There is a point at which it would become pointless, but 60GB aint it. I've got over 100GB of (legally aquired) mp3s in my library, and although there's a limit to the amount of music that I can listen to while I'm out, I don't know when I leave the house exactly which tracks I'm going to want to listen to - greater capacity means greater choice of music when I'm in the mood.
It always puzzles me why people seem to think that radio is somehow more "worthy" than TV. If the masses lost their TV soaps, they'd simply tune into radio soaps instead. There are some pretty highbrow radio shows, but most people wouldn't be listening to them any more than they watch the few highbrow TV shows that are on.
I have, and last time I tried it it was pretty slow (admittedly that could have been the hardware I was using) and it cost £200. I suppose it might have done the trick on better hardware, but at that price I wasn't prepared to take the risk.
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I use the EMS PostgreSQL Manager. It's not free, but personally I find it's well worth the money.
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Thanks. Is this new? I did do loads of research when I was looking for the laptop - there were several available, but all were pretty limited, or very buggy, but I hadn't seen this one. I'll download it and give it a go.
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Is it really that surprising? When I was last upgrading my laptop (which is my main machine at home), I very nearly went for a Mac. The main thing that made me shy away from that was that one application (a decent design/admin GUI for PostgreSQL) that I use quite a lot was not available, nor were there any decent alternatives to it, on the Mac. Had I been able to boot into Windows to use that one tool (or even better, used it under emulation/virtualisation while still in MacOS), I would almost certainly have ended up with a Mac.
Well, as VMWare is now part of EMC, they are technically in the whole data storage and management business.
MSFT is in the OS business and bundling VPC [which they probably will] with their OS is exploiting the monopoly they hold on the OS world to basically make VMWare redundant.
So you're accusing them of monopolistic behaviour in this because of what you assume that they will do in the future? And anyway, they don't hold any form of monopoly in the server OS market.
Also, would you accuse Red Hat of monopolistic behaviour if they started to ship VMWare as part of their install? It's not the bundling IE with Windows that was the real problem, it's how difficult it was to remove it and use a different browser that (at least in my understanding)is what the actual complaint was about. MS gives all manner of tools/utilities away for free on its website, but they are not considered anti-monopolistic as their existence doesn't stop you from installing anyone else's utilities.
Consider Google - giving away the Google toolbar (and making it prominent on their search engine) is fine - you're still able to install the Yahoo toolbar if you want instead. If they somehow prevented people from searching on Google if they'd got the Yahoo toolbar installed, then that might be considered an abuse of their position as near-monopolists in the search arena.
Creative - weren't they the ones who didn't look good at all and were expensive?
I've had 2 Creative mp3 players - the old Nomad 6GB one (the one that was the size of a big CD player) which was absolutely awful, and a Zen Xtra 60GB, which I absolutely loved until it died a few months ago. I've now got a iPod Video. There are some things that I prefer about the iPod such as size and iTunes (and particularly the management of podcasts), but for sound quality, battery life and usability (I sometimes find myself getting unbelievably frustrated with the click wheel) I still prefer the Zen.
My wife does. She's got separate one (at my personal domain) that she can use, but she's got lots of people that have her hotmail address, and most of those don't seem to know how to change their address books, so most of her mail still comes to her hotmail account.
If you're doing pair programming properly, one person can't end up doing all the work. Both people are working simultaneously - usually one is coding, focussed in on the details of the specific function and the language that you're developing in, while the other is both checking what that person is doing and keeping an eye on the bigger picture (what is the actual purpose of this function, what is the overall problem that we're trying to solve etc). If anything, you would want the less experienced person spending more time (but certainly not all of the time) actually doing the coding initially as you can then be guiding him when he's going wrong, making sure that he's coding the right unit tests etc.
Same here. I have literally hundreds of different @mydomain.com email addresses out there. Most of them direct to my catch-all email account, just in case someone does need to send me an email on that account (such as order/delivery emails).
However, if I start getting spam on that account, the entire address gets redirected to junk@ and (if it was an online store) I stop trading with them. It's actually quire surprising how rarely this does happen these days. The worst that I've found in the past couple of years has been 192.com (a UK address/telephone number search service).
Evolution by divine guidance is just a slowed down version of intelligent design. It's fundamentally wrong.
I agree that it's wrong, but only because I don't believe that there is such thing as a divine intelligence.
However, if such a thing did exist, there is nothing in what we see in evolution that would prevent it being guided by that being. Take selective breading in farm animals as an example - the underlying principles are those of evolution through genetic variation, and there is some form of selection going on, but in this case it's the farmer that's deciding which animals are 'fittest' to breed.
