I don't know where I stand on this...i know an awful lot of people who have been diagnosed as clinically depressed, including a parent. Maybe I just "can't" grasp the concept without it happening to me...but these people I know had ups and downs before they were diagnosed (and then put on meds). And now that they are on meds they still continue to have ups and downs. The only thing I would say these people have in common is they all were raised in privledged families, and lived somewhat reckless, directionless lives (although everything was always taken care of for them). The only connection I can make as a non medical professional is that when everything in life is taken care of for you, you will create your own problems. Or maybe clinical depression does exist in people who have less means, and they just have bigger things to worry about...but it seems hard to picture a starving person in Somalia or something "too tired and depressed" to get out of bed today, when there is farming to be done.
I like how everyone who asks questions here is always like: "Can i get an open source solution to X?" When what they really mean is "Can I get a free solution to X?". They are almost never looking to contribute to or modify the project....which is fine, but lets say i knew of a free alternative to blackboard that wasn't open sourced...you're probably still interested right? Just be up front and say you want free.
I agree in the sense that technology changes so quickly these days, its just as likely Microsoft will be considerably less powerful 5 years from now. 5 years ago would anyone predict Apple would be doing as well as it has? That Google would be as popular as it is? Currenly Google is expanding very quickly, I would argue too quickly, and still 98% of their profits are from one source...so yes if that one source changes or goes away, Google will too. Also although Gates predicting the iPods doom sounds like FUD, that is entirely possible too. If one perdicted the Walkman's doom in the 80's they would seem crazy too right? Tech changes fast. And its hard to say for sure if Google or the iPod are fads or here to stay.
The browser and OS battle seems to be to geeks what the Ford vs Chevy battle is to rednecks.... anyone want to buy a "Calvin pissing on the IE logo" window sticker?
It may not be obvious just yet, but that paycheck you get is now worth perhaps half what it used to be a few years ago due to poor economic policy in the US.
A) Its BECAUSE of a specific strategy that the gov has purposely let the dollar fall. Presumably to put pressure on China, Malaysia, Korea and the tons of other countries that have artificially pegged currencies. B) In the case of Japan, they have been playing with their currency to make make their exports favorable for the last 25 years. Whenever the dollar falls, the central bank buys up dollars like there is no tommorow, and the price difference stays about the same. Maybe if the PS3 was made in Europe I'd agree with you, but Japan's currency has been artificially undervalued for years.
It wasn't exactly soon after....if i remember I think it started at $300, then a year later went to $250, then $200, now $150. I bet Sony also admired their pricing for the PSP and will call the original PS3 a "value pack" with a bunch of worthless crap, and then a year later come out with the "regular" for a hundred less.
I think they have to be even more competitive if they release in spring...Xbox will sell if for no reason then "its the only new system out for christmas". Though that certainly hasn't meant that PSP's arn't selling as well as DS's this year...
I think Sony CAN charge more because of the HD DVD. I won't spend $400 for a pure gaming system when the graphics of my current Xbox are still fine....but I was planning on getting an HD DVD anyways, so $400 for a HD DVD plus a kickass gaming system isn't such a bad deal (Thats how I justified my $300 PS2 also btw)
Take away all the dealers in the world, and people will make their own drugs.
A) This is completely non applicable in this situation... take away all the file sharers, and people will share files with themselves?? b) That would be considered a win in the war on drugs. People can always make their own drugs, thats fine...but the illegal drug trade involves killing, extortion, kidnapping, and a million other crimes. Not to mention that people probably would not manufacture their own chemically addictive drugs...
True, but who does more damage, the drug user or the drug dealer? In this case of the chicken and the egg, its clear that without the egg (the distributors) there would be no chicken (the downloaders)
What? This is a crazy analogy. You are allowed to sell the CD you bought at a store to someone else. The real analogy of what you are saying is "If i bought a mustang, made an exact copy of it, and started giving those copies to others (with the ford logo and everything on it), can Ford sue me?"
