They've recreated the technology in my rechargable toothbrush! This is a true breakthrough. I can't wait to see what's next! Maybe a wireless communications device? Or a horseless carriage? Oh, the wonders of the modern scientist!
if we knew what they were putting in it, we'd start protesting...
More like, if we knew about what was in it, we wouldn't get off our fat asses in Mom's basement and just whine about it in 140 character tweets. That's why the government can do this stuff.
...go to all the different unions and get them agree to simplify their pay scales...
I have a feeling that as long as you pitched it to each one with a positive revenue outcome for every union (and the majority of each union's membership), you'd have little trouble.
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I can't imagine how that could be designed. Magic?
No, not really. The human operator scenario allows him to absolve himself of the responsibility for the collateral damage that invariably happens even with people in control. A morally bankrupt position, to be sure, but one that lets him sleep oh so soundly at night.
So's goatse, but I'm glad it's not around (much) anymore. There are some parts of internet culture that deserve to die.
However, on the internet, nothing is really ever dead... it just gets shifted to a new URL. I'm pretty sure you can find all the spam you get on usenet somewhere else.
Not that I was sad to see usenet decay - I started being attached to it in the early 80's. But time and technology has moved on and it's time to let it fade away.
That's a real nice production server you got here. It'd be a shame to see something unfortunate happen to it. I mean a server room's a dangerous place, ain' it? You got cables and electricity around and, well... accidents happen, if you know what I mean.
Especially with garbage lyin' around all over your memory. Pipes could get clogged, tables could fill up, processes could meet an untimely demise... you know what I'm talking about.
Now for a very reasonable fee, we can see that your garbage is collected regularly. It's a very small fee, once you think about what could happen if you didn't have folks like us around to help you. We'll see that this very nice production server continues to run in tip-top shape. Yes, our small garbage collection fee could help you avoid all sorts of unpleasantness...
When they finally start making the majority of their money via media rather than hardware, will they then start selling OS/X unbundled for use on specific hardware platforms?
I'm not evangelical in the slightest, and I endorse the right of anyone to be totally atheistic who wants to be.
However, your brethren in the Theistic world generally don't seem to have the same restraint and when they start acting out, it spoils it for all. As such, if you can't get substantial numbers of your fellow travelers to toe the line when it comes to begging, proselytizing, violence, etc., I see no reason to not deal with your type legally, just as with any other morally bankrupt group.
... are you referring to socialism or to something else?
I think he's referring to finding ways (usually via taxes) to internalize the costs that idiots who use too many resources currently externalize. And, if you don't understand the concept of external costs, you probably aren't economically qualified to discuss the issue.
Of course rather then be strong armed, the companies could choose to just threaten to go all AMD.
Why, of course!!! Yes! I'm going to risk my current product line (already designed around Intel chips) and my cash flow to "unavoidable delays in parts shipments" by threatening Intel. Because in the "real business world of FictionPimp" I absorb the costs of back up designs having all configurations of all of my alternate sources (even if I never intend to use them) or I can turn around new designs in thirty minutes - a day, tops!
The reasons that you can put the screws to Dell is that you are dealing with a commodity item - a "standard PC". It takes time to redesign and validate your product line around different components.
This is a consequence of less and less of the value in a "hardware product" being the actual hardware. I'm seeing it in the musical "devices" I buy - try getting your Pod reauthorized by Line 6 so you can download firmware updates if you don't have a receipt from a seller. Try to get firmware updates for your second-hand Roland keyboard. Try to get firmware updates for a DVR. My assumption is that before long, if you don't have an official registration for a motherboard or video card, you won't be able to get drivers. The bottom line is that, as more value is found in the software included with the hardware, the hardware device will be treated more and more like licensed software, with all that means for registration, etc. And as this happens, it's no surprise that once sane "hardware" vendors start acting like software vendors with respect to licensing. I don't like it, but it does appear to be the way things are going - car analogies notwithstanding.
You assume that these guy's acting "careers" outside Trek was something to write home about. Stewart mainly made low-budget (and other sci-fi) films and did plays (for which he wasn't paid that much) on the side. Spiner was a character actor that got a few secondary parts in movies and TV. Frakes and McFadden were in soap operas and (other than Frakes' minor directorial career) really haven't done much since. Sirtis pretty much disappeared off the face of the earth. Compared with Shatner and Nimoy, these guys just weren't in the same league, work- and visibility-wise.
So, when Paramount comes along with a bag of money and a script that doesn't jump into the toilet and flush itself down, you take the job. That's what makes you a "working actor".
Also, Apple has had several internal projects that were oriented towards building chips in the past. The story has it that once Steve Jobs met Seymour Cray and told him that he was using a Cray-1 to design his next computer. Seymour says, "That's great, Steve. I'm using an Apple to design my next computer."
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They've recreated the technology in my rechargable toothbrush! This is a true breakthrough. I can't wait to see what's next! Maybe a wireless communications device? Or a horseless carriage? Oh, the wonders of the modern scientist!
if we knew what they were putting in it, we'd start protesting...
More like, if we knew about what was in it, we wouldn't get off our fat asses in Mom's basement and just whine about it in 140 character tweets. That's why the government can do this stuff.
...go to all the different unions and get them agree to simplify their pay scales...
