Yeah its a little of both. I've dealt with my non tech friends when they've bought a non apple music player and struggled to figure out how to load it with music (even though it was a simple usb type drive). I think if the ease of the experience was the same, people would gravitate towards the cheaper solution. The ipod dilution helps, it would also help to introduce more people to amazon's drm free music store. It works nicely and its even cheaper than itunes. It helps to ween them off apple little bit by bit.
For my uses, that would be great, but I'm talking about something that would work as slickly as the ipod/itunes combo does. So your great aunt can just connect it and the new music will automagically appear on the device.
Well, that's good. I have an older creative zen extra, that only works in windows xp with a crazy driver. I didn't realise at the time of purchase that it didn't just work as a usb drive.
Just what is the point of having ipod? Why can't the competitors to apple just sit down and devise a common method for syncing the device to a media player? Get amazon & other drm free media stores involved to also provide a standard interface to purchase and install the music into a media player, and you've got the makings of an apple killer.
I think there may be a more general rule for these situations. If you have an established proprietary leader, the only way to dislodge is for the competitors to come together create an open standard. I'm not sure if that's always the case, maybe its just my rose colored vision at work again, but its sometimes true. Feel free to discuss.
Ah, I didn't understand their concept of Soul very well. I guess I was thinking of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition of Lamas. Isn't that about a specific soul being reincarnated?
Could you explain more about the Buddhist concept of human functioning? Does that contradict the idea of reincarnation? What exactly is being reincarnated if not a permanent immortal soul?
I understand there are different sects of Buddhism with varying beliefs and practices, just curious if this belief marks a separation from mainstream Buddhist practice.
Think of it this way: If you randomly select a group of people and subject them to the curriculum of a subject, what will be a good indicator of the intelligence of the graduates? Well, if its easy to tell the smart ones from the not smart ones then only the smart ones will be left at the end. But if the subject isn't as well defined, it would be easier to get through without being particularly smart.
Its natural selection, sort of. Look at the other physical sciences. Chemistry used to be throwing crap together and then describing what color the result was. Now its requires p-chem that requires students to deal with partial differential equations. That in a effect raised the intellectual bar for all chemists.
Its just a generally true maxim. Math is more rigorous and further developed field of study than CS. Its easier to test an aptitude for math than CS. This may change as the field matures (possibly into Wolfram's New Kind of Science). But its not there yet. So its much easier to prove that those with math degrees are smarter than those with cs degrees. I mean think if we did the same comparison back in the time of plato between farmers and mathematicians I think farmers would be found to be more intelligent.
In any case, if you need other people to tell you you are smart to feel good, you have emotional problems that are best served in a psychiatrists office, rather than on the internet.
Wow. Good Point. Don't know who I missed that. In that case, I would think "Wow Sasquatch is apparently a lot smarter than I am, as I've fallen into a trap, he/she must have cleverly avoided." Or if there was a maimed/dead sasquatch body in the pit as well my thoughts would probably be about remaking at how good the spike pit maker is at his job.
Yes. Yes of course... It, it all makes sense now! The single user that has posted the most comments on slashdot: Anonymous Coward!. He's involved in this. No, wait, he is this! This whole "conspiracy" is just one of his mind games to increase ad revenue and developer mind share. No one is really suing Sourceforge, except Sourceforge itself!. Also the french nation is a proxy for Sourceforge. Their crazy laws are just more of his humor. Like troll here on slashdot, but funnier because it actually effects people's lives.
What happened to the overlord description of the relationship between Slashdot and sourceforge? Is that an editorial change directed by legal to lessen the perceived value of the cooperation to reduce any potential monetary judgment against the firm?
I'm not a Microsoft apologist by any means, but how the heck did the "agreement with Novell about patents" lead to their success. That was like a year ago. Did their market share suddenly double ? What about their stock price? Do you know of anyone who has bought a Microsoft product because of the patent deal, or not bought linux from another distributor? Do you really think Microsoft would be in a different position had it not made the deal?
Also, Apples success also came from Microsoft's investment back in 97 that helped save the company. So their success is due to Microsoft "bying into the stock of competitors" which is a factor in Microsoft's success.
Microsoft did some really bad stuff to help them get where they are now, but your reasoning is so freaking messed up it made a small part of my brain die due to the stack overflow.
Forgot to add the homework assignment. Do your freakin' research before your choose your goal. You'd think that would be obvious, but it apparently isn't.
I'd like to say, Aim High, but choose your target wisely. Many people, culture, common sense will all try and tell you what that highest goal should be. For God's sake, choose the goal your self.
