But if the find joe student with the same program on a p2p/ftp site and the expensive program is getting out to a bunch of other students who just use "I have the latest version of prog X" as a status symbol, never using the software, the fact that they know joe 6p isn't gonna buy it goes out the window and the 500 downloads of X (by people who would have never bought it anyway. now turn into an instant $1,000,000 of lost sales.
It's nice to see MS realizing finally that not everyone wants to point and click. Yeah..it makes it easy for one or two, but when you need to do something to 500 users...
Incorporating the stuff in the RK into the base OS is a good idea, now if they can just standardize it a bit and clean a few of the rough areas up.
What I don't get is the reason for the hike. Places I've worked and gone to school the book store gets free space, tech support, electricty, etc... The only real costs they have (aside from seasonal items and perishables) are staffing. Most of those end up being college students making a pitiful amount.
So why the huge markup? I guess in some places the bookstore is also run by those running the cafeteria's, vending machines, etc... and by paying an extra $30 for a book, you are helping to subsidize the day they made too many hash browns, or the cost of a campus card system.
Add a point? I guess that would be the add a stop. I just want something where I can kinda hint - go this way, stay off that road, etc... With some of the prefs I can tell it not to use interstates or toll roads, but sometimes I just need to go a certain way for a stopover, but don't want to exclude all interstates.
I LOVE MapPoint. The construction stuff is nice, but I like the fact I can put it all on my notebook. On vacation once we stopped at a gas station to ask where a certain road was...the guy was clueless. Put the address of the gas station in map point, zoomed out a little bit and there the road was about 1 mile from my current location.
It is also a lot more accurate than mapquest/yahoo. My only beef is that I would like to be able to have it draw a route and let me click someplace and have it change my route to go through that place.
Okay...unlike most I read the article and understand it's not searches but the ads people put in.
But, if I was to pay google to put an ad in for the term Microsoft that linked to Linux.com, how is google at fault? I'm the one that is using the trademarked term.
Then again, this is the same country that sued gatech because their web pages were in english, etc...
I think it was around 94 or so that Kroger did this. It wasn't.xx, but each cart had a little greyscale screen and TONS of antenna's in the ceiling.
As you went down aisles, you could see what was on sell around there, or you could use the cart to see where a certain item was. It was a little slow, but it worked...remember using it quite a bit as stuff is never where I'd expect it.
The problem - after about a month, finding a cart that had a working screen was nigh impossible. Hopefully the new ones will be a lot more rugged.
Took the front bezel off, removed the button part. Now I have to use a pen or something to poke in the hole on the bezel to hit the button.
It was a bitch to hit initially, but my daughter had a knack. Now she's moved on to my wifes computer.:)
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Your files are organized. Mine are too, but I want to have them organized several different ways.
Let's say I have a copy of Iron Maiden's Wasted Years from the 1987 world tour.
Now...should that be under I for Iron Maiden? W for Wasted Years? M for Metal? 80's for when it was? Bootleg or live since it's not a studio track?
Unless I want to symlink/shortcut/duplicate like mad, I only have one method of placing this file in a hierarchy.
With the new thing, sure the file is in only one place, but with proper meta-data about the file, I can quickly search the database of meta-data to find this on any of the pieces of data.
A few years ago, my great-uncle, who was around 80, was talking to my mom. There was some document she needed to send to them. He told her he could fax it or e-mail it. I think my mom almost dropped the phone at hearing that.
I wish my grandfather (great-uncle's brother) had lived longer - he would have loved all this stuff.
Anyway, it's always fun finding your older generation keeping up with this stuff, and in some cases surpassing the current generation.
I think this goes back to something Pertwee said - it's just a job. People come up to him, acting like they know him because they know all of his episodes, but to him it was just one of the many roles he has played.
Probably same with Tom - it was just a period in his life - over 20 years ago even.
It's the fans that come up with the questions such as in episode 98 you pressed this button to open the viewer in the tardis, but in ep 104, that switched opened the door - at what point did this change? Was it the tardis acting up, or did it get rewired?
Gallifreyone.com is awsome!!!
As for Doctors - just have to say it:) Rowan Atkinson did a good job in Curse of the Fatal Death and could probably do a good Doctor. Paul McGann was good and I wouldn't mind seeing him back (hate to waste regenerations everytime the BBC decides to try again) Lenny Henry, alluded to in another thread, would probably get me to fly to London on vacation just to watch the premiere:)
My biggest beef is I'll search on Amazon for my daughter or wife. Next thing I know, Amazon thinks I'm a huge barbie/scooby fan with a heavy interest in Blues Clues.
They need a seperate search box which doesn't get added to your my page calculations...going back and removing stuff is a pain.
for a few weeks, when I do a search on google groups, it'll come back with the results just fine - but when I click on the View Thread on a result, it tells me it can't display the thread and gives me a link to view that individual message. Then once that message comes up, I click on View Thread on that message, and up pops the whole thread, like it should have before.
