A couple guys play on the obvious (to anyone with a life) pun between the Sinclair C5 and the 5-th generation Corvette (aka C5), and they get modded down to 0. What gives?
BUT an 89% profit rate is a very strong sign that the market is bearing a heavy price for the monopoly. (Note that 20% profit rates are normally considered very good in most businesses, IIRC. 89% is almost unheard of.) Isn't this type of burden on the market exactly what anti-trust laws were intended to prevent?
Why? The market is assuming this burden voluntarily, for no reason other than laziness and inertia. There's a perfectly good bunch of Linux distros out there, available for free, so if they keep spending $300 for Windows it must be because they want to, not because they have to.
I concur. They are making it seem like a crime to hold a certain attitude towards a certain population, the jewish people.
Case in point. John McCain has more than once voiced his anti-Vietnamese attitude. You don't see the press calling him the Anti-Vietnamese Senater.
Silly boy. That's because the Vietnamese people aren't part of an EVIL WORLDWIDE ZIONIST CONSPIRACY TO CONTROL OUR LIVES VIA THE MEDIA AND SECRET SATELLITE TRANSMISSIONS, of course.;-P
I use Quicken and their online bill payment service. I can't remember the last time I actually had to write out a check, and fill out the form, and put it in the envelope, and find a stamp, not to mention having to walk outside and put it all in the box, and then have to raise that damn flag... I mean, it is the 21st century, isn't it? And still there is no Linux app that can handle something as simple as this? (Yeah, I'm lazy. Guess what - so are lots of other people. Oh, yeah, and then there's the games...)
Yeah, Microsoft is going to open the source to Windows for a country that has a 98% software piracy rate. A country where the latest version of Windows will run you $5 on any street corner.
So, then, what's the loss to Microsoft in this case?
That still sounds pretty specific/practical to me. In my curriculum, we started with data structures & algorithms, discrete math, theory of computation (e.g. FSMs, Turing machines, the Halting Problem, big-O notation, etc.), then started programming in Pascal. Meanwhile, we were learning about digital logic, and moving on to (micro-)computer architecture (the class project there was to write a CPU emulator) and assembly-language programming. Only after all that did we do any "practical" stuff - C, Unix shell stuff, compilers, software engineering/process, networking, graphics, programming, etc.
...and we're still casual now that it's gone. (For us, "casual" basically means no shorts, sweats, or t-shirts, and yes, you must wear clothes every day, no exceptions.;-) Letting your people be comfortable while they work isn't "hip" or "revolutionary", it's good business sense, and it don't cost nothin'.
No reason to get snippy about it. People who live in the UK are not the only ones who have to deal with this sort of thing.
For instance, I live in New York. No, not New York City. There's a whole state called New York, only a small fraction of which (area-wise, that is -- about 50% population-wise) consists of New York City. But try and explain that to people who don't live in the Northeast US, never mind people who live in other countries. To them, "New York" is just one giant superdense concrete-and-glass jungle.
No, I do not ride the subway to work. No, I do not worry about being mugged every day. No, I do not live in a high-rise building. No, I didn't vote for Mike Bloomberg; I'm not allowed to, only NYC residents are. Get it?
The thought that there was nothing (well, almost nothing) in between me and those huge, huge objects that were so very far away still sends tingling down my spine whenever I think about it.
Just a thin wisp of cotton, and a growing lump of flesh...
(C'mon, let's keep this going! The Slashdot Harlequin Romance Novel!;-)
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Our office is business casual M-Th, so the guys wear slacks and button down shirts, and used to always wear ties.
You mean you dress up on Fridays? That's rather unusual AFAIK.
It's like I've always said: you can't beat a heavily-armed lynch mob for a meticulous and professional criminal investigation leading to a fair and open trial.
Is being lynched by a mob any worse than having a gang of cops shove a plunger up your ass, or being shot 42 times by the police on your way home from work?
Football players' union would demand a proportional increase in salary for the extra distance Football stadiums are too short to extend to a 100m playing field and still have enough setback behind the end zones to comply with OSHA safety regulations
So make the field 90 meters long.
A quarter pounder sounds bigger than an eighth-kilogrammer, and 100g sounds tiny
Anyone up on their Tarantino knows the answer to this one - call it a "Royale with cheese".
Americans couldn't comprehend reciprocating fuel mileage (Liters/100km rather than mi/gal)
"Liters/100km" is not an SI unit per se. There's no reason we couldn't specify gas mileage in km/l if we wanted.
Having unified units throughout the world might be a threat to our national security (who the hell anywhere else knows what an URG is?
Um, I live in the US and I've never heard of an "URG". Do you mean erg, by chance?
A Wendy's Triple w/ Everything has 810 caliories [sic], which is bad enough. However it has 3,391,308 joules - try selling the biggie-size on that one!
