"BeOS was a microkernel. Wasn't necessarily commercially successful by some people's metrics."
The company never made money and went completely bankrupt. By whose metrics were they commercially successful?
I went to thier geek road show at U of Illinois in 1996 and was VERY impressed. This was when they were hyping the BeBox dual processor machine along with the OS. They were too afraid to challange MS on Intel hardware, so they went after the then floundering Apple and Motorola hardware. I think that if they had set thier sights higher, and on more common hardware, that they might still be around.
You are one of the few slashdotters who stopped screaming "privacy invasion" long enough to figure out the real motivation for this crap. This proposal isn't even in comittee, much less being up for a vote in the legislature. It's a trick to get taxpayer/voters to say "Hell yeah I want an increase in gas taxes." Pretty good scheme if you ask me.
Thank you to everyone who chimed in. I figured they were coordinates of some kind, but what I was missing was that each city sets its own origin.
I grew up in Indianapolis, which is based on the design of DC, but without most of the diagonals and circles. Indy uses a pretty effective grid coordinate system for city streets. The only problem is that the size of a block gets significantly larger as you get farther north into the newer parts of town. I moved from there to Atlanta last fall and this town is crazy. If you turn left or right out of my apartment you hit intersections of the same two streets on both sides. Giving directions is nuts. "Take Monroe past Piedmont. If you hit Piedmont again, you've gone too far."
You have obviously never tried to design a database that holds address info for individuals in many countries or designed dynamic reports to print those addresses. Dealing with just the US and Canada is hard. When you include Europe it gets ugly. The system isn't even stanrd within the US. Could someone please explain Utah's postal address system? I see addresses like "288 N 1460 W" all the time.
Yeah! Saddam needed to be deposed because he had thousands of tons of chemical and biological weapons...what?...he didn't have any?...Saddam needed to be deposed because he oppressed his people...yeah...that's the one.
I always imagined it like this: The world is a high school. The US is the captain of the football team and a rich preppy snob. Iraq is the tough poor kid with a bad attitude. The US calls Iraq out for a fight after school for looking at his woman. The US knocks the piss out of Iraq and leaves him bloody on the ground. Then Iraq's friends Iran and Syria step out of the crowd to help Iraq up. The US then points at them and says, "Huh, you want some? You want some of this?" The US doesn't really want to fight them, but it looks good in front of the other kids.
I think that even old man Rumsfeld knows that if the US attacks another Muslim country that nobody will stand with us.
That would be horrible. If the economy of a major power like Papua New Guinea were to falter, think of devastation it would cause on the world markets. I'm terrified to think about it.
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So what is the target demographic, mechanics? Albino carpet cleaners? Of course it's Perl and C programmers.
That pissed me off so bad. What's the point in being a bad ass Jedi if you can't get your groove on? But in the movie, they say that the objection isn't moral, but that love detracts from the jedi focus and is beneath them. Does that mean that they can sleep with a bunch of chicks as long as they don't mean anything? Am I making up stuff or did some of the SW books imply that Yoda was a little green pimp?
There's no money in mild? Only one of the top twenty grossing movies of 2002 was rated R. And that one, 8 Mile, wasn't very graphic. If it wasn't for that one non-sexy sex scene, it would have been PG-13.
The four things that you mentioned are extremely mature technologies that have been refined through several generations of mass produced products. Space based laser missile defense can never be fully tested (think of Spies Like Us). It will "always be a beta release" says the article poster. Basically, I know that car computers work very well because they've been tested of millions and millions of miles of real world driving. The space based system currently proposed has failed most of the tests perfomed. The ones it has passed were simplified versions of the tests that it had failed. Honestly, I don't understand spending 10s of billions of dollars defending against the most difficult and expensive way to deliver nuclear weapons. Although they have improved things a bit, our coasts and ports are not being properly secured.
Why aren't lower production costs being passed on to the consumer? Because they don't have to be. That only happens in a competetive market (I have an econ final tomorrow). One record label isn't going to cut their pruduction costs and start selling CDs at a lower price than the other labels in an attempt to win market share. They're just going to pocket more money. There are two answers why, pick which one you like:
1) The members of the RIAA are illegally conspring to stop competition in their market.
2) Since the music market doesn't sell homogeneous goods, this is just how it works. Only one label sells Britney Spears CDs and they can charge whatever they want becaue nobody else is going to compete directly against them. But a Christina Aguillera album is a subsitute good that people will turn to if the Briney album is too overpriced (I'm going to ace this final tomorrow).
-B
Someone will more than one econ class can chime in now and tell me I'm full of shit.
