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That would be great, in theory - but you can't smash someones face up against the trunk of a tree, tell them to open their eyes and say whether they're in a backyard or a forest.
To break the code up into managable parts requires understanding all of it, or at the very least understanding what the impact changing each area fits into. 2,000 lines of code changed could boil down to 2 issues fixed or 2000.
Basically - if anyone could do that breaking into chunks, it would have to be Apple - which is exactly the whole point in the first place.
Little is wrong with it - except that this is being taught in schools and children of that age don't have the slightest idea what half of that stuff actually means or entails. As others have pointed out, writing a 'more complete' definition that leaves something out is also bad, as it leaves holes to be exploited.
And, of course, their own agenda allows for religious faith to be part of scientific proof - seeking natural explanations -> explanations of natural phenomena. That does have impact, one is the scientific method and methodologies, and one is what it is often/always used for.
Claiming that they're a hardware company in a thread talking about how their OS patch broke something is pretty daft. There's no exception - they sell the whole package, and they sell it as 'it just works'.
Take the bigass stack of paper you need to shred, and set it down next to the shredder.
Now sit down at your computer and start organizing a bunch of data to backup/archive. You've been meaning to - don't lie. Get a few DVDs worth of data prepped.
Organize the DVDs to be burned, get it so you can churn out one after another without effort.
Now - open up a nice playlist, or drag a TV over, etc.
Start entertainment, start first DVD, start shredding - slowly. That cheap shredder you bought with a 5 sheet capacity can shred about 3, and you want it to finish spinning and cool a bit or the crap electric motor will burn out.
1-5 hours later, depending on shredding and data backup/archival volumes - you're done. Now you can shred things as they come in and feel good about it.
The openzaurus rom may be habitually buggy, but resolution of 90% of the bugs is handled on the mailing list within days of a release - and then those same bugs are continuously handled again on the list until about 2 months after the next release, by which time any new bugs have since been dealt with and gone into syndication.
How often do you need your PDA updated? You don't need a new release to get new versions of things - a nd for that matter, the reason they weren't updating is because they changed their entire build system to a custom tool they developed.
openzaurus is definitely alive, thriving, kicking ass and taking names. They just switched to a 2.6 kernel, so naturally there is a whole slew of new issues - but it's still >> sharprom imo.
Most companies only like employees who think inside the box, despite telling people to think outside the box.
This is exactly why people who can "think outside the box" are hired. They know exactly what the box is, and exactly what thinking inside it consists of - and they are then informed that's exactly what they are to do - think inside it and not shake things up.
Those who can't think outside the box might accidentally do so, causing horrible things to happen like things get fixed. Obviously, those who can think outside it still might do this, but they can approach the dissemination of such information carefully - in an 'outside the box' manner. Not that they necessarily will.
This depends a lot on what we're doing with the machine intelligence.
If we're just trying to create a mind, capable of complex and rational thought - it can probably easily mature/learn in a third or half of that time - even with 'rest' to process. It basically boils down to whether or not we'd be giving it the ability to feel/want/etc.
If we do, it will get bored, have desires and needs, etc. and will need pretty much need the same amount of time as your average joe.
A bigger obstacle will be keeping it from getting suicidal or addicted to something, if we went that route.
an ethernet plug is a lot more fragile and prone to 'not snapping in properly' than your average power plug. If some critical control system is powered properly, and disappears from the network, you plug it back in. If it was getting power over that same cable, it now has to boot back up, reinitialize, and figure out where it left off.
Don't get me wrong, it's a nice thought - but personally I've run into a fair variety of RJ45 jacks. Maybe this would finally snub out those people making the shitty ones, so I'm all for that.
Your average cellphone screen chimes in anywhere from 96x96 to 160x120 pixels - but they're always strange ratios. The biggest I've seen are generally QVGA (320x240) - which you see on the smartphones and the likes (with the exception of the clamshell nokia that's 640x200).
a 256x512 screen on a cellphone would be pretty damned impressive (and painful). My 640x480 pda screen is 4 inches, and it's already too small for most. That'd make a big phone.
