I've dropped my iPod many times onto carpetted floor. That's nothing for anyone. But once when moving, you know, with a hand truck, my ipod fell off the top of the stack onto concrete. I have 3 bad sectors and a really strange scratch, but other than that, works fine.
The iPod uses a ploptop harddrive, which is great. Just kinda cool that it worked fine.
Though the middle, small round button, that popped off. That was just plug and play.
No, because for most engineering problems/applied sciences in the world.. there is more than one way to do things. Some are better than others. Some are just crap, but there are different ways.
Just because they found AN answer, doesn't mean that there aren't multiple ones out there. There must be a way to keep profits high while getting the drugs out to the poorer of the bunch.
ATM transactions already create a full audit trail of your banking habits. At least this way, someone has to steal your eyeball and not just your card and PIN. The audit trail and data mining on your account takes place either way.
'careful there. I think you just violated the DMCA there
Granted, but it's not a flat ungeneric population getting sick. I'll use AIDS only 'cause I know, africa has a very high rate of infection as well as minorities (in the US).
If a lot of poor people are sick, and the price is too high, well.. people get screwed. If it was only rich people getting sick, then price would be less of an issue, if not at all.
Not because it affects less people, but MRSA is curable. AIDS is not. What if I found a cure for the common cold? Fallen arches? Acne? With time and care, they go away. AIDS is deadly in the fact you can't cure it.
I totally agree with you, there is a mark up. But you realize, if you have enough people in demand, dropping the cost might increase volume. In that case, you wind up either making more money or the same. Then again, i am not an economist. Just speaking my mind.
You dont' have to buy the monitor from Apple. That's if you want the shiney one, the flat pannel cinima one. I picked up a sony (yeck) trinitron for $50 at a company sale. Works nicely.
Mind you, you don't need the fastest system. Apple's "mid-range" systems are still hella fast. My 400mhz runs all my apps, 'cept java ones (they gotta speed up the jvm), perfectly. I'm doing medium photoshop on my machine w/o problems. Heavy maya and photoshop users, those heavy duty guys would want the 1.4ghz. Java compiles are still fast on my system. As a developer, who doesn't need every millisecond on medium source code, I don't notice the diff between my wintel 1.5ghz and my 400mhz mac.
But you are right, it still is more expensive than the PC equiv. But a 1ghz machine and monitor (~$1600 total) for a non-hardcore gamer, like myself, would be just as fine.
How about the gov't? How the hell did Bush get into office? Who's accountable for the voting issue? Why isn't his ass nailed to a wall somewhere, fix the electrion process (not the way it was fixed) and do the right thing?
Granted. BUt there's a difference between saying what OS you have, and what add ons (software, modules) you have. Again, this is only the source tree. SO if I go to nvidia and download their compiled driver, it doesn't need to be reflected in my source tree.
Also, MS is looking at your registry, a central repository for much more data than your cvs source tree.
Well, you can specify what list of files to compare to. Comparing my source tree against freebsd's doesn't say how my kernel is configured, what devices i have, what stuff i have.
Didn't this issue first come up with windows update? The fact it sends the registry across to MS even though it doesn't need the registry? What is it, 4.. 5 years ago we cried foul?
Personally, I like the way cvsup works. You ask for what you need and a file list. Or so it seems.
Did you know that if you bought a car, you can't drive it on public roads without getting a silly little plastic card?!? Now that we've both compared apples to oranges...
3E has been out for three years. Either their playtesting was inadequate, and/or WotC is trying to gouge the customers. Even T$R, at their moneygrubbing worst, didn't release a major rules revision for six years after 2nd Edition came out.
But it's NOT apples and oranges. Same thing happens with PDA's, microwaves, clothing. You buy it once, if you are lucky, you can sell it to someone else used, otherwise you give it away for free. And if you want the new one, there's nothing you can do.
So what if 3e is out for 10 years. They created a tool, they are giving away for free, they just want you to buy the data. It's not like you can't input the data yourself, or do it on paper. It's a convenience you are paying for. If you don't like it, don't buy it. End of story.
It's called maintence. You pay for it in a lot of things, especially when you "upgrade". Oracle does it with their servers. You buy the software and support (patches plus dudes on the phone). You do it when you add host entries to your dns (if you pay for dns). It takes 2 seconds for someone to update it, but you are paying for the convenience of someone else maintaining it with whatever they charge you.
