By that logic, it would be cheaper to group the entire country into 1 large group, and have everybody in the country under the same insurance plan. Then, to make it even cheaper, you remove the insurance company, and have a government run insurance plan that takes no profit.
Why don't the walmart employees do their job? If they've been working there for a year and a half, how come still don't know where anything is, or what products they sell, or what they are used for? Maybe walmart should work on training their employees more, or getting rid of the ones who aren't doing any work or learning the job. I think the employees are just as much to blame as walmart is. If the employees have been working there in over a year, and still can't point you in the direction of the peanut butter, or what the difference between mops and brooms are, then there is something wrong with the employee, not with walmart. Walmart is doing them a favour by keeping them around.
Oh, and how many mom-and-pops do you know that have health insurance for their employees? I've worked for many small businesses, and none of them have ever had any benefits for their employees. Corporations are the only ones who have enough money for things like benefits.
For example, they don't provide proper health insurance to their employees which forces many of them to get government medical insurance assistance, otherwise known as Medicaid.
Why should it be the responsiblity of corporations, who's only concern is to it's shareholders, and the almighty dollar, to pay for health insurance?
Why do you even elect a government then? Isn't one of the reasons you elect people so they can discuss and decide what to do. If you're going to vote on everything, you might as well disolve the government and have a vote on every single issue. In Canada, we vote for each of the levels of government, municipal, provincial, and federal, and then they work it out amongst themselves what the laws should be, how to spend the money, and who gets different positions within the government. Once in a while we have other votes for large country wide issues, such as the separation of quebec, but we don't need to vote on every little issue. That's why we elect people, so that they can speak for us, and we don't have to vote on 50 different things.
I really fail to see the need of carrying that much data around. I understand wanting to have lots of permanent storage, but I don't think the average Joe has a use for this. It would be great for datacentres to use for backup. I think most places still use Tape. It's like the 60 GB iPod. You could stick all your music on there, but then you'd still want to back it up anyway, and although it would be nice to be able to listen to any of your songs at any time, I think it's a little bit of overkill. Let's see a CD (60 min) encoded at 320 Kbps, takes up 144 MB, so in 300 GB, you could store 2083 albums. Very few people own that much music, or any kind of data for that matter.
Exactly. Most web applications aren't really that computationally expensive. Most of the slowdowns are from database access, and network speed/content-size. Once those issues are fixed, then we can worry about languages that are faster than others.
We basically need a VCR/DVD player sized component that can do everything. A Mac Mini would be a good start, small, quiet, and has enough power to do most PVR like features. It could be made twice as wide (lets hope not too much higher) and probably be able to do everything we need for the living room.
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Let's do what consoles do then. PS2 had an entire PS1 on a chip. Let's make a new computer, where the old PC is a single chip, and the new stuff runs on the super-extreme-max-efficiency part. Include a port replicator for all the old serial/parallel interfaces that 99% of people don't need anymore, and only directly have USB2 or Firewire 800 support.
As long as we're comparing windows to linux, lets do it properly. Windows 2000 looks and has the functionality of Sawfish or equivalents. Even XP is the same functionality, mind you it looks a little smoother. Comparing Win2k/xp to Gnome or even worse, to KDE is your first mistake. Also when you install windows, you get windows, it shouldn't take up that much space at all. If you install just Linux, with X, Sawfish, an editor, GAIM, a Calculator, then you basically get what you get when you install windows. Default install of most linux distros include about 100 programs, which is nice, but shouldn't be used when comparing windows and linux install size. As far as hibernation goes, Linux doesn't have to be rebooted, and can stay running for days. I use XP at work, and I shut down every night. If I don't then I know i'll run into bugs like everyone else at work that refuses to shut down their machine, After 3 or 4 days, weird things always start happening.
I think the Revo should play GB games. It means they will sell more copies of the games, and since the Revo isn't portable, people will still by the GB. Might even sell more GB's because people play them on the Revo and want to take it with them.
I remember that there was some emulators for SNES that had filters which made the games look a lot better on new hardware. Did antialiasing, and other tricks to make it look better.
