Yes yes! Best argument yet for why super long lines are good. I do that all the time and scrolling is a penalty I happily pay.
And yes, code and text are entirely different and are read differently. Code works best when kept on a single line as much as possible. The dreadful K&R style so thoughtlessly propagated by typical Unix programmers was chosen strictly because it enabling typesetting to work better in a small book. Looks like crap! What's with the stupid open brace on the same line rather than on its own? It was done simply to make the book cheaper to publish!
Mixing tabs and spaces doesn't screw anything up. What screws things up is people deciding that a tab means anything other than move to the next 8-column aligned stop. If the original definition were followed there would be no problem, but since programmers are lazy and want to use a single tab for indentions but not use 8 columns per stop (since it looks like shit) they break things. That's what screws up formatting. Of course, it's no big deal to write a filter that fixes tab/space issues on check-ins but all team members must agree on the definition of what a tab is. 8 columns is the correct one.
Real didn't "break" it since it isn't "broken". Real figured out how to make files that contain DRM yet the iPod could play. Why shouldn't Apple have to "worry about that"? Why should the government provide any legal protection for Apple in that case? It's not as though Apple's interest in the matter serves the public good.
They aren't interested in luring mac users away. That's unlikely to begin with. They're interested in users of the platforms they do support. Macs and iPods are not the same thing.
Real doesn't have any say in what the iPod plays. Their trying to make their service compatible with what Apple makes the iPod play. What's the matter with that?
Since iTMS is the only option for iPod that's some freedom of choice people are exercising. Most users, I'd wager, are exercising their freedom of choice to play unencumbered mp3's only. iTMS will never see a penny from me. Real won't either.
I think it's fair to say that Real is conceding the mac market to iTunes. After all, why would mac+iPod users want an alternative to iTunes+iTMS? Since that's clearly the case, not supporing the mac platform is not a problem at all, though it seems to be a rallying cry for zealots.
First, it's the responsibility of the employee to disclose potential inventions. The company cannot be reasonably expected to know any other way. Second, the concept of salary is to compensate you for your intellectual production. If you were paid simply to do a job then you would be hourly.
If your intellectual output is beyond any price then you should take an hourly job and pursue your patents on your own time and money. When salaried, there is no such thing as your own time. It is you that is being unfair in taking compensation from an employer then assuming that they don't have rights to what was produced from it.
Yes, employers are frequently fair in allowing employees to pursue technologies that they may contractually have claim to, even when they are related to what the company does. My previous employer would consider allowing an inventor to pursue and invention directly related to their business if they decided they weren't interested themselves. They have a reputation for greediness that's as bad as it gets, yet they were perfectly reasonable on this.
Salaried professionals take money in exchange for something and this is it. Employers are buying your brainpower, not your back.
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Yes, and no trickery on playback can restore the unique detail that's been lost in the encoding. All that an improved playback technology can do is display more of the gamut that is represented on the input. It cannot compensate for information lost during generation of the signal.
Right, as if they knew which sexes were hunters and which were gatherers. Perhaps women's "superior" color accuity came about because they were they ones who did the laundry. Who knows wether male cavemen had better depth perception than their female counterparts?
This is not true. Rods do not count as a separate chroma receptor. It is the case, though that some people have four unique cones. Mantis shrimp have especially impressive eyes BTW.
There are not four primary colors. The color system is a model that is based on the limitations of our eye and only three colors are necessary. There are, in fact, an infinite number of unique colors.
While still working at one of the major PC manufacturers I asked the same thing. HP prior to the Compaq merger made machines with external supplies and still probably do. I'm certain that some of the smallest form factor PC's from big manufacturers are made this way.
The answer to why the don't do it is that it's more expensive. The brick typically provides a single voltage and doesn't eliminate the need for a PSU inside the unit. The overall cost of the solution is higher and is something that customers are only will to pay for if they really value the small size. They pay extra for the notebook CD-ROM and possibly the notebook drive as well.
