How many people being sold Linux have the ability to contribute? How many would have been there to write the documentation for the copy they were buying? And if they wrote it, would they need to write it?
Anyone has the right to complain about anything, regardless of their contribution to it. Nobody will buy Linux twice if they find it hard to use. Linux won't be a viable competitor for Windows unless people adopt it for life.
Chaos theory doesn't say that every change will result in a vastly different outcome.
It just says that some changes can result in vastly different outcomes.
What it rarely points out is that most change results in only a minor difference. But then, it wants to be ***Chaos***Theory*** and not just the instability section of the chapter on metastable systems.
.NET is a collection of class libraries with less functionality* than what you can get in existing libraries.
That's what.NET is.
Once someone does some programming on.NET, it will also be a collection of web-accessible service daemons built with the.NET libraries.
* - just yesterday I wanted to write a small app to resize my screen, and the functions to enumerate and change display parameters aren't there. Sounds like a security-paranoid defeature to me. So.NET is not Windows. I wonder what else it's.NOT...
1. Lucas doesn't operate in reality. They make billions off of mickle investment. Where and how is unimportant.
2. Film isn't a significant industry*. One studio won't change the fortunes of more than a few hundred citizens. And George gets most of the profit from his companies. Banking on this to revive a city's economy is irrational. It's political hype.
* - the sum of the box-office grosses for every movie released in 2002 was on the order of Intel's 4th Quarter. Adding home video doubles it, but by then you're looking elsewhere on the financial page.
I actually had SBC doing customer service for DTV (complicated arrangement reselling video service to my apartment building, and renting on-site service from Pac Bell, of all things).
I would call SBC only during bankers' hours, get nobody who knew how DTV worked, take days trying to get an answer, and not even pay my bill with a credit card. I could call DTV, not mention SBC, and get things done in seconds, 24/7.
They are polar opposites in terms of customer service, and clearly it's because one values it and the other considers it a costly disease.
I was considering getting DTV at my house, but now I will hold off until I find out if this deal goes through, because DTV with SBC on it is utterly not worth the money.
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Money is already obsolete.
Gresham's law applies to money that will have value even if the government or business issuing it goes out of business.
Paper money does not fit that requirement.
Bank checks do not fit that requirement, nor do the electronic records of your balance.
Credit cards do not fit that requirement.
Face it. Manifest money has already been replaced by something with the meaning of money.
The only step left is to remove the printed matter and make it a purely electronic medium.
You can still trade your sheep for a new shed, if you want. Nobody's trying to put that on a SmartCard.
That's not any more recursive than paying the production cost of the item you're buying pays the production cost of the parts of the item pays the production cost of the raw materials for the parts etc.
You get an economy when people stop bitching about the circularity of the system and start pedalling.
I tried Creative, Altec Lansing, and Logitech, and all went back to the store (they're unlistenable dreck; I have a pair of Toshiba computer speakers that sound better). Then I broke down and got the Klipsch 4.1 system, and it was qualitatively 3-4 times better than any of the others.
Yes, it costs significantly more, but it is genuinely worth what you pay.
The only thing I'd want them to add is an EQ box, because very few computer apps come with multiband EQ. Creative hasn't even seen fit to include more than a bass and treble control with its Audigy cards.
If this 4.1 setup could handle more power, I'd have bought two more for my entertainment centers.
Calling something free to get people to the point where they're ready to take delivery and then charging them $20 for a normally free service is a bait and switch.
that the New Scientist article really doesn't have a clue why we hiccup and is just proposing another naff hypothesis. The thing about gills is Weekly World News quality thinking.
Hiccuping is probably due to some unstable interneuron connections that do something useful sometimes but can become irritated and go into spurious oscillation.
Heart palpitations are conjectured to have a similar cause: external stimulation (physical pressure, mostly) of the vagus nerve, which otherwise should be getting information only from the brain stem.
I'm surprised these guys didn't try to link it to reverse-sneezing in dogs.
Photopic sneeze is a common problem, it's not just a fighter-pilot thing. And any fighter pilot who would lose control of his aircraft because he has to sneeze needs to stay on the ground anyway.
As for the drinking thing, I often get a sneezing fit about halfway into my third pint, but that could just be due to sloppy handling of the hot-wings.
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...the plan to attack Iraq?
Having the dead calls culled for me will improve the hit rate commensurately.
Cold calling just got profitable.
Your local BOFH is still allowed by the EULA/TOS you signed to tape your emails up in the window of the server room with the dirty words hilited.
How many people being sold Linux have the ability to contribute? How many would have been there to write the documentation for the copy they were buying? And if they wrote it, would they need to write it?
Anyone has the right to complain about anything, regardless of their contribution to it. Nobody will buy Linux twice if they find it hard to use. Linux won't be a viable competitor for Windows unless people adopt it for life.
You didn't help with Windows, either, and I bet you bitch about that.
The learning curve on most Wintel software is on the order of the time needed to search through half a dozen menus to find the right command.
