the biggest problem is that thay fail allready at step 1 : they really don't know what customers want. If they did, horrors such as clippy would never have existed.
I'm glad you're so prudent and educated about the dangers about asbestos. But as a sidenote, doesn't it make you feel a little guilty sometimes that you pay someone to clean up the dangerous shit ? I know, they have professional equipment and stuff, but usually it's people form the low end of the social ladder that do this kind of work. And as you said : it takes only one fibre to get past the defense system...
I'm having an ethical fight with myself these days : we've removed the carpet, and now the glue residues need to be removed with a very toxic product. I can either do it myself, and expose myself to an unhealthy dose of it, or pay some immigrants who would practically eat a plate of it for a few euro and do this dangerous shit all the time... It's not an easy choice !
you forget one factor in your equation : the time-window. On galactic scale, we humans have been arond for a very very very short time. I'm not good at numbers, but it's probably in the order of 0.00000000000001% of the age of the universe. What are the odds that another civilisation reaches radio-maturity in the same time window ? And what are the odds that they still exist when their signal reaches us ? We send out signals today, but by the time they reach another civilisation, it's pretty likely that there's noone left anymore on earth to respond (nuclear war, ecologic disaster, comet impact,...)
that's a lame protocol : way to flacky. I suggest we develop pigeon spacesuits and a very very very huge BFG and we have SPLUD protocol (Space Pigeon Longdistance User Datagram).
auctions like these have a walk-in day where you can review all the material. The online brochure is to lure buyers who don't know what they are buying.
I can second that. I recently did a project for a local publisher who really really wanted his journals online on his own machine. Besides the fact that he's hooked up on a 256Kb upstream sDSL line (for transfering 5MB pdfs), he spend 10.000euro on a Sun Enterprise 450. Not a bad machine (quad processor, 4GBRam, a half a TB SCSI diskspace, lots of redundancy). But he had better bought a dual Xeon for half that price, and upgraded the sDSL to 512. Or even better : swallow his pride and go colocation.
Some people really don't know what they are doing, and that's where these auctions get a lot of their cash from. On the other hand, they were doing away a lot of old Pentium3 machines that our school could have used nicely. But they gave priority to high volume bidders, so some dork baught all 600 of them and probably sleeps with them ow every night considering himself a real smartass...
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n.
A person possessing the natural or acquired traits, such as strength, agility, and endurance, that are necessary for physical exercise or sports, especially those performed in competitive contexts.
1- apple is a HARDWARE company
2- releasing OSX means jack shit. You need all the nifty 3rd party PPC apps to be recompiled too. Your commodity intel apps won't run since they link to the wrong API's
I wasn't talking about microsoft. I was talking about Balmer running around a stage, screaming like a monkey on steroids, sweat stains all over his shirt, trying to make an impression to the audience, but generaly making a fool of himself. Angry at things that he shouldn't be, overjoyed on stuff that he shouldn't be, a complete disproportional view on himself.
basically, something that you want to turn off (or at least the volume down).
dude, if you have 16year olds in the house, you recognise puberty a mile away with your eyes closed .
I would not be so sure about that... I personally know a few PC peeps who have iTunes installed and absoluting raving about it to a degree that they admit theyr next purchase to be a Mac. In a year or so, when their current PC is outdated.
the iPods receive short term market share gain from th iTMS, but i think the other Apple hardware will benefit in a year or so.
I'll eat my hat if, over the next 2 years, Apple market share doesn't rise to 150% of what they have now.
I certainly hope so, because if not, all open source advocates would spend the rest of their life defending against lawsuits sent out by big corporations to muffle the opposition under the misnomer that they were spreading FUD
Playing a little bit of Devil's advocate here : I think they made a terribly wrong acquisition with Bungie. On mac, Bungie was great. Huge. Simply because there was no-one else. Marathon had a devoted swarm of followers, and also was a great game, but from tech point of view, was way behind the PC competition : Marathon was still Doom-style 3D (i.e : no walking under bridges) when Quake1 (full 3D) was out. Marathon 2 and 3 never had decent hardware 3D support, when Q2 was out (supporting Voodoo cards with at-that-time amazing results)
Microsoft considered Bungie, at that time the mac-gaming comunity family jewels, a goose with golden eggs, hoping for games that would be as ground breaking on consoles as on Mac.
