MPAA might not like it. They are making big bucks on DVD sell-thru. Video on Demand competes with rentals but not with purchase. Many people like to have big DVD libraries. I suppose the movie companies could come up with some way to 'sell' the rights to watch a movie but they don't own the distribution system (cable) so it gets complicated.
I paid for opera, but have converted to Firefox because its better. To me better means lighter weight and less likely to have a web site complain at me for not using a supported browser.
so the parent is right, firefox probably is going to destroy opera on the desktop. Hopefully opera will succeed on the embedded platforms.
Raimi put in some some cool references to Evil Dead/AOD including Ash at the theater and the camera techniques in the OR. Did anyone see any other ones?
yea. my kid's computers were hopelessly infected with spyware. several search bars in IE and all kinds of weird icons on the desktop. I did clean reinstalls and then substituted FF for IE including changing the icons the way you did.
no junk on their systems after about a month and no complaints. yay.
I agree. I don't get much useful content out of his website. Much of his newsletter and website are dedicated to promoting himself and his business of usability seminars. I have one of his books and it really doesn't have much useful information in it. As the parent says, much of it is just a rant.
and Einstein at 26 couldn't possibly have formulated special relativity (not to mention do the work that got him the Noble Prize for the photoelectric effect)
You are totally correct. The Malcolm statement is completely backwards and I remember being peeved when I first heard it on the movie. Species being wiped out by deforestation or a dam IS a matter of natural selection in the sense of losing out to a competitive species. Being wiped out by an asteroid impact is not.
When you read the article keep in mind that over the past few years the NY Times has lost all credibility as an objective source , with reporters falsifying stories and being a blatant mouthpiece for liberal politics.
So don't draw any conclusions from an NYT article.
I loved Cryptonomicon. It was a page turner all the way through. I got bored with Quicksilver half way thru. I liked the parts that involved Newton and other real scientists, but when the fictional characters went off on their own it got complicated and boring. I never finished it.
thanks for this comment. It prompted me to look at the current Reiserfs website which has a really interesting writeup on how Reiserfs 4.0 is implemented. Its a little offbeat but very relevant.
all the psycho-babblists need to do is point out a strategy for dealing with choice. the bozo with problems picking bluejeans just needs to spend the time the first time to narrow down the choice and then stick with it and never think about it again.
order 'eddie bauer relaxed fit 40 x 34' every time and you don't have to have your fragile sense of well being hammered by the choices.
do that on everything that doesn't matter to you and only spend time on the stuff you care about, like computers and software.
you can tell that PC games are withering by going to Best Buy. The PC games used to be on several racks and changed all the time. Now they are down to one rack and its pretty much the same every week. a bunch of standard games and nothing new. the console game section is always expanding.
in fact, the PC game rack is now about the same size as the full Macintosh software rack, which is not a good sign.
What room is there in your model for garage development?...
J Allard: I absolutely hope so. I want to see Clerks to use a movie example.
heh. just try to get access to the XBOX development kits if you are Joe Schmoe in a garage. MS tightly controls who can develop and who gets the kits. Unless XNA drastically changes something, you can forget about getting the xbox tools unless you are an established game development house. They have a reason for this, to prevent a deluge of crappy games diluting the platform, but it still means that the statement that they want to see garage shop games is bogus.
from xbox.com
The Xbox Registered Developer Program is designed to allow established game developers access to Xbox hardware and support
the only reason IT jobs are outsourced to india is cost. English language and good education make it feasbile, but its all about the $$$. If the labor rates were anywhere near the same there wouldn't be any outsourcing there. It wouldn't matter if everyone in India had a PhD and a Nobel Prize.
All this blather obout how much smarter the Indians are is like the Japanese guy in 'Black Rain' telling Michael Douglas that 'we will own America in 10 years'. Its just bragging based on a temporary bubble. Just after that movie the Japanese economy collapsed and hasn't really recovered completely in over 15 years.
All that said, the only answer for Americans is to do what we did in the 80's/early 90's against Japan. Become more competitive. Unions, tariffs, sanctions will just kill the American IT industry and make everything more expensive in the US. We have to get off our butts and figure out how to compete.
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Also, the article specifically states that it was a system failure with lots of interrelated causes, not a specific software failure. Software problems were involved but weren't the main thing. And the people killed weren't killed by the Patriot system. They were killed by a Scud. You may as well say they were killed by the bombers that failed to destroy the scud launcher a day before. In other words, the claim is just not right.
if you haven't seen the movie, Ben Affleck is a lady killing GQ wearing engineer. No such thing. Anyone with these characteristics goes immediately into sales.
An engineer and a mathematician are in a room. On the other side is a beautiful naked (man/woman your choice). The boss tells them they can cross the room to the other side, but they have to do it in steps of 1/2. First 1/2 way across, then 1/2 of that, 1/2 of that etc. The mathematican replies 'Sorry, I can't get there that way'. The engineer replies 'I can get close enough!'
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that there are people outside the USA
There are?
