It's not just big business. The ban on smoking in pubs is led by government convincing the people that they need their rights taking away from themselves.
And a few years from now, they'll be campaigning to councils to stop pub companies converting their village pub into a private residence.
It is the difference between learning how to program using VB and using Assembly/Assembler.
The former will give you a quick high, but you end up being deformed mentally for life. The latter will force you to think before you press ENTER since one bad line can potentially take away your root disk.
No-one uses assembler, except for things like driver/operating system and some small device development. I've never met anyone who lamented that they were using VB and would rather be using assembler. Assembler is much harder to get right than something like VB and therefore more expensive. With todays PCs, the cost of building assembler code makes it useless. It's the equivalent of making your own film stock before shooting.
You've answered your own question "since one bad line can potentially take away your root disk". You know what? I really don't want my root disk taken away, and while I would like the option to do so, I'm comfortable working with languages that give me a certain degree of protection, and give me the tools to build at the appropriate level. I don't have to test out garbage collection in Java and make sure that I've destroyed all my classes, because I know it will do it for me. That's a job I don't have to do in pursuing my aim of delivering functionality. It may be less efficient, processor-wise, but I don't care. If it's "fast enough" then it's good enough.
Not to mention the High resolution in a film versus crappy resolution in today's digi's.
Funny, Patrick Lichfield, one of the best known photographers in the UK said on BBC Radio 4 that he used digital, as did most of his friends. He didn't think it was so crappy.
It gives a thrill to wait for an hour or so to see what we clicked has come out.
Are you serious? That's the dumbest argument I've ever heard for film. How about adding:-
It gives a thrill to see if I can do some good cropping on the photo, or whether I need to get another print done if I wreck it.
It gives a thrill to receive prints in the post and to then have to request some more so my friends can have a copy.
It gives a thrill to take up a whole room in my house with a darkroom.
It gives a thrill to work with corrosive chemicals to develop my own photographs.
The only reason I can find for justifying film is if you've already got a lot of film gear, and the thought of spending big bucks on a decent digital is beyond your budget. I've seen results from the 20d and 1d and they are excellent.
I expect some "but you should learn it properly" arguments to follow;)
Personally, I did "learn it properly" and while technique makes you a better photographer, so does practise. You are also more likely to get a better result if you take the same building with 5 shots using different aperture/shutter options than just doing 1.
I recently did some night photography in my garden without using a flash, on very long exposures. I couldn't do that with film, because making a judgement on the light is quite difficult, and also because the preview allowed me to see what the camera captured, and could do it until it was right.
To amateurs, I do advise reading books/magazines on composition and techniques.
Because I have an ASP.NET/C# application to support. Not often, not particularly heavy amounts of changes, but I need to write/test changes and put them on a server.
I could probably live without doing it, but I'd rather have the option that if the client calls me, and I'm away from home, that I can change it.
It's not primary, though. Essentially, I want OSX and that Unix base. Just that having the choice to use Windows too would be great.
Maybe DL burning adds more to cost and DL burning is not commonly used. I've checked the price of DL media, and it's hardly moved in 6 months, which suggests that most people are not using it.
I currently work on Windows, but would prefer to go Mac.
What's stopping me is that I have a legacy app for a client that runs on Windows, and I understand that VS.NET isn't suited to Virtual PC. I don't need to do things on the legacy app very often, but I want to know that I can fix it, if I need to. Converting it off.net would be too costly, although long term I am moving off.net.
If Mac could dual boot to Windows, even if I have to jump through a few hoops, then my next machine will be a Mac.
The definition that I've heard is that they don't believe in God, only because they have seen no proof, where an aetheist denies the existence.
I think that an agnostic is saying that if they felt the presence of a God, or a vision of God (as has been described by some), that they would believe. Then again, I think that if an aetheist had such an episode, that they'd probably ditch their views quite quickly.
Science is founded upon a philosophical argument that the world we observe has some reasonable attachment to "reality." Or that what we perceive is reality.
I'd like to know what the alternative is to "reality".
What happened to Darwin's life doesn't matter in the slightest. Maybe that's why he did his work. I don't know. But it doesn't matter, because it's irrelevant to the argument.
All that matters is the question of the reliability or otherwise of his theories. That's what science is founded on.
I'm really not trying to start an argument here, but if you support evolution, how do you feel about things in the bible like Noah's Ark, Adam and Eve etc, which it seems to me would be in conflict with that.
I do.net programming, but I really don't understand this.
Isn't part of the point of people using open source to get away from "lock in" by manufacturers? Wouldn't the effort be better expended on a truly open alternative, like something based around Python or Ruby?
If I get sand on it at a beach, I can brush it off.
I can use it on a plane, and no-ones going to tell me to switch it off.
I can give it to a friend
I can trade it in at a bookstore
I can read it if I don't have a power supply
I can put it in my coat pocket and not worry about crushing it.
I can use it in the kitchen and not worry that getting food on it will cause expensive damage.
No-one pinches novels.
