How many of those people would shell out cash and show up at a concert, anyway? After all, they wouldn't even pony up a few bucks for the CD - they downloaded it instead, remember?
Most of the concerts I've been to, I didn't buy the CD either - I listened to the band on the radio.
6.7 deciJobs is.67 Jobs. You're thinking deka. Still too large, though.
As to whether a Jobs can be exceeded - it's a field, so what's being measured is the extent of that field. Jobs' RDF is large, but you can get out of it. I know someone with a smaller one that extends only a few yards - when you're within it, you believe Smalltalk is still viable and ParcPlace still exists (Hi Eliot!).
Half of the mail I got yesterday was the virus (and I'm on a Mac, so nyah) and the other half was Norton AntiVirus saying somebody I didn't know had tried to send me an infected email. I forwarded every one of them to abuse@symantec.com, telling them to fix their software to not do that.
Let's just admit that we're going to be seeing someone's ads or paying a fee.
You're assuming xor, but with AIM, it was both - I stopped using AIM because, despite the fact that I was paying for an AOL account, I couldn't turn off the ads.
The film cost Universal $150 million to make and distribute, but anyone with a fast Internet connection, a big hard drive and plenty of time could see it free.
The amount it cost to make is irrelevant. Anyone willing to wait a year and put up with ads will get to see it free, too. People so eager to see a film that they'll watch it on their monitor will probably want to see it on the big screen - if it's good. What really hurt them were all those early reviews by the people who DL'd it and told their friends it sucked.
The days when a bad movie can make a big chunk of its cost in the first weekend before anyone knows it sucks are gone. Compare the BO of Battlefield Earth to Gigli.
I'd think the tall letters and the ones that go below the baseline (damn, I used to know the terminology for that) still need to go in the right places - "inprotmat" vs their "iprmoetnt", for instance.
Actually, reading words as a whole rather than as individual letters is one coping mechanism for dyslexia.
(Well, there is a subtle distinction in that Apple serves as a store, but in the modern computer age, distribution through the internet is just as good as manufacturing/label.
"just as good"? I don't go to Sony when I want songs, I go to Barnes&Noble or CDWarehouse, or iTMS.
When I think of Apple Records, I think of a 45 single with a green apple on the label, back in 1970, when I was 5.
Back in the mid-80s, my college physics class could get extra credit for running an Apple][ physics tutorial in the computer lab - commercial software, mind you.
Only thing was, as soon as it brought up the graphics, it crashed.
This being Applesoft Basic, the code was right there, so I checked it out - it used hires, instead of hires2, and the program extended into hires memory - so as soon as you hit the hires command, it erased part of the program.
Reloaded it, changed it to hires2, saved it, and off it went. I have no idea why nobody had ever complained about it being broken.
As things get more complex, the entry to learning about them gets higher.
Feynman got his start by taking apart TVs and radios to see how they worked. By the time I was a kid, that wasn't possible, but I did build a crystal radio from a kit.
My first computer was an Apple ][, and I knew how it all fit together, both hardware and software. Today's kids have little chance of doing that with their own computers. This could be the next generation's equivalent of a crystal radio kit.
Speaking of Piers Anthony, I often wondered if either of his autobiographies ever addressed [underage sex]
I opened one of them at random, and he was talking about 12-yos having sex - it may have been him discussing his own experiences, I didn't read that much of it.
(oh, and if you think the precocious 12-yo is bad, there's a precocious 5-yo in Firefly? Dragonfly? something like that)
I would hope that most people who have grown up using the English system of measures would have a good grasp on the weight of a ton.
Why? I've never had to deal with a ton of anything - it's far more common to see "ton" used to mean "lots" than to mean "2000 pounds". In fact, if it weren't for the Amazon ads a few years back, I wouldn't even remember that a ton has 2000 pounds ("that's a lot of toys").
Newbies may not have the skill to estimate acurately, but 8x? So your saying if a newbie programmer think it'll take a month to do something, it really takes eight? That is not an acceptable time schedule.
Well, by the end of the first month, the newbie isn't a newbie anymore, so he ought to start speeding up.
If not, well, maybe you shouldn't have hired a newbie.
Life is "slow, tedious, deliberate and boring". Would you really want to watch a movie where, when someone arrived on a plane, 20 minutes were devoted to watching it land, taxi around, wait at the gate, move the ramp out, etc? Or would you rather cut to the point where the passenger gets out the door?
Not me, however I'd have been satisfied with the high-tech stuff without the doll.
Seriously, though, through most of history toys have been teaching tools, not mere playthings - girls had dolls to learn how to take care of children, etc. So a high-tech toy is more appropriate for today's children than an "old fashioned doll"
How people spend so much time complaining about spam (unauthorized use of bandwidth) yet have no trouble at all making unauthorized use of someone else's data (file trading).
The overlap between those two sets is probably smaller than you think - everyone I know hates spam, while I doubt I know many file traders.
Defining spam as "any e-mail I don't want" is probably part of the problem with having a working anti-spam policy. It is also an incorrect definition of spam.
Who does that? Most people define spam as unsolicited bulk email. Whether it's commercial or not really doesn't matter, the important part is that it's unsolicited.
It also makes it impossible for people to do business, since it will be impossible for people to introduce themselves through e-mail.
Whoa. So before email, it was "impossible for people to do business"?. Funny, all the companies I deal with online manage just fine without spamming me.
I tried to talk my mom into analyzing newsgroups while she was working on an anthropology degree - don't remember all the parallels, but there were a lot: shunning = killfiling, and so on.
