A company that honestly admits they were ripping off early adopters by slashing the price $200 a month and a half later or a company that doesn't share that information.
I'm not sure how it was a ripoff. The price was clearly stated and the early adopters happily paid. Hell, they even stood in line for days to pay the original price. I always think of a ripoff as something not being worth what you paid. From what I've read, all the people who were early adopters love their phone and never complained about paying for it.
No, my argument the whole time has been it's a property rights issue for the owner. As long as smoking is legal (which last I checked it was) then an owner of an establishment should have the right to allow or disallow smoking. If you were an owner then you could make the establishment non-smoking. I'm not sure how you've been missing that connection for so long since you're claiming to be so much smarter while not actually ever arguing anything.
Finally, your title alludes to a public health issue. If that's the case then lets go ahead and outlaw smoking. Then lets force people to exercise daily, close fast food restaurants, ban alcohol, etc... I know you're going to say that smoking hurts you even though you chose not to smoke, but you do chose to go to establishments which allow smoking. If people would vote with their feet and dollars instead of crying I think you'd be surprised how quickly non-smoking establishments would open.
Once again attacking me about original thoughts when you haven't offered one up yet. You're entire argument so far has centered around you not liking a particular and calling names. So who isn't having original thoughts?
Calling my argument stupid isn't much of an argument. All you've presented is that you don't want to open a non-smoking establishment. Fine then, you have that choice and also have the choice to not go to any smoking establishments if you so choose. Also, the fact that you don't want to open such an establishment has no bearing on whether or not they should exist.
In closing, I've presented my argument in a fairly clear and coherent fashion without resorting to name calling or ad hominem attacks. The Harvard school of law does a great podcast on thinking logically. You should give it a listen sometime.
I agree and am wondering if it has to do with battery life. Having the touch be the 'coolest' ipod with so little space doesn't make any sense from a marketing/consumer standpoint. As it stands I'll probably sell my 30gb video and get a new 80gb. My music library alone is now 32gb in size:/
It's a great argument. What you're arguing for is akin to me not having a coffee shop near my house so the gov. forces a Starbucks to open nearby. It makes zero sense.
You have choice to go or not go to a *private* establishment. If you don't like their environment, then don't go. If enough people quit going they will change. If you want a non-smoking restaurant now then start one. Taking away a person's property rights is never the answer. As long as smoking is legal, then I should be able to allow people to smoke in my restaurant.
For the record I'm a non-smoker and hate smoking in general. It's the old I may disagree with what you're saying, but I will defend your right to the death to say it.
Or just try to use any version of Ciscos vpn software. Apparently the 5.0 version works *sometimes* and only on fresh installs of vista. I tried to verify it working on a fresh install of vista in a vm and it couldn't hold the vpn up for more than a few minutes at time. Back to XP I went...
Haha...actually I do dislike java and try to avoid it when I can. What I was really ripping on originally is how poor program performance is always looked at as a language issue first. Picking the right language for the job is of course important, but program design, algorithms used, and overall architecture will always be much bigger factors in a programs eventual performance.
Language - Doesn't matter much if you know how to design a scalable system. Some languages like Erlang force you into a more scalable design, but even then it's still easy to mess up. Unless this multi-million dollar project you're talking about was an embedded system I would bet language used was the smallest reason for bad performance. Although it is fun to bash java whenever the chance.
Libraries - Bingo lets throw out nice blocks of tested and working code b/c it's always better to write it yourself. You pretty much have to use libraries to get things done anymore. And are you suggesting someone should write their own DB software when building a web app? Um, yeah see that web app ever gets done.
Abstractions - While most are leaky at some point, abstractions make it easier for you to focus on the architecture (which is what you should be focusing on anyways when building scalable systems).
I see these types of arguments all the time and they rarely make sense. It's like arguing about C vs. Java over 1ms running time difference when if you changed your algorithm you could make seconds of difference or if you changed your architecture you would make minutes of difference...
It's actually a good thing. Old fashioned sobriety tests are built and given in such a way that it's challenging and nearly impossible for completely sober people to pass them.
Picture this, it's night time with cars driving by in low light situation and you're probably a little nervous b/c that's what happens when people get pulled over. Now walk this line heel to toe. Next stand on one foot. Now tilt your head back with eyes closed and touch your nose. Say your abc's backwards from V-K quickly. Now say them forwards and if you sing them, that counts as a fail.
The tests are bogus and I welcome any technology to remove them from the equation.
