Completely OT, but there's a difference between "these store-label jeans are half the price of the name brand but look pretty much the same" (Wal-Mart and Target approach) and "I wonder if these weird-looking jeans will make it through the washing machine?" (Kmart approach). Or put another way, there's a difference between "cheap as in inexpensive" and "cheap as in a crappy piece of junk".
Target has been particularly effective in building a reputation of offering decent stuff at a good price. Wal-Mart is hit and miss; some of their inexpensive stuff is great and some is awful. Kmart has built a reputation of offering the least expensive stuff possible but of uniformly low quality. Whether any of those are true in fact, that's how they're commonly perceived.
Tying these back in to the original statement: if I saw a $149 Android tablet at Target, I'd think, "hey, cheap tablet! Maybe I should check that out." When I heard that Kmart was selling them, my first thought was to wonder what was wrong with them.
The whole point of IMAP folders is to keep your email on the server. I don't want to download 4+ years worth of e-mail to my computer.
There is a happy medium: you can configure Thunderbird to download the last $X days worth of mail. I love that option because my home email server is on DSL and it can take ages to download large messages to my work computer. With local caching, there's a good chance that the pictures of my niece's birthday party are already downloaded by the time I go to view the message, and if I go to a different message and come back I don't have to immediately re-download them.
From the comments it is apparent that few clicked through to the article ( "I can't reproduce it, sucks to be you" or "stupid n00b ought to know better" or "Thunderbird? Meh.")
I spoke up not to defend Thunderbird but to provide more data points. On my system, Thunderbird 3 runs fine - even with indexing and local caching enabled. I don't doubt that it runs like crap for other people and would never dispute that.
I know. Having cut my teeth on a C=64, it's hard to wrap my brain around a single desktop application using that much RAM. I console myself with the thought that it's putting a couple gigs of data at my fingertips, should I ever need to access it that quickly.
D) Random other factors (maybe whether the profile was upgraded or wiped out and created anew?)
E) C + D
I've never voluntarily deleted a single non-spam email that was sent directly to me (eg, I've pruned old mailing list messages, but not stuff in my main inbox). As of this moment, I'm using Thunderbird 3 and IMAP to access 84,000 emails taking about 2GB on the server. It's still fast and responsive, and uses few resources while idle.
IMAP4 has a "SEARCH" capability in the base standard (section 6.4.4 of RFC 3501). If an IMAP client detects the server has this capability, why not just let the server handle it by default?
For the sake of my laziness and for everyone else reading along, is there an official recommended setting in Thunderbird to tell to use only server-side searching on a particular account and not to bother indexing it?
I use Thunderbird with IMAP at work and top says that it's currently hogging 0.00% of CPU and 368MB (out of 8192MB) of RAM. This has been typical since updating to V3; it doesn't matter what settings you turn on.
That doesn't disprove your experience in any way. I just wanted to point out that Thunderbird isn't universally a hog for everyone who runs it.
Also getting them books they enjoy. Something I see far too much, particularly from schools, is this emphasis on "classics." They want kids to read "good" literature and thus try to cram stuff they don't like at them.
My son was happy when he finally realized that I mean it: I don't care what books he buys as long as they're age-appropriate. He found the "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" series and loved each of them. Last week he picked out "The Day My Butt Went Psycho" just because it said "butt" a lot and he's ate the age when that's the height of humor. I finally got it through his head that I read because it's fun and worth doing, not because someone's forcing me to slog through boring stuff I can't stand. Now that he's found a few books that pique his interest, he's starting to realize that he also likes reading.
I've never really understood the point of sucking all the joy out of the act of reading. There are so many wonderful books for everyone, regardless of their interests, that I'd rather teach my kids to love reading and let them explore on their own.
I'd HAMR in the morning. I'd HAMR in the evening. I'd HAMR all over this land. And that works out to about 1.12*10^19 GB for the surface area of the US.
It's not Merck's fault people suffered heart attacks- it was their own damn fault for using Vioxx! It shouldn't even have been removed from the market- people should have all the options and damned be psychology for proving that excess choice has little to do with making good decisions.
I agree with your sarcastic statement that Vioxx should still be available. My wife had several patients begging her for any remaining samples she might have laying around, even though they knew it could possibly kill them. Each of those people have rheumatoid arthritis that responded well to Vioxx and were willing to accept the chance of premature death in exchange for effective pain relief.
Why is there no mechanism for people to sign informed consent waivers that allow them to make rational decisions about their own health care? I think it's pretty terrible that we've told those people that we've decided to give them long, agonizing lives whether they want them or not.
Or even put IE6 on a terminal server and publish it with Remote Desktop / VNC / whatever. Don't let a handful of apps block the rest of your corporate upgrade schedule (AFAIK you can't get IE6 on Windows 7), but keep it available until you can wean off it.
