And if my previous suggestion was too restrictive, they could make it free for up to 100 recipients and then $4.95 for 100-1000, for example. In that scenario, about the only people who would notice would fit into my definition of spammers.
And would also shut down most of the major legitimate mailing lists out there. I'm on 3 high-volume (200+ messages a day) mailing lists that each have several thousand subscribers. There's also all the very-low-volume (rarely more than 10 messages a week - if even that - for all of them) lists I'm on which I believe have even more subscribers.
This was marked as fixed on Feb 7, so now they're probably working on getting more of the bugs it blocked fixed. Once they major ones (there's at least 2 that caused crashes) are fixed, it should start showing up in nightly trunk builds.
"After losing the two previous vehicles we had been issued, the only car the department was willing to release to us at this point was an unmarked 1987 Yugo, the Yugoslavian import donated to the department as a test vehicle by the government of that country and reflecting the cutting edge of Serbo-Croatian technology."
...In such a place you're lucky if the shower head breaks 5 feet (I had to shower on my knees).
You don't have to go to Japan for this..
In the last 4 months, I've been on about a dozen business trips and in all but one case, I could not take a shower standing erect. I'm about the same height as almost everyone (male) I know at 6'2", and the showerhead would hit me in the back of my head, usually right at the base of my skull.
For some silly reason, they've got this magical cutoff point for non-Bluetooth wireless sets. The MX Duo doesn't make it, but the cheaper Cordless Access Duo does..
IMHO, it would've made sense to broaden the catagory, since it's the only one that has a $$ cutoff. If that was the case, the MX Duo would have had no competition. (Did you notice there wasn't even an editors choice out of that catagory?)
I had a job in a DoD office once as a "Junior Equipment Specialist" (a/k/a warehouse intern). After I finished the inventory of computer equipment in the office and storage area well ahead of schedule (they didn't think I'd finish in the 3 months I was there, yet it took me less than 2 weeks), I was told I should update their "Inventory Management System" (a/k/a MS Access 2.0). I wasn't allowed to replace it, just update it (both data and functionality). By the time I was done, it was a relatively simple form based inventory that wouldn't require anyone to go to the tables for anything they actually used it for.
At the end of the summer, they wanted me to teach one of the secretaries how to use it and I thought "No problem! It's nice and simple!" That was until I actually tried showing her the forms and she became fascinated by the arrow moving around the screen.. (All but two PCs in the office were 486/33s used mostly for DOS based apps. This was the only PC running Win95) The next day, I showed my supervisor and got him to show the secretary.
Most of those only scan forward for a certain amount of time without having any way of checking to see if what is being displayed is a commercial or not.
I've used a couple different VCRs that had a skip function. They would fastforward 15-20 seconds (depending on model) and continue playing. Press the button enough times and I'd be through the commercials. Unfortunately, I would usually have to rewind a bit because they would skip right past the resuming of the show.
The PMC is the result of a partnership between iRiver and MS (and evidentally, MS got to brand it as theirs for some reason). Right along side that, iRiver is announcing the PMP (Personal multimedia Player), which runs Linux at its core.
Shots with descriptions of all their upcoming products can be found here and here.
My bad.. I've actually never seen the name spelled out, but a few years ago I saw a couple of their cars (in the US!). When I asked my dad what kind of car it was, he told me it was a Citroen and it meant lemon in French. I couldn't help but ask "Why would anyone buy one if they know they're lemons?"
I've since learned that they're actually good cars, and now I know better about the name.
While a $99 fee for replacing the battery does seem like quite a bit (knock on wood for mine), this isn't quite a fair comparison..
How about this for a fair comparison:
Depending on use and warranty conditions, iRiver will replace the battery in an iHP for free. I've also read that iRiver Japan has started a battery replacement program for a whopping $20 (the iHP has been out longer there). iRiver America will probably start a similar program early next year.
