Flexible return times? Okay. This one is a decent reason, though most libraries will allow you to re-sign out a book. Enlightened ones let you do it over the net or phone even.
Potential for keeping the book? You can always purchase it later, and then you're not paying the original out of pocket expense if you decide you didn't want it.
Able to loan it out to others? Direct them to the library.
The more people who use the library, the more people who will support the libraries.
The more people who support the libraries, the better their collections get.
..my one problem with used book sales is when they are done so heavily in those crucial "first few months" you mention.
When that happens, the publisher gets a distorted view of how popular the author's work is, which can lead to new authors simply not getting a second book contract. This is a BAD thing for the publishers, the authors, AND the fans.
And this is also why selling review copies is just plain short-sighted.
Actually.. it appears somebody *is* using the analysts. It seems an upgrade generally means the stock is levelling off for a while, while a downgrade generally means you can expect a jump up in the value within the next day or two.
Huh. I'll have to follow that site more closely. THanks!
Though I think I played v2. I also remember that potions could be a mixture of 3 different potions, and I'd actually managed to methodically graph all the combinations of the first 31 potions or so.
Then some bastard found the wheel that you could spin and it would just tell you valid potion combinations. Suddenly my monopoly on garflunk potions was gone.
There isn't a way to quickly switch from one document to another that aren't next to each other in the document list. With applications, Windows allows quick switching with Alt + Tab. There is no MDI equivalent. (Ctrl + Tab, Ctrl + PgUp/Dn, Ctrl + F6 are all vain attempts.)
Could you explain this? If Alt+Tab is acceptable for the Windows Applications, why isn't Ctrl+Tab acceptable for the MDIs within an application? At least in Opera 6.01, Ctrl+Tab works exactly the same for MDIs as Alt+Tab works for applications it's quite easy to move from one document to another that's not next to it in the list.
So you're saying gamers will stick with using the equivalent of a Geforce 2 when Geforce 8 is out? Yeah, that's why those Atari 2600s are flying off the shelves today.
Gamers want the eye-candy. That means *somebody* needs to do the R&D to develop it. If that somebody is a different company, they're going to want to make a profit off of that R&D at their customer's expense. In this case, the customer is Microsoft. In Sony's case, the customer is us. In other words, Microsoft's R&D expenses are probably higher than Sony's, even if they don't show up on the balance sheet as "R&D" but rather as "Payment to NVidia & Payment to Intel".
Another difference is the market is more competitive now than it was when Sony did the PS1. PS2 has a ridiculous stable of games available and a massive market-share already. Nintendo is targetting the younger gamer, Sony already has the more experienced gamer. This doesn't leave a lot of wiggle room fro MS to get in there.
Now, they've got a lot of money available, so they'll be able to wiggle for longer than most, but the only way they're going to survive this is if they get something that really differentiates their product, and get it in soon. Remember that Microsoft shareholders make money on re-selling the shares, not on dividends. If the share price increase slows down, people are going to move their money, which will actually bring the stock value down unless MS starts doing share buybacks, and that'll eat up that reserve pretty damn quick if they do. But if they don't, they're going to start losing employees - we've heard how MS is a bear of office politics to work in, would you really stick around if you weren't getting paid seriously for it? And when your payment is largely in declining share-value all it takes is a minor tech boom to decide you're better off elsewhere.
If MS goes into a decline, I think it's pretty safe to see we could see a minor tech boom as other companies rush to fill what would be an enormous opening.
So, you put all these together, MS is under a ton of pressure here that Sony wasn't and they're having to pay higher overheads for things that Sony doesn't. Bad combo for MS.
Now if MS gets online play going that could be just the thing that gets the gamers moving to XBox, and if there's one thing MS is good at, it's ensuring lock-in once they've got you.
Could it be bundled with the Compaq Insight Manager 7 that you were installing? I know HP at least likes to put a sh'load of monitoring and reporting software into their installs.
ie, did you try getting the JDK straight from Sun?
I'm curious, but why do people place the braces where they do, is there any stylistic reason beyond tradition?
For instance, the code above has the following:
void cause_segv(void) {
int* x = 0;
int y = *x; } sprintf("Did it work?");
Yet personally, I like code formatted in this style:
void cause_segv(void) { int* x = 0; int y = *x; }
sprintf("Did it work?");
I find that when you get a bunch of nested blocks it becomes easier to follow.