Any phone will work with any carrier, so long as they are using the same base technology. You can't use a GSM phone on a CDMA network - nor can you use a dual band european GSM phone on an american GSM network. This is less and less an issue as more and more phones are becoming tri or quad band (There are four GSM bands, 850/900/1800/1900).
You *can* buy a cellphone and use it with any carrier - what you can't do is buy a cellphone for pennies after rebate... without a big 1 or 2 year contract. That's just the way it is in the US, the carriers set it up so that cellphones have no value, and their value is subsidized by a big early cancellation fee on a 1 or 2 year contract.
Elsewhere, you buy your phone and get your service - and there's actual proper competition. If you don't like your service, you leave.
Incidentally, carriers locking these phones to only work on their network is complete bullshit. You're buying the phone alongside the contract, and then getting a rebate. If they want to lock the phone to them, then you shouldn't be "paying full price and then getting a rebate". I've had mixed experiences with this - my t68i with Tmobile doesn't work with my current Cingular plan, but my v600 with Cingular (currently) was able to swap SIMs with my coworkers v600 with Tmobile [his similarly worked, but he needed to enter an access code to connect to Cingulars network - which is undoubtedly stored in my phone somewhere]. From what I've read, it's still quite common practice to lock them.
I call bullshit. There are plenty of big companies aside from the fortune 500. If he estimates 750mil for 3 months of their time, we would only need 2.25bn more to give us 10bn annually. Assuming some arbitrary percentage of the errors is something common to all businesses (tracking inventory, etc.), you could easily reach that with all the businesses out there.
Put another way - 750mil * 4 = 3bn, so it wasn't 13x - it was 3.25x - a little more reasonable.
I figured this was the case. The only issue is with the RAW unprocessed data from the camera CCD, which consumers will not be touching except maybe out of curiosity.
Professionals, as in all disciplines, will use the best tool for the job. If that tool happens not to be photoshops converter - so be it. I can appreciate how it's nice to be able to import images right into photoshop from the camera etc. - but IMO that's where a plugin should come into place. Whether it's Adobe that writes it, or Nikon - doesn't matter. If it's Adobe, they'll have a hard time selling it - but Nikon could probably sell it for a couple bucks.
Makes it pretty obvious why they aren't anxious to help Adobe, not that I agree with their position. Photoshop is an expensive and professional tool, Nikon just wants to tap into that market with some software as well - plus that allows them to control the quality and impact on its end users (who they'd have to support for importing into Photoshop with Adobes tool anyway)
The reason the idea of standards with laptops never caught on in the first place is exactly what you list, and why this won't pan out.
1) no more vendor lock in.
2) everything is bigger since it has to be properly componentized (ever look at the insides of a laptop)?
3) more expensive no matter how you play it - if for no other reason than it's a support nightmare.
and yes, I am their target - I'm the early adopter gadget type. In the past I've owned two MD players, imported a Sony bluetooth memorystick from Japan to the tune of $200 USD - and two Zaurii to the tune of ~$500-600 - because I can't get any of this crap locally.
Crap, I just admitted to the bluetooth thing in public - man I was such a Sony fanboy.
The Zaurii still rock the hell out of anything, and they've been useful throughout.
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That would be great, in theory - but you can't smash someones face up against the trunk of a tree, tell them to open their eyes and say whether they're in a backyard or a forest.
To break the code up into managable parts requires understanding all of it, or at the very least understanding what the impact changing each area fits into. 2,000 lines of code changed could boil down to 2 issues fixed or 2000.
Basically - if anyone could do that breaking into chunks, it would have to be Apple - which is exactly the whole point in the first place.
Yes, they agree - that's why they've made lookups fast and convenient by denormalizing their database!
INSERT INTO dodgeball_friendlist (userid, friend1, friend2, friend3) VALUES (1,'joey','lisa','antonio');
lookups are FAST!
a)amen: Motorola sure called it one..., ,5484_5474_23,00.html
http://www.motorola.com/mediacenter/news/detail/0
b) that's right, remember people - e = mc^2 where e is expensive, m is the manufacturers price, and c is the consumer demand.
c) not a single one of their 3 week old displays has had any problems!
d) arguably a scale issue, but problems can definitely crop up in the process when you jump up - especially 2^6ing your area.
