The people who've designed this want their product to be top-of-the-line.
They're making an expensive product because they're after the high end of the market.
That segment does exist. They're the people who buy technology when it first comes out at a ridiculous price.
When the price of their parts goes down, so will the price of the keyboard, and then they might increase their marketshare significantly. Perhaps major computer manufacturers would begin bundling their keyboard with their systems.
Until then, however, they're targetting people with a lot of money. If they didn't, insteading downgrading its sexiness as you suggested, their product would have no one who wants it. It wouldn't be good enough for the high end or cheap enough for the low end.
You may have a valid point in general, but I think the application to Google is unfounded.
Google's not deceiving anyone. TFA seems to be complaining that Google would rather talk about food than reveal their plans for new products.
Really now, if you were running Google, would you want to just tell everyone what you're working on?
They have the right to have trade secrets, and I like that Google doesn't try to sell people on vaporware like so many other companies. Instead, they wait till they've got a good product before releasing it.
That's precisely the problem. Once MS integrates a sufficiently capable search engine into IE and Windows, grannie will just use that, because that's where MS's Search button takes her.
I think you're forgetting that the people you describe are car enthusiasts. Most people are not software enthusiasts; therefore, they're likely to continue to use whatever's easiest or cheapest for them.
Not only do many people neglect to compare software before buying -- many don't even know there are alternatives.
That's hardly a concern in a market. Do you like your car manufacturer and the companies that make your clothes? Unless you're interested in cars or fashion, the answer may well be 'no'. Likewise it is with most people and their software companies. They don't care who makes it so long as it works, which for them means much less than for us.
Don't be too amazed. Generally, when a local government exercises its power of eminent domain, it does so to rid itself of urban blight or to increase its scope by building a school or a park. Those are all liberal causes.
What is amazing is how short-sighted the so-called liberal justices are being. Surely they could see the dire consequences of this as easily as we can.
Do you really mean to suggest that legislators might relinquish their powers?
Interpreting the Constitution *is* the Supreme Court's job. Why they would want to shy away from that is beyond me.
One of the main reasons to have a judicial branch is to protect minorities from unjust actions from majorities [1]. But today, the Court ruled it perfectly legal for governments to abolish the property rights of any group of citizens it pleases without proper cause.
It is a sad day indeed.
[1] For more information, see _The Federalist Papers_
That reminds me of a quote. It says something like, "There's a fundamental flaw with America's Constitution: only a crazy man would run for President."
The same ambition that drives people to top positions can also cause them to stoop to unethical practices in order to compete. That's as true for PhDs as it is for MBAs.
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Not to mention ACM and IEEE after all the work they went through to create codes of ethics.
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Yes, I certainly did.
I couldn't help but wonder: Isn't the GPL released under the GPL?
Then compare software engineering to newer engineering and scientific disciplines. No matter how you slice it, no one fouls up as much or as grandly as programmers. (I'm not saying, of course, that programmers are solely to blame.)
Nowadays the state of the art has moved on and there is no excuse, none at all, for malloc/free.
You've obviously never done any embedded programming.
The low-level capabilities of C/C++ are there by design. That's why it contains the keywords union and register, for example.
What's more, if everyone jumps on the virtual machine and garbage collection bandwagons, new problems pop up. Abstractions and convienences inevitably foul up, and often lead to poor programs overall.
The onus for performance should rest with application developers, not compiler developers. Thus, the solution here is for developers to be properly trained and then to take responsibility for such matters as memory leaks. It looks to me that that's exactly what the Firefox team intends to do.
At present, providing enough battery life is a problem. But battery technology is improving all the time, and Mr Bryant does not see it as a major obstacle.
It's not the medium that gets people fired; it's the content.
When people misrepresent their company, they get canned.
Doesn't matter if they do it in a blog. Doesn't matter if they do it with a frog. Doesn't matter if they do it in a book. Companies only care how they look.
The world is flat, and it helps to understand the Ricardian specialization at play, and how clusters of capabilities are not only a natural, but a good thing. The book actually suggests this as a fact and value argument, I am imposing a frame of value.
This guy could use some -- and maybe a lesson in grammar while he's at it.
1. What style is the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet user interface?
The user interface has its roots in the smartphone Series 90 user interface and has been specifically adapted for the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet. Features such as one hand usage, zooming, panning and full screen have been designed to create a convenient Internet usage experience.
What makes this different is that it's possible that something about the parents (profession, income, lifestyle) affects their children's genders. That's counterintuitive. One would think gender would depend only on chance since it's the chromosome from the sperm that decides gender.
As another poster mentioned, diet has been shown to correlate with gender. Perhaps certain diets lend themselves to an increase in certain chromosomes in men's sperm.
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The people who've designed this want their product to be top-of-the-line.
They're making an expensive product because they're after the high end of the market.
