They seem more expensive than ever, don't they? We know they don't cost anything to duplicate. Albums of older artists (Beatles) cost as much as new junk, so not ALL of it is going into production costs and marketing, so why do they cost more than they used to? Has the price gone up faster or slower than inflation? In the early 90s albums cost $13-$14, now they retail for $18.
Many of the personal e-mails which I send are unsolicited
Are you sending them to people that you've never met in any way? If so, then how are they personal? Otherwise you are just sending email to someone you know. I am sure that they know how to ask you to stop, unless they fear offending you.
I don't think that we need to go into a definition of "spam" here. We all "know it when we see it".
Now on to my rant!
Sending thousands of unsolicedted emails (spam) is not "communicating freely". It is an electronic slap in the face. You don't respect me as a person to keep yourself from wasting my time and resources. You have no right to my time and resources. Telemarketers are nobler than spammers, at least they bother you on a one-to-one basis rather than vomiting their filth onto every person they can possibly find at once.
Finally, I at least get to play mind games with telemarketers!
The sensible thing is to have even-numbered point revisions be major revisions, odd-numbered be minor overhauls, and full digit revisions be new products.
I agree. Now should someone who paid full price for 10.0 - 10.1.5 have to pay full price for 10.2?
Actually if they had called it 10.5 most Apple users would have been happier to pay for it. Maybe now there is a more consevative way of numbering things such that point releases will always be something you pay for and the updates to those (10.2.1) will be free. In the past versions such as 7.1, 7.2 were free while 7.5 was not.
What did you expect? Even if the vast majority of people behave in a mature way, there are enough immature people left over to perform a ddos on the RIAA.
We will have a difficult time escaping this problem. If it is a problem, that is.
I agree that the spot adds to the intrigue of the work. I doubt that Escher "couldn't figure out what to put there" as others have suggested. He left it there on purpose, since he had already implied what the contents of it are.
Looking at the print you are drawn to the spot, just as the person depicted on the right side of the work seems to be. What does he see? If you think about it you realize that he sees the same thing you do, the back of his head. He is observing the same work you are. By including the spot Escher makes you part of the picture. If the person on the right is "Observer #1" and the person he is looking at is "Observer #2" you are "Observer #0". If the spot were filled in it wouldn't have the same effect. Go to the site and spend some time looking at the original work and the filled in version. I find that the original give a different sense of wonder and point of view than the new one.
...that the strange way in which RMS names categories of software causes you such fits, yet the strange way that Mac OS X is named is so natural to you that you have trouble understanding why it bothers other people.
Other than that, I agree with you that RMS has a reality distortion field. Interestingly, seeing him give a presentation in person weakens the field considerably. This is perhaps the oposite of Steve Jobs.
Finally, whose idea was it to use a GPL'ed library to begin with? I doubt that the lawyers are the ones who said, "Hey, this library does what we want!" The coders at a commercial software company should be the LAST ones to expect to be able to use code freely, regardless of how it is named.
And you've gotta be kidding with your OS X v. 11/X11
I was joking about that.
I agree that Microsoft does things in a nonsense way.
I still insist that somebody at Apple thought they were being clever by giving the OS a name that reflected what the version number would be when released. It seems to me that they could have dropped the "X" completely and continued the old convention.
And yes I know that you don't agree with me and you think I am being childish. That is fine.
But it might be short sighted. So when Mac OS x v11 comes out will you be able to see why some people think the naming scheme is silly?
And, yes I do understand that the version number is in no way related to the fact that there is a number in the product name.
I don't understand why this is a source of cognitive dissonance for so many people.
I don't understand why you can't see why so many people think the way they have choosen to name the new OS is a little silly. Maybe you just "Think Different" than the rest of us. 8)
In the future will Mac OS X v11 be able to run X11? Will that cause confusion?
That's the name, just "Solaris" is the name of the operating system.
I would say that their numbering system has more in common with "Java 2" than anything else on the market. Now if I want to be Java 2 compliant what JDK do I need again?
I think that what bothers people is that there was no Mac OS X v1.0. Since the went right to v10 and X=10 they created something that was initially cute, but seems to be becoming more and more complex.
This is still not what Mac users have come to expect. Maybe they should have numbered this one 10.5 if they want to charge nearly everyone full price for it. Then it would be consistent. Will every even-point upgrade be full price from now on? I think Apple customers are used to getting their bug fixes for free.
Yup. Download one in the format of your choice. Free is pretty hard to beat. Ok, a free hardcopy would be better in some ways, but much heavier than my laptop.
Not only are they free, but they are pretty useful books. Bruce has done a really good job. Wheneven I start a new job and people begin to ask me silly Java questions all day I make them download the "Thinking in Java" book and look for answers there first. Bruce explains things better than me. I admit it. He also saves me time.
Having played something of a leadership role in large projects involving people of various skills I will share what I have learned.