Well, you can probably find them, now, but when they were released it was quite hard to find them. Many stores had them, but only bundled with crappy games and other stuff you didn't want. Finding the platinum system is still quite hard from what I understand. You can get the core system, but not a lot of people want that either. There was definite supply problems from the beginning. Had they only released in the US to start, they probably wouldn't have had any supply problems.
Worldwide launches are OK if you know you have enough units to make everyone happy, otherwise they aren't. Look at xbox 360. Tons of units sitting on the shelves in Japan, and people can't even find one in the US. Customers get very annoyed when they can't get something that's been released. Retailers get mad when customers leave their store empty handed because they don't have access to the products that the customers want.
I don't think you and I are talking about the same kinds of books. I'm talking about API references, that don't really explain how to do things, just what functions are available, and what parameters they take. They are free online, easily searchable, well indexed, and well written. I don't think the book offers anything in this case. PHP.net even has user comments with each function, which shows you interesting ways to use it, or ways to do related things.
I see this a lot with Tech books. There's tons of books out there which basically containe the Java API, readily available and more up to date on the internet, the.Net framework, which has equilvalent docs included on VS, and available online too, and PHP, most of which is available on PHP.Net for free. Why anybody buys language specific reference manuals is beyond me.
I hope I never have to use Vista either. I don't think you will ever have to. Most of the stuff released still runs on 98, with good reason too. It's high hardware specs make me cringe. It doesn't look much flashier than OSX, but requires like 5X the computing resources. I have a mac Mini at work, and it flies. Based on what i've seen for Vista, it wouldn't even come close to running aeroglass. I can't even see how the retailers would want Vista. all the sub $1000 CDN Dells have integrated video, and hence won't even be able to run Vista with Aeroglass. That's got to be a big slice of Dell's marketshare. How do you convince people to buy a new computer that can't even run the OS with all the features. How do you convince people who want to spend ~$500 on a PC to spend $1500?
A lot of stuff to do with cavities has nothing to do with how well you brush your teeth. I also took pretty bad care of my teeth as a child, but my water was regular city water, low in sulphur. I take better care of my teeth now, but I still find it amazing that I got by without any cavities. Other people I know took very meticulous care of their teeth, flossing, and did all the right stuff. They still get regular cavities. I'm not sure of the cause, as IANADentist, but it may have something to do with genetics, or something else, who knows...
How do you buy the entire collection? U2 is still a pretty active band, I could see them releasing another couple of albums. Even after they're all dead they can still release albums. Tupac did it. Besides, anybody who is a big enough fan to buy all the available albums, probably has half of the albums anyway. Why would they rebuy the stuff they already have. I really don't understand box sets.
Not only that, but I've known people who worked in places with extremely limited internet access. It was really bad. They had blocked access to things like google groups, and trying to look anything up on the internet was a major pain. There's a lot of stuff that probably wouldn't make it into.safe. Google groups wouldn't, because you can't garauntee that everything on usenet is safe, and nobody is going to review every one of the 800 billion posts to see which ones are safe and which ones aren't. Wikipedia wouldn't be allowed either. You wouldn't want anything unsafe creeping onto.safe, or there would be a lot of lawsuits. Would.coms (businesses) be allowed to have.safe? Who would only allow people on.safe. Could it be enforced at the ISP/City/State/Country level? What is safe anyway. A site on democracy would probably be seen as safe in the US, but what about other countries?
For the price they charge you could probably buy an equivalent machine and get it painted by an actual artist. Got down to your local university/college and see how many students would love the opportunity to make a couple hundred bucks painting a computer case.
Lets compare advancements per $ spent. MS windows had some great advances in those years. Windows 95 was a big step, and Windows 2000 was nice. Everything else was just upgrades. Linux came from nothing, with very little money, and now is at least as good as Windows XP, and better in many other respects. Sure there's not as many GUI tools for configuration, but regular users couldn't configure their computer, GUI or not, people who can are capable of configuring via text files. The only thing it doesn't have is the applications, but let's compare OSes here.
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By that logic, it would be cheaper to group the entire country into 1 large group, and have everybody in the country under the same insurance plan. Then, to make it even cheaper, you remove the insurance company, and have a government run insurance plan that takes no profit.
