Aircraft have a better solution to that - have the same controls in both pilot & copilot seats. The translation would mean two steering wheels and two gas & brakes pedals. No need for a joystick. It seems to me that there are good reasons fighter jets have joysticks, but most other aircraft don't.
Maybe there were people that were 100% anti kill-switch, but I don't think they represent everyone. Just because something can be used for evil doesn't mean it's necessarily bad. A knife that is used to cut fruit can cut people too.
What bothers me more though is the fact that a plug-in can prevent its own disabling or removal without an aggressive external technique.
I doubt it. Just because of the very fact that you spend a third of your time doing something because it's work, you probably need to do something else, likely, something very different, when you're not working. I really don't think it's necessarily healthy to do the same thing for work and personal time, that's plain spending too much time doing that activity. I'm sure it can be done in short bursts, but I doubt it's sustainable.
Didn't the government award contracts to the makers of the swine flu virus worth billions? How is there a low profit margin?
You're not giving me enough information to agree with you. Billions doesn't sound like much when you're trying to develop a vaccine on short order for tens or hundreds of millions of people.
Let's face it, Macromedia's (Director, Flash, etc.) products have always been clunky and inefficient. Even on the desktop platforms, it takes a lot of processor power. The Flash plug-in can be pretty flaky, I think it's the cause of most of the browser crashes I experience. Usually scroll boxes implemented in flash don't recognize the mouse scroll wheel.
Even so, if something like OpenOffice is in the mix, I don't know if it's actually a worthy program. It is clunky, does weird things and crashes a little too often.
I wonder if there is a matter of jurisdiction to consider, something about this troubles me. The idea of a company having to comply with all of one country's laws even for operations that are completely in another country irks me. It just works to make it impossible to do business, and in the long run, I don't think that is of benefit to anyone except the pro-protectionist crowd. Pseudo-protectionism may serve political interests, but I don't think they serve economic interests.
The infringement wasn't done in the US, by the US operations, for US customers, so I wonder how liable the US operations would be for actions that weren't done in the US. Also, was any part of the operation aware of the infringement? There may be some form of absolution for operating in good faith not having known about the infringement.
There is some overlap, but you probably want workstation boards if you're looking to use it at your desk. Server boards are more likely to have on-board graphics, workstation boards don't, so you add your own graphics card that suits the task.
I recall there was a time where Slashdot dogma was that any means of loading files onto a media player other than simple file copying to a mounted device was backwards, unnecessary and/or evil.
I'm not quite seeing what the big deal is, nothing is preventing Palm from making their own syncing and media management utility. I doubt it's anywhere nearly as hard as designing a hardware device and making a handheld multitasking OS that goes with it. Nothing is preventing the rest of the industry from making a standardized and open media management and syncing system. I would actually prefer that the iTunes system not become the defacto industry standard, I just don't see that as healthy for the long term.
You are correct. It's gratifying to see people that know something about hardware around here. I agree, those look like machine screws that have a place in the screw kits for working on computers. Either stainless or more likely, plated. I don't recall seeing a head for wood screw that looks like that.
You want to roll out in a market you're familiar with first (your home market), and during that time, you can have people do research on other markets and line up all your local people and resources.
You don't want to just jump into an unfamiliar market right away, that leads to problems.
I was about 10 seconds, and this was without audio. The camera work is that of a douche, the camera is always panning at least a little bit, and there were too many stupid snap zooms. I realize this has become popular lately, but I start feeling like I'm getting tipsy.
The whole concept is deranged, if you're putting on a party, don't do it for marketing someone else's product. Heck, any kind of product party is deranged, it says to the invitees that you're so bored, you'll attend a thinly veiled product pitch. And the host? They get a copy of Windows 7, a few napkins and streamers. Dude, don't sell yourself out for napkins.
There was a plan with USB3 to include optical and electrical transfer in the same connector. I think it's been dropped, I expect that this program really become USB4 or an extension of USB3.
Is this another slashvertisement to get the story out there and advertise the book again? I already listened to the Science Friday segment a month ago.
From the linked article: [quote]August 28, 2009[/quote]
It may well be an interesting book, but I don't think I will ever get around to buying or reading it, too much of a backlog as it is.
Just a motor attached to a spinning disk would have halped a lot, two of these mounted perpendicular to each other should be enough to greatly dampen the spinning and oscillation.
One thing I read was that the UK might have more to do with ending the Soviet Union than the US, the UK opened up vast oil fields in the sea and it supposedly cut the value of oil for some time. The USSR was selling oil and they needed that money to stay afloat.
