Sorry, clearly I needed to spell out that "lowest bidder" means "lowest bidder actually tendering the desired goods". If you want to class eMachines and P4's in the same category, we'd currently all be trying to play Doom 3 on pockets calculators.
My point is that each person defines what "lowest bidder actually tendering the desired goods" and, therefore, it's relative. Some people will buy an eMachine because they need to send email. For those people, an eMachine is perfectly adequate. For most of us, an eMachine isn't adequate.
By the same token, some of us are more concerned about the environment or other variables, than the rest of us. For example, I refuse to buy anything from Sprint, ever. Besides being extremely annoying, every commercial with the guy in the trenchcoat implies that anyone without a Sprint PCS phone is an ignorant buffoon. It's important to me that a company that wants my money not imply I'm an idiot.
Because of the article, the manufacturing costs associated with making a processor are now known to me. Like most people, I've evaluated those costs versus my need/want for a faster processor. I decided it's worth it. Frankly, until I find out that for every P4 processor, Intel clubs a baby seal, I probably won't give a damn. That's not a defect in the principles of capitalism, it's a reflection of human principles.
It's illegal to charge someone more for using a credit card. It doesn't stop one of the local gas stations from giving me a "discount" for using cash.
I imagine they will charge a crazy amount for individual channels, but then give a "discount" for multiple channels. I may get 10 channels for $40 now, but if I ask, they'll probably charge $10 each and then bundle the 10 for $40.
My cable company, Adelphia, is made up of a bunch of weasels (some of whom are now headed to jail for dipping into the profits for personal use) always looking to screw people. Where there's a weasel, there's a way.
One way would be to use the browser ID to add a little 'info' strip to the top of pages, specifically for IE users. It could be just a small one-line table at the top of pages -- maybe with a contrasting background to be noticeable, and say something like:
"Internet Explorer has several vulnerabilities [bellaonline.com] that may allow others to take over your machine. You may want to apply fixes or try [opera.com] alternatives [mozilla.org].
My guess is it will get ignored just as quickly as the recent pop-ups that warn, "Your computer is broadcasting an IP address. Someone can use this information to attack your computer."
People who know better (or think they know better) will use Mozilla or Opera. Those who don't know, or more commonly, don't care, will continue to use the easiest way to access the web. Like it or not, IE is immediately available to the masses and it will be the first choice for those people for a long time.
but I think you just made a strong argument for why you shouldn't be using IM in that setting, anyway:
EVERYTHING you touch has Attorney-Client privilege and is either employee- or company- confidential. Anyone who is not supposed to be privy to your data, communication, files, etc., would be putting the company at risk by snooping
Employees should have no expectation of privacy for any information placed into the business equipment of the Company/government... This policy shall serve as notice to any and all that Company/government equipment may be monitored without further notice.
There is plenty of other text that details this, but that's the meat of it. Companies have a right to monitor any traffic to protect their interests. If you don't want your AOL messages watched, find a company that supports employee privacy on company equipment over covering its own ass. Good luck, because I've never heard of one.
I think it's kind of shady on AOL's part to suddenly roll over on its user base. However, there are a lot companies that don't allow IM because it's more difficult to keep an eye on than email. AOL may benefit from more acceptance as a result of this move.
I'll vouch for the book. It was one of the textbooks from a Programming Languages and Paradigms class that I took. The first 2/3 of the class was advanced Java topics, but it became significantly more interesting when we dove into design patterns.
Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides, a.k.a. The Gang of Four, did an excellent job. If you don't buy it, at least pick up a copy at Borders and skim it. You will be a better programmer for it.
Let me guess, IE7 will include built in support for them.
So, what? Yes, Microsoft is trying to create and support a new format. However, they aren't cancelling support for PDF, because they never supported it in the first place.
Acrobat Reader has always been a plugin for Windows browsers and I'm sure it will continue to be long after this amazing new format is gone.
