2nd - I have a 1st generation 20GB iPod that is over 2 years old. The battery life on it was down to about 4 hours per charge. Not great, but better than most 2 year old laptop batteries.
3rd - I just replaced my battery today (maybe 2 hours ago) with a Newer technology replacement battery that is supposedly higher capacity than my original batter. It cost $39 and took 5 minutes to replace. So far, it works great. They had another battery that was $29 which had the same capacity as the original. (So I paid extra $10 for a "better" battery - we'll see...)
The upshot is that I don't think that your statement is true anymore and has nothing to do with the original post.
I know of a situation just like what you are saying. One of my favorite local bands from Missouri - some guys I know - got a record contract with Universal. Their first record was produced by Lou Whitney in Springfield, MO and paid for by themselves. It was great. Their second record was recorded in L.A. by a "famous" producer for Universal. It definately was more "produced", but didn't sound like them. The third record they did in Missouri with Lou and sounded awesome. I think Lou's budget for the 1st and 3rd albums together was about 1/10 of the cost of the one Universal put out.
I agree that Chrystler sucks, but they sucked long before Daimler bought them. The Feds should never have bailed them out - they should have let them shut the doors.
I love how the Christian crazies always claim that they are so persecuted for thier beliefs. Nevermind that they are vast majority of the US, the majority of the world's population, etc. I can't count the number of times some Chrstian crazy has told me that god is going to "strike me blind" or various other veiled threats because I don't go their church (cult).
I had a 1998 Jeep that was nothing but trouble. I had purchased the extended warranty, but according to the dealer, everything that was wrong with the vehicle was not covered by it. This was when the water pump failed at less than 3,000 miles.
I will never even consider Chrystler again and I am glad that they have some adult supervision from Mercedes Benz.
I went to my local Fry's electronics and checked out flash based MP3 players. Fry's, in case you don't know, is a huge store that carries most anything computer or electronics related (with several exceptions - but for flash players they pretty much have it all). They had a wall of flash players and not one of them was a better deal than the iPod shuffle when you compare price and megabytes of storage. Most were in the $50 - $70 and had either 32MB to 128 MB of storage. At $99 for 512MB, the iPod shuffle seems to me like a better deal.
For what its worth, I saw several people crowded around the Shuffle and other iPods and no one around the other players which were in a different area of the store.
is that they aren't so simple. They are also not logical common sense rules either. The phishing site might look exactly like your real site. Plus, the url might look right if the Phisher used a trojan to install a hosts file on your box.
If this isn't solved definitively, it could destroy e-commerce.
People used to complain that video games were violent back when we were playing on Ataris. I even remember wackos like this guy complaining about Pac Man.
If the board would have sided with Steve Job in 1985 instead of John Scully, Apple's marketshare wouldn't be so low now. The difference is that Apple had a series of bozos at the helm for 12 years who pissed away the lead they had with the Mac.
I care only about two issues: civil liberties and the national debt. Both of these should, in theory, put me on the side of "smaller, more limited government". In reality, voting for republicans means *more* intrusive government where you have extra laws passed to try to take away people's individual rights, tax money going to churches, and out of control deficit spending.
The republicans ridicule the democrats for "tax and spend". I don't support many democrat programs but at least they pay for their spending with taxes! The republicans "borrow and spend" and to hell wiht the consequences. I am *very* concerned about the future of our country with republicans who are financially irresponsible running it.
How much is a reasonable amount to spend on military defense. The republican answer seems to always be "more".
I remember hearing from republicans arguments that said "Under President Carter, military personnel often qualified for welfare." And this was used as an argument for saying the military is underfunded. Currently under Bush, many military families qualify for food stamps. My source on this: I personally know some families where the husband is career navy and they get food stamps. Also, I have heard reports on NPR that this is not uncommon for all branches of the service.
But what are they asking for more money for? Weapons for the troops in Iraq? Raises for the troops? No, its for missile defense.
I don't vote republican not because I don't agree with many of their philosophical arguments, but because they are liars and hypocrites! Since Bush got into office, I have become a registered democrat, I have attended a lot of Democratic party events, and I give money to the Democrats.
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but if you are so inclined a static prototype can often achieve as much if not more
Depends on what you are building. On some of my past products, I've used prototypes. We have a project here that has is really heavy on UI and has a massive prototyping effort going back and forth between Human Factors, Product Manager, and Engineering.
On the other hand, I am currently on a project where a static prototype would not be of any value. The user interface is a tiny part of the project. Also, the requirements are extremely complicated and fluid. We have had to start using a requirements tracking system. (Kind of like bug tracking, but requirements tracking.) We regularly "scrub" requirements in order to remove ambiguity.