1. Be open to questions. This will help them respect you as a leader. Make it know to everyone that if they need help then they should ask and you won't bite their head off. You might have to restrict the time if the question asking gets out of hand. Maybe only allow questions before noon. Then you can get your own work done in the afternoon.
2. Spend time sitting down with each member of the group and code with them. Take turns writing the code. Again, do not bite heads off. Don't sit there and simply write their code for them. Explain the concepts that they are missing without belittling them. Have them pair up with each other as well. You will be amazed at what two idiots can teach each other.
3. Dr. Pepper. Lots of it.
4. Stress relief. Allow them to check/. once a day.
5. Have a weekly one hour class. Have someone teach it once a week on some aspect of their code or a programming concept that is useful in what you are doing.
I have seen people that I initially had very little confidence in become pretty proficient at doing their tasks. They didn't themselves in a vacuum, they trained (and motivated) each other.
I wish the words vaired more. They could have a large number of lists and then choose one at random each day, or better still, each lookup. That would mess with the heads of the people who pine for the numbers.
The first time you look it is "Excellent", then "Elegant", followed by "Ego-Boosting". I would find it funny just because I know how much it would bother many of you.
Compare any frame of the video to both the previous frame and the subsequent frame. They are likely to be very similar. The parts that are the same can be oversampled to produce a better quality image.
Of course, this wouldn't work very well for action scenes.
I could never get the stupid sprites to work in basic. I am almost tempted to download an emmulator to try it out. I did write a lot of games in basic and made my own movies using the crazy symbols below the keys.
If the power supply and disk drive of that machine had been more reliable I might have one sitting around still.
My brother and I spent many hours creating impossible track and then racing around them.
As an answer to the question of "Why are there no more construction set games?" I think that many of those games were somewhat limited in what you could do. I actually spend more time twiddling with games that I have written than playing other games.
Didn't this happen in the book? Doesn't Frodo offer the ring to all three of the bearers of the elven (elvish?) rings even though he doesn't know that they are ring-bearers? Doesn't it seem like this is an important detail that has been left out? He certainly offers it to the other two in the movie. Some would argue that he offers it to Aragorn as well, though I think he was asking if Aragorn would take it by force. In any case it didn't strike me as an offer as much as a query.
The council of Elrond was the one part of the movie that I didn't care for. I am not sure why this was. Maybe because in the context of the movie you don't know who the participants are.
Anyhow, imagine Agent Smith with two rings of power! Both his own ring and the one ring. I am sure that he would beat up on Keanu if he had both of them.
People play games on them anyhow. The market for handhelds is not exclusively business people. That is like saying the market for cell phones is business people so they shouldn't have games either.
A pda is computing device that is fully capable of playing games. I doubt that they choose the button layout in order to handicap it. If it had been pointed out to them early they might have corrected it. I can certainly see the usefullness of a left and right buttons outside of games, can't you?
Finally a Palm with a button layout that can be useful for games! This has taken too long! If they had put a little bit of thought into this in the first place we never would have had to deal with non-intuitive control layouts for so many games.
That alone might make be purchase one since my Handspring recently died.
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They seem more expensive than ever, don't they? We know they don't cost anything to duplicate. Albums of older artists (Beatles) cost as much as new junk, so not ALL of it is going into production costs and marketing, so why do they cost more than they used to? Has the price gone up faster or slower than inflation? In the early 90s albums cost $13-$14, now they retail for $18.
Are you sending them to people that you've never met in any way? If so, then how are they personal? Otherwise you are just sending email to someone you know. I am sure that they know how to ask you to stop, unless they fear offending you.
I don't think that we need to go into a definition of "spam" here. We all "know it when we see it".
Now on to my rant!
Sending thousands of unsolicedted emails (spam) is not "communicating freely". It is an electronic slap in the face. You don't respect me as a person to keep yourself from wasting my time and resources. You have no right to my time and resources. Telemarketers are nobler than spammers, at least they bother you on a one-to-one basis rather than vomiting their filth onto every person they can possibly find at once.
Finally, I at least get to play mind games with telemarketers!
I agree. Now should someone who paid full price for 10.0 - 10.1.5 have to pay full price for 10.2?
Actually if they had called it 10.5 most Apple users would have been happier to pay for it. Maybe now there is a more consevative way of numbering things such that point releases will always be something you pay for and the updates to those (10.2.1) will be free. In the past versions such as 7.1, 7.2 were free while 7.5 was not.
Now I finally understand WHY it is that HP thinks they can sue. I was honestly baffled.
We will have a difficult time escaping this problem. If it is a problem, that is.
Looking at the print you are drawn to the spot, just as the person depicted on the right side of the work seems to be. What does he see? If you think about it you realize that he sees the same thing you do, the back of his head. He is observing the same work you are. By including the spot Escher makes you part of the picture. If the person on the right is "Observer #1" and the person he is looking at is "Observer #2" you are "Observer #0". If the spot were filled in it wouldn't have the same effect. Go to the site and spend some time looking at the original work and the filled in version. I find that the original give a different sense of wonder and point of view than the new one.
