canada isn't a real country either:)
java is what you get when c takes a shit
pascal is nice... long time delphi programmer here (stopped buying new versions after 8 when they introduced.net)
assembly is for embedded... anyone who programs x86 in asm is a douchebag
i remember the farnell catalogue being an electronics engineer's stick magazine
sparkfun also has some really cheap (admittedly mostly hobby) stuff, but i've also used some of their stuff in aircraft certification flight test instrumentation without issues, although the stuff was only expected to work for maybe 6 months... but hey if it's cheap, it works, and it meets requirements
apparently in heaven you don't need porn because of the overabundance of hot naked horny angels you can experience porn forever... where do i sign up for this so called "rapture"?
if taiwan declares war on the US because a US corporation violated their national security, it would open the floodgates...
china: "mmm fung pei! finally we have excuse... prepare 10,000 nuclear missiles for launch, and prepare our 1,000,000,000 soldiers to finish them off"
russia: "quickly, follow the chinese because all our stuff is a bit rusty so let them take the brunt... long live the mighty Soviet Union!"
iran: "quick lets fuck up israel while the US is busy"
north korea: "ahh harrow!... taiwan decrare war on US infidels... rets just rob a few terrorists over the pacific whire they're distracted"
a million dollars may pass through the hands of an ordinarey working person, but the same happens with wealthy people. wealthy people have much more disposable income than normal people, which is why they can afford to buy better houses, cars, invest, etc, because they bring in far more than is needed for basic essentials.
a normal person can never become a millionaire because if they saved their one million earned over their lifetime they would die long before they earned their million, or their family would be homeless, etc.
many millionaires earn a wage before they become wealthy, but it isn't that wage that makes them wealthy. it takes one of the things i mentioned previously to do that.
and my understanding of capitalism by comparing stock market investment to gambling is correct... the proof is in the pudding, because if the stock market was even remotely predictable (without resorting to corruption like insider trading), everyone would be getting rich off it. playing the stock market is by every definition "a game of chance". there are plenty of people who think they know how to predict stocks, but no more than those that think they can predict winning horses.
those that retire with well over a million dollars have attained that wealth by the means mentioned in my previous post, but you can believe what you want. arguing that my age (as if you have any idea what it actually is) makes me ignorant is merely due to your own foolish ignorance.
hard assets are wealth, such as property, resources (such as gold), etc.
shares in companies aren't wealth because they can go bankrupt in an instant and poof your "wealth" is no more.
salespeople measure their productivity in the number of sales, but doctors measure productivity by the number of patients they see or the number of lives they save. engineers measure productivity by the amount of material they can shave out of the design of a skyscraper or aircraft.
if you can build a product and sell it to millions of people, does that mean you are millions of times more productive as a doctor or engineer?
measuring the productivity of "any employee" but their sales figures is just stupid, because only salespeople actually sell anything. everyone else works diligently and in many cases unappreciated in the background to support the business.
- BlueGene/Q supercomputer
- video wall
- space shuttle (just in case you need some low-grav testing done)
economically practical solutions
- why the hell are you seeking advice from slashdot as to what to put in an "electronics hardware lab"? if you are serious about building a "professional-grade setup", a fair assumption would be that you are a professional electronics engineer and would have no difficulty rattling off the necessary equipment (such as oscilloscopes, soldering irons, power supplies, plenty of storage, etc).
if you're merely after decorating ideas, i would suggest things that don't attract a lot of static electricity (so shag pile is out)
people like Steve Jobs aren't really millionaires... they are only wealthy on paper because of their interest in a successful company
they don't actually have millions in cash just laying around their houses or in their bank accounts that they can withdraw whenever they feel like buying a new mcmansion
if their investment fails, they fail
you might argue that they could just sell their share of the company, but when the company is successful enough to make you "wealthy" i don't think you can just sell out like that... lots of employees jobs at risk and whatnot. there are probably all sorts of legalities associated with selling out (otherwise principals would do it all the time if they had forewarning of a once successful company's impending doom - maybe it's something to do with insider trading or whatever), not to mention that you would have to pilfer your riches on security to prevent the angry mobs from destroying your new mcmansion after they all lost their jobs because the company went bust
many people are millions of times more productive than many other people
what a load of shit that is. maybe compared to someone that doesn't work at all (as in zero work) but then you could say that everyone that works is infinitely more productive, but as far as comparing working people, nobody is "millions of times more productive" than anyone else, and a lot of people who make more money merely think they are more productive because they are full of themselves. there is actually a well known principle that highlights how often the least productive people are promoted just to get them out of the way [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dilbert_principle]. salary rarely equates to productivity.
