I think the biggest thing lacking with IM seems to be the lack of a corporate tool for IM. Most of them require you to route all your messages unencrypted through some server you don't own. Most of them are marketed at 13 year olds, with things such as nudges, winks, and other such annoying stuff. I think jabber could probably really make it's way into corporate networks, if they showed companies the advantage of controlling their own instant messaging. Most employers don't allow IM at all, because using available networks allows employees to talk to anyone, not just other employees, and therefore, are missing out on something that could greatly impove productivity.
Yeah, I find that DVD usually isn't too bad for quality, but What I do find bad, is Digital Cable. The HD stuff is good, but if it's not HD, it usually ends up looking like some badly encoded thing you download off the internet. There's some places that make it look more noticable than others. Take football for example. All that green "grass" in the background end up looking terrible when compressed. There are a lot of cases when analog looks better than digital, especially when the digital isn't done well enough. Also, when you lose part of a digital signal, the result is unwatchable, when you lose part of an analog signal, you can usually still watch it.
It really depends on how much time you have to watch TV, when you really couldn't otherwise. I spend about an hour and a half on the bus, each day, usually listening to music or reading a book. I think it would be great to be able to watch the shows I usually watch at night, while on the bus, so that I wouldn't want to spend my hours at home, watching TV.
VCRs won't die too soon. We still use ours for taping a lot of shows. There's a lot of racket about broadcast flags, and how maybe the Tivos of the future may not be able to record certain shows. Really, the VCR still does the job quite well, and i don't have to worry about them blocking shows.
There's probably a lot of stuff out there that people use in house, that does pretty much the exact same thing as ruby on rails. Many companies have built up tons of code on top of whatever language they are using in order to make all the standard parts of web development really easy. Writing code that does the repetitive stuff for you has been done for years. It's good that someone took these ideas, and put them together in a framework for everyone to use. It's probably a good idea to take a look at it if you are starting something new. But, if you plan on doing a major project, you could probably build a lot of your own web development stuff, and be in much more control of how it works. All too often when you rely on something that you can't do in some other way, you end up getting screwed over.
They give them different names, so that you can order a specific product, and feel like you are getting more when you are paying for the more expensive version. If there's no real difference in the coding from one version to the next, they shouldn't be charging so much more, just for slapping an "Enterprise Edition" stick on the front.
If your spending so much time on the internet, that you end up not eating, losing your job, or failing out of school, then it is a problem that should probably be addressed. Most of the stuff on the internet is just a big waste of time. It's probably one of the hardest addictions to kick too. There's very little money required to spend every hour of your life online, not to mention that nobody (meaning the cops) really tries to stop you from spending your entire life online. Also, it's possible to get to a point where you're really addicted, without anyone else noticing.
What's worse though, is when you are listening to music, while browsing the web, and some advert comes on, with volume about 10 times louder than the music you are listening to. Seriously, I've probably come pretty close to losing at least a little bit of my hearing, especially when i'm using headphones. Sound this loud could have bad effects. They really should have to ask you before they start playing sound.
There really should be a plugin that lets you limit the amount of CPU usage that a plugin can use. Especially with flash. Also, My computer is quite slow. Is there anyway to have flash load up in the "low" quality setting all the time. I find that this helps speed up flash a lot, without making it look too bad. If I want better Quality, I'll turn it up.
If you get premium gas, you are supposedly getting a better product. You don't have to buy premium gas for that car, although it will run better with it.
What does not going to war have to do with Jesus ?? I really don't see the connection. I mean, I know that most religions don't like war, but that doesn't mean that just because someone is against war, that they are some kind of bible toting religion nut. Actually, most wars are started by people fighting because of their religion. Bush, may not have started the current war because of religion, but he's a pretty religious guy. Maybe if people had better, real, ideals, they wouldn't need some book, telling them what was right and wrong, and would do things, just to help out the rest of the species.
