that we will be promised larger, faster, cheaper, longer lastings products, but do to low levels of adoption they will be more expensive then the existing products at release. Slowly over time, as more people switch to the new products, the price will rise even higher with demand, and our formerly cheaper products will rise in price too, because they are now in limited supply.
I was wondering who the target audience was for this.
People who want to develop and play their own games, but on a platform that not many people will have.
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two fatal flaws with this book are that it suffers from a lack of cohesion and focus
OK, a lot of tech books lack focus when trying to cover a lot of new material.
The 'right thing' has become the art of securing a favorable position for a few to profit and hold power over the many, while believing that the laws are created to maintain a level playing field for all citizens of the republic.
Privacy is only important when the information being held can be used to make a profit at a later date. If there is no monetary incentive for the company to keep your information private, why would they excert the effort ?
I agree. I grew up in michigan, but lived the last 6 years in southern california. I tend to forget that there are regions of the country where 1/32" of precipitation is the major storm of the winter.
Perhaps there are good uses for the lighting aspects, and as you say, they aren't that bright.
For some reason I read the description and imagined the road lined with those blue halogen lights that are damn near blinding.
Really, they'll be qualified to work as data-entry clerks, but the educators don't seem to understand that.
Looking at our economic policies, and the jobs we ship over seas and the ones we keep, I think this is intentional. Why would a kid ever need to know more than how to put numbers into a cash register ? It's not like there are going to be many real jobs that take skills in 15 years anyway. The largest class of workers is the service industry, and our educators are preparing students for the future they are most likely to receive.
SCO has been pretty forthcoming about the lack of security they have been able to keep on their codebase. Seems like every three hours they are publishing how they managed to let their top secret code leek out into the public.
Oh crap , I just noticed you wanted a software company that publishes security flaws. My Bad.
I meant "you're" not alone, and apparently it was a much worse mistake than I thought. I mean look how fucked up your correction is. Your not alone is complete jibberish, much worse than a spelling error.
--Tsiangkun
portable cd player ? I press forward and it skips to the next track. I hold forward and it advances within a track.
My iPod has a menu button that, suprisingly enough, presents menus on the screen. Unless I'm holding it for a longer time frame, then it turns on the backlight.
I confess, ugg. When I was living with 8 other people, sharing a computer in the kitchen, the owner put gator on the machine. At the time the program was more of a password manager than a huge nuisance. It was actually quite useful in letting us set up accounts with bogus information for the whole house. Nobody had to remember a password, and everything was good. Eventually the damn thing became a pain in the ass, and I got rid of it. I can almost understand why someone would want the original gator functionality, but I think mozilla does a pretty good job of remembering my passwords. It even does multiple login options per screen.
--My name is Tsiangkun, and I once used the gator thingy
I boy local when I can, but I refuse to buy blindly. If a local retailer can't at least make a resonable offer when presented with the web price, then I'll go elsewhere. Remember, you're free to operate your business however you like, but you are not enititled to my business just because you have a product to sell.
It seems like just yesterday (1996) I would have killed for a Sun workstation, but made due with linux. Now I have Linux boxen being used to replace Sun and SGI hardware for image analysis, and my Servers are running MacOS X.
--Tsiangkun I'll be windows free for 10 years in June
I could write a piece of voting code that reports results into a central database after each voter, doesn't leave a paper trail, and ensures one use per voting card in an election.
This seems so trivial, I wonder how they screwed it up, and why aren't they being prosecuted as terrorist who are trying to hijack american democracy with an electronic attack on our election outcomes.
Why are the governments paying for the priviledge of being hijacked, and why aren't they demanding a full refund for the machines ?
Imagine if Abduhla Musctaffa owned the company making these machines . . . and he had promised to deliver the election to their party. Would the US government be equally lazy about investigating the potential tampering with the system ? Would the voters be equally complacent ? I suspect that they would [ be lazy] , but that doesn't mean I'm not outraged by the whole fiasco already.
--Tsiangkun ***---*** I'm Tsiangkun Tzu and I authorised this sig
The excessive application of a 'tried and true' formula for success has produced many 'excellent' sounding songs. Unfortunately with so many 'excellent' songs on the market, the value of an excellent song is decresed. I figure anything I hear on a clear channel station is worth jack shit . . . If it was worth paying for you wouldn't be giving it away free every 25 minutes . . . would you ?
Alternatively, maybe I have heard your song . . . about 25bajillion times before I get a chance to make it to the record store. By the time I get to the store, hearing that song again is more akin to torture than an experience worth paying to have.
