Canon has been doing this for a while, though it doesn't seem to be very compelling in SLR lenses. They are smaller, but Canon is charging quite a lot for that convenience and the optics don't seem to be quite up to the standards of their more-popular cousins.
I was lucky to get through college and high school before people really started being aware of the TI-89. Everyone and their mother had the 83, so profs just assumed that's what you had too. Even though you had to show all your work, having a calculator that could tell you if you were right before you turned in the test was probably a bit unethical. It amazed me sometimes. It found limits in about 2 seconds that took me all day and crazy tricks to figure out. Of course, I suck at limits.:D
Or you could just use a Gmail account. They seem to be keeping up with spam very well. When image spam first got hot, I thought we were all screwed and I just sent all mail with an attachment to separate label and not my inbox. After a week though, it started being sent to Spam and not I get maybe one or two a month in my inbox, tops.
I haven't noticed this personally (I'm male), but I can understand how it could happen to freshman. In my experience though, once a female gets into the upper classes at least, she is treated like gold. I went to UO, and they are really desperate for women in that CS department. I remember that one of my male profs noticeably had one of his top priorities female recruiting into the department. Male pronouns in papers got you points off, and using "they" would loose yourself grammar points. It was "he or she", "she", or nothing. For what it's worth though, the three or so women in my graduating CS class were all a hell of a lot better at the field than I. Which could mean that women rock at CS, or that it takes a hell of a lot to make it as a woman in this field.
Okay, sure, it's a distinction worth making, but you haven't answered my point. I agree that communism can't work because there is no incentive, but in pure capitalism, does the millions made by those at the top really give incentive to those at the bottom? Especially when you consider that there will be very few of those at the top, none in the middle, and likely no way to shift class no matter what your incentive. I think I would have more incentive to go to school if I saw college-educated professionals all around me living comfortably (buying big TVs, not big TV stations) rather then a few people making billions on the news.
The crux of your argument, which has been stated many times before, is that without incentive capitalism breaks down. That's true, but is being wealthy beyond your wildest dreams an incentive? If so, should it be? There are many studies showing that people who are extremely wealthy are no more happy then those with enough money to be comfortable. There's marginal utility in wealth and the fact is that an extra million to a top executive will do much less good there then just about anywhere else.
I didn't get a college degree to be a millionaire, and knowing that an exec just got another huge golden parachute gives me ZERO incentive to work any harder. I would bet that most people feel the same way.
They won't be making a CDMA version of this in the next decade, I assure you. CDMA chips are just too power hungry and too complicated to make really cool gadgets out of right now.
You should have returned them. I always check to make sure that a CD is really a CD when I buy from Amazon, but if I ever ended up with one I couldn't rip, it would go right back as defective, because it would be.
"GM officials stressed that development of the battery pack is critical to the concept vehicle reaching showrooms, and the technology likely won't be available until 2010 or 2012."
Call me when I can BUY one. Saying something will be ready in half a decade is just a slap in the face.
C# is the best of a set of pretty bad languages. Is it an object? Is it a primitive? Maybe it's a nullable primitive, which isn't an object and makes you call stupid methods like hasValue. And how about that mess of a collection hierarchy? It was a joke before and after they added generics. Sure I'd rather use C# then Java or PHP, but come on, it's a transition at best.
The word just got stolen before we actually had hybrid cars on the road. We still don't until you can charge a car's batteries from the electric grid somehow. If a Prius is a gas-electric hybrid then so is my Civic. After all, last I checked my radio ran off electricity.
And don't forget that it's always going to be sent to the entire staff, that way all that glorious base64 text bloat gets copied a couple hundred times.
It's much more difficult to make a case for biofuels then for wind. Apart from there not even being enough land in this country to generate any substantial portion of our energy, there's debate as to weather you can even get more energy out of the stuff then it takes to refine it. Middle men are very expensive here: we need to focus on producing electricity, not some other random substance that will later to turned into electricity.
You're right. If it doesn't completely solve the problem, it's not worth doing. I was going to buy a pellet stove so that I would save thousands of dollars a year on my electric bill, but then I realized that I couldn't even plug my microwave into it! What a sham!
Gee, how did I know that this wasn't going to be in the US? Deep down I knew this was going to be another story from Europe, but for some reason I still had a little glimmer of hope when I clicked the link.
What you're saying is correct, but it's often a good idea to do both at the same time. You could say the same thing about firewalls. I'm nearly 100% sure that I've got my Linux box locked up tight, but I still appreciate knowing that it's behind a router with only 2 ports open.
Of course, my router doesn't slow down my machine, introduce its own bugs, annoy me for updates, waste space and resources, etc...
"I still don't understand the concept behind making images illegal."
If they are not illegal, there will be a lot more demand and a lot more children harmed. It's pretty simple. That's why fake images are NOT illegal (at least here), because there, it really is victimless (unless you're just wetting some perv's appetite, I suppose).
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Canon has been doing this for a while, though it doesn't seem to be very compelling in SLR lenses. They are smaller, but Canon is charging quite a lot for that convenience and the optics don't seem to be quite up to the standards of their more-popular cousins.
