In Finland, too, we pay only what's on the sticker or what is advertised in (printed) commercials. There are never any hidden costs, what you see is what you pay.
But I understand that in the UK is different? I have spent only a very short time over there.
I am sure most of you have seen Disney's Fantasia. Well, I have seen it, back in the days of my childhood, at a private projection (therefore, from an old reel). Even though it was very long ago, I have a very vivid memory of that event, because I have always loved classical music, and I thought that Fantasia had some of the best, most inspired and heartfelt, interpretations.
Then, about 4 years ago we purchased Fantasia on DVD, and as wewatched, I had the strange feeling that "this is just not right". I could not put my finger on it, but the music sounded devoid of excitement.
Then I remembered an old friend from primary school who had Fantasia on a very old VHS tape, and watched it. The picture had imperfections, the color was not as stable as on the DVD, but nothing that would bother me. And the music - well, it was completely different.
I came to the conclusion that, during the digital remastering, they must have done some DSP magic to remove noise and stuff, and actually killed it. Yeah, it's kinda the same music, it just feels wooden, to me totally useless. Why are the MPAA companies doing this? Obviously, because they don't care. I imagine that the larger majority of the public would not notice the difference, except that "hey, there's less noise, it must be better, right?".
What happens if this, what happens with that.. are all just points for evaluation. If that evalutation has been made and a conclusion has been come to, and as a result of that conclusion a decision to stay with various MS products has been made, then that is a plan.
I may have agree with your post, but it seemed to rely in great measure on the last sentence (which I just quoted above). And that sentence is not accurate, because staying with a solution is a plan.
Now, try to think freely, without cognitive dissonance: if Windows and other MS products do the job for a certain company, why would not "staying with Microsoft" be a plan? Really?
Why do you have to be so freaking politically correct? I understnd in real life, it pays off to be PC. But on Slashdot? What's the payoff, except for the karma?
OF COURSE there are less people interested in pursuing a career in IT. Heck, even I am thinking to switch boat, by taking college again. IT workers are being treated like shit, more and more. Yeah, let's outsource them to the lowest bidder - it's a crap job anyway, right? That's the mentality, let's not gloss over it.
Sure, someone will say that the most experienced programmers, designers etc. will always have high salaries and a good carreer. The truth is, however, that the circle of the elite ITs is shrinking inexorably.
So, IBM et al, do not shed your chrocodile tears, no one cares.
Well, the fact is that the console war is not a winner-takes-all game. At least Nintendo is not playing it that way. They are profitable, and very much so, by being third.
Also, the PSP is not killing the DS "shock horror how can... etc.". They have sold about the same.
Finally, the fact that the Revolution is not 100 times more powerful than the GC doesn't mean a thing. The graphic capabilities of the GC were already quite good, and of course, a little improvement doesn't hurt, but how much more power do games really need? Many games are perfectly enjoyable on systems like the Mega Drive already. The hardware capabilities of the game consoles of today are very close to just how much you need, because the human eye has it's own, physiological, treshold. Exceeding it is meaningless (except for penis-lenght battles, i.e. my penis has 8 cell processors - yeah, but my penis can do 2 teraflops and has 1 GBYTE of UBGRAM).
I believe that. The ones that will survive are the ones that are least popular today, the ones that 99.9% of slashdot or other reders have not heard of. I am not even sure there are any in USA, where only what caters to the lowest common denominator, will survive.
Those radio stations are dedicated to classical music. I believe they will continue broadcasting, because those that listen to them will continue to listen.
I guess your leg wouldn't need the metallic support anymore, but it would be too intrusive to remove it, right? Anyway, that's why a couple of my friends have some metallic support in an arm and leg, respectively. BTW, the friend with the broken leg was actually shot - the bullet shattered his femur. Interestingly enough, he can predict some wheather changes.
BTW, as far as I understand, titanium is preferred not because it's lighter and yet as strong as steel (actually, most steel alloys beat titanium by some margin) but because titanium is considered probably the most tissue-friendly metal out there. Also widely used for teeth protetics.
Thanks for correcting me, now I have my facts right. Oh, btw, have you ever heard of a certain Michael Crichton? Apparently, he had something to do with The Andromeda Strain (the book, not the non-existing movie, obviously) and that Jurassic Park that you mention.
