You're being modded funny, but you should also be modded insightful, because that is probably how it would start. It would end with the Men's 1500 meters being won by a chap in a Formula 1 car, or perhaps a helicopter. Afterall - why not? All sports have arbitrary rules, designed to keep the game and competition fun. Without them, the game becomes a simple and boring arms race.
I am building with nothing but GPL/BSD/Apache license code.
I hate to be the one to point this out to you, but your business therefore "depends on the whims of someone else's IP policies and enforcement". I hope you don't do anything that breaks the terms of the GPL.
I remember visiting IBM's in Rochester back in the 90's. They had a very nifty and very clever laptop implementation of the AS/400. Strangely enough, I didn't particularly feel the need for one.
Gosh, there are some patronising people around today aren't they. My wife gave me an iPod Touch as a gift and as an atheist I can tell you that it is a really rather splendid device. It has flaws (the biggest being a very low-level, volume independent hiss on audio - a pretty big problem for a music player) but other than that, I love it.
I paid for the 2.0 software update and yes, I've downloaded a heap of apps (and paid for one). It works very well, it has a pleasing form factor and yes it is expensive, but not outrageously so.
I think you are ascribing overly dry and analytical motives to people's choice of work machine. What does "only what works" really mean in this context? That you will buy a minimal stripped down configuration that does the job and nothing more?
What about something that is a bit more pleasant to use? A little bit faster, lets you complete tasks in a slightly more pleasing and elegant way?
And they still try and extort money from it? For fucks sake.
Yes, well that's because the Trademark still has value. Why should the Scrabulous guys leech off the marketing millions that Hasbro pumped in over the years. If Scrabulous was good enough on its own terms to succeed without trademark leeching, they should have just called it something else: they would have succeeded irrespective.
You're being moderated informative, apparently due to the fact that no-one has clicked on your first link.Nowhere in that page does National Geographic predict global cooling. The headline on the diagram is 'Towards an uncertain future'. The box out next to it starts:
It may seem that there are many theories on climate as there are climatologists, but experts agree on one point: they cannot yet predict climate change with any assurance
The graph shows two possible warmer trends one marked 'warmer?' the other marked 'cooler?'. The only bias towards cooler on the page is the note that 'we are living in one of the warmer periods of the last million years.'
Good job at completely misrepresenting the page that you link to.
People keep saying this, but it nothing like Second Life, at least not yet. This is an avatar-based chat system. Yes, you can use Second Life for that purpose and many do. But the interesting parts of second life are the virtual economy, the ability to build and script complex objects, the ability to buy 'land'.
It's rather like saying that an umbrella is the same as a jet-fighter because both can keep you dry when it rains...and if you don't like that metaphor - you're like a haddock in a hot air balloon.
You understand perfectly. In fact, the computer was in one bedroom, the phone jack in another. They had the phone cable on a reel that went along the landing. Not idea.
The most important difference, as far as I'm concerned is not in speed, but in the always-on nature of the connection.
For a long time my (80-something) parents were quite happy with dial-up. And they basically didn't use the Net. To access the Internet they had to run a phone extension lead across the room. They explained they didn't use the Internet much, and I simply said, "and you wouldn't use electricity much if every time you needed to turn on a light you had to go out to the garage, start up a generator and then run a cable in through the window".
In the end they simply decided that they didn't want to be left behind by the times. They got wireless, I set them up with a Mac (yes, I know but the Dock is a great thing it you only ever need 4 applications) and they never looked back. They're Skyping, Googling, the works.
Exactly how you sell the way that the online experience changes when you are always on is slightly problematic, but it's key. People liek my parents really didn't care if the Web page opened twice as fast.
Now no-one else is reading this thread, I can safely admit you are completely right and my feeble defence has failed.... I'm still going off to Google for parasitic triplets though. You never know.
All it takes is a single 110 year old watching TV to make this particular average jump up. We need to know about mode and the mean too.
More than 99.999% of the population have more than the average number of legs, when you are talking about the mean. The median number of legs is one. The mode is two.
Not necessarily, if the voters are looking for a complementary set of skills or attributes. So, for example a old warhorse might be a good vice president for a young liberal presidential candidate, but a poor choice of running mate with another old warhorse.
Loathe as I am to bring race into the issue, I would be somewhat surprised if a black presidential and VP candidate made it onto the same ticket, society being what it is. Disclaimer - I'm from the UK so I may have that entirely wrong.
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You're being modded funny, but you should also be modded insightful, because that is probably how it would start. It would end with the Men's 1500 meters being won by a chap in a Formula 1 car, or perhaps a helicopter. Afterall - why not? All sports have arbitrary rules, designed to keep the game and competition fun. Without them, the game becomes a simple and boring arms race.
