Your example with melons and potato is not an example of comparative advantages. Comparative advantages means that if one country can produce two different goods more efficient than the next country (that is, USA produces 8 tonnes of melons and 4 tonnes of potato per acre while Mexico produces 2 tonnes of each per acre. In this case the US should produce melons and Mexico potato EVEN THOUGH the US produces potato more efficient than Mexico), it still shold only produce one of them and let the other, more inefficient country produce that other. Look it up if you don't believe me.
I have been working as a developer for 15 years, most of the time as a consultant but I also worked for Google for a period. I would NEVER EVER choose a CS program at university if I was 20 again and knew what I knew today. I much rather cut my salary 30% or more and work with something "softer" or classical humanistic, maybe a vet. There is no satisfaction in this job (ok, maybe one day a month I go home and feel satisfied with something). A lot of the times you develop features that you hate and would never use yourself (my favorite example of this is when I was working for a telco and developed the administrative system for ring back music).
Computers and programming are nice as hobbies, but the only good thing with working with them are the rather good salaries. However money gets old very fast. You are not gonna lay on your deathbed and feel good about how much you shopped in your life. If you hate everything about interacting with other humans then IT is probably a good business to work in, otherwise, do something else. Money is not the most important thing in life.
If you can't afford internet connection you definitelyt can't afford having kids. Take some responsibility and get a decent job *before you have kids. If you don't have internet connection at home for economic reasons you are unsuitable as a parent.
That is ridiculous. I just walked by a garage that offered to store "off season tires" for 500 SEK ( 50/USD65), while storing and changing the same tires would set you back 600 SEK.
No need to work two days to afford a change of tires. This was in central Stockholm.
The Scandinavian penisula is notablybigger than Texas (777 000 km2 compared to 678 000 km2) with an approximate population of Norway and Sweden toghether of 14 million people (Texas 21 million). The GSM system still covers 95-99% of the population and 3G is also almost there now (even though it is a few years later than planned/promised by the operators). Texas' "problem" with a sparse population (31 person/km2, Norway 12, Sweden 20) is not unique and definitely not an argument against GSM.
The US telecom market simply is immature and when it comes to telecom, US consumers are also immature. It is as simple as that.
I call this BS. A typical cell phone has two way communication (using several different means, bluetooth, IR etc), a screen, buttons, fairly complex software etc and cost far less than $1000. You simply can't include so much more in your remote that it would motivate such a price tag.
What about updated Merom based Powerbooks? All major PC brands has announced Merom based laptops. Apple can't lag that much without losing brand value etc.
Why can't browsers share as many preferences and other data as possible. I want all my browsers to have the smae history, bookmarks, cookies and so on. However, Camino doesn't even read its sibling Firefox' data.
I know that Camino uses Mac OS X specific technologies like the Keychaing and the built in spell checker. However, I think that solution is less than ideal, to ease migration, both to and from Camino, I think it should at least offer the user to share prefs and other data with Firefox. Or, the other way around, share data with Safari.
At least one of these ways should be possible - Firefox because it has the same foundation, Safari because they utilize the same frameworks and functionality built in into Cocoa. I feel that this issue suffers a slight NIH-syndrome.
I usually ban users downloading the (old and embarassing) U2 albums I own. The reason for this is that I want to make the world a better place and that excludes U2. I wouldn't call U2 music at all.
As far as I know, iPods and iTunes don't read the replaygain tag. Please tell me that I am wrong. However, as long as they don't read it, using mp3gain or aacgain has no effect. Which is sad.
This is a simple page I've thrown together to show my "Floating Powerbook" laptop stand. I've had the idea to build such a thing for a long time, but just never got around to it until recently. Before this I used a Griffin iCurve on a stack of textbooks to have my computer at a height that I like. Doing this, though, wastes a lot of desk space. Even using just an iCurve uses up desk space, so I wanted to find a solution to that problem. Thus the Floating Powerbook Stand was born. Total cost: about $15.
