I can't exactly put my finger on it, but there is something about the blogger's story that does not ring true. Maybe it is the lack of any personal information, or the implausibility of the ticketing system just cheerfully accepting a 10-year-distant callback date, or the implausibility of the tech who called his parents failing to notice that he was responding to a 10-year-old ticket.
In any case, I would hope that Microsoft actually verifies the claims before making a big deal of them.
We should make one movie with a guy just casually checking his watch for 15 seconds while his pants go up in flames and another with the guy going completely crazy swatting his burning pants, rolling around on the ground screaming like a maniac,
No, I think he sold "$20 million worth of software"... counted at the retail price. I suspect he made nowhere near the $5 million that he will have to pay. Not to mention th efact that he's gotta sit in jail for 7 years.
I saw a similar device back last summer. The display was absolutely beautiful; the first time that I saw it, it looked for all the world like a fake display model, with a piece of cardboard instead of the real screen -- that's how much like paper it looks.
I would have bought it on the spot -- it was something like 30,000 yen -- but from looking at the fliers, it seemed like you had to rent the books... You buy a book for 300 yen or something, you get to see it for some amount of time, and that's it. At the time there seemed to be no facilities for viewing PDF documents, text files, HTML, etc. -- only support for the 300-yen rent-a-books.
I'll buy one of these the very second that it'll read a PDF file.
3) Most people don't commute by car, so have time to play with the phone.
For me, this is the number-one reason I use my cel phone. When I lived in Canada, I could not understand why people would just do text messaging... "Why not just pick up the phone?" Once I came here, I understood perfectly. Sending chatty text messages back and forth with your friends is an easy way to fill up a 45-minute train ride. Not only that, but with the subways moving in and out of the service area, text messaging is perfect (wait until you get to the next station, then send/receive).
Not to mention the fact that I pay 17 yen per 30 seconds of voice call, but 0.5 yen per email...
That's odd; when I used to drive pizzas, I got more runs than anybody else in the store, and I was the only one of the drivers who didn't break any traffic laws (speeding included) while on deliveries. You save a lot more time knowing your area well than you do by speeding and running lights...
Can bugzilla see different products per login?
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I've used bugzilla before on projects that were solely internal. But now I'm working for a new company that does custom software development for outside customers. I'd like each customer to be able to log in and see their own bugs, but not any of the other customers' (ie, other projects') bugs. Of course, developers should see all bugs.
So, is there a way to restricts the "products" that someone can see by login in Bugzilla?
Just yesterday I found someone's phone on the train approaching Tokyo Station; they'd got off at Ginza leaving it there. Sitting right beside the phone was the person's train ticket. This person wouldn't have even been able to exit the ticket gates at Ginza to get to where the pay phone was so he could call Lost and Found.
The thing is, with actual paper money and credit cards and everything else, you're not likely to have your wallet out of your pants during the train ride, but around here a good 25% of the people on the train have their cel phones out doing text messaging or playing video games during the train ride.
It seems like there'll be a greater chance for people to lose their cel phones than their wallets, and now that we're cramming everything under the sun into cel phones, it'll just be more devistating to lose one.
I decided to be a web server at University of Michigan for Hallowe'en this year. I didn't want to walk around in a cardboard box, so I used some smouldering rags to provide the smoke and flames effect.
When we want something, we usually exchange something called "money" for what we want.
Homer: [disappointed] Oh, twenty dollars...I wanted a peanut!
Brain: Twenty dollars can buy many peanuts!
Homer: Explain how.
Brain: Money can be exchanged for good and services.
Could you fix your web server so that it sends the image/jpeg Content-Type: header for all of the images in that directory? Firefox doesn't want to display them.
Does the article mention anything about expansion modules?
Marge: Oh, Homer, where have you been? Homer: I just underwent a procedure to increase my IQ fifty points. Marge: Really? Homer: And they gave me this spiffy nerd ensemble, too. Marge: You feel smarter? Homer: Is the capital of North Dakota Bismarck? [Marge, Maggie, and Bart look expectantly at Lisa] Lisa:[pause] It is. Bart: I don't believe it. Say something else smart. Homer: Dr. Joyce Brothers may be highly known, but her psychological credentials are highly suspect. [and the family looks at Lisa, again] Lisa: It's true!
