How many of us really care about the products listed that you can't buy anymore?
Even though some products can't be bought anymore, they still were very important in their times, and things wouldn't be the same today if they hadn't existed. Stuff like the NES (revived video gaming), Epson MX-80 (brought printing to the home), Doom (popularized FPS), Netscape Navigator (pushed the WWW) et al. were major milestones in tech that made what we have today possible.
If anything, the students own the professors' works!:)
Although I know the clause isn't valid, it says somewhere on my employment contract that I can't use anything I learned at the company outside of the company, so that if I go work for someone else, I don't "steal the company's technology" or something like that.
How weird would it be if students were considered "work for hire" and therefore they wouldn't be allowed to use anything they learn in school...
1. Treat users like they have a clue, or at least are capable of growing a clue.
2. Don't try to be like Windows. If there's a better way to do something than the way Windows does it, do it the better way.
5. No -dev packages! Put the -dev files in the main package. [...] Beside which, how many copies of msvcrt*.dll and the rest do you find on a typical Windows box?
So we should include the -dev files in the main package because that's how Windows does it, and the users have a clue so they know how to get the -dev package anyway... It all makes sense to me now. We need to stop trying to be like Windows by doing what Windows does and treat users like they have a clue by making sure they don't get confused when they need a -dev package.
Yes, I would think that schoolwork is "work for hire" and would be property of the school...
The student pays to go to school, not the other way around. Students hire teachers to teach them. I don't see how turning in a paper becomes "work for hire".
Keep in mind that all of the countries that are listed above the US are much smaller than the US, with higher population densities. Thus it's easier to reach high broadband penetration rates in those countries.
Altering the Earth's gravity wouldn't cause the junk to de-orbit, it would simply evolve to a new orbit.
Alter Earth's gravity enough so that the new orbit to which the junk evolves involves colliding with the Earth and call that de-orbiting.
On a side note, canceling Earth's gravity altogether would also be a viable solution, as the junk would then simply drift in a straight line away from Earth.
That being said, at least according to (too lazy to look for a real reference) wikipedia, 24 million people in the US do have HD sets. I don't know about the rest of the world.
24 million people out of a 300 million population is a penetration rate of 8%. While that number is bound to grow in the future, that is currently leaving out 92% of people out of the equation. And how fast HD penetration rate will increase is a total unknown. How long have people been saying that broadband Internet is a year away from being adopted by all, while only 20% of US population subscribes to it. There will always be a small percentage of people who owns/must-have the latest and greatest in technology, but aiming at that market while at the same time trying to outsell your competitor who aims at the general public is quite hard.
The really bad news is the junk that isn't de-orbiting, but staying up there.
The solution is quite simple actually. Since all that junk is orbiting Earth, the position of any one piece of junk at any time is function of the Earth's gravity (and the piece's velocity), that's how orbits work. Since we can't change the junk's velocity (it doesn't have an engine, or we lost contact with it), all we need to do is increase the Earth's gravity for a couple of days and all the junk will de-orbit by itself. How to increase the Earth's gravity is left as an exercise to the reader.
The unfortunate side effect of that solution though is we're in for quite a shock (and one hell of a high tide) in a couple of years time when the moon comes crashing on Mount Fiji...
In addition to this, Nintendo must also produce additional remotes, nun-chucks, and classic controllers at roughly the same rate.
At a slightly higher pace actually. Many Wii owners will eventually want 4 Wiimotes, so that's 3 extra Wiimotes per Wii sold. And they're currently as hard to find in stores as Wii consoles. I got a Wii at launch, but only managed to get a 4th Wiimote two weeks ago, and that's only because I managed to get my hands on Wii-Play with the Wiimote bundled.
Have you asked anyone with a decent HD set? If you have one, the PS3 is a better deal than the 360 because of the Bluray.
No. I happen to live in a middle-class area where not everybody can afford a several-thousand dollars TV. Heck, a coworker doesn't even own a TV at all (by choice though), and some are still watching TV with rabbit's ears.
I brought my Wii to the office last week, and plugged it in the projector in the conference room. The viral effect of the Wii is amazing. Everybody passing by stopped to look and just "had to try it". It was pretty fun to watch a VP play tennis in a suit and tie.
The funniest part is that my coworker who doesn't own a TV now wants to buy a Wii...
Normal use of a flash disk spreads the writes more or less evenly over the disk. The point of this being that a compact flash card that last longer than the first bit which would in all likelihood be rewritten hundreds of times more often than the last couple of bytes on the card.
Typical computer drive usage is far from what we could consider "normal use of a flash drive". Current normal use is usually in digital cameras and other small devices, which users tend to completely erase between use. Therefore, a built-in "data spreader" can easily write data more or less evenly over the disk.
