This has been mentioned in the past by Patrick Ball (see second page) and others as an excuse for human rights violations and a need for human rights agencies or pretty much anyone to move to open source. They'll find some other excuse, sure, but hopefully every little bit of additional freedom helps.
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They didn't have a lot of money, SETI@Home is born. It becomes popular, we start seeing more distributed computing apps like Folding@Home.
Consider also the increase in awareness of grid computing, and not just the individual apps. This led to BOINC, leading to the ease of installing and multitasking between World Community Grid, Rosetta@Home, and so many other projects with 'practical' applications that have produced real results -- projects that to date didn't have a grid computing infrastructure to harness for their needs. That infrastructure sprung from the mindshare generated by SETI@Home.
So let SETI keep searching for E.T. As far as I'm concerned, if the only thing that ever came out of Seti was SETI@Home, and the only thing of value that came out of that was BOINC, that's enough of a contribution to society to justify its continued existence.
In 2000, I bought a video card (Matrox G400MAX, which I'm still using) for about $160, I think. What does a video card cost today? It's hard to say, since there's a lot of variety. But speaking very generally, a video card costs about the same.
I think the pricing here has to do not with economics, but with individual consumer psychology/marketing in an oligopolistic market (matrox, ati, nvidia, and maybe a couple others). There are findings or assumptions (which I can't quote) that indicate that $99, $199, $299 are special price points for consumer goods, perhaps even consumer electronics goods -- which is why (e.g.,) mid-range VCRs have been about $200-$300 regardless of change of feature set from year to year during their heyday.
I'm sure someone can point to the specifics on this pricing model.
I'd love to see Child's Play show up near the top of the list as having one of the lowest CEO salaries or administrative expenses -- "Gamers -- Violent Psychopaths, Generous Givers, or both?"
If Target doesn't wish to have blind customers purchase from their site, why is this business decision anybody else's business.
Target doesn't have to have a blind-accessible website, and they're not entitled some God- or Constitution-given right to a corporate charter. I can't find a specific reference to it, but I've heard that corporate charters are granted in the interest that the corporation serve the public good. Target should have no problem continuing to serve their existing customer base -- just without the Federal Government intrusion of the benefits and protections of being 'incorporated'.
This is assuming that you agree that reasonably accommodating the disabled is inseparable from the public good. If you don't, that's a separately debatable matter.
Or this item, which I think was available just in time for a couple christmas's ago. I bet they could make the blade in this device out of the superstrong plastic though.
I can't help but being reminded of this guy. I think this is a strong enabling sign for children -- he represents a symbol of someone who doesn't need to take crap from scrawny weaklings like you people.
I think XP's pointer ballistics are the reason why the mouse feels smoother under windows -- it implements something akin to friction which assists in targeting UI elements. I doubt the XFree86/Xorg server is designed to insert a really tunable 'user experience' layer between the physical mouse and the pointer on the screen beyond the simple 'xset m'. Try the x2vnc experiment I mention in the bug and experience for yourself how mac/windows/linux differ in their mouse->pointer handling -- maybe you won't notice the difference.
In the Real World, you can leave your expensive laptop in your
unlocked yacht in an unguarded marina, and then leave thousands of
dollars worth of electronics equipment in a restaurant to recharge
overnight, and none of it will get stolen.
In which country/ies? I'll bet people can name countries where your stuff is guaranteed to get stolen in those situations. Heck, I had my sneakers stolen once from a common area -- after being warned by the people I was with that yes, they pretty much were guaranteed to be stolen.
Sun says it has finally figured out what's wrong. It is an odd problem
involving stray cosmic rays and memory chips in the flagship Enterprise
server line, whose models are priced at $50,000 to more than $1
million. Yet Sun won't fix all of the servers it has sold; instead it will
make repairs when it deems them necessary.
I remember hearing physicists (at the Laboratory for Astrophysics and Space
Research) saying that if that was the case, they could use those chips as
part of the most inexpensive cosmic ray detector ever made. So since then,
I may trust Forbes to understand finance, but not technology or science or
pretty much anything else.
for the right job. These languages are optimized for different kinds of problems. It's futile to compare them.
