There are plenty of people who are more than willing to pay double the cost of RAM in order to have someone else install it. Not everyone wants to search pricewatch, make a seperate internet purchase, wait for it to be shipped, and then open something they've never seen the inside of. Sure the prices are high, but you are not their target market.
So you're 3-4 months behind the "latest trend". So what? There are thousands of good books available in NY libraries. Just because you don't have the latest best seller today doesn't mean you can't read it tomorrow. Besides, how many of the top 25 best sellers have you read from March '04? Bottom line: lame excuse.
WTF? Airlines MUST track your luggage. I want them to track it. Hell, this is common sense. I don't have any need for spyware to track me so it is completely different.
I can't believe more people on here don't read Discover. It has very good articles and great "mind bogglers" in the back. The website needs an overhaul, but when I subscribe to magazines I rarely go to the website anyway.
Like most things Google creates, gmail spent too much time in "beta". They should have opened the flood gates and then everyone would already be lined up with Google. Now I already have my existing 100 megs on my Yahoo! account which I'm perfectly fine with. If Google gave me an account last week I would have switched and not looked back. Granted this beta hasn't been out very long, but the company tends to let their beta software stay in beta for too long.
I would put a tilt sensor on there that will shut off the motor if a specified angle is reached. This will help preserve hands and feet of any kids who try and lift it up while it is on.
Comcast recently boosted my download speed from 1.5 Mb/s to 3 Mb/s without raising the monthly fee. Of course I would love to pay less, but right now I'm happy paying the $40 or so for that kind of speed.
The Bill enables consumers to cancel their wireless contracts within 30 days of signing on.
That line alone is what I would like in my state. The fine print I can deal with because I actually read it. But I signed up with Sprint a year and a half ago (2 yr. contract) only to realize that the signal at my house was almost non-existant. And since I was planning on using the cell phone when I made long distance calls from home, the lack of signal ruined this. If I had a 30 day trial period I would have switched immediately.
I brought this issue up with my wife last night and told her that I wanted to give Vonage a shot. The ONLY restriction she has is that we keep our existing phone number. As far as I can tell, Vonage is the only provider that allows you to do this. Is there any other company that will let me keep my existing number? I just ran a bandwidth test, and I'm getting 3.1 megabits per second (Comcast, Atlanta) so I'm not worried about that. Thanks.
I was right there with you until #3: 3. Apple believes, rightly, that the zero-button mouse is the right choice for the majority of their customers. So dropping the zero-button mouse in favor of something else is not an option.
Let me just call bullshit. Not one of my friends who use Macs (about ten of us) use the mouse that came with the Mac. ALL of us have bitched that we had to go out and buy a 3-button scroll mouse. ALL. I find it extremely hard to believe that the majority of Mac users prefer the zero-button mouse. No way.
The average professor salary in the U.S. is $98,499/year. Granted, that's nothing compared to what this guy is making, but it's not exaclty 40k either. Once a professor gains tenure, the job is nice and plush with plenty of job security.
Just out of curiosity, what's it going to take to get to kernel version 3.0? Honestly, what changes, additions, etc have to be incorporated until they call it Kernel 3.0?
I have Comcast cable/internet service and never watched the show. I'm not sure if I just didn't notice it because I rarely watch tv, or if the Atlanta market didn't have it.
I had to take:
Calculus I
Calculus II
Calculus III
Discrete Math
Advanced Mathmatics for Engineering
Numerical Analysis I
Numerical Analysis II
Numerical Analysis actually has programming projects and I can see using many of the algorithms in "real-world" situations. Discrete Math obviously has uses. Advanced Mathmatics for Engineering also has obvious CS related topics. The only math courses that I probably won't ever use in programming are my Calculus classes. However, the other math courses listed above are all built off calculus so you had to take them.
P.S. If all you want to do is write average-joe database connections, perhaps CIS would be a better major rather than CS.
This is certainly what one would hope people would do. Unfortunately, you are in the very small minority. The vast majority of internet users will simply close the ad or just click on the next link. Your idea has merit, but most people won't take the time to email the host and complain.
"but in some other cases they got fairly good adoption of their products with little or no effort: just bundle it with Windows: MSN messenger, Media Player."
This argument is old and irrelavent. Every OS ships with pre-installed versions of complimentary software. Microsoft does it, Apple does, and Linux does it. If the OS blocked the user from installing other software that would be one thing, but they don't and you can install whatever you want to.
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public class HelloWorld
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
System.out.println("hello world");
}
}
That should last you a few hundred years.
There are plenty of people who are more than willing to pay double the cost of RAM in order to have someone else install it. Not everyone wants to search pricewatch, make a seperate internet purchase, wait for it to be shipped, and then open something they've never seen the inside of. Sure the prices are high, but you are not their target market.
