My ass it costs $35 to make a 15ml blank ink cartridge or $10 to make eight replacement cartridges for my Mach Three Turbo.
Soetimes you're caught in a monopoly, and sometimes you aren't. For example, if you go with the leading edge razors, they seem to have some legal protection in the design of their replacement blades. This would be supported by the fact that they usually release 2 blade types for each handle (usually adding a lubricating strip in the second generation replacement). If you buy the next-to-newest version of their handle, you usually can get knock-off replacements for 1/3 to 1/2 price. Look around at the Gilette Sensor replacement blades, and this should bear out. I personally get the knock-offs.
Imagine the benefits of having both. A paper ballot with a unique ID (and computer-readable technology), and an electronic ballot with the same ID. For a recount (or the verified, official count), do a cross-check, and only matching values count. Gives you the auditing capabilities of paper, with the technology requirements for speed and security. If you want to mess with the vote, you have to do a front-to-back sweep, because everything counts. That way, they compensate for their respective strengths and weakensses.
Hmm. I'm running WinXP Service Pack 1, and here's what I get in the standard Add/Remove Programs section:
Internet Explorer Q832894 (1.11 MB) Google Toolbar (0.75 MB)
Did I step in the wayback machine, and IE is only a Meg or so? And the Google Toolbar is almost as big as IE? Say it isn't so.
So I look a little further, in the Add/Remove Windows Components (What!?! bundled with the OS?). And what do I find? Oh, there it is, IE 22 MB. There's the space glutton I know and love. Well, I'm running IE, but let's try uninstalling it anyway...well, it didn't complain about anything being open, but all my icons for it disappeared. Well, let's try Start, Run and type iexplore and see what happens. Can you guess?
I've been reading about this since XP came out. One of the biggest chuckles I had was where you can choose to pretend IE isn't on your system by deselecting it from the Windows Components list. And all it does is take away the icons, and not (usually, I'm sure) use it when another program calls for a browser window. It's still used for all the pretty rendering of your explorer windows (and probably for Outlook HTML emails, rather than whatever you choose as your default browser). And may still leave you vulnerable to some of it's security bugs. Do you Remember, during the Anti-trust trial, where they said IE was integral to Windows, and went on to splatter the API throughout their Win APIs to prove the fact? Yeah, didn't think so. And you better bet nothing's changed.
I don't think this was true, but keep in mind, the VAST VAST majority of Microsoft problems are with outlook, internet explorer, office, IIS, exchange, etc. Technically, these are not windows problems.
While this may be true for most of the apps you listed, if it comes with the kernel (windows), and I can't uninstall it while keeping that kernel, then it is a problem with that kernel. Hence, as far as I'm concerned, any IE bug is a Windows bug. If they don't like that mentality, the solution is simply the opposite of the above.
While I agree with everything you said, you also need to keep in mind that there would only be about 1 billion people in the world (maybe less if somewhere like SE Asia got struck). That is about how many people there were in the middle ages, or earlier. Just like then, you can be sure that there will be pockets of humanity that won't even be known (or know of) by others. You can also be just as sure that some of these pockets will implode for the same reasons that these things have always happened for: the pettiness of humanity. Resources will only be part of the issue. No empire was built for the sole purpose of access to resources.
Concentration of populations, something you'd expect would result from this, is also not new. Most of humanity in recorded history lives/lived in the Mediterranean basin and SE Asia.
The delta is 39.2 m/s^2. Don't believe me, make a scale on graph paper and count the little blocks. And yes, we'd have all been better off if Lois hit the pavement once or twice.
However, this raises the question, how could it be cut and tailored? If it's immune to bullets, then one would expect it to resist being cut quite well.
Why the same way he cuts his hair!
With his laser vision and an ideal vanity mirror...
Sucks to be his parents..."Clark?... Ow! Dammit, how many times to I have to tell you to put up a warning sign when you're cutting your hair!?!?"
I'd like to take this moment to congratulate michael, with the help of Berend de Boer, for posting a/. article with only one typo. Keep up the good wrok.
P.S Go figure, no one reads it. They probably can't figure out what it's about.
First, the Foveon X3, both versions, is not a CCD, it's CMOS. Second, it uses photon penetration to determine color. The drawback with that, in scientific circles, is that you can't choose which part of the spectrum you want to analyse. But, if I was going to set up a nice color astronomy lab at home for natural-color images, this is the chip I'd be looking for. No way I'd use a filter-masked color CCD.
BTW, I didn't read the article, but I've been looking at material released by Foveon for the last year. I just didn't want to further muddy the issue. Of course, this IS/.:P
Note also that color CCDs aren't actually color, but a B/W CCD (There really isn't a such thing as a color CCD) with 3 different color filters applied pixel-by-pixel. This has the drawback of interpolation, and the collection of 1/3 of the raw data. The only way to get true color is to use either 3 (or more, depending on what you want to see) CCDs with an image splitter so they all see the same thing, or a series of filters, with each color taken in turn. Guess which one is smaller.
