I think it's rather obvious that the creative type who comes up with the ideas usually prevails over those trying to play catch up.
Sure, as long as the "creative type" can keep up with the pace of innovation in other areas as the big fish swim in on the original idea. The real money is in making one thing as cheap as you can and selling it to millions of people, and that's largely what business is all about today because money is everything.
Oops, sorry. Since you're a "friend" (there's some kind of list somewhere) I just select the nearest non-negative drop-down selection to mod you with when I have points. I don't have points now, but this one would likely get a funny if my crack pipe was still lit and smokin.
Copyright law drives the high margins on software. Whether this is good or bad seems to depend a great deal on whether you're an american or not. I suspect an even stronger indicator would be whether you own stock in MS or Oracle or IBM or not.
In san diego and orange counties (california for thsoe who don't know), the average price of a house is around 600k... About 15% of the residents can afford to finance that.
I can't figure out who benefits from insane house prices (except for real estate agents and maybe mortgage lenders - and maybe the financial egos of those buying/selling). It certainly isn't home buyers or sellers, and if the entry price becomes/is too high for new buyers, well...
A lot of motherboards come equipped with RAID capabilities even if the end user doesn't know what the acromym means.
Now that external USB/Firewire drives have become more affordable as a backup solution, I recommend that. Confession: I don't know WTF I am talking about.
Hey editors, you gave me 5 moderation points to award as I see fit, but I still have to login and jump through hoops ( type this in order to confirm I'm not a script )
Study "real" engineering instead. Over the past decade or so engineering companies have been putting up with what the software business have provided. That's about to change, so get in with what is coming up.
"Cradle to grave" engineering software solutions are vendor-specific and cannot last.
"Munchausen syndrome is a form of psychological disorder known as a factitious disorder (the term "Munchausen syndrome" is sometimes used, incorrectly, to refer to any form of factitious disorder). Sufferers mimic real diseases, presenting a great problem to themselves and their healthcare professionals. The disorder is named after a literary figure, Baron Munchausen, a real person who was portrayed in fiction as a famous teller of tall tales."
All I want to know is when the so-called word, "schwag" came to mean "enthusiast accessories necessary to demonstrate afiliation with pop culture cool stuff". All my original Kiss T-Shirts are now gone - oh, the humanity!
As for NULL pointers, there's really no need for them at all if you have a serious type system. Recursive data structures are trivially dealt with if you have concepts like disjunctive types and pattern matching.
Can you dumb that down for me? I have no idea what this means. Probably 90% of slashdot readers understand it, but I feel like I'm being left out in the cold on this one.
On the other hand, I know that explaining metaphors and clarifying abstracts can be extremely difficult.
Thunderbird filtering works for me quite well, but it doesn't really stop the onslaught of assholes promoting their worthless crap by filling the servers' pipes. My inbox just doesn't see their junk as it is auto-deleted.
Lots of MCPs are certified in something like Word and Excel
I've seen more than a couple of important Excel documents that are improperly formatted for printing. I.E., the recipient has to "fix" the document in order for it to print correctly or completely. Since many people print for later review and assume that what they see on the screen is what gets printed (WYSIWYG - haven't heard that jargon in a while) this can cause major, expensive problems.
Another goodie is people that modify PDFs by embedding comments. Unless the recipient has opted to select a checkbox somewhere within Acrobat Reader, those comments are invisible to the reader! This is ridiculous.
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Are you one of those posters (scroll up) that give themselves hickeys?
what you'd be giving up is the mostly unused nitrogen, which makes up about 78% of the atmosphere down here on Earth
http://www.uigi.com/nitrogen.html
I'm sure that the Christmas lights were nice but I don't think satellites would be specifically ordered to snap a new shot of the house.
Does anyone know how often the aerial images are updated and which areas have priority? Google Earth says that some photos are taken from planes.
I think it's rather obvious that the creative type who comes up with the ideas usually prevails over those trying to play catch up.
Sure, as long as the "creative type" can keep up with the pace of innovation in other areas as the big fish swim in on the original idea. The real money is in making one thing as cheap as you can and selling it to millions of people, and that's largely what business is all about today because money is everything.
Will it be able to show the moon landings?
