My understanding is that GPS isn't usually the primary guidance system. At least with cruise missiles, the primary guidance system is an inertial navigation system, and the GPS is used to make sure the inertial system doesn't drift. Before we had GPS, plane and missiles would be parked in a spot with a well known latitude and longitude to have their navigation systems calibrated before a mission. Now with GPS, the system can be calibrated pretty much anywhere in the world, including from time to time while in flight. So even if GPS is completely jammed for 100 miles around the target area, the inertial system will still be working just fine, and the missile's operators will know that it hasn't drifted by more than a foot or two since the last time it got a GPS fix.
but the majority of people (e.g. my mother) doesn't know what DRM is and so won't even care (which is why she bought an ipod).
What's that have to do with anything? I know and care what DRM is, and don't have a single track of DRM'd music, but my wife and I both own iPods. Seems like a total non sequitur to me.
I was under the impression that anyone who actually cared about watching TV already had cable, so I don't imagine this being a really big motivating factor to buy a new TV.
As a few analysts and Sony markettign pointed out, Bluray is catching on faster then DVD did. (Although only by about as much as the pop has grown). So it seems Bluray is going to be the next major format. Don't kid yourself, your concerns are not shared by even the general slashdot populace.
Adoption rate among early adopters means almost nothing. Once BluRay saturates the market of people who really care about HD content, it's going to have a really tough sell, because the vast majority of people won't see or care enough about the difference between the two to be willing to buy a new player and spend twice as much on the movies when they already have a DVD player that works fine.
Let me get this straight. You had to reinstall your sound card drivers because they were broken by a change to the library that handles animated cursors. Yes, I'd say that's really an issue, although more in a 'how could any company possibly be that retarded' kind of way than a 'that\'s really going to be a pain to fix' kind of way.
That statement is almost more mind-boggling than the fact that there was a remote code execution vulnerability in animated cursor handling to start out with. The only think I'm still confused about is which company this speaks worse of- Microsoft or Realtek.
From what I've seen since then, it seems as though "Serenity" fans are fanatically loyal and vocal, but most people who weren't already fans didn't find the movie especially entertaining.
Well, I liked the movie, and I've still not seen the series (It's still a quite a ways down on my Netflix list). So there are at least some of us.
Instead of saying "No, there is a technical limitation" or "We just couldn't get that flexibility into the first generation" she responds with something more along the line of "People smarter than you decided this is how you are going to use this phone".
I guess they felt that the best way to compete with Apple was to copy them?
I suppose you can be forgiven, since the summary explicitly (and incorrectly) stated that Dubai's friendly tax laws are a factor in the decision, but Haliburton will not be saving any tax dollars from this move. They will remain incorporated in the U.S. and will continue to pay U.S. taxes.
Not that it would make a difference in this case - Haliburton is and will continue to be a U.S. company, and their military contract division is set to be spun off into it's own company anyway.
All that's happening is that a few chief officers will now be living in another country, which they were probably practically doing anyway, since that's where all their business is.
If you really cared that much about your precious tenth of a second, you'd be using the keyboard commands anyway. There are enough other annoyances in both OS X and XP that I'm not going to lose any sleep about where my menu bars are attached.
Meh. It's not just Java. Microsoft's official patch for Windows is broken too, because it changes daylight savings tome for all years, not just future years. IOW, November 1st, 2006 is DST, according to my computer at work.
Never mind my VCR, clock radio, and numerous other hardware devices which can't be fixed at all. What the government thinks they are actually accomplishing with this whole mess, I have yet to figure out.
OK, there are currently about 50 posts above my threshold, and I still don't see any addressing what seems to me to be the most obvious question about these ads.
What the **** are they afraid that these poor impressionable children are going to copy? Unless your 2 year old is at least 4 feet tall, there's no way way they could possibly copy this commercial. To start with, every automatic that I've ever driven requires the brake pedal to be depressed in order to shift the car into gear, and no kid that age could reach the pedals, even if they knew that was what they had to do. And it only gets more ridiculous from there.
I upgraded a '95 box to 2k back around 2001 or so. (The computer was actually only a year or so old, but I never ran '98, and I was a little slow to warm up to 2k) I'm sure I've 'upgraded' other times as well, although I've never really thought about it as such - I used to wipe and reload boxes pretty regularly, so there were probably times that the OS I reloaded was not the same as the one that I wiped. The '95 -> 2k was just the only time that I did it specifically for the reason of getting a new version of Windows.