The problem is, 1/3 doesn't equal 0.33333. 1/3 = 1/3. You'd have to go on writing 3's after that decimal point for infinity, which isn't possible, because, infinity goes on forever. You'd never be able to write 1/3 in decimal notation. The only way to properly donote the value is 1/3, or 2/6, or some other fraction. You can't use decimals to denote the exact value.
Because it would probably be cheaper to buy 128 copies of windows and 128 single CPU computers. Either way, you'd have a lot of trouble getting 128 people to share a single copy of windows, all working on a single computer. Terminal servers are another beast altogether, and are probably fair if they are charged per terminal that's connecting. Running multiple copies of software on a single CPU, using a VM, is also different, because you are actually running multiple copies. Basically, if you can get the hardware, the software shouldn't cost anymore just because you have more processors. If I can tweak my computer so windows runs twice as fast, should I have to pay double? No. Well then why should I have to pay more for software, just because My computer runs faster than some other computer?
It would be much nicer of them if they just sold one product, and allowed you to run it on as many processors as you happened to own. The whole idea of charging more for people just to utilize the hardware they bought is outrageous. It's like charging someone more for gas, just because they are driving a Porsche. SQL server should cost the same whether your running it on 1,2,4, or 128 processors. Unless there is some real reason as to why it should cost more, like extra program modules needed to handle the multi-processor aspects, it should be the same price no matter how strong your computer is. With SQL server, i'm pretty sure there's no differences between the copy you get for 1 processor, and the copy you get for 8,16, or 32 processors.
No matter who foots the bill for healthcare, the government always seems to want to control unhealthy behaviours. The US has anti drug legislation, as well as legislation that enforces driving at a safe speed, and wearing a seatbelt. Wearing a seatbelt has no effect on anybody's life but your own. But they still make you wear one. The government should always promote healthy lifestyles among its citizens for many reasons. The biggest reason is that most healthy people work, and working people pay taxes. Also, many times, unhealthy behaviours do have indirect effects on others. Such as people with contagious diseases getting other people sick, or people who smoke making others breath in the smoke, when smoking in public places.
Also, we aren't talking about discrimination in who gets the medical care they deserve. That's another problem altogether. The point under discussion, is who gets hired for what job, and based on what grounds. I would hate not to get hired by a company, because they analyze my genetic makeup, and figure out that I have a 50% chance of getting some high cost disease 30 years down the road.
This is one major reason why providing health care should be the responsibility of the government, and not your employer. It really sucks if your medical condition costs a lot. It sucks more if no one will hire you because of your expensive medical condition. Governments don't really have the power to discriminate, because, the good ones anyway, provide the same services for all their citizens, regardless of their condition. We can't expect corporations who's only driving force is money, to be the ones providing the health plans.
It's become apparent to me that people really care too much about TV. I really don't care if my television doesn't look crystal clear. It doesn't really make the story any better. I'm not ready to pay $90 a month just to see better resolution tv. Not to mention the cost of buying a new TV.
The N64 controller was a little alienish. You'd need two left hands to be able to utilize all the buttons. However, they did introduce the analog thumb stick. This has now become recognized as the standard method of controls for consoles. The way they designed it was probably the best configuration for using either the analog of digital control. For people or games that were afraid to switch, the digital control is easily accessible. For games that wanted the analog controls, that was easily accesible too. The current generation of console controllers always leaves one of these methods to be uncomfortable. For xbox and GC, that's the digital control. For PS2, it's the analog control thats harder to reach. I think that the design of the N64 controller was necessary, or at least of great importance, to get people to transition from digital to analog control setup.
I've only ever played Halo a little bit. I didn't really like it. What is the big deal with Halo. Everybody always screams Halo when they think of XBox, but what is the big deal. If I bought an XBox, just to play halo, i would be greatly disappointed. On the other hand, buying a GC allows me to play, Animal Crossing, Mario Sunshine, Zelda, Metroid, Mario Party, and a lot of other extremely good games you don't even see anything close to on other systems.
Yeah, but 100 Mbps is the raw ethernet speed. That doesn't count all the extra junk packed on by different layers of the TCP stack, not to mention problems with slow protocols (SMB is terrible). There's tons of latency issues to consider. I'm sure it can be done, but it would probably eat up most of your bandwidth. Also, wireless introduces even more overhead than regular ethernet, making actual transfer speeds much worse than 54 Mbps.
