I miss the days when people took pride in using less code and/or more efficient code to do a given task. Now writing *more* code to do a task is in vogue?
Titanium, while strong per unit weight, has a relatively low modulus of elasticity, making it "flexible". Thus it is often not well suited to applications requiring high rigidity. Steel is more rigid per unit volume, and aluminum per unit weight.
Knowing Verizon (and looking at their terms of service), they will block ports and tell you that servers of all types are forbidden. Combined with a lack of static IP address, that, IMHO, makes the bandwidth useless - I like to access my files from locations other than home, have a mail server, host a small web page, etc. Who really cares if you get tons of bandwidth if you can't use it for anything except watching a TV show? (maybe the rhetorical question is asked and answered)
Hard drives aren't going away soon, the same way that tapes aren't. Instant on isn't necessary for a lot of people, a lot of people never boot or shutdown their machines. Flash will instead take a certain segment of the hard drive market, where portability and power draw are more important than capacity.
Just because the media arm of Sony screwed up with the whole rootkit fiasco, it seems that every third article is out to slam Sony. Blu-Ray holds twice the capacity of HD-DVD - isn't that alone enough to make it superior to HD-DVD from a technological standpoint? Sony has been repeatedly innovative on the disc format front - the CD was obviously a success, the hybrid Super Audio CD maintained backwards compatibility with older players while the DVD consortium pushed the DVD-audio crap out, and now Blu-Ray seems entirely superior to the HD-DVD. The DVD consortium has been _less_ consumer friendly than Sony when it comes to audio - why should I expect anything different now?
If you follow politics, you will find that there are all sorts of people that have to choose between one of the two parties. I consider myself a classic republican - I believe in states rights. What are my choices? The Republicans, who claim a desire for small government, but won't do it, and a Democratic opposition that complains the government isn't big enough.
There are lots of Republicans who feel the same way as I do. Several are in the House of Representatives, but the current administration and the Senate Republicans are a domineering force. What are those people supposed to do? Become a Democrat, whose spoken platform runs counter to their ideals, or wait it out and hope that the tide turns within the Republican party?
Do you wish that Louis Pasteur didn't invent the pasteurization process too? Or are only current scientific advancements "mucking up" our food sources?
That's probably because it wasn't originally a Microsoft application, and was written by people who understand graphics software (the company was founded by ex Aldus employees)
As usual, regulation increases the barrier to entry for a business. By making software vendors liable for bugs, they make it difficult for OSS and small shareware developers to compete. Keep in mind that the question is not whether the OSS developer will be found liable, but whether they will be sued in the first place. The legal fees alone are enough to hamper or even kill small scale software development.
The 1st amendment is a restriction preventing laws from being enacted which prevent freedom of speech. It does not, however, grant anybody a right to keep their jobs. It just means you won't be arrested after you're shown the door.
The court ruling seems like common sense to me. It doesn't stop anybody from whistleblowing - but don't count on keeping your job if you do.
Airbus's design philosophy is that the airplane knows best, and Boeing's is that the pilot knows best. I tend to agree with Boeing.
For example, AFAIK, one cannot cross control a modern Airbus - the airplane automatically maintains coordinated flight under all conditions. Normally, this is a good thing. However, in the case of Air Canada flight 143, where a Boeing 767 was improperly fueled, the pilots intentionally slipped the aircraft to avoid disaster (http://www.wadenelson.com/gimli.html).
In the case of American Airlines flight 587, where the tail of the Airbus broke off, the cause of crash was determined to be the pilot's rapid full extent rudder inputs. However, when one looks into _why_ the pilot put in those rudder inputs, you find out that Airbus uses a very high detent load (high load before initial travel) combined with very low load progression as the pedal is depressed - kind of like a keyboard key. Try to press a key on your keyboard 1/4 way - it's not easy.
Bottom line - Airbus has some decent technology, but their aircraft are not always pilot friendly. To ignore what the end user - the pilots - have to say about design is just plain foolish.