I have a feeling that as long as you pitched it to each one with a positive revenue outcome for every union (and the majority of each union's membership), you'd have little trouble.
I can't imagine how that could be designed. Magic?
No, not really. The human operator scenario allows him to absolve himself of the responsibility for the collateral damage that invariably happens even with people in control. A morally bankrupt position, to be sure, but one that lets him sleep oh so soundly at night.
Be reasonable, and honest - justify and explain.
And then, if they still bother you, shoot them.
Usenet is part of the Internet culture.
So's goatse, but I'm glad it's not around (much) anymore. There are some parts of internet culture that deserve to die.
However, on the internet, nothing is really ever dead... it just gets shifted to a new URL. I'm pretty sure you can find all the spam you get on usenet somewhere else.
Not that I was sad to see usenet decay - I started being attached to it in the early 80's. But time and technology has moved on and it's time to let it fade away.
I cann haz siense?
... wouldn't diamonds be better?
That's a real nice production server you got here. It'd be a shame to see something unfortunate happen to it. I mean a server room's a dangerous place, ain' it? You got cables and electricity around and, well... accidents happen, if you know what I mean.
Especially with garbage lyin' around all over your memory. Pipes could get clogged, tables could fill up, processes could meet an untimely demise... you know what I'm talking about.
Now for a very reasonable fee, we can see that your garbage is collected regularly. It's a very small fee, once you think about what could happen if you didn't have folks like us around to help you. We'll see that this very nice production server continues to run in tip-top shape. Yes, our small garbage collection fee could help you avoid all sorts of unpleasantness...
Yeah, but ATI's is longer (this, of course, actually being what the discussion is all about).
"I bing'd her" can only mean "I banged her," "I nailed her," "I balled her lights out," etc.
You're talking about developers here. They probably read Slashdot, too...
... as long as it's brown.
When they finally start making the majority of their money via media rather than hardware, will they then start selling OS/X unbundled for use on specific hardware platforms?
I'm not evangelical in the slightest, and I endorse the right of anyone to be totally atheistic who wants to be.
However, your brethren in the Theistic world generally don't seem to have the same restraint and when they start acting out, it spoils it for all. As such, if you can't get substantial numbers of your fellow travelers to toe the line when it comes to begging, proselytizing, violence, etc., I see no reason to not deal with your type legally, just as with any other morally bankrupt group.
It exists only in embedded applications today, and in AS/400 systems.
Oh, so they're only used in good computers!
Try to get the FCC for anything outside its 9-5 hours...
... are you referring to socialism or to something else?
I think he's referring to finding ways (usually via taxes) to internalize the costs that idiots who use too many resources currently externalize. And, if you don't understand the concept of external costs, you probably aren't economically qualified to discuss the issue.
Of course rather then be strong armed, the companies could choose to just threaten to go all AMD.
Why, of course!!! Yes! I'm going to risk my current product line (already designed around Intel chips) and my cash flow to "unavoidable delays in parts shipments" by threatening Intel. Because in the "real business world of FictionPimp" I absorb the costs of back up designs having all configurations of all of my alternate sources (even if I never intend to use them) or I can turn around new designs in thirty minutes - a day, tops!
The reasons that you can put the screws to Dell is that you are dealing with a commodity item - a "standard PC". It takes time to redesign and validate your product line around different components.
This is a consequence of less and less of the value in a "hardware product" being the actual hardware. I'm seeing it in the musical "devices" I buy - try getting your Pod reauthorized by Line 6 so you can download firmware updates if you don't have a receipt from a seller. Try to get firmware updates for your second-hand Roland keyboard. Try to get firmware updates for a DVR. My assumption is that before long, if you don't have an official registration for a motherboard or video card, you won't be able to get drivers. The bottom line is that, as more value is found in the software included with the hardware, the hardware device will be treated more and more like licensed software, with all that means for registration, etc. And as this happens, it's no surprise that once sane "hardware" vendors start acting like software vendors with respect to licensing. I don't like it, but it does appear to be the way things are going - car analogies notwithstanding.
Why would the TNG cast make Nemesis?
Because they got paid to do it?
You assume that these guy's acting "careers" outside Trek was something to write home about. Stewart mainly made low-budget (and other sci-fi) films and did plays (for which he wasn't paid that much) on the side. Spiner was a character actor that got a few secondary parts in movies and TV. Frakes and McFadden were in soap operas and (other than Frakes' minor directorial career) really haven't done much since. Sirtis pretty much disappeared off the face of the earth. Compared with Shatner and Nimoy, these guys just weren't in the same league, work- and visibility-wise.
So, when Paramount comes along with a bag of money and a script that doesn't jump into the toilet and flush itself down, you take the job. That's what makes you a "working actor".
No one here will ever need this.
Yeah, but try running fib(100) and your answers are still wrong. Lisp gets the right answer. And does it quickly because you can compile it, too.
I guess you better send in my secretary, then. She knows how to take my dictation.
Oh, you meant steganography... Never mind.
Yeah, but Nimoy will have a cameo to sing about Bilbo Baggins.
Also, Apple has had several internal projects that were oriented towards building chips in the past. The story has it that once Steve Jobs met Seymour Cray and told him that he was using a Cray-1 to design his next computer. Seymour says, "That's great, Steve. I'm using an Apple to design my next computer."