The only thing that the article says is marketing crap about how "it's as convenient as paper". Nothing about how the actual image is created on the paper. There's quite a difference in how our brains process reflected vs. projected light.
It seems that no matter what I try, I have a time time absorbing and retaining information from e-books. Something about reading off a screen as opposed to paper just seems to shut off a part of my brain or something.
These two big time savers are the main things I hope to see in some of the OSS packages,
We use Eudora at work in the customer support department. Here are our two most important features:
Stationery. About 75-80% of all questions to customer service can be answered by choosing one out of twenty "canned" responses and then editing it a bit. Eudora basically has a "Reply with a canned answer" menu item that lets the CSR choose which one to use
The different Personalities. Due to the nature of our service, email replies from Support have to be "branded" with one of about 10 different signatures and "From:" header lines, depending on where the email came into in the first place. Eudora has features that makes it easy to flag messages with different colours depending on which mailbox they came in to, and then automatically select the right signature and From: header while replying
Nothing against Mutt, eMacs, etc. but I don't think a stripped-down interface is necessary even if it is all just text. Just a thought, anyway. I have others.
Personally I like the stripped-down interface because my email is available anywhere. At home, at work, even on vacation, I can ssh into my box and read email.
"Women are soooo bad with cars that they can't even be trusted with a hood that can open!"
Come on! Just because a lot of women don't do their own maintenance, does that mean that the hood should be locked shut? I mean, women who *don't* know how to do their own spark plug changes or oil changes would still be smart enough to just not open the hood, wouldn't they?
'Sides, the car-repair show on the local radio program is hosted by a woman who is a genius when it comes to mechanics -- I wonder what she'd have to say about it.
One individual's subscription is an amount that can't even be found on the telco's balance sheet.
Actually, an old boss of mine ran the numbers on this once, for a local cel phone provider. He's a business/financial kind of guy, so I didn't understand his whole methodology, but it went something like taking the market capitalization of the telco, subtracting out the net liabilities and all of the value in fixed assets (repeater towers, phone lines, etc. as well as things like office furniture). The left over is the total "value" of all subscriptions, as determined by the market. Just divide by the number of subscribers and that's the value (to the stock market) of each subscriber for that telco.
In this case, Microcell Communications (Fido) in Toronto, it came to something like $800 per subscriber.
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I can't exactly put my finger on it, but there is something about the blogger's story that does not ring true. Maybe it is the lack of any personal information, or the implausibility of the ticketing system just cheerfully accepting a 10-year-distant callback date, or the implausibility of the tech who called his parents failing to notice that he was responding to a 10-year-old ticket.
In any case, I would hope that Microsoft actually verifies the claims before making a big deal of them.
We should make one movie with a guy just casually checking his watch for 15 seconds while his pants go up in flames and another with the guy going completely crazy swatting his burning pants, rolling around on the ground screaming like a maniac,
"Hi, I'm a Mac." "And I'm a PC."
That dude thought the Holy Bible has sections too racy for children and young people
By "the Holy Bible", you mean "The Works of Shakespeare"?
Did you even read your own link?
...Americans start taking the train everywhere instead of driving. Mobile phone video content does just fine in Japan.
No, I think he sold "$20 million worth of software"... counted at the retail price. I suspect he made nowhere near the $5 million that he will have to pay. Not to mention th efact that he's gotta sit in jail for 7 years.
Well, "kanji" translates literally as "chinese characters" so I don't think that the author was too far off-base..
I saw a similar device back last summer. The display was absolutely beautiful; the first time that I saw it, it looked for all the world like a fake display model, with a piece of cardboard instead of the real screen -- that's how much like paper it looks.
I would have bought it on the spot -- it was something like 30,000 yen -- but from looking at the fliers, it seemed like you had to rent the books... You buy a book for 300 yen or something, you get to see it for some amount of time, and that's it. At the time there seemed to be no facilities for viewing PDF documents, text files, HTML, etc. -- only support for the 300-yen rent-a-books.
I'll buy one of these the very second that it'll read a PDF file.
For me, this is the number-one reason I use my cel phone. When I lived in Canada, I could not understand why people would just do text messaging... "Why not just pick up the phone?" Once I came here, I understood perfectly. Sending chatty text messages back and forth with your friends is an easy way to fill up a 45-minute train ride. Not only that, but with the subways moving in and out of the service area, text messaging is perfect (wait until you get to the next station, then send/receive).