Or even better, you could become a contractor in Canada, where medical is covered by your taxes. Eyeglasses and dental are extra, but insurance can be had for pretty cheap. And despite what you might hear about waiting times, the system isn't half as bad as it sounds. Waiting times are mostly only a problem on non-critical procedures such as knee and hip replacements. Sure, it's an inconvenience, but you aren't likely to die if your knee doesn't get replaced quick enough.
The playstation won out over the N64 because of the CD. That is true. However, its only true, because Nintendo couldn't attract enough third party developers. Developers wanted to be able to put full motion video and CD sound into their games. What this actually accomplished for games is beyond me. I find that the most exciting parts of most games are the parts without the fmv. Nintendo has fallen back from the pedestal at which they once stood. But, they still tied with xBox. And they sold the only console that consistently made a profit. And they are still selling tons of handheld units, and won't be beat in the handheld market for a long time to come. Nintendo may not sell the most systems, but they make the best systems. Just because britney spears sells tons of albums, doesn't make her a good musician. People will buy what you tell them to buy.
It's just like DVD+RW and DVD=RW. Seems everyone was having the same arguments and fears about formats when these two formats came out. Now it's next to impossible to find a drive that doesn't support both format. And the drives are cheaper than dirt. So, for the drive manyfacturers, it makes sense to support both formats, and then the content providers can use whichever format they feel best with. I know there are bigger differences this time around, but if it's possible to build dual format drives, they will be built, and they will be cheap. The only problem this time, is having to pay 2 licensing fees.
Please explain to me how you intend to stream HDDVD or BluRay over your 54 Mbps wireless connection. I've tried streaming DVDs over a 100 Mbps wired connection, and the performance was terrible, with lots of skipping. Wasn't even watchable. We are going to have to get some much faster wireless connections if we want to be able to stream these formats.
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I think the biggest thing lacking with IM seems to be the lack of a corporate tool for IM. Most of them require you to route all your messages unencrypted through some server you don't own. Most of them are marketed at 13 year olds, with things such as nudges, winks, and other such annoying stuff. I think jabber could probably really make it's way into corporate networks, if they showed companies the advantage of controlling their own instant messaging. Most employers don't allow IM at all, because using available networks allows employees to talk to anyone, not just other employees, and therefore, are missing out on something that could greatly impove productivity.
Yeah, I find that DVD usually isn't too bad for quality, but What I do find bad, is Digital Cable. The HD stuff is good, but if it's not HD, it usually ends up looking like some badly encoded thing you download off the internet. There's some places that make it look more noticable than others. Take football for example. All that green "grass" in the background end up looking terrible when compressed. There are a lot of cases when analog looks better than digital, especially when the digital isn't done well enough. Also, when you lose part of a digital signal, the result is unwatchable, when you lose part of an analog signal, you can usually still watch it.
It really depends on how much time you have to watch TV, when you really couldn't otherwise. I spend about an hour and a half on the bus, each day, usually listening to music or reading a book. I think it would be great to be able to watch the shows I usually watch at night, while on the bus, so that I wouldn't want to spend my hours at home, watching TV.
VCRs won't die too soon. We still use ours for taping a lot of shows. There's a lot of racket about broadcast flags, and how maybe the Tivos of the future may not be able to record certain shows. Really, the VCR still does the job quite well, and i don't have to worry about them blocking shows.
There's probably a lot of stuff out there that people use in house, that does pretty much the exact same thing as ruby on rails. Many companies have built up tons of code on top of whatever language they are using in order to make all the standard parts of web development really easy. Writing code that does the repetitive stuff for you has been done for years. It's good that someone took these ideas, and put them together in a framework for everyone to use. It's probably a good idea to take a look at it if you are starting something new. But, if you plan on doing a major project, you could probably build a lot of your own web development stuff, and be in much more control of how it works. All too often when you rely on something that you can't do in some other way, you end up getting screwed over.
