The Bundeswehr has since denied the report, according to winplanet.com.
Give the first story, then the denial, I think the most you can say about Andrew is that he should have researched that story a bit more carefully. Certainly you can't say he's a nutjob.
It's also about retail prices. The company can temporarily lower the perceived price of an item without the stigma of lowering the actual retail price. After the rebate has expired, the product still sustains the original higher retail price.
Once you drop the price on an item, raising it again becomes nearly impossible. Rebates are an effort to combat downward price-creep.
Other reasons:
1) more people end up with the product (everyone else has it!) which bumps up sales,
2) the "float" mentioned above,
3) rebates give an extra impetus to a buy decision because they are timed. There is a greater psychological pressure to buy something when the consumer believes he is getting something for nothing,
4) perceived reciprocity. "Here, I'm going to give you this, if only you do that. Since I'm going to be so generous, it's not asking too much for you to buy it, right?"
I have a Dell Inspiron 8000 running Linux
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You're dependent on user web pages for help setting it up, but since I customize my installs heavily, I didn't have any issues.
Specs:
800Mhz PIII
512M RAM
32G hd
32M AGP ATI vid card
15.1" SVGA+ display
I've got a USB mouse and scanner that work perfectly. Plug it in, the mouse goes active, etc. Ditto for the PCMCIA. I have a Xircom 10/100 PCMCIA card that I can insert/remove all day long, no problems, as well as an XJack 56K modem.
The display runs in 24bit color at 1600x1400. Truly excellent.
I'm running Win4Lin as well with no issues.
Only problems I had: Mandrake 7.2 won't install on it, due to a problem with an older set of PCMCIA utilities.
I have everything that I installed (RedHat 6.2 stuff, kernel updates, X 4.0.2, config files, etc.) in one place, and I'm willing to press CDs for people who want to set up the same kind of laptop. No charge even, unless I get swamped.:-)
Don't get the built-in modem -- it's a WinModem. I don't know about the mini-PCI network card, though.
You do have to set some hdparms at boot to get the DMI working for the hard drive, but that's not really a big deal at all.
As I said, people who are interested can go read the OO forum. I don't intend on wasting any more time on this subject than I already have over the past few years.
Hopefully this will trigger one of Bryce's "repeat the same word or phrase over and over again in the hopes that his argument will be lent more credence by the act" episodes. Those are always entertaining.
1: "Biz things are too dymanic to be modeled via tree taxonomies"
As you have been told time and time again, there is much more to OO techniques than simple implementation inheritance modelling.
2: "You have to suffer thru a lot of junk to do procedural Java"
But then again, Java is not the sum of the OO world. Of course, you can't be bothered to learn things like Smalltalk or Python (or even Java, for that matter: "why can't I reference my static method from within a non-static method?" Remember that one? Or perhaps the two image translation programs I wrote for you because you couldn't be bothered to read the documentation thoroughly?).
BTW, 1/3 of the code is for large projects? What definition would that be? Can you link to it? Can you show your math...?
In fact, I can point out several references on his pages that directly refer to either myself or the group of people that have been arguing these points with him for the past 3-4 years.:-)
Bryce's biggest problem is that he won't actually learn how to use the stuff he criticizes. He's more concerned with making the point than actually making a *valid* point.
He was an XBase programmer for a long time, and gradually saw his "niche" get eroded as people went on to better ways of programming business applications that subsumed his "TOP" methods. However, since he doesn't understand these other methods, he would prefer that the entire world take a step back in the WayBack machine and merrily go back to using FoxPro and Clipper.
He's also never done anything larger than what I would consider to be extremely small applications. A few of his comments are applicable to a very small segment of the programming world, but unfortunately he tries to apply them across the board.
Don't ever try to pin him down, though. His niche will morph as he tries to avoid any logic you might bring to bear on the discussion.:-) Another favorite tactic: stridently insist that everyone else bring the proof. He's making the observations, but we have to prove it.:-)
Priceless hours of entertainment if you ever get him in a discussion, but after a while it wears thin. He tends to get abusive and obscene when things aren't going his way. He has moderated that a bit lately, but occasionally the old Bryce surfaces...
He's done very little OO programming, and prefers to set up straw-men (the shape example, the taxonomy example) rather than actually learn how to program with OO techniques.
He's also (ironically) not very well versed in relational techniques, either. If the entire world went back to XBase he'd be in his element.
One time he claimed that cursors in external processes ran more slowly than stored procedures in the server for political reasons.:-)
You can read more of his ranting on the ( bloody hell... damned link won't post correctly. Tried 3 times with an a href... oh well. http://pub1.ezboard.com/bobjectorienteddevelopment.html)
Object Oriented Programming ezBoard. A good deal of Bryce's material comes from there.
He doesn't seem to understand that OO is a tool. It's not a tool that can be used exclusively. It happens to be a very effective tool used in the right hands. But just because Bryce doesn't possess a set of the right hands, he thinks OO should be completely discarded so he doesn't have to think about it.:-)
Another favorite Bryceword: P/R programming (procedural/relational). He likes to compare it to pure OO, as if OO programming can't use relational paradigms as well.:-)
Ah, well. I could go on for a while. If you're truly interested in more Bryce, use the link above.:-)
I don't have the time to get involved with everything. However, I do have the time to try out some binaries and see if I like the project. If there aren't binaries, I'm not likely to try it out (unless it's something I really, really need).
