This includes things as replacing your old XP software with Ubuntu and selling the disk, certificate, box and packaging on ebay. How can you prove that you didn't install XP on your PC and then just resold all the packaging/licensing? Would you pay a bit more for your initial copy of XP, so that you can fund some group at MSFT to wait for you to call in and say "ok, I nolonger have it installed..." etc etc
Great chair, the back is mesh, great lumbar support and the seat is leather/padded rather than mesh. Even comes with a headrest. I personally think it's a better chair than the Aeron.
Which is exactly what that is, a concept, BMW comes up with an idea and floats it with the public to see what they think. Saturn did this with plastic bodies, "you'll never get a dinged door from a loose shopping cart.." While the metal skin of a car doesn't provide much protection, I bet it does add quite a bit to the weight of a car, and quite a bit of manufacturing (stamping, painting etc..) than a textile based covering.
So EA comes out with Cnc:3 but then has no plans to release the expansion packs for it. This is a great example of native games, however, it's probably just an example of releasing titles for dominant platforms, aka making money.
With Apple's big push towards iPhone, I can just see Jobs trying to get companies to write serious games for i[Pod|phone|touch]
Radiohead is showing surprising maturity and acute understanding of what a customer wants: Go to the Customer, instead of sitting on your arse and expecting them to come to you. Have you been to Metallica's website lately? You can listen to many of their songs, and watch their videos on their website. Also, i wouldn't consider Radiohead "savvy", I'd say they are realizing that if they want to make money of their music, they need to charge for it.
C'mon Radiohead show the industry that you can make millions by having people 'name their price'. I'm sure this works for all companies. I'll call up Ferrari and suggest they start allowing us to name our price.
In the '80s I used to have memorized of my relatives and friends phone numbers. Now that I have a cell phone, I've programmed in their numbers and I never actually dial the number let along see it. We just hit #1 or their number in the addressbook and it dials. If the callerID doesn't show up, I might not even recognize it. Try it with coworkers friends etc... when you had to dial all 7-11 numbers, you ended up memorizing them...
So if I sign up with MLB to watch games which are not in my local television area, should I expect to get throttled by my local cable company because for 3hrs a week, I use a lot of bandwidth. The other hours of the week, I'm doing email and IM.
Most datacenters are in nondescript buildings. Why would you want to advertise that this building here is the uber datacenter for the entire olympics? I'd also love to know that in light of the recent earthquake what is the disaster recovery plan and site look like?
Why only have an elbow and wrist and five fingers? Why not make an articulated arm that has more 'elbow' joints and two opposing digits (read: thumbs). If the brain isn't used to controlling 6 finger/digits, could it learn the task? Surely a wrist that could rotate 180degrees in either direction would be better than our current design.
What are we going to do to China? Sanctions? Trade Tariffs? Probably just a "stern speech"
Even if it is Chinese Government sponsored hackers, the american people still want their cheap goods. Just like most americans we care more about the price of gas, than what type of government is in Iraq. We want fresh fruit picked by illegal immigrants who have no healthcare. We want cheap power, but as long as the nuclear power plant is built in someone elses backyard.
Gartner is missing Unified I/O which will enable servers to have a single adapter (or dual for redundancy) that is carrying both IP and FCoE (FibreChannel over Ethernet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCoE) over a common 10GigE infrastructure. Greatly reducing cabling, management and number of connections to the server.
This isn't akin iSCSI which had the painful overhead of TCP optimizations. While not aimed at the SMB market (who iSCSI is fine for), users that manage midsize to large datacenters will not be faced with the problems at layer 8 (politics of who manages the switches, LAN/SAN or for bladecenters server team?).
When at work I dock my laptop and use a ergonomic keyboard, however, if I have to type on the laptop's (Lenova T60p, which is a big laptop) keyboard, my hands quickly get tired, due to a poor ergonomic design.
What's the ergonomic impact of these mini-laptops? Is there a 'too small' design or are we sacrificing our hands/wrists to be able to fit a laptop on a seatback tray on a 5 hour flight?
I have no problems with making all science/engineering classes take some form of programming class. Even something as simple as fortran (compared with C), to introduce them into thinking programmatically.
However, if you are teaching a semester long physics class about XYZ topic, I would not think that you should be teaching programming during that class. During XYZ I am trying to learn about that topic, not about syntax, pointers, software engineering or whatever. Teach me the physics. Then in more advanced classes/labs consider having classes that integrate the two. However, I would hate to fail some advanced theoretical physics class because my program didn't compile.
Side note: I studied Comp. Engineering and *hated* physics/chemistry classes. I would have gone through the roof if my senior comp eng. classes had labs that required me to focus on chemistry instead of classes closer to my major. I didn't want to become a chemist/biologist etc, those classes were done to broaden my knowledge.
