> And people would rather pay a little extra and get all that extra functionality
Where are my damnedable mod points? Bartender! This guys next round is on me!
You'd think this would be marketing 101 - it's the reason schools and other bulk machine purchasers STILL buy ROI-eating desktops over thin clients, the thin clients aren't even HALF the cost of the desktops. No matter how 'green' you believe yourself to be, if the 300hp engine is only $50 more than the 150hp engine, the 2L coke is a 10c more than the 1/2 liter, the McD double cheeseburger is 4cents more than the *regular* cheeseburger, the 7/11 child slurpee is 25cents less (and 1/5 the size) of the 32oz slurpee, taking your family of four to a first-run movie will cost almost $40, but you can wait a month and BUY the DVD you might watch ONCE for $15 - what choice does the consumer make w/o feeling like an idiot?
Moderation is *not* rewarded in a consumerist society.
> The Startrek universe is riddled with minor and major plotholes and inconsistencies.
So is the Bible, yet about a billion folk still find the core message to be of some value - tho I'm not sure I believe more than half that many people have actually *read* the thing..
.. because we spend so much time reading tech manuals that instead of really getting to know the candidates we form our political leanings by the ratings of the party's ads on youtube.
> Who is really REALLY afriad of a "national emergency" that requires a "temporary extension of the current administration" happening in the next year or so
Not gonna happen; we'll be in the streets all over the country. Americans lived thru "duck-and-cover"; we're *not* that scared of the boogey man.
I just find that odd. If it was Reagan, more people would relate I think. I mean, yes, ok, we get it, Nixon was a bad president, ha ha ha. But he's already been parodied in every comedy show there is, we don't need yet another go at it.
Reagan = clueless Nixon = evil
If Reagan won the world presidency election, his giant robot body would have toppled over asleep - tho if he'd said "bite my shiny metal-" while in Bender's body, everyone would have said "awwwwwww, isn't that cuuute!"
Plus, with his collagen-addicted Hollywood background, his head wouldn't have to be in a jar to have been preserved 1000 yrs.
> Microsoft Office 2015, Photoshop v.27, and World of Warcraft 2015 are going to need more rather than less power and people will be forced to buy more powerful machines.
I hope that 2015 machine is a Chobit - that might make me consider moving back to Windows; tho a Linux-powered persocom would probably be *much* more customizable and probably less frustrating than a Vista-derived one:
P: "We're approaching a crosswalk - halt, continue or..."
Me: "Uh, well, we need to get across to the... "
P: *BSOD*
Me: Damn - there's no way in hell I can reboot this thing out here in public; I'll get arrested.
Sort of like how the development of the Honda Civic completely wiped out the Porche, Mustang and Ferrari?
If you got $$, you'll buy speed (or status: i.e. Rolex vs Casio)
Personally, I'm a great fan of review-supported fan fics, and a portable reader with a battery that isn't sucked dry so quickly by a back-lit LCD would be a godsend - and don't get me started on how woefully inadequate a WinPC is in a k-8 environment.
Perhaps, but on a rolling 24month schedule. The thing about cell phones is people tend to upgrade them more - I'm guessing that the industry standard 2yr agreements have "programmed" consumers to start thinking about switching/upgrading their service (and usually, equipment) every 2yrs.
We did no kernel programming in either the undergrad or graduate OS class at my undergraduate institution (I took both). It was all fairly low-level C systems programming. The undergrad OS class at my graduate institution (a top ten CS school) is the same way -- in fact, the OS class there is sometimes taught in Java
I taught in HS a few years ago in an IT program (miss it, but I digress). Anyway, once while attempting to access a DSL speed testing site I fat-fingered the url ('dls' vs 'dsl') and got a porn site. Another time, I tried to bring up a cooking site, fat fingered it, and got girlie pics. It is a bit chilling that I could be a two-strike felon because my fingers sometimes slip on the keyboard.
it may be possible to achieve faster-than-light communication
Seti 2.0 anyone? Maybe someone's already emailed us the cure for cancer, the common cold, and how to stop being distracted by celebrities' antics so we can *finally* move civilization forward.
The interesting thing is that, although I'm in principle against DRM, the DRM scheme used in these books is so user-friendly.. [y]You can install the software in as many computers and handhelds you wish
Shennanigans, call-eth I.
Can this "user friendly" ebook PDF reader be installed on my Linux-powered laptop? Nope. Screw it then, I'll keep buying my tagged-but-DRM-free eBooks from Manning.
> I personally believe that this is a *beautiful* way to go
Agreed; although eMusic is DRM-free, I'm tired of monthly subscriptions that put the onus on *me* to make sure I get full value (download 30 tracks/mo ) for the $$ (think of a magazine subscription that's offered very very cheap, but only if you call them once/mo to remind them to send it to you).
As a fulltime Linux user, I'm happy that the iPod is now well supported under Ubuntu using Amarok; and that there exist options like TuneBite that allow users who still purchase the occasional song from iTunes will be able to strip the DRM to allow the file to be moved to Linux. Although this still requires a working Win box for iTunes, at least there's no worries about being able to still access one's music (and Audible purchases) once the Winbox croaks.
