It's all about putting something associated with your brand in front of eyeballs. Retailers are even paying to put their 'ads' in the virtual landscape of these sort of video games.
IIRC, there was someone high up in the British government a few years ago that was advocating flying people to India for operations because it would cost less than having them done in the UK.
However, when I'm sick the last thing I want to do is fly halfway around the world to be operated on by people who have accents I can't understand.
I bought one a year or two ago and I've been very happy with it. It will play VBR MP3s, display the ID3 tags, allow some form of directory navigation, playlists, has a wired remote, FM radio reception, etc. I've tried to see if I could make it skip by shaking it as hard as I could, but it would never happen. As far as batteries go, I think it came with some rechargeable AAs. I've never had to replace them.
I don't know if they are still being made, but you might be able to find one cheap on ebay from someone who's upgrade to an iPod or some other hard disk based player.
That's not what he wants. He wants to be able to capture anything that's coming out of the VGA port. This just emulates a video card & keyboard for PCs that can't use a serial port as the console like many non-x86 servers and workstations.
Actually, I first started using gcc because it was significantly faster than Sun's compiler for its M68K machines. Of course that was almost 15 years ago, but I know that's one of the reasons it became popular. I don't think this was the case for the early Sparc based machines though. Our sysadmin at the time said that in order to get decent performance out of the chips, Sun had to put more effort into the compilers than it did for the previous machines. FWIW, on Data General's M88K-based machines, gcc (& lots of the GNU utilities) were the vendor supplied tools for the platform.
If they were selling a ton of them, they would have kept on making it. But they weren't. Why? Quality issues were one reason. The other was due to insurance. The insurance companies were pricing policies for these little commuter cars like they were Firebirds. So if you had to pay the same in insurance, why not get a higher performing car?
You've apparently never been in a Wal-Mart after midnight when they are restocking things. A lot of the cases the products come in are reused and even have a cost listed of what the store will be charged if it is not returned and reused. RFID tags may increase this policy.
Sorry, but those local retail businesses don't exist to feed off of one another. I grew up outside a small rural town and the retailers provided a small fraction of the available jobs in the area. Most people would drive an hour or more to get to a bigger city with stores with lower prices because that was always cheaper than buying at the local stores even after figuring in travel costs, meals, etc.
Massachusetts also has a law that retailers over a certain square footage must have barcode scanners available to the customers so they can check the price. That's let to a few embedded linux sales.
That's because they care about the code being submitted, not the titles accumulated by the person doing the submitting. Or maybe they see it as a sign of a pompous ass that may be more concerned with obscure theory than getting something to work. What would you consider the work done by Linus while he was getting his Master's?
I don't see any but the super hard line Orthodox people thinking that an OT style purge would be of any benefit for the very reasons you listed.
Having influence does not mean they are the puppet of the US or vice versa. Politicians may disagree on what's best for each country, but that doesn't mean that other branches don't have good working relationships or some form of cooperation. There are also many that have dual citizenship, so that's another thing to throw into the mix.
Your definition of a democracy doesn't jive with Webster's or the reality in Israel. There are over 1 million muslims in Israel proper (not the disputed territories) that are full blown citizens. Since Lebanon fell to Syrian control, it's one of the few places in the Middle East where muslim women can vote in real elections. There are even muslim political parties in the Knesset. I think there is even a muslim guy in their Supreme Court, but I forgot the link. I guess you should inform them, they aren't a "real" democracy.
http://www.factsofisrael.com/en/democracy.shtml
I guess that's probably why I never really had many problems. I've never been much of a 'gamer', but most of the stuff that worked for a regular CGA or Tandy 1000 system worked on mine.
There was a little company in New Jersey that did a lot of work creating expansion chassis for the Jr. I think a fully decked out machine was probably 2 feet tall. =)
No, I don't need a lesson in history. The West Bank and Gaza Strip used to be a part of Jordan and Egypt respectively. The "Palestinians" were essentially citizens of those countries. Israel took that land after winning military campaigns against those countries. It has signed treaties with those countries and has ceded land back (all of Sinai) too. Why not take the rest back? Apparently, they agreed with the compromize.
I doubt there is any offical Israeli plans to cleanse these disputed territories by force (although one could certainly point to Old Testament passages where they are explicitly told to do just that by their God). But given the "2nd class status" and the growth of Israeli settlements, it's clear that Israel views the land as theirs and the refugees are not wanted.
But given the attack against the Egyptian Foreign Minister by Palestinians in Jerusalem, they've pissed off a lot of their allies. Also, given the importance of the region to the industrialized world, having a democratic nation that we can influence in the region is a benefit.
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It's all about putting something associated with your brand in front of eyeballs. Retailers are even paying to put their 'ads' in the virtual landscape of these sort of video games.
IIRC, there was someone high up in the British government a few years ago that was advocating flying people to India for operations because it would cost less than having them done in the UK.
However, when I'm sick the last thing I want to do is fly halfway around the world to be operated on by people who have accents I can't understand.
