I'm Austrian and I'm living in GB at the moment.. I can confirm that Germans have no humour (but as you say, their sausages are great), and British humour is amazing (your sausages are a joke, too, and don't get me started on what you call "beer").
Well, there are some rules in Calvinball, for instance, no rule oughta be used twice (which is an oxymoron -- Bill Watterson is just a genius, too bad he gave up drawing)
What if we let companies do whatever they want...
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to make money? By stating that question, you're assuming that people act rational and responsible. The failure of game theory in the social sciences and economics have taught us that this is not the case.
Unfortunately, it wouldn't be the atheletes to decide which drugs they'd take, but the sponsor or trainer. And, if athlete X refuses to take the newest, untested drugs, there will always be an athlete Y who, for whatever reason (monetary or else), is willing to take it.
I thought that, all Sarbanes-Oxley states is, that Apple has to charge their customers for their updates for selected products. I believe it must mention Apple explicitely, since other companies don't charge for their updates.
I think Microsoft just needs a charismatic leader that gathers a large user base that cheers at every little change to their products, no matter how insignificant.
My time is worth a lot of money and I need programs like Photoshop and Flash so I can write betas of databases my company creates so I can get the imagination-free coders under my charge to build things like normal people want. (Never let a database developer start coding until you have the prototype fully functional in Flash!)
That sounds so wrong... I'm so glad I don't work in your company. (The user interface can be changed in a few hours, whereas it's very hard to fix a fucked up DB-design).
MacOS does use BSD code, so I will concede that one. But the prior OS's were 100% apple.
Apple's OS uses the Mach kernel and a lot of BSD code. Microsoft's Windows NT kernel, even though their earlier operating systems were based on a system that they bought from some other company, was written from the ground up (engineered by Dave Cutler).
So, you're saying, because Apple used to write their own software, we should buy Apple software, because Microsoft used to buy the code from some other company, which they don't do anymore? Sounds kind of illogical to me, but do whatever you want.
Wow.. the next language you should learn is definitely English. Sorry, had to say that.
Anyway, I don't agree with you, certain languages are better suited to learn specific methodologies. C++, for instance, is not particularly well suited to learn object oriented programming, and knowing Eiffel (i.e., an object oriented programming language) doesn't make you a good C++ programmer. The best programmers I've seen have been programming in the same language for years. It takes lots of experience to really master a language. And btw.: Even though I know SML and OCaml, I can't read Scheme or Lisp, so even switching languages within one paradigm is not that easy.
I think that Scala is indeed a nice language to learn if you don't know it, yet, because it allows you to use more than one paradigm, enabling a smooth shift from what you know (e.g., OO in Java) to what you want to learn (e.g., functional programming).
Well, that's just to make clear that all customers are criminals. They might have bought two out of the 10 items you listed (VHD version, DVD version, etc.), but most customers didn't buy all of them, as they were supposed to. Thus, the average customer inflicts about $150 in damage on the movie industry per movie he buys!
So you see, Apple has only three choices: A. don't publish that portion of the API, in which case some people complain because they're not able to get that extra 1% from being able to walk inside private data structures of the HFS+ Extents B-tree or whatever, B. publish that portion of the API, in which case they're stuck with that internal architecture and can't ever change it to improve performance, add features, etc., or C. publish the API and break it later, in which case developers scream again. It's a no-win.
Option four would be not to release Safari as part of the OS. Microsoft has been criticized and fined for doing that, so why should Apple be allowed to do it?
So do you hate BluRay because of some irrational hatred of Sony? I personally like BluRay because it comes free with a PS3 and the lack of have handed tactics by MS (such as buying support) used to try and force us all to convert. One of us. One of us. One of us.
No, that's wrong, the Bluray drive doesn't come for free with the PS3, the console comes for free with the Bluray drive. Though it's getting cheaper, $500 is still quite a large amount of money for a video player..;-)
Oh and I don't hate MS, I just don't trust them, they got a very long history of lying to serve their own goals.
