That's the sad thing, executives don't seem to be held accountable for the performance of the company, it is as if you have to guarantee them a certain amount of money, succeed or fail, before they will head up your company. I think shareholders are just being duped when the company offers their huge, practically guaranteed payouts, even if the individual does poorly.
Carly Fiorina left HP a very hurting company and yet she walked out with a golden parachute when everyone else just had paper ones. It is somewhat understandable if the market is hurting, but when there are indications of chaos within the company, the blame often deserves to go to the top.
I think you have an excellent point. I would call this a frivolous lawsuit for those looking for roomates.
It is one thing to restrict non-roomate renters or buyers based on the race, sex, etc, I think that is clearly wrong. I do consider it a free association issue, it shouldn't be turned to compusion in order to save on rent. I wonder how this would be seen if someone was objecting to a gay man wanting a gay roomie rather than straight.
the real question is: will it have more than 3 hours playback time so we can actually watch films on it, unlike almost every other portable video player
Keep in mind that almost every other portable video player is also significantly heavier and far less pocket friendly. It seems like Apple has been very careful to state that it is an audio player that can play video, because it is an audio player first. A good portable video player makes a very poor portable audio player and vice-versa, because of the optimum designs for the respective device types. To me, the video feature isn't so useful for more than a few minutes at a time anyway, unless you hook it up to a TV.
I think that perhaps going with IA64 rather than the budding Opteron was a misstep at the time.
It is unfortunate, but I am pretty sure that SGI committed to and started designing IA64 systems before Opteron was announced. I think SGI started its transition to IA64 shortly after it was announced.
I am curious how it would be treated in art and entertainment. I certainly don't think it was meant to prevent TV shows and video games from using the symbol, I think it was meant to prevent misleading people in regular life.
Given that some people plan on massive computer upgrades around some games (Doom 3, Half Life 2, etc.), I wouldn't be surprised if some did upgrade the OS to play a game. It does seem to be the market where players are expected to replace their video card every year.
Somehow, I doubt new propulsion systems will really help since it takes a lot of expensive fuel to either be able to leave the atmosphere or to just go faster through the admosphere, there are basic physics that can't be surmounted by using more advanced technology or larger amounts of money. Also, either would seem to be environmentally damaging if adopted on a wide scale. The reason why Boeing didn't develop its own SST was because they found stratospheric flights to be damaging to the atmosphere. Europe let the Concorde fly simply because it was done, somehow I doubt that the stated tech will drive down the cost of transatlantic supersonic flights to a tenth of the Concorde's ticket prices.
I don't think those sacrifices should mean advertising until the people are sick of seeing the ads. For a business, I prefer to see those that control their expendatures better than that.
I wish I knew. It seems to be quite a skewed perspective to use the service and claim that it is stealing books or destroying the value of books. Either that or they are going on other people's opinions rather than actually trying the service to see if it does what they think it does.When I tried it, the system only showed me the first three pages of a book, not the pages that I necessarily needed. The three line snippets aren't enough to base a paper on, even if they were, people writing papers probably aren't likely to buy books, they'll borrow them through the university library or interlibrary loan systems.
I wish indexing was done more so I can find what book and on what page. If I bought and read books, I would use this service to help me find what books I would want to buy.
I do think there should be a penalty for page rank spamming, willful or not. Maybe it was a little harsh, and Google's systems need a method to remove spam ranks.
I say you might as well use the competing search engines if it is too bothersome, because the power that you think they have too much of was power given to them by users.
I guess the only way to point out the truth on this site is to work it into a joke.
The last couple times I expressed disappointment in how far behind Debian Stable can get, I was marked as a troll several times over. And no, I won't load unstable or experimental software onto a server or workstation if I can avoid it, I'm just saying that Stable can move a bit more more often and not get so behind.
The problem is that fusion energy isn't a sure thing yet. My understanding is that there are limitations that severely harm efficiency.
