The manufactures are still marketing the products as "mp3" Players even though they have support for different formats. So people might buy things like the rio karma and the dell jukebox because they are "mp3" Players, odds are they'll end up putting wma's on them. As the story says, many people don't know the difference and don't really care that much.
The story says that he sold his company to Novell for 120 million. While he could theoretically have made billions, its a little hard for me to shed a tear for him.
But, this is a completely different set of people behind this. Plus, it isn't nearly as easy to make it work on Linux or windows. And the product is not used by any major fortune 500 company in any missions critical sense that I know of.
This is ontopic. AOL does more to perpetuate stupidity than anyother company. ITs comercians now ask for suggustions on how AOL can "improve the internet". As if they are in charge of the entire network. They also promise to provide users with a "Better Internet". Thats just wrong. They mean "a Better Internet Experience",but they leave out the last word in an attempt to confuse people. It worked in the mid 90's when people would come over to my house and ask if I had AOL. I'd tell them that I had a different connection to the Internet, and they'd be really confused. They really thought that AOL owned the internet. It took a lot of convincing to get people off because they so closely identified the two. Only once buisness started hooking up work computers to the internet did people start to understand. My parents still don't.
Getting back to the parent, yes many companies deliberatly blur the line between their product and the industry in an attempt to become synonomous with it. AOL,Yahoo,Google, and Mircrosoft all do it. Just try explaing a guy on the street about the difference between windows and gnu/linux/kde. No one knows what an operating system is. They think windows is built into the case or something.
What can I say... That's just your opinion, and if you have a hard time accepting others, feeling the need to look down on others, you're just narrow-minded.
That is by far the coolest quote I've found on slashdot. I think it really speaks for itself. Someday, I dream of cobbling together such an utterance into such a form.
Sometimes with analogies there is a tendance to go overboard. I understand that. But, Honestly even you must understand that there is a huge difference between the evils of hittler and the stupidity of bush. I agree 100% with the point you are trying to get accross, but thats such a bad "example".
Something tells me you're angry with Bush. And we all know where that leads... ( Oh, the irony)
Do you think that oil was created in the supernova of a star? It came from decaying plant and animal material. So whats wrong with putting the carbon back into things that will eventually ( Billions of years later) return it to where it came from? What no pateince? What we need is a way to facilitate the means of turning plant material back into usable fuel... Biodiseal. If we can some how make that transformation more efficient we will have our solution.
Just create one that cheats. You just need to figure out the signature of the other S/M programs, emulate it and exploit it. You know in advance now how its going to respond every time.
Java's been in release for almost 10 years,.NET for 5 and the Parrot VM has made it to beta yet. So no, its not time to consider Perl/Python/Ruby via Parrot as a very serious choice for doing any high level application programming.
Which, since the pope doesn't even speak English (I don't know if he knows English, but it's not his native tongue), so we might ask what exactly he means by 'defects'
He speaks at least seven languages fluently (Polish, German, French, English, Spanish, Latin, Italian, and Portuguese) . He is one of the most intelligent people on this planet. Just wanted to clear that up.
The church in that statement is saying that some people's churches practices have defects, not the people themselves. Sort of like how America's justice system has defects, but that doesn't make each American 'defective'.
Yeah that will piss bill off. People that wanted to buy an apple will just buy a windows pc, Cherry and OSX. That will really tick him off. Drain off all of the apple hardware margins and increase windows revenue. Life must suck for him right now.
It means they should make ie cross platform. Think of all of the wonderful viri you could have! Actually, if they were to ever revive IE for unix, it might just kill mozilla. IF you were a big enterprise trying to switch over to linux and had the option of keeping IE installed for those custom enteprise web solutions you'd do it in a heart beat. I think it would be even cooler if microsoft released it for linux, but not for free. Just make the browser cost ~ $100 and they'd make up for the lack of the windows license. However, the power of the monopoly is worth far more than any revenue to be gained from Ie for linux sales.