If the people writing these apps can't be bothered to use decent DB abstraction layer, do you really want to run their code?
I know DB abstraction isn't perfect, but it certainly lessens the pain to the point where doing a manual search and replace of SQL statements that don't work correctly in the new DB isn't so daunting.
And if you're doing so much database specific syntax that even that task is daunting, you should probably be putting your SQL statements into stored procedures, so that porting to a new database only requires writing compatible procs, and the application code can remain untouched.
Why paint the ground white? In any decent size city, you'll see thousands of buildings with black tar roofs. For a little extra money, paint those white instead of black. No one will see it, it would have the same effect on global warming, and it will save the building owners a decent amount of money on their air conditioning costs as well. (Whether this would really have any effect on global warming, I have no idea, but it would definitely have an affect on local warming.) Better yet, put a couple planter boxes of hardy plants up there, and you can help take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere while alleviating your storm water runoff load.
Along the same lines, finding something other than black asphalt to surface our gajillion miles of streets and highways with might help too.
Shareholders (typically) expect that, if you've grown your revenues at a certain rate in the past, you'll continue to grow at that rate. If you exceed your past growth, your stock value goes up. If you fall short, your stock value goes down. Microsoft saturated the Operating System a long time ago. Most of Microsoft's OS revenue comes from people buying new computers. Well before Win2k, computer buying had slowed down to the point that the vast majority of people buying new computers were replacing old computers. Where do they have left to grow? Compared to the Win95/98 days, where many people bought new versions of Windows to install on old computers that didn't have it yet, and many more people were buying their first Windows powered PC, there isn't much room for Microsoft to grow in that department anymore. (At least in the U.S. which also explains their recent intense interest in developing countries) Likewise with Office suites. As Microsoft (or any company) saturates their current market(s), they have to grow (or buy) their way into new markets in order to continue growth.
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My understanding is that GPS isn't usually the primary guidance system. At least with cruise missiles, the primary guidance system is an inertial navigation system, and the GPS is used to make sure the inertial system doesn't drift. Before we had GPS, plane and missiles would be parked in a spot with a well known latitude and longitude to have their navigation systems calibrated before a mission. Now with GPS, the system can be calibrated pretty much anywhere in the world, including from time to time while in flight. So even if GPS is completely jammed for 100 miles around the target area, the inertial system will still be working just fine, and the missile's operators will know that it hasn't drifted by more than a foot or two since the last time it got a GPS fix.
Wikipedia also has a shorter and much less dramatic description of the 767 in question, which includes a description of the conversion problems:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider
What's that have to do with anything? I know and care what DRM is, and don't have a single track of DRM'd music, but my wife and I both own iPods. Seems like a total non sequitur to me.
I was under the impression that anyone who actually cared about watching TV already had cable, so I don't imagine this being a really big motivating factor to buy a new TV.
Adoption rate among early adopters means almost nothing. Once BluRay saturates the market of people who really care about HD content, it's going to have a really tough sell, because the vast majority of people won't see or care enough about the difference between the two to be willing to buy a new player and spend twice as much on the movies when they already have a DVD player that works fine.
Let me get this straight. You had to reinstall your sound card drivers because they were broken by a change to the library that handles animated cursors. Yes, I'd say that's really an issue, although more in a 'how could any company possibly be that retarded' kind of way than a 'that\'s really going to be a pain to fix' kind of way.
That statement is almost more mind-boggling than the fact that there was a remote code execution vulnerability in animated cursor handling to start out with. The only think I'm still confused about is which company this speaks worse of- Microsoft or Realtek.
Well, I liked the movie, and I've still not seen the series (It's still a quite a ways down on my Netflix list). So there are at least some of us.
I guess they felt that the best way to compete with Apple was to copy them?
I suppose you can be forgiven, since the summary explicitly (and incorrectly) stated that Dubai's friendly tax laws are a factor in the decision, but Haliburton will not be saving any tax dollars from this move. They will remain incorporated in the U.S. and will continue to pay U.S. taxes.
