Also, while it pales in comparison with some Apple products for instance, TiVo's UI is excellent compared to most other set top devices. The peanut remote is sheer class. (I came back to TiVo after two years overseas, and was very happy to find that all the button's were still encoded in my muscle memory.) Ease of use and reliability are definitely worth paying for.
Exactly. Is the US honestly in a more dire position today than it was in the late 18th and early 19th Century ? It was the publically stated aim of the then superpower: Britain to invade and recover its American possesions.
Motorola has plenty: C139 for instance. $20 in the major electronic retailers with a $10 airtime credit. Small, simple, clear display, so cheap it's practically disposable. I don't think the OP has tried looking very hard.
Of course, the real computer scientist is the one who can explain why in this case, mathematics is not the same as computer science. These are not exactly the same. In many languages, the three arguments are not guaranteed to be evaluated in the first case, but they are in the second. This may be good and it may be bad: it may be good because the compiler can emit code that will abandon evaluation after the first false argumement. It might be bad because the programmer _expected_ all three arguments to be evaluated.(Evaluation may have side effects..consider the misuse of "operator&&" in C++) And, for Wirth's sake, don't do this in a preprocessor macro !
On the otherhand, your general point is right. However, I understood the relationship, but I could not have named it as DeMorgan's Law.
Why isn't this modded up ? It is interesting, relevant, cites sources and contributes profoundly to the discussion. (obcomplaint: oh, this is slashdot...silly me.) Thank you poster.
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IANAL, but I have watched plenty of Duke's of Hazzard reruns, so, I have a pretty good idea how US law enforcement works. If all the boys have to do to escape the clutches of the law is cross the county line, how come they wouldn't be safe in Australia ?
The words court, curia and curate are cognates. Early European courts were indeed held in church. Hence 'pray' is not strictly secular. (Of course, the origin of the word curia is even earlier and during roman times simply meant a division of the people, then the term was applied to the people meeting as a body in order to make civil and judicial decisions. It is through the Catholic church that "curia" acquired its eclesiatical meaning.)
Well said. It's nothing to do with image for me. "It just works" pretty much sums up the Apple experience. How many Mac users here remember their first Bluetooth phone ? My Mac already had BT built in...my address book was synced with the phone within minutes of unpacking the phone. No software to install, no data to copy into a new application, it just worked.
Yes, my reaction too. On the otherhand, it seems like the perfect candidate for XBLA. I'd buy it - and I've managed to resist buying any other XBLA games.
Quite possibly. My CORPORATE (very legitimate large silicon valley tech company) install of XP was determined to be 'counterfeit', and I wasn't alone. So, from my experience, it fails 100% of the time.
It's as relevant as the parent comment. if there is a compatibility issue. And, there is. Then at least there are substantial benefits and new features from the changes in Mac OS X over the last five years. As someone who has used XP every day for the last five years, I'm very hard put to find a new feature or update that hasn't been security or bug fix related.
Tell me how XP today is better than it was five years ago. Given the DRM restrictions in Vista, it's pretty clear that in the narrow terms of "fair use", that OS may well be a step backwards over XP.
I run XP, Linux and Mac. Like Jim Alchim I'm happier with the Mac Experience. Heck, I'm happier editing code in emacs, so my opinion is suspect anyway, so shoot me.
True enough. However, XP sucked 5 years ago and thanks to service packs and updates, it sucks more today. Mac OS X on the other hand has improved by leaps and bounds in the last 5 years. (Not that the updates have all been good: iTunes has certainly seen its fair-use features reduced at the same time as adding video, podcasts etc.)
this is my experience too. I stopped buying them for the simple reason that they lasted certainly no longer than incandescent lamps, perhaps shorter. Mostly, I think it is the electronics that are failing rather than the tube. On the other hand, I don't think it is the wiring: the house was brand new when I bought it. I had the wiring surveyed and there was one problem with an external socket that was fixed. AND, the old fashioned straight tube flourescent lights in the laundry last forever.