Microsoft will support both formats, eventually. Why should they care which format makes it? (For the Xbox, the HD-Drive is just an add-on, and for Windows, all they have to do is to provide an additional driver).
Apple also surprisingly has the least expensive 64gb SSDrive on the market. Hundreds less than retail and competitors.
An 64GB SSD drive costs around 900$ (e.g., from Samsung), Apple charges $999 on top of the price for the MBA with an 80GB parallel ATA harddisk, which is, of course, removed when you buy the SSD version (a value of around $70). While that's surprisingly cheap for Apple (considering their prices for RAM), it's definitely not hundreds less than retail and competitors.
Sorry, I just realized that Bloch was German, so Ratzinger obviously referred to Feyerabend. Feyerabend, however, was known to strongly overexaggerate his statements in order to provoke, so it's pretty dangerous to cite him without also citing the context. Feyerabend's "anything goes", for instance, is often interpreted as "any scientific method must be rejected", which is far from what Feyerabend actually says in his book...
Bloch, in a way, was not entirely wrong. Claiming that there's no way to falsify the claim that the other planets move around the earth, he's right in a relativistic point of view. Of course, the describing the paths that these planets follow if earth is the center of the coordinate system would be anything but trivial.
I'd be much more worried about buying the Communist Manifesto, Mein Kampf, The Anarchist's Cookbook, or Yertle the Turtle than Cather in the Rye.
I don't think it makes much of a difference whether you buy that stuff for your Kindle or you order the (physical) book via Amazon and they ship it to your place.
With 4 GB of memory, why would you care whether you have 32 or 64 bits? Come on, a difference of a lousy 32 bits is nothing compared to the 4 GBs of RAM... really!;-)
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I personally found it very funny (and I'm a Mac user), but I do realise that Mac fanboys need a less subtle message ("I'm a Mac, you're a jerk.")
I'm Austrian and I'm living in GB at the moment.. I can confirm that Germans have no humour (but as you say, their sausages are great), and British humour is amazing (your sausages are a joke, too, and don't get me started on what you call "beer").
Well, there are some rules in Calvinball, for instance, no rule oughta be used twice (which is an oxymoron -- Bill Watterson is just a genius, too bad he gave up drawing)
to make money? By stating that question, you're assuming that people act rational and responsible. The failure of game theory in the social sciences and economics have taught us that this is not the case.
Unfortunately, it wouldn't be the atheletes to decide which drugs they'd take, but the sponsor or trainer. And, if athlete X refuses to take the newest, untested drugs, there will always be an athlete Y who, for whatever reason (monetary or else), is willing to take it.
So, no. Stupid idea. Forget about it.
I thought that, all Sarbanes-Oxley states is, that Apple has to charge their customers for their updates for selected products. I believe it must mention Apple explicitely, since other companies don't charge for their updates.
I think Microsoft just needs a charismatic leader that gathers a large user base that cheers at every little change to their products, no matter how insignificant.
My time is worth a lot of money and I need programs like Photoshop and Flash so I can write betas of databases my company creates so I can get the imagination-free coders under my charge to build things like normal people want. (Never let a database developer start coding until you have the prototype fully functional in Flash!)
That sounds so wrong... I'm so glad I don't work in your company. (The user interface can be changed in a few hours, whereas it's very hard to fix a fucked up DB-design).
Trying to tell them they need it before you build one is ... well, not how things work really.
That's exactly how things work in academia and research (i.e., apply for funding before you even start working).
Especially, if that one, chubby, bearded guy made it obvious that he wouldn't buy the Linux version either ;-)
Don't be so dismissive until you see what terminal possibilities might arrive with the SDK.
Since we're still waiting for the SDK, "iPhone" might be the correct answer when the same question get's asked again in 2 years from now.
The CERN has a very nice cafeteria.
Also have a look at Mont Blanc, which you can see when you're in front of the LHC building. It's a very nice view.
Apple's OS uses the Mach kernel and a lot of BSD code.
Microsoft's Windows NT kernel, even though their earlier operating systems were based on a system that they bought from some other company, was written from the ground up (engineered by Dave Cutler).