That's as maybe, but the real argument (at least in my view) is down to whether there is a divine creator intelligently guiding/controlling the development of species on earth or not.
there isn't much difference between Pole Position and Gran Turismo 4,
At the level of 'they both involve racing a car around a track trying to go faster than other cars', yes they are pretty similar, but at that level they're both pretty similar to actually being in a real car race, so I'm not quite sure what sort of innovation you'd expect. If you want driving games that do something different, there's things like GTA and Driver.
In almost all other aspects of the game (control, feedback from the car, other driver inteligence, car customisation, graphics, sound etc), GT4 is a totally different level to things like Pole Position.
Well, from my experience of Syrians (from time spent in Syria, mostly in Damascus but also in several small towns/villages), the majority can not only speak Arabic, but French fluently as well (and a significant minority also spoke English) and I had many good conversations with shopkeepers, taxi drivers, people sat around in Mosques etc and although I suspect that most of them were not 'educated' to the same level as the average westerner, they almost invariably came across as friendly, inteligent people.
Unfortunately some of those people are application developers who have written tools that are only available on the PC.
I use Postgresql for a lot of home projects, and by far the best dev/admin tool I've found is the EMS SQL Manager for PostgreSQL, which only runs on Windows (or did, I've just noticed that they've now got a Linux version). I've tried several Mac tools and none of them come close.
any channel can broadcast hardcore porn at any time
I'm pretty certain if The Disney Channel started broadcasting "Mickey Does Minnie Pluto-style" in the middle of the day then it wouldn't be around for much longer. And anyway, just sticking your kids in front of the TV for hours on end, without at least checking up on what they're watching every now and then, isn't (in my view) good parenting anyway.
Why would it be metric football? There's a 6 yard box, an 18 yard box, the penalty spot is 12 yards from the goal (which is 8 yards wide, by 8 feet high) etc. Sizes are admittedly often also quoted in metric, but this is simply because much of the world doesn't understand imperial measurements, and as a result you end up with silly measurements like a goal that is 7.32 metres wide by 2.44 metres high, but the original sizes are quite definitely imperial.
You can also watch movies on the PSP without buying a UMD, assuming you've got a big enough Memory Stick and a DVD ripper. The PSP screen is (IMO) infinitely better than the iPod for watching movies - I've tried both on long trips, and wouldn't even consider using the iPod for this again.
Sorry. I think you might have misunderstood me - I meant it was a pretty safe bet that there would be no documents containing details of any hidden WMD.
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Really? My 60GB doesn't do that for me. I still have to cut out some albums from my library, and occasionally find myself wanting to listen to them.
There is a point at which it would become pointless, but 60GB aint it. I've got over 100GB of (legally aquired) mp3s in my library, and although there's a limit to the amount of music that I can listen to while I'm out, I don't know when I leave the house exactly which tracks I'm going to want to listen to - greater capacity means greater choice of music when I'm in the mood.
That's a pretty standard process (although not usually used for concert tickets) called a "falling price auction".
It always puzzles me why people seem to think that radio is somehow more "worthy" than TV. If the masses lost their TV soaps, they'd simply tune into radio soaps instead. There are some pretty highbrow radio shows, but most people wouldn't be listening to them any more than they watch the few highbrow TV shows that are on.
I have, and last time I tried it it was pretty slow (admittedly that could have been the hardware I was using) and it cost £200. I suppose it might have done the trick on better hardware, but at that price I wasn't prepared to take the risk.
I use the EMS PostgreSQL Manager. It's not free, but personally I find it's well worth the money.
Thanks. Is this new? I did do loads of research when I was looking for the laptop - there were several available, but all were pretty limited, or very buggy, but I hadn't seen this one. I'll download it and give it a go.
Is it really that surprising? When I was last upgrading my laptop (which is my main machine at home), I very nearly went for a Mac. The main thing that made me shy away from that was that one application (a decent design/admin GUI for PostgreSQL) that I use quite a lot was not available, nor were there any decent alternatives to it, on the Mac. Had I been able to boot into Windows to use that one tool (or even better, used it under emulation/virtualisation while still in MacOS), I would almost certainly have ended up with a Mac.
Well, as VMWare is now part of EMC, they are technically in the whole data storage and management business.
MSFT is in the OS business and bundling VPC [which they probably will] with their OS is exploiting the monopoly they hold on the OS world to basically make VMWare redundant.
So you're accusing them of monopolistic behaviour in this because of what you assume that they will do in the future? And anyway, they don't hold any form of monopoly in the server OS market.
Also, would you accuse Red Hat of monopolistic behaviour if they started to ship VMWare as part of their install? It's not the bundling IE with Windows that was the real problem, it's how difficult it was to remove it and use a different browser that (at least in my understanding)is what the actual complaint was about. MS gives all manner of tools/utilities away for free on its website, but they are not considered anti-monopolistic as their existence doesn't stop you from installing anyone else's utilities.
