It's not claustrophobia, but that's the way they make me feel having to keep my hands and arms in the same position all the time. I've got to switch up at times and put my feet up with the keyboard in my lap, or other things which vary it up every now and then. I do use the big one-piece split keyboards, like the Microsoft Natural keyboards, because the finger positioning is so comfortable, but when they're stuck in one place, it drives me nuts.
Businesses do this all the time. If you pay by a method other than cash, companies will buy the customer lists from stores. Buy a case of Ms. Pauls's fishsticks, pay with a credit card. Now you're in the database. Gorton's Fish Products buys the customer list from the grocery store and sees that you bought a competitor's product. Now you suddenly receive a coupon in the mail for a discount on Gorton's brand of fishsticks. Of course, I expect everyone will go nuts because 1) they've never heard of this before, and 2) this is Microsoft, but hey, let's not embarrass ourselves, people.
Well, Microsoft has already publicly demoed a similar technology, even though I don't believe it's been mentioned at Slashdot yet. When the time comes that Slashdot does a story about its evils, I can count on you to defend them, too, right?:)
Doing it with credit cards isn't always bad, though. I've had credit card companies twice have notified me that I had just been charged with some pretty unusual purchases, and I was able to quickly wipe out the problem. Once was from when a credit card was stolen in the mail, another was when some kid from a restaurant kept the number after wiping my card legitimately.
Don't be such a narrow-minded idiot. There are official publications which have the actual tabs used by the bands during their recordings. Is the site ripping these off, or are the members coming up with their own by ear? Or ripping them off from other places which have created them by ear?
Don't judge a book by it's cover, I know, but I still think they'd sell a lot more of their books (I have two, possibly three), if they'd get some kind of cover scheme which displays anything other than those fruity portraits they're using now.
Can't argue with you. Even though the demand for Java is going down, mainly because of the client-side realities, being proficient in Java is a good thing to see on a résumé for reasons beyond simply knowing the specific language.
Nintendo's actually in a great position to rake in the dough because of their overwhelming strength in the kiddie market. I think Sony has the most to worry about at this point.
This whole thing seems to me like a childish threat by Nintendo (not that it would be the first childish act by their CEO): Kiss up to us or you won't get to see your next generation Nintendo. They're going to release it whether people say nice things about 'em at E3 or not, and they'll make money on it. It actually makes me want to see them get bad reviews, though, just to call the CEO's bluff.
Sure, falling into a vat of acid hurts, so does stubbing your toe. C'mon, I know you're aware that things occur in varying degrees of severity, right?
Yes, X does lower serotonin levels, but I thought that argument was a bit esoteric. I thought that mentioning that it destroys brain cells would have a greater effect on a self-selected group of people who consider themselves to be smarter than average.
What does alcohol have anything to do with it? The earlier poster said that he thought X was neither addictive nor physically harmful, and I corrected him on both counts.
X destroys the neurons in the brain. You trying to whitewash this fact by bringing up alcohol or "most other illegal drugs" is just you avoiding the point.
You're completely wrong about psychological addictions. Where is this used to justify draconian measures? Know what the most harmful psychological addiction is, despite its also having physically addictive properties? Alcohol. Where are all these draconian laws against it, hmm? If you really think that alcoholism compares to your chocolate craving, you're stupid.
Thanks for the reading list, snarf that from such unbiased sources as the "High Times 5th Anniversary Special Edition"? Now, instead of posting about stupid political books, why don't you actually examine the medical research? Laws and politics have nothing to do with the fact that X destroys your brain cells.
I believe that X is not physically addictive, but it can be psychologically addictive. It's very physically harmful, at least if you consider having the neurons in your brain destroyed to be harmful, which I would think and hope most people at Slashdot would.
Actually, it does say something about Java itself, as opposed to the overall market downturn. Java turned out to be a failure on the client and most places that had been designing those awful and slow Java user interfaces are now getting decent work done using Macromedia tools.
