So by that measure Li's formula allowed the creation of nothing more than a legal Ponzi scheme. Indeed, the whole of the stock market system encourages such.
'They help us simplify the world so that we can understand it.'
Um, you either understand it or you don't. Simplification by it's very nature forces one to leave out a certain amount of information, some of which may mean the difference between life and death.
At the end of the day though, the bigwig bankers simply saw what they wanted to see. If this particular formula hadn't given them the figures they were seeking they would have rejected it and chosen another.
Speaking of low-tech in the court system, it was only in the past eight years that they finally started using stenographers in Bermuda's courts. Previously judges would write the proceedings in long-hand, making any case unbearably slow to unfold.
Many thanks; oddly I have another Cinema HD display (the next size down) which has no problems at all on PCs.
One thing which may be related to the problem has to do with the behaviour of the on/off button. I seem to remember changing a setting related to that in the Apple control panel when it was connected to a Mac and ever since it has had that problem. Then again I may be misremembering that as I haven't found that behaviour setting since.
Ahh, I wonder if I can impose on you about the Mac monitor problem. I too am attempting to use a Cinema HD display on a PC but it won't allow the computer to boot if connected at system start - you just see a blinking cursor.
However, if you disconnect the Cinema display(I have an old LCD connected as the primary monitor) and boot as normal, then reconnect the CHD, it takes some fiddling with the display's power supply before it will turn on.
Is this what you experience? If so, do you have a workaround for it at your office? I've been trying forever to find any reference to this problem on the net with no luck.
I've got a Facebook presence, but I'm damned if I can figure out how to do anything with it. The opening page presents you with the most confusing array of messages of various sorts about how Howie is now clipping his toe nails, and Jenny is feeling shitty after a big night out. Who the f... cares.
Then there's the stupid surveys and quizzes your "friends" take then spam you to take as well. That alone is reason enough that Facebook must die a horrible death.
You know, all this drivel about how many cores the OS supports, and how my OS is soooo much better than your cuz it can support more, is reminiscent of those utterly useless arguments which abounded when OS/2 was actively competing with Windows 3.x. I remember endless discussions on the relative boot times of each system, as if some people had jobs which consisted entirely of rebooting their machines.
In a similar way, the number of cores an OS supports is irrelevant to 99.999% of the consuming public, and will have little effect on it's popularity.
I think MS has a potential winner on their hands if they can keep the number of versions to a minimum and price it reasonably. I will probably switch to it eventually, but I absolutely hate the UI. Those fiddly little icons and arrows make my skin crawl, and it's so obvious that they've tried to hammer together OS/X and the two dominant Linux UIs into one far less usable whole.
So... you could have saved a lot of time by saying that, simply, the software was brilliant, but the info plugged into it was crap. Garbage in, garbage out.
Instead of spending so much time in darkened basements gazing at info on a computer screen and learning a lot of ultimately meaningless, driveling terminology, the "axeperts" could have simply got out and spoken to a few people and observed.
I must say that many of my lesser-computer literate clients seem to have Firefox installed when I first see their computer. I've also loaded FF on quite a few others who were ignorant of it's existence.
Well my turntable is quite a simple beast, and can always be repaired by me. And upgrades are actually *fun* to do and only improve the sound quality (which is awesome already).
Interesting you should bring this up. Back in the 80's and early 90's we had several companies attempting to DRM their software through floppies which transferred a license to the hard drive (Lotus, I'm looking at you). You could do this once with Lotus software, and you could transfer the license back to the floppy to be installed on another computer, but if your hard drive crashed you were stuffed.
So we've been down this road before - we would purposely buy cracked copies of software in order to just be able to do business efficiently, even though we'd bought legitimate licenses.
I can say that *my* music stores will never go offline. As long as there are yard sales and thrift shops I'll have a ready supply of records and open reel tapes, and there's *nothing* the record companies can do to stop me listening to formats which have vastly superior sound to most digital formats anyway, and are vastly more fun cue up and play than those boring little iPods and what have you.
They have the perfect, positive tactile feedback and are utterly bomb- and computer-rage-proof. I've slammed my hands down on the keys hard on a number of occasions in frustration with no damage or change in performance.
I've been using these since I worked for the local IBM PC dealership in the early 90's and pick them up whenever I come across them. And I always get them for free as most idiots utterly fail to realize the significance of their quality.
Yep, I joined as I found that a lot of my friends started using it as a form of regular communication. But this was just at the time that Facebook started allowing these idiotic applications which are the 2ks equivalent to the email forwards from your Aunt Mabel who just got the internet hooked up at home.
I also honestly have a hard time figuring out what all the various links are on the profile pages. I just had a hell of a time trying to find a button to allow me to send a simple message to someone. I take one look at the page and say fuggedaboudit.
You've already probably got your buns roasted over the assertions in your post, but Bill was reputedly a not very good programmer overall. And at the end of the day he really wanted to make money, and he did.
He did it the old fashioned way: He took advantage of opportunity when he saw it. Really, it was IBM's sales force at first who put his products into so many hands, then when clones took over he just rode the wave. He used a number of anticompetitive maneuvers to prevent manufacturers from experimenting with alternatives such as OS/2 and Linux.
Slashdot Mirror
So by that measure Li's formula allowed the creation of nothing more than a legal Ponzi scheme. Indeed, the whole of the stock market system encourages such.
'They help us simplify the world so that we can understand it.'
Um, you either understand it or you don't. Simplification by it's very nature forces one to leave out a certain amount of information, some of which may mean the difference between life and death.
At the end of the day though, the bigwig bankers simply saw what they wanted to see. If this particular formula hadn't given them the figures they were seeking they would have rejected it and chosen another.
