System requirements only list Windows and I don't own a Windows computer...so I'll never see it! Too bad they could not support other OS's...oh well it is Verizon and MSN.
We pay for the IRS but can't do business with it on the Internet without paying a third party. This letter is simply wanting the same setup for weather companies that already exist for tax software companies. Just as a side note, I work with a good bit of weather software and I can assure you that the only data we get for free, from any source, are radar images that our doppler radar provides. Since all commercial users (I know of) already pay, this sounds like Accuweather wants individual user's cash. I have seen demos of all the major commercial weather software withiin the last 3 months (looking to upgrade our current software) including Accuweather and this may be a last ditch effort for Accuweather. Other weather software companies are showing advanced modeling, data presentation, and other features as the sellling point not what they can charge for the raw data. At least two other weather software companies did not even care where you got the raw data. I have seen one that actually used the xml data from NWS and used the no data charge as a selling point.
I agree with others here, i.e. Personal use of NWS data have already been paid for and should not fall into the IRS/3rd party software business model.
At work I have no choice - Windows or get a different job so I deal with it. However at home only one thing keeps a Windows machine running = the 3.5 inch memory stick reader for the digital camera.
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Yeah, I'm seeing this on The History Channel right now. It's just as you described it.
I hate when Apple ads state that "all" PC user know what the BSOD is. My PC has NEVER had a BSOD - kernel panic maybe but not the BSOD. Kinda make me feel like Apple's marketing department doesn't have a clue. They should say that all WINDOWS users know the BSOD.
I'm at work now - at a TV station. We sell information to every viewer via cable both audio and video. Why is SightSound fooling around with the small fry. They need to go after ABC, NBC, Fox, etc... There is a helluva lot more money...eh wait that is why!
I listen to this one on NPR on the way in from work today. They did a great job afterwards with a satire of Barry singing actual shark love songs...
The biologist being interviewed said "they (the sharks) were swimming faster" after hearing Barry's` music. - Trying to get away?? -
Today at work the Corp MIS folks say they are sending my site XP and I'm "GOING" to like it and now RH is going to AOHell. Gotta go move my home net to Mandrake right now!
AOL just trying to get the little guy out seems true. I work in the TV industry and we have at LEAST three big players that have products named "AIM". Not GAIM or any strange spelling, but AIM. I haven't heard of any letters to them requiring a name change on their products and one of the products was created in 2001. I doubt AOL is looking for companies that HAVE the resources to fight them.
I went there with Mozilla 0.7 running on Red Hat 7.1 and I had no problems. If I only had a UK tax ID I would have registered. Maybe M$.NET is checking for ANY browser....
In NC, Nortel is giving some students that they were planning to hire right out school $1000.00. NPR had a report on this today. I'm just gald it wasn't me...my mortage is more than that.;-)
But users of M$ are use to this kind of pricing and privacy policies. I look for my employer to jump on Curl sometime in the near future, but of course they buy alot of stuff that they don't need and an awful lot of stuff that does nothing for their bottom line and don't even want me to tell them about it.
I failed to see ANY attempt to save disk space in the versions of Win2K I've installed for testing. Am I missing something or are they really saying that trying to conserve disk space is new. Uh...oh....it just might be a new concept to the people at MS.
I'm afraid that I have to agree with this posting. However, I can see alot of uses for the Crusoe, I have a hundred users who never do anything but but run word processing who absolutely don't need a PIII or anything much above a Pentium 233. In fact, I have trouble getting a 'small' enough machine now. If the cost is right for a lightweight desktop, I'll stop buying Intel...Not to mention the 'pat on the back' I'll get for reducing the monthly power bill.
I have only had my Roadrunner about 2 months and while I cannot get tech support for my Linux box I have not had any trouble at all connecting it. In the Charlotte area, there is a provision in the service agreemnet that you can have a certain amount of server traffic. TW was in the process of offering a small business service in this area for the purpose of small access servers before the AOL deal. This probably means the death of the NOC I was putting in the basement...
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System requirements only list Windows and I don't own a Windows computer...so I'll never see it! Too bad they could not support other OS's...oh well it is Verizon and MSN.