However, if I put such a drive in my computer for regular computer use, there will be one section of the drive which will be erased-and-rewritten fairly rarely (the/usr partition), one section which will be erased-and-rewritten moderately often (the/home partition), and one section which will be erased-and-rewritten quite often (the/swap partition). It would then be hard to spread erase-and-write cycles evenly on the whole disk, unless the drive somehow moves around the big bunch of data which is technically read-only.
Assuming a million write/erase cycle limit for this SSD, it would take over 46 years of 24/7 writing to reach the limit on the entire disk.
As you mentionned, writing on the entire disk all the time is hardly the typical usage pattern. I would be more interested to know if flash drives are becoming suitable for "real" usage, as in, if my swap partition is on a flash drive (swap is always happier with faster transfer), does the drive stand a chance to survive long enough to be useful?
Parent and Grandparent poster: You do grasp that this is a private member's bill from Marlene Jennings, a member of the Liberal party?
Plus, despite what/. seems to think, the Conservatives in Canada don't bring up "terrorism & child pornography" nearly as often as the US Republicans. I recall very few occurrences of terrorism talk at the House of Commons, and none about child porn (at least, since the Conservatives took power).
While Harper looks like a good friend of Bush, he isn't as radical, or can't afford to be.
You're right. Since the now is 2007, I would say the Wii is "current gen", just as the PS3 and the Xbox360 are. All three consoles have been launched in the past and are living in the present. Let's stop calling it "next gen" and accept them as current, ok?
European keyboards have a period on the numeric keypad.
French-canadian Mac keyboards have a comma on the numeric keypad... and that sucks when trying to type in an IP address. I've seen calculators with both, probably depends on brand.
Must be a Quebec thing. In France they say "cinq virgulle cinq". In every country I know they use the word for "comma".
I suppose it is. Since we're trapped between Europe (from our French heritage) and the US (from our geographical situation), we're constantly living with both systems. The baby-boomers generation has been raised with the English/imperial system only, but the later generation are "theorically" under metric. However, we learned to use both fluently. I weigh 180lbs and 81kg. I cut a piece of wood 30 centimeters long and 6 inches wide. I buy my milk by the liter and my butter by the pound. Just as I say "five point five" while I write 5,5.
Come to think of it, they DID, after the industry collapsed. I know MY cartridge collection, for one, grew substantially circa 1984 as retailers attempted to liquidate their remaining stock.
Yeah... games were so cheap then... I bought a shovel and dug out lots of cartridges, they were coming out of the ground, for free. I later attempted to sell on a gray market to make a hefty profit (no eBay back then)... I still haven't recovered the cost of the shovel...
ACK, back when the SNES was up to date basically all third party titles cost around 65EUR over here, some even up in the 75EUR, only some first party titles where sold at 50EUR and even then those prices aren't adjusted to inflation.
Back when the SNES what up to date, there was no such thing as an EUR.
Thing is, in some parts of the world, we still have this thing called "Winter".
Just because it can't be applied in nothernmost parts of the world doesn't mean it can't be very, very useful anywhere else. Beijing, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Mexico City, Rio... a whole lot of warm-to-hot cities that will appreciate a pollution free car.
Thing is, as a question on principle, I don't want MSFT getting rich off of my buying a computer on which I install Linux. People keep saying "vote with your wallet", and I'd rather have my wallet go to Dell/HP than to MSFT.
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Even though some products can't be bought anymore, they still were very important in their times, and things wouldn't be the same today if they hadn't existed. Stuff like the NES (revived video gaming), Epson MX-80 (brought printing to the home), Doom (popularized FPS), Netscape Navigator (pushed the WWW) et al. were major milestones in tech that made what we have today possible.
Ok... now I'm all excited about Star Fox 64...!
Why don't they make such commercials today?
Pray tell me which stores you go to that sells the physical albums for less than $9.99 so that I may shop there.
Although I know the clause isn't valid, it says somewhere on my employment contract that I can't use anything I learned at the company outside of the company, so that if I go work for someone else, I don't "steal the company's technology" or something like that.
How weird would it be if students were considered "work for hire" and therefore they wouldn't be allowed to use anything they learn in school...
So we should include the -dev files in the main package because that's how Windows does it, and the users have a clue so they know how to get the -dev package anyway... It all makes sense to me now. We need to stop trying to be like Windows by doing what Windows does and treat users like they have a clue by making sure they don't get confused when they need a -dev package.
That's pretty weird I gotta admit. I always thought "init()" should be at the beginning, not at the end...
The student pays to go to school, not the other way around. Students hire teachers to teach them. I don't see how turning in a paper becomes "work for hire".
Stop ruining my solutions with your logic!
Keep in mind that the US has no intention to try and provide broadband to most people, and that they don't even want to tell people where they can provide a decent service. Blaming the low population density is moot when regulations suck like this.
Alter Earth's gravity enough so that the new orbit to which the junk evolves involves colliding with the Earth and call that de-orbiting.
On a side note, canceling Earth's gravity altogether would also be a viable solution, as the junk would then simply drift in a straight line away from Earth.