Assuming it was, there is still the issue of how much one reactor can supply, I doubt that you can get to just a handful of reactors per continent unless it is only supplying a small fraction of the power. As it is now, many nuclear power stations have multiple reactors each.
Not that I disagree with conservation, but I think you are wildly overestimating the savings with just switching light bulbs. I do agree that reducing the use of inefficient lighting helps, but the worst is mainly in residences, commercial and industrial lighting is pretty efficient.
The PC World and Consumer Reports reader surveys I've seen all show that Apple has the best customer support and the best reliability. For me, Apple has been more than lenient, a hard drive damaged due to a drop was replaced without question.
Is there really a licence issue for closed plug-ins? That doesn't seem to make sense unless the plug-in itself uses GPL'ed code. If there is something about the plug-in interface that requires GPL code, then I understand in a way, but I would expect that interface to be easily documented or reverse engineered.
IIRC, there are patents covering some of the color management, so while it is solvable with code, that code wouldn't be legally distributable in any countries that use that system.
That is an incredibly specialized camera and apparently, impossible to replicate digitally with any currently existing infrastructure. Keep in mind that the film frame in that camera itself is about 14" x 14", and it is about 100 times the surface area of 35mm film. There are hardly any digital 35mm cameras as it is, I think single silicon wafers just hit the 12" range. From the pages given previously, it would seem that you would need a wafer about 21" in diameter to make it work.
I'd suggest making cameras able to wirelessly connect to another portable device you could carry in a pocket of purse that acts like a hard disk and could store 100GB of files or more. That and improved batteries would be great.
On one hand, you suggest a technology that sucks the ever-loving batteries dry and on another, you suggest improving batteries. Battery life is probably far better without using wireless. Batteries are a chemical energy storage technology that simply cannot, by their very nature, improve as quicly as transistor process technology, the best way to improve battery life is to make electronics not draw excess current in the first place. Flash cards are improving in size pretty well. Anything higher than 5MP is going to demand practice and heavy stabilization, through optics and a tripod, to take full advantage of the sensor resolution.
Invisibleskin retains the looks without the weird protectors. I use wide clear packing tape.
I think the things should be made more scratch resistant in the first place. Some phone brands are known to be scratch resistant, I think it is Sanyo because my mobile phone doesn't show much wear despite over a year of use without a holster or case.
I've usually found that upgrading the main board generally means replacing most of the system anyway, for a normal upgrade cycle (2-5 yrs) rather than gamer's upgrade cycle (seemingly 0.5-1 yr).
When the memory system has usually been updated, it doesn't make sense to throttle the upgrade by keeping the old, slower memory. When it is all said and done, I think it is generally better to sell the computer and buy or assemble a new one than it is to upgrade the main board because it often means replacing everything else too.
I think a strong used market is an indicator of a healthier and more balanced economy, and shows that the product has at least some lasting value. I won't pay for digital downloads unless they also factor in the fact that they don't have a resale value. With a CD, I can buy it and later resell it if it doesn't suit me and get some of my money back. A $12-$14 CD might have a resale value of $7 or so, making the cost of owning the CD at a net of $5-7. It also doesn't try to be as disposible, if you don't enjoy it or you are done with it, someone else can.
There isn't a single piece of weaponry, automated or otherwise aboard this thing. Though Marines will probably figure out a way to attach a manned M240 to one
The specs for the M-Gator say there is a machine gun mount on it, just that Deere isn't in the gun business, they are in the workhorse vehicle business, so the military supplies the gun.
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That's the sad thing, executives don't seem to be held accountable for the performance of the company, it is as if you have to guarantee them a certain amount of money, succeed or fail, before they will head up your company. I think shareholders are just being duped when the company offers their huge, practically guaranteed payouts, even if the individual does poorly.
Carly Fiorina left HP a very hurting company and yet she walked out with a golden parachute when everyone else just had paper ones. It is somewhat understandable if the market is hurting, but when there are indications of chaos within the company, the blame often deserves to go to the top.
