Yeah, one of the few sentences I gleaned from the first tape of my Pimsler Mandarin casettes. I think one of the other replies before you had the same set since he quoted lines from the next lesson. I like learning languages and figure it will be good to know in the coming decades, just like Japanese was vogue in the 80s.
So...slow...can...feel...years...slipping...away. Seriously, compared to the Feed On Feeds reader that I currently use, this is way too slow, too klunky, and just plain laid out wrong. I welcome the day they improve the beta to the point of usability, but today is not that day.
Sorry, Drudge's setup stinks. I love reading his site, but he has a feed at drudgereportarchives.com that is days late and sometimes republishes all its articles again. I would rather let this be handled someone who had an inkling of RSS.
What makes you think that a product that 1 billion people use cannot be considered a standard on its own? Why does something have to be produced with the approval of the rest of the world, where there is a real chance that this thing could be adopted on top of all the other many formats. Honestly, with all the CD and DVD formats, what is one more to pack into all-in-one readers and burners these days?
It is also possible that Google could be using the jre to help it in a dazzling new marketing campaign pushing the benefits of bestiality. OpenOffice is just one of the zany possibilities in this best of all possible worlds. CNN can be just as full of crap as anyone else when it comes to speculating out one's anus.
P.S. If you want a cheaper, limited-use DVD now, just buy one, watch it, and sell it on Ebay! Who needs Microsoft for that?
But that's not what they're after. They want something that comes close to providing a recurring cost, which gets them more than the cost of today's full-priced products. For an example, just look at TiVo's move to cellphone plan styled pricing. If you buy the full-cost DVD and resell on EBay, the original company still only sees income from that first amount you paid and never another dime for the life of that product. Here, they are gambling that you will tell a friend about a great movie you just saw - you won't be able to loan it out, your friend will have to go buy it.
Just like the move to downloadable games in the console industry - you can't resell it, so the company is guaranteed to get money when someone else wants it. Don't want the game anymore? Tough, just erase it, and if you want it back again, maybe the system will remember that you once bought it. Already te MMORPG games cannot be turned in to a store for credit (not smart stores anyway) because the serial number is considered non-transferrable.
The software industry has been talking for years about software as a service. Why? Recurring costs for the consumer equals a steady revenue stream which equals financial stability and looks good in the eyes of Wall Street. Companies will do this en-masse once a standard appears in the industry. The standard has just showed up to the party.
Even for a 320GB Western Digital RAID Edition drive this comes out to $0.62/GB. We recently purchased a bunch for a new RAID server we're putting together on the cheap (1.8TB for $4500) - RAID 5 plus hot spare. Later on we can expand to 3.6TB for another $2k, assuming drive prices don't drop, which they will by then. When you figure in the cost of the hardware that reliably supports that, the price climbs to $1.80/GB. That doesn't cover the cost of admin salary (or your own time to support it if this is a home system). That's still not even 2x your example and it's still very cheap.
When the fragile lattice of society's infrastructure collapses, the last thing you are going to want to rely on is being able to find a working PC with USB adapter. At that point it's back to basics because the next disaster is going to be bigger and meaner than anything we've seen. You can rely on paper. Just...laminate it.
For a while there, the US was a part of the British Empire. At some point one could say that "only recently" were they pushing for a separate American identity. Which of the two is more or less deserving of freedom?
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I think there have been enough examples of socialism inflicted upon this world already. How many more do we need in order to satisfy your bizarre curiosity? Let's just spare the remaining lives and call socialism a failure, because I don't recall seeing any shining examples.
Heck, I'm not even deaf and I would have preferred a transcript over the audio or video downloads. I just want to scan it, and its easier to justify looking at while working. Watching audio/video starts to cross over into entertainment.