I believe they use Calories in Europe (not calories, but Calories), just like we do.
Who wants to pay for gas by the liter? (or shall I say "litre")
Why not? It would only be about 40 cents!
Americans don't want to have to start mis-spelling (interject) everything, like "colour" and "litre" and "behaviour" etc
We're talking about converting to SI, not becoming Europeans!
This is the way capitalism works, and it does work. Without the INCENTIVE of profit from research, what company would even bother trying to make such advancements? It's funny that all of this advancement is moving at break-neck speed here in the US which is only ~220 years old, but happens to have a free market...
They can patent all the equipment they want, but letting them patent actual genes is just dangerous. What if someone had patented the electron? Or molecular oxygen? It's just plain stupid to allow patents on things that are found in nature.
Okay, Larry, Here's a real good example of how patents are HURTING health for our beer-loving neighbors to the north.
No. Here's a real good example of how the utterly stinking monumentally idioticincompetence of the USPTO (in granting a patent for something that's not an invention) is hurting the health of our neighbors to the north (and what makes you think it won't hurt people right here in the US?).
This isn't about a patent on a product, it's about a patent on a gene. A naturally occurring chemical sequence that is one of the very building blocks of life. There is no way in hell that anyone could claim this gene to be an invention, which IIRC is what patents are supposed to be given out for. Discovering something that has existed for thousands of years is not supposed to be sufficient for a patent. Once again, a company is taking advantage of the USPTO's monumental ignorance in order to subvert the law for its own gain, at the expense of possibly thousands of human lives.
Unfortunately my take on this situation is a bit more sinister. Your post mentions that NT 5.0 (Windows 2000 Pro) requires 64M of RAM, yet NT 5.1 (Windows XP) requires 128M of RAM. Why the twofold increase for a minor upgrade?
Why? Because WinNT 5.x really requires 512MB to run smoothly, and MS is taking their time working up the courage to admit it.
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A couple guys play on the obvious (to anyone with a life) pun between the Sinclair C5 and the 5-th generation Corvette (aka C5), and they get modded down to 0. What gives?
BUT an 89% profit rate is a very strong sign that the market is bearing a heavy price for the monopoly. (Note that 20% profit rates are normally considered very good in most businesses, IIRC. 89% is almost unheard of.) Isn't this type of burden on the market exactly what anti-trust laws were intended to prevent?
Why? The market is assuming this burden voluntarily, for no reason other than laziness and inertia. There's a perfectly good bunch of Linux distros out there, available for free, so if they keep spending $300 for Windows it must be because they want to, not because they have to.
I concur. They are making it seem like a crime to hold a certain attitude towards a certain population, the jewish people.
;-P
Case in point. John McCain has more than once voiced his anti-Vietnamese attitude. You don't see the press calling him the Anti-Vietnamese Senater.
Silly boy. That's because the Vietnamese people aren't part of an EVIL WORLDWIDE ZIONIST CONSPIRACY TO CONTROL OUR LIVES VIA THE MEDIA AND SECRET SATELLITE TRANSMISSIONS, of course.
I use Quicken and their online bill payment service. I can't remember the last time I actually had to write out a check, and fill out the form, and put it in the envelope, and find a stamp, not to mention having to walk outside and put it all in the box, and then have to raise that damn flag... I mean, it is the 21st century, isn't it? And still there is no Linux app that can handle something as simple as this? (Yeah, I'm lazy. Guess what - so are lots of other people. Oh, yeah, and then there's the games...)
Yeah, Microsoft is going to open the source to Windows for a country that has a 98% software piracy rate. A country where the latest version of Windows will run you $5 on any street corner.
So, then, what's the loss to Microsoft in this case?
Son of Mozilla.
'Ay! Dere ain't no such ting as the Mafia, and don' choo fuggedit!
That still sounds pretty specific/practical to me. In my curriculum, we started with data structures & algorithms, discrete math, theory of computation (e.g. FSMs, Turing machines, the Halting Problem, big-O notation, etc.), then started programming in Pascal. Meanwhile, we were learning about digital logic, and moving on to (micro-)computer architecture (the class project there was to write a CPU emulator) and assembly-language programming. Only after all that did we do any "practical" stuff - C, Unix shell stuff, compilers, software engineering/process, networking, graphics, programming, etc.
...and we're still casual now that it's gone. (For us, "casual" basically means no shorts, sweats, or t-shirts, and yes, you must wear clothes every day, no exceptions. ;-) Letting your people be comfortable while they work isn't "hip" or "revolutionary", it's good business sense, and it don't cost nothin'.
No reason to get snippy about it. People who live in the UK are not the only ones who have to deal with this sort of thing.
For instance, I live in New York. No, not New York City. There's a whole state called New York, only a small fraction of which (area-wise, that is -- about 50% population-wise) consists of New York City. But try and explain that to people who don't live in the Northeast US, never mind people who live in other countries. To them, "New York" is just one giant superdense concrete-and-glass jungle.