I think you have an excellent point. I would call this a frivolous lawsuit for those looking for roomates.
It is one thing to restrict non-roomate renters or buyers based on the race, sex, etc, I think that is clearly wrong. I do consider it a free association issue, it shouldn't be turned to compusion in order to save on rent. I wonder how this would be seen if someone was objecting to a gay man wanting a gay roomie rather than straight.
A lot of those special effects aren't in some currently shipping computers, the current mini and iBooks can't do them.
I don't think it really matters though. The fancy effects are nice, but not worth an upgrade.
"In this form" is key. A large corporation rewarding open source contributors seems to be a new thing.
Also, I don't think X-Prize or DARPA grand prize participants to give their designs away.
the real question is: will it have more than 3 hours playback time so we can actually watch films on it, unlike almost every other portable video player
Keep in mind that almost every other portable video player is also significantly heavier and far less pocket friendly. It seems like Apple has been very careful to state that it is an audio player that can play video, because it is an audio player first. A good portable video player makes a very poor portable audio player and vice-versa, because of the optimum designs for the respective device types. To me, the video feature isn't so useful for more than a few minutes at a time anyway, unless you hook it up to a TV.
I think that perhaps going with IA64 rather than the budding Opteron was a misstep at the time.
It is unfortunate, but I am pretty sure that SGI committed to and started designing IA64 systems before Opteron was announced. I think SGI started its transition to IA64 shortly after it was announced.
I am curious how it would be treated in art and entertainment. I certainly don't think it was meant to prevent TV shows and video games from using the symbol, I think it was meant to prevent misleading people in regular life.
Given that some people plan on massive computer upgrades around some games (Doom 3, Half Life 2, etc.), I wouldn't be surprised if some did upgrade the OS to play a game. It does seem to be the market where players are expected to replace their video card every year.
Space-time is an illusion. Lunch time is doubly so.
Somehow, I doubt new propulsion systems will really help since it takes a lot of expensive fuel to either be able to leave the atmosphere or to just go faster through the admosphere, there are basic physics that can't be surmounted by using more advanced technology or larger amounts of money. Also, either would seem to be environmentally damaging if adopted on a wide scale. The reason why Boeing didn't develop its own SST was because they found stratospheric flights to be damaging to the atmosphere. Europe let the Concorde fly simply because it was done, somehow I doubt that the stated tech will drive down the cost of transatlantic supersonic flights to a tenth of the Concorde's ticket prices.
I don't think those sacrifices should mean advertising until the people are sick of seeing the ads. For a business, I prefer to see those that control their expendatures better than that.
I wish I knew. It seems to be quite a skewed perspective to use the service and claim that it is stealing books or destroying the value of books. Either that or they are going on other people's opinions rather than actually trying the service to see if it does what they think it does.When I tried it, the system only showed me the first three pages of a book, not the pages that I necessarily needed. The three line snippets aren't enough to base a paper on, even if they were, people writing papers probably aren't likely to buy books, they'll borrow them through the university library or interlibrary loan systems.
I wish indexing was done more so I can find what book and on what page. If I bought and read books, I would use this service to help me find what books I would want to buy.
I do think there should be a penalty for page rank spamming, willful or not. Maybe it was a little harsh, and Google's systems need a method to remove spam ranks.
I say you might as well use the competing search engines if it is too bothersome, because the power that you think they have too much of was power given to them by users.
I guess the only way to point out the truth on this site is to work it into a joke.
The last couple times I expressed disappointment in how far behind Debian Stable can get, I was marked as a troll several times over. And no, I won't load unstable or experimental software onto a server or workstation if I can avoid it, I'm just saying that Stable can move a bit more more often and not get so behind.
The 500M contest was the same thing but without the iMac, I am sure the winner claimed the prize.
