You do realise that something you got on debt is something you haven't actually worked for yet, don't you?
Maybe, for irresponsible use of debt. It isn't necessarily if you have assets to back it up.
I may have a car on debt, but that's only because the interest on the car is less than the same amount of cash put into mutual funds or stocks. You could consider that I paid for the car in cash, but I'm also getting the spread in interest as a bonus. So, did I work for that car...?
Why am I thinking of Publisher's Clearinghouse here?
Ed McMahon sends out letters emblazoned "YOU MAY HAVE ALREADY WON THE PRESIDENCY OF THE US"! A bunch of cameras and balloons and a giant election ballot led by a second-rate radio announcer reject with really bad hair, go into the trailer park. They knock on the door, and a porky lady with 2 or 3 snot-caked kids jumps up and down, "I'm the President! I'm the President! Woo woo woo!"
Come to think of it, it probably would have worked out better than Bush. Sign me up.
What, you think the TV is on the altar or something?
They're probably downstairs in the basement or a side room. I don't go to church that much these days, but when I did, we didn't have social functions the sancutary.
I know this is a strange idea, but bear with me. Maybe someone could invent a device that would take the text that you type, and employ some sort of encoding to it. That encoding transforms it into a cheaper voice signal, sent to the person's voice mail. After all, voice mail is free and there's usually no airtime charges. At the receiving end, we would have the reverse: the phone would decode the inexpensive voice signals from the voice mail messages into text. It would take those decoded text messages and put them into your SMS Inbox on the phone. We could even call the encoding and decoding "modulation" and "demodulation". Now, if someone would just come up with a snappy named for such a modulator/demodulator, we could start building these devices into the phones. Where's the innovation?
Never seen a company that charges monthly rates go DOWN when introducing change.
I have. A while back there were two Verizon DSL plans, $40/mo for 3M and $30/mo for 1.5M. (Actually there were, three, the third a semi-secret 768k plan for $15/mo.) Of course, I picked the 3M plan and enjoyed it for a few years. They did away with the $40 plan, and moved everyone to the 3M/$30 plan. So, my bill went down.
The toast at New Year? Nope. Get cider or something. I'd hope you'd expect your child to honor the promise of not consuming alcohol.
No, it varies by state. Some states allow parents to supervise drinking, and only have prohibition on say, sale or unsupervised consumption.
From what I understand, the gold standard didn't fix the price of gold, because you can't print gold. The gold standard fixed the price of currency in gold. Governments didn't like that, because they cannot inflate the money supply at will to pay for things they want. Otherwise they'd have to raise taxes directly and people get mad at that. Inflating the money supply has the same short-term effect of raising revenue, without any of those pesky tax laws getting in the way. So says Austrian-school economics.
You misunderstand business mindset completely. All business is rent-seeking: the entire goal is to get someone to pay you something, with no effort on your part, forever (ideally).
In the music biz, there's something called an "evergreen". It's a song that you constantly make money on, forever, because it's... green forever. Huh huh huh. I'm not talking Britney Spears or any of the other pop that will be gone and forgotten in a few years. I'm talking things like White Christmas and Happy Birthday and Hey Jude and things like that. Things that should, by all rights, become folk music. Every time one of a billion versions of that gets played, Irvin Berlin's (et al) agents and progeny get richer than they already are, for doing absolutely nothing.
That's what they are really after, what they really want, and it's why a 5 year copyright is unacceptable to them. Yeah, they could extract most of the profits of a single work from a 5 year team, but that's not what they want. Every time someone uses "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" in a movie or new arrangement for free, baby Music Executive cries at the lost money. His money.
That's a feature? How many times has this happened to me:
Go to click send or File - off by one pixel. The icon toolbar collapse. Try to expand the toolbar, off by one pixel. The next toolbar collapses. Try to expand the toolbar, off by one pixel. The next toolbar collapses.
I'll second that. JBIG2 is pretty amazing. Apparently, it scans your entire document looking for repeated graphical sections, and then builds up a dictionary of them. It's basically making a bitmap font in reverse. Group 4 was designed for fax machines with anemic CPUs and memory, so an algorithm that uses all the capacity of a modern computer really makes a difference.
If you allow lossy compression, then all the slight variations of a letterform in your document are likely close enough that they can all be replaced by one letterform. I've scanned lots of musical scores, and most are were stored as monochrome Group 4. I discovered this JBIG2 thing, and did a batch conversion. Just going to the lossless JBIG2 alone made everything about 10x smaller.
a set of classes that make multi-core processing trivial.
Also, QDeadlock is a handy coffe-break implementor, QUnscalableParallelApplication (subclass of QApplication) is great when you use all this stuff yet the program doesn't get any faster, and QKernelPanic when accessing hardware directly over the AGP bus.