Oops, sorry. Since you're a "friend" (there's some kind of list somewhere) I just select the nearest non-negative drop-down selection to mod you with when I have points. I don't have points now, but this one would likely get a funny if my crack pipe was still lit and smokin.
Copyright law drives the high margins on software. Whether this is good or bad seems to depend a great deal on whether you're an american or not. I suspect an even stronger indicator would be whether you own stock in MS or Oracle or IBM or not.
Very insightful.
It'd be lunacy to buy, and prudent to sell.
So basically what you're saying is that the stock market is for suckers that think they all know what the future will be, right?
In short, the rich have too much spare money.
I think it's rather that the boomers have "too much" spare money, not the rich.
In san diego and orange counties (california for thsoe who don't know), the average price of a house is around 600k... About 15% of the residents can afford to finance that.
I can't figure out who benefits from insane house prices (except for real estate agents and maybe mortgage lenders - and maybe the financial egos of those buying/selling). It certainly isn't home buyers or sellers, and if the entry price becomes/is too high for new buyers, well...
A lot of motherboards come equipped with RAID capabilities even if the end user doesn't know what the acromym means.
Now that external USB/Firewire drives have become more affordable as a backup solution, I recommend that. Confession: I don't know WTF I am talking about.
Hey editors, you gave me 5 moderation points to award as I see fit, but I still have to login and jump through hoops ( type this in order to confirm I'm not a script )
Make up your minds.
Study "real" engineering instead. Over the past decade or so engineering companies have been putting up with what the software business have provided. That's about to change, so get in with what is coming up.
"Cradle to grave" engineering software solutions are vendor-specific and cannot last.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munchausen_syndrome
"Munchausen syndrome is a form of psychological disorder known as a factitious disorder (the term "Munchausen syndrome" is sometimes used, incorrectly, to refer to any form of factitious disorder). Sufferers mimic real diseases, presenting a great problem to themselves and their healthcare professionals. The disorder is named after a literary figure, Baron Munchausen, a real person who was portrayed in fiction as a famous teller of tall tales."
Thanks (also to nostrademons).
All I want to know is when the so-called word, "schwag" came to mean "enthusiast accessories necessary to demonstrate afiliation with pop culture cool stuff". All my original Kiss T-Shirts are now gone - oh, the humanity!
As for NULL pointers, there's really no need for them at all if you have a serious type system. Recursive data structures are trivially dealt with if you have concepts like disjunctive types and pattern matching.
Can you dumb that down for me? I have no idea what this means. Probably 90% of slashdot readers understand it, but I feel like I'm being left out in the cold on this one.
On the other hand, I know that explaining metaphors and clarifying abstracts can be extremely difficult.
Go Cajuns! [sp]
Agreed, I'm half Acadian myself.
She was quite good in The Professional, I haven't seen or recognized her in anything that was worthwhile watching since then.
Lately there has a been a resurgence of classic sci-fi shows...
UFO was definitely not a classic show, but I remember it fondly for its nifty models and character stories.
Thunderbird filtering works for me quite well, but it doesn't really stop the onslaught of assholes promoting their worthless crap by filling the servers' pipes. My inbox just doesn't see their junk as it is auto-deleted.
When the donations went *way* over what Drupal originally needed the staff still felt that it should remain w/the server side.
Silly bunnies, they should have just celebrated and given free ipods to everyone with the money.
If history of technology has shown us anything, in a two horse race the cheapest normally wins
My first computer monitor was a 15" no-name, cheap-o rebranded thing (relatively expensive 10 years ago) and it lasted about 7 years.
Both of my higher-end Mitsubishi Diamond Pros died within 3.5 years. Now I'm using a Samsung LCD panel and wondering how long it will last.
Don't forget the CD-R, CD-RW, CD-... consumer confusion of a while ago.
Lots of MCPs are certified in something like Word and Excel
I've seen more than a couple of important Excel documents that are improperly formatted for printing. I.E., the recipient has to "fix" the document in order for it to print correctly or completely. Since many people print for later review and assume that what they see on the screen is what gets printed (WYSIWYG - haven't heard that jargon in a while) this can cause major, expensive problems.
Another goodie is people that modify PDFs by embedding comments. Unless the recipient has opted to select a checkbox somewhere within Acrobat Reader, those comments are invisible to the reader! This is ridiculous.