Anything that heightens interest is a GoodThing(tm). Binaries and screenshots do so.
There are so many projects out there doing much the same thing, that the binaries and screenshots become like marketing. Necessary evil, but useful nonetheless.
In the book and the original movie. He understood that the Baron was probably lying, but he held out for the remote chance that the Baron was telling the truth. Hence the play on "be reunited", etc.
"You can tell them apart by their hats, though. That's what they're there for. "
ROFL! That explains *everything*!;-)
I think Yueh (yes, I spelled it wrong) was in there a few times (the first scene, actually), but I'm not sure he was ever introduced. The characters are so shallow as to be completely unobtrusive. The original movie's portrayal of Pieter, for example, was brilliant... in the mini-series he's practically nonexistent.
I think Lynch managed to get as much explanation and character development into the original movie as could be expected, whereas the mini-series is seriously screwing this up even though it has more time to spend.
If you thought the movie was shallow (it was, but only in comparison to the book -- hard act to follow, non?) then you'll hate the mini-series. Shallow fluff, and badly done at that.
was that they stayed young looking for a long time.
I really fail to see why people have so much against the '84 movie. Other than the wierding modules and the rain at the end (probably necessary Hollywood additions to make the movie palatable to the masses), the movie was very true to the book. Dialogue, characterization, plot, scenery... everything was very well done and accurate.
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An English version can be found at The Register.
The Bundeswehr has since denied the report, according to winplanet.com.
Give the first story, then the denial, I think the most you can say about Andrew is that he should have researched that story a bit more carefully. Certainly you can't say he's a nutjob.
Don't assume. Andrew has stated before:
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It's also about retail prices. The company can temporarily lower the perceived price of an item without the stigma of lowering the actual retail price. After the rebate has expired, the product still sustains the original higher retail price.
Once you drop the price on an item, raising it again becomes nearly impossible. Rebates are an effort to combat downward price-creep.
Other reasons:
1) more people end up with the product (everyone else has it!) which bumps up sales,
2) the "float" mentioned above,
3) rebates give an extra impetus to a buy decision because they are timed. There is a greater psychological pressure to buy something when the consumer believes he is getting something for nothing,
4) perceived reciprocity. "Here, I'm going to give you this, if only you do that. Since I'm going to be so generous, it's not asking too much for you to buy it, right?"
Simple marketing.
Regards,
-scott
Since they're installing it on an IBM Mainframe.
Regards,
-scott
You're dependent on user web pages for help setting it up, but since I customize my installs heavily, I didn't have any issues.
:-)
Specs: 800Mhz PIII 512M RAM 32G hd 32M AGP ATI vid card 15.1" SVGA+ display
I've got a USB mouse and scanner that work perfectly. Plug it in, the mouse goes active, etc. Ditto for the PCMCIA. I have a Xircom 10/100 PCMCIA card that I can insert/remove all day long, no problems, as well as an XJack 56K modem.
The display runs in 24bit color at 1600x1400. Truly excellent.
I'm running Win4Lin as well with no issues.
Only problems I had: Mandrake 7.2 won't install on it, due to a problem with an older set of PCMCIA utilities.
I have everything that I installed (RedHat 6.2 stuff, kernel updates, X 4.0.2, config files, etc.) in one place, and I'm willing to press CDs for people who want to set up the same kind of laptop. No charge even, unless I get swamped.
Don't get the built-in modem -- it's a WinModem. I don't know about the mini-PCI network card, though.
You do have to set some hdparms at boot to get the DMI working for the hard drive, but that's not really a big deal at all.
Regards,
-scott
Since guest/guest doesn't seem to work anymore.
Regards,
-scott
Any other insiders with the magic keys?
Regards,
-scott
... the pins back, 'cause your house is full of holes from all the live grenades you left lying around...
Regards,
-scott
You said it again! AAAH! I said it! I said it! OOOOH! I said it again! AAAH! That's three "it"s...
Regards,
-scott
Repetition ad nauseum.
As I said, people who are interested can go read the OO forum. I don't intend on wasting any more time on this subject than I already have over the past few years.
Hopefully this will trigger one of Bryce's "repeat the same word or phrase over and over again in the hopes that his argument will be lent more credence by the act" episodes. Those are always entertaining.
Regards,
-scott
And therefore it isn't a "business app". By definition.
I'd post that definition, but I seem to have lost the reference. Accidentally...
Regards,
-scott
Not a programming language.
It doesn't need to be Turing complete.
Regards,
-scott
Typically, Bryce tends to devolve in this fashion quite early in the discussions, hence earning himself the nickname, "Toddler".
Interested readers are invited to form their own opinions at the OO ezBoard.
Regards,
-scott
1: "Biz things are too dymanic to be modeled via tree taxonomies"
As you have been told time and time again, there is much more to OO techniques than simple implementation inheritance modelling.
