The basic knowledge in an undergraduate engineering program, and most CS programs, is at last 100 or more years old. The fundamentals, like calculus, are much older than that again. There is no reason other than greed there cannot be a base set of books that contain the fundamental principles.
The rest is up to the professor. I did not go to university to read books. I can, and do, read at home in my own time. I went to university to learn from my professor's experiences with the material. Professors with no depth of knowledge in the material should not be teaching or relying on books to do that job for them.
It's about the consumer who would've gotten a cheap-ass Dell not because they wanted to spend as little as possible and put Ubuntu on it, but because they just don't know any better.
I am likely on the upper edge of the tech pyramid.. I don't by a mac because I want an idiot machine, I buy a mac because my time is worth something, and I want a computer that works without tweaking.
That said, I run all manner of computers - best tool for the job. It just happens the best general-purpose computing tool for me is a Macbook at the moment.
[quote] Secondly, I'd like to compare hard numbers between churches' charitable giving, corporations, and you personally. The first two I can get--and relatively speaking, churches compare positively. As for the last, I suppose we'll have wait on that--unless you care to volunteer it. [/quote]
I suspect the poster pays taxes. One would think that if he didn't have to pay taxes, he might have more resources available for charitable works as well.
I'd settle for chipping in $50 if it meant the cellphone industry got a much needed bitchslap and opened access. (like, oh, everywhere else on planet earth).
Bonus points if Apple gets bitchslapped too, for getting into bed with Satan.
Excepting the geographical accident that places both of them in Germany, there is NOTHING analagous between Nazism and the actions of the government in this case.
Perhaps if more people spoke up sooner, the camps might not have happened. The rise of the third reich did not happen overnight.
I've done a few embedded linux projects over the years - we would have loved to run QNX, as I was exposed to it in university and enjoyed it, very robust, supported etc - but the licensing fees are killer. The offered advantages, at least in the applications we've worked in make it a no brainer to go embedded linux.
Access to QNX source code is free, but commercial deployments of QNX Neutrino runtime components still require royalties, and commercial developers will continue to pay for QNX Momentics® development seats.
Looks like I'll be keeping my investment in embedded linux environments. Royalty vs. no royalty with same functionality, I'll tell you who wins every time. Linux keeps getting better, too.
Children get sick. Chicken pox takes about a week to run through. No, it's not life-threatening, but it's just not appropriate to leave a six-year-old at home, alone, unsupervised, with a fever, for a week. What would you propose a parent do? Presumably you paid your employees enough to hire a babysitter for 40 hours?
My car breaks down. A clutch job can easily take a week to rebuild. No, it's not life-threatening, but it's just not appropriate to have a car scattered in pieces in the driveway, rusting, vulnerable to thieves, for a week. What would you propose a racer do? Persumably you paid your employees enough to hire a mechanic for the job?
It takes a concerted effort to copulate and reproduce. Plan for the consequences.
Nice idea, but I doubt it would be adopted or practical to implement on a wide scale. One of Facebook's killer features is lightning response combined with a consistent interface anyone can understand. Both these things are less likely to occur outside of a monolithic entity, ala Google.
I always wondered why people just didn't immerse them in oil. Surely removing a light oil would be easier than dealing with all that rust (or destroyed magnetic media).
DRM issues aside.. DRM sucks; but I think it's overblown.
If the zune was 1/2 the thickness - or thinner than an ipod - I wonder how much better it would have performed in the market. The current size is on par with what I'd expect 7 years ago from a early ipod. That's an engineering challenge much more difficult than making a portable brick that plays movies.
I've watched the form factor issue destroy Palm, now the marketdroids at microsoft have missed this mind boggingly obvious fact - thin and light is sexy.
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The basic knowledge in an undergraduate engineering program, and most CS programs, is at last 100 or more years old. The fundamentals, like calculus, are much older than that again. There is no reason other than greed there cannot be a base set of books that contain the fundamental principles.
The rest is up to the professor. I did not go to university to read books. I can, and do, read at home in my own time. I went to university to learn from my professor's experiences with the material. Professors with no depth of knowledge in the material should not be teaching or relying on books to do that job for them.
My $0.02.
If the computer in the STB box can use the data to look into the room, you can bet it is trivially "upgradable" to send that data elsewhere.
Keep your telescreen..
We have, already, an unlimited source of energy in the Sun. The real problem is how to transport and condense that energy into useful-to-us forms..
By this arguement, you could extend it to say Slashdot is liable for promoting bittorrent PTP through news and discussion.