I lived in a house with some friends for a year, paid my third of the phone bill, and picked up the phone exactly zero times. I've gone without my land line for 8 months and haven't missed it. The only problem is that I can't get a Tivo. Could someone fill me in on the current state of DVRs that can currently, or will soon, hook up to my internet connection?
Last Action Hero was at the peak of Ahnuld's mainstream popularity. It may have been THE peak considering how much damage that movie did to that popularity. There were extensive marketing tie ins (McDonalds game, t-shirts, lunchboxes) that disappeared the week after the movie was released to vicious reviews. (looks at imdb) Here's the chronological list of Schwarzenegger's mainstream films:
Twins Total Recall Kindergarten Cop Terminator 2 Last Action Hero True Lies Junior Eraser Jingle All the Way Batman & Robin End of Days 6th Day Collateral Damage
So with the exception of True Lies, Arnold's career has been a train wreck since T2. We'll see what T3 can do for him.
That's not the deal they signed with Microsoft. The deal says that the company pays Microsoft a ton of money in exchange for using their software and technical support of that software. It would be nice if MS gave them a break for all the time the support staff spent dealing with bugs, but that wasn't the deal. If you even proposed that deal I would bet that MS would tell you to get lost. "What are you going to do? Not use Office?"
From a practical point of view, who verifies the costs? What if I report to Microsoft that my 100 person support team spent two work days dealing with some small bug. And by the way, our support people make $250k/year.
As nice as your proposal sounds in terms of fairness, any person or company has two choices in software:
1) Use Microsoft's products and take what they're given.
2) Don't use Microsoft's products.
The parent poster's company has made its decision. They should deal with it.
You've seen 20 instances of 42 because you've been looking for the number 42. It's like numerology, you disregard the other thousands of numbers you see every day and focus on the ones you want. When you look at your watch, you see it count:39,:40,:41, then:42 and say to yourself "Damn, there's another 42."
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"BeOS was a microkernel. Wasn't necessarily commercially successful by some people's metrics."
The company never made money and went completely bankrupt. By whose metrics were they commercially successful?
I went to thier geek road show at U of Illinois in 1996 and was VERY impressed. This was when they were hyping the BeBox dual processor machine along with the OS. They were too afraid to challange MS on Intel hardware, so they went after the then floundering Apple and Motorola hardware. I think that if they had set thier sights higher, and on more common hardware, that they might still be around.
-B
I go into the bar to get the hell away from Google.
-B
You can get NPR at work with a cutting edge device called an antenna.
-B
You are one of the few slashdotters who stopped screaming "privacy invasion" long enough to figure out the real motivation for this crap. This proposal isn't even in comittee, much less being up for a vote in the legislature. It's a trick to get taxpayer/voters to say "Hell yeah I want an increase in gas taxes." Pretty good scheme if you ask me.
-B
Thank you to everyone who chimed in. I figured they were coordinates of some kind, but what I was missing was that each city sets its own origin.
I grew up in Indianapolis, which is based on the design of DC, but without most of the diagonals and circles. Indy uses a pretty effective grid coordinate system for city streets. The only problem is that the size of a block gets significantly larger as you get farther north into the newer parts of town. I moved from there to Atlanta last fall and this town is crazy. If you turn left or right out of my apartment you hit intersections of the same two streets on both sides. Giving directions is nuts. "Take Monroe past Piedmont. If you hit Piedmont again, you've gone too far."
-B
You have obviously never tried to design a database that holds address info for individuals in many countries or designed dynamic reports to print those addresses. Dealing with just the US and Canada is hard. When you include Europe it gets ugly. The system isn't even stanrd within the US. Could someone please explain Utah's postal address system? I see addresses like "288 N 1460 W" all the time.
-B
Yeah! Saddam needed to be deposed because he had thousands of tons of chemical and biological weapons...what?...he didn't have any?...Saddam needed to be deposed because he oppressed his people...yeah...that's the one.
-B
I always imagined it like this: The world is a high school. The US is the captain of the football team and a rich preppy snob. Iraq is the tough poor kid with a bad attitude. The US calls Iraq out for a fight after school for looking at his woman. The US knocks the piss out of Iraq and leaves him bloody on the ground. Then Iraq's friends Iran and Syria step out of the crowd to help Iraq up. The US then points at them and says, "Huh, you want some? You want some of this?" The US doesn't really want to fight them, but it looks good in front of the other kids.
I think that even old man Rumsfeld knows that if the US attacks another Muslim country that nobody will stand with us.
-B
They should call it the PSX2, PS22, or maybe PS2II.
-B
That would be horrible. If the economy of a major power like Papua New Guinea were to falter, think of devastation it would cause on the world markets. I'm terrified to think about it.
