I would never charge a friend. Just seems too weird. If I don't have time I would usually just refer them to a url to fix their problem. It's always better to teach people how to fix their problems than constantly help them.
For a non-friend, I would charge 20-30/hour (i am a poor college student so that's more than enough for me).
The more effort you put into something, the less additional return you will get.
The more cycles you get from your CPU, the less additional power you will get.
I think the main reason is that we don't need the power. The first X Mhz you put in will get grabbed up for the most important things (running the OS). The next X will be used for running the foreground program. The next X will be used for bells, whistles, to multitask, whatever. The next X will be used for - well - nothing very useful, because you are already doing everything useful.
Doctors aren't in the lab creating viruses, or even working with them. Instead they memorize the symptoms and medicines to combat the viruses, with very little understanding of the chemistry or biology behind why they work.
People who work in a anti-virus company should be studying the current viruses in the wild, not creating them. Nothing you create but don't release will be useful in fighting viruses becuase the virus you created essentially never existed as a virus. The knowledge is theoretical and academuic, not hands-on. I am not saying that viruses are taboo and shouldn't be touched; on the contrary, I agree that students should have experience with the inner-workings of viruses (which as I understand it are actually pretty simple). But creating them? That's just asking for problems.
Additionally, a few large sites have sprung up - loki torrent is the obvious example I think. Although it may not as large as supernova, it is pretty close.
Yeah - that's the point. Some people will sign up for this deal, and in the process give amazon more business. Hopefully, those people thought it out and will save money from the deal. Seems win-win to me. Instead of driving to walmart to buy a widget for 3 dollars, they can go to amazon and get it for 2 dollars without paying 5 dollars shipping. Anything that screws over walmart is good in my book:)
At the same time, I know this deal would be terrible for a person like me - Most of the things I buy are more than 25 dollars, and I don't mind shopping at the store everynow and then. I could see this being useful for people who live in a more rural setting who can't as easily run to the store for something small.
wow - slashdotters aren't the friendliest people, are they? Umm... In case you couldn't tell, I don't own an apple. Do the math, i'll give you a few minutes.
Ok, in case you couldn't figure it out yet, I am talking about using other people's apples (mostly the ones in my college's computer lab). I don't carry a 2-button mouse around with me to plug into other people's computers.
As a regular wintel user, I find apples to be very annoying - mostly because of the single button mouse. I honestly think that making the switch over would benefit them and their users (I use my right mouse button and scroll wheel A LOT to get around windows). For a company that is normally so good at ergonomics, I am amazed the switch didn't happen 10 years ago.
I disagree with the article. Why would users embrace the pointless futuristic system the article discusses? Not only do people hate paying for something they have already paid for (I already paid 500 dollars for my computer, and now I have to pay to use it!) but they would resist having power unnecessarily being taken away from them on their own computer.
Microsoft loves the internet because it is another thing for them to take over, and I can promise you they will do everything in their power to continue to do so. As long as people buy computers with Windows preinstalled, and the government does not break them up, this will not change.
Also, I predict that spyware and viruses (I believe this was one of the big reasons for his prediction) will be essentially forgotten as microcrap updates the OS to be bloated with security precautions and rips off firefox in its next IE. Atleast this is the step that sp2 for winxp took.
"You thought those green laser pointers sold by ThinkGeek and others were pretty cool, didn't you? Well, think again. It seems obligatory to point out that even laser pointers, and certainly anything more powerful than those, are capable of causing real damage."
Hey, anything that can cause real damage is pretty cool in my book.
\didn't rtfa
Although I agree that kids should NOT play mature games like grand theft auto, it should not be a criminal law that is enforced by the government. As it is, video game ratings *could* be arbitrary.
I think it should be like the way movie theaters stop kids from watching rated R movies - it's not a law, but universally any theater you go to will enforce it.
Almost everyone I know (I am a college student) uses AIM exclusively. If AIM were to suddenly disappear, many people would be lost.
At the rate AOL is going, how long can AIM be sustained? It costs them money to pay for the servers and update the software. Are there any good alternatives that have some sort of guarantee of staying power?
Didn't see anybody answer 8. Here's a solution (it's not c++ specific or anything, more of a data structures problem):
Create two instances of the linked list, and start going through the list at different rates (for example, iterate twice on the first list for every time you iterate once on the second list, if that makes sense). If either one ends, it clearly has no loop. If they intersect (ie. both point to the same element in the linked list) then there is a loop.