When I see an opening brace as the first character, it's a reminder of the start of a nested block and I know I can skip to the close brace if I don't need to go into that block, with the blank line helping to easily spot the closing brace.
You're forgetting the interest the banks charge on that 28b though. Now you've got all these people who are in debt by that amount, so they all have to go off and work to pay it back.
And where do a good number of them work? Why at MS, getting their actual portion of that 40b dollars, and using it to basically give the banks back what the banks gave out in the first place. In actual fact, because these people have to pay back their 28b + interest, the only thing that's been made is debt, and that on the backs of the consumers.
I still don't see how wealth has been generated. Redistributed, yes. That 40b (which MS originally got by redistributing other peoples wealth to themselves in exchange for their products) just spins around a bit more.. company to bank to workers to other companies and from other companies to workers to bank to company.
So where'd the house & car come from? It came in the form of debt created by the banks. It really seems to me that our whole system is based on debt - which leads to the horrible question, what happens when the debt can no longer be sustained?
I've never quite understood the money cycle.. we use that money to build houses, buy cars, and do other things that stimulate the economy and create more wealth.
How do we "create" more wealth? We get paid for our work, then we use that pay to buy things which pay other people for their work. I just don't see where any new wealth gets introduced into this system. I see that it gets redistributed, but not created.
In fact, the only thing that really seems to get "created", is debt.
I'm actually not trolling, I've just never understood how it is that we create wealth as opposed to simply redistributing it.
I'm not sure who you're trolling here. The U.S. or Canada..
The extent of Jean's "wit" has been his mispronunciation. Although I'll admit, I was rolling on the floor back on Canada day when he talked about how much we owed our "incestors"
How he took MS's point about the purchase price of software being only 8% of the TCO, refuted the need for it to dictate the state's decisions, and then on top of that, used it to attack the points about Open Source being the "Death of the Industry".
That's part of this whole notion of "fiduciary duty". Nike is literally doing the best it can for its stockholders. In a way, any company that *doesn't* do this isn't living up to its full fiduciary duty. (Sure, we can hope that Nike's actions will eventually generate enough consumer backlash that it won't be the most profitable course of action for them, but we've been hoping that for a long time now.)
Which is why I think fiduciary duty being the end-all and be-all of a corporation's existance is a crock. Too many people have forgotten that the original reason for allowing corporations was not to maximize profits, but rather to maximize production. As a society, we chose to allow corporations to form because we thought this would allow more people to reap more benefits - in a sense, a better world for all. And in a lot of ways, it's worked.
But we've let it go too far now. We need to start reigning the corporations in,and reminding them of their original purpose - to benefit society as a whole, not as a portion. It's time we reinstated partial legal responsibility for corporation ownership. You buy a share of a company, you better be prepared to use that share to make sure the company is doing right, not just maximizing profits, otherwise, you could lose more than just your investment.
Please tell me when it wouldn't make sense to pay $0 instead of $X, given X>0.
By this argument, slavery makes perfect sense. After all with guns and superior firepower, it grants the ability to pay $0 for a product that is priced unfairly in the slaver's eyes. Any capital expense of the guns can be written off against the long-term labor.
The only difference is, there are laws against the latter.. oh wait, there are laws against the former too.
If you create the product, you're entirely within your rights to set it at whatever price you think its worth.
If someone else creates the product, they're entirely within their rights to establish the value. Your choices are "I accept that and will use your product" or "I don't accept that and will not use your product." They do not include "I don't accept what value you put on your work, but will use your work anyway."
When you do this, you've devalued the authors time. If this is legit, then it's entirely legit for an employer to say "Good work. We're not paying you by the way. Maybe somebody else will. Thanks!"
Slashdot Mirror
Not slashdot-like. Too easy to spoof.
Now a personalized system, where you can rate downloads as "Good" or "Bad" and then that gets converted into a score would certainly be nice.
IPs below a certain score don't get shown
Flexible return times?
Okay. This one is a decent reason, though most libraries will allow you to re-sign out a book. Enlightened ones let you do it over the net or phone even.
Potential for keeping the book?
You can always purchase it later, and then you're not paying the original out of pocket expense if you decide you didn't want it.
Able to loan it out to others?
