I have two kids in elementary school and I was shocked to see how they teach math these days. Pleasantly shocked.
They spend a lot of time on grouping. For example What is 97 + 198? I was taught to add 8 and 7, carry the one etc...
They are taught to group the numbers, the instantly recognize that the answer is close to 300, then see how it differs from the 100s. 97 is 3 less, 198 is 2 less. Now add the 3 and 2, getting 5.
I was hired to write a program to parse and modify some Postscript files. Perl was the obvious choice. So I learned Perl for the job, wrote the script, etc...
As you may know, Perl can be very unreadable and I don't write unreadable code. It was all broken down into functions etc.., all fully commented. Probably slow, but we didn't care, it was maintainable.
So years pass, a friend is learning Perl so I show it to her. Her first comment was, "That doesn't look like the Perl the guys write at work!"
This usually blows people away when they realize it is there.
Head down to your local Apple Store. (I hope one is near you.) And walk up to the Genius Bar. You may have to make an appointment, in Cambridge, they'll give you a beeper to wear.
Now ask the smart men and women your questions and you'll find them polite and helpful.
So as I understand it, from read many of the above comments, the exploint is as thus.
I write 2 programs, lets call one "Cool Whizzy Must Have Util" and the other "Soul Sucking Destruction" and I tweak and tweak one of the binaries so that they have the same checksum.
Then I release the first one, everybody is eventually using it.
So then on my servers, I replace the first one with the 2nd one.
Because Apple doesn't want to play the memory game. Apple knows that the customers know they can price shop and buy it elsewhere, that's all. It is often very easy to install (Original iMacs were quite the exception) and if you can't do it, the Apple Store will do it for you for $35 I think.
As for the 2GB limit, this prevents the low end machines from cutting into the high end machines.
About 20 years ago, a friend of mine worked for the Dept of Transportation working on embassy securty, gates and fences mostly.
In addition to protecting the buildings, they also looked at methods of payload delivery. The coolest one was of course the big jet engine bolted to a Ford F-350. I don't know how the tests went but I just KNOW what the enigeers were doing the night before brass was invited...
MacSpeech (http://www.macspeech.com/) developed iListen, a large vocabulary, speaker independent speech recognition application for Macintosh.
We took the "high price" approach outlined in the article. We knew we could never compete with IBM on price, so we just made our product better and priced it accordingly.
Yes, I do. The Macintosh market is a very unusual one. Yes, the ISVs are out to make a buck, but we generally have a good relationship with the customers. As a good example, to raise a bulk of the seed money for MacSpeech we sold T-Shirts. They were $100 EACH. Each was signed and numbered, came with free product if we ever shipped (we did) and lifetime wholesale pricing on all future products. Obviously, I can tell how many we sold, but lets just say it was a lot, a surprisingly large amount.
So did some lie to us? For certain. The interesting thing was the actually selling price when we shipped was less than half what the customers said they would pay. If anything, they lied by going too high, not too low. You see, there is also self interest here. We asked them before we had a product. If the numbers were too low, we might not have formed the company. Basically we asked to measure interest, not get hard data. This worked to our advantage when seeking VC money. They like the fact our opt-in email Db was in the 5 figures.
Ok, it sounds weird, but when I was at MacSpeech, we asked our customers how much they would pay for the product. This isn't as odd as it sounds, at the time there were NO competitors.
It was then a simple matter in Excel to figure out how to maximize our income, at what price point did we make the most money. It looked pretty much like the first chart in the article.
Then management ignores and sets a price accordingly!
Get a fake ID, says T. Kennedy on it. I'm serious, Don't mod this as funny, ok, do it if you want. But now that name is presumably off this list, which is exactly what you want.
I've avoided laser eye surgery ever since a friend of mine was at a bar drawng a diagram on a napkin. You see, he was mapping out the blurry spots so he could go back in for a bit of "touch up surgery" the next day.
When he went back in, the surgeon reccomended that he wait until the software update was installed for the laser.
