How big does the pledge have to be before it is acted upon?
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But you can build a flying car (good luck getting a license to fly it anywhere useful). Buy one of those 1-man helicopter kits for $30k and toss an electic motor on the wheels for forward motion.
Most people cannot drive without crashing a few times in their life. Putting those people into the air wouldn't help.
Cold fusion works fine but you cannot get surplus energy out of it, so that'll be a little more than $500.
On power up the new chips would create several parallel universes (one for each execution unit) and destroy them when you turn the machine off -- this way it can continue to grow beyond the 600 year theoretical limit.
300 years is a very long time in terms of what technology can do. I'm sure in 100 years once we have AI that can think as well (or better) than we can, getting around these pesky universal limits will get easier.
The problem is the rest of the world insisting on.DOC, whether it's justified or not, just because they don't know any better
This doesn't seem to be true with larger companies. The little bit of work I've done with SBC had them insisting on RTFs. Different departments were at different versions of office, and I guess Office isn't compatible with itself.
Assumming this, the big guys will be the first ones to switch.
ISS _is_ a money pit that is plagued with problems, and serves no useful purpose that can justify its cost. It should have been scrapped years ago, before it was even launched.
I have a condo like that. Currently it's eating money out of my bank account and currently is a big hole in the ground. It is completely useless and also under construction.
Yes, construction costs of ISS are significantly higher than expected, but to state that it doesn't serve a useful purpose when it's very incomplete and understaffed is silly.
Build a new library, but skip the roof and staff it with a part time librarian only. See how useful it is?
The ISS is not useless, the way we are using it makes it that way.
Toronto's really don't "save" money per say (30 fewer collection agents -- 10% reduction in workforce).
The big benefit is the new machines are more difficult to vandalize and are easier to maintain which means they work. They're regularly communicating with head-office and report when something is broken.
It had been estimated that up to 10% of the old meters were broken at any given time. 10% of the meters not collecting revenue was a much bigger issue.
I don't want to open the hood. I don't want to do any repairs. I want to move between locations comfortably, economically, when I want to (as opposed to when the busses/trains go, although I do choose the train quite often).
Imagine cars were like high end server equipment. When they have a problem the repair guy mysteriously appears on your doorstep saying that your car needs ABC completed.
I've gone nearly 4 years without TV aside from the occasional DVD rental. The 1st to 3rd years when I was at my parents I would watch the movie channel almost constantly. Now I've given that up as well.
But, on the other hand, I can see a tech sending the EULA to the legal department, and not having the EULA scrutinized, but, instead, the idiot who brought it in would probably have his head examined.
That is when you ask the legal department to sign stating that they approve of the installation and the company being bound to the terms. You (the computer administrator) should not be binding the corporation to legal obligations to software creators.
I used to work for Echostar, they HAD a la carte programming once, it was called Dish Picks. They discontinued the service because of cheapskates who'd call in several times per day to add/remove channels as the shows that they liked came on.
Why didn't they just charge $1 or some nominal fee for changing the Picks?
Considering your "entire desktop" is made up of a number of individual applications -- I don't see how that would be an issue.
You're right in that you can choose to export (import?) single programs only should you choose to do so.
I've not seen XFree86 with the default capability to "sleep" a program while you change terminals, then reconnect the display -- but I know Sun and other companies use such capabilities in their X configurations.
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The funny part, when they finally did launch you couldn't see the damn thing.
They should have launched 2. One with the camera and one doing the test.
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[i]I recommended it to all my friends.[/i]
I can personally vouch for why a good chunk of my home town (population 120K) uses it.
When Google was in Beta, I told my parents. They saw the usefulness and being teachers immediately started recommending it to students and other teachers for research. Students in turn talked to other kids and their parents.
About a month after that, the local librarian was recommending it, having heard about it from someone at the board office, who heard about it from another teacher that works at my mothers school.
That's as far as I traced the path but I'm fairly confident it went further than that.
You're right. Gamecube isn't good for PostgreSQL (regression tests took 3 days to run). That said, the investment by the core developers was minimal, and someone had an enjoyable afternoon setting up the test rig.
Although I don't believe any new issues have been discovered as a result of this port, it is useful as a confirmation of database portability.
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Shhhh.. Don't tell them to do research.
We want to sell them a bunch more CANDU reactors.
How big does the pledge have to be before it is acted upon?
But you can build a flying car (good luck getting a license to fly it anywhere useful). Buy one of those 1-man helicopter kits for $30k and toss an electic motor on the wheels for forward motion.
Most people cannot drive without crashing a few times in their life. Putting those people into the air wouldn't help.
Cold fusion works fine but you cannot get surplus energy out of it, so that'll be a little more than $500.
Heck.. I used to get software delivered all nicely wrapped up in a box with a manual.
Now I pay the same price, burn it only my own damn CD and print out the manual.
I'm fairly sure most companies would love it if they could get you to deal with the mundane stuff and as a result they get to jack up profits.
They'll go a little crazy with copyright protection though.
On power up the new chips would create several parallel universes (one for each execution unit) and destroy them when you turn the machine off -- this way it can continue to grow beyond the 600 year theoretical limit.
