I'm not sure what you're talking about here... GnuCash has built-in multiple currency support.
In my opinion, an important issue with GnuCash is that development is fairly slow due to a good chunk of the codebase being LISP, which limits the universe of developers that can work on it. Unless they've changed that with this new version (which would be great!). So it seems like the pace of development compared to other open source products of its age is fairly slow.
I'd like to see the reporting and graphing features fleshed out a bit more, these seem somewhat limited. All in all, though, it's a pretty nice program.
Brightcove seems to promise a lot of things, but they seem to be more vapor than actual service so far. They have a demo of a nice portal, but they're a new company and seem to have more going on in marketing then actual technology. Combined with Allaire, that makes for buzz, but really, what big-time content do they actually host? They have some announced projects, but not any actual big live content providers that I can tell. Their press releases are all "we're going to do this" rather than "we've done this." Someone like thePlatform actually already has the tools and feature set that Brightcove is still working towards, plus big-name customers (Verizon VCast, Ampd, CNBC, Starz, etc).
I cut my baby teeth on a TRS-80 Model II and TRS-80 Color Computer, but my first computer was a Commodore-64. Unfortunately I only had the tape drive, which I considered very limiting. About a month later my Dad brought home an Apple IIe for "business". It had two disk drives and a 80-column/128k card. He started asking me how to use it, and pretty soon it became mine merely by squatter's rights;-) He tried to reclaim it for a while by buying me a bad Apple-II knockoff called the "Pineapple" (supposedly a compatible-clone). But if you'd type too fast, the Pineapple would reboot! (incredibly frustrating!) So the Pineapple went in the trash soon.
I also remember working a summer job so that I could buy a modem -- I got a Prometheus Promodem 1200 (internal!), and my only real problem was that at the time there were only about 3 boards in the Seattle area that even supported 1200 baud, and those were usually busy! I also bought a TRS-80 model 100 (the portable) clone made by Kyocera. That was a pretty obscure machine!
Ah, those were the days. Oh wait, no they weren't -- these are the days!
Ok, this is a little bit of work, but on the Mac, I can use Audio Hijack (Pro) for this purpose -- hijack the browser, then hit the Mute button in Audio Hijack. I also find this useful when the browser's volume balance is out-of-whack with iTunes -- I can hijack the output volume and lower it. All in all, I've found Audio Hijack Pro very useful, for more than just these purposes.
But it'd also be a bigger incentive to buy a Mac. And once you're using it, you have a big incentive to buy another Mac when it's time for a replacement. Maybe if they made it free for 2-3 years when you buy a Mac -- then once you have to start paying for it, you just might start thinking about buying your next Mac.
Of course, I think charging more than free is fine if you exceed certain bandwidth or storage limits.
But I like.Mac and will continue to pay for it (in the last year it seems much more reliable than it had been in the first few year or so). I'm just thinking that free would attract more people to the Mac platform and help retain those people.
Second, the movies have to be purchased ($10 per download, for example) and stored on the HDD. The HDD is either 40 or 80 GB, making it capable of storing anywhere from 20 to 60 movies. What the customer should do after the disk is full?
Ah, but you're assuming they're selling the movies. If they're just renting the movies, then the storage space usage is temporary. Rent the movie for $3 or $4 a week (or per viewing?), then it stops working (you could re-rent if you wished to reactivate it). Hey, I'd do it. It'd save going to the video store to pick it out and going back to return it. You just queue your movies, they're downloaded in the background, the rental period starts on your first viewing maybe.
Via Atrios The IBM Electric typewriters were a series of electric typewriters that IBM manufactured, starting in the late 1940s. They used the conventional moving carriage and hammer mechanism. Each model came in both Standard and Executive versions; the Executive differed in having a multiple escapement mechanism and four widths for letters, producing a near typeset quality result. [emphasis mine]
Shatner already did a couple new songs with Ben Folds on Ben's solo "Fear of Pop" release -- which, despite my love of Ben's other work, remains a real clunker of an album. And the Shatner songs were among the more interesting, if I recall correctly. (Can you tell that I didn't play it more than twice?)
Because by all accounts that I've read, Quicken for Mac is inferior in functionality to the Windows version, and converting Quicken files from Windows to Mac is non-trivial. I don't want to take a step backwards. When Quicken for Mac has parity with Quicken 2002, I'll go for it.
I did a little looking around the site -- I'm wondering if anyone has experience with this product . Specifically, I'm wondering if you can successfully use a printer attached to the Mac?
Also, does anyone have experience running Quicken 2002 (Home & Business) under this?
This review basically consisted of one paragraph describing the book and a table of contents. I didn't get a real good feel of what to expect from the book. Why is it like In The Beginning?
I guess I was hoping for a little more detail about why this book is good other than "it's not man pages or RFCs."
"judging from the sales of these... titles, enough of you guys just aren't punishing the companies for releasing sub-par products to make a difference"
How do you know a console game is buggy before you buy it? Okay, maybe you know a good website or something, but does the general public? No. The general public buys a console game expecting it to work without bugs.
