If all of the translators owned a copy of the book (in English or German, or whatever), and merely translated their pages and directly shared (emailed, or private newsgroup, IRC channel, etc.) that with the other translators, then I don't think that would be too much of an issue. Instead they chose to use a public web page, which anyone could access, including those who have never purchased the book. In this regard they are obviously causing tangible harm to the local publisher.
Keep in mind that the book industry, globally, has been in hard times for years. In North America the sales of the Potter series and the Bible are pretty much the two pillars holding everything together. If one of those were to be whole-sale pirated, then that could break the camel's back. I assume in the Czech Republic it's a similar story.
As a secondary note, their translation will undoubtedly be inferior to the official translation, partially because of the 5 page boundary issue, and partially because the official translators will be able to directly communicate to JK Rowling to clarify translation problems, whereas this group will not be able to. If they were actng as hobbyists, none of that would matter, and we could all pat them on the back for their accomplishments, but they are instead allowing their substandard ripoff to be accessed by non-paying outsiders, who will then receive a lesser experience, which may then turn them off from purchasing subsequent novels, in in the very least, waste their time.
I see a lot of people arguing, so here's my summary/explaination:
- A single G5/970 top of the line is probably 20% slower than P4 top of the line, on unoptimized software. By that I mean regular integer and floating point (no AltiVec), and with unoptimized compilers. The compilters may or may not improve significantly over time, so that shouldn't be afactor on release date, but may pan out later. - The G5/970 is not designed/optimized to ship as a single CPU, instead the bus, etc. are designed for SMP of between 2 and 8 CPUs (might technically work with more, I don't know). So, you'll see that, in a dual CPU comparison that the G5/970 will scale better than the P4 (xeon) duals, narrowing the performance gap, and in some applications, putting the G5/970 on top. - With software that is recoded to work with AltiVec, compared to SSE(2) optimized software, the AltiVec performs noticably better, but that depends on the application. When comparing AltiVec to regular (non-vector optimized code), there can be as much as an order of magnitude increase in speed, again depending on t6he application.
So, expect benchmarks to vary by a tremendous amount, depending on the number of CPUs, and how optimized for AltiVec the software is, and how mature the compiler that was used. Since a lot of software can be vectorised, I would expect software on the G5 to initially lag P4 performance, but then to dramatically speed up in some areas.
Also, expect a lot of people who don't grasp this to be getting their panties in a knot!
Jobs made a comment once at a press conference when someone asked about ditching Motorola that would indicate they probably will, as soon as possible. The G3+Altivec chip was announced before the 970 was found to be so hot, so at that time it seemed redundant, since we all assumed that the G4 would move to the low end (temporarily) and the 970 would fill everything else. Now we know that the 970 is pretty hot, and even the die-shrink version might not cut it for all mobile applications, so your idea seems to be the way Apple may go. 970 on all desktops by Christmas, with the new G4s and G3s in notebooks for the next year. Then there will be new 970s and the G3+Altivec will both be out. If the new 970 is cool enough it might be in the mobile high end with G3+A in the low end, else G3+A in all the mobiles, since it's supposed to go up to 2GHz. Since the G3 (Gobi) is now so low power, it wouldn't be a stretch at all for the 17" to get dual, as long as there's nome SMP support in it, which I'm not sure about.
I'm sorry, but I thought the discussion was about Africa, or some other places with third world coutries.
You're talking about NAFTA, so you must be talking about Canada, the US, or Mexico, which I don't count as being third world (even though Mexico has problems).
I'm a Canadian, so I know a little about that, and also a little about the plight of farmers in our country, and in developed nations in general. I do value the importance of the family run farm, and fear the degeneration of farming to the mega-corp run farms and ranches. BUT, there is a solution that, and unpalateable as it may be, is probably your only salvation. Co-operatives. The only farms that are flourishing are those run by th e religious sects. I understand how they (ab)use their labour, and how they save money on luxeries, etc. At some point in time you farmes will have to decide whether or not to leave a profession that cannot compete against farmers in other (subsidised or poorer) countries, or amalgamate yourselves. Yes, you won't be as proud, but neither am I when I watch my wife go to her second job.
