. thesis in there somewhere if this book ever becomes recognized as literature by academia.
Seems to me that if I was spending 100K plus on a software package (or system) I would test it first to make sure it fit my needs, as opposed to listening to a marketing drone...
That only seems logical, but in my experience it's not quite that simple. Many very expensive software packages (e.g., ERPs like the article-cited Oracle 11i) require an extensive implementation, so testing them in anything other than a manufacturer-supplied configuration (which is hardly a reliable test) is just not practical. You find yourself relying very heavily on RFP responses, vendor presentations, and references. Ultimately, it's a bit of a crap shoot.
Not surprisingly, to concur with the article, it's also been my experience that less feature-laden packages are preferable not only because they tend to be less expensive, but also because the evaluation process is less complex and hence more reliable.
that was orion server which had nothing to do with apache.
Hmm, I know Orion is in there, but I'm pretty sure that Apache is, too.
Some people withing Sun seem to be scared though that an Open-Source Java standard could be "polluted" by Microsoft.
I wouldn't put anything past Microsoft, but I don't see how they could do this without some pretty blatant backpedalling. MS has already gone to great lengths to reject both Java and Open Source...it's hard to imagine them participating in an Open-Source Java effort in any way.
I wonder how long it would take Oracle to turn an open source JVM into an Oracle product in much the same way as they turned Apache into 9iAS.
This reminds me of the debate that erupted when they invented phonograph arms that could be manually moved to any point on the record, and again when they added "fast forward" and "rewind" buttons to tape players, and yet again when they gave CD players the ability to skip directly to a track and to shuffle play. The argument was that, since the consumer could now listen to the album in a non-sequential fashion, the artistic integrity of the album was destroyed.
Oh, wait, there were no such debates.
I guess this one must be about something else, then.
"Yeah, dude, and it's got one of those new collision detection systems...check it out."