"Kick Me"
Little is wrong with it - except that this is being taught in schools and children of that age don't have the slightest idea what half of that stuff actually means or entails.
As others have pointed out, writing a 'more complete' definition that leaves something out is also bad, as it leaves holes to be exploited.
And, of course, their own agenda allows for religious faith to be part of scientific proof - seeking natural explanations -> explanations of natural phenomena. That does have impact, one is the scientific method and methodologies, and one is what it is often/always used for.
They're a complete solution company.
Claiming that they're a hardware company in a thread talking about how their OS patch broke something is pretty daft. There's no exception - they sell the whole package, and they sell it as 'it just works'.
If SCO survives a few years, they can ebay this server as a commemorative and be right back in the game with untold millions.
Yeah they could at least supply hacked x-boxes with modchips.
clearly a rocket scientist to have figured that out.
feh keyboard stutter fixing subject... not used to this Kinesis yet :)
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Get the shredder - it's been said.
Now, you have it. You won't use it. Not yet.
Take the bigass stack of paper you need to shred, and set it down next to the shredder.
Now sit down at your computer and start organizing a bunch of data to backup/archive. You've been meaning to - don't lie. Get a few DVDs worth of data prepped.
Organize the DVDs to be burned, get it so you can churn out one after another without effort.
Now - open up a nice playlist, or drag a TV over, etc.
Start entertainment, start first DVD, start shredding - slowly. That cheap shredder you bought with a 5 sheet capacity can shred about 3, and you want it to finish spinning and cool a bit or the crap electric motor will burn out.
1-5 hours later, depending on shredding and data backup/archival volumes - you're done. Now you can shred things as they come in and feel good about it.
Get the shredder - it's been said.
Now, you have it. You won't use it. Not yet.
Take the bigass stack of paper you need to shred, and set it down next to the shredder.
Now sit down at your computer and start organizing a bunch of data to backup. You've been meaning to - don't lie. Get a few DVDs worth of data going.
You should ask for a refund then...
The openzaurus rom may be habitually buggy, but resolution of 90% of the bugs is handled on the mailing list within days of a release - and then those same bugs are continuously handled again on the list until about 2 months after the next release, by which time any new bugs have since been dealt with and gone into syndication.
How often do you need your PDA updated? You don't need a new release to get new versions of things - a nd for that matter, the reason they weren't updating is because they changed their entire build system to a custom tool they developed.
openzaurus is definitely alive, thriving, kicking ass and taking names. They just switched to a 2.6 kernel, so naturally there is a whole slew of new issues - but it's still >> sharprom imo.
Most companies only like employees who think inside the box, despite telling people to think outside the box.
This is exactly why people who can "think outside the box" are hired. They know exactly what the box is, and exactly what thinking inside it consists of - and they are then informed that's exactly what they are to do - think inside it and not shake things up.
Those who can't think outside the box might accidentally do so, causing horrible things to happen like things get fixed. Obviously, those who can think outside it still might do this, but they can approach the dissemination of such information carefully - in an 'outside the box' manner. Not that they necessarily will.
What were we talking about?
This depends a lot on what we're doing with the machine intelligence.
If we're just trying to create a mind, capable of complex and rational thought - it can probably easily mature/learn in a third or half of that time - even with 'rest' to process. It basically boils down to whether or not we'd be giving it the ability to feel/want/etc.
If we do, it will get bored, have desires and needs, etc. and will need pretty much need the same amount of time as your average joe.
A bigger obstacle will be keeping it from getting suicidal or addicted to something, if we went that route.
an ethernet plug is a lot more fragile and prone to 'not snapping in properly' than your average power plug. If some critical control system is powered properly, and disappears from the network, you plug it back in. If it was getting power over that same cable, it now has to boot back up, reinitialize, and figure out where it left off.