The PC market is largely driven by large business customers so you look at their needs in order to understand why the big PC companies do what they do. Slow, steady and conservative is what you want when you sell machines 10,000 units at a time.
All PC's today that receive Windows certification are required to have ACPI. Been that way for a long, long time (first ACPI spec in 96, Win98 provided ACPI support). Power management, including sleep and hibernate, uses ACPI and any typical WinXP desktop will have "Stand By" as an option instead of "Power Off". Far from being "not very widespread", it is ubiquitous and has been so for many years.
They have to meet the power requirements of the slots and bays as well. Still not too challenging.
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No one wanted to "collect" it when it was for sale though. Any computer that retains a large amount of its value after three or four years has fools for buyers.
...and people who don't believe iTunes is better than its competition. I see nothing in it better than alternatives and sure don't want to be locked into it.
Yes, their adaptation to their environment begins at a very early age. That's basically all they do as infants, so once they become toddlers they're already adapted, including the gender roles their parents and community place on them.
Sorry, this may be so but it's not a strong argument against nuture. It's just an observation that things are the way they are. What gene is it that causes girls to (frequently) expect a free ride from guys, and how did that gene manage to survive natural selection? That's not a knock on girls, just clear evidence of sexism and "nuture".
Bullshit. The nature vs. nuture argument hasn't concluded that "To a large extent the effect is biological". That's just you spouting your prejudice. Where are your references to testostone and brain differentiation in the fetus? How much difference in testosterone levels is there between male and female fetuses?
Who the hell said they want CS to have a 50-50 gender mix?
Sure, newborn boys and girls are entirely different! Fact is that each child in different but you can hardly contribute that to gender. Once enough time has passed that you can begin to appreciate gender differences you can no longer separate out the effects of environment. I don't agree at all wih your reasoning. You appear to be unable to understand the effects of your own parenting.
I think it's pretty stupid to assume either way. You think sex hormones cause everything to develop differently? If so, what would the purpose of that be? In nature, does a female not have to provide for herself in order to survive? How does the gross dependancy of a "conventional woman" in society correlate with nature and how would explain such a thing with "wiring" or "hormones"?
Just because your boy acts like a boy doesn't mean he's prewired to do so. He's had 18 months on environmental exposure already and I'm certain you recognize his gender in the environment you provide.
The point is not to "homogenize" genders but rather to avoid forcing sexual stereotypes onto people. Nothing wrong with boys and girls behaving differently but there's nothing wrong with them behaving the same either. Often we manipulate our children into behaving in the ways we feel comfortable and that strongly includes gender roles. There's no way you can say that nature determines gender roles by hardwiring. Females in nature are more masculine than men are in our society.
Police groups aggressively market these stickers and one even had the gall to tell me over the phone that having one would entitle me to preferred treatment by traffic cops. I look at anyone driving with one of these stickers with great disgust.
Ha ha ha! Insurance companies are interested in accurate pricing. They're interested in maximum pricing. Free market competition is all that limits them and they work hard with one another to limit that.
No, but it would be fairer than a system that arbitrarily assigns risk on unreliable data. If there was a foolproof mechanism for determining longterm costs, it could be used comfortably to determine premiums. Your supposed statistics don't exist as I'm sure you know.
Insurance works best when it is non-discriminatory and has a large pool to draw from. Insurance companies don't actually want that to happen since their interest is profit, not insurance. If they wanted insurance they'd be buying, not selling.
I don't think anyone sets out to drive with the intention of getting tickets or causing collisions. Somehow your brain is extra-special.
I've seen a lot of dumbass driving but little of it is clearly intentional. Of the intentional bad driving, in my experience more of it is intentional obstruction than anything else. Many feel that it's their inherent right to interfere with others on the road.
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Yes yes! Best argument yet for why super long lines are good. I do that all the time and scrolling is a penalty I happily pay.
