Even if it is possible to understand the intention, the statement itself is still nonsense. They should change it from autobiography to biography, and state that autobiographies are not welcome.
Unless "your object" is a class library of course. In that case, not commenting classes and functions breaks encapsulation (because users have to dig around in the internals).
"how many times that software applications created the same problem?"
Arguably, Sherman is right --
No, he's not.. because I know of these other applications running on my PC (either because I installed them myself, or they came preloaded), so I'm able to update them. Furthermore, these applications (or operating systems), even if they are sometimes buggy, fulfill a purpose for me. Users who listen to a Sony CD on their PC and thus unintendedly install the rootkit a) don't know that it's there and therefore will not patch it, and b) don't take any advantage of this rootkit.
I like your idea, the problem is just that Apple doesn't "own" the songs it sells. If "the music industry" decides not to sell its songs to Apple anymore, iTMS will go out of business. The consequence will be that "the music industry" will sell even fewer songs, and they'll of course blame the customers (where customers is synonymous to music pirates, because everybody who isn't spending 50% of his income for crappy music is a criminal). Then they'll try to convince the government that there should be some kind of "music tax", i.e., everybody has to pay for music, no matter how much music one consumes.
To have only one price point is not fair to our artists, and I dare say not appropriate to consumers.
In fact it's perfectly fair. Due to the nature of online content, the song only has to be produced once, and it's possible to sell an arbitrary number of copies for virtually zero cost. Therefore, the better a song sells, the more revenue it produces. Therefore, even if a good song is sold for the same amount as a miserable song, it will produce more revenue. It just got much harder to sell crappy songs because consumers there's no more way to force consumers to buy them (e.g., by bundling them with good songs). So, the $0.99 is only bad for the music industry if the majority of their songs are crap. Since that is currently the case, they want to change the pricing model.
Just one thing: Any programmer who wants to make you believe that problems like "shortest path" or machine learning algorithms aren't important in a "real programmer's life" has done nothing but web-pages in his whole life. The point is that these problems occur over and over again, but you have to recognize them.
Well, if you fuck up your signal/noise ratio at the beginning of a chain of amplifiers, there's no way to improve it again afterwards. So in a chain of amplifiers, the best amplifier should always be first.
C'mon. I own an iRiver 390T and an iPod clickwheel, and the sound of the iPod is ridiculously poor compared to the iRiver. Whenever I attach my iPod to my car's audio system I turn down the iPod as much as possible and let the amplifier in the car do the rest (though in information theory, you're usually told that you should turn up the first amplifier as much as possible).
A test for artificial intelligence suggested by the mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing. The gist of it is that a computer can be considered intelligent when it can hold a sustained conversation with a computer scientist without him being able to distinguish that he is talking with a computer rather than a human being.
Some critics suggest this is unreasonably difficult since most human beings are incapable of holding a sustained conversation with a computer scientist.
After a moments thought they usually add that most computer scientists aren't capable of distinguishing humans from computers anyway.
but I can tell you that as an Apple consumer the reason I stay with Apple is because they control their hardware
I wish they wouldn't.. then I could exchange this crappy double-speed (but labeled 8x) superdrive in my brand new Powerbook without having to apply a hack to iDVD to get it running.
Well, there's still Microsoft Research. They hired quite a lot of the former Bell Labs researchers (for example, Tom Ball), and, believe me or not, these guys are doing a great job. For an IT researcher, there couldn't be a better place than MSR (or Google) at moment.
I didn't claim that there are no alternatives, I just said that GMail notifier is Windows only, though Google has promised (a long time ago) to port it to Linux and Mac OS X.
Oh, come on, they didn't even manage to port GMail Notifier to Linux and OS X yet, so I don't expect them to become enthusiastic Linux supporters soon.
If the drivers for Airport extreme are open, why has nobody ported them to Linux, yet? (That's the main reason why I don't use Linux on my Powerbook - no Airport extreme support). If it's not open: Of what use is an open source kernel without open sourced hardware drivers?
The license fee for Windows is a ridiculous amount of money compared to what Oracle charges you for their database. I've heard from several companies, that "Oracle does not scale financially". The operating system is not the only software you have to pay for! It's just a piece of software that everybody happens to need...
Do you think that's different in other countries? Well, it's probably unique that US policemen need up to a few hundred shots to kill their victims. In Austria (page is in German, sorry), one shot is usually enough (e.g., to "accidentally" kill the "putative drug dealer" Imre B).