No, I do not ride the subway to work. No, I do not worry about being mugged every day. No, I do not live in a high-rise building. No, I didn't vote for Mike Bloomberg; I'm not allowed to, only NYC residents are. Get it?
I went to college with a Scott Pehnke, around 1990. Hey Scott, if you're reading this, give a shout!
It's running fine for me on Phoenix 0.3. I assume Mozilla 1.1 would do just as well.
The thought that there was nothing (well, almost nothing) in between me and those huge, huge objects that were so very far away still sends tingling down my spine whenever I think about it.
;-)
Just a thin wisp of cotton, and a growing lump of flesh...
(C'mon, let's keep this going! The Slashdot Harlequin Romance Novel!
Our office is business casual M-Th, so the guys wear slacks and button down shirts, and used to always wear ties.
You mean you dress up on Fridays? That's rather unusual AFAIK.
Hell, it wouldn't even make that big of a crater if it hit us (why do I think I'm going to get flamed for that?)
I don't think it could hit us; it would burn up during its descent.
It's like I've always said: you can't beat a heavily-armed lynch mob for a meticulous and professional criminal investigation leading to a fair and open trial.
Is being lynched by a mob any worse than having a gang of cops shove a plunger up your ass, or being shot 42 times by the police on your way home from work?
Football players' union would demand a proportional increase in salary for the extra distance
Football stadiums are too short to extend to a 100m playing field and still have enough setback behind the end zones to comply with OSHA safety regulations
So make the field 90 meters long.
A quarter pounder sounds bigger than an eighth-kilogrammer, and 100g sounds tiny
Anyone up on their Tarantino knows the answer to this one - call it a "Royale with cheese".
Americans couldn't comprehend reciprocating fuel mileage (Liters/100km rather than mi/gal)
"Liters/100km" is not an SI unit per se. There's no reason we couldn't specify gas mileage in km/l if we wanted.
Having unified units throughout the world might be a threat to our national security (who the hell anywhere else knows what an URG is?
Um, I live in the US and I've never heard of an "URG". Do you mean erg, by chance?
A Wendy's Triple w/ Everything has 810 caliories [sic], which is bad enough. However it has 3,391,308 joules - try selling the biggie-size on that one!
I believe they use Calories in Europe (not calories, but Calories), just like we do.
Who wants to pay for gas by the liter? (or shall I say "litre")
Why not? It would only be about 40 cents!
Americans don't want to have to start mis-spelling (interject) everything, like "colour" and "litre" and "behaviour" etc
We're talking about converting to SI, not becoming Europeans!
Too bad it wasn't VW, then they could release the GNU/Beetle.
This is the way capitalism works, and it does work. Without the INCENTIVE of profit from research, what company would even bother trying to make such advancements? It's funny that all of this advancement is moving at break-neck speed here in the US which is only ~220 years old, but happens to have a free market...
They can patent all the equipment they want, but letting them patent actual genes is just dangerous. What if someone had patented the electron? Or molecular oxygen? It's just plain stupid to allow patents on things that are found in nature.
Okay, Larry, Here's a real good example of how patents are HURTING health for our beer-loving neighbors to the north.
No. Here's a real good example of how the utterly stinking monumentally idiotic incompetence of the USPTO (in granting a patent for something that's not an invention) is hurting the health of our neighbors to the north (and what makes you think it won't hurt people right here in the US?).
Patents on medical products are a touchy subject.
This isn't about a patent on a product, it's about a patent on a gene. A naturally occurring chemical sequence that is one of the very building blocks of life. There is no way in hell that anyone could claim this gene to be an invention, which IIRC is what patents are supposed to be given out for. Discovering something that has existed for thousands of years is not supposed to be sufficient for a patent. Once again, a company is taking advantage of the USPTO's monumental ignorance in order to subvert the law for its own gain, at the expense of possibly thousands of human lives.
You don't need to launch "floating-point numbers". They already float.
Nope, only the point floats, leaving the rest of the digits behind.
Unfortunately my take on this situation is a bit more sinister. Your post mentions that NT 5.0 (Windows 2000 Pro) requires 64M of RAM, yet NT 5.1 (Windows XP) requires 128M of RAM. Why the twofold increase for a minor upgrade?
Why? Because WinNT 5.x really requires 512MB to run smoothly, and MS is taking their time working up the courage to admit it.
That 100K miles adds only a small fraction of a second to the many seconds of processing on the ground and in the transponder.
Actually, a fairly large fraction of a second - about 0.54 seconds, if you wanna get picky.
then, as posted above..... NYC was hit hard last year. they can still use all the support they can get. why pull out on them now?
So, in other words, if MacWorld moves to Boston, then the terrorists have won , eh?