Presumably you also object to paying the "tax" on every item you purchase, to cover the costs of marketing that product? You have zero choice about paying that, and it even goes to fund TV channels that you can't receive (or have to pay for twice).
You also have to pay to cover the marketing budgets for *every other product you ever buy*. These budgets fund the adverts on all commercial TV stations, which you don't watch either.
You have even less choice about paying for commercial TV than you do for the BBC. And you get less benefit.
Gee, if only plants grew faster in elevated CO2 environments.
Gee, if only plants grew faster when the temperature is higher. You know, like all chemical reactions go faster in higher ambient temperatures.
You're assuming that somehow there's a fixed quantity of biomass on the surface, which won't absorb any extra CO2, and not a dynamic equilibrium where you can move the point of balance by changing the supply of one of the inputs.
Storing and processing the email of millions of users could be a good way to make PageRank more effective. What's a more valuable indicator of a page's importance than for its URL to be sent in an email ("hey! check this out" )?
Of course, their spam control would need to be stellar...
Disclaimer: I have a PhD in Computer Science, from a well-respected UK university.
It got me my first job. However, it played no part in my subsequent career. I got my first job simply through following a channel that already existed for other PhD students in the same lab.
Don't do a PhD if your primary motivation is career opportunity. It takes a minimum of 3 years here (I took exactly 3 years simply because that's when the money ran out!) and in the US it will probably take twice that long. You will not further your career in IT by getting a PhD alone.
That said, if you want to do a PhD look at the reasons you have for doing it. Find a topic that really interests you. You need to be tenacious, dedicated, and frankly devote a lot of your life to it for the next few years. Personally I did it for two reasons: vanity (shallow I know, but I still get a kick out being a Dr) and because I felt that up until the end of my BSc I hadn't proved much more to myself than that I had a good memory. Other people have their own motivations I'm sure, and I suspect most people's are different.
It is very unlikely that you will learn to be a better developer by doing a PhD. In my experience nothing except developing large quantitites of software for other people will do that, combined with a hunger for knowledge (which will also set you in good stead for a PhD course).
Ad-funded TV isn't a fair business model either. The money that pays for those programmes comes from the manufacturers of the products in the adverts. You, as a consumer, pay for those products.
And it doesn't matter which products you buy and which you don't - every company has a marketing budget so as long as you consume you're being forced to pay for commercial TV - whether you watch those channels or not, whether you can even *receive* those channels or not.
The link posted in the article is now dead. The only link to Quicksilver in Amazon UK now is for the paperback version and this is not out until 6 March 2003!
What should you do with something this size and resolution?
Obvious - and I've been wanting one of these for years: turn the screen into a desk.
Angle it like a draughtsmans board, overlay a touch-sensitive membrane, add a keyboard (real or virtual, I don't care). You save space, your ergonomic issues with the monitor size and placement are solved (although you may introduce others!), and you truly have a "virtual desktop" to use. I bet you'll start to keep hundreds of documents open simultaneously just to simulte those piles of paper littering your real desk.
That's completely false. Although I don't have a very high opinion of The Telegraph, Keegan's article placed no blame on the Internet. He simply stated what the US would have to do to stop people organising these acts over the Net. I see no words advocating these actions - just predictions of what could happen.
BTW The Telegraph is a broadsheet, not a tabloid (or are you referring to the writing?). And the British press is one of the best informed in the world (except when it comes to the Internet).
I agree that there's no evidence of Internet-based organisation, though. I think he pulled that one out of his backside.
Unit Testing is just one of the pillars of XP. Refactoring is another. You should expect to go back and change your code to fit in with ever changing requirements. And that means at the high level as well.
Your point about tags is well-taken. But you can compress the content too. Using 8 bits for every character is very inefficient, especially considering that there are only 128 characters to represent. With the right scheme, you could certainly get the average character width to somewhere between 4 and 5 bits.
128 charcters? Tell that to the Unicode Consortium. You might still live in an ASCII world but the rest of us don't.
