I read the artile in Portuguese originally, and skipped the Babelfish version. The quote you cited made me go and check out what Babelfish had done to the article. I read the "we changes the product" part as "we exchange the product". Basically he (he is a he) is saying that they have an exchange program in place if the CD doesn't work for you, and he thinks this should have prevented the lawsuit. I am not saying that I agree with him, but Babelfish makes him look worse than he is.
Why do I see a flood of Tele-Marketers in business for 2 months and 30 days?
Perhaps you see this flood because you didn't understand the post you responded to. Nobody said that telemarketers don't have to use the list for 3 months. What was said was that it takes three months to get your name on the list once you enter it into the system. The two things are not the same at all.
But when you presume that a 800MHz Celeron is the same speed as a dual 2GHz G5, you're just comparing apples to oranges and noticing one of them costs more.
Actually the parent assumed just the opposite. Re-read the post. The comparison was between a few G5 boxes and a room full of Celerons.
While the initial cost of the Celerons might be cheaper (though I doubt the difference would be large) the difference in TCO would be large. The cost of powering the Celeron cluster, the floorspace it occupies, and cooling would combine to make the large cluster more expensive in the long run.
A while ago I saw a report on the cost of spare parts. In order to buy the spare parts for a complete Ford Tempo you would have to spend $220,000. Of course that was for new parts and not from a junk yard. That doesn't include the labor to assemble it, just the parts. I doubt that you could assemble a BMW out of parts for less than 2x the retail price.
When I was a kid they had an adult library card and a kids card. My dad signed a form that let me have an adult card at the age of about 8.
Perhaps libraries could issue smart cards that have personalized filter settings built in so you can sit at the computer, plug in your card, and the settings would just work without having to ask a librarian for help.
Of course, you would have to assure users that their browsing wasn't being correlated with their id.
I don't come to the same conclusion from his info... While, with some positions he held, he certainly could have had extensive human interaction, but that's not necessarily the case.
You have to be kidding. He was a Mormon missionary in Mexico for two years. I can tell you that all he did all day for two years was talk to people, or at least try to. Also, working at IBM isn't cubicle prison for many people. Some travel the world interacting with CEOs of large corporations. I can assure you that he gets a mix of both. Finally, he worked as a cop. You don't think that cops interact with people? I think that his wide range of interactions is blatantly obvious from his/. bio.
I have seen no evidence from you detailing how you have dealt with large numbers of people. Ok, I will count your antisocial attitude as evidence, but it really doesn't do much to convince me that you deal well with people. Especially if the "rules of conduct" only apply while you are at work. That strikes me as the attitude of someone who doesn't have much experience dealing with people. Please share with us how it was that you became so experienced. At this point I am immensely curious. Seriously...
That's said, the comment which you are focusing on was not intended directly for him...
So your comment was just a bit of cheast beating for the benefit of the/. audience? The same people that you don't think much of?
I think that the increase in the bus could really help here. If you can keep feeding data through a slow altivec unit you will might get better performance than with a fast one that is starved for data.
Perhaps you should look at swillden's user page before you claim to have "dealt with far more people than you can probably imagine..."
It seems to me that he has dealt with large numbers of people in a variety of situations. He has served in the armed services, works for one of the largest companies in the world, and spent two years as a missionary in Mexico. That is just what I have gleaned from his user page.
Read your reaction carefully and think of how it might come across to other readers. To me you don't come off as nearly as experienced at dealing with other people as he does. Just a thought.
It isn't clear from the last paragraph of the article if they are comparing a dual G4 to a single 970. The other option is a single G4 to a single 970. A dual 970 doesn't seem to be an option since they don't seem to be in production currently.
Does anyone have any clarification on this? With the rumours that the 970 chip is actually less expensive for Apple than the G4 I was hoping for dual 970 boxes at price points similar to the current crop of PowerMacs.
Nobody these days makes a living manufacturing vacuum tubes or writing letters for people who never learned to read.
