You're absolutely correct. The Middle East and India generally get classified into their own groups, and Russia and the former Soviet republics get grouped in with Europe more than anything else. In a way it's more respectable...we recognize the many distinct cultures that the continent has...but also it shows the typical American ignorance of political geography (You do realize how many people here had to look up where Afghanistan was, right?).
Yahoo is still fairly dominant in many Asian markets...and there are a lot of people in those markets. A lot of people are getting internet access there that never had it before, it's going to grow substantially over the next five years, unlike the US and European markets. Google could use Yahoo just as much as Microsoft.
Yahoo is generally quite a bit more prominent than Google in Asia, and there are quite a few people there. Microsoft has a lot of money to throw around, and if they can make Google insignificant over there, that limits the markets Google can grow in and may pose some serious problems. But it'll take some time before we see any significant marketshare changes I think, and anything can happen. Microsoft might have the big money, but you never want to underestimate Google.
I would do it for a hundred gran, though. Milton wanted a tropical vacation, I would just build a nice ass gaming PC and stay in my house for a couple years.
Woah woah woah. It's not last straw until you a) stop getting a paycheck, b) get moved down to storage B, and c) find a hundred grand laying on the floor.
With a statement like that I really doubt you'd even believe it coming from your own mother holding a document signed by Bill Gates and notorized by a Supreme Court judge. Because, you know, Microsoft doing something better than Google completely contradicts the Slashdot Theory of Logic.
What they need to do is do it right the first time and fix rendering bugs quickly. force people to fallow the standard and it will work. Microsoft should be the most accurate implementers of the specs because they have such a huge install base.
Absolutely agree. IE8 should be released without modes, and only operate as standards compliant, and rendering bugs should get the same priority as security bugs. Initially this will break a lot of webpages, but it will force them to change to be truely standards compliant (as long as IE8 is truely standards compliant), and then once FF releases version 3, the major three browsers (Talking Opera, which is already compliant, not Safari...it sucks as bad as IE, any smart Mac user should upgrade) should finally be able to render all pages without switching. And then the browser wars can focus on features, security, and rendering speed.
I totally agree with you. I am in IT and I always have something to work on. Most of which does not have any sort of deadline, just projects to work on inbetween. I make it a point to make downtime for myself to poke around on Slashdot, Engadget, gaming sites, etc.
I could see though where this guy would run into downtime...in larger organizations level 1 help desk is often given very little or nothing else to do except fix basic end user problems. So if all problems are fixed/escalated, they would have nothing to do (I know the IT help desk at college was like this).
What I would do if I were you, and you are now on your at least semi-permanent career path (ie not going to school and plan on staying in IT), is use downtime to try and get yourself into a position where you don't have any dowmtime...i.e. try and get into a better position. I would think if you have downtime, you are in a position where there is a lot of climbing room. When you have downtime, volunteer to do other tasks typially above your position you know you are capable of. Get some books and study for certification tests. If you can do it without bothering them, observe your peers in higher positions and ask intelligent questions about what they are doing.
Buy the Scrabble board game, duh! I mean obviously you just wanted to play scrabble without paying for it, I mean the fact that the sheer convenience of playing it on a computer must have nothing to do with it, and presumably abysmal board game sales will rebound once all the DMCA notices go out...right? At least that's what the overpaid lawyers told the old and senile execs.
Yeah they're scams, but the few of us here or have (or had) girlfriends know that the average girl doesn't know that, and for $40 bucks you're off the hook for another anniversary and you get laid. (It's cooler than a stupid teddy-bear and looks better sitting around the house).
However hot air is lighter than cold air, and enough hot air is blown around at political events that it actually becomes lighter than helium, so the baloons must be filled with helium so they don't injure anyone when they fall. Also, it's a good way to know when it's time to end the convention.
Only problem is areas where people shoot to kill... telling a tiger team from a genuine trespasser/burglar/criminal before pulling the trigger. If the team is seriously concerned about being shot, I think it's safe to give that facility a stamp of approval without even attempting a break in.
Okay, I'm going home, and I will play video games nonstop for a month. Someone else about 5'10" and 200lbs needs to go to McDonalds and eat Big Macs nonstop for a month. Someone else needs to get us federal grants for obesity research so I can get paid to play video games all month, and to cover that other poor fat bastard's Big Macs. Then at the end of the month, we'll see who gained more weight.