So how do you punish the gamemakers? Chances are you probably can't return the game -- it's considered software, so most major retailers won't accept a return unless it's defective and in that case will only exchange it for the same item -- which doesn't help because all of the same title will have the same bug.
So what do you do? Don't buy that publisher's next title? I suppose, but then it's a little harder to make a linkage between the original purchase and slow sales on a subsequent title. Maybe just write a letter to the publisher complaining and letting them know you won't be buying their next title. But a letter isn't exactly punishment, is it?
Every version of Quicken that I've used (since 98) allows you to budget and alert you if you've gone over your budget. The Quicken summary page (the first one you see opening the app) also lets you customize individual bar graphs for individual budget categories of your choosing so you can see how far along you are towards your budgeted amount.
When was the last time you even looked at one of these programs?
This review told me practically nothing! What does this book have in it that is good for geeks?
Okay, so it's been updated and it's fatter and you like it and it's good for people who used pre-OSX Macs. Personally, I never used a pre-OSX Mac -- why is it good for me?
You describe it as a thorough book, but barely give me an idea of it's contents.
I would like to encourage you to support Representative Zoe Lofgren's "Balance Act" (H.R. 1066). This act seeks to balance the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) and clarify consumers fair use rights for digital content.
Like Representative Lofgren, I believe that "Contrary to the intent of Congress, the DMCA has been used to legitimize...control over consumer uses. It's been used to prohibit lawful users from circumventing technical restrictions, even to pursue their fair use rights."
I believe that Fair Use is an important issue that's been overlooked in the debate, and that the long term effects of the DMCA on Fair Use are detrimental to society. Passage of this Act will be a boon preserving the Fair Use rights of your constituents.
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I'm not sure what you're talking about here... GnuCash has built-in multiple currency support.
In my opinion, an important issue with GnuCash is that development is fairly slow due to a good chunk of the codebase being LISP, which limits the universe of developers that can work on it. Unless they've changed that with this new version (which would be great!). So it seems like the pace of development compared to other open source products of its age is fairly slow.
I'd like to see the reporting and graphing features fleshed out a bit more, these seem somewhat limited. All in all, though, it's a pretty nice program.
Brightcove seems to promise a lot of things, but they seem to be more vapor than actual service so far. They have a demo of a nice portal, but they're a new company and seem to have more going on in marketing then actual technology. Combined with Allaire, that makes for buzz, but really, what big-time content do they actually host? They have some announced projects, but not any actual big live content providers that I can tell. Their press releases are all "we're going to do this" rather than "we've done this." Someone like thePlatform actually already has the tools and feature set that Brightcove is still working towards, plus big-name customers (Verizon VCast, Ampd, CNBC, Starz, etc).
I cut my baby teeth on a TRS-80 Model II and TRS-80 Color Computer, but my first computer was a Commodore-64. Unfortunately I only had the tape drive, which I considered very limiting. About a month later my Dad brought home an Apple IIe for "business". It had two disk drives and a 80-column/128k card. He started asking me how to use it, and pretty soon it became mine merely by squatter's rights ;-) He tried to reclaim it for a while by buying me a bad Apple-II knockoff called the "Pineapple" (supposedly a compatible-clone). But if you'd type too fast, the Pineapple would reboot! (incredibly frustrating!) So the Pineapple went in the trash soon.
I also remember working a summer job so that I could buy a modem -- I got a Prometheus Promodem 1200 (internal!), and my only real problem was that at the time there were only about 3 boards in the Seattle area that even supported 1200 baud, and those were usually busy! I also bought a TRS-80 model 100 (the portable) clone made by Kyocera. That was a pretty obscure machine!
Ah, those were the days. Oh wait, no they weren't -- these are the days!
Ok, this is a little bit of work, but on the Mac, I can use Audio Hijack (Pro) for this purpose -- hijack the browser, then hit the Mute button in Audio Hijack. I also find this useful when the browser's volume balance is out-of-whack with iTunes -- I can hijack the output volume and lower it. All in all, I've found Audio Hijack Pro very useful, for more than just these purposes.
But it'd also be a bigger incentive to buy a Mac. And once you're using it, you have a big incentive to buy another Mac when it's time for a replacement. Maybe if they made it free for 2-3 years when you buy a Mac -- then once you have to start paying for it, you just might start thinking about buying your next Mac.
.Mac and will continue to pay for it (in the last year it seems much more reliable than it had been in the first few year or so). I'm just thinking that free would attract more people to the Mac platform and help retain those people.
Of course, I think charging more than free is fine if you exceed certain bandwidth or storage limits.
But I like
Capture the FM audio with your tuner card on a Mac. Then use Nicecast to stream it. Nicecast can basically stream any audio on your Mac.
