Apparently you don't understand the concept of cuisine so I'll try to enlighten you. There is very little quality difference between a reasonably priced and expensive restaurans. By and large the food is pretty decent but you'll end up with mediocre food in restaurants with a Michelin star just as often as you will end up with stellar food in a more mundane place. The difference, my friend is exclusivity. There is some part in our brain (I believe it's called the Nucleus Superfluous) that makes regular stimuli more enjoyable when you have been waiting for very long. This is exactly why so many people went to see Episode One, while there was very little reason to assume it was going to be good even before it was reviewed.
The same principle holds true for restaurants. The first couple of bucks will go into food quality and better service. There is a very real difference between a $5 hamburger meal and a $15 steak. But the next $50 will go into square plates, french accents and, of course, exclusivity in the form of missed opportunity costs. You pay for the fact that they might have sold the food to the person currently waiting at the bar.
In this light you'll probably understand how downright stupid it is to share that little known Thai restaurant behind the strip mall with the rest of the planet. Before you know it, hordes of TomTom-toting patrons will crowd your once lovely restaurant. Prices will skyrocket, portions will shrink and before you know it it will obtain a Michelin star and you will have to find somewhere else to eat.
You are way too honest to make up a succesful businessmodel. Step 3 will end your income. Since noone can verify wether donations have reached the preset limit, it's clearly more profitable to omit Step 3.
Overdue? There have been three major eruptions, which is not enough to speak about 'periodic eruptions' with any degree of certainty. There are enough real problems in the world - stop worrying about the bogus ones.
That's rich, coming from one of the greatest producers of vaporware in the world.
Be that as it may, Windows Mobile is in widespread use and Android isn't yet. I have little doubt that it will be adopted with great speed, but currently Mr Ballmer does have a point.
You have to understand that the actions of your school against your are the result of their fear of negative publicity. Use this to your advantage. It looks like some of your criticism was legitimate. Contact your local newspaper and tell them about the issues you have. You have a right to proper education and if you are being denied that right, you have the right to tell people about the main reasons you are not getting the education you deserve.
Transition is the key issue. If we were to redesign the transportation system again given the current state of knowledge and technology, it would probably be vastly different than the system that is currently in place. However, there already is a system in place which is crucial for every aspect of our lives. So a feasible transition plan will have to be central in any new technology.
One huge difference between the Dutch and the US political system is that the Dutch have coalition governments. Usually (in fact this has always been the case), no party has the majority of the votes. So if the guy reviewing the electoral process were to help his own party, surely the other coalition parties (as well as the opposition parties, obviously) would be up in arms.
You only need to detect if flash is being run, because in this way you intercept all kinds of ad blocking. And hey, I know it's not an optimum solution, but GGP claimed that it was impossible to detect if the ad was actually viewed, which was simply untrue.
Now that your head has been forcibly removed from your ass, please try to contribute something relevant to the discussion.
You started with a reasonable point, so why this remark? Just because the internet allows you to say things you would never say face to face, doesn't mean it's right to do so.
I'm not sure that's true. Just have a flash ad 'ring home' to a script embedded on the site after it started displaying. Have the script fetch the actual content only if the ad has rung home. I'm not saying that it's not horrid, but it is certainly possible.
But how would the same site running on PHP run? Dedicated servers aren't free. Right now, I'm running a site with 10.000+ unique visitors per day and it runs fine on a single dedicated server. RoR is nice technology but if I'd need 5 servers + rackspace + etc for the same site it would be prohibitively expensive.
Thanks for the link. But I've already seen it and I've seen many like it. Although I don't like the language (but that's personal, I prefer C/Java type syntax) to me RoR seems extremely elegant and productive. But the reason I was asking the GGP about the specific problems he was talking about is because I keep on reading blogs about the way RoR does not scale at all. I can only consider RoR as a serious option, IF it is possible to scale RoR applications well without losing the benefits which are all touted so enthusiastically by the RoR zealots. I want to know if the performance issues I hear so much about are because of the way RoR works, or because of the way RoR is used.
You can't quote a microwave in a college paper either, but it's certainly useful.
But seriously, Not every source has to be academical to be of use. For many subjects, wikipedia is an excellent starting point. You might want to take lemmata on controversial subjects like Palestine and the Evolution with a grain of salt, but for many a subject the articles on wikipedia are of excellent quality.
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Apparently you don't understand the concept of cuisine so I'll try to enlighten you. There is very little quality difference between a reasonably priced and expensive restaurans. By and large the food is pretty decent but you'll end up with mediocre food in restaurants with a Michelin star just as often as you will end up with stellar food in a more mundane place. The difference, my friend is exclusivity. There is some part in our brain (I believe it's called the Nucleus Superfluous) that makes regular stimuli more enjoyable when you have been waiting for very long. This is exactly why so many people went to see Episode One, while there was very little reason to assume it was going to be good even before it was reviewed.