Dell was a mail order company, you're right. The web revolutionized their business though. Not sure how you can compare a newspaper to ebay rofl. I'm sure I can easily find old and rare coins in my newspaper, or anything else that's hard to find. Sure, FedEx was profitable but are you trying to say that the web didn't also revolutionize their business with all the additional shipping that came out of the business side of the web?
Well, whether or not you think Google has a good business plan doesn't matter much since they are making plenty of money with their current plan. Is Goog worth its current valuation? Who knows, but they have plenty of cash and zero debt to keep going for a long time.
Actually the web did change the rules of business. It allowed for new business models to emerge. Before Dell how much could you customize a PC you wanted w/o building it yourself? Before Ebay how could you sell that old crap you wanted to get rid of? A yard sale? lol What about finding a book or CD. If your local store didn't have it (and/or you lived in a small town) you had a hard time getting many things. Now with FedEx and the web I can order nearly anything that I can think of and have it delivered the next day. If that alone didn't change the rules of business I'm not sure what else could.
Well yes and no. If VC money is tied up in bubble type companies then presumably they won't be investing in other companies that could lead to better investments for others down the road. But, VCs losing money isn't generally considered a bubble bursting and usually considered part of the risk of being a VC.
I think a bubble by it's definition must be rampant speculation by lots of people. When your barber or waitress starts talking about how they are going to make millions on a youtube copy then you can start to worry. Case and point the last stock market bubble and now the RE bubble.
I agree completely! I share an office (that has a huge window) now with another developer and am pretty happy with the arrangement. I've worked in cubicles (way too loud) and in offices w/o windows (depressing as hell) and know that I need a privatish office with a window to really be productive.
I have a Sony Z520 and had a similar experience. I was in a bar with my phone out, friend quickly turned hit my hand, phone flew across the bar and went to pieces. I managed to find everything and clip is back together and it still works great. Plus this phone goes out in the boat every weekend and I live in a rather humid environment. Originally, I was a little concerned about this phones durability when I got it, but it's stood up great!
I'm as distrusting of the police as the next guy (see my sig), but what were you and the driver charged with? You say you both where arrested and convicted on some charges.
The police should never be beating anyone or using anymore force than absolutely necessary. The problem is that it can be hard to know just how much force to use. An officer must treat every person they walk up as potentially dangerous and willing to hurt/kill them. Officers are killed doing 'routine' traffic stops all the time.
I agree. Between work and going back to school to get my MS I have no idea what's even on TV anymore. I would've canceled comcast long ago, but I need them for internet. I thought about canceling just cable, but then they jack up the internet price so much it doesn't make much sense.
I was once addicted to DAoC. I bought it the day it came out and started playing. I had always liked playing games, but usually bored of a single one (by beating it) and then moved on to something or waited for the next fun game to play. The nature of MMOs and how they never end was my downfall though. At first it was fun playing with some friends, seeing new content the game had to offer. After awhile though it was something I did everyday b/c I had stopped doing everything else I didn't know what else to do with my time. Watch TV, read, work out, go out with friends? I wouldn't have anything to do with those things. I would work all day while reading sites about the game. Flaming on message boards and reading about the events that transpired the night before. My friends and I had 8 accounts between 4 people. In every sense of the word I was addicted. I quit going out, working out, surfing, skiing...all the things that I had loved to do prior to finding DAoC.
What finally snapped me back to reality was the ending of an important relationship I know due in part to who I became while I was addicted to DAoC for those 3 years. After that, I basically quit cold turkey and have never played again. Looking back I have no idea how I even got to that point of being addicted to a video game, but (the point of my story:)) is that it can and does happen. Luckily once I was realized there was a problem (even though it was too late in this case) I was stubborn and hard headed enough to quit when I finally decided to.
I wish that Apple would simply help merge Webkit into Mozilla, and ditch the browser fragmentation game. Goodness knows that Mozilla could use some interface help.
This is the first thing I thought when they announced Safari for Windows. What they should have announced is that they are dumping Safari and moving to gecko/FF/camino with a custom Apple front end. Make this new front end compatible with FF style plugins and then continue to take on IE.
I looked at the MS site and there seems to be a minimum of 3 versions (Home Premium, Business, Ultimate) if you ignore 32bit vs. 64bit and Home Starter. And since you have to buy 32 bit separately from the 64 bit version I think it's acceptable to say at minimum there are 6 different flavors of Vista that anyone building a computer today will have to decide between.
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A company that honestly admits they were ripping off early adopters by slashing the price $200 a month and a half later or a company that doesn't share that information.