I don't notice them because they are adblocked. IF I can't block the ad, then it has to be unobtrusive and tasteful. Otherwise I will take my eyeballs elsewhere. And if it is obtrusive and a major company, I will take my dollars as far away from them as practical and email them telling them my reasons.
Yeah, I understand the under thirteen rule. But why actually give it your real birthday? Thats semi sensitive information that can be used (albeit with other pieces of info) to steal your identity. Do you really trust facebook and/or its slimy advertisers and/or app developers with that information? I sure as heck don't.
As for being unfindable, That can have its advantages, but I took the liberty of simply finding my friends by exchanging info offline and then befriending online. So together by our social graph and correct first names others can find us. But you have to know what who you're looking for. None of this random, "We sat together in first grade for a week" crap.
So yeah, I'm very anti-social in my social networking. I also use a client side css file to darken the harsh blueness of the site.
Is there a way to get a feeling of what the site's about without creating a fake account? My old age keeps me from just entering all my personal data and worry later. Maybe there are some pages set to "public for everyone", so some URLs would be nice.
That is a very rational approach, I see you're taking. BUt you seem to be hung up on a bit. You don't ever need to supply them with any personal data at all if you don't want to. Oh sure it asks for things like birthdate, place of birth and various other personal information. Why on earth do you think you need to supply it with valid data? They aren't going to do a fbi background check to see if your information is valid. It will still work just as well.
No, sounds to me like someone's trying to drum up funding for the next dig.
"With my last expedition, I revolutionized our thought about religion. What will I do next time? With a modest grant and my immeasurable innate skill, its only a matter of time before my brilliance is further pored out to the undeserving human wretches. That my greatest gift to humanity is to nourish the those worthy of drinking of my genius, and drowning those unworthy. Thank you for your support."
Big question is, if you pull the cord, does it maintain state? Or will that require a "cold boot"?
They answered that "big question" in the article. There are two different options the "super fast" boot mode that does the " boot" in four seconds. And a regular fast boot that takes 22 seconds. The four second super fast one, needs to stay plugged in to maintain state. The slower fast one does not.
I wouldn't recommend swapping out hardware in either case.
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Indeed, Indeed I do! Who says posting on slashdot never pays off?
Yeah its a little of both. I've dealt with my non tech friends when they've bought a non apple music player and struggled to figure out how to load it with music (even though it was a simple usb type drive). I think if the ease of the experience was the same, people would gravitate towards the cheaper solution. The ipod dilution helps, it would also help to introduce more people to amazon's drm free music store. It works nicely and its even cheaper than itunes. It helps to ween them off apple little bit by bit.
For my uses, that would be great, but I'm talking about something that would work as slickly as the ipod/itunes combo does. So your great aunt can just connect it and the new music will automagically appear on the device.
Well, that's good. I have an older creative zen extra, that only works in windows xp with a crazy driver. I didn't realise at the time of purchase that it didn't just work as a usb drive.
Just what is the point of having ipod? Why can't the competitors to apple just sit down and devise a common method for syncing the device to a media player? Get amazon & other drm free media stores involved to also provide a standard interface to purchase and install the music into a media player, and you've got the makings of an apple killer.
I think there may be a more general rule for these situations. If you have an established proprietary leader, the only way to dislodge is for the competitors to come together create an open standard. I'm not sure if that's always the case, maybe its just my rose colored vision at work again, but its sometimes true. Feel free to discuss.
Maple 4 was released in April 1986. You should really consider upgrading.
Ah, I didn't understand their concept of Soul very well. I guess I was thinking of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition of Lamas. Isn't that about a specific soul being reincarnated?
Could you explain more about the Buddhist concept of human functioning? Does that contradict the idea of reincarnation? What exactly is being reincarnated if not a permanent immortal soul?
I understand there are different sects of Buddhism with varying beliefs and practices, just curious if this belief marks a separation from mainstream Buddhist practice.
Think of it this way: If you randomly select a group of people and subject them to the curriculum of a subject, what will be a good indicator of the intelligence of the graduates? Well, if its easy to tell the smart ones from the not smart ones then only the smart ones will be left at the end. But if the subject isn't as well defined, it would be easier to get through without being particularly smart.
Its natural selection, sort of. Look at the other physical sciences. Chemistry used to be throwing crap together and then describing what color the result was. Now its requires p-chem that requires students to deal with partial differential equations. That in a effect raised the intellectual bar for all chemists.
