What do you crazy linux people do to your windows computers? I generally do not run a virus scanner at all or anything of the sort. Just a Vista (used to be XP) machine connected through a low end retail gateway. Guess what? I haven't had a virus since... I want to say like 2001. What sordid holes are you sticking your windows computer into? Are you loading it up with totally sweet pirated software and CRACKZ and HACKZ and such? Why don't you just use open source software on your XP PC? My XP system runs firefox, thunderbird, openoffice.org, and netbeans for development. And it doesn't complain a bit about using 3rd party applications as system defaults. And if you REALLY think your PC is a timebomb or something, just get clamav or Free AVG. You need to run bluefish? Why not just write your web pages in Firefox? Bah, ridiculous. Why juggle around linux distros when you can have the best of both worlds? sigh.
"..Engineers didn't include windows in the design because only space-shuttle windows, which are too heavy for use in an airliner, can withstand the heat the A2 would encounter...."
How much power would be consumed routing someone elses's calls? I wouldnt want to pick up my phone to dial a call
only to realise that Im nearly out of battery simply because my phone was getting drained routing calls during a busy period?
I assume they have taken power optimizations into consideration ?
Totally agreed. I really find learning from professors who use powerpoint slides to explain everything really boring.
On the flip side, I had a professor last semester who would have us read papers beforehand in class and come to class with only a few pre-fabricated slides. The rest of the slides would be empty and he would stimulate discussion and ask questions and get points
from the class and create slides on the fly in the class. Now THAT was a really great experience.
Powerpoint used in any other way is insanely sleep inducing.
Well, Nearly every telecommunications service provider in North America uses billing solutions provided by the same company.
Its not the service provider itself thats doing the billing. So its not really the service provider thats to blame entirely in my opinion. Its the company that does this billing. Having worked for this company in the past, I can vouch for the mess. However, the problem is that most of the times all the communications service providers have such complex business requirements and millions of
interdependencies between rate plans and features which affect billing that the billing system becomes too complex and ugly and starts collapsing on itself (and many times its something that cant be avoided). The more features a cell co provides, the worse the
problem will be... replacing millions of lines worth of code and moving to an entirely new system simply doesnt scale for the service provider. You have to keep adding to the complex and ugly old code an keep your fingers crossed.
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It was an MS funded project.
"..Engineers didn't include windows in the design because only space-shuttle windows, which are too heavy for use in an airliner, can withstand the heat the A2 would encounter...."
Bummer- no windows. me no fly A2.
How much power would be consumed routing someone elses's calls? I wouldnt want to pick up my phone to dial a call only to realise that Im nearly out of battery simply because my phone was getting drained routing calls during a busy period? I assume they have taken power optimizations into consideration ?
Totally agreed. I really find learning from professors who use powerpoint slides to explain everything really boring. On the flip side, I had a professor last semester who would have us read papers beforehand in class and come to class with only a few pre-fabricated slides. The rest of the slides would be empty and he would stimulate discussion and ask questions and get points from the class and create slides on the fly in the class. Now THAT was a really great experience. Powerpoint used in any other way is insanely sleep inducing.
Well, Nearly every telecommunications service provider in North America uses billing solutions provided by the same company. Its not the service provider itself thats doing the billing. So its not really the service provider thats to blame entirely in my opinion. Its the company that does this billing. Having worked for this company in the past, I can vouch for the mess. However, the problem is that most of the times all the communications service providers have such complex business requirements and millions of interdependencies between rate plans and features which affect billing that the billing system becomes too complex and ugly and starts collapsing on itself (and many times its something that cant be avoided). The more features a cell co provides, the worse the problem will be... replacing millions of lines worth of code and moving to an entirely new system simply doesnt scale for the service provider. You have to keep adding to the complex and ugly old code an keep your fingers crossed.