So, you figure these anti-GMO activists are also anti-embryonic stem cell research? Or are sympathetic to, say, evangelical Christians who are? I admit its possible, but it seems unlikely.
What makes me chuckle is that these activists most likely have an extremely low opinion of those who oppose embryonic stem cell research on ethical grounds.
We could also "create '600 construction jobs and 45 permanent positions" by paying people to dig holes and fill them back up. It really bugs me how the number of jobs required to build and staff the thing is touted as an advantage. If it only took 300 jobs to build and 20 to staff then that would be demonstrably superior from the perspective of being an efficient mechanism for generating electricity, only that's not why we're building it. We're building it in order to create 600 construction jobs and 45 permanent positions.
At the end of the day the question is this: how likely is it that someone who can't hack it in an introductory computer science course has the capacity to eventually become a "net positive" in industry or academia. If you answer that question "not likely" then the status quo is optimal. If your answer is "quite likely" then you should agree with the two professors cited in the original article. Having been a teaching assistant for such a course, I probably fall into the "not likely" camp.
If I market my Volvo cars as safe and durable, then someone buys one who doesn't know how to drive and runs it into a tree, in the process breaking a rib, should I feel any obligation to cover their repair costs and hospital bills? I mean, I did tell them the car was safe and durable. Then again, they decided to get behind the wheel without actually knowing how to drive. We'll assume for the sake of argument those claims are actually true, i.e. that Volvos are safer than other options (but not safe enough to protect you from any injury if you decide to plow into a tree.)
I don't see a problem. I'm guessing the vast majority of infections aren't the fault of the OS or hardware. So why should Apple be on the hook to repair some guy's machine who infected himself by running a porn dialer or some app he grabbed off a torrent site?
Need? No. Appreciate? Yes. Given they cost so little it seems like a fairly cost-effective perk to offer your developers. Especially since you can probably recoup the cost by compensating them with less actual cash. And if it makes them more productive to boot then that's icing on the cake.
Weird. I have a WRT54GL with DD-WRT and it's run flawlessly. Might depend on the revision of the WRT54GL? I can check what revision mine is when I get home.
To get the full resolution of Blu-Ray I need a 1080 screen. I don't have one. In fact, I have an old CRT. Nor do I have it hooked up to a fancy 6 or 8 channel stereo system, so I'd also miss out on most of the auditory benefits of Blu-Ray. DVDs offer a better picture than VHS, and you can't rent VHS anymore. So I mostly watch DVDs.
Now let's suppose I were willing to upgrade to a new screen. If I get a 1080 one then I can watch Blu-ray at full-res. But, then, any DVD I watch is going to look worse than it would on a 720 screen, which is its native resolution. Moreover, much of the HD television content is 720, which will also look worse than if I had a native 720 screen. If I get a 720 screen, on the other hand, I can guarantee that all my non-broadcast content will run at its native resolution as well as the majority of broadcast HD television. Blu-Ray will still look and sound better than DVD on a 720 screen, but the delta is a lot less.
First thing you should know is that its free, so comparison of "revenues" is completely irrelevant.
I disagree. Corporate customers don't torrent down a distro and install it by hand. They pay someone like Red Hat for corporate support and services. If it were completely free then the Linux share of server revenue would always be 0%. But it's not. Red Hat et. al. are charging money for a product. They're just not charging very much money relative to what Microsoft is able to command.
If its not a personal question, are you a Microsoft troll?
No. But linux fanboyism really irritates me.
Agree with you on notebooks, but it would be a more interesting comparison if the playing field was levelled by removal of any requirement for OEMs to supply Windows preinstalled.
If there were a compelling reason for them to do so then they would.
I bet Microsoft would be reeeeeeal grumpy (endless lawsuits, FUD and hypocrisy).
Actually I expect they'd be overjoyed. Free P.R. opportunity. I can't imagine a lawsuit coming of it, but I'm sure they'd milk it for all the P.R. value they could extract. Which is pretty much what you're doing in reverse. Honestly, though, it surprises me to learn that this happened in the manner you describe. Mainly because in the past Microsoft has been completely obvious about blocking non-IE/Win configurations from Hotmail. Presumably they don't develop to or test these configurations so they can't be sure the site will work, and they'd rather just block them than hassle with all the support tickets they would generate. Silently dropping HTTP requests is 100% counterproductive to that goal. It allows non-IE folks to use the site but results in inexplicably crappy performance, thus generating more support tickets and giving any non-IE user the impression that Hotmail is hopelessly bugged. Not only that, it's fairly easy to detect, so it's hard to imagine them not expecting to get caught. Once caught it generates bad P.R. and generally makes them look like tools. So I'm not seeing a cogent motive.
