Otherwise you are held *hostage* by whoever owns the cow.
Case in point: Apple Web browser, Safari, using KHTML code. Adopted the code into WebKit and WebCore, and in turn provide fixes and patches.
Apple gains a small, lithe, agile, and capable HTML renderer Apple's contributions guarantee KHTML does not wither and die due to lack of attention as Mozilla gains steam Secondary effect of creating a third alternative to IE and Mozilla. Everyone, including Mozilla and IE users, benefit from the diversity and growth.
Capitalism is efficient as long as the costs are taken into effect. If the cost of Open Source is factored in and it is still advantageous, then capitalism will adopt Open Source; we see this in IBM (they too contribute patches to Linux), SGI, Apple, and other, smaller, businesses that gain from the diverse contributors and stable development practices.
I tried this on the last article that talked about summarizing; It's slightly less relevant in this article because they talk about using multiple sources to cross reference, correlate, and paraphrase rather than actually summarizing.
Filling a 40 GB I-Pod may be a challenge but will cost thousands of dollars if done the ITMS way.
But it's still cheaper than the CD way: 40gb of CDs == 60% more expensive than 40gb off the iTMS, using your $16 per CD and $10 per iTMS album.
So if it costs $1k on the iTMS, it will cost $1.6k with real CDs; and that isn't even counting the fact that on some CDs you save money because you only spend $3 or $4 on the tracks you want, instead of $16 on 12 tracks you don't want.
They are up in the sky, and they *aren't* instantly accessible. Above or below ground isn't the problem, so much as that they have intersections with 30+ pairs of wires running across them. Who do they belong to? Where do they connect? No one knows!
If no one comes to claim them, they will be cut. *That* is the heart of the article, the simplification, regulation, and control of the wires. Not whether it's above ore below ground. It's only written to seem that way.
Why couldn't Gandalf hop on a Nuclear radiated giant eagle - fly over the top of "Mount Incinerator" and drop the ring?
The (at least 9) nazgul and ringwraiths would have stopped him. The eagles are not his to command, btw, the movies don't mention the Brown wizard who controlled the moth and eagles; you did notice the moth both times the eagle(s) showed up?
And the spewing magma would be of lower temperature than the magma inside the mountain, so throwing the ring there, if you're willing to believe it, would have only blown the ring back out to eventually be found by an orc when it cools down sufficiently.
It only reorganizes your collection if you're stupid enough to check the box, "Keep iTunes Music Folder Organized" and during installation, "Allow iTunes to Organize your Music". As for whim? I suppose organizing music by artist and album is a whim. Seems like a very logical whim, to me.
Here's how I see it:
iTunes, the media player for people who care more about music than filesystems
Winamp, the media player for people that don't trust computers
XMMS, the media player for people who can't install Winamp or iTunes:P
Save the foodstamps, eat a nice meal, and download iTunes while you're at it. Free, just like Winamp lite, and you get to encode in AAC, MP3, WAV, and AIFF.
I don't know about you, but I've already got plans on using a derivative of IBM PowerPC technology on my desktop, and I already have PowerPC technology in my computers, and there's none of this 'closed computing that Microsoft, HP, and other companies' here.
But me, I've been using Macs for two years and I'm looking forward to getting a G5 of some flavor in the next year.
Economics is just a field of study: The study of scare resources amongst unlimited desire. It isn't economics that is inherently evil, but the fact that people have unlimited desire. If people were able to show any kind of restraint and self control, the whole issue of Communism, Capitalism, or any other kind of dogma becomes a moot point, I think.
You forget the Mac OS, a platform where users are *known* for paying for things, and at a premium even!
If you develop your game from the beginning to be cross platform, you will incur little, if any, development costs for your port because the cost will be part of the development.
Essentially the time and price to design (which is little relative to debug and test) and the time and price to test and debug; and if the game is developed with portability in the first place, you will see fewer bugs and problems than if you, as another poster suggested, used DirectX in the first place because you are forced to redesign and reimplement all the UI and structure.
I wonder if we can have a useful discussion without flames and insults? It is Slashdot after all!
I think the problem is that computers aren't being used in their strengths: As long as you use computers as fancy notepads and chalkboards, computers are useless in a classroom.
However, if you cater to their strengths and capabilities, I think computers are invaluable: 1) Their ability to network and connect classrooms with other locations, such as other classrooms, servers with data such as photographs, maps, and things you can't store in a classroom.
2) Their ability to virtualize. See things you can't afford to go see, do things you can't afford to go do, teach things you can't afford to otherwise teach! Books, encyclopedias, and videos offer a very static virtual representation, where a computer can be interactive! Not only can you 'see' different animals at various depths of the ocean with a computer (which a video can do just as well), you can *explore* too! Find out what happens at various pressures to your ship, to your body, see how snowflakes form, how ants find food; and then fiddle with a few settings, and see *different* snowflakes, see the ants starve, and see your ship crumple! You can design airplanes, and see if they fly or fall, you can create space stations, and see if your astronauts starve, overheat, or get bored to death!