A third. Music has quit sounding good to me. I already bought everything I wanted by 1998. I'm just replacing my collection using p2p because I don't want to pay $24.99 for an album released in 1978.
The "staff" of researchers are peers of those publishing in the journal, generally volunteers to review the works.
Their behavior being enabled by the scientist is a black and white approach to a complicated problem.
Unfortunately, a 'cell' publication will look good when applying for funding . . . whereas "we did this and put it on this website" does nothing. . .
As much as I want the information to be free, I want to eat too.
--Tsiangkun
I think you are making the point that the scientists are making. Most of us publish our work to share with other scientist, and to justify funding. Once published a journal is now holding our information away from those without the cash for a subscription.
We don't care who has access to our information, but we do care that the journals are preventing access to information we released to the world.
A large group of scientist believe that all researchers should have access, at least in electronic form, to all the published literature.
--Tsiangkun That single button mouse is my gateway to the Terminal app
I have always been confused by the need to be recognized for my possesions. This might be why I have never been that popular, I just don't care what other people think.
Anyways, I received an iPod for some code I wrote for a friend of mine . . . plus 6 years of support of said code. I never knew I needed an iPod until I had one in my hands. After noticing the price (~500usd), and the neighborhood (Oakland), I never took the headphones out of the packaging . . . and instead used my ratty old headphones from my cd player. It was obvious to me, that if I was going to steal an iPod, the headphones and cord would be the tell. If someone chooses to advertise a few hundred dollars in their pocket while being distracted by music . . . I can't really blame the thug for targetting them. I see this as a form of evolution . . . or maybe a robbin hood type redistribution of iPods.
Oh, and I tried my friends stock white headphones, and they were not as comfortable or as fidelitous as my old ones.
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that we will be promised larger, faster, cheaper, longer lastings products, but do to low levels of adoption they will be more expensive then the existing products at release. Slowly over time, as more people switch to the new products, the price will rise even higher with demand, and our formerly cheaper products will rise in price too, because they are now in limited supply.
It's just a speculation.
But my patent for a process to aquire technology in widespread use via deep pockets and infinite legal resources was turned down.
This is great ! I have been waiting for the helpfulness of clippy combined with the performance of java.
I was wondering who the target audience was for this. People who want to develop and play their own games, but on a platform that not many people will have.
two fatal flaws with this book are that it suffers from a lack of cohesion and focus
OK, a lot of tech books lack focus when trying to cover a lot of new material.
it doesn't present anything new.
oh.
--Tsiangkun
The 'right thing' has become the art of securing a favorable position for a few to profit and hold power over the many, while believing that the laws are created to maintain a level playing field for all citizens of the republic.
Privacy is only important when the information being held can be used to make a profit at a later date. If there is no monetary incentive for the company to keep your information private, why would they excert the effort ?
--Tsiangkun
I agree. I grew up in michigan, but lived the last 6 years in southern california. I tend to forget that there are regions of the country where 1/32" of precipitation is the major storm of the winter.
Perhaps there are good uses for the lighting aspects, and as you say, they aren't that bright.
For some reason I read the description and imagined the road lined with those blue halogen lights that are damn near blinding.
Good points,
Tsiangkun
I'm probably the only person here who is thinking this will suck, but the last thing I want driving at night is more light shining in my eyes.
It already sucks driving at night, in the rain,especially with glasses on.I don't think additional illumination is going to make it any easier.
--Tsiangkun
Really, they'll be qualified to work as data-entry clerks, but the educators don't seem to understand that.
Looking at our economic policies, and the jobs we ship over seas and the ones we keep, I think this is intentional. Why would a kid ever need to know more than how to put numbers into a cash register ? It's not like there are going to be many real jobs that take skills in 15 years anyway. The largest class of workers is the service industry, and our educators are preparing students for the future they are most likely to receive.
--Tsiangkun
Are these capsules sterile when inserted ?
How much training does the 'nurse' at the club have?
If the 'nurse' is so well trained, how come they aren't working in healthcare ?
What facilities are provided at the club to ensure a sterile working environment for the 'nurse' and patients ?
Are the capsules certified free from proteins that may cause immune responses ?
What sort of waiver do I have to sign to get one of these implanted ?
If I have a problem with the implant, do I contact the manufacturer, or is the bar going to provide care for complications arising from the device.
--Tsiangkun
SCO has been pretty forthcoming about the lack of security they have been able to keep on their codebase. Seems like every three hours they are publishing how they managed to let their top secret code leek out into the public.
Oh crap , I just noticed you wanted a software company that publishes security flaws. My Bad.