By revenue MS outpaces linux in the server market by a margin of 3:1. By units (web servers) the two are tied if you believe Netcraft. If you don't, then Linux enjoys a sizable advantage in terms of public web servers. Those are, of course, only one kind of server.
This has got to be one of the more egregious "correlation != causation" errors I've seen lately. Why might a student having taken Algebra II correlate highly with later success? Perhaps precisely because it is optional. The set of students who voluntarily choose to take an optional math class is likely to have an abundance of other traits that contribute to success. A love of learning, ambition, general mathematics ability, parents who're riding them to achieve, etc. I see little evidence to suggest that if all students were required to take Algebra II we'd see a commensurate jump in the aggregate achievement of all students.
Allow me to suggest that if all students were required to take statistics in high school we might see fewer ridiculous correlation/causation errors like this in the popular press.
If I were going to buy a Windows laptop right now it would almost surely be a ThinkPad. Probably their new X220 when it comes out. All the other manufacturers' stuff seems cheaply made and ridiculous to look at. It's like they're trying to add as much "bling" as they possibly can. ThinkPad's "all black" is as close as I can get in Windows-land to Mac's "all white".
Worth noting this table? Specifically the overall rows at the top for men and women. Income for men has been flat since 1970 when adjusted for inflation. All the income gains have come from women entering the workforce, going from partial to full employment, and/or the gradual elimination of sex discrimination which drives down wages. One could also argue the cost of living has actually risen faster than official inflation measures, especially when one includes the additional costs necessitated by both partners working full time. (Day care, outsourcing tasks like cleaning and yard work, etc.)
MOS transistors were developed prior to 1970, but not by much, and they didn't really start catching on until the 1970s. Now I'm certainly not arguing causation here, but by the same token I'm not sure it's valid to suggest (via sarcasm) that the move from vacuum tubes to transistors ushered in a new golden era of prosperity.
APIs exist for a reason. They abstract out reusable functionality, which frees developers from the need to reinvent the wheel and/or maintain separate code for different types of hardware. There's always some cost in performance, but a well-designed API should minimize that cost. Take DirectX and OpenGL out of the equation and you'd see fewer games developed at a higher cost-per-game.
150 GB seems pretty generous. In months where I don't download any ISO images, my usage is around 3-4 GB/mo. That includes youtube watching, some gaming, general web browsing, and some Netflix streaming by my wife. I would imagine that 95% of AT&T's users will be in zero danger of ever hitting the 150 GB cap.
For perspective, I have the fastest DSL service available in my area at 6 Mbit/s. That's 600 KB/s. To hit 150 GB/mo my connection would have to be saturated for 69 hours. I sleep ~8 hours a night and work ~8 hours a day. In order to hit the 150 GB cap my connection would need to be saturated approximately one quarter of the time I'm at home and awake.
Alternately, one can look at it this way. My non-movie usage will probably never be above 10 GB/mo. That leaves 140 GB/mo for watching HD video. Assume the HD video completely saturates my paltry 6 Mbit/s connection. So a cap of 150 GB gives me my basic non-video web browsing/gaming plus 32 feature length (2 hour) movies per month.
With respect to the issue of anthropogenic climate change both sides level the charge of ideological bias against the other. Supporters of the anthropogenic hypothesis (which is to say "most people") charge that its opponents are driven by either short-sighted self-interest (since combating climate change is expensive) or are directly beholden to energy corporations. Opponents of the hypothesis charge that its supporters are driven either by cynical desire to advance their own careers (acquiring grants they would be less likely to receive if they deviated from the consensus view) or that they seek to manufacture a crisis in order to advance other vague political ends. In their view the only guys doing "objective science" are the ones who disagree with the consensus; all others are thought to accept the consensus in an almost "religious" (i.e. unquestioning) fashion.
The Intel X25 series was so much better than the alternatives when it came out, I was expecting more from its successor. The 510 doesn't even use an Intel-developed processor. It uses one from Marvel, which will eventually be used by other SSD manufacturers as well. And the 510 is already slower than drives based on Sandforce's newest chips, such as OCZ's Vertex 3. Lame, Intel.
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Explain why the odds of being in the bottom half in the batch-school environment are any different than in the two-student environment.
