I hope Palm's decision to allow themselves to be used in SCO's advertising doesn't come back to bite them. Quoth SCO's press release:
"SCO has shown a high degree of innovation with the mobile services they have created for the Treo platform," said Mike Rank, director of Developer Relations at Palm, Inc. "We look forward to continuing our work with them on the Palm Treo 700 series as they continue to help Treo users gain even greater value from their devices."
On the one hand, there are probably a lot of companies in Palm's developer program and this is just one of them spouting about how great they are. On the other, I'm amazed that Palm publicly endorsed them. If you're desperate enough to suck up to SCO, of all entities, what does that say about your company's outlook?
Why would you first install a free OS to later add a paying Office application ?
Because $FREE + $APPLICATION is less expensive than $NOTFREE + $APPLICATION?
I wouldn't buy it, but I can imagine plenty of business that would. Why give the secretaries XP Pro when you can give them Kubuntu and still run the same apps?
Second,while I prefer to be able to pick and choose tracks, I can see how a band might prefer that an album be sold as a complete "work" and not picked apart.
I, for one, commend them for their artistic integrity. I also fully support their demand that their music may only be played on the radio in complete album form and never as individual songs between other, nonrelated music.
Because if they allowed, or even encouraged, radio stations to play their individual tracks, then they'd be screaming hypocrites who should be publically mocked and boycotted. But they'd never allow that, right?
They come up with the most bizarre ranking criteria available and stick with them until the bitter end.
Seriously, I don't care if my stereo's power cord comes wrapped in its own plastic bag.
I generally like CR, but it seems like every time they review something I personally know about, they screw it up. It's possible that my area of interest, technology, is the only glaring hole in their testing ability, but that seems somewhat unlikely.
You wish. Since we had a consultant involved, and the powers-that-be wanted everything to be all enterprisey, we would have had to order custom-built graphics cards with only two color channels.
Unfortunately, I think they might have gone for that.
American Idol's done for the year, so we can pay attention again. Besides, most people don't want the government knowing that they voted for Kellie Pickler. We don't like wiretaps, even if not for the same reasons that you don't.
I have no particular love for the telcos, but I really don't envy them their position. Imagine you're the person in charge of setting up these wiretaps. A government agent, possibly armed, shows up in your office with instructions and hints of the PATRIOT Act and Gitmo. The instructions don't include warrants like you're used to seeing, but a Federally subsidized vacation in Cuba doesn't sound too attractive and, besides, you're rather fond of making your mortgage payment.
Is there any reason to think that the telcos went along cheerfully? If so, unleash the lawyers^Whounds. However, I can easily imagine them being subject to pressures I'd rather avoid.
That is so not funny. I worked for a little CLEC headquartered in Las Vegas, and somehow ended up being picked to manage the trouble ticket system. So, I fly out to Vegas to meet the people who will be using the system and the consultant we'd hired to install it.
To put it bluntly, the guy in charge of the NOC was (is?) an incompetent jackass. He'd used the same trouble ticket system at his last job and hated it - not because it was bad, but because the admins at his old company had no idea how to run the thing. Long story short, he had one absolute demand before he'd let it be used in "his" NOC: the consultant had to change the window background color from green to blue, because green reminded him of the last installation.
He was serious.
And he actually scheduled a formal compliance test where he would run through the system to make sure he didn't see green anywhere, and informed the consultant and me that if he did, he was rejecting it forever. I was amazed to find that he actually had management backing on this; it's apparently difficult to find managers with obsolete product knowledge, or something like that. So, the company spend a fair number of kilodollars to make the software blue (to the endless delight of the consultant, who drove a nice Corvette and took me to good expense account dinners - which are the best kind!).
A girl, at university, that will seek you out because you can fix her laptop--that's running Linux--and who might find out that you DON'T have a tentacle pr0n fetish like her current boyfriend.
As I've seen your pr0n collection firsthand, I assume that you're speaking hypothetically?
I'm a current subscriber and absolutely love it. It's (relatively) cheap, it takes about 45 minutes for me to read it from cover to cover, and I always manage to find something personally relevant in it.
I first heard of Science News in a Slashdot article a while ago, and have been nothing but pleased with it since.
I no longer believe that the RIAA and its constituent scum have any standing for consideration of rights. None. Zero. Want to download a song? Go for it. Upload an album? No sweat. Steal a shipment of CDs and sell them on eBay? Knock yourself out.
These subhuman filth have no right to own anything, least of all a fictitious monopoly on a set of manufactured waveforms. Since they're willing to destroy lives to protect their greed, I think they forfeit the moral expectation to profit from their wares.