MPAA might not like it. They are making big bucks on DVD sell-thru. Video on Demand competes with rentals but not with purchase. Many people like to have big DVD libraries. I suppose the movie companies could come up with some way to 'sell' the rights to watch a movie but they don't own the distribution system (cable) so it gets complicated.
I paid for opera, but have converted to Firefox because its better. To me better means lighter weight and less likely to have a web site complain at me for not using a supported browser.
so the parent is right, firefox probably is going to destroy opera on the desktop. Hopefully opera will succeed on the embedded platforms.
Similar in concept but targeted at a different market. Their 'technology' link has some good info.
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probably as dumpable ballast to maintain altitude
That was Star Wars episode 4, Han Solo claimed he did the Kessel run in less than 10 parsecs.
Raimi put in some some cool references to Evil Dead/AOD including Ash at the theater and the camera techniques in the OR. Did anyone see any other ones?
oops sorry for not slagging the film
yea. my kid's computers were hopelessly infected with spyware. several search bars in IE and all kinds of weird icons on the desktop. I did clean reinstalls and then substituted FF for IE including changing the icons the way you did.
no junk on their systems after about a month and no complaints. yay.
I agree. I don't get much useful content out of his website. Much of his newsletter and website are dedicated to promoting himself and his business of usability seminars. I have one of his books and it really doesn't have much useful information in it. As the parent says, much of it is just a rant.
and Einstein at 26 couldn't possibly have formulated special relativity (not to mention do the work that got him the Noble Prize for the photoelectric effect)
You are totally correct. The Malcolm statement is completely backwards and I remember being peeved when I first heard it on the movie. Species being wiped out by deforestation or a dam IS a matter of natural selection in the sense of losing out to a competitive species. Being wiped out by an asteroid impact is not.
When you read the article keep in mind that over the past few years the NY Times has lost all credibility as an objective source , with reporters falsifying stories and being a blatant mouthpiece for liberal politics.
So don't draw any conclusions from an NYT article.
I loved Cryptonomicon. It was a page turner all the way through. I got bored with Quicksilver half way thru. I liked the parts that involved Newton and other real scientists, but when the fictional characters went off on their own it got complicated and boring. I never finished it.
thats probably just me.
just lopping off the extra hangy bits.
thanks for this comment. It prompted me to look at the current Reiserfs website which has a really interesting writeup on how Reiserfs 4.0 is implemented. Its a little offbeat but very relevant.
I thought that sounded like a strange name for a school in Florida that I never heard of.
all the psycho-babblists need to do is point out a strategy for dealing with choice. the bozo with problems picking bluejeans just needs to spend the time the first time to narrow down the choice and then stick with it and never think about it again.
order 'eddie bauer relaxed fit 40 x 34' every time and you don't have to have your fragile sense of well being hammered by the choices.
do that on everything that doesn't matter to you and only spend time on the stuff you care about, like computers and software.
you can tell that PC games are withering by going to Best Buy. The PC games used to be on several racks and changed all the time. Now they are down to one rack and its pretty much the same every week. a bunch of standard games and nothing new. the console game section is always expanding.
in fact, the PC game rack is now about the same size as the full Macintosh software rack, which is not a good sign.
heh. just try to get access to the XBOX development kits if you are Joe Schmoe in a garage. MS tightly controls who can develop and who gets the kits. Unless XNA drastically changes something, you can forget about getting the xbox tools unless you are an established game development house. They have a reason for this, to prevent a deluge of crappy games diluting the platform, but it still means that the statement that they want to see garage shop games is bogus.
from xbox.com
the only reason IT jobs are outsourced to india is cost. English language and good education make it feasbile, but its all about the $$$. If the labor rates were anywhere near the same there wouldn't be any outsourcing there. It wouldn't matter if everyone in India had a PhD and a Nobel Prize.
All this blather obout how much smarter the Indians are is like the Japanese guy in 'Black Rain' telling Michael Douglas that 'we will own America in 10 years'. Its just bragging based on a temporary bubble. Just after that movie the Japanese economy collapsed and hasn't really recovered completely in over 15 years.
All that said, the only answer for Americans is to do what we did in the 80's/early 90's against Japan. Become more competitive. Unions, tariffs, sanctions will just kill the American IT industry and make everything more expensive in the US. We have to get off our butts and figure out how to compete.
Also, the article specifically states that it was a system failure with lots of interrelated causes, not a specific software failure. Software problems were involved but weren't the main thing. And the people killed weren't killed by the Patriot system. They were killed by a Scud. You may as well say they were killed by the bombers that failed to destroy the scud launcher a day before. In other words, the claim is just not right.
or maybe he's a mormon and married to someone elses two daughters.
obviously bogus.
if you haven't seen the movie, Ben Affleck is a lady killing GQ wearing engineer. No such thing. Anyone with these characteristics goes immediately into sales.
An engineer and a mathematician are in a room. On the other side is a beautiful naked (man/woman your choice). The boss tells them they can cross the room to the other side, but they have to do it in steps of 1/2. First 1/2 way across, then 1/2 of that, 1/2 of that etc.
The mathematican replies 'Sorry, I can't get there that way'.
The engineer replies 'I can get close enough!'
thx. that paper was some interesting stuff.