Ah, but ebay turned it into a business model. It's the business model you patent. Last time I checked kindergarten teachers got paid dirt for handing out those stars because no one cares about children.
A TV show REQUIRES a bit more capital? Amazing then that i know people who produce them for $1000 per episode.
Overpaid stars, workers, sets and fx may drive up the costs on some shows to the stratosphere, but that doesn't mean a TV show REQUIRES that much capital. We might have to settle for less convincing gore in the Sopranos.
I just got an offer from my power company to go on a fixed rate power plan.
It actually would be slightly more expensive than my current usage. I considered signing up for it and offering to run computation farms for my research lab, but I suspect the fine print must have something about not exceeding my average usage over some number of months. I didn't really read the fine print because I assume its in there.
Ok, only in some very specific environments, with specific types of programmers.
And XP has been proven by experience not to work in many many environments, and has a legion of programmers who have had bad experiences with it.
OO on the other hand was mostly only controversial because people cared about the performance hit. Most people thought it was a good idea, but not practical. Then the compilers caught up, and the hardware got fast enough, and the benefits of OO outweighed the penalties.
XP has flaws that are permanent and unfixable for many programming projects/environments.
You know its the mind control rays that make you believe the illumanati exist, and that its not just a mindless bureaucracy controlling every detail of our lives. It helps to maintain the conspiracy theories, which help to keep the rest of the populace complacent in the notion that those consipiracy theories are only promulgated by a bunch of lunatics. That's the real beauty of the mind control ray conspiracy.
I have never needed to go back and check something in a situation where I had access to my old calc book, but did not have access to the web. Many times I have had access to the web but not the calc book.
The web has in every instance answered my lookup need correctly, and typically in less time than it would take to get from the calc book.
I wish I had sold my calc book when I could. I'll be throwing it away (no, no one in my area accepts old textbook donations, i've already checked) next year when I have to move so I don't have to pay to move it.
What some phone company really ought to do is publish a phone book with erroneous (hence creative) entries. Then it isn't a collection of facts, but rather a creative work. I wonder why no one has thought of this before.
The main competitors we do have for oil (and their disadvantages) are: coal (smog), fission (fissiles), solar (to little power), wind (to little power), tidal (to little power).
No nuclear fusion (public fear of word 'nuclear') reactor is yet producing more energy than it consumes.
Methane/Hydrogen (floods on the freeways) unfortunately currently require one of the other power sources to generate the hydrogen/methane.
The interest in this experiment is related to the fact that this is a very different way of producing fusion (if it is real) than the route down which conventional fusion research is headed. If this turned out to be a real, more implementable type of fusion reactor, then we might actually be able to replace one (or all) of the less pleasant alternatives with fusion.
Except... you're free to buy a different printer brand that has cheaper ink refills. Buy an epson, you can get those ultra cheap ink injection kits, they work really well.
That is fantastic, thanks for the follow up. I would definitely buy such a service if I could get it in my area. The cheapest i've seen here is from bellsouth is $200/mo for a business class dsl.
Nearly every carrier offers non server limited business accounts, but rarely is it anywhere close to a residential subscriber's rate. All the ones I have looked at have been a minimum of 3x the cost.
I'm using my (model year 2002) microwave to pop popcorn, but its frustrating because there is a bug in the firmware that winds up subtracting 60 seconds from the automatic timer when you push the pop popcorn button.
The stove interface is so much more reliable. Just turn on heat and sit jiffy pop on burner.
The point is that it will however also protect you from a competitor who is willing to steal your product and give it away for free until you are bankrupted.
That's the trivial case of hoisting. Unfortunately, more complicated array access patterns break this, and you don't get the checks disabled. You can easily check this by benchmarking.
[] because array references are bounds checked, and if you do anything more than minimal array work your bounds wont get hoisted so you're screwed for performance. Maybe the 1.5 compiler will hoist more references, the 1.4 misses a lot of obvious opportunities. Also, there are some optimizations that can be done on 64-bit architectures, so hopefully this will at least get somewhat better in a couple of years. It would be nice if they added an unchecked keyword or something to let the programmer decide when they want bounds checking.
Swing is pretty slow, and I don't see sun promoting any of the alternatives yet.
For the most part you don't have to emulate the nvidia chips because they are only accessed via api calls (directx). I believe that ati cards will soon be able support directx calls.
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Ah, but ebay turned it into a business model. It's the business model you patent. Last time I checked kindergarten teachers got paid dirt for handing out those stars because no one cares about children.
They know. That's why cd's cost $25 at initial release and $12 a few years later. Depreciation rather than appreciation.
A TV show REQUIRES a bit more capital? Amazing then that i know people who produce them for $1000 per episode.
Overpaid stars, workers, sets and fx may drive up the costs on some shows to the stratosphere, but that doesn't mean a TV show REQUIRES that much capital. We might have to settle for less convincing gore in the Sopranos.
