It's not always that easy. Many of these $100K packages require extensive customization to opperate within a particular customer's environment. The company is going to want compensation for installing and customizing the software. A $100K package isn't like shrink-wrap, and no customer is going to be able to just try it out. They have to rely on the integrity of the vendor, and feedback from prior clients.
Actually they did get uptight about: * alterning the run time * scene cropping * colorization * frame cropping This all happened so long ago, and I don't care to research any sources.
Not all of us drink coffee for the buzz. I drink coffee for the taste (with some milk and sugar). I have particular beans that I enjoy more than others (Kenyan, for example). I don't nesecarily require a fully caffinated coffee to enjoy this. If you're drinking coffee for the buzz, I don't see that you can really be enjoying it. It's more of a macho thing.
An amendment should be made to the Constitution that would allow a 1/2 or 2/3 vote by the nation as a whole to remove a senator or representative. I think Mr. Hatch would be a good candidate.
Actually, you only need GPS to nail people for speeding in general, but if you want to tag someone for doing 110 MPH, then all you need it a tranponder, and a network of tranceivers.
Plant a tranceiver along a major roadway, ping each approaching car for a list of times it has exceeded 110 MPH. Send fine to owner.
If you want to find out whether a car has exceeded the speed limit on a certain road, plant transcievers under the surface at every intersection. Clear speeding record, then check it again at the next check point. Too fast, get a ticket.
I recall the Ozzies have a system for monitoring the speed of trucks in the outback. Scans the license plates at two points, and if they got to checkpoint B too soon, there's a fine.
Morpheus, Trinity, Neo and everyone else is still inside the Matrix. Do you think Neo would've been able to stop the squids if he wasn't still inside the Matrix?
That's how deep the rabbit hole is, my friends. You may never know when you're back inside reality. How would you recognise it, if you have never seen it?
It's like asking where does the Universe exist? We have to expect it exists in something else, but what does that something else exist in?
If there's a God, where did He come from? Was He a product, and if so, where did He come from?
Reality is what you percieve it to be. To those inside 1999, the Matrix is reality. To those in Zion or the hover craft, the outside world is reality. As Neo realized, and proved in the last five minutes, neither are reality. The rabbit hole only gets deeper.
God knows how I managed to make it through school with MS-DOS and PC-Write!
This is an area of document creation that doesn't need a 10-ton gorilla. I made it through middle school with a Commie 64 and PaperClip. There's no need for multiple columns, or even to insert graphics. If a student is writing a report, they should be concentrating on it's content and structure, not the fluf. If a diagram, chart, or graph is required, it can be placed in the appendix, and created with another application, or a pencil.
You'd only get true market freedom if multiple record companies could license an artist's material, and publish it at the same time. That way you could choose to purchase Columbia's version of Pink Floyd's Meddle, or RCA's version. One might come with a cool poster for $20, while the other might be a better pressing for $15.
Unfortuately, I don't see this as being wholey pratical.
It's funny how all the arguments against including the tax revolve about Americans not trusting their government. I'm not sure if it's "By the people, for the people", or by the paranoid for the paranoid.
Where sales tax varies from county to county, and even city to city, citizens rarely know exactly how much sales tax they're paying anyway. Am I paying 7.75 or 8.25%? At least if the tax were included in the price, you'd know exactly how much something was going to cost. No guessing involved.
There are counties that include the tax in the price. In Britain, for example, prices routinely includes the VAT. No one runs around groaning that they don't know how much tax they paid. With VAT, that can be a lot.
As far as I can see, the only groups benifiting from seperating out the sales tax are the retailers. If a store in location A has to assess a 7.75% tax, they can charge less for an item than a store in location B, where the tax is 8.25%. At that point, the consumer wins: He or she can see clearly, and quickly where the best deal truely is. That, or store B is going to have to eat the 0.5% difference.
If you still need to know how much tax you're paying, let's go back to the gas pump scenario: They list how much of every gallon is going to taxes.
I've worked on these systems in the past. They have one big, nasty problem:
How do you know for sure where someone is? A tag reading at a doorway only tells you someone was at the doorway. It doesn't tell you whether that person entered the room, passed by the room, or entered the doorway, and turned around. It's almost completely useless.
A more useful system utilizes Infra Red. One sensor per room, able to poll the room for tags. This allows the system to determine who or what is in the vicinity of the sensor.
The other RFID problem is that it doesn't work well in multistory buildings. Did that tag pass through the doorway on the 5th floor, or the 6th floor?
Only if you employed triangulation could a RFID system become reliable.