Here are all the pieces of the stand before I had done any type of assembly. I went to a lumber store with just an idea of what I wanted to build, and walked out with four "oak fillets" according to my receipt. These are sturdy, somewhat finished pieces of wood about two inches wide and a quarter of an inch thick. They were plenty long that I could cut them down to size. While I was here, I also bought three small two-inch corner brackets for attaching the "arms" of the stand to the back brace. I picked up a couple packs of small nuts and bolts as well, making sure I had ones that were long enough. My total cost at the hardware store was $13.28.
Here is the assembled stand. This should give you a good idea of how it will work once it is "installed" onto the desk. I cut the oak fillets into three pieces, the two longer ones are ten inches in length and the middle one is eight. I think the back brace is sixteen inches long. On the top of each of the three "arms" are three little rubber grips. I picked these up at a hardware store, they're called "bumpers" and they cost me $2.66 for a pack of nine. One thing I had to be sure I did was get rubber grips that were thicker than the screw heads. You can see the screw heads on the back end of each arm. If I had grips that were too thin, the computer wouldn't sit on them and would instead sit on the screw heads - not good.
This picture shows the underside of the assembled stand. It's actually pretty simple. One thing I had to make sure I did though was bend the brackets just a bit so the arms of the stand would be tilted downward slightly. I didn't want my Powerbook to be sitting completely level for a few reasons. One, the iCurve is tilted just slightly, as are most other stands you can buy, and two, if the computer sat level, you'd be able to see the stand. That would put be the end of the "floating" aspect, now wouldn't it?
Here's what makes the whole thing work. My desk has shelves up the left and right sides of it with a bookshelf on top. On the back of all this is a "fake wood" durable cardboard sheet. It makes it look like there's wood all the way up the back of the desk when there really isn't. The stand will be attached directly to this cardboard sheet. It's about an eighth of an inch thick, and though it's not as strong as wood, it works just fine for holding my computer. The large hole in the center was there previously to run wires through. You can see the nine holes I drilled through the cardboard where the "backbone" of the stand will be attached. The "scuff marks" are from things I've taped and removed from the cardboard, exposing it's "fake woodness".
This is another view of the mounting holes, from the backside of the desk.
Here we can see the backbone of the stand attached through the holes we just drilled. Each of the arms is attached to this backbone, through the cardboard on the front side of the desk. This allows them to just "hang" there and look as if they're attached directly to the cardboard.
A view from the front of the desk with the arms firmly attached through the cardboard and into the backbone which you can't see.
Here is another view from the front of the desk. You can see a few of the cords coming through the hole (which will be perfectly hidden behind the screen) as well as the angle at which the arms are tilted. As a note, I didn't measure those at all. As I was drilling holes in each arm I would attach each one to a bracket just to see how it looked. I then put the bracket in a vice a
Why does the rumour site just not disable logging and delete all personal details on everything they receive? You can't force someone to reveal their sources if they don't have the details.
I use this technique on my wireless access point which I have opened completely (i.e., no passwords, no firewall, no encryption and no logging). If someone abuses my connection I can prove that it is possible that it might have been someone else but me. However, I have no idea who it might have been because I don't log. The court then has reasonable doubt and must find me not guilty of whatever I would be accused for.
Of course, this is a violation of the contract with my ISP but I have a lot of ISP:s to pick among so that really isn't a problem.
(between my owm computers I use a VPN that is independent of the network layer)
Besides, if I wanna do something "sleazy", I can claim that it must have been someone on the street or in the next apartment;-) No logs, no proof!
I wish someone would release a software Airport Express basestation.
I have a computer standing next to my stereo; I would like to play music on iTunes on the computer I work on and then stream it to the computer at the stereo.
This way you could have a much better interface to your "media center computer" thna different remote GUI-apps like VNC offers.
1. There is no need for linux when you have Mac OS X. With its Unix-underpinnings yoiu can do basically everything on Mac OS X that you can use linux for.