I tend not to assume things when I have only a 70% chance of being correct. To each his own.
So, you figure these anti-GMO activists are also anti-embryonic stem cell research? Or are sympathetic to, say, evangelical Christians who are? I admit its possible, but it seems unlikely.
What makes me chuckle is that these activists most likely have an extremely low opinion of those who oppose embryonic stem cell research on ethical grounds.
You can have my URL bar when you pry it from my cold, dead hand.
We could also "create '600 construction jobs and 45 permanent positions" by paying people to dig holes and fill them back up. It really bugs me how the number of jobs required to build and staff the thing is touted as an advantage. If it only took 300 jobs to build and 20 to staff then that would be demonstrably superior from the perspective of being an efficient mechanism for generating electricity, only that's not why we're building it. We're building it in order to create 600 construction jobs and 45 permanent positions.
At the end of the day the question is this: how likely is it that someone who can't hack it in an introductory computer science course has the capacity to eventually become a "net positive" in industry or academia. If you answer that question "not likely" then the status quo is optimal. If your answer is "quite likely" then you should agree with the two professors cited in the original article. Having been a teaching assistant for such a course, I probably fall into the "not likely" camp.
If I market my Volvo cars as safe and durable, then someone buys one who doesn't know how to drive and runs it into a tree, in the process breaking a rib, should I feel any obligation to cover their repair costs and hospital bills? I mean, I did tell them the car was safe and durable. Then again, they decided to get behind the wheel without actually knowing how to drive. We'll assume for the sake of argument those claims are actually true, i.e. that Volvos are safer than other options (but not safe enough to protect you from any injury if you decide to plow into a tree.)
I don't see a problem. I'm guessing the vast majority of infections aren't the fault of the OS or hardware. So why should Apple be on the hook to repair some guy's machine who infected himself by running a porn dialer or some app he grabbed off a torrent site?
Need? No. Appreciate? Yes. Given they cost so little it seems like a fairly cost-effective perk to offer your developers. Especially since you can probably recoup the cost by compensating them with less actual cash. And if it makes them more productive to boot then that's icing on the cake.
Weird. I have a WRT54GL with DD-WRT and it's run flawlessly. Might depend on the revision of the WRT54GL? I can check what revision mine is when I get home.
Something tells me they don't give a shit about some old P4 they scrounged up to give to the intern.
If software development counts, then my reasons are as follows:
To get the full resolution of Blu-Ray I need a 1080 screen. I don't have one. In fact, I have an old CRT. Nor do I have it hooked up to a fancy 6 or 8 channel stereo system, so I'd also miss out on most of the auditory benefits of Blu-Ray. DVDs offer a better picture than VHS, and you can't rent VHS anymore. So I mostly watch DVDs.
Now let's suppose I were willing to upgrade to a new screen. If I get a 1080 one then I can watch Blu-ray at full-res. But, then, any DVD I watch is going to look worse than it would on a 720 screen, which is its native resolution. Moreover, much of the HD television content is 720, which will also look worse than if I had a native 720 screen. If I get a 720 screen, on the other hand, I can guarantee that all my non-broadcast content will run at its native resolution as well as the majority of broadcast HD television. Blu-Ray will still look and sound better than DVD on a 720 screen, but the delta is a lot less.
I disagree. Corporate customers don't torrent down a distro and install it by hand. They pay someone like Red Hat for corporate support and services. If it were completely free then the Linux share of server revenue would always be 0%. But it's not. Red Hat et. al. are charging money for a product. They're just not charging very much money relative to what Microsoft is able to command.
No. But linux fanboyism really irritates me.
If there were a compelling reason for them to do so then they would.
Actually I expect they'd be overjoyed. Free P.R. opportunity. I can't imagine a lawsuit coming of it, but I'm sure they'd milk it for all the P.R. value they could extract. Which is pretty much what you're doing in reverse. Honestly, though, it surprises me to learn that this happened in the manner you describe. Mainly because in the past Microsoft has been completely obvious about blocking non-IE/Win configurations from Hotmail. Presumably they don't develop to or test these configurations so they can't be sure the site will work, and they'd rather just block them than hassle with all the support tickets they would generate. Silently dropping HTTP requests is 100% counterproductive to that goal. It allows non-IE folks to use the site but results in inexplicably crappy performance, thus generating more support tickets and giving any non-IE user the impression that Hotmail is hopelessly bugged. Not only that, it's fairly easy to detect, so it's hard to imagine them not expecting to get caught. Once caught it generates bad P.R. and generally makes them look like tools. So I'm not seeing a cogent motive.
