As a third party, you have no vested interest in the success of one over the other, so any claim of being unfair couldn't be substantiated.
I am not a marketing major, but I would say that an ad agency very much has an interest in their clients success. So much so that representing two clients of competitive nature, atleast inasmuch as Pepsi and Coke are, you can't be true to both, and it creates a problem.
I always enjoyed the fact that I could participate in conversations half-ass, responding when I had a free minute... Kinda like running my brain and train of thought in half duplex mode as well.
My post was criticizing the fact that people are arguing over things that really have yet to been varified by the people who matter the most.
No, you criticized the criteria in which people grade.. see:
However, I really do not care who is faster. If it takes me 2.56 seconds to open a program on one system and 2.57 seconds on the other, does that matter to me? No!
The fact of whether the speed details are correct are irrelevant, you're saying that it doesn't matter to you, so we should grow up. My point is that to some, even the.01 sec increase in speed matters, regardless if later it's found to be there, be smaller, be bigger, whatever, the criteria, as a measuring detail, is important, even if the facts of the numbers change.
In any case, the issues dead, we're arguing something that was three days ago;)
What is wrong with myself bying things by my criteria and you buying things by your criteria?
That was the point of my post. Your post made buying things (or on the other hand, criticizing things) on my criteria childish, and that I should grow up because it's not something that you find important.
I know it's not cure all, but I have a very satisfactory response when I get one of these calls and cut them mid-sentence to say "This is a cell phone"... They tend to get off pretty quick.
NetFlix thought of something that no one else (at least that I am aware of) thought of. They invested a lot of capital in to making this idea work, and just as it starts to get a critical mass, Wal-Mart comes in and tries to run them out of business.
This idea has been around long before Netflix. I seem to remember a company that advertised in GamePro magazine and the like, back when AOL was just a BBS, that offered this same type of thing, monthly fee, renting of games. Of course, credibility is shot to hell because I can't remember the name, or anything specific... oh well. I don't see this as anything new.
Apple only needs the 5% it has to sustain operations, so who cares if Linux usage increases as far as companies sticking around is concerned.
The 90% (or whatever) of computers users that have PC's try to sustain some upteen-billion PC component manufacturers, I'd fear more for them than a company that has 5% of a market share all to itself, speaking on the hardware side of things. On the software side, well, Apple is a hardware company, so it doesn't matter...
A new feature called Expose allows minimizing into a smaller window, all open windows, to temporarily move everything out of the way, sort of like workspaces.
Thank you! It was a pain in the ass to have everything exploded on the desktop and not have an easy way of reducing everything to see the desktop...
Don't curl up and be a bitch about it. You stated a mentality, I attacked the mentality. You further stated that it was *YOUR* mentality, and to that I offered "no offense". I didn't want to insult the dipshit with the mentality, just the mentality, dipshit.
The slashdot mentality is that the seriousness of the crime is directly proportional to the percentage of a person's worth that the crime affects.
No offense, but what a stupid mentality to have. What more of a way to incentivize crimes against the rich, and disincetivize acquiring wealth, can there be?
A $100 taken from me is $100 taken from me, whether I had $110 or $10,100 dollars before. Just because proportionally it's less of an impact to me having $10,100 doesn't mean the theft isn't still $100, and should be punished accordingly. Otherwise we're just pushing thieves to check a balance sheet to ensure they're only robbing rich people, which is less serious.
The story gives insight into how Steve Jobs thinks about product design and marketing. Even though it is light on both, it does have a certain amount of value in that regard.
Like many natural extroverts, Mr. Stenlund actually seems a bit shy offstage. Though articulate and clearly intelligent, he skipped college because he believed that school stifled creativity. Even as a child, Mr. Stenlund was not very outgoing, according to his mother, Marge Jarrells.
Funny, like many of the undriven, he skipped college because he had an excuse. I could buy the whole stifled intelligence B.S. if he had done something with his un-stifled intelligence after skipping college.
"He was pretty close to home most of the time," Ms. Jarrells, a pianist in Madison, said in a telephone interview. "Growing up, it was kind of hard for him to find his niches, and that is typical for people of high intelligence. They are not as sociable as other people. They are just off to themselves in their little projects."
In this latest of Mr. Stenlund's little projects, Thedeacon has also made a name for himself as an excellent warrior. Fantastically wealthy, at Level 200, with the best, rarest equipment, Thedeacon often helps represent the rebel clans in their battles against the forces of Omni-Tek.
Projects? High intelligence? WTF?
High intelligence would be realizing that spending an avg of 7 hours a day on the computer playing video games is probably why your computer repair/building/card swapping business is bust and you're broke. What kind of project is playing a game? Leading others? The article made it clear he was a leader because he wasted his life more than most, not because he's anything special... No, no "project"...
