Don't have much time to delve, but it that skyactiv tech is a package deal of their most efficient tech...and I can't tell what models are skyactiv or what not...
-14.0:1 compression ratio -more torque at low end -some kind of 'better' transmission... -etc, help me out here;)
Yeah, hell yeah! If he's learned all the book-friendly lessons, it's probably time to put the books down. Get out there, burn some calories, and socialize.
Society doesn't need another "know-everything" that can't actually function well in society. Some of the hardest lessons I've ever faced involved "people", and I'm sure he'd find plenty of challenges there.
To some extent, internet comment systems have always been like this. There've always been those random trollers just looking for the way to disagree over anything. If you post a comment on how blue the sky is, you'll get flamed from someone who swears it's just a whig conspiracy designed to make us ignore the lead they put in our water. "They want you to think the sky's blue so that you wont pay attention to how much like lead the water tastes." No matter how poor their reasoning, someone always finds a way to passionately disagree on the internet.
I got a blackberry playbook a couple weeks back (a present, or I wouldn't have it). I have to say, I'm underwhelmed with the 3rd party applications. It could just be the playbook and maybe an Android tablet would have programs that are more mature, but I doubt it. The stuff I see on my playbook feels like throw backs to the old applications you could get for PDAs (remember those?) Yes, there's a way to do whatever you want to do on it, but you've got to 'manage expectations'...
Yep, this agrees with their emphasis on being a "hardware company". They don't sell their software separately from their hardware, because it's the hardware they want you to buy. (Though they also do media. But, as you point out, to a lesser extent.) So, you had better expect them to sell hardware at a profit.
In a sense, they're kind of doing what the tech giants of old used to do (IBM, Cray, Sun, SGI, etc). It makes sense because they've been around since then. It also makes sense that all these internet users complain. They're used to piecing computers together and paying nearly nothing for media (OS, software, entertainment).
A remark on them being a hardware company: They offer very good hardware solutions, if you treat them as hardware solutions. I just had the entire keyboard/trackpad portion of my laptop replaced, free of charge (at Apple's expense), because of a program (settlement) they have running.
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Disgusted with some people here dancing on the coffin.
WTF is wrong with you? [...] And if you're a decent human being, you can't cheer his death either.
I agree with you completely there. I can't believe the immaturity of the/. commenters at times like this. Damn a man's actions, damn a man's decisions, but unless his actions or decisions threaten yours or another's life - you have no grounds to damn his life! (sed s/his/her/ )
I think Apple's definitely made serious contributions to the tech world, though I think you're over stating their (and thus Steve's) importance. They're important, yes, but it's impossible to say what we'd have without them. One thing's for sure, it's unlikely 'nerds' like myself would ever go anywhere near something as fashionable as an Apple store without a company as technologically sophisticated and fashionable as Apple. That, in itself, is one hell of an accomplishment.
Having said that, thank goodness Microsoft and the generic PC manufacturers have had mainstream competition from Apple. I guarantee yesterday's news that Mac OS has 23% of the OS market made Steve a happy man. It makes ME happy, and I'm a nobody. I love being able to install macports and actually compile htop and LyX on my imac!
As far as I'm concerned this is good old fashioned news for nerds. There's plenty covering the mainstream stuff.
I agree, wholeheartedly!
For that matter, I'm not an astronomer, but I'll be damned if I don't find the search for earth-like planets more interesting than anything I'm doing...To think that in my lifetime the first potential life-bearers outside our solar system might be found...well, if I can't take a ride on a spaceship, then at least suspecting we're not alone will do.
We know there are many stars. We know that many stars have orbiting planets.
Unless there's something special about a particular planet, I don't care.
No, no, we don't actually know how many stars have orbiting planets. This is still a very "open" question in astronomy. I know the first exoplanet was discovered very recently, maybe even less than 5 years ago. (AFAIK there's always been reason to suspect many planets exist. But general deduction gives none of the specifics.)
Just because every science fiction story out there (practically) assumes many planetary systems doesn't mean actual, empirical evidence of extra solar planets has been around long.
Jokes on me. I was trolled by an ignorant little twat still living with his mama. pero que coño
Now piss off and go clean your room.
The single best way to undermine your own arguments is to attempt to belittle the personal character of your intellectual opponent. There is no reason nor need to personally attack someone over an intellectual argument.
Other than that, this is an interesting conversation to read through. Keep it above the waist...
