IIRC from the original article, the "CD" does not have the Compact Disc logo, for the reasons that you mention. Not sure if the use of the term "CD" is prohibited.
"Here we have a sentence which can be parsed as either saying practicing law is a bad thing, or not practicing law is a bad thing. Clearly you are a great lawyer."
Here we have a sentence in which you use the expression 'parse' as if it was applicable in everyday language. Clearly you are a great geek.
"The researchers examined 285 movies from P2P networks and used the quality of the file to determine whether it was some guy with a video camera or not."
Sounds like hard work, all those hours downloading and watching movies... I wonder what they do on their spare time ? Maybe they go to meetings, fill out spreadsheets and wait tables.
Reminds me of the Dilbert where Wally *almost* gets the job to "stress test the server by downloading high quality media files from the busiest servers on the 'net". "I was this close to making surfing porn my job" he says. Dilbert replies "I would've had to kill you."
Wouldn't a national ID card be a remedy for this ? I've lived in the US and I was struck by how anonymous all your transactions are when you use your credit cards, go to the bank etc etc.
I now live in Sweden and you can't use a credit card without an ID, upon which your face and your handwriting is displayed. It makes it alot harder to use someone else's credit card, for instance.
To me, a personal ID is something to protect my privacy, not invade it. And don't think that just because you don't have a national unique ID that you aren't perfectly traceable for the gov't. It's a small thing to crossreference insurance databases with credit card, INS, IRS and DMV databases. That particular thing has to be made illegal through legislation.
I don't want to stop spam when it's already in my machine. I could also buy a gun to stop burgulars in my home or I could employ someone to answer my phone to stop phone marketers, but that only takes care of the symptoms, not the cause.
I get approximately 2 spams a week on my hotmail account, so it is not Hotmail itself that is at fault. Maybe you should think about how you protect your address.
In a lot of countries they reverse the roles of the comma and the period in numbers. Confused the hell out of me when I first saw it, but it's true. $350,000.00 is written $350.000,00 for instance. Disturbing, isn't it?
Let me tell you what is disturbing: that people in some countries can't read a number with more than 3 digits without asking to have them grouped by a , or a . .
BROWN: Well, I can tell you what doesn't workâ"and that is to have a whole bunch of people who are deep in their own technical domain but have no interest in engaging with the others.
Heh, good thing you don't find many of those around/. or any programming sweatshop:)
Seriously though, this is dead on. Too often UI design are developed by the same people hacking the low level stuff or the business side of an application. At the end of the project, usually 6 weeks after schedule, they have to release what they used for testing since there is no time to sit and think about usability.
I posted the initial comment as an attempt at jest. Therefore it wasn't necessary to specify a specific OS since everyone has their own opinions on that very topic.
Troll, Flamebait, Insightful moderations all show that my attempt was in vain.:)
In the specific scenarios covered by this story, Microsoft isn't dumping the price below the competition. It is merely lowering the price to the same level as the competition, which makes sense.
And when a large corporation is lowering its prices in order to keep up, it is usually a good thing for consumers.
Don't assume that just because you might be more technically savvy, that your boss and her PHB aren't more financially savvy than you are. If nothing else, they're more used to thinking in financial terms.
It is a perfectly reasonable request for them to ask for TOC, and there are indeed other costs than labor despite your claims. Hardware in all forms, training, documentation and support are areas where you need to compare the two systems. Maybe you can get the for free for the OSS you choose, but maybe the free stuff isn't good enough.
Answering "free other than labor" and then claiming moral high ground or nitpicking on form isn't exactly helping OSS to get a footprint in the enterprise world.
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May I suggest "How much is the puppy in the window" ?
Is this from the bad-and-ugly-drm-mpaa-riaa-member Sony that we all hate or is it from cool-and-high-tech-gadgets Sony ?
I'm boycotting one of them while my home is filled with stuff from the other. It's a shame they have the same name and logo, it would be so much easier to distinguish them!
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IIRC from the original article, the "CD" does not have the Compact Disc logo, for the reasons that you mention. Not sure if the use of the term "CD" is prohibited.
Here's the torrent for a 12 min preview by Peter Jackson. It includes most of what is in the trailer and then some background goodies.
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http://bittorrentmovies.de/~supernova/torrents/
"Here we have a sentence which can be parsed as either saying practicing law is a bad thing, or not practicing law is a bad thing. Clearly you are a great lawyer."
Here we have a sentence in which you use the expression 'parse' as if it was applicable in everyday language. Clearly you are a great geek.
"what could be the next big gaming console "
So could anything, and yet even XBox with all M$ wasn't the "the next big gaming console". I wouldn't hold my breath on this one.
Maybe I should know better than to ask this, but shouldn't /. draw the line for what is posted just a tad higher than this ?
Exactly what is newsworthy here.... oh yeah it's something that can be used to possibly discredit Bill Gates. Tabloid material.
Sheesh! I thought it was a good thing that they made the cool 959s street legal, so at first I didn't understand the angle at all.