They talk about the speeds of these services using a single number
That's not the impression I got. Maybe I missed something in the article (which I did read). C|Net have had a broadband metering page for quite some time. I assume they've been compiling the results, and this article is summerizing them. If that's the case, these numbers are the average of a great many participants.
People keep saying, the job are going to dissapear to India if we don't break our backs or work for peanuts. The same thing could have happened to architects a long time ago, but it hasn't. In order to become an architect, you need to be certified. You cannot raise a building in the United States without having a US architect's license. As a result, architects demand high salaries, while securing their marketplace.
I'm not thrilled about certification, but if it's going to ensure my way of life, then it's a price I'm willing to pay. I get a decent pay check, and the public gets quality software (or at least they think they do).
Yeah, but if you're living way out in the middle of nowhere, you might have electricity, and you might have a phone line, but you probably won't have a local number for an ISP, and you're probably way beyond the 2 miles from a switch DSL requires. If you could get reliable, decently priced connectivity over the power lines, then you're in business.
There was open source long before GNU existed. Hell, Unix practically begun as open source. It was only once the big wigs at AT&T realized what they were giving away that it became closed.
People have been writing programs and giving them away for ever. Any one remember Colossal Caves?
GNU just gives everyone a license they can use. If it didn't exist, everyone would be making up their own.
Give credit where credit is due. Borland forced Microsoft to drop its prices. Their $99 Turbo Pascal brought the cost of compilers down, and made them affordable to the average joe. Before then, Microsoft was charging an arm and a leg for such software.
You might as well say Windows NT won't be successful. It's a ridiculous argument. WinNT is successful, it's the most bulletproof OS Microsoft sells, and with the elimination of the 9x series, it's done nothing less than sell like hot cakes.
Should a viable clone come to the market, at a competitive price, it is likely to do well, as long as it can fend off the Microsoft marketing machine. That is what killed DR-DOS, and the same FUD certainly would work against ReactOS. A free OS isn't as likely to suffer from this effect, as it doesn't hurt to try.
I don't know where your folks came up with the idea that NT was designed as a desktop OS, and is therefore crap as an enterprise OS, but that's another issue, and probably best left to rest in a Linux community.
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it could be years before theu get to the cause of the crash
Does the BSOD count as friendly fire?
Windows for Rifles: So you can truely shoot yourself in the foot
It's not always that easy. Many of these $100K packages require extensive customization to opperate within a particular customer's environment. The company is going to want compensation for installing and customizing the software. A $100K package isn't like shrink-wrap, and no customer is going to be able to just try it out. They have to rely on the integrity of the vendor, and feedback from prior clients.
Actually they did get uptight about:
* alterning the run time
* scene cropping
* colorization
* frame cropping
This all happened so long ago, and I don't care to research any sources.
Not all of us drink coffee for the buzz. I drink coffee for the taste (with some milk and sugar). I have particular beans that I enjoy more than others (Kenyan, for example). I don't nesecarily require a fully caffinated coffee to enjoy this. If you're drinking coffee for the buzz, I don't see that you can really be enjoying it. It's more of a macho thing.
An amendment should be made to the Constitution that would allow a 1/2 or 2/3 vote by the nation as a whole to remove a senator or representative. I think Mr. Hatch would be a good candidate.
Actually, you only need GPS to nail people for speeding in general, but if you want to tag someone for doing 110 MPH, then all you need it a tranponder, and a network of tranceivers.
Plant a tranceiver along a major roadway, ping each approaching car for a list of times it has exceeded 110 MPH. Send fine to owner.
If you want to find out whether a car has exceeded the speed limit on a certain road, plant transcievers under the surface at every intersection. Clear speeding record, then check it again at the next check point. Too fast, get a ticket.
I recall the Ozzies have a system for monitoring the speed of trucks in the outback. Scans the license plates at two points, and if they got to checkpoint B too soon, there's a fine.
But there is no Zion.
Morpheus, Trinity, Neo and everyone else is still inside the Matrix. Do you think Neo would've been able to stop the squids if he wasn't still inside the Matrix?
That's how deep the rabbit hole is, my friends. You may never know when you're back inside reality. How would you recognise it, if you have never seen it?
It's like asking where does the Universe exist? We have to expect it exists in something else, but what does that something else exist in?
If there's a God, where did He come from? Was He a product, and if so, where did He come from?
Reality is what you percieve it to be. To those inside 1999, the Matrix is reality. To those in Zion or the hover craft, the outside world is reality. As Neo realized, and proved in the last five minutes, neither are reality. The rabbit hole only gets deeper.