-B
So what is the target demographic, mechanics? Albino carpet cleaners? Of course it's Perl and C programmers.
-B
That pissed me off so bad. What's the point in being a bad ass Jedi if you can't get your groove on? But in the movie, they say that the objection isn't moral, but that love detracts from the jedi focus and is beneath them. Does that mean that they can sleep with a bunch of chicks as long as they don't mean anything? Am I making up stuff or did some of the SW books imply that Yoda was a little green pimp?
-B
There's no money in mild? Only one of the top twenty grossing movies of 2002 was rated R. And that one, 8 Mile, wasn't very graphic. If it wasn't for that one non-sexy sex scene, it would have been PG-13.
-B
Holy Crap!
.NET, there's only one degree of seperation between me and evil crackers.
If someone were to break into my Hotmail account they would find out all the secret ways that I make my penis and breasts larger.
With
-B
The four things that you mentioned are extremely mature technologies that have been refined through several generations of mass produced products. Space based laser missile defense can never be fully tested (think of Spies Like Us). It will "always be a beta release" says the article poster. Basically, I know that car computers work very well because they've been tested of millions and millions of miles of real world driving. The space based system currently proposed has failed most of the tests perfomed. The ones it has passed were simplified versions of the tests that it had failed. Honestly, I don't understand spending 10s of billions of dollars defending against the most difficult and expensive way to deliver nuclear weapons. Although they have improved things a bit, our coasts and ports are not being properly secured.
-B
Terrorists? Who said anything about terrorists? Street punks have been robbing people for centuries without any political cause.
You would walk around any US city at night because you have Tom Ridge and your guns protecting you? East St. Louis? Gary? You're braver than me.
-B
Why aren't lower production costs being passed on to the consumer? Because they don't have to be. That only happens in a competetive market (I have an econ final tomorrow). One record label isn't going to cut their pruduction costs and start selling CDs at a lower price than the other labels in an attempt to win market share. They're just going to pocket more money. There are two answers why, pick which one you like:
1) The members of the RIAA are illegally conspring to stop competition in their market.
2) Since the music market doesn't sell homogeneous goods, this is just how it works. Only one label sells Britney Spears CDs and they can charge whatever they want becaue nobody else is going to compete directly against them. But a Christina Aguillera album is a subsitute good that people will turn to if the Briney album is too overpriced (I'm going to ace this final tomorrow).
-B
Someone will more than one econ class can chime in now and tell me I'm full of shit.
Mr. Cheney told me that only terrorists use the metric system.
-W
The Corsica...No car could get you less pussy than a Chevy Corsica.
I lived in a house with some friends for a year, paid my third of the phone bill, and picked up the phone exactly zero times. I've gone without my land line for 8 months and haven't missed it. The only problem is that I can't get a Tivo. Could someone fill me in on the current state of DVRs that can currently, or will soon, hook up to my internet connection?
-B
Don't mess with me or I'll difference cloud your ass and make you look all trippy.
-B
Last Action Hero was at the peak of Ahnuld's mainstream popularity. It may have been THE peak considering how much damage that movie did to that popularity. There were extensive marketing tie ins (McDonalds game, t-shirts, lunchboxes) that disappeared the week after the movie was released to vicious reviews. (looks at imdb) Here's the chronological list of Schwarzenegger's mainstream films:
Twins
Total Recall
Kindergarten Cop
Terminator 2
Last Action Hero
True Lies
Junior
Eraser
Jingle All the Way
Batman & Robin
End of Days
6th Day
Collateral Damage
So with the exception of True Lies, Arnold's career has been a train wreck since T2. We'll see what T3 can do for him.
-B
That's not the deal they signed with Microsoft. The deal says that the company pays Microsoft a ton of money in exchange for using their software and technical support of that software. It would be nice if MS gave them a break for all the time the support staff spent dealing with bugs, but that wasn't the deal. If you even proposed that deal I would bet that MS would tell you to get lost. "What are you going to do? Not use Office?"
From a practical point of view, who verifies the costs? What if I report to Microsoft that my 100 person support team spent two work days dealing with some small bug. And by the way, our support people make $250k/year.
As nice as your proposal sounds in terms of fairness, any person or company has two choices in software:
1) Use Microsoft's products and take what they're given.
2) Don't use Microsoft's products.
The parent poster's company has made its decision. They should deal with it.
-B
You've seen 20 instances of 42 because you've been looking for the number 42. It's like numerology, you disregard the other thousands of numbers you see every day and focus on the ones you want. When you look at your watch, you see it count :39, :40, :41, then :42 and say to yourself "Damn, there's another 42."
-B
"Public domain? We don't need no steenking public domain."
-B