It's very clear -- the probe swept over an area that the owners didn't want surveyed, and set up us the bomb. Great justice was served.
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so the way to linux desktops to the masses is to charge MORE
make it a gamer/prestige thing, and the masses will follow
YES! People WILL pay more for quality, but will also doubt the value of something that comes for free. If you could afford a Mercedes instead of that Holden would you buy it? Yes. Would you buy that Mercedes if it cost less than that Holden? No. You might, being a clever Slashdotter, but the inadvertent humourists that comprise the common buying public would most likely not, as in the main they will equate price with quality (or am I wrong assuming most people buy Dells when their local magic lucky computer shop could do them a better deal?)
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Please understand, I love Apple AND Macs. Heh -- that sounds a bit like "both kinds of music".
Macs are a bit more expensive by design, I believe. Cultural exclusivity plays a small part in the pricing and marketing. But a strong economic reason for Macs being (a) perceivably better and (b) more expensive is that by narrowing their choice of common components down to a single set that they know integrate well, they are opting out of the competitive race that drives the costs and quality of a typical Windows PC down to least-common-denominator.
BTW I've worked for both Apple and Microsoft. Apple's reality distortion field was way nicer.
...identify the bias that is most likely to be present within this survey mechanism. Identify the impartial sources of review that have confirmed...
Aye. Follow the money, first rule.
True impartiality (a rare beast!) is not a required component of the truth in any case (biased sources can also tell the truth) but it is an essential part of the foundation of it's believability, and "following the money" is how you test it. "Following the money" is a label for a concept that includes chasing sources to identify people with a particular axe to grind, i.e. people with a vested interest in facts being presented a certain way, either for profit or other gain.
Filtering emotive language gives another clue, although clinical (i.e. non-emotive) language is not a pure test either -- you can select only agreeable facts from a sample and present them in a clinical fashion to imply or infer a preferred outcome. An example would be the cigarette advertisements in the 1950's that stated "Nine out of ten doctors prefer Camel cigarettes". It may not have been an outright lie (I suspect it was) but it's a case of a non-emotive language deliberately leading to an emotive conclusion.
Web sites can be like that too. Me dear sainted mum worked in marketing decades ago and told me a long time back that a person's sophistication will be measured in the future by the strength of their bullshit filter. I still believe that, and I'm trying to feed that attitude to my university-aged kids. A key element is to apply the test to your own cynicism, too...
...when you could stick an AM radio on top of the GA16/440, tune the radio to the far end of the band and listen to your programs compile. You could tell when it was sorting it's symbol table, was very melodic.
I think it might help if you think about the era Heinlein was born into -- culturally WWI and environs. Although his style is archaic by modern mores it helps to consider him as a bridging phenomenon -- we got where we are today by shifting from where we were then, and it's great to have some record of the steps in thinking between then and now. For example, in his day the military was the only visible source of integrity, people didn't challenge authority and women were perceived as without any career path beyond mother, nun or nurse.
Heinlein challenged everything, including the reader and most definitely himself. His SF was as real as he could make it -- before the advent of ubiquitous computing he and his lady sat in their room working iteratively through mounds of spherical trig functions by hand in order to get his orbits believable. That's character, that is. My wife says he's the most eminently readable author she's ever violently disagreed with.
...and work up from there, building your pun tolerance as you go. Fun guy to read, think I've got them all on the shelf, don't think I've read any of Spider's books just once.
There's a spider in Australia known as the "Huntsman". It's a bit venomous (not that much as most Australian spiders, probably no worse than an American black widow). It's real weapon is terror -- it's so big it scares its victims to death. About the size of your hand, they're very fast and they *leap*.
Not a real bad thing to see in your house though, as it means all the really nasty spiders have become Huntsman food. They don't seem to bother with webs. I don't think I'd want to cook with one of those, it would probably argue with me over the recipe & wouldn't wash the pots afterwards.
Is this just a situation where a judge is s*canning a case because he (a) knows that Yahoo or Gmail addresses are the equivalent of a blind P.O.Box address for a business, (b) knows the complaintant can just set up another email account when the first one's filters are clogged, or (c) has way too large a backlog of silly cases that are getting in the way of his reading Groklaw?
...with IE7. I have both running. With FF you can middle-click a link on the browser bar containing the bookmarks toolbar folder (analogous to IE7's "Links" folder) and it opens the link in a new tab. With IE7 you have to manually open a new tab by clicking the corner of an existing tab, then clicking the link on the "Links" toolbar. Firefox does this very common task with one less click than IE7, and that's why I use FF now -- even though the presentation of IE7 is a little more slick, and comes up quicker. It's only one click difference, but I use that feature quite a lot.
