It's not necessarily the business or even home users who have 2 year old systems who are upgrading to the latest technology. It's those who have 3 to 4 year old systems already in need of upgrade, those who want a system that is going to carry them through the OS'es and software that will be released in the next 3 to 4 years.
Precisely; this is why I just built a C2D 6400 to replace my frigging old P3 600MHz. The C2D, at 2.13GHz, encodes a DVD twice as fast as my other decent machine (a P4 2.8GHz). The C2D will last the next 5 years and all I'll have to do is throw extra drives on the 4 SATA ports than came on the mobo and maybe double the RAM to 2Gigs.
That's a completely flawed anology. You're equating eating- a basic need, and the orginized process of feeding a population, with a measure of conveience that people didn't want to give up. eating = need slavery = not a need
Not quite. I'm comparing unnecessary slavery, for convenience, to unnecessarily eating an animal where there is enough food in the plant kingdom for everyone, for taste (or whatever other trivial reason there may be).
Ethical issues? We've been raising animals for food for thousands of years, it has been one of the keys to our dominance as a species. Don't believe everything PETA tells you.
Let's pretend it's 100 years ago and change a couple of words:
Ethical issues? We've been using slaves to work our land for thousands of years, it has been one of the keys to our dominance as a race. Don't believe everything Abraham Lincoln tells you.
I find myself agreeing here. The upset geologists should try learning Japanese to get some perspective on word reuse. Just two definitions of one term? Oh the luxury.
And in fact the meteor is the light trail itself, not the lump of matter that creates the light trail by burning (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/meteor). The lump is called a meteoroid and any part of it that hits the Earth as anything more than vapour is a meteorite.
Of course this hogwash is coloured by one person's definition of success. Having enough money to feed evey person on the globe, without actually doing so, is not necessarily everyone's primary goal in life (whether a capitalist can believe that or not).
Agreed. Valve has been helping indie games meet huge audiences through Steam for a while now - Ragdoll Kung Fu and Darwinia are two good examples of games that would not have seen the same sales without Steam and Valve's backing.
Steam itself cuts through much of the crap the summary mentioned; marketing and distrubution are both done by Valve's site and the Steam platform.
...M-16 has a reputation as a plastic toy that fired 'varmit rounds' (22 caliber)
5.56mm NATO rounds are NOT.22 long rifle (as would be used for rabbits etc). The round is specifically designed for killing people at close(ish) ranges and remains to this day an effective choice for doing so.
Also, as anyone who has had ANY contact with the military would know, it's not a "gun", it's a "rifle." "Guns" are either the machine gun, the operator of which you are trying to keep alive, or the Artillery (whose forward observer you are also trying to keep alive).
Yes, the rovers are a win; however, completely losing orbiters because you can't work out whether you are using Imperial or Metric units is inexcusable (BTW America, the answer should be Metric - welcome to the 21st century).
Don't be afraid. If you don't know how to do something, poke around. You probably won't break anything.
I can see you haven't worked on a helpdesk before.
This is more a test of one's computer literacy; in fact the measure of computer literacy is inversely proportional to how many clicks it takes to completely destroy a newly installed system by "poking around."
Why not go one step even further and print the message on paper and send it that way; or even one step further and carve it onto stone tablets and get some guy in a robe to deliver it and proclaim it from the nearest hill?
I expect my email to arrive shortly after the sender wrote it, because if someone is emailing me it's for a good reason and I want to know what they have to say. This is one of the infinite benefits of having 0 friends - I get left alone to actually do some work and email is my primary communication tool for getting that work done.
So instead of spending money on bandwidth and phonecalls, the employer spends the money on your salary for Big Brother tactics that reduce morale. Good plan.
As a telecommuter, I DO provide my own bandwidth for work, my own cellphone and my own personal email. Oh yes; I work for one of those Governmental shops where firing people is difficult. See, the idea is to hire the right people in the first place - people who want to work, not those that work because they have to.
Whether is should be so or not, it is law that blind people have access to information in all websites, in many countries.
Having said this, people always jump on the "AJAX isn't accessible" bandwagon, which is plainly a load of crap. My AJAX apps work fine in all the popular screenreaders. How does a user know the information has changed? Provide an option for the user to turn on change notifications, which show an alert() when the page is updated.
Agreed - that's why some AJAX implementations use JSON instead. The JSON is directly evaluated in JavaScript, giving you the separation of data and presentation along with the speed and simplicity of a direct JS return. The best of both worlds.
So by your logic, when I clean your garage, and you give me twenty dollars, did I just screw you over, and were you poor?
I have yet to meet anyone who got rich by cleaning out people's garages for $20. Earning a living and getting rich are two very different things. In fact, the working poor are a growing problem.
I don't know anyone who has been made rich by taking from the poor.
Tobacco companies come to mind instantly. Smoking is predominantly a poor person's pastime and given the detrimental aspects of the behaviour I'd say that the companies screw people over in large numbers.
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Sounds like you're talking about ASP.NET and Atlas with Visual Studio ...
Or Flex 2.0 With ColdFusion 7 and Flex Builder + CFEclipse
I'm fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. Define bad.
Try to imagine every molecule in your body being slashdotted instantaneously...
Well if Chip promises it, I believe him..
Agreed, although I'd prefer if Al didn't leave Chip to speak for him, let alone make promises for him.
Ah, so you only want maths graduates to post on your blog. That would be one exciting blog.
"Future postings [to look] like this."