--Tsiangkun
I meant "you're" not alone, and apparently it was a much worse mistake than I thought. I mean look how fucked up your correction is. Your not alone is complete jibberish, much worse than a spelling error. --Tsiangkun
No, your're not alone.
My phone doesn't do text messaging. I can't upgrade the ring tones. My phone doesn't support games, and there is no built in camera.
My text editor doesn't display pictures, my email program doesn't have a web browser, my phone doesn't have a camera, and I like it this way.
--Tsiangkun
portable cd player ? I press forward and it skips to the next track. I hold forward and it advances within a track.
My iPod has a menu button that, suprisingly enough, presents menus on the screen. Unless I'm holding it for a longer time frame, then it turns on the backlight.
--Tsiangkun
The US moved signals faster than the speed of light.
here
Of course the Russians showed that matter can move faster than light, 1958 Nobel prize in physics.
here
--Tsiangkun
I've been doing random playlist for years.
Tune in at eleven when I'll be hosting a two hour special on using the microwave to heat water.
--Tsiangkun
I confess, ugg. When I was living with 8 other people, sharing a computer in the kitchen, the owner put gator on the machine. At the time the program was more of a password manager than a huge nuisance. It was actually quite useful in letting us set up accounts with bogus information for the whole house. Nobody had to remember a password, and everything was good. Eventually the damn thing became a pain in the ass, and I got rid of it. I can almost understand why someone would want the original gator functionality, but I think mozilla does a pretty good job of remembering my passwords. It even does multiple login options per screen.
--My name is Tsiangkun, and I once used the gator thingy
I boy local when I can, but I refuse to buy blindly.
If a local retailer can't at least make a resonable offer when presented with the web price, then I'll go elsewhere. Remember, you're free to operate your business however you like, but you are not enititled to my business just because you have a product to sell.
--Tsiangkun
It seems like just yesterday (1996) I would have killed for a Sun workstation, but made due with linux. Now I have Linux boxen being used to replace Sun and SGI hardware for image analysis, and my Servers are running MacOS X.
--Tsiangkun
I'll be windows free for 10 years in June
I could write a piece of voting code that reports results into a central database after each voter,
doesn't leave a paper trail, and ensures one use per voting card in an election.
This seems so trivial, I wonder how they screwed it up, and why aren't they being prosecuted as terrorist who are trying to hijack american democracy with an electronic attack on our election outcomes.
Why are the governments paying for the priviledge of being hijacked, and why aren't they demanding a full refund for the machines ?
Imagine if Abduhla Musctaffa owned the company making these machines . . . and he had promised to deliver the election to their party. Would the US government be equally lazy about investigating the potential tampering with the system ? Would the voters be equally complacent ? I suspect that they would [ be lazy] , but that doesn't mean I'm not outraged by the whole fiasco already.
--Tsiangkun
***---***
I'm Tsiangkun Tzu and I authorised this sig
--Tsiangkun
The "staff" of researchers are peers of those publishing in the journal, generally volunteers to review the works. Their behavior being enabled by the scientist is a black and white approach to a complicated problem. Unfortunately, a 'cell' publication will look good when applying for funding . . . whereas "we did this and put it on this website" does nothing. . . As much as I want the information to be free, I want to eat too. --Tsiangkun
McBride: ...anyone who has a rational mind would come down to the same conclusions I do.
Yesterday ??? Over ??? Oh, sorry I thought I was just getting some bad lag.
--Tsiangkun
I think you are making the point that the scientists are making. Most of us publish our work to share with other scientist, and to justify funding. Once published a journal is now holding our information away from those without the cash for a subscription.
We don't care who has access to our information, but we do care that the journals are preventing access to information we released to the world.
A large group of scientist believe that all researchers should have access, at least in electronic form, to all the published literature.
--Tsiangkun
That single button mouse is my gateway to the Terminal app
I have always been confused by the need to be recognized for my possesions. This might be why I have never been that popular, I just don't care what other people think.
Anyways, I received an iPod for some code I wrote for a friend of mine . . . plus 6 years of support of said code. I never knew I needed an iPod until I had one in my hands. After noticing the price (~500usd), and the neighborhood (Oakland), I never took the headphones out of the packaging . . . and instead used my ratty old headphones from my cd player. It was obvious to me, that if I was going to steal an iPod, the headphones and cord would be the tell. If someone chooses to advertise a few hundred dollars in their pocket while being distracted by music . . . I can't really blame the thug for targetting them. I see this as a form of evolution . . . or maybe a robbin hood type redistribution of iPods.
Oh, and I tried my friends stock white headphones, and they were not as comfortable or as fidelitous as my old ones.
--Tsiangkun