Why do you think people are starving if wealth is unlimited? Because the Africans are lazy?
No, because the Africans have devastated themselves with incessant wars of genocide and unmitigated political corruption that have robbed their nations of the capital needed to improve worker productivity.
You think the world is infinite.
Maybe not, but a rock is worth infinitely less than the silicon microchips that can be made from it. What drives modern economies is ever increasing improvements in the way those resources are used. Look at the US economy - in the 70's we went through a big oil price crunch that ruined the economy for a decade. In the first decade of the 21st century we are seeing a similar price spike - and what is the influence on the overall economy this time? Very little - because the value of the energy content is a much smaller percentage of the value of what is produced by industry today than 30 years ago. The numbers are quite plain - energy is a much smaller percentage of the total US economy now that it was 30 years ago.
Economics is NOT a zero sum game. Resources may be limited, but the value of what you can make from the resource is not limited, rather it is constantly increasing.
If a resource becomes scarce and expensive what happens? Low value uses go away and there are waves of innovation that result in big improvements in the efficiency of the use of the resource - and the value of what is produced from the same amount of resource.
Here we sit on the cusp of technological revolutions in biophysics and nanotech - what do you think the price of raw materials inputs into processes based on these new techs will mean? Bupkis. Zero. Lost in the noise. For these are technologies where the kilogram is 18 orders of magnitiude greater than the mass needed to effect a change in economic value in these technical domains.
The world may not be infinite - but our ability to extract wealth from that world is currently so near to zero relative to the potential that it might as well be infinite.
Well, I am working on a 1-2-3-4-5-6 viewing. I watched 1-2 on my HDTV, 3 Friday at the theater and 4 - 5 yesterday/today. I would say that when you do that it is shocking how much better the dialog/acting works in 4 and 5. I don't know if it the cast chemistry or what, but it is a huge factor in making 4-5 better than 1-2-3. On top of that is the obviously better directing in 5 which is so superior that it makes you wonder how much better the other episodes could have been.
Netcraft says alot about low-margin ISPs, but very little about corporate technology trends.
Yes, and corporate technology trends really have very little to do with the internet anyway unless you are a e-commerce driven company - which are a pretty small percentage of all companies.
Sadly corporate technology trends these days are mostly about driving down costs. Support costs, cost per transaction, whatever.
We need a new killer app to get out of this boring rut.
There's nothing interesting about low-traffic, static content sites.
Maybe not, but if you are looking at the web, that's what most of the sites are. Even a lot of pretty good sized companies only have a static 'brochure' site.
Having said that, it's very much an age thing anyway - I saw the originals on their first release at around my late teens...
I was in my mid-20's when the original Star Wars first appeared in the theaters. It played a full year in the theater nearest my home.
I still think ROTJ is weaker than ROTS. While the speeder chase, and the opening with Jabba was OK, the Ewoks were really hokey, and the climax at the end really dragged at times.
And the vast majority of domains are squatters or placeholder pages that are virutal hosted by the 1000s to a box so it's largely a meaningless statistic.
Many of the largest domain registrars use Windows based servers for placeholders because IIS does a good job serving static content.
Netcraft occasionally publishes statistics on active websites. The percentages are the same or maybe are even higher for Apache.
Well, I think it was better than Return of The Jedi which was definitely weaker than ANH and ESB.
It would be worth having more Star Wars movies if they get a better director, like they had for ESB. Lucas is just not a good director, and he can't write dialog.
You have the answer to that, and it's called "SCALE". You have a much bigger market as we do
Except that the EU is a bigger market that the US.
IMO the main reason European music and film aren't popular in the US - unless the script is dumbed down and the cast nicely familiar, since so many of your movies are remakes... - is that the market for quality is smaller in the US than in Europe.
That theory doesn't work - because if it were differing tastes in quality the popularity of European works in the US would be the same as US works in Europe. Each would produce for their local market and the crossover would be about the same. Nope, try again. There is some other reason, and my theory is pretty simple - the market for quality is about the same in both places, but the EU entertainment industry doesn't address that market as well as the US entertainment industry does.
a huge part of that is based on bought screenplays from european production houses, so don't be too smug.
All the more reason for smugness. The EU entertainment industry is a backwater, so where else are good writers going to sell their stuff? It is so bad that I hear that non-English screenplays are becoming hard for European producers to find.
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What risks would this Apache projects involve with respect to Kodak patents?
The Kodak patent is so broad that it could be used to sue anyone using an object oriented programming language. It is not Java specific. Sun settled with a $92 million payment, Microsoft has taken a license.
Unfortunately it seems to have survived a court test, so it will take a lot to get it declared ivalid. However most people believe that it should be because of prior art going back to the days of Simula.
Watching Friends here in Europe takes half the time it takes you guys.