Did you take into consideration that Gamma-ray bursts are directed (beamed) and not spherically dispersed? I think talking of an extinction radius is wrong for this and other reasons. You could be on a planet reasonably close to a black hole formation without any risk of estinction, because you are away from the axis of the beam.
Also, at a distance wherethe Gamma-ray flux is fairly weak, you might find yourself on the opposite side of a planet, and survive.
In fact, it is not impossible that life as we know it, is not the only one possible. Life may not be based on carbon, or organic matter. The excellent movie "The Andromeda Strain" in fact, describes a lifeform based on non-organic chrystals. Who is to say that such lifeform wouldn't be much more resistent to Gamma rays.
The reason why the story of the atrocious crime was not published is different, though: it's not politically correct to write badly about illegal immigrants. Definitely not in Europe, but apparently, in the US just as well.
This would be just about any CPU where you could target an ANSI C compiler. Is there any CPU where you can't?
A member of the "classic" (previous to the ATtiny and ATmega) AVR family of MCUs, the AT90S1200, has no RAM at all (and no interface to external RAM, which is common for MCUs), only a 3-level hardware stack. You would be surprised at how many things you can do without RAM - and surprisingly enough, Imagecraft managed to implement a C compiler for it?!
I would have said that the most obvious hardware-specific feature, that would protect against stack overflows, is Harvard architecture (vs. Von Neumann, present in almostall CPUs today).
In Harvard architecture, data and program memory are separate and separately accessed. This has a speedup benefit, as you can access the data in the same cycle you access the program memory, but the other advantage is, a stack overflow will not corrupt your program. For an example, the Atmel AVR risc microcontroller family uses Harvard architecture.
I wouldn't mind living IN the friggin' thing! I love nature, and apparently, land around nuke plants is the best preserved natural environment you can get, in Europe.
Ironically enough (and this is a side-point), Chernobyl has created a great natural habitat,as people didn't go to that area for a few decades. Sure, there was (and still is) a higher radiation in that area, but for the animals it is far less disturbing than human presence. Something to think about.
Oh, yeah, another thing: germans have been barking against nuke plants like, forever. So, no nuke plants in deutschland, but then they have to import it. From, guess who, from FRANCE! And you know what is the #1 source of energy in France... that's right, nuclear plants.
The finnish greens (I live in finnland) are even crazier: they object to the finnish nuke plants, but are OK with importing electricity from Russia, which has much crappier plants than the few nuclear plants in finland. I mean MUCH crappier.
Oh, in that case, "sz" is pronounced as "sh", as in Koszalin, right? In hungarian is quite the opposite: "sz" is pronounced as the normal "s", while "s" is pronounced "sh"... the complete opposite from polish:o)
Yeah, it makes sense what you say about coal, Poland is a big coal producing country. People don't realize that a coal plant amits more radiation than a nuclear plant. Nuts!
I have heard this argument before, and I don't buy it: in every country where US dollars have a certain value, there is a bank that will replace the banknotes. Or at least, there is a neighboring country with such a bank. There must be, otherwise there is no way that the little green pieces of paper would have a certain value.
Therefore, replacing the bills with something more advanced and harder to forge, is possible albeit not simple.
Still using checks. I like you yankees, I really do (strange for an european these days), but I know that checks are a common way of payment in the US, and I honestly don't understand this. Checks are a horrible throwback from the past and should have never crossed the millennium time barrier.
I am sure there's a logical explanation why you're still doing this - I just don't really see it.
(the other thing I never figured out, is: the US dollar is the most forged currency in the world, and yet, it's also one of the easiest to forge, what with all the banknote denominations being of the same color etc.)
That is, indeed, interesting. It's true, however, that MS has fought tooth and nail to keep it's document formats as obscure as possible, and still does.
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In Finland, too, we pay only what's on the sticker or what is advertised in (printed) commercials. There are never any hidden costs, what you see is what you pay.
But I understand that in the UK is different? I have spent only a very short time over there.
I am sure most of you have seen Disney's Fantasia. Well, I have seen it, back in the days of my childhood, at a private projection (therefore, from an old reel). Even though it was very long ago, I have a very vivid memory of that event, because I have always loved classical music, and I thought that Fantasia had some of the best, most inspired and heartfelt, interpretations.
