Re:The future is tangiable
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Microsoft never did anything new, either. Look what their stock did.
Re:Oh, no hot air, I see...
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The dollar per share value is meaningless. Most companies do stock splits to keep their stock price roughly between 1-100. Google, being full of mathematicians, refuses to do this, as a number is just a number. The meaningful figure is stock price per share * number of shares.
Exactly. I can hold my PDA in one hand, and change pages with the scroll wheel, all while holding on the the bar with the other hand. If I'm standing on the train to read a real book, it's a pain to turn pages because I have to take my hand off the bar.
What it really boils down to is managers putting bug-free code over schedule. What it will really take is companies willing to spend the time and money to get it right the first time and to stop shipping stuff the first time the QA report lists fewer than 1000 bugs.
But this is moot, because the WMF flaw is not a bug. It's a design problem. The code does exactly what it is supposed to. The trouble is that no one went back and examined these ancient APIs for security issues when people started hooking Windows PCs to the Internet.
The idea is that the printouts are saved just the way paper ballots would otherwise be saved, and if a recount is needed, you go back to that paper and thus any recound is performed against the actual ballots cast.
There's the obvious foodbanks that are always in operation plus "Toys for Tots" and all the variations. Giving in kind is generally safer than giving cash as you know that what you give actually gets there.
I personally give to Doctors without Borders, the local AIDS foundation and a few others.
I prefer to give my charitable dollars to the poor and infirm.
I sometimes also give money to middle-class white geeks running software projects that benefit other middle-class white geeks because I want those projects to continue to exist. (I am, after all, a middle-class white geek.) But I don't delude myself into thinking that this is "charity" because when I give money to these projects, I benefit in that the project that produces something that I use is going to be able to advance faster.
For example, giving money to the gnome people isn't "charity" unless you do not use gnome yourself.
But they aren't doing that. They are asking hospitals to put up Amazon wishlists containing what they want and having poeple buy off that. It's great, really, because the hospitals get what they want, and no one spends much effort. What's great about it is that it is NOT giving money. It's not like most charities where you fire off twenty bucks and have no clue what happened to it. I went on the list, saw that the Oakland Childrens' Hospital needed certain videogames. By making the purchase, I know that they got one of the things they needed, and I know that 100% of my money went to some kid having games.
What often gets lost in all this is that "Sony BMG" is a joint venture owned equally by Sony and Bertelsman and is NOT the same thing as "Sony Music". AFAIK, they are fairly independent of each other. I do not know if all this copy protection bullshit was added before or after Sony acquired half of BMG, but I am pretty sure that Mr. Hesse does not at all speak for Sony music.
The flaw in that, though, is that I installed 5.10 as a new install on a machine that had previously had a working XMMS and mplayer. In fact, mplayer works fine when compiled from source.
I recently installed Ubuntu 5.10 and had two major parts of the base install (xmms and mplayer) just fail with a segfault on start. My prefered player, amarok, also fails on start with a segfault. There's no obvious way to debug this. This is, to say the least, irritating.
I mean, I can understand when some random app doesn't work, but xmms is there in the default menu for Gord's sake!
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Microsoft never did anything new, either. Look what their stock did.
The dollar per share value is meaningless. Most companies do stock splits to keep their stock price roughly between 1-100. Google, being full of mathematicians, refuses to do this, as a number is just a number. The meaningful figure is stock price per share * number of shares.
Exactly. I can hold my PDA in one hand, and change pages with the scroll wheel, all while holding on the the bar with the other hand. If I'm standing on the train to read a real book, it's a pain to turn pages because I have to take my hand off the bar.
But this is moot, because the WMF flaw is not a bug. It's a design problem. The code does exactly what it is supposed to. The trouble is that no one went back and examined these ancient APIs for security issues when people started hooking Windows PCs to the Internet.
When this feature was added, most computers didn't even have modems.
Having worked with C# for a year, I found it to be Java clone with most of the braindead parts of Java fixed and few, if any, of the C++ annoyances.
The idea is that the printouts are saved just the way paper ballots would otherwise be saved, and if a recount is needed, you go back to that paper and thus any recound is performed against the actual ballots cast.
I don't know that I'd want a viewing area that big. It's apt to make the low resolution of the videos much more apparent on the small screen.
When the phone rings, I have 15 seconds to pick it up. When an IM appears, I can spend ten minutes cleaning up what I'm doing before responding.
If you care what your boss thinks about your online status, leave IM running all the time and set it to never go into the "away" state.
Not enough pennies.
Agreed! In fact, I'd say that giving money is the worst option. When you give time, you help directly, with nothing skimmed off the top.
There's the obvious foodbanks that are always in operation plus "Toys for Tots" and all the variations. Giving in kind is generally safer than giving cash as you know that what you give actually gets there.
I personally give to Doctors without Borders, the local AIDS foundation and a few others.
I sometimes also give money to middle-class white geeks running software projects that benefit other middle-class white geeks because I want those projects to continue to exist. (I am, after all, a middle-class white geek.) But I don't delude myself into thinking that this is "charity" because when I give money to these projects, I benefit in that the project that produces something that I use is going to be able to advance faster.
For example, giving money to the gnome people isn't "charity" unless you do not use gnome yourself.
Falling for viral marketting.
But they aren't doing that. They are asking hospitals to put up Amazon wishlists containing what they want and having poeple buy off that. It's great, really, because the hospitals get what they want, and no one spends much effort. What's great about it is that it is NOT giving money. It's not like most charities where you fire off twenty bucks and have no clue what happened to it. I went on the list, saw that the Oakland Childrens' Hospital needed certain videogames. By making the purchase, I know that they got one of the things they needed, and I know that 100% of my money went to some kid having games.
It's not a win-win for people driving cares that already have regenerative braking.
The thing is, it is "needed" approximately six months before you apply for the ruby programming job.
If you wait for an immediate need, you will eventually find yourself passed over in the ol' job search in favor of the guy who learned the language.
Yeah, but you get a cool steam-whistle to blow!
Because talent isn't enough to start a company. You also need capital.
My point is that "Sony BMG" saying "we won't use rootkits" means that "Sony BMG" won't use rootkits, not that "Sony Music" won't use rootkits.
What often gets lost in all this is that "Sony BMG" is a joint venture owned equally by Sony and Bertelsman and is NOT the same thing as "Sony Music". AFAIK, they are fairly independent of each other. I do not know if all this copy protection bullshit was added before or after Sony acquired half of BMG, but I am pretty sure that Mr. Hesse does not at all speak for Sony music.
Yes, I know. I did.
In any case, it's XMMS that's the big annoyance.
Heh. Yeah, that's one of the failsafe responses.
The flaw in that, though, is that I installed 5.10 as a new install on a machine that had previously had a working XMMS and mplayer. In fact, mplayer works fine when compiled from source.
Committees are poison to software.
I recently installed Ubuntu 5.10 and had two major parts of the base install (xmms and mplayer) just fail with a segfault on start. My prefered player, amarok, also fails on start with a segfault. There's no obvious way to debug this. This is, to say the least, irritating.
I mean, I can understand when some random app doesn't work, but xmms is there in the default menu for Gord's sake!