I would say these classes make the mechanics trivial and maybe portable, but not parallel programming itself.
I see this time and time again. I was getting an oil change, and they recently upgraded the old TTY system with a flashy new one. They used to be able to fly through the TTY system by typing really fast -- all those keystrokes were 100% memorized, and they could type faster than the system could respond. Now it's click... WAIT... click... WAIT. No keyboard shortcuts for anything. The entire time he's apologizing to me that it's so slow. I told him I'm a programmer, I can tell that your new system is awful.
This is definitely not to equate you with a oil jockey, just that this thing happens all the time to lots of people, and it's management's fault.
Software developers/designers cannot design good user interfaces for users if their employer sets up a structure that makes it impossible for us to talk to users. This is all too-common in the off-the-shelf software biz, and is even worse for custom special-purpose software. The result is the steaming pile of crap that you have. The only way to fix that is for you, the user, to loudly complain to your boss repeatedly how it's making your job much less effective and costing them X dollars in productivity. Add up all the time you waste, multiply it by your salary, multiply by 2 since that's what the company really pays to employ you in taxes and benefits, and multiply by all the people who use it. Send that dollar figure to your boss: "This new system is making us lose Y,000 dollars a month!"
Eventually get that complain to the person who bought it, and eventually get it back to the company that sold it, and eventually get it back to the developer who could create something fabulous for you if he only had more than 1 week to code it, wasn't outsourced to South Elbonia, actually spoke English, and was allowed to talk to you and design something you not only needed but could effectively use.
Not a bad questions, but it's pretty simple. The OS can only prefetch things that are the stable from session to session, like the program's bits on disk and loaded libraries. Any memory allocated by the program at runtime be cached, because that OS doesn't know what it's going to be.
An example.
Let's say I have a program that's a mere 50K on disk, but allocates 200MB of memory on startup, and fills it with data in from hardware - maybe a video capture. The O/S cannot cache the 200MB because it doesn't know what video frames your camera will send to it the next time it runs. (Well, if it did you'd have a time machine on your hands, and you'd be selling stocks or making sports bets and not posting here.)
The best it could do is preallocate 200MB of blank space so that when it starts up, it maybe doesn't have to swap anything out, or move anything around to make room for it. But then there's 200MB you don't have for another program you are using. There are well-known trade-offs on how much free space it's good to keep around (meaning, when you have to ask for it, it's there for the taking) versus how much space it's good to use for aggressively caching. I'm sure the kernel folks at MS have run the numbers.
I have three kids and know what you're going through, but really, the Internet and interlibrary loan has fixed libraries. You don't actually go to the library to find books, you just pick them up there. I don't think I've borrowed a single book that actually lived at my local library since I was a kid. For me, it goes like this:
1. Decide what to read (maybe based on good/. recommendations). 2. Log onto library's website, and find the book on the interlibrary loan network. 3. Request it, and have it dropped off any place convenient. I can pick from 100 or so town libraries, chances are about 100% I or my wife will be near one at some point in the future. 4. Pick it up whenever I happen pass it. 5. Keep it as long as I want because fines are forgiven on Fridays.
That's it. Zero extra time, it merely is a stop on the way to somewhere else.
That's very cool. I find you have to sometimes wait for a teachable moment and use it for all it's worth. My 5 year-old was asking about why it was colder in winter and hot in summer, and he guessed that the Earth was farther away from the sun. Not a bad guess for 5, considering that we've never talked about this at all.
So we got into a whole discussion of how the earth orbits, rotates, how light falls on the earth, cardinal directions, poles, basic gravity, and finally the angle of light. A flashlight and a ball in the kitchen was enough to describe all this - it's quite obvious that when you point the flashlight directly at the ball, it's brighter than when it's deflected. With all the extra questions they had, they (my other son became very interested in the "experiment") were completely engrossed and learning for well over and hour.
You miss the point entirely. By default you have the right... until a specific law takes it away. There are specific laws, some state, some federal, against those activities. If you go to a different state, it may very well be legal to comb the high schools for dates.
The whole point is there is no law that grants you the ability to read a book. Writing laws like that would implies that everything else is illegal. The alternative would be: well, there's no law allowing you to pick your nose, so it must be illegal. Everyone is a criminal, so the government can just choose who to lock up on a whim. IANAconstitutional scholar, but damn, this is pretty basic stuff.
If a dialog box pops up, you can't move or resize the parent window. WHY ISN'T THIS FIXED YET?
From what I know, a lot of their window management stuff happens in the target GUI process instead of a separate window manager process. It is ridiculous. So when an app hangs, you frequently can't minimize it and do other stuff while it chugs away. My favorite is Quicken - when it's busy, you can minimize it with the special "show desktop doohickey"... but the fucker pops back up on every single mouse click or keystroke!