Consider Google - giving away the Google toolbar (and making it prominent on their search engine) is fine - you're still able to install the Yahoo toolbar if you want instead. If they somehow prevented people from searching on Google if they'd got the Yahoo toolbar installed, then that might be considered an abuse of their position as near-monopolists in the search arena.
I've had 2 Creative mp3 players - the old Nomad 6GB one (the one that was the size of a big CD player) which was absolutely awful, and a Zen Xtra 60GB, which I absolutely loved until it died a few months ago. I've now got a iPod Video. There are some things that I prefer about the iPod such as size and iTunes (and particularly the management of podcasts), but for sound quality, battery life and usability (I sometimes find myself getting unbelievably frustrated with the click wheel) I still prefer the Zen.
My wife does. She's got separate one (at my personal domain) that she can use, but she's got lots of people that have her hotmail address, and most of those don't seem to know how to change their address books, so most of her mail still comes to her hotmail account.
She does access it through Thunderbird though.
Any evidence for this (other than the faked satelite photos from 1990)?
If you're doing pair programming properly, one person can't end up doing all the work. Both people are working simultaneously - usually one is coding, focussed in on the details of the specific function and the language that you're developing in, while the other is both checking what that person is doing and keeping an eye on the bigger picture (what is the actual purpose of this function, what is the overall problem that we're trying to solve etc). If anything, you would want the less experienced person spending more time (but certainly not all of the time) actually doing the coding initially as you can then be guiding him when he's going wrong, making sure that he's coding the right unit tests etc.
Same here. I have literally hundreds of different @mydomain.com email addresses out there. Most of them direct to my catch-all email account, just in case someone does need to send me an email on that account (such as order/delivery emails).
However, if I start getting spam on that account, the entire address gets redirected to junk@ and (if it was an online store) I stop trading with them. It's actually quire surprising how rarely this does happen these days. The worst that I've found in the past couple of years has been 192.com (a UK address/telephone number search service).
I agree that it's wrong, but only because I don't believe that there is such thing as a divine intelligence.
However, if such a thing did exist, there is nothing in what we see in evolution that would prevent it being guided by that being. Take selective breading in farm animals as an example - the underlying principles are those of evolution through genetic variation, and there is some form of selection going on, but in this case it's the farmer that's deciding which animals are 'fittest' to breed.
That's as maybe, but the real argument (at least in my view) is down to whether there is a divine creator intelligently guiding/controlling the development of species on earth or not.
At the level of 'they both involve racing a car around a track trying to go faster than other cars', yes they are pretty similar, but at that level they're both pretty similar to actually being in a real car race, so I'm not quite sure what sort of innovation you'd expect. If you want driving games that do something different, there's things like GTA and Driver.
In almost all other aspects of the game (control, feedback from the car, other driver inteligence, car customisation, graphics, sound etc), GT4 is a totally different level to things like Pole Position.
Well, from my experience of Syrians (from time spent in Syria, mostly in Damascus but also in several small towns/villages), the majority can not only speak Arabic, but French fluently as well (and a significant minority also spoke English) and I had many good conversations with shopkeepers, taxi drivers, people sat around in Mosques etc and although I suspect that most of them were not 'educated' to the same level as the average westerner, they almost invariably came across as friendly, inteligent people.
Unfortunately some of those people are application developers who have written tools that are only available on the PC.
I use Postgresql for a lot of home projects, and by far the best dev/admin tool I've found is the EMS SQL Manager for PostgreSQL, which only runs on Windows (or did, I've just noticed that they've now got a Linux version). I've tried several Mac tools and none of them come close.
I'm pretty certain if The Disney Channel started broadcasting "Mickey Does Minnie Pluto-style" in the middle of the day then it wouldn't be around for much longer. And anyway, just sticking your kids in front of the TV for hours on end, without at least checking up on what they're watching every now and then, isn't (in my view) good parenting anyway.
Or where the benefit can't be directly measured in shareholder value.
Who the hell modded this as informative???
Why would it be metric football? There's a 6 yard box, an 18 yard box, the penalty spot is 12 yards from the goal (which is 8 yards wide, by 8 feet high) etc. Sizes are admittedly often also quoted in metric, but this is simply because much of the world doesn't understand imperial measurements, and as a result you end up with silly measurements like a goal that is 7.32 metres wide by 2.44 metres high, but the original sizes are quite definitely imperial.
You can also watch movies on the PSP without buying a UMD, assuming you've got a big enough Memory Stick and a DVD ripper. The PSP screen is (IMO) infinitely better than the iPod for watching movies - I've tried both on long trips, and wouldn't even consider using the iPod for this again.
Sorry. I think you might have misunderstood me - I meant it was a pretty safe bet that there would be no documents containing details of any hidden WMD.
I think that's a pretty safe bet.