"Poor developers"??? I think you have no concept of what the cost of living is really like there. Indians making $390/month have servants, for crying out loud.
I'm very surprised this post was modded as "insightful" when all it seems to do is perpetuate stereotypes. I've worked with many programmers and engineers of various nationalities and races, and some were good and some were not so good - period.
He's a member of the human race, isn't he? His tech roots are everyones tech roots - the early developments in the 50s and 60s, not to mention Atari etc. which as everyone knows predated Nintendo.
My "favorite" mishap was back in the 1980s using a HP minicomputer. I was trying to copy the contents of a floppy disk to the hard drive, but unfortunately "copy" in the HP OS meant "replace". The entire contents of the hard drive were replaced by the contents of the floppy.
People in concentration camps were "most certainly" NOT going to die - they could have been released by the Germans and lived. It's not like they had a fatal disease. Different situation altogether, and circular logic.
Ummm - a good visual example? Ever seen photographs of the ruins of Hiroshima? I don't think it gets much more visual then that! A few grams of matter (Ok, not sure exactly how much) converted to enough energy to level a city.
Once again we turn to the wisdom of "The Simpsons":
Skinner: Well, I was wrong. The lizards are a godsend.
Lisa: But isn't that a bit short-sighted? What happens when we're overrun by lizards?
Skinner: No problem. We simply unleash wave after wave of Chinese needle snakes. They'll wipe out the lizards.
Lisa: But aren't the snakes even worse?
Skinner: Yes, but we're prepared for that. We've lined up a fabulous type of gorilla that thrives on snake meat.
Lisa: But then we're stuck with gorillas!
Skinner: No, that's the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death.
I took the flash test - I couldnt clearly identify anything on any of the sequences - they went by too fast! The results may be indicative of the colors or a host of other factors, not the fact that an image that someone couldn't even make out was violent or not.
Actually, although I know it is not standard in C# (which the line of code above was meant to be) I find it handy to use the leading Cs. Makes it easier to distinguish classes from instances, properties, Enums, etc.
How about "files in those formats are available?" Outside of slashdot, I've never run across ogg in everyday life. mp3s, wavs, wma, the iTunes DRM format stuff - I don't even know where to GET ogg. (Yes, I could look if I was really motivated too...)
I'm not a gamer, and neither are any of my friends. We do need word processing, graphic design tools, spreadsheets, email, and web browsers, all of which are available in abundance on the Mac. Which is why I have one.
Look at it this way - Columbus sailed to America in 1492. Where such trips routine by 1537? People still died on voyages, etc. And they didnt have to worry about bringing their own air supply! Give it a hundred years or so.
I made the same point to my boss at my old job about the power savings of LCDs. The response? "We don't pay for our power, the landlord does, so we might as well buy the cheaper CRTs even if they are less efficient"
Based on the fact that the earth revolves around its axis roughly 360 times per year, and there are 12 months (cycles of the moon) in the same time frame. It all lends itself very nicely to a base-12 time system of 24 hours in a day (12 daylight/12 darkness), 60 minutes to an hour, etc.
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"Poor developers"??? I think you have no concept of what the cost of living is really like there. Indians making $390/month have servants, for crying out loud.
I'm very surprised this post was modded as "insightful" when all it seems to do is perpetuate stereotypes. I've worked with many programmers and engineers of various nationalities and races, and some were good and some were not so good - period.
He's a member of the human race, isn't he? His tech roots are everyones tech roots - the early developments in the 50s and 60s, not to mention Atari etc. which as everyone knows predated Nintendo.
My "favorite" mishap was back in the 1980s using a HP minicomputer. I was trying to copy the contents of a floppy disk to the hard drive, but unfortunately "copy" in the HP OS meant "replace". The entire contents of the hard drive were replaced by the contents of the floppy.
Obviously, the Germans weren't going to willingly let anyone go. But that was a human decision on their part, not a physical impossibility.
People in concentration camps were "most certainly" NOT going to die - they could have been released by the Germans and lived. It's not like they had a fatal disease. Different situation altogether, and circular logic.
Don't you mean it's the ONLY movie to ever come out of Finland?
I must be even older then you. The calculators I used in high school/college could not even plot graphics! (TI30, anyone?)
LOL at first I thought the idea of the video tombstone was crass - but you've given me an idea; a permanent blue screen of death for all eternity.
Funny, but even funnier would be to have a video playing on continuous loop of someone trying to claw their way out.
My first thought was - "Wow, 15 months - what a great severance package! I only got three weeks when I got canned."
Ummm - a good visual example? Ever seen photographs of the ruins of Hiroshima? I don't think it gets much more visual then that! A few grams of matter (Ok, not sure exactly how much) converted to enough energy to level a city.
Twinkle, Twinkle little star
Power = I squared R
Skinner: Well, I was wrong. The lizards are a godsend.
Lisa: But isn't that a bit short-sighted? What happens when we're overrun by lizards?
Skinner: No problem. We simply unleash wave after wave of Chinese needle snakes. They'll wipe out the lizards.
Lisa: But aren't the snakes even worse?
Skinner: Yes, but we're prepared for that. We've lined up a fabulous type of gorilla that thrives on snake meat.
Lisa: But then we're stuck with gorillas!
Skinner: No, that's the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death.
I took the flash test - I couldnt clearly identify anything on any of the sequences - they went by too fast! The results may be indicative of the colors or a host of other factors, not the fact that an image that someone couldn't even make out was violent or not.
Actually, although I know it is not standard in C# (which the line of code above was meant to be) I find it handy to use the leading Cs. Makes it easier to distinguish classes from instances, properties, Enums, etc.
e.g.
public class CBarredSpiral : CSpiral
There are still call center jobs?
How about "files in those formats are available?" Outside of slashdot, I've never run across ogg in everyday life. mp3s, wavs, wma, the iTunes DRM format stuff - I don't even know where to GET ogg. (Yes, I could look if I was really motivated too...)
I'm not a gamer, and neither are any of my friends. We do need word processing, graphic design tools, spreadsheets, email, and web browsers, all of which are available in abundance on the Mac. Which is why I have one.
Look at it this way - Columbus sailed to America in 1492. Where such trips routine by 1537? People still died on voyages, etc. And they didnt have to worry about bringing their own air supply! Give it a hundred years or so.
Well, the company DID go out of business, so I guess you were right!
I made the same point to my boss at my old job about the power savings of LCDs. The response? "We don't pay for our power, the landlord does, so we might as well buy the cheaper CRTs even if they are less efficient"
Based on the fact that the earth revolves around its axis roughly 360 times per year, and there are 12 months (cycles of the moon) in the same time frame. It all lends itself very nicely to a base-12 time system of 24 hours in a day (12 daylight/12 darkness), 60 minutes to an hour, etc.
Yes, but I'm Jewish ;-)