You are not figuring in the cost and TCO of buying a Windows computer and then staying at home to listen rather than driving or jogging. Tell me again when Yahoo figures out the Mac+iPod thing.
You are talking about doctors who treat Republicans by pulling out spare organs from homosexuals. Remember that a lawyer always harms the opponent of whoever he/she is representing.
You are in denial. Porn popularized use of GIF, perfected video-conferencing and introduced online credit card payments. Even Mozilla image rendering library is called libpr0n (seriously!). It's not about the largest install base, just the most motivated one. I bet porn industry will ignore enlarging disks and go straight to H.264 high-definition downloads.
Why should a single buggy application bring down the whole server? A robust implementation would run it in a separate process and perhaps kill and restart if it shows abnormal behavior like huge memory use. Of course maybe IIS already has this option - MS does support out-of-process COM.
You should try jogging, biking or pull ups with your player. Not only you would appreciate a player that doesn't bounce or fall out of your arm belt, but your own weight will go down, making you more conscious of the stuff you are carrying.
Well, grind it up in a grinder, first! Make me into burger.
All right, Skye! I really don't want to hang around with customers of that McDonald afterwards, except in survival horror games, when I have a nice 3-foot metal pipe. I still think bugs and worms are a better idea:-) Although the best use of a human body is probably transplants and medical research or even education. You know, if I don't need something why not give other people a shot at it...
I am not visiting that zoo after that! A bit optimistic I know, but do you really want animals to get this kind of training? Worms and bugs are not likely to bite off other people's arms. Personally, I want my body to completely disappear so that people don't waste any time on it.
They are not talking about stopping the hurricane, just diverting it by a globally insignificant distance to miss a city. What happened in New Orleans is far worse for ecology than Katrina hitting a hundred miles North or South.
Are you suggesting that a) people should never make jokes about any difficulty or b) that all the jokes have to be scientifically correct? You know, that's very annoying for most people and reinforces character stereotypes about people with health problems.
So Hotmail now gives you working spam filtering, responsive UI and instant full body search for thousands of messages? How is MS'es support for Safari, Firefox and Opera?
What percentage of the market share do you think would really change there buying decision to preference a non-DRM computer.
According to Sony's experience with ATRAC portable music players vs iPod, 100%. Although iTunes music store is DRMed, it supports burning to CDs. I wouldn't worry much about DRMed H.264 files that can be burned to DVDs either.
The reason people keep mentioning him is that NASA failed to develop a comparable technology with multi-billion dollar budget. Even as it is, it's useful for a number of things - training astronauts, letting lay-people see space, taking one-time measurements with high-altitude scientific instruments that are not worth launching a permanent satellite. If scaled composites had a decent budget, I am sure they would come up with at least a one-way unmanned orbit vehicle in a relatively short time - then they just need more fuel, no heat shielding.
People routinely take risks - climbing Everest, extreme skiing, circling the globe on a balloon, high-altitude skydiving. I enjoy activities that could have "consequences" and would do more if I had the skill. I would also happily fly aboard a shuttle in it's current condition if they could find some use for me. Really, when dealing with such a harsh environment as space and such compelling scientific and spiritual benefits to humanity, thousands of volunteers would accept much higher risks than recreational sports and the rest have no business keeping them grounded. Apollo program and the journey of Columbus both had close calls and causalities, but where would we be if these expeditions were canceled because of safety concerns? I would say a trip to Mars that only has a 1/3 chance of success may be worth it if it means we get there 20 years earlier, because then the whole generation will grow up with inspiration they wouldn't otherwise have.
All right, just out of curiosity - what have you built/understood and engineered which is comparable in complexity to gravity interactions of all the bodies in solar system? Did you do any work on other publicly available science information like Maya writing samples, Hubble images, SETI data (your own algorithms, not the screensaver), seismic records or AIDS genome?
So - did you ever learn a new area to Ph.D+ level just because some data was publicly available and write some source code to interpret it for the rest of us? Human genome must be keeping you awfully busy.
Well, you could try to jump and see if you just float away into space. Or wait until half of the molecules in your room float to one side, leaving you in vacuum.