2: "You have to suffer thru a lot of junk to do procedural Java"
But then again, Java is not the sum of the OO world. Of course, you can't be bothered to learn things like Smalltalk or Python (or even Java, for that matter: "why can't I reference my static method from within a non-static method?" Remember that one? Or perhaps the two image translation programs I wrote for you because you couldn't be bothered to read the documentation thoroughly?).
BTW, 1/3 of the code is for large projects? What definition would that be? Can you link to it? Can you show your math...?
Regards,
-scott
"We accidentally lost the references."
Regards,
-scott
In fact, I can point out several references on his pages that directly refer to either myself or the group of people that have been arguing these points with him for the past 3-4 years. :-)
:-) Another favorite tactic: stridently insist that everyone else bring the proof. He's making the observations, but we have to prove it. :-)
Bryce's biggest problem is that he won't actually learn how to use the stuff he criticizes. He's more concerned with making the point than actually making a *valid* point.
He was an XBase programmer for a long time, and gradually saw his "niche" get eroded as people went on to better ways of programming business applications that subsumed his "TOP" methods. However, since he doesn't understand these other methods, he would prefer that the entire world take a step back in the WayBack machine and merrily go back to using FoxPro and Clipper.
He's also never done anything larger than what I would consider to be extremely small applications. A few of his comments are applicable to a very small segment of the programming world, but unfortunately he tries to apply them across the board.
Don't ever try to pin him down, though. His niche will morph as he tries to avoid any logic you might bring to bear on the discussion.
Priceless hours of entertainment if you ever get him in a discussion, but after a while it wears thin. He tends to get abusive and obscene when things aren't going his way. He has moderated that a bit lately, but occasionally the old Bryce surfaces...
Regards,
-scott
He's done very little OO programming, and prefers to set up straw-men (the shape example, the taxonomy example) rather than actually learn how to program with OO techniques.
:-)
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Object Oriented Programming ezBoard. A good deal of Bryce's material comes from there.
:-)
:-)
:-)
He's also (ironically) not very well versed in relational techniques, either. If the entire world went back to XBase he'd be in his element.
One time he claimed that cursors in external processes ran more slowly than stored procedures in the server for political reasons.
You can read more of his ranting on the ( bloody hell... damned link won't post correctly. Tried 3 times with an a href... oh well. http://pub1.ezboard.com/bobjectorienteddevelopmen
He doesn't seem to understand that OO is a tool. It's not a tool that can be used exclusively. It happens to be a very effective tool used in the right hands. But just because Bryce doesn't possess a set of the right hands, he thinks OO should be completely discarded so he doesn't have to think about it.
Another favorite Bryceword: P/R programming (procedural/relational). He likes to compare it to pure OO, as if OO programming can't use relational paradigms as well.
Ah, well. I could go on for a while. If you're truly interested in more Bryce, use the link above.
Regards,
-scott
I don't have the time to get involved with everything. However, I do have the time to try out some binaries and see if I like the project. If there aren't binaries, I'm not likely to try it out (unless it's something I really, really need).
Anything that heightens interest is a GoodThing(tm). Binaries and screenshots do so.
There are so many projects out there doing much the same thing, that the binaries and screenshots become like marketing. Necessary evil, but useful nonetheless.
Regards,
-scott
They just need to note the copyright holder.
:-)
Microsoft can't do a thing about it.
Pretty silly thing for MS to do, regardless. This just makes them look like they're trying to hide things.
On an amusing note: MS had a 30% increase in productivity this year: of security patches.
Regards,
-scott
I had forgotten that.
In general, ALL of the characterization was much better done in the movie.
Oh well... that doesn't mean I'm not going to watch the rest of the mini-series. Some parts of the story are just too cool to mess up.
Regards,
-scott
In the book and the original movie. He understood that the Baron was probably lying, but he held out for the remote chance that the Baron was telling the truth. Hence the play on "be reunited", etc.
;-)
"You can tell them apart by their hats, though. That's what they're there for. "
ROFL! That explains *everything*!
I think Yueh (yes, I spelled it wrong) was in there a few times (the first scene, actually), but I'm not sure he was ever introduced. The characters are so shallow as to be completely unobtrusive. The original movie's portrayal of Pieter, for example, was brilliant... in the mini-series he's practically nonexistent.
Regards,
-scott
I think Lynch managed to get as much explanation and character development into the original movie as could be expected, whereas the mini-series is seriously screwing this up even though it has more time to spend.
If you thought the movie was shallow (it was, but only in comparison to the book -- hard act to follow, non?) then you'll hate the mini-series. Shallow fluff, and badly done at that.
Regards,
-scott
... since my wife hated the movie, hasn't read the book, but found the mini-series very difficult to follow because the voice-overs weren't there. :-)
Additionally, the '84 movie managed the visualization of the world of Dune much better than the mini-series.
Regards,
-scott
was that they stayed young looking for a long time. I really fail to see why people have so much against the '84 movie. Other than the wierding modules and the rain at the end (probably necessary Hollywood additions to make the movie palatable to the masses), the movie was very true to the book. Dialogue, characterization, plot, scenery... everything was very well done and accurate.
Regards,
-scott