If Hibernate is your poster child, you need a new child. Or poster. Or analogy. OR maybe its like a child poster on a milk carton. Have you seen this technology? It was last sighted in 2001 shortly after its birth.
What qualifies a country to be in the 1st, 2nd or 3rd world? You always hear about 1st and 3rd world contries, but what is a 2nd world country? Are there any examples? China and India have bustling cities that have the comforts of a 1st world contry, but also areas of vast poverty. So where do they belong? My gut would say that should be the definition of the 2nd world countries that we never hear about.
Its UI is nowhere near Visual Studio. You can't even view an entire module's code inside a single window. Maybe its good compared to visual basic 4, but anything beyond that smokes it. I should say that its actually the easiest and maybe best way to develop on a Mac, but for windows it doesn't get any better than.Net. Also beware of its cross platform capabilites. Often you will find yourself needing an extention ( sort of like a dll) and those are written in native code and are not cross platform. But if you aren't doing anything too OS specific, and you need cross platform capability, I would recomend this over Java.
Its also sorta cool how it doesn't require any runtime. It just compiles that into the.exe. Of course that makes the executable's size big, but still smaller than a runtime and the executable combined.
I realise that I'm in the minority when it comes to these things, but I will never buy a new car. Its such a bad deal. Why buy new when youcan buy a used car so much cheaper? You could buy a really nice used car fro $12,000. I'd much rather have a larger used car that could fit more stuff, then this piece of junk that can't fit anything. Not to mentiont he safety hazard. Can you imagine the wrekage of one of these after it gets into a head on colision with a SUV?
No, I hope I didn't come off that way. I was explaining how I felt, what I wanted. I never meant for it to seem as if I was recommending what technology should be for EVERYONE. I guess I can sorta understand why you think i have low self esteem. Thats sort of indicitive of the society that we live in. For the most part, our jobs are fairly easy and don't challenge us on a regular basis. So inorder to derive a sense of satisfaction we make easy things difficult and then claim victory after we win. I guess a part of that is true. But on the other hand if we don't exersise that problem solving aspect daily it goes away to die. So if we do things the difficult or creative way even when its not neccisary, we will be ready when it is required. Thats why you see silly things like Linux on XBOX. Or even OSX on Linux on XBOX. By the same margin, you could tell a runner that he's pathetic because it takes him 4 minutes to go a mile, when he could just drive a mile in a minute. But then again he doesn't do it for the ease. Just as he has a need to push himself physically, I have that need to push myself mentally. It doesn't make me better than anyone, no more than the best runner is the best man alive. Its just something that makes me a better me.
I Photo for window is just stupid. Well, I guess the whole photo book creation thing is cool, but other than that Iphoto is not very impressive. But then again, I'm not impressed with itunes either. SO maybe what ever it is that people like about iTunes is the same sorta thing they like about iPhoto. I do however like grage band, but they really should have just kept going with their branding stratagey and just called it iRock. That would be cool. Almost cool enough to make apple cool. But not quite. I think for certian oddballs such as myself, a technology needs to have rough edges. It must be difficult so that we can feel pride in having accomplished a non trivial task. Like Garage band should behave as if everything is being recorded with equipment that a garage band might have. It starts raining as you're recording so water drips through the crack in the roof and hits the equipment. So it DEVELOPS problems WITH ConTroLinG The VOLUME AND FEEDBACK and feedback.
Wow that was a long winded rambling post. Well, thats what you get on friday.
The energy is coming from the sun. All of it is. The truck takes solar enegry uses it to split water into hydrogen and oxygen and then recomines them when needed to power the car. So he's doing a calculation that is overly optimistic by neglecting the amount of energy lost due to the transformation from and to water.
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The manufactures are still marketing the products as "mp3" Players even though they have support for different formats. So people might buy things like the rio karma and the dell jukebox because they are "mp3" Players, odds are they'll end up putting wma's on them. As the story says, many people don't know the difference and don't really care that much.