As much as I loved Nightcrawler, I have to add one more nit:
He's too old.
He's supposed to be Mystique's son, but, looking at them in the movie, Nightcrawler and Mystique are roughly the same age. In reality Alan Cumming is 7 years older than Rebecca Romijn-Stamos.
Based on the images near the bottom of the article (wish I could read Japanese) of the group of QRIOs doing a fan dance and the "QRIO future" part of this site (thanks to jpatokal for his post with the link), I can't help but think of it as a prototype for Persocons.
If you look at the document history link down at the bottom of the page, you'll see what the change in 2000 was. They just added a couple of anchor tags (which I don't really understand the point of).
The April 1999 change was the last change of the content
iRiver has already released Ogg Vorbis capable firmware for the iHP series (the iHP-120 comes with it right out of the box). If you look here you'll see their full Ogg Vorbis support plan. The iFP-500 series is the #1 priority of the remaining devices. By the time they show up in the US, they'll probably come with support just like the iHP-120.
..runs off to check the iRiver site again for any announcments.. Damn.. nothing yet..
I don't know about other phones/carriers, but I've got a couple of Nextel devices (Motorola i85s and i55sr and BlackBerry 6510) at work that have very easy access to the SIM cards. Of course, Nextel has their own network (iDEN) which differs from all the other carriers (kinda like Sprint with PCS), so even if you could swap SIM cards, you might not be able to use the devices with other carriers.
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And if my previous suggestion was too restrictive, they could make it free for up to 100 recipients and then $4.95 for 100-1000, for example. In that scenario, about the only people who would notice would fit into my definition of spammers.
And would also shut down most of the major legitimate mailing lists out there. I'm on 3 high-volume (200+ messages a day) mailing lists that each have several thousand subscribers. There's also all the very-low-volume (rarely more than 10 messages a week - if even that - for all of them) lists I'm on which I believe have even more subscribers.
They've been rewriting the SVG backend.
This was marked as fixed on Feb 7, so now they're probably working on getting more of the bugs it blocked fixed. Once they major ones (there's at least 2 that caused crashes) are fixed, it should start showing up in nightly trunk builds.
Incredible Crisis is one of the coolest games ever!
They don't get more illogical that that..
"After losing the two previous vehicles we had been issued, the only car the department was willing to release to us at this point was an unmarked 1987 Yugo, the Yugoslavian import donated to the department as a test vehicle by the government of that country and reflecting the cutting edge of Serbo-Croatian technology."
--Joe Friday, Dragnet
In the last 4 months, I've been on about a dozen business trips and in all but one case, I could not take a shower standing erect. I'm about the same height as almost everyone (male) I know at 6'2", and the showerhead would hit me in the back of my head, usually right at the base of my skull.
For some silly reason, they've got this magical cutoff point for non-Bluetooth wireless sets. The MX Duo doesn't make it, but the cheaper Cordless Access Duo does..
IMHO, it would've made sense to broaden the catagory, since it's the only one that has a $$ cutoff. If that was the case, the MX Duo would have had no competition. (Did you notice there wasn't even an editors choice out of that catagory?)
Sounds familiar.
I had a job in a DoD office once as a "Junior Equipment Specialist" (a/k/a warehouse intern). After I finished the inventory of computer equipment in the office and storage area well ahead of schedule (they didn't think I'd finish in the 3 months I was there, yet it took me less than 2 weeks), I was told I should update their "Inventory Management System" (a/k/a MS Access 2.0). I wasn't allowed to replace it, just update it (both data and functionality). By the time I was done, it was a relatively simple form based inventory that wouldn't require anyone to go to the tables for anything they actually used it for.
At the end of the summer, they wanted me to teach one of the secretaries how to use it and I thought "No problem! It's nice and simple!" That was until I actually tried showing her the forms and she became fascinated by the arrow moving around the screen.. (All but two PCs in the office were 486/33s used mostly for DOS based apps. This was the only PC running Win95) The next day, I showed my supervisor and got him to show the secretary.
