It just means that 70% of the world's water doesn't have sharks in it. Oddly enough, it's the same 70% that's too deep, dark, and empty of food animals to sustain sharks. The report basically says "sharks live where they can, don't live where they can't, and the habitable region of the water is 30% of the total volume."
It's worth noting that not all applications of an Office suite lend themselves as much to auto-saving as a 300 byte email draft. You're going to start running into bandwidth problems when you have enough users editing documents that are a few pages long, and good luck trying to auto-save a novel every 3 minutes while 2000 other users are also working with the application.
First off, your post makes no sense, because we're talking about MOBILE PHONES here, not desktop PCs. VoIP "bundled" on a mobile phone has nothing to do with their supposedly monopolistic desktop OS.
Secondly, your example with WMP is flawed. Media Player IS already bundled with the desktop OS, but the result is not that WMF/WMA suddenly becomes the most common format, and the reason is that WMP supports other video formats as well. Yeah, they provide WMF as a default option, but WinAmp supports it by default as well, along with a number of other formats supported by both.
Hell, you can do this without ANY on-site hardware. Almost any company will let you connect to the outside world, so just SCP to your home machine and upload like crazy. They won't be able to tell what you're uploading, but if anyone DOES ask, just have a bunch of music on your workstation that you "brought from home and then lost in a drive crash".
Good lord, that's over-reacting a bit, don't you think? The original poster was just saying that you don't need an English degree on top of your technical degree (for which you're presumably being hired in the first place) in order to communicate clearly and coherently. Of course if he was hiring people FOR A COMMUNICATIONS POSITION, he'd weight those with degrees in the subject above technical people; but NOT having an English degree is no excuse for technical employees to scrape by on grunts and w00ts.
You won't be thinking that when you get handed a piece of code that has four or five function names consistantly mis-spelled in about eighty different places. Especially if it's a dll on which you can't just do a find and replace.
And whether it's supposedly central to your job or not, every person in the workforce has to communicate with others, and a lot of that communication will be written. You're no good if you can't communicate with the rest of your team, and employers know it. I'd hire a slightly less qualified person over one who can barely write legible sentances any day. Anyway, I don't see why you're complaining, because your writing is better than about 60% of the people I work with. I doubt the grandparent was talking about people who misspell a couple of words in a handwritten document; I assumed he meant people who consistantly interchange "loose" and "lose", or switch "ie"/"ei" in common words. These are the things that everyone who reads even occasionally can keep track of.
Then you're one of the few good ones. Sadly, most of the people that qualify as christian fundamentalist do not remember to actually follow the teachings of christ...
interesting you mention that exact cd... I bought that album in Rome while on vacation, and the DRM gave it this horrible click sound every 2 seconds. Whether that's just because I was using a cheap walkman I don't know, but when a copy protection scheme inserts audible artifacts into a piece of music, it's just too much. The neat thing was, I was able to return it, no questions asked. That's how much Americans have given up on this. Try the same thing in any store in America ("Hello, yes, I'd like to return this new album. The copy protection is distorting the sound.") and you'd be laughed out of the store. This is why I've basically given up on buying cds.
The problem with this is, our society depends so completely on oil by-products that we literally CANNOT find a replacement while maintaining anything we would recognize as civilization. Assume for a minute that we can find a viable alternative fuel source in time, once the cost of oil forces the free market to look for alternatives (a shakey proposition on its own). Now, there's still every other industrial manufacturing system that's still consuming crude oil by the ton. And those we can't just up and switch over to running on hydrogen. Computers, plastics, and so on, all depend on oil as an ingredient. At or less than half of America's oil consumption is used as transpartation fuel (I don't remember the exact number, but it's way different from what most people assume).
Most creative thinkers already understand, at least intuitively, that the human brain will continue working on a problem even when a person is actively thinking about something else. How many programmers know that when you're beating your head against a problem, a good way to solve it is to go do something physical or repetitive, like play sports or video games or even sleep? Then when you come back, your brain has an answer for you, or at least has conceptualized the problem so you can get a better handle on it.
I don't know how much there is to officially back this up, but I think this is why OOP caught on so well, at least with some people. If you have a system made of interacting modular components, your brain doesn't have to conceptualize sections of some messy lines of ASM or C code... it can just use the constructs you've actually built into the system, so the "processing cost" of groking the system is much cheaper.
Exactly. They seem to mistakenly assume that people will just shrug their shoulders and continue buying movies when this kind of shit gets forced on us. Instead, they're going to create even more people who refuse to play by their rules. Not only does this shut out linux users, it's going to piss off the average users who've already got computers that play DVDs just fine thank you.
Did anybody notice when SACD and DVD-Audio came out? No, because everybody's already invested in CD players, and the new technology didn't offer nearly enough incentive for the average user. Now these technologies are tanking, and hopefully the same will happen with next-gen dvds. Why should people repurchase their entire movie collection in a new format? DVDs are plenty high-res for the average home user.