Face it, he's a nerd playing a game. The only credit I want to give him is that he found a wife that obviously puts up with his unstifled bullshit. That, in my book, is creditworthy.
With this tax it would be better to buy a low milage truck, and not a economy car. So basicly it would promote people to park there car and let it run.
That's absurd. This tax is seperate from the cost of gasoline. How does this *promote* someone spending more on gas? Is there some mentality saying "I don't have to pay tax when the car is sitting still, so I'm going to waste my gas by keeping my car running, because I'm not taxed, nevermind I still had to pay for the gas"...
How is it better to get a low mileage truck? If you drive 10 miles from point A to point B in a gas-sipper, you pay X in mileage-tax... If you drive 10 miles from point A to point B in a gas-hog, you still pay X in mileage-tax, only now YOU PAY MUCH MORE for the increase in gas.
What would be great... If someone was to reverse engineer the drivers, remove the "Optimisation", recompile and compare results. See what percent the "Optimisations" fudged the results.
Don't have to. In the previous story, they stated how they simply removed the condition that the driver used to switch on this optimisation and, as you said, saw what percent the optimisation fudged the result.
The big radio stations WERE LIMITED in what they could own, and now THEY'RE NOT. I'm not dumb on the concept of what 're-' means, I'm at a loss for what you think they just did. How are they regulating, when they've clearly opened the gates?
When I started law school, I purchased my ibook 700 just for the purpose.
Everyone tells me that you need windoze for this, that or the other, but I find the mac to be more than sufficient for everything I need at school, and I can continue my geekiness with it's OSX, my X11 install, and VPC for Windoze blazing... The one thing that I can't do, though, is take my exams on the book, as the lockdown software is Windoze only and it's purpose is defeated when run in VPC.
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As a third party, you have no vested interest in the success of one over the other, so any claim of being unfair couldn't be substantiated.
I am not a marketing major, but I would say that an ad agency very much has an interest in their clients success. So much so that representing two clients of competitive nature, atleast inasmuch as Pepsi and Coke are, you can't be true to both, and it creates a problem.
I always enjoyed the fact that I could participate in conversations half-ass, responding when I had a free minute... Kinda like running my brain and train of thought in half duplex mode as well.
My post was criticizing the fact that people are arguing over things that really have yet to been varified by the people who matter the most.
.01 sec increase in speed matters, regardless if later it's found to be there, be smaller, be bigger, whatever, the criteria, as a measuring detail, is important, even if the facts of the numbers change.
;)
No, you criticized the criteria in which people grade.. see:
However, I really do not care who is faster. If it takes me 2.56 seconds to open a program on one system and 2.57 seconds on the other, does that matter to me? No!
The fact of whether the speed details are correct are irrelevant, you're saying that it doesn't matter to you, so we should grow up. My point is that to some, even the
In any case, the issues dead, we're arguing something that was three days ago
What is wrong with myself bying things by my criteria and you buying things by your criteria?
That was the point of my post. Your post made buying things (or on the other hand, criticizing things) on my criteria childish, and that I should grow up because it's not something that you find important.
It's up there like that again... ;)
I do not see ... ... ...
... does that matter to me?
I really do not care
If it takes me
Have you ever thought that sometimes, just sometimes, it isn't about you? You feel this way, so you buy your boxes by your criteria...
I know it's not cure all, but I have a very satisfactory response when I get one of these calls and cut them mid-sentence to say "This is a cell phone"... They tend to get off pretty quick.
er.. off the phone, that is.
NetFlix thought of something that no one else (at least that I am aware of) thought of. They invested a lot of capital in to making this idea work, and just as it starts to get a critical mass, Wal-Mart comes in and tries to run them out of business.
This idea has been around long before Netflix. I seem to remember a company that advertised in GamePro magazine and the like, back when AOL was just a BBS, that offered this same type of thing, monthly fee, renting of games. Of course, credibility is shot to hell because I can't remember the name, or anything specific... oh well. I don't see this as anything new.
Apple only needs the 5% it has to sustain operations, so who cares if Linux usage increases as far as companies sticking around is concerned.
The 90% (or whatever) of computers users that have PC's try to sustain some upteen-billion PC component manufacturers, I'd fear more for them than a company that has 5% of a market share all to itself, speaking on the hardware side of things. On the software side, well, Apple is a hardware company, so it doesn't matter...
A new feature called Expose allows minimizing into a smaller window, all open windows, to temporarily move everything out of the way, sort of like workspaces.
Thank you! It was a pain in the ass to have everything exploded on the desktop and not have an easy way of reducing everything to see the desktop...
My sincerest apologies, I thought it was part of your sig... all in fun and well taken :)
No offense, but fuck you, motherfucker!
Don't curl up and be a bitch about it. You stated a mentality, I attacked the mentality. You further stated that it was *YOUR* mentality, and to that I offered "no offense". I didn't want to insult the dipshit with the mentality, just the mentality, dipshit.