Now if that doesn't make you squeamish...
On the other hand, have a backup plan, like implants in case of laser failure, makes laser surgery more palatable.
And yes, I know laser surgery is safe, but these are my eyes, I don't treat them lightly.
This is truely an amazingly configurable desk. Just google for it, you'll find an Ikea Jerker shrine, the first photo there has I think 8 monitors on it. I have 3 on mine, one on the HIGH shelf, just for storage. Stable as a rock.
Does it smell? Shoot, I dunno. Looks like wood, could be plastic.
One common thought I've been seeing is that people don't want to web surf while watching TV. I can think of many situations where one would want JUST this.
You are watching a sporting event and want to look up some stats
You are watching a movie and want to check out the actors and actresses other films
Ditto for a song you here during a movie
And horrors, you might want to research a product you just happened to see an ad for
"10/20/2001: My first VAX treck! Got a Penske rental truck, a 16' diesel with a hydraulic lift gate. Drove 980 miles total (at $59/day + 10 cents/mile! You can only get that deal at Penske on long hauls, but be sure to ask, since this is actually the business rate. Privatiers are being charged twice as much per mile.) Brought home a full truck including the following items:"
Teach me to read the/. comments before reading the article! Sorry folks. I've worked in the disabilities market before and am a little sensitive sometimes.
This happened to a good friend of mine. Quit, went to a competitor. They sued....\
The took BOTH companies to a 3rd party which compared them. It turns out he only "copied" two things: 1) incoming faxes went into the "Fax Folder" in both products and 2) both products used structured programming constructs.
On the other hand, he was put in management for 2 years as part of the settlement.
This was way too long ago, but I had a college job at MIT doing programming for particle tracking from colliders (doubt they were even super colliders back then!)
Anyway, it was PDP-8 work, but we didn't have any 8s around, but there was an emulator for the PDP-11, and of course we didn't have any of those around.
But we did have a PDP-11 emulator for our hardware, wish I could remember what it was, DEC for sure.
Ahh, the gold old days.... This would have been '79 or '80, I love being able to tell people that my first email addres did have an @ but that hadn't put the . in yet...
I needed a steering gear for my 1954 Ford Customline. I took the old one out, took it to a machine shop, and they built a new one from a solid piece of metal.
How did they do this? I have no idea, they can shape metal and I can work computers.
It cost about $50 but sadly took about 3 months.
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Download Open Office and see if it is Apple-scriptable. If it is, then a small amount of programming would be all you need.
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Buy a.mac account, download Open Office. Convert the documents to PDF by opening them in Open Office then printing to PDF. Then publish a homepage with your.mac account.
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They spend a lot of time on grouping. For example What is 97 + 198? I was taught to add 8 and 7, carry the one etc...
They are taught to group the numbers, the instantly recognize that the answer is close to 300, then see how it differs from the 100s. 97 is 3 less, 198 is 2 less. Now add the 3 and 2, getting 5.
The answer is of course 300 - 5, or 295.
I find this method very intuitive.
As you may know, Perl can be very unreadable and I don't write unreadable code. It was all broken down into functions etc.., all fully commented. Probably slow, but we didn't care, it was maintainable.
So years pass, a friend is learning Perl so I show it to her. Her first comment was, "That doesn't look like the Perl the guys write at work!"
Well, I thought it was funny...
Head down to your local Apple Store. (I hope one is near you.) And walk up to the Genius Bar. You may have to make an appointment, in Cambridge, they'll give you a beeper to wear.
Now ask the smart men and women your questions and you'll find them polite and helpful.
Now get this. This service is free.
I'm asking questions, educate me.
I write 2 programs, lets call one "Cool Whizzy Must Have Util" and the other "Soul Sucking Destruction" and I tweak and tweak one of the binaries so that they have the same checksum.
Then I release the first one, everybody is eventually using it.
So then on my servers, I replace the first one with the 2nd one.
Gotcha!
Is that the danger here?