So you're 3-4 months behind the "latest trend". So what? There are thousands of good books available in NY libraries. Just because you don't have the latest best seller today doesn't mean you can't read it tomorrow. Besides, how many of the top 25 best sellers have you read from March '04? Bottom line: lame excuse.
34 posts and not one response on how he was originally designing this for 50 pounds for patentable hardware?!?!? This is /. isn't it?
WTF? Airlines MUST track your luggage. I want them to track it. Hell, this is common sense. I don't have any need for spyware to track me so it is completely different.
Is 91.5%. MS has 93.8% market share and Linux has 2.3% market share. And coming from a business perspective that is the only difference that matters.
I can't believe more people on here don't read Discover. It has very good articles and great "mind bogglers" in the back. The website needs an overhaul, but when I subscribe to magazines I rarely go to the website anyway.
I'm laughing at you, not with you.
Like most things Google creates, gmail spent too much time in "beta". They should have opened the flood gates and then everyone would already be lined up with Google. Now I already have my existing 100 megs on my Yahoo! account which I'm perfectly fine with. If Google gave me an account last week I would have switched and not looked back. Granted this beta hasn't been out very long, but the company tends to let their beta software stay in beta for too long.
I would put a tilt sensor on there that will shut off the motor if a specified angle is reached. This will help preserve hands and feet of any kids who try and lift it up while it is on.
Comcast recently boosted my download speed from 1.5 Mb/s to 3 Mb/s without raising the monthly fee. Of course I would love to pay less, but right now I'm happy paying the $40 or so for that kind of speed.
Most PHD's aren't code warriors. Sure, most techie PHD's can write code, but the jobs they hold aren't usually your average joe coding position.
"... performs a copy while the middle mouse button performs a paste."
I use a Mac you insensitive clod!
The Bill enables consumers to cancel their wireless contracts within 30 days of signing on.
That line alone is what I would like in my state. The fine print I can deal with because I actually read it. But I signed up with Sprint a year and a half ago (2 yr. contract) only to realize that the signal at my house was almost non-existant. And since I was planning on using the cell phone when I made long distance calls from home, the lack of signal ruined this. If I had a 30 day trial period I would have switched immediately.
I brought this issue up with my wife last night and told her that I wanted to give Vonage a shot. The ONLY restriction she has is that we keep our existing phone number. As far as I can tell, Vonage is the only provider that allows you to do this. Is there any other company that will let me keep my existing number? I just ran a bandwidth test, and I'm getting 3.1 megabits per second (Comcast, Atlanta) so I'm not worried about that. Thanks.
I was right there with you until #3: 3. Apple believes, rightly, that the zero-button mouse is the right choice for the majority of their customers. So dropping the zero-button mouse in favor of something else is not an option.
Let me just call bullshit. Not one of my friends who use Macs (about ten of us) use the mouse that came with the Mac. ALL of us have bitched that we had to go out and buy a 3-button scroll mouse. ALL. I find it extremely hard to believe that the majority of Mac users prefer the zero-button mouse. No way.
That's a bit of a contradiction. If it depends on how many shares are released and you don't know that number, how can you say $50 is reasonable?
That site has a terrible design. I couldn't find any "nano" technologies though. It seems like it should be there somewhere.
The average professor salary in the U.S. is $98,499/year. Granted, that's nothing compared to what this guy is making, but it's not exaclty 40k either. Once a professor gains tenure, the job is nice and plush with plenty of job security.
Just out of curiosity, what's it going to take to get to kernel version 3.0? Honestly, what changes, additions, etc have to be incorporated until they call it Kernel 3.0?
I have Comcast cable/internet service and never watched the show. I'm not sure if I just didn't notice it because I rarely watch tv, or if the Atlanta market didn't have it.
I had to take:
Calculus I
Calculus II
Calculus III
Discrete Math
Advanced Mathmatics for Engineering
Numerical Analysis I
Numerical Analysis II
Numerical Analysis actually has programming projects and I can see using many of the algorithms in "real-world" situations. Discrete Math obviously has uses. Advanced Mathmatics for Engineering also has obvious CS related topics. The only math courses that I probably won't ever use in programming are my Calculus classes. However, the other math courses listed above are all built off calculus so you had to take them.
P.S. If all you want to do is write average-joe database connections, perhaps CIS would be a better major rather than CS.
This is certainly what one would hope people would do. Unfortunately, you are in the very small minority. The vast majority of internet users will simply close the ad or just click on the next link. Your idea has merit, but most people won't take the time to email the host and complain.
"but in some other cases they got fairly good adoption of their products with little or no effort: just bundle it with Windows: MSN messenger, Media Player."
This argument is old and irrelavent. Every OS ships with pre-installed versions of complimentary software. Microsoft does it, Apple does, and Linux does it. If the OS blocked the user from installing other software that would be one thing, but they don't and you can install whatever you want to.
You call this heinous? Damn, you have some high standards.