If you compare the initial purchase price of Microsoft versus Linux, Microsoft is multiple times more expensive. But, if you only look at the long term costs the difference may not be that great. Assuming you do not update all the time that is.
I am intrigued. The last time I mentioned this to someone, they never actually spoke to me again. I made a similar comment the other day, and earned my first foe. I make this comment once more, and within a minute I've earned a flamebait moderation.
It's simple; question the dogma, and you'll be burned at the stake. When were those NOT the rules? Oh, sure, the eye-color thing is apocryphal, but your tone is dangerously near heresy.
As has been brought up in many a past Slashdot discussion, universities and colleges have a major problem with overpaying their deans and other high-level faculty members. A good start to budget-cutting would begin by dropping the needless "perks" such as free housing or vehicles for these people, already earning upwards of $100,000 per year to be the political "go between" and figurehead for the schools.
I'm not so sure I agree. The problem with public education is that we don't pay enough to attract the best people. (A few of the best people do it anyways, but we're just taking advantage of them). $1e5 is a good salary, but is it such an outragegous sum? An engineer can make that much.
I am far more skeptical of CEOs appointing themselves 10x that compensation as they drive their companies into the ground.
Computers already have solid-state memory. 2 Gig isn't a particularly impressive figure anymore for system RAM. Running RAM over PCI is dumb, that's why we have a memory bus. A system with 1 or 2 gigs of RAM can cache so well that using all solid-state memory would hardly improve performance anyways, especially if it's on the other side of a PCI bus.
Oh, no, no no. Explicit version control is too confusing and CRUFTY. In the REAL world, people use pen and paper, not funny complicated things with "version control." And if they make a mistake, they simply wad their work up into a little ball and place it in a round canister, and start over. It's so wonderfully intuitive that way.
If you insist on complicating computers beyond pen and paper, at least use the Undo button, which already exists and whose use is fairly intuitive. To see what your work looked like 6 months ago, simply click Undo 60,000 times.
But in this case there wasn't even anything to think about, or to want. Just hype. As opposed to yesterday's little "story" on tiny mp3 players, which at least I can put on my Santa list.
And yes, I skip msot commercials. But why do I skip them? 'Cause most of them suck.
I have a homebrew (linux) pvr, and I skip all the commercials, too. Why? Because they're a waste of time and I don't want to watch them. I don't think I'll ever want to watch them, for the most part.
But you know what? Increasingly, a lot of the better shows are on HBO, which doesn't have commercials anyways. Nothing to fast-forward.
So long as I'm paying a hefty fee for cable access each month, I will continue to fast-forward guilt-free. Frankly I don't care if a lot of the channels go out of business. I'd rather my subscription dollars supported a smaller number of higher quality, commercial-free channels.
You should be happy about this technology; if anything will prevent development and deployment of an anti-missile missile system, it's the anti-missile laser system.
The book is worth looking at, but both it and design patterns as a whole are nothing much. It's hard to push through design patterns books, because most of the patterns will be familar to you already if you've done some design and/or used various frameworks and toolkits.
The innovation of the design patterns book/movement is simply to give names to common design elements so they can be discussed. This is useful, but not a breakthrough of any sort.
How do they get color graduations? If the plates are bistable, how do they get more than 8 colors (with each of red, green, and blue being either on or off)? Or can they make the plates hover in-between stable states by applying a current?
That's a very silly comparison. The hybrid cars produced today are more like the Geo Metro, not SUVs. You assert that a 15 mpg SUV could go 40 mpg with a hybrid power plant? I haven't seen anything like that. Frankly, I don't believe it, because the tiny little aerodynamic hybrid cars get "only" 50 mpg.
If it were really a free market, then people would just buy the games where they're sold cheaply and sell them where they're sold dearly (arbitrage). That is, IF the market were doing its job...
You're missing the point. The joke is not on Saddam, but on all those well-wishers, detractors, and would-be business partners who sent him mail. I found the excerpts very entertaining.
Worried about too much law? Fine, instead of creating a new law to solve this problem, let's strike down an old one. It's the one that says "companies can assign arbitrary consequences to clicking a button, and WE THE GOVERNMENT WILL UPHOLD THEM." Without that law, the words in EULAs would just be just so many wasted bits.
