Let's say you're a "talented artist" who's put up a website selling songs at a "Slashdotter-approved" price of two cents per song. How am I going to find your music?
As for the turning of the tibook - antennas propogate the radio signals in specific patterns (think like magnetic field lines). Turning your laptop (and thus the receiver in the laptop) will optimize the alignment with the field lines.
Good Troll... If your (insert favorite app/device) is used in the prescribed manner, the assertion is valid that you shouldn't need to have the designer's knowledge to use that device. The reality is that people don't always follow the rules. Or, more accurately, the rules change.
Have you always used your (favorite app/device) in the intended (designed) fashion? I didn't THINK so...
Seriously, think about Bluetooth-enabled (or whatever - pick your favorite proximity-based protocol) as a future service provided by payphones. Obviously the phones would have to be upgraded, but this would mean... Instant Terminal!(TM)
"...leaving a lot of really smart people without jobs. It's not a coincidence that a lot of those people started their own companies soon after that"
Based upon the original quote, I think this addresses the different outcome in the two scenarios. This would most likely be attributable to the industries, though. It's one thing to do a SW start-up... I'm assuming it takes a lot more effort to do an auto (or auto-related) start-up.
Obviously retuning from an extended vacation, I am not aware of the origin/context of your quote. Care to elaborate?
David Kaczynski's OTHER brother;-)
"but you can't really portray anger or love or fear with a piece of code."
If you subscibe to the premise that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, your thought above is quite inaccurate. In my 11+ years of software development I have experienced a number of emotions while conducting code reviews - anger? fear? joy? you bet!!! The same emotions are also revealed upon implementation of a system. From my perspective, the system is the means of delivering (conveying) something to an end user (viewer).
Generally these are business functions, but that certainly doesn't mean systems can't evoke an emotional response.
Think in terms of manufacturing costs. IC fabrication center costs rise almost exponentially with the size and complexity of the dies they are making. With MEMS, the cost to build one arm is fixed, and if arms can help "make" themselves, the cost to build a larger component goes down significantly. That's the thinking, anyway.
I don't have a link for this, but I remembere a story a few weeks ago in Slahdot where someone doing solar (electrical) roof tiles explained that when excess power is generated, their meter starts to run backwards, which makes sense, from an electrical perspective.
So did you keep the manuals or throw them out? I have tons of these that I would like to get rid of (to make room for CD's!) but I get that queasy feeling when I think about throwing the manuals out - suggestions?
Slashdot Mirror
Pop-up ad on Slashdot?
The editor probably thought "Survivable Network" had a more sexy yet ambiguous (profitable) connotation then "Survivable IT Infrastructure". My $.02.
As for the turning of the tibook - antennas propogate the radio signals in specific patterns (think like magnetic field lines). Turning your laptop (and thus the receiver in the laptop) will optimize the alignment with the field lines.
Sounds like the Grateful Dead. Replace "box" with "ticket" and you're almost there.
Have you always used your (favorite app/device) in the intended (designed) fashion? I didn't THINK so...
Not the Beatles (TM)
Humor. Very nice. Upward mod, anyone?
Not the Beatles.
Based upon the original quote, I think this addresses the different outcome in the two scenarios. This would most likely be attributable to the industries, though. It's one thing to do a SW start-up... I'm assuming it takes a lot more effort to do an auto (or auto-related) start-up.
2-3 fans start looking real good. ;^)
Obviously retuning from an extended vacation, I am not aware of the origin/context of your quote. Care to elaborate? David Kaczynski's OTHER brother ;-)
Please post/link context for this... "fact" w/o info = ...Slashdot?
"She blinds everybody with her super-high beams, she's a squirrel-squashin', deer-smackin', drivin' machine! Canyonero... Canyonerooo! Yah!"
If you subscibe to the premise that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, your thought above is quite inaccurate. In my 11+ years of software development I have experienced a number of emotions while conducting code reviews - anger? fear? joy? you bet!!! The same emotions are also revealed upon implementation of a system. From my perspective, the system is the means of delivering (conveying) something to an end user (viewer).
Generally these are business functions, but that certainly doesn't mean systems can't evoke an emotional response.
My $.02
Think in terms of manufacturing costs. IC fabrication center costs rise almost exponentially with the size and complexity of the dies they are making. With MEMS, the cost to build one arm is fixed, and if arms can help "make" themselves, the cost to build a larger component goes down significantly. That's the thinking, anyway.
I don't have a link for this, but I remembere a story a few weeks ago in Slahdot where someone doing solar (electrical) roof tiles explained that when excess power is generated, their meter starts to run backwards, which makes sense, from an electrical perspective.
So did you keep the manuals or throw them out? I have tons of these that I would like to get rid of (to make room for CD's!) but I get that queasy feeling when I think about throwing the manuals out - suggestions?