Unfortunately, people are also sometimes completely unaware of what things actually do, so it's probably going to come down to how much hype the media companies can generate, versus how much attention the average home user actually pays.
I hope you're wrong. Not to go on too much of a tangent, but one of the stupidest things about/. is how people will moderate based on their opinion of the content of the post, when they should be moderating based on its style. You posted an insightful rebuttal to my original, and whether people agree with what you say or not, you presented well phrased logical points, and you shouldn't be modded down.
This is why I long ago abandoned trying to hold any real debate on this site, though.
I know religions encourage cleanliness, but people 400 years ago weren't rolling around in cat poop on purpose either, and they had close to 90% infection rate with this stuff. Point being, it can get into your system in ways you don't expect. And if even today, industrialized nations have infected population in the double digits, I'm guessing the source is such that Mormons and Jews are susceptible, no matter how clean they try to stay.
I agree with you about globalization though. The first post was mostly joking, to see what people would say.
There's also more people on the planet than ever before. And since 400 years ago it was basically unthinkable to not go to church, and today it's seen as highly optional by over half the population of the first world... by percentage, I think I was right the first time.
Without any sources, I'm not sure I believe you. In any case, whatever is true for the majority of the population, you can't say the girl in my sociology class who claims to regularly hear angelic choirs is completely stable.
Does this explain why religion is on the decline? As less people are infected, less display symptoms of schizophrenia, such as "feeling the divine presence", and "talking to God". Maybe true devotion in the middle ages was a neurochemical imbalance caused by a parasite, and now that humans are living more cleanly, the "faith" we have left is just residual from the earlier teachings?
like some basic access methods of the DOM. like a standard AJAX client. Let's just say, you can take code that runs perfectly fine on IE and Firefox (because it has some compatability checks... does attribute setting and getting in a number of ways depending what the client supports, and event attachment any of a wide number of ways depending what objects the browser supports), and Opera will just not work. No error messages, no explanation, but parts of the code just mysteriously cease to function.
that with this much focus on dynamic web pages and new technologies, Opera manages to act like it's on the cutting edge while simultaneously failing to support several-year-old standards necessary to do basic DHTML work.
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Because very few games are fun without conflict, and it's a lot more time and energy to come up with a conflict system that doesn't involve guns.
Halo for the PC is the only application that's ever been able to bluescreen XP on me.
It just means that 70% of the world's water doesn't have sharks in it. Oddly enough, it's the same 70% that's too deep, dark, and empty of food animals to sustain sharks. The report basically says "sharks live where they can, don't live where they can't, and the habitable region of the water is 30% of the total volume."
Huh? x86 is most definitely not RISC. Maybe you're thinking of Alpha or PowerPC?
It's worth noting that not all applications of an Office suite lend themselves as much to auto-saving as a 300 byte email draft. You're going to start running into bandwidth problems when you have enough users editing documents that are a few pages long, and good luck trying to auto-save a novel every 3 minutes while 2000 other users are also working with the application.
Because they have a monopoly on, if anything, Desktop and Server OSes. We're talking about mobile devices, where they have far from a monopoly.
First off, your post makes no sense, because we're talking about MOBILE PHONES here, not desktop PCs. VoIP "bundled" on a mobile phone has nothing to do with their supposedly monopolistic desktop OS.
Secondly, your example with WMP is flawed. Media Player IS already bundled with the desktop OS, but the result is not that WMF/WMA suddenly becomes the most common format, and the reason is that WMP supports other video formats as well. Yeah, they provide WMF as a default option, but WinAmp supports it by default as well, along with a number of other formats supported by both.
Hell, you can do this without ANY on-site hardware. Almost any company will let you connect to the outside world, so just SCP to your home machine and upload like crazy. They won't be able to tell what you're uploading, but if anyone DOES ask, just have a bunch of music on your workstation that you "brought from home and then lost in a drive crash".
Good lord, that's over-reacting a bit, don't you think? The original poster was just saying that you don't need an English degree on top of your technical degree (for which you're presumably being hired in the first place) in order to communicate clearly and coherently. Of course if he was hiring people FOR A COMMUNICATIONS POSITION, he'd weight those with degrees in the subject above technical people; but NOT having an English degree is no excuse for technical employees to scrape by on grunts and w00ts.
You won't be thinking that when you get handed a piece of code that has four or five function names consistantly mis-spelled in about eighty different places. Especially if it's a dll on which you can't just do a find and replace.
And whether it's supposedly central to your job or not, every person in the workforce has to communicate with others, and a lot of that communication will be written. You're no good if you can't communicate with the rest of your team, and employers know it. I'd hire a slightly less qualified person over one who can barely write legible sentances any day. Anyway, I don't see why you're complaining, because your writing is better than about 60% of the people I work with. I doubt the grandparent was talking about people who misspell a couple of words in a handwritten document; I assumed he meant people who consistantly interchange "loose" and "lose", or switch "ie"/"ei" in common words. These are the things that everyone who reads even occasionally can keep track of.
