It's unnatural, unfair and counterproductive to criminalize people for just coming to your country.
You think it's only the US that has barriers to immigration? Try immigrating to ANY of the EU countries. Compares to that, immigrating to the US is about as easy as immigration gets.
I'm with you, dynamic typing is bad mojo. Some people love it, but it makes for some really nasty hard to find bugs and hard to follow coding practices. For my money, C/C++/Java/ObjC are where it's at. None are interpreted languages, none have dynamic types (unless pointers can be thought of as such), and they all can be packaged as binaries. I understand the arguments for scripting languages (quick prototypes / on the fly edits), but I think they're given way too much weight. JavaScript is a bit of an oddity in the scripting camp because it's virtually omnipresent and is firmly hunkered down on it's pedestal, although Flash and VBScript gave it a good run. I don't mind JavaScript, it's fairly object friendly, but the fact that everything is a "var" has always rubbed me the wrong way.
I don't think ANY TV show season is 30 to 40 hours long, much less without commercials on DVD. The longest I've seen, 24, which was an hour long on TV with commercials was under 20 hours (ironic isn't it) in total for a season over 4 DVDs.
No way that's right, first, purely semantics but the PowerBook is dead and gone, it's a MacBook Pro now. Compare the MBP with any other 2.6G Core2Duo laptop with a 17" screen and the difference is minimal. There's still an Apple "premium" but it's only a few hundred Euro/USD. On that note, Apple DOES charge far too much for it's products in Europe based on exchange rates. That's why my European co-workers always hit the Apple stores when they're over in the US, it's like getting a 30+% discount.
It's a fuzzy definition but I don't think VMWare so much emulates the hardware. It's probably more accurate to describe it as they provide drivers for some virtual hardware, that then maps to real hardware, and access to buses for some real hardware, mainly USB. Since it's not a direct emulation of the physical environment, that's probably why they themselves use "virtual machine" instead of "emulator" in their descriptions. That's a lot of words to say nothing... oh well... I typed it... may as well submit it.
Ah, the wonder years of 1993, when every 9 year old had access to a $30K SGI box to play that 3D driving game that they included with every workstation.
I cannot agree with you here. A bullet and gun will not necessarily kill you, so is that torture as well? If I needed to be subdued for whatever reason, I'd much rather be subdued via something that might leave a burn scar rather than something that will need to be retrieved from my leg using a scalpel and tweezers.
Points:
a) True
b) False, unemployment in Australia is currently at 5.1%, the US is at 5.4% and we're just starting to see large layoffs.
c) False, the US *used* to account for 50% of world GDP, that share is now at 20% and shrinking. This is exacerbated by the falling value of US GDP as a result of the weak USD.
d) True, but false in this context. The Euro has not appreciated so much as the USD has devalued. Compare the EUR to any currency other than the USD and you'll see a fairly tight trading range.
Back on topic, if I were to pick a recess proof career, it would be health care. Health care is virtually recession proof and really really hard to outsource.
Yeah but the volumes are tiiiiiiny and you just as easily risk buying at.10 and selling at.08, losing 20% in 3 hours. You can play the penny stock game, but I wouldn't bet more than a few thousand at a time. You'd probably have similar returns playing red or black streaks at the roulette tables in Vegas.
Dude... you'd better patent that or at least keep this post for prior art posterity. I can see an iWatch that bluetooth "syncs" with an iPhone to show you who's calling, what the next calendar event is, SMS text, etc. Hell, you could even make an Inspector Gadget watch headset out of it or even an iPod remote. The only downside I can think of is that BT would drain a watch battery in days compared to the year most people expect from a watch battery.
i'm young and fit and i hardly have any need for health cover...
It only takes 1 uninsured driver not paying attention long enough to change that for you. Young and healthy is not mutually exclusive with accidental injuries.
C# is in no way shape or form a subsequent version of C/C++. C# is merely MS's botched attempt at taking out Java, minus the cross platform portability and enterprise class reliability. If anything is the next iteration of C/C++ it's Objective-C, even then, it's not ratified by ANSI and it's hardly used outside of Apple.
I'm willing to bet they're grouping MS Office macros into that pile, that's the only way I can explain that level of popularity. It'll be a particularly cold day in hell before I code anything in VB again.
You used to be able to disable swap in OS X via the/etc/rc file up until Leopard. Leopard changed things and now you essentially have to hack the dynamic_pager daemon to do the same thing. It's not impossible, but it's non-standard and def not for the average Mac user.
That's a reverse tunnel but there's a tiny catch. In order for that to work, you have to use key based auth in order to prevent a password prompt, that means your laptop's public key is in the authorized_keys on the server you control. So yeah, you get a reverse tunnel back to your laptop, but the thief also gets carte blanche access to your local account on your server. I kind of think all of this is in vain anyhow, odds are nobody is going to surf the web with a stolen laptop, their goal is pawn or resell 99% of the time. The "call home" idea isn't terrible, although it's likely futile. On that note, gather a list of local access points, something might be interesting. Take a cam snapshot, can't hurt to expose someone. Switch the wireless card into promiscuous mode, the might not use your laptop, but they might be using another one. Track the local IP, and any external IPs called. Report on the assigned hostname.