2. Some people like Apple hardware (even though it might be more expensive compared to x86) but for (e.g.) political reasons prefer to use linux.
Read my lips. This is redundant. These arguments has been posted thousands of times at Slahsdot's Apple-section.
Please moderators. Take this into consideration when you moderate. I am tired of people telling the world that 'I can use Photoshop and Word on the same OS/computer as I write shell scripts and run Apache' and I am even more tired of when these postings are moderated insightful.
They are no more insightful than someone explaining that if you spend the same money you would get a faster computer today compared with a year ago.
Are there any similar utilities for Darwin/Mac OS X that allows a software base station (i.e. a Macintosh) to support bridging (rather than nat:ing as the default setup is arranged)?
I found a slightly worrying comment on Versiontracker about the new iTunes:
(the poster lists new functions and comments them, these two points are what worries me)
------ * preventing me from using another mp3 player (not aac) - Completely bogus
I bought songs for the first time from itms because I could use them on my ipod and my 'other brand' player easily. now it's back to cds. DMCA is rubbish ------
I have looked all over Apples site and many Mac related news sites without finding any mention of something that could explain the comments above.
Any ideas? Is this just a typical Versiontracker-luser making false statements?
Does this update, as usual, break the MPEG 2 plug-in? It is very annoying when you upgrade Quicktime just to realize that you have to pay again (and again...) for MPEG2 playback. Especially when QT is so difficult to uninstall, it is most of the time actually easier to reinstall the system than to unistall a Quicktime update:-(
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Read again. Market value is typically 10-50 the profit (PE), not the other way around.
Why not change from 3.5 mm to 2.5 mm headphone jacks then? It is still a standard and dongles will be trivial, cheap and available everywhere.
Your example with melons and potato is not an example of comparative advantages. Comparative advantages means that if one country can produce two different goods more efficient than the next country (that is, USA produces 8 tonnes of melons and 4 tonnes of potato per acre while Mexico produces 2 tonnes of each per acre. In this case the US should produce melons and Mexico potato EVEN THOUGH the US produces potato more efficient than Mexico), it still shold only produce one of them and let the other, more inefficient country produce that other. Look it up if you don't believe me.
I have been working as a developer for 15 years, most of the time as a consultant but I also worked for Google for a period. I would NEVER EVER choose a CS program at university if I was 20 again and knew what I knew today. I much rather cut my salary 30% or more and work with something "softer" or classical humanistic, maybe a vet. There is no satisfaction in this job (ok, maybe one day a month I go home and feel satisfied with something). A lot of the times you develop features that you hate and would never use yourself (my favorite example of this is when I was working for a telco and developed the administrative system for ring back music).
Computers and programming are nice as hobbies, but the only good thing with working with them are the rather good salaries. However money gets old very fast. You are not gonna lay on your deathbed and feel good about how much you shopped in your life. If you hate everything about interacting with other humans then IT is probably a good business to work in, otherwise, do something else. Money is not the most important thing in life.
You shouldn't have kids if you can't afford a computer. A computer is probably the cheapest thing you buy in your kids life.
If you can't afford internet connection you definitelyt can't afford having kids. Take some responsibility and get a decent job *before you have kids. If you don't have internet connection at home for economic reasons you are unsuitable as a parent.
That is ridiculous. I just walked by a garage that offered to store "off season tires" for 500 SEK ( 50/USD65), while storing and changing the same tires would set you back 600 SEK.
No need to work two days to afford a change of tires. This was in central Stockholm.
The Scandinavian penisula is notablybigger than Texas (777 000 km2 compared to 678 000 km2) with an approximate population of Norway and Sweden toghether of 14 million people (Texas 21 million). The GSM system still covers 95-99% of the population and 3G is also almost there now (even though it is a few years later than planned/promised by the operators). Texas' "problem" with a sparse population (31 person/km2, Norway 12, Sweden 20) is not unique and definitely not an argument against GSM.