In short, if their no demand for your skills, then adapt or die. Better to adapt, on your terms, I think.
As for the anti-timber people, they have mentionned that pulp from the cannabis plant is superior to the wood variety. You should look into this, and if it's true, start a local movement to grow it for paper purposes. I think we're approaching a point within the next 5 years where that would be possible.
The actual thing was that they thought that having sex with a virgin would cure AIDS. Of course the virgin would have to be young to not have already had this happen to them, so they tended to be children, and they probably had to be raped, since they probably would have prefered to be eligible to be married off, instead of fucking stranger #6. I'm trying to say that the effect was what you described, but the intention was a little less sadistic.
Anyways, it's that kind of thing that people are refering to when they say that education is the most important tool in reducing the spread of AIDS.
I'm sorry you decided to waste your money donatnig to food programs.i If your money had instead gone to educating people about simple engineering and farming techniques, as well as simple machinery and tools, then you might have accomplished something of lasting value.
Someone earlier mentionned the need to reduce the psycho disctators, improve distibution, and increase communication. I think that all of those rely on the people being able to raise themselves out of poverty, not their ability to rely on your daily hand-outs. In fact, I believe they all rely on improved communication, as can be provided by these WiFi efforts.
In case you think I'm a hypocrite, telling you how to better spend your money, while perhapse I am doing nothing to help others, I can tell you that you're 100% correct. I personally do not feel that helping people in other nations is a priority in my life (above what my taxes already do), it's just that I'm trying to show you how you can better help those people, since it seems to be a priority to you.
There are tribes that are agriculturally based, and other tribes that are nomadic, and tend to derive their nutrition from hunting. A lot of the time the nomadic tribes take what they can from the agricultural tribes. If we help the land-owing tribes then the nomadic tribes will eventually wither away, so we don't need to pursuade them to change their ways, instead market forces will do that. We just need to help educate them, and give them access to modern tools, and they should be left alone to do the rest for themselves.
I got my Dad a second-hand Mac, which came with a two button mouse. He had never had his own computer before, but had read a little of a book on using Win98 , to help get a better job.
Anyways, I don't know how many weeks it took for him to sort out the differences between left-clicking, right-clicking, single-clicking and double-clicking. I think we should not underestimate how important to the huge uptake of the Internet comes from Web browsers only needing the user to single-left-click to do just about everything.
I agree that PowerMacs should come with three button mice, but I fully 100% agree with iMacs coming with single button mice.
I know I came across as a jerk, but I really think that too many coders out there only think about the tech, and don't think of the ramifications. A proper analysis of the ramifications can make the difference between getting your ass sued off, and anonymously contributing a life changing tool to the world. It can also make the difference between making a financial living at what you enjoy, through proper business methods, and squandering your time.
I think that we haven't heard the last of FreeCraft, and that whatever has happenned so far has only been a series of knee-jerk responses that will end up getting cleared up - if the members involved get their shit together. And that includes Blizzard/Universal.
And I'll laugh too if you have to spend > 10,000 on hypnotist lessons:)
I really like when western medicin and "natural" methods both provide choices to people, so I'd totally love people to have the choice between a hat and hypnosis.
The only bad thing I've heard about hypnosis is that the more a person is hypnotised, the more suggestive their brain becomes, so the easier it becomes to be hypnotised. I don't really trust most people, so I wouldn't want to make myself vulnerable to this. The hat would have similar issues, but at least with it, I could buy an anti-hat:)
I think it makes perfect sense why it works. Think of it like this: say I start flicking your ear while you try to do math problems on paper with a pencil. You're calculations don't require you to hear anything, so I'm not directly interfering with you, but the distraction of your brain receiving all the pain impulses crowds out the rest of your brain's activities sufficiently so that you cannot even add 12 and 47. Along comes this guy who can put something on your head that reduces the reception of the ear pain impulses, and now you can do the math. He's not enhancing the math parts of your brain, he's impeding the rest, temporarily.
I can't wait until we can put on a hat that can dynamically switch what is being blocked, depending on context. Like when driving, it could reduce my day dreaming, and when studying it could reduce my hearing the people across the alley hammering stuff.
