There are only 3 million 1d samples from a 3 mega-pixel camera, but isn't each of those samples more than the 8 bits often use in computers? I think the article says this new Sony uses 14 bit samples for instance. I don't see how to equate that with some number of extra megapixels.
Fine, but restricting yourself to problems with elegant solutions workable by hand restricts you to problems which are essentially simple. Let's not pretend that there "must" be a way to boil every problem down.
I'm not so sure selling OEM drives counts as a scam, so long as they say "OEM" or "Whitebox." Certainly you must be careful in buying one, because not only the warranty but also the features and basic specs can differ, especially on video cards (eg clockrate).
What it needs is some DRAWERS. I know workspace isn't personal space, blah, blah, blah... but no human being will be happy living somewhere 9 hours per day without at least a few cubit feet of privacy.
All software development is R&D (more D than R usually). What is there *besides* R&D for Microsoft? Just manufacturing plastic discs for 5 cents each and selling them for $300.
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He was clutching a bloodied knife (human blood, but not his own) and had cuts on both hands. Blood from two other people on the tips of an arrow in his quiver, and across his back. Plus a broken arrow in his own back. Why don't you step forward with your hum-drum explanation so we can go back to assuming that ancient man was a gentle and peaceloving creature who sometimes fell victim to the harsh elements?
The CNN article itself is sci-fi. To talk of remedying all the causes of aging and death when we don't even know what they are is just wishful thinking. After picking the low-hanging fruit (food supply, infectious diseases) progress on thornier issues (cancer, alzheimers, arthritis) has been incredibly slow and expensive, in treatment is still a smaller factor than genetics and prevention.
You're talking about old code into new compilers. That's easy. The problem is trying to know whether the app you're writing will run on all your users' java installations. Much harder. True, Microsoft is to blame for the fact that so many people still have really old (or nonexistent) java installations, but it's still a problem for the developer. "Write once run anywhere" is a failed promise.
Yes, that's right, keep slaving away in the basement like good little code monkeys in order to maximize SCO shareholder value when they finally take ownership of everything.
Because it's the only way to remain free. 'I may not agree with what you are saying, but I will defend your right to say it to the death'.
Unfortunately some freedoms are antithetical to freedom itself. Such as the freedom to own slaves, or the freedom to kill people. Some freedoms must be taken away because their existence precludes more imortant freedoms.
SCO is telling linux developers, "if you want to use the code you wrote, you must first pay us, because we've assumed control of your work and we're selling it now." Supporting that is stupid.
Not arbitrage. He's buying in bulk, then piecing out for a higher total price. This is just retailing. The money is earned in the legwork of independently marketing to and selling to a large number of buyers.
I respect people who do what's necessary to get through school. People will suffer (eg work in a call center) to get through school, but how many will stick with it when their hard work pays off in graduation? We don't want teaching to be like that. If we want better teachers, we need to make teaching a more attractive career option so there will be more competition for positions, and better-qualified applicants.
No offense, but how many bright, capable people with other opportunities choose to work in call centers? Could it have anything to do with micromanagement?
But naturally you should expect to pay the teachers more for degrading their working conditions in this way. I know I'd charge extra to work under a microscope like that. "I pay your salary" is not quite the same as "I can do whatever I want," because employees are hired on under certain conditions. If the conditions change significantly, everything must be renegotiated.
And it's not just duplication! The Gnome people will look at what the KDE people did, getting ideas on how to do it a bit better and more cleanly. Then KDE3 will improve on whatever gnome does...
As for the Communists, I agree it's a nice ideology. The problem is it requires too much of people. And if you think about it, *any* system would work great if all the people were saints. An important measure of a system is how gracefully it degrades with bad behavior. (Which is why we should resist the current erosion of checks and balances in US law enforcement... those in govt are still people and they do bad things sometimes!)
Stop a second, let's think about this... the commies used to say capitalism was bad because competition is destructive and wasteful and leads to duplication of effort. They were going to "bury" us by all working together. Need I say more?
I think you've hit the nail on the head with TEXTBOOKS, because of the factors you mentioned:
1) weight
2) searchability
3) high cost
and I would add:
4) Most textbook purchases are involuntary
5) Most students don't read the textbook from cover to cover - mainly they need the assigned problems, and whatever is necessary to complete them
6) Many students are file-swappers
7) College students are younger and not hung up on having a paper copy - no need for expensive & time consuming printing
8) Laptops are perfect for college students and arent' prohibitively expensive anymore
9) Many college students are poor
10) Hand-scanning a 400 page textbook is so crazy a college student would probably do it
It seems to me like all the factors are there. As students, how many of us purchased wrecked copies of textbooks just to save $15? How many waited hours in line to sell back those books we never really wanted for pennies on the dollar?
Which is exactly why IBM has been silent this whole time. Saying anything during a suit can be damaging or give your opponent an advantage.