Good point, but, maybe that was under the assumption they would actually sue people who really were guilty of large-scale infringment.
Instead, we seem get suing of groups of random people who may or many not even know what the hell an mp3 is, large groups of people who have exhanged comparatively tiny bits of music and are not large infringers, suing people and then dropping the case when they begin to lose to in order bankrupt them with legal fees, threatening entire schools, and another various forms of general asshattery.
This of course doesn't apply to those that speak at a conversational level that would put a stadium PA system to shame, but that's a different story, and one that should be address by either the restaurant
Or phone manufacturers. A landline echoes your voice back into the earpieces so your conversation is on an equal volume as the other party, but most cell phones do not. I find you have to make a conscious effort not talk loud. And even so, it's a bit unnerving, having grown up with phones that echo into your ear. Maybe the kids don't have a problem with it, since they never touch wired lines... and the problem will solve itself when I die?
I presume this is a battery life thing, but I'd gladly give up a few minutes of talk time if meant people would stop freakin' shouting into their phones.
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Maybe, for irresponsible use of debt. It isn't necessarily if you have assets to back it up.
I may have a car on debt, but that's only because the interest on the car is less than the same amount of cash put into mutual funds or stocks. You could consider that I paid for the car in cash, but I'm also getting the spread in interest as a bonus. So, did I work for that car...?
Ed McMahon sends out letters emblazoned "YOU MAY HAVE ALREADY WON THE PRESIDENCY OF THE US"! A bunch of cameras and balloons and a giant election ballot led by a second-rate radio announcer reject with really bad hair, go into the trailer park. They knock on the door, and a porky lady with 2 or 3 snot-caked kids jumps up and down, "I'm the President! I'm the President! Woo woo woo!"
Come to think of it, it probably would have worked out better than Bush. Sign me up.
What, you think the TV is on the altar or something?
They're probably downstairs in the basement or a side room. I don't go to church that much these days, but when I did, we didn't have social functions the sancutary.
I know this is a strange idea, but bear with me. Maybe someone could invent a device that would take the text that you type, and employ some sort of encoding to it. That encoding transforms it into a cheaper voice signal, sent to the person's voice mail. After all, voice mail is free and there's usually no airtime charges. At the receiving end, we would have the reverse: the phone would decode the inexpensive voice signals from the voice mail messages into text. It would take those decoded text messages and put them into your SMS Inbox on the phone. We could even call the encoding and decoding "modulation" and "demodulation". Now, if someone would just come up with a snappy named for such a modulator/demodulator, we could start building these devices into the phones. Where's the innovation?
Maybe your friend is still rich, doesn't need to work, and that's what makes him happy? Rich people can retire and work for fun, you know!
The toast at New Year? Nope. Get cider or something. I'd hope you'd expect your child to honor the promise of not consuming alcohol. No, it varies by state. Some states allow parents to supervise drinking, and only have prohibition on say, sale or unsupervised consumption.
From what I understand, the gold standard didn't fix the price of gold, because you can't print gold. The gold standard fixed the price of currency in gold. Governments didn't like that, because they cannot inflate the money supply at will to pay for things they want. Otherwise they'd have to raise taxes directly and people get mad at that. Inflating the money supply has the same short-term effect of raising revenue, without any of those pesky tax laws getting in the way. So says Austrian-school economics.
In the music biz, there's something called an "evergreen". It's a song that you constantly make money on, forever, because it's... green forever. Huh huh huh. I'm not talking Britney Spears or any of the other pop that will be gone and forgotten in a few years. I'm talking things like White Christmas and Happy Birthday and Hey Jude and things like that. Things that should, by all rights, become folk music. Every time one of a billion versions of that gets played, Irvin Berlin's (et al) agents and progeny get richer than they already are, for doing absolutely nothing.
That's what they are really after, what they really want, and it's why a 5 year copyright is unacceptable to them. Yeah, they could extract most of the profits of a single work from a 5 year team, but that's not what they want. Every time someone uses "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" in a movie or new arrangement for free, baby Music Executive cries at the lost money. His money.
That's a feature? How many times has this happened to me:
Go to click send or File - off by one pixel.
The icon toolbar collapse.
Try to expand the toolbar, off by one pixel.
The next toolbar collapses.
Try to expand the toolbar, off by one pixel.
The next toolbar collapses.
Dammit!!
If you allow lossy compression, then all the slight variations of a letterform in your document are likely close enough that they can all be replaced by one letterform. I've scanned lots of musical scores, and most are were stored as monochrome Group 4. I discovered this JBIG2 thing, and did a batch conversion. Just going to the lossless JBIG2 alone made everything about 10x smaller.
