I think that there is another problem. While seing the movie in the theater is a more fufilling experience, the costs involved are simply too much. The movies where I'm at are $9.00 per ticket (IIRC the theater gets none of that), the concessions are also sky high. I simply can not afford to go to the movies, so I don't. For the cost of my wife and I going to two movies a month I can rent 6 movies at a time from Netflix and have a couple bucks left over to buy a bag of popping corn that I can flavor however I want. That's why movie attendance is declining. -nB
no, the credit card allows you to spend money on the premise that you will later repay the money. You do not have to actually have any money to use a credit card. What you described is a debit card. [/pedantic] -nB
Dude, this is the US you're talking about. We'd manage to put more ballots in the wrong box than the right one. (At least that's how I feel about many of my countrymen). -nB
screw multithreaded apps, the simple truth is that on an average personal computer there are an impressive number of processes running that have nothing to do with each other and as such could benifit from multi-cores, even if they were all single threaded. -nB
Though you can always purchase per user instead of per processor. This would probably be the best route if your runnings hundreds or thousands of processors.
That assumes you don't also have 80K+ users:-) -nB
My point was that if the industry "standard" is to patent new processes and IP and Google does not do so, there is a case for negligence. Having patents and placing them in the public domain is likely cause for someone to also complain. -nB
As I said in my comment below, they may not have a business choice, they are responsible to the shareholders now and can be sued for such behaivor. If they made a statement that these patents are in the PD and are being held as defensive patents then I suppose that would still expose them to lawsuits, but they would be DoingNoEvil(tm) -nB
I think that it is bad, but I also hope that the patents are held as a defence (much like the M$ drednaught does with many of theirs). With companies patenting everything in sight I'm afraid there is no choice but to patent your ass-print in the chair, fo fear that if you do not, someone else will and use your idea to make money by sueing you.
It's a lousy state of affairs, but that's the way things are. If the big G would PD their defensive patents that would prove to me that they are defensive only:-) -nB
The battery can be inductively charged, thus the pack can be buried deeply in a safe place and the charge coil can be at the surface (say about 5mm below the skin). As to it being unrealistic, tell that to the quadrapleigic wo may once again be able to use his arms and have better control over his bodily functioning... While I think augmentation for enhancement is still a long way off (sign me up when it comes though... I want to be the first Borg), augmentation is much closer if we look at neuro-repair, where the side effects are likely to be more easily outweighed by the benifits. -nB
Now, why stop there? why dont you upgrade your theory to 3rd degree?
Something like... First you know what you don't know what you don't know Second you don't know what you know what you don't know...
Because then you would confuse the poor souls you are trying to teach. The hardest part in teaching someone is in the first step. Once you can get them to understand where they are deficent and to have the ability to spot new deficiencies in themselves, it is an easy task to teach them everything they need to know to replace you;) Then you can go do something else that's more fun. -nB
You bring up a good point... Why not break compatibility for most (all) legacy apps, but load a VM to run the old API set in? Native code runs like fire, old code can be run (and it's not like it's going to be all that fast anyway). The only big disconnect I see is high end games, but even those will catch up in one dev cycle. -nB
Specifically: First you don't know what you don't know Second you know what you don't know Third you don't know what you know and finally you know what you know.
Basically one should evolve through the path above and eventually become a super duper awesome geek (Linus comes to mind here), sounds like this guy has been on step one for an aweful long time. Someone needs to take him under their wing:-) -nB
Actually I wonder which half is being re-written? Legacy code causing issues, so they re-write it, thus Vista is essentially a clean new windows? Or is is the new stuff not working, which means that there is even less reason to pugrade from XP? Which half is bad really does matter in this case (at least to me it does). -nB
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I think that there is another problem.
While seing the movie in the theater is a more fufilling experience, the costs involved are simply too much.
The movies where I'm at are $9.00 per ticket (IIRC the theater gets none of that), the concessions are also sky high.
I simply can not afford to go to the movies, so I don't. For the cost of my wife and I going to two movies a month I can rent 6 movies at a time from Netflix and have a couple bucks left over to buy a bag of popping corn that I can flavor however I want.
That's why movie attendance is declining.
-nB
-8, why do you ask?
I think anyone who uses outlook to schedule meetings should know this, especially if they are in a global org.
-nB
As far as I'm concerned you could do that to me (aside from the SSN for other reasons).
I would kinda like to be "the genome guy"
Best explanation I could think of as well.