Maslow's hierarchy of needs is what you're possibly referring to here [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs]
the lower down you get in the pyramid, the more motivated you are to achieve results... when you get to the bottom there aren't really any limits (desperation, every man for himself, even cannibalism isn't ruled out)
co-operatives are the solution... as in exactly the same as normal companies except that there are no shareholders and the company is capitalized by loans, grants, etc.
in another hundren or so years (if we haven't blown ourselves to kingdom come by then) we will look back on capitalism as a failed but necessary experiment
what wealthy person ever made their fortune from working for a wage?
you're a wacko.
wealth is made by either inheritence, gambling (including stock investment), crime/corruption or innovation+personality (in the case of successful startups).
a large part is also luck.
anyone who says you make your own luck falls into the corruption category.
nobody's time is actually "worth" any amount that would lead to what the media would coin as "wealth" (millionaire+). those that are on rediculously high salaries have abused their influence or position of power to attain it, not hard work (so they also fall into the corruption category).
just because some forms of corruption are legal doesn't make them any less corrupt.
Robert Owen [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Owen] had the right idea.
everything else (capitalism, communism, fundamentalism, etc) is all shit
Hardly seems worth getting into a lather over, really.
the lack of start button alone seems trivial, but when you add up all the little idioms that make w8 different from w7 (and there are many, including the hot corners you mentioned) it all adds up, and given that many offices replace their IT infrastructure incrementally, if you have 20 workers in an office sporadically upgrading to w8, and lets say it takes 10 minutes to sort out the start menu thing per worker, that's 40 minutes lost time; 10 mins worker time, 10 mins worker lost productive time, 10 mins helper time, 10 mins helper lost productive time, so multiply that by 20 and you get over 13 hours lost (google "six sigma"; waste actually triples if you are making a physical product).
I originally said snappier because that more accurately describes the experience, but I'll play your silly little word games if you insist
"snappier" is a purely subjective word with no quantitative meaning... if you want to get technical, in the IT community "snappier" is just as likely to be interpreted as windows wanting to snap to other windows more.
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open source initial release, and if its good, hold of improvements/updates/bug fixes until a donation meter reaches a certain amount
dunno if you would get a lot of money that way, but you might get a bit
who cares about 1GB of ram on a dev machine
is there any wonder why windows is full of shitware... if you can't get a responsibly written IDE, it can't do much to inspire those who use it
canada isn't a real country either :)
.net)
java is what you get when c takes a shit
pascal is nice... long time delphi programmer here (stopped buying new versions after 8 when they introduced
assembly is for embedded... anyone who programs x86 in asm is a douchebag
gedit rocks yeah!!!!!
Yep, get him into Python
maybe, if you happen to have enough money to otherwise blow on a couple of days at disneyland... for the rest of us $300 is expensive
i remember the farnell catalogue being an electronics engineer's stick magazine
sparkfun also has some really cheap (admittedly mostly hobby) stuff, but i've also used some of their stuff in aircraft certification flight test instrumentation without issues, although the stuff was only expected to work for maybe 6 months... but hey if it's cheap, it works, and it meets requirements
australians don't have problems with their penis size... we are the envy of everyone else and the reason why penis pumps are so popular overseas
in the future we won't have desks
apparently in heaven you don't need porn because of the overabundance of hot naked horny angels you can experience porn forever... where do i sign up for this so called "rapture"?
...will you take the blue pill or the red pill?
enemy going to launch tonight if we fail to show absolute strength
funny... sounds like the foundation of current US foreign and defense policy to me
detonate le warheads and then fire le missiles of course
silence!... i kill you!
if taiwan declares war on the US because a US corporation violated their national security, it would open the floodgates...
china: "mmm fung pei! finally we have excuse... prepare 10,000 nuclear missiles for launch, and prepare our 1,000,000,000 soldiers to finish them off"
russia: "quickly, follow the chinese because all our stuff is a bit rusty so let them take the brunt... long live the mighty Soviet Union!"
iran: "quick lets fuck up israel while the US is busy"
north korea: "ahh harrow!... taiwan decrare war on US infidels... rets just rob a few terrorists over the pacific whire they're distracted"
us: "aaw crap!"
...carpet... if you drop little components there's lots of places for them to disappear
ahh the memories come flooding back
it would be too hard to pick a name for a place like that... "Area 51" or "Deep Space 9"... how to choose?