But the corporations can't fire you for being overweight and unhealthy, nor can they tell you how to eat, or how much to exercise.
Why don't the walmart employees do their job? If they've been working there for a year and a half, how come still don't know where anything is, or what products they sell, or what they are used for? Maybe walmart should work on training their employees more, or getting rid of the ones who aren't doing any work or learning the job. I think the employees are just as much to blame as walmart is. If the employees have been working there in over a year, and still can't point you in the direction of the peanut butter, or what the difference between mops and brooms are, then there is something wrong with the employee, not with walmart. Walmart is doing them a favour by keeping them around.
Oh, and how many mom-and-pops do you know that have health insurance for their employees? I've worked for many small businesses, and none of them have ever had any benefits for their employees. Corporations are the only ones who have enough money for things like benefits.
For example, they don't provide proper health insurance to their employees which forces many of them to get government medical insurance assistance, otherwise known as Medicaid.
Why should it be the responsiblity of corporations, who's only concern is to it's shareholders, and the almighty dollar, to pay for health insurance?
Why do you even elect a government then? Isn't one of the reasons you elect people so they can discuss and decide what to do. If you're going to vote on everything, you might as well disolve the government and have a vote on every single issue. In Canada, we vote for each of the levels of government, municipal, provincial, and federal, and then they work it out amongst themselves what the laws should be, how to spend the money, and who gets different positions within the government. Once in a while we have other votes for large country wide issues, such as the separation of quebec, but we don't need to vote on every little issue. That's why we elect people, so that they can speak for us, and we don't have to vote on 50 different things.
I really fail to see the need of carrying that much data around. I understand wanting to have lots of permanent storage, but I don't think the average Joe has a use for this. It would be great for datacentres to use for backup. I think most places still use Tape. It's like the 60 GB iPod. You could stick all your music on there, but then you'd still want to back it up anyway, and although it would be nice to be able to listen to any of your songs at any time, I think it's a little bit of overkill. Let's see a CD (60 min) encoded at 320 Kbps, takes up 144 MB, so in 300 GB, you could store 2083 albums. Very few people own that much music, or any kind of data for that matter.
Exactly. Most web applications aren't really that computationally expensive. Most of the slowdowns are from database access, and network speed/content-size. Once those issues are fixed, then we can worry about languages that are faster than others.
We basically need a VCR/DVD player sized component that can do everything. A Mac Mini would be a good start, small, quiet, and has enough power to do most PVR like features. It could be made twice as wide (lets hope not too much higher) and probably be able to do everything we need for the living room.
Let's do what consoles do then. PS2 had an entire PS1 on a chip. Let's make a new computer, where the old PC is a single chip, and the new stuff runs on the super-extreme-max-efficiency part. Include a port replicator for all the old serial/parallel interfaces that 99% of people don't need anymore, and only directly have USB2 or Firewire 800 support.
As long as we're comparing windows to linux, lets do it properly. Windows 2000 looks and has the functionality of Sawfish or equivalents. Even XP is the same functionality, mind you it looks a little smoother. Comparing Win2k/xp to Gnome or even worse, to KDE is your first mistake. Also when you install windows, you get windows, it shouldn't take up that much space at all. If you install just Linux, with X, Sawfish, an editor, GAIM, a Calculator, then you basically get what you get when you install windows. Default install of most linux distros include about 100 programs, which is nice, but shouldn't be used when comparing windows and linux install size. As far as hibernation goes, Linux doesn't have to be rebooted, and can stay running for days. I use XP at work, and I shut down every night. If I don't then I know i'll run into bugs like everyone else at work that refuses to shut down their machine, After 3 or 4 days, weird things always start happening.
I think the Revo should play GB games. It means they will sell more copies of the games, and since the Revo isn't portable, people will still by the GB. Might even sell more GB's because people play them on the Revo and want to take it with them.
You've obviously never heard of a video card with TV Out.
I remember that there was some emulators for SNES that had filters which made the games look a lot better on new hardware. Did antialiasing, and other tricks to make it look better.