The story says that he sold his company to Novell for 120 million. While he could theoretically have made billions, its a little hard for me to shed a tear for him.
But, this is a completely different set of people behind this. Plus, it isn't nearly as easy to make it work on Linux or windows. And the product is not used by any major fortune 500 company in any missions critical sense that I know of.
This is ontopic. AOL does more to perpetuate stupidity than anyother company. ITs comercians now ask for suggustions on how AOL can "improve the internet". As if they are in charge of the entire network. They also promise to provide users with a "Better Internet". Thats just wrong. They mean "a Better Internet Experience",but they leave out the last word in an attempt to confuse people. It worked in the mid 90's when people would come over to my house and ask if I had AOL. I'd tell them that I had a different connection to the Internet, and they'd be really confused. They really thought that AOL owned the internet. It took a lot of convincing to get people off because they so closely identified the two. Only once buisness started hooking up work computers to the internet did people start to understand. My parents still don't.
Getting back to the parent, yes many companies deliberatly blur the line between their product and the industry in an attempt to become synonomous with it. AOL,Yahoo,Google, and Mircrosoft all do it. Just try explaing a guy on the street about the difference between windows and gnu/linux/kde. No one knows what an operating system is. They think windows is built into the case or something.
What can I say... That's just your opinion, and if you have a hard time accepting others, feeling the need to look down on others, you're just narrow-minded.
That is by far the coolest quote I've found on slashdot. I think it really speaks for itself. Someday, I dream of cobbling together such an utterance into such a form.
That's the sound that any of my friends will make as I beat the living snot out of them if they start sending me stupid emails.
They are for interoperability when it will make them money, and against it when it won't. Duh. No contradiction here,hence no funny.
Sometimes with analogies there is a tendance to go overboard. I understand that. But, Honestly even you must understand that there is a huge difference between the evils of hittler and the stupidity of bush. I agree 100% with the point you are trying to get accross, but thats such a bad "example".
... ( Oh, the irony)
Something tells me you're angry with Bush. And we all know where that leads
Do you think that oil was created in the supernova of a star? It came from decaying plant and animal material. So whats wrong with putting the carbon back into things that will eventually ( Billions of years later) return it to where it came from? What no pateince? What we need is a way to facilitate the means of turning plant material back into usable fuel... Biodiseal. If we can some how make that transformation more efficient we will have our solution.
Just create one that cheats. You just need to figure out the signature of the other S/M programs, emulate it and exploit it. You know in advance now how its going to respond every time.
Now I'll be able to track down those bastards when they steal my kidneys!
Java's been in release for almost 10 years, .NET for 5 and the Parrot VM has made it to beta yet. So no, its not time to consider Perl/Python/Ruby via Parrot as a very serious choice for doing any high level application programming.
No, teaching kids that condoms are a form of safe sex is closer to telling them they have a 5/6 chance of surviving a round of russian roultette.
Which, since the pope doesn't even speak English (I don't know if he knows English, but it's not his native tongue), so we might ask what exactly he means by 'defects'
He speaks at least seven languages fluently (Polish, German, French, English, Spanish, Latin, Italian, and Portuguese) . He is one of the most intelligent people on this planet. Just wanted to clear that up.
The church in that statement is saying that some people's churches practices have defects, not the people themselves. Sort of like how America's justice system has defects, but that doesn't make each American 'defective'.
It does. Runs Great.
Yeah that will piss bill off. People that wanted to buy an apple will just buy a windows pc, Cherry and OSX. That will really tick him off. Drain off all of the apple hardware margins and increase windows revenue. Life must suck for him right now.
It means they should make ie cross platform. Think of all of the wonderful viri you could have! Actually, if they were to ever revive IE for unix, it might just kill mozilla. IF you were a big enterprise trying to switch over to linux and had the option of keeping IE installed for those custom enteprise web solutions you'd do it in a heart beat. I think it would be even cooler if microsoft released it for linux, but not for free. Just make the browser cost ~ $100 and they'd make up for the lack of the windows license. However, the power of the monopoly is worth far more than any revenue to be gained from Ie for linux sales.
