What the heck do you use PCI cards for these days anyway?
Wife acceptance. My wife is much more willing to accept a media centre PC if it is contained within a single box that fits nicely (physically and visually) into the hifi/video equipment stack. Having half a dozen cables coming out of it to various external USB boxes is likely to get it banished to the basement.
The Federal Aviation Administration, for example, found that when its computers are fed flight information for Feb. 29, 2000, they inform the user that there is no such date.
--James Coates, "Da mare on da net," Chicago Tribune, February 16, 1998
Right, but these reports are coming out of the US mostly, so shouldn't they be saying the problem started on the 30 December? Or are there further bugs in the timezone handling of the Zune that make timezones work backwards?
It's easy to imagine such software in a general computing environment, especially in the financial and insurance arenas where people might be taking a long term view or processing historical data, but in a single purpose consumer electronics product?
I've seen reports of the bug happening on 1 Jan, and the summary seems to say that too. But shouldn't the bug have happened on the 31 December, the 366th day of 2008?
In a consumer electronics product that's launching anytime before about 2075, I don't think I'd bother. Remember all the software that needed fixing for 2000 because some idiot had put in the 100 year rule without the 400 year rule? Would have been much better to just keep it simple and reduce your list of things to go wrong.
There's nothing inherent in the Android APIs that makes it unsuited for use in a general computing environment. So far the focus has been on providing the kind of tightly integrated single UI experience that a mobile phone requires, with the kinds of apps that a mobile user wants - sacrificing functionality for ease of use. The only thing holding it back from desktops is the lack of desktop focused apps, which is a chicken and egg situation.
In the UK, whether you pay rent is only relevant in the short term. Long term squatters have pretty much the same rights when it comes to eviction as someone who pays rent to a landlord. So if you let people squat in your property over a number of years, either through negligence or because you don't care until you want to knock the building down and do something with the land, then you lose your right to evict the occupiers without notice.
But it is crazy to equate a free web service with the basic human need of a roof over your head.
I wouldn't say its seldom needed. They won't turn into a screaming wreck from the discomfort of all the air trapped in their stomach like when you give them a bottle, but they still manage to suck in enough air to let out a good burp when you put them over your shoulder most of the time, and they'll go straight to sleep after getting it out (at least when they're younger).
The real question is, would you really want to keep the crew alive through the early parts of such a catastrophic failure just so they could be burned to death a few minutes later? In other words, should NASA act on what they've discovered in this report, or should they just let things be and accept that when a spacecraft breaks up on reentry, the crew is going to die?
I had four GU10 bulbs in the hallway of the last flat I was in. Unfortunately the CFL GU10 replacements stick out too far and look ugly, and LED GU10s were too focused, and expensive, so I was replacing one halogen bulb about every couple of months - often the power spike when it blew would take out a second one with it so it was more like 2 bulbs every 4 months. I've never had to replace a CFL in the 5 or so years I've been using them, and back when they were more expensive, I'd take them with me when I moved, swapping the landlord's incandescents back in. It's so long since I used tungsten bulbs that I don't remember how often I had to replace those, but one every 3 months (out of 10 or so bulbs) sounds about right.
If you want the phone for more than a couple of weeks, it is cheaper to buy a prepaid phone for 5000yen than renting one. If you're there for less than a couple of weeks, it is probably cheaper to take your own phone (or borrow a friend's 3G phone if you're still on 2G) and pay roaming charges.
In the UK, speed based tiering is all but dead. Now you get whatever speed your line can support (up to 8Mbps or 24Mbps - depending on provider), and the tiering is based on download caps (5Gb, 20Gb, 100Gb, uncapped is typical), after which they either throttle you to dialup speeds, charge you per gigabyte, or in the case of the ISP I am with, do nothing, but if you're over a few months in a row they phone you up and request that you upgrade to the next tier if you want continued service.
Legally, the earlier application has no significance now. It is abandoned, and the patent office did not think it was substantially enough similar to give the issued patent a priority date from the earlier application.
I wouldn't think so, images are well suited to being scaled down as thumbnails, and programs to produce thumbnailed versions had been around for years, so that was obvious. Scaling down a text document in a way that is still recognizable is not an obvious extension of that. But Gnome's Nautilus was publicly demonstrated some time in 2000, one of its major features over gnome-commander was preview icons of a wide range of file types that could be zoomed. Probably copied from an even older feature in a now dead OS, such as NextStep or BeOS.
Actually, I'd turn it around. I'd much rather see my great grandparents' 90 year old video of their vacation than someone's video of their vacation they just went on. Time only makes things more interesting, not less.
I wouldn't call myself an early adopter - I didn't buy because of the new feature, I had it forced on me by the major manufacturers, who instead of including one PCMCIA slot and one ExpressCard slot, or designing a slot that could take both so the customers could have a smooth transition, just switched wholesale overnight about 2 years ago while still labelling the slots as PC-Card slots in marketing material and keeping their external appearance the same.
Sometimes equipment is needed urgently, I can't always wait until a warehouse decides to process my order and ship it out. I usually visit my small local shop first, as he tends to have more variety in stock, but sometimes the major chains are a necessary evil, and for the vast majority of the population, it is what they are comfortable with.
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Wife acceptance. My wife is much more willing to accept a media centre PC if it is contained within a single box that fits nicely (physically and visually) into the hifi/video equipment stack. Having half a dozen cables coming out of it to various external USB boxes is likely to get it banished to the basement.
--James Coates, "Da mare on da net," Chicago Tribune, February 16, 1998
Sorry, ignore my last comment, I misread your post.