As for the 2GB limit, this prevents the low end machines from cutting into the high end machines.
In addition to protecting the buildings, they also looked at methods of payload delivery. The coolest one was of course the big jet engine bolted to a Ford F-350. I don't know how the tests went but I just KNOW what the enigeers were doing the night before brass was invited...
so what ports are they? Thanks!
MacSpeech (http://www.macspeech.com/) developed iListen, a large vocabulary, speaker independent speech recognition application for Macintosh.
We took the "high price" approach outlined in the article. We knew we could never compete with IBM on price, so we just made our product better and priced it accordingly.
Yes, I do. The Macintosh market is a very unusual one. Yes, the ISVs are out to make a buck, but we generally have a good relationship with the customers. As a good example, to raise a bulk of the seed money for MacSpeech we sold T-Shirts. They were $100 EACH. Each was signed and numbered, came with free product if we ever shipped (we did) and lifetime wholesale pricing on all future products. Obviously, I can tell how many we sold, but lets just say it was a lot, a surprisingly large amount.
So did some lie to us? For certain. The interesting thing was the actually selling price when we shipped was less than half what the customers said they would pay. If anything, they lied by going too high, not too low. You see, there is also self interest here. We asked them before we had a product. If the numbers were too low, we might not have formed the company. Basically we asked to measure interest, not get hard data. This worked to our advantage when seeking VC money. They like the fact our opt-in email Db was in the 5 figures.
It was then a simple matter in Excel to figure out how to maximize our income, at what price point did we make the most money. It looked pretty much like the first chart in the article.
Then management ignores and sets a price accordingly!
This reminds me of the MIT Barber Pole Hack (http://alum.mit.edu/ne/whatmatters/200304/memorie s.html.
When he went back in, the surgeon reccomended that he wait until the software update was installed for the laser.
Now if that doesn't make you squeamish...
On the other hand, have a backup plan, like implants in case of laser failure, makes laser surgery more palatable.
And yes, I know laser surgery is safe, but these are my eyes, I don't treat them lightly.
Does it smell? Shoot, I dunno. Looks like wood, could be plastic.
There are many uses here.
They claim it is true and a great example of OO coding gone amuck.
My favorite part.
"10/20/2001: My first VAX treck! Got a Penske rental truck, a 16' diesel with a hydraulic lift gate. Drove 980 miles total (at $59/day + 10 cents/mile! You can only get that deal at Penske on long hauls, but be sure to ask, since this is actually the business rate. Privatiers are being charged twice as much per mile.) Brought home a full truck including the following items:"
Selling? I'm a software guy, I code the stuff.
Teach me to read the /. comments before reading the article! Sorry folks. I've worked in the disabilities market before and am a little sensitive sometimes.
Many people do not have full use of thier hands. There any many products on the market to support their needs. This is one of them.
The took BOTH companies to a 3rd party which compared them. It turns out he only "copied" two things: 1) incoming faxes went into the "Fax Folder" in both products and 2) both products used structured programming constructs.
On the other hand, he was put in management for 2 years as part of the settlement.
Anyway, it was PDP-8 work, but we didn't have any 8s around, but there was an emulator for the PDP-11, and of course we didn't have any of those around.
But we did have a PDP-11 emulator for our hardware, wish I could remember what it was, DEC for sure.
Ahh, the gold old days.... This would have been '79 or '80, I love being able to tell people that my first email addres did have an @ but that hadn't put the . in yet...
I needed a steering gear for my 1954 Ford Customline. I took the old one out, took it to a machine shop, and they built a new one from a solid piece of metal. How did they do this? I have no idea, they can shape metal and I can work computers. It cost about $50 but sadly took about 3 months.
Download Open Office and see if it is Apple-scriptable. If it is, then a small amount of programming would be all you need.
Buy a .mac account, download Open Office. Convert the documents to PDF by opening them in Open Office then printing to PDF. Then publish a homepage with your .mac account.
No programming, nothing to buy but the web space.
Cool project, go for it.