3) Interactivity. Very tied to virtualization and networking, you can interact with a computer in a way that you cannot with a video or a book. You can change things, simulate things, watch things, and then go back and change more things. You can have a classroom that happens to have access to a freshwater lake do experiments and research, connected to a classroom that happens to have a database, some programming kids, and a good grasp of math, and at the end of each day each classroom can learn things that before networking neither could!
4) Data manipulation and storage. You can store lots of photographs, keep tremendous databases, perform tedious analysis, and create pictures out of raw numbers that a child, or even an adult, cannot. Measure the temperature, humidity, rainfall, pressure, cloud cover/sunlight, and wind at 400 locations 10 times a day across a city, and have the kids create programs to access, correlate, and manipulate that data and see if they can spot trends, correlations, and causations!
So yes, there are reasons to have computers in the classroom. No, right now no one does it properly.
Indeed, you are correct, the story is that each of the 6 men come to a different conclusion.
The analogy works because the problem is the product is the elephant. Each developer cannot see the entire problem, product, or elephant, and must focus on their aspect of the problem, product, and elephant.
The idea is that with some sort of strategy and baseplan, a room full of developers can come out of the project with a single conclusion: An elephant, a product, and solution.
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Because you need to keep the cow alive?
Otherwise you are held *hostage* by whoever owns the cow.
Case in point:
Apple
Web browser, Safari, using KHTML code.
Adopted the code into WebKit and WebCore, and in turn provide fixes and patches.
Apple gains a small, lithe, agile, and capable HTML renderer
Apple's contributions guarantee KHTML does not wither and die due to lack of attention as Mozilla gains steam
Secondary effect of creating a third alternative to IE and Mozilla.
Everyone, including Mozilla and IE users, benefit from the diversity and growth.
Capitalism is efficient as long as the costs are taken into effect. If the cost of Open Source is factored in and it is still advantageous, then capitalism will adopt Open Source; we see this in IBM (they too contribute patches to Linux), SGI, Apple, and other, smaller, businesses that gain from the diverse contributors and stable development practices.
I tried this on the last article that talked about summarizing; It's slightly less relevant in this article because they talk about using multiple sources to cross reference, correlate, and paraphrase rather than actually summarizing.
Kingdom Hearts 2
Doom 3
Metal Gear Solid 3
Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories
That about sums up my 2004 must buys
Here.
OS/2 and NT share a considerable code base, the first three versions of OS/2 and the first version of NT. OS/2 v3 became Windows NT 3.0.
Uh, the difference in area between a circle and a square x height?
x being the length of a side, the area of the square is x*x
The same area of a circle is Pi*x*x/4
So a square is x*x(1-Pi/4) bigger than a circle, and x*x(1-Pi/4)*h denser than a cylinder.
The percentage difference? A rectangle would be 4/Pi-1 times denser.
Filling a 40 GB I-Pod may be a challenge but will cost thousands of dollars if done the ITMS way.
But it's still cheaper than the CD way: 40gb of CDs == 60% more expensive than 40gb off the iTMS, using your $16 per CD and $10 per iTMS album.
So if it costs $1k on the iTMS, it will cost $1.6k with real CDs; and that isn't even counting the fact that on some CDs you save money because you only spend $3 or $4 on the tracks you want, instead of $16 on 12 tracks you don't want.
You're blaming Apple for ThinkSecret's rumors?
If I were to sell an iPod, I would use the current model, not a future release; any more than I would use OS X Panther vs XP, and not vs Longhorn.
Did you read the same article I did?
They are up in the sky, and they *aren't* instantly accessible. Above or below ground isn't the problem, so much as that they have intersections with 30+ pairs of wires running across them. Who do they belong to? Where do they connect? No one knows!
If no one comes to claim them, they will be cut. *That* is the heart of the article, the simplification, regulation, and control of the wires. Not whether it's above ore below ground. It's only written to seem that way.
So in that vein, the IceKey from Macally features the same scissor key action as the laptop keyboards.
Why couldn't Gandalf hop on a Nuclear radiated giant eagle - fly over the top of "Mount Incinerator" and drop the ring?
The (at least 9) nazgul and ringwraiths would have stopped him. The eagles are not his to command, btw, the movies don't mention the Brown wizard who controlled the moth and eagles; you did notice the moth both times the eagle(s) showed up?
And the spewing magma would be of lower temperature than the magma inside the mountain, so throwing the ring there, if you're willing to believe it, would have only blown the ring back out to eventually be found by an orc when it cools down sufficiently.
