just today morning (1 hour ago) i read in the newspaper economic times, an interview of steve ballmer. he is here (in delhi) for the tech-ed event. when asked about yahoo he said, "i'm glad yahoo did not accept our $33/share offer...we are not going to acquire them but we are going to work together." here is the link. check out the last paragraph and the next page.
he download page was a short faq. the most prominent (in bold) point was:
To avoid interruption, youâ(TM)ll need to rebuild your test machine using a valid version of Windows before the software expires. Windows will notify you that the expiration process is beginning and two weeks later your PC will begin shutting down every two hours. The Beta expires on August 1, 2009, and bi-hourly shutdowns will begin July 1, 2009. The RC will expire June 1, 2010, and the bi-hourly shutdowns will begin on March 1, 2010. In both cases, youâ(TM)ll need to rebuild your test PC to replace the OS and reinstall all your programs and data.
so no, you didn't have to read 'giant pages of stuff'. you just had to keep your eyes open.
in fact i've often asked myself, do i want a computer that can only play non-drmed content or a computer that can play both drmed and non-drmed content? and i've realized that its good ms has put in all the drm. otherwise my shiny new bluray drive would be worthless.
one of them is e71. it did not have exchange support initially. others were updated too but i am not sure about the model numbers. you can try looking in the 'download' app.
they probably consider iphone to be the only rival. yes, the shitty iphone can't even record videos. never mind we have had video and mms in every phone (nokia, se, moto, samsung, winmo, htc, asus) since 1999.
and if apple and microsoft do this on iphone and winmo, you wouldn't even have a way of knowing it. atleast with android you can examine the code and make sure.
that's something new. because i can't get/. to work even on firefox 3.5b4 on winxp or ubuntu. which damn browser do they test this site on? or do they just code and don't debug?
some symbian based phones just a few moths ago got their firmware updated to include buiilt-in exchange support. why did ms let them do it and not android? yes, because google does not want you to use ms. it wants to promote its own shitty, unreliable gmail and apps.
you said that the iphone has "more quality apps than others have total apps". so you mean iphone has 20 thousand 'quality' apps?(whatever lame definition of 'quality' you may imply) lets get this clear. does the iphone store have an app that can convert your 3g iphone into a wlan access point? symbian has had such an app for years (jaikuspot). does your iphone store have an app that can stream live video from the camera over 3g or wifi? been running qik for three months. oh, what did you say? the fuckingly expensive to maintain iphone does not have a video camera? even my basic entry level smartphone n73 has TWO cameras, both of which can be used to stream video in vga quality. does the iphone store have an app that enables you to watch flash video from any website other than youtube? interbine can search many sites (metacafe, vimeo, youtube,etc) at once and show video from any of them. can you replace the standard ui on the iphone with another one of your choice using an app? its possible on symbian. can you have a music player app for iphone? shit no, because it can't run in the background. uncountable such apps for symbian, winmo, bb, and even low end se java apps. my e71 has 128mb of ram. i can run as many programs i like simultaneously, until i fill up the ram. does the iphone have an im app that can log into live, skype, yahoo, facebook, gtalk, twitter simultaneously and allow you to send and receive messages from any of them? nimbuzz for symbian. is there an app that can function as a call recorder? tens of such apps for symbian to choose from. can you listen to streaming internet radio on your iphone. app from nokia store has been doing this for about a year. and i have not even started on python apps. so what quality do you want exactly? i don't see a single iphone app that is in any way revolutionary. most are just connectors to specific websites because the standard browser fucks them up. whereas most of the apps in symbian and winmo bring new and useful functionality.
no it wasn't me. but it seems obvious to me. sorry for calling you moron because now when i read it again i can imagine some idiot spouting bs like this.
i believe you can pay a thousand bucks inr more after buying to get a western style toilet installed. its not a very big deal. also, some people here prefer "long drops" and will pay extra for them.
well, i don't find proper fire safety in most places. not even in the more expensive of apartments. so no. and i don't think anyone will notice. the problem is that the cost of a life is very low here. we don't bat an eyelid after hearing about 100 dead in a bomb blast, whereas in the us people get hysteric even over a couple of deaths (it seems).
well here in india, you can buy apartments and pay a (bi)monthly fee for common lighting, garbage disposal, water supply, cable tv. funny thing is that everyone has their own independent electricity connection, but water supply is shared and not billed on consumption.
no! you don't turn it off. that would be stupid! you mount a webcam on it and switch to its feed when not watching tv. then you will be known as a true slashdotter.
This is insightful? The entire American workforce is about 140 million people. If they were "all American jobs" that means unemployment in the US should be around 70% instead of the 15% it actually is. And that's just India - are all the new jobs in China also American jobs? Because at that point you've exceeded the size of the entire American workforce.
And even if those newly middle class people are doing something that used to be done in the US, what of it? Do you somehow think you're entitled to your job even if there's someone else willing to do it at 20% of the price?
no, from what i know about statistics (only high school), median does not mean "half of the houses are cheaper than $7500 and the other half are more expensive." it means most number of houses are for 7500.
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just today morning (1 hour ago) i read in the newspaper economic times, an interview of steve ballmer. he is here (in delhi) for the tech-ed event. when asked about yahoo he said, "i'm glad yahoo did not accept our $33/share offer...we are not going to acquire them but we are going to work together." here is the link. check out the last paragraph and the next page.
there is no user-accessible file system.
utorrent webui
i don't think you'd have problems transfering even a terabyte of data in two hours.
heh!
glad to know humans are still more intelligent than computers.