Cheers,
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Yes, shooting up, and the iPaq isn't the only one selling well — and its sales aren't nearly as strong as they would be if their factories could keep up with the demand for them. As of December 2000, Casio's models were selling at a clip of 9.7% of the U.S. PDA market. The iPaqs weren't near that because of the supply problem, even though its the PDA with all the buzz right now. In Europe, the iPaq and HP models alone accounted for 31% of the PDA market (and that's up from 18% that WinCE PDAs were getting at the beginning of 2000, if you really don't believe that their sales are shooting upward), with Palms dropping down to 51% (can you say "Netscape, part deux"?).
Meanwhile, Palm is sitting on hundreds of millions of dollars worth of inventory that they can't sell, are planning on losing money this quarter, and are about to fire 10 to 15 percent of their workers. Like I said, at cheap prices, there's no reason why they shouldn't continue to sell well, because not everybody needs all the features of a PocketPC. The problem with that is that there's not much profit margin to be made on those models. To get bigger profits, their prices are going to need to be closer to PocketPCs, at which point people compare what each can do and pick the one without all the limitations of the Palm. Oh, and I wouldn't get too confident about Palm licensees just yet — Handspring was very close to dumping the Palm platform for their future models, and Sony is still considering it. Sony is also already selling some non-Palm models in Europe with Microsoft's Mobile Explorer.
As you look to the future, Palm is screwed. None of their recent announcements and leaks about the direction they're going with the PalmOS has done anything other than elicit some loud yawns. And as the price of limited devices like Palms drops ever lower, they're going to have even less wiggle room. The latest expectation is that they're going to be burning through half their cash this quarter. Ouch — that can't be good for the massive R&D they need to do to catch up with the PocketPCs.
Cheers,
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No, Palm only realizes that they're fucked. They just don't know what they can do about it, so they thought that being more PocketPC like would be a start. It's not going to help. Palms are fine for limited tasks, so there's no reason why they shouldn't be able to make money targetting that market, but everytime you see something Palm-based (except for phones) which is either over $250 or has a color screen, it's just a harsh reminder of how limited these are to PocketPCs. Which probably explains why the marketshare for PocketPCs is shooting up, while Palm's is going down while they're having financial problems and firing workers. Oh, and looks like Toshiba just announced that they're getting into the PocketPC game, too. Cool.
But you're more honest than 99% of the people here. If Microsoft had done the same thing, we would've heard about how evil it is that corporations are allowed to do this. They wouldn't admit that the real reason is that it's okay if companies they like do it but not okay if companies they don't like do it. So in the end, it's just arbitrary favoritism instead of any real principles, which I imagine the original "Slashdot Hypocritical" poster was referring to.
Oh Hell no, I know the media sensationalizes everything that happens. Part of it's because of the 24-hour news channels, resulting in the top stories getting totally played out, no matter what they are. Part of it is due to the general anti-gun bias of the mainstream media. I'm a strong 2nd Amendment supporter. I wish that anytime there's a story on guns in schools, the reporters would relate the statistical chance of a kid getting shot at school with the chances of them drowning in a pool, getting injured in a car accident, getting struck by lightening, etc. And I think the media's done a deplorable job of showing the dropping crime rates in places that have instituted concealed carry laws, especially in comparison to those places which place heavy restrictions on legally gun owners — you know, ultra-safe places like Washington, DC.
There was a recent story (I want to say it was by Tom Squitteri of USA Today) discussing how even though violent crime went down during the '90s, ABC News coverage of violet crime stories went up 38% over the same time period. What a surprise.
Maybe because instead of using their superior intelligence (what else are Katz stories for, if not to tell us [over and over again] that the bullied are misunderstood masterminds, possessing more intelligence than every bully and American adult put together?) to solve a bully problem, they've lately been using guns and taking out themselves as well as innocent people in the process of their revenge on the bullies.
