"You fly to Europe or Canada, and their security personnel have a clue - they're practical, they keep a sharp eye out, and they use the right response for the situation at hand."
The problem is that here in the U.S. we have to be oh so politically correct at all times. We have to treat 74 year old white-haired grandmothers *exactly* the same way as we treat 20-something guys with a bread and a strong middle-eastern accent when everyone knows that the odds of someone from either of these two groups doing something harmful on a flight are massively skewed towards the latter group.
"25K? You can get an ICOM R9500 which will give you everything between 5khz and 3.5GHZ with filtering and processing and a 40 channel per second scann rate for 12.5k"
I'll bet this guy's never had $12.5K at once. You see this in the ricer scene as well. When you see a riced out Honda Civic with $35K worth of junk bolted to it, you wonder why the guy didn't just buy something like a BMW M3 to start with. The thing is, all that crap was bolted on over a period of years--the guy never had all that money at any given time.
The Skype founders must be genius negotiators if they managed to sell their company to eBay for billions of dollars yet keep rights to the source code that runs the business. Either that or eBay's lawyers must be the world's biggest idiots.
BPL isn't really (and never was) about delivering Internet service over electric lines. It was geared more towards smart power meters that the utilities could read remotely rather than sending an army of meter readers out to every house in the country once a month to read the meters.
Turbo C++ came years after Borland's original product: Turbo Pascal.
I started with Turbo Pascal with version 1.0. At the time, it was a revelation because it cost $49.00 in the days when PC development tools typically cost many hundreds of dollars, and because of its speed. It could compile a several thousand line Pascal program in just a few seconds. Other compilers of the time, such as Microsoft Pascal, took many minutes to compile the same code. It was limited, however, to 64K of code because the compiler created.COM files.
The compiler was so fast that Turbo Pascal was the rapid development tool of the 1980s on the PC. Nothing else could approach its speed.
While Phillipe Khan always maintained that he was the developer of the Turbo Pascal code, it was actually Anders Hejlsberg, the architect of C#, that actually wrote the code.
Some of us believe in preventative legislation. The "do whatever you want until you fuck things up for the rest of us" just doesn't sit well with us.
I agree. Let's ban computers. That'll prevent the indiscriminate copying of music and movies in violation of the copyright laws, because, after all, computers have no other lawful use.
BFD is right. For christ's sake, we're taking about an entertainment medium here, not a basic necessity like food or water.
People who think otherwise really need to get a life.
"If you bother to ask, there are quite a few people who would pay extra for a theater or dining experience without children."
Me too. I'd gladly pay extra for theaters and restaurants without: children, cell phones, loud obnoxious people, etc.
In theaters, the thing about cell phones that bother me more than the sound is the light. The blue glow from the cell phone display of an idiot texting during a movie is *very* distracting in a dark theater.
"There are markups of over 5000 times the cost of the active ingredients."
Sure, but you're forgetting the millions (if not billions) of dollars it cost in R&D to develop these drugs. The drug companies have to make this money back somehow, or no one would develop new drugs.
"Yeah, how dare he inform the public of what is actually happening in one of the most important transitions that can happen in government!"
Give me a break! All that's happening is a new group of lying, cheating crooks is getting ready to replace the current group of lying, cheating crooks.
"Remember Rambus? And all the rigamarole that surrounded it? Faster but more expensive didn't work out in that case."
There was nothing wrong with Rambus technology that caused it to ultimately fail. It was the lawsuit happy tactics of Rambus Inc. that caused the problems. The technology was sound, but the owner of the patents went out of their way to repeatedly shoot themselves in the foot.
A nitro-fueled dragster outperforms my Toyota, so perhaps I should trade my Camry in?
Performance is just one variable in the equation, and probably not the most important in these days of 3GHz quad core boxes. Compatibility is probably more important. Windows runs the applications most people want and need, while Linux falls short in this area. It may be improving, but it's not there yet. Until there are native versions of Office, Photoshop, and other popular Windows applications, Linux is going nowhere on the desktop except in cases with extreme price pressure to keep the overall system cost as low as possible.
Need I remind you that the current Indian mission isn't a manned mission. While it's true the U.S. hasn't had a manned lunar mission in 36 years, we've launched unmanned lunar missions much more recently (Clementine and Lunar Prospector come to mind).
"India's economy has turned around due to technology outsourcing to India by the rest of the world. This outsourcing started happening when Indians began showing the outside world that Indians aren't just the hungry clamouring mobs always shown on TV. As the world realized this, they began to see value in sending work to India."
Nope. We began outsourcing to India because labor rates there are so much lower than in the U.S., not because of some perceived technological advantage. Pure economics. Very shorted sighted--a practice that will come back to bite the U.S. in the ass big time in the future.
As the Indian standard of living increases and salaries go up, then we'll just find another country with cheaper labor and move our outsourcing there instead.
As for the Indian moon mission: yawn... Ho hum... Been there, done that. Forty years ago.
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"Do as I say don't do as I do, some politicians outside of Argentina also have that attitude ;-)"
In my experience, that's what all politicians do. As do the cops. They set bad examples for the rest of us.
"You fly to Europe or Canada, and their security personnel have a clue - they're practical, they keep a sharp eye out, and they use the right response for the situation at hand."
The problem is that here in the U.S. we have to be oh so politically correct at all times. We have to treat 74 year old white-haired grandmothers *exactly* the same way as we treat 20-something guys with a bread and a strong middle-eastern accent when everyone knows that the odds of someone from either of these two groups doing something harmful on a flight are massively skewed towards the latter group.