God knows how I managed to make it through school with MS-DOS and PC-Write!
This is an area of document creation that doesn't need a 10-ton gorilla. I made it through middle school with a Commie 64 and PaperClip. There's no need for multiple columns, or even to insert graphics. If a student is writing a report, they should be concentrating on it's content and structure, not the fluf. If a diagram, chart, or graph is required, it can be placed in the appendix, and created with another application, or a pencil.
"Sorry Granddad," says the grandson. "The government's already got all that, and it's all free to download."
Unfortuately, I don't see this as being wholey pratical.
Where sales tax varies from county to county, and even city to city, citizens rarely know exactly how much sales tax they're paying anyway. Am I paying 7.75 or 8.25%? At least if the tax were included in the price, you'd know exactly how much something was going to cost. No guessing involved.
There are counties that include the tax in the price. In Britain, for example, prices routinely includes the VAT. No one runs around groaning that they don't know how much tax they paid. With VAT, that can be a lot.
As far as I can see, the only groups benifiting from seperating out the sales tax are the retailers. If a store in location A has to assess a 7.75% tax, they can charge less for an item than a store in location B, where the tax is 8.25%. At that point, the consumer wins: He or she can see clearly, and quickly where the best deal truely is. That, or store B is going to have to eat the 0.5% difference.
If you still need to know how much tax you're paying, let's go back to the gas pump scenario: They list how much of every gallon is going to taxes.
IF I had some friggen moderator points, I'd give you, Sir, a +5 funny.
Excellent.
I don't believe we need that trans-species oral s*x on the Internet.
I've worked on these systems in the past. They have one big, nasty problem:
How do you know for sure where someone is? A tag reading at a doorway only tells you someone was at the doorway. It doesn't tell you whether that person entered the room, passed by the room, or entered the doorway, and turned around. It's almost completely useless.
A more useful system utilizes Infra Red. One sensor per room, able to poll the room for tags. This allows the system to determine who or what is in the vicinity of the sensor.
The other RFID problem is that it doesn't work well in multistory buildings. Did that tag pass through the doorway on the 5th floor, or the 6th floor?
Only if you employed triangulation could a RFID system become reliable.
I think you'll find that the record company charges the band for the studio time. That cost comes out of their royalty checks.
They talk about the speeds of these services using a single number
That's not the impression I got. Maybe I missed something in the article (which I did read). C|Net have had a broadband metering page for quite some time. I assume they've been compiling the results, and this article is summerizing them. If that's the case, these numbers are the average of a great many participants.
No, we need 11.
People keep saying, the job are going to dissapear to India if we don't break our backs or work for peanuts. The same thing could have happened to architects a long time ago, but it hasn't. In order to become an architect, you need to be certified. You cannot raise a building in the United States without having a US architect's license. As a result, architects demand high salaries, while securing their marketplace.
I'm not thrilled about certification, but if it's going to ensure my way of life, then it's a price I'm willing to pay. I get a decent pay check, and the public gets quality software (or at least they think they do).
Yeah, but if you're living way out in the middle of nowhere, you might have electricity, and you might have a phone line, but you probably won't have a local number for an ISP, and you're probably way beyond the 2 miles from a switch DSL requires. If you could get reliable, decently priced connectivity over the power lines, then you're in business.
There was open source long before GNU existed. Hell, Unix practically begun as open source. It was only once the big wigs at AT&T realized what they were giving away that it became closed.
People have been writing programs and giving them away for ever. Any one remember Colossal Caves?
GNU just gives everyone a license they can use. If it didn't exist, everyone would be making up their own.
Give credit where credit is due. Borland forced Microsoft to drop its prices. Their $99 Turbo Pascal brought the cost of compilers down, and made them affordable to the average joe. Before then, Microsoft was charging an arm and a leg for such software.
You might as well say Windows NT won't be successful. It's a ridiculous argument. WinNT is successful, it's the most bulletproof OS Microsoft sells, and with the elimination of the 9x series, it's done nothing less than sell like hot cakes.
Should a viable clone come to the market, at a competitive price, it is likely to do well, as long as it can fend off the Microsoft marketing machine. That is what killed DR-DOS, and the same FUD certainly would work against ReactOS. A free OS isn't as likely to suffer from this effect, as it doesn't hurt to try.
I don't know where your folks came up with the idea that NT was designed as a desktop OS, and is therefore crap as an enterprise OS, but that's another issue, and probably best left to rest in a Linux community.
The original Star Wars (ep IV,V) was done as a audio drama, and broadcast over NPR. You can purchase it on cassette or CD.