It is almost as much as Apple's profit margin on the iPhone (around 50%)
Nice try. I've never heard an iPhone owner complain about the price or quality of the product. They manage to make 50% profit and their customers still think the iPhone is worth the price they paid for it. This is not the case with the telcos.
I appreciate that they're important contributors to UI design, but their attitude is unrealistic to companies that are trying to ship products, make profit and gain market share. Companies spending too much time perfecting their UI design will go out of business while their competitors are shipping flawed but ultimately usable products.
Amen! Remember that cockup called Apple? Those hippies spent so much time on their oh-so-great "UI" and "design" that they ran the company into the ground. Fools! When they entered the portable music player business they thought they could do better than the established super-companies. That really made me laugh. And when they tried to build a phone from scratch! Ha, they were years behind successful companies like Sony-Ericsson and Nokia and still insisted on design and UI before features. Everyone who knows anything about business, knows that features come before design. Do-oh! Good thing they are not around anymore. Serves them well.
"Frankly, I'm astonished that it broke 50%. I think we should be celebrating... no I'm not kidding. If this study is correct, it has significantly RAISED my expectations."
Actually. Like a lot of the typical Slashdot posters I share a tendancy to howl with the rest of the wolves about everyone being idiots and how we are much smarter than everybody else and how the schools are messing up the young'uns now a days and Bush is to blame and the world is going to end and we will all die unhappy and lonely because of this.
I, for one, will take this opportunity to celebrate with MightyYar - I will look at this from a positive point of view. After all - if we die unhappy and lonely it would be pretty pathetic to blame college students for it.
After all, 49 percent correctly identified the site that satisfied all three criteria. That is good news, isn't it? Go to happy place!
You should go for a 1600x1200 then - LCD's always look terrible when runnning something other than native resolution but halving the resoultion (to 800x600) may just look acceptable.
Whoah, boy! Easy now. Who said anything about TSA? I thought my terrible grammar indicated that english is not my first language and that I was probably not from the US. But I guess this is slashdot, eh?
I don't know if it's true or not. I heard it from a pilot I know, and I thought you guys would find it interesting. Obviously some of you did, as did I. Take it for what it is - a good story, you've heard somewhere.
A lot of the members in my gliding club are airline pilots and i hear a lot of stories from them.
The pilots have to pass through security just like the rest of us, and from what I hear they are getting increasingly fed up with the security screening staff. The general opinion is, that these are the same personality types that under different circumstances would become executioners.
Some of the pilots fought back though. One guy I heard of, attempted to pass through the detector gate, carefully making sure to step over an imaginary 1 foot high obstruction. The screening crew apparently didn't have a sense of humor and made the pilot walk through the gate again, warning him to do it "normal" this time around. At first the pilot prcoeeded normally through the gate, but stopped in the middle of the gate, spinning around in a Michael Jackson-esqe manouvre and exited the gate walking backwards. The screening crew went ballistic and forced him through a third time before he was let through.
Another pilot presented his ID card to the security screening crew, was let through and pocketed his card again, hurrying towards his assigned aircraft. He was running late. Airpot security guidelines clearly states that ID cards should be carried visible at all times and a female security offcial noticed that the pilot did not carry a visible ID-card, took offence and ran after him. The pilot made it all the way to the cockpit and was sitting down and preparing for the flight, when the security offical came bursting into the cockpit, throwing a hissy fit and telling the pilot off for not wearing the ID card visible. The pilots in the cockpit were running late and were getting increasingly annoyed by the security official, when they noticed that the official was not carrying an ID card herself. "So who are you?", they asked her, demanding to see her ID card. Fumbling around her pockets, she realised that she had left her own ID card behind, when running after the pilot. The pilots resolutely locked the cockpit security doors and radioed the airport advising them that an unknown person that could not identify herself was locked in the cockpit with them. The security official was then escorted off the plane by two armed police officers.
Last year most of Europe suffered from floods and extremely heavy rain throughout the summer.
The climate is not only getting warmer as in heat wave but also more extreme. It is probably too early to spot a general climatic trend, but most scientists agree that the weather we have been experienceing for the last decade or so has been way off the average for the preceding decades.
A temperature change of a few degrees may not seem of much, but on a humid day in e.g. Texas it is the difference between fair-weather cumulus clouds and destructive thunderstorms.
Most/.'ers agree that noone should try to put a server on any network without understanding what is going on.
The climatic balance is pretty delicate and the last thing we should be doing - as we openly admit that we don't fully understand the climate - is to mess around with it and try to sort out the problems later.