Perhaps being on the top is getting to their CPU's:)
I actually mistyped one domain, got the sitefinder, clicked on the correct one and moved on.
As others have said, the problem is assuming internet==web. What they should have done was approached MS to have this kinda functioanlity put into IE...IE gets a DNS look failure, it sends it to the sitefinder site passing that domain.
This way the DNS doesn't get screwed, it provides mistypes a service and verisign can still recruit domain squatters. Only trick is how to convince MS it is in their best interest.
check host 1 - no p2p, looks up to date. check host 2 - same as host 1 check host 3 - can't reach it. now calling function to block this port...port block okay check host 4 - this one is reachable and looks good.
I'll agree that you need some help and high-end stuff to get a good recording of acoustic stuff.
But a producer I think may be overrated. It can go either way - they could encourage you to play something different than the favorite band you are trying to play like...or they could try and encourage you to sound more like all the other bands out there.
This is all like video - sure, anyone can do it now, but that doesn't mean it's good. But sometimes they are interesting and worth suffering though.
The hard part is figuring out what I'm asking. When I say "What's going on in the world?" what do I want to know? If I ask "when's the next showing of LotR?" how does it figure all that out? Or even better is how to personalize it. If I ask "Is there anything on TV?" I don't expect "Yes." I expect it to know what kinda stuff I may like and base it's answer on that (talking TiVo?)
Basically I want a mix between the Enterprise and KITT.
Q&A used to have this built into their database years ago. You could ask it questions such as "how many widgets were sold in march?". If it didn't know what a widget was, it'd prompt you on how to define one (ie. where column B='WIDGET') and would ask you how to determin if something was sold, etc... This was back in around '86 or so. Way ahead of it's time.
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The Chase, The Keys of Marinus, The Space Museum, The Web Planet - some great Hartnell stories there. I think you missed a lot.
Though the Pertwee stuff was good as well...probably some of the best.
I'll take the cheeseburger-priced effects combined with the decent story any day.
My brain can forgive the cheesy fx, sets, etc... in favour of a plot.
It can't forgive high-end fx that are just there to be there.
The moron couple that were at our wedding failed in one aspect - they did not get a picture of just me and my wife together.
The guy that my wife's aunt hired to video tape it used all sorts of effects from some cheesy 70's video - and his battery ran out right after "I do".
Idiots. But like you said - do your job well....
But if the find joe student with the same program on a p2p/ftp site and the expensive program is getting out to a bunch of other students who just use "I have the latest version of prog X" as a status symbol, never using the software, the fact that they know joe 6p isn't gonna buy it goes out the window and the 500 downloads of X (by people who would have never bought it anyway. now turn into an instant $1,000,000 of lost sales.
Gives new meaning to the line "Our great computers fill the hallowed halls."
It's nice to see MS realizing finally that not everyone wants to point and click. Yeah..it makes it easy for one or two, but when you need to do something to 500 users...
Incorporating the stuff in the RK into the base OS is a good idea, now if they can just standardize it a bit and clean a few of the rough areas up.
What I don't get is the reason for the hike. Places I've worked and gone to school the book store gets free space, tech support, electricty, etc... The only real costs they have (aside from seasonal items and perishables) are staffing. Most of those end up being college students making a pitiful amount.
So why the huge markup? I guess in some places the bookstore is also run by those running the cafeteria's, vending machines, etc... and by paying an extra $30 for a book, you are helping to subsidize the day they made too many hash browns, or the cost of a campus card system.
Add a point? I guess that would be the add a stop. I just want something where I can kinda hint - go this way, stay off that road, etc... With some of the prefs I can tell it not to use interstates or toll roads, but sometimes I just need to go a certain way for a stopover, but don't want to exclude all interstates.
:)
Yeah...it's whining.
I LOVE MapPoint. The construction stuff is nice, but I like the fact I can put it all on my notebook. On vacation once we stopped at a gas station to ask where a certain road was...the guy was clueless. Put the address of the gas station in map point, zoomed out a little bit and there the road was about 1 mile from my current location.
It is also a lot more accurate than mapquest/yahoo. My only beef is that I would like to be able to have it draw a route and let me click someplace and have it change my route to go through that place.
Okay...unlike most I read the article and understand it's not searches but the ads people put in.
But, if I was to pay google to put an ad in for the term Microsoft that linked to Linux.com, how is google at fault? I'm the one that is using the trademarked term.
Then again, this is the same country that sued gatech because their web pages were in english, etc...
I think it was around 94 or so that Kroger did this. It wasn't .xx, but each cart had a little greyscale screen and TONS of antenna's in the ceiling.
As you went down aisles, you could see what was on sell around there, or you could use the cart to see where a certain item was. It was a little slow, but it worked...remember using it quite a bit as stuff is never where I'd expect it.