Fighting in Afghanistan probably didn't help either. I guess it was good of the CIA to help form what is now called the Taliban to help them fight out the USSR. (sarcasm). Oops.
Many companies--not just Microsoft--don't simply use their wealth to generate more wealth. They also use it to actively deny their competition from succeeding.
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You don't have to win outright, just make your enemies suffer more than you.
I don't think this really explains it, it seems to be turning out to be worse than a Pyrrhic victory, not only do you put more resources into the project than the other guy, the other guy still wins and still made money on the venture while MS seems to be barely making money per unit in incremental terms, and never making their investment back.
It seems to me that Microsoft spends a lot of money just to spend it, for example, Zune has yet to hurt Apple in any meaningful way. ZuneHD might change that a bit, but then, it doesn't sound like they are necessarily trying that hard. Apple sells even more iPhones than they do iPod Touches, so Microsoft only ended up picking the smaller target. And frankly, I think they should have just made an XBox Portable with the Zune, they might actually make their money back and get a share of a market that still has growth potential.
I'm skeptical that a Microsoft retail store will make a dent in the Apple store. They seem to be out for some measure of pride, but I don't think they are even getting that back out of these efforts.
I don't know if penmanship is the same issue as cursive. Being able to write by hand is one thing, but cursive doesn't seem to have a reason for being in education anymore. If people want to learn cursive on their own, that's fine, but it seems it's taught for ideological reasons.
Also, I can type faster than I've ever been able to write, cursive or not. I doubt typing is going to go away very soon. It's not a perfect interface, but I don't think a pen interface is an efficient one for computer text input.
You say that like battery life at the extreme expense of performance, or performance at the extreme expense of battery life are the only two choices at hand.
I'm sure netbooks fit an important need, the same goes for the desktop replacements, but it would be nice if some battery life attention was paid in between the extremes.
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Aircraft have a better solution to that - have the same controls in both pilot & copilot seats. The translation would mean two steering wheels and two gas & brakes pedals. No need for a joystick. It seems to me that there are good reasons fighter jets have joysticks, but most other aircraft don't.
Maybe there were people that were 100% anti kill-switch, but I don't think they represent everyone. Just because something can be used for evil doesn't mean it's necessarily bad. A knife that is used to cut fruit can cut people too.
What bothers me more though is the fact that a plug-in can prevent its own disabling or removal without an aggressive external technique.
OEM and tier 1 volume prices are a LOT lower, especially for the OS. I haven't bought Office yet.
A "poke" is a lot more direct than a status update, you have to specifically initiate it, and you specifically direct it to a person.
But if it's really a poke, then I don't understand why they're still "friends".
What, you think it takes hours a day to make posts to a blog? I'm sure people can do a decent post a day in less than 15 minutes.
Besides, there's only so much time in a day you can spend looking for a job before going crazy, even posting to a blog might seem like a break.
I doubt it. Just because of the very fact that you spend a third of your time doing something because it's work, you probably need to do something else, likely, something very different, when you're not working. I really don't think it's necessarily healthy to do the same thing for work and personal time, that's plain spending too much time doing that activity. I'm sure it can be done in short bursts, but I doubt it's sustainable.
Didn't the government award contracts to the makers of the swine flu virus worth billions? How is there a low profit margin?
You're not giving me enough information to agree with you. Billions doesn't sound like much when you're trying to develop a vaccine on short order for tens or hundreds of millions of people.
Let's face it, Macromedia's (Director, Flash, etc.) products have always been clunky and inefficient. Even on the desktop platforms, it takes a lot of processor power. The Flash plug-in can be pretty flaky, I think it's the cause of most of the browser crashes I experience. Usually scroll boxes implemented in flash don't recognize the mouse scroll wheel.
Even so, if something like OpenOffice is in the mix, I don't know if it's actually a worthy program. It is clunky, does weird things and crashes a little too often.
I wonder if there is a matter of jurisdiction to consider, something about this troubles me. The idea of a company having to comply with all of one country's laws even for operations that are completely in another country irks me. It just works to make it impossible to do business, and in the long run, I don't think that is of benefit to anyone except the pro-protectionist crowd. Pseudo-protectionism may serve political interests, but I don't think they serve economic interests.
The infringement wasn't done in the US, by the US operations, for US customers, so I wonder how liable the US operations would be for actions that weren't done in the US. Also, was any part of the operation aware of the infringement? There may be some form of absolution for operating in good faith not having known about the infringement.