In most of europe, fossil fuels are heavilly taxed, e.g. to encourage citizens to buy more environmentally friendly and effecient cars.
Converted to dollars unleaded 95 gasoline will cost me $1.25 per liter (liter, not gallon) here in Denmark.
I'm sure you would find that driving elecric cars around here would make financial sense.
Actually the virtual PC is a pretty usefull piece of software. You create a new "PC", allocate how much ram and disk space it will have, and boot it up. It boots up just as a normal PC with bios and all. It allows you to use the host PC's CD-drive or you can choose to mount an ISO (for instance the newest bootable ISO of your prefered distro).
Since I started playing around with it I've downloaded and tried a lot of different Linux distros. I set up a virtual Linux server on my laptop, so I would always have my "development server" with me, no matter where I went.
This particular piece of software really got me going on alternative OS'es, just because it is easy and painless to try out new OS'es without wasting your main box.
I was introduced to the program by a die hard MS developer, who actually got into trying out all this Li-nuchs stuff, just because it was easy and would leave his precious windows system running. Now he's beginning to see the light.
The problem is that few people live near the coast and people who vote for the windmills live in the city. Also, surprise surprise, more people live in the cities, so our democracy gets its way, so let the people at the coast suffer and make all the hypocrites in the city think they made a favor to their environment.
Don't tell me you never heard about global warming? That's caused by burning fossil fuel. Too much of that and the polar icecaps will start melting and the people in the coastal areas will be living under water.
Building windmills are one way to halt global warming. The technology is rapidly advancing and modern windmills generate several megawatts per windmill. They might not be pretty but they're clean and fairly efficient. In Denmark nuclear power is not a politically acceptable option, so the only useable alternative is wind power.
So. Not to sound like a troll, but you yanks sound like you have a dilema (two unacceptable alternatives - democrats and republicans). Last time I checked, it wasn't written down anywhere, that a democracy could have only two fucking parties.
Maybe if you guys did some actual political work instead of sitting on your arses all day bitching on slashdot, you could actually change something. You'd be surprised at how many people have real opinions and real brains. Don't let TV fool you.
I noticed that the/program files/company name/product path is actually encouraged by installshield. Sifting through the make-installer-wizard it prompts you to enter your company name for the programe files/folder name . At least it did last time I had to make an installer.
Just wire the entire thing with cat5. You can run phone and/or network as you wish. Don't need a phone outlet in a room? Use the outlet for network instead.
I just wired my apartment, and I only put in cat5. I can run my phone over it or I can run network, as I wish. Fiber is terribly inflexible and the gear is pretty damn expensive (try finding a fiber 100Mbit switch or something similar - it'll cost you more than the entire installation).
Another thing : You can't just connect a hub to a fiber outlet if you need more gear connected.
But if you have the cash, stick fiber next to the cat5 and leave in unconnected, in case you need it in ten years.
The X-PLane 5.0 CD I purchased had both a mac and a pc version on it. They both require the cd to be inserted so you can't play them on different machines at the same time. I guess that the Linux version will funktion the same way.
One of the major bank here in Denmark use it for everyday operations, without any trouble. They saved huge amounts of money : the cost of SO compared to MSO and it ran on thair old OS2 gear.
Claiming it is not ready for "prime time" is just plain wrong. It depends on the amount of effort you put into it. If you are dedicated to switching to SO, you will be able to do it.
I run my own small businees on SO and it works just fine, for what I need it to do (word processing, spreadsheats and so on). When I get MSO documents, I have yet to get one, that the filters didn't take care of.
Yes, I need to do things a bit different than I'd do in MSO, but since SO != MSO I'm not that surprised over that fact, and neither should anyone else. Especially not in this forum.
Try it out, but make an effort to make it work for you. I think you'll like it. I do.
That's like saying that it doesn't matter that MS ships IE with Windows, because you can always download another browser from the net.
The easier it is, the more people will use it. If it's available by default on a system people who wouldn't normally cheat might be tempted to do so - just to try. I know I would.
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It is almost as much as Apple's profit margin on the iPhone (around 50%)
Nice try. I've never heard an iPhone owner complain about the price or quality of the product. They manage to make 50% profit and their customers still think the iPhone is worth the price they paid for it. This is not the case with the telcos.
This is how capitalism should work.
I appreciate that they're important contributors to UI design, but their attitude is unrealistic to companies that are trying to ship products, make profit and gain market share. Companies spending too much time perfecting their UI design will go out of business while their competitors are shipping flawed but ultimately usable products.
