I propose an amendment to slashdot whereby anyone posting a "Why is this news?" post has their account deleted and ip banned. I feel confident in saying that since I have been on slashdot, there has not been a single "Why is this news?" post that added anything of value to the conversation.
It's not like Steve Jobs is preventing others from using that money. Or that anyone, for that matter, that "has" a lot of money is denying that use to other people. The only money that sits still is the money stuffed under your mattress. If you have invested it or stored it at a bank, or purchased anything really, then it is being used for all sorts of purposes like loans, paying people's salaries, R&D, etc...
Your salary has no doubt been made possible by other people's money.
Steve Jobs money is what makes a portion of that upper-middle class possible, and if they are giving regularly to causes as you suggest, then it's all good in the end.
If they complied from the start, there wouldn't have been any press at all. Now they have it.
Just like at most businesses, it's not the engineers who get it right from the start that get credit. It's the ones who screw things up and then heroically fix it later that get all the kudos.
you can email books/mags or whatever to a wifi-use-only email addr at amazon to have it sync'd to your kindle 3 via wifi.
Calibre does infact have recipes for popular newspapers and magazines, including The Economist. The recipes are written in python, and you can use existing ones as templates for writing your own if your favorite site doesn't have one already.
50 points for the first person to build a micro linux box that caches access to a spindle disk with this SSD, having the micro linux box exposed via sata to a host.
Are you kidding? Apple is shoehorning themselves in as a new middle man where the previously was none! They are adding to the costs to bring a book to a market (30%), and one way or another consumers will suffer for it.
If Kindle leaves the iphone, it won't hurt apple, but it will hurt consumers. If Amazon is allowed to recoup the 30% by charging higher prices, then the loss would simple be the effort to implement the option at all.
I doubt Amazon would just eat the cost as there are many economic analyses questioning if amazon even has a profit margin at all on their ebook sales.
On the flip side, to be compliant with the rules, it might be as simple as not having a "buy books" button in the app.
C# (usually) compiles to MSIL, which is platform-agnostic. All it takes is for all those platforms to be able to run mono, and your C# app would work and would only need to be compiled once.
That is incredibly naive. Big difference between theory and practice.
I switched to Mac last year, and it's mostly been a good experience. However, one of the things that really bugs the snot out of me is that nearly every application you download and install wants to be put in the/Applications folder. This by itself wouldn't be a problem except Apple makes you authenticate to elevated privileged to put anything in there.
A lot of apps you simply drag them to the/Applications folder (which is included as a shortcut/symlink in the image you download), but many apps use an Installer.
Having to authenticate to install an app is the normal mode of operation on Mac. So your average everyday mac user is just going to click OK and authenticate without thinking twice anytime that authentication dialog pops up. The dialog could say, "This application needs to authenticate in order to convert the bytes on your drive to 0x0", and people would still click "Authenticate" and happily type in their password.
It would be simple to write a trojan that mimics the installer app, reporting back the user's password or installing a key logger.
This shit is perverse. Not only does it destabilize the economy, it's literally skimming money off the top of the real economy to line the pockets of a few wealthy investors and traders who, speaking from an economic perspective are dead weight. (and then they complain about welfare...)
Well, it lines their pockets until they spend it. It's not like that money was removed from the economy.
Especially a JMP (GOTO) or CALL. If the instruction is JMP 0x04203733 and a transmission error makes it do JMP 0x00203733 instead, causing it to attempt to execute data or an unallocated memory page, how the hell can it recover from that? It could be even worse if the JMP instruction is changed only subtly, jumping only a few bytes too far or too close could land you the wrong side of an important instruction that throws off the entire rest of the program. All you could do is to detect the error/crash and restart from the beginning and hope. What if the error was in your error detection code? Do you have to check the result of your error detection for errors too?
space the instructions further apart so that one or two bit flips won't map to another instruction.
This is why the liberal democrats/government regulation fanatics are so very much misguided. In their world, they are freely entitled to the fruits of your labor, effectively punishing you for being productive.
Yeah, i remember seeing a special on pbs about this a long time ago. It's still interesting though.
If everyone in traffic would cooperate, I think the problem would be minimized. And while cooperation would be best for everybody in the long term, short term gains are realized by not cooperating.
I've found dpreview to be a great review site. I haven't seen anybody else as thorough, but steves-digicams.com isn't too bad. I just don't like the site layout.
We are now 2 weeks later, and my wife and I just - like, 30 mins ago - finished a discussion about how to remove the game from the pc whilst making it look like an accident....
if you son had started smoking pot (extreme, I know, for a five year old:), would you be having a discussion about how to make the disappearance of the pot look like an accident?
Just delete the garbage, suffer through some fits, and if he actually asks why it's gone just say tell him that it was bad for him. You don't need to lie about it, nor do you need to reason with him either.
The explanation comes after further research. Of course, one of the explanations could be it might not be an actual dinosaur bone, but that one can probably be ruled out pretty quickly if the researchers have any idea what they're doing.
Another, and more interesting (to me anyway) explanation would be if it was a dinosaur bone, and it wasn't 70 million years old.
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I propose an amendment to slashdot whereby anyone posting a "Why is this news?" post has their account deleted and ip banned. I feel confident in saying that since I have been on slashdot, there has not been a single "Why is this news?" post that added anything of value to the conversation.
It's not like Steve Jobs is preventing others from using that money. Or that anyone, for that matter, that "has" a lot of money is denying that use to other people. The only money that sits still is the money stuffed under your mattress. If you have invested it or stored it at a bank, or purchased anything really, then it is being used for all sorts of purposes like loans, paying people's salaries, R&D, etc...
Your salary has no doubt been made possible by other people's money.
