I think if a powerful OS started filtering into the states from the east, nothing better could happen to our "western" systems. If the new system truly is an improvement, it will force us to adapt or die.
If you ask yourself what the two most populous nations are on Earth, and what their primary languages are, you end up with lots of Chinese and Indian dialects.
Not only that, but other languages' needs have pushed the envelope for everyone already: English is the language of convenience, but we wouldn't have the quality of display systems or input methods we have now if Asians hadn't needed the ability to type their many-thousand-character pictographic languages and have them readable on computer screens or TV overlays (news broadcasts, movies, etc.)
Once they get the intellectual capital they need, which it looks like they just about have, everyone had better hang on tight. Like Neal Stephenson predicted, the US might eventually be known best for things like pizza delivery. I already have my storage unit picked out:)
Reminds me of what someone called "the gold star effect"... More specifically, when George W. Bush DIDN'T commit several huge linguistic atrocities in a speech, the media would, in effect, give him a gold star.
Maybe we should institute something similar for the Commander-In-Chief on days where we don't kill Afghani children. Otherwise, pretty soon, we'll have the same death stats as Israel does against Palestinian kids. Or at least it will seem that way to everyone in the Middle East. Our excuses probably sound similar, too.
Just the enviromental savings from the lack of processing would have given him a reason to use digital.
Beyond this, making those pictures took a long time and the results were very fragile. As he was going into unspoiled areas, toting all the supplies for his work must have been a burden he'd have gladly given up for a couple of professional level digital cameras, a solar recharger, and some rugged storage media.
Plus, can you imagine how disappointed he was every time he climbed back down off some precipice where he may have photographed a rare event, and went and developed the images, and they were screwed up? And even if they each came out perfect, at some point (a lot sooner than with digital) he'd run out of plates and chemicals, and have to stop.
Knowing SCO, they might try to make themselves the martyrs and use the attacks to cast a bad light on the Linux community in general.
They probably wanted to announce at the meeting on December 22 that, under cover of this DDoS, evil hackers broke in and deleted all the evidence SCO was surely about to hand over to the court. Then, having learned from OJ and the Ramsey parents, they'd go hire a detective to seek out the evil people responsible for the death of their case.
Too bad there aren't any 64 bit operating systems out there now . ..
You missed the part where they said the word "consumer." I doubt even Apple's G5/OS X combos are considered "consumer" grade, and there's quite a lot of talk about the latest OS X still not being fully 64 bit, yet. Workstations are flat out of consideration for the label, of course.
There's your mistake:) Remember, the news says that IBM had a "surprise win" in the SCO lawsuit when the judge told SCO to put up or shut up.
Do your own fact checking when you can, like going to the website of the company you're talking about. I didn't know when I typed it in that they were still going to say "commercial advance" on the front page, but they do, proof that it really helps, even if you think you know.
I can stop and re-watch all the Victoria Secret ads
By the way, RTV even has a secret code (at least before the 55xx models) that, instead of commercial skip, skips content, so you can see ONLY the commercials. Super Bowl, anyone?:)
That being said, if I ever buy DirecTV I know I'll be buying a DirecTivo, or whatever they call it by then. I love being able to send out mpeg streams or files from my Replay without hacking the box at all, but two tuners and not recompressing the satellite stream trumps that for sure.
Replay has disabled Commercial skip in the current and future versions of their products.
That's B.S. I have a 5060 and it still does Commercial Advance, even with the latest software. They even stated categorically that they wouldn't shut that down on the 50xx models.
It also, now, does "show|nav" which is a marketing term for segment-jumping. Which is also what the future 55xx will use (go here and look at the front page where it says "skip commercials" and then click on the left where it says "features/benefits"), which is just another way of saying commercial advance that can also be used for general navigation, so they're less likely to get sued again over it.
P.S. I doubt DNNA will tell Replay backup sites to shut down, because they know it saves them a lot of warranty returns.:)
Have you actually done this at a company party? Sounds like an interesting game... for friends.
You'd be committing job suicide by doing that at a company party.
Not just because of the possible cultural offense - some Italian-Americans would get upset - but because the concept of employees killing other employees, even just pretending to do so, will scare people, like you said. That's not "fun." People will get upset.
I was under the impression that the scene you are refering to was a 'trailer only' scene, and was never intended to be seen in the movie,
Well, that's a good point, I hadn't thought that the trailer might have lied about the movie. I googled "spiderman wtc scene" and got various conflicting reports, from a spokesperson who said it was only the trailer that had to be recalled to a lot of other people saying otherwise. I guess if it was just the trailer, I would be more inclined to agree, because it might seem more like crass marketing to anyone who didn't know the trailer existed before the tragedy.