Right. The TV advertising level in the US is 3 minutes more per half-hour than in Europe. So an average Friends episode takes 3 minutes longer to watch in the US vs. Europe. Not twice as long.
Now let us talk about programming. Why is it that when I travel in Europe that about 25% of the programming is American? In the US there is very little or no such imports from Europe on American commercial channels.
The same thing is true in music and film - except for a few niches European product is not competitive.
It makes it so easy to filter out the crap. Even better when it includes likes to images! No way am I going to let an email message link back to some server and let the spammer know that he found a real address.
Coming soon to Visual Studio.Net - Virus Authoring Toolkit and SDK. Of course the virus runtime will be part of your next Windows Update Download, and use undocmented system calls in Windows.Net framework. Particularly cool is the new Virus Wizard.
Third parties are working on add-ons as we speak. Sample code is downloadable from dev.microsoft.com.
Give me a break. Next there will be a story that high tension lines are dangerous when wet, or standing in the middle of a field during a thunderstorm can be harmful.
the premise that "unfettered" access to attributes
No, unfettered access to the entire contents of a class is bad. And it causes problems in Python as has been noted by many critics. You have no way of enforcing basic design patterns including something as fundamental as Layers.
The difference is that Java developers are forced to write getFoo() and setFoo() for all their interfaces
I just don't buy into a architecture that tosses aside the concept of data hiding and encourages programmers to write classes with open access to attributes.
Sure, you can use properties() to add behaviors, but that totally glosses over the issue that classes should not allow unfettered access to attributes in the first place. Properties() just encourages this bad programming practice by removing one of the sources of pain that making this mistake leads to.
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Why do you think people are starving if wealth is unlimited? Because the Africans are lazy?
No, because the Africans have devastated themselves with incessant wars of genocide and unmitigated political corruption that have robbed their nations of the capital needed to improve worker productivity.
You think the world is infinite.
Maybe not, but a rock is worth infinitely less than the silicon microchips that can be made from it. What drives modern economies is ever increasing improvements in the way those resources are used. Look at the US economy - in the 70's we went through a big oil price crunch that ruined the economy for a decade. In the first decade of the 21st century we are seeing a similar price spike - and what is the influence on the overall economy this time? Very little - because the value of the energy content is a much smaller percentage of the value of what is produced by industry today than 30 years ago. The numbers are quite plain - energy is a much smaller percentage of the total US economy now that it was 30 years ago.
Economics is NOT a zero sum game. Resources may be limited, but the value of what you can make from the resource is not limited, rather it is constantly increasing.
If a resource becomes scarce and expensive what happens? Low value uses go away and there are waves of innovation that result in big improvements in the efficiency of the use of the resource - and the value of what is produced from the same amount of resource.
Here we sit on the cusp of technological revolutions in biophysics and nanotech - what do you think the price of raw materials inputs into processes based on these new techs will mean? Bupkis. Zero. Lost in the noise. For these are technologies where the kilogram is 18 orders of magnitiude greater than the mass needed to effect a change in economic value in these technical domains.
The world may not be infinite - but our ability to extract wealth from that world is currently so near to zero relative to the potential that it might as well be infinite.
Well, I am working on a 1-2-3-4-5-6 viewing. I watched 1-2 on my HDTV, 3 Friday at the theater and 4 - 5 yesterday/today. I would say that when you do that it is shocking how much better the dialog/acting works in 4 and 5. I don't know if it the cast chemistry or what, but it is a huge factor in making 4-5 better than 1-2-3. On top of that is the obviously better directing in 5 which is so superior that it makes you wonder how much better the other episodes could have been.
1. NFPA requires NASCAR style fire extinguisher inside computer case.
2. House wiring must be upgraded and a 440v 3 phase outlet installed next to your computer.
3. Homeowners insurance rider for extreme fire hazard.
4. Fire retardent metal door must be installed between computer room and rest of house.
5. Town must grant zoning variance for indstrial scale use of power in a residence.
6. Special monitor must be installed which notifies the Fire Department when your frame rate exceeds 250.
The other 7 times, the controller itself goes
That's why you have redundant controllers and a dual channel architecture.
Why not an IMAP mail server? It should do just as much as Exchange server in this context, and there are some good free/low cost implementations.
Netcraft says alot about low-margin ISPs, but very little about corporate technology trends.
Yes, and corporate technology trends really have very little to do with the internet anyway unless you are a e-commerce driven company - which are a pretty small percentage of all companies.
Sadly corporate technology trends these days are mostly about driving down costs. Support costs, cost per transaction, whatever.
We need a new killer app to get out of this boring rut.
Yeah, but at least those sites are on dedicated boxes.
Not necessarily. I used to work at a web development company that hosted some pretty big-name company sites on shared servers fed by just a basic T1.
You just don't need a dedicated box for that sort of site.
There's nothing interesting about low-traffic, static content sites.