Already, the slashdot posts are rolling in - "People only buy iPods due to marekting"
Perhaps the lack of insight evidenced by these comments is why other player manufacturers are unable to compete. The iPod is successful partly due to marketing, but also because it Just Works for the average user. People don't care about Ogg Vorbis. People don't care about DRM if they don't notice it (and if you use an iPod along with iTunes and regular CDs, you realistically don't unless you're trying to give songs to your friends).
Couple that with solid industrial design (and industrial design addresses not just looks, but human factors/ergonomics), and you have a winner. For some reason, all other players fail on one count or another.
A successful company understands its customer - and Apple recognizes that its customer is not a typical Slashdotter. They instead choose to target the other 99.9% of the market.
These "Ribbons" sound like the changing palettes in Office 2004 for the Mac. I hate them. Because the palettes change, you have different functions in the same place depending on what you're doing. This makes it very difficult to get used to where you need to put your mouse. It's for that reason that programs are supposed to grey out menu items rather than change the menu - you get used to locations for a specific item and can quickly navigate there. Menus have the advantage of being out of the way, displaying the keyboard equivalent, etc. Palettes are great for tools that need to display visual feedback (such as a color picker), not as replacements for menu items. Look at Photoshop - practically no menu items are duplicated in palettes.
Yet again, Microsoft shows a lack of understanding of basic human interface elements.
The people who leak the information should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law - the ability to maintain secrets is essential to national security. If you look at the history of warfare, and it's obvious that intelligence is what wins wars, not weapons.
People should be going to prison for leaking classified information. Unfortunately, the leakers tend to be politicians or high level government officials appointed by politicians, and they don't like the embarrasment of prison. The problem is that it's so much more convenient to blame the press for their problems.
All DNA is fundamentally the same. This just happens to be a base sequence that causes the creation of proteins usually produced by the human body rather than traditional rat, cow, slug, corn, or eveen rice proteins. Can someone explain _why_ this is going to cause the end of the world? Are people aware that it's standard practice to replace, for example, e coli base sequences with human ones so that the bacteria produce human proteins? I'm appalled at the level of unscientific FUD that is out there. If slashdotters don't think scientifically, what will the general public do? Ban DHMO (http://www.dhmo.org/)?
Some of the above posts say "I don't notice any problems". I'm guessing some of the bugs nobody has fixed are somewhat obscure. There is a well known bug when Linux mounts large XFS file systems via NFS that bothered me regularly - large directories could not be searched, deleted, etc. Now I have a Mac working with that flawlessly. These are the types of bugs - annoying, but non-fatal - that few people want to fix.
This isn't an apples to apples comparison. The stock supercharged Ariel Atom on which this car is based will also smoke a Ferrari or Porsche. Go find the BBC Top Gear video on the Ariel Motors website. I bet the stock Ariel Atom will also beat this electric version - adding hundreds of pounds to a 1100lb car wrecks handling, and sure doesn't help straight line acceleration.
Taxes are imposed by the government. If a phone company overcharges for dialup, people will switch to alternate means. I know that's not possible in some remote areas, but that would also explain high prices.
An excellent point, but, unfortunately, most people don't understand the basic concept of supply and demand. The moment you say "market based", people will turn a deaf year or gather in protest.
A major obstacle in most US cities is the lack of density - once a city is sprawled, it becomes exceedingly expensive to provide services like this (or real public transit for that matter). This would be interesting for New York, but I'm not sure it would work elsewhere.
Why does it seem that most Slashdotters want BluRay/HD-DVD to fail because of its DRM? Given that DVD has DRM as well, I'd rather have a format which is capable of the highest quality video.
Content providers cannot force anything on their own - they cannot take taxes from me. That's why they need the government to do the forcing for them. That's what's happening here, as well as elsewhere (DMCA, for example).