I'm sure there's a niche for this, but the idea that they'll be doing for paperbacks what Apple did with iPods is ridiculous. You can't play music without a power source, and you often want to choose a track to suit your mood. People did this before by carrying cd players and having a bunch of CDs. The iPod made it simpler. I don't forsee wanting to read one of half a dozen novels - I finish one before I start another.
The US and the UK have a massive anti-immigration "taking our jobs" viewpoint. The US was built by immigrants, and now they want to shut the door.
Ultimately, people always find a way around. If they can't get a job in the US, they'll simply work out of their own country and export their skills.
On your "levelling out the world" that will ultimately happen, even with an immigration market. If more people want to live in the UK, costs go up and make someone in India cheaper.
If I was a younger, I'd be considering my options other than living here. I can write code anywhere. My clients deal with me by email and phone. If I lived in India, I'd have a much lower cost of living.
The levelling out is going to happen. The western economies are fat and want handouts. The US debt is completely out of control, populations are aging, and in Europe they are creating more and more protectionism. Having things like 35 hour weeks only makes your country less competitive in the world and gives the newer economies a chance to grow.
Same low-grade coffee, of course, but new packaging is supposed to make feel better about their purchase, and it seems to work.
It's tragic how much people have become brand slaves.
People often aren't buying high-brand products (like clothing) for the quality, but for the perceived membership of some club. The term "designer jeans" says it all, particularly designer jeans that are pre-faded or ripped.
Real high quality clothing like hand stitched brogues or tailor made suits are hard to fake, because there is a great deal of effort going into the construction and a small amount into the marketing, where high-brand items are often cheaply made, but have a large marketing cost.
Levi's sell jeans to company. What that company does with them is their business, not Levi's. It's no longer yours to control.
It's whiny, anti-free market and it stinks.
Levi's can shove their jeans. I won't pay their full price anyway. Not when Tesco are selling their own for less than a fiver a pair. I can buy a pair of jeans, and have enough left over for a skinful, curry and a taxi home for less.
In October 2004, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials in Anchorage, Alaska, seized 20,000 suspected fake Memorex USB memory key thumb drives from Asia. And last year, Miami officials seized 900 allegedly phony laptops valued at $700,000.
Nothing like some cold, hard facts to back up the case.
I bought a DVD player when they came down to about £100 ($150).
Some of my friends already had them, but I'd say it was about 50/50. When the players hit about £50 ($75), then it went to about 90/10.
DVD gave a considerable improvement in terms of picture, decay and features.
If anyone seriously thinks that the mass market is going to go spend thousands or even hundreds for a TV set to watch content in HD, they'll be mistaken. A lot of people will switch when their TV starts going wrong, and right now, a lot of them still won't pay the extra to get an HD-ready set - they'll buy a cheap TV.
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And a few years from now, they'll be campaigning to councils to stop pub companies converting their village pub into a private residence.
No-one uses assembler, except for things like driver/operating system and some small device development. I've never met anyone who lamented that they were using VB and would rather be using assembler. Assembler is much harder to get right than something like VB and therefore more expensive. With todays PCs, the cost of building assembler code makes it useless. It's the equivalent of making your own film stock before shooting.
You've answered your own question "since one bad line can potentially take away your root disk". You know what? I really don't want my root disk taken away, and while I would like the option to do so, I'm comfortable working with languages that give me a certain degree of protection, and give me the tools to build at the appropriate level. I don't have to test out garbage collection in Java and make sure that I've destroyed all my classes, because I know it will do it for me. That's a job I don't have to do in pursuing my aim of delivering functionality. It may be less efficient, processor-wise, but I don't care. If it's "fast enough" then it's good enough.
Not to mention the High resolution in a film versus crappy resolution in today's digi's.
Funny, Patrick Lichfield, one of the best known photographers in the UK said on BBC Radio 4 that he used digital, as did most of his friends. He didn't think it was so crappy.
It gives a thrill to wait for an hour or so to see what we clicked has come out.
Are you serious? That's the dumbest argument I've ever heard for film. How about adding:-
It gives a thrill to see if I can do some good cropping on the photo, or whether I need to get another print done if I wreck it. It gives a thrill to receive prints in the post and to then have to request some more so my friends can have a copy. It gives a thrill to take up a whole room in my house with a darkroom. It gives a thrill to work with corrosive chemicals to develop my own photographs.The only reason I can find for justifying film is if you've already got a lot of film gear, and the thought of spending big bucks on a decent digital is beyond your budget. I've seen results from the 20d and 1d and they are excellent.
Personally, I did "learn it properly" and while technique makes you a better photographer, so does practise. You are also more likely to get a better result if you take the same building with 5 shots using different aperture/shutter options than just doing 1.
I recently did some night photography in my garden without using a flash, on very long exposures. I couldn't do that with film, because making a judgement on the light is quite difficult, and also because the preview allowed me to see what the camera captured, and could do it until it was right.
To amateurs, I do advise reading books/magazines on composition and techniques.
