Office for mac is written in pretty portable code. It might take more than a week, but MS could throw a team at it for a month or two and probably have a working beta that would compile for ARM
Clearly you've never been to Dallas. It is flat and brown for a 5 hour drive in any direction (except Austin, which is 3 hours away). 5-6 hours to the coast, 10 hours to the mountains (unless you head to Mexico, in which case it's 7-12 hours. Hill Country is pretty, but not jaw droppingly beautiful.
Maybe if we had 3 weeks of mandatory vacation too, we'd have enough time to think of and lobby our lawmakers ourselves. "Two weeks" vacation is just enough to take a couple of 3 day weekends and one or two good "long weekends". If you live anywhere besides the NE on west coast, you have to kill a full day to vacation anywhere. In europe a 45 min drive in any direction from your town will get you to spectacular countryside. Many citizens in US states have to drive 2+ hours to even see a mountain; that time/distance in europe will get you to most any other country.
I'm still waiting for a low-no latency (less than 2ms) TV-VGA adapter that costs less than $150. 5-10ms is ok for TV (you can get VLC to compensate via keyboard commands) but with a 2-5ms LCD panel you really can't have more than 2ms of additional latency.
I'm still waiting for a low-no (VGA adapter that costs less than $150. One that works equally well with HDMI/DVI would be great so I could finally scrap my legacy TV and use my PC's 22" LCD as my primary display in the house for TV/PS2/SNES etc as well as a computer screen.
My buddy gave me HL2, Episode 1 and 2 when he got the orange box because he already had them. Has Valve recently stopped letting you gift duplicate games that came in packs? This was back in Jan 07 but I haven't heard about them removing the "gift" program.
Carriers change fees all the time. For example T-Mobile just increased their minute overage fee (July 27th), freeing all T-Mobile customers from early termination fees because they changed the term of the contract. After 30 days the "loophole" closes and you're back to paying those fees. But about 4 times a year something like that happens and you can terminate with 0 fees. But I really like T-Mobile and my awesome cheap plan so I'm stickign with them (for now).
Depends on what business school your managers went to and what the board members are looking to get out of the company. If they're looking to pump and dump the company by improving profits in the short term to improve their stock price before selling, then yeah outsourcing is a problem. If they're looking to grow the business as a stable company for the long run, the company is (hopefully) not going to hire someone with a terrible accent that in the end is going to cause internal strife and hurt employee retention. Different management styles for different companies. Smaller companies typically are going to hire people in-country if they're trying to grow the business .
I see you're a charter member of the "bored teenagers at midnight in suburbia" club. But do you know the secret handshake involving bouncing basketballs over the bicycle rack?
Yeah and if less than 100 rate die then it passes the LD50 Lethal Dosage 50% test. And then it can go on to be further tested for usage by the general public. This is the first thing PETA and animal rights activists point to when talking about testing cosmetics on animals, etc., "how much of this can we inject into a rabbit before 50% die, then run that through an FDA equasion to properly dilute it, package it and sell it for topical use only". I'm not a PETA fanatic, I just had to write a report about it in biology in 9th grade.
I remember watching years ago (early 90's?) on PBS some show (NOVA or similar) where researchers were growing rubies in a bowl of "ruby soup" with a shard of a ruby as a starter, uh, crystal I guess. Apparently you would pop this recipe in the microwave for a half hour or so on low power and end up with a a chunk of material you could break up and grind down into a couple of 1 carat "rubies". The voiceover said they couldn't give away the recipe since it would tank the ruby market. I've googled for this magic recipe, but nothing's come up. If anyone can point me in the right direction, I'd greatly appreciate it.
300 gb = less platters = less moving parts = less points of failure. A 1tb drive might use 4 250gb platters, but a 300gb drive might use 2 250 gb platters and be artificially limited to 300gb. That's not exactly how it works, but I'm too lazy to look up what size platters WD uses these days and how many are in each drive. Smaller drives tend to use newer technology but with fewer platters to save money (again, = less moving parts). 80gb drives typically only have one platter which is about as small as platters get these days, but they're not very cost effective when you try scaling them to 1tb. 300gb still holds several generations of recursively backed up data (not counting MP3s and movies).
