The hangovers would be terrible! Or perhaps they wouldn't be so bad, alien physiology and all that, could be you get half of a hangover by getting only one head drunk:)
Good point. When I built my led lamp it cost me less than $5/per, but I built it a few years back (99 or 00) and bought them in bulk (40 bulbs, two rows of 20 on a circuit board powered by a 1 amp wall-wart) but ~$180 is way more than many people are willing to spend on a lamp that's only good for low-light reading.
I use it mainly for reading at night because the light is directional enough not to disturb the other people around.
"One of my key concerns when reviewing a good book is the pull between information density and a light, easily read style. I believe that as we get further along the learning curve we can sacrifice some readability for density -- we want more facts and less explanation."
You've just described some of the basics of good technical writing. The basic theory of writing good technical documentation is identifying your audience and writing so not only does the document answer the audience's questions and provide usefully comprehensible information, but also refers the more literate and technical readers to more detailed sources.
Anyone aspiring to be a writer - either professional or just notating code - should take a few technical writing classes. There's an industry that's refined the process of technical writing and there's no sense to reinvent the printing press - so to speak.
Microsoft: Pro - doesn't lose people to another os. Con - loses potential new sales
White-box retail: Pro - wins customers through continued support, or upgrades, either way there's money here Con - not many when charging by the hour, but you can make customers into enemies quickly by telling them "there's no way to fix this"
Users: Pro - don't have to shell out $300 for a new email client. Con - have to pay for their old box to be reloaded and fixed after the oldest of the old spyware/viruses take over and trash their data also isn't as easy to fix as the newer OSes, so it might cost more, like a used car, but they are sometimes easier to fix, also like an old car
Ok, not a "big player" like AT&T, but I bet they make hundreds of thousands a year in revenue - if not low-end millions. Not quite the "small town dialup service for a home hobby/business" scope.
It takes major money to put dsl into a market and few companies can afford to in many areas - otherwise we'd see more broadband:)
Funny... That's how we fix all our problems where I work. Difference is it's part of our allowed answers. Our software sucks so we set people up with outleak express and a dun connection and that fixes 99% of all issues.
Big players are the only ones to put broadband into a neighborhood. The local shops might provide it, but they just buy it from the local telco.
Sooner or later some company(ies) will cover the planet in fiber optic cabling and the internet will move toward limits based only on routing speeds and hardware in your computer. Unfortunately we need to wait for such a glorious day to come and fool around with modems until then.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Stars usually heat up their family of planets, but in an amazing reversal, an astronomer has found a planet that is actually heating up its sun.
I always heard something to the effect of "Your Friendly Neighborhood Store" and propaganda to the tune of "It's our community too!"
It's true though, the employees live in the same town or general region, but it's not the corporate econowarmongers neighborhood. They'll dump and run after the dollar like so many other companies these days.
It's truely unfortunate that this country, and indeed some companies world-wide, have forgotten the way they became so rich and powerful is through employee loyalty. By throwing away that loyalty they throw away their futures.
Very true. Dealing with customers every day I continually hear them expressing their love/hate of tech support, but as long as the person they are speaking with has little or no accent, they immediately calm down.
No slant against the other nations of the world intended - indeed our company offices in India have great technical support records, but there's a reason we don't have customer support services based over there.
It'll be good to see what the trend is for non-software merchandise as well. This christmas had way too many "American" Companies selling new products with 'Made in China' stickers.:/
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/12 6250 Crito says "brooktree/conexant chip based cards are supported by the bttv driver, ATI cards by the gatos driver, nvidia cards by the, uh, i forget, but there a driver for their framegrabber chip too. Problem with bttv is not all tuners are supported, so don't bet it'll work with any 878 card. There's a file called "cardlist" that comes with bttv that'll give you specific models it detects. Also, check the card manufacturer's website for hardware incompatibilities. My Hauppauge card has problems with some SiS, VIA and ALi chipset mobos, for example, but works great with the bttv driver otherwise."
Electric engines are nice and all, but what about magnetically driven wheels? Might not be ready for the harsh environment of road conditions, water, grit. Yet I can think of many a person that would want a no-contact fan engine that will last many times longer if only because there's no engine to gum up and the magnetic field might even repel some of the dust.
How about the community of Geeks gets together some funding and buys up a piece of the moon (or some uninhabited piece of earth)? I mean, seriously, does this sound like a good idea to anyone else?
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The hangovers would be terrible! :)
Or perhaps they wouldn't be so bad, alien physiology and all that, could be you get half of a hangover by getting only one head drunk
Intel has said sometime in the past that their plans for the P4 core will last them until ~11 Ghz.
Good point. When I built my led lamp it cost me less than $5/per, but I built it a few years back (99 or 00) and bought them in bulk (40 bulbs, two rows of 20 on a circuit board powered by a 1 amp wall-wart) but ~$180 is way more than many people are willing to spend on a lamp that's only good for low-light reading.