I thought you guys were smarter than everyone else. The best you can come up with is shooting yourself and some other people? How trite. If I'm getting revenge on someone, I'm sticking around to see it, and I'm doing something that doesn't result in me being in jail for the rest of my life.
Tell us how dumb everyone else is all you want, but shooting up a place is the ultimate in intellectual laziness.
Sure, if you or I wanted to make a web-based email service the initial cost would be cheap. But you're not going to get the traffic necessary to support an ad-based revenue model unless you have plenty of users. And then when you have plenty of users, you're going to need more web servers and more bandwidth, so your costs are going to go up. That's why there's been consolidation among the free web-mail providers along with some just shutting down altogether or selling certain domain names that they promised their users that they could have for life (leaving many angry email users behind in the process).
As an aside, and likely to generate flames, Microsoft recently posted a case study of Hotmail's conversion from FreeBSD to Windows 2000.
Yeah, because heaven forbid anybody ever enlighten themselves and change their opinion on something. A waste of time indeed when you can instead just cling to the same naïve beliefs that you had when you were younger.
The Bonobo::Unknown interface is inspired by the Microsoft COM IUnknown interface but it has been translated into the CORBA world.
Bonobo consists of a number of interfaces for creating compound documents and reusable components. They are inspired by some of the Microsoft OLE2 interfaces for creating compound documents and reusable components.
Just because it utilizes CORBA as a transport mechanism doesn't mean that it wasn't modeled after COM. And there are plenty more links you can find that back this up.
Yup, I didn't mean to take it out on them at all, I probably should've left out the "lap it up" part. It's not that the people aren't intelligent, it's that their government removes a lot of their chances to get exposed to differing points of view, and persecutes many that have one.
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You need to get a clip arm for your monitor to hold the mags/printouts/etc. for you. They're cheap and work great for this.
Cheers,
It's not claustrophobia, but that's the way they make me feel having to keep my hands and arms in the same position all the time. I've got to switch up at times and put my feet up with the keyboard in my lap, or other things which vary it up every now and then. I do use the big one-piece split keyboards, like the Microsoft Natural keyboards, because the finger positioning is so comfortable, but when they're stuck in one place, it drives me nuts.
Cheers,
Businesses do this all the time. If you pay by a method other than cash, companies will buy the customer lists from stores. Buy a case of Ms. Pauls's fishsticks, pay with a credit card. Now you're in the database. Gorton's Fish Products buys the customer list from the grocery store and sees that you bought a competitor's product. Now you suddenly receive a coupon in the mail for a discount on Gorton's brand of fishsticks. Of course, I expect everyone will go nuts because 1) they've never heard of this before, and 2) this is Microsoft, but hey, let's not embarrass ourselves, people.
Cheers,
Well, Microsoft has already publicly demoed a similar technology, even though I don't believe it's been mentioned at Slashdot yet. When the time comes that Slashdot does a story about its evils, I can count on you to defend them, too, right? :)
Cheers,
Doing it with credit cards isn't always bad, though. I've had credit card companies twice have notified me that I had just been charged with some pretty unusual purchases, and I was able to quickly wipe out the problem. Once was from when a credit card was stolen in the mail, another was when some kid from a restaurant kept the number after wiping my card legitimately.
Cheers,
Don't be such a narrow-minded idiot. There are official publications which have the actual tabs used by the bands during their recordings. Is the site ripping these off, or are the members coming up with their own by ear? Or ripping them off from other places which have created them by ear?
Cheers,
Don't judge a book by it's cover, I know, but I still think they'd sell a lot more of their books (I have two, possibly three), if they'd get some kind of cover scheme which displays anything other than those fruity portraits they're using now.
Cheers,
Can't argue with you. Even though the demand for Java is going down, mainly because of the client-side realities, being proficient in Java is a good thing to see on a résumé for reasons beyond simply knowing the specific language.