Steve Jobs money is what makes a portion of that upper-middle class possible, and if they are giving regularly to causes as you suggest, then it's all good in the end.
I wish I had mod points, that was quite funny.
If they complied from the start, there wouldn't have been any press at all. Now they have it.
Just like at most businesses, it's not the engineers who get it right from the start that get credit. It's the ones who screw things up and then heroically fix it later that get all the kudos.
no charge for using the wifi-use-only email, btw.
you can email books/mags or whatever to a wifi-use-only email addr at amazon to have it sync'd to your kindle 3 via wifi.
Calibre does infact have recipes for popular newspapers and magazines, including The Economist. The recipes are written in python, and you can use existing ones as templates for writing your own if your favorite site doesn't have one already.
50 points for the first person to build a micro linux box that caches access to a spindle disk with this SSD, having the micro linux box exposed via sata to a host.
Are you kidding? Apple is shoehorning themselves in as a new middle man where the previously was none! They are adding to the costs to bring a book to a market (30%), and one way or another consumers will suffer for it.
If Kindle leaves the iphone, it won't hurt apple, but it will hurt consumers.
If Amazon is allowed to recoup the 30% by charging higher prices, then the loss would simple be the effort to implement the option at all.
I doubt Amazon would just eat the cost as there are many economic analyses questioning if amazon even has a profit margin at all on their ebook sales.
On the flip side, to be compliant with the rules, it might be as simple as not having a "buy books" button in the app.
C# (usually) compiles to MSIL, which is platform-agnostic. All it takes is for all those platforms to be able to run mono, and your C# app would work and would only need to be compiled once.
That is incredibly naive. Big difference between theory and practice.
are you the timecube guy?
You mean two finger swipe?
It doesn't distinguish between two and three fingers....
it does on my mac. two fingers does scrolling.
I switched to Mac last year, and it's mostly been a good experience. However, one of the things that really bugs the snot out of me is that nearly every application you download and install wants to be put in the /Applications folder. This by itself wouldn't be a problem except Apple makes you authenticate to elevated privileged to put anything in there.
A lot of apps you simply drag them to the /Applications folder (which is included as a shortcut/symlink in the image you download), but many apps use an Installer.
Having to authenticate to install an app is the normal mode of operation on Mac. So your average everyday mac user is just going to click OK and authenticate without thinking twice anytime that authentication dialog pops up. The dialog could say, "This application needs to authenticate in order to convert the bytes on your drive to 0x0", and people would still click "Authenticate" and happily type in their password.
It would be simple to write a trojan that mimics the installer app, reporting back the user's password or installing a key logger.
This shit is perverse. Not only does it destabilize the economy, it's literally skimming money off the top of the real economy to line the pockets of a few wealthy investors and traders who, speaking from an economic perspective are dead weight. (and then they complain about welfare...)
Well, it lines their pockets until they spend it. It's not like that money was removed from the economy.
Especially a JMP (GOTO) or CALL. If the instruction is JMP 0x04203733 and a transmission error makes it do JMP 0x00203733 instead, causing it to attempt to execute data or an unallocated memory page, how the hell can it recover from that? It could be even worse if the JMP instruction is changed only subtly, jumping only a few bytes too far or too close could land you the wrong side of an important instruction that throws off the entire rest of the program. All you could do is to detect the error/crash and restart from the beginning and hope. What if the error was in your error detection code? Do you have to check the result of your error detection for errors too?
space the instructions further apart so that one or two bit flips won't map to another instruction.
This is why the liberal democrats/government regulation fanatics are so very much misguided. In their world, they are freely entitled to the fruits of your labor, effectively punishing you for being productive.
Yeah, i remember seeing a special on pbs about this a long time ago. It's still interesting though.
If everyone in traffic would cooperate, I think the problem would be minimized. And while cooperation would be best for everybody in the long term, short term gains are realized by not cooperating.
It's a bit like the prisoner's dilemma.
They use thermal noise.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_noise
and europeans think americans are arrogant!
My first was technically a TI-99/4a, but I didn't really start programming anythign until I got the apple //e.
:)
Something like $2800 in 1985. I remember paying $180 for that 1200 baud datalink modem
"Obviously, it works great to impress the guys at DPReview who take pictures of a uniform gray chart. "
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That's not true. http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canoneos20d/page2
I've found dpreview to be a great review site. I haven't seen anybody else as thorough, but steves-digicams.com isn't too bad. I just don't like the site layout.
We are now 2 weeks later, and my wife and I just - like, 30 mins ago - finished a discussion about how to remove the game from the pc whilst making it look like an accident....
:), would you be having a discussion about how to make the disappearance of the pot look like an accident?
if you son had started smoking pot (extreme, I know, for a five year old
Just delete the garbage, suffer through some fits, and if he actually asks why it's gone just say tell him that it was bad for him. You don't need to lie about it, nor do you need to reason with him either.
But the experiment was done at low pressure, which would minimize that effect.
Right. Which is why they didn't splash at low pressure.
it rushes outwards, but appears to "catch air" presumably because the surface tension / minimum stable raduis has been exceeded,
I was thinking more along the lines of the bernoulli effect, like an airplane wing, lifting the fluid as it rushed out.
The explanation comes after further research. Of course, one of the explanations could be it might not be an actual dinosaur bone, but that one can probably be ruled out pretty quickly if the researchers have any idea what they're doing.
Another, and more interesting (to me anyway) explanation would be if it was a dinosaur bone, and it wasn't 70 million years old.
a self-taught math genius from India noticed some patterns in how numbers can be created by adding other numbers.
yeah, I saw that too. Like, how if you have a 4, and add a 1, you get a 5. It's pretty cool.