If this became readily accessible (under $10,000), then we could revolutionize the world. Of course, the have-nots would be hard-core fucked.
I wish open source developers had a bit more business sense. They make some software that works in conjunction with commercial software, but get themselves caught in a situation where they're at risk of getting sued by the makers of the commercial software. I bet it never occurred to any of them to simply approach Blizzard with their code, offer to sell it to Blizzard, and have it put on the official CDROM so Blizzard can say it supports Linux/Solaris/etc. Hell, it's GPLed, so Blizzard wouldn't even have to pay, they could just do that themselves.
But no, they're incompetent, and now they're just throwing their whole project away.
All along we've been hearing all these _rumors_ about the WWDC being so big because of the 970, but now we know the _truth_, which is that Qt/Mac will be released under the GPL. Now I'm going to get my plane tickets ASAP!
I assume that OS X 1.3 will now be released under the GPL as well.
I agree that Debian was hard for me to install, as well, but that was only becuse of two bugs, which if fixed, would have made Debian trivial to install.
Bug 1: The installer used a 2.2 kernel, whereas the system I installed used a 2.4 kernel, which meant that software IDE RAID was interpreting the drive names differently (hda versus hdc). This mean a lot of (dis/en)abling drives in the bios and screwing with some grub file to make it all work. The trivial solution was to use a current 2.4 kernel in the install.
Bug 2: I use a realtek ethernet card, which was enabled via a kernel module, which required me to change some text file so that the system would load the module on boot. In fact, every single time I upgrade the kernel, that file needs to be edited. I don't know if that's Debian's fault of Linux's fault, though.
The MS service has a lower entry cost, and better provides immediate gratification (for the first few months).
It is equivalent in price to owning 12 CDs, or 120 songs per year at the Apple service. Presumably one would use the Apple preview abilities to only buys what they like, and to roughly prioritise buying what they like most before buying other options that they like less. The average consumer buys more than 12 CDs per year, but usually receives less than 120 of their favourite songs per year, due to how CDs bundle good with poor songs. So, a person who buys more than average quantities of music, or would prefer to, given the economic means, would receive superior value, initially, from the MS service. A person who buys less than average quantities of music would receive better value with the Apple service, always.
So, for the above average consumer, who sees better value in the MS service, they have to ask themselves: - Will the service price increas, at least proportionally over the Apple service? Since the Apple service provides more revenue for the labels, one could assume so. - Will the collection disappear for any reasons other than discontinuing paying the service fee, such as MS service being discontinued, MS Windows 2005, 2008, 2011... being required to run the service, in effect having additional hidden monetary, hardware and labour costs. - Will the collection disappear from not paying the service fee anymore. For those who follow the law that has a simple answer, no, but for those willing to bend/break the law, that might be resricted by technological concerns, outside of the user's control. - Psychologically, most consumers prefer the feeling of "owning" objects, rather than "leasing" them. The feeling of ownership is one of having increased tangible wealth, which makes one feel successful in a consumer society. Leasing an object is alright for short time periods, as little attachment has occured, and so the loss is not as noticeable, at least for small ticket items like individual songs. The feeling of losing wealth when a big ticket item, like a ferrari, or a 30 GB music collection is suddenly taken away, is not a pleasurable feeling. This affect is worsenned in the case of the MS service, because it proves its economic superiority only in the long-term for mot users. This one single psychological reasonning will undoubtedly be sufficient cause for many users to pay a price premium to own any product.
So, depending on how the user can answer the myriad of questions, the MS service might be worth-while. That complexity of reasonning might tip the balance to the Apple service. Look for very simplistic marketing from MS, targeted at base, short-term neurosis, and immediate gratification to push their service.
How do you not comprehend the difference between processing twice as much, and processing twice as fast?
For any application that is bandwidth limited, it will process twice as much, but will take twice as long to get the data to process. Plus, the caches will be less effective due to holding more filler zero bits for pointers. That will be compensated for by a 900 MHz bus, instead of the old 200 MHz bus.