It doesn't surprise me that Germans have three words for describing "free beer". It's like eskimos and words for "snow".
It doesn't surprise me that Germans have a specific word for "free beer". It's like eskimos and words for "snow".
Right, but these reports are coming out of the US mostly, so shouldn't they be saying the problem started on the 30 December? Or are there further bugs in the timezone handling of the Zune that make timezones work backwards?
It's easy to imagine such software in a general computing environment, especially in the financial and insurance arenas where people might be taking a long term view or processing historical data, but in a single purpose consumer electronics product?
I've seen reports of the bug happening on 1 Jan, and the summary seems to say that too. But shouldn't the bug have happened on the 31 December, the 366th day of 2008?
In a consumer electronics product that's launching anytime before about 2075, I don't think I'd bother. Remember all the software that needed fixing for 2000 because some idiot had put in the 100 year rule without the 400 year rule? Would have been much better to just keep it simple and reduce your list of things to go wrong.
There's nothing inherent in the Android APIs that makes it unsuited for use in a general computing environment. So far the focus has been on providing the kind of tightly integrated single UI experience that a mobile phone requires, with the kinds of apps that a mobile user wants - sacrificing functionality for ease of use. The only thing holding it back from desktops is the lack of desktop focused apps, which is a chicken and egg situation.
In the UK, whether you pay rent is only relevant in the short term. Long term squatters have pretty much the same rights when it comes to eviction as someone who pays rent to a landlord. So if you let people squat in your property over a number of years, either through negligence or because you don't care until you want to knock the building down and do something with the land, then you lose your right to evict the occupiers without notice.
But it is crazy to equate a free web service with the basic human need of a roof over your head.
I'd always assumed that "girlintraining" was a pre-op tranny, myself. Last I heard, the surgeons weren't THAT good.
I wouldn't say its seldom needed. They won't turn into a screaming wreck from the discomfort of all the air trapped in their stomach like when you give them a bottle, but they still manage to suck in enough air to let out a good burp when you put them over your shoulder most of the time, and they'll go straight to sleep after getting it out (at least when they're younger).
So if a shop owner starts asking all the black people to leave his shop, that's OK, as long as he doesn't have a sign up saying "No Blacks"?
Pissing in the street is unhygienic. Breastfeeding isn't.
The real question is, would you really want to keep the crew alive through the early parts of such a catastrophic failure just so they could be burned to death a few minutes later? In other words, should NASA act on what they've discovered in this report, or should they just let things be and accept that when a spacecraft breaks up on reentry, the crew is going to die?
I had four GU10 bulbs in the hallway of the last flat I was in. Unfortunately the CFL GU10 replacements stick out too far and look ugly, and LED GU10s were too focused, and expensive, so I was replacing one halogen bulb about every couple of months - often the power spike when it blew would take out a second one with it so it was more like 2 bulbs every 4 months. I've never had to replace a CFL in the 5 or so years I've been using them, and back when they were more expensive, I'd take them with me when I moved, swapping the landlord's incandescents back in. It's so long since I used tungsten bulbs that I don't remember how often I had to replace those, but one every 3 months (out of 10 or so bulbs) sounds about right.
If you want the phone for more than a couple of weeks, it is cheaper to buy a prepaid phone for 5000yen than renting one. If you're there for less than a couple of weeks, it is probably cheaper to take your own phone (or borrow a friend's 3G phone if you're still on 2G) and pay roaming charges.
In the UK, speed based tiering is all but dead. Now you get whatever speed your line can support (up to 8Mbps or 24Mbps - depending on provider), and the tiering is based on download caps (5Gb, 20Gb, 100Gb, uncapped is typical), after which they either throttle you to dialup speeds, charge you per gigabyte, or in the case of the ISP I am with, do nothing, but if you're over a few months in a row they phone you up and request that you upgrade to the next tier if you want continued service.
IIRC, Draw is supposed to be an alternative for the embedded diagram editor that is not offered as a standalone program in MS Office.
Legally, the earlier application has no significance now. It is abandoned, and the patent office did not think it was substantially enough similar to give the issued patent a priority date from the earlier application.
I wouldn't think so, images are well suited to being scaled down as thumbnails, and programs to produce thumbnailed versions had been around for years, so that was obvious. Scaling down a text document in a way that is still recognizable is not an obvious extension of that. But Gnome's Nautilus was publicly demonstrated some time in 2000, one of its major features over gnome-commander was preview icons of a wide range of file types that could be zoomed. Probably copied from an even older feature in a now dead OS, such as NextStep or BeOS.
IIRC, Gnome added the feature around 2000 or early 2001 too - certainly Nautilus had been publicly demoed before this patent was filed.
Actually, I'd turn it around. I'd much rather see my great grandparents' 90 year old video of their vacation than someone's video of their vacation they just went on. Time only makes things more interesting, not less.
I wouldn't call myself an early adopter - I didn't buy because of the new feature, I had it forced on me by the major manufacturers, who instead of including one PCMCIA slot and one ExpressCard slot, or designing a slot that could take both so the customers could have a smooth transition, just switched wholesale overnight about 2 years ago while still labelling the slots as PC-Card slots in marketing material and keeping their external appearance the same.
Sometimes equipment is needed urgently, I can't always wait until a warehouse decides to process my order and ship it out. I usually visit my small local shop first, as he tends to have more variety in stock, but sometimes the major chains are a necessary evil, and for the vast majority of the population, it is what they are comfortable with.