XML documents can be 99% tags and 1% data - just look at RDF if you want an example. The point is that many of these "bandwidth-wasting" artifacts also carry useful information which depends on there being a portable approach to defining and referencing industry specific schema (or XML applications, to use the W3C terminology). The reason XML is getting popular, apart from marketing, is that it's a great way to attach metadata to your objects/documents.
If recording on to a hard drive *were* illegal, wouldn't TiVo be out of business? Presumably the networks were sufficiently discouraged by the ruling not to chase after them?
The "apps via the web conecpt" is not a loser. If you want evidence, just look at the hundreds of millions of people who use email via hotmail/yahoo/100 other webmail services. There are millions of users out there who don't know what SMTP/POP is, and who don't use a mail client program.
An application is simply a set of presentation + logic that performs a task. Web pages are more than capable of doing this. Applets are more than capable of doing this. I trade stocks via the web, do all my banking via an applet, sometimes read mail, pay bills, do accounting for my contracting company, all from inside a browser. Web services are here, they are a reality, but they will not look the same as the big monolithic apps we use today.
Applets have a big problem, which is they exist is splendid isolation. An applet has little opportunity for interaction with the context it finds itself in - the browser. The client-side programming environment is pitifully poor and this is what is holding back the development of more powerful web-delivered apps.
Successful web-app development will probably lie, for the near future at least, with vertical market niches. Where Red Hat can help is by striving to provide a software context where these services can run safely and reliably. I wouldn't expect Red Hat to run the services themselves.
Many of these methods are for accessibility and speed reasons. Simply having many ways to do something is not inherently bad. Or does this mean that Perl is a bad way to get stuff done?
A good UI should give me several ways to get at things, with a single click for frequently used items, or several clicks through menus etc. for less frequently used items. Windows does this pretty will, IMHO.
MSN is free in the UK, because almost all ISPs are free in the UK. In fact it's getting difficult to get through a single day without being offered a new free ISP by someone. All self-respecting companies now offer ISP services - the most sinister being supermarkets. That's if you don't count the per-minute phone charges, of course.
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Presumably you also object to paying the "tax" on every item you purchase, to cover the costs of marketing that product? You have zero choice about paying that, and it even goes to fund TV channels that you can't receive (or have to pay for twice).
Everyone except you.
You also have to pay to cover the marketing budgets for *every other product you ever buy*. These budgets fund the adverts on all commercial TV stations, which you don't watch either.
You have even less choice about paying for commercial TV than you do for the BBC. And you get less benefit.
File->Open External File
Wasn't that hard, was it?
Gee, if only plants grew faster in elevated CO2 environments.
Gee, if only plants grew faster when the temperature is higher. You know, like all chemical reactions go faster in higher ambient temperatures.
You're assuming that somehow there's a fixed quantity of biomass on the surface, which won't absorb any extra CO2, and not a dynamic equilibrium where you can move the point of balance by changing the supply of one of the inputs.
The difference is that its trivial to remove the DRM, obviously.
Storing and processing the email of millions of users could be a good way to make PageRank more effective. What's a more valuable indicator of a page's importance than for its URL to be sent in an email ("hey! check this out" )?
Of course, their spam control would need to be stellar...
1 UKP == 1.15 USD? More like 1.80 right now.
Anyway, if you pay more than UKP 9 for a 'chart' CD in the UK you're an idiot. That would be more like USD 15.
High street stores will try and charge more, of course.
Disclaimer: I have a PhD in Computer Science, from a well-respected UK university.
It got me my first job. However, it played no part in my subsequent career. I got my first job simply through following a channel that already existed for other PhD students in the same lab.
Don't do a PhD if your primary motivation is career opportunity. It takes a minimum of 3 years here (I took exactly 3 years simply because that's when the money ran out!) and in the US it will probably take twice that long. You will not further your career in IT by getting a PhD alone.
That said, if you want to do a PhD look at the reasons you have for doing it. Find a topic that really interests you. You need to be tenacious, dedicated, and frankly devote a lot of your life to it for the next few years. Personally I did it for two reasons: vanity (shallow I know, but I still get a kick out being a Dr) and because I felt that up until the end of my BSc I hadn't proved much more to myself than that I had a good memory. Other people have their own motivations I'm sure, and I suspect most people's are different.