20,000 shots is about 600 films. 600 films would cost me something like £3000 to process, or enough to buy 2 Canon D20s.
How does the film vs digital compare now?
I could probably live without doing it, but I'd rather have the option that if the client calls me, and I'm away from home, that I can change it.
It's not primary, though. Essentially, I want OSX and that Unix base. Just that having the choice to use Windows too would be great.
Maybe DL burning adds more to cost and DL burning is not commonly used. I've checked the price of DL media, and it's hardly moved in 6 months, which suggests that most people are not using it.
I currently can pack a laptop off somewhere and do some work on the application while I'm there. I can meet client needs while I'm away if needs be.
Until I can get a Mac running Windows to do this, I'll stick with a PC, which isn't my first choice.
What's stopping me is that I have a legacy app for a client that runs on Windows, and I understand that VS.NET isn't suited to Virtual PC. I don't need to do things on the legacy app very often, but I want to know that I can fix it, if I need to. Converting it off .net would be too costly, although long term I am moving off .net.
If Mac could dual boot to Windows, even if I have to jump through a few hoops, then my next machine will be a Mac.
I'm just wondering how this got modded as "informative".
I think that an agnostic is saying that if they felt the presence of a God, or a vision of God (as has been described by some), that they would believe. Then again, I think that if an aetheist had such an episode, that they'd probably ditch their views quite quickly.
I'd like to know what the alternative is to "reality".
All that matters is the question of the reliability or otherwise of his theories. That's what science is founded on.
I'm really not trying to start an argument here, but if you support evolution, how do you feel about things in the bible like Noah's Ark, Adam and Eve etc, which it seems to me would be in conflict with that.
Isn't part of the point of people using open source to get away from "lock in" by manufacturers? Wouldn't the effort be better expended on a truly open alternative, like something based around Python or Ruby?
If I lose it, I've lost maybe £10.
If I get sand on it at a beach, I can brush it off.
I can use it on a plane, and no-ones going to tell me to switch it off.
I can give it to a friend
I can trade it in at a bookstore
I can read it if I don't have a power supply
I can put it in my coat pocket and not worry about crushing it.
I can use it in the kitchen and not worry that getting food on it will cause expensive damage.
No-one pinches novels.
I'm sure there's a niche for this, but the idea that they'll be doing for paperbacks what Apple did with iPods is ridiculous. You can't play music without a power source, and you often want to choose a track to suit your mood. People did this before by carrying cd players and having a bunch of CDs. The iPod made it simpler. I don't forsee wanting to read one of half a dozen novels - I finish one before I start another.
I'm sure there's a niche, though.
The US and the UK have a massive anti-immigration "taking our jobs" viewpoint. The US was built by immigrants, and now they want to shut the door.
Ultimately, people always find a way around. If they can't get a job in the US, they'll simply work out of their own country and export their skills.
On your "levelling out the world" that will ultimately happen, even with an immigration market. If more people want to live in the UK, costs go up and make someone in India cheaper.
If I was a younger, I'd be considering my options other than living here. I can write code anywhere. My clients deal with me by email and phone. If I lived in India, I'd have a much lower cost of living.
The levelling out is going to happen. The western economies are fat and want handouts. The US debt is completely out of control, populations are aging, and in Europe they are creating more and more protectionism. Having things like 35 hour weeks only makes your country less competitive in the world and gives the newer economies a chance to grow.
The Bradford riots had nothing to do with globalization and everything to do with poverty and bad governance.
It's tragic how much people have become brand slaves.
People often aren't buying high-brand products (like clothing) for the quality, but for the perceived membership of some club. The term "designer jeans" says it all, particularly designer jeans that are pre-faded or ripped.
Real high quality clothing like hand stitched brogues or tailor made suits are hard to fake, because there is a great deal of effort going into the construction and a small amount into the marketing, where high-brand items are often cheaply made, but have a large marketing cost.
It's whiny, anti-free market and it stinks.
Levi's can shove their jeans. I won't pay their full price anyway. Not when Tesco are selling their own for less than a fiver a pair. I can buy a pair of jeans, and have enough left over for a skinful, curry and a taxi home for less.
Filezilla is one of the best applications I've used because it's a great, free FTP client.
A few people I've met won't switch from crummy email providers because people know their address there. Have a domain, and you can choose.
To be honest, though, MySpace being sold for that price reminds me of all the loony dotcoms of the late 90s.
Nothing like some cold, hard facts to back up the case.
But there used to be a Commodore plant there, so maybe a reborn Amiga is the answer.
Some of my friends already had them, but I'd say it was about 50/50. When the players hit about £50 ($75), then it went to about 90/10.
DVD gave a considerable improvement in terms of picture, decay and features.
If anyone seriously thinks that the mass market is going to go spend thousands or even hundreds for a TV set to watch content in HD, they'll be mistaken. A lot of people will switch when their TV starts going wrong, and right now, a lot of them still won't pay the extra to get an HD-ready set - they'll buy a cheap TV.