The problem - after about a month, finding a cart that had a working screen was nigh impossible. Hopefully the new ones will be a lot more rugged.
Took the front bezel off, removed the button part. Now I have to use a pen or something to poke in the hole on the bezel to hit the button.
:)
It was a bitch to hit initially, but my daughter had a knack. Now she's moved on to my wifes computer.
Your files are organized. Mine are too, but I want to have them organized several different ways.
Let's say I have a copy of Iron Maiden's Wasted Years from the 1987 world tour.
Now...should that be under I for Iron Maiden?
W for Wasted Years?
M for Metal?
80's for when it was?
Bootleg or live since it's not a studio track?
Unless I want to symlink/shortcut/duplicate like mad, I only have one method of placing this file in a hierarchy.
With the new thing, sure the file is in only one place, but with proper meta-data about the file, I can quickly search the database of meta-data to find this on any of the pieces of data.
No...but after 8 seconds or so it is!!!
A few years ago, my great-uncle, who was around 80, was talking to my mom. There was some document she needed to send to them. He told her he could fax it or e-mail it. I think my mom almost dropped the phone at hearing that.
I wish my grandfather (great-uncle's brother) had lived longer - he would have loved all this stuff.
Anyway, it's always fun finding your older generation keeping up with this stuff, and in some cases surpassing the current generation.
Like I said in my post - going back and removing stuff is a pain. A "search for a gift" button or something would be nice.
I think this goes back to something Pertwee said - it's just a job. People come up to him, acting like they know him because they know all of his episodes, but to him it was just one of the many roles he has played.
:) Rowan Atkinson did a good job in Curse of the Fatal Death and could probably do a good Doctor. Paul McGann was good and I wouldn't mind seeing him back (hate to waste regenerations everytime the BBC decides to try again) Lenny Henry, alluded to in another thread, would probably get me to fly to London on vacation just to watch the premiere :)
Probably same with Tom - it was just a period in his life - over 20 years ago even.
It's the fans that come up with the questions such as in episode 98 you pressed this button to open the viewer in the tardis, but in ep 104, that switched opened the door - at what point did this change? Was it the tardis acting up, or did it get rewired?
Gallifreyone.com is awsome!!!
As for Doctors - just have to say it
Even better was the one where he called Sylvester McCoy - I'm not sure if he ever realized it was a prank call.
My biggest beef is I'll search on Amazon for my daughter or wife. Next thing I know, Amazon thinks I'm a huge barbie/scooby fan with a heavy interest in Blues Clues.
They need a seperate search box which doesn't get added to your my page calculations...going back and removing stuff is a pain.
for a few weeks, when I do a search on google groups, it'll come back with the results just fine - but when I click on the View Thread on a result, it tells me it can't display the thread and gives me a link to view that individual message. Then once that message comes up, I click on View Thread on that message, and up pops the whole thread, like it should have before.
:)
Perhaps being on the top is getting to their CPU's
I actually mistyped one domain, got the sitefinder, clicked on the correct one and moved on.
As others have said, the problem is assuming internet==web. What they should have done was approached MS to have this kinda functioanlity put into IE...IE gets a DNS look failure, it sends it to the sitefinder site passing that domain.
This way the DNS doesn't get screwed, it provides mistypes a service and verisign can still recruit domain squatters. Only trick is how to convince MS it is in their best interest.
now we look deep into the mind of icarus...
check host 1 - no p2p, looks up to date.
check host 2 - same as host 1
check host 3 - can't reach it. now calling function to block this port...port block okay
check host 4 - this one is reachable and looks good.
etc...
I'll agree that you need some help and high-end stuff to get a good recording of acoustic stuff.
But a producer I think may be overrated. It can go either way - they could encourage you to play something different than the favorite band you are trying to play like...or they could try and encourage you to sound more like all the other bands out there.
This is all like video - sure, anyone can do it now, but that doesn't mean it's good. But sometimes they are interesting and worth suffering though.
Until the day your TiVo decides you're gay or a woman, or the UA decides that all you like is Mexican food :)
Voice recognition is actually the simple part.
The hard part is figuring out what I'm asking. When I say "What's going on in the world?" what do I want to know? If I ask "when's the next showing of LotR?" how does it figure all that out? Or even better is how to personalize it. If I ask "Is there anything on TV?" I don't expect "Yes." I expect it to know what kinda stuff I may like and base it's answer on that (talking TiVo?)
Basically I want a mix between the Enterprise and KITT.
Q&A used to have this built into their database years ago. You could ask it questions such as "how many widgets were sold in march?". If it didn't know what a widget was, it'd prompt you on how to define one (ie. where column B='WIDGET') and would ask you how to determin if something was sold, etc... This was back in around '86 or so. Way ahead of it's time.