Cheers,
Nintendo's actually in a great position to rake in the dough because of their overwhelming strength in the kiddie market. I think Sony has the most to worry about at this point.
This whole thing seems to me like a childish threat by Nintendo (not that it would be the first childish act by their CEO): Kiss up to us or you won't get to see your next generation Nintendo. They're going to release it whether people say nice things about 'em at E3 or not, and they'll make money on it. It actually makes me want to see them get bad reviews, though, just to call the CEO's bluff.
Cheers,
Sure, falling into a vat of acid hurts, so does stubbing your toe. C'mon, I know you're aware that things occur in varying degrees of severity, right?
Yes, X does lower serotonin levels, but I thought that argument was a bit esoteric. I thought that mentioning that it destroys brain cells would have a greater effect on a self-selected group of people who consider themselves to be smarter than average.
Cheers,
What does alcohol have anything to do with it? The earlier poster said that he thought X was neither addictive nor physically harmful, and I corrected him on both counts.
X destroys the neurons in the brain. You trying to whitewash this fact by bringing up alcohol or "most other illegal drugs" is just you avoiding the point.
You're completely wrong about psychological addictions. Where is this used to justify draconian measures? Know what the most harmful psychological addiction is, despite its also having physically addictive properties? Alcohol. Where are all these draconian laws against it, hmm? If you really think that alcoholism compares to your chocolate craving, you're stupid.
Thanks for the reading list, snarf that from such unbiased sources as the "High Times 5th Anniversary Special Edition"? Now, instead of posting about stupid political books, why don't you actually examine the medical research? Laws and politics have nothing to do with the fact that X destroys your brain cells.
Cheers,
I believe that X is not physically addictive, but it can be psychologically addictive. It's very physically harmful, at least if you consider having the neurons in your brain destroyed to be harmful, which I would think and hope most people at Slashdot would.
Cheers,
Actually, it does say something about Java itself, as opposed to the overall market downturn. Java turned out to be a failure on the client and most places that had been designing those awful and slow Java user interfaces are now getting decent work done using Macromedia tools.
Cheers,
Yes, shooting up, and the iPaq isn't the only one selling well — and its sales aren't nearly as strong as they would be if their factories could keep up with the demand for them. As of December 2000, Casio's models were selling at a clip of 9.7% of the U.S. PDA market. The iPaqs weren't near that because of the supply problem, even though its the PDA with all the buzz right now. In Europe, the iPaq and HP models alone accounted for 31% of the PDA market (and that's up from 18% that WinCE PDAs were getting at the beginning of 2000, if you really don't believe that their sales are shooting upward), with Palms dropping down to 51% (can you say "Netscape, part deux"?).
Meanwhile, Palm is sitting on hundreds of millions of dollars worth of inventory that they can't sell, are planning on losing money this quarter, and are about to fire 10 to 15 percent of their workers. Like I said, at cheap prices, there's no reason why they shouldn't continue to sell well, because not everybody needs all the features of a PocketPC. The problem with that is that there's not much profit margin to be made on those models. To get bigger profits, their prices are going to need to be closer to PocketPCs, at which point people compare what each can do and pick the one without all the limitations of the Palm. Oh, and I wouldn't get too confident about Palm licensees just yet — Handspring was very close to dumping the Palm platform for their future models, and Sony is still considering it. Sony is also already selling some non-Palm models in Europe with Microsoft's Mobile Explorer.
As you look to the future, Palm is screwed. None of their recent announcements and leaks about the direction they're going with the PalmOS has done anything other than elicit some loud yawns. And as the price of limited devices like Palms drops ever lower, they're going to have even less wiggle room. The latest expectation is that they're going to be burning through half their cash this quarter. Ouch — that can't be good for the massive R&D they need to do to catch up with the PocketPCs.