"There are just short of 6 billion people who didn't buy the original Super Mario Brothers. Statistically, that's *everyone*. In particular there are about 500 million people who weren't even alive when the game came out."
I think this statement alone shows that you don't understand the marketing of these old games.
Believe it or not, a huge percentage of people who are interested in these old games:
A. have played them before, and many of these people did buy it before.
B. are not kids, because very few kids have any interest in an 8-bit 2 Mhz system and the games it can play. The kids I know look down on anything that isn't 3d.
I am not saying that nintendo owes me anything, nor am i saying that I am ingrateful that they made the games. In fact, of the three big video game makers, Nintendo is by far my favorite. I am just critical that it is so hard and so expensive to legally play their old games, which I feel are pretty much financially useless to them at this point. I could play perfect copies of more than 1000 NES games today, right now - illegally. But, if I want to take the legal route, I have to buy 20 dollar cartridges from a meager selection of their old games or attempt to get my 20 year-old NES working again. Yeah right.
I just think it would be great if they opened up their library of games to the world (like the ROM community did 5 years ago) and used it as a selling point for their GBA - they could sell GBAs to a wider market, and make some extra money off their own memory cards (instead of some shady company's cards on the internet). It would also be a great PR stunt towards the older consumers who have shunned their products for the PS2 and XBOX.
I'm sure I will get modded down for this, but I honestly don't think "pirating" classic NES games, which are up to 20 years old now, is that wrong. Nintendo made a lot of money off the NES, but at this point the market for the classic Mario and Donkey Kong games is limitied to the nostalgic crowd, most of whom legitmately bought the games when they were kids.
Why should we have to shell out 20 bucks for a game that we not only already bought, but that pales in comparison to newer games regarding programming time and complexity? In my opinion, these old games should be freely given to the community who made Nintendo what it is today instead of whored out by the marketing department of Nintendo to squeeze the last few cents out of them.
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I would never charge a friend. Just seems too weird. If I don't have time I would usually just refer them to a url to fix their problem. It's always better to teach people how to fix their problems than constantly help them.
For a non-friend, I would charge 20-30/hour (i am a poor college student so that's more than enough for me).
The more effort you put into something, the less additional return you will get.
The more cycles you get from your CPU, the less additional power you will get.
I think the main reason is that we don't need the power. The first X Mhz you put in will get grabbed up for the most important things (running the OS). The next X will be used for running the foreground program. The next X will be used for bells, whistles, to multitask, whatever. The next X will be used for - well - nothing very useful, because you are already doing everything useful.
Bad analogy. Here's why:
Doctors aren't in the lab creating viruses, or even working with them. Instead they memorize the symptoms and medicines to combat the viruses, with very little understanding of the chemistry or biology behind why they work.
People who work in a anti-virus company should be studying the current viruses in the wild, not creating them. Nothing you create but don't release will be useful in fighting viruses becuase the virus you created essentially never existed as a virus. The knowledge is theoretical and academuic, not hands-on. I am not saying that viruses are taboo and shouldn't be touched; on the contrary, I agree that students should have experience with the inner-workings of viruses (which as I understand it are actually pretty simple). But creating them? That's just asking for problems.
Additionally, a few large sites have sprung up - loki torrent is the obvious example I think. Although it may not as large as supernova, it is pretty close.
Yeah - that's the point. Some people will sign up for this deal, and in the process give amazon more business. Hopefully, those people thought it out and will save money from the deal. Seems win-win to me. Instead of driving to walmart to buy a widget for 3 dollars, they can go to amazon and get it for 2 dollars without paying 5 dollars shipping. Anything that screws over walmart is good in my book :)
At the same time, I know this deal would be terrible for a person like me - Most of the things I buy are more than 25 dollars, and I don't mind shopping at the store everynow and then. I could see this being useful for people who live in a more rural setting who can't as easily run to the store for something small.
wow - slashdotters aren't the friendliest people, are they? Umm... In case you couldn't tell, I don't own an apple. Do the math, i'll give you a few minutes.
Ok, in case you couldn't figure it out yet, I am talking about using other people's apples (mostly the ones in my college's computer lab). I don't carry a 2-button mouse around with me to plug into other people's computers.
