To me this sounds like a bunch of commie whiners that call for artificially higher prices.
CDs were the digital replacement for LPs. At replacement time the cost for making CDs was much higher than for LPs and that is how record companies justified a 100% price increase. When production costs of CDs reduced to even less than, LPs the record companies remained silent. Nowadays production costs of CDs are negligible and the record industry is not quite suffering.
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For the funny porpose I'm merely suggesting an evolution analog to MacOS. Back in the 80s, Mac and Amiga ran on almost identical hardware. I bet you can find more details yourself.
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I'd do the sensible thing: 1) migrate to ppc, 2) put in large chunks of BSD code and 3) migrate to x86.
I found a way at achieve world peace. It currently consists in the idea that people not killing each other. Next release will address beating up and screwing over.
with no guidance as to what the problem was and nothing at all about where to start looking...
So you're a web master and you don't know how to check if the content you're mastering
is OK. We clearly have to redefine the word master.
The whole thing would be moot if anybody bothered to implement CD-Text
That'd be great and then I'd only have to re-buy my 400 CDs. CD-Text would be welcomed but FreeDB will be around for a while. Get real buddy.
What's the first negative number? I'd say negative one is the first not the last.
Just speak it out loud: "First century before Christ" and "Last century before Christ"
How about: 1 century before Christ
OK, so I'm in pedantic mode here but shouldn't it be "last century B.C." instead of "1st century B.C."?
After all, "1st century B.C." is the century the world started. Tricky to get that half right to say the least. And if we take the starting of the universe into consideration it sort of gets hopeles.
Wrong. More money results in people being assessed more thoroughly before being offered a job. That may result in slightly more skilled people. However, the math function is not linear. I'd say you spend twice the amount of money and the skills rise by 10%.
On a longer term, quality assurance would be the key. However, QA costs heaps of money -not to pay teachers- and any experienced and good QA person in a government organization will be bought away in a New York second by commercial companies.
I didn't expect so many reactions and I certainly didn't expect to be modded up.
Some got smart, some got funny others rude. That's expected on slashdot.
But nobody did the maths. How many slashdot readers with $300 to burn are there? 1% of nerds in USA counts for 3M, 1% of nerds in EU counts for another 3M. And out of 6M the 100'000 mark was not reached? That's 1 in 60.
Let's assume the $100 PC is crap and that I was wrong. Usually 1 in 60 is wrong but in this case only 1 in 1631 was wrong.
I'm one of the 1631 and I must be a really stupid idiot.
You'd say PledgeBank would run into a problem in handling all the applications by all them righteous slashdotters. You know, the geeks that get bullied, kicked and bashed because they read books, are proficient with computers, value educated discussion and surely would want to give poorer people a shot at being educated.
... But they didn't...
There must a whole bunch of cheapskates here on slashdot.
FYI, I pledged for three. Then, for a short time, I contemplated to let them keep the third PC as well. But that is betrayal because you shouldn't dump second grade stuff onto the 3rd world. I decided to actually use the third one seriously and to contribute at least with bug reports.
Hell, I even convinced my not-so-techie brother to pledge and he did. And also consider that we're not from the USA. We're from a part of the world where USD 300 is a higher percentage of our nett income.
Is this the same software Borat Sagdiyev used to translate the title of his film?
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
I confess. I looked at the pictures. I had dirty thoughts. I looked long enough to conclude. Then, I relativated and went immediately back to work. I will penance myself.
24 x 80 chars should be enough. Seriously. It's 2006 and I do a lot of work on xterms. OK, somtimes I resise them a bit but I develop as if I still had 24 x 80. Trust me, code and documents look better using k+r style. Even in Java.
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To me this sounds like a bunch of commie whiners that call for artificially higher prices.
CDs were the digital replacement for LPs. At replacement time the cost for making CDs was much higher than for LPs and that is how record companies justified a 100% price increase. When production costs of CDs reduced to even less than, LPs the record companies remained silent. Nowadays production costs of CDs are negligible and the record industry is not quite suffering.
Good luck migrating to PPC, the OS was written for... duh uhh, PPC :/.
Nice try but no cigar: The Amiga personal computer was based on the Motorola 68k series of 16-bit and 32-bit microprocessors.
For the funny porpose I'm merely suggesting an evolution analog to MacOS. Back in the 80s, Mac and Amiga ran on almost identical hardware. I bet you can find more details yourself.
I'd do the sensible thing: 1) migrate to ppc, 2) put in large chunks of BSD code and 3) migrate to x86.
tr 'A-Za-z' 'N-ZA-Mn-za-m'
The girlfriend. She loves bilingualism.