I googled h.264 gb per second storage and 1gb/sec was the 8th result or so. I make no claims to it's accuracy. Its a good, round ballpark number though.
fun fact about movie standards (and I know this because I used to be an art house movie theater projectionist) is that most digital transfers (to "film") are 4096x2048 already. 1080p as a standard is a huge step back in quality to what you're already seeing as "digital". The only plus right now of getting rid of film is financial and economical reasons (savings the consumer will never see). Oh and less projector shake and cheaper bulbs (also cost savings that won't be passed on to the consumer). Actually as it turns out they fixed the shake long, long ago, but most people have never seen a movie on a high end projector (IMAX excluded) so they don't know what they're missing. A first run print (I.e. Movie critic's edition) on a good projector in a properly set up auditorium with a good projectionist is an amazing production. Crappy projectors in a cheaply built megaplex run by teenagers produces a crap experience. Which is why so many people prefer a blu-ray on hdtv - its really hard for the average consumer to fuck it up using name brand hardware.
Imagine being a photographer on the Paris-Dakar race where you're shooting hundreds (thousands?) of photos on a high-res DSLR for three weeks (a week before hand, the race, the aftermath) out in the field. There are a ton of week long sailing races that any one photographer might blow through 1000 photos a day. Highest quality 1080p is said to consume 1GB/minute. How many hours of video could national geographic tape with just three of these in the field with a MacBook Pro? Lots of options for pros. Consumers will buy these but rarely use them to their potential.
That's a lot of bits and bytes in a very small space... what's the expected Real Life Span of one of those? I mean it would make a great backup solution, but would you really trust it over (or at least on par with) say, a 3.5" 1TB internal hard drive? Most people I know use these to backup their photos/home movies (pirated media's not worth backing up in most cases, and can be had for free more or less instantly nowadays with BT; home movies are only archived on one computer typically).
Personally, I'm wary of keeping anything on a drive much larger than 300GB for long term data storage.
Exxon? Investing in something? Never! Heck with what 10 billion a year in research investments, all you have to do is start a website saying you're doing bio-fuel research with a valid mailing address somewhere on the homepage, and more likely than not Exxon will just mail you a check for $2500.
Gen-Y is anyone born after 1985 or so. All those newspaper articles about people texting during interviews and other really terrible habits that make you want to scream, those are articles about Gen-Y'ers. There's some people born before 1985 who do shit like that too but 99% of them are Y-ers.
For the record I'm almost 26 and I've never had to use cursive in "real life" or school besides 2nd/3rd grade cursive workbooks. I think my Teacher (Hi, Mrs. Hughes!) got bored with it and we just stopped wasting class time on it after a month or so, and she stopped checking our progress in the books. As a result my "signature" has shortened to my initials to avoid using cursive all together.
Yup my thoughts exactly. Here I am, blond hair, blue eyes and light skin, but here I am in galveston, tx at the same lattitude as Cairo, Egypt unable to go outside without sunglasses on or three coats of sunblock without turning lobster red. I live 300 miles north in dallas and have a pretty decent tan by new england standards, BUT its not like the weather is going to kill me (skin cancer down the road maybe, but long after "breeding age") so its more than likely I'll pass these same inadequate, yet non-fatal genes on to my offspring. Thorny leaves are way more beneficial in general to survival than blond hair and blue eyes. Night-sight is pretty damn cool, but not terribly beneficial when the longest "night" of your winter is 12.5 hours or so.
Find the guy's email address of who writes those specs (located somewhere on the doc, I'm sure), or it's on the server that hosts those docs, and email him and ask him where your local depository for the latest.mil approved packages are.
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Well that's good news. I use 97 at work and it seems to work flawlessly (and damn fast on a modern computer, at that)
Office for mac is written in pretty portable code. It might take more than a week, but MS could throw a team at it for a month or two and probably have a working beta that would compile for ARM
Clearly you've never been to Dallas. It is flat and brown for a 5 hour drive in any direction (except Austin, which is 3 hours away). 5-6 hours to the coast, 10 hours to the mountains (unless you head to Mexico, in which case it's 7-12 hours. Hill Country is pretty, but not jaw droppingly beautiful.