Seriously, enough is enough. An "abundance of sensitivity"? Bah! That one sentence lost me forever. I mean this truly: I will never again buy anything when I think that a member of the RIAA may benefit in any way. Screw you guys, I'm going home.
And according to this study 64% of respondents believed that aliens have contacted humans.
Does that mean you think 64% of people are stupid enough to believe in little green mean, or that 36% of people are ignorant of the possibility that we might not be all that special on a galactic scale?
I'm serious. I never can remember which one is supposed to be the inbred redneck opinion and which is for enlightened Slashdotters.
Really, there both just about as pluasible as each other.
Christianity, at its core, has a single man that came back to life after dying.
Scientology, at its core, has 13 trillion aliens that were shot up with antifreeze, shipped to Earth on DC-8 airplanes, and blown up with nuclear bombs.
And you truly, really think those are equally plausible?
The more we know of the world the more we can explain accuratly how it works. Everytime a discovery is made, God is displaced from his question answering place and accurate knowledge takes his place.
Some people undoubtedly have a tenuous hold on their faith and have gods that are only a scientific discovery away from irrelevence. Mine is not a "God of the gaps", though. Science can tell me how he made the universe, but only he can tell me why he made it.
you really think you're smarter than their combined intellect and months of discussion? Trust me, you're not.
Unless you're posting that from an AT&T Unix console, you're benefitting from people who had the hubris to think you're wrong.
The road of progress was paved by people who thought the current way of doing things was dumb, and who set out to find a better alternative. This is generally regarded as a good thing (except by people with a vested interest in the old ways).
Apple sells hardware... by letting you install on 5 computers, they are hoping you will buy 4 more computers. $$$ in their pocket.
What? That's nuts. Try this instead: if you buy a family pack and install it on two computers, then they'll make more money than if you buy a single user copy and install it on two computers. Make it easy for the customer to Do The Right Thing and they will, perhaps even often enough to make it worthwhile (RIAA take note).
MS doesn't sell hardware... by letting you install on 5 computers, they have removed 4 purchases the revenue stream.
Again: what? MS makes more per-unit from boxed copies of Windows than OEM versions, unless you really think Dell pays $200 per install. They'd love it if you bought directly from them.
Therefore, this modified version of the GPL is no more OSI compliant.
Yep. Out of curiosity, do they link against any GPL software? Because if they do, they're in copyright violation and are required to cease distribution at once.
Google copied their own name from "Googol", which has been claimed by the descendants of Milton Sirotta who invented the term.
Oh, will the tragedy of number theft never end? Milton Sirotta's leaches^Wdescendants can kiss my untrademarked butt.
The kid was only nine years old when he "invented" the term. Along those lines, maybe I should trademark the word and concept "pootbutt" and "10^2001" in honor of my son and the year he was born.
No offense, but it's your fault for telling them what you were going to do. There are times - and this was one of them - when your job is to abstract the messy details away from the powers that be. All they need to know is that the end result is correct.
yes, i agree with that. sorry for the statement. but following rounding off rules, the last digit should be 7 (as we humans would have done it.)
By "we humans", you mean "people who use naive methods" (but excluding statisticians, bankers, engineers, etc.). Both "6" and "7" are perfectly correct, depending on which (of several) rounding algorithms in use.
but my question now comes back to the example given in the article that when 0.37 is stored then retrieved, the calculator returns the same value. it doesn't give me 0.370000004 or any other value than 0.37. is there something wrong with my understanding of the problem?
Yep. 0.370000004 is really close to 0.37, and your calculator can detect this. Therefore, it assumes that you really want to see 0.37. The problem is that the "fix" only affects the display and not the internal representation.
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On the one hand, there are probably a lot of companies in Palm's developer program and this is just one of them spouting about how great they are. On the other, I'm amazed that Palm publicly endorsed them. If you're desperate enough to suck up to SCO, of all entities, what does that say about your company's outlook?
Because $FREE + $APPLICATION is less expensive than $NOTFREE + $APPLICATION?
I wouldn't buy it, but I can imagine plenty of business that would. Why give the secretaries XP Pro when you can give them Kubuntu and still run the same apps?
Of course, people who were killed by dolphins don't get to tell their story to the newspaper.
I, for one, commend them for their artistic integrity. I also fully support their demand that their music may only be played on the radio in complete album form and never as individual songs between other, nonrelated music.
Because if they allowed, or even encouraged, radio stations to play their individual tracks, then they'd be screaming hypocrites who should be publically mocked and boycotted. But they'd never allow that, right?
Seriously, I don't care if my stereo's power cord comes wrapped in its own plastic bag.