And yes, code and text are entirely different and are read differently. Code works best when kept on a single line as much as possible. The dreadful K&R style so thoughtlessly propagated by typical Unix programmers was chosen strictly because it enabling typesetting to work better in a small book. Looks like crap! What's with the stupid open brace on the same line rather than on its own? It was done simply to make the book cheaper to publish!
Mixing tabs and spaces doesn't screw anything up. What screws things up is people deciding that a tab means anything other than move to the next 8-column aligned stop. If the original definition were followed there would be no problem, but since programmers are lazy and want to use a single tab for indentions but not use 8 columns per stop (since it looks like shit) they break things. That's what screws up formatting. Of course, it's no big deal to write a filter that fixes tab/space issues on check-ins but all team members must agree on the definition of what a tab is. 8 columns is the correct one.
So is white space. I suppose we should save text files with no embedded white space then? Isn't block indentation just a display issue?
Real didn't "break" it since it isn't "broken". Real figured out how to make files that contain DRM yet the iPod could play. Why shouldn't Apple have to "worry about that"? Why should the government provide any legal protection for Apple in that case? It's not as though Apple's interest in the matter serves the public good.
They aren't interested in luring mac users away. That's unlikely to begin with. They're interested in users of the platforms they do support. Macs and iPods are not the same thing.
Real doesn't have any say in what the iPod plays. Their trying to make their service compatible with what Apple makes the iPod play. What's the matter with that?
Since iTMS is the only option for iPod that's some freedom of choice people are exercising. Most users, I'd wager, are exercising their freedom of choice to play unencumbered mp3's only. iTMS will never see a penny from me. Real won't either.
I think it's fair to say that Real is conceding the mac market to iTunes. After all, why would mac+iPod users want an alternative to iTunes+iTMS? Since that's clearly the case, not supporing the mac platform is not a problem at all, though it seems to be a rallying cry for zealots.
Who says they'd normally have to pay for a licence?
First, it's the responsibility of the employee to disclose potential inventions. The company cannot be reasonably expected to know any other way. Second, the concept of salary is to compensate you for your intellectual production. If you were paid simply to do a job then you would be hourly.
If your intellectual output is beyond any price then you should take an hourly job and pursue your patents on your own time and money. When salaried, there is no such thing as your own time. It is you that is being unfair in taking compensation from an employer then assuming that they don't have rights to what was produced from it.
Yes, employers are frequently fair in allowing employees to pursue technologies that they may contractually have claim to, even when they are related to what the company does. My previous employer would consider allowing an inventor to pursue and invention directly related to their business if they decided they weren't interested themselves. They have a reputation for greediness that's as bad as it gets, yet they were perfectly reasonable on this.
Salaried professionals take money in exchange for something and this is it. Employers are buying your brainpower, not your back.
Yes, and no trickery on playback can restore the unique detail that's been lost in the encoding. All that an improved playback technology can do is display more of the gamut that is represented on the input. It cannot compensate for information lost during generation of the signal.
Right, as if they knew which sexes were hunters and which were gatherers. Perhaps women's "superior" color accuity came about because they were they ones who did the laundry. Who knows wether male cavemen had better depth perception than their female counterparts?
This is not true. Rods do not count as a separate chroma receptor. It is the case, though that some people have four unique cones. Mantis shrimp have especially impressive eyes BTW. There are not four primary colors. The color system is a model that is based on the limitations of our eye and only three colors are necessary. There are, in fact, an infinite number of unique colors.
While still working at one of the major PC manufacturers I asked the same thing. HP prior to the Compaq merger made machines with external supplies and still probably do. I'm certain that some of the smallest form factor PC's from big manufacturers are made this way.
The answer to why the don't do it is that it's more expensive. The brick typically provides a single voltage and doesn't eliminate the need for a PSU inside the unit. The overall cost of the solution is higher and is something that customers are only will to pay for if they really value the small size. They pay extra for the notebook CD-ROM and possibly the notebook drive as well.