Great! Let's just set the compile flag for NT 4.0 to "ARM" and.. waaaiiit a minute.
Maybe if we had 3 weeks of mandatory vacation too, we'd have enough time to think of and lobby our lawmakers ourselves. "Two weeks" vacation is just enough to take a couple of 3 day weekends and one or two good "long weekends". If you live anywhere besides the NE on west coast, you have to kill a full day to vacation anywhere. In europe a 45 min drive in any direction from your town will get you to spectacular countryside. Many citizens in US states have to drive 2+ hours to even see a mountain; that time/distance in europe will get you to most any other country.
I can't wait till I can get all my music printed in binary on acid free vellum in leather hardbound book form! Take that, RIAA!
Yikes, uh, should have read:
I'm still waiting for a low-no latency (less than 2ms) TV-VGA adapter that costs less than $150. 5-10ms is ok for TV (you can get VLC to compensate via keyboard commands) but with a 2-5ms LCD panel you really can't have more than 2ms of additional latency.
I'm still waiting for a low-no (VGA adapter that costs less than $150. One that works equally well with HDMI/DVI would be great so I could finally scrap my legacy TV and use my PC's 22" LCD as my primary display in the house for TV/PS2/SNES etc as well as a computer screen.
My buddy gave me HL2, Episode 1 and 2 when he got the orange box because he already had them. Has Valve recently stopped letting you gift duplicate games that came in packs? This was back in Jan 07 but I haven't heard about them removing the "gift" program.
Call me when they're doing the Kessel Run in under 7 parsecs using this route.
Carriers change fees all the time. For example T-Mobile just increased their minute overage fee (July 27th), freeing all T-Mobile customers from early termination fees because they changed the term of the contract. After 30 days the "loophole" closes and you're back to paying those fees. But about 4 times a year something like that happens and you can terminate with 0 fees. But I really like T-Mobile and my awesome cheap plan so I'm stickign with them (for now).
Depends on what business school your managers went to and what the board members are looking to get out of the company. If they're looking to pump and dump the company by improving profits in the short term to improve their stock price before selling, then yeah outsourcing is a problem. If they're looking to grow the business as a stable company for the long run, the company is (hopefully) not going to hire someone with a terrible accent that in the end is going to cause internal strife and hurt employee retention. Different management styles for different companies. Smaller companies typically are going to hire people in-country if they're trying to grow the business .
I see you're a charter member of the "bored teenagers at midnight in suburbia" club. But do you know the secret handshake involving bouncing basketballs over the bicycle rack?
Yeah and if less than 100 rate die then it passes the LD50 Lethal Dosage 50% test. And then it can go on to be further tested for usage by the general public. This is the first thing PETA and animal rights activists point to when talking about testing cosmetics on animals, etc., "how much of this can we inject into a rabbit before 50% die, then run that through an FDA equasion to properly dilute it, package it and sell it for topical use only". I'm not a PETA fanatic, I just had to write a report about it in biology in 9th grade.
I remember watching years ago (early 90's?) on PBS some show (NOVA or similar) where researchers were growing rubies in a bowl of "ruby soup" with a shard of a ruby as a starter, uh, crystal I guess. Apparently you would pop this recipe in the microwave for a half hour or so on low power and end up with a a chunk of material you could break up and grind down into a couple of 1 carat "rubies". The voiceover said they couldn't give away the recipe since it would tank the ruby market. I've googled for this magic recipe, but nothing's come up. If anyone can point me in the right direction, I'd greatly appreciate it.
300 gb = less platters = less moving parts = less points of failure. A 1tb drive might use 4 250gb platters, but a 300gb drive might use 2 250 gb platters and be artificially limited to 300gb. That's not exactly how it works, but I'm too lazy to look up what size platters WD uses these days and how many are in each drive. Smaller drives tend to use newer technology but with fewer platters to save money (again, = less moving parts). 80gb drives typically only have one platter which is about as small as platters get these days, but they're not very cost effective when you try scaling them to 1tb. 300gb still holds several generations of recursively backed up data (not counting MP3s and movies).
