Can someone post the USD v. whoever-is-making-is exchange rates comparing now and when the original target price was announced. I'd guess that might account for some of the $100->$200.
Seriously. The guy is a disturbed political nut job on par with Ann Coulter and knows nothing about technolgy other than he has a blog which only he's allowed to post on and pretty much nobody reads. This idiot was and still is a huge War Supporter. Frankly most people are sick of Glenn Reynolds, the Right Wing's Ward Churchill.
Maybe thats true, bit in this case (and I speak as a bleeding-heart pinko leftie) the guy is right. Designers seem to think that because thay can put a computer in it, it has to *be* a computer. I want analogue. Oh, and before anyone makes any luddite assertions, I'm a shit hot programmer who can juggle a 296,077 line (according to slocount) program in his head with ease. Technology belongs in its place and nowhere else.
Give me a break, this kind of thinking is why 3 year olds die from food posioning every year because its a political impossibility to get irradiated meat on shelves sans a gigantic radiation symbol.
This is a different argument. Irradiating food is intended to have a pyhsical effect, ie., kill bugs. One problem is, it will kill bugs but not destroy the toxins the bugs produced. Also, I have a perfectly good array of techniques to handle dodgy food, like sense of smell, stomach acid, immune system, etc., etc.
OK, so I've not read the whole of the article but thos looks like typical wooly thinking:
It is no coincidence that the incidence of chess prodigies multiplied after László Polgár published a book on chess education. The number of musical prodigies underwent a similar increased after Mozart's father did the equivalent two centuries earlier
Nobody (so far as I know) is saying that geniuses pop into existance fully formed and with no effort on their part. But the above statement is perfectly consistent with the idea that some people are born with some inate ability that allows the possibility of genius, but then require support or training or whatever to realise that genius. If Polgar's book was good (I presume it was) then it opened the way for a bunch of people who's ability would otherwise never be realised. Ditto whatever Mozart's father did.
Back in the 80s, parts of the Irish-American community in the USA were funding IRA operations in the United Kingdom. I presume you would have agreed that is would be reasonable (morally, if not practically) had the UK lanuched military strikes against the USA?
If we Europeans had realised that a consequence of persecuting religious minorities was that they'd go and form the USA, we'd have persecuted them rather more thoroughly
Why should Americans need broadband. They've all got direct lines to God.
Not me, matey, not me
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Since the first HDTVs appeared in 1998, high-definition television has been on the mind of every TV buyer.
Actually, no. I have replaced a dead TV since 1998, and HDTV has *never* been on my mind. 90% of what is on TV is crap (and I'm a Brit, so I guess if I was in the US then that would be 98%) so I've no desire to pay a shed load of money for the latest techno toy.
Can I recommend psychiatric councelling as a cheaper and longer lasting alternative?
The holy grail of software development (OK, one of the holy grails) for a long time has been code reusability. Specifically, how do we build software in a way that allows code to be reused in multiple applications, so we can save lots of development time. But, so far as I can see, we are nowhere near solving this problem, at least, not "officially"
Windows contains lots and lots of interacting components with lots and lots of APIs. This leads (for instance) to the well known problem that an upgrade to one thing breaks another. Why? Well, those APIs are complicated. Given even the best will in the world the specifications are incomplete, so a certain amount of "experimental programming" goes on when using them. The result is that usage of the APIs is very sensitive to changes in the API. Say you write an application A that uses a "reusable" component B. You read the API documentation, you code B, you test it, and it works. But it is quite possible that, say, you inadvertently use the API in a way that it should never be used in (you drive it beyond its "design parameters" in StarTrek speak). Later the component is upgraded, and it no longer survives your assault on it, and your application breaks. Just to repeat, even if everyone does their best, acts honourably, etc., etc., this sort of problem will arrise.
Now compare the Linux/OpenSource world. I've got two big advantages. First, if I'm in any doubt about the API then I can look at the code to see exactly what it does - and I can make a judgement about how far I can push it. Secondly, If I am not sure of a component I want to use (perhaps I'm not convinced it will be maintained, or maybe I know that I am pushing it too near the edge) then I can incorporate the code into my project, so that I'm insulated from changes to it (I'm not really talking here about forking, more like freezing). Of course, I'd be advised to feed back fixes and improvements to the originators, but I do have final control.
So, I'd like to suggest the Linux and OpenSource are providing a level code reusability that cannot exist in the closed source world. Sure, everybody depends on (say) GLIBC, and lots of people depend on, for example, QT or GTK+, but those are specifically provided as libraries and the authors are very aware they they are being used as such.
... when she (only works for she's) ask "are you interested in....", answering "no, but i'm really interested in your underwear/favourite position/whether you swallow" or something equally offensive.
