No, the problem wasn't that they read a map, the problem was that they read an AMERICAN map.
Which probably showed exactly what the UN does and doesn't recognize. What do you want them to do about it? Start acquiring every map in the world and try to reconcile what they say? That's supposed to be the job of the map makers!
Taking a parallel from our own history, many maps displayed the South as the Confederate Union during the Civil war. As a northerner, I might have been somewhat offended. Unfortunately, that was the way things were and I would have had to get used to it until the war was decided.
From the article, it seems that Microsoft programmers have gotten in trouble because... wait for it... THEY READ A MAP. That's right, THEY READ A MAP. The results of their map reading have lead them into several political situations that there was little possibility of them being aware of. (Talk to the ***holes who make this stuff illegal and ARREST foreigners for READING A MAP.)
Americans may have a poor understanding of Geography, but I don't really see that being an issue in this case. All Microsoft could have done is more thoroughly research the area.
I really don't get why Real offers free software to Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris anyway.
Because they're trying to get someone (anyone?) to like them?
Actually, the reasons are historical. WAAAYYYY back when Netscape ruled the planet, Unix machines were actually more populous on the Internet than Windows or Mac machines. Thus pretty much all internet technologies were developed on Unix and then ported to Windows. With that codebase to work from, Real has been able to continue releasing their out of date player for OSes other than Windows.
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In case anyone doesn't get it, "Semper Fi" is the Marine Corp motto. It's short for the latin phrase "Semper fidelis" which means "always faithful". It's used to show the dedication each marine has to the Corp and their fellow soldiers.
Ok, let's think for a moment. If folders are merely the results of searches... the document would be the same! Oh joy, we figured it out!
Listen, I know tech support is hell. But we are talking about things that could make your job easier. For one, Microsoft software that corrupts everything is bad. I remember supporting people with their massive PST files when I was in tech support. To be perfectly honest, they shouldn't have to worry about it. It's only because of Microsoft's short-sightedness (and unwillingness to fix such a major issue) that you have to tell customers not to manage everything in Outlook!
Image instead, if the PST file really WAS mounted to the file system! People could read their email just by opening a file! That's a basic concept behind the way Unix works. It's only because Microsoft doesn't think that way that your job is so hard.
No, I meant CVN-65. AFAIK, the Big-E always carried the hull number of CVA-6 - will check that out when I get access to my NIP book on carriers.
An AC was nice enough to find this link for me that explained when the hull number was changed to CV(N)-6. The current Enterprise is simply CVN-65 with the "N" standing for Nuclear rather than Night. Also, the "Big E" nickname carried over to CVN-65. Unfortunately, the "Enterprise vs. Japan" sign didn't.:-)
FWIW, Roddenberry named the NCC-1701 after the Big-E as it had a record unmatched by any warship in history.
I know. The Enterprise was the most decorated ship of World War II, often referred to as "The fightingest ship in the fleet!" She ended her carrier with 20 battle stars, a Presidential Unit Citation, and a Naval Unit Citation. In addition, the British Admiralty presented her with the British Admiralty Penet, the most prestigous decoration in the British Navy. In fact, she was the ONLY non-British ship to receive that decoration.
Read through this site for more information. Surfice it to say, it brings tears to my eyes every time I read about the sacrifices that ship and crew made to win the war. A great number of people objected to her being scrapped, but as one sailor remarked, "[I want her to be remembered] with her planes forward and her guns blazing". She truly was "The fightingest ship in the fleet!"
Usually the "replacement" for directories in these FSs is considered "Saved Searches". i.e. You have a set of what appears to be folders, but they're really just result sets from a pre-saved search. This provides an easy way to have the same files show up in multiple categories.
The 'C' in CV originally stood for Cruiser, in part since the Lexington and Saratoga were modified Battle Cruisers. After the 1922 Naval treaty, the US scrapped a bunch of battleships and battle cruisers under construction, but did get to convert two into carriers.
All which happened before the Enterprise's construction in the 1930's. So she was officially "Carrier Vessel".
The Enterprise's were CVA-6 ('A' was for Attack),
This is true. I had omitted the "A" designation. In my defenense, nearly all references to the Enterprise also omit the "A" designation.
CVA(N)-65 ('A' was for Attack), and the latter was changed to CVN-65 when the Light (CVL) and Escort (CVE) carriers were no longer part of the USN's plans.