Direct them to the library.
The more people who use the library, the more people who will support the libraries.
The more people who support the libraries, the better their collections get.
..my one problem with used book sales is when they are done so heavily in those crucial "first few months" you mention.
When that happens, the publisher gets a distorted view of how popular the author's work is, which can lead to new authors simply not getting a second book contract. This is a BAD thing for the publishers, the authors, AND the fans.
And this is also why selling review copies is just plain short-sighted.
Read the previous message more carefully. It's not the author that's manipulated the market. It's some other book-buyer/seller.
Think about thunder and read it again.
Sure.
The spec is..
"Must be able to properly open and save microsoft word 97 documents"
After all, that's something the gov't is already stuck with - they need something that can read their old stuff.
So when they compete on this feature, which company do you think is able to produce the most compatible output?
Actually.. it appears somebody *is* using the analysts. It seems an upgrade generally means the stock is levelling off for a while, while a downgrade generally means you can expect a jump up in the value within the next day or two.
Huh. I'll have to follow that site more closely. THanks!
Hopefully it's all you soaked up. :-)
Though I think I played v2. I also remember that potions could be a mixture of 3 different potions, and I'd actually managed to methodically graph all the combinations of the first 31 potions or so.
Then some bastard found the wheel that you could spin and it would just tell you valid potion combinations. Suddenly my monopoly on garflunk potions was gone.
There isn't a way to quickly switch from one document to another that aren't next to each other in the document list. With applications, Windows allows quick switching with Alt + Tab. There is no MDI equivalent. (Ctrl + Tab, Ctrl + PgUp/Dn, Ctrl + F6 are all vain attempts.)
Could you explain this? If Alt+Tab is acceptable for the Windows Applications, why isn't Ctrl+Tab acceptable for the MDIs within an application? At least in Opera 6.01, Ctrl+Tab works exactly the same for MDIs as Alt+Tab works for applications it's quite easy to move from one document to another that's not next to it in the list.
So you're saying gamers will stick with using the equivalent of a Geforce 2 when Geforce 8 is out? Yeah, that's why those Atari 2600s are flying off the shelves today.
Gamers want the eye-candy. That means *somebody* needs to do the R&D to develop it. If that somebody is a different company, they're going to want to make a profit off of that R&D at their customer's expense. In this case, the customer is Microsoft. In Sony's case, the customer is us. In other words, Microsoft's R&D expenses are probably higher than Sony's, even if they don't show up on the balance sheet as "R&D" but rather as "Payment to NVidia & Payment to Intel".
Another difference is the market is more competitive now than it was when Sony did the PS1. PS2 has a ridiculous stable of games available and a massive market-share already. Nintendo is targetting the younger gamer, Sony already has the more experienced gamer. This doesn't leave a lot of wiggle room fro MS to get in there.
Now, they've got a lot of money available, so they'll be able to wiggle for longer than most, but the only way they're going to survive this is if they get something that really differentiates their product, and get it in soon. Remember that Microsoft shareholders make money on re-selling the shares, not on dividends. If the share price increase slows down, people are going to move their money, which will actually bring the stock value down unless MS starts doing share buybacks, and that'll eat up that reserve pretty damn quick if they do. But if they don't, they're going to start losing employees - we've heard how MS is a bear of office politics to work in, would you really stick around if you weren't getting paid seriously for it? And when your payment is largely in declining share-value all it takes is a minor tech boom to decide you're better off elsewhere.
If MS goes into a decline, I think it's pretty safe to see we could see a minor tech boom as other companies rush to fill what would be an enormous opening.
So, you put all these together, MS is under a ton of pressure here that Sony wasn't and they're having to pay higher overheads for things that Sony doesn't. Bad combo for MS.
Now if MS gets online play going that could be just the thing that gets the gamers moving to XBox, and if there's one thing MS is good at, it's ensuring lock-in once they've got you.
Could it be bundled with the Compaq Insight Manager 7 that you were installing? I know HP at least likes to put a sh'load of monitoring and reporting software into their installs.
ie, did you try getting the JDK straight from Sun?
For instance, the code above has the following:Yet personally, I like code formatted in this style:I find that when you get a bunch of nested blocks it becomes easier to follow.