The US telecom market simply is immature and when it comes to telecom, US consumers are also immature. It is as simple as that.
When do you have time for your girlfriend?
Oh, wait...
I call this BS. A typical cell phone has two way communication (using several different means, bluetooth, IR etc), a screen, buttons, fairly complex software etc and cost far less than $1000. You simply can't include so much more in your remote that it would motivate such a price tag.
What about updated Merom based Powerbooks? All major PC brands has announced Merom based laptops. Apple can't lag that much without losing brand value etc.
Ooh, and I want to order a new Powerbook ASAP!
Hava look at http://indie.yi.org:8000/gesall/en. It is still just a demo but if there is enough interest the service might be released.
Why can't browsers share as many preferences and other data as possible. I want all my browsers to have the smae history, bookmarks, cookies and so on. However, Camino doesn't even read its sibling Firefox' data.
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I know that Camino uses Mac OS X specific technologies like the Keychaing and the built in spell checker. However, I think that solution is less than ideal, to ease migration, both to and from Camino, I think it should at least offer the user to share prefs and other data with Firefox. Or, the other way around, share data with Safari.
At least one of these ways should be possible - Firefox because it has the same foundation, Safari because they utilize the same frameworks and functionality built in into Cocoa. I feel that this issue suffers a slight NIH-syndrome.
There is a request in bugzilla for this functionality but it is marked as WONTFIX https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3015
Please moderators - the parent isn't informative, it is funny. Sheesh.
I usually ban users downloading the (old and embarassing) U2 albums I own. The reason for this is that I want to make the world a better place and that excludes U2. I wouldn't call U2 music at all.
As far as I know, iPods and iTunes don't read the replaygain tag. Please tell me that I am wrong. However, as long as they don't read it, using mp3gain or aacgain has no effect. Which is sad.
This is a simple page I've thrown together to show my "Floating Powerbook" laptop stand. I've had the idea to build such a thing for a long time, but just never got around to it until recently. Before this I used a Griffin iCurve on a stack of textbooks to have my computer at a height that I like. Doing this, though, wastes a lot of desk space. Even using just an iCurve uses up desk space, so I wanted to find a solution to that problem. Thus the Floating Powerbook Stand was born. Total cost: about $15.
Here are all the pieces of the stand before I had done any type of assembly. I went to a lumber store with just an idea of what I wanted to build, and walked out with four "oak fillets" according to my receipt. These are sturdy, somewhat finished pieces of wood about two inches wide and a quarter of an inch thick. They were plenty long that I could cut them down to size. While I was here, I also bought three small two-inch corner brackets for attaching the "arms" of the stand to the back brace. I picked up a couple packs of small nuts and bolts as well, making sure I had ones that were long enough. My total cost at the hardware store was $13.28.
Here is the assembled stand. This should give you a good idea of how it will work once it is "installed" onto the desk. I cut the oak fillets into three pieces, the two longer ones are ten inches in length and the middle one is eight. I think the back brace is sixteen inches long. On the top of each of the three "arms" are three little rubber grips. I picked these up at a hardware store, they're called "bumpers" and they cost me $2.66 for a pack of nine. One thing I had to be sure I did was get rubber grips that were thicker than the screw heads. You can see the screw heads on the back end of each arm. If I had grips that were too thin, the computer wouldn't sit on them and would instead sit on the screw heads - not good.
This picture shows the underside of the assembled stand. It's actually pretty simple. One thing I had to make sure I did though was bend the brackets just a bit so the arms of the stand would be tilted downward slightly. I didn't want my Powerbook to be sitting completely level for a few reasons. One, the iCurve is tilted just slightly, as are most other stands you can buy, and two, if the computer sat level, you'd be able to see the stand. That would put be the end of the "floating" aspect, now wouldn't it?