" as for new york politicians, they're so fucking retarded and dysfunctional, hate has no use"
No, they're just well-paid (by IBM) and don't dare bite the hand that feeds them.
Fuck that shit!
"25K?
You can get an ICOM R9500 which will give you everything between 5khz and 3.5GHZ with filtering and processing and a 40 channel per second scann rate for 12.5k"
I'll bet this guy's never had $12.5K at once. You see this in the ricer scene as well. When you see a riced out Honda Civic with $35K worth of junk bolted to it, you wonder why the guy didn't just buy something like a BMW M3 to start with. The thing is, all that crap was bolted on over a period of years--the guy never had all that money at any given time.
I'd say the U.S. should contribute a few cruise missiles to this effort. I'm sure "delivery" could be easily arranged.
Now maybe we'll see the final release of E17 before the 22nd century. Who knows, it may even come out before Duke Nukem Forever.
Damn, and all this time I though Thompson and Ritchie retired from Bell Labs and formed ZZ Top.
The Skype founders must be genius negotiators if they managed to sell their company to eBay for billions of dollars yet keep rights to the source code that runs the business. Either that or eBay's lawyers must be the world's biggest idiots.
London--the Natural History Museum is right next door to the Science Museum and both are world-class, if not the best in the world.
"We might as well all become communists... Like Stallman!"
ROFLMAO!
BPL isn't really (and never was) about delivering Internet service over electric lines. It was geared more towards smart power meters that the utilities could read remotely rather than sending an army of meter readers out to every house in the country once a month to read the meters.
Actually, the betas only have a kinetic energy of around 5.7 keV. The rest is carried away by an electron antineutrino.
I just created a new Gmail account with SRJC in the name. Let's see if I get a nastygram from one of the college's shy^H^H^H lawyers.
Turbo C++ came years after Borland's original product: Turbo Pascal.
I started with Turbo Pascal with version 1.0. At the time, it was a revelation because it cost $49.00 in the days when PC development tools typically cost many hundreds of dollars, and because of its speed. It could compile a several thousand line Pascal program in just a few seconds. Other compilers of the time, such as Microsoft Pascal, took many minutes to compile the same code. It was limited, however, to 64K of code because the compiler created .COM files.
The compiler was so fast that Turbo Pascal was the rapid development tool of the 1980s on the PC. Nothing else could approach its speed.
While Phillipe Khan always maintained that he was the developer of the Turbo Pascal code, it was actually Anders Hejlsberg, the architect of C#, that actually wrote the code.
I agree. Let's ban computers. That'll prevent the indiscriminate copying of music and movies in violation of the copyright laws, because, after all, computers have no other lawful use.
Exactly. Just look at Hans Reiser for a perfect example.
BFD is right. For christ's sake, we're taking about an entertainment medium here, not a basic necessity like food or water. People who think otherwise really need to get a life.
"If you bother to ask, there are quite a few people who would pay extra for a theater or dining experience without children."
Me too. I'd gladly pay extra for theaters and restaurants without: children, cell phones, loud obnoxious people, etc.
In theaters, the thing about cell phones that bother me more than the sound is the light. The blue glow from the cell phone display of an idiot texting during a movie is *very* distracting in a dark theater.
"There are markups of over 5000 times the cost of the active ingredients."
Sure, but you're forgetting the millions (if not billions) of dollars it cost in R&D to develop these drugs. The drug companies have to make this money back somehow, or no one would develop new drugs.
"Yeah, how dare he inform the public of what is actually happening in one of the most important transitions that can happen in government!"
Give me a break! All that's happening is a new group of lying, cheating crooks is getting ready to replace the current group of lying, cheating crooks.
"Remember Rambus? And all the rigamarole that surrounded it? Faster but more expensive didn't work out in that case."
There was nothing wrong with Rambus technology that caused it to ultimately fail. It was the lawsuit happy tactics of Rambus Inc. that caused the problems. The technology was sound, but the owner of the patents went out of their way to repeatedly shoot themselves in the foot.
A nitro-fueled dragster outperforms my Toyota, so perhaps I should trade my Camry in?
Performance is just one variable in the equation, and probably not the most important in these days of 3GHz quad core boxes. Compatibility is probably more important. Windows runs the applications most people want and need, while Linux falls short in this area. It may be improving, but it's not there yet. Until there are native versions of Office, Photoshop, and other popular Windows applications, Linux is going nowhere on the desktop except in cases with extreme price pressure to keep the overall system cost as low as possible.
"And we haven't been back in a while."
Need I remind you that the current Indian mission isn't a manned mission. While it's true the U.S. hasn't had a manned lunar mission in 36 years, we've launched unmanned lunar missions much more recently (Clementine and Lunar Prospector come to mind).
"India's economy has turned around due to technology outsourcing to India by the rest of the world. This outsourcing started happening when Indians began showing the outside world that Indians aren't just the hungry clamouring mobs always shown on TV. As the world realized this, they began to see value in sending work to India."
Nope. We began outsourcing to India because labor rates there are so much lower than in the U.S., not because of some perceived technological advantage. Pure economics. Very shorted sighted--a practice that will come back to bite the U.S. in the ass big time in the future.
As the Indian standard of living increases and salaries go up, then we'll just find another country with cheaper labor and move our outsourcing there instead.
As for the Indian moon mission: yawn... Ho hum... Been there, done that. Forty years ago.