Also, QDeadlock is a handy coffe-break implementor, QUnscalableParallelApplication (subclass of QApplication) is great when you use all this stuff yet the program doesn't get any faster, and QKernelPanic when accessing hardware directly over the AGP bus.
I would say these classes make the mechanics trivial and maybe portable, but not parallel programming itself.
I see this time and time again. I was getting an oil change, and they recently upgraded the old TTY system with a flashy new one. They used to be able to fly through the TTY system by typing really fast -- all those keystrokes were 100% memorized, and they could type faster than the system could respond. Now it's click... WAIT... click... WAIT. No keyboard shortcuts for anything. The entire time he's apologizing to me that it's so slow. I told him I'm a programmer, I can tell that your new system is awful.
This is definitely not to equate you with a oil jockey, just that this thing happens all the time to lots of people, and it's management's fault.
Software developers/designers cannot design good user interfaces for users if their employer sets up a structure that makes it impossible for us to talk to users. This is all too-common in the off-the-shelf software biz, and is even worse for custom special-purpose software. The result is the steaming pile of crap that you have. The only way to fix that is for you, the user, to loudly complain to your boss repeatedly how it's making your job much less effective and costing them X dollars in productivity. Add up all the time you waste, multiply it by your salary, multiply by 2 since that's what the company really pays to employ you in taxes and benefits, and multiply by all the people who use it. Send that dollar figure to your boss: "This new system is making us lose Y,000 dollars a month!"
Eventually get that complain to the person who bought it, and eventually get it back to the company that sold it, and eventually get it back to the developer who could create something fabulous for you if he only had more than 1 week to code it, wasn't outsourced to South Elbonia, actually spoke English, and was allowed to talk to you and design something you not only needed but could effectively use.
Not a bad questions, but it's pretty simple. The OS can only prefetch things that are the stable from session to session, like the program's bits on disk and loaded libraries. Any memory allocated by the program at runtime be cached, because that OS doesn't know what it's going to be.
An example.
Let's say I have a program that's a mere 50K on disk, but allocates 200MB of memory on startup, and fills it with data in from hardware - maybe a video capture. The O/S cannot cache the 200MB because it doesn't know what video frames your camera will send to it the next time it runs. (Well, if it did you'd have a time machine on your hands, and you'd be selling stocks or making sports bets and not posting here.)
The best it could do is preallocate 200MB of blank space so that when it starts up, it maybe doesn't have to swap anything out, or move anything around to make room for it. But then there's 200MB you don't have for another program you are using. There are well-known trade-offs on how much free space it's good to keep around (meaning, when you have to ask for it, it's there for the taking) versus how much space it's good to use for aggressively caching. I'm sure the kernel folks at MS have run the numbers.
I have three kids and know what you're going through, but really, the Internet and interlibrary loan has fixed libraries. You don't actually go to the library to find books, you just pick them up there. I don't think I've borrowed a single book that actually lived at my local library since I was a kid. For me, it goes like this:
/. recommendations).
1. Decide what to read (maybe based on good
2. Log onto library's website, and find the book on the interlibrary loan network.
3. Request it, and have it dropped off any place convenient. I can pick from 100 or so town libraries, chances are about 100% I or my wife will be near one at some point in the future.
4. Pick it up whenever I happen pass it.
5. Keep it as long as I want because fines are forgiven on Fridays.
That's it. Zero extra time, it merely is a stop on the way to somewhere else.
You're totally right... but now you've put an image of RMS in a Starfleet suit in my head. Damn you.
So we got into a whole discussion of how the earth orbits, rotates, how light falls on the earth, cardinal directions, poles, basic gravity, and finally the angle of light. A flashlight and a ball in the kitchen was enough to describe all this - it's quite obvious that when you point the flashlight directly at the ball, it's brighter than when it's deflected. With all the extra questions they had, they (my other son became very interested in the "experiment") were completely engrossed and learning for well over and hour.
The whole point is there is no law that grants you the ability to read a book. Writing laws like that would implies that everything else is illegal. The alternative would be: well, there's no law allowing you to pick your nose, so it must be illegal. Everyone is a criminal, so the government can just choose who to lock up on a whim. IANAconstitutional scholar, but damn, this is pretty basic stuff.
Instead, we seem get suing of groups of random people who may or many not even know what the hell an mp3 is, large groups of people who have exhanged comparatively tiny bits of music and are not large infringers, suing people and then dropping the case when they begin to lose to in order bankrupt them with legal fees, threatening entire schools, and another various forms of general asshattery.
The funny thing is, without something like my sig, the OP will think "I don't get it. That dude is weird."
Beats me. I've been doing this for years, and dont underst
Not just Excel. The spreadsheet has to have no functions in it, and be used purely as a database.
I presume this is a battery life thing, but I'd gladly give up a few minutes of talk time if meant people would stop freakin' shouting into their phones.