According to him, the Windows-equipped $499 laptops outsell the Linux-equipped $399 laptops 5 to 1.
That's really amazing considering the XP equipped EEE doesn't go on sale until next month. Oh wait, that's right, you're off topic. Anyhow, I don't doubt you that the Win laptops outsell the Lin laptops. Fact is, most people have no idea what Lin is. On that note, if 20% of his sales are Lin, that's pretty amazing. Combine that with the fact that 20% of the laptop market are Macs, that means that the Win laptop market is in the 60-70% range. I've always said that I'd like to see a 3 way market, Win / Lin / Mac, with none having a share > 50%. The key to avoiding lock in is to have platform diversity. That way everybody wins, except MS that is.
If I'm not mistaken, I believe that touring is actually the primary source of revenue for most artists. The typical deal is 50% of the box office for a venue. Think 20K people paying $40 a head and that's $400K for one night versus moving 250K CDs (1/2 to a gold record). Coldplay sold 8.3 million copies of X&Y globally, for a presumed global take of $13.2M on album sales (and X&Y was H-U-G-E). The band played 34 US cities for the supporting tour, not counting other countries, at an average take of $400K per stop for a presumed US take of $13.6M, that can probably be doubled given it was a global tour. So $27M for touring, versus $13M for album sales, granted that without the album, the tour would likely have been smaller venues than arenas.
Yeah... AM/FM radio... awesome... 20 rap stations, 10 pop music stations playing exactly as many songs, and 1 reggaeton station... awesome variety. AM/FM radio seriously blows. There should be a maximum of 2 stations of a particular genre in any given area. Where are the alternative, metal, electronica, and bluegrass AM/FM stations?
The tube analogy is a bad (tm) one. The internet is more like airports. There are small airports that fly into big hub airports. There is only so much room on an airplane. If the P2Petersons book 90% of the seats on the plane out of Poughkeepsie into Newark, then even though there are plenty of empty seats in Newark, the "bandwidth" from Poughkeepsie to Newark is crowded by the P2Petersons. In this case, the ISP only let's the P2Petersons have 25% of the seats on Newark bound planes. Wait no, the internet is more like a chocolate chip cookie, there is only room for sooooo many chocolate chips on the cookie...:D
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It's unnatural, unfair and counterproductive to criminalize people for just coming to your country.
You think it's only the US that has barriers to immigration? Try immigrating to ANY of the EU countries. Compares to that, immigrating to the US is about as easy as immigration gets.
I'm with you, dynamic typing is bad mojo. Some people love it, but it makes for some really nasty hard to find bugs and hard to follow coding practices. For my money, C/C++/Java/ObjC are where it's at. None are interpreted languages, none have dynamic types (unless pointers can be thought of as such), and they all can be packaged as binaries. I understand the arguments for scripting languages (quick prototypes / on the fly edits), but I think they're given way too much weight. JavaScript is a bit of an oddity in the scripting camp because it's virtually omnipresent and is firmly hunkered down on it's pedestal, although Flash and VBScript gave it a good run. I don't mind JavaScript, it's fairly object friendly, but the fact that everything is a "var" has always rubbed me the wrong way.
How exactly does one go about objectively measuring "intelligence"?
I don't think ANY TV show season is 30 to 40 hours long, much less without commercials on DVD. The longest I've seen, 24, which was an hour long on TV with commercials was under 20 hours (ironic isn't it) in total for a season over 4 DVDs.
No way that's right, first, purely semantics but the PowerBook is dead and gone, it's a MacBook Pro now. Compare the MBP with any other 2.6G Core2Duo laptop with a 17" screen and the difference is minimal. There's still an Apple "premium" but it's only a few hundred Euro/USD. On that note, Apple DOES charge far too much for it's products in Europe based on exchange rates. That's why my European co-workers always hit the Apple stores when they're over in the US, it's like getting a 30+% discount.
High school chemistry was fine, a cake walk even, it's ORGANIC chemistry that eventually blew my friggen mind.
What would you gain from using HTTPS over HTTP? Just curious.
It's a fuzzy definition but I don't think VMWare so much emulates the hardware. It's probably more accurate to describe it as they provide drivers for some virtual hardware, that then maps to real hardware, and access to buses for some real hardware, mainly USB. Since it's not a direct emulation of the physical environment, that's probably why they themselves use "virtual machine" instead of "emulator" in their descriptions. That's a lot of words to say nothing ... oh well ... I typed it ... may as well submit it.
Ah, the wonder years of 1993, when every 9 year old had access to a $30K SGI box to play that 3D driving game that they included with every workstation.
I cannot agree with you here. A bullet and gun will not necessarily kill you, so is that torture as well? If I needed to be subdued for whatever reason, I'd much rather be subdued via something that might leave a burn scar rather than something that will need to be retrieved from my leg using a scalpel and tweezers.
Non-profits and/or charities? Granted they're funded by people who do make money doing something else.