Given that both evolution and intelligent design were observed experimentally, I suspect that neither one can be falsified though. Who knows about those aliens releasing engineered bacteria into thermal springs on ancient earth.
If you are one of the few people with skills to interpret raw data for this kind of project, you will have no problem getting the data for a cost trivial compared to your time. Isn't it better to insist on open source where public will actually benefit?
Actually "there is no free lunch" just means that somebody paid for it, which is certainly still true for "free as in speech" software. Somebody paid you to buy computer, learn programming and spend time coding.
Although I have nothing against proprietary software, I am using GPL for stuff I release for free. This way I can be confident nobody will plagiarize and sell my stuff without even telling their customer where to get the free version. And if someone has more honest code reuse in mind, they can always ask - and compensate me as appropriate.
A lot of people already wrote GPLed software before Linux was released for that and other reasons. I wonder how feature-rich Linux distributions would be if they accepted only BSD-licensed software. Even people who do serious kernel work might want to get paid if someone uses their kick-ass algorithms in a closed-source OS.
It's my computer, I can do whatever I want with it. Interactive confirmation is not really "less privilege". What is needed these days is "least privilege software", where each process runs in the most restricted sandbox that allows it to do its job and permissions can be granted interactively when needed. Ideally, each program will by default only have access to its own document directory, no network connections, no dangerous UI capabilities and so on.
By the way, I know full well that's not how existing operating systems work. But perhaps they should.
It may not be, but the current 0-button mouse is a the height of ergonomic design. Wait until you mess up your fingers by typing. It's so much easier to push down the mouse with the whole hand and occasionally poke Control with a thumb. I am thinking of trying an extra on on my PC at work.
She looked like she has something to hide and is not happy about it. Maybe Microsoft is about to do something especially nasty and borg-like that will result in her division getting demolished? Like porting Windows to new Macs, asking people to install that instead of OSX, and canceling all the other Mac products.
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You are not figuring in the cost and TCO of buying a Windows computer and then staying at home to listen rather than driving or jogging. Tell me again when Yahoo figures out the Mac+iPod thing.
You are talking about doctors who treat Republicans by pulling out spare organs from homosexuals. Remember that a lawyer always harms the opponent of whoever he/she is representing.
You are in denial. Porn popularized use of GIF, perfected video-conferencing and introduced online credit card payments. Even Mozilla image rendering library is called libpr0n (seriously!). It's not about the largest install base, just the most motivated one. I bet porn industry will ignore enlarging disks and go straight to H.264 high-definition downloads.
Why should a single buggy application bring down the whole server? A robust implementation would run it in a separate process and perhaps kill and restart if it shows abnormal behavior like huge memory use. Of course maybe IIS already has this option - MS does support out-of-process COM.
You should try jogging, biking or pull ups with your player. Not only you would appreciate a player that doesn't bounce or fall out of your arm belt, but your own weight will go down, making you more conscious of the stuff you are carrying.
Well, grind it up in a grinder, first! Make me into burger.
:-) Although the best use of a human body is probably transplants and medical research or even education. You know, if I don't need something why not give other people a shot at it...
All right, Skye! I really don't want to hang around with customers of that McDonald afterwards, except in survival horror games, when I have a nice 3-foot metal pipe. I still think bugs and worms are a better idea
Food for lions or tigers or bears at a zoo?
I am not visiting that zoo after that! A bit optimistic I know, but do you really want animals to get this kind of training? Worms and bugs are not likely to bite off other people's arms. Personally, I want my body to completely disappear so that people don't waste any time on it.
Are any of these places below the sea level and at risk of being permanently flooded?
They are not talking about stopping the hurricane, just diverting it by a globally insignificant distance to miss a city. What happened in New Orleans is far worse for ecology than Katrina hitting a hundred miles North or South.
Are you suggesting that a) people should never make jokes about any difficulty or b) that all the jokes have to be scientifically correct? You know, that's very annoying for most people and reinforces character stereotypes about people with health problems.
So Hotmail now gives you working spam filtering, responsive UI and instant full body search for thousands of messages? How is MS'es support for Safari, Firefox and Opera?