Here's the ENTIRE article... someone tell me where the "News" is:
Ubisoft's content director, Julian Geright, has claimed that the upcoming Tom Clancy: EndWar game will change the way people will make games on consoles.
"This is the first game of its type and I don't think that games on console will be made the same after Endwar," he said in to CVG. "It's kind of boastful, but I really do think that this is a watershed type of game."
EndWar is a real-time strategy game made specifically for the PS3 and Xbox 360. When asked about other RTS games that have been ported to console platforms, Geright said: "I hate saying bad things about other peoples games, but when EA ships Battle for Middle Earth on PC and then goes 'okay, that's going to take a team of forty/fifty six months to get it out on 360'.
"They can do a really great job in terms of UI, they can great job in mapping the controls and making it accessible, but it remains a PC game. The difference in PC games and console games is huge, even in first person shooters. Think of before GoldenEye - people didn't play first person shooters on console. It wasn't that fun."
More on EndWar as UbiDays kicks into top gear. So some marketing guy says that this game is going to be uber l33t, and nothing will be the same afterwards. Nothing going to be the same? Reminds me of that old dialog in Ghostbusters:
Dr Ray Stantz: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath of God type stuff. Dr. Peter Venkman: Exactly. Dr Ray Stantz: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling! Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes... Winston Zeddemore: The dead rising from the grave! Dr. Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!
I currently use a MSFT Ergonomic keyboard, I love the ergonomic shape of it, however, I miss the tactile feel of the old IBM keyboards. Does anybody make an ergonomic keyboard with tactile feedback or buckle springs?
There's precious little revolutionary innovation nowadays, in any field. The vast majority of it is evolutionary. What would you call revolutionary?
-Warp Drive? Probably not since we have propulsion systems.. -Teleportation? Nope. I can transfer information through the air already. -Living until we're 200? We already live much longer than people did a 100years ago. -Cure for XYZ disease? We already have vaccines for polio, measels, mumps.. so another evolution in medicine.
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I guess with the launch of the BFR (Big Fucking Router) a couple of years ago, makes me an employee of said Router company.
I code all day long and when I had my company perform an ergonomic eval, due to back issues they delivered the Teknion Contessa http://www.teknion.com/products/seating_contessa/default.asp?country=us
Great chair, the back is mesh, great lumbar support and the seat is leather/padded rather than mesh. Even comes with a headrest. I personally think it's a better chair than the Aeron.
Which is exactly what that is, a concept, BMW comes up with an idea and floats it with the public to see what they think. Saturn did this with plastic bodies, "you'll never get a dinged door from a loose shopping cart.." While the metal skin of a car doesn't provide much protection, I bet it does add quite a bit to the weight of a car, and quite a bit of manufacturing (stamping, painting etc..) than a textile based covering.
At least they're thinking different.
So EA comes out with Cnc:3 but then has no plans to release the expansion packs for it. This is a great example of native games, however, it's probably just an example of releasing titles for dominant platforms, aka making money.
With Apple's big push towards iPhone, I can just see Jobs trying to get companies to write serious games for i[Pod|phone|touch]
MOD PARENT UP...
Anybody that worked with Banyan deserves modpoints.....
C'mon Radiohead show the industry that you can make millions by having people 'name their price'. I'm sure this works for all companies. I'll call up Ferrari and suggest they start allowing us to name our price.
In the '80s I used to have memorized of my relatives and friends phone numbers. Now that I have a cell phone, I've programmed in their numbers and I never actually dial the number let along see it. We just hit #1 or their number in the addressbook and it dials. If the callerID doesn't show up, I might not even recognize it. Try it with coworkers friends etc... when you had to dial all 7-11 numbers, you ended up memorizing them...
As a side note, is it legal to borrow three books from your local library, photocopy all the pages and then return them?
As a former player when I was a kid, I recently saw these two videos on youtube and think it's a great parody of the stereotypical DND player:
Episode 1: http://youtube.com/watch?v=7Mp7Ikko8SI
Episode 2: http://youtube.com/watch?v=bP3GYdrW450
I think for April Fools we should rename this article since we know how great the editors' grammar is.
Billion's routers crash after upgrade to XP SP3.
OMG a Billion Routers crash....
What would we do if these routers ran a linux based firmware? What would we do? Can we flame linux or do we continue to flame msft for abusing specs?
/. flamers.
I'm looking for guidance from the
So if I sign up with MLB to watch games which are not in my local television area, should I expect to get throttled by my local cable company because for 3hrs a week, I use a lot of bandwidth. The other hours of the week, I'm doing email and IM.