The other great thing about this company is that we have highly qualified QA folks who are involved in projects from the very beginning and are empowered to prevent a product from shipping until it meets the company's quality goals.
If you are a developer, QA is your best friend whether you know it or not. I highly recommend that you recognize that these folks have a skill set that you probably don't even if they don't know how to program. And tell them you recognize that! QA at a lot of places is underappreciated. (It was at Microsoft when I worked there.)
Your argument is that the only reason for the government not to censor is so that each parent can individually enjoy the fun of censoring information for their own children.
Get this though your head: children are not property. They are people. It is not up to you to tell them what they can think. When you do that kind of crap its called child abuse and its why so many adults are in therapy.
I don't disagree with you. There are many tasks that work just fine in a GUI. And in fact, I am not personally a CLI kind of guy. I'm most proficient with a Macintosh - I've been using Macs pretty much exclusively since 1993 - and there are a hell of a lot of tricks you can learn to optimize using a GUI.
For example, knowing the difference between Command Up Arrow and Command+Option Up Arrow in the Finder and knowing it well enough that it is automatic is a cool thing indeed.
That said, you get someone who knows how really use regular expressions, sed, awk, grep and tools like that and watch them work - its a beautiful thing.
I don't think there is enough diversity in this world of ours. I would never want to take away someone else's favorite computer. Maybe that's why I've always rooted for the underdog and why I hate IT departments:-)
So, you're basing your (pro-christian) argument on wanting to control what people think?
Christians are such hypocrites. I read ridiculous stuff like this, then look at the Branch Dividians and The People's Temple. I don't see why decent people tolerate Christians.
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Sears is a really crappy company. I hate them.
Let's be honest here, a Dell isn't as bad as a Yugo. It's more like a Chrysler.
Goddamn, I'd take a Yugo over a Chrystler any day!
But here the government is agreeing in principal with the internet gambling sites
Don't worry. They will argue it both ways.
1st - GP didn't even mention iPods.
2nd - I have a 1st generation 20GB iPod that is over 2 years old. The battery life on it was down to about 4 hours per charge. Not great, but better than most 2 year old laptop batteries.
3rd - I just replaced my battery today (maybe 2 hours ago) with a Newer technology replacement battery that is supposedly higher capacity than my original batter. It cost $39 and took 5 minutes to replace. So far, it works great. They had another battery that was $29 which had the same capacity as the original. (So I paid extra $10 for a "better" battery - we'll see...)
The upshot is that I don't think that your statement is true anymore and has nothing to do with the original post.
I know of a situation just like what you are saying. One of my favorite local bands from Missouri - some guys I know - got a record contract with Universal. Their first record was produced by Lou Whitney in Springfield, MO and paid for by themselves. It was great. Their second record was recorded in L.A. by a "famous" producer for Universal. It definately was more "produced", but didn't sound like them. The third record they did in Missouri with Lou and sounded awesome. I think Lou's budget for the 1st and 3rd albums together was about 1/10 of the cost of the one Universal put out.
I agree that Chrystler sucks, but they sucked long before Daimler bought them. The Feds should never have bailed them out - they should have let them shut the doors.
I love how the Christian crazies always claim that they are so persecuted for thier beliefs. Nevermind that they are vast majority of the US, the majority of the world's population, etc. I can't count the number of times some Chrstian crazy has told me that god is going to "strike me blind" or various other veiled threats because I don't go their church (cult).
What's really pathetic in this day and age is that any bunch of idiots can claim that they run a phone company - in this case a particularly lame one.
Isn't that what the French did, too?
Call it what you want, but the United States flat out lost the war in Vietnam.
I had a 1998 Jeep that was nothing but trouble. I had purchased the extended warranty, but according to the dealer, everything that was wrong with the vehicle was not covered by it. This was when the water pump failed at less than 3,000 miles.
I will never even consider Chrystler again and I am glad that they have some adult supervision from Mercedes Benz.
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Christian crazies are the main reason the Republican party supports Israel. Jews are the main reason why the Democrats support Israel.
Overproduced music often sounds ... overproduced.
But at least you get to hold hands (sort of) with a girl which is someone no one on Slashdot has ever done.
I went to my local Fry's electronics and checked out flash based MP3 players. Fry's, in case you don't know, is a huge store that carries most anything computer or electronics related (with several exceptions - but for flash players they pretty much have it all). They had a wall of flash players and not one of them was a better deal than the iPod shuffle when you compare price and megabytes of storage. Most were in the $50 - $70 and had either 32MB to 128 MB of storage. At $99 for 512MB, the iPod shuffle seems to me like a better deal.