That segment does exist. They're the people who buy technology when it first comes out at a ridiculous price.
When the price of their parts goes down, so will the price of the keyboard, and then they might increase their marketshare significantly. Perhaps major computer manufacturers would begin bundling their keyboard with their systems.
Until then, however, they're targetting people with a lot of money. If they didn't, insteading downgrading its sexiness as you suggested, their product would have no one who wants it. It wouldn't be good enough for the high end or cheap enough for the low end.
You may have a valid point in general, but I think the application to Google is unfounded.
Google's not deceiving anyone. TFA seems to be complaining that Google would rather talk about food than reveal their plans for new products.
Really now, if you were running Google, would you want to just tell everyone what you're working on?
They have the right to have trade secrets, and I like that Google doesn't try to sell people on vaporware like so many other companies. Instead, they wait till they've got a good product before releasing it.
When I turn off Javascript, the page stops working properly.
Looks like someone's got more work ahead of him.
The reporter didn't even seek comment from ICANN, Dept. of Commerce or anyone from the U.S. government.
No kidding. I'm on page 100, and I'm still not out of the Introduction.
That's precisely the problem. Once MS integrates a sufficiently capable search engine into IE and Windows, grannie will just use that, because that's where MS's Search button takes her.
I think you're forgetting that the people you describe are car enthusiasts. Most people are not software enthusiasts; therefore, they're likely to continue to use whatever's easiest or cheapest for them.
Not only do many people neglect to compare software before buying -- many don't even know there are alternatives.
That's hardly a concern in a market. Do you like your car manufacturer and the companies that make your clothes? Unless you're interested in cars or fashion, the answer may well be 'no'. Likewise it is with most people and their software companies. They don't care who makes it so long as it works, which for them means much less than for us.
Don't be too amazed. Generally, when a local government exercises its power of eminent domain, it does so to rid itself of urban blight or to increase its scope by building a school or a park. Those are all liberal causes.
What is amazing is how short-sighted the so-called liberal justices are being. Surely they could see the dire consequences of this as easily as we can.
Do you really mean to suggest that legislators might relinquish their powers?
Interpreting the Constitution *is* the Supreme Court's job. Why they would want to shy away from that is beyond me.
One of the main reasons to have a judicial branch is to protect minorities from unjust actions from majorities [1]. But today, the Court ruled it perfectly legal for governments to abolish the property rights of any group of citizens it pleases without proper cause.
It is a sad day indeed.
[1] For more information, see _The Federalist Papers_
That reminds me of a quote. It says something like, "There's a fundamental flaw with America's Constitution: only a crazy man would run for President."
The same ambition that drives people to top positions can also cause them to stoop to unethical practices in order to compete. That's as true for PhDs as it is for MBAs.
Not to mention ACM and IEEE after all the work they went through to create codes of ethics.
Yes, I certainly did.
I couldn't help but wonder: Isn't the GPL released under the GPL?
Then compare software engineering to newer engineering and scientific disciplines. No matter how you slice it, no one fouls up as much or as grandly as programmers. (I'm not saying, of course, that programmers are solely to blame.)
It's about cotton-pickin' time, for cryin' out loud.
You've obviously never done any embedded programming.
The low-level capabilities of C/C++ are there by design. That's why it contains the keywords union and register, for example.
What's more, if everyone jumps on the virtual machine and garbage collection bandwagons, new problems pop up. Abstractions and convienences inevitably foul up, and often lead to poor programs overall.
The onus for performance should rest with application developers, not compiler developers. Thus, the solution here is for developers to be properly trained and then to take responsibility for such matters as memory leaks. It looks to me that that's exactly what the Firefox team intends to do.
That first point is spot on.
The people who need libraries the most, the poor, will benefit the least from this proposal.
Besides, the idea of tying money into this equation is fundamentally flawed. Privacy should cost nothing.
I sense a strong SEP field here...
It's not the medium that gets people fired; it's the content.
When people misrepresent their company, they get canned.
Doesn't matter if they do it in a blog.
Doesn't matter if they do it with a frog.
Doesn't matter if they do it in a book.
Companies only care how they look.
Speaking of blogging talent:
This guy could use some -- and maybe a lesson in grammar while he's at it.
That petrol doesn't need hokey religions and ancient weapons.
The petrol shot first.
No, but we sorely need one, obviously.
Congress recently began hearings to look into this matter but have yet to pass any legislation.
What makes this different is that it's possible that something about the parents (profession, income, lifestyle) affects their children's genders. That's counterintuitive. One would think gender would depend only on chance since it's the chromosome from the sperm that decides gender.
As another poster mentioned, diet has been shown to correlate with gender. Perhaps certain diets lend themselves to an increase in certain chromosomes in men's sperm.
"We will never make a 32-bit operating system, but I'll always love IBM." -- Bill Gates at the launch of MSX.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Gates