I generally like CR, but it seems like every time they review something I personally know about, they screw it up. It's possible that my area of interest, technology, is the only glaring hole in their testing ability, but that seems somewhat unlikely.
On the other hand, ever notice the hypnotic patterns made by the Shriners in their little cars? Did you really think that NO CARRIER
Unfortunately, I think they might have gone for that.
American Idol's done for the year, so we can pay attention again. Besides, most people don't want the government knowing that they voted for Kellie Pickler. We don't like wiretaps, even if not for the same reasons that you don't.
Is there any reason to think that the telcos went along cheerfully? If so, unleash the lawyers^Whounds. However, I can easily imagine them being subject to pressures I'd rather avoid.
To put it bluntly, the guy in charge of the NOC was (is?) an incompetent jackass. He'd used the same trouble ticket system at his last job and hated it - not because it was bad, but because the admins at his old company had no idea how to run the thing. Long story short, he had one absolute demand before he'd let it be used in "his" NOC: the consultant had to change the window background color from green to blue, because green reminded him of the last installation.
He was serious.
And he actually scheduled a formal compliance test where he would run through the system to make sure he didn't see green anywhere, and informed the consultant and me that if he did, he was rejecting it forever. I was amazed to find that he actually had management backing on this; it's apparently difficult to find managers with obsolete product knowledge, or something like that. So, the company spend a fair number of kilodollars to make the software blue (to the endless delight of the consultant, who drove a nice Corvette and took me to good expense account dinners - which are the best kind!).
As I've seen your pr0n collection firsthand, I assume that you're speaking hypothetically?
Are you allowed to pay the author for a feature request?
You forgot one.
I first heard of Science News in a Slashdot article a while ago, and have been nothing but pleased with it since.
These subhuman filth have no right to own anything, least of all a fictitious monopoly on a set of manufactured waveforms. Since they're willing to destroy lives to protect their greed, I think they forfeit the moral expectation to profit from their wares.
Seriously, enough is enough. An "abundance of sensitivity"? Bah! That one sentence lost me forever. I mean this truly: I will never again buy anything when I think that a member of the RIAA may benefit in any way. Screw you guys, I'm going home.
And while we're at it, the NRA (for that amendment the ACLU forgot about).
Does that mean you think 64% of people are stupid enough to believe in little green mean, or that 36% of people are ignorant of the possibility that we might not be all that special on a galactic scale?
I'm serious. I never can remember which one is supposed to be the inbred redneck opinion and which is for enlightened Slashdotters.
Christianity, at its core, has a single man that came back to life after dying.
Scientology, at its core, has 13 trillion aliens that were shot up with antifreeze, shipped to Earth on DC-8 airplanes, and blown up with nuclear bombs.
And you truly, really think those are equally plausible?
Whose? Not mine.
Some people undoubtedly have a tenuous hold on their faith and have gods that are only a scientific discovery away from irrelevence. Mine is not a "God of the gaps", though. Science can tell me how he made the universe, but only he can tell me why he made it.
Unless you're posting that from an AT&T Unix console, you're benefitting from people who had the hubris to think you're wrong.
The road of progress was paved by people who thought the current way of doing things was dumb, and who set out to find a better alternative. This is generally regarded as a good thing (except by people with a vested interest in the old ways).
What? That's nuts. Try this instead: if you buy a family pack and install it on two computers, then they'll make more money than if you buy a single user copy and install it on two computers. Make it easy for the customer to Do The Right Thing and they will, perhaps even often enough to make it worthwhile (RIAA take note).
Again: what? MS makes more per-unit from boxed copies of Windows than OEM versions, unless you really think Dell pays $200 per install. They'd love it if you bought directly from them.
Yep. Out of curiosity, do they link against any GPL software? Because if they do, they're in copyright violation and are required to cease distribution at once.
Oh, will the tragedy of number theft never end? Milton Sirotta's leaches^Wdescendants can kiss my untrademarked butt.
The kid was only nine years old when he "invented" the term. Along those lines, maybe I should trademark the word and concept "pootbutt" and "10^2001" in honor of my son and the year he was born.
No offense, but it's your fault for telling them what you were going to do. There are times - and this was one of them - when your job is to abstract the messy details away from the powers that be. All they need to know is that the end result is correct.
By "we humans", you mean "people who use naive methods" (but excluding statisticians, bankers, engineers, etc.). Both "6" and "7" are perfectly correct, depending on which (of several) rounding algorithms in use.
Yep. 0.370000004 is really close to 0.37, and your calculator can detect this. Therefore, it assumes that you really want to see 0.37. The problem is that the "fix" only affects the display and not the internal representation.