I'm not sure how it was a ripoff. The price was clearly stated and the early adopters happily paid. Hell, they even stood in line for days to pay the original price. I always think of a ripoff as something not being worth what you paid. From what I've read, all the people who were early adopters love their phone and never complained about paying for it.
No, my argument the whole time has been it's a property rights issue for the owner. As long as smoking is legal (which last I checked it was) then an owner of an establishment should have the right to allow or disallow smoking. If you were an owner then you could make the establishment non-smoking. I'm not sure how you've been missing that connection for so long since you're claiming to be so much smarter while not actually ever arguing anything.
Finally, your title alludes to a public health issue. If that's the case then lets go ahead and outlaw smoking. Then lets force people to exercise daily, close fast food restaurants, ban alcohol, etc... I know you're going to say that smoking hurts you even though you chose not to smoke, but you do chose to go to establishments which allow smoking. If people would vote with their feet and dollars instead of crying I think you'd be surprised how quickly non-smoking establishments would open.
Once again attacking me about original thoughts when you haven't offered one up yet. You're entire argument so far has centered around you not liking a particular and calling names. So who isn't having original thoughts?
Calling my argument stupid isn't much of an argument. All you've presented is that you don't want to open a non-smoking establishment. Fine then, you have that choice and also have the choice to not go to any smoking establishments if you so choose. Also, the fact that you don't want to open such an establishment has no bearing on whether or not they should exist.
In closing, I've presented my argument in a fairly clear and coherent fashion without resorting to name calling or ad hominem attacks. The Harvard school of law does a great podcast on thinking logically. You should give it a listen sometime.
I agree and am wondering if it has to do with battery life. Having the touch be the 'coolest' ipod with so little space doesn't make any sense from a marketing/consumer standpoint. As it stands I'll probably sell my 30gb video and get a new 80gb. My music library alone is now 32gb in size :/
It's a great argument. What you're arguing for is akin to me not having a coffee shop near my house so the gov. forces a Starbucks to open nearby. It makes zero sense.
You have choice to go or not go to a *private* establishment. If you don't like their environment, then don't go. If enough people quit going they will change. If you want a non-smoking restaurant now then start one. Taking away a person's property rights is never the answer. As long as smoking is legal, then I should be able to allow people to smoke in my restaurant.
For the record I'm a non-smoker and hate smoking in general. It's the old I may disagree with what you're saying, but I will defend your right to the death to say it.
And if one doesn't, you or anyone else is free to start one...
(no one should be paid $1+ million an episode for ANY TV show)
Why not?
Or just try to use any version of Ciscos vpn software. Apparently the 5.0 version works *sometimes* and only on fresh installs of vista. I tried to verify it working on a fresh install of vista in a vm and it couldn't hold the vpn up for more than a few minutes at time. Back to XP I went...
Haha...actually I do dislike java and try to avoid it when I can. What I was really ripping on originally is how poor program performance is always looked at as a language issue first. Picking the right language for the job is of course important, but program design, algorithms used, and overall architecture will always be much bigger factors in a programs eventual performance.
Language - Doesn't matter much if you know how to design a scalable system. Some languages like Erlang force you into a more scalable design, but even then it's still easy to mess up. Unless this multi-million dollar project you're talking about was an embedded system I would bet language used was the smallest reason for bad performance. Although it is fun to bash java whenever the chance.
Libraries - Bingo lets throw out nice blocks of tested and working code b/c it's always better to write it yourself. You pretty much have to use libraries to get things done anymore. And are you suggesting someone should write their own DB software when building a web app? Um, yeah see that web app ever gets done.
Abstractions - While most are leaky at some point, abstractions make it easier for you to focus on the architecture (which is what you should be focusing on anyways when building scalable systems).
I see these types of arguments all the time and they rarely make sense. It's like arguing about C vs. Java over 1ms running time difference when if you changed your algorithm you could make seconds of difference or if you changed your architecture you would make minutes of difference...
It's actually a good thing. Old fashioned sobriety tests are built and given in such a way that it's challenging and nearly impossible for completely sober people to pass them.
Picture this, it's night time with cars driving by in low light situation and you're probably a little nervous b/c that's what happens when people get pulled over. Now walk this line heel to toe. Next stand on one foot. Now tilt your head back with eyes closed and touch your nose. Say your abc's backwards from V-K quickly. Now say them forwards and if you sing them, that counts as a fail.
The tests are bogus and I welcome any technology to remove them from the equation.