Give me a break. Part of Apple's problem is that they put a halt to third-party clones, which lowered the all-around cost for Macs. The only reason that Apple sells anything is because there are Mac-cult fanatics and people who are attracted to shiny metal and colored plastic.
Don't get me wrong and assume this was meant as flamebait. Macs are great machines, but they just aren't great enough to justify their price. If they were proportionally more powerful, or priced even remotely close to a bland, beige PC, we would have a third Mac in our house.
You don't say you're in the top 95% of your class, but rather the top 5%.
Actually, he was correct in saying he was in the 90th percentile. A higher percentile indicates that if they were ranked into 100 groups, he would be in the 90th, with a higher number being better. The only error he made was using "top" which has no meaning in that context (or rather, is somewhat redundant).
From Webster's:
Main Entry: percentile Pronunciation: p&r-'sen-"tIl Function: noun Date: 1885 : a value on a scale of one hundred that indicates the percent of a distribution that is equal to or below it [a score in the 95th percentile]
Does it play better after a couple beers?
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Despite the hypocrisy, made glaringly obvious by his proficiency at the game, my dad loved to quote Mark Twain whenever the subject of pool came up:
"Proficiency at billiards is sign of a mis-spent youth."
So, does this project mean that I can possibly cite all of my college evenings as research?
Please explain to me how a more high tech military could have prevented the INS and airports not catching the terrorists, and prevented them from slamming civilian planes into buildings.
I never said the miltary could have prevented the September 11 hijackings. What I did say is that the intelligence community had its hands tied for years. They saw budgets cut and limitations on who it could associate with and use as informants. Would that have absolutely stopped the tragedies? No, but maybe it would have.
I was drawing a similarity with the military. If you continue to read other posts (emphasis on "read"), you may notice that there was some information about Isreal using laser technology for defense. My point is that other countries, including dictators who have full control over miltary spending, are catching up. That is not a position that you want to be in.
an open society will always be prone to such attacks, by the very nature of being an open society.
So, because we're free people, we should ignore defense? What stops an open society from protecting itself?
That is the price we pay for the freedoms we have 99.9999% of the time.
Yeah, but the people who get shafted from the other 0.0001% would probably disagree with you. Who are you to decide they're freedoms get sacrificed because it's an acceptable trade-off for your spending ideas.
That's the same kind of logic that neutered our intelligence programs in the last 20 years. Suddenly, a couple planes get flown into our buildings and people like you start asking why the CIA didn't know about it. There was a time when our defense community had all the money it needed and we were on the cutting-edge of everything, with superior weaponry over everyone. We still do have superior weaponry, but with all of their budget cuts, we don't have the same volume of current research projects to stay on top. Go ahead, voice your "it's too expensive" point and neuter the US military, too.
History repeats itself... and those who don't learn from their mistakes are doomed to repeat them, too.
Unless your processor isn't pushing the graphics card to its limits. Honestly, do you think that there's anyone out there who doesn't know the benefits of 3D cards by now?
I am running a GF2 at 800x600 with most of the stuff at "normal" settings. It runs fine. The first thing I tried were max settings, slowly moving backwards until the gameplay was acceptable. However, the beauty of the new game is in the texture/model quality and detail. Running at anything less than max settings is unacceptable and defeats the purpose of the new game.
After all, I'm sure the original Quake runs great on my machine and several slower processor-based iterations, but It's no longer the quality I demand from my games.
Unreal Tournament 2003 just kicked my 1.0 GHz machine in the nuts and then made fun of me. If for no other reason, I'm glad to see this announcement, because I can expect a price drop on the 2.6 GHz and 2.8 GHz chips.
People, read the damn article... and pay attention
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Porsche Design GmbH, the Austrian firm founded by F.A. Porsche, grandson of the famous engineer
This is not designed by Porsche (the car company responsible for some incredible cars), but rather Porsche Design the design company founded by a not-nearly-as-famous grandson. The only car-related work was a start-up project designing a plant that built 911's, not the car itself.
should atleast have some technical guys around not just some fat ass white guys.