They give them different names, so that you can order a specific product, and feel like you are getting more when you are paying for the more expensive version. If there's no real difference in the coding from one version to the next, they shouldn't be charging so much more, just for slapping an "Enterprise Edition" stick on the front.
If your spending so much time on the internet, that you end up not eating, losing your job, or failing out of school, then it is a problem that should probably be addressed. Most of the stuff on the internet is just a big waste of time. It's probably one of the hardest addictions to kick too. There's very little money required to spend every hour of your life online, not to mention that nobody (meaning the cops) really tries to stop you from spending your entire life online. Also, it's possible to get to a point where you're really addicted, without anyone else noticing.
What's worse though, is when you are listening to music, while browsing the web, and some advert comes on, with volume about 10 times louder than the music you are listening to. Seriously, I've probably come pretty close to losing at least a little bit of my hearing, especially when i'm using headphones. Sound this loud could have bad effects. They really should have to ask you before they start playing sound.
There really should be a plugin that lets you limit the amount of CPU usage that a plugin can use. Especially with flash. Also, My computer is quite slow. Is there anyway to have flash load up in the "low" quality setting all the time. I find that this helps speed up flash a lot, without making it look too bad. If I want better Quality, I'll turn it up.
If you get premium gas, you are supposedly getting a better product. You don't have to buy premium gas for that car, although it will run better with it.
What does not going to war have to do with Jesus ?? I really don't see the connection. I mean, I know that most religions don't like war, but that doesn't mean that just because someone is against war, that they are some kind of bible toting religion nut. Actually, most wars are started by people fighting because of their religion. Bush, may not have started the current war because of religion, but he's a pretty religious guy. Maybe if people had better, real, ideals, they wouldn't need some book, telling them what was right and wrong, and would do things, just to help out the rest of the species.
The problem is, 1/3 doesn't equal 0.33333. 1/3 = 1/3. You'd have to go on writing 3's after that decimal point for infinity, which isn't possible, because, infinity goes on forever. You'd never be able to write 1/3 in decimal notation. The only way to properly donote the value is 1/3, or 2/6, or some other fraction. You can't use decimals to denote the exact value.
Because it would probably be cheaper to buy 128 copies of windows and 128 single CPU computers. Either way, you'd have a lot of trouble getting 128 people to share a single copy of windows, all working on a single computer. Terminal servers are another beast altogether, and are probably fair if they are charged per terminal that's connecting. Running multiple copies of software on a single CPU, using a VM, is also different, because you are actually running multiple copies. Basically, if you can get the hardware, the software shouldn't cost anymore just because you have more processors. If I can tweak my computer so windows runs twice as fast, should I have to pay double? No. Well then why should I have to pay more for software, just because My computer runs faster than some other computer?
It would be much nicer of them if they just sold one product, and allowed you to run it on as many processors as you happened to own. The whole idea of charging more for people just to utilize the hardware they bought is outrageous. It's like charging someone more for gas, just because they are driving a Porsche. SQL server should cost the same whether your running it on 1,2,4, or 128 processors. Unless there is some real reason as to why it should cost more, like extra program modules needed to handle the multi-processor aspects, it should be the same price no matter how strong your computer is. With SQL server, i'm pretty sure there's no differences between the copy you get for 1 processor, and the copy you get for 8,16, or 32 processors.
No matter who foots the bill for healthcare, the government always seems to want to control unhealthy behaviours. The US has anti drug legislation, as well as legislation that enforces driving at a safe speed, and wearing a seatbelt. Wearing a seatbelt has no effect on anybody's life but your own. But they still make you wear one. The government should always promote healthy lifestyles among its citizens for many reasons. The biggest reason is that most healthy people work, and working people pay taxes. Also, many times, unhealthy behaviours do have indirect effects on others. Such as people with contagious diseases getting other people sick, or people who smoke making others breath in the smoke, when smoking in public places.
