Oh so true. Linux is good for the geek market where people can truly grasp the difference. But for people who aren't techies, well, most of them would rather spend an extra $50 to get an experience that they are familiar with. These netbooks are pretty cheap to begin with. Not only that, they are kind of a luxury, and used a secondary computer. People who can afford multiple computers don't mind spending a few extra dollars to get the Windows license.
I think it's more to do with if you're dumb enough to live in tornado alley, you're probably too dumb to get a good enough job to afford more than a mobile home.
Once can easily go to the store and buy 15 pens for 42 cents. The same cannot be said for Laptops. If your laptop stops working for whatever reason, an already poor student may be unable to do assignments.
If they sold a "play video channel" I would pay for it. I'd probably pay up to $20 for it. However, until they release a channel that can play a variety of video formats (don't even mention the photo channel, it doesn't even work with videos from my digital camera), my only solution for playing videos on the Wii is to use homebrew.
I agree completely. Just because somebody goes to some school, and gets a degree in something, does not mean that any place of business has to have any credence in it. Just like a degree in engineering from some no name school would be worth less than an engineering degree from MIT, the same goes for these degrees. If employers put no worth in these degrees, then let people have them. And if students are stupid enough to pay for a degree without properly researching it's worth and validity, then so be it.
It's also true that any US Educated person, immigrant or not, going to some other country is a net loss. The US person leaving is a bigger net loss, since most likely their tuition didn't contain the astronomical international student fees.
I agree with this. If someone is willing to do your job for less than you are, or is able to do a better job at the same rate, then they should get the job over you. However, in many cases, the people they are hiring aren't necessarily better at the job, or better motivated. In many cases the only deciding factor is how cheaply they will work, regardless of whether they are getting sub-standard results out of the employees. No customer likes tech support from overseas, yet many companies provide this, simply to decrease operation costs. The customers are unhappy, but the business makes more money in the long run.
Except that I'm pretty sure Netflix has algorithms that based upon your past rentals and ratings will recommend movies to you. If you get a new account, you lose all your history. Might not mean a lot to some people but to others it does.
VB isn't dying with.Net. There's VB.Net, and it's still going strong. In a lot of cases it gets new features before C# does. VB.Net is still a very good languages. You may not like the syntax. but it's just syntax, and some people like it.
Let's at least stop to think that this is France though. Stories like that come out of the US all the time. But I don't hear much about it from France. Point me to some stories though. I'd love to be proven wrong.
Things are getting really cheap. I just replaced my home motherboard+cpu+ram for $200, and now I have dual core with 2GB of RAM. At work, we just got a quad core with 4x500 GB hard disks and 8 Gigs of ram, a complete system, including case and power supply for $1000. To contrast, I bought a computer 10 years ago, it cost $1800, and only had P2-266, 1x4GB HD, and 64 MB of RAM. Boy are things cheap these days. You can get a state of the art gaming rig for $1500.
Landing on the moon was simple newtonian physics. Not a hard problem to solve at all. If you want something really hard, try cracking RSA. Try protein folding. There's a lot of problems out there that are a lot harder to solve than landing a craft on the moon.
I agree. The whole problem with the example given in the summary is that your bank balance should never be wrong. There is no room for error in calculating bank balances. I also don't want to hear skips and pops in my music because they though it would be more energy efficient to use a processor that produced errors. I already get 26 hours of charge out of my MP3 player. I'd rather have them focus on getting more space for cheaper so I can carry lossless audio on my portable mp3 player.
Not the OP, but my advice is that you should get into a profession where you can be in that top 10%, or re-educate yourself in your current profession until you are top 10%. If you are just mediocre at your job, you will always have risk of losing your job, and it will be hard to find to find a new one. That's just the way things work. If you can't perform well, and are expendable to the company, what do you expect they do?
Lentil tacos are also quite good. I almost prefer them to the beef ones. It's really nice being able to eat a whole bunch of really good tacos without having worry about the fat content.
For the first time in a long time, the superbowl was worth watching. In most years, the game completely sucks, and the only interesting thing about it is the commercials.
I think PETA has it's tactics all wrong. Instead of trying to get everybody to stop eating meat, cold turkey (bad pun), they really should be trying to get people to eat less meat. I've switched over to eating less meat in the past year or so, and I have to say, I enjoy eating a lot more than I used to. Now that I'm buying less meat, I can get better cuts, from more humane sources, and I've also lost quite a bit of extra weight. I don't think I'd ever go off meat completely, but cutting down on meat so that you only eat it 3-4 times a week is probably a viable alternative that a lot of people could live with. Instead of getting people to go completely vegan, try to get everybody to eat vegetarian at least a couple times a week. It's a much more obtainable goal.
Also make sure you factor in the energy consumption of the average American. According to Wikipedia the US uses almost twice as much energy per capita as Germany. So it stands to reason, that if they use more, they should be producing more. 7.5 x the population and 2 x the energy consumption per person means they used 15 x more energy than Germany. They should be producing a lot more power from wind.
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Oh so true. Linux is good for the geek market where people can truly grasp the difference. But for people who aren't techies, well, most of them would rather spend an extra $50 to get an experience that they are familiar with. These netbooks are pretty cheap to begin with. Not only that, they are kind of a luxury, and used a secondary computer. People who can afford multiple computers don't mind spending a few extra dollars to get the Windows license.
