Written by the excellent (and sadly deceased) Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time is a story about a clockmaker who makes the perfect clock to measure time exactly. At that time, time stops. Luckily in the books of Pratchett creatures can exist outside of time, so the day is saved - in the end...
By the Small Gods, I love his books and dearly miss him...:-(
I have a Dell Chromebook 13 running GalliumOS. I could not be moe happy. Replaced the SSd with a 256GB one (really easy to do!) and the performance, battery life, keyboard etc are just great. I have the 8GB model, runs VirtualBox like a charm. Highly recoomended!
I think this question is stupid. I've been in programming for 20+ years. There really is not that much new under the sun. The quasi OOP of JS keeps baffeling me, it is nice to see a move back to procedural programming. And, in general, the mess has gotten bigger and more complicated. But new paradigms etc etc? Mwa...
I've been trying for 30 minutes now to watch this legally.
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/g...
Europe does not have any money, or whatever... according to:
- Amazon
- google play
- youtube
- 30+ minutes in... I quit.
I will start my bittorrent client now...
Thank you, international movie-business, for saving me money!
Sorry, non-native english speaker here. I looked up the word "annealer", which seems to mean "To subject (glass or metal) to a process of heating and slow cooling in order to toughen and reduce brittleness". I do not understand the concept of the D-Wave machine by any means, but does this describe the way in which the device zeros in onto the right answer? Is that the meaning of the word in this context?
My first android was the G1. Frankly I never got a better one!
Sure, I like the nice, large screens we have now too. But imagine a 5" screen with the same keyboard mechanism underneath. It would, for all intends and (most) purposes, be a small laptop. I would buy one!
Might be used for communication even. But the bandwith will be very narrow: about 2 bits per century, as it took us that long to really mess thing up...
I don't get this argument. Do you really believe that any terrorist cannot come up with 70% of this list in one week of thinking/googling? I mean, come on... that is just plain stupid.
Why is that surprising? The American government did the same with GitMo. The American public does the same with the 'mosque on ground zero'. (Which is neither a mosque, nor on ground zero...) America has seased to be a hallmark for democracy (or civilization for that matter) a long time ago... (Not, BTW, that there are many countries out there that fit the bill...)
Aside from things that are designed not to last, things wear out - regardless of their quality.
Another problem is that when it comes to tech gear, quality is undesirable. At the rate technology improves, most stuff will be obsolete in 3-5 years. I have a Sony Clie I bought in 2004. When I whipped it out at work in 2007, people were laughing at me. It's only 6 years old and my cell phone now does everything the Clie did plus a whole lot more. Heck, my cell phone's specs pretty much match the specs of my laptop from 2004.
That might be true for cellphones, computers etc, but not for a lot of products you can buy. Dishwashers, cars, mixers you name it: it will break after a few years. I try to buy sustainable myself, but it is very hard to do. There are a lot of products where 'more expensive' does not equal more sustainable or even 'better'...
There should be a brand for 'consumer goods' that reverses this trend. I don't know of any....
When was the last time you saw a 'big' movie that did not suck? Avatar? Shrek movie number 7? I mean, really, I can't name one... (Well, the Matrix, obviously. How long a go is that?)
I saw 'Prince of Persia Sands of time' last week. Nice images, beautifull princess, sure. Story? What story? I mean, i could not follow the end. I'm not stupid, mind you. If I cannot follow what the F is happening, more people cannot, rest assured about that. Did not make/any/ sense.
Movies suck for reasons that are well understood - but apparently impossible to turn around, at the moment.
Neal Stephenson was prophetic. The only thing we know how to make in this country any more are pizzas and movies.
And I am not that sure about the quality of the movies, either...:-)
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>Cost
While it is true that you are not hireing people you don't need, outsourcing is not always cheaper. What you lose is just what is being talked here about: connection between IT and business.
The IT-people you hire will not (always) know your business; thus, they will not (always) be able to provide the most optimum solution. Unless you spend a lot of time (ie: money) to explain it to them...
>Versatility:
Not always a benefit. I hate resume's that list 10 programming languages that state that you 'excell' in all of them. No way!
Allso: a business should (more or less) pick one environment, and stick to it for a few years. You don't want 10 languages used in your business...
>Employee satisfaction
This might be achieved. But only if you hire really goed, thus, really expensive, contractors.
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Written by the excellent (and sadly deceased) Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time is a story about a clockmaker who makes the perfect clock to measure time exactly. At that time, time stops. Luckily in the books of Pratchett creatures can exist outside of time, so the day is saved - in the end... By the Small Gods, I love his books and dearly miss him... :-(
It's not that special?..