Obviously you haven't seen the excellent move Central Station. One of the central charaters makes her living by writing letters for people who can't read. Of course she never actually delivers them, except for once. You should go see it. Letter writing lady got nominated for Best Actress and lost to Gweneth Paltrow. She thinks she got robbed and I agree.
In fact, given your opinion of copyright law, maybe you should download it and watch it.
In my last journal entry, written after seeing the movie early (which nobody commented on, thanks guys!) I brought up a bit of symbolism that I haven't seen anybody else point out.
In the living quarters area of Zion all of the area around the door frames are painted blood red. This struck me as an obvious reference to the passover. The residents of Zion are waiting to be delivered from the machines and have marked their doors. So if residents of Zion == Jews escaping Eqypt, then the machines == Egyptians.
One can see how this film got banned in Egypt if the force that keeps nearly all of humanity enslaved is equated with their country. Not the most mature attitude, but you can see how this would happen.
Interestingly, in the Animatrix, there are scenes straight out of the Ten Commandments in which the machines are depicted as the Jewish slaves, building pyramids, and the humans as the Egyptian slave drivers. I wonder if the Animatrix is banned as well.
I started programming our C=64 the day after my dad brought it home. I was in third grade and I taught myself Basic. My little brother and I wrote all sorts of games and made our own animated cartoons using that computer. I wish someone would make a cheap C=64 (hardware, not emmulator) so I could let my kids have a crack at it as well.
Anyhow, back to the present...
Some kid found my 3D asteriods game on the internet and asked me if I could teach him how to program. Note that he lives in another state, and I've never met him in person.
He was 12 at the time and struck me as being bright. I had him download the free Java stuff from Sun and we developed a video game applet together. We discussed what kind of game to make, how it would work, and the logic behind it. We decided on a simple game and then added features as we went along, rather than trying to implement his initial vision all at once. This let him see that progress was being made.
We didn't get into any OO stuff. In fact the structure of the game is more similar to C than to traditional Java code, but it was stuff he could understand. He wrote some of it and modified much of what I wrote.
Free (as in beer) development kits are nice. The kid didn't have money to buy Visual Studio.
Free documentation is important as well. Sun has some nice stuff on the web and there are lots of java game tutorials out there.
AIM is incredibly useful for something like this.
The web is a great tool for letting kids share their accomplishments with others. This kid gave the URL to others at his Jr. High and they could see the game he made.
This sort of thing take a long time and lots of patience, especially remotely. It would be nice to have been able to have worked in the same room on occasion.
Please see my other post in this thread, explaining my thoughts on the subject. I have dealt with this issue since my C=64 and I have always simply bought a new computer when I needed it. I looked for the best deal I could find at the time, knowing that within two weeks I would happen across an even better deal. I really think this is a special situation. I work for IBM and I might even buy myself another Mac when the new ones come out depending on performance and price.
Usually I would agree with you and say, "Just buy whatever is out right now that suits your needs. Don't worry about something better being released in a month."
However, this is not simply a product refresh, bumping up the GHz a bit. This is a substantial change in performance and architecture. It seems like waiting long enough to know the impact of that change might be worthwhile.
Finally. I work at a newspaper and the fact that there was no QuarkExpress support for OSX has kept us from updating our macintoshes. We can finally get back up-to-date.
Hold off on purchasing new hardware for a few weeks to see if the 970 rumours are true. How dumb would it be to hold off this long only to purchase new hardware at the worst possible time?
It is informative. In the time it took me to load the original and/.ed article I had already read several comments, including this one, which contains the entire text of the article.
If I M2 your mod (if in fact you did mod it) I will M2 it as unfair, because I will have read the whole thing.
You have a few parts of it wrong. One nice thing about quantum cryptography is that it lets you detect eavesdropping. If someone is eavesdropping you simply start over. Also, in step 5 the conversation can be overheard with no ill effects, since what they are communicating doesn't contain enough information to derive their key. Alice can simply say which polarization she used and not what she sent. Bob knows what he received, so he doesn't need an more than that to know what she sent. This is, of course, a simplification.