Well, if IE 8 actually is standards compliant when it launches, all Firefox will have to do is catch up to IE and Opera and become standards compliant, too. Although ActiveX will still remain a thorn in the side of any non-IE browser.
Well I had to work Google in somehow since the article was about it, and I think the reception of Linus around here is somewhat mixed, and I would have just said Linux=Jesus except Linux is hard to associate with a walking, talking being, so Tux was the logical choice.
In tried and true/. tradation: "You must be new here." Microsoft=Hell Bill Gates=Devil Steve Balmer=??; Google=Heaven Tux=Jesus CmdrTaco=God. Got that?
I've actually been encouraging everyone I know, both Republican and Democrat, to vote in the Democratic primaries for Obama. Anything to keep her out of office.
Well even if a boatload of cash from Ford wasn't involved, you have to consider that there are two major iconic American sports cars...the Corvette and the Mustang (there are many others that are well known, like the Viper, but none nearly as popular as those two). It probably fits the general audience better by choosing one of them.
Tabula Rasa for sure. While a bit shallow and unfinished, it's still got a lot more polish than many MMOs that have been out longer.
I pick it mainly because it's the first MMO where I have found grinding to be fun. And even better-the missions give enough XP that grinding is not necessary...but I do it anyway, because mowing down a group of Bane with a shotgun is just plain fun.
From a little town called Celina, about 2 hours NW of Columbus up US 33...I've got a good friend who lives in C-bus, I go there fairly regularly...mostly to watch the Blue Jackets lose (although they're doing a little better this year). www.wabash.com is the website for the local telco with fiber (they're in an even smaller town to our west)...they currently have about 15% of the town covered, planned to be 85% in three years (and the seem to be on track). I'm getting a nice 7 down 2 up connection for $45/mo...not as much as FiOS but infinitely better than TWC. The company is a co-op of it's subscribers, major decisions made by a board and ran day-to-day by a manager (who happens to be a close friend of my father's which probably makes me slightly biased in that when I have a slight problem I can deal with the head honcho directly:-) Anyway, I'm really hoping to see them put the hurt on TWC...basic cable, phone (it's always cheaper to bundle it with the phone, even if you don't use it-mine is unplugged), and their lowest internet package which is 2/1 all total up to about $70/mo.
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You're absolutely correct. The Middle East and India generally get classified into their own groups, and Russia and the former Soviet republics get grouped in with Europe more than anything else. In a way it's more respectable...we recognize the many distinct cultures that the continent has...but also it shows the typical American ignorance of political geography (You do realize how many people here had to look up where Afghanistan was, right?).
Yahoo is still fairly dominant in many Asian markets...and there are a lot of people in those markets. A lot of people are getting internet access there that never had it before, it's going to grow substantially over the next five years, unlike the US and European markets. Google could use Yahoo just as much as Microsoft.
Yahoo is generally quite a bit more prominent than Google in Asia, and there are quite a few people there. Microsoft has a lot of money to throw around, and if they can make Google insignificant over there, that limits the markets Google can grow in and may pose some serious problems. But it'll take some time before we see any significant marketshare changes I think, and anything can happen. Microsoft might have the big money, but you never want to underestimate Google.
I would do it for a hundred gran, though. Milton wanted a tropical vacation, I would just build a nice ass gaming PC and stay in my house for a couple years.
Woah woah woah. It's not last straw until you a) stop getting a paycheck, b) get moved down to storage B, and c) find a hundred grand laying on the floor.
All this means is that there will be a really big patch tomorrow.
With a statement like that I really doubt you'd even believe it coming from your own mother holding a document signed by Bill Gates and notorized by a Supreme Court judge. Because, you know, Microsoft doing something better than Google completely contradicts the Slashdot Theory of Logic.
Absolutely agree. IE8 should be released without modes, and only operate as standards compliant, and rendering bugs should get the same priority as security bugs. Initially this will break a lot of webpages, but it will force them to change to be truely standards compliant (as long as IE8 is truely standards compliant), and then once FF releases version 3, the major three browsers (Talking Opera, which is already compliant, not Safari...it sucks as bad as IE, any smart Mac user should upgrade) should finally be able to render all pages without switching. And then the browser wars can focus on features, security, and rendering speed.
I totally agree with you. I am in IT and I always have something to work on. Most of which does not have any sort of deadline, just projects to work on inbetween. I make it a point to make downtime for myself to poke around on Slashdot, Engadget, gaming sites, etc.