Points: a) True b) False, unemployment in Australia is currently at 5.1%, the US is at 5.4% and we're just starting to see large layoffs. c) False, the US *used* to account for 50% of world GDP, that share is now at 20% and shrinking. This is exacerbated by the falling value of US GDP as a result of the weak USD. d) True, but false in this context. The Euro has not appreciated so much as the USD has devalued. Compare the EUR to any currency other than the USD and you'll see a fairly tight trading range. Back on topic, if I were to pick a recess proof career, it would be health care. Health care is virtually recession proof and really really hard to outsource.
Yeah but the volumes are tiiiiiiny and you just as easily risk buying at .10 and selling at .08, losing 20% in 3 hours. You can play the penny stock game, but I wouldn't bet more than a few thousand at a time. You'd probably have similar returns playing red or black streaks at the roulette tables in Vegas.
That's pretty slick! All they need is to make an iPhone compatible version and then I'll know what I want for Christmas this year!
Dude ... you'd better patent that or at least keep this post for prior art posterity. I can see an iWatch that bluetooth "syncs" with an iPhone to show you who's calling, what the next calendar event is, SMS text, etc. Hell, you could even make an Inspector Gadget watch headset out of it or even an iPod remote. The only downside I can think of is that BT would drain a watch battery in days compared to the year most people expect from a watch battery.
i'm young and fit and i hardly have any need for health cover ...
It only takes 1 uninsured driver not paying attention long enough to change that for you. Young and healthy is not mutually exclusive with accidental injuries.
C# is in no way shape or form a subsequent version of C/C++. C# is merely MS's botched attempt at taking out Java, minus the cross platform portability and enterprise class reliability. If anything is the next iteration of C/C++ it's Objective-C, even then, it's not ratified by ANSI and it's hardly used outside of Apple.
I'm willing to bet they're grouping MS Office macros into that pile, that's the only way I can explain that level of popularity. It'll be a particularly cold day in hell before I code anything in VB again.
You used to be able to disable swap in OS X via the /etc/rc file up until Leopard. Leopard changed things and now you essentially have to hack the dynamic_pager daemon to do the same thing. It's not impossible, but it's non-standard and def not for the average Mac user.
That's a reverse tunnel but there's a tiny catch. In order for that to work, you have to use key based auth in order to prevent a password prompt, that means your laptop's public key is in the authorized_keys on the server you control. So yeah, you get a reverse tunnel back to your laptop, but the thief also gets carte blanche access to your local account on your server. I kind of think all of this is in vain anyhow, odds are nobody is going to surf the web with a stolen laptop, their goal is pawn or resell 99% of the time. The "call home" idea isn't terrible, although it's likely futile. On that note, gather a list of local access points, something might be interesting. Take a cam snapshot, can't hurt to expose someone. Switch the wireless card into promiscuous mode, the might not use your laptop, but they might be using another one. Track the local IP, and any external IPs called. Report on the assigned hostname.
the latest was that Obama is Muslim.
Yeah, well, he turned me into a newt! Burn him! Burn him!
According to him, the Windows-equipped $499 laptops outsell the Linux-equipped $399 laptops 5 to 1.
That's really amazing considering the XP equipped EEE doesn't go on sale until next month. Oh wait, that's right, you're off topic. Anyhow, I don't doubt you that the Win laptops outsell the Lin laptops. Fact is, most people have no idea what Lin is. On that note, if 20% of his sales are Lin, that's pretty amazing. Combine that with the fact that 20% of the laptop market are Macs, that means that the Win laptop market is in the 60-70% range. I've always said that I'd like to see a 3 way market, Win / Lin / Mac, with none having a share > 50%. The key to avoiding lock in is to have platform diversity. That way everybody wins, except MS that is.
If I'm not mistaken, I believe that touring is actually the primary source of revenue for most artists. The typical deal is 50% of the box office for a venue. Think 20K people paying $40 a head and that's $400K for one night versus moving 250K CDs (1/2 to a gold record). Coldplay sold 8.3 million copies of X&Y globally, for a presumed global take of $13.2M on album sales (and X&Y was H-U-G-E). The band played 34 US cities for the supporting tour, not counting other countries, at an average take of $400K per stop for a presumed US take of $13.6M, that can probably be doubled given it was a global tour. So $27M for touring, versus $13M for album sales, granted that without the album, the tour would likely have been smaller venues than arenas.
Yeah ... AM/FM radio ... awesome ... 20 rap stations, 10 pop music stations playing exactly as many songs, and 1 reggaeton station ... awesome variety. AM/FM radio seriously blows. There should be a maximum of 2 stations of a particular genre in any given area. Where are the alternative, metal, electronica, and bluegrass AM/FM stations?
The tube analogy is a bad (tm) one. The internet is more like airports. There are small airports that fly into big hub airports. There is only so much room on an airplane. If the P2Petersons book 90% of the seats on the plane out of Poughkeepsie into Newark, then even though there are plenty of empty seats in Newark, the "bandwidth" from Poughkeepsie to Newark is crowded by the P2Petersons. In this case, the ISP only let's the P2Petersons have 25% of the seats on Newark bound planes. Wait no, the internet is more like a chocolate chip cookie, there is only room for sooooo many chocolate chips on the cookie ... :D