A large part of the problem here is that this isn't a simple 1->2->3 progression. There are days when I can use firefox all day and have it be snappy and only use about 100MB active with about 500MB in virtual memory.
There are other days, however, when Firefox uses 700MB of active memory and nearly 2.5GB of virtual space. Now, this is the result of 2-5 days worth of browsing. How in your right mind do you expect me to keep track of every click that I made over 5 days so that you can file a bug report? Do you have a keytrapper and site visitation storage engine that keeps up every image, flash video and html of the site? After all, it could be any of that. I don't mind trying to help out, and I'm sure a large portion of the FF community doesn't either, but we've gone beyond what the end users can do to help you with this issue, percieved or real, and it's now in your hands to be the developer and QA this to find out what is going on.
I was part of two friends that had to leave during the movie and calm down. I got lucky and left before anything really bad happened, the other friend had to pay quick visit to the bathroom.:(
From what I got to see of the movie (the beginning, about half of the middle and the last third) I thought of it as War of the Worlds' story done to the Blair Witch Project's camera work (or lack thereof). All in all, not to bad, but the night wasn't that enjoyable.
If you have to sit in the first couple of rows, go get your money back and watch a later show. It's not worth it!
Hmm...I went looking on Dell and Apple's sites and have some extra info...
First off, I'm not sure where the 395 is coming from, because what I see on Apples site is $329 for a 500GB drive, which is $100 less than Dell. The 4 GB RAM options on my list (4x1GB) is $620 from Dell and $699 from Apple. All in all, not really any different and a lot cheaper than what you are telling people. And I've seen the same for MacBook Pro's and iMacs as well.
Finally, at least for the Mac Pro, the drives, graphics and memory is all user servicable...so buy the base line model and add those cheaper drives and memory if you want. They won't stop you and you won't void your warrantee.
I actually wouldn't be too suprised to find out that Ticketmaster owned a number of these scalping operations and allowed them loopholes to get in.
After all, that would mean the Ticketmaster face gets to say, "I'm sorry that all of your tickets are going for $400 apiece when we bought them at $40. It's those dirty scalpers getting in the way of your fans!" While the scalper face gets to say "We make a 1,000% markup on ticket sales and no one can stop the process."
I mean, if I was a shady CxO, that would be my first action...who says you can't learn anything from the mob?
You know, from reading how these software unlocks are accomplished, the amazing thing is that people are pissed right now that Apple patched a security vulnerability in their firmware.
Seriously...I'm sorry that someone figured out how to be naughty, exploit a hole and pull one over on Apple and AT&T, but folks, you pays your nuyen and takes your chances. This is like getting a new computer, overclocking it all to hell and getting upset when a BIOS update changes the fan speeds and you fry the CPU.
If you didn't want to take the chance, you shouldn't have bought it. Flat out. No ifs, ands, or buts. No one told anyone, in any official fashion, that you could use an iPhone outside of the US on AT&T's network, and in fact, you were specifically told that you could have a fancy iPod with no phone, or a fancy iPod and cell phone on AT&T _only_.
Jeezus, kids are all about the 'me! me! me!' these days.
They let you burn songs to CD any number of times. They charge less per song than Apple. They keep a download history, so if you lose the track somehow, you can just go get it again.
I personally know about six people who used GNOME, and swore that they'd never touch it again after seeing that monstrosity. One went back to Windows, to the best of my knowledge. The rest switched to KDE, and have been quite pleased, as far as I know.
Oddly enough, my boyfriend is switching away from Windows to GNOME because he likes it that much.
It could be that they are trying to write a 'joe six pack' environment, whereas the current Linux userbase is anything but that.
Of course, I think the impact of this will be severly lessened due to our pre-existing habits...
After all, when was the last time you went to install some driver, got the "Uncertified" popup and actually stopped installing? Not a single person I've known can say when...we just ignore it since almost every hardware manufacturer tells us to.
That and he's got the $500 PS3 on there, comparing with the highend 360. He should really have the $600 PS3 on there.