I could see though where this guy would run into downtime...in larger organizations level 1 help desk is often given very little or nothing else to do except fix basic end user problems. So if all problems are fixed/escalated, they would have nothing to do (I know the IT help desk at college was like this).
What I would do if I were you, and you are now on your at least semi-permanent career path (ie not going to school and plan on staying in IT), is use downtime to try and get yourself into a position where you don't have any dowmtime...i.e. try and get into a better position. I would think if you have downtime, you are in a position where there is a lot of climbing room. When you have downtime, volunteer to do other tasks typially above your position you know you are capable of. Get some books and study for certification tests. If you can do it without bothering them, observe your peers in higher positions and ask intelligent questions about what they are doing.
Nah, carrier Swallows. African, of course.
Buy the Scrabble board game, duh! I mean obviously you just wanted to play scrabble without paying for it, I mean the fact that the sheer convenience of playing it on a computer must have nothing to do with it, and presumably abysmal board game sales will rebound once all the DMCA notices go out...right? At least that's what the overpaid lawyers told the old and senile execs.
Yeah they're scams, but the few of us here or have (or had) girlfriends know that the average girl doesn't know that, and for $40 bucks you're off the hook for another anniversary and you get laid. (It's cooler than a stupid teddy-bear and looks better sitting around the house).
I think that's the only way to get the battery out...
It depends on how many free pens they brought with them to CES....
However hot air is lighter than cold air, and enough hot air is blown around at political events that it actually becomes lighter than helium, so the baloons must be filled with helium so they don't injure anyone when they fall. Also, it's a good way to know when it's time to end the convention.
If the team is seriously concerned about being shot, I think it's safe to give that facility a stamp of approval without even attempting a break in.
Okay, I'm going home, and I will play video games nonstop for a month. Someone else about 5'10" and 200lbs needs to go to McDonalds and eat Big Macs nonstop for a month. Someone else needs to get us federal grants for obesity research so I can get paid to play video games all month, and to cover that other poor fat bastard's Big Macs. Then at the end of the month, we'll see who gained more weight.
Well, if IE 8 actually is standards compliant when it launches, all Firefox will have to do is catch up to IE and Opera and become standards compliant, too. Although ActiveX will still remain a thorn in the side of any non-IE browser.
So you think The Pirate Bay is going to start up a sister site?
Well I had to work Google in somehow since the article was about it, and I think the reception of Linus around here is somewhat mixed, and I would have just said Linux=Jesus except Linux is hard to associate with a walking, talking being, so Tux was the logical choice.
In tried and true /. tradation: "You must be new here." Microsoft=Hell Bill Gates=Devil Steve Balmer=??; Google=Heaven Tux=Jesus CmdrTaco=God. Got that?
I've actually been encouraging everyone I know, both Republican and Democrat, to vote in the Democratic primaries for Obama. Anything to keep her out of office.
Well even if a boatload of cash from Ford wasn't involved, you have to consider that there are two major iconic American sports cars...the Corvette and the Mustang (there are many others that are well known, like the Viper, but none nearly as popular as those two). It probably fits the general audience better by choosing one of them.
Tabula Rasa for sure. While a bit shallow and unfinished, it's still got a lot more polish than many MMOs that have been out longer.
I pick it mainly because it's the first MMO where I have found grinding to be fun. And even better-the missions give enough XP that grinding is not necessary...but I do it anyway, because mowing down a group of Bane with a shotgun is just plain fun.
From a little town called Celina, about 2 hours NW of Columbus up US 33...I've got a good friend who lives in C-bus, I go there fairly regularly...mostly to watch the Blue Jackets lose (although they're doing a little better this year). www.wabash.com is the website for the local telco with fiber (they're in an even smaller town to our west)...they currently have about 15% of the town covered, planned to be 85% in three years (and the seem to be on track). I'm getting a nice 7 down 2 up connection for $45/mo...not as much as FiOS but infinitely better than TWC. The company is a co-op of it's subscribers, major decisions made by a board and ran day-to-day by a manager (who happens to be a close friend of my father's which probably makes me slightly biased in that when I have a slight problem I can deal with the head honcho directly :-) Anyway, I'm really hoping to see them put the hurt on TWC...basic cable, phone (it's always cheaper to bundle it with the phone, even if you don't use it-mine is unplugged), and their lowest internet package which is 2/1 all total up to about $70/mo.