Ah, but you're assuming they're selling the movies. If they're just renting the movies, then the storage space usage is temporary. Rent the movie for $3 or $4 a week (or per viewing?), then it stops working (you could re-rent if you wished to reactivate it). Hey, I'd do it. It'd save going to the video store to pick it out and going back to return it. You just queue your movies, they're downloaded in the background, the rental period starts on your first viewing maybe.
An interesting article and commentary about this Power 5 stuff related to Apple.
Oh, it's hard to narrow it down to a small list.
The previously mentioned Talking Points Memo is quite good.
Also see:
Washington Monthly (Kevin Drum, formerly of Calpundit)
Altercation (what liberal media?)
Daily Howler
Columbia Journalism Review de-spins the media.
Juan Cole (very insightful Iraq commentary from this professor of history)
White House Briefing (political round-up)
Via Atrios The IBM Electric typewriters were a series of electric typewriters that IBM manufactured, starting in the late 1940s. They used the conventional moving carriage and hammer mechanism. Each model came in both Standard and Executive versions; the Executive differed in having a multiple escapement mechanism and four widths for letters, producing a near typeset quality result. [emphasis mine]
You can buy a mini-to-RCA plug at Radio Shack for less than $5. I think the kit has optical, "normal" and a power extension.
All the press stuff I saw on the release day said it would be mid-July. And when I made my order, it said expected delivery was July.
Tom Boger, Apple's Director of Power Mac Product Marketing:
"All-in-all, no we are not getting to 3GHz anytime soon"
So if you pour this stuff on, how do you get it off? Some other compound? Chip it off?
Will there be warnings like freezers? ("Do not remove armor with sharp implement.")
Shatner already did a couple new songs with Ben Folds on Ben's solo "Fear of Pop" release -- which, despite my love of Ben's other work, remains a real clunker of an album. And the Shatner songs were among the more interesting, if I recall correctly. (Can you tell that I didn't play it more than twice?)
So what happens if you have one the engraved iPods? I can just hear my wife when I get the "new" one back -- "Who's Vanessa???"
At the rate they've been cranking out these Top 25 lists, we're gonna need a 25 games which have most often appeared on Top 25 lists.
Top 25 games featuring Rod Stewart and stomach pumps or insert your favorite urban myth here.
Because by all accounts that I've read, Quicken for Mac is inferior in functionality to the Windows version, and converting Quicken files from Windows to Mac is non-trivial. I don't want to take a step backwards. When Quicken for Mac has parity with Quicken 2002, I'll go for it.
I did a little looking around the site -- I'm wondering if anyone has experience with this product . Specifically, I'm wondering if you can successfully use a printer attached to the Mac?
Also, does anyone have experience running Quicken 2002 (Home & Business) under this?
This review basically consisted of one paragraph describing the book and a table of contents. I didn't get a real good feel of what to expect from the book. Why is it like In The Beginning?
I guess I was hoping for a little more detail about why this book is good other than "it's not man pages or RFCs."
"judging from the sales of these... titles, enough of you guys just aren't punishing the companies for releasing sub-par products to make a difference"
How do you know a console game is buggy before you buy it? Okay, maybe you know a good website or something, but does the general public? No. The general public buys a console game expecting it to work without bugs.
So how do you punish the gamemakers? Chances are you probably can't return the game -- it's considered software, so most major retailers won't accept a return unless it's defective and in that case will only exchange it for the same item -- which doesn't help because all of the same title will have the same bug.
So what do you do? Don't buy that publisher's next title? I suppose, but then it's a little harder to make a linkage between the original purchase and slow sales on a subsequent title. Maybe just write a letter to the publisher complaining and letting them know you won't be buying their next title. But a letter isn't exactly punishment, is it?
Umm, a civil rights change? Since when is music distribution a right?
I think calling this a "fundamental civil rights change" is perhaps overstating this a bit.
Every version of Quicken that I've used (since 98) allows you to budget and alert you if you've gone over your budget. The Quicken summary page (the first one you see opening the app) also lets you customize individual bar graphs for individual budget categories of your choosing so you can see how far along you are towards your budgeted amount.
When was the last time you even looked at one of these programs?
This review told me practically nothing! What does this book have in it that is good for geeks?
Okay, so it's been updated and it's fatter and you like it and it's good for people who used pre-OSX Macs. Personally, I never used a pre-OSX Mac -- why is it good for me?
You describe it as a thorough book, but barely give me an idea of it's contents.
Dear Congressman/Congresswoman,
I would like to encourage you to support Representative Zoe Lofgren's "Balance Act" (H.R. 1066). This act seeks to balance the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) and clarify consumers fair use rights for digital content.
Like Representative Lofgren, I believe that "Contrary to the intent of Congress, the DMCA has been used to legitimize...control over consumer uses. It's been used to prohibit lawful users from circumventing technical restrictions, even to pursue their fair use rights."
I believe that Fair Use is an important issue that's been overlooked in the debate, and that the long term effects of the DMCA on Fair Use are detrimental to society. Passage of this Act will be a boon preserving the Fair Use rights of your constituents.
Sincerely,
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