Then, about 4 years ago we purchased Fantasia on DVD, and as wewatched, I had the strange feeling that "this is just not right". I could not put my finger on it, but the music sounded devoid of excitement.
Then I remembered an old friend from primary school who had Fantasia on a very old VHS tape, and watched it. The picture had imperfections, the color was not as stable as on the DVD, but nothing that would bother me. And the music - well, it was completely different.
I came to the conclusion that, during the digital remastering, they must have done some DSP magic to remove noise and stuff, and actually killed it. Yeah, it's kinda the same music, it just feels wooden, to me totally useless. Why are the MPAA companies doing this? Obviously, because they don't care. I imagine that the larger majority of the public would not notice the difference, except that "hey, there's less noise, it must be better, right?".
The same as turkey: they are both countries of the European Broadcastin Association.
DOH! But of course, every decision of the "stay with..."-kind includes re-evaluation, periodic or event-induced.
What happens if this, what happens with that.. are all just points for evaluation. If that evalutation has been made and a conclusion has been come to, and as a result of that conclusion a decision to stay with various MS products has been made, then that is a plan.
And "staying with Microsoft" is not a plan.
I may have agree with your post, but it seemed to rely in great measure on the last sentence (which I just quoted above). And that sentence is not accurate, because staying with a solution is a plan.
Now, try to think freely, without cognitive dissonance: if Windows and other MS products do the job for a certain company, why would not "staying with Microsoft" be a plan? Really?
Why do you have to be so freaking politically correct? I understnd in real life, it pays off to be PC. But on Slashdot? What's the payoff, except for the karma?
OF COURSE there are less people interested in pursuing a career in IT. Heck, even I am thinking to switch boat, by taking college again. IT workers are being treated like shit, more and more. Yeah, let's outsource them to the lowest bidder - it's a crap job anyway, right? That's the mentality, let's not gloss over it.
Sure, someone will say that the most experienced programmers, designers etc. will always have high salaries and a good carreer. The truth is, however, that the circle of the elite ITs is shrinking inexorably.
So, IBM et al, do not shed your chrocodile tears, no one cares.
Laughing, because you are so smart? Because you saw the sequels?
Wow, way to put things into perspective, I bet you feel so proud of yourself.
*shock horror how can he say such a thing*
Well, the fact is that the console war is not a winner-takes-all game. At least Nintendo is not playing it that way. They are profitable, and very much so, by being third.
Also, the PSP is not killing the DS "shock horror how can... etc.". They have sold about the same.
Finally, the fact that the Revolution is not 100 times more powerful than the GC doesn't mean a thing. The graphic capabilities of the GC were already quite good, and of course, a little improvement doesn't hurt, but how much more power do games really need? Many games are perfectly enjoyable on systems like the Mega Drive already. The hardware capabilities of the game consoles of today are very close to just how much you need, because the human eye has it's own, physiological, treshold. Exceeding it is meaningless (except for penis-lenght battles, i.e. my penis has 8 cell processors - yeah, but my penis can do 2 teraflops and has 1 GBYTE of UBGRAM).
FruityLoops and Total Commander were made with Delphi? I need no further recommendations, I'm sold.
I believe that. The ones that will survive are the ones that are least popular today, the ones that 99.9% of slashdot or other reders have not heard of. I am not even sure there are any in USA, where only what caters to the lowest common denominator, will survive.
Those radio stations are dedicated to classical music. I believe they will continue broadcasting, because those that listen to them will continue to listen.
I guess your leg wouldn't need the metallic support anymore, but it would be too intrusive to remove it, right? Anyway, that's why a couple of my friends have some metallic support in an arm and leg, respectively. BTW, the friend with the broken leg was actually shot - the bullet shattered his femur. Interestingly enough, he can predict some wheather changes.
BTW, as far as I understand, titanium is preferred not because it's lighter and yet as strong as steel (actually, most steel alloys beat titanium by some margin) but because titanium is considered probably the most tissue-friendly metal out there. Also widely used for teeth protetics.
Not a movie?
Really?
Thanks for correcting me, now I have my facts right.