Most datacenters are in nondescript buildings. Why would you want to advertise that this building here is the uber datacenter for the entire olympics? I'd also love to know that in light of the recent earthquake what is the disaster recovery plan and site look like?
Why only have an elbow and wrist and five fingers? Why not make an articulated arm that has more 'elbow' joints and two opposing digits (read: thumbs). If the brain isn't used to controlling 6 finger/digits, could it learn the task? Surely a wrist that could rotate 180degrees in either direction would be better than our current design.
What are we going to do to China? Sanctions? Trade Tariffs? Probably just a "stern speech"
Even if it is Chinese Government sponsored hackers, the american people still want their cheap goods.
Just like most americans we care more about the price of gas, than what type of government is in Iraq.
We want fresh fruit picked by illegal immigrants who have no healthcare.
We want cheap power, but as long as the nuclear power plant is built in someone elses backyard.
Rack mountable storage? HAH...
Unless you refer to it as DASD, you're just a kid. I cut my teeth on IBM 3370. http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/storage/storage_3370.html
Gartner is missing Unified I/O which will enable servers to have a single adapter (or dual for redundancy) that is carrying both IP and FCoE (FibreChannel over Ethernet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCoE) over a common 10GigE infrastructure. Greatly reducing cabling, management and number of connections to the server.
This isn't akin iSCSI which had the painful overhead of TCP optimizations. While not aimed at the SMB market (who iSCSI is fine for), users that manage midsize to large datacenters will not be faced with the problems at layer 8 (politics of who manages the switches, LAN/SAN or for bladecenters server team?).
When at work I dock my laptop and use a ergonomic keyboard, however, if I have to type on the laptop's (Lenova T60p, which is a big laptop) keyboard, my hands quickly get tired, due to a poor ergonomic design.
What's the ergonomic impact of these mini-laptops? Is there a 'too small' design or are we sacrificing our hands/wrists to be able to fit a laptop on a seatback tray on a 5 hour flight?
I have no problems with making all science/engineering classes take some form of programming class. Even something as simple as fortran (compared with C), to introduce them into thinking programmatically.
However, if you are teaching a semester long physics class about XYZ topic, I would not think that you should be teaching programming during that class. During XYZ I am trying to learn about that topic, not about syntax, pointers, software engineering or whatever. Teach me the physics. Then in more advanced classes/labs consider having classes that integrate the two. However, I would hate to fail some advanced theoretical physics class because my program didn't compile.
Side note: I studied Comp. Engineering and *hated* physics/chemistry classes. I would have gone through the roof if my senior comp eng. classes had labs that required me to focus on chemistry instead of classes closer to my major. I didn't want to become a chemist/biologist etc, those classes were done to broaden my knowledge.
"This is the first game of its type and I don't think that games on console will be made the same after Endwar," he said in to CVG. "It's kind of boastful, but I really do think that this is a watershed type of game."
EndWar is a real-time strategy game made specifically for the PS3 and Xbox 360. When asked about other RTS games that have been ported to console platforms, Geright said: "I hate saying bad things about other peoples games, but when EA ships Battle for Middle Earth on PC and then goes 'okay, that's going to take a team of forty/fifty six months to get it out on 360'.
"They can do a really great job in terms of UI, they can great job in mapping the controls and making it accessible, but it remains a PC game. The difference in PC games and console games is huge, even in first person shooters. Think of before GoldenEye - people didn't play first person shooters on console. It wasn't that fun."
More on EndWar as UbiDays kicks into top gear. So some marketing guy says that this game is going to be uber l33t, and nothing will be the same afterwards. Nothing going to be the same? Reminds me of that old dialog in Ghostbusters:
Dr Ray Stantz: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath of God type stuff.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Exactly.
Dr Ray Stantz: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!
Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes...
Winston Zeddemore: The dead rising from the grave!
Dr. Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!
I currently use a MSFT Ergonomic keyboard, I love the ergonomic shape of it, however, I miss the tactile feel of the old IBM keyboards. Does anybody make an ergonomic keyboard with tactile feedback or buckle springs?
You must have missed that 'common sense' instruction of backing up your bookmarks prior to upgrading.
FWIW, RC1 has been very stable on my 10.5.3 mac. Much snappier, and the URLbar (whatever it's called now) is a definite improvement.
Cliche':
When you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns.
-Warp Drive? Probably not since we have propulsion systems..
-Teleportation? Nope. I can transfer information through the air already.
-Living until we're 200? We already live much longer than people did a 100years ago.
-Cure for XYZ disease? We already have vaccines for polio, measels, mumps.. so another evolution in medicine.