Actually, it is possible to define the value of products and services in other ways than just "what people are willing to pay for them". An example of this would be a hypothetical economy where the value of products and services is determined by the resources (labor, energy and and raw materials) required for providing said products and services.
/Mikael
Say I take some duct tape, and a bunch of the latest nvidia graphics cards. I take the main chip off each card, remove all legs and stick them together with the duct tape in the shape of a chair.
What do I get: A - a chair worth several thousand dollars, because it required expensive ressources to make, and my hour of labor isn't really cheap? B - a useless pile of crap not worth its weight in dirt, because nobody would ever want to buy it and I can't use it since I'm likely to break my back as soon as I sit on it?
true. But (like being taught) experience alone is not always enough. Often being taught something then get (a good amount of) experience with it is the only way to truly understand something.
The name is not new, dragonfly has been in opera for something like 2 years.
Since it can not possibly be mistaken for dragonfly bsd, I think it's not a real problem. If you want your product name not to be used for something else, start by not using an existing word.
Creating a good database (or object) model, or code structure is not something trivial and usually self-made programmers are not the best in those fields.
advantages of multiple cores are not so evident when dealing with real-time physics/rendering/etc. If all your processes must communicate with each other constantly, you lose the benefits of having each process processed by a different core.
Nope. Just mono and wine... no need for wine...Linux has plenty of native apps to handle what wine might bring, but who wants to have safe, but never lock it.
Wine brings me the ability to play Tales of Monkey Island. I'd like to know the name of the native linux app that can handle this.
Until there's a real market for games editor to develop games that work on linux, wine will be necessary for linux to be a viable choice on a personnal desktop computer for a lot of people.
The part you quoted, yes, but not the part that kicked the whole thing off: he noticed someone's Facebook status update on his home screen widget.
Correct. But the person trapped could have just as easily sent a text message to the people he's friends with instead of updating his facebook page and hoping someone would see the status update.
If you are in the middle of a disaster where you don't know anything about the situation outside the building that just collapsed on you, you'd want your message to reach a large number of people to be certain it can reach at least one person who can help you. You can only text a limited number of person and you never know if the message arrived, or if there is someone still alive to read it. With facebook you know you will reach people you would not have thought of, or whose phone number you don't have. I think the best to do is to use everything you can: text messages to every contact in your phone, and facebook/twitter/etc updates.
I really wish Opera would just go away already. I'm quite happy with IE8/Safari4/Firefox3 lineage no more players needed thank you.
Opera has the source of most big innovations in browsers for quite some years now. If it disappeared, where would firefox addons developpers find ideas of new features to implement?
Instead of porting opera mini on every existing platform, why not assign more resources to do the same for opera mobile, or at least make opera mini as good as opera mobile?
I paid to use opera mobile on my windows mobile phone (htc tytn II), and would gladly pay again to be able to use it on my android phone. I have opera mini on it, it is not usable at all.
I usually use eclipse PDT on windows, but it doesn't scale well with really big projects (anything base on ez publish, a CMS often used in the company I work for): the code completion system becomes a nightmare, as everytime I begin typing a function name it freezes several seconds as if parsing every file on the hard drive to find if it already exists somewhere. I tried netbeans, and the problem is the same. I end up with and IDE where the only features I use are syntax coloring, functions folding, and file structure outline.
On smaller projets it's very useful to jump to the defincition of a class/function just by hitting F3 while the cursor is on the function name, regardless of what file it is declared in. I really miss it on big projects, where it could be even more useful.
I use both at work, and often I open.doc files in OO.o rather than MSO because MSO doesn't want to print images on the office printer (not a matter of settings or drivers - I tried everything).
And OOo doesn't takes the entire system down with it when it crashes.
You know, that's a bizarre occurance. Slashdot takes down sites so much the name has become a verb. Yet, nobody reads the article before posting. How do so many geeks manage that? I mean, I post my knee-jerk reactions to a site, but at least I have the courtesy to not cost them bandwidth.
I usually open the link in a new tab, post a comment, then read the article (or just close the tab without reading it)
Slashdot Mirror
Guess I'm nobody, since I have no facebook account LOL
You are nobody, not because you don't have a facebook account but because you just ended a sentence with an all-caps 'lol'.
A potential employeur might use this algorithm to predict my graduation year and area of study instead of just looking at the resume I sent him?
Scary.
Video games kill people!
the stream would be broken up due to distance and there wouldn't be a continuous path for the electrical current to follow.
Depends on how many beers you had.
Actually, it is possible to define the value of products and services in other ways than just "what people are willing to pay for them". An example of this would be a hypothetical economy where the value of products and services is determined by the resources (labor, energy and and raw materials) required for providing said products and services.
