If you read the article you would see that betamax once had 100% of the market, and was similar in price to VHS. Consumers we just more interested in play time than quality.
CART MASTER: 'Ere. He says he's not dead! CUSTOMER: Yes, he is. DEAD PERSON: I'm not! CART MASTER: He isn't? CUSTOMER: Well, he will be soon. He's very ill. DEAD PERSON: I'm getting better! CUSTOMER: No, you're not. You'll be stone dead in a moment.
credit to http://bau2.uibk.ac.at/sg/python/Scripts/HolyGrail/grail.htm
No, WWII was a reaction to Hitler's campaign to conquer the world and exterminate the jews. The only reason it could be seen as small incidents getting bigger and bigger is that no one could believe that Hitler was so ambitious and insane.
Yes, you data does carry liability, but you can remove all risk by backing up before the work is done. No one should loose more than the cost of their equipment when it is service. If you trust you data to some else who is going to be banging around inside you computer you are going to get in trouble.
If google had a way to easily charge 1 cent for each search, and had to do it to survive, I would still use it. Yes, google is worth something, but I would be less inclined to pay a monthly fee.
Hi. I'm an artist. I want to use Photoshop. I can't afford the price. Your attitude sucks.
Open Source gives you the source, not the right to support. There are plenty of companies that are willing to take your money and sell you a book or other forms of documentation/support.
Yes, but in the end you are left with the companies that have achieved space travel cheaply and successfully, making it cheaper for everyone. With the government you are stuck with their approach, which might be drastically inefficient.
The problem with this is that these are finitestate machines, and the problem stated that the solution cannot depend on N. So to implement a counter in a FSM you need at least as many states as the number you need to count to. This means your FSMs change depending on N.
Maybe I am wrong, but I doubt the bandwidth requirements of a spammer rival even a moderate website. When an email is sent to many addresses, isn't only sent to the initial SMTP server once?
I think then the problem is that email just becomes slow instant messaging. I think widespread use of whitelists would be very bad for the email system.
You could do similarity checks on subjects, but spammers already put random characters both in the subject and the body to avoid this kind of filtering.
Sorry, but Office does not fit this mold. Word was there from the CLI beginning and along with Excel the suite has stedily progressed. I am always amazed at what I can do in these programs, they just work. The only thing close is OpenOffice and even that is not there. I know other programs are great for writing letters and such, but when you need to do a little layout etc. the lack of features starts to show.
Now I dislike all of the automatic, wizard clippy crap as much as the next person, but the core of the programs are very powerful.
I think what they caught flak for was too many upgrades which either broke compatibility, or added uneccessary features. It was the nature of the upgrades, the interface was different but you had to use it to open the latest document, that pissed people off.
No, but LOC does impact developer productivity, and bugs. There have been a few studies showing that programmers write the same number of lines in a given time no matter what language they are using. Also, less code means less stuff to read to find bugs. I would think a 7-fold increase would have some serious reprecussions on easy of developement.
The difference is that 100 years ago, you might have worked 10-12hours a day to earn enough money to feed your family, and you wife would work at home all day doing landry, mending clothes, cooking, etc... Now with many chores automated we get to own TV's, A/C etc. It not the elimination of work, it removing some work so that we can focus on other things. History has shown that people don't use the extra free time machines gove them to loaf around, they use it to produce more, and make their lives better, cleaner, and healthier.
I don't believe that 802.11b can go 100m through walls, appliances, etc. In my last house I had trouble going more than 75ft. from the WAP, mainly because the kitchen with all of that metal was between the two points. Of course I may have shitty equipment... YMMV
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What font is being used for the desktop icons? Anyone know?
If you read the article you would see that betamax once had 100% of the market, and was similar in price to VHS. Consumers we just more interested in play time than quality.
CART MASTER:
l /grail.htm
'Ere. He says he's not dead!
CUSTOMER:
Yes, he is.
DEAD PERSON:
I'm not!
CART MASTER:
He isn't?