So, you're saying, because Apple used to write their own software, we should buy Apple software, because Microsoft used to buy the code from some other company, which they don't do anymore? Sounds kind of illogical to me, but do whatever you want.
Wow.. the next language you should learn is definitely English. Sorry, had to say that.
Anyway, I don't agree with you, certain languages are better suited to learn specific methodologies. C++, for instance, is not particularly well suited to learn object oriented programming, and knowing Eiffel (i.e., an object oriented programming language) doesn't make you a good C++ programmer. The best programmers I've seen have been programming in the same language for years. It takes lots of experience to really master a language. And btw.: Even though I know SML and OCaml, I can't read Scheme or Lisp, so even switching languages within one paradigm is not that easy.
I think that Scala is indeed a nice language to learn if you don't know it, yet, because it allows you to use more than one paradigm, enabling a smooth shift from what you know (e.g., OO in Java) to what you want to learn (e.g., functional programming).
It's interesting to note that iPhone doesn't allow interpreted code... while Android doesn't allow native code. Which one of these is more "open"?
Windows Mobile allows native code as well as interpreted code (.net, tcl/tk)...
The Hobbit is a children's book. Tolkien wrote it for his son Christopher.
Well, that's just to make clear that all customers are criminals. They might have bought two out of the 10 items you listed (VHD version, DVD version, etc.), but most customers didn't buy all of them, as they were supposed to. Thus, the average customer inflicts about $150 in damage on the movie industry per movie he buys!
So you see, Apple has only three choices: A. don't publish that portion of the API, in which case some people complain because they're not able to get that extra 1% from being able to walk inside private data structures of the HFS+ Extents B-tree or whatever, B. publish that portion of the API, in which case they're stuck with that internal architecture and can't ever change it to improve performance, add features, etc., or C. publish the API and break it later, in which case developers scream again. It's a no-win.
Option four would be not to release Safari as part of the OS. Microsoft has been criticized and fined for doing that, so why should Apple be allowed to do it?
So do you hate BluRay because of some irrational hatred of Sony? I personally like BluRay because it comes free with a PS3 and the lack of have handed tactics by MS (such as buying support) used to try and force us all to convert. One of us. One of us. One of us.
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No, that's wrong, the Bluray drive doesn't come for free with the PS3, the console comes for free with the Bluray drive. Though it's getting cheaper, $500 is still quite a large amount of money for a video player..
Oh and I don't hate MS, I just don't trust them, they got a very long history of lying to serve their own goals.
Microsoft will support both formats, eventually. Why should they care which format makes it? (For the Xbox, the HD-Drive is just an add-on, and for Windows, all they have to do is to provide an additional driver).
Apple also surprisingly has the least expensive 64gb SSDrive on the market. Hundreds less than retail and competitors.
An 64GB SSD drive costs around 900$ (e.g., from Samsung), Apple charges $999 on top of the price for the MBA with an 80GB parallel ATA harddisk, which is, of course, removed when you buy the SSD version (a value of around $70). While that's surprisingly cheap for Apple (considering their prices for RAM), it's definitely not hundreds less than retail and competitors.
Sorry, I just realized that Bloch was German, so Ratzinger obviously referred to Feyerabend.
Feyerabend, however, was known to strongly overexaggerate his statements in order to provoke, so it's pretty dangerous to cite him without also citing the context. Feyerabend's "anything goes", for instance, is often interpreted as "any scientific method must be rejected", which is far from what Feyerabend actually says in his book...
Bloch, in a way, was not entirely wrong. Claiming that there's no way to falsify the claim that the other planets move around the earth, he's right in a relativistic point of view. Of course, the describing the paths that these planets follow if earth is the center of the coordinate system would be anything but trivial.
I don't think it makes much of a difference whether you buy that stuff for your Kindle or you order the (physical) book via Amazon and they ship it to your place.
I hope your new job doesn't involve making decisions... ;-)
With 4 GB of memory, why would you care whether you have 32 or 64 bits? Come on, a difference of a lousy 32 bits is nothing compared to the 4 GBs of RAM... really! ;-)