I was whole-heartedly agreeing with you up until that statement. I'm sure many of us have seen plenty of "highly-trained" management of varying ethnicities and genders who turned out be totally incompetent, as well as some companies that were run by "fat ass white guys" who knew their limitations, listened to their employees, and turned out to be rather successful.
Tossing in an inflammatory comment like that lowers you to the level of the people you're trying to depict.
I think the general concensus is that fishing isn't something that can really be considered "using" land. If I use the pond behind my house to fish for a couple days a year, am I really "using" what probably amounts to almost 10,000 square yards? Am I using all of it or just the couple yards around where I'm standing? Is it then pro-rated for the amount of time that I actually stand there, or is it all-encompassing for the entire year?
I'm all for conservationists, but reading a statistic on human land "use" from the World Wildlife Fund is like reading a statistic on gun control from the NRA or Jim Brady... there's lies, damn lies, and statistics, so take it with a grain of salt and try to understand some of the cynicism.
We had a somewhat similar piece of hardware for whiteboards, though it didn't require special boards. A suction-cup-equipped sensor stuck on the board and special sleeves fit around the pens. Because we had several sleeves (for several colors) we could get pretty accurate results saved to a nearby, wired desktop. I liked the idea that all the new equipment was non-consumable and we could use our original boards and markers.
If Logitech really wanted to impress me, the paper could be any paper, placed in a small portfolio sleeve with sensors in the corner. If they're using a template printed on the paper, just make it bold and dark, so it's easy to see through the a sheet of notebook paper. I could teach myself to write on the last piece of paper in a notebook and pull the sheet out when done. It would be much more useful to me than trying to justify a $10 notebook every couple of weeks.
I can make my house windows out of these things and project happy people interacting on them. I can fool the whole neighborhood into thinking I have friends.
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Sorry, clearly I needed to spell out that "lowest bidder" means "lowest bidder actually tendering the desired goods". If you want to class eMachines and P4's in the same category, we'd currently all be trying to play Doom 3 on pockets calculators.
My point is that each person defines what "lowest bidder actually tendering the desired goods" and, therefore, it's relative. Some people will buy an eMachine because they need to send email. For those people, an eMachine is perfectly adequate. For most of us, an eMachine isn't adequate.
By the same token, some of us are more concerned about the environment or other variables, than the rest of us. For example, I refuse to buy anything from Sprint, ever. Besides being extremely annoying, every commercial with the guy in the trenchcoat implies that anyone without a Sprint PCS phone is an ignorant buffoon. It's important to me that a company that wants my money not imply I'm an idiot.
Because of the article, the manufacturing costs associated with making a processor are now known to me. Like most people, I've evaluated those costs versus my need/want for a faster processor. I decided it's worth it. Frankly, until I find out that for every P4 processor, Intel clubs a baby seal, I probably won't give a damn. That's not a defect in the principles of capitalism, it's a reflection of human principles.
It's illegal to charge someone more for using a credit card. It doesn't stop one of the local gas stations from giving me a "discount" for using cash.
I imagine they will charge a crazy amount for individual channels, but then give a "discount" for multiple channels. I may get 10 channels for $40 now, but if I ask, they'll probably charge $10 each and then bundle the 10 for $40.
My cable company, Adelphia, is made up of a bunch of weasels (some of whom are now headed to jail for dipping into the profits for personal use) always looking to screw people. Where there's a weasel, there's a way.
Our entire economy is based on the premise that the lowest bidder is always the best one.
That explains why everyone here drives a Yugo, eats Big Top-brand cereal, and writes their posts from an eMachine.
One way would be to use the browser ID to add a little 'info' strip to the top of pages, specifically for IE users. It could be just a small one-line table at the top of pages -- maybe with a contrasting background to be noticeable, and say something like:
"Internet Explorer has several vulnerabilities [bellaonline.com] that may allow others to take over your machine. You may want to apply fixes or try [opera.com] alternatives [mozilla.org].