Not to mention the fact that I pay 17 yen per 30 seconds of voice call, but 0.5 yen per email...
That's odd; when I used to drive pizzas, I got more runs than anybody else in the store, and I was the only one of the drivers who didn't break any traffic laws (speeding included) while on deliveries. You save a lot more time knowing your area well than you do by speeding and running lights...
I've used bugzilla before on projects that were solely internal. But now I'm working for a new company that does custom software development for outside customers. I'd like each customer to be able to log in and see their own bugs, but not any of the other customers' (ie, other projects') bugs. Of course, developers should see all bugs.
So, is there a way to restricts the "products" that someone can see by login in Bugzilla?
Just yesterday I found someone's phone on the train approaching Tokyo Station; they'd got off at Ginza leaving it there. Sitting right beside the phone was the person's train ticket. This person wouldn't have even been able to exit the ticket gates at Ginza to get to where the pay phone was so he could call Lost and Found.
The thing is, with actual paper money and credit cards and everything else, you're not likely to have your wallet out of your pants during the train ride, but around here a good 25% of the people on the train have their cel phones out doing text messaging or playing video games during the train ride.
It seems like there'll be a greater chance for people to lose their cel phones than their wallets, and now that we're cramming everything under the sun into cel phones, it'll just be more devistating to lose one.
I decided to be a web server at University of Michigan for Hallowe'en this year. I didn't want to walk around in a cardboard box, so I used some smouldering rags to provide the smoke and flames effect.
Homer: [disappointed] Oh, twenty dollars...I wanted a peanut!
Brain: Twenty dollars can buy many peanuts!
Homer: Explain how.
Brain: Money can be exchanged for good and services.
Could you fix your web server so that it sends the image/jpeg Content-Type: header for all of the images in that directory? Firefox doesn't want to display them.
90 comments and not one about gas and extra-loud sounds!
Marge: Oh, Homer, where have you been?
Homer: I just underwent a procedure to increase my IQ fifty points.
Marge: Really?
Homer: And they gave me this spiffy nerd ensemble, too.
Marge: You feel smarter?
Homer: Is the capital of North Dakota Bismarck? [Marge, Maggie, and Bart look expectantly at Lisa]
Lisa: [pause] It is.
Bart: I don't believe it. Say something else smart.
Homer: Dr. Joyce Brothers may be highly known, but her psychological credentials are highly suspect. [and the family looks at Lisa, again]
Lisa: It's true!
I think what you meant was:
> J4n37!
Dr. Scott!
> J4n37!
> Br4d!
Rocky!
(ugh!)
The only thing that the article says is marketing crap about how "it's as convenient as paper". Nothing about how the actual image is created on the paper. There's quite a difference in how our brains process reflected vs. projected light.
It seems that no matter what I try, I have a time time absorbing and retaining information from e-books. Something about reading off a screen as opposed to paper just seems to shut off a part of my brain or something.
Oh, it's a great idea, but unfortunately it would never work for me, since we have no Publix or Kroger here -- only Dominion and Loblaws.
Oh, you run Linux too, eh?
We use Eudora at work in the customer support department. Here are our two most important features:
Personally I like the stripped-down interface because my email is available anywhere. At home, at work, even on vacation, I can ssh into my box and read email.
"Women are soooo bad with cars that they can't even be trusted with a hood that can open!"
Come on! Just because a lot of women don't do their own maintenance, does that mean that the hood should be locked shut? I mean, women who *don't* know how to do their own spark plug changes or oil changes would still be smart enough to just not open the hood, wouldn't they?
'Sides, the car-repair show on the local radio program is hosted by a woman who is a genius when it comes to mechanics -- I wonder what she'd have to say about it.
Actually, an old boss of mine ran the numbers on this once, for a local cel phone provider. He's a business/financial kind of guy, so I didn't understand his whole methodology, but it went something like taking the market capitalization of the telco, subtracting out the net liabilities and all of the value in fixed assets (repeater towers, phone lines, etc. as well as things like office furniture). The left over is the total "value" of all subscriptions, as determined by the market. Just divide by the number of subscribers and that's the value (to the stock market) of each subscriber for that telco.
In this case, Microcell Communications (Fido) in Toronto, it came to something like $800 per subscriber.