Its not just microsoft solutions that suggest rediculous amounts of hardware. We've bought several solutions from different vendors and they always have every single component split out to a different server, even though the application may only be used by a hundred people a day, they all need a seperate db, seperate web, seperate batch, etc etc etc server. There was one solution that needed 7 servers! All these solutions ran various OS's, one was Sun, one RedHat, 2 Microsoft. Maybe this is good practice, but i've never seen any of the servers at over a 5% workload.
At first I thought this was a big issue, and then I asked myself...how often did i play my tons of old play station games on the ps2? The answer is, never, or at most maybe once. Its hard to use the eye burning graphics of the previous generation after playing the new stuff. Especially since games these days are so graphic-centric. And if i really want to play the old ones, i still have the old console.
Yeah i had my doubts about Forza, but after buying GT4 and Forza I will never play GT4 again. It seems like almost no effort whatsoever was put into it, besides adding more cars and tracks. It plays exactly like GT1, which is extremely boring and tedious. I'm not sure why PS2 is so popular, as it seems like most of the games that come out for it are crap, or out on another system with better graphics. The only PS2 games i've bought since i got my xbox and gabecube were Katamary darmacy and GT4.
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I really like Clusty.com because you can sort things by category, the way the old yahoo directory worked. So if you do a search for say "Paris" it will split the results into groups like "Paris Hilton", "Paris, France", "Paris Casino" etc... Unlike google where you have to either type in a specific phrase that would make the results clear, or wade through tons of useless results.
Agreed they offer some cool stuff for free, but i think they are doing the exact same thing yahoo did which was stop caring about search and spending IPO money on all kinds of other crazy fun things. So yeah, yahoo is a great one stop place to get stock quotes, sports scores etc, but the search went downhill. Same thing with Google...i think they are already behind on the search curve because of new types of searches like Clusty that are much more useful then their current search engine.
He has sold off all of his Class C shares, which is what the public trades in. He still holds all of his class A shares which have the real voting power and the majority of his value. Those shares he sold were specifically allocated to him so he could "cash in" without losing equity in the company.
He may have those themes, the but thing that turns me off the most about Paul Graham is how he continually doles out advice about subjects that have nothing to do with his area of expertise, and don't relate in any way to how he made his fortune. He will tell you what degree you should major in, how you should do this, what breakfast to eat etc... but none of that advice is how he personally got rich for the most part. It doesn't matter what he majored at in college or how much a hacker is like a painter, he happened to be at the right place at the right time with the right idea and thats all there is to it. He didn't build some great business empire with his great hiring skills, perfect interview tips, or any of the other random advice he gives. He had a good idea, and sold it to a company looking for something like that at a great time, much like Mark Cuban. He is not some oracle in all the ways of business and programming. Plus, what has he done since he sold out? Judging by the length and frequency of his essays, nothing but write this dribble. And thats all good, and i know i "don't have to read it" (thanks, i dont anymore), but the fact that slashdot picks up every other (or every single) essay he does annoys the hell out of me.
What? But he gives so much interesting information and facts about areas that he has no expertise, experience or relation to. How can you not be interested in pearls of wisdom from the holy creator of the Yahoo store, one of the crowning achievements of programming in the past century???? Clearly you are not a "hacker", like the great almighty Paul Graham.
In a filing with regulators April 27, Red Hat said MSD Capital's $99.5 million worth of debentures would be converted into 3.89 million shares of the Raleigh-based company
The only way this would happen would be if you specifically lowered your security settings. All of the above operating systems DID prompt you to install the ActiveX control, for example, when Windows Update came with Win98 it always gives you a yes or no prompt about installing it. Maybe what your thinking of is that there were a few exploits that allowed web pages to install an Active X without prompting, but a normal out of the box Windows install on a normal ActiveX page would give you a prompt.