For applications that actually deal with data values greater than 32 bits, then there will be an increase of speed, even without the new bus. So, your word processor will not necessarily bold your text any faster, but most multimedia processing (streams of data that must have mathematical calculations done on them) will go faster. Most applications have not been ported to use "Velocity Engine" instructions, so they still need faster large integer capabilities.
Someone seeing that you were victimized does not in of itself legally victimize you. You might not like it, but that's the fault of the actualy victimizer, not any third parties who merely possess evidence of the initial victimization.
Laws are intended to protect Justice, not your feelings.
---- Say it with me: You can't discriminate against those who are on top. ----
Yes you can, and it's called "reverse discrimination". If we were back in the 1960s I might have been on your side, in favor of reverse discrimination, but I think that we're past that now, and should simply be working to remove all discrimination.
Plus, us white males don't cry about being discriminated against, and we sure don't make up charges of discrimination to cover for our inadequacies, like many special interest groups do.
It's a good thing to help people, but it's a bad thing to legitimize everyone's victim complexes and feelings of entitlement. I think that's what most of the white guys are trying to say in this thread.
High level languages like Ruby, Python, or even Java are strongly recommended for all new projects.
This sentence should be continued "..for mediocre programmers.". Professional experts should use whatever language they are best at as long as it's reasonable for the project.
Right. You did notice that the title of the article is: "The Peon's Guide To Secure System Development". Hence this is advice for peons, not experts.
Like the guy before me said, just convert it. Make a little script that does the conversion, and just drag your.pdf onto it, giving you a.tiff or whatever.
Anyways, I'm sure that after the next one or two point releases things will have stablized enough that hooks can be added to do what you describe. By then it may well be built-in.
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I agree.
If all of the translators owned a copy of the book (in English or German, or whatever), and merely translated their pages and directly shared (emailed, or private newsgroup, IRC channel, etc.) that with the other translators, then I don't think that would be too much of an issue. Instead they chose to use a public web page, which anyone could access, including those who have never purchased the book. In this regard they are obviously causing tangible harm to the local publisher.
Keep in mind that the book industry, globally, has been in hard times for years. In North America the sales of the Potter series and the Bible are pretty much the two pillars holding everything together. If one of those were to be whole-sale pirated, then that could break the camel's back. I assume in the Czech Republic it's a similar story.
As a secondary note, their translation will undoubtedly be inferior to the official translation, partially because of the 5 page boundary issue, and partially because the official translators will be able to directly communicate to JK Rowling to clarify translation problems, whereas this group will not be able to. If they were actng as hobbyists, none of that would matter, and we could all pat them on the back for their accomplishments, but they are instead allowing their substandard ripoff to be accessed by non-paying outsiders, who will then receive a lesser experience, which may then turn them off from purchasing subsequent novels, in in the very least, waste their time.
I see a lot of people arguing, so here's my summary/explaination:
- A single G5/970 top of the line is probably 20% slower than P4 top of the line, on unoptimized software. By that I mean regular integer and floating point (no AltiVec), and with unoptimized compilers. The compilters may or may not improve significantly over time, so that shouldn't be afactor on release date, but may pan out later.
- The G5/970 is not designed/optimized to ship as a single CPU, instead the bus, etc. are designed for SMP of between 2 and 8 CPUs (might technically work with more, I don't know). So, you'll see that, in a dual CPU comparison that the G5/970 will scale better than the P4 (xeon) duals, narrowing the performance gap, and in some applications, putting the G5/970 on top.
- With software that is recoded to work with AltiVec, compared to SSE(2) optimized software, the AltiVec performs noticably better, but that depends on the application. When comparing AltiVec to regular (non-vector optimized code), there can be as much as an order of magnitude increase in speed, again depending on t6he application.
So, expect benchmarks to vary by a tremendous amount, depending on the number of CPUs, and how optimized for AltiVec the software is, and how mature the compiler that was used. Since a lot of software can be vectorised, I would expect software on the G5 to initially lag P4 performance, but then to dramatically speed up in some areas.
Also, expect a lot of people who don't grasp this to be getting their panties in a knot!