Yep. Unfortunately I haven't seen any pigs learn to fly, so I have my doubts in this too. Sure it may take away some market share. Maybe enough to make them comfortable and feel like one of the big boys. But I see them gone in a few years. The fact is that they will always lag behind in a copy-cat mode of trying to keep up with Microsoft's latest features. I've said this before and will say it again:
The day that everyone finds some fantastic new feature that an open source app has, that does not exist in MS software or that of some other commercial vendor, that is the day it will take off like wildfire. However, like any product, it needs marketing to bring it to the masses. For a while Firefox had tabbed browsing, nice plugins and stability going for it to feed growth. Since then there has been nothing new and fantastic about it and instead has had issues with insecure plugins, rolling bug fixes that involve a reinstall rather than a simple update, has become as bloated and heavy as what it tried to replace, and nowhere have I seen another NYT advert. I would not be surprised if market share declined now as people forget all about it. I'll happily continue to use Firefox as long as they dont fsck it up. But Firefox's innovation has slid, though the Lightning project may just boost it along again.
That's just one product, and one of the major successes of the internet. Star Office? Not even in the same ballpark.
My biggest problem with all this is interoperability. Which of the apps mentioned in the article description will work with another also mentioned? The Zimbra suite had a lot of things going for it, including interoperability. (BTW, I loved the GMail style email tagging.) Until then, there is no way these are going to make a dent in the Outlook userbase.
To be a real desktop replacement, you have to be able to drag and drop between them, not just copy and paste. Once GMail comes out with an intergrated calendar, I know someone will write a plugin for Firefox and Thunderbird that will effectively tie them all together and effectively set down this path. Yahoo has had this integration for some time, but their DHTML implementation is looking pretty slothish.
Personally, I'm really looking forward to the fruits of the Lightning initiative and hopefully the Oracle tie-in means that there will be some way to work with Oracle Calendar Server and Oracle Mail server, both of which are based on the old Netscape Server products.
I think the load time was about the same as BO3. It took just as long to load the level as you spend in actual crashing. As long as you stay in that same map and do it over and over you're OK. We like to pass the controller around the room and see who can get the highest score with a particular vehicle, so we tend to stay in a single map for a while.
12:01pm Unfortunately the name "clownpenis" was taken, so we had to go with SeaMonkey. Not a lot of good names out there. Can you believe Phil wanted to go with WebRazer and Mary wanted us to use Daphodill? Bunch of amateurs.
3:37pm Had a good laugh at the bug reports, like this one for making Slashdot.org format properly. Whew, fortunately the guys running the web site are working around our bug and doing the work for us. Check!
I wish I had read this earlier. I clicked on the fruit and was instantly transported to Narnia where I was molested by Tumnus. And then I had an epileptic seizure from the flashing purple lights. Definitely not the experience I was hoping for when I woke up this morning. All that and I found out that I had to live in Europe to enter the contest...they can keep their prizes.
Saying that driving is not a luxury really shows something about how you think. If you recall, we just had a major disaster in New Orleans a few weeks back where a lot of the people who stayed behind COULD NOT DRIVE AWAY!! There are people like that in every state of this country, BTW. But you probably think they and their time are worthless. That's a lot of people you're casting aside like peanut shells.
Perhaps the makers of wonderbread and assorted dining goodies should be labeled as "greedy fat cats" so that we can all get our fill of food for free. Somehow that doesn't make it any more right, with music or food.
I don't see what other type of game would be good for playing. Either you walk around taking the lives of other beings, or... or... I don't know what else anyone would ever want to do in a game, virtual or real. Perhaps a spin-off of this called Maniacal Killer Tycoon? Or maybe Serial Killer Sims, or Son of Sam's Kindergarten 1-2-3s, or IED-Builder Jeopardy Playoff? I mean, what else is there in this life?
(PSST! I'm joking! If you're really that bored with the state of gaming, there are other things outside of house for you to do. I don't want game makers to get too creative or we'll end up with some of the above.)
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Yeah, one of the few sentences I gleaned from the first tape of my Pimsler Mandarin casettes. I think one of the other replies before you had the same set since he quoted lines from the next lesson. I like learning languages and figure it will be good to know in the coming decades, just like Japanese was vogue in the 80s.
So...slow...can...feel...years...slipping...away.
