>It's patently obvious to anyone who knows how
>ASP works that this was done by the nice folks
>at aspalliance.com and not by Microsoft
where does anyone say that Microsoft did this and not ASPAlliance? As far as i can see, cliff just says that if this type of thing keeps going on then we may get sites which use browser specific extensions - in this case an MS browser - and the company that will probably come out top are MS, as they have a larger user base, and more proprietary extensions to their browser.
its not having a go at microsoft, but it is warning that before long we may have to have more than one browser on our machines if we want to view the web - instead of the almost needing situation we have at the moment.
I think there is a big difference in the problems that people have in 'real' work and office stuff, like IT.
I used to work in a warehouse doing shelf stacking and order reception and stuff. I lost loads of weight and then put it back on in muscle. I was tired at the end of each day and worked hard. I got stressed due to 'stupid people' and problems at work.
I am now a programmer, and I sit in front of a desk all day thinking about 'stuff'. I write programs to solve problems, and still get stress from 'stupid people' and problems at work.
however i now have to think quite intensely all day, compared to before in the warehouse, where it wasn;t very intense mentally, but was physically. The sort of stress you get in the two different types of work may be caused by the same type of problems, the always present 'stupid people' and other problems, but due to the different mental focus it is very different.
I now get headaches and a seriously frayed temper, where in the warehouse I used to get physically tired and any temper etc. stemmed form this.
basically what i am trying to say through all this random rambling, is that you get stressed whatever you do.
I appreciate the tongue-in-cheek commentary on political hype, but correllating an increase in violent games and movies to a decrease in violent statistics is just as bad as what the politicians are claiming.
This is the point of the article, i think. Its saying that if you do take the statistics that the politicians are abndying around, and examine them, then you find that what they are saying does not show what they say...
don't know how legal this is, but this is what i reckon...
You may own the physical CD, but you do not own teh software on the CD, that is owned by Microsoft. They basically give you the CD for free, and charge you for a license to use the software on it, according to their own contract that they specify. ie if you use it, you abide by it, unless you can show that it was not a legal contract in a court.
You can quite happily resell the CD as that is yours, but the person you sell it to would have to buy a license to use Windows off microsoft.
However, I want to know how this fits in to selling second-hand pcs...if i buy one do i have to relicense everything? i don;t think so, as its all on the same machine...
the more complicated videos, the figure 8 and chip sorter, are very jumpy, but the simpler ones, the three coins rotating in the same direcion and the linear movement ones, are a lot more stable, and the videos look better.
i think it could be just a case of experimental equipment not being able to handle the more complicated examples all that well.
i hope it isn't a fake, I can't wait to be carried around my house by a floor that gives me a foot massage at the same time
WHat i get from the article is that this is a bit like putting a really long cable on your keyboard, mouse and monitor, and then hiding your pc away in a cupboard with a hole in the door for the cables...
granted this thing has a floppy port on, has only one cable and has a 'protocol' to send all the signals down to the PC, but is this really all that great? i can put my pc under my desk even easier, and have my desktop free...
i'll give in on the morbid obesity and no life, but i've had it running alright on my ppro200 with a voodoo2 and a good old millenium 1.
its fine until you get a level with lots of bots, at which point bad things happen, but it ran at a fairly decent speed, in a resolution high enough for me to rail people across an open space.
i think that 'middle managers playing on the train' are the group that are really going ot buy the upgrade...
the change in the OS to non-techy people will be the extra view in the date-book, and the fact that the battery meter is 3d looking (oooh)
i agree that the hardware is the main thing, but when you are comparing V and Vx, and VII and VIIx palms (which i think may be the only ones that the upgrades for, but 'm not sure), where the main difference is the memory, i think its the middle level people who'll go after it.
and me of course
--I dunno much about these things, so shoot me down if I'm bad
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>It's patently obvious to anyone who knows how
>ASP works that this was done by the nice folks
>at aspalliance.com and not by Microsoft
where does anyone say that Microsoft did this and not ASPAlliance? As far as i can see, cliff just says that if this type of thing keeps going on then we may get sites which use browser specific extensions - in this case an MS browser - and the company that will probably come out top are MS, as they have a larger user base, and more proprietary extensions to their browser.
its not having a go at microsoft, but it is warning that before long we may have to have more than one browser on our machines if we want to view the web - instead of the almost needing situation we have at the moment.
I used to work in a warehouse doing shelf stacking and order reception and stuff. I lost loads of weight and then put it back on in muscle. I was tired at the end of each day and worked hard. I got stressed due to 'stupid people' and problems at work.
I am now a programmer, and I sit in front of a desk all day thinking about 'stuff'. I write programs to solve problems, and still get stress from 'stupid people' and problems at work.
however i now have to think quite intensely all day, compared to before in the warehouse, where it wasn;t very intense mentally, but was physically. The sort of stress you get in the two different types of work may be caused by the same type of problems, the always present 'stupid people' and other problems, but due to the different mental focus it is very different.
I now get headaches and a seriously frayed temper, where in the warehouse I used to get physically tired and any temper etc. stemmed form this.
basically what i am trying to say through all this random rambling, is that you get stressed whatever you do.
This is the point of the article, i think. Its saying that if you do take the statistics that the politicians are abndying around, and examine them, then you find that what they are saying does not show what they say...
- i;d like to buy a nice computer that talks - sorry sir, all we've got is this slug
- does it talk?
- yes sir
- I'll take it!
not that i have anything against slugs...they;re lovely in a slimy not lovely sort of way...
You may own the physical CD, but you do not own teh software on the CD, that is owned by Microsoft. They basically give you the CD for free, and charge you for a license to use the software on it, according to their own contract that they specify. ie if you use it, you abide by it, unless you can show that it was not a legal contract in a court.
You can quite happily resell the CD as that is yours, but the person you sell it to would have to buy a license to use Windows off microsoft.
However, I want to know how this fits in to selling second-hand pcs...if i buy one do i have to relicense everything? i don;t think so, as its all on the same machine...
hmm, ramble on.
i think it could be just a case of experimental equipment not being able to handle the more complicated examples all that well.
i hope it isn't a fake, I can't wait to be carried around my house by a floor that gives me a foot massage at the same time
The vibrations are low amplitude, Reznik said, and feel like a sound wave.
that looks like it will create a low hum, but it will be very quiet (thats what low amplitude sounds means to the layman isn;t it?)
even if its not audible to people, animals might get mighty pissed at it...
granted this thing has a floppy port on, has only one cable and has a 'protocol' to send all the signals down to the PC, but is this really all that great? i can put my pc under my desk even easier, and have my desktop free...
i know, but i'm still proud of getting my little pc to run it. nobody ever listens to me boast...
its fine until you get a level with lots of bots, at which point bad things happen, but it ran at a fairly decent speed, in a resolution high enough for me to rail people across an open space.
the change in the OS to non-techy people will be the extra view in the date-book, and the fact that the battery meter is 3d looking (oooh)
i agree that the hardware is the main thing, but when you are comparing V and Vx, and VII and VIIx palms (which i think may be the only ones that the upgrades for, but 'm not sure), where the main difference is the memory, i think its the middle level people who'll go after it.
and me of course
--I dunno much about these things, so shoot me down if I'm bad
i spoke to someone on the palm helpdesk a while ago and it should definately work with the 2mb Palm V, but she also said that it should be free...