...you're definitely going to need a job to pay for it all (or just steal it I suppose)
disclaimer: if you steal things you're bad, mkay
a million dollars may pass through the hands of an ordinarey working person, but the same happens with wealthy people. wealthy people have much more disposable income than normal people, which is why they can afford to buy better houses, cars, invest, etc, because they bring in far more than is needed for basic essentials.
a normal person can never become a millionaire because if they saved their one million earned over their lifetime they would die long before they earned their million, or their family would be homeless, etc.
many millionaires earn a wage before they become wealthy, but it isn't that wage that makes them wealthy. it takes one of the things i mentioned previously to do that.
and my understanding of capitalism by comparing stock market investment to gambling is correct... the proof is in the pudding, because if the stock market was even remotely predictable (without resorting to corruption like insider trading), everyone would be getting rich off it. playing the stock market is by every definition "a game of chance". there are plenty of people who think they know how to predict stocks, but no more than those that think they can predict winning horses.
those that retire with well over a million dollars have attained that wealth by the means mentioned in my previous post, but you can believe what you want. arguing that my age (as if you have any idea what it actually is) makes me ignorant is merely due to your own foolish ignorance.
hard assets are wealth, such as property, resources (such as gold), etc.
shares in companies aren't wealth because they can go bankrupt in an instant and poof your "wealth" is no more.
salespeople measure their productivity in the number of sales, but doctors measure productivity by the number of patients they see or the number of lives they save. engineers measure productivity by the amount of material they can shave out of the design of a skyscraper or aircraft.
if you can build a product and sell it to millions of people, does that mean you are millions of times more productive as a doctor or engineer?
measuring the productivity of "any employee" but their sales figures is just stupid, because only salespeople actually sell anything. everyone else works diligently and in many cases unappreciated in the background to support the business.
money-is-no-objective suggestions
- BlueGene/Q supercomputer
- video wall
- space shuttle (just in case you need some low-grav testing done)
economically practical solutions
- why the hell are you seeking advice from slashdot as to what to put in an "electronics hardware lab"? if you are serious about building a "professional-grade setup", a fair assumption would be that you are a professional electronics engineer and would have no difficulty rattling off the necessary equipment (such as oscilloscopes, soldering irons, power supplies, plenty of storage, etc).
if you're merely after decorating ideas, i would suggest things that don't attract a lot of static electricity (so shag pile is out)
they don't actually have millions in cash just laying around their houses or in their bank accounts that they can withdraw whenever they feel like buying a new mcmansion
if their investment fails, they fail
you might argue that they could just sell their share of the company, but when the company is successful enough to make you "wealthy" i don't think you can just sell out like that... lots of employees jobs at risk and whatnot. there are probably all sorts of legalities associated with selling out (otherwise principals would do it all the time if they had forewarning of a once successful company's impending doom - maybe it's something to do with insider trading or whatever), not to mention that you would have to pilfer your riches on security to prevent the angry mobs from destroying your new mcmansion after they all lost their jobs because the company went bust
many people are millions of times more productive than many other people
what a load of shit that is. maybe compared to someone that doesn't work at all (as in zero work) but then you could say that everyone that works is infinitely more productive, but as far as comparing working people, nobody is "millions of times more productive" than anyone else, and a lot of people who make more money merely think they are more productive because they are full of themselves. there is actually a well known principle that highlights how often the least productive people are promoted just to get them out of the way [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dilbert_principle]. salary rarely equates to productivity.
Maslow's hierarchy of needs is what you're possibly referring to here [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs]
the lower down you get in the pyramid, the more motivated you are to achieve results... when you get to the bottom there aren't really any limits (desperation, every man for himself, even cannibalism isn't ruled out)
co-operatives are the solution... as in exactly the same as normal companies except that there are no shareholders and the company is capitalized by loans, grants, etc.
in another hundren or so years (if we haven't blown ourselves to kingdom come by then) we will look back on capitalism as a failed but necessary experiment
what wealthy person ever made their fortune from working for a wage?
you're a wacko.
wealth is made by either inheritence, gambling (including stock investment), crime/corruption or innovation+personality (in the case of successful startups).
a large part is also luck.
anyone who says you make your own luck falls into the corruption category.
nobody's time is actually "worth" any amount that would lead to what the media would coin as "wealth" (millionaire+). those that are on rediculously high salaries have abused their influence or position of power to attain it, not hard work (so they also fall into the corruption category).
just because some forms of corruption are legal doesn't make them any less corrupt.
Robert Owen [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Owen] had the right idea.
everything else (capitalism, communism, fundamentalism, etc) is all shit
Hardly seems worth getting into a lather over, really.
the lack of start button alone seems trivial, but when you add up all the little idioms that make w8 different from w7 (and there are many, including the hot corners you mentioned) it all adds up, and given that many offices replace their IT infrastructure incrementally, if you have 20 workers in an office sporadically upgrading to w8, and lets say it takes 10 minutes to sort out the start menu thing per worker, that's 40 minutes lost time; 10 mins worker time, 10 mins worker lost productive time, 10 mins helper time, 10 mins helper lost productive time, so multiply that by 20 and you get over 13 hours lost (google "six sigma"; waste actually triples if you are making a physical product).
I originally said snappier because that more accurately describes the experience, but I'll play your silly little word games if you insist
"snappier" is a purely subjective word with no quantitative meaning... if you want to get technical, in the IT community "snappier" is just as likely to be interpreted as windows wanting to snap to other windows more.