Don't get me wrong, it's a nice thought - but personally I've run into a fair variety of RJ45 jacks. Maybe this would finally snub out those people making the shitty ones, so I'm all for that.
Your average cellphone screen chimes in anywhere from 96x96 to 160x120 pixels - but they're always strange ratios. The biggest I've seen are generally QVGA (320x240) - which you see on the smartphones and the likes (with the exception of the clamshell nokia that's 640x200).
a 256x512 screen on a cellphone would be pretty damned impressive (and painful). My 640x480 pda screen is 4 inches, and it's already too small for most. That'd make a big phone.
Any phone will work with any carrier, so long as they are using the same base technology. You can't use a GSM phone on a CDMA network - nor can you use a dual band european GSM phone on an american GSM network. This is less and less an issue as more and more phones are becoming tri or quad band (There are four GSM bands, 850/900/1800/1900).
... without a big 1 or 2 year contract. That's just the way it is in the US, the carriers set it up so that cellphones have no value, and their value is subsidized by a big early cancellation fee on a 1 or 2 year contract.
You *can* buy a cellphone and use it with any carrier - what you can't do is buy a cellphone for pennies after rebate
Elsewhere, you buy your phone and get your service - and there's actual proper competition. If you don't like your service, you leave.
Incidentally, carriers locking these phones to only work on their network is complete bullshit. You're buying the phone alongside the contract, and then getting a rebate. If they want to lock the phone to them, then you shouldn't be "paying full price and then getting a rebate". I've had mixed experiences with this - my t68i with Tmobile doesn't work with my current Cingular plan, but my v600 with Cingular (currently) was able to swap SIMs with my coworkers v600 with Tmobile [his similarly worked, but he needed to enter an access code to connect to Cingulars network - which is undoubtedly stored in my phone somewhere]. From what I've read, it's still quite common practice to lock them.
So only the fortune 500 companies have any money?
I call bullshit. There are plenty of big companies aside from the fortune 500. If he estimates 750mil for 3 months of their time, we would only need 2.25bn more to give us 10bn annually. Assuming some arbitrary percentage of the errors is something common to all businesses (tracking inventory, etc.), you could easily reach that with all the businesses out there.
Put another way - 750mil * 4 = 3bn, so it wasn't 13x - it was 3.25x - a little more reasonable.
Which is.... not copyright.
You still own the copyright, even if you need to make agreements to use the photographs commercially.
It's called reality.
I figured this was the case. The only issue is with the RAW unprocessed data from the camera CCD, which consumers will not be touching except maybe out of curiosity.
Professionals, as in all disciplines, will use the best tool for the job. If that tool happens not to be photoshops converter - so be it. I can appreciate how it's nice to be able to import images right into photoshop from the camera etc. - but IMO that's where a plugin should come into place. Whether it's Adobe that writes it, or Nikon - doesn't matter. If it's Adobe, they'll have a hard time selling it - but Nikon could probably sell it for a couple bucks.
Makes it pretty obvious why they aren't anxious to help Adobe, not that I agree with their position. Photoshop is an expensive and professional tool, Nikon just wants to tap into that market with some software as well - plus that allows them to control the quality and impact on its end users (who they'd have to support for importing into Photoshop with Adobes tool anyway)
Spreadsheet -> Access
Now that's improvement!
BitTaker
Or, for a more exacting description of what their relationship is... rename both tools:
BitKeeper -> BitPitcher
SourcePuller -> BitCatcher
The reason the idea of standards with laptops never caught on in the first place is exactly what you list, and why this won't pan out.
1) no more vendor lock in.
2) everything is bigger since it has to be properly componentized (ever look at the insides of a laptop)?
3) more expensive no matter how you play it - if for no other reason than it's a support nightmare.
and yes, I am their target - I'm the early adopter gadget type. In the past I've owned two MD players, imported a Sony bluetooth memorystick from Japan to the tune of $200 USD - and two Zaurii to the tune of ~$500-600 - because I can't get any of this crap locally.
Crap, I just admitted to the bluetooth thing in public - man I was such a Sony fanboy.
The Zaurii still rock the hell out of anything, and they've been useful throughout.