To avoid interruption, youâ(TM)ll need to rebuild your test machine using a valid version of Windows before the software expires. Windows will notify you that the expiration process is beginning and two weeks later your PC will begin shutting down every two hours. The Beta expires on August 1, 2009, and bi-hourly shutdowns will begin July 1, 2009. The RC will expire June 1, 2010, and the bi-hourly shutdowns will begin on March 1, 2010. In both cases, youâ(TM)ll need to rebuild your test PC to replace the OS and reinstall all your programs and data.
so no, you didn't have to read 'giant pages of stuff'. you just had to keep your eyes open.
but who clicked 'submit'?
o_O
usually when wga non-genuine behavior is triggered it does not wait for apps, it forces them to close(like when the battery is low.
in fact i've often asked myself, do i want a computer that can only play non-drmed content or a computer that can play both drmed and non-drmed content? and i've realized that its good ms has put in all the drm. otherwise my shiny new bluray drive would be worthless.
one of them is e71. it did not have exchange support initially. others were updated too but i am not sure about the model numbers. you can try looking in the 'download' app.
they probably consider iphone to be the only rival. yes, the shitty iphone can't even record videos. never mind we have had video and mms in every phone (nokia, se, moto, samsung, winmo, htc, asus) since 1999.
and if apple and microsoft do this on iphone and winmo, you wouldn't even have a way of knowing it. atleast with android you can examine the code and make sure.
that's something new. because i can't get /. to work even on firefox 3.5b4 on winxp or ubuntu. which damn browser do they test this site on? or do they just code and don't debug?
some symbian based phones just a few moths ago got their firmware updated to include buiilt-in exchange support. why did ms let them do it and not android? yes, because google does not want you to use ms. it wants to promote its own shitty, unreliable gmail and apps.
you said that the iphone has "more quality apps than others have total apps". so you mean iphone has 20 thousand 'quality' apps?(whatever lame definition of 'quality' you may imply)
lets get this clear.
does the iphone store have an app that can convert your 3g iphone into a wlan access point? symbian has had such an app for years (jaikuspot).
does your iphone store have an app that can stream live video from the camera over 3g or wifi? been running qik for three months.
oh, what did you say? the fuckingly expensive to maintain iphone does not have a video camera? even my basic entry level smartphone n73 has TWO cameras, both of which can be used to stream video in vga quality.
does the iphone store have an app that enables you to watch flash video from any website other than youtube? interbine can search many sites (metacafe, vimeo, youtube,etc) at once and show video from any of them.
can you replace the standard ui on the iphone with another one of your choice using an app? its possible on symbian.
can you have a music player app for iphone? shit no, because it can't run in the background. uncountable such apps for symbian, winmo, bb, and even low end se java apps. my e71 has 128mb of ram. i can run as many programs i like simultaneously, until i fill up the ram.
does the iphone have an im app that can log into live, skype, yahoo, facebook, gtalk, twitter simultaneously and allow you to send and receive messages from any of them? nimbuzz for symbian.
is there an app that can function as a call recorder? tens of such apps for symbian to choose from.
can you listen to streaming internet radio on your iphone. app from nokia store has been doing this for about a year.
and i have not even started on python apps.
so what quality do you want exactly? i don't see a single iphone app that is in any way revolutionary. most are just connectors to specific websites because the standard browser fucks them up. whereas most of the apps in symbian and winmo bring new and useful functionality.
no it wasn't me. but it seems obvious to me. sorry for calling you moron because now when i read it again i can imagine some idiot spouting bs like this.
what's up with the crazy caps lock?
oops! got median and mode all mixed up.
i believe you can pay a thousand bucks inr more after buying to get a western style toilet installed. its not a very big deal. also, some people here prefer "long drops" and will pay extra for them.
well, i don't find proper fire safety in most places. not even in the more expensive of apartments. so no. and i don't think anyone will notice. the problem is that the cost of a life is very low here. we don't bat an eyelid after hearing about 100 dead in a bomb blast, whereas in the us people get hysteric even over a couple of deaths (it seems).
well here in india, you can buy apartments and pay a (bi)monthly fee for common lighting, garbage disposal, water supply, cable tv. funny thing is that everyone has their own independent electricity connection, but water supply is shared and not billed on consumption.
no! you don't turn it off. that would be stupid!
you mount a webcam on it and switch to its feed when not watching tv. then you will be known as a true slashdotter.
This is insightful? The entire American workforce is about 140 million people. If they were "all American jobs" that means unemployment in the US should be around 70% instead of the 15% it actually is. And that's just India - are all the new jobs in China also American jobs? Because at that point you've exceeded the size of the entire American workforce.
And even if those newly middle class people are doing something that used to be done in the US, what of it? Do you somehow think you're entitled to your job even if there's someone else willing to do it at 20% of the price?
I hope that comment was supposed to be sarcastic.
sorry to inform you but it was.
moron.
no, from what i know about statistics (only high school), median does not mean "half of the houses are cheaper than $7500 and the other half are more expensive." it means most number of houses are for 7500.
And how open-source the MS Big Table will be? You can download it and use in your cluster or single PC?
apache license 2.0
imo better than gpl.