Amen! Remember that cockup called Apple? Those hippies spent so much time on their oh-so-great "UI" and "design" that they ran the company into the ground. Fools! When they entered the portable music player business they thought they could do better than the established super-companies. That really made me laugh. And when they tried to build a phone from scratch! Ha, they were years behind successful companies like Sony-Ericsson and Nokia and still insisted on design and UI before features. Everyone who knows anything about business, knows that features come before design. Do-oh! Good thing they are not around anymore. Serves them well.
To do damage to a monster or beast I was playing a guitar at it. A mother fucking guitar. To do damage. Call me strange but that was just odd to me.
Obviously you haven't heard Madonna with a guitar.
http://eugenia.blogsome.com/images/madonna6.jpg
"Frankly, I'm astonished that it broke 50%. I think we should be celebrating... no I'm not kidding. If this study is correct, it has significantly RAISED my expectations."
Actually. Like a lot of the typical Slashdot posters I share a tendancy to howl with the rest of the wolves about everyone being idiots and how we are much smarter than everybody else and how the schools are messing up the young'uns now a days and Bush is to blame and the world is going to end and we will all die unhappy and lonely because of this.
I, for one, will take this opportunity to celebrate with MightyYar - I will look at this from a positive point of view. After all - if we die unhappy and lonely it would be pretty pathetic to blame college students for it.
After all, 49 percent correctly identified the site that satisfied all three criteria. That is good news, isn't it? Go to happy place!
You should go for a 1600x1200 then - LCD's always look terrible when runnning something other than native resolution but halving the resoultion (to 800x600) may just look acceptable.
Whoah, boy! Easy now. Who said anything about TSA? I thought my terrible grammar indicated that english is not my first language and that I was probably not from the US. But I guess this is slashdot, eh?
I don't know if it's true or not. I heard it from a pilot I know, and I thought you guys would find it interesting. Obviously some of you did, as did I.
Take it for what it is - a good story, you've heard somewhere.
A lot of the members in my gliding club are airline pilots and i hear a lot of stories from them.
The pilots have to pass through security just like the rest of us, and from what I hear they are getting increasingly fed up with the security screening staff. The general opinion is, that these are the same personality types that under different circumstances would become executioners.
Some of the pilots fought back though. One guy I heard of, attempted to pass through the detector gate, carefully making sure to step over an imaginary 1 foot high obstruction.
The screening crew apparently didn't have a sense of humor and made the pilot walk through the gate again, warning him to do it "normal" this time around.
At first the pilot prcoeeded normally through the gate, but stopped in the middle of the gate, spinning around in a Michael Jackson-esqe manouvre and exited the gate walking backwards. The screening crew went ballistic and forced him through a third time before he was let through.
Another pilot presented his ID card to the security screening crew, was let through and pocketed his card again, hurrying towards his assigned aircraft. He was running late.
Airpot security guidelines clearly states that ID cards should be carried visible at all times and a female security offcial noticed that the pilot did not carry a visible ID-card, took offence and ran after him. The pilot made it all the way to the cockpit and was sitting down and preparing for the flight, when the security offical came bursting into the cockpit, throwing a hissy fit and telling the pilot off for not wearing the ID card visible. The pilots in the cockpit were running late and were getting increasingly annoyed by the security official, when they noticed that the official was not carrying an ID card herself.
"So who are you?", they asked her, demanding to see her ID card. Fumbling around her pockets, she realised that she had left her own ID card behind, when running after the pilot.
The pilots resolutely locked the cockpit security doors and radioed the airport advising them that an unknown person that could not identify herself was locked in the cockpit with them.
The security official was then escorted off the plane by two armed police officers.
Wouldn't a flywheel have to be really heavy and really large to store up that amount of energy?
Last year most of Europe suffered from floods and extremely heavy rain throughout the summer.
/.'ers agree that noone should try to put a server on any network without understanding what is going on.
The climate is not only getting warmer as in heat wave but also more extreme. It is probably too early to spot a general climatic trend, but most scientists agree that the weather we have been experienceing for the last decade or so has been way off the average for the preceding decades.
A temperature change of a few degrees may not seem of much, but on a humid day in e.g. Texas it is the difference between fair-weather cumulus clouds and destructive thunderstorms.
Most
The climatic balance is pretty delicate and the last thing we should be doing - as we openly admit that we don't fully understand the climate - is to mess around with it and try to sort out the problems later.
"Not while oil is so cheap."
In most of europe, fossil fuels are heavilly taxed, e.g. to encourage citizens to buy more environmentally friendly and effecient cars.
Converted to dollars unleaded 95 gasoline will cost me $1.25 per liter (liter, not gallon) here in Denmark.
