The employees are protected via whistleblower etc.
So why all the vieled secrecy...?
David Welch was fired in 2002. Twice the legal system ruled that he was protected by whistleblower protection provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley laws, and should be given his job back. He was still unemployed in October 2006, I'm betting he still hasn't got his job back. Only a fucking idiot trusts in the legal system to protect his free speech rights in a timely fashion.
Well, I don't have a web page to back it up, but a friend who runs an electronics resale store (shopthejunkyard.com) tells me that the margins on the Wii are razor-thin to nonexistent, for the retailer. Maybe Wal-mart squeezes a few dollars of margin out of Nintendo, but it's nothing like the $80 margin Nintendo would have to be giving stores to be selling the Wii at a loss.
Actually, there's an even more simple way to totally eliminate domain squatting and domain speculation.
It's just politically unacceptable to the people who have a religious belief in free market capitalism, and who can never admit that it's what's causing the problems with DNS.
It's this: Make domain name registrations non-transferable.
Think about it. You don't get rampant speculation in phone numbers. You don't find it impossible to get a new phone number because none are available. You don't have to pay $5k to a speculator to get a phone number in your desired area code. Why? Because you can't sell your phone number to someone else on eBay, and you can't keep phone numbers you aren't using for a trivial cost. If you *could* do those things, numbers like mine (which by chance ends in "00") would fetch serious money.
If Joe Slimeball couldn't sell the cooldomain.com he wasn't using and had no plans to use, he wouldn't spend $30 a year to keep it.
Ruby is about half the speed of Perl in the minor tests I've done, though obviously this is domain-specific.
The new YARV VM in the next major release of Ruby doubles its speed, putting it on a par with Perl, at least for the kind of code I write.
It's true that there's no CPAN, and RubyForge doesn't really compare... but I find that I can write Ruby much more quickly than Perl, because the syntax doesn't get in the way.
But I think from Apple's perspective they know Tiger won't make a bit of difference. Some people running OSX today might buy an upgrade, people who happen to be buying Apple's after Tiger's release will get Tiger, and the people running Windows will be no more likely to switch for Tiger than they are to switch for released OSX versions.
Oh, I think it will make a bit of difference. For instance, I've been holding off buying a new Mac for a while. Apple's going to have to wait an extra 6 months to get my money. Same is probably true of a lot of other people.
In OS 9 you could drag a file to the desktop while you were working on it. When you were done, you selected it and chose "Put away" from the menu, and it went back to wherever it belonged before you dragged it to the desktop.
This was an awesome tool for keeping your hard drive organized. It is totally missing from OS X.
OK, so Godfather is a PS2 game that's been ported to the PS3. That's different from it being a game you actually need a PS3 to play.
That's what's keeping me from buying a PS3--it's too expensive, given the tiny number of games I'm interested in playing that are exclusive (or far superior) on the PS3.
[For example, I plan to pick up the Wii version of Godfather.]
USB has 2 different kinds of mutually incompatible connectors.
Firewire is superior because (a) it doesn't chew up your CPU cycles doing disk transfers, (b) it has the option of being able to provide guaranteed bandwidth to particular devices. The latter is why Firewire still dominates in video.
If you think it's stupid that you had to pay more to get proper Firewire on your computer, don't buy from that manufacturer again. My homebuilt PC came with proper Firewire on the motherboard.
For every superior piece of technology, there's an inferior one that's far more popular.
For Mac OS X, there's Windows. For Firefire, there's USB. For PostgreSQL, there's MySQL. For Ruby|Python, there's Perl. For Rails|Java, there's PHP. And so on.
Actually, HTML 1.0 was much closer to HTML 4.0 than HTML 3.2 was. HTML 1 and 2 were modeled on SGML, whereas HTML 3.2 was rubber stamping the garbage invented by Netscape.
Well, if true, it'll no doubt mean that ATI drivers will start to suck even harder. As a customer, I'd really rather they spent time fixing their OpenGL implementation so that it could actually render antialiased lines correctly.
I've been an AMD supporter for years, but if they go through with this I'm going to be firmly in the Intel camp.
Well, so long as they don't follow the musical lead of San Andreas, I'll be happy. It might have been a great game in every other respect, but it had the worst soundtrack of the series.
Given that Nintendo can't keep the genuine articles in stores, you'd think they'd be grateful to the Chinese for stepping up to meet demand.:-)
And no, I'm not just talking about the Wii. Nintendo has had terrible trouble getting hardware and software into the retail channel for years. As a GameCube owner, shopping for new games was always an exercise in frustration.