As a regular wintel user, I find apples to be very annoying - mostly because of the single button mouse. I honestly think that making the switch over would benefit them and their users (I use my right mouse button and scroll wheel A LOT to get around windows). For a company that is normally so good at ergonomics, I am amazed the switch didn't happen 10 years ago.
I disagree with the article. Why would users embrace the pointless futuristic system the article discusses? Not only do people hate paying for something they have already paid for (I already paid 500 dollars for my computer, and now I have to pay to use it!) but they would resist having power unnecessarily being taken away from them on their own computer.
Microsoft loves the internet because it is another thing for them to take over, and I can promise you they will do everything in their power to continue to do so. As long as people buy computers with Windows preinstalled, and the government does not break them up, this will not change.
Also, I predict that spyware and viruses (I believe this was one of the big reasons for his prediction) will be essentially forgotten as microcrap updates the OS to be bloated with security precautions and rips off firefox in its next IE. Atleast this is the step that sp2 for winxp took.
"You thought those green laser pointers sold by ThinkGeek and others were pretty cool, didn't you? Well, think again. It seems obligatory to point out that even laser pointers, and certainly anything more powerful than those, are capable of causing real damage." Hey, anything that can cause real damage is pretty cool in my book. \didn't rtfa
That doens't even make sense, because then the number would have been 100% and common sense would have flown out the window
whoops, I meant retailers should not sell to kids. I don't care if kids play mature games - i played Doom when I was 12 and turned out fine :)
Although I agree that kids should NOT play mature games like grand theft auto, it should not be a criminal law that is enforced by the government. As it is, video game ratings *could* be arbitrary. I think it should be like the way movie theaters stop kids from watching rated R movies - it's not a law, but universally any theater you go to will enforce it.
Almost everyone I know (I am a college student) uses AIM exclusively. If AIM were to suddenly disappear, many people would be lost. At the rate AOL is going, how long can AIM be sustained? It costs them money to pay for the servers and update the software. Are there any good alternatives that have some sort of guarantee of staying power?
Didn't see anybody answer 8. Here's a solution (it's not c++ specific or anything, more of a data structures problem): Create two instances of the linked list, and start going through the list at different rates (for example, iterate twice on the first list for every time you iterate once on the second list, if that makes sense). If either one ends, it clearly has no loop. If they intersect (ie. both point to the same element in the linked list) then there is a loop.
"There are just short of 6 billion people who didn't buy the original Super Mario Brothers. Statistically, that's *everyone*. In particular there are about 500 million people who weren't even alive when the game came out." I think this statement alone shows that you don't understand the marketing of these old games. Believe it or not, a huge percentage of people who are interested in these old games: A. have played them before, and many of these people did buy it before. B. are not kids, because very few kids have any interest in an 8-bit 2 Mhz system and the games it can play. The kids I know look down on anything that isn't 3d. I am not saying that nintendo owes me anything, nor am i saying that I am ingrateful that they made the games. In fact, of the three big video game makers, Nintendo is by far my favorite. I am just critical that it is so hard and so expensive to legally play their old games, which I feel are pretty much financially useless to them at this point. I could play perfect copies of more than 1000 NES games today, right now - illegally. But, if I want to take the legal route, I have to buy 20 dollar cartridges from a meager selection of their old games or attempt to get my 20 year-old NES working again. Yeah right. I just think it would be great if they opened up their library of games to the world (like the ROM community did 5 years ago) and used it as a selling point for their GBA - they could sell GBAs to a wider market, and make some extra money off their own memory cards (instead of some shady company's cards on the internet). It would also be a great PR stunt towards the older consumers who have shunned their products for the PS2 and XBOX.
I'm sure I will get modded down for this, but I honestly don't think "pirating" classic NES games, which are up to 20 years old now, is that wrong. Nintendo made a lot of money off the NES, but at this point the market for the classic Mario and Donkey Kong games is limitied to the nostalgic crowd, most of whom legitmately bought the games when they were kids. Why should we have to shell out 20 bucks for a game that we not only already bought, but that pales in comparison to newer games regarding programming time and complexity? In my opinion, these old games should be freely given to the community who made Nintendo what it is today instead of whored out by the marketing department of Nintendo to squeeze the last few cents out of them.