Unfortunately, Halo, while a very good game, is no where revolutionary. And with your crown jewels only pumping out 1 or 2 games every 3 years, you really can't impress the audience.
IMHO, microsofts biggest mistake is NOT bribing the developers enough. They should have thrown TONS of money to the game industry instead of the hardware industry. Make contests "coolest game wins $1.000.000 (ONE MILLION DOLLARS)" and shit like that.
well, i guess they never understood the software market anyway, which is understandable if you've ever only knew one market position (monopoly)
Has anyone compared it to the rokulabs soundbridge?
The one thing that i'm missing on the Apple device is that my stereo can not easily display track info, which the soundbridge or squeezebox can, and the ability to go netx-previous without having to walk to your laptop
Cash is going the way of the dodo.
no it isn't. There are way to many shabby practices that get dirty money. Last time I heard, there is as much fraudulent money (not counterfeit ! Just money gained from illegal activities) changing hands as white money. Andthe majority of that dirty money is circulating among the powers that be.
They will never ever allow a fully traceable system to come alive. The mere fact that there isn't such a system yet proves this, since techincally, it not rocket sience.
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the biggest problem is that thay fail allready at step 1 : they really don't know what customers want. If they did, horrors such as clippy would never have existed.
I'm glad you're so prudent and educated about the dangers about asbestos. But as a sidenote, doesn't it make you feel a little guilty sometimes that you pay someone to clean up the dangerous shit ? I know, they have professional equipment and stuff, but usually it's people form the low end of the social ladder that do this kind of work. And as you said : it takes only one fibre to get past the defense system...
I'm having an ethical fight with myself these days : we've removed the carpet, and now the glue residues need to be removed with a very toxic product. I can either do it myself, and expose myself to an unhealthy dose of it, or pay some immigrants who would practically eat a plate of it for a few euro and do this dangerous shit all the time... It's not an easy choice !
you forget one factor in your equation : the time-window. On galactic scale, we humans have been arond for a very very very short time. I'm not good at numbers, but it's probably in the order of 0.00000000000001% of the age of the universe. What are the odds that another civilisation reaches radio-maturity in the same time window ? And what are the odds that they still exist when their signal reaches us ? We send out signals today, but by the time they reach another civilisation, it's pretty likely that there's noone left anymore on earth to respond (nuclear war, ecologic disaster, comet impact, ...)
that's a lame protocol : way to flacky. I suggest we develop pigeon spacesuits and a very very very huge BFG and we have SPLUD protocol (Space Pigeon Longdistance User Datagram).
auctions like these have a walk-in day where you can review all the material. The online brochure is to lure buyers who don't know what they are buying.
I can second that. I recently did a project for a local publisher who really really wanted his journals online on his own machine. Besides the fact that he's hooked up on a 256Kb upstream sDSL line (for transfering 5MB pdfs), he spend 10.000euro on a Sun Enterprise 450. Not a bad machine (quad processor, 4GBRam, a half a TB SCSI diskspace, lots of redundancy). But he had better bought a dual Xeon for half that price, and upgraded the sDSL to 512. Or even better : swallow his pride and go colocation.
Some people really don't know what they are doing, and that's where these auctions get a lot of their cash from. On the other hand, they were doing away a lot of old Pentium3 machines that our school could have used nicely. But they gave priority to high volume bidders, so some dork baught all 600 of them and probably sleeps with them ow every night considering himself a real smartass...