My guess is it will get ignored just as quickly as the recent pop-ups that warn, "Your computer is broadcasting an IP address. Someone can use this information to attack your computer."
People who know better (or think they know better) will use Mozilla or Opera. Those who don't know, or more commonly, don't care, will continue to use the easiest way to access the web. Like it or not, IE is immediately available to the masses and it will be the first choice for those people for a long time.
but I think you just made a strong argument for why you shouldn't be using IM in that setting, anyway:
EVERYTHING you touch has Attorney-Client privilege and is either employee- or company- confidential. Anyone who is not supposed to be privy to your data, communication, files, etc., would be putting the company at risk by snooping
I'm not sure if this includes the "additional content" but it has a tar of the code from the book:
Design Patterns Source
Employees should have no expectation of privacy for any information placed into the business equipment of the Company/government... This policy shall serve as notice to any and all that Company/government equipment may be monitored without further notice.
There is plenty of other text that details this, but that's the meat of it. Companies have a right to monitor any traffic to protect their interests. If you don't want your AOL messages watched, find a company that supports employee privacy on company equipment over covering its own ass. Good luck, because I've never heard of one.
I think it's kind of shady on AOL's part to suddenly roll over on its user base. However, there are a lot companies that don't allow IM because it's more difficult to keep an eye on than email. AOL may benefit from more acceptance as a result of this move.
I'll vouch for the book. It was one of the textbooks from a Programming Languages and Paradigms class that I took. The first 2/3 of the class was advanced Java topics, but it became significantly more interesting when we dove into design patterns.
Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides, a.k.a. The Gang of Four, did an excellent job. If you don't buy it, at least pick up a copy at Borders and skim it. You will be a better programmer for it.
Here's another good breakdown of the book
Let me guess, IE7 will include built in support for them.
So, what? Yes, Microsoft is trying to create and support a new format. However, they aren't cancelling support for PDF, because they never supported it in the first place.
Acrobat Reader has always been a plugin for Windows browsers and I'm sure it will continue to be long after this amazing new format is gone.
Give me a break. Part of Apple's problem is that they put a halt to third-party clones, which lowered the all-around cost for Macs. The only reason that Apple sells anything is because there are Mac-cult fanatics and people who are attracted to shiny metal and colored plastic.
Don't get me wrong and assume this was meant as flamebait. Macs are great machines, but they just aren't great enough to justify their price. If they were proportionally more powerful, or priced even remotely close to a bland, beige PC, we would have a third Mac in our house.
You don't say you're in the top 95% of your class, but rather the top 5%.
Actually, he was correct in saying he was in the 90th percentile. A higher percentile indicates that if they were ranked into 100 groups, he would be in the 90th, with a higher number being better. The only error he made was using "top" which has no meaning in that context (or rather, is somewhat redundant).
From Webster's:
Main Entry: percentile
Pronunciation: p&r-'sen-"tIl
Function: noun
Date: 1885
: a value on a scale of one hundred that indicates the percent of a distribution that is equal to or below it [a score in the 95th percentile]
Despite the hypocrisy, made glaringly obvious by his proficiency at the game, my dad loved to quote Mark Twain whenever the subject of pool came up:
"Proficiency at billiards is sign of a mis-spent youth."
So, does this project mean that I can possibly cite all of my college evenings as research?
Please explain to me how a more high tech military could have prevented the INS and airports not catching the terrorists, and prevented them from slamming civilian planes into buildings.
I never said the miltary could have prevented the September 11 hijackings. What I did say is that the intelligence community had its hands tied for years. They saw budgets cut and limitations on who it could associate with and use as informants. Would that have absolutely stopped the tragedies? No, but maybe it would have.
I was drawing a similarity with the military. If you continue to read other posts (emphasis on "read"), you may notice that there was some information about Isreal using laser technology for defense. My point is that other countries, including dictators who have full control over miltary spending, are catching up. That is not a position that you want to be in.
an open society will always be prone to such attacks, by the very nature of being an open society.
