Here on Slashdot, we really like our car analogies; it's a long held tradition. However, for your benefit:
Say a pizza company comes up with a plan where you pay $300 per month for as many pizzas as you'd want with unlimited toppings. The company goes and advertises young people calling everyday to order a new variant of pizza, all smiling, happy, little pizza consumers. The advertising is effective, and the plan takes off; people everywhere are signing up for the $300 pizza deal. But instead of ordering Pizza the way the company wants/expected of 1 pizza a week (usually single pepperoni topping), college students actually order a fully loaded pizza every day. So now, the company is trying to tell people this small number of people are making it hard to do business because of a fringe group. In reality, the company is probably still doing well because the $300 covers the actual costs, plus they have all the people who aren't ordering pizza every day, but the profit margin just isn't enough. So now, some spokesperson is saying that in light of this fringe group, they might have to add a per pizza fee for each order on top of the $300/month.
I hope this helps and functions as a reasonable analogy of the problem.
He probably wants a future filled with people paying $1647.76 per megabyte of data. Then he'll try to figure out a way to monetize the 34GB we consume each day so that AT&T can charge $1,721,054,752.18 per month or make you feel better about paying a larger amount for the "all-you-can-eat plan".
You are making the same fallacy many others have made: assuming the sins of the browser are the sins of JavaScript. Free your mind and see the ECMA standard for what it is, a beautifully simple language with a good deal of power behind it.
Also, before FireFox offered FireBug and a whole slew of other folks came out with other development tools, I realized I could create a message tab (a.k.a. div-tag) I could write debugging messages to. You could have a simple "button" located somewhere on your page that could hide or show this message tab and it would have all the run-time messages you wanted to see in it. It works just like a real debugging file would, leaving behind all that pesky alert crap.
As for the Palm Pre, it seems to work okay. Sure, it needs rebooting once a week, but I think that has more to do with bad programmers than the tool choice. When apps are going to run day after day all day long, the programmer needs to know all the places memory was allocated so that they can deallocate it.
I use C/C++ where I work every day, but would really like to get back to JS because I think the OO is better, functions are first class objects, named arrays, closure, and run-time modification of object structure.
Here's my only wishlist for JS:
Optionally Typed Objects to force int/float/char types on variants
Lockable values
Lockable Object Members (i.e. can't add/delete any more)
What do you mean 7 is a little aggressive? It's the most aggressive number there is; it ate 9! Poor little 6 is terrified of it. 1 is a bit cocky never being a looser. 2 is pretty passive; he'll go along with anything. Not much to say about 3. 4 isn't really the aggressor, it's the person who shouts it that is aggressive....
See, an I thought you were going to go another direction with that first sentence.
The best way to fix overpopulation is what we're doing. Continue to create greenhouse gases, destroy farmlands & forests, and generally make a mess of things. Thus, the world will become inhospitable to us and our population will die out completely or drastically. In short, the Gaia Theory at work.
Ah, but see his method probably comes with continuous instant gratification without all the downsides associated with actual girls. And as long as he stays plugged in, he will likely get the same positive sensations as the real thing. It does however mean the end of his line, but without the social Interaction plugin, his line was likely non-propagating anyway.
What? I looked at both links you provided and the results were very similar. The first hit on both took me to the HP website where I could download the drivers. Did Bing change between when you posted the link and I clicked on it, or were you just prematurely gnashing your teeth and pulling your eyes from their sockets so that you could not see the actual results?
Besides ignoring that the red matter was just a plot device, I figured the red matter was reactive on under high thermal conditions. In the ship, the matter was cooled, but in a planet or sun, the stuff would explode violently.
For that you can sign up a bunch of people who want to be your "friend". I don't know about Mafia Wars, but I know Mobsters has a board for finding Mobster friends. This allows you to get the crew you need and not infect your real friends. It's like sleeping with a prostitute using someone elses junk.
Whoever marked you troll has no sense of history. Java was suppose to do all that. However, we were "saved" from client-side Java with the introduction of JavaScript into the 4.0 browsers (yes it existed before 4.0, but you couldn't do much with it). Of course, we had to suffer from all the Java zealots who wanted it server-side too, so we had to endure servlets.
I don't know what Java looks like today, I just know two things: 1) I got sick of things being deprecated every flipping week, and 2) on the boxes I haven't uninstalled it, it wants an update damn near daily. I'm guessing based on #2, that #1 is still an issue.
Back in the mid-90's Java was to be a panacea of all that ailed the computer world. I'm thankful Sun didn't get their wish, cause it brought a lot of needless pain.
