I expect hardware speed increases will slow down a lot in the near future. If the fastest consumer PC today is a level 10, and the average PC is a 5, then five years from now, barring a new "killer app", the fastest computer will be around a level 15, but the average computer will still be today's level 5. Most people just don't need the extra power.
Sorry but that's way out. The less actual technological progress there is the more important it will be to keep ramping up the level numbers. If this year's computers aren't much better than last years then that just means that the requirements for the next level need to be easier to attain.
Of course they'd expand the rating scale every year. We're used to this with megahertz and CD speeds. Half the point of the level rating is to have an ever-increasing number even if actual technological improvement starts slowing down.
No, the weakest link in the system would be your rating. If you have a GeForce 6800 GTX or whatever the fastest thing is, and a 1ghz celeron with 128 megs of ram, you have a lower levelled system.
That's exactly his point.
So, we have a manufacturer working in the real world with real world cost constraints and real world consumers. He's researched his market and decided he wants a price point of, say, $500. To hit that price he can only produce a level 3 machine. But he wants to SELL them so he can't just sell "a level 3 machine like everyone else's". He can't afford level 4 at this price point but he can sell "level 3 with improved graphics" or "level 3 with double RAM". So that's what he does.
It's the fact that the level is set by the weakest link that means he's going to specify everything else that raises it above that level.
So why is the Native American Church allowed peyote http://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/21cfr/cfr/1307/ 1307_31.htm)
There is a specific regulation permitting them to. You linked to it.
Are you suggesting that since there is a regulation specifically permitting the Native American Church to use peyote that therefore anything done in the name of religion is lawful?
Seriously though, of course we have a choice. We didn't cave in to the USSR, I don't expect us to give a cowtow to N. Korea.
It seems likely that the main thing that N Korea wants out of this is to deter us (or others) from attacking them. We didn't attack the USSR and, yes, possession of nuclear weapons is a good reason to not attack N Korea either.
Of course, IANAL, but it seems to me that it doesn't matter if the law was created to restrict freedom of religion, only that it does restrict it (if said religion teaches that sort of thing).
That's right. If Yarroism, of which I am the sole messiah, preaches the ritual sacrifice of anyone who disagrees with me on Slashdot then the courts should be powerless to stop me killing you.
I wonder if you could legally view child pornography if you classified it as part of the belief of a religion.
No you could not.
The relevant legal point here would be that the legislation was not aimed at restricting exercise of religion.
Legislatures have tried to act against religion in this way in the past, for example by banning animal sacrifice on "cruelty" grounds. This has failed because they haven't applied the same standards to other instances of animal killing e.g. for food. In this case, however, the banning of child pornorgraphy is clearly applied across the board, it is not targeted specifically at any religion nor at religions in general. It would be valid in much the same way that laws against murder are valid, even if the murder is a ritual sacrifice.
Now wat r the big "legit " things that cannot be blocked- without which ppl will undergo tremendous difficulties?
If the practical effect of a piece of legislation is that the first amendment is violated then that piece of legislation is not valid.
The first amendment makes no mention of "tremendous difficulties". The judicial precedents for application of the first amendment do not concern themselves with whether or not people undergo "tremendous difficulties" as a result of their communications being hampered. Your reference to whetehr or not people experience "tremendous difficulties" is in no way relevant.
In my opinion you can write biased comments reflecting your opinion, as long as you explain why your opinion is what it is, and don't just directly insult those opposing you.
So it'll be okay as long as we don't let any actual politicians post comments?
90 percent of jobs in the United States require geographic proximity. Such jobs include everything from retail and restaurants to marketing and personal care -- services that have to be produced and consumed locally, so outsourcing them overseas is not an option."
So we'll end up a nation of burger-flippers and butlers. Coincidently, those are the LOWEST paying jobs out there.
Yeah, why are people talking as though a mere 90% of the population matters, after all they're POOR people. It should be their privilege to pay exorbitant prices so as to support the grossly inflated salaries of the minority that actually matter i.e. you.
Its not between indians, americans or indonesians or whoever, Its actualy between the workforce (WE) against the corporate(THEM).
Or maybe it's between the worforce and the corporations (US) and the ultra-ultra-EVIL consumers who cackle maniacally as they enjoy their low cost high quality goods and services.
This is the start of the falling of today's economic system
That's right. The economic system could cope with outsourcing of cars and of clothes, of computer hardware and consumer electronics, but if we start paying PROGRAMMERS less it'll be the end of civilization as we know it. We're all DOOMED!
Am i right in thinking that kde 4 will start to use real transparenceny and shadows etc ala its own composite manager?
It will use real shadows but you'll have to use your real hands in front of a real lamp to form the real shadows when prompted to do so by the OS.
Real transparency will only be available if you have a see-through monitor. Failing that you'll have to make do with some form of virtual transparency.
But then again, once upon a time the Olympics didn't cost 6 billion dollars to organize either
Exactly. It didn't used to be about raising and spending 6 billion dollars, nor the inflation adjusted equivalent of 6 billion dollars. Now it is. Now it's about money and precious little else.