Sadly, a typical situation being presented with the wrong job, as a result of corporate miscommunication, bad product selection, accretion of code from various sources, recent FEMA appointees, etc. Considering the frequency of this, I've frequently found Perl to be the right tool or a good tool for the kinds of work that falls out from these situations. It's at least good as a prototyping tool to extract data from various sources for closer examination.
I'm going to take advice on hiring writers from an English cool-aid drinker. Sure, just the very minute I get my brain replaced with a cauliflower. English is an horrifically bad language. It's full of pronunciation and grammar exceptions and idioms. It enables great writers to write nuanced texts, but can make good writers produce unintelligible documentation, and makes bad writers think they r the 1337. Feh. A properly trained, incentivized and provisioned Esperanto team can run rings around an English team in terms of clean text produced, as well as (more importantly) cost to develop and cost to maintain, since it's so uniform in its phonetics and syntax.
Expressiveness in a language can be used for good (see Perl::Critic) or evil (obfuscation).
No mod points for me today, but I notice this in day-to-day work all the time. I'm very interested in references to studies like that as I think it says something that could drastically improve the non-gaming Linux desktop experience.
I don't remember where I read this, but there was a business article describing pricing that said if you want to compete with a monopolistic product (I think it was Microsoft Access), you need to price your offering *higher* than theirs. This is to give the impression that going with you will provide you an advantage over going with the crowd, or that your product is better quality.
Considering that MS Office is a tried and tested solution with a huge support network, a product can't really compete on being a little bit worse (i.e., a raft of unknown headaches) for a few bucks less. I bet you'll find more people who'll pay 10% more for a 10% better product than 10% less for a 10% worse product. If your perception of 'worse' or 'better' in a given situation skews those numbers, the choice becomes easier or harder, but it still kind of boils down to your cost/quality curve. And I'd suspect Linux power users are more concerned with quality than cost.
Buying my first house for my family makes the Value vs. Fanboy-ism a much more difficult decision.
It's a one-shot purchase (not recurring) and not a significant chunk of your mortgage, I'd not worry about it. If you went through a financial crisis, a single $250 purchase isn't going to make the difference in keeping/losing your house a month longer/earlier.
On the other hand, taking the money you save and spending it on one of these or the 10-cup model will save you a bunch of time. So you might want to go with the cheaper system. But probably not because of the house purchase.
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This has been mentioned in the past by Patrick Ball (see second page) and others as an excuse for human rights violations and a need for human rights agencies or pretty much anyone to move to open source. They'll find some other excuse, sure, but hopefully every little bit of additional freedom helps.
Consider also the increase in awareness of grid computing, and not just the individual apps. This led to BOINC, leading to the ease of installing and multitasking between World Community Grid, Rosetta@Home, and so many other projects with 'practical' applications that have produced real results -- projects that to date didn't have a grid computing infrastructure to harness for their needs. That infrastructure sprung from the mindshare generated by SETI@Home.
So let SETI keep searching for E.T. As far as I'm concerned, if the only thing that ever came out of Seti was SETI@Home, and the only thing of value that came out of that was BOINC, that's enough of a contribution to society to justify its continued existence.
I think the pricing here has to do not with economics, but with individual consumer psychology/marketing in an oligopolistic market (matrox, ati, nvidia, and maybe a couple others). There are findings or assumptions (which I can't quote) that indicate that $99, $199, $299 are special price points for consumer goods, perhaps even consumer electronics goods -- which is why (e.g.,) mid-range VCRs have been about $200-$300 regardless of change of feature set from year to year during their heyday. I'm sure someone can point to the specifics on this pricing model.
There, fixed that for you.
I'd love to see Child's Play show up near the top of the list as having one of the lowest CEO salaries or administrative expenses -- "Gamers -- Violent Psychopaths, Generous Givers, or both?"
suspect they'll head over to the rodents at NIMH, start pushing past them in the mazes, call them names, and give them wedgies.
Target doesn't have to have a blind-accessible website, and they're not entitled some God- or Constitution-given right to a corporate charter. I can't find a specific reference to it, but I've heard that corporate charters are granted in the interest that the corporation serve the public good. Target should have no problem continuing to serve their existing customer base -- just without the Federal Government intrusion of the benefits and protections of being 'incorporated'.