The same principle holds true for restaurants. The first couple of bucks will go into food quality and better service. There is a very real difference between a $5 hamburger meal and a $15 steak. But the next $50 will go into square plates, french accents and, of course, exclusivity in the form of missed opportunity costs. You pay for the fact that they might have sold the food to the person currently waiting at the bar.
In this light you'll probably understand how downright stupid it is to share that little known Thai restaurant behind the strip mall with the rest of the planet. Before you know it, hordes of TomTom-toting patrons will crowd your once lovely restaurant. Prices will skyrocket, portions will shrink and before you know it it will obtain a Michelin star and you will have to find somewhere else to eat.
You are way too honest to make up a succesful businessmodel. Step 3 will end your income. Since noone can verify wether donations have reached the preset limit, it's clearly more profitable to omit Step 3.
Maybe Tata will become better known as
Toy
Apu
Totalled
Again
Unbelievable! Especially since the Punto is only 8 times as expensive. You are comparing apples and golden oranges.
David Kelly would beg to differ.
Overdue? There have been three major eruptions, which is not enough to speak about 'periodic eruptions' with any degree of certainty. There are enough real problems in the world - stop worrying about the bogus ones.
Now clicking his name does redirects to his blog.
So don't click on his name.
That's rich, coming from one of the greatest producers of vaporware in the world.
Be that as it may, Windows Mobile is in widespread use and Android isn't yet. I have little doubt that it will be adopted with great speed, but currently Mr Ballmer does have a point.
Moving the furniture shouldn't be a problem.
You have to understand that the actions of your school against your are the result of their fear of negative publicity. Use this to your advantage. It looks like some of your criticism was legitimate. Contact your local newspaper and tell them about the issues you have. You have a right to proper education and if you are being denied that right, you have the right to tell people about the main reasons you are not getting the education you deserve.
You, Sir, should pick up a Monty Python DVD. You might end up amusing yourself along the way.
Transition is the key issue. If we were to redesign the transportation system again given the current state of knowledge and technology, it would probably be vastly different than the system that is currently in place. However, there already is a system in place which is crucial for every aspect of our lives. So a feasible transition plan will have to be central in any new technology.
That depends - was it supposed to be Dutch or Japanese?
Are plural and singular the same thing?
For a fairly entertaining, albeit over-the-top reading on that subject, you might consider picking up 'Next', by Michael Crichton
You are confusing 'anecdote' with 'data'. They are two vastly different things.
One huge difference between the Dutch and the US political system is that the Dutch have coalition governments. Usually (in fact this has always been the case), no party has the majority of the votes. So if the guy reviewing the electoral process were to help his own party, surely the other coalition parties (as well as the opposition parties, obviously) would be up in arms.
Well, they did consider Reese Witherspoon for the role of Muhammed Ali...
Even worse. A French hobbit.
You only need to detect if flash is being run, because in this way you intercept all kinds of ad blocking. And hey, I know it's not an optimum solution, but GGP claimed that it was impossible to detect if the ad was actually viewed, which was simply untrue.
Now that your head has been forcibly removed from your ass, please try to contribute something relevant to the discussion.
You started with a reasonable point, so why this remark? Just because the internet allows you to say things you would never say face to face, doesn't mean it's right to do so.
I'm not sure that's true. Just have a flash ad 'ring home' to a script embedded on the site after it started displaying. Have the script fetch the actual content only if the ad has rung home. I'm not saying that it's not horrid, but it is certainly possible.
But how would the same site running on PHP run? Dedicated servers aren't free. Right now, I'm running a site with 10.000+ unique visitors per day and it runs fine on a single dedicated server. RoR is nice technology but if I'd need 5 servers + rackspace + etc for the same site it would be prohibitively expensive.
Thanks for the link. But I've already seen it and I've seen many like it. Although I don't like the language (but that's personal, I prefer C/Java type syntax) to me RoR seems extremely elegant and productive. But the reason I was asking the GGP about the specific problems he was talking about is because I keep on reading blogs about the way RoR does not scale at all. I can only consider RoR as a serious option, IF it is possible to scale RoR applications well without losing the benefits which are all touted so enthusiastically by the RoR zealots. I want to know if the performance issues I hear so much about are because of the way RoR works, or because of the way RoR is used.
You can't quote a microwave in a college paper either, but it's certainly useful.
But seriously, Not every source has to be academical to be of use. For many subjects, wikipedia is an excellent starting point. You might want to take lemmata on controversial subjects like Palestine and the Evolution with a grain of salt, but for many a subject the articles on wikipedia are of excellent quality.