Software is definitely over priced in some markets (and not in others).
Bulk consumer software at one time targeted the few thousand, then few million people with access to computers. One estimate I've seen puts the number of PCs in use worldwide around 1 billion, and I don't feel like looking up real stats but given that small software development costs have remained mostly constant, prices should have dropped substantially as the market grew.
Even pro-shop apps like Autocad, Photoshop and Illustrator to name a few have much larger markets now than they did five or ten years ago, and as far as I know, only Autocad has reduced its price substantially since then.
This is just competition. As the barrier to entry becomes lower (app stores are easier to sell on than brick and mortar stores), the big guys will face actual competition. Good stuff.
PS then they'll buy out the upstarts, raise the price and move on;-)
I've often wondered why wrongful state convictions don't result in penalties to the prosecution. If you value freedom, you must penalize those who would illegally take it away.
What I find much worse is the number of programmers who don't use const at all. In fact, the C standard library under-uses it too, imho.
I've seen under-use of const by both new and old programmers, forgetting that the compiler can save them time and effort both debugging and optimizing.
While I understand your point, I do love constant names. I wish more programmers used them well. Silly examples:
const int TRUE = 1; const int FALSE = !TRUE; const int SUCCESS = 0;/* isn't a bad idea either when working with stdlib */
I get peaved when programmers through constants around in code and can't be bothered using a const declaration and a variable name to help future maintainers know why and from where they chose these numbers.
const int MAXCUST = 1000;
For example, the above is very valuable, when trying to figure out why code says something like "int c[1000];"... whereas "int c[MAXCUST];" tells me the thought process involved. As does the probably subsequent "for (i=0; i1000; i++);" long afterward in the code.
Ice is an interesting example. In most cases, ice cubes are larger in volume than when they were in liquid form. Your answers above should've confused the child.
They take up more space? But why's the water smaller than the ice if the water molecules take up more space than the ice ones?
Besides, it makes sense to teach children certain fundamentals long before you teach them others. That is to say, I taught my daughter about hot and cold long before she learned calculus or atomic theory. To be more specific, she was learning hot and cold long before reading.
In gradeschool you learn that light travels in a straight line. Why? Because its convenient at the time. Is it wrong? No. Feel free to teach your child about university grade engineering before explaining that the stool is strong enough to stand on if you like. Personally I just put some weight on it to prove the point, and moved on.
True to your comment, Hopkins has shown that making a medical checklist is key to reducing errors in hospitals. Simply creating a list of things to do, then making sure they get followed every time reduces errors dramatically.
That said, I'd be very tempted to at least post torrent links to download and share backups of the public site content whenever it changes so interested parties can keep the data disseminated easily.
Its worth assuming the intelligence community already knows what you're sitting on before you've finished preparing the data for release. Announcing to the public that you have it makes you a more public target and hopefully less likely to find yourself in a foreign prison cell without a human rights watch.
Remember that even with fixed seating positions, the number of rows in a theatre means there are other sets of eyes not aligned with the sets in front of them or behind them, and at different eye spacing angles due to distance.
Its pretty crazy if they pull it off, personally.
And no idea, fellow Nethacker... I've often wondered the same.
The DMCA doesn't cover your car (yet). Modifying your car doesn't let you do things with it that the manufacturer guaranteed its partners you wouldn't.
Modifying your tailpipe or headers or headlights doesn't circumvent Copyright protection software or hardware. The problem with xbox modding, from the perspective of this case, is that it circumvents a system used to protect Copyrights and therefore falls under the DMCA.
Personally, I wish the DMCA would curl up and die a horrific death, but that said, its different.
Much like tires however, the spec needs to exist before there's a reason to make the product. Without tires rated for high speeds, making the vehicle that can drive those speeds is nearly impossible as it will simply destroy the tires its tested with.
On a totally off-topic note, when replacing your car tires, make sure they're speed-rated equally to your original tires. If not, ask the mechanic to update your speed limiter to the new tire spec. Do not drive your vehicle over your tires' specified speed.
And before someone replies, no, I don't care about your personal issues about car speed and safety.
As a user of Google Analytics, I can honestly say "boohoo".
If you don't like it, block the cookie. Every modern browser I know of supports it, so go do it and you're done.
As for evil, Google is offering a service that every web developer wanted and/or was already doing themselves. Google simply provides an outsourced way of doing it for us. Knowing how long customers stay on pages, and which links they navigate to how often is hardly evil information.