There are plenty of references that describe the process in great detail. The Code Book by Simon Singh contains a good explaination.
This situation simply highlights the need for college students to have secret offshore accounts. If he had said, my life savings is $600, while keeping the majority of it in a secret account he would have been much better off.
In the general case, having a secret account is useful in financial aid situations. Where I went to school they asked you how much money you had and then said, "Give us 1/3rd of that and then we'll REDUCE your aid by that amount." They did that all four years. Not to mention that they basically confiscated my outside scholarships. Why even bother applying for scholarships if they aren't going to help? Since I left there has been some reform but not enough. I felt like I was being punished for my honesty. I was aware of several situations in which students lied through their teeth about how much money they had and got tons of financial aid because of it. Life isn't fair. There is now way you should be driving around campus in a new Audi while on massive amounts of financial aid.
Since leaving college I have had no need for a swiss bank account, but I could have used one at the time. The funny thing is that one of my friends is from Switzerland, and had a habit of pointing out that "of course" he had a swiss bank account.
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I read the artile in Portuguese originally, and skipped the Babelfish version. The quote you cited made me go and check out what Babelfish had done to the article. I read the "we changes the product" part as "we exchange the product". Basically he (he is a he) is saying that they have an exchange program in place if the CD doesn't work for you, and he thinks this should have prevented the lawsuit. I am not saying that I agree with him, but Babelfish makes him look worse than he is.
Perhaps you see this flood because you didn't understand the post you responded to. Nobody said that telemarketers don't have to use the list for 3 months. What was said was that it takes three months to get your name on the list once you enter it into the system. The two things are not the same at all.
Actually, VAJ has a pluggable JVM as well. I actually really like the built in source control.
Actually the parent assumed just the opposite. Re-read the post. The comparison was between a few G5 boxes and a room full of Celerons.
While the initial cost of the Celerons might be cheaper (though I doubt the difference would be large) the difference in TCO would be large. The cost of powering the Celeron cluster, the floorspace it occupies, and cooling would combine to make the large cluster more expensive in the long run.
I have been doing this with VisualAge for Java for years now.
A while ago I saw a report on the cost of spare parts. In order to buy the spare parts for a complete Ford Tempo you would have to spend $220,000. Of course that was for new parts and not from a junk yard. That doesn't include the labor to assemble it, just the parts. I doubt that you could assemble a BMW out of parts for less than 2x the retail price.
Perhaps libraries could issue smart cards that have personalized filter settings built in so you can sit at the computer, plug in your card, and the settings would just work without having to ask a librarian for help.
Of course, you would have to assure users that their browsing wasn't being correlated with their id.
Given the leak today of the specs of the G5, would you wait?
later,
John
You have to be kidding. He was a Mormon missionary in Mexico for two years. I can tell you that all he did all day for two years was talk to people, or at least try to. Also, working at IBM isn't cubicle prison for many people. Some travel the world interacting with CEOs of large corporations. I can assure you that he gets a mix of both. Finally, he worked as a cop. You don't think that cops interact with people? I think that his wide range of interactions is blatantly obvious from his /. bio.
I have seen no evidence from you detailing how you have dealt with large numbers of people. Ok, I will count your antisocial attitude as evidence, but it really doesn't do much to convince me that you deal well with people. Especially if the "rules of conduct" only apply while you are at work. That strikes me as the attitude of someone who doesn't have much experience dealing with people. Please share with us how it was that you became so experienced. At this point I am immensely curious. Seriously...
That's said, the comment which you are focusing on was not intended directly for him...
So your comment was just a bit of cheast beating for the benefit of the /. audience? The same people that you don't think much of?
I think that the increase in the bus could really help here. If you can keep feeding data through a slow altivec unit you will might get better performance than with a fast one that is starved for data.
Perhaps you should look at swillden's user page before you claim to have "dealt with far more people than you can probably imagine..."
It seems to me that he has dealt with large numbers of people in a variety of situations. He has served in the armed services, works for one of the largest companies in the world, and spent two years as a missionary in Mexico. That is just what I have gleaned from his user page.