I [to fuck] [to hope] not...
Your calculator doesn't have a square root button? Time for a new calculator mate.
It's not necessarily the business or even home users who have 2 year old systems who are upgrading to the latest technology. It's those who have 3 to 4 year old systems already in need of upgrade, those who want a system that is going to carry them through the OS'es and software that will be released in the next 3 to 4 years.
Precisely; this is why I just built a C2D 6400 to replace my frigging old P3 600MHz. The C2D, at 2.13GHz, encodes a DVD twice as fast as my other decent machine (a P4 2.8GHz). The C2D will last the next 5 years and all I'll have to do is throw extra drives on the 4 SATA ports than came on the mobo and maybe double the RAM to 2Gigs.
When farmers have to deal with cows with guns, I'll be happier.
That's a completely flawed anology. You're equating eating- a basic need, and the orginized process of feeding a population, with a measure of conveience that people didn't want to give up. eating = need slavery = not a need
Not quite. I'm comparing unnecessary slavery, for convenience, to unnecessarily eating an animal where there is enough food in the plant kingdom for everyone, for taste (or whatever other trivial reason there may be).
eating = need
eating animals = not a need
Ethical issues? We've been raising animals for food for thousands of years, it has been one of the keys to our dominance as a species. Don't believe everything PETA tells you.
Let's pretend it's 100 years ago and change a couple of words:
Ethical issues? We've been using slaves to work our land for thousands of years, it has been one of the keys to our dominance as a race. Don't believe everything Abraham Lincoln tells you.
I find myself agreeing here. The upset geologists should try learning Japanese to get some perspective on word reuse. Just two definitions of one term? Oh the luxury.
And in fact the meteor is the light trail itself, not the lump of matter that creates the light trail by burning (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/meteor). The lump is called a meteoroid and any part of it that hits the Earth as anything more than vapour is a meteorite.
Yay for dumbing down science for the masses.
I guess that's what they get for creating a massive website using Coldfusion.
.NET platform. There's your problem right there, not CF.
Actually, they use BlueDragon.NET, which runs on the
Of course this hogwash is coloured by one person's definition of success. Having enough money to feed evey person on the globe, without actually doing so, is not necessarily everyone's primary goal in life (whether a capitalist can believe that or not).
Agreed. Valve has been helping indie games meet huge audiences through Steam for a while now - Ragdoll Kung Fu and Darwinia are two good examples of games that would not have seen the same sales without Steam and Valve's backing.
Steam itself cuts through much of the crap the summary mentioned; marketing and distrubution are both done by Valve's site and the Steam platform.
...M-16 has a reputation as a plastic toy that fired 'varmit rounds' (22 caliber)
.22 long rifle (as would be used for rabbits etc). The round is specifically designed for killing people at close(ish) ranges and remains to this day an effective choice for doing so.
5.56mm NATO rounds are NOT
Also, as anyone who has had ANY contact with the military would know, it's not a "gun", it's a "rifle." "Guns" are either the machine gun, the operator of which you are trying to keep alive, or the Artillery (whose forward observer you are also trying to keep alive).
Yes, the rovers are a win; however, completely losing orbiters because you can't work out whether you are using Imperial or Metric units is inexcusable (BTW America, the answer should be Metric - welcome to the 21st century).
Don't be afraid. If you don't know how to do something, poke around. You probably won't break anything.
I can see you haven't worked on a helpdesk before.
This is more a test of one's computer literacy; in fact the measure of computer literacy is inversely proportional to how many clicks it takes to completely destroy a newly installed system by "poking around."
http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/
I rest my case.
Why not go one step even further and print the message on paper and send it that way; or even one step further and carve it onto stone tablets and get some guy in a robe to deliver it and proclaim it from the nearest hill?
I expect my email to arrive shortly after the sender wrote it, because if someone is emailing me it's for a good reason and I want to know what they have to say. This is one of the infinite benefits of having 0 friends - I get left alone to actually do some work and email is my primary communication tool for getting that work done.
So instead of spending money on bandwidth and phonecalls, the employer spends the money on your salary for Big Brother tactics that reduce morale. Good plan.
As a telecommuter, I DO provide my own bandwidth for work, my own cellphone and my own personal email. Oh yes; I work for one of those Governmental shops where firing people is difficult. See, the idea is to hire the right people in the first place - people who want to work, not those that work because they have to.
Whether is should be so or not, it is law that blind people have access to information in all websites, in many countries.
Having said this, people always jump on the "AJAX isn't accessible" bandwagon, which is plainly a load of crap. My AJAX apps work fine in all the popular screenreaders. How does a user know the information has changed? Provide an option for the user to turn on change notifications, which show an alert() when the page is updated.
Agreed - that's why some AJAX implementations use JSON instead. The JSON is directly evaluated in JavaScript, giving you the separation of data and presentation along with the speed and simplicity of a direct JS return. The best of both worlds.
To quote the wise Ben Elton, "Human garbage expands to fill the space provided."
So by your logic, when I clean your garage, and you give me twenty dollars, did I just screw you over, and were you poor?
I have yet to meet anyone who got rich by cleaning out people's garages for $20. Earning a living and getting rich are two very different things. In fact, the working poor are a growing problem.
I don't know anyone who has been made rich by taking from the poor.
Tobacco companies come to mind instantly. Smoking is predominantly a poor person's pastime and given the detrimental aspects of the behaviour I'd say that the companies screw people over in large numbers.