I hope this lawsuit gets tossed in the rubbish bin where it belongs.
It's about the consumer who would've gotten a cheap-ass Dell not because they wanted to spend as little as possible and put Ubuntu on it, but because they just don't know any better.
I am likely on the upper edge of the tech pyramid.. I don't by a mac because I want an idiot machine, I buy a mac because my time is worth something, and I want a computer that works without tweaking.
That said, I run all manner of computers - best tool for the job. It just happens the best general-purpose computing tool for me is a Macbook at the moment.
..or they hit the wrong car and don't disable it, just destroy critical systems like the ABS or SRS modules.
Remember to ask just that when your friendly MP's come knocking. I always do.
Bikes gotta refuel especially when you are driving agressively. Kills your time badly.
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Secondly, I'd like to compare hard numbers between churches' charitable giving, corporations, and you personally. The first two I can get--and relatively speaking, churches compare positively. As for the last, I suppose we'll have wait on that--unless you care to volunteer it.
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I suspect the poster pays taxes. One would think that if he didn't have to pay taxes, he might have more resources available for charitable works as well.
I'd settle for chipping in $50 if it meant the cellphone industry got a much needed bitchslap and opened access. (like, oh, everywhere else on planet earth).
Bonus points if Apple gets bitchslapped too, for getting into bed with Satan.
Cdn price: $78000
Usd price: $51000
Eeek.
Excepting the geographical accident that places both of them in Germany, there is NOTHING analagous between Nazism and the actions of the government in this case.
Perhaps if more people spoke up sooner, the camps might not have happened. The rise of the third reich did not happen overnight.
I've done a few embedded linux projects over the years - we would have loved to run QNX, as I was exposed to it in university and enjoyed it, very robust, supported etc - but the licensing fees are killer. The offered advantages, at least in the applications we've worked in make it a no brainer to go embedded linux.
Access to QNX source code is free, but commercial deployments of QNX Neutrino runtime components still require royalties, and commercial developers will continue to pay for QNX Momentics® development seats.
Looks like I'll be keeping my investment in embedded linux environments. Royalty vs. no royalty with same functionality, I'll tell you who wins every time. Linux keeps getting better, too.
There's a lot of wisdom in those four words. Freedom has nothing to do with comfort.
and most importantly, does it blend?
Children get sick. Chicken pox takes about a week to run through. No, it's not life-threatening, but it's just not appropriate to leave a six-year-old at home, alone, unsupervised, with a fever, for a week. What would you propose a parent do? Presumably you paid your employees enough to hire a babysitter for 40 hours?
My car breaks down. A clutch job can easily take a week to rebuild. No, it's not life-threatening, but it's just not appropriate to have a car scattered in pieces in the driveway, rusting, vulnerable to thieves, for a week. What would you propose a racer do? Persumably you paid your employees enough to hire a mechanic for the job?
It takes a concerted effort to copulate and reproduce. Plan for the consequences.
Nobody has figured out how to mass produce the membranes cheaply that don't fail. Or cheap enough that a short lifetime doesn't matter.
Don't hold your breath. File useful fuel cell technology up there with energy from the Casimir effect, until you see one for sale in walmart.
what you agreed to in the EULA that you didn't read.
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But people prefer to be trapped to a monoculture of badly writen code than "pioneering" very nice software
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People prefer to use things that work. Often times, the most expedient way to something that works is not open source. Other times, it is.
If the iPhone does AMAZINGLY well, I hope it will do what nobody else has been able to - destroy CDMA and get everyone using GSM!
I have some old machine tools (~75 years?) that were stored in cans of oil. They look brand new.. although, might be a little hard on fabric. :)
Nice idea, but I doubt it would be adopted or practical to implement on a wide scale. One of Facebook's killer features is lightning response combined with a consistent interface anyone can understand. Both these things are less likely to occur outside of a monolithic entity, ala Google.
I always wondered why people just didn't immerse them in oil. Surely removing a light oil would be easier than dealing with all that rust (or destroyed magnetic media).
Latex might provide better rendering results than terminal. Pico away, however! ;)
DRM issues aside .. DRM sucks; but I think it's overblown.
If the zune was 1/2 the thickness - or thinner than an ipod - I wonder how much better it would have performed in the market. The current size is on par with what I'd expect 7 years ago from a early ipod. That's an engineering challenge much more difficult than making a portable brick that plays movies.
I've watched the form factor issue destroy Palm, now the marketdroids at microsoft have missed this mind boggingly obvious fact - thin and light is sexy.