How do you figure? You could make the case that a Nook or Kindle is actually a money-saving device because you can get all of Google Books or Project Gutenberg for free after paying one time for the hardware. Why does putting the content on an inexpensive electronic device convert them to luxury items? If i buy an eNewspaper, is that a luxury item too?
That ends the legitimacy of the comparison, immediately. As soon as personal value judgments are stated as hard fact, the rest becomes suspect. You know, some day I'd like to be one of the outliers that pulls that number up. I'd be willing to bet that you would, too. "Lower is better" if and only if you you personally think it is.
I remember the bad old days of telephony before AT&T was able to charge Montgomery Wards for a percentage of the sales made over the phone. It was so incredibly unfair that Wards could profit off of their AT&T service without giving back their fair share of the profits! They actually used to think that if the caller paid their phone bill, and if Wards paid their phone bill, then they should be able to call each other without including AT&T in the transaction. It was madness, I tell you! Madness!
Freakin' morons. I think it's past time that the FCC passed common carrier regulations and told the telcos to STFU and get back to work.
Even if you don't need to travel long distances, $12k will buy you a lot of gas.
...nearly all of it from countries who hate us. I'd just as soon pay (a little) extra for domestic energy than for cheap gasoline imported from terrorists that we only suck up to for their oil.
A modern liberal arts degree is a mostly worthless piece of paper. The degree is chock full of courses in dead literature and useless philosophy.
Nothing is less impressive than a supposedly-educated person who has never heard of Chaucer or Kant. OK, so you're good at your job. Do you know enough about your society and culture to participate in them as an informed adult, or are you an idiot savant?
My biggest gripe with the American University was that the entry level general courses had no material I had not covered in High school: Physics I and II, Chemistry I and II, Calculus I, II and III and College Algebra were all covered in HS.
That's largely true of my American public high school, too. My wife was highly annoyed that I only went to my college chemistry class on test days, literally never studied, only found out what was on the test when I sat down to take it, and still got an A in the class. It was the same stuff I'd gotten an A for in high school. Physics I and II covered the same HS curriculum but more rigorously.
I'm starting to think in my old age that Uni / College is for the most part the 21st century version of indentured servitude.
You know, I love my job. I really do. I'd write software on my own time for free if no one was paying me for it.
But I really wish someone would have told me that the world needs electricians and skilled car mechanics, too. I like doing both of those things and I'm good at them, and my career counselors did me no favors by all but forcing white collar jobs at me.
And if said software screws up and costs a few hundred million, or otherwise causes other "bad things" to happen, what's the accountability of the programmer or the manager?
I make less than $150,000, but the software that my coworker and I wrote processed over $1,000,000,000 in transactions last year. My boss, the owner, drives a Jaguar. If I screw up badly - assuming that it's an honest mistake and I'm not deliberately defrauding anyone - I get fired, and he gets sued by our customers and fined a few tens of millions of dollars. My risk is loss of employment. His risk is bankruptcy.
He gets more money but I get to sleep at night. All things considered, I'm happy with the arrangement.
Did you know that the top Perl books sold still outpace the top Ruby and Rails books sold?
I've bought and consumed a few copies of "Learning Perl" and "Programming Perl", mainly because that's the only way I could get through some of the trickier parts of the language. I've not bought a language book since then because more recent competitors (specifically Python) were so much easier to learn that I never needed any.
And no, it's not like Perl was the first language I ever learned so that picking up a second language was much easier. To this day, if it's been more than a month since I've had to maintiain Perl code, I can hardly remember the right combination of sigils to pass around data structures without looking them up.
I'd also add that the dilution of Ruby, Python, Java, etc. books would account for a lot of the lower average sales. Of course "Programming Perl" was a huge seller; it didn't have any major competition for ages, and it's still considered the de facto reference. I'm not sure of anything outside "Programming Python" that's nearly so canonical for other languages.
I don't know that we need any more eye candy in KDE 4.
What does compositing have to do with eye candy, other than making certain kinds very easy to implement? Running a remote app over SSH the old way: change virtual desktops or cover the window and watch it slowly, painfully redraw. Running a remote app over SSH the new way: do whatever you want. When you come back to the window, it will still be exactly as you left it. I suppose not having to wait 15 seconds for a window to redraw could technically be eye candy in that it doesn't directly add new functionality, but since OpenGL desktops are generally faster and less CPU-intensive than their 2D counterparts, I don't think I'll be going back.
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Second, KMart sells cheap stuff at cheap prices?
Completely OT, but there's a difference between "these store-label jeans are half the price of the name brand but look pretty much the same" (Wal-Mart and Target approach) and "I wonder if these weird-looking jeans will make it through the washing machine?" (Kmart approach). Or put another way, there's a difference between "cheap as in inexpensive" and "cheap as in a crappy piece of junk".