I believe you mean "CVN-6", not CVN-65. CVN-65 is the nuclear carrier. CVA(N)-6/CVN-6 is the original carrier USS Enterprise, aka "The Big E".
I'm thinking that they'd only do it as a combination hardware/software platform. Trying to add support for all existing hardware platforms will get them in as much hot water as Sun is in with JDS.
The USS Enterprise was originally given the CV-6 designation to demonstrate that she was a "Carrier Vessel". However, after extensive war operations she was refitted for nighttime/round-the-clock operations. To signify this, her designation was changed to CVN-6 (Carrier Vessel, Night).
The current Enterprise is also capable of round-the-clock operations, but has the designation for a different reason. CVN-65 in her case stands for "Carrier Vessel, Nuclear".
I've been considering that for awhile. I think Google would do really well if they produced a complete operating system that leveraged their web services and PageRank technology. Imagine if you could finally get rid of those annoying directory structures and just used "Google Hard Drive Search"! And all your bookmarks could be searched in a similar fashion! No need to bother with organizing them!
How do you like that. I didn't even know that Zeitgeist existed! I do use their calculator and Google Sets though.
I would use their personalized web search, but it needs some work. Having both interests in "Sci-Fi" and "Naval military" causes problems when I'm looking up specs on the carrier Enterprise (CVN-65 & CVN-6). I suggested that they allow you to choose a specific category at search time, but I never got a response.:-(
You mean, like this? They've already used that color scheme for the "Linux" section, so they had to come up with something even more diabolical. One gentleman had the right idea. Set up your proxy to redirect xyz.slashdot.org to plain old slashdot.org.
Fair enough. But it completely destroyed the momentum they got out of the OSCON. Which is why I'm saying that Real doesn't "get" it. They HAVE to provide a unified marketing front with no hiccups. Consumers are very fickle and will develop poor opinions based on the slightest mishap.
Very interesting. It seems that Real is showing a different website to Windows and Mac users. Thus we're both correct. Here's what I see on my Mac. I tried it on a PC and received a very different page. It seems that the "normal" page has been replaced for Windows machines while they run their "49 cent" promotion.
I hope this made you feel all smart and stuff, tho.
Yes, I read what you wrote. Although I'm having difficulty understanding how you think that humans can be completely removed from the process. Even if you don't give a musician a support address or phone number, he'll still call the main number with his stupid questions. That will cost Apple even MORE.
A good example of this was when Doom came out. All the shareware magazines stated that it needed "4MB of RAM". Of course, everyone (including myself) was trained to think in terms of "640K + 3 MB EMS/XMS". So, we all did what any good consumer would do. We looked up the Texas number for Id and called them to ask.
Not long after that, shareware magazines started printing "640K + 3M XMS".
This can easily end up a smaller per-song cost than the labels require
It's not as easy as you think. Have you ever tried selling something? It's HARD. Let me whip out some figures here.
According to this link, iTunes currently has 1 million songs available. According to this link, iTunes is selling about 70 million songs per year. That gives an average of 70 sales per song. If we extrapolate based on the 5-10 cent figure I gave above, iTunes is only pulling $3.50-$7.00 "gross profit" on each song. Subtract the costs of getting those songs loaded in the first place, and Apple is dealing in VERY thin margins.
What is really sad is you have not heard of the highly powerful, and successful AMD series of chips
You mean the one's BASED on Intel's architecture?
as the Motorola chip sets
No one uses Motorola's chips for PCs anymore. All of Apple's PowerPC chips come from IBM, and IBM uses its bigger cousin (the POWER chip) in its Unix servers.
Of course, I'm not a big IBM fan so I tend to have selective memory about those.
It's truly scary how the Intel is becoming the only mainstream chip architecture left alive. Pretty good for something that intel originally created as a stopgap solution! I'm just hoping that UltraSparcs don't go anywhere.
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So that's where the Beagle ended up!
Next you'll be saying that Gates purchased the U of Texas.
No, but he did purchase Standford.
Modify the score for "funny" in your preferences to something like -6. That should guarantee that they'll always fall below your threshold.
No, the problem wasn't that they read a map, the problem was that they read an AMERICAN map.
Which probably showed exactly what the UN does and doesn't recognize. What do you want them to do about it? Start acquiring every map in the world and try to reconcile what they say? That's supposed to be the job of the map makers!
