I used to drive about thirty minutes to/from work, during which time I would listen to the radio. Because djs wouldn't announce what songs they were playing, I would find three or four songs that I liked, and use lyrics.ch to look up the songs, buying the CDs from amazon or another online vendor.
After lyrics.ch went away the first time, returning with the crappy, incomplete, emasculated version that you couldn't add lyrics to, I stopped buying the stuff I couldn't find. My CD purchasing went from about 200 CDs one year, to about 15 the next.
I can't imagine I'm a rare case. I believe killing lyrics.ch has cost the recording industry at least a few tens of thousands of dollars, which, while statistically insignificant, seems somehow poetic.
How does a purely logical race justify breast implants? Do Vulcan women have odd spinal configurations that require additional ballast hanging off the front?
The two men have not been seen for some time. Mughniyeh is probably the world?s most wanted outlaw. Unconfirmed reports in Beirut say he has undergone plastic surgery and is unrecognisable.
I know this is a long-running gimmick for criminals in bad movies, and there are always rumors of people hiding in this way. However, has there ever been a confirmed case of a real outlaw evading detection in this manner?
There are also a lot of relatively simple rules for civil engineering, because it builds on so much previous knowledge. (And I am really simplifying this...)
"If you need to support ten thousand pounds using reinforced concrete, the supports should be this wide, and no farther than this far apart." This assumes a lot of prior work done with concrete, rebar, assembly, etc.
There are rules like that for simple things like database access ("If using Java and Oracle, type the following..."), but the level of componentisation is proportionately much lower in software, possibly because we keep reinventing the wheel. To draw a flawed analogy, we still haven't settled on concrete, steel, wood, or tinkertoys to build our bridges!
I think you may have confused yourself a little bit. "Most usability scientists agree that no one can distinguish much of a difference in PC performance 25% greater than the base value." does not imply "Which translates into people willing to pay roughly ZERO for anything less than a 500Mhz improvemen." (sic)
Intel has shown that people will buy based on the name and clock frequency of the chip, regardless of what the human factors people will say is detectable, noticeable, or preferable.
Oh good lord, you have no idea. Trying to gross out people on alt.tasteless in the very early 90s granted me the legacy of some exceedingly sick shit, much of which I posted in my real name. I stumbled on them a short while back while searching for my name and hometown. (I foolishly had mention of it in my sig.)
Why does youth always have to coincide with incredible stupidity?
Maybe Google is going to milk the cash cow of charging for selective deletions. I'd pay $50 for each of certain posts to go away permantly.
I bet you microsoft could pay each of the FSF sc members 10,000 dollars and they would throw away their morals an assign all the GNU copyrights to microsoft. What's that you say? RMS is too nice for that. Think again.
Do you think before you type? Are you aware how much money RMS has passed up (Macarthur grant notwithstanding) by giving away software his entire life?
It's safe to argue that Bill Joy and RMS are of similar skill and talent, and started within a few years of each other. Do you think RMS drives a Ferrari?
Jim Larus had an interesting article or two regarding cache-conscious data structures, with some interesting timing statistics, based on different L1/L2/L3 memory architectures.
The tiny screen is a good compromise for portability and battery life. Since they're already moving toward a general-purpose computing platform, it would be nice to have an optional peripheral that exports the display to a VGA monitor. They already have external keyboards available, so it wouldn't be a stretch to have it be an overlarge PDA or an underpowered desktop.:-)
You're thinking light, not pigment. Since you're seeing the result of reflected color (as opposed to spectral color) with the GameCube, different rules apply.
I'm sure I'm not telling you anything you haven't seen:
A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on.
Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: "You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong."
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I used to drive about thirty minutes to/from work, during which time I would listen to the radio. Because djs wouldn't announce what songs they were playing, I would find three or four songs that I liked, and use lyrics.ch to look up the songs, buying the CDs from amazon or another online vendor.
After lyrics.ch went away the first time, returning with the crappy, incomplete, emasculated version that you couldn't add lyrics to, I stopped buying the stuff I couldn't find. My CD purchasing went from about 200 CDs one year, to about 15 the next.