Dell was a mail order company, you're right. The web revolutionized their business though. Not sure how you can compare a newspaper to ebay rofl. I'm sure I can easily find old and rare coins in my newspaper, or anything else that's hard to find. Sure, FedEx was profitable but are you trying to say that the web didn't also revolutionize their business with all the additional shipping that came out of the business side of the web?
Well, whether or not you think Google has a good business plan doesn't matter much since they are making plenty of money with their current plan. Is Goog worth its current valuation? Who knows, but they have plenty of cash and zero debt to keep going for a long time.
Actually the web did change the rules of business. It allowed for new business models to emerge. Before Dell how much could you customize a PC you wanted w/o building it yourself? Before Ebay how could you sell that old crap you wanted to get rid of? A yard sale? lol What about finding a book or CD. If your local store didn't have it (and/or you lived in a small town) you had a hard time getting many things. Now with FedEx and the web I can order nearly anything that I can think of and have it delivered the next day. If that alone didn't change the rules of business I'm not sure what else could.
Well yes and no. If VC money is tied up in bubble type companies then presumably they won't be investing in other companies that could lead to better investments for others down the road. But, VCs losing money isn't generally considered a bubble bursting and usually considered part of the risk of being a VC.
I think a bubble by it's definition must be rampant speculation by lots of people. When your barber or waitress starts talking about how they are going to make millions on a youtube copy then you can start to worry. Case and point the last stock market bubble and now the RE bubble.
Posh is welcome in the states anytime...
And don't forget Pokemon. Games, cards, action figures, ect... it's a fn' cash cow!
I agree completely! I share an office (that has a huge window) now with another developer and am pretty happy with the arrangement. I've worked in cubicles (way too loud) and in offices w/o windows (depressing as hell) and know that I need a privatish office with a window to really be productive.
I have a Sony Z520 and had a similar experience. I was in a bar with my phone out, friend quickly turned hit my hand, phone flew across the bar and went to pieces. I managed to find everything and clip is back together and it still works great. Plus this phone goes out in the boat every weekend and I live in a rather humid environment. Originally, I was a little concerned about this phones durability when I got it, but it's stood up great!
I'm as distrusting of the police as the next guy (see my sig), but what were you and the driver charged with? You say you both where arrested and convicted on some charges.
The police should never be beating anyone or using anymore force than absolutely necessary. The problem is that it can be hard to know just how much force to use. An officer must treat every person they walk up as potentially dangerous and willing to hurt/kill them. Officers are killed doing 'routine' traffic stops all the time.
Quick! Ban pencils and paper in the workplace!
I agree. Between work and going back to school to get my MS I have no idea what's even on TV anymore. I would've canceled comcast long ago, but I need them for internet. I thought about canceling just cable, but then they jack up the internet price so much it doesn't make much sense.
I was once addicted to DAoC. I bought it the day it came out and started playing. I had always liked playing games, but usually bored of a single one (by beating it) and then moved on to something or waited for the next fun game to play. The nature of MMOs and how they never end was my downfall though. At first it was fun playing with some friends, seeing new content the game had to offer. After awhile though it was something I did everyday b/c I had stopped doing everything else I didn't know what else to do with my time. Watch TV, read, work out, go out with friends? I wouldn't have anything to do with those things. I would work all day while reading sites about the game. Flaming on message boards and reading about the events that transpired the night before. My friends and I had 8 accounts between 4 people. In every sense of the word I was addicted. I quit going out, working out, surfing, skiing...all the things that I had loved to do prior to finding DAoC.
:)) is that it can and does happen. Luckily once I was realized there was a problem (even though it was too late in this case) I was stubborn and hard headed enough to quit when I finally decided to.
What finally snapped me back to reality was the ending of an important relationship I know due in part to who I became while I was addicted to DAoC for those 3 years. After that, I basically quit cold turkey and have never played again. Looking back I have no idea how I even got to that point of being addicted to a video game, but (the point of my story
I agree. That and the web developer plug-in are the two things that keep me on FF on my mac.
I wish that Apple would simply help merge Webkit into Mozilla, and ditch the browser fragmentation game. Goodness knows that Mozilla could use some interface help.
This is the first thing I thought when they announced Safari for Windows. What they should have announced is that they are dumping Safari and moving to gecko/FF/camino with a custom Apple front end. Make this new front end compatible with FF style plugins and then continue to take on IE.
I looked at the MS site and there seems to be a minimum of 3 versions (Home Premium, Business, Ultimate) if you ignore 32bit vs. 64bit and Home Starter. And since you have to buy 32 bit separately from the 64 bit version I think it's acceptable to say at minimum there are 6 different flavors of Vista that anyone building a computer today will have to decide between.