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I don't know where I stand on this...i know an awful lot of people who have been diagnosed as clinically depressed, including a parent. Maybe I just "can't" grasp the concept without it happening to me...but these people I know had ups and downs before they were diagnosed (and then put on meds). And now that they are on meds they still continue to have ups and downs. The only thing I would say these people have in common is they all were raised in privledged families, and lived somewhat reckless, directionless lives (although everything was always taken care of for them). The only connection I can make as a non medical professional is that when everything in life is taken care of for you, you will create your own problems. Or maybe clinical depression does exist in people who have less means, and they just have bigger things to worry about...but it seems hard to picture a starving person in Somalia or something "too tired and depressed" to get out of bed today, when there is farming to be done.
I like how everyone who asks questions here is always like: "Can i get an open source solution to X?" When what they really mean is "Can I get a free solution to X?". They are almost never looking to contribute to or modify the project....which is fine, but lets say i knew of a free alternative to blackboard that wasn't open sourced...you're probably still interested right? Just be up front and say you want free.
I agree in the sense that technology changes so quickly these days, its just as likely Microsoft will be considerably less powerful 5 years from now. 5 years ago would anyone predict Apple would be doing as well as it has? That Google would be as popular as it is? Currenly Google is expanding very quickly, I would argue too quickly, and still 98% of their profits are from one source...so yes if that one source changes or goes away, Google will too. Also although Gates predicting the iPods doom sounds like FUD, that is entirely possible too. If one perdicted the Walkman's doom in the 80's they would seem crazy too right? Tech changes fast. And its hard to say for sure if Google or the iPod are fads or here to stay.
The browser and OS battle seems to be to geeks what the Ford vs Chevy battle is to rednecks.... anyone want to buy a "Calvin pissing on the IE logo" window sticker?
Wow where has lemmings been? I havn't seen that since I got my first Power Mac.
Obviously offtopic flamebait, but I'll bite...
It may not be obvious just yet, but that paycheck you get is now worth perhaps half what it used to be a few years ago due to poor economic policy in the US.
A) Its BECAUSE of a specific strategy that the gov has purposely let the dollar fall. Presumably to put pressure on China, Malaysia, Korea and the tons of other countries that have artificially pegged currencies. B) In the case of Japan, they have been playing with their currency to make make their exports favorable for the last 25 years. Whenever the dollar falls, the central bank buys up dollars like there is no tommorow, and the price difference stays about the same. Maybe if the PS3 was made in Europe I'd agree with you, but Japan's currency has been artificially undervalued for years.
It wasn't exactly soon after....if i remember I think it started at $300, then a year later went to $250, then $200, now $150. I bet Sony also admired their pricing for the PSP and will call the original PS3 a "value pack" with a bunch of worthless crap, and then a year later come out with the "regular" for a hundred less.
I think they have to be even more competitive if they release in spring...Xbox will sell if for no reason then "its the only new system out for christmas". Though that certainly hasn't meant that PSP's arn't selling as well as DS's this year...
I think Sony CAN charge more because of the HD DVD. I won't spend $400 for a pure gaming system when the graphics of my current Xbox are still fine....but I was planning on getting an HD DVD anyways, so $400 for a HD DVD plus a kickass gaming system isn't such a bad deal (Thats how I justified my $300 PS2 also btw)
Take away all the dealers in the world, and people will make their own drugs.
A) This is completely non applicable in this situation... take away all the file sharers, and people will share files with themselves?? b) That would be considered a win in the war on drugs. People can always make their own drugs, thats fine...but the illegal drug trade involves killing, extortion, kidnapping, and a million other crimes. Not to mention that people probably would not manufacture their own chemically addictive drugs...
True, but who does more damage, the drug user or the drug dealer? In this case of the chicken and the egg, its clear that without the egg (the distributors) there would be no chicken (the downloaders)
What? This is a crazy analogy. You are allowed to sell the CD you bought at a store to someone else. The real analogy of what you are saying is "If i bought a mustang, made an exact copy of it, and started giving those copies to others (with the ford logo and everything on it), can Ford sue me?"