I can't imagine I'm a rare case. I believe killing lyrics.ch has cost the recording industry at least a few tens of thousands of dollars, which, while statistically insignificant, seems somehow poetic.
FTSORIAA.
How does a purely logical race justify breast implants? Do Vulcan women have odd spinal configurations that require additional ballast hanging off the front?
I know this is a long-running gimmick for criminals in bad movies, and there are always rumors of people hiding in this way. However, has there ever been a confirmed case of a real outlaw evading detection in this manner?
He must have accidentally put this under "Disadvantages" instead of "Advantages".
Yeah, at least it's not Walla Walla!
There are also a lot of relatively simple rules for civil engineering, because it builds on so much previous knowledge. (And I am really simplifying this...)
"If you need to support ten thousand pounds using reinforced concrete, the supports should be this wide, and no farther than this far apart." This assumes a lot of prior work done with concrete, rebar, assembly, etc.
There are rules like that for simple things like database access ("If using Java and Oracle, type the following..."), but the level of componentisation is proportionately much lower in software, possibly because we keep reinventing the wheel. To draw a flawed analogy, we still haven't settled on concrete, steel, wood, or tinkertoys to build our bridges!
Amazing what you can find when you get off your lazy ass and look.
In ten years, computers will be the size of your house, and take enough electricity to light all of the homes in Missoula, Montana.
I think you may have confused yourself a little bit. "Most usability scientists agree that no one can distinguish much of a difference in PC performance 25% greater than the base value." does not imply "Which translates into people willing to pay roughly ZERO for anything less than a 500Mhz improvemen." (sic)
Intel has shown that people will buy based on the name and clock frequency of the chip, regardless of what the human factors people will say is detectable, noticeable, or preferable.
Oh good lord, you have no idea. Trying to gross out people on alt.tasteless in the very early 90s granted me the legacy of some exceedingly sick shit, much of which I posted in my real name. I stumbled on them a short while back while searching for my name and hometown. (I foolishly had mention of it in my sig.)
Why does youth always have to coincide with incredible stupidity?
Maybe Google is going to milk the cash cow of charging for selective deletions. I'd pay $50 for each of certain posts to go away permantly.
You should also read Steven Levy's 'Hackers'. It should be required reading for any fledgling computer geek.
Do you think before you type? Are you aware how much money RMS has passed up (Macarthur grant notwithstanding) by giving away software his entire life?
It's safe to argue that Bill Joy and RMS are of similar skill and talent, and started within a few years of each other. Do you think RMS drives a Ferrari?
Jim Larus had an interesting article or two regarding cache-conscious data structures, with some interesting timing statistics, based on different L1/L2/L3 memory architectures.
While slower, I think the CM-2 is sexier. It looks more like "nefarious movie computer" than the CM-5, IMAO. The CM-5 looks too functional. :-)
There's an interesting bit in the Cray FAQ (which is interesting in its own right) about the display panel on the T3d being a Powerbook.
You have a great future as a beat poet. ;>
Now that my CPU sprints along at 1.4GHz, I can't say my 5400 RPM IDE, 128MB box is CPU-bound!
The tiny screen is a good compromise for portability and battery life. Since they're already moving toward a general-purpose computing platform, it would be nice to have an optional peripheral that exports the display to a VGA monitor. They already have external keyboards available, so it wouldn't be a stretch to have it be an overlarge PDA or an underpowered desktop. :-)
You're thinking light, not pigment. Since you're seeing the result of reflected color (as opposed to spectral color) with the GameCube, different rules apply.
I'd say he probably understands it as well as Linus understands Linux.
What, they spelled it "Francis Bacon"?
YM, "the app is the client". HTH
Starting wage at Sbux in SFO is $8.25.
Is it any coincidence that the list of schools using Scheme includes most of the best CS schools in the country?
MIT, UCB, Waterloo, CMU, Georgia Tech, Harvard, UIUC, UTA, and Cornell all factor Scheme early in(or at the beginning of) the CS curriculum.
What is probably the most popular intro CS book is based on Scheme.