I'm sure you would find that driving elecric cars around here would make financial sense.
Actually the virtual PC is a pretty usefull piece of software. You create a new "PC", allocate how much ram and disk space it will have, and boot it up. It boots up just as a normal PC with bios and all. It allows you to use the host PC's CD-drive or you can choose to mount an ISO (for instance the newest bootable ISO of your prefered distro).
Since I started playing around with it I've downloaded and tried a lot of different Linux distros. I set up a virtual Linux server on my laptop, so I would always have my "development server" with me, no matter where I went.
This particular piece of software really got me going on alternative OS'es, just because it is easy and painless to try out new OS'es without wasting your main box.
I was introduced to the program by a die hard MS developer, who actually got into trying out all this Li-nuchs stuff, just because it was easy and would leave his precious windows system running. Now he's beginning to see the light.
The problem is that few people live near the coast and people who vote for the windmills live in the city. Also, surprise surprise, more people live in the cities, so our democracy gets its way, so let the people at the coast suffer and make all the hypocrites in the city think they made a favor to their environment.
Don't tell me you never heard about global warming? That's caused by burning fossil fuel. Too much of that and the polar icecaps will start melting and the people in the coastal areas will be living under water.
Building windmills are one way to halt global warming. The technology is rapidly advancing and modern windmills generate several megawatts per windmill. They might not be pretty but they're clean and fairly efficient. In Denmark nuclear power is not a politically acceptable option, so the only useable alternative is wind power.
So. Not to sound like a troll, but you yanks sound like you have a dilema (two unacceptable alternatives - democrats and republicans). Last time I checked, it wasn't written down anywhere, that a democracy could have only two fucking parties. Maybe if you guys did some actual political work instead of sitting on your arses all day bitching on slashdot, you could actually change something. You'd be surprised at how many people have real opinions and real brains. Don't let TV fool you.
I noticed that the /program files/company name/product path is actually encouraged by installshield. Sifting through the make-installer-wizard it prompts you to enter your company name for the programe files/folder name . At least it did last time I had to make an installer.
So. Does this meen that C is also faster than visual basic?
Just wire the entire thing with cat5. You can run phone and/or network as you wish. Don't need a phone outlet in a room? Use the outlet for network instead.
I just wired my apartment, and I only put in cat5. I can run my phone over it or I can run network, as I wish. Fiber is terribly inflexible and the gear is pretty damn expensive (try finding a fiber 100Mbit switch or something similar - it'll cost you more than the entire installation).
Another thing : You can't just connect a hub to a fiber outlet if you need more gear connected.
But if you have the cash, stick fiber next to the cat5 and leave in unconnected, in case you need it in ten years.
A loop is not a manouver that strains the plane a lot. Its a positive G only thing, and most - if not all - planes should be able to do it.
The X-PLane 5.0 CD I purchased had both a mac and a pc version on it. They both require the cd to be inserted so you can't play them on different machines at the same time. I guess that the Linux version will funktion the same way.
One of the major bank here in Denmark use it for everyday operations, without any trouble. They saved huge amounts of money : the cost of SO compared to MSO and it ran on thair old OS2 gear.
Claiming it is not ready for "prime time" is just plain wrong. It depends on the amount of effort you put into it. If you are dedicated to switching to SO, you will be able to do it.
I run my own small businees on SO and it works just fine, for what I need it to do (word processing, spreadsheats and so on). When I get MSO documents, I have yet to get one, that the filters didn't take care of.
Yes, I need to do things a bit different than I'd do in MSO, but since SO != MSO I'm not that surprised over that fact, and neither should anyone else. Especially not in this forum.
Try it out, but make an effort to make it work for you. I think you'll like it. I do.
But isn't the percentage of americans voting at the presidential elections around 50% as well?
Multiplex makes a four engine R/C plane, with bomb bays, capable of carrying around 1 lb payload.
You could fit one of those cameras to the plane itself, use a high gain antenna, fly out somewhere, land and roll out your rover from the bomb bay.
Woah, getting carried away here.
That's like saying that it doesn't matter that MS ships IE with Windows, because you can always download another browser from the net.
The easier it is, the more people will use it. If it's available by default on a system people who wouldn't normally cheat might be tempted to do so - just to try. I know I would.
... a Beowulf cluster of these. *punch* *ow* *sorry, sorry!* *ow*
No. And PC's will _never_ need more than 640 K of RAM, either.
I'd film one of those deadlines, which make a wooshing sound as they fly by. Everyones talking about them, but I aint never sene one!