I just got an offer from my power company to go on a fixed rate power plan.
It actually would be slightly more expensive than my current usage. I considered signing up for it and offering to run computation farms for my research lab, but I suspect the fine print must have something about not exceeding my average usage over some number of months. I didn't really read the fine print because I assume its in there.
Also, try calculating how many 747's have to fly to mars daily just to stop population _growth_ on earth.
By much less force/slaughter is just what they'd like you to believe.
The problem is that XP works.
Well, in some situations anyway.
Not all situations, really.
Ok, only in some very specific environments, with specific types of programmers.
And XP has been proven by experience not to work in many many environments, and has a legion of programmers who have had bad experiences with it.
OO on the other hand was mostly only controversial because people cared about the performance hit. Most people thought it was a good idea, but not practical. Then the compilers caught up, and the hardware got fast enough, and the benefits of OO outweighed the penalties.
XP has flaws that are permanent and unfixable for many programming projects/environments.
It's great to hear about how they are spending my money which they took from me using their illegal monopoly coercion.
Unfortunately, I disagree with their philanthropic choices, so I'm doubly pissed.
You know its the mind control rays that make you believe the illumanati exist, and that its not just a mindless bureaucracy controlling every detail of our lives. It helps to maintain the conspiracy theories, which help to keep the rest of the populace complacent in the notion that those consipiracy theories are only promulgated by a bunch of lunatics. That's the real beauty of the mind control ray conspiracy.
There is someone for everything online.
Just a data point:
I have never needed to go back and check something in a situation where I had access to my old calc book, but did not have access to the web. Many times I have had access to the web but not the calc book.
The web has in every instance answered my lookup need correctly, and typically in less time than it would take to get from the calc book.
I wish I had sold my calc book when I could. I'll be throwing it away (no, no one in my area accepts old textbook donations, i've already checked) next year when I have to move so I don't have to pay to move it.
What some phone company really ought to do is publish a phone book with erroneous (hence creative) entries. Then it isn't a collection of facts, but rather a creative work. I wonder why no one has thought of this before.
No?
The main competitors we do have for oil (and their disadvantages) are:
coal (smog), fission (fissiles), solar (to little power), wind (to little power), tidal (to little power).
No nuclear fusion (public fear of word 'nuclear') reactor is yet producing more energy than it consumes.
Methane/Hydrogen (floods on the freeways) unfortunately currently require one of the other power sources to generate the hydrogen/methane.
The interest in this experiment is related to the fact that this is a very different way of producing fusion (if it is real) than the route down which conventional fusion research is headed. If this turned out to be a real, more implementable type of fusion reactor, then we might actually be able to replace one (or all) of the less pleasant alternatives with fusion.
Except ... you're free to buy a different printer brand that has cheaper ink refills. Buy an epson, you can get those ultra cheap ink injection kits, they work really well.
Price fixing is a specific legal term where an oligopoly (>=2 competitors) agree to set prices rather than compete for business.
That is fantastic, thanks for the follow up. I would definitely buy such a service if I could get it in my area. The cheapest i've seen here is from bellsouth is $200/mo for a business class dsl.
So what location (city) is this, I'm curious?
Nearly every carrier offers non server limited business accounts, but rarely is it anywhere close to a residential subscriber's rate. All the ones I have looked at have been a minimum of 3x the cost.
I'm using my (model year 2002) microwave to pop popcorn, but its frustrating because there is a bug in the firmware that winds up subtracting 60 seconds from the automatic timer when you push the pop popcorn button.
The stove interface is so much more reliable. Just turn on heat and sit jiffy pop on burner.
Actually, mandating a pullover every 30 minutes on a long trip would most likely greatly improve driver safety.
Posting from the universe where these devices have always been installed, and a bill removing them was being considered:
Irrelevant! If only one innocent person is killed by a drunk driver because these devices were removed their removal is unacceptable!
The point is that it will however also protect you from a competitor who is willing to steal your product and give it away for free until you are bankrupted.
Actually, the entitlement would be to injunction from distribution. The patent laws don't just prevent someone from stealing your profits.
That's the trivial case of hoisting. Unfortunately, more complicated array access patterns break this, and you don't get the checks disabled. You can easily check this by benchmarking.
Java is slow today in 2 main places:
[] because array references are bounds checked, and if you do anything more than minimal array work your bounds wont get hoisted so you're screwed for performance. Maybe the 1.5 compiler will hoist more references, the 1.4 misses a lot of obvious opportunities. Also, there are some optimizations that can be done on 64-bit architectures, so hopefully this will at least get somewhat better in a couple of years. It would be nice if they added an unchecked keyword or something to let the programmer decide when they want bounds checking.
Swing is pretty slow, and I don't see sun promoting any of the alternatives yet.
For the most part you don't have to emulate the nvidia chips because they are only accessed via api calls (directx). I believe that ati cards will soon be able support directx calls.