Its just a generally true maxim. Math is more rigorous and further developed field of study than CS. Its easier to test an aptitude for math than CS. This may change as the field matures (possibly into Wolfram's New Kind of Science). But its not there yet. So its much easier to prove that those with math degrees are smarter than those with cs degrees. I mean think if we did the same comparison back in the time of plato between farmers and mathematicians I think farmers would be found to be more intelligent.
In any case, if you need other people to tell you you are smart to feel good, you have emotional problems that are best served in a psychiatrists office, rather than on the internet.
None of those things have to do with the official Unix certification. Which it meets with leopard running on intel.
Wow. Good Point. Don't know who I missed that. In that case, I would think "Wow Sasquatch is apparently a lot smarter than I am, as I've fallen into a trap, he/she must have cleverly avoided." Or if there was a maimed/dead sasquatch body in the pit as well my thoughts would probably be about remaking at how good the spike pit maker is at his job.
If it was me, I'd be dissing who ever built the pit of spikes. What kind of lousy pit of spikes leaves enough of a gap for a human to land safely?
Yes. Yes of course... It, it all makes sense now! The single user that has posted the most comments on slashdot: Anonymous Coward!. He's involved in this. No, wait, he is this! This whole "conspiracy" is just one of his mind games to increase ad revenue and developer mind share. No one is really suing Sourceforge, except Sourceforge itself!. Also the french nation is a proxy for Sourceforge. Their crazy laws are just more of his humor. Like troll here on slashdot, but funnier because it actually effects people's lives.
Blow stuff up.
Oh wait you mean for a career? Well, uhmm I don't know, but in her spare time, she should definitely blow stuff up.
What happened to the overlord description of the relationship between Slashdot and sourceforge? Is that an editorial change directed by legal to lessen the perceived value of the cooperation to reduce any potential monetary judgment against the firm?
I'm not a Microsoft apologist by any means, but how the heck did the "agreement with Novell about patents" lead to their success. That was like a year ago. Did their market share suddenly double ? What about their stock price? Do you know of anyone who has bought a Microsoft product because of the patent deal, or not bought linux from another distributor? Do you really think Microsoft would be in a different position had it not made the deal?
Also, Apples success also came from Microsoft's investment back in 97 that helped save the company. So their success is due to Microsoft "bying into the stock of competitors" which is a factor in Microsoft's success.
Microsoft did some really bad stuff to help them get where they are now, but your reasoning is so freaking messed up it made a small part of my brain die due to the stack overflow.
Forgot to add the homework assignment. Do your freakin' research before your choose your goal. You'd think that would be obvious, but it apparently isn't.
I'd like to say, Aim High, but choose your target wisely. Many people, culture, common sense will all try and tell you what that highest goal should be. For God's sake, choose the goal your self.
I don't notice them because they are adblocked. IF I can't block the ad, then it has to be unobtrusive and tasteful. Otherwise I will take my eyeballs elsewhere. And if it is obtrusive and a major company, I will take my dollars as far away from them as practical and email them telling them my reasons.
Yeah, I understand the under thirteen rule. But why actually give it your real birthday? Thats semi sensitive information that can be used (albeit with other pieces of info) to steal your identity. Do you really trust facebook and/or its slimy advertisers and/or app developers with that information? I sure as heck don't.
As for being unfindable, That can have its advantages, but I took the liberty of simply finding my friends by exchanging info offline and then befriending online. So together by our social graph and correct first names others can find us. But you have to know what who you're looking for. None of this random, "We sat together in first grade for a week" crap.
So yeah, I'm very anti-social in my social networking. I also use a client side css file to darken the harsh blueness of the site.
That is a very rational approach, I see you're taking. BUt you seem to be hung up on a bit. You don't ever need to supply them with any personal data at all if you don't want to. Oh sure it asks for things like birthdate, place of birth and various other personal information. Why on earth do you think you need to supply it with valid data? They aren't going to do a fbi background check to see if your information is valid. It will still work just as well.
No, sounds to me like someone's trying to drum up funding for the next dig.
"With my last expedition, I revolutionized our thought about religion. What will I do next time? With a modest grant and my immeasurable innate skill, its only a matter of time before my brilliance is further pored out to the undeserving human wretches. That my greatest gift to humanity is to nourish the those worthy of drinking of my genius, and drowning those unworthy. Thank you for your support."
Exactly.
They answered that "big question" in the article. There are two different options the "super fast" boot mode that does the " boot" in four seconds. And a regular fast boot that takes 22 seconds. The four second super fast one, needs to stay plugged in to maintain state. The slower fast one does not.
I wouldn't recommend swapping out hardware in either case.