It is very unlikely that you will learn to be a better developer by doing a PhD. In my experience nothing except developing large quantitites of software for other people will do that, combined with a hunger for knowledge (which will also set you in good stead for a PhD course).
...not to mention better ways to deliver stock quotes and sports results to us.
Yep - a definite market for a small joystick attachment to replace the flip.
Ad-funded TV isn't a fair business model either. The money that pays for those programmes comes from the manufacturers of the products in the adverts. You, as a consumer, pay for those products.
And it doesn't matter which products you buy and which you don't - every company has a marketing budget so as long as you consume you're being forced to pay for commercial TV - whether you watch those channels or not, whether you can even *receive* those channels or not.
The link posted in the article is now dead. The only link to Quicksilver in Amazon UK now is for the paperback version and this is not out until 6 March 2003!
What should you do with something this size and resolution?
Obvious - and I've been wanting one of these for years: turn the screen into a desk.
Angle it like a draughtsmans board, overlay a touch-sensitive membrane, add a keyboard (real or virtual, I don't care). You save space, your ergonomic issues with the monitor size and placement are solved (although you may introduce others!), and you truly have a "virtual desktop" to use. I bet you'll start to keep hundreds of documents open simultaneously just to simulte those piles of paper littering your real desk.
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That's completely false. Although I don't have a very high opinion of The Telegraph, Keegan's article placed no blame on the Internet. He simply stated what the US would have to do to stop people organising these acts over the Net. I see no words advocating these actions - just predictions of what could happen.
BTW The Telegraph is a broadsheet, not a tabloid (or are you referring to the writing?). And the British press is one of the best informed in the world (except when it comes to the Internet).
I agree that there's no evidence of Internet-based organisation, though. I think he pulled that one out of his backside.
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128 charcters? Tell that to the Unicode Consortium. You might still live in an ASCII world but the rest of us don't.
XML documents can be 99% tags and 1% data - just look at RDF if you want an example. The point is that many of these "bandwidth-wasting" artifacts also carry useful information which depends on there being a portable approach to defining and referencing industry specific schema (or XML applications, to use the W3C terminology). The reason XML is getting popular, apart from marketing, is that it's a great way to attach metadata to your objects/documents.
If recording on to a hard drive *were* illegal, wouldn't TiVo be out of business? Presumably the networks were sufficiently discouraged by the ruling not to chase after them?
The "apps via the web conecpt" is not a loser. If you want evidence, just look at the hundreds of millions of people who use email via hotmail/yahoo/100 other webmail services. There are millions of users out there who don't know what SMTP/POP is, and who don't use a mail client program. An application is simply a set of presentation + logic that performs a task. Web pages are more than capable of doing this. Applets are more than capable of doing this. I trade stocks via the web, do all my banking via an applet, sometimes read mail, pay bills, do accounting for my contracting company, all from inside a browser. Web services are here, they are a reality, but they will not look the same as the big monolithic apps we use today. Applets have a big problem, which is they exist is splendid isolation. An applet has little opportunity for interaction with the context it finds itself in - the browser. The client-side programming environment is pitifully poor and this is what is holding back the development of more powerful web-delivered apps. Successful web-app development will probably lie, for the near future at least, with vertical market niches. Where Red Hat can help is by striving to provide a software context where these services can run safely and reliably. I wouldn't expect Red Hat to run the services themselves.
Many of these methods are for accessibility and speed reasons. Simply having many ways to do something is not inherently bad. Or does this mean that Perl is a bad way to get stuff done?
A good UI should give me several ways to get at things, with a single click for frequently used items, or several clicks through menus etc. for less frequently used items. Windows does this pretty will, IMHO.
MSN is free in the UK, because almost all ISPs are free in the UK. In fact it's getting difficult to get through a single day without being offered a new free ISP by someone. All self-respecting companies now offer ISP services - the most sinister being supermarkets. That's if you don't count the per-minute phone charges, of course.