Isn't the typical Christain position something like
"God requires our faith". If so, wouldn't God have to not answer these prayers to keep Man from proving stuff that Man is not supposed to?
They can call it flex time, but it's not.
I've been on flex time so long that 7:30 would kill me. (I'm not a morning person.) If my management started insisting on a start time, I'd respond by giving them exactly eight hours of work a day and no more.
Anyway, naming confusion aside, 7:30 is the rule
and you have 3 choices: take it, fight it, or walk.
In a better job market, "walk" would be the obvious answer for me. Right now...
Uh. Shouldn't they be safeguarding the privacy of citizens, not consumers.
When did these words become interchangeable?
There's a subtle bias involved. Ask yourself this:
Is it more important to protect consumers or producers?
Is it more important to protect citizens or corporations?
I've always suspected Microsoft would one day make a move similar to what you're talking about, but then again, I also see a subscription based culture in so many other areas as well.
I agree. Everyone wants a subscription.
Tivo (which I love and bought the lifetime sub.)
Cable VOD. I already pay monthly for HBO, now for an additional $X per month, I can have HBO On Demand.
Tivo-like cable boxes.
Cell phone data plans. Why not just let me use my minutes?
On line games. Remember the free, user-hosted ones? Friggin Planetside is $50 and $13/month!
Every credit card I have wants me to pay $5/month extra so that they'll call the other credit card companies for me when I use my wallet. That's kind of a lot unless I loose my wallet more than once a month.
If you computer isn't doing anything (most of the time unless you record 12 hours of TV a day) nothing will be using power except some fans and they can be setup to slow down when they are not needed.
Actually, if it's following the Tivo methodology, it is encoding, recording, writing, reading, and decoding 24 hours a day. That's how you get to pause live tv -- by watching it through a sliding buffer storage.
IMO, the type of online PC games that are hosted by users will last longer because they're hosted by users. Typically, someone has to host a central server info server, but that doesn't cost them much. The new MMP environments won't fit this model...
The beauty of a market is, provided that fraud is not allowed, the greed of all paradoxically leads to the betterment of all.
You have to disallow more than fraud. You have to stop companies from buying laws that prop up their business model or otherwise aid them.
And while "the greed of all" may lead to the lowest prices in a perfect market, this may not be "the betterment of all".
Hey, you have no right to a living. Why should anyone pay you more to work less? It's insane, like buying lettuce for $50/head. That's what competition is about. It's rough, but that's Real Life.
I agree with this in the abstract. But as a U.S. software developer, I'm worried about my Real Life.
It will bloat your code by the additive inverse of the code size of your OOKSPDE. The user already has the library on their disk. If it is dynamically linked to your executable, they pay nothing to use it.
How do you know what's on his disk? Or even if his target has a disk? Not every target is an x86 running Linux.
Library developers: Please don't design your libraries for one app on x86 Linux. Consider OS and hardware portability and the fact that you can't know the scaling needs of future apps.
A good library implementation doesn't assume the O.S. or the execution model.
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Isn't the typical Christain position something like "God requires our faith". If so, wouldn't God have to not answer these prayers to keep Man from proving stuff that Man is not supposed to?
Browsers are for browsing.
Let content writers use a real editor!
Editors exist. You don't have to invent them.
I'm trying to decide if I should order from Amazon tonight.
Anyway, naming confusion aside, 7:30 is the rule and you have 3 choices: take it, fight it, or walk. In a better job market, "walk" would be the obvious answer for me. Right now...
When did these words become interchangeable?
There's a subtle bias involved. Ask yourself this:
Is it more important to protect consumers or producers?
Is it more important to protect citizens or corporations?
I guess I'm slow...
How does it "go gold" before it hits the shelves??
... the competition might force MS to pay up so they can be seemless too.
The money now spent on political advertising would go directly to the State.
Maybe they can ruin it more realisticly by holding court inside the MMORPG.
- Tivo (which I love and bought the lifetime sub.)
- Cable VOD. I already pay monthly for HBO, now for an additional $X per month, I can have HBO On Demand.
- Tivo-like cable boxes.
- Cell phone data plans. Why not just let me use my minutes?
- On line games. Remember the free, user-hosted ones? Friggin Planetside is $50 and $13/month!
- Every credit card I have wants me to pay $5/month extra so that they'll call the other credit card companies for me when I use my wallet. That's kind of a lot unless I loose my wallet more than once a month.
Everybody wants my money monthly.Penny Arcade said it best.
Hey I took a dump today! Film at 11.
Lifetime subscription. Consider it part of the cost of the box.
Don't forget to lump the other BSD's in with OS X.
when they go back in time!
If Microsoft gave their OS away, you'd call it"dumping"
I have a Tivo. I pay $0.00 a year.
IMO, the type of online PC games that are hosted by users will last longer because they're hosted by users. Typically, someone has to host a central server info server, but that doesn't cost them much. The new MMP environments won't fit this model...
And while "the greed of all" may lead to the lowest prices in a perfect market, this may not be "the betterment of all".
I agree with this in the abstract. But as a U.S. software developer, I'm worried about my Real Life.Library developers: Please don't design your libraries for one app on x86 Linux. Consider OS and hardware portability and the fact that you can't know the scaling needs of future apps.
A good library implementation doesn't assume the O.S. or the execution model.
The Draka series, starting with Marching Through Georgia. (Out of print, find a copy at your local used bookstore, or at used.addall.com)