Never had the nerve tho....
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That probably explains a lot ....
Being closer to the UK than the US, more likely it would be Gaffer Tape, which is like Duct Tape. Only better:)
Can someone post the USD v. whoever-is-making-is exchange rates comparing now and when the original target price was announced. I'd guess that might account for some of the $100->$200.
I bet Vista gets on the whitelist. Whitelist RIP
IIRC 4'8.75"
Seriously. The guy is a disturbed political nut job on par with Ann Coulter and knows nothing about technolgy other than he has a blog which only he's allowed to post on and pretty much nobody reads. This idiot was and still is a huge War Supporter. Frankly most people are sick of Glenn Reynolds, the Right Wing's Ward Churchill.
Maybe thats true, bit in this case (and I speak as a bleeding-heart pinko leftie) the guy is right. Designers seem to think that because thay can put a computer in it, it has to *be* a computer. I want analogue. Oh, and before anyone makes any luddite assertions, I'm a shit hot programmer who can juggle a 296,077 line (according to slocount) program in his head with ease. Technology belongs in its place and nowhere else.
This is a different argument. Irradiating food is intended to have a pyhsical effect, ie., kill bugs. One problem is, it will kill bugs but not destroy the toxins the bugs produced. Also, I have a perfectly good array of techniques to handle dodgy food, like sense of smell, stomach acid, immune system, etc., etc.
Yeh, London England is not a valid place ......
.... a fairly revolting joke about automated toilets and removal of internal sanitary ware.
It is no coincidence that the incidence of chess prodigies multiplied after László Polgár published a book on chess education. The number of musical prodigies underwent a similar increased after Mozart's father did the equivalent two centuries earlier
Nobody (so far as I know) is saying that geniuses pop into existance fully formed and with no effort on their part. But the above statement is perfectly consistent with the idea that some people are born with some inate ability that allows the possibility of genius, but then require support or training or whatever to realise that genius. If Polgar's book was good (I presume it was) then it opened the way for a bunch of people who's ability would otherwise never be realised. Ditto whatever Mozart's father did.
If we Europeans had realised that a consequence of persecuting religious minorities was that they'd go and form the USA, we'd have persecuted them rather more thoroughly
Why should Americans need broadband. They've all got direct lines to God.
Actually, no. I have replaced a dead TV since 1998, and HDTV has *never* been on my mind. 90% of what is on TV is crap (and I'm a Brit, so I guess if I was in the US then that would be 98%) so I've no desire to pay a shed load of money for the latest techno toy.
Can I recommend psychiatric councelling as a cheaper and longer lasting alternative?
The holy grail of software development (OK, one of the holy grails) for a long time has been code reusability. Specifically, how do we build software in a way that allows code to be reused in multiple applications, so we can save lots of development time. But, so far as I can see, we are nowhere near solving this problem, at least, not "officially"
Windows contains lots and lots of interacting components with lots and lots of APIs. This leads (for instance) to the well known problem that an upgrade to one thing breaks another. Why? Well, those APIs are complicated. Given even the best will in the world the specifications are incomplete, so a certain amount of "experimental programming" goes on when using them. The result is that usage of the APIs is very sensitive to changes in the API. Say you write an application A that uses a "reusable" component B. You read the API documentation, you code B, you test it, and it works. But it is quite possible that, say, you inadvertently use the API in a way that it should never be used in (you drive it beyond its "design parameters" in StarTrek speak). Later the component is upgraded, and it no longer survives your assault on it, and your application breaks. Just to repeat, even if everyone does their best, acts honourably, etc., etc., this sort of problem will arrise.
Now compare the Linux/OpenSource world. I've got two big advantages. First, if I'm in any doubt about the API then I can look at the code to see exactly what it does - and I can make a judgement about how far I can push it. Secondly, If I am not sure of a component I want to use (perhaps I'm not convinced it will be maintained, or maybe I know that I am pushing it too near the edge) then I can incorporate the code into my project, so that I'm insulated from changes to it (I'm not really talking here about forking, more like freezing). Of course, I'd be advised to feed back fixes and improvements to the originators, but I do have final control.
So, I'd like to suggest the Linux and OpenSource are providing a level code reusability that cannot exist in the closed source world. Sure, everybody depends on (say) GLIBC, and lots of people depend on, for example, QT or GTK+, but those are specifically provided as libraries and the authors are very aware they they are being used as such.
Regards
Mike
... when she (only works for she's) ask "are you interested in ....", answering "no, but i'm really interested in your underwear/favourite position/whether you swallow" or something equally offensive.
Never had the nerve tho ....