If every datacenter on the planet exploded tomorrow, your data would be right there on your computer. You always own it.
But... your computer is a datacentre too, isn't it? Pfffffft.... Goodbye. (j/k)
Actually the value of the datacentre as a repository for your data has nothing to do with whether you're a startup or not. What matters is the integrity of the data centre itself (hardware guarantees implicit in design of the comps, strength of the infrastructure, DRP structure, and the physical site integrity itself) in combination with the financial guarantees offered by those backing the running of the site; operational funds held in escrow, insurance, resilent and trustworthy business model.
One good trick you can use in your assessment is to check the "Company News" on http://www.nasdaq.com/ if they're a listed company, or the parent company of the people backing them. If they're a barefoot operation contact them directly and ask. If the CEO responds, try to guess their age....
I think it made the news because it's a bit worrying.
I think it made the news because of the concern that the work should have been subject to greater review. The research was normal enough stuff, but nobody likes a mad scientist. Nobody. NOBODY you hear! HAHAHAHAHAhahahah........
I'm not a mad scientist, honest. I'm being a penguin today.
Scariest moment was in Wall of Slaughter, having just run out of mana killing a named Bazu, and having Shadowhunter zorch us from the other side of the zone with his AOE and watch my air pet light out across the horizon at warp speed after it.
My keyboard took that moment to stick, and I couldn't kill my peLOADING..PLEASE WAIT.
Larry: Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, Linus's attorney would certainly want you to believe that his client wrote "Linux" ten years ago. And they make a good case. Hell, I almost felt pity myself! But, ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, I have one final thing I want you to consider. Ladies and gentlemen, this is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it; that does not make sense!
PJ: Dammit!
Linus: What you say?
PJ: He's using the Chewbacca Defense!
Larry: Why would a Wookiee, an eight-foot tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor, with a bunch of two-foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense! But more important, you have to ask yourself: What does this have to do with PS2 drivers? Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case! It does not make sense! Look at me. I'm a lawyer defending Santa Cruz Operations, and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca! Does that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense! None of this makes sense! And so you have to remember, when you're in that jury room deliberatin' and conjugatin' the Emancipation Proclamation, [approaches and softens] does it make sense? No! Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, it does not make sense! If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit! The defense rests.
etc...Bet they still have the 'default share' backdoor...etc
You know, I was going to dismiss that as a troll, but it's really quite a delightful rant. I can't help imagining how that would read as rap music though.
My late father was a jeweler and certified diamond rater (whatever that meant, but he studied hard for it). He said that all natural diamonds and sapphires, no matter how pure they look, have little inclusions and flaws in them. The way to tell them from the synthetic gems was that the synthetic gems were too perfect, and didn't have those microscopic flaws.
He also told me how to tell an artificial pearl from a real one -- the real one, he said, will dissolve in vinegar. Strange sense of humor he had.
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That just totally explains the taste of tap water in Adelaide.
It's very clear -- the probe swept over an area that the owners didn't want surveyed, and set up us the bomb. Great justice was served.
YES! People WILL pay more for quality, but will also doubt the value of something that comes for free. If you could afford a Mercedes instead of that Holden would you buy it? Yes. Would you buy that Mercedes if it cost less than that Holden? No. You might, being a clever Slashdotter, but the inadvertent humourists that comprise the common buying public would most likely not, as in the main they will equate price with quality (or am I wrong assuming most people buy Dells when their local magic lucky computer shop could do them a better deal?)
Macs are a bit more expensive by design, I believe. Cultural exclusivity plays a small part in the pricing and marketing. But a strong economic reason for Macs being (a) perceivably better and (b) more expensive is that by narrowing their choice of common components down to a single set that they know integrate well, they are opting out of the competitive race that drives the costs and quality of a typical Windows PC down to least-common-denominator.
BTW I've worked for both Apple and Microsoft. Apple's reality distortion field was way nicer.
Aye. Follow the money, first rule.
True impartiality (a rare beast!) is not a required component of the truth in any case (biased sources can also tell the truth) but it is an essential part of the foundation of it's believability, and "following the money" is how you test it. "Following the money" is a label for a concept that includes chasing sources to identify people with a particular axe to grind, i.e. people with a vested interest in facts being presented a certain way, either for profit or other gain.
Filtering emotive language gives another clue, although clinical (i.e. non-emotive) language is not a pure test either -- you can select only agreeable facts from a sample and present them in a clinical fashion to imply or infer a preferred outcome. An example would be the cigarette advertisements in the 1950's that stated "Nine out of ten doctors prefer Camel cigarettes". It may not have been an outright lie (I suspect it was) but it's a case of a non-emotive language deliberately leading to an emotive conclusion.