What I don't get is why Palm Hardware never used the BeOS-based Palm Software OS.
What I don't get is why they don't use one of the 5 existing palmtop Linux environments, instead of wasting resources building their own from the ground up.
Oh, wait, Palm has lots of ex-80s-Apple people. Never mind.
Second, nobody who has an HDTV likes the quality of DVD vs. true HDTV. DVD's are watchable, but the quality difference is pretty obvious. I have never seen any HDTV owner that says otherwise.
I have an HDTV, and a DVD player with one of the best upscalers (according to reviews).
I find the quality of a well-encoded DVD movie to be comparable to OTA HDTV on my set.
Of course, I don't have a monster 56" TV. Like the majority of people, I have a set under 40". At that size, well upscaled DVD really isn't obviously inferior to HD.
On a similar note, region coding has been ruled illegal in many countries, as an unfair restraint to free trade. WTO rules say that's not permitted. Yet US DVD players still enforce it, and Blu-ray enforces it too.
How about China taking the US to court for not allowing region-free Blu-ray and DVD players to be sold here freely?
I'd be surprised if MSN knows anything about me, given that I never use MSN for anything. I only have one friend who uses MSN, so it's never been worth abandoning my principles and signing up.
People who use MSN are the kind of people who refer to their web browser as "the Internet".
I can tell the difference, the point is that under normal viewing conditions (i.e. a screen under 40" at a distance of 6') it's not noticeable. Just like for most people's audio equipment, MP3 can be as good as CD.
Sure, initially you think "Wow, look how clear and sharp the writing is on Dave Letterman's coffee mug". But after a while the novelty wears off and you go back to watching the actual show, and then you realize that you would be enjoying it just as much in upscaled 480p, and that if someone quietly switched it to 480p you wouldn't notice for weeks.
Maybe you have a massive 56" screen that you examine from 2' away. That's great, but that's not normal viewing conditions for most people. The vast majority of TV sets sold, even HDTVs, are under 40".
And if you find the lack of 1080 distracting, then it's you I feel sorry for, as you're going to end up spending a ton of money and having trouble getting acceptable image quality and you'll be locked in to horrible DRM systems.
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David Welch was fired in 2002. Twice the legal system ruled that he was protected by whistleblower protection provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley laws, and should be given his job back. He was still unemployed in October 2006, I'm betting he still hasn't got his job back. Only a fucking idiot trusts in the legal system to protect his free speech rights in a timely fashion.
Right, but DNS as it is today is like every number being an 800 number...
Oh, I thought the problem was that the JavaDocs weren't detailed enough.
I do wish Sun's JavaDocs generally had more examples. Like, at least a couple of examples per class.
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5/pdf/generics-tutorial .pdf
e rics/index.html
n s/index.html which describes the generics-enabled standard collection classes, which is 90% of what you'll want generics for anyway.
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/extra/gen
Also highly worthwhile is http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/collectio
Share and enjoy.
Well, I don't have a web page to back it up, but a friend who runs an electronics resale store (shopthejunkyard.com) tells me that the margins on the Wii are razor-thin to nonexistent, for the retailer. Maybe Wal-mart squeezes a few dollars of margin out of Nintendo, but it's nothing like the $80 margin Nintendo would have to be giving stores to be selling the Wii at a loss.
Actually, there's an even more simple way to totally eliminate domain squatting and domain speculation.
It's just politically unacceptable to the people who have a religious belief in free market capitalism, and who can never admit that it's what's causing the problems with DNS.
It's this: Make domain name registrations non-transferable.
Think about it. You don't get rampant speculation in phone numbers. You don't find it impossible to get a new phone number because none are available. You don't have to pay $5k to a speculator to get a phone number in your desired area code. Why? Because you can't sell your phone number to someone else on eBay, and you can't keep phone numbers you aren't using for a trivial cost. If you *could* do those things, numbers like mine (which by chance ends in "00") would fetch serious money.
If Joe Slimeball couldn't sell the cooldomain.com he wasn't using and had no plans to use, he wouldn't spend $30 a year to keep it.
Ruby is about half the speed of Perl in the minor tests I've done, though obviously this is domain-specific.
The new YARV VM in the next major release of Ruby doubles its speed, putting it on a par with Perl, at least for the kind of code I write.
It's true that there's no CPAN, and RubyForge doesn't really compare... but I find that I can write Ruby much more quickly than Perl, because the syntax doesn't get in the way.
Oh, I think it will make a bit of difference. For instance, I've been holding off buying a new Mac for a while. Apple's going to have to wait an extra 6 months to get my money. Same is probably true of a lot of other people.
You missed one.