You might be laughing at them until they started some frivolous lawsuit against your store because they have an endless supply of money, and you don't. They will win the stupid lawsuit and have you pay for it because they have an endless supply of money, and you don't. Don't laugh too loud, or they'd hear you.
They've almost got it pegged, I've stopped buying DVDs because I can rent them from RedBox. I watch most movies about once and then they sit on my shelf for a very long time before I watch them again, if ever. So, I now only buy movies I think I'll watch multiple times. RedBox has saved me from many bad purchases. RedBox is different than Hollywood Video in that I pay a buck versus 5 bucks. If I rent a movie for $1, if I decide that I later want to buy it, I don't feel like I've overpaid for my watching experience. That is to say, 16/15 is not a bad ratio of overpayment. If I rent a move for $5 and later decide to buy it, I feel like I over spent (20/15 somehow crosses my threshold). So, they have it right that RedBox is cutting into their sales, but only of crappy movies which covers 2/3's (depending on who you are, this number fluctuates wildly).
What they don't understand is that if it takes a month longer to get to RedBox, I'm just going to wait another month before I "preview" the movie. Before RedBox, I would often wait for a film of suspect quality to reach the $5 bin before watching it. Now with RedBox, most movies will reach the $5 bin before I buy it making the ratios more like 6/5.
So the executives at the Film Studios can think a month delay will help their sales, but it's more likely to drive people to torrents. I think in the long run, nothing is going to make them happy. Consumers want the feeling of value, and RedBox offers that. I can rent from them all I want for a buck a pop and not feel guilty about copyright infringement. If they do stupid things to take away my feeling of value, then I'm just going to sense greed and have no compunctions against "piracy".
Depending on what you are automating: gas, electricity, plants. My plan was to put dampers to each room with a thermostat, and program the acceptable heating & cooling parameters for the room. Not every room needs to be the same temperature in the house. In addition to the dampers it would be nice if the rooms could open & close the draperies to aid in heating or cooling the room provided no one was occupying the room. I also wanted to setup 40 watering zones in my yard to allow for a variety of plants, and because I can't remember to turn on & off the water at appropriate times. With this, I think it would be great to set the system up with monitors to determine what the soil moisture is in order to better determine whether or not the scheduled watering is necessary. Lights are great, but a remote could solve most of that issue. It's HVAC & watering I see where automation could help.
Do you believe this girl deserves a minimum stint of 2 years in jail with a maximum of 10 plus a fine up to $10,000? We don't know the details, but regardless, the State of Texas will destroy her life for something she did when she was 16. Our country doesn't rehabilitate people, she won't end up with simple counseling, she will end up in prison for what amounts to stupid shit. The brain is not fully developed by 16, hormones are definitely unstable at 16, and yet she has been charged with a felony for saying something stupid.
By the time her "victim" is in her mid-20's she will likely think nothing of it, but the "assailant" could still be in prison. And because of our wonderful penal system, she will likely be black marked for life and moving in and out of the criminal system. Why this couldn't be stopped at a much lower level, I don't know, but by using this method instead of others our "victim" and "assailant" will very much reverse roles.
Hopefully, she can get a good judge who will she the long term effects of charging her as a felon and reverse course, but I don't have that sort of faith in humanity.
I'll be honest and say I haven't used an Acer machine in the last 10 years. I won't go near one. 10 years ago they were just a piece of crap with proprietary cards, and it was difficult to get Win95 or Win98 to work on the thing because their proprietary cards needed special cards. I think I recall some proprietary keyboard socket too, but I can't find it in a Google search and that may have been a different manufacturer. Either way, I won't forgive them for the suffering they caused me in the 90's.
My only opinion on the 3D thing is that "we" should get it out there and try it. Many will fail, but eventually a good system may emerge. I'm not the early adopter I once was, so I'll see how others like it first.
And Windows 7 does seem okay, but I'm okay with Vista too. I'll use anything but a Mac, but again that's because of the suffering they caused me in the 90's.
I'll feed the troll. I'm not sure where to start though. First, they are in New Mexico which although is not Mexico 1) was part of Mexico a long time ago, 2) borders Mexico and has many Spanish speaking people (almost 30%) inhabiting the state, and 3) named New Mexico. Second, the US does not have an official language. Maybe it should, and I vote for Ute since that is a language of the peoples who inhabited the land I live on before being invaded. Do you think that people in Puerto Rico should speak English also? They are part of the US. Maybe we should just rename all the states to ensure they have a "U.S. name". I'm looking at a map, and I don't know where most these names came from, but clearly we need to start with "Hot Furnace", "Snowed", "Mountain", and "Colored" to accommodate the Anti-Spanish league. Third, the U.S. is composed of many peoples of many languages, and although English is the assumed language for the majority of its residents, it is not the only language. This of course, is much to the chagrin of the Aryan Nation and other like minded organizations. I'm sure I can go on, and even find valid reasons to support the name beyond resisting your racism (I know you said you had nothing in Particular against Spanish, but I assume that means you resent all non-English speaking peoples).
