Of course Google pays them based on the # of expected downloads. So while they have the money in their hands right now, they also think about the future. Moreover, maybe their contract with Google explicitly states that they have to make sure that their expected number of downloads don't drop because of inactivity etc.
Jack Horner: Building a dinosaur from a chicken | Video on TED.com - Renowned paleontologist Jack Horner has spent his career trying to reconstruct a dinosaur. He's found fossils with extraordinarily well-preserved blood vessels and soft tissues, but never intact DNA. So, in a new approach, he's taking living descendants of the dinosaur (chickens) and genetically engineering them to reactivate ancestral traits — including teeth, tails, and even hands — to make a "Chickenosaurus".
"The GA144-1.20 chip, with 144 self-contained computers and software-defined I/O, is available in a 1cm x 1cm, 88-pin QFN package." $20 / each, minimum order 10 (as far as I know): http://www.greenarraychips.com/home/products/index.html
200 USD buys you 1440 cores...
Good luck with that. Mine died a month out of the 1 year warranty (motherboard):-(. Was the second Acer I ever bought and will be the last one (first one had also its share of issues).
In no way disagreeing with you. There are clear and unambiguous ways (and standardized at that) to write a date. And like you wrote, there are various ways people actually write a date that's confusing. And what's to stop them from writing Windows 2012-09-11 as Windows 11/9-12?
Don't worry, I am aware of ISO 8601; use it most of the time. Besides, I am Dutch;-). But I've little doubt that if "we" switch to dates that people use confusing ways to talk about their OS.
Like today's heroic effort would be release/2012-09-11
But out of context and in the USA (and maybe more countries) is that the 11th of September or the 9th of November?
And don't be surprised if people are going to write that as 12-09-11... Is that the 12th of September, 2011 or the 9th of December, 2011...
Maybe if you tried less hard to suspect and guess you might actually learn something. You don't "love a list of all the things I "fixed""; you're too much of a pompous ass for that.
this does take more than a few minutes of research to investigate, so...
Yup, it does, been there, done that. One of the things I love about VirtualBox. I am going to switch to Xubuntu on my current desktop but will switch to OS X. OS updates do indeed mess up things, no matter which OS. But that's really different from having to rework a hammer into a screwdriver like Ubuntu seems to insist upon.
Ubuntu and hence Gnome user since 8.04 here. Reason why I am moving soonish to OS X is that I am tired of each "upgrade" of Ubuntu (and Gnome) breaking things and changing things. Sure, I can switch to a different distro. Sure, I can switch to different desktop environments. But that's exactly what I am tired of. All the switching and fixing. I want to do my work, not having to Google for hacks, extensions, tweaks, etc. My work (freelance Perl programmer) already involves a lot of problem solving, don't need additional problem solving to make the tools that I need actually work. It's like picking up an hammer and having to shape in into a screwdriver before you can use it. If that's what you like, good luck. But don't call us idiots because we have better things to do. Especially since as soon as I have figured out how to change that hammer into a screwdriver efficiently the hammer is replaced with a fiddle in the next upgrade of Ubuntu and/or Gnome.
I can only speak for myself but the kind of music I listen to depends a lot on my mood, etc. I have a 512 MB MP3 player (actually, it's my wife's) and I listen to music during long bus trips we make now and then in Mexico (think 5..18hrs). MP3 is roughly 2 MB/minute, so 512 MB is slightly over 4 hrs of music. But I don't want to listen to each and every song, always (mood). Moreover, we stay for several days in hotel(s), and like I said, music is a mood thing to me, so yeah, I [b]do[/b] see a need for 16..32G in a device like a mobile phone (or ebook reader/tablet, for that matter). And why not? How much does 32G SD memory cost nowadays? Even in Mexico it's affordable.
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http://www.guidebookgallery.org/pics/gui/desktop/full/riscos311.png
Yeah, like there's a Dell logo on that U2711 display panel, righty?