Seriously, compared to the Feed On Feeds reader that I currently use, this is way too slow, too klunky, and just plain laid out wrong. I welcome the day they improve the beta to the point of usability, but today is not that day.
Sorry, Drudge's setup stinks. I love reading his site, but he has a feed at drudgereportarchives.com that is days late and sometimes republishes all its articles again. I would rather let this be handled someone who had an inkling of RSS.
I, for one, welcome my new Mandarin masters.
Wo doong putonghua!
What makes you think that a product that 1 billion people use cannot be considered a standard on its own? Why does something have to be produced with the approval of the rest of the world, where there is a real chance that this thing could be adopted on top of all the other many formats. Honestly, with all the CD and DVD formats, what is one more to pack into all-in-one readers and burners these days?
It is also possible that Google could be using the jre to help it in a dazzling new marketing campaign pushing the benefits of bestiality. OpenOffice is just one of the zany possibilities in this best of all possible worlds. CNN can be just as full of crap as anyone else when it comes to speculating out one's anus.
Gawd! Who needs another browser. After Mosaic I was ruined for all other browsers.
But that's not what they're after. They want something that comes close to providing a recurring cost, which gets them more than the cost of today's full-priced products. For an example, just look at TiVo's move to cellphone plan styled pricing. If you buy the full-cost DVD and resell on EBay, the original company still only sees income from that first amount you paid and never another dime for the life of that product. Here, they are gambling that you will tell a friend about a great movie you just saw - you won't be able to loan it out, your friend will have to go buy it.
Just like the move to downloadable games in the console industry - you can't resell it, so the company is guaranteed to get money when someone else wants it. Don't want the game anymore? Tough, just erase it, and if you want it back again, maybe the system will remember that you once bought it. Already te MMORPG games cannot be turned in to a store for credit (not smart stores anyway) because the serial number is considered non-transferrable.
The software industry has been talking for years about software as a service. Why? Recurring costs for the consumer equals a steady revenue stream which equals financial stability and looks good in the eyes of Wall Street. Companies will do this en-masse once a standard appears in the industry. The standard has just showed up to the party.
Even for a 320GB Western Digital RAID Edition drive this comes out to $0.62/GB. We recently purchased a bunch for a new RAID server we're putting together on the cheap (1.8TB for $4500) - RAID 5 plus hot spare. Later on we can expand to 3.6TB for another $2k, assuming drive prices don't drop, which they will by then. When you figure in the cost of the hardware that reliably supports that, the price climbs to $1.80/GB. That doesn't cover the cost of admin salary (or your own time to support it if this is a home system). That's still not even 2x your example and it's still very cheap.
When the fragile lattice of society's infrastructure collapses, the last thing you are going to want to rely on is being able to find a working PC with USB adapter. At that point it's back to basics because the next disaster is going to be bigger and meaner than anything we've seen. You can rely on paper. Just...laminate it.
For a while there, the US was a part of the British Empire. At some point one could say that "only recently" were they pushing for a separate American identity. Which of the two is more or less deserving of freedom?
The President Google 3000-node cluster does not appreciate your comments. Your bank accounts and information have been erased, and a SWAT team will be sent to your door to collect your lifeless body. Have a nice day, and don't forget to click on some AdSense ads before we kill you.
I think there have been enough examples of socialism inflicted upon this world already. How many more do we need in order to satisfy your bizarre curiosity? Let's just spare the remaining lives and call socialism a failure, because I don't recall seeing any shining examples.
he likes the idea of switching windows to applications that aren't buried behind muliple instances of IE.
Wouldn't it have been better to get him to use something with tabbed browsing?
SequoiaView is awesome because it uses treemap technology.
Heck, I'm not even deaf and I would have preferred a transcript over the audio or video downloads. I just want to scan it, and its easier to justify looking at while working. Watching audio/video starts to cross over into entertainment.