I googled h.264 gb per second storage and 1gb/sec was the 8th result or so. I make no claims to it's accuracy. Its a good, round ballpark number though.
fun fact about movie standards (and I know this because I used to be an art house movie theater projectionist) is that most digital transfers (to "film") are 4096x2048 already. 1080p as a standard is a huge step back in quality to what you're already seeing as "digital". The only plus right now of getting rid of film is financial and economical reasons (savings the consumer will never see). Oh and less projector shake and cheaper bulbs (also cost savings that won't be passed on to the consumer). Actually as it turns out they fixed the shake long, long ago, but most people have never seen a movie on a high end projector (IMAX excluded) so they don't know what they're missing. A first run print (I.e. Movie critic's edition) on a good projector in a properly set up auditorium with a good projectionist is an amazing production. Crappy projectors in a cheaply built megaplex run by teenagers produces a crap experience. Which is why so many people prefer a blu-ray on hdtv - its really hard for the average consumer to fuck it up using name brand hardware.
Imagine being a photographer on the Paris-Dakar race where you're shooting hundreds (thousands?) of photos on a high-res DSLR for three weeks (a week before hand, the race, the aftermath) out in the field. There are a ton of week long sailing races that any one photographer might blow through 1000 photos a day. Highest quality 1080p is said to consume 1GB/minute. How many hours of video could national geographic tape with just three of these in the field with a MacBook Pro? Lots of options for pros. Consumers will buy these but rarely use them to their potential.
That's a lot of bits and bytes in a very small space... what's the expected Real Life Span of one of those? I mean it would make a great backup solution, but would you really trust it over (or at least on par with) say, a 3.5" 1TB internal hard drive? Most people I know use these to backup their photos/home movies (pirated media's not worth backing up in most cases, and can be had for free more or less instantly nowadays with BT; home movies are only archived on one computer typically).
Personally, I'm wary of keeping anything on a drive much larger than 300GB for long term data storage.
Exxon? Investing in something? Never! Heck with what 10 billion a year in research investments, all you have to do is start a website saying you're doing bio-fuel research with a valid mailing address somewhere on the homepage, and more likely than not Exxon will just mail you a check for $2500.
I sign "X" for crap like walmart credit card/debit receipts, but not things like Driver's Licence, car titles etc.
Gen-Y is anyone born after 1985 or so. All those newspaper articles about people texting during interviews and other really terrible habits that make you want to scream, those are articles about Gen-Y'ers. There's some people born before 1985 who do shit like that too but 99% of them are Y-ers.
For the record I'm almost 26 and I've never had to use cursive in "real life" or school besides 2nd/3rd grade cursive workbooks. I think my Teacher (Hi, Mrs. Hughes!) got bored with it and we just stopped wasting class time on it after a month or so, and she stopped checking our progress in the books. As a result my "signature" has shortened to my initials to avoid using cursive all together.
Yup my thoughts exactly. Here I am, blond hair, blue eyes and light skin, but here I am in galveston, tx at the same lattitude as Cairo, Egypt unable to go outside without sunglasses on or three coats of sunblock without turning lobster red. I live 300 miles north in dallas and have a pretty decent tan by new england standards, BUT its not like the weather is going to kill me (skin cancer down the road maybe, but long after "breeding age") so its more than likely I'll pass these same inadequate, yet non-fatal genes on to my offspring. Thorny leaves are way more beneficial in general to survival than blond hair and blue eyes. Night-sight is pretty damn cool, but not terribly beneficial when the longest "night" of your winter is 12.5 hours or so.
Find the guy's email address of who writes those specs (located somewhere on the doc, I'm sure), or it's on the server that hosts those docs, and email him and ask him where your local depository for the latest .mil approved packages are.
I believe they cost something to the tune of $30,000 an hour in maintenance + fuel costs to fly.