This is the problem with socalism and public funding. It allows the government to force its will upon individuals. Do away with the grants and give people their tax money back. Problem solved.
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I miss the days when people took pride in using less code and/or more efficient code to do a given task. Now writing *more* code to do a task is in vogue?
Titanium, while strong per unit weight, has a relatively low modulus of elasticity, making it "flexible". Thus it is often not well suited to applications requiring high rigidity. Steel is more rigid per unit volume, and aluminum per unit weight.
Knowing Verizon (and looking at their terms of service), they will block ports and tell you that servers of all types are forbidden. Combined with a lack of static IP address, that, IMHO, makes the bandwidth useless - I like to access my files from locations other than home, have a mail server, host a small web page, etc. Who really cares if you get tons of bandwidth if you can't use it for anything except watching a TV show? (maybe the rhetorical question is asked and answered)
Hard drives aren't going away soon, the same way that tapes aren't. Instant on isn't necessary for a lot of people, a lot of people never boot or shutdown their machines. Flash will instead take a certain segment of the hard drive market, where portability and power draw are more important than capacity.
Just because the media arm of Sony screwed up with the whole rootkit fiasco, it seems that every third article is out to slam Sony. Blu-Ray holds twice the capacity of HD-DVD - isn't that alone enough to make it superior to HD-DVD from a technological standpoint? Sony has been repeatedly innovative on the disc format front - the CD was obviously a success, the hybrid Super Audio CD maintained backwards compatibility with older players while the DVD consortium pushed the DVD-audio crap out, and now Blu-Ray seems entirely superior to the HD-DVD. The DVD consortium has been _less_ consumer friendly than Sony when it comes to audio - why should I expect anything different now?
There are lots of Republicans who feel the same way as I do. Several are in the House of Representatives, but the current administration and the Senate Republicans are a domineering force. What are those people supposed to do? Become a Democrat, whose spoken platform runs counter to their ideals, or wait it out and hope that the tide turns within the Republican party?
Do you wish that Louis Pasteur didn't invent the pasteurization process too? Or are only current scientific advancements "mucking up" our food sources?
That's probably because it wasn't originally a Microsoft application, and was written by people who understand graphics software (the company was founded by ex Aldus employees)
As usual, regulation increases the barrier to entry for a business. By making software vendors liable for bugs, they make it difficult for OSS and small shareware developers to compete. Keep in mind that the question is not whether the OSS developer will be found liable, but whether they will be sued in the first place. The legal fees alone are enough to hamper or even kill small scale software development.
EPS? No. PDF? Usually not. SVG? No on that too.
The 1st amendment is a restriction preventing laws from being enacted which prevent freedom of speech. It does not, however, grant anybody a right to keep their jobs. It just means you won't be arrested after you're shown the door. The court ruling seems like common sense to me. It doesn't stop anybody from whistleblowing - but don't count on keeping your job if you do.
Airbus's design philosophy is that the airplane knows best, and Boeing's is that the pilot knows best. I tend to agree with Boeing. For example, AFAIK, one cannot cross control a modern Airbus - the airplane automatically maintains coordinated flight under all conditions. Normally, this is a good thing. However, in the case of Air Canada flight 143, where a Boeing 767 was improperly fueled, the pilots intentionally slipped the aircraft to avoid disaster (http://www.wadenelson.com/gimli.html). In the case of American Airlines flight 587, where the tail of the Airbus broke off, the cause of crash was determined to be the pilot's rapid full extent rudder inputs. However, when one looks into _why_ the pilot put in those rudder inputs, you find out that Airbus uses a very high detent load (high load before initial travel) combined with very low load progression as the pedal is depressed - kind of like a keyboard key. Try to press a key on your keyboard 1/4 way - it's not easy. Bottom line - Airbus has some decent technology, but their aircraft are not always pilot friendly. To ignore what the end user - the pilots - have to say about design is just plain foolish.