Target has been particularly effective in building a reputation of offering decent stuff at a good price. Wal-Mart is hit and miss; some of their inexpensive stuff is great and some is awful. Kmart has built a reputation of offering the least expensive stuff possible but of uniformly low quality. Whether any of those are true in fact, that's how they're commonly perceived.
Tying these back in to the original statement: if I saw a $149 Android tablet at Target, I'd think, "hey, cheap tablet! Maybe I should check that out." When I heard that Kmart was selling them, my first thought was to wonder what was wrong with them.
The whole point of IMAP folders is to keep your email on the server. I don't want to download 4+ years worth of e-mail to my computer.
There is a happy medium: you can configure Thunderbird to download the last $X days worth of mail. I love that option because my home email server is on DSL and it can take ages to download large messages to my work computer. With local caching, there's a good chance that the pictures of my niece's birthday party are already downloaded by the time I go to view the message, and if I go to a different message and come back I don't have to immediately re-download them.
I've got a lot of old mail archived, and I presume there's a certain amount of overhead for each message.
From the comments it is apparent that few clicked through to the article ( "I can't reproduce it, sucks to be you" or "stupid n00b ought to know better" or "Thunderbird? Meh.")
I spoke up not to defend Thunderbird but to provide more data points. On my system, Thunderbird 3 runs fine - even with indexing and local caching enabled. I don't doubt that it runs like crap for other people and would never dispute that.
I know. Having cut my teeth on a C=64, it's hard to wrap my brain around a single desktop application using that much RAM. I console myself with the thought that it's putting a couple gigs of data at my fingertips, should I ever need to access it that quickly.
Seems like this only affects
D) Random other factors (maybe whether the profile was upgraded or wiped out and created anew?)
E) C + D
I've never voluntarily deleted a single non-spam email that was sent directly to me (eg, I've pruned old mailing list messages, but not stuff in my main inbox). As of this moment, I'm using Thunderbird 3 and IMAP to access 84,000 emails taking about 2GB on the server. It's still fast and responsive, and uses few resources while idle.
IMAP4 has a "SEARCH" capability in the base standard (section 6.4.4 of RFC 3501). If an IMAP client detects the server has this capability, why not just let the server handle it by default?
For the sake of my laziness and for everyone else reading along, is there an official recommended setting in Thunderbird to tell to use only server-side searching on a particular account and not to bother indexing it?
I use Thunderbird with IMAP at work and top says that it's currently hogging 0.00% of CPU and 368MB (out of 8192MB) of RAM. This has been typical since updating to V3; it doesn't matter what settings you turn on.
That doesn't disprove your experience in any way. I just wanted to point out that Thunderbird isn't universally a hog for everyone who runs it.
Also getting them books they enjoy. Something I see far too much, particularly from schools, is this emphasis on "classics." They want kids to read "good" literature and thus try to cram stuff they don't like at them.
My son was happy when he finally realized that I mean it: I don't care what books he buys as long as they're age-appropriate. He found the "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" series and loved each of them. Last week he picked out "The Day My Butt Went Psycho" just because it said "butt" a lot and he's ate the age when that's the height of humor. I finally got it through his head that I read because it's fun and worth doing, not because someone's forcing me to slog through boring stuff I can't stand. Now that he's found a few books that pique his interest, he's starting to realize that he also likes reading.
I've never really understood the point of sucking all the joy out of the act of reading. There are so many wonderful books for everyone, regardless of their interests, that I'd rather teach my kids to love reading and let them explore on their own.
I'd HAMR in the morning. I'd HAMR in the evening. I'd HAMR all over this land. And that works out to about 1.12*10^19 GB for the surface area of the US.
It's not Merck's fault people suffered heart attacks- it was their own damn fault for using Vioxx! It shouldn't even have been removed from the market- people should have all the options and damned be psychology for proving that excess choice has little to do with making good decisions.
I agree with your sarcastic statement that Vioxx should still be available. My wife had several patients begging her for any remaining samples she might have laying around, even though they knew it could possibly kill them. Each of those people have rheumatoid arthritis that responded well to Vioxx and were willing to accept the chance of premature death in exchange for effective pain relief.
Why is there no mechanism for people to sign informed consent waivers that allow them to make rational decisions about their own health care? I think it's pretty terrible that we've told those people that we've decided to give them long, agonizing lives whether they want them or not.
Or even put IE6 on a terminal server and publish it with Remote Desktop / VNC / whatever. Don't let a handful of apps block the rest of your corporate upgrade schedule (AFAIK you can't get IE6 on Windows 7), but keep it available until you can wean off it.
Aren't they luxury items in the first place?