They almost have a qubyte! Think of the power!!
If Hibernate is your poster child, you need a new child. Or poster. Or analogy. OR maybe its like a child poster on a milk carton. Have you seen this technology? It was last sighted in 2001 shortly after its birth.
What qualifies a country to be in the 1st, 2nd or 3rd world? You always hear about 1st and 3rd world contries, but what is a 2nd world country? Are there any examples? China and India have bustling cities that have the comforts of a 1st world contry, but also areas of vast poverty. So where do they belong? My gut would say that should be the definition of the 2nd world countries that we never hear about.
Its UI is nowhere near Visual Studio. You can't even view an entire module's code inside a single window. Maybe its good compared to visual basic 4, but anything beyond that smokes it. I should say that its actually the easiest and maybe best way to develop on a Mac, but for windows it doesn't get any better than .Net. Also beware of its cross platform capabilites. Often you will find yourself needing an extention ( sort of like a dll) and those are written in native code and are not cross platform. But if you aren't doing anything too OS specific, and you need cross platform capability, I would recomend this over Java.
.exe. Of course that makes the executable's size big, but still smaller than a runtime and the executable combined.
Its also sorta cool how it doesn't require any runtime. It just compiles that into the
I realise that I'm in the minority when it comes to these things, but I will never buy a new car. Its such a bad deal. Why buy new when youcan buy a used car so much cheaper? You could buy a really nice used car fro $12,000. I'd much rather have a larger used car that could fit more stuff, then this piece of junk that can't fit anything. Not to mentiont he safety hazard. Can you imagine the wrekage of one of these after it gets into a head on colision with a SUV?
No, I hope I didn't come off that way. I was explaining how I felt, what I wanted. I never meant for it to seem as if I was recommending what technology should be for EVERYONE. I guess I can sorta understand why you think i have low self esteem. Thats sort of indicitive of the society that we live in. For the most part, our jobs are fairly easy and don't challenge us on a regular basis. So inorder to derive a sense of satisfaction we make easy things difficult and then claim victory after we win. I guess a part of that is true. But on the other hand if we don't exersise that problem solving aspect daily it goes away to die. So if we do things the difficult or creative way even when its not neccisary, we will be ready when it is required. Thats why you see silly things like Linux on XBOX. Or even OSX on Linux on XBOX. By the same margin, you could tell a runner that he's pathetic because it takes him 4 minutes to go a mile, when he could just drive a mile in a minute. But then again he doesn't do it for the ease. Just as he has a need to push himself physically, I have that need to push myself mentally. It doesn't make me better than anyone, no more than the best runner is the best man alive. Its just something that makes me a better me.
I Photo for window is just stupid. Well, I guess the whole photo book creation thing is cool, but other than that Iphoto is not very impressive. But then again, I'm not impressed with itunes either. SO maybe what ever it is that people like about iTunes is the same sorta thing they like about iPhoto. I do however like grage band, but they really should have just kept going with their branding stratagey and just called it iRock. That would be cool. Almost cool enough to make apple cool. But not quite. I think for certian oddballs such as myself, a technology needs to have rough edges. It must be difficult so that we can feel pride in having accomplished a non trivial task. Like Garage band should behave as if everything is being recorded with equipment that a garage band might have. It starts raining as you're recording so water drips through the crack in the roof and hits the equipment. So it DEVELOPS problems WITH ConTroLinG The VOLUME AND FEEDBACK and feedback.
Wow that was a long winded rambling post. Well, thats what you get on friday.
The energy is coming from the sun. All of it is. The truck takes solar enegry uses it to split water into hydrogen and oxygen and then recomines them when needed to power the car. So he's doing a calculation that is overly optimistic by neglecting the amount of energy lost due to the transformation from and to water.