My belief is that the folded tube designs have a tendancy to overheat, and unlike older designs, the electronics are very close to the heat source. And, yes I was putting lamps designed for enclosed fixtures in enclosed fittings . Even bare flourescent bulbs hanging in my cool basement don't last very long.
Then i think out definitions of domain squatting are different. I would limit it to domains that are registered in order to extort money from trademark holders. Presumably you simply mean domains that are registered and not actively used for anything productive. Unless of course the domains you are thinking of are already trademarks, and you are going into the extortion business;-)
I'm not sure what IPv4 vs. IPv6 has to do with this. In fact, DNS is a solution to the IPv4 problem, not a cause. (IP addresses are scarce, not domains.) On the other hand, I think that there is a case to be made for handing DNS over to Google. Let them handle unicode to address translation, they all-but do this today.
I look forward to Thailand withdrawing from the world academic community. Goddamn all those university researchers publishing their work in academic journals ! If they aren't monetarizing it, their efforts are worthless.
My boss used to send out emails saying simply "Take Friday off." I thought he was just the best boss ever, until I realised what he meant was "I'm taking Friday off." Now he's just a great boss...if he's reading this...
Whaddya mean "loser" ? Assuming he did indeed vote for himself, I suggest he got one more vote than you did. Pretty shoddy to argue that someone is a loser for making the effort to stand as a candidate in an election. Democracy wins when people participate. Democracy loses when we sit at home and whine about the outcome, but don't bother to take part.
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I agree, but I'm not sure my wife and kids would.
Also, while it pales in comparison with some Apple products for instance, TiVo's UI is excellent compared to most other set top devices. The peanut remote is sheer class.
(I came back to TiVo after two years overseas, and was very happy to find that all the button's were still encoded in my muscle memory.) Ease of use and reliability are definitely worth paying for.
Exactly. Is the US honestly in a more dire position today than it was in the late 18th and early 19th Century ? It was the publically stated aim of the then superpower: Britain to invade and recover its American possesions.
Motorola has plenty: C139 for instance. $20 in the major electronic retailers with a $10 airtime credit. Small, simple, clear display, so cheap it's practically disposable. I don't think the OP has tried looking very hard.
Of course, the real computer scientist is the one who can explain why in this case, mathematics is not the same as computer science. These are not exactly the same. In many languages, the three arguments are not guaranteed to be evaluated in the first case, but they are in the second. This may be good and it may be bad: it may be good because the compiler can emit code that will abandon evaluation after the first false argumement. It might be bad because the programmer _expected_ all three arguments to be evaluated.(Evaluation may have side effects..consider the misuse of "operator&&" in C++) And, for Wirth's sake, don't do this in a preprocessor macro !
On the otherhand, your general point is right. However, I understood the relationship, but I could not have named it as DeMorgan's Law.
IANACS, but I play one in job interviews.
Why isn't this modded up ? It is interesting, relevant, cites sources and contributes profoundly to the discussion.
(obcomplaint: oh, this is slashdot...silly me.)
Thank you poster.
Copyright 2007 Richard Stallman
Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article are permitted worldwide without royalty in any medium provided this notice is preserved.
Funny, isn't this the BSD license in a nutshell ?
ba.com
aa.com
ms.com
hp.com
id.com
io.com
ts.com
IANAL, but I have watched plenty of Duke's of Hazzard reruns, so, I have a pretty good idea how US law enforcement works.
If all the boys have to do to escape the clutches of the law is cross the county line, how come they wouldn't be safe in Australia ?
You win. I surrender. NunSter, farking hilarious.
The words court, curia and curate are cognates. Early European courts were indeed held in church. Hence 'pray' is not strictly secular.
(Of course, the origin of the word curia is even earlier and during roman times simply meant a division of the people, then the term was applied to the people meeting as a body in order to make civil and judicial decisions. It is through the Catholic church that "curia" acquired its eclesiatical meaning.)