It only reorganizes your collection if you're stupid enough to check the box, "Keep iTunes Music Folder Organized" and during installation, "Allow iTunes to Organize your Music". As for whim? I suppose organizing music by artist and album is a whim. Seems like a very logical whim, to me.
:P
Here's how I see it:
iTunes, the media player for people who care more about music than filesystems
Winamp, the media player for people that don't trust computers
XMMS, the media player for people who can't install Winamp or iTunes
Save the foodstamps, eat a nice meal, and download iTunes while you're at it. Free, just like Winamp lite, and you get to encode in AAC, MP3, WAV, and AIFF.
You don't remember correctly
What the hell kind of laptop are you running that consumes 50W!?
I've a 47WHr battery and my laptop can last me 3 hours on a plane, easy; or roughly 16W is consumed by my laptop...
I don't know about you, but I've already got plans on using a derivative of IBM PowerPC technology on my desktop, and I already have PowerPC technology in my computers, and there's none of this 'closed computing that Microsoft, HP, and other companies' here.
But me, I've been using Macs for two years and I'm looking forward to getting a G5 of some flavor in the next year.
Uh, maybe they really, really, like music?
Wow, you believe economics is inherently evil?
Economics is just a field of study: The study of scare resources amongst unlimited desire. It isn't economics that is inherently evil, but the fact that people have unlimited desire. If people were able to show any kind of restraint and self control, the whole issue of Communism, Capitalism, or any other kind of dogma becomes a moot point, I think.
I love my iTrip. Your experiences may vary, but it's an awesome toy to use in cars without tape decks!
Yah, they cycle products in and out of there all the time. Right now 3 iPods are listed (10gb, 15gb, and 30gb) but none are in stock and on sale yet.
You forget the Mac OS, a platform where users are *known* for paying for things, and at a premium even!
If you develop your game from the beginning to be cross platform, you will incur little, if any, development costs for your port because the cost will be part of the development.
Essentially the time and price to design (which is little relative to debug and test) and the time and price to test and debug; and if the game is developed with portability in the first place, you will see fewer bugs and problems than if you, as another poster suggested, used DirectX in the first place because you are forced to redesign and reimplement all the UI and structure.
Not at all, I have friends with Dell desktops and Dell laptops, and my Mac desktop and Mac laptop of similar age is much quieter.
And cooler.
And longer running on the battery.
And lighter.
And smaller.
It's 'fact' when I do a straight comparison between actual hardware.
Except Macs, of course, as regards to power, noise, heat, and size.
I wonder if we can have a useful discussion without flames and insults? It is Slashdot after all!
I think the problem is that computers aren't being used in their strengths: As long as you use computers as fancy notepads and chalkboards, computers are useless in a classroom.
However, if you cater to their strengths and capabilities, I think computers are invaluable:
1) Their ability to network and connect classrooms with other locations, such as other classrooms, servers with data such as photographs, maps, and things you can't store in a classroom.
2) Their ability to virtualize. See things you can't afford to go see, do things you can't afford to go do, teach things you can't afford to otherwise teach! Books, encyclopedias, and videos offer a very static virtual representation, where a computer can be interactive! Not only can you 'see' different animals at various depths of the ocean with a computer (which a video can do just as well), you can *explore* too! Find out what happens at various pressures to your ship, to your body, see how snowflakes form, how ants find food; and then fiddle with a few settings, and see *different* snowflakes, see the ants starve, and see your ship crumple! You can design airplanes, and see if they fly or fall, you can create space stations, and see if your astronauts starve, overheat, or get bored to death!
3) Interactivity. Very tied to virtualization and networking, you can interact with a computer in a way that you cannot with a video or a book. You can change things, simulate things, watch things, and then go back and change more things. You can have a classroom that happens to have access to a freshwater lake do experiments and research, connected to a classroom that happens to have a database, some programming kids, and a good grasp of math, and at the end of each day each classroom can learn things that before networking neither could!
4) Data manipulation and storage. You can store lots of photographs, keep tremendous databases, perform tedious analysis, and create pictures out of raw numbers that a child, or even an adult, cannot. Measure the temperature, humidity, rainfall, pressure, cloud cover/sunlight, and wind at 400 locations 10 times a day across a city, and have the kids create programs to access, correlate, and manipulate that data and see if they can spot trends, correlations, and causations!
So yes, there are reasons to have computers in the classroom. No, right now no one does it properly.
Indeed, you are correct, the story is that each of the 6 men come to a different conclusion.
The analogy works because the problem is the product is the elephant. Each developer cannot see the entire problem, product, or elephant, and must focus on their aspect of the problem, product, and elephant.
The idea is that with some sort of strategy and baseplan, a room full of developers can come out of the project with a single conclusion: An elephant, a product, and solution.
Describes it a little, since it's written with Apple's Summarize Service.
I think Apple uses the service internally in their file indexing and search feature, too!