Really? Looking at it, feature by feature:
The 360 Premium has a 20GB hard drive, and so does the base PS3
The 360 Premium has component out, and so does the base PS3
The 360 Premium allows for wireless controllers, and so does the base PS3
The 360 Premium does not include a wireless adaptor, and neither does the base PS3
The 360 Premium does not allow for HDMI or 1080p, and neither does the base PS3
So, why should the most expensive get compared? From what I can tell, the PS3 has a web browser, the 360 has memory card slots, and the PS3 is $100 more. (am I missing anything, feature wise, to bump my comparison to the $600 model?)
However, to play online, you pay $59/year with the 360 and $0/year with the PS3. Now, I know that there are a lot of people that have no interest in playing online, but I'm not one of them. So, over time, the PS3 actually becomes a better bargain for me, starting at year two.
Kinda strange to think about, huh? Putting a wireless adaptor on the 360 to compare to the upper-end PS3 makes the situation even worse, since you now have HDMI and 60GB worth of space to play with.
In addition, if Sony does not increase their licensing fees, keeping the games at $50 per, you could see another $150 or so difference after that same time frame, with it only getting better...
Not only that, but after factoring in 3 years of a Gold Subscription, you get the PS3, with wireless, three times the harddisk space and HDMI for your Blu-Ray drive for about the same price as a premium xbox bundle.
Now, I know some people (don't know who, though) are really happy with their Core system, and don't want to play anyone online. However, if you do and want all the bells and whistles, the Playstation 3 actually is a better bargain than the 360.
Just think about that for a moment...
I actually do this at work (my laptop has the keys rearranged), and it's so funny to see someone else attempt to use my computer here...>k.pfydcbi yd.f yfl. jrm.o rgy nct. ydcov
I am not a feminist. I just happen to be happy what I'm doing. Programming. I did not go into this field because there are so few women. I did it because I enjoy it. I was always really good at it and loved the challenges that came from something that changes nearly every day.
You know, taking a sexist view (I know, I know), I look at programming as the creation and maintainince of complex systems with sometimes unpredictable behavour, and managing it's social interaction with other similar systems in an environment where anything goes and they sometimes don't play nice.
Sound like anything else women typically do? I don't know many others, but most other female programmers I know have been head and shoulders above the men, simply from a "see the forest from the trees" point of view.
As for the socialization argument, that is just complete nonsense. Give a two year old a set of matchbox cars. The two year old boy is going to be running around everywhere with that car, sputtering car noises, and crashing that car into every other matchbox he sees. The two year old girl will take the big, medium, and small cars and rename them "daddy car", "mommy car", and "baby car". At two years old, this is not socialization.
Actually, from doing lots and lots of gender research, I can tell you that by the age of two, a child will know, on a basic level, what a boy and a girl is, what they are expected to be, and which one they are.
Believe it or not, that actually is socialization.
Your writing on law really doesn't pertain to this discussion. First off, law is a significantly different field from CS, with a whole different set of social views, ideas, ideals, expectations, and culture. The geek culture alone is enough to turn away most 18 year old female students.
I think that perhaps a better correlation to look at is women business owners...
As of 2004, half of all businesses in the US were owned by women. Good figure, right? However, only 8 Fortune 500 companies are run by women...and those that do receive substantially less pay than their male counterparts.
Now then, until the 50% study was released, people were always saying that women had no interest in running a big business, that they "just didn't think that way" or that it was a difference in how they are constructed. But now, there is no real excuse...women are largely barred from the top levels of established companies, left instead to work as "lesser" folk.
Your best bet, now, is to learn how to properly brown-nose and pick up lots of business and office-politics skills and make yourself satisfied with the "employee" thing. Working for other people kind of sucks, but it's better than suffering grand delusions of greatness.
Yes, please listen to this...the less people I have competing with me, the larger my share of the market is!
Seriously, not everyone out there will "make it big", but pulling in a 100-200k a year salary running a small business would be more than enough for me. I just find it sad that most people feel like if they can't shoot the moon and make it big, they shouldn't even try for something better than what they have.
Actually, from what I've seen, it assumes the exact opposite...Wikipedia is almost anarchy in motion. It assumes that people are irresponsible, lazy, or incorrect; but it also assumes that they are the minority in both time and willpower, and with everyone able to correct articles, that is how the system works.
