Then explain how cassettes were selling less than CD's when they were first introduced?
Over time and with current gas prices, I can comprehend 17 dollar CD's, but I'm talking about before the MP3 era and before any type of internet radio. They took advantage of the excited market to keep music prices inflated and rip us off. (when we didn't have a choice)
ugh, what-ever.
every single inch of soil has some history to it. If you really think saving this place is worth time and effort, please donate some of your money.
Most of the big technology companies don't even have a 'handful' of profitable products.
Everyone knows the Internet-Advertising bubble is going to deflate. So with your logic, I'd be more worried about Google's future. Everyone needs an operating system and office suite, they don't need Adsense keywords.
No kidding. I get sick to my stomach hearing these stories over and over and over. Why does every single big government project have to be so ridiculously wasteful and completely void of any repercussions?
I doubt your civilization 4 dreams will come true It absolutely will come true. The only debate is 'when'. Hopefully the cost will drop substantially within a few years.
...you don't think you're arguments are going to last more than a few years do you?
Am I the only one underwhelmed by almost every new graphics card announcement these days?
Absolutely not, and the reason these announcements are so 'boring' is the fact the cards are never That Much better than the previous generation.
I expected to see Double the scores and Double the frame-rates from a Dual GPU card! But alas, steady incremental improvements that don't warrant the extreme cost of the device.
Maybe now that I've made that realization, I won't overhype myself from now on.
more efficient manufacturing systems, better labor relations, more collaborative relationships with suppliers, lower "legacy" costs for retirees' pensions and health benefits, and hard-earned reputations for quality.
One could easily argue this is a direct result of having cheaper labor for so many years which created higher profits on their cars, and lower overhead, blah blah.
Higher profits = innovative things like Efficient Manufacturing Systems.
I bought a more "domestic" car than if I had bought just about anything from the big three
Maybe in terms of manufacturing, but you still sent your money overseas. Buy American, have some pride.
No, i have not read the entire novel you sent me yet, I am at work. But it's probably full of mushy facts that can be twisted to fit either point of view. You can reply all you want, I am going home it is friday.
You can quote all the articles you'd like, but that doesn't disprove what was said earlier.
If you find someone to work harder and longer for less pay, of course you will get a better/cheaper product.
My point is if everyone bought American cars, they would come down in price and they would go up in quality. So while your job is being outsourced because a company wants to buy cheaper foreign software, I won't feel bad for you. Buy American, have some pride.
It has everything to do with developing domestic expertise in the field, and encouraging R&D in the country for these technologies, which can only serve as a foundation for developing even more.
Couldn't you say that about everything though? What kind of car do you drive?
Albeit, sometimes American cars are more problematic than others (probably due to a lack of domestic 'expertise' as you put it), but I'd rather buy domestic and be allowed to complain when they outsource my job to India. Instead of being the guy driving a Mercedes with a dumbfounded look on his face.
And is there any actual evidence to support these beliefs, or is it more like a creationism thing?
Sure, how about all the drugs the FDA has recalled over the past 40 years. Or the fact the scientific community STILL cannot make up their minds about the cholesterol in Eggs (good or bad).
The point is, having a gut instinct vs. blindly trusting somebody you don't know is a legitimate, built-in evolutionary response.
How many Botched surgeries have you seen online?? What about the doctor who killed Kanye West's mother??
A medical degree does NOT make you omniscient and all powerful.
There are several popular ways to achieve deterministic memory deallocation in C#.
Calling *.Dispose or put your objects inside a using block for starters.
The programming skills of the team is under question, not C# and.Net
I've had a Rhapsody account for almost a year now and I really enjoy it.
I don't care about burning CDs because I always take my Sansa (the 'mp3 player') with me everywhere I go.
Or when I'm at home the software works really well.
They constantly update their music collection and have a nice Flash interface that shows all the newly released Albums that day/week.
Honestly, I'm convinced I listen to a larger variety of music than I ever have before. I keep pretty busy and trying to illegally download albums, only to end up with something in bad quality, sometimes not even the album I was trying to get, risking RIAA citations, and having to wait became really old in college. Paying per-album isn't an option either, since a lot of the albums I do try, I will never listen to again. So this fills the gap rather nicely. (not to mention I can access my library from any computer with a web browser)
Sure I'm supporting DRM a little bit, but I develop C# applications and wouldn't mind having MS stick around for a while;)
I don't know a single person who has said, "Wow, Vista has really made my computer so much better."
Then let me be the first: Vista is a great advancement, I personally love it and find it amusing when people complain about it.
Sure the hardware requirements might be steeper than XP, but I have installed and used Ubuntu on a completely clean 1.4ghz P4, new hard drive and 768Megs of Ram (WAY above their 'minimum requirements')and it was almost too painful to bear. Once you install Beryl or any other fancy GUI, you can kiss response-time goodbye. If you want to run Gentoo command line arguements the rest of your life, thats fine, but for people who want the OS to do a little more than wait for textual inputs, Vista is pretty darn nice.
Point being: This is not the place to get a fair assessment of Vista and its capabilities.
Go ahead, blast me as a troll, but at this point everyone on these discussion lists sounds exponentially narrow-minded.
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I heard Microsoft burned every copy of Windows-ME. Along with all their source-code. That way, they are committed to using the same binaries forever.
... and yet those guys get paid next to nothing. There are more factors than just 'fulfillment' in the job market.Take Skill for example.