Also, we aren't talking about discrimination in who gets the medical care they deserve. That's another problem altogether. The point under discussion, is who gets hired for what job, and based on what grounds. I would hate not to get hired by a company, because they analyze my genetic makeup, and figure out that I have a 50% chance of getting some high cost disease 30 years down the road.
This is one major reason why providing health care should be the responsibility of the government, and not your employer. It really sucks if your medical condition costs a lot. It sucks more if no one will hire you because of your expensive medical condition. Governments don't really have the power to discriminate, because, the good ones anyway, provide the same services for all their citizens, regardless of their condition. We can't expect corporations who's only driving force is money, to be the ones providing the health plans.
It's become apparent to me that people really care too much about TV. I really don't care if my television doesn't look crystal clear. It doesn't really make the story any better. I'm not ready to pay $90 a month just to see better resolution tv. Not to mention the cost of buying a new TV.
The N64 controller was a little alienish. You'd need two left hands to be able to utilize all the buttons. However, they did introduce the analog thumb stick. This has now become recognized as the standard method of controls for consoles. The way they designed it was probably the best configuration for using either the analog of digital control. For people or games that were afraid to switch, the digital control is easily accessible. For games that wanted the analog controls, that was easily accesible too. The current generation of console controllers always leaves one of these methods to be uncomfortable. For xbox and GC, that's the digital control. For PS2, it's the analog control thats harder to reach. I think that the design of the N64 controller was necessary, or at least of great importance, to get people to transition from digital to analog control setup.
You've been playing a little too much animal crossing.
I've only ever played Halo a little bit. I didn't really like it. What is the big deal with Halo. Everybody always screams Halo when they think of XBox, but what is the big deal. If I bought an XBox, just to play halo, i would be greatly disappointed. On the other hand, buying a GC allows me to play, Animal Crossing, Mario Sunshine, Zelda, Metroid, Mario Party, and a lot of other extremely good games you don't even see anything close to on other systems.
Yeah, but 100 Mbps is the raw ethernet speed. That doesn't count all the extra junk packed on by different layers of the TCP stack, not to mention problems with slow protocols (SMB is terrible). There's tons of latency issues to consider. I'm sure it can be done, but it would probably eat up most of your bandwidth. Also, wireless introduces even more overhead than regular ethernet, making actual transfer speeds much worse than 54 Mbps.
Or even better, you could become a contractor in Canada, where medical is covered by your taxes. Eyeglasses and dental are extra, but insurance can be had for pretty cheap. And despite what you might hear about waiting times, the system isn't half as bad as it sounds. Waiting times are mostly only a problem on non-critical procedures such as knee and hip replacements. Sure, it's an inconvenience, but you aren't likely to die if your knee doesn't get replaced quick enough.
The playstation won out over the N64 because of the CD. That is true. However, its only true, because Nintendo couldn't attract enough third party developers. Developers wanted to be able to put full motion video and CD sound into their games. What this actually accomplished for games is beyond me. I find that the most exciting parts of most games are the parts without the fmv. Nintendo has fallen back from the pedestal at which they once stood. But, they still tied with xBox. And they sold the only console that consistently made a profit. And they are still selling tons of handheld units, and won't be beat in the handheld market for a long time to come. Nintendo may not sell the most systems, but they make the best systems. Just because britney spears sells tons of albums, doesn't make her a good musician. People will buy what you tell them to buy.
It's just like DVD+RW and DVD=RW. Seems everyone was having the same arguments and fears about formats when these two formats came out. Now it's next to impossible to find a drive that doesn't support both format. And the drives are cheaper than dirt. So, for the drive manyfacturers, it makes sense to support both formats, and then the content providers can use whichever format they feel best with. I know there are bigger differences this time around, but if it's possible to build dual format drives, they will be built, and they will be cheap. The only problem this time, is having to pay 2 licensing fees.
Please explain to me how you intend to stream HDDVD or BluRay over your 54 Mbps wireless connection. I've tried streaming DVDs over a 100 Mbps wired connection, and the performance was terrible, with lots of skipping. Wasn't even watchable. We are going to have to get some much faster wireless connections if we want to be able to stream these formats.