However, the nature of the system is such that the less interest in a subject or article, the greater the variance would be in its information. If only three people had touched an article, and no-one has reviewed it, the likelyhood that everything there is correct and represented fairly is pretty small.
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Only Microsoft could charge you $.50 to make you feel like you dropped a quarter. I swear these guys could nickel-and-dime nickels and dimes.
A large part of the problem here is that this isn't a simple 1->2->3 progression. There are days when I can use firefox all day and have it be snappy and only use about 100MB active with about 500MB in virtual memory.
There are other days, however, when Firefox uses 700MB of active memory and nearly 2.5GB of virtual space. Now, this is the result of 2-5 days worth of browsing. How in your right mind do you expect me to keep track of every click that I made over 5 days so that you can file a bug report? Do you have a keytrapper and site visitation storage engine that keeps up every image, flash video and html of the site? After all, it could be any of that. I don't mind trying to help out, and I'm sure a large portion of the FF community doesn't either, but we've gone beyond what the end users can do to help you with this issue, percieved or real, and it's now in your hands to be the developer and QA this to find out what is going on.
I was part of two friends that had to leave during the movie and calm down. I got lucky and left before anything really bad happened, the other friend had to pay quick visit to the bathroom. :(
From what I got to see of the movie (the beginning, about half of the middle and the last third) I thought of it as War of the Worlds' story done to the Blair Witch Project's camera work (or lack thereof). All in all, not to bad, but the night wasn't that enjoyable.
If you have to sit in the first couple of rows, go get your money back and watch a later show. It's not worth it!
Hmm...I went looking on Dell and Apple's sites and have some extra info...
First off, I'm not sure where the 395 is coming from, because what I see on Apples site is $329 for a 500GB drive, which is $100 less than Dell. The 4 GB RAM options on my list (4x1GB) is $620 from Dell and $699 from Apple. All in all, not really any different and a lot cheaper than what you are telling people. And I've seen the same for MacBook Pro's and iMacs as well.
Finally, at least for the Mac Pro, the drives, graphics and memory is all user servicable...so buy the base line model and add those cheaper drives and memory if you want. They won't stop you and you won't void your warrantee.
I actually wouldn't be too suprised to find out that Ticketmaster owned a number of these scalping operations and allowed them loopholes to get in.
After all, that would mean the Ticketmaster face gets to say, "I'm sorry that all of your tickets are going for $400 apiece when we bought them at $40. It's those dirty scalpers getting in the way of your fans!" While the scalper face gets to say "We make a 1,000% markup on ticket sales and no one can stop the process."
I mean, if I was a shady CxO, that would be my first action...who says you can't learn anything from the mob?
You know, from reading how these software unlocks are accomplished, the amazing thing is that people are pissed right now that Apple patched a security vulnerability in their firmware.
Seriously...I'm sorry that someone figured out how to be naughty, exploit a hole and pull one over on Apple and AT&T, but folks, you pays your nuyen and takes your chances. This is like getting a new computer, overclocking it all to hell and getting upset when a BIOS update changes the fan speeds and you fry the CPU.
If you didn't want to take the chance, you shouldn't have bought it. Flat out. No ifs, ands, or buts. No one told anyone, in any official fashion, that you could use an iPhone outside of the US on AT&T's network, and in fact, you were specifically told that you could have a fancy iPod with no phone, or a fancy iPod and cell phone on AT&T _only_.
Jeezus, kids are all about the 'me! me! me!' these days.
You could look at eMusic
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They let you burn songs to CD any number of times.
They charge less per song than Apple.
They keep a download history, so if you lose the track somehow, you can just go get it again.
Oh yeah, and they sell unprotected mp3's.
I think the point the GP is trying to make is that no matter how much the PS3 is, the comparable XBox costs just a bit more.
Oddly enough, my boyfriend is switching away from Windows to GNOME because he likes it that much.
It could be that they are trying to write a 'joe six pack' environment, whereas the current Linux userbase is anything but that.
In regards to that, I have a copy of Night Watch, purchased at full price, installed and ready to go with one small problem.