Enron was way past the point of Shredders : they worked with shrinters
from dictionary.com
athlete PPronunciation Key(thlt) n. A person possessing the natural or acquired traits, such as strength, agility, and endurance, that are necessary for physical exercise or sports, especially those performed in competitive contexts.
somehow, I doubt this is for passenger transport. However, if you want to sit in a rocket that throws itself at multi-g forces, be my guest.
sigh... some dorks just don't get it :
1- apple is a HARDWARE company
2- releasing OSX means jack shit. You need all the nifty 3rd party PPC apps to be recompiled too. Your commodity intel apps won't run since they link to the wrong API's
I wasn't talking about microsoft. I was talking about Balmer running around a stage, screaming like a monkey on steroids, sweat stains all over his shirt, trying to make an impression to the audience, but generaly making a fool of himself. Angry at things that he shouldn't be, overjoyed on stuff that he shouldn't be, a complete disproportional view on himself. basically, something that you want to turn off (or at least the volume down). dude, if you have 16year olds in the house, you recognise puberty a mile away with your eyes closed .
you're confusing midlife crisis with puberty
Then again, midlife crisis is something associated with family life, which we nerds are
Especially if yuo consider the fact that Civilisation doesn't have Terrorism built in :-)
Maybe I should develop a plugin and sell it. Peeps like grandparent poster prolly couldn't resist buying it to increase reality in gameplay
Nice to hear an expert once on /.
What do you think are the chances of ever seeing a complete eye transplant ? In 10 years ? 50 ? 100 ? Or maybe never at all ?
I would not be so sure about that... I personally know a few PC peeps who have iTunes installed and absoluting raving about it to a degree that they admit theyr next purchase to be a Mac. In a year or so, when their current PC is outdated.
the iPods receive short term market share gain from th iTMS, but i think the other Apple hardware will benefit in a year or so.
I'll eat my hat if, over the next 2 years, Apple market share doesn't rise to 150% of what they have now.
hm. you should check this out
I certainly hope so, because if not, all open source advocates would spend the rest of their life defending against lawsuits sent out by big corporations to muffle the opposition under the misnomer that they were spreading FUD
you should change your sig :
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what's the point in zipping a WMV file ??? I can't imagine getting more than 1% gain, probably even a negative compression effect...
Playing a little bit of Devil's advocate here : I think they made a terribly wrong acquisition with Bungie. On mac, Bungie was great. Huge. Simply because there was no-one else. Marathon had a devoted swarm of followers, and also was a great game, but from tech point of view, was way behind the PC competition : Marathon was still Doom-style 3D (i.e : no walking under bridges) when Quake1 (full 3D) was out. Marathon 2 and 3 never had decent hardware 3D support, when Q2 was out (supporting Voodoo cards with at-that-time amazing results)
Microsoft considered Bungie, at that time the mac-gaming comunity family jewels, a goose with golden eggs, hoping for games that would be as ground breaking on consoles as on Mac.
Unfortunately, Halo, while a very good game, is no where revolutionary. And with your crown jewels only pumping out 1 or 2 games every 3 years, you really can't impress the audience.
IMHO, microsofts biggest mistake is NOT bribing the developers enough. They should have thrown TONS of money to the game industry instead of the hardware industry. Make contests "coolest game wins $1.000.000 (ONE MILLION DOLLARS)" and shit like that.
well, i guess they never understood the software market anyway, which is understandable if you've ever only knew one market position (monopoly)
you mean, like this tiny machine ?
Not geeky enough I guess
? could you repost that URL ? There's a wacky character between the 2 and 07 that I can't figure out...
uhm. Me thinks we need a new definition of cheap here.
Cheap as in heineken ? Or cheap as in Duvel promo ?
Has anyone compared it to the rokulabs soundbridge?
The one thing that i'm missing on the Apple device is that my stereo can not easily display track info, which the soundbridge or squeezebox can, and the ability to go netx-previous without having to walk to your laptop
Cash is going the way of the dodo.
no it isn't. There are way to many shabby practices that get dirty money. Last time I heard, there is as much fraudulent money (not counterfeit ! Just money gained from illegal activities) changing hands as white money. Andthe majority of that dirty money is circulating among the powers that be.
They will never ever allow a fully traceable system to come alive. The mere fact that there isn't such a system yet proves this, since techincally, it not rocket sience.