An oddity produced by the rules of chess (trying to fit L-shaped moves on a square board makes finding a knight's tour obviously more challenging than finding a queen's tour
You'd think so, but I stumbled on an algorithm for it back in college (for a programming challenge on an Apple ][, no less) - start in one corner, pick a direction, and spiral around, always picking the outermost available spot. I didn't have any reason for thinking this would work, I just thought that was an interesting starting assumption.
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Most of the concerts I've been to, I didn't buy the CD either - I listened to the band on the radio.
As to whether a Jobs can be exceeded - it's a field, so what's being measured is the extent of that field. Jobs' RDF is large, but you can get out of it. I know someone with a smaller one that extends only a few yards - when you're within it, you believe Smalltalk is still viable and ParcPlace still exists (Hi Eliot!).
Half of the mail I got yesterday was the virus (and I'm on a Mac, so nyah) and the other half was Norton AntiVirus saying somebody I didn't know had tried to send me an infected email. I forwarded every one of them to abuse@symantec.com, telling them to fix their software to not do that.
Actually, if they're that clueless, odds are they're running IE with the default settings, so they get the MS search page when they mistype something.
You're assuming xor, but with AIM, it was both - I stopped using AIM because, despite the fact that I was paying for an AOL account, I couldn't turn off the ads.
Is this something my ISP needs to do, or do I need it on my machine?
Actually, they all infringe against Parc's Smalltalk (which is wny Apple lost to MS in the first place)
The amount it cost to make is irrelevant. Anyone willing to wait a year and put up with ads will get to see it free, too. People so eager to see a film that they'll watch it on their monitor will probably want to see it on the big screen - if it's good. What really hurt them were all those early reviews by the people who DL'd it and told their friends it sucked.
The days when a bad movie can make a big chunk of its cost in the first weekend before anyone knows it sucks are gone. Compare the BO of Battlefield Earth to Gigli.
Actually, reading words as a whole rather than as individual letters is one coping mechanism for dyslexia.
Yeah, she could go work for SCO
"just as good"? I don't go to Sony when I want songs, I go to Barnes&Noble or CDWarehouse, or iTMS.
When I think of Apple Records, I think of a 45 single with a green apple on the label, back in 1970, when I was 5.
It's the corollary to Sturgeon's Law: the "Golden Age" looks so good because we've forgotten the 90% that's crap.
Back in the mid-80s, my college physics class could get extra credit for running an Apple][ physics tutorial in the computer lab - commercial software, mind you.
Only thing was, as soon as it brought up the graphics, it crashed.
This being Applesoft Basic, the code was right there, so I checked it out - it used hires, instead of hires2, and the program extended into hires memory - so as soon as you hit the hires command, it erased part of the program.
Reloaded it, changed it to hires2, saved it, and off it went. I have no idea why nobody had ever complained about it being broken.
(Gotta love open source)
Feynman got his start by taking apart TVs and radios to see how they worked. By the time I was a kid, that wasn't possible, but I did build a crystal radio from a kit.
My first computer was an Apple ][, and I knew how it all fit together, both hardware and software. Today's kids have little chance of doing that with their own computers. This could be the next generation's equivalent of a crystal radio kit.
_Glory Road_? Only book I can find by that name is Heinlein's sword-and-(sufficiently advanced technology which looks like) sorcery.
I opened one of them at random, and he was talking about 12-yos having sex - it may have been him discussing his own experiences, I didn't read that much of it.
(oh, and if you think the precocious 12-yo is bad, there's a precocious 5-yo in Firefly? Dragonfly? something like that)
Why? I've never had to deal with a ton of anything - it's far more common to see "ton" used to mean "lots" than to mean "2000 pounds". In fact, if it weren't for the Amazon ads a few years back, I wouldn't even remember that a ton has 2000 pounds ("that's a lot of toys").
That's no reason to vote for it this year, when it hasn't been deserving.
Well, by the end of the first month, the newbie isn't a newbie anymore, so he ought to start speeding up.
If not, well, maybe you shouldn't have hired a newbie.
Well, he could send out a mass email to everyone who's ever used his lists...
Life is "slow, tedious, deliberate and boring". Would you really want to watch a movie where, when someone arrived on a plane, 20 minutes were devoted to watching it land, taxi around, wait at the gate, move the ramp out, etc? Or would you rather cut to the point where the passenger gets out the door?
Seriously, though, through most of history toys have been teaching tools, not mere playthings - girls had dolls to learn how to take care of children, etc. So a high-tech toy is more appropriate for today's children than an "old fashioned doll"
The overlap between those two sets is probably smaller than you think - everyone I know hates spam, while I doubt I know many file traders.
Defining spam as "any e-mail I don't want" is probably part of the problem with having a working anti-spam policy. It is also an incorrect definition of spam.
Who does that? Most people define spam as unsolicited bulk email. Whether it's commercial or not really doesn't matter, the important part is that it's unsolicited.
It also makes it impossible for people to do business, since it will be impossible for people to introduce themselves through e-mail.
Whoa. So before email, it was "impossible for people to do business"?. Funny, all the companies I deal with online manage just fine without spamming me.
I tried to talk my mom into analyzing newsgroups while she was working on an anthropology degree - don't remember all the parallels, but there were a lot: shunning = killfiling, and so on.
You'd think so, but I stumbled on an algorithm for it back in college (for a programming challenge on an Apple ][, no less) - start in one corner, pick a direction, and spiral around, always picking the outermost available spot. I didn't have any reason for thinking this would work, I just thought that was an interesting starting assumption.