Roman Senators were known to live into their 60's-70's. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintus_Caecilius_Metellus_Pius
It all comes back to diet and exercise. Excessive alcohol and everyone thinking tobacco was healthy certainly didn't help anything.
You would have received my mod points if you mentioned Windows XP at some point in the dialog.
Then explain how cassettes were selling less than CD's when they were first introduced?
Over time and with current gas prices, I can comprehend 17 dollar CD's, but I'm talking about before the MP3 era and before any type of internet radio. They took advantage of the excited market to keep music prices inflated and rip us off. (when we didn't have a choice)
Please quit your job at the RIAA.
you're probably right.
but just like CD's are cheaper to produce than cassettes, that doesn't mean the cost will ever come down.
i should have finished that post with: "otherwise it wouldn't be in this situation."
ugh, what-ever.
every single inch of soil has some history to it.
If you really think saving this place is worth time and effort, please donate some of your money.
My guess is not many people feel like you do.
Most of the big technology companies don't even have a 'handful' of profitable products.
Everyone knows the Internet-Advertising bubble is going to deflate. So with your logic, I'd be more worried about Google's future. Everyone needs an operating system and office suite, they don't need Adsense keywords.
No kidding. I get sick to my stomach hearing these stories over and over and over. Why does every single big government project have to be so ridiculously wasteful and completely void of any repercussions?
The only debate is 'when'. Hopefully the cost will drop substantially within a few years.
nice, vista is apparently being used on the Compenion concept notebook here
you forgot to mention it was only 500 years ago as well.
otherwise it might not fit into the Standard Model of Creationism.
you're right, genius!
force those couch-potatoes to power their own TV's!
everyone will be fit in no time!
but that would not be a true test then.
I can also 'simulate' a black hole's event horizon by putting a shining flashlight inside a sealed tin can.
You need extreme gravity to accurately replicate a black hole, not small pulses of radiation.
Everyone on /. knows this list is simply going to be John D. Carmack 25 times in a row.
sheesh.
I expected to see Double the scores and Double the frame-rates from a Dual GPU card! But alas, steady incremental improvements that don't warrant the extreme cost of the device.
Maybe now that I've made that realization, I won't overhype myself from now on.
Higher profits = innovative things like Efficient Manufacturing Systems.
Maybe in terms of manufacturing, but you still sent your money overseas.
Buy American, have some pride.
No, i have not read the entire novel you sent me yet, I am at work. But it's probably full of mushy facts that can be twisted to fit either point of view.
You can reply all you want, I am going home it is friday.
You can quote all the articles you'd like, but that doesn't disprove what was said earlier.
If you find someone to work harder and longer for less pay, of course you will get a better/cheaper product.
My point is if everyone bought American cars, they would come down in price and they would go up in quality. So while your job is being outsourced because a company wants to buy cheaper foreign software, I won't feel bad for you. Buy American, have some pride.
What kind of car do you drive?
Albeit, sometimes American cars are more problematic than others (probably due to a lack of domestic 'expertise' as you put it), but I'd rather buy domestic and be allowed to complain when they outsource my job to India. Instead of being the guy driving a Mercedes with a dumbfounded look on his face.
Sure, how about all the drugs the FDA has recalled over the past 40 years. Or the fact the scientific community STILL cannot make up their minds about the cholesterol in Eggs (good or bad).
The point is, having a gut instinct vs. blindly trusting somebody you don't know is a legitimate, built-in evolutionary response.
How many Botched surgeries have you seen online?? What about the doctor who killed Kanye West's mother??
A medical degree does NOT make you omniscient and all powerful.
what is with all these Canadian / Japanese dual residencies?
sounds fishy to me... better start the strip searching as well...
ummm no...
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There are several popular ways to achieve deterministic memory deallocation in C#.
Calling *.Dispose or put your objects inside a using block for starters.
The programming skills of the team is under question, not C# and
I've had a Rhapsody account for almost a year now and I really enjoy it.
;)
I don't care about burning CDs because I always take my Sansa (the 'mp3 player') with me everywhere I go. Or when I'm at home the software works really well.
They constantly update their music collection and have a nice Flash interface that shows all the newly released Albums that day/week.
Honestly, I'm convinced I listen to a larger variety of music than I ever have before. I keep pretty busy and trying to illegally download albums, only to end up with something in bad quality, sometimes not even the album I was trying to get, risking RIAA citations, and having to wait became really old in college. Paying per-album isn't an option either, since a lot of the albums I do try, I will never listen to again. So this fills the gap rather nicely. (not to mention I can access my library from any computer with a web browser)
Sure I'm supporting DRM a little bit, but I develop C# applications and wouldn't mind having MS stick around for a while
Sure the hardware requirements might be steeper than XP, but I have installed and used Ubuntu on a completely clean 1.4ghz P4, new hard drive and 768Megs of Ram (WAY above their 'minimum requirements')and it was almost too painful to bear. Once you install Beryl or any other fancy GUI, you can kiss response-time goodbye.
If you want to run Gentoo command line arguements the rest of your life, thats fine, but for people who want the OS to do a little more than wait for textual inputs, Vista is pretty darn nice.
Point being: This is not the place to get a fair assessment of Vista and its capabilities.
Go ahead, blast me as a troll, but at this point everyone on these discussion lists sounds exponentially narrow-minded.