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Well.. who would buy the DVD of something that he already watched on TV
I heard rumours that it'll be released together with the G5 powerbooks next tuestday...
Even if it is possible to understand the intention, the statement itself is still nonsense. They should change it from autobiography to biography, and state that autobiographies are not welcome.
Unless "your object" is a class library of course. In that case, not commenting classes and functions breaks encapsulation (because users have to dig around in the internals).
No, he's not.. because I know of these other applications running on my PC (either because I installed them myself, or they came preloaded), so I'm able to update them. Furthermore, these applications (or operating systems), even if they are sometimes buggy, fulfill a purpose for me. Users who listen to a Sony CD on their PC and thus unintendedly install the rootkit a) don't know that it's there and therefore will not patch it, and b) don't take any advantage of this rootkit.
Asok works at Microsoft? I wasn't aware of that...
I like your idea, the problem is just that Apple doesn't "own" the songs it sells. If "the music industry" decides not to sell its songs to Apple anymore, iTMS will go out of business. The consequence will be that "the music industry" will sell even fewer songs, and they'll of course blame the customers (where customers is synonymous to music pirates, because everybody who isn't spending 50% of his income for crappy music is a criminal). Then they'll try to convince the government that there should be some kind of "music tax", i.e., everybody has to pay for music, no matter how much music one consumes.
In fact it's perfectly fair. Due to the nature of online content, the song only has to be produced once, and it's possible to sell an arbitrary number of copies for virtually zero cost. Therefore, the better a song sells, the more revenue it produces. Therefore, even if a good song is sold for the same amount as a miserable song, it will produce more revenue. It just got much harder to sell crappy songs because consumers there's no more way to force consumers to buy them (e.g., by bundling them with good songs). So, the $0.99 is only bad for the music industry if the majority of their songs are crap. Since that is currently the case, they want to change the pricing model.
I thought that HP was selling ink nowadays, I wasn't aware that part of the staff was still working in the IT area...
Just one thing: Any programmer who wants to make you believe that problems like "shortest path" or machine learning algorithms aren't important in a "real programmer's life" has done nothing but web-pages in his whole life. The point is that these problems occur over and over again, but you have to recognize them.
Well, if you fuck up your signal/noise ratio at the beginning of a chain of amplifiers, there's no way to improve it again afterwards. So in a chain of amplifiers, the best amplifier should always be first.
C'mon. I own an iRiver 390T and an iPod clickwheel, and the sound of the iPod is ridiculously poor compared to the iRiver. Whenever I attach my iPod to my car's audio system I turn down the iPod as much as possible and let the amplifier in the car do the rest (though in information theory, you're usually told that you should turn up the first amplifier as much as possible).
I don't care, but if it has a dedicated CPU we should start porting Linux to it (or use it to run SETI@home) ;-)
Besides Apple, of course.
Probably not robot, but definitely a bit Pinocchio.
Probably if somebody rewrites the kernel in Logo (as far as I know, GCC doesn't have a turtle backend).
I refute it thus.
I wish they wouldn't.. then I could exchange this crappy double-speed (but labeled 8x) superdrive in my brand new Powerbook without having to apply a hack to iDVD to get it running.
Well, there's still Microsoft Research. They hired quite a lot of the former Bell Labs researchers (for example, Tom Ball), and, believe me or not, these guys are doing a great job. For an IT researcher, there couldn't be a better place than MSR (or Google) at moment.
I didn't claim that there are no alternatives, I just said that GMail notifier is Windows only, though Google has promised (a long time ago) to port it to Linux and Mac OS X.
Oh, come on, they didn't even manage to port GMail Notifier to Linux and OS X yet, so I don't expect them to become enthusiastic Linux supporters soon.
If the drivers for Airport extreme are open, why has nobody ported them to Linux, yet? (That's the main reason why I don't use Linux on my Powerbook - no Airport extreme support). If it's not open: Of what use is an open source kernel without open sourced hardware drivers?
The license fee for Windows is a ridiculous amount of money compared to what Oracle charges you for their database. I've heard from several companies, that "Oracle does not scale financially". The operating system is not the only software you have to pay for! It's just a piece of software that everybody happens to need...
Do you think that's different in other countries? Well, it's probably unique that US policemen need up to a few hundred shots to kill their victims. In Austria (page is in German, sorry), one shot is usually enough (e.g., to "accidentally" kill the "putative drug dealer" Imre B).