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I was lucky to get through college and high school before people really started being aware of the TI-89. Everyone and their mother had the 83, so profs just assumed that's what you had too. Even though you had to show all your work, having a calculator that could tell you if you were right before you turned in the test was probably a bit unethical. It amazed me sometimes. It found limits in about 2 seconds that took me all day and crazy tricks to figure out. Of course, I suck at limits. :D
Damn, I'm still using 0.9.1!
Or you could just use a Gmail account. They seem to be keeping up with spam very well. When image spam first got hot, I thought we were all screwed and I just sent all mail with an attachment to separate label and not my inbox. After a week though, it started being sent to Spam and not I get maybe one or two a month in my inbox, tops.
I haven't noticed this personally (I'm male), but I can understand how it could happen to freshman. In my experience though, once a female gets into the upper classes at least, she is treated like gold. I went to UO, and they are really desperate for women in that CS department. I remember that one of my male profs noticeably had one of his top priorities female recruiting into the department. Male pronouns in papers got you points off, and using "they" would loose yourself grammar points. It was "he or she", "she", or nothing. For what it's worth though, the three or so women in my graduating CS class were all a hell of a lot better at the field than I. Which could mean that women rock at CS, or that it takes a hell of a lot to make it as a woman in this field.
Can you buy an electric car from those guys? I want an electric car, but something tells me I won't be able to do the conversion myself from a kit. :D
I think Honda has a hydrogen generator for your garage. They built it to give to the families that got prototype fuel cell cars.
Okay, sure, it's a distinction worth making, but you haven't answered my point. I agree that communism can't work because there is no incentive, but in pure capitalism, does the millions made by those at the top really give incentive to those at the bottom? Especially when you consider that there will be very few of those at the top, none in the middle, and likely no way to shift class no matter what your incentive. I think I would have more incentive to go to school if I saw college-educated professionals all around me living comfortably (buying big TVs, not big TV stations) rather then a few people making billions on the news.
The crux of your argument, which has been stated many times before, is that without incentive capitalism breaks down. That's true, but is being wealthy beyond your wildest dreams an incentive? If so, should it be? There are many studies showing that people who are extremely wealthy are no more happy then those with enough money to be comfortable. There's marginal utility in wealth and the fact is that an extra million to a top executive will do much less good there then just about anywhere else.
I didn't get a college degree to be a millionaire, and knowing that an exec just got another huge golden parachute gives me ZERO incentive to work any harder. I would bet that most people feel the same way.
Really? I can download the only song in the top 40? But shouldn't there be 40 of them?
They won't be making a CDMA version of this in the next decade, I assure you. CDMA chips are just too power hungry and too complicated to make really cool gadgets out of right now.
I doubt it. What kind of exclusive contract would that be? These things are rolling off the line locked to Cingular.
You should have returned them. I always check to make sure that a CD is really a CD when I buy from Amazon, but if I ever ended up with one I couldn't rip, it would go right back as defective, because it would be.
"GM officials stressed that development of the battery pack is critical to the concept vehicle reaching showrooms, and the technology likely won't be available until 2010 or 2012."
Call me when I can BUY one. Saying something will be ready in half a decade is just a slap in the face.
C# is the best of a set of pretty bad languages. Is it an object? Is it a primitive? Maybe it's a nullable primitive, which isn't an object and makes you call stupid methods like hasValue. And how about that mess of a collection hierarchy? It was a joke before and after they added generics. Sure I'd rather use C# then Java or PHP, but come on, it's a transition at best.
250 miles on a charge and 0-60 in 4 seconds is pretty good for sucky batteries! I can't wait until they come up with good ones!
The word just got stolen before we actually had hybrid cars on the road. We still don't until you can charge a car's batteries from the electric grid somehow. If a Prius is a gas-electric hybrid then so is my Civic. After all, last I checked my radio ran off electricity.
Or just put your swap on an encrypted drive.
And don't forget that it's always going to be sent to the entire staff, that way all that glorious base64 text bloat gets copied a couple hundred times.
It's much more difficult to make a case for biofuels then for wind. Apart from there not even being enough land in this country to generate any substantial portion of our energy, there's debate as to weather you can even get more energy out of the stuff then it takes to refine it. Middle men are very expensive here: we need to focus on producing electricity, not some other random substance that will later to turned into electricity.
You're right. If it doesn't completely solve the problem, it's not worth doing. I was going to buy a pellet stove so that I would save thousands of dollars a year on my electric bill, but then I realized that I couldn't even plug my microwave into it! What a sham!
Gee, how did I know that this wasn't going to be in the US? Deep down I knew this was going to be another story from Europe, but for some reason I still had a little glimmer of hope when I clicked the link.
What you're saying is correct, but it's often a good idea to do both at the same time. You could say the same thing about firewalls. I'm nearly 100% sure that I've got my Linux box locked up tight, but I still appreciate knowing that it's behind a router with only 2 ports open.
Of course, my router doesn't slow down my machine, introduce its own bugs, annoy me for updates, waste space and resources, etc...
"Well, if you change wife to Mom." Good thing too, because the other way around is illegal.
"I still don't understand the concept behind making images illegal." If they are not illegal, there will be a lot more demand and a lot more children harmed. It's pretty simple. That's why fake images are NOT illegal (at least here), because there, it really is victimless (unless you're just wetting some perv's appetite, I suppose).