This tagging scheme reminds me of some recent eBook purchases I've made; one company (Manning) sells DRM-free PDFS of their books with your name and email in the footers which I can use on my Linux box, whereas I had to get a refund for a Prentice Hall ebook that I found out, after purchasing, did not work without a DRM-enabled PDF reader that's currently only availalbe on Windows.
Tag my purchases all you want, I just want to still be able to use the stuff I *BOUGHT* no matter what platform I happen to be using five years from now, like the tapes, and videos that make up my other media collection @ home are still usable even if magnetic media is now considered outmoded.
I can also confirm that Amsterdam is slated to be cut off from the Netherlands and, as a separate country, will be drifted off at sea in 201
And, after reaching the open seas and non-territorial waters, they will make all vices (prostitution, drugs, etc) *completely* legal and the floating city's tourism trade will soon transform it into the largest economy on the planet.
The folks at the National Academy of Sciences must be either more politically isolated, or they are so married to their "demon sciences" that they aren't into watering down the truth to save funding - I visited their (admittedly small) museum a few months ago and their climate change display pulled no punches (i.e. "CHANGE OR DIE" was the overriding theme).
Second, is the USA not great now? If so, why? Yes or no I bet that there are a lot more reasons than just "corporate greed" or in this case "corporate responsibility."
Yeah, still pretty great, but that $1 Trillion IOU owned by China makes me very, very concerned about the future.
> I can see this being EXTREMELY useful in the college scene.
Heck, it'd be useful in *middle school* where my daughter hefts a rolling suitcase full of books to/from school every day. An inexpensive e-reader containing all her texts would be a dream, especially if supplemented with free sources like Project Guttenberg. The OLPC is a nifty thing (got to handle on "in the flesh" at the recent Penguicon), but a cheap reader would be an even greater catalyst for transforming education. I wonder if the Mexican e-textbook project is aware of these devices.
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> And people would rather pay a little extra and get all that extra functionality
Where are my damnedable mod points? Bartender! This guys next round is on me!
You'd think this would be marketing 101 - it's the reason schools and other bulk machine purchasers STILL buy ROI-eating desktops over thin clients, the thin clients aren't even HALF the cost of the desktops. No matter how 'green' you believe yourself to be, if the 300hp engine is only $50 more than the 150hp engine, the 2L coke is a 10c more than the 1/2 liter, the McD double cheeseburger is 4cents more than the *regular* cheeseburger, the 7/11 child slurpee is 25cents less (and 1/5 the size) of the 32oz slurpee, taking your family of four to a first-run movie will cost almost $40, but you can wait a month and BUY the DVD you might watch ONCE for $15 - what choice does the consumer make w/o feeling like an idiot?
Moderation is *not* rewarded in a consumerist society.
> The Startrek universe is riddled with minor and major plotholes and inconsistencies.
So is the Bible, yet about a billion folk still find the core message to be of some value - tho I'm not sure I believe more than half that many people have actually *read* the thing..
.. because we spend so much time reading tech manuals that instead of really getting to know the candidates we form our political leanings by the ratings of the party's ads on youtube.
Oakland County (Detroit suburb) seems to be having some success with their effort. http://www.oakgov.com/wireless/faq
> I don't see any real advantage over "Model 2+" (Servlet/JSP pairs) that I started with in 2001.
Sounds like you want to take a look at IBM's Hamlets - a nice example of the "simplest solution possible".
>I sure hope all terrorists are idiots.
As in, they carry i.d. with their real name on it, and maybe their Al Queda training application forms too.
> Who is really REALLY afriad of a "national emergency" that requires a "temporary extension of the current administration" happening in the next year or so
Not gonna happen; we'll be in the streets all over the country. Americans lived thru "duck-and-cover"; we're *not* that scared of the boogey man.
Not. Gonna. Happen.
> Almost all fascist dictatorships in the 20th century actually rose to power through democratic means. Hitler ...Mussolini ...Dollfuß...
Palpatine...
I just find that odd. If it was Reagan, more people would relate I think. I mean, yes, ok, we get it, Nixon was a bad president, ha ha ha. But he's already been parodied in every comedy show there is, we don't need yet another go at it.
Reagan = clueless
Nixon = evil
If Reagan won the world presidency election, his giant robot body would have toppled over asleep - tho if he'd said "bite my shiny metal-" while in Bender's body, everyone would have said "awwwwwww, isn't that cuuute!"
Plus, with his collagen-addicted Hollywood background, his head wouldn't have to be in a jar to have been preserved 1000 yrs.
> Microsoft Office 2015, Photoshop v.27, and World of Warcraft 2015 are going to need more rather than less power and people will be forced to buy more powerful machines.
..."
I hope that 2015 machine is a Chobit - that might make me consider moving back to Windows; tho a Linux-powered persocom would probably be *much* more customizable and probably less frustrating than a Vista-derived one:
P: "We're approaching a crosswalk - halt, continue or
Me: "Uh, well, we need to get across to the... "
P: *BSOD*
Me: Damn - there's no way in hell I can reboot this thing out here in public; I'll get arrested.