Trying to make everyone be an expert before they can operate their machine is how operating systems die.
1. There weren't enough dinosaurs. Oil is dead pine trees.
2. Mummies were once so plentiful in Egypt (as recently as the '50s) that people were burning them for heat.
with a 3.08GHz CPU, 1.0GB of ram, a 120 GB hard drive, 104-key keyboard, and 21-inch display?
If it doesn't have a PDA, phone, satellite communicator, and zabaglione beater on it, I ain't buying it.
Maybe.
Chaos theory doesn't say that every change will result in a vastly different outcome.
It just says that some changes can result in vastly different outcomes.
What it rarely points out is that most change results in only a minor difference. But then, it wants to be ***Chaos***Theory*** and not just the instability section of the chapter on metastable systems.
.NET is a collection of class libraries with less functionality* than what you can get in existing libraries.
.NET is.
.NET, it will also be a collection of web-accessible service daemons built with the .NET libraries.
.NET is not Windows. I wonder what else it's .NOT...
That's what
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* - just yesterday I wanted to write a small app to resize my screen, and the functions to enumerate and change display parameters aren't there. Sounds like a security-paranoid defeature to me. So
1. Lucas doesn't operate in reality. They make billions off of mickle investment. Where and how is unimportant.
2. Film isn't a significant industry*. One studio won't change the fortunes of more than a few hundred citizens. And George gets most of the profit from his companies. Banking on this to revive a city's economy is irrational. It's political hype.
* - the sum of the box-office grosses for every movie released in 2002 was on the order of Intel's 4th Quarter. Adding home video doubles it, but by then you're looking elsewhere on the financial page.
Now that is funny.
It makes you wonder if these yo-yos don't even know that compiling source code just makes more software out of it.
DTV is one of the best utilities.
SBC is one of the worst.
I actually had SBC doing customer service for DTV (complicated arrangement reselling video service to my apartment building, and renting on-site service from Pac Bell, of all things).
I would call SBC only during bankers' hours, get nobody who knew how DTV worked, take days trying to get an answer, and not even pay my bill with a credit card. I could call DTV, not mention SBC, and get things done in seconds, 24/7.
They are polar opposites in terms of customer service, and clearly it's because one values it and the other considers it a costly disease.
I was considering getting DTV at my house, but now I will hold off until I find out if this deal goes through, because DTV with SBC on it is utterly not worth the money.
Money is already obsolete.
Gresham's law applies to money that will have value even if the government or business issuing it goes out of business.
Paper money does not fit that requirement.
Bank checks do not fit that requirement, nor do the electronic records of your balance.
Credit cards do not fit that requirement.
Face it. Manifest money has already been replaced by something with the meaning of money.
The only step left is to remove the printed matter and make it a purely electronic medium.
You can still trade your sheep for a new shed, if you want. Nobody's trying to put that on a SmartCard.
Get a salesman.
Pay him a commission.
Guess how far you'll get.
People who weren't watching the Tracey Ullman show.
That's who.
It's all in English.
Not like that makes it comprehensible...
That's not any more recursive than paying the production cost of the item you're buying pays the production cost of the parts of the item pays the production cost of the raw materials for the parts etc.
You get an economy when people stop bitching about the circularity of the system and start pedalling.
Hey.
Don't knock Klipsch.
I tried Creative, Altec Lansing, and Logitech, and all went back to the store (they're unlistenable dreck; I have a pair of Toshiba computer speakers that sound better). Then I broke down and got the Klipsch 4.1 system, and it was qualitatively 3-4 times better than any of the others.
Yes, it costs significantly more, but it is genuinely worth what you pay.
The only thing I'd want them to add is an EQ box, because very few computer apps come with multiband EQ. Creative hasn't even seen fit to include more than a bass and treble control with its Audigy cards.
If this 4.1 setup could handle more power, I'd have bought two more for my entertainment centers.
"Bass boost" means "I don't own the speakers the engineer used, I own some cheap bookshelf jobs that roll off at about 70 Hz."
Don't be impertinent.
Calling something free to get people to the point where they're ready to take delivery and then charging them $20 for a normally free service is a bait and switch.
that the New Scientist article really doesn't have a clue why we hiccup and is just proposing another naff hypothesis. The thing about gills is Weekly World News quality thinking.
Hiccuping is probably due to some unstable interneuron connections that do something useful sometimes but can become irritated and go into spurious oscillation.
Heart palpitations are conjectured to have a similar cause: external stimulation (physical pressure, mostly) of the vagus nerve, which otherwise should be getting information only from the brain stem.
I'm surprised these guys didn't try to link it to reverse-sneezing in dogs.
Photopic sneeze is a common problem, it's not just a fighter-pilot thing. And any fighter pilot who would lose control of his aircraft because he has to sneeze needs to stay on the ground anyway.
As for the drinking thing, I often get a sneezing fit about halfway into my third pint, but that could just be due to sloppy handling of the hot-wings.
We're finally getting rid of that "double taxation" on stock dividends.