It sounds more like Microsoft Works to me rebranded. When I get a new machine the first thing I do is uninstall that POS called Works, which ironically doesn't. Works is a feature reduced set of Office that makes Wordpad look like an awesome wordprocessor. I like the OOo word processor well enough, but the spreadsheet just doesn't holdup as well (I use OOo at home). It is possible I would say the same of Excel if I had been using the OOo spreadsheet for the last 15+ years, but I haven't so Excel is the spreadsheet I really like and use. I've used Quattro Pro from Corel also, and although it had a couple of nice features I'd like to see in Excel, it is clearly a "runner" up package not really meant for prime time.
Wait, wouldn't it be more plausible that there are men on the moon (Moonmen or Moonians), and our government is at war with them to hide the fact that there are aliens? I think I heard something sourced from the Coast to Coast AM with George Noory that aliens will be shown to us by the end of the year. It might have been David Wilcock's prophecy. Or it could be Richard Hoagland's premise of a secret base. Either way, we are at war with the Moon!
I in no way agree that substituting police with voyeurs is a good idea. In fact, this sounds like a horrible idea in so many ways. However, I was just answering the OP's question of affordability. All it will really take is one or two OCD, patriotic voyeurs to make this program "successful".
I'm surprised though that US politicians haven't thought of this. "Conservatives" would be creaming their pants saying things like "more criminals using less tax dollars". Both "Liberals" and "Conservatives" might even claim, "you can see where your child is at any moment, and know they are safe".
Bottom line is that this is an idea likely to "work" even though it has too many draw backs and scares the bejebus out of people like us. I'd rather live in a world filled with unknowns and is a bit scary than live under constant surveillance, but somehow those in Britain allow their government to do this.
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Here on Slashdot, we really like our car analogies; it's a long held tradition. However, for your benefit:
Say a pizza company comes up with a plan where you pay $300 per month for as many pizzas as you'd want with unlimited toppings. The company goes and advertises young people calling everyday to order a new variant of pizza, all smiling, happy, little pizza consumers. The advertising is effective, and the plan takes off; people everywhere are signing up for the $300 pizza deal. But instead of ordering Pizza the way the company wants/expected of 1 pizza a week (usually single pepperoni topping), college students actually order a fully loaded pizza every day. So now, the company is trying to tell people this small number of people are making it hard to do business because of a fringe group. In reality, the company is probably still doing well because the $300 covers the actual costs, plus they have all the people who aren't ordering pizza every day, but the profit margin just isn't enough. So now, some spokesperson is saying that in light of this fringe group, they might have to add a per pizza fee for each order on top of the $300/month.
I hope this helps and functions as a reasonable analogy of the problem.
He probably wants a future filled with people paying $1647.76 per megabyte of data. Then he'll try to figure out a way to monetize the 34GB we consume each day so that AT&T can charge $1,721,054,752.18 per month or make you feel better about paying a larger amount for the "all-you-can-eat plan".
Damn! That means the Windows sequel will be as bad as the Herbie sequel. The sequel that should be forgotten.
What does /. user KilgoreTrout have to do with anything?
By lockable values, I mean I want to avoid doing this stupid error:
if (i = 3)
I'll take a look at SpiderMonkey.
Also, before FireFox offered FireBug and a whole slew of other folks came out with other development tools, I realized I could create a message tab (a.k.a. div-tag) I could write debugging messages to. You could have a simple "button" located somewhere on your page that could hide or show this message tab and it would have all the run-time messages you wanted to see in it. It works just like a real debugging file would, leaving behind all that pesky alert crap.
As for the Palm Pre, it seems to work okay. Sure, it needs rebooting once a week, but I think that has more to do with bad programmers than the tool choice. When apps are going to run day after day all day long, the programmer needs to know all the places memory was allocated so that they can deallocate it.
I use C/C++ where I work every day, but would really like to get back to JS because I think the OO is better, functions are first class objects, named arrays, closure, and run-time modification of object structure.
Here's my only wishlist for JS:
I thought the standard unit of weight around here was Volkswagens which would make that about 422,047,892 Volkswagens.
