>I think this will be very cool for average joe who don't understand difference between 8400GS and 8800GT graphic >cards.
I just got an Asus "EN8800GTS". I confess not knowing the difference between "GT" and "GTS", or specifically, the difference between the PCI-e 2.0 and the PCI-e x16 bus. Does this make me an idiot?
>applied algebra, computational complexity theory, quantization of linear functions and so on. Those couldn't just >be "picked up".
The thing I noticed when taking courses like that, was that the student does indeed wind up leaving the classroom and teaching himself the subject. The *motivation* to do this comes from fear of the consequences of failure, but in many cases the classroom, and even the book, is quite useless as a vehicle for learning the material.
Looking back, I am shocked at how much of the math curriculum, I learned on my own.
Mine has an "off" switch. I'm even able to turn mine off in the theatre and concert hall. I wish other phones had this feature, but it seems to be rare.
>I'm inclined to agree - companies don't want to advertise to people who don't want to >buy their stuff, it's a waste of effort and makes people hate them.
Sure they do -- even the people who "hate them" have perceptions of market dominance and recognize brand names and trademarks, and these things have value even when sales are not made.
"The reason that it didn't catch on is that the keyboard was something you could pound on in frustration when the trains didn't do what you wanted."
When "the trains don't do what you (the traffic controller) want", don't they tend to do really nasty things like roll onto closed/missing tracks, into other trains, over work crews, etc.? Seems to me "replacement keyboards" would be a small thing compared to the real cost of train operators ignoring control signals...
>Don't apple computers have Prnt Scrn or an equivalent button?
Not a purposed button, but six key combinations that do various types of screen capture, either going directly to a file or to a buffer. It's well thought out, but you do have to learn the keys.
I think you underestimate the capacity of human perception of dynamic range. There is the measure of what the brain can be persuaded to disregard, and there is the limit of perception. These are different things.
You can very easily perceive the difference between dynamic range in high-end professional video versus dynamic range in reality. Just look in the shadows. Or try to photograph flames. Or ice. What you call the threshold of human perception, is actually very far from the real threshold.
Limited dynamic range is a good thing because storage space and broadcast bandwidth are finite, and because the brain will disregard loss of detail, so the compromise is acceptable.
So you're right -- YOU probably don't need the added expense of rendering images in greater bit depth, but that does not mean the technology is useless. As with all such technology, also there is a world of difference between what the leaf node of the consumer requires, and what is desirable on the production side.
>This is clearly different from a typical use of copyright for the purpose of maintaining a monopoly on a >proprietary work.
It's not different in a legally meaningful way. It doesn't assert any rights that aren't reserved under copyright. It *cannot* do any such thing. It does not "take copyright and turn it inside out." It grants a distribution license under specific terms that are valid *because* a copyright is valid.
You may *want* the GPL to be "different". Most of the "never been tested in court" crowd seem to want it to be different from other software licenses. The problem with that approach is, if the GPL is somehow invalid, many other publishing licenses will fall to the same argument.
I did point out that a corpse of a person who had a contagious disease is dangerous. Does not change the fact that the effort required to try to bury the dead is far better applied elsewhere, or the fact that burying the dead in a hurry leads to haphazard burials where the corpses can contaminate the water table. If you find that there was a cholera epidemic in Burma when the storm hit, then you have identified an even more disastrous scenario than is being projected in the media. Do you have any such evidence, or are you just trying to challenge what I said? Because I'm not only speaking from experience (as a trained and sadly experienced relief worker), but also conveying information that comes from colleagues of mine who work in epidemiology, and presuming that you do not have an anti-government reflex, the Center for Disease Control, and the World Health Organization.
Just out of curiosity, do you have any experience as a first responder in a disaster zone? The way you dismiss burying the dead as "simple and easy" makes me doubt it. It's anything but simple and easy, it's a labor-intensive effort that puts more people in contact with the corpses than is necessary.
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>I think this will be very cool for average joe who don't understand difference between 8400GS and 8800GT graphic
>cards.
I just got an Asus "EN8800GTS". I confess not knowing the difference between "GT" and "GTS", or specifically, the difference between the PCI-e 2.0 and the PCI-e x16 bus. Does this make me an idiot?
>a PhD in physics 20 years ago clearly knew how to do calculus by hand.
An undergrad in physics in my school knows how to do calculus by hand,
which is a requirement to be accepted into the degree program.
Long before one is hooded for a PhD here, mere "calculus" is a first language,
a primary tool for expressing research.
>applied algebra, computational complexity theory, quantization of linear functions and so on. Those couldn't just
>be "picked up".
The thing I noticed when taking courses like that, was that the student does indeed wind up leaving the classroom and teaching himself the subject. The *motivation* to do this comes from fear of the consequences of failure, but in many cases the classroom, and even the book, is quite useless as a vehicle for learning the material.
Looking back, I am shocked at how much of the math curriculum, I learned on my own.
Mine has an "off" switch. I'm even able to turn mine off in the theatre and concert hall.
I wish other phones had this feature, but it seems to be rare.
So you don't like the way they treat you but you still give them your business?
I suppose you'll say you have no choice, or something.
>I'm inclined to agree - companies don't want to advertise to people who don't want to
>buy their stuff, it's a waste of effort and makes people hate them.