Here's what makes the whole thing work. My desk has shelves up the left and right sides of it with a bookshelf on top. On the back of all this is a "fake wood" durable cardboard sheet. It makes it look like there's wood all the way up the back of the desk when there really isn't. The stand will be attached directly to this cardboard sheet. It's about an eighth of an inch thick, and though it's not as strong as wood, it works just fine for holding my computer. The large hole in the center was there previously to run wires through. You can see the nine holes I drilled through the cardboard where the "backbone" of the stand will be attached. The "scuff marks" are from things I've taped and removed from the cardboard, exposing it's "fake woodness".
This is another view of the mounting holes, from the backside of the desk.
Here we can see the backbone of the stand attached through the holes we just drilled. Each of the arms is attached to this backbone, through the cardboard on the front side of the desk. This allows them to just "hang" there and look as if they're attached directly to the cardboard.
A view from the front of the desk with the arms firmly attached through the cardboard and into the backbone which you can't see.
Here is another view from the front of the desk. You can see a few of the cords coming through the hole (which will be perfectly hidden behind the screen) as well as the angle at which the arms are tilted. As a note, I didn't measure those at all. As I was drilling holes in each arm I would attach each one to a bracket just to see how it looked. I then put the bracket in a vice a
Why does the rumour site just not disable logging and delete all personal details on everything they receive? You can't force someone to reveal their sources if they don't have the details.
I use this technique on my wireless access point which I have opened completely (i.e., no passwords, no firewall, no encryption and no logging). If someone abuses my connection I can prove that it is possible that it might have been someone else but me. However, I have no idea who it might have been because I don't log. The court then has reasonable doubt and must find me not guilty of whatever I would be accused for.
Of course, this is a violation of the contract with my ISP but I have a lot of ISP:s to pick among so that really isn't a problem.
(between my owm computers I use a VPN that is independent of the network layer)
Besides, if I wanna do something "sleazy", I can claim that it must have been someone on the street or in the next apartment;-) No logs, no proof!
I wish someone would release a software Airport Express basestation.
I have a computer standing next to my stereo; I would like to play music on iTunes on the computer I work on and then stream it to the computer at the stereo.
This way you could have a much better interface to your "media center computer" thna different remote GUI-apps like VNC offers.
Hopefully for version 2 of this software...
It is redundant to argue either:
1. There is no need for linux when you have Mac OS X. With its Unix-underpinnings yoiu can do basically everything on Mac OS X that you can use linux for.
2. Some people like Apple hardware (even though it might be more expensive compared to x86) but for (e.g.) political reasons prefer to use linux.
Read my lips. This is redundant. These arguments has been posted thousands of times at Slahsdot's Apple-section.
Please moderators. Take this into consideration when you moderate. I am tired of people telling the world that 'I can use Photoshop and Word on the same OS/computer as I write shell scripts and run Apache' and I am even more tired of when these postings are moderated insightful.
They are no more insightful than someone explaining that if you spend the same money you would get a faster computer today compared with a year ago.
I am stunned...
How about if American kids learned something about the world outside USA rather than looking at stupid animations when they are in school?
Let the flames begin...
Are there any similar utilities for Darwin/Mac OS X that allows a software base station (i.e. a Macintosh) to support bridging (rather than nat:ing as the default setup is arranged)?
I found a slightly worrying comment on Versiontracker about the new iTunes:
(the poster lists new functions and comments them, these two points are what worries me)
------
* preventing me from using another mp3 player (not aac) - Completely bogus
I bought songs for the first time from itms because I could use them on my ipod and my 'other brand' player easily. now it's back to cds. DMCA is rubbish
------
I have looked all over Apples site and many Mac related news sites without finding any mention of something that could explain the comments above.
Any ideas? Is this just a typical Versiontracker-luser making false statements?
Does this update, as usual, break the MPEG 2 plug-in? It is very annoying when you upgrade Quicktime just to realize that you have to pay again (and again...) for MPEG2 playback. Especially when QT is so difficult to uninstall, it is most of the time actually easier to reinstall the system than to unistall a Quicktime update:-(
Could you both please post references for your claims?
Thanks