The slashdot mentality is that the seriousness of the crime is directly proportional to the percentage of a person's worth that the crime affects.
No offense, but what a stupid mentality to have. What more of a way to incentivize crimes against the rich, and disincetivize acquiring wealth, can there be?
A $100 taken from me is $100 taken from me, whether I had $110 or $10,100 dollars before. Just because proportionally it's less of an impact to me having $10,100 doesn't mean the theft isn't still $100, and should be punished accordingly. Otherwise we're just pushing thieves to check a balance sheet to ensure they're only robbing rich people, which is less serious.
The story gives insight into how Steve Jobs thinks about product design and marketing. Even though it is light on both, it does have a certain amount of value in that regard.
You're so right on, I'm going to shit my pants!
WTF?
Like many natural extroverts, Mr. Stenlund actually seems a bit shy offstage. Though articulate and clearly intelligent, he skipped college because he believed that school stifled creativity. Even as a child, Mr. Stenlund was not very outgoing, according to his mother, Marge Jarrells.
Funny, like many of the undriven, he skipped college because he had an excuse. I could buy the whole stifled intelligence B.S. if he had done something with his un-stifled intelligence after skipping college.
"He was pretty close to home most of the time," Ms. Jarrells, a pianist in Madison, said in a telephone interview. "Growing up, it was kind of hard for him to find his niches, and that is typical for people of high intelligence. They are not as sociable as other people. They are just off to themselves in their little projects."
In this latest of Mr. Stenlund's little projects, Thedeacon has also made a name for himself as an excellent warrior. Fantastically wealthy, at Level 200, with the best, rarest equipment, Thedeacon often helps represent the rebel clans in their battles against the forces of Omni-Tek.
Projects? High intelligence? WTF?
High intelligence would be realizing that spending an avg of 7 hours a day on the computer playing video games is probably why your computer repair/building/card swapping business is bust and you're broke. What kind of project is playing a game? Leading others? The article made it clear he was a leader because he wasted his life more than most, not because he's anything special... No, no "project"...
Face it, he's a nerd playing a game. The only credit I want to give him is that he found a wife that obviously puts up with his unstifled bullshit. That, in my book, is creditworthy.
I am 22 - I was 8 = That means it was 12 years old when I used it. Go Oz public schools.
I think your school system is more screwed than you know...
Are you from Oregon?
With this tax it would be better to buy a low milage truck, and not a economy car. So basicly it would promote people to park there car and let it run.
That's absurd. This tax is seperate from the cost of gasoline. How does this *promote* someone spending more on gas? Is there some mentality saying "I don't have to pay tax when the car is sitting still, so I'm going to waste my gas by keeping my car running, because I'm not taxed, nevermind I still had to pay for the gas"...
How is it better to get a low mileage truck? If you drive 10 miles from point A to point B in a gas-sipper, you pay X in mileage-tax... If you drive 10 miles from point A to point B in a gas-hog, you still pay X in mileage-tax, only now YOU PAY MUCH MORE for the increase in gas.
What would be great...
If someone was to reverse engineer the drivers, remove the "Optimisation", recompile and compare results. See what percent the "Optimisations" fudged the results.
Don't have to. In the previous story, they stated how they simply removed the condition that the driver used to switch on this optimisation and, as you said, saw what percent the optimisation fudged the result.
My apologies. I missed that one line. (sheepish)
WTF? Are we reading the same article?
The big radio stations WERE LIMITED in what they could own, and now THEY'RE NOT. I'm not dumb on the concept of what 're-' means, I'm at a loss for what you think they just did. How are they regulating, when they've clearly opened the gates?
When I started law school, I purchased my ibook 700 just for the purpose.
Everyone tells me that you need windoze for this, that or the other, but I find the mac to be more than sufficient for everything I need at school, and I can continue my geekiness with it's OSX, my X11 install, and VPC for Windoze blazing... The one thing that I can't do, though, is take my exams on the book, as the lockdown software is Windoze only and it's purpose is defeated when run in VPC.
Okay, I'll take the bait... How is it re-regulated by allowing free for all... sounds like deregulation to me.
Please, oh master, educate me.
though the bash against lawyers seems to have nothing to do with the issue or the rest of your post.
A common theme on slashdot. It's bad for lawyers to get paid for what they do.
Here's some others I'm sure we'll see someday:
"When cars break down, mechanics profit."
"When bodies break down, doctors profit."
"When people want homes, realtors profit."
"When people want cars, dealers profit."
"When nerds want to be entertained, CmdrTaco profits."
really? Is that *all* the *common* thief would have to do?
Nah, for the same reason your too lazy to call and see if it's slash-phoned, others are too lazy to call and slash-phone.