I found a way at achieve world peace. It currently consists in the idea that people not killing each other. Next release will address beating up and screwing over.
Plase send my Nobel prize to spaghetti@pattern.
Hint: Google for "java gpl"
Throttle network traffic is great ... if either your network or your server capacity suck.
Yesterday was Swiss Wii launch too. Very orederly. Very planned. Very Swiss. Very boring.
I preordered my Wii and had to wait a full 10 seconds before being served. Couldn't get a second Wii Remote though which is a must.
Judging from the configuration screens the Wii seems to have an optional LAN adpater which I would favour over WiFi.
What happens when the sun goes behind a cloud?
Worse still, what happens when the sun hides behind the earth where he can't be seen? (I know the bugger, he's a bastard and does so regularly.)
We need site redundancy. One plant in the US, one in Russia and one in the Sahara.
Don't worry, we'll get the sun of a bitch 24/7.
with no guidance as to what the problem was and nothing at all about where to start looking...
So you're a web master and you don't know how to check if the content you're mastering is OK. We clearly have to redefine the word master .
The whole thing would be moot if anybody bothered to implement CD-Text
That'd be great and then I'd only have to re-buy my 400 CDs. CD-Text would be welcomed but FreeDB will be around for a while. Get real buddy.
What's the first negative number? I'd say negative one is the first not the last.
Just speak it out loud: "First century before Christ" and "Last century before Christ"
How about: 1 century before Christ
OK, so I'm in pedantic mode here but shouldn't it be "last century B.C." instead of "1st century B.C."?
After all, "1st century B.C." is the century the world started. Tricky to get that half right to say the least. And if we take the starting of the universe into consideration it sort of gets hopeles.
An entire third of your life will be spent not doing or experiencing anything.
I tend to work out problems in my sleep. I'm not shitting you.
Besides phisical recovery my believe is that sleep is needed to defragment the brain. If only we had a better file system in our brain!
- Helen Duval
- Busty...
Wait Girl GeeksInteroperability... Are they are putting in decent VT100 terminal support for a mere few 100 M$ ? Sure.
offering more money gets you more skilled people
Wrong. More money results in people being assessed more thoroughly before being offered a job. That may result in slightly more skilled people. However, the math function is not linear. I'd say you spend twice the amount of money and the skills rise by 10%.
On a longer term, quality assurance would be the key. However, QA costs heaps of money -not to pay teachers- and any experienced and good QA person in a government organization will be bought away in a New York second by commercial companies.
It's the economic class struggle...
Remind me to sue my neighbours for their house being #41.
I take the fact your neighbours are wealthy and that you're not to be a mere coincidence.
I didn't expect so many reactions and I certainly didn't expect to be modded up.
Some got smart, some got funny others rude. That's expected on slashdot.
But nobody did the maths. How many slashdot readers with $300 to burn are there? 1% of nerds in USA counts for 3M, 1% of nerds in EU counts for another 3M. And out of 6M the 100'000 mark was not reached? That's 1 in 60.
Let's assume the $100 PC is crap and that I was wrong. Usually 1 in 60 is wrong but in this case only 1 in 1631 was wrong.
I'm one of the 1631 and I must be a really stupid idiot.
You'd say PledgeBank would run into a problem in handling all the applications by all them righteous slashdotters. You know, the geeks that get bullied, kicked and bashed because they read books, are proficient with computers, value educated discussion and surely would want to give poorer people a shot at being educated.
... But they didn't ...
There must a whole bunch of cheapskates here on slashdot.
FYI, I pledged for three. Then, for a short time, I contemplated to let them keep the third PC as well. But that is betrayal because you shouldn't dump second grade stuff onto the 3rd world. I decided to actually use the third one seriously and to contribute at least with bug reports.
Hell, I even convinced my not-so-techie brother to pledge and he did. And also consider that we're not from the USA. We're from a part of the world where USD 300 is a higher percentage of our nett income.
I know, the starter of this thread was modded funny but he touched an essencial point. US TV shows are crap exactly because of this.
Is this the same software Borat Sagdiyev used to translate the title of his film? Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
I confess. I looked at the pictures. I had dirty thoughts. I looked long enough to conclude. Then, I relativated and went immediately back to work. I will penance myself.
24 x 80 chars should be enough. Seriously. It's 2006 and I do a lot of work on xterms. OK, somtimes I resise them a bit but I develop as if I still had 24 x 80. Trust me, code and documents look better using k+r style. Even in Java.