How do you figure? You could make the case that a Nook or Kindle is actually a money-saving device because you can get all of Google Books or Project Gutenberg for free after paying one time for the hardware. Why does putting the content on an inexpensive electronic device convert them to luxury items? If i buy an eNewspaper, is that a luxury item too?
Uh-huh. I bet you see a lot of financial organizations basing their infrastructure off Mono.
Income Inequality (Lower is Better)
That ends the legitimacy of the comparison, immediately. As soon as personal value judgments are stated as hard fact, the rest becomes suspect. You know, some day I'd like to be one of the outliers that pulls that number up. I'd be willing to bet that you would, too. "Lower is better" if and only if you you personally think it is.
I remember the bad old days of telephony before AT&T was able to charge Montgomery Wards for a percentage of the sales made over the phone. It was so incredibly unfair that Wards could profit off of their AT&T service without giving back their fair share of the profits! They actually used to think that if the caller paid their phone bill, and if Wards paid their phone bill, then they should be able to call each other without including AT&T in the transaction. It was madness, I tell you! Madness!
Freakin' morons. I think it's past time that the FCC passed common carrier regulations and told the telcos to STFU and get back to work.
Even if you don't need to travel long distances, $12k will buy you a lot of gas.
...nearly all of it from countries who hate us. I'd just as soon pay (a little) extra for domestic energy than for cheap gasoline imported from terrorists that we only suck up to for their oil.
A modern liberal arts degree is a mostly worthless piece of paper. The degree is chock full of courses in dead literature and useless philosophy.
Nothing is less impressive than a supposedly-educated person who has never heard of Chaucer or Kant. OK, so you're good at your job. Do you know enough about your society and culture to participate in them as an informed adult, or are you an idiot savant?
My biggest gripe with the American University was that the entry level general courses had no material I had not covered in High school: Physics I and II, Chemistry I and II, Calculus I, II and III and College Algebra were all covered in HS.
That's largely true of my American public high school, too. My wife was highly annoyed that I only went to my college chemistry class on test days, literally never studied, only found out what was on the test when I sat down to take it, and still got an A in the class. It was the same stuff I'd gotten an A for in high school. Physics I and II covered the same HS curriculum but more rigorously.
I'm starting to think in my old age that Uni / College is for the most part the 21st century version of indentured servitude.
You know, I love my job. I really do. I'd write software on my own time for free if no one was paying me for it.
But I really wish someone would have told me that the world needs electricians and skilled car mechanics, too. I like doing both of those things and I'm good at them, and my career counselors did me no favors by all but forcing white collar jobs at me.
And if said software screws up and costs a few hundred million, or otherwise causes other "bad things" to happen, what's the accountability of the programmer or the manager?
I make less than $150,000, but the software that my coworker and I wrote processed over $1,000,000,000 in transactions last year. My boss, the owner, drives a Jaguar. If I screw up badly - assuming that it's an honest mistake and I'm not deliberately defrauding anyone - I get fired, and he gets sued by our customers and fined a few tens of millions of dollars. My risk is loss of employment. His risk is bankruptcy.
He gets more money but I get to sleep at night. All things considered, I'm happy with the arrangement.
Did you know that the top Perl books sold still outpace the top Ruby and Rails books sold?
I've bought and consumed a few copies of "Learning Perl" and "Programming Perl", mainly because that's the only way I could get through some of the trickier parts of the language. I've not bought a language book since then because more recent competitors (specifically Python) were so much easier to learn that I never needed any.
And no, it's not like Perl was the first language I ever learned so that picking up a second language was much easier. To this day, if it's been more than a month since I've had to maintiain Perl code, I can hardly remember the right combination of sigils to pass around data structures without looking them up.
I'd also add that the dilution of Ruby, Python, Java, etc. books would account for a lot of the lower average sales. Of course "Programming Perl" was a huge seller; it didn't have any major competition for ages, and it's still considered the de facto reference. I'm not sure of anything outside "Programming Python" that's nearly so canonical for other languages.
I don't know that we need any more eye candy in KDE 4.
What does compositing have to do with eye candy, other than making certain kinds very easy to implement? Running a remote app over SSH the old way: change virtual desktops or cover the window and watch it slowly, painfully redraw. Running a remote app over SSH the new way: do whatever you want. When you come back to the window, it will still be exactly as you left it. I suppose not having to wait 15 seconds for a window to redraw could technically be eye candy in that it doesn't directly add new functionality, but since OpenGL desktops are generally faster and less CPU-intensive than their 2D counterparts, I don't think I'll be going back.
I think it's abhorrent. That's kind of the epitome of wasteful.
That's $2.50 per bit!
Outrageous!
You must have an unlimited texting plan, or you'd be used to those rates by now.