The winner could sell most of the iPods and make most of that money back. Basically the contest provides enough audio to fill most of a 60GB unit.
The problem is that fusion energy isn't a sure thing yet. My understanding is that there are limitations that severely harm efficiency.
Assuming it was, there is still the issue of how much one reactor can supply, I doubt that you can get to just a handful of reactors per continent unless it is only supplying a small fraction of the power. As it is now, many nuclear power stations have multiple reactors each.
Not that I disagree with conservation, but I think you are wildly overestimating the savings with just switching light bulbs. I do agree that reducing the use of inefficient lighting helps, but the worst is mainly in residences, commercial and industrial lighting is pretty efficient.
The PC World and Consumer Reports reader surveys I've seen all show that Apple has the best customer support and the best reliability. For me, Apple has been more than lenient, a hard drive damaged due to a drop was replaced without question.
Is there really a licence issue for closed plug-ins? That doesn't seem to make sense unless the plug-in itself uses GPL'ed code. If there is something about the plug-in interface that requires GPL code, then I understand in a way, but I would expect that interface to be easily documented or reverse engineered.
IIRC, there are patents covering some of the color management, so while it is solvable with code, that code wouldn't be legally distributable in any countries that use that system.
That is an incredibly specialized camera and apparently, impossible to replicate digitally with any currently existing infrastructure. Keep in mind that the film frame in that camera itself is about 14" x 14", and it is about 100 times the surface area of 35mm film. There are hardly any digital 35mm cameras as it is, I think single silicon wafers just hit the 12" range. From the pages given previously, it would seem that you would need a wafer about 21" in diameter to make it work.
I'd suggest making cameras able to wirelessly connect to another portable device you could carry in a pocket of purse that acts like a hard disk and could store 100GB of files or more. That and improved batteries would be great.
On one hand, you suggest a technology that sucks the ever-loving batteries dry and on another, you suggest improving batteries. Battery life is probably far better without using wireless. Batteries are a chemical energy storage technology that simply cannot, by their very nature, improve as quicly as transistor process technology, the best way to improve battery life is to make electronics not draw excess current in the first place. Flash cards are improving in size pretty well. Anything higher than 5MP is going to demand practice and heavy stabilization, through optics and a tripod, to take full advantage of the sensor resolution.
Invisibleskin retains the looks without the weird protectors. I use wide clear packing tape.
I think the things should be made more scratch resistant in the first place. Some phone brands are known to be scratch resistant, I think it is Sanyo because my mobile phone doesn't show much wear despite over a year of use without a holster or case.
I've usually found that upgrading the main board generally means replacing most of the system anyway, for a normal upgrade cycle (2-5 yrs) rather than gamer's upgrade cycle (seemingly 0.5-1 yr).
When the memory system has usually been updated, it doesn't make sense to throttle the upgrade by keeping the old, slower memory. When it is all said and done, I think it is generally better to sell the computer and buy or assemble a new one than it is to upgrade the main board because it often means replacing everything else too.
I think the difference is that two smaller displays is generally cheaper per pixel than a single larger display.
Besides, I'm not sure if there are many games that even operate at the resolution of the 30" computer monitors from Apple and Dell.
I think a strong used market is an indicator of a healthier and more balanced economy, and shows that the product has at least some lasting value. I won't pay for digital downloads unless they also factor in the fact that they don't have a resale value. With a CD, I can buy it and later resell it if it doesn't suit me and get some of my money back. A $12-$14 CD might have a resale value of $7 or so, making the cost of owning the CD at a net of $5-7. It also doesn't try to be as disposible, if you don't enjoy it or you are done with it, someone else can.
There isn't a single piece of weaponry, automated or otherwise aboard this thing. Though Marines will probably figure out a way to attach a manned M240 to one
The specs for the M-Gator say there is a machine gun mount on it, just that Deere isn't in the gun business, they are in the workhorse vehicle business, so the military supplies the gun.