Sure they do -- even the people who "hate them" have perceptions of market dominance and
recognize brand names and trademarks, and these things have value even when sales are not made.
>Depends on the market. The pay is lower in poorer areas.
You do not cite a poorer area in particular, where Burger King in particular,
pays only minimum wage.
"The reason that it didn't catch on is that the keyboard was something you could pound on in frustration when the trains didn't do what you wanted."
When "the trains don't do what you (the traffic controller) want", don't they tend to do really nasty things like roll onto closed/missing tracks, into other trains, over work crews, etc.? Seems to me "replacement keyboards" would be a small thing compared to the real cost of train operators ignoring control signals...
>But why do they call it Ovaltine?
Because it is made from eggs.
>Short of using black-market smugglers, your data is easier to take with a warrant at 4AM at your door.
Why would they pick a time when I'm sure to be wide awake, working, alert, with the gun safe open?
>And a Whopper looks like the tastiest burger known to man until you get the real life
>slapped-together-by-a-minimum-wage-slave version.
Ummm... Burger King pays fairly well, for food service. I think starting pay there is $9.50/hr.
>The average citizen now believes
What kind of research methods did you use to determine what the average citizen believes?
In my high school we used to skip school, walk downtown, and drink beer... With our English teacher...
No joke, and no lie, any AMHS/BTW alums from the 80s care to back me up here?
> Well, I think you probably could if you offer money - they have to pay bills too.
I was offered a competitive salary to work on a FOSS project.
A colleague of mine took the offer, though I did not.
It's not unheard of.
Noted. If another San Jose company wants me to work for them they need to offer me something more than a basketball court.
They need to start with "a wage that makes a 3000 square foot house so affordable as to be merely a marginal cost."
If that makes me too expensive, then they aren't successful enough to attract me (back) to Silicon Valley.
Win-Win situation, the way I see it.
>does that mean I win?
Only if somebody steals your laptop and you use them to get it back.
>JCL was that bad.
Not "Was". Still very much in use on z/OS, z/VM, and even z/Linux machines, I am terribly unhappy to say.
We have an IBM mainframe on our campus. You can't beat it's IO.
Why do you, I mean your friend, bother to return the laptop at all? It's okay to steal the drive, so why do you feel obliged to return any of it?
>Don't apple computers have Prnt Scrn or an equivalent button?
Not a purposed button, but six key combinations that do various types of screen capture, either
going directly to a file or to a buffer. It's well thought out, but you do have to learn the keys.
I think you underestimate the capacity of human perception of dynamic range.
There is the measure of what the brain can be persuaded to disregard, and there
is the limit of perception. These are different things.
You can very easily perceive the difference between dynamic range in high-end professional video versus dynamic range in reality. Just look in the shadows. Or try to photograph flames. Or ice. What you call the threshold of human perception, is actually very far from the real threshold.
Limited dynamic range is a good thing because storage space and broadcast bandwidth are finite, and because the brain will disregard loss of detail, so the compromise is acceptable.
So you're right -- YOU probably don't need the added expense of rendering images in greater bit depth, but that does not mean the technology is useless. As with all such technology, also there is a world of difference between what the leaf node of the consumer requires, and what is desirable on the production side.
>oh yeah, they have a fsckin' basketball court.
So does the San Jose County Jail.
>in 300ish years there will be enough people that every square yard of dry land on the planet will be occuped by a
>person.
I don't know whether to picture this result as a Conway or a Dewdney.
>This is clearly different from a typical use of copyright for the purpose of maintaining a monopoly on a
>proprietary work.
It's not different in a legally meaningful way. It doesn't assert any rights that aren't reserved under copyright. It *cannot* do any such thing. It does not "take copyright and turn it inside out." It grants
a distribution license under specific terms that are valid *because* a copyright is valid.
You may *want* the GPL to be "different". Most of the "never been tested in court" crowd seem to want it to be different from other software licenses. The problem with that approach is, if the GPL is somehow invalid, many other publishing licenses will fall to the same argument.
>Having an ultra-repressive legal system is just costly and unjust.
Tell it to the judge, or your congressman or something. I'm not interested in how things "should be".
I did point out that a corpse of a person who had a contagious disease is dangerous. Does not change the fact that the effort required to try to bury the dead is far better applied elsewhere, or the fact that burying the dead in a hurry leads to haphazard burials where the corpses can contaminate the water table. If you find that there was a cholera epidemic in Burma when the storm hit, then you have identified an even more disastrous scenario than is being projected in the media. Do you have any such evidence, or are you just trying to challenge what I said? Because I'm not only speaking from experience (as a trained and sadly experienced relief worker), but also conveying information that comes from colleagues of mine who work in epidemiology, and presuming that you do not have an anti-government reflex, the Center for Disease Control, and the World Health Organization.
http://www.cdc.gov/Ncidod/eid/13/1/1.htm
http://www.who.int/bookorders/WHP/detart1.jsp?sesslan=1&codlan=1&codcol=63&codcch=167
Just out of curiosity, do you have any experience as a first responder in a disaster zone?
The way you dismiss burying the dead as "simple and easy" makes me doubt it. It's anything but simple and easy, it's a labor-intensive effort that puts more people in contact with the corpses than is necessary.