Jobs made a comment once at a press conference when someone asked about ditching Motorola that would indicate they probably will, as soon as possible. The G3+Altivec chip was announced before the 970 was found to be so hot, so at that time it seemed redundant, since we all assumed that the G4 would move to the low end (temporarily) and the 970 would fill everything else. Now we know that the 970 is pretty hot, and even the die-shrink version might not cut it for all mobile applications, so your idea seems to be the way Apple may go. 970 on all desktops by Christmas, with the new G4s and G3s in notebooks for the next year. Then there will be new 970s and the G3+Altivec will both be out. If the new 970 is cool enough it might be in the mobile high end with G3+A in the low end, else G3+A in all the mobiles, since it's supposed to go up to 2GHz. Since the G3 (Gobi) is now so low power, it wouldn't be a stretch at all for the 17" to get dual, as long as there's nome SMP support in it, which I'm not sure about.
I'm sorry, but I thought the discussion was about Africa, or some other places with third world coutries.
You're talking about NAFTA, so you must be talking about Canada, the US, or Mexico, which I don't count as being third world (even though Mexico has problems).
I'm a Canadian, so I know a little about that, and also a little about the plight of farmers in our country, and in developed nations in general. I do value the importance of the family run farm, and fear the degeneration of farming to the mega-corp run farms and ranches. BUT, there is a solution that, and unpalateable as it may be, is probably your only salvation. Co-operatives. The only farms that are flourishing are those run by th e religious sects. I understand how they (ab)use their labour, and how they save money on luxeries, etc. At some point in time you farmes will have to decide whether or not to leave a profession that cannot compete against farmers in other (subsidised or poorer) countries, or amalgamate yourselves. Yes, you won't be as proud, but neither am I when I watch my wife go to her second job.
In short, if their no demand for your skills, then adapt or die. Better to adapt, on your terms, I think.
As for the anti-timber people, they have mentionned that pulp from the cannabis plant is superior to the wood variety. You should look into this, and if it's true, start a local movement to grow it for paper purposes. I think we're approaching a point within the next 5 years where that would be possible.
Not sure if this is an urban myth or not
The actual thing was that they thought that having sex with a virgin would cure AIDS. Of course the virgin would have to be young to not have already had this happen to them, so they tended to be children, and they probably had to be raped, since they probably would have prefered to be eligible to be married off, instead of fucking stranger #6. I'm trying to say that the effect was what you described, but the intention was a little less sadistic.
Anyways, it's that kind of thing that people are refering to when they say that education is the most important tool in reducing the spread of AIDS.
I'm sorry you decided to waste your money donatnig to food programs.i If your money had instead gone to educating people about simple engineering and farming techniques, as well as simple machinery and tools, then you might have accomplished something of lasting value.
Someone earlier mentionned the need to reduce the psycho disctators, improve distibution, and increase communication. I think that all of those rely on the people being able to raise themselves out of poverty, not their ability to rely on your daily hand-outs. In fact, I believe they all rely on improved communication, as can be provided by these WiFi efforts.
In case you think I'm a hypocrite, telling you how to better spend your money, while perhapse I am doing nothing to help others, I can tell you that you're 100% correct. I personally do not feel that helping people in other nations is a priority in my life (above what my taxes already do), it's just that I'm trying to show you how you can better help those people, since it seems to be a priority to you.
There are tribes that are agriculturally based, and other tribes that are nomadic, and tend to derive their nutrition from hunting. A lot of the time the nomadic tribes take what they can from the agricultural tribes. If we help the land-owing tribes then the nomadic tribes will eventually wither away, so we don't need to pursuade them to change their ways, instead market forces will do that. We just need to help educate them, and give them access to modern tools, and they should be left alone to do the rest for themselves.
The headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix may be found at number 12 Grimwald Place, London.
:)
What are you doing !?! You're giving away the secret!
I got my Dad a second-hand Mac, which came with a two button mouse. He had never had his own computer before, but had read a little of a book on using Win98 , to help get a better job.
Anyways, I don't know how many weeks it took for him to sort out the differences between left-clicking, right-clicking, single-clicking and double-clicking. I think we should not underestimate how important to the huge uptake of the Internet comes from Web browsers only needing the user to single-left-click to do just about everything.