Speaking of low-tech in the court system, it was only in the past eight years that they finally started using stenographers in Bermuda's courts. Previously judges would write the proceedings in long-hand, making any case unbearably slow to unfold.
The thought of slashdot readers producing offspring.
Many thanks; oddly I have another Cinema HD display (the next size down) which has no problems at all on PCs.
One thing which may be related to the problem has to do with the behaviour of the on/off button. I seem to remember changing a setting related to that in the Apple control panel when it was connected to a Mac and ever since it has had that problem. Then again I may be misremembering that as I haven't found that behaviour setting since.
Cheers
Ahh, I wonder if I can impose on you about the Mac monitor problem. I too am attempting to use a Cinema HD display on a PC but it won't allow the computer to boot if connected at system start - you just see a blinking cursor.
However, if you disconnect the Cinema display(I have an old LCD connected as the primary monitor) and boot as normal, then reconnect the CHD, it takes some fiddling with the display's power supply before it will turn on.
Is this what you experience? If so, do you have a workaround for it at your office? I've been trying forever to find any reference to this problem on the net with no luck.
Thanks!
Now if it was a $100,000 *hand*bag she would have unteathered herself and dived after it....
I've got a Facebook presence, but I'm damned if I can figure out how to do anything with it. The opening page presents you with the most confusing array of messages of various sorts about how Howie is now clipping his toe nails, and Jenny is feeling shitty after a big night out. Who the f... cares.
Then there's the stupid surveys and quizzes your "friends" take then spam you to take as well. That alone is reason enough that Facebook must die a horrible death.
You know, all this drivel about how many cores the OS supports, and how my OS is soooo much better than your cuz it can support more, is reminiscent of those utterly useless arguments which abounded when OS/2 was actively competing with Windows 3.x. I remember endless discussions on the relative boot times of each system, as if some people had jobs which consisted entirely of rebooting their machines.
In a similar way, the number of cores an OS supports is irrelevant to 99.999% of the consuming public, and will have little effect on it's popularity.
I think MS has a potential winner on their hands if they can keep the number of versions to a minimum and price it reasonably. I will probably switch to it eventually, but I absolutely hate the UI. Those fiddly little icons and arrows make my skin crawl, and it's so obvious that they've tried to hammer together OS/X and the two dominant Linux UIs into one far less usable whole.
So... you could have saved a lot of time by saying that, simply, the software was brilliant, but the info plugged into it was crap. Garbage in, garbage out.
Instead of spending so much time in darkened basements gazing at info on a computer screen and learning a lot of ultimately meaningless, driveling terminology, the "axeperts" could have simply got out and spoken to a few people and observed.
Well it seems it's more a case of *bad* data being used for what may have been a quite good bit of software. Garbage in, garbage out.
Also, those loans should never have been given out in the first place of course.
I must say that many of my lesser-computer literate clients seem to have Firefox installed when I first see their computer. I've also loaded FF on quite a few others who were ignorant of it's existence.
Speaking of which, it seems to me that Shockwave was a bit redundant with Flash being so popular. What was the idea of that?
Oh I've seen a few in my time - 25 years in the biz here...
Although, knowing the nature of the Chinese system, it was very likely the real article in it's entirety.
That's a good point - CNN some years ago was exposed for having pre-written obituary articles, with fill in the blanks spots for details.
Well my turntable is quite a simple beast, and can always be repaired by me. And upgrades are actually *fun* to do and only improve the sound quality (which is awesome already).
Interesting you should bring this up. Back in the 80's and early 90's we had several companies attempting to DRM their software through floppies which transferred a license to the hard drive (Lotus, I'm looking at you). You could do this once with Lotus software, and you could transfer the license back to the floppy to be installed on another computer, but if your hard drive crashed you were stuffed.
So we've been down this road before - we would purposely buy cracked copies of software in order to just be able to do business efficiently, even though we'd bought legitimate licenses.
I can say that *my* music stores will never go offline. As long as there are yard sales and thrift shops I'll have a ready supply of records and open reel tapes, and there's *nothing* the record companies can do to stop me listening to formats which have vastly superior sound to most digital formats anyway, and are vastly more fun cue up and play than those boring little iPods and what have you.
They have the perfect, positive tactile feedback and are utterly bomb- and computer-rage-proof. I've slammed my hands down on the keys hard on a number of occasions in frustration with no damage or change in performance.
I've been using these since I worked for the local IBM PC dealership in the early 90's and pick them up whenever I come across them. And I always get them for free as most idiots utterly fail to realize the significance of their quality.
He's at least 98 now isn't he? I'm amazed he he's even heard of the printing press.
Yep, I joined as I found that a lot of my friends started using it as a form of regular communication. But this was just at the time that Facebook started allowing these idiotic applications which are the 2ks equivalent to the email forwards from your Aunt Mabel who just got the internet hooked up at home.
I also honestly have a hard time figuring out what all the various links are on the profile pages. I just had a hell of a time trying to find a button to allow me to send a simple message to someone. I take one look at the page and say fuggedaboudit.
And that is indeed the key to the problem: that it has no idea what your eyes have skimmed over and rejected, or what you generally don't like.
Isn't that what we have Iranians for?
You've already probably got your buns roasted over the assertions in your post, but Bill was reputedly a not very good programmer overall. And at the end of the day he really wanted to make money, and he did.
He did it the old fashioned way: He took advantage of opportunity when he saw it. Really, it was IBM's sales force at first who put his products into so many hands, then when clones took over he just rode the wave. He used a number of anticompetitive maneuvers to prevent manufacturers from experimenting with alternatives such as OS/2 and Linux.