What do you mean 7 is a little aggressive? It's the most aggressive number there is; it ate 9! Poor little 6 is terrified of it. 1 is a bit cocky never being a looser. 2 is pretty passive; he'll go along with anything. Not much to say about 3. 4 isn't really the aggressor, it's the person who shouts it that is aggressive....
See, an I thought you were going to go another direction with that first sentence.
The best way to fix overpopulation is what we're doing. Continue to create greenhouse gases, destroy farmlands & forests, and generally make a mess of things. Thus, the world will become inhospitable to us and our population will die out completely or drastically. In short, the Gaia Theory at work.
Ah, but see his method probably comes with continuous instant gratification without all the downsides associated with actual girls. And as long as he stays plugged in, he will likely get the same positive sensations as the real thing. It does however mean the end of his line, but without the social Interaction plugin, his line was likely non-propagating anyway.
What? I looked at both links you provided and the results were very similar. The first hit on both took me to the HP website where I could download the drivers. Did Bing change between when you posted the link and I clicked on it, or were you just prematurely gnashing your teeth and pulling your eyes from their sockets so that you could not see the actual results?
Besides ignoring that the red matter was just a plot device, I figured the red matter was reactive on under high thermal conditions. In the ship, the matter was cooled, but in a planet or sun, the stuff would explode violently.
For that you can sign up a bunch of people who want to be your "friend". I don't know about Mafia Wars, but I know Mobsters has a board for finding Mobster friends. This allows you to get the crew you need and not infect your real friends. It's like sleeping with a prostitute using someone elses junk.
Whoever marked you troll has no sense of history. Java was suppose to do all that. However, we were "saved" from client-side Java with the introduction of JavaScript into the 4.0 browsers (yes it existed before 4.0, but you couldn't do much with it). Of course, we had to suffer from all the Java zealots who wanted it server-side too, so we had to endure servlets.
I don't know what Java looks like today, I just know two things: 1) I got sick of things being deprecated every flipping week, and 2) on the boxes I haven't uninstalled it, it wants an update damn near daily. I'm guessing based on #2, that #1 is still an issue.
Back in the mid-90's Java was to be a panacea of all that ailed the computer world. I'm thankful Sun didn't get their wish, cause it brought a lot of needless pain.
You might be laughing at them until they started some frivolous lawsuit against your store because they have an endless supply of money, and you don't. They will win the stupid lawsuit and have you pay for it because they have an endless supply of money, and you don't. Don't laugh too loud, or they'd hear you.
They've almost got it pegged, I've stopped buying DVDs because I can rent them from RedBox. I watch most movies about once and then they sit on my shelf for a very long time before I watch them again, if ever. So, I now only buy movies I think I'll watch multiple times. RedBox has saved me from many bad purchases. RedBox is different than Hollywood Video in that I pay a buck versus 5 bucks. If I rent a movie for $1, if I decide that I later want to buy it, I don't feel like I've overpaid for my watching experience. That is to say, 16/15 is not a bad ratio of overpayment. If I rent a move for $5 and later decide to buy it, I feel like I over spent (20/15 somehow crosses my threshold). So, they have it right that RedBox is cutting into their sales, but only of crappy movies which covers 2/3's (depending on who you are, this number fluctuates wildly).
What they don't understand is that if it takes a month longer to get to RedBox, I'm just going to wait another month before I "preview" the movie. Before RedBox, I would often wait for a film of suspect quality to reach the $5 bin before watching it. Now with RedBox, most movies will reach the $5 bin before I buy it making the ratios more like 6/5.
So the executives at the Film Studios can think a month delay will help their sales, but it's more likely to drive people to torrents. I think in the long run, nothing is going to make them happy. Consumers want the feeling of value, and RedBox offers that. I can rent from them all I want for a buck a pop and not feel guilty about copyright infringement. If they do stupid things to take away my feeling of value, then I'm just going to sense greed and have no compunctions against "piracy".
Let me just say WAY too much marketing babble, and no where near enough technical details.
Depending on what you are automating: gas, electricity, plants. My plan was to put dampers to each room with a thermostat, and program the acceptable heating & cooling parameters for the room. Not every room needs to be the same temperature in the house. In addition to the dampers it would be nice if the rooms could open & close the draperies to aid in heating or cooling the room provided no one was occupying the room. I also wanted to setup 40 watering zones in my yard to allow for a variety of plants, and because I can't remember to turn on & off the water at appropriate times. With this, I think it would be great to set the system up with monitors to determine what the soil moisture is in order to better determine whether or not the scheduled watering is necessary. Lights are great, but a remote could solve most of that issue. It's HVAC & watering I see where automation could help.