Web sites can be like that too. Me dear sainted mum worked in marketing decades ago and told me a long time back that a person's sophistication will be measured in the future by the strength of their bullshit filter. I still believe that, and I'm trying to feed that attitude to my university-aged kids. A key element is to apply the test to your own cynicism, too...
...because I'm not compatible with Vista either.
...when you could stick an AM radio on top of the GA16/440, tune the radio to the far end of the band and listen to your programs compile. You could tell when it was sorting it's symbol table, was very melodic.
I think it might help if you think about the era Heinlein was born into -- culturally WWI and environs. Although his style is archaic by modern mores it helps to consider him as a bridging phenomenon -- we got where we are today by shifting from where we were then, and it's great to have some record of the steps in thinking between then and now. For example, in his day the military was the only visible source of integrity, people didn't challenge authority and women were perceived as without any career path beyond mother, nun or nurse.
Heinlein challenged everything, including the reader and most definitely himself. His SF was as real as he could make it -- before the advent of ubiquitous computing he and his lady sat in their room working iteratively through mounds of spherical trig functions by hand in order to get his orbits believable. That's character, that is. My wife says he's the most eminently readable author she's ever violently disagreed with.
Yes, but I meant the positive root of the equation. I have read all of them more than once.
...and work up from there, building your pun tolerance as you go. Fun guy to read, think I've got them all on the shelf, don't think I've read any of Spider's books just once.
Dunno. I've always preferred info@telemarketing.com myself.
...but are these the same engineers who developed the Hindustani Marat with the piston-engined jet engine?
Not a real bad thing to see in your house though, as it means all the really nasty spiders have become Huntsman food. They don't seem to bother with webs. I don't think I'd want to cook with one of those, it would probably argue with me over the recipe & wouldn't wash the pots afterwards.
The word I think you want is retrophrenology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retro-phrenology. I suggest you visit a specialist and ask them.
Is this just a situation where a judge is s*canning a case because he (a) knows that Yahoo or Gmail addresses are the equivalent of a blind P.O.Box address for a business, (b) knows the complaintant can just set up another email account when the first one's filters are clogged, or (c) has way too large a backlog of silly cases that are getting in the way of his reading Groklaw?
...I think people are going to have to go back to making their own music again.
CA are the trash bond merchants of the IT world. Buy, strip, dump.
...with IE7. I have both running. With FF you can middle-click a link on the browser bar containing the bookmarks toolbar folder (analogous to IE7's "Links" folder) and it opens the link in a new tab. With IE7 you have to manually open a new tab by clicking the corner of an existing tab, then clicking the link on the "Links" toolbar. Firefox does this very common task with one less click than IE7, and that's why I use FF now -- even though the presentation of IE7 is a little more slick, and comes up quicker. It's only one click difference, but I use that feature quite a lot.
But... your computer is a datacentre too, isn't it? Pfffffft.... Goodbye. (j/k)
Actually the value of the datacentre as a repository for your data has nothing to do with whether you're a startup or not. What matters is the integrity of the data centre itself (hardware guarantees implicit in design of the comps, strength of the infrastructure, DRP structure, and the physical site integrity itself) in combination with the financial guarantees offered by those backing the running of the site; operational funds held in escrow, insurance, resilent and trustworthy business model.
One good trick you can use in your assessment is to check the "Company News" on http://www.nasdaq.com/ if they're a listed company, or the parent company of the people backing them. If they're a barefoot operation contact them directly and ask. If the CEO responds, try to guess their age....
I think it made the news because of the concern that the work should have been subject to greater review. The research was normal enough stuff, but nobody likes a mad scientist. Nobody. NOBODY you hear! HAHAHAHAHAhahahah........
I'm not a mad scientist, honest. I'm being a penguin today.
My keyboard took that moment to stick, and I couldn't kill my peLOADING..PLEASE WAIT.
PJ: Dammit!
Linus: What you say?
PJ: He's using the Chewbacca Defense!
Larry: Why would a Wookiee, an eight-foot tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor, with a bunch of two-foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense! But more important, you have to ask yourself: What does this have to do with PS2 drivers? Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case! It does not make sense! Look at me. I'm a lawyer defending Santa Cruz Operations, and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca! Does that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense! None of this makes sense! And so you have to remember, when you're in that jury room deliberatin' and conjugatin' the Emancipation Proclamation, [approaches and softens] does it make sense? No! Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, it does not make sense! If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit! The defense rests.
You know, I was going to dismiss that as a troll, but it's really quite a delightful rant. I can't help imagining how that would read as rap music though.
"If it doesn't matter if you win or lose," said Whorf brusquely, "then why do you bother keeping score?"
He also told me how to tell an artificial pearl from a real one -- the real one, he said, will dissolve in vinegar. Strange sense of humor he had.