Light is re-polarized when bouncing off of things, that's why people wear polarized sunglasses; it eliminates glare.
Unfortunately, you wouldn't be able to predict the resulting polarization with great confidence off of curved surfaces at strange angles like bodies have.
You'd better hope you have a court order before you go closing up someone's store upon suspicion of selling illegal goods. Closing it up without one would be a major violation of someone's rights.
When you comment this is about New Vegas, it makes me wonder if you played their games going back to Morrowind and Oblivion, both very buggy games on the PC.
Bethesda makes fantastically detailed and thorough environments, but their coders aren't ever quite up to snuff on quality control. Since this has been going on a long time, I'd say its a company-wide problem.
I love Bethesda games as well, and despite with ledow says, I also have to admit their games are worth playing despite the bugs. I logged over 200 hours in Morrowind, despite daily crashes (sometimes multiple times a day). I learned to save often.
The Marvell AP102 chip (PXA3xx series SOC) runs the OS on the Kinect side. There's no way the XBox could keep up with the necessary processing on its own.
I was going to look up the chip myself and reply but you beat me to it.
The Kinect has on-board processing, and probably doesn't send raw image data alone back to the 360. Without offloading this processing to the Kinect itself, the 360 games using it would be if nothing else, severely penalized in available RAM from the image data processing.
Actually it was an attempt at being informative and refuting the oft-cited argument that using VNC is equivalent to remote X connections. The fact that many people don't know how remote X connections could benefit them was the majority of the rationale behind being so verbose.
To answer your redundant secondary question, yes, on laptops and at others' homes. I find in general that Ubuntu live discs are the fastest way to demonstrate Linux to others, and the easiest to get up and running with the subset of software I need on the road.
Because their OS of choice is run by people with a lot of money who will invest in technologies that may take over the desktop on us and make our lives more difficult for how we use computers.
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Software is definitely over priced in some markets (and not in others).
Bulk consumer software at one time targeted the few thousand, then few million people with access to computers. One estimate I've seen puts the number of PCs in use worldwide around 1 billion, and I don't feel like looking up real stats but given that small software development costs have remained mostly constant, prices should have dropped substantially as the market grew.
Even pro-shop apps like Autocad, Photoshop and Illustrator to name a few have much larger markets now than they did five or ten years ago, and as far as I know, only Autocad has reduced its price substantially since then.
This is just competition. As the barrier to entry becomes lower (app stores are easier to sell on than brick and mortar stores), the big guys will face actual competition. Good stuff.
PS then they'll buy out the upstarts, raise the price and move on ;-)
I've often wondered why wrongful state convictions don't result in penalties to the prosecution. If you value freedom, you must penalize those who would illegally take it away.
What I find much worse is the number of programmers who don't use const at all. In fact, the C standard library under-uses it too, imho.
I've seen under-use of const by both new and old programmers, forgetting that the compiler can save them time and effort both debugging and optimizing.
So many simple things, so little time.
Perl is sometimes the best language for the job. Especially when doing what it was designed for; extraction and reporting.
I've seen very few other languages that can do rapid parsing of text so easily and clearly. Log analyzers come to mind quickly, like calamaris.
While I understand your point, I do love constant names. I wish more programmers used them well. Silly examples:
const int TRUE = 1; /* isn't a bad idea either when working with stdlib */
const int FALSE = !TRUE;
const int SUCCESS = 0;
I get peaved when programmers through constants around in code and can't be bothered using a const declaration and a variable name to help future maintainers know why and from where they chose these numbers.
const int MAXCUST = 1000;
For example, the above is very valuable, when trying to figure out why code says something like "int c[1000];" ... whereas "int c[MAXCUST];" tells me the thought process involved. As does the probably subsequent "for (i=0; i1000; i++);" long afterward in the code.
Including the tools with the patient? That's just good OO design :)
Ice is an interesting example. In most cases, ice cubes are larger in volume than when they were in liquid form. Your answers above should've confused the child.
They take up more space? But why's the water smaller than the ice if the water molecules take up more space than the ice ones?
Besides, it makes sense to teach children certain fundamentals long before you teach them others. That is to say, I taught my daughter about hot and cold long before she learned calculus or atomic theory. To be more specific, she was learning hot and cold long before reading.
In gradeschool you learn that light travels in a straight line. Why? Because its convenient at the time. Is it wrong? No. Feel free to teach your child about university grade engineering before explaining that the stool is strong enough to stand on if you like. Personally I just put some weight on it to prove the point, and moved on.