You must have known him personally to know you didn't like him. I assume you can, at the very least, divorce your judgement of a person's personal well being from his/her professional affairs.
I've heard the rumors about how he was, as a person. But you should never judge a person by what others say of him or her (good and bad).
"Forgive his crimes, forgive his virtues, too. Those smaller faults, half converts to the right." - Emerson
Yep, might as well burn all of our forests and sell our children to who ever will buy them.
What's the use in having the third largest nation in the world (by area) with some of the richest natural resources and most fertile lands, and most of the best universities humanity has ever seen? There's just no way we can compete.
You can't create a stand alone app. That makes it a non-language. You're just a script kiddie.
I'll just put this out there, who cares? Even in "The C Programming Language" K&R state it's more important to have good, working code than fast code.* Only after 'it works' should you worry about optimization. So, if you're not optimizing your code, what's to stop you from prototyping in python? Or, for that matter, doing any of the many other tasks that don't require byte code. (For instance, python + sqlite work GREAT as a replacement to excel/access. There's also scipy.)
So what if you can't write microsoft access in python? Who would WANT to rewrite access if access wont quite do the job?
Also, there are ways to make stand-alone python applications. But, again, why tie yourself down to a specific OS?
*This might be the wrong book for the right quote, but it's still sound coding mentality. Get it right, and THEN get it fast, if it's even a task you'll do more than a couple times!
-bone up on your probability (continuous/discrete distributions, transformations, etc) -grab a book on statistical decision theory like Parmigiani and Inoue or Berger (85). -read Von Neumann/Morgenstern
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Don't have much time to delve, but it that skyactiv tech is a package deal of their most efficient tech...and I can't tell what models are skyactiv or what not...
-14.0:1 compression ratio ;)
-more torque at low end
-some kind of 'better' transmission...
-etc, help me out here
Makes me wonder what the DOE will run on that computer? Kind of makes another game of (insert your favorite FPS here) seem quaint.
to win with modesty, and to lose with dignity.
Yeah, hell yeah! If he's learned all the book-friendly lessons, it's probably time to put the books down. Get out there, burn some calories, and socialize.
Society doesn't need another "know-everything" that can't actually function well in society. Some of the hardest lessons I've ever faced involved "people", and I'm sure he'd find plenty of challenges there.
They did the same thing with Michael Jackson. The media are their own damnation. You would be right to ignore such things.
Except that an ereader had better use eink and if you want to view movies an ereader is the wrong device.
To some extent, internet comment systems have always been like this. There've always been those random trollers just looking for the way to disagree over anything. If you post a comment on how blue the sky is, you'll get flamed from someone who swears it's just a whig conspiracy designed to make us ignore the lead they put in our water. "They want you to think the sky's blue so that you wont pay attention to how much like lead the water tastes." No matter how poor their reasoning, someone always finds a way to passionately disagree on the internet.
I got a blackberry playbook a couple weeks back (a present, or I wouldn't have it). I have to say, I'm underwhelmed with the 3rd party applications. It could just be the playbook and maybe an Android tablet would have programs that are more mature, but I doubt it. The stuff I see on my playbook feels like throw backs to the old applications you could get for PDAs (remember those?) Yes, there's a way to do whatever you want to do on it, but you've got to 'manage expectations'...
Yep, this agrees with their emphasis on being a "hardware company". They don't sell their software separately from their hardware, because it's the hardware they want you to buy. (Though they also do media. But, as you point out, to a lesser extent.) So, you had better expect them to sell hardware at a profit.
In a sense, they're kind of doing what the tech giants of old used to do (IBM, Cray, Sun, SGI, etc). It makes sense because they've been around since then. It also makes sense that all these internet users complain. They're used to piecing computers together and paying nearly nothing for media (OS, software, entertainment).
A remark on them being a hardware company: They offer very good hardware solutions, if you treat them as hardware solutions. I just had the entire keyboard/trackpad portion of my laptop replaced, free of charge (at Apple's expense), because of a program (settlement) they have running.
Disgusted with some people here dancing on the coffin.
WTF is wrong with you? [...] And if you're a decent human being, you can't cheer his death either.
I agree with you completely there. I can't believe the immaturity of the /. commenters at times like this. Damn a man's actions, damn a man's decisions, but unless his actions or decisions threaten yours or another's life - you have no grounds to damn his life! (sed s/his/her/ )
I think Apple's definitely made serious contributions to the tech world, though I think you're over stating their (and thus Steve's) importance. They're important, yes, but it's impossible to say what we'd have without them. One thing's for sure, it's unlikely 'nerds' like myself would ever go anywhere near something as fashionable as an Apple store without a company as technologically sophisticated and fashionable as Apple. That, in itself, is one hell of an accomplishment.