So, because we're free people, we should ignore defense? What stops an open society from protecting itself?
That is the price we pay for the freedoms we have 99.9999% of the time.
Yeah, but the people who get shafted from the other 0.0001% would probably disagree with you. Who are you to decide they're freedoms get sacrificed because it's an acceptable trade-off for your spending ideas.
I believe you meant the BeDazzler
overly logical Marine
must resist... joke... too... easy...
That's the same kind of logic that neutered our intelligence programs in the last 20 years. Suddenly, a couple planes get flown into our buildings and people like you start asking why the CIA didn't know about it. There was a time when our defense community had all the money it needed and we were on the cutting-edge of everything, with superior weaponry over everyone. We still do have superior weaponry, but with all of their budget cuts, we don't have the same volume of current research projects to stay on top. Go ahead, voice your "it's too expensive" point and neuter the US military, too.
History repeats itself... and those who don't learn from their mistakes are doomed to repeat them, too.
This makes the threat of a man-in-the-middle attack sound even more dangerous. Ewww.
Unless your processor isn't pushing the graphics card to its limits. Honestly, do you think that there's anyone out there who doesn't know the benefits of 3D cards by now?
I am running a GF2 at 800x600 with most of the stuff at "normal" settings. It runs fine. The first thing I tried were max settings, slowly moving backwards until the gameplay was acceptable. However, the beauty of the new game is in the texture/model quality and detail. Running at anything less than max settings is unacceptable and defeats the purpose of the new game.
After all, I'm sure the original Quake runs great on my machine and several slower processor-based iterations, but It's no longer the quality I demand from my games.
Unreal Tournament 2003 just kicked my 1.0 GHz machine in the nuts and then made fun of me. If for no other reason, I'm glad to see this announcement, because I can expect a price drop on the 2.6 GHz and 2.8 GHz chips.
Porsche Design GmbH, the Austrian firm founded by F.A. Porsche, grandson of the famous engineer
This is not designed by Porsche (the car company responsible for some incredible cars), but rather Porsche Design the design company founded by a not-nearly-as-famous grandson. The only car-related work was a start-up project designing a plant that built 911's, not the car itself.
should atleast have some technical guys around not just some fat ass white guys.
I was whole-heartedly agreeing with you up until that statement. I'm sure many of us have seen plenty of "highly-trained" management of varying ethnicities and genders who turned out be totally incompetent, as well as some companies that were run by "fat ass white guys" who knew their limitations, listened to their employees, and turned out to be rather successful.
Tossing in an inflammatory comment like that lowers you to the level of the people you're trying to depict.
I think the general concensus is that fishing isn't something that can really be considered "using" land. If I use the pond behind my house to fish for a couple days a year, am I really "using" what probably amounts to almost 10,000 square yards? Am I using all of it or just the couple yards around where I'm standing? Is it then pro-rated for the amount of time that I actually stand there, or is it all-encompassing for the entire year?
I'm all for conservationists, but reading a statistic on human land "use" from the World Wildlife Fund is like reading a statistic on gun control from the NRA or Jim Brady... there's lies, damn lies, and statistics, so take it with a grain of salt and try to understand some of the cynicism.
We had a somewhat similar piece of hardware for whiteboards, though it didn't require special boards. A suction-cup-equipped sensor stuck on the board and special sleeves fit around the pens. Because we had several sleeves (for several colors) we could get pretty accurate results saved to a nearby, wired desktop. I liked the idea that all the new equipment was non-consumable and we could use our original boards and markers.
If Logitech really wanted to impress me, the paper could be any paper, placed in a small portfolio sleeve with sensors in the corner. If they're using a template printed on the paper, just make it bold and dark, so it's easy to see through the a sheet of notebook paper. I could teach myself to write on the last piece of paper in a notebook and pull the sheet out when done. It would be much more useful to me than trying to justify a $10 notebook every couple of weeks.
I can make my house windows out of these things and project happy people interacting on them. I can fool the whole neighborhood into thinking I have friends.
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