Yes, I'm sure all those scientists connected around the world were doing anything but advancing the knowledge of mankind. Much more imortant to campaign for leadership of what is admittedly the most influential country in the world...
Yep, welcome to a world where journalists don't know the difference between the words phobic, illiterate, and lazy. I could read the article for some witty examples, but I prefer column 3.
You've clearly never used a case-aware IDE for a case-insensitive language. I have, and have seen the good and the bad from them.
First, given that the language is case-insnesitive, improper case is not an error, by definition. Hence, there is no error-correction taking place. Keep in mind that this is exactly as important to a case-insensitive language as whitespace is to C, aesthetic only.
Second, given some simple rules, case consistency is very simple to maintain - if you have a perfect memory and a complete reference of the code being written to review. My computer has both. When do you set the case requirements in C? When you declare the variable. Why do you think the computer couldn't do a search for the correctly referenced variable, and set the case to match what is found in the declaration?
Now, like I said, I've run into problems with case-matching before. The biggest one is that all references of the variable, etc., are reset to match the last instance you typed. This happened most often with undeclared variables (a BAD THING (TM), but I don't always write the code I have to maintain), and a few other circumstances that I couldn't figure out the reasons for. Fortunately, there's a simple fallback if this occurs: Type the code how you want to see it, exactly as if you were programming in C.
Whenever the unit crashed they'd need to pop the ipaq out of the case to reboot it. Eventually this became such a chore that they tossed the waterproof pod and just took their chances with splashes etc.
You'd think the makers of the waterproof pod would have taken that into consideration and made it so you could reset the ipaq without opening it. Assuming that MS would make their OS so it would crash less seems naive.
...a plot stolen straight out of "Enemy Mine" (human and alien stranded together on a planet)...
What are you talking about?!? Tucker (Was it Tucker? They all look the same to me...) was never asked to take care of the alien's kid, and I don't think the alien died either. That's not at all like Enemy Mine!
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If this memo is true, however, it's going to look fishy to anyone with half a brain at the FTC/DOJ.
Damn, for a second there, I thought MS was in deep shit...
Next thing we know, people will start reading the books as well!
Ah, but he didn't say he read the review itself. Nor did I, this time.
My ass it costs $35 to make a 15ml blank ink cartridge or $10 to make eight replacement cartridges for my Mach Three Turbo.
Soetimes you're caught in a monopoly, and sometimes you aren't. For example, if you go with the leading edge razors, they seem to have some legal protection in the design of their replacement blades. This would be supported by the fact that they usually release 2 blade types for each handle (usually adding a lubricating strip in the second generation replacement). If you buy the next-to-newest version of their handle, you usually can get knock-off replacements for 1/3 to 1/2 price. Look around at the Gilette Sensor replacement blades, and this should bear out. I personally get the knock-offs.
Imagine the benefits of having both. A paper ballot with a unique ID (and computer-readable technology), and an electronic ballot with the same ID. For a recount (or the verified, official count), do a cross-check, and only matching values count. Gives you the auditing capabilities of paper, with the technology requirements for speed and security. If you want to mess with the vote, you have to do a front-to-back sweep, because everything counts. That way, they compensate for their respective strengths and weakensses.
Hmm. I'm running WinXP Service Pack 1, and here's what I get in the standard Add/Remove Programs section:
Internet Explorer Q832894 (1.11 MB)
Google Toolbar (0.75 MB)
Did I step in the wayback machine, and IE is only a Meg or so? And the Google Toolbar is almost as big as IE? Say it isn't so.
So I look a little further, in the Add/Remove Windows Components (What!?! bundled with the OS?). And what do I find? Oh, there it is, IE 22 MB. There's the space glutton I know and love. Well, I'm running IE, but let's try uninstalling it anyway...well, it didn't complain about anything being open, but all my icons for it disappeared. Well, let's try Start, Run and type iexplore and see what happens. Can you guess?
I've been reading about this since XP came out. One of the biggest chuckles I had was where you can choose to pretend IE isn't on your system by deselecting it from the Windows Components list. And all it does is take away the icons, and not (usually, I'm sure) use it when another program calls for a browser window. It's still used for all the pretty rendering of your explorer windows (and probably for Outlook HTML emails, rather than whatever you choose as your default browser). And may still leave you vulnerable to some of it's security bugs. Do you Remember, during the Anti-trust trial, where they said IE was integral to Windows, and went on to splatter the API throughout their Win APIs to prove the fact? Yeah, didn't think so. And you better bet nothing's changed.
I don't think this was true, but keep in mind, the VAST VAST majority of Microsoft problems are with outlook, internet explorer, office, IIS, exchange, etc. Technically, these are not windows problems.
While this may be true for most of the apps you listed, if it comes with the kernel (windows), and I can't uninstall it while keeping that kernel, then it is a problem with that kernel. Hence, as far as I'm concerned, any IE bug is a Windows bug. If they don't like that mentality, the solution is simply the opposite of the above.