Giving further credence to the notion that even the blabbermouth trash-talking FUD-factory SCO isn't really planning to take this thing to court and win it.
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There are only 3 million 1d samples from a 3 mega-pixel camera, but isn't each of those samples more than the 8 bits often use in computers? I think the article says this new Sony uses 14 bit samples for instance. I don't see how to equate that with some number of extra megapixels.
Fine, but restricting yourself to problems with elegant solutions workable by hand restricts you to problems which are essentially simple. Let's not pretend that there "must" be a way to boil every problem down.
I'm not so sure selling OEM drives counts as a scam, so long as they say "OEM" or "Whitebox." Certainly you must be careful in buying one, because not only the warranty but also the features and basic specs can differ, especially on video cards (eg clockrate).
What it needs is some DRAWERS. I know workspace isn't personal space, blah, blah, blah... but no human being will be happy living somewhere 9 hours per day without at least a few cubit feet of privacy.
All software development is R&D (more D than R usually). What is there *besides* R&D for Microsoft? Just manufacturing plastic discs for 5 cents each and selling them for $300.
How much do those vans retrofitted with lifting platforms cost? I see a lot of those around. I think they must be subsidized.
Simple question: have you used snort?
He was clutching a bloodied knife (human blood, but not his own) and had cuts on both hands. Blood from two other people on the tips of an arrow in his quiver, and across his back. Plus a broken arrow in his own back. Why don't you step forward with your hum-drum explanation so we can go back to assuming that ancient man was a gentle and peaceloving creature who sometimes fell victim to the harsh elements?
The CNN article itself is sci-fi. To talk of remedying all the causes of aging and death when we don't even know what they are is just wishful thinking. After picking the low-hanging fruit (food supply, infectious diseases) progress on thornier issues (cancer, alzheimers, arthritis) has been incredibly slow and expensive, in treatment is still a smaller factor than genetics and prevention.
You're talking about old code into new compilers. That's easy. The problem is trying to know whether the app you're writing will run on all your users' java installations. Much harder. True, Microsoft is to blame for the fact that so many people still have really old (or nonexistent) java installations, but it's still a problem for the developer. "Write once run anywhere" is a failed promise.
Yes, that's right, keep slaving away in the basement like good little code monkeys in order to maximize SCO shareholder value when they finally take ownership of everything.
SCO is telling linux developers, "if you want to use the code you wrote, you must first pay us, because we've assumed control of your work and we're selling it now." Supporting that is stupid.
Not arbitrage. He's buying in bulk, then piecing out for a higher total price. This is just retailing. The money is earned in the legwork of independently marketing to and selling to a large number of buyers.
I respect people who do what's necessary to get through school. People will suffer (eg work in a call center) to get through school, but how many will stick with it when their hard work pays off in graduation? We don't want teaching to be like that. If we want better teachers, we need to make teaching a more attractive career option so there will be more competition for positions, and better-qualified applicants.
No offense, but how many bright, capable people with other opportunities choose to work in call centers? Could it have anything to do with micromanagement?
But naturally you should expect to pay the teachers more for degrading their working conditions in this way. I know I'd charge extra to work under a microscope like that. "I pay your salary" is not quite the same as "I can do whatever I want," because employees are hired on under certain conditions. If the conditions change significantly, everything must be renegotiated.
As for the Communists, I agree it's a nice ideology. The problem is it requires too much of people. And if you think about it, *any* system would work great if all the people were saints. An important measure of a system is how gracefully it degrades with bad behavior. (Which is why we should resist the current erosion of checks and balances in US law enforcement... those in govt are still people and they do bad things sometimes!)
Stop a second, let's think about this... the commies used to say capitalism was bad because competition is destructive and wasteful and leads to duplication of effort. They were going to "bury" us by all working together. Need I say more?
So gorillas and chimps would then be one and the same species?
Well, sure, Japan no longer produces so much cheap junk. That's why Taiwan, and now China ate their lunch.
An addiction can be kicked, a basic need cannot. E.g. breathing.
1) weight
2) searchability
3) high cost
and I would add:
4) Most textbook purchases are involuntary
5) Most students don't read the textbook from cover to cover - mainly they need the assigned problems, and whatever is necessary to complete them
6) Many students are file-swappers
7) College students are younger and not hung up on having a paper copy - no need for expensive & time consuming printing
8) Laptops are perfect for college students and arent' prohibitively expensive anymore
9) Many college students are poor
10) Hand-scanning a 400 page textbook is so crazy a college student would probably do it
It seems to me like all the factors are there. As students, how many of us purchased wrecked copies of textbooks just to save $15? How many waited hours in line to sell back those books we never really wanted for pennies on the dollar?
On behalf of all slashdotters, we're offended that you felt the need to explain that to us.
I'm surprised search and rescue teams can't use the same frequencies as other emergency services (e.g the police).