And hey, if you did have a copy of word 6 to sell, i'd buy it since no one else sells it, and it's the last version of word that i actually liked. Hell, you kept it around for me (unintentially). If the price is right, ($20?), I'd sure as hell buy it.
There's some problem that some java developer sees with php. Some of it being it's OOP implementation. A lot of enterprise stuff that follows OOAD, which a lot of developers and analysts are getting to like, relies on OOP. Strong data types make things easier for automated tools, for say, reverse engineering (by tools, not human).
Ruby on the other hand, is strongly typed and OOP Python too (I *think*). If he has no problems with those, then he's just an OOP zealot. If he still does, just find everything possibly wrong with java, like large memory footprint, slow startup.
If speed were the issue, and everyone worked in C/C++/Java, then there'd still be a significant number of people doing things wrong. They'd just do it wrong very fast.
Don't blame your language on your quality of code. Anyone can write really crappy java as well as write realyl great perl.
The wide success of "Tabbed browsing", heralded in by Opera seems to indicate Microsoft was wrong to call MDI "depricated" and attempt to force users to a "document centric" rather than "application centric" view of the computer.
It's funny how excel uses MDI. Then again, all technologies aren't bad. Just using them everywhere isn't always great.
Did you use absolute statements? (Bush will definitely go to war vs most likely)
Unless you didn't do those two things, your opinion would be unpopular because you had no authority (proof) or no logical argument. Not that what you said waranted to be modded down, as if mod points were money, but if people don't find reason to agree, they won't agree or just not care:)
There's been this strange thing about black sites (or dark ones of any shade) being... depressing. I think people relate the web to paper and not TV. A white pamphlet wouldn't be depressing, while a black tv add isn't. Who knows.
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A bit. I've looked into writing modules. Nasty stuff.
I've dropped my iPod many times onto carpetted floor. That's nothing for anyone. But once when moving, you know, with a hand truck, my ipod fell off the top of the stack onto concrete. I have 3 bad sectors and a really strange scratch, but other than that, works fine.
The iPod uses a ploptop harddrive, which is great. Just kinda cool that it worked fine.
Though the middle, small round button, that popped off. That was just plug and play.
No, because for most engineering problems/applied sciences in the world.. there is more than one way to do things. Some are better than others. Some are just crap, but there are different ways.
Just because they found AN answer, doesn't mean that there aren't multiple ones out there. There must be a way to keep profits high while getting the drugs out to the poorer of the bunch.
'careful there. I think you just violated the DMCA there
Granted, but it's not a flat ungeneric population getting sick. I'll use AIDS only 'cause I know, africa has a very high rate of infection as well as minorities (in the US).
If a lot of poor people are sick, and the price is too high, well.. people get screwed. If it was only rich people getting sick, then price would be less of an issue, if not at all.
Whoa there. There MUST be some way of balancing it all out. Sorta like the segway. If they made it $1000, would they sell more of them? $500? $10?
If the cost to produce is so cheap, is the prices they sometimes sell at really optimal?
Not because it affects less people, but MRSA is curable. AIDS is not. What if I found a cure for the common cold? Fallen arches? Acne? With time and care, they go away. AIDS is deadly in the fact you can't cure it.
Mind you, this is MY point of view, not law.
I totally agree with you, there is a mark up. But you realize, if you have enough people in demand, dropping the cost might increase volume. In that case, you wind up either making more money or the same. Then again, i am not an economist. Just speaking my mind.
I see nothing wrong with pantenting the process so long as the patent isn't abused.
Remember claritin before the FDA deemed it fine to go over the counter? It was stupifying the price drop.
I hope these people don't find the cure for AIDS. That would be one that would be ethically/morally wrong to abuse.
You dont' have to buy the monitor from Apple. That's if you want the shiney one, the flat pannel cinima one. I picked up a sony (yeck) trinitron for $50 at a company sale. Works nicely.
Mind you, you don't need the fastest system. Apple's "mid-range" systems are still hella fast. My 400mhz runs all my apps, 'cept java ones (they gotta speed up the jvm), perfectly. I'm doing medium photoshop on my machine w/o problems. Heavy maya and photoshop users, those heavy duty guys would want the 1.4ghz. Java compiles are still fast on my system. As a developer, who doesn't need every millisecond on medium source code, I don't notice the diff between my wintel 1.5ghz and my 400mhz mac.