Then you're one of the few good ones. Sadly, most of the people that qualify as christian fundamentalist do not remember to actually follow the teachings of christ...
For an opened cd? Depends where, maybe, but Best Buy for example I wouldn't expect to get anything from.
interesting you mention that exact cd... I bought that album in Rome while on vacation, and the DRM gave it this horrible click sound every 2 seconds. Whether that's just because I was using a cheap walkman I don't know, but when a copy protection scheme inserts audible artifacts into a piece of music, it's just too much. The neat thing was, I was able to return it, no questions asked. That's how much Americans have given up on this. Try the same thing in any store in America ("Hello, yes, I'd like to return this new album. The copy protection is distorting the sound.") and you'd be laughed out of the store. This is why I've basically given up on buying cds.
The problem with this is, our society depends so completely on oil by-products that we literally CANNOT find a replacement while maintaining anything we would recognize as civilization. Assume for a minute that we can find a viable alternative fuel source in time, once the cost of oil forces the free market to look for alternatives (a shakey proposition on its own). Now, there's still every other industrial manufacturing system that's still consuming crude oil by the ton. And those we can't just up and switch over to running on hydrogen. Computers, plastics, and so on, all depend on oil as an ingredient. At or less than half of America's oil consumption is used as transpartation fuel (I don't remember the exact number, but it's way different from what most people assume).
Most creative thinkers already understand, at least intuitively, that the human brain will continue working on a problem even when a person is actively thinking about something else. How many programmers know that when you're beating your head against a problem, a good way to solve it is to go do something physical or repetitive, like play sports or video games or even sleep? Then when you come back, your brain has an answer for you, or at least has conceptualized the problem so you can get a better handle on it.
I don't know how much there is to officially back this up, but I think this is why OOP caught on so well, at least with some people. If you have a system made of interacting modular components, your brain doesn't have to conceptualize sections of some messy lines of ASM or C code... it can just use the constructs you've actually built into the system, so the "processing cost" of groking the system is much cheaper.
Exactly. They seem to mistakenly assume that people will just shrug their shoulders and continue buying movies when this kind of shit gets forced on us. Instead, they're going to create even more people who refuse to play by their rules. Not only does this shut out linux users, it's going to piss off the average users who've already got computers that play DVDs just fine thank you.
Did anybody notice when SACD and DVD-Audio came out? No, because everybody's already invested in CD players, and the new technology didn't offer nearly enough incentive for the average user. Now these technologies are tanking, and hopefully the same will happen with next-gen dvds. Why should people repurchase their entire movie collection in a new format? DVDs are plenty high-res for the average home user.
Unfortunately, people are also sometimes completely unaware of what things actually do, so it's probably going to come down to how much hype the media companies can generate, versus how much attention the average home user actually pays.
I hope you're wrong. Not to go on too much of a tangent, but one of the stupidest things about /. is how people will moderate based on their opinion of the content of the post, when they should be moderating based on its style. You posted an insightful rebuttal to my original, and whether people agree with what you say or not, you presented well phrased logical points, and you shouldn't be modded down.
This is why I long ago abandoned trying to hold any real debate on this site, though.
I know religions encourage cleanliness, but people 400 years ago weren't rolling around in cat poop on purpose either, and they had close to 90% infection rate with this stuff. Point being, it can get into your system in ways you don't expect. And if even today, industrialized nations have infected population in the double digits, I'm guessing the source is such that Mormons and Jews are susceptible, no matter how clean they try to stay.
I agree with you about globalization though. The first post was mostly joking, to see what people would say.
There's also more people on the planet than ever before. And since 400 years ago it was basically unthinkable to not go to church, and today it's seen as highly optional by over half the population of the first world... by percentage, I think I was right the first time.
That would be the good old US of A, my friend.
Without any sources, I'm not sure I believe you. In any case, whatever is true for the majority of the population, you can't say the girl in my sociology class who claims to regularly hear angelic choirs is completely stable.
Does this explain why religion is on the decline? As less people are infected, less display symptoms of schizophrenia, such as "feeling the divine presence", and "talking to God". Maybe true devotion in the middle ages was a neurochemical imbalance caused by a parasite, and now that humans are living more cleanly, the "faith" we have left is just residual from the earlier teachings?
like some basic access methods of the DOM. like a standard AJAX client. Let's just say, you can take code that runs perfectly fine on IE and Firefox (because it has some compatability checks... does attribute setting and getting in a number of ways depending what the client supports, and event attachment any of a wide number of ways depending what objects the browser supports), and Opera will just not work. No error messages, no explanation, but parts of the code just mysteriously cease to function.
that's just cd-r, though. the actual stamped cds that you get from retail are a hell of a lot more durable.
that with this much focus on dynamic web pages and new technologies, Opera manages to act like it's on the cutting edge while simultaneously failing to support several-year-old standards necessary to do basic DHTML work.