Well said. It's nothing to do with image for me. "It just works" pretty much sums up the Apple experience. How many Mac users here remember their first Bluetooth phone ? My Mac already had BT built in...my address book was synced with the phone within minutes of unpacking the phone. No software to install, no data to copy into a new application, it just worked.
Yes, my reaction too. On the otherhand, it seems like the perfect candidate for XBLA. I'd buy it - and I've managed to resist buying any other XBLA games.
Quite possibly. My CORPORATE (very legitimate large silicon valley tech company) install of XP was determined to be 'counterfeit', and I wasn't alone. So, from my experience, it fails 100% of the time.
Intel has technology, has brains, has money, has plants.
What they don't have, though, is ATI(AMD) and NVIDIA's patent portfolios.
It's as relevant as the parent comment. if there is a compatibility issue. And, there is. Then at least there are substantial benefits and new features from the changes in Mac OS X over the last five years. As someone who has used XP every day for the last five years, I'm very hard put to find a new feature or update that hasn't been security or bug fix related.
Tell me how XP today is better than it was five years ago. Given the DRM restrictions in Vista, it's pretty clear that in the narrow terms of "fair use", that OS may well be a step backwards over XP.
I run XP, Linux and Mac. Like Jim Alchim I'm happier with the Mac Experience. Heck, I'm happier editing code in emacs, so my opinion is suspect anyway, so shoot me.
True enough. However, XP sucked 5 years ago and thanks to service packs and updates, it sucks more today. Mac OS X on the other hand has improved by leaps and bounds in the last 5 years.
(Not that the updates have all been good: iTunes has certainly seen its fair-use features reduced at the same time as adding video, podcasts etc.)
I'm sure theres nothing stopping them from testing the machines, what they've been prevented from doing is approving them.
Hey,
this is my experience too. I stopped buying them for the simple reason that they lasted certainly no longer than incandescent lamps, perhaps shorter. Mostly, I think it is the electronics that are failing rather than the tube. On the other hand, I don't think it is the wiring: the house was brand new when I bought it. I had the wiring surveyed and there was one problem with an external socket that was fixed. AND, the old fashioned straight tube flourescent lights in the laundry last forever.
My belief is that the folded tube designs have a tendancy to overheat, and unlike older designs, the electronics are very close to the heat source. And, yes I was putting lamps designed for enclosed fixtures in enclosed fittings . Even bare flourescent bulbs hanging in my cool basement don't last very long.
Then i think out definitions of domain squatting are different. I would limit it to domains that are registered in order to extort money from trademark holders. Presumably you simply mean domains that are registered and not actively used for anything productive. Unless of course the domains you are thinking of are already trademarks, and you are going into the extortion business ;-)
Is domain squatting really a problem any more - with newly registered domains, I mean ?
I'm not sure what IPv4 vs. IPv6 has to do with this. In fact, DNS is a solution to the IPv4 problem, not a cause. (IP addresses are scarce, not domains.)
On the other hand, I think that there is a case to be made for handing DNS over to Google. Let them handle unicode to address translation, they all-but do this today.
I look forward to Thailand withdrawing from the world academic community. Goddamn all those university researchers publishing their work in academic journals ! If they aren't monetarizing it, their efforts are worthless.
My boss used to send out emails saying simply "Take Friday off."
I thought he was just the best boss ever, until I realised what he meant was "I'm taking Friday off."
Now he's just a great boss...if he's reading this...
Whaddya mean "loser" ? Assuming he did indeed vote for himself, I suggest he got one more vote than you did.
Pretty shoddy to argue that someone is a loser for making the effort to stand as a candidate in an election.
Democracy wins when people participate. Democracy loses when we sit at home and whine about the outcome, but don't bother to take part.
Sorry QuantumG, but you are banned from my shop.