But you are right, it still is more expensive than the PC equiv. But a 1ghz machine and monitor (~$1600 total) for a non-hardcore gamer, like myself, would be just as fine.
How about the gov't? How the hell did Bush get into office? Who's accountable for the voting issue? Why isn't his ass nailed to a wall somewhere, fix the electrion process (not the way it was fixed) and do the right thing?
Granted. BUt there's a difference between saying what OS you have, and what add ons (software, modules) you have. Again, this is only the source tree. SO if I go to nvidia and download their compiled driver, it doesn't need to be reflected in my source tree.
Also, MS is looking at your registry, a central repository for much more data than your cvs source tree.
Well, you can specify what list of files to compare to. Comparing my source tree against freebsd's doesn't say how my kernel is configured, what devices i have, what stuff i have.
I like it that way.
Didn't this issue first come up with windows update? The fact it sends the registry across to MS even though it doesn't need the registry? What is it, 4.. 5 years ago we cried foul?
Personally, I like the way cvsup works. You ask for what you need and a file list. Or so it seems.
Sugar, spice.. nevermind. Too easy :)
But it's NOT apples and oranges. Same thing happens with PDA's, microwaves, clothing. You buy it once, if you are lucky, you can sell it to someone else used, otherwise you give it away for free. And if you want the new one, there's nothing you can do.
So what if 3e is out for 10 years. They created a tool, they are giving away for free, they just want you to buy the data. It's not like you can't input the data yourself, or do it on paper. It's a convenience you are paying for. If you don't like it, don't buy it. End of story.
It's called maintence. You pay for it in a lot of things, especially when you "upgrade". Oracle does it with their servers. You buy the software and support (patches plus dudes on the phone). You do it when you add host entries to your dns (if you pay for dns). It takes 2 seconds for someone to update it, but you are paying for the convenience of someone else maintaining it with whatever they charge you.
And hey, if you did have a copy of word 6 to sell, i'd buy it since no one else sells it, and it's the last version of word that i actually liked. Hell, you kept it around for me (unintentially). If the price is right, ($20?), I'd sure as hell buy it.
I don't hav emuch faith in it. Their code base for OOP is a bloody mess.
With no judgement on php in this post...
There's some problem that some java developer sees with php. Some of it being it's OOP implementation. A lot of enterprise stuff that follows OOAD, which a lot of developers and analysts are getting to like, relies on OOP. Strong data types make things easier for automated tools, for say, reverse engineering (by tools, not human).
Ruby on the other hand, is strongly typed and OOP Python too (I *think*). If he has no problems with those, then he's just an OOP zealot. If he still does, just find everything possibly wrong with java, like large memory footprint, slow startup.
If speed were the issue, and everyone worked in C/C++/Java, then there'd still be a significant number of people doing things wrong. They'd just do it wrong very fast.
;)
Don't blame your language on your quality of code. Anyone can write really crappy java as well as write realyl great perl.
Python, well.. nevermind
It's funny how excel uses MDI. Then again, all technologies aren't bad. Just using them everywhere isn't always great.
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Well, because making absolute statements can be very harmful or just wrong. Like saying
Microsoft has done nothing good... or..
Bush will go to war... or..
This company will go bankrupt.
Do you have some fore-knowledge? Also by making absolute statements, you weaken your argument. Or can we now say,
All mp3 users are pirates...
All pregnant teens were irresponsible...
All linux users are zealots...
All geeks are fat and ugly with no social skills
You can't do that though. You know how many people would put toast into the toaster than bread?
:)
You'd have quite a problem with tech support
Did you provide proof of some kind?
:)
Did you use absolute statements? (Bush will definitely go to war vs most likely)
Unless you didn't do those two things, your opinion would be unpopular because you had no authority (proof) or no logical argument. Not that what you said waranted to be modded down, as if mod points were money, but if people don't find reason to agree, they won't agree or just not care
There's been this strange thing about black sites (or dark ones of any shade) being... depressing. I think people relate the web to paper and not TV. A white pamphlet wouldn't be depressing, while a black tv add isn't. Who knows.