Yep. Unfortunately I haven't seen any pigs learn to fly, so I have my doubts in this too. Sure it may take away some market share. Maybe enough to make them comfortable and feel like one of the big boys. But I see them gone in a few years. The fact is that they will always lag behind in a copy-cat mode of trying to keep up with Microsoft's latest features. I've said this before and will say it again:
The day that everyone finds some fantastic new feature that an open source app has, that does not exist in MS software or that of some other commercial vendor, that is the day it will take off like wildfire. However, like any product, it needs marketing to bring it to the masses. For a while Firefox had tabbed browsing, nice plugins and stability going for it to feed growth. Since then there has been nothing new and fantastic about it and instead has had issues with insecure plugins, rolling bug fixes that involve a reinstall rather than a simple update, has become as bloated and heavy as what it tried to replace, and nowhere have I seen another NYT advert. I would not be surprised if market share declined now as people forget all about it. I'll happily continue to use Firefox as long as they dont fsck it up. But Firefox's innovation has slid, though the Lightning project may just boost it along again.
That's just one product, and one of the major successes of the internet. Star Office? Not even in the same ballpark.
My biggest problem with all this is interoperability. Which of the apps mentioned in the article description will work with another also mentioned? The Zimbra suite had a lot of things going for it, including interoperability. (BTW, I loved the GMail style email tagging.) Until then, there is no way these are going to make a dent in the Outlook userbase.
To be a real desktop replacement, you have to be able to drag and drop between them, not just copy and paste. Once GMail comes out with an intergrated calendar, I know someone will write a plugin for Firefox and Thunderbird that will effectively tie them all together and effectively set down this path. Yahoo has had this integration for some time, but their DHTML implementation is looking pretty slothish.
Personally, I'm really looking forward to the fruits of the Lightning initiative and hopefully the Oracle tie-in means that there will be some way to work with Oracle Calendar Server and Oracle Mail server, both of which are based on the old Netscape Server products.
I think the load time was about the same as BO3. It took just as long to load the level as you spend in actual crashing. As long as you stay in that same map and do it over and over you're OK. We like to pass the controller around the room and see who can get the highest score with a particular vehicle, so we tend to stay in a single map for a while.
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Unfortunately the name "clownpenis" was taken, so we had to go with SeaMonkey. Not a lot of good names out there. Can you believe Phil wanted to go with WebRazer and Mary wanted us to use Daphodill? Bunch of amateurs.
3:37pm
Had a good laugh at the bug reports, like this one for making Slashdot.org format properly. Whew, fortunately the guys running the web site are working around our bug and doing the work for us. Check!
I wish I had read this earlier. I clicked on the fruit and was instantly transported to Narnia where I was molested by Tumnus. And then I had an epileptic seizure from the flashing purple lights. Definitely not the experience I was hoping for when I woke up this morning. All that and I found out that I had to live in Europe to enter the contest...they can keep their prizes.
Saying that driving is not a luxury really shows something about how you think. If you recall, we just had a major disaster in New Orleans a few weeks back where a lot of the people who stayed behind COULD NOT DRIVE AWAY!! There are people like that in every state of this country, BTW. But you probably think they and their time are worthless. That's a lot of people you're casting aside like peanut shells.
Perhaps the makers of wonderbread and assorted dining goodies should be labeled as "greedy fat cats" so that we can all get our fill of food for free. Somehow that doesn't make it any more right, with music or food.
Once upon a time, not so long ago, there were no cars and people still got to work. Now where did I put that cotton mill?
I don't see what other type of game would be good for playing. Either you walk around taking the lives of other beings, or... or... I don't know what else anyone would ever want to do in a game, virtual or real. Perhaps a spin-off of this called Maniacal Killer Tycoon? Or maybe Serial Killer Sims, or Son of Sam's Kindergarten 1-2-3s, or IED-Builder Jeopardy Playoff? I mean, what else is there in this life?
(PSST! I'm joking! If you're really that bored with the state of gaming, there are other things outside of house for you to do. I don't want game makers to get too creative or we'll end up with some of the above.)
wrap the headphones cord around the top of the nano, one layer thick, so that nothing else can come in contact with the screen.