This is assuming that you agree that reasonably accommodating the disabled is inseparable from the public good. If you don't, that's a separately debatable matter.
Ok, now I'm confused ... so he's assisting us in our foreign policy?
Hell, I don't want my cell phone knowing about my eating habits.
Or this item, which I think was available just in time for a couple christmas's ago. I bet they could make the blade in this device out of the superstrong plastic though.
I can't help but being reminded of this guy. I think this is a strong enabling sign for children -- he represents a symbol of someone who doesn't need to take crap from scrawny weaklings like you people.
I think XP's pointer ballistics are the reason why the mouse feels smoother under windows -- it implements something akin to friction which assists in targeting UI elements. I doubt the XFree86/Xorg server is designed to insert a really tunable 'user experience' layer between the physical mouse and the pointer on the screen beyond the simple 'xset m'. Try the x2vnc experiment I mention in the bug and experience for yourself how mac/windows/linux differ in their mouse->pointer handling -- maybe you won't notice the difference.
In which country/ies? I'll bet people can name countries where your stuff is guaranteed to get stolen in those situations. Heck, I had my sneakers stolen once from a common area -- after being warned by the people I was with that yes, they pretty much were guaranteed to be stolen.
Sun says it has finally figured out what's wrong. It is an odd problem involving stray cosmic rays and memory chips in the flagship Enterprise server line, whose models are priced at $50,000 to more than $1 million. Yet Sun won't fix all of the servers it has sold; instead it will make repairs when it deems them necessary.
I remember hearing physicists (at the Laboratory for Astrophysics and Space Research) saying that if that was the case, they could use those chips as part of the most inexpensive cosmic ray detector ever made. So since then, I may trust Forbes to understand finance, but not technology or science or pretty much anything else.
or less user-friendly than the CIC XO.
Sadly, a typical situation being presented with the wrong job, as a result of corporate miscommunication, bad product selection, accretion of code from various sources, recent FEMA appointees, etc. Considering the frequency of this, I've frequently found Perl to be the right tool or a good tool for the kinds of work that falls out from these situations. It's at least good as a prototyping tool to extract data from various sources for closer examination.
I'm going to take advice on hiring writers from an English cool-aid drinker. Sure, just the very minute I get my brain replaced with a cauliflower. English is an horrifically bad language. It's full of pronunciation and grammar exceptions and idioms. It enables great writers to write nuanced texts, but can make good writers produce unintelligible documentation, and makes bad writers think they r the 1337. Feh. A properly trained, incentivized and provisioned Esperanto team can run rings around an English team in terms of clean text produced, as well as (more importantly) cost to develop and cost to maintain, since it's so uniform in its phonetics and syntax.
Expressiveness in a language can be used for good (see Perl::Critic) or evil (obfuscation).
Stupid internet-age text-skimming mental optimizations.
> Yours is the classic "majority rules" position.
Maybe that's the problem with your conflicting perspectives -- you just need to try different positions.
No mod points for me today, but I notice this in day-to-day work all the time. I'm very interested in references to studies like that as I think it says something that could drastically improve the non-gaming Linux desktop experience.
Considering that MS Office is a tried and tested solution with a huge support network, a product can't really compete on being a little bit worse (i.e., a raft of unknown headaches) for a few bucks less. I bet you'll find more people who'll pay 10% more for a 10% better product than 10% less for a 10% worse product. If your perception of 'worse' or 'better' in a given situation skews those numbers, the choice becomes easier or harder, but it still kind of boils down to your cost/quality curve. And I'd suspect Linux power users are more concerned with quality than cost.
It's a one-shot purchase (not recurring) and not a significant chunk of your mortgage, I'd not worry about it. If you went through a financial crisis, a single $250 purchase isn't going to make the difference in keeping/losing your house a month longer/earlier.
On the other hand, taking the money you save and spending it on one of these or the 10-cup model will save you a bunch of time. So you might want to go with the cheaper system. But probably not because of the house purchase.
Try hit-a-hint. Works great, especially if you change the default keys to asdfqwer from the number keys.
You're way too pessimistic. This is a step in the right direction! Finally, you can say with confidence that you verifiably voted for Kodos.