Taking a parallel from our own history, many maps displayed the South as the Confederate Union during the Civil war. As a northerner, I might have been somewhat offended. Unfortunately, that was the way things were and I would have had to get used to it until the war was decided.
From the article, it seems that Microsoft programmers have gotten in trouble because... wait for it... THEY READ A MAP. That's right, THEY READ A MAP. The results of their map reading have lead them into several political situations that there was little possibility of them being aware of. (Talk to the ***holes who make this stuff illegal and ARREST foreigners for READING A MAP.)
Americans may have a poor understanding of Geography, but I don't really see that being an issue in this case. All Microsoft could have done is more thoroughly research the area.
I really don't get why Real offers free software to Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris anyway.
Because they're trying to get someone (anyone?) to like them?
Actually, the reasons are historical. WAAAYYYY back when Netscape ruled the planet, Unix machines were actually more populous on the Internet than Windows or Mac machines. Thus pretty much all internet technologies were developed on Unix and then ported to Windows. With that codebase to work from, Real has been able to continue releasing their out of date player for OSes other than Windows.
In case anyone doesn't get it, "Semper Fi" is the Marine Corp motto. It's short for the latin phrase "Semper fidelis" which means "always faithful". It's used to show the dedication each marine has to the Corp and their fellow soldiers.
Wikipedia has a small blurb on the phrase.
Hoorah!
Ok, let's think for a moment. If folders are merely the results of searches... the document would be the same! Oh joy, we figured it out!
Listen, I know tech support is hell. But we are talking about things that could make your job easier. For one, Microsoft software that corrupts everything is bad. I remember supporting people with their massive PST files when I was in tech support. To be perfectly honest, they shouldn't have to worry about it. It's only because of Microsoft's short-sightedness (and unwillingness to fix such a major issue) that you have to tell customers not to manage everything in Outlook!
Image instead, if the PST file really WAS mounted to the file system! People could read their email just by opening a file! That's a basic concept behind the way Unix works. It's only because Microsoft doesn't think that way that your job is so hard.
No, I meant CVN-65. AFAIK, the Big-E always carried the hull number of CVA-6 - will check that out when I get access to my NIP book on carriers.
:-)
An AC was nice enough to find this link for me that explained when the hull number was changed to CV(N)-6. The current Enterprise is simply CVN-65 with the "N" standing for Nuclear rather than Night. Also, the "Big E" nickname carried over to CVN-65. Unfortunately, the "Enterprise vs. Japan" sign didn't.
More info on CVN-65
FWIW, Roddenberry named the NCC-1701 after the Big-E as it had a record unmatched by any warship in history.
I know. The Enterprise was the most decorated ship of World War II, often referred to as "The fightingest ship in the fleet!" She ended her carrier with 20 battle stars, a Presidential Unit Citation, and a Naval Unit Citation. In addition, the British Admiralty presented her with the British Admiralty Penet, the most prestigous decoration in the British Navy. In fact, she was the ONLY non-British ship to receive that decoration.
Read through this site for more information. Surfice it to say, it brings tears to my eyes every time I read about the sacrifices that ship and crew made to win the war. A great number of people objected to her being scrapped, but as one sailor remarked, "[I want her to be remembered] with her planes forward and her guns blazing". She truly was "The fightingest ship in the fleet!"
Usually the "replacement" for directories in these FSs is considered "Saved Searches". i.e. You have a set of what appears to be folders, but they're really just result sets from a pre-saved search. This provides an easy way to have the same files show up in multiple categories.
Gee, and I thought I was picky.
The 'C' in CV originally stood for Cruiser, in part since the Lexington and Saratoga were modified Battle Cruisers. After the 1922 Naval treaty, the US scrapped a bunch of battleships and battle cruisers under construction, but did get to convert two into carriers.
All which happened before the Enterprise's construction in the 1930's. So she was officially "Carrier Vessel".
The Enterprise's were CVA-6 ('A' was for Attack),
This is true. I had omitted the "A" designation. In my defenense, nearly all references to the Enterprise also omit the "A" designation.
CVA(N)-65 ('A' was for Attack), and the latter was changed to CVN-65 when the Light (CVL) and Escort (CVE) carriers were no longer part of the USN's plans.
I believe you mean "CVN-6", not CVN-65. CVN-65 is the nuclear carrier. CVA(N)-6/CVN-6 is the original carrier USS Enterprise, aka "The Big E".