300 years is a very long time in terms of what technology can do. I'm sure in 100 years once we have AI that can think as well (or better) than we can, getting around these pesky universal limits will get easier.
The problem is the rest of the world insisting on .DOC, whether it's justified or not, just because they don't know any better
This doesn't seem to be true with larger companies. The little bit of work I've done with SBC had them insisting on RTFs. Different departments were at different versions of office, and I guess Office isn't compatible with itself.
Assumming this, the big guys will be the first ones to switch.
ISS _is_ a money pit that is plagued with problems, and serves no useful purpose that can justify its cost. It should have been scrapped years ago, before it was even launched.
I have a condo like that. Currently it's eating money out of my bank account and currently is a big hole in the ground. It is completely useless and also under construction.
Yes, construction costs of ISS are significantly higher than expected, but to state that it doesn't serve a useful purpose when it's very incomplete and understaffed is silly.
Build a new library, but skip the roof and staff it with a part time librarian only. See how useful it is?
The ISS is not useless, the way we are using it makes it that way.
And poof, that water was gone. You cannot get it back, it has been obliterated.
The only way to get that water back when an ice comet crashes into the earth, and you don't want that to happen.
We're all going to dehydrate because of RAM!
Seems a bit underpowered when you add that last part in.
It probably has to be bilingual as a result of the last part as well.
Toronto's really don't "save" money per say (30 fewer collection agents -- 10% reduction in workforce).
The big benefit is the new machines are more difficult to vandalize and are easier to maintain which means they work. They're regularly communicating with head-office and report when something is broken.
It had been estimated that up to 10% of the old meters were broken at any given time. 10% of the meters not collecting revenue was a much bigger issue.
I don't want to open the hood. I don't want to do any repairs. I want to move between locations comfortably, economically, when I want to (as opposed to when the busses/trains go, although I do choose the train quite often).
Imagine cars were like high end server equipment. When they have a problem the repair guy mysteriously appears on your doorstep saying that your car needs ABC completed.
The original or the mouse version?
I've gone nearly 4 years without TV aside from the occasional DVD rental. The 1st to 3rd years when I was at my parents I would watch the movie channel almost constantly. Now I've given that up as well.
But, on the other hand, I can see a tech sending the EULA to the legal department, and not having the EULA scrutinized, but, instead, the idiot who brought it in would probably have his head examined.
That is when you ask the legal department to sign stating that they approve of the installation and the company being bound to the terms. You (the computer administrator) should not be binding the corporation to legal obligations to software creators.
I used to work for Echostar, they HAD a la carte programming once, it was called Dish Picks. They discontinued the service because of cheapskates who'd call in several times per day to add/remove channels as the shows that they liked came on.
Why didn't they just charge $1 or some nominal fee for changing the Picks?
however donning a tinfoil hat will block the signal and you will feel the difference within a few weeks.
After a few weeks I ended up with an itchy scalp and greasy hair. Is that the difference we're supposed to feel?
... book an hour on the timesheet to "reading EULAs" each time you install software on a new machine.
But how can a techie hope to understand legalese? That stuff should be sent to the legal department for their approval prior to installation.
They'll read it, and will be sure to report up the food chain what $$$ making capabilities they've lost as a result of paragraph 56.
You look at two food cans... one has a label with ingredients and such and the other one doesn't. Which one will you eat?
If the one with the label says anything about green peas, I'm going with the mystery meal. Canned green peas are just that bad.
Did it occur to you that the traffic lights may show red in all four directions?
Three cheers for cross-corner pedestrian crossings.
Maybe I'll run a long extension cord from our laundry on the second floor of our house and put my dryer in the yard.
You should see if you can suspend it in the air with ropes while it's running -- temporarily of course.
Considering your "entire desktop" is made up of a number of individual applications -- I don't see how that would be an issue.
You're right in that you can choose to export (import?) single programs only should you choose to do so.
I've not seen XFree86 with the default capability to "sleep" a program while you change terminals, then reconnect the display -- but I know Sun and other companies use such capabilities in their X configurations.
The funny part, when they finally did launch you couldn't see the damn thing.
They should have launched 2. One with the camera and one doing the test.
[i]I recommended it to all my friends.[/i]
I can personally vouch for why a good chunk of my home town (population 120K) uses it.
When Google was in Beta, I told my parents. They saw the usefulness and being teachers immediately started recommending it to students and other teachers for research. Students in turn talked to other kids and their parents.
About a month after that, the local librarian was recommending it, having heard about it from someone at the board office, who heard about it from another teacher that works at my mothers school.
That's as far as I traced the path but I'm fairly confident it went further than that.
Of course, I picked it up on Slashdot.
[i]Ahh, too much risk, I see. Maybe we should all stay in bed with the covers pulled over our heads.[/i]
Are you kidding? We could suffocate or get bed sores!
You're right. Gamecube isn't good for PostgreSQL (regression tests took 3 days to run). That said, the investment by the core developers was minimal, and someone had an enjoyable afternoon setting up the test rig.
Although I don't believe any new issues have been discovered as a result of this port, it is useful as a confirmation of database portability.