Ghostery
I have a Dell Chromebook 13 running GalliumOS. I could not be moe happy. Replaced the SSd with a 256GB one (really easy to do!) and the performance, battery life, keyboard etc are just great. I have the 8GB model, runs VirtualBox like a charm. Highly recoomended!
I think this question is stupid. I've been in programming for 20+ years. There really is not that much new under the sun. The quasi OOP of JS keeps baffeling me, it is nice to see a move back to procedural programming. And, in general, the mess has gotten bigger and more complicated. But new paradigms etc etc? Mwa...
I've been trying for 30 minutes now to watch this legally. http://theoatmeal.com/comics/g... Europe does not have any money, or whatever... according to: - Amazon - google play - youtube - 30+ minutes in... I quit. I will start my bittorrent client now... Thank you, international movie-business, for saving me money!
Right. So, they should buy that. I mean it. Al Jazeera seems to be in trouble, and could be up for grabs...
Sorry, non-native english speaker here. I looked up the word "annealer", which seems to mean "To subject (glass or metal) to a process of heating and slow cooling in order to toughen and reduce brittleness". I do not understand the concept of the D-Wave machine by any means, but does this describe the way in which the device zeros in onto the right answer? Is that the meaning of the word in this context?
Going to a scamming site for tech support will actually ensure you need some...!
My first android was the G1. Frankly I never got a better one! Sure, I like the nice, large screens we have now too. But imagine a 5" screen with the same keyboard mechanism underneath. It would, for all intends and (most) purposes, be a small laptop. I would buy one!
Might be used for communication even. But the bandwith will be very narrow: about 2 bits per century, as it took us that long to really mess thing up...
If we would not have a sense of humor, I think we would have died out long ago... :)
Maybe they allready store my whole history in iTunes. It would explain the size of this piece of .. eh .. software -:)
I don't get this argument. Do you really believe that any terrorist cannot come up with 70% of this list in one week of thinking/googling? I mean, come on... that is just plain stupid.
Why is that surprising? The American government did the same with GitMo. The American public does the same with the 'mosque on ground zero'. (Which is neither a mosque, nor on ground zero...) America has seased to be a hallmark for democracy (or civilization for that matter) a long time ago... (Not, BTW, that there are many countries out there that fit the bill...)
Another problem is that when it comes to tech gear, quality is undesirable. At the rate technology improves, most stuff will be obsolete in 3-5 years. I have a Sony Clie I bought in 2004. When I whipped it out at work in 2007, people were laughing at me. It's only 6 years old and my cell phone now does everything the Clie did plus a whole lot more. Heck, my cell phone's specs pretty much match the specs of my laptop from 2004.
That might be true for cellphones, computers etc, but not for a lot of products you can buy. Dishwashers, cars, mixers you name it: it will break after a few years. I try to buy sustainable myself, but it is very hard to do. There are a lot of products where 'more expensive' does not equal more sustainable or even 'better'... There should be a brand for 'consumer goods' that reverses this trend. I don't know of any....
When was the last time you saw a 'big' movie that did not suck? Avatar? Shrek movie number 7? I mean, really, I can't name one... (Well, the Matrix, obviously. How long a go is that?) I saw 'Prince of Persia Sands of time' last week. Nice images, beautifull princess, sure. Story? What story? I mean, i could not follow the end. I'm not stupid, mind you. If I cannot follow what the F is happening, more people cannot, rest assured about that. Did not make /any/ sense.
Movies suck for reasons that are well understood - but apparently impossible to turn around, at the moment.
Neal Stephenson was prophetic. The only thing we know how to make in this country any more are pizzas and movies.
And I am not that sure about the quality of the movies, either... :-)
>Cost
While it is true that you are not hireing people you don't need, outsourcing is not always cheaper. What you lose is just what is being talked here about: connection between IT and business.
The IT-people you hire will not (always) know your business; thus, they will not (always) be able to provide the most optimum solution. Unless you spend a lot of time (ie: money) to explain it to them...
>Versatility:
Not always a benefit. I hate resume's that list 10 programming languages that state that you 'excell' in all of them. No way! Allso: a business should (more or less) pick one environment, and stick to it for a few years. You don't want 10 languages used in your business...
>Employee satisfaction
This might be achieved. But only if you hire really goed, thus, really expensive, contractors.
>Given advances in technology by that point, it should make a great time to put men on Mars. na - let's just all stand up and wave :-)
is one that won't fire when aimed at a person - or a animal, for that matter...
Of course it should be called: GNU/Cycle :-)
They got tripple-x servers at the .gov domain? wow...(http://xxx.lanl.gov/).. what a country!
Hope their server supports alpha-channels. :-)
This gives a whole new meaning to bump-mapped walls...!