Not that it would make a difference in this case - Haliburton is and will continue to be a U.S. company, and their military contract division is set to be spun off into it's own company anyway.
All that's happening is that a few chief officers will now be living in another country, which they were probably practically doing anyway, since that's where all their business is.
FWIW, my wife got her new passport a week or two ago, and as far as I can tell it's not one of the RFID ones.
Hmm. These PC's wouldn't, by chance, happen to be on the same network, would they?
uh, the task bar shows open windows (without clicking and holding), and the dock shows open applications...
If you really cared that much about your precious tenth of a second, you'd be using the keyboard commands anyway. There are enough other annoyances in both OS X and XP that I'm not going to lose any sleep about where my menu bars are attached.
7 days??? My parents have been using Windows for more then 7 years and still doubt what will happen next when they do something.
Meh. It's not just Java. Microsoft's official patch for Windows is broken too, because it changes daylight savings tome for all years, not just future years. IOW, November 1st, 2006 is DST, according to my computer at work.
Never mind my VCR, clock radio, and numerous other hardware devices which can't be fixed at all. What the government thinks they are actually accomplishing with this whole mess, I have yet to figure out.
OK, there are currently about 50 posts above my threshold, and I still don't see any addressing what seems to me to be the most obvious question about these ads.
What the **** are they afraid that these poor impressionable children are going to copy? Unless your 2 year old is at least 4 feet tall, there's no way way they could possibly copy this commercial. To start with, every automatic that I've ever driven requires the brake pedal to be depressed in order to shift the car into gear, and no kid that age could reach the pedals, even if they knew that was what they had to do. And it only gets more ridiculous from there.
I upgraded a '95 box to 2k back around 2001 or so. (The computer was actually only a year or so old, but I never ran '98, and I was a little slow to warm up to 2k) I'm sure I've 'upgraded' other times as well, although I've never really thought about it as such - I used to wipe and reload boxes pretty regularly, so there were probably times that the OS I reloaded was not the same as the one that I wiped. The '95 -> 2k was just the only time that I did it specifically for the reason of getting a new version of Windows.
If the people writing these apps can't be bothered to use decent DB abstraction layer, do you really want to run their code?
I know DB abstraction isn't perfect, but it certainly lessens the pain to the point where doing a manual search and replace of SQL statements that don't work correctly in the new DB isn't so daunting.
And if you're doing so much database specific syntax that even that task is daunting, you should probably be putting your SQL statements into stored procedures, so that porting to a new database only requires writing compatible procs, and the application code can remain untouched.
$99 for the players or the discs?
I would imagine that latter has to be coming relatively soon...
I've probably said it a hundred times by now, but as far as I can tell, the only winner in this format war is going to be DVD.
Why paint the ground white? In any decent size city, you'll see thousands of buildings with black tar roofs. For a little extra money, paint those white instead of black. No one will see it, it would have the same effect on global warming, and it will save the building owners a decent amount of money on their air conditioning costs as well. (Whether this would really have any effect on global warming, I have no idea, but it would definitely have an affect on local warming.) Better yet, put a couple planter boxes of hardy plants up there, and you can help take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere while alleviating your storm water runoff load.
Along the same lines, finding something other than black asphalt to surface our gajillion miles of streets and highways with might help too.
Funny, cause WMP11 doesn't seem to.
Ah, but if you video conference to a meeting in Denver, you can't go skiing after it's over.
Shareholder Return.
Shareholders (typically) expect that, if you've grown your revenues at a certain rate in the past, you'll continue to grow at that rate. If you exceed your past growth, your stock value goes up. If you fall short, your stock value goes down. Microsoft saturated the Operating System a long time ago. Most of Microsoft's OS revenue comes from people buying new computers. Well before Win2k, computer buying had slowed down to the point that the vast majority of people buying new computers were replacing old computers. Where do they have left to grow? Compared to the Win95/98 days, where many people bought new versions of Windows to install on old computers that didn't have it yet, and many more people were buying their first Windows powered PC, there isn't much room for Microsoft to grow in that department anymore. (At least in the U.S. which also explains their recent intense interest in developing countries) Likewise with Office suites. As Microsoft (or any company) saturates their current market(s), they have to grow (or buy) their way into new markets in order to continue growth.