Maybe not, but if you are looking at the web, that's what most of the sites are. Even a lot of pretty good sized companies only have a static 'brochure' site.
Having said that, it's very much an age thing anyway - I saw the originals on their first release at around my late teens...
I was in my mid-20's when the original Star Wars first appeared in the theaters. It played a full year in the theater nearest my home.
I still think ROTJ is weaker than ROTS. While the speeder chase, and the opening with Jabba was OK, the Ewoks were really hokey, and the climax at the end really dragged at times.
And the vast majority of domains are squatters or placeholder pages that are virutal hosted by the 1000s to a box so it's largely a meaningless statistic.
Many of the largest domain registrars use Windows based servers for placeholders because IIS does a good job serving static content.
Netcraft occasionally publishes statistics on active websites. The percentages are the same or maybe are even higher for Apache.
It's a children's movie!
No, it is not a children's movie. It has a PG-13 rating, and if far too violent for a child.
Well, I think it was better than Return of The Jedi which was definitely weaker than ANH and ESB.
It would be worth having more Star Wars movies if they get a better director, like they had for ESB. Lucas is just not a good director, and he can't write dialog.
So how is this a problem?
1. Hacker writes Q&D program badly
2. Company tries to use it in poduction
3. Company finds out it sucks
4. Company hires you to fix it
5. PROFT!!!!
Play XBox and XBox 360 games
I have a feeling that MS would darken the sky above you with lawyers if you tried that.
Where did you get that 3 minutes number?
From an article in Wikipedia. EU and British TV typically run about 6 minutes per half hour, US 9 minutes.
You have the answer to that, and it's called "SCALE". You have a much bigger market as we do
Except that the EU is a bigger market that the US.
IMO the main reason European music and film aren't popular in the US - unless the script is dumbed down and the cast nicely familiar, since so many of your movies are remakes... - is that the market for quality is smaller in the US than in Europe.
That theory doesn't work - because if it were differing tastes in quality the popularity of European works in the US would be the same as US works in Europe. Each would produce for their local market and the crossover would be about the same. Nope, try again. There is some other reason, and my theory is pretty simple - the market for quality is about the same in both places, but the EU entertainment industry doesn't address that market as well as the US entertainment industry does.
a huge part of that is based on bought screenplays from european production houses, so don't be too smug.
All the more reason for smugness. The EU entertainment industry is a backwater, so where else are good writers going to sell their stuff? It is so bad that I hear that non-English screenplays are becoming hard for European producers to find.
What risks would this Apache projects involve with respect to Kodak patents?
The Kodak patent is so broad that it could be used to sue anyone using an object oriented programming language. It is not Java specific. Sun settled with a $92 million payment, Microsoft has taken a license.
Unfortunately it seems to have survived a court test, so it will take a lot to get it declared ivalid. However most people believe that it should be because of prior art going back to the days of Simula.
Watching Friends here in Europe takes half the time it takes you guys.
Right. The TV advertising level in the US is 3 minutes more per half-hour than in Europe. So an average Friends episode takes 3 minutes longer to watch in the US vs. Europe. Not twice as long.
Now let us talk about programming. Why is it that when I travel in Europe that about 25% of the programming is American? In the US there is very little or no such imports from Europe on American commercial channels.
The same thing is true in music and film - except for a few niches European product is not competitive.
It makes it so easy to filter out the crap. Even better when it includes likes to images! No way am I going to let an email message link back to some server and let the spammer know that he found a real address.
1. Fire your booth babes.
2. Hire ugly people as replacements
3.
4. No Profit!!!
Whichever special interest group with the deeper pockets will win this one. Plain as that.
The good news is that the electronics industry is MUCH bigger than the entertainment industry.
Whether they will want to fight this is another question.
Coming soon to Visual Studio
Third parties are working on add-ons as we speak. Sample code is downloadable from dev.microsoft.com.
Ecpected in version 2 is the new Trojan Feature.
Give me a break. Next there will be a story that high tension lines are dangerous when wet, or standing in the middle of a field during a thunderstorm can be harmful.
the premise that "unfettered" access to attributes
No, unfettered access to the entire contents of a class is bad. And it causes problems in Python as has been noted by many critics. You have no way of enforcing basic design patterns including something as fundamental as Layers.
The difference is that Java developers are forced to write getFoo() and setFoo() for all their interfaces
I just don't buy into a architecture that tosses aside the concept of data hiding and encourages programmers to write classes with open access to attributes.
Sure, you can use properties() to add behaviors, but that totally glosses over the issue that classes should not allow unfettered access to attributes in the first place. Properties() just encourages this bad programming practice by removing one of the sources of pain that making this mistake leads to.
You don't have to bother writing things like getFoo() and setFoo() most of the time.
How is total lack of data hiding in an OO language an advantage?