He gave up and took over the inventory himself.
roflmao!
one nit tho. caldera bought sco using the $$$$ they got from their linux ipo. in other words, they're biting the hand that feeds them.
Most of those only scan forward for a certain amount of time without having any way of checking to see if what is being displayed is a commercial or not.
I've used a couple different VCRs that had a skip function. They would fastforward 15-20 seconds (depending on model) and continue playing. Press the button enough times and I'd be through the commercials. Unfortunately, I would usually have to rewind a bit because they would skip right past the resuming of the show.
The PMC is the result of a partnership between iRiver and MS (and evidentally, MS got to brand it as theirs for some reason). Right along side that, iRiver is announcing the PMP (Personal multimedia Player), which runs Linux at its core.
Shots with descriptions of all their upcoming products can be found here and here.
My bad.. I've actually never seen the name spelled out, but a few years ago I saw a couple of their cars (in the US!). When I asked my dad what kind of car it was, he told me it was a Citroen and it meant lemon in French. I couldn't help but ask "Why would anyone buy one if they know they're lemons?"
I've since learned that they're actually good cars, and now I know better about the name.
Yeah, so?
There is a French carmaker called Citron. They actually make some pretty good cars, too. They even compete in the WRC.
While a $99 fee for replacing the battery does seem like quite a bit (knock on wood for mine), this isn't quite a fair comparison..
How about this for a fair comparison:
Depending on use and warranty conditions, iRiver will replace the battery in an iHP for free. I've also read that iRiver Japan has started a battery replacement program for a whopping $20 (the iHP has been out longer there). iRiver America will probably start a similar program early next year.
Just because the Canopy Group and SCO invested in Trolltech, doesn't mean that Trolltech is part of the Canopy Group.
Alltogether, Canopy Group owns a grand total of 5.7% of Trolltech. They have practically no say in the operations of Trolltech.
People really need to stop dragging Trolltech's name through the mud with this pointless argument.
(Note:: I am not a Trolltech/QT/KDE fanboy. In fact I don't use any desktop environment. My WMs of choice are Enlightenment and BlackBox.)
Well.. Given that Nightcrawler should be in his teens, the similarity is close enough. Then again, a lot of the character ages are rather off.
I'm willing to overlook a lot of these and enjoy the movies, but I know several X-Men (comic book) fans who don't like the changes.
As much as I loved Nightcrawler, I have to add one more nit:
He's too old.
He's supposed to be Mystique's son, but, looking at them in the movie, Nightcrawler and Mystique are roughly the same age. In reality Alan Cumming is 7 years older than Rebecca Romijn-Stamos.
Heh.. I didn't make the connection since you said you dropped down to 100 instead of going up.. :)
If that's the case, check out this patch.
:D
Forget dropping down to HZ=100 and take the leap up to HZ=10000!
Based on the images near the bottom of the article (wish I could read Japanese) of the group of QRIOs doing a fan dance and the "QRIO future" part of this site (thanks to jpatokal for his post with the link), I can't help but think of it as a prototype for Persocons.
How long before we get Chii and Sumomo?
Um.. GT4 is scheduled to come out next April.
If you look at the document history link down at the bottom of the page, you'll see what the change in 2000 was. They just added a couple of anchor tags (which I don't really understand the point of).
The April 1999 change was the last change of the content
Damn.. nothing yet..
I don't know about other phones/carriers, but I've got a couple of Nextel devices (Motorola i85s and i55sr and BlackBerry 6510) at work that have very easy access to the SIM cards. Of course, Nextel has their own network (iDEN) which differs from all the other carriers (kinda like Sprint with PCS), so even if you could swap SIM cards, you might not be able to use the devices with other carriers.
If you followed the third link, you'd see that he is someone else at InfoWorld who reviewed SpamAssassin back in July.