Is Darl going to try and rebutt Linus' statement in the next letter, or is he going to go spread more FUD?
Don't think for a moment that Darl-ek is interested in a dialogue. If he had been, none of this would have unfolded the way it has. He's writing to keep the investors confused. The last thing he wants to do is respond, and give them time to think there's doubt.
No kidding. I decided that I'd had enough when I heard how they cut up Spiderman to remove the long WTC sequence. Far from being insensitive, it would have been a damn good tribute.
For those who haven't seen the one trailer of the scene that exists, some bad guys try to escape from a scene via helicopter, and suddenly they get stuck in the air... in a giant web Spidey put between the towers.
They should have left the scene in the picture. Instead of being upset, I think most people would cheer in the theater, if not give a standing ovation at seeing the WTC standing firm against the bad guys, if only in our imagination.
Like if I get halfway through an HTML message and decide I need it in plain text or vice versa.
So select all, copy, then restart the message!
I know, there's some functionality differences between the two programs. It took me forever to make the switch from Outlook 2000 to Thunderbird 0.3 myself, but I finally did, because I know I have to migrate away from the proprietary PST format in the long run, among other reasons.
I gave up ready access to my last 5 years' worth of email (I am keeping Outlook installed until I can use an IMAP server to upload them all / re-download them to Mozilla). I'm even giving up Spambayes, which is a free open-source Outlook plug-in that, as you might expect, does Bayesian filtering of email for spam. (So far, Thunderbird's junk filter controls rarely catch my spam, and there's no aggressiveness setting to slide upwards) But I am getting more control over the storage of my emails, and the ability to read them across several platforms, and I'm excited about where this free product is going. Best of all, I won't have pay to upgrade to Office XP or whatever is next simply to keep this updated for the next 10 years.
Outlook has been one of my few remaining reasons for staying booted into Windows XP. I'm tired of calling Uncle Bill to ask permission every time I switch major hardware or otherwise need to reinstall (had to do it 3 times already), and a lot of other problems with the OS that deserve their own threads. Mozilla is setting me free, and that's worth a little extra effort sometimes.
So, unless you're too lazy to restart messages, what's your reason for not switching now? =)
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If you ask yourself what the two most populous nations are on Earth, and what their primary languages are, you end up with lots of Chinese and Indian dialects.
Not only that, but other languages' needs have pushed the envelope for everyone already: English is the language of convenience, but we wouldn't have the quality of display systems or input methods we have now if Asians hadn't needed the ability to type their many-thousand-character pictographic languages and have them readable on computer screens or TV overlays (news broadcasts, movies, etc.)
Once they get the intellectual capital they need, which it looks like they just about have, everyone had better hang on tight. Like Neal Stephenson predicted, the US might eventually be known best for things like pizza delivery. I already have my storage unit picked out
They have most of it covered, here.
I hereby rename it Duke Nukem NEVER.
Seriously? You can see the extra detail when you blow the image up, I'm sure. Just don't blow it up so big the grain becomes noise.
Maybe we should institute something similar for the Commander-In-Chief on days where we don't kill Afghani children. Otherwise, pretty soon, we'll have the same death stats as Israel does against Palestinian kids. Or at least it will seem that way to everyone in the Middle East. Our excuses probably sound similar, too.
Beyond this, making those pictures took a long time and the results were very fragile. As he was going into unspoiled areas, toting all the supplies for his work must have been a burden he'd have gladly given up for a couple of professional level digital cameras, a solar recharger, and some rugged storage media.
Plus, can you imagine how disappointed he was every time he climbed back down off some precipice where he may have photographed a rare event, and went and developed the images, and they were screwed up? And even if they each came out perfect, at some point (a lot sooner than with digital) he'd run out of plates and chemicals, and have to stop.
the captions for your animal pictures are cute.
Muis looks very content, too.
They probably wanted to announce at the meeting on December 22 that, under cover of this DDoS, evil hackers broke in and deleted all the evidence SCO was surely about to hand over to the court. Then, having learned from OJ and the Ramsey parents, they'd go hire a detective to seek out the evil people responsible for the death of their case.
You missed the part where they said the word "consumer."
I doubt even Apple's G5/OS X combos are considered "consumer" grade, and there's quite a lot of talk about the latest OS X still not being fully 64 bit, yet. Workstations are flat out of consideration for the label, of course.