I will not, under any circumstances, install the starforce drivers. So, I have to wait for a good crack to come out.
Of course, I think the impact of this will be severly lessened due to our pre-existing habits...
After all, when was the last time you went to install some driver, got the "Uncertified" popup and actually stopped installing? Not a single person I've known can say when...we just ignore it since almost every hardware manufacturer tells us to.
More appropriately, how many dollars does the US gain from these activities?
So, why should the most expensive get compared? From what I can tell, the PS3 has a web browser, the 360 has memory card slots, and the PS3 is $100 more. (am I missing anything, feature wise, to bump my comparison to the $600 model?)
However, to play online, you pay $59/year with the 360 and $0/year with the PS3. Now, I know that there are a lot of people that have no interest in playing online, but I'm not one of them. So, over time, the PS3 actually becomes a better bargain for me, starting at year two.
Kinda strange to think about, huh? Putting a wireless adaptor on the 360 to compare to the upper-end PS3 makes the situation even worse, since you now have HDMI and 60GB worth of space to play with.
In addition, if Sony does not increase their licensing fees, keeping the games at $50 per, you could see another $150 or so difference after that same time frame, with it only getting better...
Not only that, but after factoring in 3 years of a Gold Subscription, you get the PS3, with wireless, three times the harddisk space and HDMI for your Blu-Ray drive for about the same price as a premium xbox bundle. Now, I know some people (don't know who, though) are really happy with their Core system, and don't want to play anyone online. However, if you do and want all the bells and whistles, the Playstation 3 actually is a better bargain than the 360. Just think about that for a moment...
So, if that's the fix...could someone write a Firefox extension that does this automagically? Would that put Firefox in the clear?
So...you are going to get in line with the DNF folks, huh?
Try taking out their trash and mowing their lawn and see if you get a better reaction.
I actually do this at work (my laptop has the keys rearranged), and it's so funny to see someone else attempt to use my computer here...>k.pfydcbi yd.f yfl. jrm.o rgy nct. ydcov
That's why you set up a "donation" site...where $x gets you a "season" pass gifted through iTunes.
That way the company can get its startup capital and production, and get the show out for several episodes...
Then, if it does well, more shows...if not, it dies like it should.
You know, taking a sexist view (I know, I know), I look at programming as the creation and maintainince of complex systems with sometimes unpredictable behavour, and managing it's social interaction with other similar systems in an environment where anything goes and they sometimes don't play nice.
Sound like anything else women typically do? I don't know many others, but most other female programmers I know have been head and shoulders above the men, simply from a "see the forest from the trees" point of view.
Actually, from doing lots and lots of gender research, I can tell you that by the age of two, a child will know, on a basic level, what a boy and a girl is, what they are expected to be, and which one they are.
Believe it or not, that actually is socialization.
I think that perhaps a better correlation to look at is women business owners...
As of 2004, half of all businesses in the US were owned by women. Good figure, right? However, only 8 Fortune 500 companies are run by women...and those that do receive substantially less pay than their male counterparts.
Now then, until the 50% study was released, people were always saying that women had no interest in running a big business, that they "just didn't think that way" or that it was a difference in how they are constructed. But now, there is no real excuse...women are largely barred from the top levels of established companies, left instead to work as "lesser" folk.
Well, that and the massive hoard of people that grew up on games like this and haven't seen one in years...
Yes, please listen to this...the less people I have competing with me, the larger my share of the market is!
Seriously, not everyone out there will "make it big", but pulling in a 100-200k a year salary running a small business would be more than enough for me. I just find it sad that most people feel like if they can't shoot the moon and make it big, they shouldn't even try for something better than what they have.
Actually, from what I've seen, it assumes the exact opposite...Wikipedia is almost anarchy in motion. It assumes that people are irresponsible, lazy, or incorrect; but it also assumes that they are the minority in both time and willpower, and with everyone able to correct articles, that is how the system works.
However, the nature of the system is such that the less interest in a subject or article, the greater the variance would be in its information. If only three people had touched an article, and no-one has reviewed it, the likelyhood that everything there is correct and represented fairly is pretty small.