It's a sad reality, but keeping sponsors happy is the only thing that makes such an event possible nowadays.
Which event, the athletics or the spending of 6 billion dollars?
This is just like an amusement park that allows no food to go through the entry gates (which you have to pay $25 to walk through in the first place) while charging $4.95 for 32 ounces of cola in a "collector's cup".
Yes, it is. Once upon a time the olympics were aimed at being something other than that. It didn't last long, but it's always sad to hear further examples.
Absolutely. As a completely unbiased and disinterested observer I have always found SCO's case immensely compelling. I have bought SCO Source licenses for all my friends at Canopy. They make great presents, especially while the low prices last!
BTW, how would you feel if your position were to be outsourced? That's a question that is hardly ever asked, and even more rarely answered, to those who are the proponents of outsourcing.
If I lost my job then I think I would find that upseting.
Whether the work was lost to an Indian company, a Canadian company or to an American company does not seem to me to be a relevant issue.
Yes, they admitted that it happens. Read the actual stories though, the Canadian one is based on real research, the Indian one (this one) is based on horrific evidence of "a cache of Microsoft contracts with Indian technology vendors". Are you seriously suggesting that evidence of contracts between Microsoft and Canadian companies to produce user guides and the like would have been enough to merit a story?
Look at the tone of the two articles. The 'department' sums it up nicely, the Canadian one is the "beer-hockey-and-offshore-programmers" department, the Indian one is the "saying-good-bye-to-the-middle-class" department.
An any case, can you tell me why M$ wants to hide the shift?
Nothing in the article suggested they'd taken any special measures to "hide" their activities. You mean because they didn't freely publish the contracts, just like most of the other contracts they enter into, or what exactly?
Um, maybe because we're (I'm Irish) no longer a good choice for the outsourcers?
No longer? So you agree with the general point about outsourcing to Ireland having been a reality and never having attracted these indignant stories, you're just saying that those times are over, and now let's bash those Indians?
You know, the strangest thing that struck me about outsourcing is that a lot of the companies doing so are doing well BEFORE outsourcing. They do so in order to save money and increase profits.
So you mean that companies that focus on saving money and increasing profits are the sort of companies that are already doing well? I'm sure none of us would have predicted that.
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So all I have to do to make my computer better is to change the price sticker? The salesmen must love you.
I expect hardware speed increases will slow down a lot in the near future. If the fastest consumer PC today is a level 10, and the average PC is a 5, then five years from now, barring a new "killer app", the fastest computer will be around a level 15, but the average computer will still be today's level 5. Most people just don't need the extra power.
Sorry but that's way out. The less actual technological progress there is the more important it will be to keep ramping up the level numbers. If this year's computers aren't much better than last years then that just means that the requirements for the next level need to be easier to attain.
Of course they'd expand the rating scale every year. We're used to this with megahertz and CD speeds. Half the point of the level rating is to have an ever-increasing number even if actual technological improvement starts slowing down.
No, the weakest link in the system would be your rating. If you have a GeForce 6800 GTX or whatever the fastest thing is, and a 1ghz celeron with 128 megs of ram, you have a lower levelled system.
That's exactly his point.
So, we have a manufacturer working in the real world with real world cost constraints and real world consumers. He's researched his market and decided he wants a price point of, say, $500. To hit that price he can only produce a level 3 machine. But he wants to SELL them so he can't just sell "a level 3 machine like everyone else's". He can't afford level 4 at this price point but he can sell "level 3 with improved graphics" or "level 3 with double RAM". So that's what he does.
It's the fact that the level is set by the weakest link that means he's going to specify everything else that raises it above that level.
So why is the Native American Church allowed peyote http://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/21cfr/cfr/1307/ 1307_31.htm)
There is a specific regulation permitting them to. You linked to it.
Are you suggesting that since there is a regulation specifically permitting the Native American Church to use peyote that therefore anything done in the name of religion is lawful?
What, so they're going to fax it to us then?! Smuggling box cutters onto an airplane is one thing, but smuggling a nuclear bomb is quite another...
Yeah, they can smuggle in illegal immigrants and they can smuggle in illegal drugs but a nuclear weapon would be impossible because... why exactly?
Seriously though, of course we have a choice. We didn't cave in to the USSR, I don't expect us to give a cowtow to N. Korea.
It seems likely that the main thing that N Korea wants out of this is to deter us (or others) from attacking them. We didn't attack the USSR and, yes, possession of nuclear weapons is a good reason to not attack N Korea either.
Of course, IANAL, but it seems to me that it doesn't matter if the law was created to restrict freedom of religion, only that it does restrict it (if said religion teaches that sort of thing).
That's right. If Yarroism, of which I am the sole messiah, preaches the ritual sacrifice of anyone who disagrees with me on Slashdot then the courts should be powerless to stop me killing you.
I wonder if you could legally view child pornography if you classified it as part of the belief of a religion.
No you could not.
The relevant legal point here would be that the legislation was not aimed at restricting exercise of religion.