CUSTOMER:
Well, he will be soon. He's very ill.
DEAD PERSON:
I'm getting better!
CUSTOMER:
No, you're not. You'll be stone dead in a moment.
credit to http://bau2.uibk.ac.at/sg/python/Scripts/HolyGrai
No, WWII was a reaction to Hitler's campaign to conquer the world and exterminate the jews. The only reason it could be seen as small incidents getting bigger and bigger is that no one could believe that Hitler was so ambitious and insane.
Yes, you data does carry liability, but you can remove all risk by backing up before the work is done. No one should loose more than the cost of their equipment when it is service. If you trust you data to some else who is going to be banging around inside you computer you are going to get in trouble.
If google had a way to easily charge 1 cent for each search, and had to do it to survive, I would still use it. Yes, google is worth something, but I would be less inclined to pay a monthly fee.
Hi. I'm an artist. I want to use Photoshop. I can't afford the price. Your attitude sucks.
Open Source gives you the source, not the right to support. There are plenty of companies that are willing to take your money and sell you a book or other forms of documentation/support.
It's not like he is making the book more expensive for you. You know it is an assiciate link, if you don't like it, don't use it.
Yes, but in the end you are left with the companies that have achieved space travel cheaply and successfully, making it cheaper for everyone. With the government you are stuck with their approach, which might be drastically inefficient.
And you have a worse sense of humour than I figured
The problem with this is that these are finitestate machines, and the problem stated that the solution cannot depend on N. So to implement a counter in a FSM you need at least as many states as the number you need to count to. This means your FSMs change depending on N.
Maybe I am wrong, but I doubt the bandwidth requirements of a spammer rival even a moderate website. When an email is sent to many addresses, isn't only sent to the initial SMTP server once?
I think then the problem is that email just becomes slow instant messaging. I think widespread use of whitelists would be very bad for the email system.
You could do similarity checks on subjects, but spammers already put random characters both in the subject and the body to avoid this kind of filtering.
Sorry, but Office does not fit this mold. Word was there from the CLI beginning and along with Excel the suite has stedily progressed. I am always amazed at what I can do in these programs, they just work. The only thing close is OpenOffice and even that is not there. I know other programs are great for writing letters and such, but when you need to do a little layout etc. the lack of features starts to show.
Now I dislike all of the automatic, wizard clippy crap as much as the next person, but the core of the programs are very powerful.
I think what they caught flak for was too many upgrades which either broke compatibility, or added uneccessary features. It was the nature of the upgrades, the interface was different but you had to use it to open the latest document, that pissed people off.
You mean like this? Not automatic, but same idea.
Pricewatch has started adding in the cost of shipping to its prices, so what you see is what you get. Pretty nice.
Like the KVim part in KDevelop? Imean if all you want is project management and compile support, then CVS and make are there.
No, but LOC does impact developer productivity, and bugs. There have been a few studies showing that programmers write the same number of lines in a given time no matter what language they are using. Also, less code means less stuff to read to find bugs. I would think a 7-fold increase would have some serious reprecussions on easy of developement.
The difference is that 100 years ago, you might have worked 10-12hours a day to earn enough money to feed your family, and you wife would work at home all day doing landry, mending clothes, cooking, etc... Now with many chores automated we get to own TV's, A/C etc. It not the elimination of work, it removing some work so that we can focus on other things. History has shown that people don't use the extra free time machines gove them to loaf around, they use it to produce more, and make their lives better, cleaner, and healthier.
Not saying that linux machines would break these records, but netcraft does note that linux machines uptimes wrap around at something like 495 days.
I don't believe that 802.11b can go 100m through walls, appliances, etc. In my last house I had trouble going more than 75ft. from the WAP, mainly because the kitchen with all of that metal was between the two points. Of course I may have shitty equipment... YMMV
Does everyone translate the aeneid? All I can remember is one line "Quos Ego...!" And I probably still got that wrong.
Um, you mean the accident last week that killed 11 people? Caused by fog? Way to exagerate.