What percentage of the market share do you think would really change there buying decision to preference a non-DRM computer.
According to Sony's experience with ATRAC portable music players vs iPod, 100%. Although iTunes music store is DRMed, it supports burning to CDs. I wouldn't worry much about DRMed H.264 files that can be burned to DVDs either.
The reason people keep mentioning him is that NASA failed to develop a comparable technology with multi-billion dollar budget. Even as it is, it's useful for a number of things - training astronauts, letting lay-people see space, taking one-time measurements with high-altitude scientific instruments that are not worth launching a permanent satellite. If scaled composites had a decent budget, I am sure they would come up with at least a one-way unmanned orbit vehicle in a relatively short time - then they just need more fuel, no heat shielding.
People routinely take risks - climbing Everest, extreme skiing, circling the globe on a balloon, high-altitude skydiving. I enjoy activities that could have "consequences" and would do more if I had the skill. I would also happily fly aboard a shuttle in it's current condition if they could find some use for me. Really, when dealing with such a harsh environment as space and such compelling scientific and spiritual benefits to humanity, thousands of volunteers would accept much higher risks than recreational sports and the rest have no business keeping them grounded. Apollo program and the journey of Columbus both had close calls and causalities, but where would we be if these expeditions were canceled because of safety concerns? I would say a trip to Mars that only has a 1/3 chance of success may be worth it if it means we get there 20 years earlier, because then the whole generation will grow up with inspiration they wouldn't otherwise have.
Well, they are welcome to do that, and charge a lot of money for their modified version, as long as they releases all the changes under GPL.
All right, just out of curiosity - what have you built/understood and engineered which is comparable in complexity to gravity interactions of all the bodies in solar system? Did you do any work on other publicly available science information like Maya writing samples, Hubble images, SETI data (your own algorithms, not the screensaver), seismic records or AIDS genome?
So - did you ever learn a new area to Ph.D+ level just because some data was publicly available and write some source code to interpret it for the rest of us? Human genome must be keeping you awfully busy.
Well, you could try to jump and see if you just float away into space. Or wait until half of the molecules in your room float to one side, leaving you in vacuum.
Given that both evolution and intelligent design were observed experimentally, I suspect that neither one can be falsified though. Who knows about those aliens releasing engineered bacteria into thermal springs on ancient earth.
If you are one of the few people with skills to interpret raw data for this kind of project, you will have no problem getting the data for a cost trivial compared to your time. Isn't it better to insist on open source where public will actually benefit?
Actually "there is no free lunch" just means that somebody paid for it, which is certainly still true for "free as in speech" software. Somebody paid you to buy computer, learn programming and spend time coding.
Well, you can go after the money he got from all those fitness mags.
Although I have nothing against proprietary software, I am using GPL for stuff I release for free. This way I can be confident nobody will plagiarize and sell my stuff without even telling their customer where to get the free version. And if someone has more honest code reuse in mind, they can always ask - and compensate me as appropriate.
A lot of people already wrote GPLed software before Linux was released for that and other reasons. I wonder how feature-rich Linux distributions would be if they accepted only BSD-licensed software. Even people who do serious kernel work might want to get paid if someone uses their kick-ass algorithms in a closed-source OS.
It's my computer, I can do whatever I want with it. Interactive confirmation is not really "less privilege". What is needed these days is "least privilege software", where each process runs in the most restricted sandbox that allows it to do its job and permissions can be granted interactively when needed. Ideally, each program will by default only have access to its own document directory, no network connections, no dangerous UI capabilities and so on.
By the way, I know full well that's not how existing operating systems work. But perhaps they should.
It may not be, but the current 0-button mouse is a the height of ergonomic design. Wait until you mess up your fingers by typing. It's so much easier to push down the mouse with the whole hand and occasionally poke Control with a thumb. I am thinking of trying an extra on on my PC at work.
She looked like she has something to hide and is not happy about it. Maybe Microsoft is about to do something especially nasty and borg-like that will result in her division getting demolished? Like porting Windows to new Macs, asking people to install that instead of OSX, and canceling all the other Mac products.