I use it mainly for reading at night because the light is directional enough not to disturb the other people around.
"One of my key concerns when reviewing a good book is the pull between information density and a light, easily read style. I believe that as we get further along the learning curve we can sacrifice some readability for density -- we want more facts and less explanation."
You've just described some of the basics of good technical writing. The basic theory of writing good technical documentation is identifying your audience and writing so not only does the document answer the audience's questions and provide usefully comprehensible information, but also refers the more literate and technical readers to more detailed sources.
Anyone aspiring to be a writer - either professional or just notating code - should take a few technical writing classes. There's an industry that's refined the process of technical writing and there's no sense to reinvent the printing press - so to speak.
Microsoft:
Pro - doesn't lose people to another os.
Con - loses potential new sales
White-box retail:
Pro - wins customers through continued support, or upgrades, either way there's money here
Con - not many when charging by the hour, but you can make customers into enemies quickly by telling them "there's no way to fix this"
Users:
Pro - don't have to shell out $300 for a new email client.
Con - have to pay for their old box to be reloaded and fixed after the oldest of the old spyware/viruses take over and trash their data
also isn't as easy to fix as the newer OSes, so it might cost more, like a used car, but they are sometimes easier to fix, also like an old car
Ok, not a "big player" like AT&T, but I bet they make hundreds of thousands a year in revenue - if not low-end millions. Not quite the "small town dialup service for a home hobby/business" scope.
:)
It takes major money to put dsl into a market and few companies can afford to in many areas - otherwise we'd see more broadband
Funny...
That's how we fix all our problems where I work. Difference is it's part of our allowed answers. Our software sucks so we set people up with outleak express and a dun connection and that fixes 99% of all issues.
Big players are the only ones to put broadband into a neighborhood. The local shops might provide it, but they just buy it from the local telco.
Sooner or later some company(ies) will cover the planet in fiber optic cabling and the internet will move toward limits based only on routing speeds and hardware in your computer. Unfortunately we need to wait for such a glorious day to come and fool around with modems until then.
Colorado. Desolate, cold, red all over. At least in the foothills.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Stars usually heat up their family of planets, but in an amazing reversal, an astronomer has found a planet that is actually heating up its sun.
The Best of 200x is already available. Go buy a pack of 50 blanks.
Ahh, the napster/kazaa era.
I always heard something to the effect of "Your Friendly Neighborhood Store" and propaganda to the tune of "It's our community too!"
It's true though, the employees live in the same town or general region, but it's not the corporate econowarmongers neighborhood. They'll dump and run after the dollar like so many other companies these days.
It's truely unfortunate that this country, and indeed some companies world-wide, have forgotten the way they became so rich and powerful is through employee loyalty. By throwing away that loyalty they throw away their futures.
Very true.
:/
Dealing with customers every day I continually hear them expressing their love/hate of tech support, but as long as the person they are speaking with has little or no accent, they immediately calm down.
No slant against the other nations of the world intended - indeed our company offices in India have great technical support records, but there's a reason we don't have customer support services based over there.
It'll be good to see what the trend is for non-software merchandise as well. This christmas had way too many "American" Companies selling new products with 'Made in China' stickers.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/12 6250
Crito says
"brooktree/conexant chip based cards are supported by the bttv driver, ATI cards by the gatos driver, nvidia cards by the, uh, i forget, but there a driver for their framegrabber chip too. Problem with bttv is not all tuners are supported, so don't bet it'll work with any 878 card. There's a file called "cardlist" that comes with bttv that'll give you specific models it detects. Also, check the card manufacturer's website for hardware incompatibilities. My Hauppauge card has problems with some SiS, VIA and ALi chipset mobos, for example, but works great with the bttv driver otherwise."
Electric engines are nice and all, but what about magnetically driven wheels? Might not be ready for the harsh environment of road conditions, water, grit. Yet I can think of many a person that would want a no-contact fan engine that will last many times longer if only because there's no engine to gum up and the magnetic field might even repel some of the dust.
:)
Just a thought, patent pending
Would be nice to be able to summarize + paraphrase large articles and documents. Not all of us have the necessary time to read 20+ page documents.
:)
It won't replace original works, but it could help reduce a lot of extraneous data on the web
I think that's the point: it started with one genome and possibly became so mutated that it crossed over to the other genome
:)
(Grats on the news post bro
Diamond Age was a good book although an odd one. I wish I had had the opportunity to learn in an environment similar to a "go at your own pace" book.
I'm not completely sure, but I suppose there will be some political (ugh) problems with just 'settling down' across the landscape of the moon...
How about the community of Geeks gets together some funding and buys up a piece of the moon (or some uninhabited piece of earth)? I mean, seriously, does this sound like a good idea to anyone else?