I bought one a year or two ago and I've been very happy with it. It will play VBR MP3s, display the ID3 tags, allow some form of directory navigation, playlists, has a wired remote, FM radio reception, etc. I've tried to see if I could make it skip by shaking it as hard as I could, but it would never happen. As far as batteries go, I think it came with some rechargeable AAs. I've never had to replace them.
I don't know if they are still being made, but you might be able to find one cheap on ebay from someone who's upgrade to an iPod or some other hard disk based player.
That's not what he wants. He wants to be able to capture anything that's coming out of the VGA port. This just emulates a video card & keyboard for PCs that can't use a serial port as the console like many non-x86 servers and workstations.
Cool devices and killer logo, though.
The article says the company running the MATRIX is in Florida.
Does it still work when you put it back into the desktop machine?
Actually, I first started using gcc because it was significantly faster than Sun's compiler for its M68K machines. Of course that was almost 15 years ago, but I know that's one of the reasons it became popular. I don't think this was the case for the early Sparc based machines though. Our sysadmin at the time said that in order to get decent performance out of the chips, Sun had to put more effort into the compilers than it did for the previous machines. FWIW, on Data General's M88K-based machines, gcc (& lots of the GNU utilities) were the vendor supplied tools for the platform.
2G for a 44.1KHz WAV is only 3 hours. I ask because I'm interested in alternatives to my Nomad3. Thanks for the input.
What formats can it record to? 48KHz or 44.1KHz WAV or just MP3? What's the maximum recording length? Battery life while recording, etc?
If they were selling a ton of them, they would have kept on making it. But they weren't. Why? Quality issues were one reason. The other was due to insurance. The insurance companies were pricing policies for these little commuter cars like they were Firebirds. So if you had to pay the same in insurance, why not get a higher performing car?
You've apparently never been in a Wal-Mart after midnight when they are restocking things. A lot of the cases the products come in are reused and even have a cost listed of what the store will be charged if it is not returned and reused. RFID tags may increase this policy.
Sorry, but those local retail businesses don't exist to feed off of one another. I grew up outside a small rural town and the retailers provided a small fraction of the available jobs in the area. Most people would drive an hour or more to get to a bigger city with stores with lower prices because that was always cheaper than buying at the local stores even after figuring in travel costs, meals, etc.
Massachusetts also has a law that retailers over a certain square footage must have barcode scanners available to the customers so they can check the price. That's let to a few embedded linux sales.
And guess who was instrumental in pushing for barcodes? Wal-Mart.
That's because they care about the code being submitted, not the titles accumulated by the person doing the submitting. Or maybe they see it as a sign of a pompous ass that may be more concerned with obscure theory than getting something to work. What would you consider the work done by Linus while he was getting his Master's?
What? The SPOT & EOS sats don't count?
You mean like shipping a broken Korn shell and then arguing that it's working perfectly (with David Korn, no less)?
The RIAA would have considered it a performace broadcast and NASA hadn't paid the appropriate ASCAP fees.
Well, we did have that metric/English units conversion problem to get over. :)
I don't see any but the super hard line Orthodox people thinking that an OT style purge would be of any benefit for the very reasons you listed.
Having influence does not mean they are the puppet of the US or vice versa. Politicians may disagree on what's best for each country, but that doesn't mean that other branches don't have good working relationships or some form of cooperation. There are also many that have dual citizenship, so that's another thing to throw into the mix.
Your definition of a democracy doesn't jive with Webster's or the reality in Israel. There are over 1 million muslims in Israel proper (not the disputed territories) that are full blown citizens. Since Lebanon fell to Syrian control, it's one of the few places in the Middle East where muslim women can vote in real elections. There are even muslim political parties in the Knesset. I think there is even a muslim guy in their Supreme Court, but I forgot the link. I guess you should inform them, they aren't a "real" democracy. http://www.factsofisrael.com/en/democracy.shtml
I guess that's probably why I never really had many problems. I've never been much of a 'gamer', but most of the stuff that worked for a regular CGA or Tandy 1000 system worked on mine.
There was a little company in New Jersey that did a lot of work creating expansion chassis for the Jr. I think a fully decked out machine was probably 2 feet tall. =)
No, I don't need a lesson in history. The West Bank and Gaza Strip used to be a part of Jordan and Egypt respectively. The "Palestinians" were essentially citizens of those countries. Israel took that land after winning military campaigns against those countries. It has signed treaties with those countries and has ceded land back (all of Sinai) too. Why not take the rest back? Apparently, they agreed with the compromize.
I doubt there is any offical Israeli plans to cleanse these disputed territories by force (although one could certainly point to Old Testament passages where they are explicitly told to do just that by their God). But given the "2nd class status" and the growth of Israeli settlements, it's clear that Israel views the land as theirs and the refugees are not wanted.
But given the attack against the Egyptian Foreign Minister by Palestinians in Jerusalem, they've pissed off a lot of their allies. Also, given the importance of the region to the industrialized world, having a democratic nation that we can influence in the region is a benefit.
drink something else. the headaches will go away after a day or two.
Something like 70% of business programming world wide is done in COBOL. PITA at times? Yes. Flop? No. Grace Hopper's creation will likely outlive YOU.
NeXT took over Apple.