There's your mistake
Do your own fact checking when you can, like going to the website of the company you're talking about. I didn't know when I typed it in that they were still going to say "commercial advance" on the front page, but they do, proof that it really helps, even if you think you know.
By the way, RTV even has a secret code (at least before the 55xx models) that, instead of commercial skip, skips content, so you can see ONLY the commercials. Super Bowl, anyone?
That being said, if I ever buy DirecTV I know I'll be buying a DirecTivo, or whatever they call it by then. I love being able to send out mpeg streams or files from my Replay without hacking the box at all, but two tuners and not recompressing the satellite stream trumps that for sure.
That's the scariest truthful one-liner I've read here in a while.
If I ever run for office, I want you to help with my speeches.
That's B.S. I have a 5060 and it still does Commercial Advance, even with the latest software. They even stated categorically that they wouldn't shut that down on the 50xx models.
It also, now, does "show|nav" which is a marketing term for segment-jumping. Which is also what the future 55xx will use (go here and look at the front page where it says "skip commercials" and then click on the left where it says "features/benefits"), which is just another way of saying commercial advance that can also be used for general navigation, so they're less likely to get sued again over it.
P.S. I doubt DNNA will tell Replay backup sites to shut down, because they know it saves them a lot of warranty returns.
The mission has failed, but they're still salvaging something by having it continue to collect data.
Ah, see, if you talk to the military recruiters, they'll all want you to go commando. But if you don't ask, they don't tell you that.
Have you actually done this at a company party? Sounds like an interesting game... for friends.
You'd be committing job suicide by doing that at a company party.
Not just because of the possible cultural offense - some Italian-Americans would get upset - but because the concept of employees killing other employees, even just pretending to do so, will scare people, like you said. That's not "fun." People will get upset.
Well, that's a good point, I hadn't thought that the trailer might have lied about the movie. I googled "spiderman wtc scene" and got various conflicting reports, from a spokesperson who said it was only the trailer that had to be recalled to a lot of other people saying otherwise. I guess if it was just the trailer, I would be more inclined to agree, because it might seem more like crass marketing to anyone who didn't know the trailer existed before the tragedy.
Thanks for bringing the question up.
Don't think for a moment that Darl-ek is interested in a dialogue. If he had been, none of this would have unfolded the way it has. He's writing to keep the investors confused. The last thing he wants to do is respond, and give them time to think there's doubt.
No kidding. I decided that I'd had enough when I heard how they cut up Spiderman to remove the long WTC sequence. Far from being insensitive, it would have been a damn good tribute.
For those who haven't seen the one trailer of the scene that exists, some bad guys try to escape from a scene via helicopter, and suddenly they get stuck in the air... in a giant web Spidey put between the towers.
They should have left the scene in the picture. Instead of being upset, I think most people would cheer in the theater, if not give a standing ovation at seeing the WTC standing firm against the bad guys, if only in our imagination.
Cool. By posting that link, you're also helping those of us thinking about buying Macs, who want a ready db of support websites.
Got any more URLs you think are must-haves?
There's some in my neighbor's yard.
I'm worried; every day they seem to get a little closer, with their unblinking, hungry eyes...
So select all, copy, then restart the message!
I know, there's some functionality differences between the two programs. It took me forever to make the switch from Outlook 2000 to Thunderbird 0.3 myself, but I finally did, because I know I have to migrate away from the proprietary PST format in the long run, among other reasons.
I gave up ready access to my last 5 years' worth of email (I am keeping Outlook installed until I can use an IMAP server to upload them all / re-download them to Mozilla). I'm even giving up Spambayes, which is a free open-source Outlook plug-in that, as you might expect, does Bayesian filtering of email for spam. (So far, Thunderbird's junk filter controls rarely catch my spam, and there's no aggressiveness setting to slide upwards) But I am getting more control over the storage of my emails, and the ability to read them across several platforms, and I'm excited about where this free product is going. Best of all, I won't have pay to upgrade to Office XP or whatever is next simply to keep this updated for the next 10 years.
Outlook has been one of my few remaining reasons for staying booted into Windows XP. I'm tired of calling Uncle Bill to ask permission every time I switch major hardware or otherwise need to reinstall (had to do it 3 times already), and a lot of other problems with the OS that deserve their own threads. Mozilla is setting me free, and that's worth a little extra effort sometimes.
So, unless you're too lazy to restart messages, what's your reason for not switching now? =)
Thanks, g2!
I'll bet he was glad to get his toys back.
Some of us don't subscribe to lists, or don't check our list mails often.
It's a first post, that be!
We should make a clan called the peg legs.
I can already imagine t' splinter factions, those scurvy dogs!