I agree that PowerMacs should come with three button mice, but I fully 100% agree with iMacs coming with single button mice.
I know I came across as a jerk, but I really think that too many coders out there only think about the tech, and don't think of the ramifications. A proper analysis of the ramifications can make the difference between getting your ass sued off, and anonymously contributing a life changing tool to the world. It can also make the difference between making a financial living at what you enjoy, through proper business methods, and squandering your time.
I think that we haven't heard the last of FreeCraft, and that whatever has happenned so far has only been a series of knee-jerk responses that will end up getting cleared up - if the members involved get their shit together. And that includes Blizzard/Universal.
And I'll laugh too if you have to spend > 10,000 on hypnotist lessons :)
:)
I really like when western medicin and "natural" methods both provide choices to people, so I'd totally love people to have the choice between a hat and hypnosis.
The only bad thing I've heard about hypnosis is that the more a person is hypnotised, the more suggestive their brain becomes, so the easier it becomes to be hypnotised. I don't really trust most people, so I wouldn't want to make myself vulnerable to this. The hat would have similar issues, but at least with it, I could buy an anti-hat
I think it makes perfect sense why it works. Think of it like this: say I start flicking your ear while you try to do math problems on paper with a pencil. You're calculations don't require you to hear anything, so I'm not directly interfering with you, but the distraction of your brain receiving all the pain impulses crowds out the rest of your brain's activities sufficiently so that you cannot even add 12 and 47. Along comes this guy who can put something on your head that reduces the reception of the ear pain impulses, and now you can do the math. He's not enhancing the math parts of your brain, he's impeding the rest, temporarily.
I can't wait until we can put on a hat that can dynamically switch what is being blocked, depending on context. Like when driving, it could reduce my day dreaming, and when studying it could reduce my hearing the people across the alley hammering stuff.
If this became readily accessible (under $10,000), then we could revolutionize the world. Of course, the have-nots would be hard-core fucked.
I wish open source developers had a bit more business sense. They make some software that works in conjunction with commercial software, but get themselves caught in a situation where they're at risk of getting sued by the makers of the commercial software. I bet it never occurred to any of them to simply approach Blizzard with their code, offer to sell it to Blizzard, and have it put on the official CDROM so Blizzard can say it supports Linux/Solaris/etc. Hell, it's GPLed, so Blizzard wouldn't even have to pay, they could just do that themselves.
But no, they're incompetent, and now they're just throwing their whole project away.
All along we've been hearing all these _rumors_ about the WWDC being so big because of the 970, but now we know the _truth_, which is that Qt/Mac will be released under the GPL. Now I'm going to get my plane tickets ASAP!
I assume that OS X 1.3 will now be released under the GPL as well.
Thanks, I'll try this next time I update the kernel.
I agree that Debian was hard for me to install, as well, but that was only becuse of two bugs, which if fixed, would have made Debian trivial to install.
Bug 1: The installer used a 2.2 kernel, whereas the system I installed used a 2.4 kernel, which meant that software IDE RAID was interpreting the drive names differently (hda versus hdc). This mean a lot of (dis/en)abling drives in the bios and screwing with some grub file to make it all work. The trivial solution was to use a current 2.4 kernel in the install.
Bug 2: I use a realtek ethernet card, which was enabled via a kernel module, which required me to change some text file so that the system would load the module on boot. In fact, every single time I upgrade the kernel, that file needs to be edited. I don't know if that's Debian's fault of Linux's fault, though.
The MS service has a lower entry cost, and better provides immediate gratification (for the first few months).
It is equivalent in price to owning 12 CDs, or 120 songs per year at the Apple service. Presumably one would use the Apple preview abilities to only buys what they like, and to roughly prioritise buying what they like most before buying other options that they like less. The average consumer buys more than 12 CDs per year, but usually receives less than 120 of their favourite songs per year, due to how CDs bundle good with poor songs. So, a person who buys more than average quantities of music, or would prefer to, given the economic means, would receive superior value, initially, from the MS service. A person who buys less than average quantities of music would receive better value with the Apple service, always.