The PC market is largely driven by large business customers so you look at their needs in order to understand why the big PC companies do what they do. Slow, steady and conservative is what you want when you sell machines 10,000 units at a time.
All PC's today that receive Windows certification are required to have ACPI. Been that way for a long, long time (first ACPI spec in 96, Win98 provided ACPI support). Power management, including sleep and hibernate, uses ACPI and any typical WinXP desktop will have "Stand By" as an option instead of "Power Off". Far from being "not very widespread", it is ubiquitous and has been so for many years.
Apple will be "inventing" it any time now.
They have to meet the power requirements of the slots and bays as well. Still not too challenging.
No one wanted to "collect" it when it was for sale though. Any computer that retains a large amount of its value after three or four years has fools for buyers.
...and people who don't believe iTunes is better than its competition. I see nothing in it better than alternatives and sure don't want to be locked into it.
Yes, their adaptation to their environment begins at a very early age. That's basically all they do as infants, so once they become toddlers they're already adapted, including the gender roles their parents and community place on them.
Sorry, this may be so but it's not a strong argument against nuture. It's just an observation that things are the way they are. What gene is it that causes girls to (frequently) expect a free ride from guys, and how did that gene manage to survive natural selection? That's not a knock on girls, just clear evidence of sexism and "nuture".
Bullshit. The nature vs. nuture argument hasn't concluded that "To a large extent the effect is biological". That's just you spouting your prejudice. Where are your references to testostone and brain differentiation in the fetus? How much difference in testosterone levels is there between male and female fetuses?
Who the hell said they want CS to have a 50-50 gender mix?
Sure, newborn boys and girls are entirely different! Fact is that each child in different but you can hardly contribute that to gender. Once enough time has passed that you can begin to appreciate gender differences you can no longer separate out the effects of environment. I don't agree at all wih your reasoning. You appear to be unable to understand the effects of your own parenting.
I think it's pretty stupid to assume either way. You think sex hormones cause everything to develop differently? If so, what would the purpose of that be? In nature, does a female not have to provide for herself in order to survive? How does the gross dependancy of a "conventional woman" in society correlate with nature and how would explain such a thing with "wiring" or "hormones"?
Just because your boy acts like a boy doesn't mean he's prewired to do so. He's had 18 months on environmental exposure already and I'm certain you recognize his gender in the environment you provide.
The point is not to "homogenize" genders but rather to avoid forcing sexual stereotypes onto people. Nothing wrong with boys and girls behaving differently but there's nothing wrong with them behaving the same either. Often we manipulate our children into behaving in the ways we feel comfortable and that strongly includes gender roles. There's no way you can say that nature determines gender roles by hardwiring. Females in nature are more masculine than men are in our society.
Police groups aggressively market these stickers and one even had the gall to tell me over the phone that having one would entitle me to preferred treatment by traffic cops. I look at anyone driving with one of these stickers with great disgust.
Ha ha ha! Insurance companies are interested in accurate pricing. They're interested in maximum pricing. Free market competition is all that limits them and they work hard with one another to limit that.
No, but it would be fairer than a system that arbitrarily assigns risk on unreliable data. If there was a foolproof mechanism for determining longterm costs, it could be used comfortably to determine premiums. Your supposed statistics don't exist as I'm sure you know.
Insurance works best when it is non-discriminatory and has a large pool to draw from. Insurance companies don't actually want that to happen since their interest is profit, not insurance. If they wanted insurance they'd be buying, not selling.
I don't think anyone sets out to drive with the intention of getting tickets or causing collisions. Somehow your brain is extra-special.
I've seen a lot of dumbass driving but little of it is clearly intentional. Of the intentional bad driving, in my experience more of it is intentional obstruction than anything else. Many feel that it's their inherent right to interfere with others on the road.