For what its worth, I saw several people crowded around the Shuffle and other iPods and no one around the other players which were in a different area of the store.
is that they aren't so simple. They are also not logical common sense rules either. The phishing site might look exactly like your real site. Plus, the url might look right if the Phisher used a trojan to install a hosts file on your box.
If this isn't solved definitively, it could destroy e-commerce.
People used to complain that video games were violent back when we were playing on Ataris. I even remember wackos like this guy complaining about Pac Man.
If the board would have sided with Steve Job in 1985 instead of John Scully, Apple's marketshare wouldn't be so low now. The difference is that Apple had a series of bozos at the helm for 12 years who pissed away the lead they had with the Mac.
I think a possible defeat for this would be a device that takes an HDTV stream, sets the broadcast flag to off, then pipes it through to your TV.
If only that were true.
I care only about two issues: civil liberties and the national debt. Both of these should, in theory, put me on the side of "smaller, more limited government". In reality, voting for republicans means *more* intrusive government where you have extra laws passed to try to take away people's individual rights, tax money going to churches, and out of control deficit spending.
The republicans ridicule the democrats for "tax and spend". I don't support many democrat programs but at least they pay for their spending with taxes! The republicans "borrow and spend" and to hell wiht the consequences. I am *very* concerned about the future of our country with republicans who are financially irresponsible running it.
How much is a reasonable amount to spend on military defense. The republican answer seems to always be "more".
I remember hearing from republicans arguments that said "Under President Carter, military personnel often qualified for welfare." And this was used as an argument for saying the military is underfunded. Currently under Bush, many military families qualify for food stamps. My source on this: I personally know some families where the husband is career navy and they get food stamps. Also, I have heard reports on NPR that this is not uncommon for all branches of the service.
But what are they asking for more money for? Weapons for the troops in Iraq? Raises for the troops? No, its for missile defense.
I don't vote republican not because I don't agree with many of their philosophical arguments, but because they are liars and hypocrites! Since Bush got into office, I have become a registered democrat, I have attended a lot of Democratic party events, and I give money to the Democrats.
but if you are so inclined a static prototype can often achieve as much if not more
Depends on what you are building. On some of my past products, I've used prototypes. We have a project here that has is really heavy on UI and has a massive prototyping effort going back and forth between Human Factors, Product Manager, and Engineering.
On the other hand, I am currently on a project where a static prototype would not be of any value. The user interface is a tiny part of the project. Also, the requirements are extremely complicated and fluid. We have had to start using a requirements tracking system. (Kind of like bug tracking, but requirements tracking.) We regularly "scrub" requirements in order to remove ambiguity.
The other great thing about this company is that we have highly qualified QA folks who are involved in projects from the very beginning and are empowered to prevent a product from shipping until it meets the company's quality goals.
If you are a developer, QA is your best friend whether you know it or not. I highly recommend that you recognize that these folks have a skill set that you probably don't even if they don't know how to program. And tell them you recognize that! QA at a lot of places is underappreciated. (It was at Microsoft when I worked there.)
And what would your solution be? Have the government regulate parenting?
I don't even agree that there is a problem to be solved!
I'm glad I was raised by people who live in the real world, not some crazy wacked out religious world.
Your argument is that the only reason for the government not to censor is so that each parent can individually enjoy the fun of censoring information for their own children.
Get this though your head: children are not property. They are people. It is not up to you to tell them what they can think. When you do that kind of crap its called child abuse and its why so many adults are in therapy.
I don't disagree with you. There are many tasks that work just fine in a GUI. And in fact, I am not personally a CLI kind of guy. I'm most proficient with a Macintosh - I've been using Macs pretty much exclusively since 1993 - and there are a hell of a lot of tricks you can learn to optimize using a GUI.
:-)
For example, knowing the difference between Command Up Arrow and Command+Option Up Arrow in the Finder and knowing it well enough that it is automatic is a cool thing indeed.
That said, you get someone who knows how really use regular expressions, sed, awk, grep and tools like that and watch them work - its a beautiful thing.
I don't think there is enough diversity in this world of ours. I would never want to take away someone else's favorite computer. Maybe that's why I've always rooted for the underdog and why I hate IT departments
So, you're basing your (pro-christian) argument on wanting to control what people think?
Christians are such hypocrites. I read ridiculous stuff like this, then look at the Branch Dividians and The People's Temple. I don't see why decent people tolerate Christians.