Having said that, thank goodness Microsoft and the generic PC manufacturers have had mainstream competition from Apple. I guarantee yesterday's news that Mac OS has 23% of the OS market made Steve a happy man. It makes ME happy, and I'm a nobody. I love being able to install macports and actually compile htop and LyX on my imac!
As far as I'm concerned this is good old fashioned news for nerds. There's plenty covering the mainstream stuff.
I agree, wholeheartedly!
For that matter, I'm not an astronomer, but I'll be damned if I don't find the search for earth-like planets more interesting than anything I'm doing...To think that in my lifetime the first potential life-bearers outside our solar system might be found...well, if I can't take a ride on a spaceship, then at least suspecting we're not alone will do.
We know there are many stars. We know that many stars have orbiting planets.
Unless there's something special about a particular planet, I don't care.
No, no, we don't actually know how many stars have orbiting planets. This is still a very "open" question in astronomy. I know the first exoplanet was discovered very recently, maybe even less than 5 years ago. (AFAIK there's always been reason to suspect many planets exist. But general deduction gives none of the specifics.)
Just because every science fiction story out there (practically) assumes many planetary systems doesn't mean actual, empirical evidence of extra solar planets has been around long.
Jokes on me. I was trolled by an ignorant little twat still living with his mama. pero que coño
Now piss off and go clean your room.
The single best way to undermine your own arguments is to attempt to belittle the personal character of your intellectual opponent. There is no reason nor need to personally attack someone over an intellectual argument.
Other than that, this is an interesting conversation to read through. Keep it above the waist...
I am uncomfortable with the number of CowboyNeal references in the survey!
personal well being
I hear you. But damning a man is magnitudes away from damning a life.
The one chance I'll have to say, so I'll say this:
Thanks for bringing UNIX 'back'.
I hope you taught the company you left everything you knew. I also hope they were listening, this time ;)
He didn't make billions selling your personal info to advertisers
I'd say that ^ makes up for any lawsuits against Microsoft.
You must have known him personally to know you didn't like him. I assume you can, at the very least, divorce your judgement of a person's personal well being from his/her professional affairs.
I've heard the rumors about how he was, as a person. But you should never judge a person by what others say of him or her (good and bad).
"Forgive his crimes, forgive his virtues, too. Those smaller faults, half converts to the right." - Emerson
Yep, might as well burn all of our forests and sell our children to who ever will buy them.
What's the use in having the third largest nation in the world (by area) with some of the richest natural resources and most fertile lands, and most of the best universities humanity has ever seen? There's just no way we can compete.
Android wouldn't be having this problem if it ran a HURD kernel...
> : )
You can't create a stand alone app. That makes it a non-language. You're just a script kiddie.
I'll just put this out there, who cares? Even in "The C Programming Language" K&R state it's more important to have good, working code than fast code.* Only after 'it works' should you worry about optimization. So, if you're not optimizing your code, what's to stop you from prototyping in python? Or, for that matter, doing any of the many other tasks that don't require byte code. (For instance, python + sqlite work GREAT as a replacement to excel/access. There's also scipy.)
So what if you can't write microsoft access in python? Who would WANT to rewrite access if access wont quite do the job?
Also, there are ways to make stand-alone python applications. But, again, why tie yourself down to a specific OS?
*This might be the wrong book for the right quote, but it's still sound coding mentality. Get it right, and THEN get it fast, if it's even a task you'll do more than a couple times!
The term you're looking for is "loss-leader".
Can't do this with paintball:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkB6BZ-NG-M&feature=related
Also, can't do that on an xbox...
I'm under the impression that this is a legal source:
http://www.archive.org/details/theoryofgamesand030098mbp
Has pdf/epub/kindle/etc versions of NM. (As well as lots of other good reads!)
Thought it interesting to note that my father's and Von Neumann's lives ever-so-slightly intersected at Operation Crossroads.
That's pretty cool! Never heard of Operation Crossroads before, but it sounds like it was the second nuclear test?
-bone up on your probability (continuous/discrete distributions, transformations, etc)
-grab a book on statistical decision theory like Parmigiani and Inoue or Berger (85).
-read Von Neumann/Morgenstern