While I agree with everything you said, you also need to keep in mind that there would only be about 1 billion people in the world (maybe less if somewhere like SE Asia got struck). That is about how many people there were in the middle ages, or earlier. Just like then, you can be sure that there will be pockets of humanity that won't even be known (or know of) by others. You can also be just as sure that some of these pockets will implode for the same reasons that these things have always happened for: the pettiness of humanity. Resources will only be part of the issue. No empire was built for the sole purpose of access to resources.
Concentration of populations, something you'd expect would result from this, is also not new. Most of humanity in recorded history lives/lived in the Mediterranean basin and SE Asia.
Yep, and then NASA will start building interplanetary boats that suddenly shoot up into the air due to poor design and tolerances.
The delta is 39.2 m/s^2. Don't believe me, make a scale on graph paper and count the little blocks. And yes, we'd have all been better off if Lois hit the pavement once or twice.
However, this raises the question, how could it be cut and tailored? If it's immune to bullets, then one would expect it to resist being cut quite well.
... Ow! Dammit, how many times to I have to tell you to put up a warning sign when you're cutting your hair!?!?"
Why the same way he cuts his hair!
With his laser vision and an ideal vanity mirror...
Sucks to be his parents..."Clark?
Do you prefer scented or hot oil?
But to claim that commercial software is safer from deliberate authorial corruption takes willful and deliberate ignorance.
What, you mean all the big corporations aren't looking out for my best interest?
I'd like to take this moment to congratulate michael, with the help of Berend de Boer, for posting a /. article with only one typo. Keep up the good wrok.
P.S Go figure, no one reads it. They probably can't figure out what it's about.
First, the Foveon X3, both versions, is not a CCD, it's CMOS. Second, it uses photon penetration to determine color. The drawback with that, in scientific circles, is that you can't choose which part of the spectrum you want to analyse. But, if I was going to set up a nice color astronomy lab at home for natural-color images, this is the chip I'd be looking for. No way I'd use a filter-masked color CCD.
/. :P
BTW, I didn't read the article, but I've been looking at material released by Foveon for the last year. I just didn't want to further muddy the issue. Of course, this IS
Note also that color CCDs aren't actually color, but a B/W CCD (There really isn't a such thing as a color CCD) with 3 different color filters applied pixel-by-pixel. This has the drawback of interpolation, and the collection of 1/3 of the raw data. The only way to get true color is to use either 3 (or more, depending on what you want to see) CCDs with an image splitter so they all see the same thing, or a series of filters, with each color taken in turn. Guess which one is smaller.
Yes, I'm sure all those scientists connected around the world were doing anything but advancing the knowledge of mankind. Much more imortant to campaign for leadership of what is admittedly the most influential country in the world...
Yep, welcome to a world where journalists don't know the difference between the words phobic, illiterate, and lazy. I could read the article for some witty examples, but I prefer column 3.
You bet. That last part was supposed to be funny, too.
History has shown us that the more people you stick in a room, the longer it takes them to get anything done. This includes learning from mistakes.
And it was supposed to be funny. Humourless bastard.
lets hope we all learn from this lesson.
Nah, that won't happen...
You've clearly never used a case-aware IDE for a case-insensitive language. I have, and have seen the good and the bad from them.
First, given that the language is case-insnesitive, improper case is not an error, by definition. Hence, there is no error-correction taking place. Keep in mind that this is exactly as important to a case-insensitive language as whitespace is to C, aesthetic only.
Second, given some simple rules, case consistency is very simple to maintain - if you have a perfect memory and a complete reference of the code being written to review. My computer has both. When do you set the case requirements in C? When you declare the variable. Why do you think the computer couldn't do a search for the correctly referenced variable, and set the case to match what is found in the declaration?
Now, like I said, I've run into problems with case-matching before. The biggest one is that all references of the variable, etc., are reset to match the last instance you typed. This happened most often with undeclared variables (a BAD THING (TM), but I don't always write the code I have to maintain), and a few other circumstances that I couldn't figure out the reasons for. Fortunately, there's a simple fallback if this occurs: Type the code how you want to see it, exactly as if you were programming in C.
Whenever the unit crashed they'd need to pop the ipaq out of the case to reboot it. Eventually this became such a chore that they tossed the waterproof pod and just took their chances with splashes etc.
You'd think the makers of the waterproof pod would have taken that into consideration and made it so you could reset the ipaq without opening it. Assuming that MS would make their OS so it would crash less seems naive.
It gets worse. I was upset when I realized they hadn't abused Fax.com.
...a plot stolen straight out of "Enemy Mine" (human and alien stranded together on a planet)...
What are you talking about?!? Tucker (Was it Tucker? They all look the same to me...) was never asked to take care of the alien's kid, and I don't think the alien died either. That's not at all like Enemy Mine!
...underclocking if the fish got too hot.
I can just hear it now. Damn! My processor speed just tanked! You can give credit for that finale to my fish!