I'm thinking that they'd only do it as a combination hardware/software platform. Trying to add support for all existing hardware platforms will get them in as much hot water as Sun is in with JDS.
CVN-6? Don't you mean CV-6?
:-)
Suckered someone in hook, line, and sinker.
The USS Enterprise was originally given the CV-6 designation to demonstrate that she was a "Carrier Vessel". However, after extensive war operations she was refitted for nighttime/round-the-clock operations. To signify this, her designation was changed to CVN-6 (Carrier Vessel, Night).
The current Enterprise is also capable of round-the-clock operations, but has the designation for a different reason. CVN-65 in her case stands for "Carrier Vessel, Nuclear".
Something can be both trademarked and patented. The patent describes how it works, and the trademark protects the name. :-)
I've been considering that for awhile. I think Google would do really well if they produced a complete operating system that leveraged their web services and PageRank technology. Imagine if you could finally get rid of those annoying directory structures and just used "Google Hard Drive Search"! And all your bookmarks could be searched in a similar fashion! No need to bother with organizing them!
How do you like that. I didn't even know that Zeitgeist existed! I do use their calculator and Google Sets though.
:-(
I would use their personalized web search, but it needs some work. Having both interests in "Sci-Fi" and "Naval military" causes problems when I'm looking up specs on the carrier Enterprise (CVN-65 & CVN-6). I suggested that they allow you to choose a specific category at search time, but I never got a response.
You mean, like this? They've already used that color scheme for the "Linux" section, so they had to come up with something even more diabolical. One gentleman had the right idea. Set up your proxy to redirect xyz.slashdot.org to plain old slashdot.org.
Fair enough. But it completely destroyed the momentum they got out of the OSCON. Which is why I'm saying that Real doesn't "get" it. They HAVE to provide a unified marketing front with no hiccups. Consumers are very fickle and will develop poor opinions based on the slightest mishap.
*cough*opensourcezealotsareevenworse*cough*
Very interesting. It seems that Real is showing a different website to Windows and Mac users. Thus we're both correct. Here's what I see on my Mac. I tried it on a PC and received a very different page. It seems that the "normal" page has been replaced for Windows machines while they run their "49 cent" promotion.
:-)
I hope this made you feel all smart and stuff, tho.
See? Now we can both be smug.
WHAT HUMAN? Did you read what I wrote?
Yes, I read what you wrote. Although I'm having difficulty understanding how you think that humans can be completely removed from the process. Even if you don't give a musician a support address or phone number, he'll still call the main number with his stupid questions. That will cost Apple even MORE.
A good example of this was when Doom came out. All the shareware magazines stated that it needed "4MB of RAM". Of course, everyone (including myself) was trained to think in terms of "640K + 3 MB EMS/XMS". So, we all did what any good consumer would do. We looked up the Texas number for Id and called them to ask.
Not long after that, shareware magazines started printing "640K + 3M XMS".
This can easily end up a smaller per-song cost than the labels require
It's not as easy as you think. Have you ever tried selling something? It's HARD. Let me whip out some figures here.
According to this link, iTunes currently has 1 million songs available. According to this link, iTunes is selling about 70 million songs per year. That gives an average of 70 sales per song. If we extrapolate based on the 5-10 cent figure I gave above, iTunes is only pulling $3.50-$7.00 "gross profit" on each song. Subtract the costs of getting those songs loaded in the first place, and Apple is dealing in VERY thin margins.
What is really sad is you have not heard of the highly powerful, and successful AMD series of chips
You mean the one's BASED on Intel's architecture?
as the Motorola chip sets
No one uses Motorola's chips for PCs anymore. All of Apple's PowerPC chips come from IBM, and IBM uses its bigger cousin (the POWER chip) in its Unix servers.
Of course, I'm not a big IBM fan so I tend to have selective memory about those.
Doh! better colors try #2
It's truly scary how the Intel is becoming the only mainstream chip architecture left alive. Pretty good for something that intel originally created as a stopgap solution! I'm just hoping that UltraSparcs don't go anywhere.
BTW, better colors.
Joke's on you. That's a free download of the 14 day TRIAL edition. The free player is in the upper right-hand corner in blue.
The lesson to be learned from this? Don't mess with Jobs' Reality Distortion Field(TM)!