I read this and said WTF?
then I read teh story and said WTF?
then I read your comment and said Ahhh!
-nB
no, the credit card allows you to spend money on the premise that you will later repay the money. You do not have to actually have any money to use a credit card. What you described is a debit card. [/pedantic]
-nB
Dude, this is the US you're talking about. We'd manage to put more ballots in the wrong box than the right one. (At least that's how I feel about many of my countrymen).
-nB
My gawd you put a hell of a positive spin on theo there, _without_ glossing over certain traits. I'm impressed.
-nB
At 37, I haven't suffered any harm from this attitude yet
Or you're too conceited to have noticed.I would not work with you based on that comment.
-nB
screw multithreaded apps, the simple truth is that on an average personal computer there are an impressive number of processes running that have nothing to do with each other and as such could benifit from multi-cores, even if they were all single threaded.
-nB
Though you can always purchase per user instead of per processor. This would probably be the best route if your runnings hundreds or thousands of processors.
That assumes you don't also have 80K+ users-nB
Does the extension automatically remove dupes and fix typos in the titles of submitted stories???
No, but I just used it to reply to your post, and it works pretty well. In the quick reply section of the preferences, I put this in for my format:
%s
And it works great.
Now if it would auto-escape HTML tags . . .
My point was that if the industry "standard" is to patent new processes and IP and Google does not do so, there is a case for negligence. Having patents and placing them in the public domain is likely cause for someone to also complain.
-nB
As I said in my comment below, they may not have a business choice, they are responsible to the shareholders now and can be sued for such behaivor. If they made a statement that these patents are in the PD and are being held as defensive patents then I suppose that would still expose them to lawsuits, but they would be DoingNoEvil(tm)
-nB
I think that it is bad, but I also hope that the patents are held as a defence (much like the M$ drednaught does with many of theirs). With companies patenting everything in sight I'm afraid there is no choice but to patent your ass-print in the chair, fo fear that if you do not, someone else will and use your idea to make money by sueing you.
:-)
It's a lousy state of affairs, but that's the way things are.
If the big G would PD their defensive patents that would prove to me that they are defensive only
-nB
I too would accept WiFi for free, with google ads (not devilclick ads though). I would also pay to have ad free content at times.
-nB
The battery can be inductively charged, thus the pack can be buried deeply in a safe place and the charge coil can be at the surface (say about 5mm below the skin). As to it being unrealistic, tell that to the quadrapleigic wo may once again be able to use his arms and have better control over his bodily functioning... While I think augmentation for enhancement is still a long way off (sign me up when it comes though... I want to be the first Borg), augmentation is much closer if we look at neuro-repair, where the side effects are likely to be more easily outweighed by the benifits.
-nB
libs != common sense, so I fail to be suprised :-)
I have a ditch that needs digging!
550 feet on a 45% grade incline, needs to be 5 inches wide (min, more is fine) and 24 inches deep (pesky electrical code).
Cheers,
-nB
Now, why stop there? why dont you upgrade your theory to 3rd degree?
;)
Something like...
First you know what you don't know what you don't know
Second you don't know what you know what you don't know...
Because then you would confuse the poor souls you are trying to teach.
The hardest part in teaching someone is in the first step. Once you can get them to understand where they are deficent and to have the ability to spot new deficiencies in themselves, it is an easy task to teach them everything they need to know to replace you
Then you can go do something else that's more fun.
-nB
You bring up a good point...
Why not break compatibility for most (all) legacy apps, but load a VM to run the old API set in? Native code runs like fire, old code can be run (and it's not like it's going to be all that fast anyway). The only big disconnect I see is high end games, but even those will catch up in one dev cycle.
-nB
Specifically:
:-)
First you don't know what you don't know
Second you know what you don't know
Third you don't know what you know
and finally you know what you know.
Basically one should evolve through the path above and eventually become a super duper awesome geek (Linus comes to mind here), sounds like this guy has been on step one for an aweful long time. Someone needs to take him under their wing
-nB
The one thing you don't want to hear...
-nB
Thank you, I now can say I've learned something today :-)
-nB
NTFS4 behaives like EXT2/3 FAT in this regard. Don't see why NTFS5 would be different.
-nB
Actually I wonder which half is being re-written?
Legacy code causing issues, so they re-write it, thus Vista is essentially a clean new windows? Or is is the new stuff not working, which means that there is even less reason to pugrade from XP? Which half is bad really does matter in this case (at least to me it does).
-nB