True to your comment, Hopkins has shown that making a medical checklist is key to reducing errors in hospitals. Simply creating a list of things to do, then making sure they get followed every time reduces errors dramatically.
That said, I'd be very tempted to at least post torrent links to download and share backups of the public site content whenever it changes so interested parties can keep the data disseminated easily.
rsync access is a good idea too.
Its worth assuming the intelligence community already knows what you're sitting on before you've finished preparing the data for release. Announcing to the public that you have it makes you a more public target and hopefully less likely to find yourself in a foreign prison cell without a human rights watch.
As opposed to storing the energy in the form of (random example) fuel cells and then transporting them elsewhere for use?
Remember that even with fixed seating positions, the number of rows in a theatre means there are other sets of eyes not aligned with the sets in front of them or behind them, and at different eye spacing angles due to distance.
Its pretty crazy if they pull it off, personally.
And no idea, fellow Nethacker ... I've often wondered the same.
The DMCA doesn't cover your car (yet). Modifying your car doesn't let you do things with it that the manufacturer guaranteed its partners you wouldn't.
Modifying your tailpipe or headers or headlights doesn't circumvent Copyright protection software or hardware. The problem with xbox modding, from the perspective of this case, is that it circumvents a system used to protect Copyrights and therefore falls under the DMCA.
Personally, I wish the DMCA would curl up and die a horrific death, but that said, its different.
Much like tires however, the spec needs to exist before there's a reason to make the product. Without tires rated for high speeds, making the vehicle that can drive those speeds is nearly impossible as it will simply destroy the tires its tested with.
On a totally off-topic note, when replacing your car tires, make sure they're speed-rated equally to your original tires. If not, ask the mechanic to update your speed limiter to the new tire spec. Do not drive your vehicle over your tires' specified speed.
And before someone replies, no, I don't care about your personal issues about car speed and safety.
Lots and lots of data available from Google if you're interested in how they use cookies.
As a user of Google Analytics, I can honestly say "boohoo".
If you don't like it, block the cookie. Every modern browser I know of supports it, so go do it and you're done.
As for evil, Google is offering a service that every web developer wanted and/or was already doing themselves. Google simply provides an outsourced way of doing it for us. Knowing how long customers stay on pages, and which links they navigate to how often is hardly evil information.
Light is re-polarized when bouncing off of things, that's why people wear polarized sunglasses; it eliminates glare.
Unfortunately, you wouldn't be able to predict the resulting polarization with great confidence off of curved surfaces at strange angles like bodies have.
You'd better hope you have a court order before you go closing up someone's store upon suspicion of selling illegal goods. Closing it up without one would be a major violation of someone's rights.
How many people have even without intent to solicit pointed out where the 'red light' district is in a given city?
Giving instructions or directions to another on where to go for something illicit should be protected speech.
If you're sending any type of sensitive data without PGP or other good encryption, you're a fool.
Protect your own data, any idiot at the ISP can read your E-mails -- not just China.
When you comment this is about New Vegas, it makes me wonder if you played their games going back to Morrowind and Oblivion, both very buggy games on the PC.
Bethesda makes fantastically detailed and thorough environments, but their coders aren't ever quite up to snuff on quality control. Since this has been going on a long time, I'd say its a company-wide problem.
I love Bethesda games as well, and despite with ledow says, I also have to admit their games are worth playing despite the bugs. I logged over 200 hours in Morrowind, despite daily crashes (sometimes multiple times a day). I learned to save often.
I was going to look up the chip myself and reply but you beat me to it.
The Kinect has on-board processing, and probably doesn't send raw image data alone back to the 360. Without offloading this processing to the Kinect itself, the 360 games using it would be if nothing else, severely penalized in available RAM from the image data processing.
Actually it was an attempt at being informative and refuting the oft-cited argument that using VNC is equivalent to remote X connections. The fact that many people don't know how remote X connections could benefit them was the majority of the rationale behind being so verbose.
To answer your redundant secondary question, yes, on laptops and at others' homes. I find in general that Ubuntu live discs are the fastest way to demonstrate Linux to others, and the easiest to get up and running with the subset of software I need on the road.
Because their OS of choice is run by people with a lot of money who will invest in technologies that may take over the desktop on us and make our lives more difficult for how we use computers.
Three-phase 60Hz A/C power is an old standard (in North America). We should replace it.
Sure, it'll break everything that uses electricity, but those things can all be replaced.