That article is from 2002, and basically states that it ain't gonna happen.
I think it's more to do with if you're dumb enough to live in tornado alley, you're probably too dumb to get a good enough job to afford more than a mobile home.
Once can easily go to the store and buy 15 pens for 42 cents. The same cannot be said for Laptops. If your laptop stops working for whatever reason, an already poor student may be unable to do assignments.
If they sold a "play video channel" I would pay for it. I'd probably pay up to $20 for it. However, until they release a channel that can play a variety of video formats (don't even mention the photo channel, it doesn't even work with videos from my digital camera), my only solution for playing videos on the Wii is to use homebrew.
I agree completely. Just because somebody goes to some school, and gets a degree in something, does not mean that any place of business has to have any credence in it. Just like a degree in engineering from some no name school would be worth less than an engineering degree from MIT, the same goes for these degrees. If employers put no worth in these degrees, then let people have them. And if students are stupid enough to pay for a degree without properly researching it's worth and validity, then so be it.
It's also true that any US Educated person, immigrant or not, going to some other country is a net loss. The US person leaving is a bigger net loss, since most likely their tuition didn't contain the astronomical international student fees.
I agree with this. If someone is willing to do your job for less than you are, or is able to do a better job at the same rate, then they should get the job over you. However, in many cases, the people they are hiring aren't necessarily better at the job, or better motivated. In many cases the only deciding factor is how cheaply they will work, regardless of whether they are getting sub-standard results out of the employees. No customer likes tech support from overseas, yet many companies provide this, simply to decrease operation costs. The customers are unhappy, but the business makes more money in the long run.
Except that I'm pretty sure Netflix has algorithms that based upon your past rentals and ratings will recommend movies to you. If you get a new account, you lose all your history. Might not mean a lot to some people but to others it does.
VB isn't dying with .Net. There's VB.Net, and it's still going strong. In a lot of cases it gets new features before C# does. VB.Net is still a very good languages. You may not like the syntax. but it's just syntax, and some people like it.
Let's at least stop to think that this is France though. Stories like that come out of the US all the time. But I don't hear much about it from France. Point me to some stories though. I'd love to be proven wrong.
There was a recent remake. I never played it, but the reviews were sufficiently bad that I don't want to even bother.
There may not be any expectation of privacy, but I'd rather not have my tax dollars go towards the city/state/country watch my every move.
But isn't that offset from the cost of maintaining and watching the camera network?
Could be done, if you had some sort of integrated KVM. 2 complete systems in 1 box. would be a neat idea.
Things are getting really cheap. I just replaced my home motherboard+cpu+ram for $200, and now I have dual core with 2GB of RAM. At work, we just got a quad core with 4x500 GB hard disks and 8 Gigs of ram, a complete system, including case and power supply for $1000. To contrast, I bought a computer 10 years ago, it cost $1800, and only had P2-266, 1x4GB HD, and 64 MB of RAM. Boy are things cheap these days. You can get a state of the art gaming rig for $1500.
Landing on the moon was simple newtonian physics. Not a hard problem to solve at all. If you want something really hard, try cracking RSA. Try protein folding. There's a lot of problems out there that are a lot harder to solve than landing a craft on the moon.
Wouldn't be so bad, as long as I had a computer at my desk.
I agree. The whole problem with the example given in the summary is that your bank balance should never be wrong. There is no room for error in calculating bank balances. I also don't want to hear skips and pops in my music because they though it would be more energy efficient to use a processor that produced errors. I already get 26 hours of charge out of my MP3 player. I'd rather have them focus on getting more space for cheaper so I can carry lossless audio on my portable mp3 player.
Not the OP, but my advice is that you should get into a profession where you can be in that top 10%, or re-educate yourself in your current profession until you are top 10%. If you are just mediocre at your job, you will always have risk of losing your job, and it will be hard to find to find a new one. That's just the way things work. If you can't perform well, and are expendable to the company, what do you expect they do?
And wild deer meat tastes amazing compared to any farmed meat I've ever tasted.
Lentil tacos are also quite good. I almost prefer them to the beef ones. It's really nice being able to eat a whole bunch of really good tacos without having worry about the fat content.
For the first time in a long time, the superbowl was worth watching. In most years, the game completely sucks, and the only interesting thing about it is the commercials.
I think PETA has it's tactics all wrong. Instead of trying to get everybody to stop eating meat, cold turkey (bad pun), they really should be trying to get people to eat less meat. I've switched over to eating less meat in the past year or so, and I have to say, I enjoy eating a lot more than I used to. Now that I'm buying less meat, I can get better cuts, from more humane sources, and I've also lost quite a bit of extra weight. I don't think I'd ever go off meat completely, but cutting down on meat so that you only eat it 3-4 times a week is probably a viable alternative that a lot of people could live with. Instead of getting people to go completely vegan, try to get everybody to eat vegetarian at least a couple times a week. It's a much more obtainable goal.
Also make sure you factor in the energy consumption of the average American. According to Wikipedia the US uses almost twice as much energy per capita as Germany. So it stands to reason, that if they use more, they should be producing more. 7.5 x the population and 2 x the energy consumption per person means they used 15 x more energy than Germany. They should be producing a lot more power from wind.