24 million people out of a 300 million population is a penetration rate of 8%. While that number is bound to grow in the future, that is currently leaving out 92% of people out of the equation. And how fast HD penetration rate will increase is a total unknown. How long have people been saying that broadband Internet is a year away from being adopted by all, while only 20% of US population subscribes to it. There will always be a small percentage of people who owns/must-have the latest and greatest in technology, but aiming at that market while at the same time trying to outsell your competitor who aims at the general public is quite hard.
The solution is quite simple actually. Since all that junk is orbiting Earth, the position of any one piece of junk at any time is function of the Earth's gravity (and the piece's velocity), that's how orbits work. Since we can't change the junk's velocity (it doesn't have an engine, or we lost contact with it), all we need to do is increase the Earth's gravity for a couple of days and all the junk will de-orbit by itself. How to increase the Earth's gravity is left as an exercise to the reader.
The unfortunate side effect of that solution though is we're in for quite a shock (and one hell of a high tide) in a couple of years time when the moon comes crashing on Mount Fiji...
At a slightly higher pace actually. Many Wii owners will eventually want 4 Wiimotes, so that's 3 extra Wiimotes per Wii sold. And they're currently as hard to find in stores as Wii consoles. I got a Wii at launch, but only managed to get a 4th Wiimote two weeks ago, and that's only because I managed to get my hands on Wii-Play with the Wiimote bundled.
When will we catch up with the future and stop calling the Wii, PS3 and Xbox360 "next-gen". When does a console become "current gen"?
No. I happen to live in a middle-class area where not everybody can afford a several-thousand dollars TV. Heck, a coworker doesn't even own a TV at all (by choice though), and some are still watching TV with rabbit's ears.
I brought my Wii to the office last week, and plugged it in the projector in the conference room. The viral effect of the Wii is amazing. Everybody passing by stopped to look and just "had to try it". It was pretty fun to watch a VP play tennis in a suit and tie.
The funniest part is that my coworker who doesn't own a TV now wants to buy a Wii...
Typical computer drive usage is far from what we could consider "normal use of a flash drive". Current normal use is usually in digital cameras and other small devices, which users tend to completely erase between use. Therefore, a built-in "data spreader" can easily write data more or less evenly over the disk.
However, if I put such a drive in my computer for regular computer use, there will be one section of the drive which will be erased-and-rewritten fairly rarely (the /usr partition), one section which will be erased-and-rewritten moderately often (the /home partition), and one section which will be erased-and-rewritten quite often (the /swap partition). It would then be hard to spread erase-and-write cycles evenly on the whole disk, unless the drive somehow moves around the big bunch of data which is technically read-only.
As you mentionned, writing on the entire disk all the time is hardly the typical usage pattern. I would be more interested to know if flash drives are becoming suitable for "real" usage, as in, if my swap partition is on a flash drive (swap is always happier with faster transfer), does the drive stand a chance to survive long enough to be useful?
Plus, despite what /. seems to think, the Conservatives in Canada don't bring up "terrorism & child pornography" nearly as often as the US Republicans. I recall very few occurrences of terrorism talk at the House of Commons, and none about child porn (at least, since the Conservatives took power).
While Harper looks like a good friend of Bush, he isn't as radical, or can't afford to be.
You're right. Since the now is 2007, I would say the Wii is "current gen", just as the PS3 and the Xbox360 are. All three consoles have been launched in the past and are living in the present. Let's stop calling it "next gen" and accept them as current, ok?
French-canadian Mac keyboards have a comma on the numeric keypad... and that sucks when trying to type in an IP address. I've seen calculators with both, probably depends on brand.
I suppose it is. Since we're trapped between Europe (from our French heritage) and the US (from our geographical situation), we're constantly living with both systems. The baby-boomers generation has been raised with the English/imperial system only, but the later generation are "theorically" under metric. However, we learned to use both fluently. I weigh 180lbs and 81kg. I cut a piece of wood 30 centimeters long and 6 inches wide. I buy my milk by the liter and my butter by the pound. Just as I say "five point five" while I write 5,5.
Yeah... games were so cheap then... I bought a shovel and dug out lots of cartridges, they were coming out of the ground, for free. I later attempted to sell on a gray market to make a hefty profit (no eBay back then)... I still haven't recovered the cost of the shovel...
Back when the SNES what up to date, there was no such thing as an EUR.
March 23rd is quite real. However, Jack has nothing to do with anything that might happen on that day.
Just because it can't be applied in nothernmost parts of the world doesn't mean it can't be very, very useful anywhere else. Beijing, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Mexico City, Rio... a whole lot of warm-to-hot cities that will appreciate a pollution free car.
Thing is, as a question on principle, I don't want MSFT getting rich off of my buying a computer on which I install Linux. People keep saying "vote with your wallet", and I'd rather have my wallet go to Dell/HP than to MSFT.