Other than that, I agree with you that RMS has a reality distortion field. Interestingly, seeing him give a presentation in person weakens the field considerably. This is perhaps the oposite of Steve Jobs.
Finally, whose idea was it to use a GPL'ed library to begin with? I doubt that the lawyers are the ones who said, "Hey, this library does what we want!" The coders at a commercial software company should be the LAST ones to expect to be able to use code freely, regardless of how it is named.
Yes, I admit that. I don't think that software names should have anything to do with dates.
I was joking about that.
I agree that Microsoft does things in a nonsense way.
I still insist that somebody at Apple thought they were being clever by giving the OS a name that reflected what the version number would be when released. It seems to me that they could have dropped the "X" completely and continued the old convention.
And yes I know that you don't agree with me and you think I am being childish. That is fine.
And, yes I do understand that the version number is in no way related to the fact that there is a number in the product name.
I don't understand why this is a source of cognitive dissonance for so many people.
I don't understand why you can't see why so many people think the way they have choosen to name the new OS is a little silly. Maybe you just "Think Different" than the rest of us. 8)
In the future will Mac OS X v11 be able to run X11? Will that cause confusion?
I would say that their numbering system has more in common with "Java 2" than anything else on the market. Now if I want to be Java 2 compliant what JDK do I need again?
I think that what bothers people is that there was no Mac OS X v1.0. Since the went right to v10 and X=10 they created something that was initially cute, but seems to be becoming more and more complex.
This is still not what Mac users have come to expect. Maybe they should have numbered this one 10.5 if they want to charge nearly everyone full price for it. Then it would be consistent. Will every even-point upgrade be full price from now on? I think Apple customers are used to getting their bug fixes for free.
That link again is http://www.mindview.net/Books
Not only are they free, but they are pretty useful books. Bruce has done a really good job. Wheneven I start a new job and people begin to ask me silly Java questions all day I make them download the "Thinking in Java" book and look for answers there first. Bruce explains things better than me. I admit it. He also saves me time.
1. Be open to questions. This will help them respect you as a leader. Make it know to everyone that if they need help then they should ask and you won't bite their head off. You might have to restrict the time if the question asking gets out of hand. Maybe only allow questions before noon. Then you can get your own work done in the afternoon.
2. Spend time sitting down with each member of the group and code with them. Take turns writing the code. Again, do not bite heads off. Don't sit there and simply write their code for them. Explain the concepts that they are missing without belittling them. Have them pair up with each other as well. You will be amazed at what two idiots can teach each other.
3. Dr. Pepper. Lots of it.
4. Stress relief. Allow them to check /. once a day.
5. Have a weekly one hour class. Have someone teach it once a week on some aspect of their code or a programming concept that is useful in what you are doing.
I have seen people that I initially had very little confidence in become pretty proficient at doing their tasks. They didn't themselves in a vacuum, they trained (and motivated) each other.
The first time you look it is "Excellent", then "Elegant", followed by "Ego-Boosting". I would find it funny just because I know how much it would bother many of you.
Even if it is crowded I doubt that the /.ers will have any trouble recognizing each other.
Compare any frame of the video to both the previous frame and the subsequent frame. They are likely to be very similar. The parts that are the same can be oversampled to produce a better quality image.
Of course, this wouldn't work very well for action scenes.
If the power supply and disk drive of that machine had been more reliable I might have one sitting around still.
Here is some guy that is attempting to rewrite it for the PC. I assume he means Windows.
Here is a review of the classic C64 version.
My brother and I spent many hours creating impossible track and then racing around them.
As an answer to the question of "Why are there no more construction set games?" I think that many of those games were somewhat limited in what you could do. I actually spend more time twiddling with games that I have written than playing other games.
Didn't this happen in the book? Doesn't Frodo offer the ring to all three of the bearers of the elven (elvish?) rings even though he doesn't know that they are ring-bearers? Doesn't it seem like this is an important detail that has been left out? He certainly offers it to the other two in the movie. Some would argue that he offers it to Aragorn as well, though I think he was asking if Aragorn would take it by force. In any case it didn't strike me as an offer as much as a query.
The council of Elrond was the one part of the movie that I didn't care for. I am not sure why this was. Maybe because in the context of the movie you don't know who the participants are.
Anyhow, imagine Agent Smith with two rings of power! Both his own ring and the one ring. I am sure that he would beat up on Keanu if he had both of them.
If it is decaying at the predicted rate it should be gone by now, and you should have been wearing lead trousers.
What defines ethics to an AI anyhow?
Either way, it's inevitable: if A.I. becomes smarter than us, we'll live or die as a species at it's sole discretion.
Does this keep you up at night?
Are you Bill Joy?
A pda is computing device that is fully capable of playing games. I doubt that they choose the button layout in order to handicap it. If it had been pointed out to them early they might have corrected it. I can certainly see the usefullness of a left and right buttons outside of games, can't you?
That alone might make be purchase one since my Handspring recently died.