Do you believe this girl deserves a minimum stint of 2 years in jail with a maximum of 10 plus a fine up to $10,000? We don't know the details, but regardless, the State of Texas will destroy her life for something she did when she was 16. Our country doesn't rehabilitate people, she won't end up with simple counseling, she will end up in prison for what amounts to stupid shit. The brain is not fully developed by 16, hormones are definitely unstable at 16, and yet she has been charged with a felony for saying something stupid.
By the time her "victim" is in her mid-20's she will likely think nothing of it, but the "assailant" could still be in prison. And because of our wonderful penal system, she will likely be black marked for life and moving in and out of the criminal system. Why this couldn't be stopped at a much lower level, I don't know, but by using this method instead of others our "victim" and "assailant" will very much reverse roles.
Hopefully, she can get a good judge who will she the long term effects of charging her as a felon and reverse course, but I don't have that sort of faith in humanity.
I'll be honest and say I haven't used an Acer machine in the last 10 years. I won't go near one. 10 years ago they were just a piece of crap with proprietary cards, and it was difficult to get Win95 or Win98 to work on the thing because their proprietary cards needed special cards. I think I recall some proprietary keyboard socket too, but I can't find it in a Google search and that may have been a different manufacturer. Either way, I won't forgive them for the suffering they caused me in the 90's.
My only opinion on the 3D thing is that "we" should get it out there and try it. Many will fail, but eventually a good system may emerge. I'm not the early adopter I once was, so I'll see how others like it first.
And Windows 7 does seem okay, but I'm okay with Vista too. I'll use anything but a Mac, but again that's because of the suffering they caused me in the 90's.
I'll feed the troll. I'm not sure where to start though. First, they are in New Mexico which although is not Mexico 1) was part of Mexico a long time ago, 2) borders Mexico and has many Spanish speaking people (almost 30%) inhabiting the state, and 3) named New Mexico. Second, the US does not have an official language. Maybe it should, and I vote for Ute since that is a language of the peoples who inhabited the land I live on before being invaded. Do you think that people in Puerto Rico should speak English also? They are part of the US. Maybe we should just rename all the states to ensure they have a "U.S. name". I'm looking at a map, and I don't know where most these names came from, but clearly we need to start with "Hot Furnace", "Snowed", "Mountain", and "Colored" to accommodate the Anti-Spanish league. Third, the U.S. is composed of many peoples of many languages, and although English is the assumed language for the majority of its residents, it is not the only language. This of course, is much to the chagrin of the Aryan Nation and other like minded organizations. I'm sure I can go on, and even find valid reasons to support the name beyond resisting your racism (I know you said you had nothing in Particular against Spanish, but I assume that means you resent all non-English speaking peoples).
He's given her all she's got Sponge. If KDawson applies any more, the site might explode.
It sounds more like Microsoft Works to me rebranded. When I get a new machine the first thing I do is uninstall that POS called Works, which ironically doesn't. Works is a feature reduced set of Office that makes Wordpad look like an awesome wordprocessor. I like the OOo word processor well enough, but the spreadsheet just doesn't holdup as well (I use OOo at home). It is possible I would say the same of Excel if I had been using the OOo spreadsheet for the last 15+ years, but I haven't so Excel is the spreadsheet I really like and use. I've used Quattro Pro from Corel also, and although it had a couple of nice features I'd like to see in Excel, it is clearly a "runner" up package not really meant for prime time.
Wait, wouldn't it be more plausible that there are men on the moon (Moonmen or Moonians), and our government is at war with them to hide the fact that there are aliens? I think I heard something sourced from the Coast to Coast AM with George Noory that aliens will be shown to us by the end of the year. It might have been David Wilcock's prophecy. Or it could be Richard Hoagland's premise of a secret base. Either way, we are at war with the Moon!
I in no way agree that substituting police with voyeurs is a good idea. In fact, this sounds like a horrible idea in so many ways. However, I was just answering the OP's question of affordability. All it will really take is one or two OCD, patriotic voyeurs to make this program "successful".
I'm surprised though that US politicians haven't thought of this. "Conservatives" would be creaming their pants saying things like "more criminals using less tax dollars". Both "Liberals" and "Conservatives" might even claim, "you can see where your child is at any moment, and know they are safe".
Bottom line is that this is an idea likely to "work" even though it has too many draw backs and scares the bejebus out of people like us. I'd rather live in a world filled with unknowns and is a bit scary than live under constant surveillance, but somehow those in Britain allow their government to do this.