"The researchers examined 285 movies from P2P networks and used the quality of the file to determine whether it was some guy with a video camera or not."
Sounds like hard work, all those hours downloading and watching movies... I wonder what they do on their spare time ? Maybe they go to meetings, fill out spreadsheets and wait tables.
Reminds me of the Dilbert where Wally *almost* gets the job to "stress test the server by downloading high quality media files from the busiest servers on the 'net". "I was this close to making surfing porn my job" he says. Dilbert replies "I would've had to kill you."
Wouldn't a national ID card be a remedy for this ? I've lived in the US and I was struck by how anonymous all your transactions are when you use your credit cards, go to the bank etc etc.
I now live in Sweden and you can't use a credit card without an ID, upon which your face and your handwriting is displayed. It makes it alot harder to use someone else's credit card, for instance.
To me, a personal ID is something to protect my privacy, not invade it. And don't think that just because you don't have a national unique ID that you aren't perfectly traceable for the gov't. It's a small thing to crossreference insurance databases with credit card, INS, IRS and DMV databases. That particular thing has to be made illegal through legislation.
Don't knock it 'til you try it. Have you tried DX9 on a DX9 card ? Valve wouldn't spend so much money on DX9 if it didn't make things look better.
And Carmack is pro-OpenGL for his own political and egomanical reasons, not necessarily quality reasons.
I don't want to stop spam when it's already in my machine. I could also buy a gun to stop burgulars in my home or I could employ someone to answer my phone to stop phone marketers, but that only takes care of the symptoms, not the cause.
If the first "ammendment" is relevant, then the term "Kazaa Lite" wouldn't have to be filtered out, would it ?
I get approximately 2 spams a week on my hotmail account, so it is not Hotmail itself that is at fault. Maybe you should think about how you protect your address.
As long as they don't bring back that little annoying kid in the Yankee cap in Temple Of Doom.
In a lot of countries they reverse the roles of the comma and the period in numbers. Confused the hell out of me when I first saw it, but it's true. $350,000.00 is written $350.000,00 for instance. Disturbing, isn't it?
Let me tell you what is disturbing: that people in some countries can't read a number with more than 3 digits without asking to have them grouped by a , or a . .
TR: What kind of people do the best design?
/. or any programming sweatshop :)
BROWN: Well, I can tell you what doesn't workâ"and that is to have a whole bunch of people who are deep in their own technical domain but have no interest in engaging with the others.
Heh, good thing you don't find many of those around
Seriously though, this is dead on. Too often UI design are developed by the same people hacking the low level stuff or the business side of an application. At the end of the project, usually 6 weeks after schedule, they have to release what they used for testing since there is no time to sit and think about usability.
"They are living in a dream world with pixes, leprechauns and eskimos"
Dude... eskimoes are real.
I posted the initial comment as an attempt at jest. Therefore it wasn't necessary to specify a specific OS since everyone has their own opinions on that very topic.
:)
Troll, Flamebait, Insightful moderations all show that my attempt was in vain.
... can running business on certain software platforms *cough* *cough* be considered an automatic security breach ?
The real problem? Wierd foreign programmers who don't understand How Things Work and moreover don't care,(...)
You do realize that in the large perspective - in which the Internet should be seen - it is you that are foreign, don't you ?
If you are so clever and understand How Things Work, why didn't you just shut the relays down and implement a solution that worked ?
That's the way it has always worked, from Gandhi to Luther King.
Gandhi died in 1948, King Jr. in 1968, that's not exactly "always"...
In the specific scenarios covered by this story, Microsoft isn't dumping the price below the competition. It is merely lowering the price to the same level as the competition, which makes sense.
And when a large corporation is lowering its prices in order to keep up, it is usually a good thing for consumers.
Try to place yourself in their position and try to identify problems with OSS and advantages of non-OSS.
/., and it's an article in the CIO magazine about OSS for large enterprises: Your Open Source Plan
This was a story earlier on
Don't assume that just because you might be more technically savvy, that your boss and her PHB aren't more financially savvy than you are. If nothing else, they're more used to thinking in financial terms.
It is a perfectly reasonable request for them to ask for TOC, and there are indeed other costs than labor despite your claims. Hardware in all forms, training, documentation and support are areas where you need to compare the two systems. Maybe you can get the for free for the OSS you choose, but maybe the free stuff isn't good enough.
Answering "free other than labor" and then claiming moral high ground or nitpicking on form isn't exactly helping OSS to get a footprint in the enterprise world.
May I suggest "How much is the puppy in the window" ?
Is this from the bad-and-ugly-drm-mpaa-riaa-member Sony that we all hate or is it from cool-and-high-tech-gadgets Sony ?
I'm boycotting one of them while my home is filled with stuff from the other. It's a shame they have the same name and logo, it would be so much easier to distinguish them!
I doubt that would fly with most accounting departments.
"But listen, I'm first and foremost using the DV Camcorder as a backup device!"