In OS 9 you could drag a file to the desktop while you were working on it. When you were done, you selected it and chose "Put away" from the menu, and it went back to wherever it belonged before you dragged it to the desktop.
This was an awesome tool for keeping your hard drive organized. It is totally missing from OS X.
Me three. Still using an 800MHz G4 iMac here... Planning to buy something new when 10.5 comes out.
Well, I guess I have longer to think about it...
OK, so Godfather is a PS2 game that's been ported to the PS3. That's different from it being a game you actually need a PS3 to play.
That's what's keeping me from buying a PS3--it's too expensive, given the tiny number of games I'm interested in playing that are exclusive (or far superior) on the PS3.
[For example, I plan to pick up the Wii version of Godfather.]
USB has 2 different kinds of mutually incompatible connectors.
Firewire is superior because (a) it doesn't chew up your CPU cycles doing disk transfers, (b) it has the option of being able to provide guaranteed bandwidth to particular devices. The latter is why Firewire still dominates in video.
If you think it's stupid that you had to pay more to get proper Firewire on your computer, don't buy from that manufacturer again. My homebuilt PC came with proper Firewire on the motherboard.
For every superior piece of technology, there's an inferior one that's far more popular.
For Mac OS X, there's Windows.
For Firefire, there's USB.
For PostgreSQL, there's MySQL.
For Ruby|Python, there's Perl.
For Rails|Java, there's PHP.
And so on.
Actually, HTML 1.0 was much closer to HTML 4.0 than HTML 3.2 was. HTML 1 and 2 were modeled on SGML, whereas HTML 3.2 was rubber stamping the garbage invented by Netscape.
Well, if true, it'll no doubt mean that ATI drivers will start to suck even harder. As a customer, I'd really rather they spent time fixing their OpenGL implementation so that it could actually render antialiased lines correctly.
I've been an AMD supporter for years, but if they go through with this I'm going to be firmly in the Intel camp.
Yeah, same here. I still have my Palm Programming manual. But I have a Nokia N800 now.
Funny, that's not what the recent article trailed on Slashdot said.
e.g. this guy, this guy, and this guy who actually works in the industry.
Well, so long as they don't follow the musical lead of San Andreas, I'll be happy. It might have been a great game in every other respect, but it had the worst soundtrack of the series.
Given that Nintendo can't keep the genuine articles in stores, you'd think they'd be grateful to the Chinese for stepping up to meet demand. :-)
And no, I'm not just talking about the Wii. Nintendo has had terrible trouble getting hardware and software into the retail channel for years. As a GameCube owner, shopping for new games was always an exercise in frustration.
Kinda telling that half the games you mention playing on the PS3 are PS2 games. How about trying some GameCube games on the Wii?
What I don't get is why they don't use one of the 5 existing palmtop Linux environments, instead of wasting resources building their own from the ground up.
Oh, wait, Palm has lots of ex-80s-Apple people. Never mind.
I have an HDTV, and a DVD player with one of the best upscalers (according to reviews).
I find the quality of a well-encoded DVD movie to be comparable to OTA HDTV on my set.
Of course, I don't have a monster 56" TV. Like the majority of people, I have a set under 40". At that size, well upscaled DVD really isn't obviously inferior to HD.
On a similar note, region coding has been ruled illegal in many countries, as an unfair restraint to free trade. WTO rules say that's not permitted. Yet US DVD players still enforce it, and Blu-ray enforces it too.
How about China taking the US to court for not allowing region-free Blu-ray and DVD players to be sold here freely?
I'd be surprised if MSN knows anything about me, given that I never use MSN for anything. I only have one friend who uses MSN, so it's never been worth abandoning my principles and signing up.
People who use MSN are the kind of people who refer to their web browser as "the Internet".
I can tell the difference, the point is that under normal viewing conditions (i.e. a screen under 40" at a distance of 6') it's not noticeable. Just like for most people's audio equipment, MP3 can be as good as CD.
Sure, initially you think "Wow, look how clear and sharp the writing is on Dave Letterman's coffee mug". But after a while the novelty wears off and you go back to watching the actual show, and then you realize that you would be enjoying it just as much in upscaled 480p, and that if someone quietly switched it to 480p you wouldn't notice for weeks.
Maybe you have a massive 56" screen that you examine from 2' away. That's great, but that's not normal viewing conditions for most people. The vast majority of TV sets sold, even HDTVs, are under 40".
And if you find the lack of 1080 distracting, then it's you I feel sorry for, as you're going to end up spending a ton of money and having trouble getting acceptable image quality and you'll be locked in to horrible DRM systems.