By revenue MS outpaces linux in the server market by a margin of 3:1. By units (web servers) the two are tied if you believe Netcraft. If you don't, then Linux enjoys a sizable advantage in terms of public web servers. Those are, of course, only one kind of server.
MS also owns notebooks.
This has got to be one of the more egregious "correlation != causation" errors I've seen lately. Why might a student having taken Algebra II correlate highly with later success? Perhaps precisely because it is optional. The set of students who voluntarily choose to take an optional math class is likely to have an abundance of other traits that contribute to success. A love of learning, ambition, general mathematics ability, parents who're riding them to achieve, etc. I see little evidence to suggest that if all students were required to take Algebra II we'd see a commensurate jump in the aggregate achievement of all students.
Allow me to suggest that if all students were required to take statistics in high school we might see fewer ridiculous correlation/causation errors like this in the popular press.
An extra 15% consumption is significant when we're talking about battery life.
Did you read TFA? Both Opera and Safari use more juice than IE on about:blank. IE is in a statistical dead heat with FF4 and Chrome on that one.
If I were going to buy a Windows laptop right now it would almost surely be a ThinkPad. Probably their new X220 when it comes out. All the other manufacturers' stuff seems cheaply made and ridiculous to look at. It's like they're trying to add as much "bling" as they possibly can. ThinkPad's "all black" is as close as I can get in Windows-land to Mac's "all white".
Worth noting this table? Specifically the overall rows at the top for men and women. Income for men has been flat since 1970 when adjusted for inflation. All the income gains have come from women entering the workforce, going from partial to full employment, and/or the gradual elimination of sex discrimination which drives down wages. One could also argue the cost of living has actually risen faster than official inflation measures, especially when one includes the additional costs necessitated by both partners working full time. (Day care, outsourcing tasks like cleaning and yard work, etc.)
MOS transistors were developed prior to 1970, but not by much, and they didn't really start catching on until the 1970s. Now I'm certainly not arguing causation here, but by the same token I'm not sure it's valid to suggest (via sarcasm) that the move from vacuum tubes to transistors ushered in a new golden era of prosperity.
APIs exist for a reason. They abstract out reusable functionality, which frees developers from the need to reinvent the wheel and/or maintain separate code for different types of hardware. There's always some cost in performance, but a well-designed API should minimize that cost. Take DirectX and OpenGL out of the equation and you'd see fewer games developed at a higher cost-per-game.
150 GB seems pretty generous. In months where I don't download any ISO images, my usage is around 3-4 GB/mo. That includes youtube watching, some gaming, general web browsing, and some Netflix streaming by my wife. I would imagine that 95% of AT&T's users will be in zero danger of ever hitting the 150 GB cap.
For perspective, I have the fastest DSL service available in my area at 6 Mbit/s. That's 600 KB/s. To hit 150 GB/mo my connection would have to be saturated for 69 hours. I sleep ~8 hours a night and work ~8 hours a day. In order to hit the 150 GB cap my connection would need to be saturated approximately one quarter of the time I'm at home and awake.
Alternately, one can look at it this way. My non-movie usage will probably never be above 10 GB/mo. That leaves 140 GB/mo for watching HD video. Assume the HD video completely saturates my paltry 6 Mbit/s connection. So a cap of 150 GB gives me my basic non-video web browsing/gaming plus 32 feature length (2 hour) movies per month.
With respect to the issue of anthropogenic climate change both sides level the charge of ideological bias against the other. Supporters of the anthropogenic hypothesis (which is to say "most people") charge that its opponents are driven by either short-sighted self-interest (since combating climate change is expensive) or are directly beholden to energy corporations. Opponents of the hypothesis charge that its supporters are driven either by cynical desire to advance their own careers (acquiring grants they would be less likely to receive if they deviated from the consensus view) or that they seek to manufacture a crisis in order to advance other vague political ends. In their view the only guys doing "objective science" are the ones who disagree with the consensus; all others are thought to accept the consensus in an almost "religious" (i.e. unquestioning) fashion.
The Intel X25 series was so much better than the alternatives when it came out, I was expecting more from its successor. The 510 doesn't even use an Intel-developed processor. It uses one from Marvel, which will eventually be used by other SSD manufacturers as well. And the 510 is already slower than drives based on Sandforce's newest chips, such as OCZ's Vertex 3. Lame, Intel.