Cheers,
No, Palm only realizes that they're fucked. They just don't know what they can do about it, so they thought that being more PocketPC like would be a start. It's not going to help. Palms are fine for limited tasks, so there's no reason why they shouldn't be able to make money targetting that market, but everytime you see something Palm-based (except for phones) which is either over $250 or has a color screen, it's just a harsh reminder of how limited these are to PocketPCs. Which probably explains why the marketshare for PocketPCs is shooting up, while Palm's is going down while they're having financial problems and firing workers. Oh, and looks like Toshiba just announced that they're getting into the PocketPC game, too. Cool.
Cheers,
But you're more honest than 99% of the people here. If Microsoft had done the same thing, we would've heard about how evil it is that corporations are allowed to do this. They wouldn't admit that the real reason is that it's okay if companies they like do it but not okay if companies they don't like do it. So in the end, it's just arbitrary favoritism instead of any real principles, which I imagine the original "Slashdot Hypocritical" poster was referring to.
Cheers,
Cheers,
Oh Hell no, I know the media sensationalizes everything that happens. Part of it's because of the 24-hour news channels, resulting in the top stories getting totally played out, no matter what they are. Part of it is due to the general anti-gun bias of the mainstream media. I'm a strong 2nd Amendment supporter. I wish that anytime there's a story on guns in schools, the reporters would relate the statistical chance of a kid getting shot at school with the chances of them drowning in a pool, getting injured in a car accident, getting struck by lightening, etc. And I think the media's done a deplorable job of showing the dropping crime rates in places that have instituted concealed carry laws, especially in comparison to those places which place heavy restrictions on legally gun owners — you know, ultra-safe places like Washington, DC.
There was a recent story (I want to say it was by Tom Squitteri of USA Today) discussing how even though violent crime went down during the '90s, ABC News coverage of violet crime stories went up 38% over the same time period. What a surprise.
Cheers,
Maybe because instead of using their superior intelligence (what else are Katz stories for, if not to tell us [over and over again] that the bullied are misunderstood masterminds, possessing more intelligence than every bully and American adult put together?) to solve a bully problem, they've lately been using guns and taking out themselves as well as innocent people in the process of their revenge on the bullies.
I thought you guys were smarter than everyone else. The best you can come up with is shooting yourself and some other people? How trite. If I'm getting revenge on someone, I'm sticking around to see it, and I'm doing something that doesn't result in me being in jail for the rest of my life.
Tell us how dumb everyone else is all you want, but shooting up a place is the ultimate in intellectual laziness.
Cheers,
Sure, if you or I wanted to make a web-based email service the initial cost would be cheap. But you're not going to get the traffic necessary to support an ad-based revenue model unless you have plenty of users. And then when you have plenty of users, you're going to need more web servers and more bandwidth, so your costs are going to go up. That's why there's been consolidation among the free web-mail providers along with some just shutting down altogether or selling certain domain names that they promised their users that they could have for life (leaving many angry email users behind in the process).
As an aside, and likely to generate flames, Microsoft recently posted a case study of Hotmail's conversion from FreeBSD to Windows 2000.
Cheers,
I can't go (stuck doing taxes), so here's a tip for the rest of you: Look for the palm trees forming the letter "W"...
Cheers,
Yeah, because heaven forbid anybody ever enlighten themselves and change their opinion on something. A waste of time indeed when you can instead just cling to the same naïve beliefs that you had when you were younger.
Cheers,
Actually, enjoy these quotes from Introduction to Bonobo, by Miguel de Icaza:
Just because it utilizes CORBA as a transport mechanism doesn't mean that it wasn't modeled after COM. And there are plenty more links you can find that back this up.
Cheers,
It's a component architecture modeled after, you guessed it, COM from those evil guys at Microsoft. (See: Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery)
Cheers,
Yup, I didn't mean to take it out on them at all, I probably should've left out the "lap it up" part. It's not that the people aren't intelligent, it's that their government removes a lot of their chances to get exposed to differing points of view, and persecutes many that have one.
Cheers,