Well, you can probably find them, now, but when they were released it was quite hard to find them. Many stores had them, but only bundled with crappy games and other stuff you didn't want. Finding the platinum system is still quite hard from what I understand. You can get the core system, but not a lot of people want that either. There was definite supply problems from the beginning. Had they only released in the US to start, they probably wouldn't have had any supply problems.
Worldwide launches are OK if you know you have enough units to make everyone happy, otherwise they aren't. Look at xbox 360. Tons of units sitting on the shelves in Japan, and people can't even find one in the US. Customers get very annoyed when they can't get something that's been released. Retailers get mad when customers leave their store empty handed because they don't have access to the products that the customers want.
I don't think you and I are talking about the same kinds of books. I'm talking about API references, that don't really explain how to do things, just what functions are available, and what parameters they take. They are free online, easily searchable, well indexed, and well written. I don't think the book offers anything in this case. PHP.net even has user comments with each function, which shows you interesting ways to use it, or ways to do related things.
I see this a lot with Tech books. There's tons of books out there which basically containe the Java API, readily available and more up to date on the internet, the .Net framework, which has equilvalent docs included on VS, and available online too, and PHP, most of which is available on PHP.Net for free. Why anybody buys language specific reference manuals is beyond me.
But the guy I replied to drank from a well, so I don't think he had very much flouride, and he didn't get cavities either.
I hope I never have to use Vista either. I don't think you will ever have to. Most of the stuff released still runs on 98, with good reason too. It's high hardware specs make me cringe. It doesn't look much flashier than OSX, but requires like 5X the computing resources. I have a mac Mini at work, and it flies. Based on what i've seen for Vista, it wouldn't even come close to running aeroglass. I can't even see how the retailers would want Vista. all the sub $1000 CDN Dells have integrated video, and hence won't even be able to run Vista with Aeroglass. That's got to be a big slice of Dell's marketshare. How do you convince people to buy a new computer that can't even run the OS with all the features. How do you convince people who want to spend ~$500 on a PC to spend $1500?
A lot of stuff to do with cavities has nothing to do with how well you brush your teeth. I also took pretty bad care of my teeth as a child, but my water was regular city water, low in sulphur. I take better care of my teeth now, but I still find it amazing that I got by without any cavities. Other people I know took very meticulous care of their teeth, flossing, and did all the right stuff. They still get regular cavities. I'm not sure of the cause, as IANADentist, but it may have something to do with genetics, or something else, who knows...
How do you buy the entire collection? U2 is still a pretty active band, I could see them releasing another couple of albums. Even after they're all dead they can still release albums. Tupac did it. Besides, anybody who is a big enough fan to buy all the available albums, probably has half of the albums anyway. Why would they rebuy the stuff they already have. I really don't understand box sets.
Not only that, but I've known people who worked in places with extremely limited internet access. It was really bad. They had blocked access to things like google groups, and trying to look anything up on the internet was a major pain. There's a lot of stuff that probably wouldn't make it into .safe. Google groups wouldn't, because you can't garauntee that everything on usenet is safe, and nobody is going to review every one of the 800 billion posts to see which ones are safe and which ones aren't. Wikipedia wouldn't be allowed either. You wouldn't want anything unsafe creeping onto .safe, or there would be a lot of lawsuits. Would .coms (businesses) be allowed to have .safe? Who would only allow people on .safe. Could it be enforced at the ISP/City/State/Country level? What is safe anyway. A site on democracy would probably be seen as safe in the US, but what about other countries?
For the price they charge you could probably buy an equivalent machine and get it painted by an actual artist. Got down to your local university/college and see how many students would love the opportunity to make a couple hundred bucks painting a computer case.
Lets compare advancements per $ spent. MS windows had some great advances in those years. Windows 95 was a big step, and Windows 2000 was nice. Everything else was just upgrades. Linux came from nothing, with very little money, and now is at least as good as Windows XP, and better in many other respects. Sure there's not as many GUI tools for configuration, but regular users couldn't configure their computer, GUI or not, people who can are capable of configuring via text files. The only thing it doesn't have is the applications, but let's compare OSes here.