I love my coffee. Roast my own, as apparently many others here do. Yay us.
My favorite is Aged Sumatran. Three years old, kept in controlled humidity during that time. The age produces an extremely low acidity, and a mustiness (almost composty) that I love. Only problem is my wife hates it. We just went through some Mexican Chiapas which was very chocolately and rich.
The roast is important, I prefer lighter roasts. More of the varietal flavor remains, and it has a higher caffeine content. Heat, you know.
Espresso is my first choice of brew. One cup at a time, and I can experiment with blends efficiently. French Press is second - the body of a french press is ideal.
a new theme color isn't what this is about. it's about creating an interface that is consistent with how humans think and work. i used a mac in business 15 years ago (system 6?) and once i got used to it could make it fly. os x is pretty and i like it much more than windows, but it's horribly clunky in comparison to older version of the os. windows open in random positions and views, making me spend way too much time to resize them (using the lower right corner to grab it of course). ars has some insightful writeups on what's wrong with os x.
there is no provision in there for life in jail over pirated software. none. you get life in jail for selling fake pharmaceuticals that kill people.
anyway... this is the kind of government the US has devolved into: let the corporations write the laws that will keep them profitable, and will criminalize more and more individual behavior.
"First, if you want to design a game around a licence, you have to be very careful. The best strategy is to design an original game that would stand alone even without the licence. Our original theory was that a licensed game should be a great game first, and a licensed game second. The success of the Ghostbusters game reinforced our belief - that was clearly the right way to go."
have them tell you about project they managed, what the goals were, who worked on it, what challenges presented themselves and how he/she addressed them. ask them about a project they managed that didn't achieve its goals. ask why.
ask them to describe their favorite and least favorite direct report.
this is more about consumer behavior than straight economics. the optimizations referred to aren't just adjusting pricing to supply and demand, but, as noted in the article, address perceived value as well. I'm no economist, nor do I want to be, but it seems to me that such analysis can uncover otherwise unexpected responses to price adjustments.
could be. IBM recently quoted Lewis Carroll in a filing in the SCO case. of course, the rest of their filing actually reads like it was composed by intelligent life forms, in contrast to Thompson's, which is more or less the equivalent of a blogger in his parent's basement (no offense, slashdotters...)
I have a Wii, PS2 and xbox, and just recently reconnected my SNES play Mario and Zelda again. I like the idea of injecting my imagination into a game. My daughter, 6, commented as i played mario world, "wow, that game is hard".
If my employer is any indication, Notes is still a big source of revenue for IBM, so I can't see them giving that up. My guess is that there is also a good deal of code in there with various copyright owners.
And of course, Lotus Notes is what software would be like if it was written by Satan.
I figure that a Windows user might buy a Mac and a copy of XP, or even Vista, to run his/her favorite apps. BUT, by the next upgrade cycle that user will have found a Mac app that gets them where they want to be, and no more Windows.
one thing I agree with in the article is that in the type of game under discussion a player's actions don't effect the world in a significant way, eg. killing a political leader results in a change in the game's direction. I understand the difficulty in implementing such a scenario, but it would certainly make the game feel more organic.
even if they don't win, they can delay the implementation of their competitors product, thus denying them the right to get paid. that alone can be a win for Diebold.
"Which is a little ironic as the MS office applications were originally written for the MAC and only later ported onto Windows. I think that many people forget (or maybe did not know in the first place) that many of the early MAC applications were written by a software house called Microsoft."
Ah, the memories. I spent a day at Reuters once, installing Excel on their NCR-PC8s (286). Excel came with a runtime version of Windows 2.1, because no one actually had it installed. Excel was the ONLY reason to use Windows back then.
"All short or word-like domains should have been priced higher."
All short or word-like domains were registered before they cost anything at all. Remember, please, the Internet was not created for businesses. It was created for information sharing. People who want to make money using the Internet should play by OUR rules; they shouldn't be imposing their rules on us.
There is something inherently wrong with communism.
It completely ignores human nature. The reason "real" communism has never appeared anywhere is that it CAN'T. People are inherently selfish, they always seek to differentiate themselves, form groups that make them feel superior to other groups, and will take advantage of any possibility of gaming a system.
OK. So you can trick the site into thinking you're using IE, and you can browse, and maybe even purchase, the downloadable movies. But the movies won't actually play on anything other than a Windows PC with new WMP codecs.
So, what is better? That the retailer tell you to stop before you start, or to let you make a purchase that won't work?
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I love my coffee. Roast my own, as apparently many others here do. Yay us.
My favorite is Aged Sumatran. Three years old, kept in controlled humidity during that time. The age produces an extremely low acidity, and a mustiness (almost composty) that I love. Only problem is my wife hates it. We just went through some Mexican Chiapas which was very chocolately and rich.
