Assuming the phone charges won't hurt, if it's a call from the recruiters, have it go right back out and call *them*. So the more they call you, the more they call themselves.
At the annual SIGGRAPH conference, they now have, in addition to presented research papers, technical and application "sketches". These show how various computer graphics technologies are actually applied. Maybe this new channel could present these kinds of presentations.
The danger is that we artificially keep jobs here with incentives, subsidies, etc. and then one day somebody does a new cost/benefit analysis, and figures out that gee, what we're paying is just insane. And then *poof*, just about every job of that type goes away in a radically short amount of time.
What should be considered, but is definitely not, is the societal cost of outsourcing, e.g. now it's my taxes that go to pay for company X's layoffed people's unemployment and health coverage.
So, would you trust that Diebold vote counting machine to count correctly? I thought we didn't trust them in the first place. Though your method is fairly simple, it seems that errors would only show up if the whole *batch* is selected for a recount.
So, you get that nifty coupon for an iTunes song, but guess what! That song you were so eager to buy now has a few extra seconds tacked to the head of it: "This song brought to you by McDonalds, home of iFries! Now enjoy the music."
I use KDE all day at work, and have a Powerbook at home.
OS X just looks better. Period. KDE's a great thing, all things considered. But it's visually quite hideous when compared to the Aqua interface. There's an unexplainable Zen to the Max OS X UI, one that KDE lacks utterly.
So, is that Zen worth money? Probably not. But the greater homogeneity in hardware most likely is! When you have several hundred PCs that need to be kept near the leading edge, that leading edge has many shapes and sizes. Maintaining those variations costs money. For better or worse, the Mac hardware is more homogeneous. That's where the cost savings will manifest themselves.
Remember, shows are "filler". They don't make money off the shows. They make money off the commercials.
Now on the other hand, if a show's star says "wow, this XYZ potion got rid of all my wrinkles", then I would agree with the poster, that the FCC/FTC/DEA should be involved.
The assertion is that peer pressure will create better code. That indeed may cause some corners to get smoothed out, and some blatantly bad coding practices to get exposed. But fundamentally, it's not going to give the devlopers an extra three months, etc. to make it better! If a company has X dollars to put out a product, then you get whatever it is that X dollars will get you. Showing the code post-delivery will not have changed what you got in the first place.
But back to the bridge: if there's only one bridge to cross, you're taking it, even if it's poorly built! But, if there is a choice of bridge to take, then the result is obvious.
Ultimately, we'll probably all end up paying by the bit. What gets me, though, is that I have to pay for the bandwidth of the ads! That's like having all your junk mail come to you postage C.O.D.!
-- Antoine
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Assuming the phone charges won't hurt, if it's a call from the recruiters, have it go right back out and call *them*. So the more they call you, the more they call themselves.
At the annual SIGGRAPH conference, they now have, in addition to presented research papers, technical and application "sketches". These show how various computer graphics technologies are actually applied. Maybe this new channel could present these kinds of presentations.
The danger is that we artificially keep jobs here with incentives, subsidies, etc. and then one day somebody does a new cost/benefit analysis, and figures out that gee, what we're paying is just insane. And then *poof*, just about every job of that type goes away in a radically short amount of time. What should be considered, but is definitely not, is the societal cost of outsourcing, e.g. now it's my taxes that go to pay for company X's layoffed people's unemployment and health coverage.
So, would you trust that Diebold vote counting machine to count correctly? I thought we didn't trust them in the first place. Though your method is fairly simple, it seems that errors would only show up if the whole *batch* is selected for a recount.
So, you get that nifty coupon for an iTunes song, but guess what! That song you were so eager to buy now has a few extra seconds tacked to the head of it: "This song brought to you by McDonalds, home of iFries! Now enjoy the music."
So *somebody* got a *lot* of mileage on their credit card! Where are they now?
OS X just looks better. Period. KDE's a great thing, all things considered. But it's visually quite hideous when compared to the Aqua interface. There's an unexplainable Zen to the Max OS X UI, one that KDE lacks utterly.
So, is that Zen worth money? Probably not. But the greater homogeneity in hardware most likely is! When you have several hundred PCs that need to be kept near the leading edge, that leading edge has many shapes and sizes. Maintaining those variations costs money. For better or worse, the Mac hardware is more homogeneous. That's where the cost savings will manifest themselves.
Remember, shows are "filler". They don't make money off the shows. They make money off the commercials. Now on the other hand, if a show's star says "wow, this XYZ potion got rid of all my wrinkles", then I would agree with the poster, that the FCC/FTC/DEA should be involved.
The assertion is that peer pressure will create better code. That indeed may cause some corners to get smoothed out, and some blatantly bad coding practices to get exposed. But fundamentally, it's not going to give the devlopers an extra three months, etc. to make it better! If a company has X dollars to put out a product, then you get whatever it is that X dollars will get you. Showing the code post-delivery will not have changed what you got in the first place. But back to the bridge: if there's only one bridge to cross, you're taking it, even if it's poorly built! But, if there is a choice of bridge to take, then the result is obvious.
Ultimately, we'll probably all end up paying by the bit. What gets me, though, is that I have to pay for the bandwidth of the ads! That's like having all your junk mail come to you postage C.O.D.! -- Antoine