So, for the above average consumer, who sees better value in the MS service, they have to ask themselves:
- Will the service price increas, at least proportionally over the Apple service? Since the Apple service provides more revenue for the labels, one could assume so.
- Will the collection disappear for any reasons other than discontinuing paying the service fee, such as MS service being discontinued, MS Windows 2005, 2008, 2011... being required to run the service, in effect having additional hidden monetary, hardware and labour costs.
- Will the collection disappear from not paying the service fee anymore. For those who follow the law that has a simple answer, no, but for those willing to bend/break the law, that might be resricted by technological concerns, outside of the user's control.
- Psychologically, most consumers prefer the feeling of "owning" objects, rather than "leasing" them. The feeling of ownership is one of having increased tangible wealth, which makes one feel successful in a consumer society. Leasing an object is alright for short time periods, as little attachment has occured, and so the loss is not as noticeable, at least for small ticket items like individual songs. The feeling of losing wealth when a big ticket item, like a ferrari, or a 30 GB music collection is suddenly taken away, is not a pleasurable feeling. This affect is worsenned in the case of the MS service, because it proves its economic superiority only in the long-term for mot users. This one single psychological reasonning will undoubtedly be sufficient cause for many users to pay a price premium to own any product.
So, depending on how the user can answer the myriad of questions, the MS service might be worth-while. That complexity of reasonning might tip the balance to the Apple service. Look for very simplistic marketing from MS, targeted at base, short-term neurosis, and immediate gratification to push their service.
How do you not comprehend the difference between processing twice as much, and processing twice as fast?
For any application that is bandwidth limited, it will process twice as much, but will take twice as long to get the data to process. Plus, the caches will be less effective due to holding more filler zero bits for pointers. That will be compensated for by a 900 MHz bus, instead of the old 200 MHz bus.
For applications that actually deal with data values greater than 32 bits, then there will be an increase of speed, even without the new bus. So, your word processor will not necessarily bold your text any faster, but most multimedia processing (streams of data that must have mathematical calculations done on them) will go faster. Most applications have not been ported to use "Velocity Engine" instructions, so they still need faster large integer capabilities.
A "regular" sized pool, that you would typically find, is 25 meters, not yards.
Olympic sized pools are 50 meters.
Someone seeing that you were victimized does not in of itself legally victimize you. You might not like it, but that's the fault of the actualy victimizer, not any third parties who merely possess evidence of the initial victimization.
Laws are intended to protect Justice, not your feelings.
Mark
----
Say it with me: You can't discriminate against those who are on top.
----
Yes you can, and it's called "reverse discrimination". If we were back in the 1960s I might have been on your side, in favor of reverse discrimination, but I think that we're past that now, and should simply be working to remove all discrimination.
Plus, us white males don't cry about being discriminated against, and we sure don't make up charges of discrimination to cover for our inadequacies, like many special interest groups do.
It's a good thing to help people, but it's a bad thing to legitimize everyone's victim complexes and feelings of entitlement. I think that's what most of the white guys are trying to say in this thread.
High level languages like Ruby, Python, or even Java are strongly recommended for all new projects.
This sentence should be continued "..for mediocre programmers.". Professional experts should use whatever language they are best at as long as it's reasonable for the project.
Right. You did notice that the title of the article is: "The Peon's Guide To Secure System Development". Hence this is advice for peons, not experts.
Window = new Window(new Dimension(new Integer(new BitValue(new Bit(new MemoryAtom(new Electron(new Position(new Integer( ...
Well, the "Window = new Window(new Dimension(" part was realistic, but the rest was you grasping for a point that doesn't exist.
All of your examples are tweaks necessary to get a job done that cannot be done with the original state of the tool.
Will you actually get more done because you can tweak some visual effects? I assert that you will get less done.
Like the guy before me said, just convert it. Make a little script that does the conversion, and just drag your .pdf onto it, giving you a .tiff or whatever.
Anyways, I'm sure that after the next one or two point releases things will have stablized enough that hooks can be added to do what you describe. By then it may well be built-in.