Already, the slashdot posts are rolling in - "People only buy iPods due to marekting" Perhaps the lack of insight evidenced by these comments is why other player manufacturers are unable to compete. The iPod is successful partly due to marketing, but also because it Just Works for the average user. People don't care about Ogg Vorbis. People don't care about DRM if they don't notice it (and if you use an iPod along with iTunes and regular CDs, you realistically don't unless you're trying to give songs to your friends). Couple that with solid industrial design (and industrial design addresses not just looks, but human factors/ergonomics), and you have a winner. For some reason, all other players fail on one count or another. A successful company understands its customer - and Apple recognizes that its customer is not a typical Slashdotter. They instead choose to target the other 99.9% of the market.
These "Ribbons" sound like the changing palettes in Office 2004 for the Mac. I hate them. Because the palettes change, you have different functions in the same place depending on what you're doing. This makes it very difficult to get used to where you need to put your mouse. It's for that reason that programs are supposed to grey out menu items rather than change the menu - you get used to locations for a specific item and can quickly navigate there. Menus have the advantage of being out of the way, displaying the keyboard equivalent, etc. Palettes are great for tools that need to display visual feedback (such as a color picker), not as replacements for menu items. Look at Photoshop - practically no menu items are duplicated in palettes. Yet again, Microsoft shows a lack of understanding of basic human interface elements.
The people who leak the information should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law - the ability to maintain secrets is essential to national security. If you look at the history of warfare, and it's obvious that intelligence is what wins wars, not weapons. People should be going to prison for leaking classified information. Unfortunately, the leakers tend to be politicians or high level government officials appointed by politicians, and they don't like the embarrasment of prison. The problem is that it's so much more convenient to blame the press for their problems.
All DNA is fundamentally the same. This just happens to be a base sequence that causes the creation of proteins usually produced by the human body rather than traditional rat, cow, slug, corn, or eveen rice proteins. Can someone explain _why_ this is going to cause the end of the world? Are people aware that it's standard practice to replace, for example, e coli base sequences with human ones so that the bacteria produce human proteins?
I'm appalled at the level of unscientific FUD that is out there. If slashdotters don't think scientifically, what will the general public do? Ban DHMO (http://www.dhmo.org/)?
Or you use a mac - a no brainer if you're doing publishing.
Some of the above posts say "I don't notice any problems". I'm guessing some of the bugs nobody has fixed are somewhat obscure. There is a well known bug when Linux mounts large XFS file systems via NFS that bothered me regularly - large directories could not be searched, deleted, etc. Now I have a Mac working with that flawlessly. These are the types of bugs - annoying, but non-fatal - that few people want to fix.
This isn't an apples to apples comparison. The stock supercharged Ariel Atom on which this car is based will also smoke a Ferrari or Porsche. Go find the BBC Top Gear video on the Ariel Motors website. I bet the stock Ariel Atom will also beat this electric version - adding hundreds of pounds to a 1100lb car wrecks handling, and sure doesn't help straight line acceleration.
Taxes are imposed by the government. If a phone company overcharges for dialup, people will switch to alternate means. I know that's not possible in some remote areas, but that would also explain high prices.
An excellent point, but, unfortunately, most people don't understand the basic concept of supply and demand. The moment you say "market based", people will turn a deaf year or gather in protest.
A major obstacle in most US cities is the lack of density - once a city is sprawled, it becomes exceedingly expensive to provide services like this (or real public transit for that matter). This would be interesting for New York, but I'm not sure it would work elsewhere.
Why does it seem that most Slashdotters want BluRay/HD-DVD to fail because of its DRM? Given that DVD has DRM as well, I'd rather have a format which is capable of the highest quality video.
Content providers cannot force anything on their own - they cannot take taxes from me. That's why they need the government to do the forcing for them. That's what's happening here, as well as elsewhere (DMCA, for example).
This is the problem with socalism and public funding. It allows the government to force its will upon individuals. Do away with the grants and give people their tax money back. Problem solved.