Read your reaction carefully and think of how it might come across to other readers. To me you don't come off as nearly as experienced at dealing with other people as he does. Just a thought.
Best wishes,
John
Does anyone have any clarification on this? With the rumours that the 970 chip is actually less expensive for Apple than the G4 I was hoping for dual 970 boxes at price points similar to the current crop of PowerMacs.
Obviously you haven't seen the excellent move Central Station . One of the central charaters makes her living by writing letters for people who can't read. Of course she never actually delivers them, except for once. You should go see it. Letter writing lady got nominated for Best Actress and lost to Gweneth Paltrow. She thinks she got robbed and I agree.
In fact, given your opinion of copyright law, maybe you should download it and watch it.
In the living quarters area of Zion all of the area around the door frames are painted blood red. This struck me as an obvious reference to the passover. The residents of Zion are waiting to be delivered from the machines and have marked their doors. So if residents of Zion == Jews escaping Eqypt, then the machines == Egyptians.
One can see how this film got banned in Egypt if the force that keeps nearly all of humanity enslaved is equated with their country. Not the most mature attitude, but you can see how this would happen.
Interestingly, in the Animatrix, there are scenes straight out of the Ten Commandments in which the machines are depicted as the Jewish slaves, building pyramids, and the humans as the Egyptian slave drivers. I wonder if the Animatrix is banned as well.
That is what he wanted to be called at the time. Actually, he never gave me his full name, which was fine with me.
BTW, there is a start of a pac-man tutorial on the site that we never finished. This is as far as we got.
It is meant to be easy at first. It gets progressively harder. By level 30 it should be very difficult.
Anyhow, back to the present...
Some kid found my 3D asteriods game on the internet and asked me if I could teach him how to program. Note that he lives in another state, and I've never met him in person.
He was 12 at the time and struck me as being bright. I had him download the free Java stuff from Sun and we developed a video game applet together. We discussed what kind of game to make, how it would work, and the logic behind it. We decided on a simple game and then added features as we went along, rather than trying to implement his initial vision all at once. This let him see that progress was being made.
We didn't get into any OO stuff. In fact the structure of the game is more similar to C than to traditional Java code, but it was stuff he could understand. He wrote some of it and modified much of what I wrote.
You can check out the result here
Here is what I learned from the project:
Please see my other post in this thread, explaining my thoughts on the subject. I have dealt with this issue since my C=64 and I have always simply bought a new computer when I needed it. I looked for the best deal I could find at the time, knowing that within two weeks I would happen across an even better deal. I really think this is a special situation. I work for IBM and I might even buy myself another Mac when the new ones come out depending on performance and price.
However, this is not simply a product refresh, bumping up the GHz a bit. This is a substantial change in performance and architecture. It seems like waiting long enough to know the impact of that change might be worthwhile.
Hold off on purchasing new hardware for a few weeks to see if the 970 rumours are true. How dumb would it be to hold off this long only to purchase new hardware at the worst possible time?
If I M2 your mod (if in fact you did mod it) I will M2 it as unfair, because I will have read the whole thing.
There are plenty of references that describe the process in great detail. The Code Book by Simon Singh contains a good explaination.
I wonder how often the "Slashdotted - text below" posts here on /. have "clever" little changes to them?
In the general case, having a secret account is useful in financial aid situations. Where I went to school they asked you how much money you had and then said, "Give us 1/3rd of that and then we'll REDUCE your aid by that amount." They did that all four years. Not to mention that they basically confiscated my outside scholarships. Why even bother applying for scholarships if they aren't going to help? Since I left there has been some reform but not enough. I felt like I was being punished for my honesty. I was aware of several situations in which students lied through their teeth about how much money they had and got tons of financial aid because of it. Life isn't fair. There is now way you should be driving around campus in a new Audi while on massive amounts of financial aid.
Since leaving college I have had no need for a swiss bank account, but I could have used one at the time. The funny thing is that one of my friends is from Switzerland, and had a habit of pointing out that "of course" he had a swiss bank account.