We pay for the IRS but can't do business with it on the Internet without paying a third party. This letter is simply wanting the same setup for weather companies that already exist for tax software companies. Just as a side note, I work with a good bit of weather software and I can assure you that the only data we get for free, from any source, are radar images that our doppler radar provides. Since all commercial users (I know of) already pay, this sounds like Accuweather wants individual user's cash. I have seen demos of all the major commercial weather software withiin the last 3 months (looking to upgrade our current software) including Accuweather and this may be a last ditch effort for Accuweather. Other weather software companies are showing advanced modeling, data presentation, and other features as the sellling point not what they can charge for the raw data. At least two other weather software companies did not even care where you got the raw data. I have seen one that actually used the xml data from NWS and used the no data charge as a selling point.
I agree with others here, i.e. Personal use of NWS data have already been paid for and should not fall into the IRS/3rd party software business model.
Are you sure you didn't mean "A Beos Badger cluster"?
I have been emailing my reps up in DC about this approximately once a month. Hey maybe they actually listened....
Nah...
(My wife's voice) Wake up Honey. You need to go to work.
At work I have no choice - Windows or get a different job so I deal with it. However at home only one thing keeps a Windows machine running = the 3.5 inch memory stick reader for the digital camera.
Yeah, I'm seeing this on The History Channel right now. It's just as you described it.
I hate when Apple ads state that "all" PC user know what the BSOD is. My PC has NEVER had a BSOD - kernel panic maybe but not the BSOD. Kinda make me feel like Apple's marketing department doesn't have a clue. They should say that all WINDOWS users know the BSOD.
I'm at work now - at a TV station. We sell information to every viewer via cable both audio and video. Why is SightSound fooling around with the small fry. They need to go after ABC, NBC, Fox, etc... There is a helluva lot more money...eh wait that is why!
I listen to this one on NPR on the way in from work today. They did a great job afterwards with a satire of Barry singing actual shark love songs...
The biologist being interviewed said "they (the sharks) were swimming faster" after hearing Barry's` music. - Trying to get away?? -
FROM M$:
In order to secure your PC while having a Micorsoft product installed, unplug the power cord from the wall AC outlet.
Today at work the Corp MIS folks say they are sending my site XP and I'm "GOING" to like it and now RH is going to AOHell. Gotta go move my home net to Mandrake right now!
AOL just trying to get the little guy out seems true. I work in the TV industry and we have at LEAST three big players that have products named "AIM". Not GAIM or any strange spelling, but AIM. I haven't heard of any letters to them requiring a name change on their products and one of the products was created in 2001. I doubt AOL is looking for companies that HAVE the resources to fight them.
I went there with Mozilla 0.7 running on Red Hat 7.1 and I had no problems. If I only had a UK tax ID I would have registered. Maybe M$ .NET is checking for ANY browser....
In NC, Nortel is giving some students that they were planning to hire right out school $1000.00. NPR had a report on this today. I'm just gald it wasn't me...my mortage is more than that.;-)
But users of M$ are use to this kind of pricing and privacy policies. I look for my employer to jump on Curl sometime in the near future, but of course they buy alot of stuff that they don't need and an awful lot of stuff that does nothing for their bottom line and don't even want me to tell them about it.
I failed to see ANY attempt to save disk space in the versions of Win2K I've installed for testing. Am I missing something or are they really saying that trying to conserve disk space is new. Uh...oh....it just might be a new concept to the people at MS.
It overwrites my beta copy of W2K. Fortunately, it was still in testing. Still, I have users who actually want to use AOL so I just hope AOL fixes it.
Ohhhh the money I could save if I could only make them writable again...
I'm afraid that I have to agree with this posting. However, I can see alot of uses for the Crusoe, I have a hundred users who never do anything but but run word processing who absolutely don't need a PIII or anything much above a Pentium 233. In fact, I have trouble getting a 'small' enough machine now. If the cost is right for a lightweight desktop, I'll stop buying Intel...Not to mention the 'pat on the back' I'll get for reducing the monthly power bill.
Still drooling for another Alpha at my site..
You meant 'buy' AOL Timewarner.
I have only had my Roadrunner about 2 months and while I cannot get tech support for my Linux box I have not had any trouble at all connecting it. In the Charlotte area, there is a provision in the service agreemnet that you can have a certain amount of server traffic. TW was in the process of offering a small business service in this area for the purpose of small access servers before the AOL deal. This probably means the death of the NOC I was putting in the basement...
Yeah, I started hounding my phone company for a DSL this morning....