/Mikael
Say I take some duct tape, and a bunch of the latest nvidia graphics cards.
I take the main chip off each card, remove all legs and stick them together with the duct tape in the shape of a chair.
What do I get:
A - a chair worth several thousand dollars, because it required expensive ressources to make, and my hour of labor isn't really cheap?
B - a useless pile of crap not worth its weight in dirt, because nobody would ever want to buy it and I can't use it since I'm likely to break my back as soon as I sit on it?
true.
But (like being taught) experience alone is not always enough. Often being taught something then get (a good amount of) experience with it is the only way to truly understand something.
Here:
Since the inception of Opera Dragonfly, [...]
Irrelevant.
What we want is the "Intimate Apparel/Swimsuit" classified pages.
The name is not new, dragonfly has been in opera for something like 2 years.
Since it can not possibly be mistaken for dragonfly bsd, I think it's not a real problem. If you want your product name not to be used for something else, start by not using an existing word.
Creating a good database (or object) model, or code structure is not something trivial and usually self-made programmers are not the best in those fields.
advantages of multiple cores are not so evident when dealing with real-time physics/rendering/etc.
If all your processes must communicate with each other constantly, you lose the benefits of having each process processed by a different core.
Nope. Just mono and wine... no need for wine.. .Linux has plenty of native apps to handle what wine might bring, but who wants to have safe, but never lock it.
Wine brings me the ability to play Tales of Monkey Island.
I'd like to know the name of the native linux app that can handle this.
Until there's a real market for games editor to develop games that work on linux, wine will be necessary for linux to be a viable choice on a personnal desktop computer for a lot of people.
Seriously. Pitch Black was one of the best movies I'd seen in years.
Pitch black was one of the only movies I'd seen in years that deserved to be labelled as Science Fiction.
Make the phone only see the apps approved by its carrier and your problem goes away.
The part you quoted, yes, but not the part that kicked the whole thing off: he noticed someone's Facebook status update on his home screen widget.
Correct. But the person trapped could have just as easily sent a text message to the people he's friends with instead of updating his facebook page and hoping someone would see the status update.
If you are in the middle of a disaster where you don't know anything about the situation outside the building that just collapsed on you, you'd want your message to reach a large number of people to be certain it can reach at least one person who can help you. You can only text a limited number of person and you never know if the message arrived, or if there is someone still alive to read it. With facebook you know you will reach people you would not have thought of, or whose phone number you don't have.
I think the best to do is to use everything you can: text messages to every contact in your phone, and facebook/twitter/etc updates.
you got a point, even more if we only count web-capable mp3 players.
Last time I checked the beta was not available for android phones (my wm phone was stolen a year ago).
I really wish Opera would just go away already. I'm quite happy with IE8/Safari4/Firefox3 lineage no more players needed thank you.
Opera has the source of most big innovations in browsers for quite some years now. If it disappeared, where would firefox addons developpers find ideas of new features to implement?
Instead of porting opera mini on every existing platform, why not assign more resources to do the same for opera mobile, or at least make opera mini as good as opera mobile?
I paid to use opera mobile on my windows mobile phone (htc tytn II), and would gladly pay again to be able to use it on my android phone. I have opera mini on it, it is not usable at all.
Difference is, apple does not have the same market-share on smartphone OSes as microsoft has on desktop OSes.
the physics of Quake 1 still has a legacy today (rocket jumping, bunny hopping).
And how is that a good thing exactly?
I usually use eclipse PDT on windows, but it doesn't scale well with really big projects (anything base on ez publish, a CMS often used in the company I work for): the code completion system becomes a nightmare, as everytime I begin typing a function name it freezes several seconds as if parsing every file on the hard drive to find if it already exists somewhere.
I tried netbeans, and the problem is the same. I end up with and IDE where the only features I use are syntax coloring, functions folding, and file structure outline.
On smaller projets it's very useful to jump to the defincition of a class/function just by hitting F3 while the cursor is on the function name, regardless of what file it is declared in. I really miss it on big projects, where it could be even more useful.
OOo is better than MSO in some ways.
I use both at work, and often I open .doc files in OO.o rather than MSO because MSO doesn't want to print images on the office printer (not a matter of settings or drivers - I tried everything).
And OOo doesn't takes the entire system down with it when it crashes.
You know, that's a bizarre occurance. Slashdot takes down sites so much the name has become a verb. Yet, nobody reads the article before posting. How do so many geeks manage that? I mean, I post my knee-jerk reactions to a site, but at least I have the courtesy to not cost them bandwidth.
I usually open the link in a new tab, post a comment, then read the article (or just close the tab without reading it)
the scan takes less time.
Movies and television. I live in Germany and exclusively watch US TV because German TV is shit.
So much for english speaking people who want to learn german.