the value of those files is what somebody else would pay for it.
That's the market value. A file containing all today's credit card transactions at $some_big_shop might have zero value to anyone else (I doubt $other_shop can get paid for someone else's sales), but will be worth the value of those transactions to the original store, i.e. the money it wouldn't get if it loses the file.
Maybe this is the business model Linux was waiting for? Look at this way, the OS isn't a goal in itself - it's just a tool that lets you run applications. And the suits just love one-stop-shops.
I like this idea. It seems so obvious - afterwards.
You're absolutely correct; it's a kind of "lowest common denominator" - a bit like CSV is for spreadsheets. It might not rock, but pretty much anything can read or write it. In the past I've set up dual boot machines with a small FAT partition so I could move data back and forth between Linux & Windows, though with improved USB support in Linux and the falling cost of plug-in storage it's more or less moot these days. Grandparent is an assclown.
The problem is, they're incapable of defining what 'work' means. Usually, it equates to ESP or DWIM or both.
[YACA] Think about a car, it actually has very few features. Press that pedal, the engine speeds up. Move that lever and the ratio between engine speed and road speed changes. I'd reckon less than twenty variables describe it - not counting accessories like the radio and aircon. What's more it's familar - most people can drive, or they've seen someone do it. So for a car, we know what it means when we say it works. [/YACA]
Any non-trivial software is much more complicated in functionality terms. Especially to a programmer who's trying to build something he's never 'driven'.
I can only speak for the UK, but the number of young people attending higher education is on the up and up. I believe the target is to have 50% of 18 year olds starting. While that's all very nice, what that means is even in a perfectly meritocratic case, a lot of the students attending are of little better than average ability.
In consequence many aren't capable of a rigorous academic study; so the only option is to make the courses easier - or make easier courses. I know it's a joke about doing a BAs in playing golf and basketweaving, but there's some truth behind it.
A lot of the people in university these days would have been better off doing a vocational course like an OND/HND (I think that's approximately trade school/associate degree level in the US). There's no shame in being a plumber, or rather theres shouldn't be - and frankly we need more of them than we do diversity compliance poetry analysts.
If the business did their homework properly and was willing to change their practices to conform to the software they would save a fortune
Indeed. Faced with the classic "make or buy" decision, they end up doing both. Many people blame SAP but I don't think that's justified. If anyone's guilty it's partly the consultants (independent ones do it, but the big companies are ten times worse) for always saying yes.
Then again, if the end customer will boot anybody out who says no, they deserve what they get.
To get the headlines a hundred years ago, just replace "British Computer Society" with "Ye Fraternal Guild of Buggywhip Frossickers" and "off-the-shelf solutions" with "horseless carriages".
Do they? I'd say it was a fairly even split - though you missed my actual point entirely anyway.
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pi is not the expansion of 22/7, its "approximately" 22/7.
In your rush to show us how smart you are at maths it seems you skipped English comprehension. He never said 22/ was an 'expansion of pi'. He said that the decimal expansion of 22/7 appeared on the blackboard in the photo. And I think he's right - I had the same book - green cover with a Chelsea Pensioner with loads of medals.
If the written form was following the spoken form, then all the English speaking countries - at least one of which was speaking English before the US was - would write it half-ass-backwards.
when you fire the machine up it plays a WAV file of a Ferrari race car revving its engine. That alone is worth the relatively low $1,899 price of admission. Even when I'm in a meeting, I don't turn the sound off
Wouldn't it be a shame if there was someone in that meeting who's very highly strung - you know, the kind that jumps at any sudden noise? And it would be a real pity if that person happened to be standing near it holding a large cup of $beverage when it went "VROOOM".
The current theory is that humans lost their hair in order to be more resistant to parasites. You can still see this today in the large number of men(like 90%) shaving.
If the first sentence is true, surely men would have become naturally beardless and the second would be false?
A date of birth wouldn't be 9 digits by any scheme I can think of
Maybe they use the date of birth as a a natural key (or part of one) and the extra digit is in case more than one person is born on the same day. Implausible, right? It would be a "solution" to this.
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Maybe this is the business model Linux was waiting for? Look at this way, the OS isn't a goal in itself - it's just a tool that lets you run applications. And the suits just love one-stop-shops.
I like this idea. It seems so obvious - afterwards.
"Teton" is french for booby.
You're absolutely correct; it's a kind of "lowest common denominator" - a bit like CSV is for spreadsheets. It might not rock, but pretty much anything can read or write it. In the past I've set up dual boot machines with a small FAT partition so I could move data back and forth between Linux & Windows, though with improved USB support in Linux and the falling cost of plug-in storage it's more or less moot these days. Grandparent is an assclown.
[YACA] Think about a car, it actually has very few features. Press that pedal, the engine speeds up. Move that lever and the ratio between engine speed and road speed changes. I'd reckon less than twenty variables describe it - not counting accessories like the radio and aircon. What's more it's familar - most people can drive, or they've seen someone do it. So for a car, we know what it means when we say it works. [/YACA]
Any non-trivial software is much more complicated in functionality terms. Especially to a programmer who's trying to build something he's never 'driven'.
I can only speak for the UK, but the number of young people attending higher education is on the up and up. I believe the target is to have 50% of 18 year olds starting. While that's all very nice, what that means is even in a perfectly meritocratic case, a lot of the students attending are of little better than average ability.
In consequence many aren't capable of a rigorous academic study; so the only option is to make the courses easier - or make easier courses. I know it's a joke about doing a BAs in playing golf and basketweaving, but there's some truth behind it.
A lot of the people in university these days would have been better off doing a vocational course like an OND/HND (I think that's approximately trade school/associate degree level in the US). There's no shame in being a plumber, or rather theres shouldn't be - and frankly we need more of them than we do diversity compliance poetry analysts.
Then again, if the end customer will boot anybody out who says no, they deserve what they get.
To get the headlines a hundred years ago, just replace "British Computer Society" with "Ye Fraternal Guild of Buggywhip Frossickers" and "off-the-shelf solutions" with "horseless carriages".
Do they? I'd say it was a fairly even split - though you missed my actual point entirely anyway.
He never said 22/ was an 'expansion of pi'. He said that the decimal expansion of 22/7 appeared on the blackboard in the photo. And I think he's right - I had the same book - green cover with a Chelsea Pensioner with loads of medals.
If the written form was following the spoken form, then all the English speaking countries - at least one of which was speaking English before the US was - would write it half-ass-backwards.
So why didn't they continue in the same way, going to YY/MM/DD or YYYY/MM/DD?
Sounds like what's euphemistically referred to as "gardening leave".
As pointed out above, that's zealotry, not advocacy.
Rules for naming projects:
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1) Choose a word you like. Or better, that the boss/sponsor likes.
2) Reverse engineer an acronym to fit. Sort of.
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4) Profit!!!!!
Don't tell me it ain't so.
Do I need to upgrade to IPv6 to use web 2.0?
It could be worse. Much worse. Imagine a sales guy becoming a developer!
I'd have said host/parasite is a special case of the prey/predator one. Main difference being it only eats you slowly.
Text? Luxury!
We had to convert it to hex in our heads and enter it on paper tape.