> bigger faster
Sort of like how the development of the Honda Civic completely wiped out the Porche, Mustang and Ferrari?
If you got $$, you'll buy speed (or status: i.e. Rolex vs Casio)
Personally, I'm a great fan of review-supported fan fics, and a portable reader with a battery that isn't sucked dry so quickly by a back-lit LCD would be a godsend - and don't get me started on how woefully inadequate a WinPC is in a k-8 environment.
> The Mobile phone market is already saturated
Perhaps, but on a rolling 24month schedule. The thing about cell phones is people tend to upgrade them more - I'm guessing that the industry standard 2yr agreements have "programmed" consumers to start thinking about switching/upgrading their service (and usually, equipment) every 2yrs.
> but I'm not willing to place a bet against Darwin
If you're putting your money on Darwin vs Moore; I'll take that bet.
We did no kernel programming in either the undergrad or graduate OS class at my undergraduate institution (I took both). It was all fairly low-level C systems programming. The undergrad OS class at my graduate institution (a top ten CS school) is the same way -- in fact, the OS class there is sometimes taught in Java
....?
And the problem with that being
I taught in HS a few years ago in an IT program (miss it, but I digress). Anyway, once while attempting to access a DSL speed testing site I fat-fingered the url ('dls' vs 'dsl') and got a porn site. Another time, I tried to bring up a cooking site, fat fingered it, and got girlie pics. It is a bit chilling that I could be a two-strike felon because my fingers sometimes slip on the keyboard.
it may be possible to achieve faster-than-light communication
Seti 2.0 anyone? Maybe someone's already emailed us the cure for cancer, the common cold, and how to stop being distracted by celebrities' antics so we can *finally* move civilization forward.
The interesting thing is that, although I'm in principle against DRM, the DRM scheme used in these books is so user-friendly.. [y]You can install the software in as many computers and handhelds you wish
Shennanigans, call-eth I.
Can this "user friendly" ebook PDF reader be installed on my Linux-powered laptop? Nope. Screw it then, I'll keep buying my tagged-but-DRM-free eBooks from Manning.
> I personally believe that this is a *beautiful* way to go
Agreed; although eMusic is DRM-free, I'm tired of monthly subscriptions that put the onus on *me* to make sure I get full value (download 30 tracks/mo ) for the $$ (think of a magazine subscription that's offered very very cheap, but only if you call them once/mo to remind them to send it to you).
As a fulltime Linux user, I'm happy that the iPod is now well supported under Ubuntu using Amarok; and that there exist options like TuneBite that allow users who still purchase the occasional song from iTunes will be able to strip the DRM to allow the file to be moved to Linux. Although this still requires a working Win box for iTunes, at least there's no worries about being able to still access one's music (and Audible purchases) once the Winbox croaks.
This tagging scheme reminds me of some recent eBook purchases I've made; one company (Manning) sells DRM-free PDFS of their books with your name and email in the footers which I can use on my Linux box, whereas I had to get a refund for a Prentice Hall ebook that I found out, after purchasing, did not work without a DRM-enabled PDF reader that's currently only availalbe on Windows.
Tag my purchases all you want, I just want to still be able to use the stuff I *BOUGHT* no matter what platform I happen to be using five years from now, like the tapes, and videos that make up my other media collection @ home are still usable even if magnetic media is now considered outmoded.
> Insipid ... snapshotting feature
Page Save by Pearl Crescent has a nifty page-saving feature that you could use in Nautilus for an at-a-glance view of multiple web pages.
I can also confirm that Amsterdam is slated to be cut off from the Netherlands and, as a separate country, will be drifted off at sea in 201
And, after reaching the open seas and non-territorial waters, they will make all vices (prostitution, drugs, etc) *completely* legal and the floating city's tourism trade will soon transform it into the largest economy on the planet.
> The question then will be whether troops will still be in Iraq at that time.
And the correct answer to this query is:
wait for it...
Yes.
> Also I've done some pretty bad things in school like telling the principal to 'fuck off' and such
By which you've learned the number one lesson of crime and punishment in the US: don't get in trouble while being Black.
The folks at the National Academy of Sciences must be either more politically isolated, or they are so married to their "demon sciences" that they aren't into watering down the truth to save funding - I visited their (admittedly small) museum a few months ago and their climate change display pulled no punches (i.e. "CHANGE OR DIE" was the overriding theme).
Second, is the USA not great now? If so, why? Yes or no I bet that there are a lot more reasons than just "corporate greed" or in this case "corporate responsibility."
Yeah, still pretty great, but that $1 Trillion IOU owned by China makes me very, very concerned about the future.
> I can see this being EXTREMELY useful in the college scene.
Heck, it'd be useful in *middle school* where my daughter hefts a rolling suitcase full of books to/from school every day. An inexpensive e-reader containing all her texts would be a dream, especially if supplemented with free sources like Project Guttenberg. The OLPC is a nifty thing (got to handle on "in the flesh" at the recent Penguicon), but a cheap reader would be an even greater catalyst for transforming education. I wonder if the Mexican e-textbook project is aware of these devices.