Oh, btw, have you ever heard of a certain Michael Crichton? Apparently, he had something to do with The Andromeda Strain (the book, not the non-existing movie, obviously) and that Jurassic Park that you mention.
Did you take into consideration that Gamma-ray bursts are directed (beamed) and not spherically dispersed? I think talking of an extinction radius is wrong for this and other reasons. You could be on a planet reasonably close to a black hole formation without any risk of estinction, because you are away from the axis of the beam.
Also, at a distance wherethe Gamma-ray flux is fairly weak, you might find yourself on the opposite side of a planet, and survive.
In fact, it is not impossible that life as we know it, is not the only one possible. Life may not be based on carbon, or organic matter. The excellent movie "The Andromeda Strain" in fact, describes a lifeform based on non-organic chrystals. Who is to say that such lifeform wouldn't be much more resistent to Gamma rays.
The reason why the story of the atrocious crime was not published is different, though: it's not politically correct to write badly about illegal immigrants. Definitely not in Europe, but apparently, in the US just as well.
Laugh if you want, but I thoroughly love my NorthStar Horizon.
Another computer with wooden case (or parts of it) was the Sol-20, which I also own, but it's less cool than the Horizon, for some reason.
This would be just about any CPU where you could target an ANSI C compiler.
Is there any CPU where you can't?
A member of the "classic" (previous to the ATtiny and ATmega) AVR family of MCUs, the AT90S1200, has no RAM at all (and no interface to external RAM, which is common for MCUs), only a 3-level hardware stack. You would be surprised at how many things you can do without RAM - and surprisingly enough, Imagecraft managed to implement a C compiler for it?!
Regardless, my question above is not rhetorical.
I would have said that the most obvious hardware-specific feature, that would protect against stack overflows, is Harvard architecture (vs. Von Neumann, present in almostall CPUs today).
In Harvard architecture, data and program memory are separate and separately accessed. This has a speedup benefit, as you can access the data in the same cycle you access the program memory, but the other advantage is, a stack overflow will not corrupt your program. For an example, the Atmel AVR risc microcontroller family uses Harvard architecture.
I wouldn't mind living IN the friggin' thing! I love nature, and apparently, land around nuke plants is the best preserved natural environment you can get, in Europe.
Ironically enough (and this is a side-point), Chernobyl has created a great natural habitat,as people didn't go to that area for a few decades. Sure, there was (and still is) a higher radiation in that area, but for the animals it is far less disturbing than human presence. Something to think about.
Oh, yeah, another thing: germans have been barking against nuke plants like, forever. So, no nuke plants in deutschland, but then they have to import it. From, guess who, from FRANCE! And you know what is the #1 source of energy in France... that's right, nuclear plants.
The finnish greens (I live in finnland) are even crazier: they object to the finnish nuke plants, but are OK with importing electricity from Russia, which has much crappier plants than the few nuclear plants in finland. I mean MUCH crappier.
Oh, in that case, "sz" is pronounced as "sh", as in Koszalin, right? In hungarian is quite the opposite: "sz" is pronounced as the normal "s", while "s" is pronounced "sh"... the complete opposite from polish :o)
Yeah, it makes sense what you say about coal, Poland is a big coal producing country. People don't realize that a coal plant amits more radiation than a nuclear plant. Nuts!
Is "here" hungary? I am guessing this from your nickname (sznupi). Or Poland?
I have heard this argument before, and I don't buy it: in every country where US dollars have a certain value, there is a bank that will replace the banknotes. Or at least, there is a neighboring country with such a bank. There must be, otherwise there is no way that the little green pieces of paper would have a certain value.
Therefore, replacing the bills with something more advanced and harder to forge, is possible albeit not simple.
Still using checks. I like you yankees, I really do (strange for an european these days), but I know that checks are a common way of payment in the US, and I honestly don't understand this. Checks are a horrible throwback from the past and should have never crossed the millennium time barrier.
I am sure there's a logical explanation why you're still doing this - I just don't really see it.
(the other thing I never figured out, is: the US dollar is the most forged currency in the world, and yet, it's also one of the easiest to forge, what with all the banknote denominations being of the same color etc.)
That is, indeed, interesting. It's true, however, that MS has fought tooth and nail to keep it's document formats as obscure as possible, and still does.