The roast is important, I prefer lighter roasts. More of the varietal flavor remains, and it has a higher caffeine content. Heat, you know.
Espresso is my first choice of brew. One cup at a time, and I can experiment with blends efficiently. French Press is second - the body of a french press is ideal.
a new theme color isn't what this is about. it's about creating an interface that is consistent with how humans think and work. i used a mac in business 15 years ago (system 6?) and once i got used to it could make it fly. os x is pretty and i like it much more than windows, but it's horribly clunky in comparison to older version of the os. windows open in random positions and views, making me spend way too much time to resize them (using the lower right corner to grab it of course). ars has some insightful writeups on what's wrong with os x.
there is no provision in there for life in jail over pirated software. none. you get life in jail for selling fake pharmaceuticals that kill people.
anyway... this is the kind of government the US has devolved into: let the corporations write the laws that will keep them profitable, and will criminalize more and more individual behavior.
shit.
"First, if you want to design a game around a licence, you have to be very careful. The best strategy is to design an original game that would stand alone even without the licence. Our original theory was that a licensed game should be a great game first, and a licensed game second. The success of the Ghostbusters game reinforced our belief - that was clearly the right way to go."
if only others thought this way...
"Last I checked, the Supreme Court is the final arbiter of what is constitutional in the US."
check again.
The only reason SCOTUS has this role is because they gave it to themselves. They have NOT been granted this responsibility by the constitution.
and then compare yourself to it.
"You forgot "Who's buried in Grant's tomb?" :^)"
Nobody. It's above ground.
.... you need a new business plan.
have them tell you about project they managed, what the goals were, who worked on it, what challenges presented themselves and how he/she addressed them. ask them about a project they managed that didn't achieve its goals. ask why.
ask them to describe their favorite and least favorite direct report.
this is more about consumer behavior than straight economics. the optimizations referred to aren't just adjusting pricing to supply and demand, but, as noted in the article, address perceived value as well. I'm no economist, nor do I want to be, but it seems to me that such analysis can uncover otherwise unexpected responses to price adjustments.
could be. IBM recently quoted Lewis Carroll in a filing in the SCO case. of course, the rest of their filing actually reads like it was composed by intelligent life forms, in contrast to Thompson's, which is more or less the equivalent of a blogger in his parent's basement (no offense, slashdotters...)
Dr. Seuss has already proved the contagion of yawns.
i thought that was pretty funny...
not to mention that they have to buy my electricity if I generate more than I can use.
I have a Wii, PS2 and xbox, and just recently reconnected my SNES play Mario and Zelda again. I like the idea of injecting my imagination into a game. My daughter, 6, commented as i played mario world, "wow, that game is hard".
If my employer is any indication, Notes is still a big source of revenue for IBM, so I can't see them giving that up. My guess is that there is also a good deal of code in there with various copyright owners.
And of course, Lotus Notes is what software would be like if it was written by Satan.
not to mention this line from the same FA:
"At this point the consequences, if any, for the LHC schedule are not yet known."
I figure that a Windows user might buy a Mac and a copy of XP, or even Vista, to run his/her favorite apps. BUT, by the next upgrade cycle that user will have found a Mac app that gets them where they want to be, and no more Windows.
one thing I agree with in the article is that in the type of game under discussion a player's actions don't effect the world in a significant way, eg. killing a political leader results in a change in the game's direction. I understand the difficulty in implementing such a scenario, but it would certainly make the game feel more organic.
even if they don't win, they can delay the implementation of their competitors product, thus denying them the right to get paid. that alone can be a win for Diebold.
"Which is a little ironic as the MS office applications were originally written for the MAC and only later ported onto Windows. I think that many people forget (or maybe did not know in the first place) that many of the early MAC applications were written by a software house called Microsoft."
Ah, the memories. I spent a day at Reuters once, installing Excel on their NCR-PC8s (286). Excel came with a runtime version of Windows 2.1, because no one actually had it installed. Excel was the ONLY reason to use Windows back then.
"All short or word-like domains should have been priced higher."
All short or word-like domains were registered before they cost anything at all. Remember, please, the Internet was not created for businesses. It was created for information sharing. People who want to make money using the Internet should play by OUR rules; they shouldn't be imposing their rules on us.
Cheers,
acvh
These guys.
There is something inherently wrong with communism.
It completely ignores human nature. The reason "real" communism has never appeared anywhere is that it CAN'T. People are inherently selfish, they always seek to differentiate themselves, form groups that make them feel superior to other groups, and will take advantage of any possibility of gaming a system.
OK. So you can trick the site into thinking you're using IE, and you can browse, and maybe even purchase, the downloadable movies. But the movies won't actually play on anything other than a Windows PC with new WMP codecs.
So, what is better? That the retailer tell you to stop before you start, or to let you make a purchase that won't work?