Legislatures have tried to act against religion in this way in the past, for example by banning animal sacrifice on "cruelty" grounds. This has failed because they haven't applied the same standards to other instances of animal killing e.g. for food. In this case, however, the banning of child pornorgraphy is clearly applied across the board, it is not targeted specifically at any religion nor at religions in general. It would be valid in much the same way that laws against murder are valid, even if the murder is a ritual sacrifice.
Now wat r the big "legit " things that cannot be blocked- without which ppl will undergo tremendous difficulties?
If the practical effect of a piece of legislation is that the first amendment is violated then that piece of legislation is not valid.
The first amendment makes no mention of "tremendous difficulties". The judicial precedents for application of the first amendment do not concern themselves with whether or not people undergo "tremendous difficulties" as a result of their communications being hampered. Your reference to whetehr or not people experience "tremendous difficulties" is in no way relevant.
In my opinion you can write biased comments reflecting your opinion, as long as you explain why your opinion is what it is, and don't just directly insult those opposing you.
So it'll be okay as long as we don't let any actual politicians post comments?
90 percent of jobs in the United States require geographic proximity. Such jobs include everything from retail and restaurants to marketing and personal care -- services that have to be produced and consumed locally, so outsourcing them overseas is not an option."
So we'll end up a nation of burger-flippers and butlers. Coincidently, those are the LOWEST paying jobs out there.
Yeah, why are people talking as though a mere 90% of the population matters, after all they're POOR people. It should be their privilege to pay exorbitant prices so as to support the grossly inflated salaries of the minority that actually matter i.e. you.
Its not between indians, americans or indonesians or whoever, Its actualy between the workforce (WE) against the corporate(THEM).
Or maybe it's between the worforce and the corporations (US) and the ultra-ultra-EVIL consumers who cackle maniacally as they enjoy their low cost high quality goods and services.
This is the start of the falling of today's economic system
That's right. The economic system could cope with outsourcing of cars and of clothes, of computer hardware and consumer electronics, but if we start paying PROGRAMMERS less it'll be the end of civilization as we know it. We're all DOOMED!
Am i right in thinking that kde 4 will start to use real transparenceny and shadows etc ala its own composite manager?
It will use real shadows but you'll have to use your real hands in front of a real lamp to form the real shadows when prompted to do so by the OS.
Real transparency will only be available if you have a see-through monitor. Failing that you'll have to make do with some form of virtual transparency.
Business people also like open source programmers to release their work under a BSD license rather than GPL.
As a business man I can confirm this and would like to add that we would also like it if you would mail us your life savings at the same time.
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Ralphie
But then again, once upon a time the Olympics didn't cost 6 billion dollars to organize either
Exactly. It didn't used to be about raising and spending 6 billion dollars, nor the inflation adjusted equivalent of 6 billion dollars. Now it is. Now it's about money and precious little else.
It's a sad reality, but keeping sponsors happy is the only thing that makes such an event possible nowadays.
Which event, the athletics or the spending of 6 billion dollars?
This is just like an amusement park that allows no food to go through the entry gates (which you have to pay $25 to walk through in the first place) while charging $4.95 for 32 ounces of cola in a "collector's cup".
Yes, it is. Once upon a time the olympics were aimed at being something other than that. It didn't last long, but it's always sad to hear further examples.
SCO is cool and stuff!
Absolutely. As a completely unbiased and disinterested observer I have always found SCO's case immensely compelling. I have bought SCO Source licenses for all my friends at Canopy. They make great presents, especially while the low prices last!
It doesn't make any sense.
Maybe you could make better sense out of it if you actually read it or something?
Sorry but the amount of ranting you're doing on the basis of what you've read ABOUT the book is absurd.
If the book matters to you that much then read it.
BTW, how would you feel if your position were to be outsourced? That's a question that is hardly ever asked, and even more rarely answered, to those who are the proponents of outsourcing.
If I lost my job then I think I would find that upseting.
Whether the work was lost to an Indian company, a Canadian company or to an American company does not seem to me to be a relevant issue.
You?
Yes, they admitted that it happens. Read the actual stories though, the Canadian one is based on real research, the Indian one (this one) is based on horrific evidence of "a cache of Microsoft contracts with Indian technology vendors". Are you seriously suggesting that evidence of contracts between Microsoft and Canadian companies to produce user guides and the like would have been enough to merit a story?
Look at the tone of the two articles. The 'department' sums it up nicely, the Canadian one is the "beer-hockey-and-offshore-programmers" department, the Indian one is the "saying-good-bye-to-the-middle-class" department.
An any case, can you tell me why M$ wants to hide the shift?
Nothing in the article suggested they'd taken any special measures to "hide" their activities. You mean because they didn't freely publish the contracts, just like most of the other contracts they enter into, or what exactly?
Um, maybe because we're (I'm Irish) no longer a good choice for the outsourcers?
No longer? So you agree with the general point about outsourcing to Ireland having been a reality and never having attracted these indignant stories, you're just saying that those times are over, and now let's bash those Indians?
You know, the strangest thing that struck me about outsourcing is that a lot of the companies doing so are doing well BEFORE outsourcing. They do so in order to save money and increase profits.
So you mean that companies that focus on saving money and increasing profits are the sort of companies that are already doing well? I'm sure none of us would have predicted that.