There is some overlap, but you probably want workstation boards if you're looking to use it at your desk. Server boards are more likely to have on-board graphics, workstation boards don't, so you add your own graphics card that suits the task.
The only sure way to get ECC support is to buy an Opteron or Xeon board. Sometimes they require ECC.
I recall there was a time where Slashdot dogma was that any means of loading files onto a media player other than simple file copying to a mounted device was backwards, unnecessary and/or evil.
I'm not quite seeing what the big deal is, nothing is preventing Palm from making their own syncing and media management utility. I doubt it's anywhere nearly as hard as designing a hardware device and making a handheld multitasking OS that goes with it. Nothing is preventing the rest of the industry from making a standardized and open media management and syncing system. I would actually prefer that the iTunes system not become the defacto industry standard, I just don't see that as healthy for the long term.
Is anyone hosting a Perl 5.11.0 House Party? Will there be deviled eggs?
You are correct. It's gratifying to see people that know something about hardware around here. I agree, those look like machine screws that have a place in the screw kits for working on computers. Either stainless or more likely, plated. I don't recall seeing a head for wood screw that looks like that.
You want to roll out in a market you're familiar with first (your home market), and during that time, you can have people do research on other markets and line up all your local people and resources.
You don't want to just jump into an unfamiliar market right away, that leads to problems.
I was about 10 seconds, and this was without audio. The camera work is that of a douche, the camera is always panning at least a little bit, and there were too many stupid snap zooms. I realize this has become popular lately, but I start feeling like I'm getting tipsy.
The whole concept is deranged, if you're putting on a party, don't do it for marketing someone else's product. Heck, any kind of product party is deranged, it says to the invitees that you're so bored, you'll attend a thinly veiled product pitch. And the host? They get a copy of Windows 7, a few napkins and streamers. Dude, don't sell yourself out for napkins.
There was a plan with USB3 to include optical and electrical transfer in the same connector. I think it's been dropped, I expect that this program really become USB4 or an extension of USB3.
Is this another slashvertisement to get the story out there and advertise the book again? I already listened to the Science Friday segment a month ago.
From the linked article:
[quote]August 28, 2009[/quote]
It may well be an interesting book, but I don't think I will ever get around to buying or reading it, too much of a backlog as it is.
It can't be any worse than an inappropriate use of monospaced font on a web site.
Just a motor attached to a spinning disk would have halped a lot, two of these mounted perpendicular to each other should be enough to greatly dampen the spinning and oscillation.
One thing I read was that the UK might have more to do with ending the Soviet Union than the US, the UK opened up vast oil fields in the sea and it supposedly cut the value of oil for some time. The USSR was selling oil and they needed that money to stay afloat.
Fighting in Afghanistan probably didn't help either. I guess it was good of the CIA to help form what is now called the Taliban to help them fight out the USSR. (sarcasm). Oops.
Many companies--not just Microsoft--don't simply use their wealth to generate more wealth. They also use it to actively deny their competition from succeeding.
...
You don't have to win outright, just make your enemies suffer more than you.
I don't think this really explains it, it seems to be turning out to be worse than a Pyrrhic victory, not only do you put more resources into the project than the other guy, the other guy still wins and still made money on the venture while MS seems to be barely making money per unit in incremental terms, and never making their investment back.
It seems to me that Microsoft spends a lot of money just to spend it, for example, Zune has yet to hurt Apple in any meaningful way. ZuneHD might change that a bit, but then, it doesn't sound like they are necessarily trying that hard. Apple sells even more iPhones than they do iPod Touches, so Microsoft only ended up picking the smaller target. And frankly, I think they should have just made an XBox Portable with the Zune, they might actually make their money back and get a share of a market that still has growth potential.
I'm skeptical that a Microsoft retail store will make a dent in the Apple store. They seem to be out for some measure of pride, but I don't think they are even getting that back out of these efforts.
I don't know if penmanship is the same issue as cursive. Being able to write by hand is one thing, but cursive doesn't seem to have a reason for being in education anymore. If people want to learn cursive on their own, that's fine, but it seems it's taught for ideological reasons.
Also, I can type faster than I've ever been able to write, cursive or not. I doubt typing is going to go away very soon. It's not a perfect interface, but I don't think a pen interface is an efficient one for computer text input.
You say that like battery life at the extreme expense of performance, or performance at the extreme expense of battery life are the only two choices at hand.
I'm sure netbooks fit an important need, the same goes for the desktop replacements, but it would be nice if some battery life attention was paid in between the extremes.