I hate to be the one to point this out to you, but your business therefore "depends on the whims of someone else's IP policies and enforcement". I hope you don't do anything that breaks the terms of the GPL.
Not worth suing. Quite possibly worth giving as a juicy story to your favourite journalist.
I remember visiting IBM's in Rochester back in the 90's. They had a very nifty and very clever laptop implementation of the AS/400. Strangely enough, I didn't particularly feel the need for one.
Yes, and why the hell would I want either of those?
Gosh, there are some patronising people around today aren't they. My wife gave me an iPod Touch as a gift and as an atheist I can tell you that it is a really rather splendid device. It has flaws (the biggest being a very low-level, volume independent hiss on audio - a pretty big problem for a music player) but other than that, I love it.
I paid for the 2.0 software update and yes, I've downloaded a heap of apps (and paid for one). It works very well, it has a pleasing form factor and yes it is expensive, but not outrageously so.
So a little less of the old high-horse.
I think you are ascribing overly dry and analytical motives to people's choice of work machine. What does "only what works" really mean in this context? That you will buy a minimal stripped down configuration that does the job and nothing more?
What about something that is a bit more pleasant to use? A little bit faster, lets you complete tasks in a slightly more pleasing and elegant way?
Yes, well that's because the Trademark still has value. Why should the Scrabulous guys leech off the marketing millions that Hasbro pumped in over the years. If Scrabulous was good enough on its own terms to succeed without trademark leeching, they should have just called it something else: they would have succeeded irrespective.
Of course, you're assuming that Hasbro didn't try exactly that approach. We don't know, do we?
... although the iTunes download link is U.S only.
Nicely put.
You're being moderated informative, apparently due to the fact that no-one has clicked on your first link.Nowhere in that page does National Geographic predict global cooling. The headline on the diagram is 'Towards an uncertain future'. The box out next to it starts:
The graph shows two possible warmer trends one marked 'warmer?' the other marked 'cooler?'. The only bias towards cooler on the page is the note that 'we are living in one of the warmer periods of the last million years.'
Good job at completely misrepresenting the page that you link to.
People keep saying this, but it nothing like Second Life, at least not yet. This is an avatar-based chat system. Yes, you can use Second Life for that purpose and many do. But the interesting parts of second life are the virtual economy, the ability to build and script complex objects, the ability to buy 'land'.
It's rather like saying that an umbrella is the same as a jet-fighter because both can keep you dry when it rains. ..and if you don't like that metaphor - you're like a haddock in a hot air balloon.
The ones that stick in my mind are:
The Wizard of Earthsea books by Ursula Le Guin
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
The Gods Themselves - Azimov
The End of Eternity - Azimov
Server1 ...
Server2
Server3
Server4
I think you can probably see where this is going.
You understand perfectly. In fact, the computer was in one bedroom, the phone jack in another. They had the phone cable on a reel that went along the landing. Not idea.
... I'm not too surprised.
The most important difference, as far as I'm concerned is not in speed, but in the always-on nature of the connection.
For a long time my (80-something) parents were quite happy with dial-up. And they basically didn't use the Net. To access the Internet they had to run a phone extension lead across the room. They explained they didn't use the Internet much, and I simply said, "and you wouldn't use electricity much if every time you needed to turn on a light you had to go out to the garage, start up a generator and then run a cable in through the window".
In the end they simply decided that they didn't want to be left behind by the times. They got wireless, I set them up with a Mac (yes, I know but the Dock is a great thing it you only ever need 4 applications) and they never looked back. They're Skyping, Googling, the works.
Exactly how you sell the way that the online experience changes when you are always on is slightly problematic, but it's key. People liek my parents really didn't care if the Web page opened twice as fast.
Now no-one else is reading this thread, I can safely admit you are completely right and my feeble defence has failed. ... I'm still going off to Google for parasitic triplets though. You never know.
Ah, well - if you are going there, there are examples of conjoined triplets, so the median is actually 3. But I wasn't going there.
Uh, a human can have 2, 1 or 0 legs - when you include amputees etc.
So the median is, by my calculation - 1.
All it takes is a single 110 year old watching TV to make this particular average jump up. We need to know about mode and the mean too.
More than 99.999% of the population have more than the average number of legs, when you are talking about the mean.
The median number of legs is one.
The mode is two.
Not necessarily, if the voters are looking for a complementary set of skills or attributes. So, for example a old warhorse might be a good vice president for a young liberal presidential candidate, but a poor choice of running mate with another old warhorse.
Loathe as I am to bring race into the issue, I would be somewhat surprised if a black presidential and VP candidate made it onto the same ticket, society being what it is. Disclaimer - I'm from the UK so I may have that entirely wrong.
You'll be wanting Lynx, my friend.
That's really useful, thank you.
I'm afraid I tried the new system a couple of times and I was baffled by it, so I never have that problem.