Of course Google pays them based on the # of expected downloads. So while they have the money in their hands right now, they also think about the future. Moreover, maybe their contract with Google explicitly states that they have to make sure that their expected number of downloads don't drop because of inactivity etc.
http://allthingsd.com/20111222/google-will-pay-mozilla-almost-300m-per-year-in-search-deal-besting-microsoft-and-yahoo/
"The GA144-1.20 chip, with 144 self-contained computers and software-defined I/O, is available in a 1cm x 1cm, 88-pin QFN package." $20 / each, minimum order 10 (as far as I know): http://www.greenarraychips.com/home/products/index.html 200 USD buys you 1440 cores...
That's why I use Kindlegen which runs on the CLI and can be downloaded for free: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000765211 I don't like much Calibre; it feels sluggish.
Playground doesn't work :-( Tested in Firefox and Chrome.
They got in by having an employee of Adobe open a PDF or watch Flash...
Guess (again) what "Linux from scratch" means....
Ah, I didn't know that, thanks for the heads up (Dutch, living in Mexico, so I hear this stuff via via).
One keeps wondering if Haren just shouldn't have thrown a party in a nearby meadow for, say, 200K euro and saved 800K euro in damages....
Good luck with that. Mine died a month out of the 1 year warranty (motherboard) :-(. Was the second Acer I ever bought and will be the last one (first one had also its share of issues).
I am afraid that would eject a large number of programmers (aka "programmers"). Wouldn't surprise me if this would eject 80%. But I am all for it.
Riiiiight.... and all Windows users just love to pirate, arrrrh, matey!
Last times I checked the average amount paid by Linux users was higher than Windows for the Humble Bundle
In no way disagreeing with you. There are clear and unambiguous ways (and standardized at that) to write a date. And like you wrote, there are various ways people actually write a date that's confusing. And what's to stop them from writing Windows 2012-09-11 as Windows 11/9-12?
Don't worry, I am aware of ISO 8601; use it most of the time. Besides, I am Dutch ;-). But I've little doubt that if "we" switch to dates that people use confusing ways to talk about their OS.
But out of context and in the USA (and maybe more countries) is that the 11th of September or the 9th of November? And don't be surprised if people are going to write that as 12-09-11... Is that the 12th of September, 2011 or the 9th of December, 2011 ...
Maybe if you tried less hard to suspect and guess you might actually learn something. You don't "love a list of all the things I "fixed""; you're too much of a pompous ass for that.
Yup, it does, been there, done that. One of the things I love about VirtualBox. I am going to switch to Xubuntu on my current desktop but will switch to OS X. OS updates do indeed mess up things, no matter which OS. But that's really different from having to rework a hammer into a screwdriver like Ubuntu seems to insist upon.
Ubuntu and hence Gnome user since 8.04 here. Reason why I am moving soonish to OS X is that I am tired of each "upgrade" of Ubuntu (and Gnome) breaking things and changing things. Sure, I can switch to a different distro. Sure, I can switch to different desktop environments. But that's exactly what I am tired of. All the switching and fixing. I want to do my work, not having to Google for hacks, extensions, tweaks, etc. My work (freelance Perl programmer) already involves a lot of problem solving, don't need additional problem solving to make the tools that I need actually work. It's like picking up an hammer and having to shape in into a screwdriver before you can use it. If that's what you like, good luck. But don't call us idiots because we have better things to do. Especially since as soon as I have figured out how to change that hammer into a screwdriver efficiently the hammer is replaced with a fiddle in the next upgrade of Ubuntu and/or Gnome.
I can only speak for myself but the kind of music I listen to depends a lot on my mood, etc. I have a 512 MB MP3 player (actually, it's my wife's) and I listen to music during long bus trips we make now and then in Mexico (think 5..18hrs). MP3 is roughly 2 MB/minute, so 512 MB is slightly over 4 hrs of music. But I don't want to listen to each and every song, always (mood). Moreover, we stay for several days in hotel(s), and like I said, music is a mood thing to me, so yeah, I [b]do[/b] see a need for 16..32G in a device like a mobile phone (or ebook reader/tablet, for that matter). And why not? How much does 32G SD memory cost nowadays? Even in Mexico it's affordable.
Some people listen to music on their phone, or watch photos on it....
That and the clueless Apple haters who hate Apple because, well, their geek buddy/son does...
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/moral-landscapes/201109/circumcision-ethics-and-economics http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/moral-landscapes/201109/more-circumcision-myths-you-may-believe-hygiene-and-stds etc.