Its not just microsoft solutions that suggest rediculous amounts of hardware. We've bought several solutions from different vendors and they always have every single component split out to a different server, even though the application may only be used by a hundred people a day, they all need a seperate db, seperate web, seperate batch, etc etc etc server. There was one solution that needed 7 servers! All these solutions ran various OS's, one was Sun, one RedHat, 2 Microsoft. Maybe this is good practice, but i've never seen any of the servers at over a 5% workload.
At first I thought this was a big issue, and then I asked myself...how often did i play my tons of old play station games on the ps2? The answer is, never, or at most maybe once. Its hard to use the eye burning graphics of the previous generation after playing the new stuff. Especially since games these days are so graphic-centric. And if i really want to play the old ones, i still have the old console.
Yeah i had my doubts about Forza, but after buying GT4 and Forza I will never play GT4 again. It seems like almost no effort whatsoever was put into it, besides adding more cars and tracks. It plays exactly like GT1, which is extremely boring and tedious. I'm not sure why PS2 is so popular, as it seems like most of the games that come out for it are crap, or out on another system with better graphics. The only PS2 games i've bought since i got my xbox and gabecube were Katamary darmacy and GT4.
I really like Clusty.com because you can sort things by category, the way the old yahoo directory worked. So if you do a search for say "Paris" it will split the results into groups like "Paris Hilton", "Paris, France", "Paris Casino" etc... Unlike google where you have to either type in a specific phrase that would make the results clear, or wade through tons of useless results.
Agreed they offer some cool stuff for free, but i think they are doing the exact same thing yahoo did which was stop caring about search and spending IPO money on all kinds of other crazy fun things. So yeah, yahoo is a great one stop place to get stock quotes, sports scores etc, but the search went downhill. Same thing with Google...i think they are already behind on the search curve because of new types of searches like Clusty that are much more useful then their current search engine.
He has sold off all of his Class C shares, which is what the public trades in. He still holds all of his class A shares which have the real voting power and the majority of his value. Those shares he sold were specifically allocated to him so he could "cash in" without losing equity in the company.
He may have those themes, the but thing that turns me off the most about Paul Graham is how he continually doles out advice about subjects that have nothing to do with his area of expertise, and don't relate in any way to how he made his fortune. He will tell you what degree you should major in, how you should do this, what breakfast to eat etc... but none of that advice is how he personally got rich for the most part. It doesn't matter what he majored at in college or how much a hacker is like a painter, he happened to be at the right place at the right time with the right idea and thats all there is to it. He didn't build some great business empire with his great hiring skills, perfect interview tips, or any of the other random advice he gives. He had a good idea, and sold it to a company looking for something like that at a great time, much like Mark Cuban. He is not some oracle in all the ways of business and programming. Plus, what has he done since he sold out? Judging by the length and frequency of his essays, nothing but write this dribble. And thats all good, and i know i "don't have to read it" (thanks, i dont anymore), but the fact that slashdot picks up every other (or every single) essay he does annoys the hell out of me.
What? But he gives so much interesting information and facts about areas that he has no expertise, experience or relation to. How can you not be interested in pearls of wisdom from the holy creator of the Yahoo store, one of the crowning achievements of programming in the past century???? Clearly you are not a "hacker", like the great almighty Paul Graham.
Just out of curiosity when was this, the early 80s? I don't remember this ever happening.
It probably seemed all the heavier considering you had to lug it through 15 feet of snow to school in your barefeet, and it was uphill both ways!
I'm all for states rights, but if thats all your worried about, how is this federal id any different then a passport?
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In a filing with regulators April 27, Red Hat said MSD Capital's $99.5 million worth of debentures would be converted into 3.89 million shares of the Raleigh-based company
Maybe he is hoping the stock goes back up to $29 where it was a year ago.... (its at 11 now)
The only way this would happen would be if you specifically lowered your security settings. All of the above operating systems DID prompt you to install the ActiveX control, for example, when Windows Update came with Win98 it always gives you a yes or no prompt about installing it. Maybe what your thinking of is that there were a few exploits that allowed web pages to install an Active X without prompting, but a normal out of the box Windows install on a normal ActiveX page would give you a prompt.