When I see an opening brace as the first character, it's a reminder of the start of a nested block and I know I can skip to the close brace if I don't need to go into that block, with the blank line helping to easily spot the closing brace.
That is, the first time I've ever seen a duplicate article while the other one is still on the front page.
There's only one article's separation between the two for goodness sakes.
I really, sincerely, honestly hope that VA is not actually *paying* michael or timothy for this level of editorial attention.
Some might suggest that doing so goes against VA's fiduciary duties.
what part of "society's most complex and vexing problems" is solved by the creation of the 'singing big-mouth bass'?
the SVLA.
You're forgetting the interest the banks charge on that 28b though. Now you've got all these people who are in debt by that amount, so they all have to go off and work to pay it back.
And where do a good number of them work? Why at MS, getting their actual portion of that 40b dollars, and using it to basically give the banks back what the banks gave out in the first place. In actual fact, because these people have to pay back their 28b + interest, the only thing that's been made is debt, and that on the backs of the consumers.
I still don't see how wealth has been generated. Redistributed, yes. That 40b (which MS originally got by redistributing other peoples wealth to themselves in exchange for their products) just spins around a bit more.. company to bank to workers to other companies and from other companies to workers to bank to company.
So where'd the house & car come from? It came in the form of debt created by the banks. It really seems to me that our whole system is based on debt - which leads to the horrible question, what happens when the debt can no longer be sustained?
I've never quite understood the money cycle..
we use that money to build houses, buy cars, and do other things that stimulate the economy and create more wealth.
How do we "create" more wealth? We get paid for our work, then we use that pay to buy things which pay other people for their work. I just don't see where any new wealth gets introduced into this system. I see that it gets redistributed, but not created.
In fact, the only thing that really seems to get "created", is debt.
I'm actually not trolling, I've just never understood how it is that we create wealth as opposed to simply redistributing it.
Sounds to me that this is how debt is created.
I'm not sure who you're trolling here. The U.S. or Canada..
The extent of Jean's "wit" has been his mispronunciation. Although I'll admit, I was rolling on the floor back on Canada day when he talked about how much we owed our "incestors"
How he took MS's point about the purchase price of software being only 8% of the TCO, refuted the need for it to dictate the state's decisions, and then on top of that, used it to attack the points about Open Source being the "Death of the Industry".
Nicely done..
Actually, they do have to enslave people.
That's part of this whole notion of "fiduciary duty". Nike is literally doing the best it can for its stockholders. In a way, any company that *doesn't* do this isn't living up to its full fiduciary duty. (Sure, we can hope that Nike's actions will eventually generate enough consumer backlash that it won't be the most profitable course of action for them, but we've been hoping that for a long time now.)
Which is why I think fiduciary duty being the end-all and be-all of a corporation's existance is a crock. Too many people have forgotten that the original reason for allowing corporations was not to maximize profits, but rather to maximize production. As a society, we chose to allow corporations to form because we thought this would allow more people to reap more benefits - in a sense, a better world for all. And in a lot of ways, it's worked.
But we've let it go too far now. We need to start reigning the corporations in,and reminding them of their original purpose - to benefit society as a whole, not as a portion. It's time we reinstated partial legal responsibility for corporation ownership. You buy a share of a company, you better be prepared to use that share to make sure the company is doing right, not just maximizing profits, otherwise, you could lose more than just your investment.
The original Quake had that as well. Nothing better than to get a fiend fighting a zombie.
Keeps them both amused for hours.
"whenever it makes sense to do so"?
Please tell me when it wouldn't make sense to pay $0 instead of $X, given X>0.
By this argument, slavery makes perfect sense. After all with guns and superior firepower, it grants the ability to pay $0 for a product that is priced unfairly in the slaver's eyes. Any capital expense of the guns can be written off against the long-term labor.
The only difference is, there are laws against the latter.. oh wait, there are laws against the former too.
Unless you created the product.
If you create the product, you're entirely within your rights to set it at whatever price you think its worth.
If someone else creates the product, they're entirely within their rights to establish the value. Your choices are "I accept that and will use your product" or "I don't accept that and will not use your product." They do not include "I don't accept what value you put on your work, but will use your work anyway."
When you do this, you've devalued the authors time. If this is legit, then it's entirely legit for an employer to say "Good work. We're not paying you by the way. Maybe somebody else will. Thanks!"