I am a married guy and couldn't find plan that didn't charge a lot extra for two people to pool their minutes. I can't figure out why they charge more for 2 people to use 500 minutes than for one person to use 500 minutes. (I know, we could share a single cellphone just like we share our home phone now, but it's marginally more expensive even with 1 phone so I need a REASON to switch).
Also, what if the reception is bad in my area? All these companies require you to sign up for at least a YEAR, and sometimes two. I don't like being locked in.
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Computers already have solid-state memory. 2 Gig isn't a particularly impressive figure anymore for system RAM. Running RAM over PCI is dumb, that's why we have a memory bus. A system with 1 or 2 gigs of RAM can cache so well that using all solid-state memory would hardly improve performance anyways, especially if it's on the other side of a PCI bus.
If you insist on complicating computers beyond pen and paper, at least use the Undo button, which already exists and whose use is fairly intuitive. To see what your work looked like 6 months ago, simply click Undo 60,000 times.
Er, wait...
Really, even TIPS? To me it seems the idea has been *unanimously* lambasted by law enforcement as well as the man on the street.
But in this case there wasn't even anything to think about, or to want. Just hype. As opposed to yesterday's little "story" on tiny mp3 players, which at least I can put on my Santa list.
But you know what? Increasingly, a lot of the better shows are on HBO, which doesn't have commercials anyways. Nothing to fast-forward.
So long as I'm paying a hefty fee for cable access each month, I will continue to fast-forward guilt-free. Frankly I don't care if a lot of the channels go out of business. I'd rather my subscription dollars supported a smaller number of higher quality, commercial-free channels.
Slower speed automatically gives you longer battery life and smaller size (the battery is the largest single component except maybe the screen).
You should be happy about this technology; if anything will prevent development and deployment of an anti-missile missile system, it's the anti-missile laser system.
The book is worth looking at, but both it and design patterns as a whole are nothing much. It's hard to push through design patterns books, because most of the patterns will be familar to you already if you've done some design and/or used various frameworks and toolkits. The innovation of the design patterns book/movement is simply to give names to common design elements so they can be discussed. This is useful, but not a breakthrough of any sort.
I.e. you have no point.
What link?
If only *somebody* would come up with a website to foment discussion on the intersection of politics and technology in a nerd-accessible way...
But who am I kidding?
Thanks, I get it.
How do they get color graduations? If the plates are bistable, how do they get more than 8 colors (with each of red, green, and blue being either on or off)? Or can they make the plates hover in-between stable states by applying a current?
That's a very silly comparison. The hybrid cars produced today are more like the Geo Metro, not SUVs. You assert that a 15 mpg SUV could go 40 mpg with a hybrid power plant? I haven't seen anything like that. Frankly, I don't believe it, because the tiny little aerodynamic hybrid cars get "only" 50 mpg.
If it were really a free market, then people would just buy the games where they're sold cheaply and sell them where they're sold dearly (arbitrage). That is, IF the market were doing its job...
Is your receptionist sitting out where people can see her/him? That's often why these things happen. The company is investing in its image.
You're missing the point. The joke is not on Saddam, but on all those well-wishers, detractors, and would-be business partners who sent him mail. I found the excerpts very entertaining.
Worried about too much law? Fine, instead of creating a new law to solve this problem, let's strike down an old one. It's the one that says "companies can assign arbitrary consequences to clicking a button, and WE THE GOVERNMENT WILL UPHOLD THEM." Without that law, the words in EULAs would just be just so many wasted bits.
Just wait until you see the Packard-Bell 911 turbo.
BUT...
I am a married guy and couldn't find plan that didn't charge a lot extra for two people to pool their minutes. I can't figure out why they charge more for 2 people to use 500 minutes than for one person to use 500 minutes. (I know, we could share a single cellphone just like we share our home phone now, but it's marginally more expensive even with 1 phone so I need a REASON to switch).
Also, what if the reception is bad in my area? All these companies require you to sign up for at least a YEAR, and sometimes two. I don't like being locked in.