XML does offer great portability of content across devices. IBM uses it to provide content to their website, wap site, bluetooth devices, etc. Using XML, XSL, XSLT, Apache's Coccoon, and numerous other additions. The dynamic generation of PDFs is always nice too.
According to the article, they pleaded guilty to fraud charges. Article says: They then sent a mass e-mailing, asking recipients for a £24 "processing fee" in exchange for a chance to work at home stuffing envelopes.
Mostly free? What's this about mostly free? Last time I checked, the more money you make the more money you give the government. And what do you get in return? Free education beyond highschool? Nope. Free healthcare? Nope. A good retirement check? No on that count as well. As far as stability goes, I need to echo what someone else said. The only reason there's any stability in the US is that most (not all) people are too lazy to do anything about their situation. Jobless? Just go to the unemployment office. Not getting enough money on your EBT card? Have another baby, it's easier than getting a job, afterall. If more people in the US actually wrote the people who passed legislation, or refused to re-elect those who pass based on the kickbacks they got, things might actually change. WRITE the companies whose policies you disagree with. Do it on paper, do it frequently. Eventually they'll get the picture. I don't think the american public at large will be moved, or motivated to do anything about its situation until things get worse. MUCH worse.
I think it's great that the current community allows us to do both. Some people want to talk business, others want to socialize, it's just like going to your typical party or after work gathering. I don't see anything wrong with the way it's being done now.
I don't think you can say that. You don't know jack is a registered trademark.
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This would be a great idea! However, not that many people read the agreements anyway, as most people want to get right into the software they bought. But if enough people did start reading and filing complaints, either the EULA would change, or they would pull them off of the website. If a company knows that they are slowly losing customers because they object to a EULA (it takes a higher caliber of person to stand up and not use software on principle), and they aren't willing to change it, then I think they would attempt to keep them from reading it until the last possible moment. This is what I think is presently happening.
New Mexico's state site is decent. You can even renew your vehicle registration via an online form and a cc #. However, the deeper you get into the site, the design and functionality starts to suffer.
While I don't typically like mandatory drug testing, I can understand why a hardware store like Home Depot might want to do so. There are employees driving forklifts, cutting wood and any number of other things. The last thing I want is someone drunk, rolling, dosed, stoned, etc. running into me with the a pallet jack or forklift.
However, I don't care if someone at taco hell hands me my food while drugged up, as long as they wash their hands after using the bathroom!
They're going to support Linux, and they do quite a bit for the community
They're going to be using the vessel. docking at different villages to teach the villagers how to use computers and the internet, before the infrastructure even gets there. They want to educate. They're building a wan between the villages and giving them net access. They're not even in the building stages, so far blueprints have been submitted, but that's it.
That is true. But it doesn't need to be that way. If you don't please your customers, and they have a choice, they just may not return for additional products. I know I've boycotted quite a number of vendors due to poor quality, customer service, etc.
What I worry about the most is receiving a product only to have it recalled. If a firm made sure to begin with that their product was in good working order (under all conditions) it would save them money in the long run. I know that sometimes bugs only pop up after months of use, and that should also be tested. I recently bought a machine that had a bad logic board. This had been a known issue. After two months of use, the board had a circuit that fried. It took two weeks to get the machine back. I'm sure that the company doesn't like having to pay for warrantied work. More extensive tests would ease some of these problems. Is there really no way to ensure more quality yet still be "first to market"? I know it's a cut-throat industry, but customer satisfaction should be the ultimate goal.
If you know that the first 3 digits you dial will always be the same (or maybe vary between 2 different sets), then that becomes part of your long term memory, to which you can easily append the other 7.
Here in Atlanta we've been using 10 digit numbers for a few years, and additional exchanges are slowly added now and again. We've got 404, 770, and 678. I don't know how many more will be added over time, but with the increase in mobile phones and other devices utilizing phone numbers, it's inevitable.
According to the article, it's nowhere near a service. These guys literally climb around on rooftops. From the article:
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But building what Kahle calls "a citywide wireless LAN that grows from anarchistic cooperation" isn't as simple as contributing code to Linux. Participants must have not just time and patience, but also the soldering skills of an electrician, not to mention the ability to work on rooftops without falling. Ultimately, "it's all a bit dangerous," Stevens admits.
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I imagine at some point it WOULD end up as a service, but not until it matures. Not sure how many people would want to pay for service that deteriorates when it rains. There's also the hinderance of the signals not being able to pass through concrete.
Surprisingly, all but the DV Edition of the iMac are shipped standard with only 64 megs of ram. Apple doesn't like to increase the base level of ram, and that annoys the crap out of me. A few months ago I bought a dual processor g4, and instead of adding an additional 512 module through apple (who was selling it for $1350), I bought it elsewhere for $429. Apple has finally lowered their RAM prices a bit, and the memory rebate helps, but I'd still rather go elsewhere for components.
OS X public beta runs very smoothly on my new machine, but I imagine it could be quite a bit faster, and will be once the debug code has been removed. I can run all my MacOS applications in the Classic environment, with a slight slowdown in speed, but they still work.
The rebates that apple has been offering on their G4's are probably indicative of a new product release in MacWorld SF. I imagine that prices for existing products will come down considerably following the conference. So waiting until end of January will probably save you quite a bit of cash.
Nobody's complaining because there's noone left alive to complain about it. Looks like the estimate was right!
But really. Although we hear a considerable amount these days of the radiation emitted into our heads by mobile phones, people don't seem to care that much. We'll always want to have our self destructive behavior. People drink, smoke, use drugs, and these are PROVEN killers. What makes something like a mobile different?
Many carriers used to offer the first incoming minute free. Now I can't even get that anymore. Yes, our minutes do get used for incoming calls, as the provider's network is used. So no breaks just because you didn't call someone. That's what caller ID is for. If I don't recognize the number, I won't answer it.
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Yes, it exists. I bought one at DisneyWorld a few months ago when I took my girlfriend down to orlando. It was $20 or $25, comes pre-programmed with certain words, and lets you add your own message as well. It also has a toggle to allow lefties to swing it the other way. (The first time I saw one was at a Sasha/Digweed party, and someone had it writing "Digweed")
I'm not sure where else they can be bought, nor can I remember the product's actual name, as the packaging is long gone...
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XML does offer great portability of content across devices. IBM uses it to provide content to their website, wap site, bluetooth devices, etc. Using XML, XSL, XSLT, Apache's Coccoon, and numerous other additions. The dynamic generation of PDFs is always nice too.
"It's a bit, nutty..." - austin powers
According to the article, they pleaded guilty to fraud charges. Article says: They then sent a mass e-mailing, asking recipients for a £24 "processing fee" in exchange for a chance to work at home stuffing envelopes.
Mostly free? What's this about mostly free? Last time I checked, the more money you make the more money you give the government. And what do you get in return? Free education beyond highschool? Nope. Free healthcare? Nope. A good retirement check? No on that count as well. As far as stability goes, I need to echo what someone else said. The only reason there's any stability in the US is that most (not all) people are too lazy to do anything about their situation. Jobless? Just go to the unemployment office. Not getting enough money on your EBT card? Have another baby, it's easier than getting a job, afterall. If more people in the US actually wrote the people who passed legislation, or refused to re-elect those who pass based on the kickbacks they got, things might actually change. WRITE the companies whose policies you disagree with. Do it on paper, do it frequently. Eventually they'll get the picture. I don't think the american public at large will be moved, or motivated to do anything about its situation until things get worse. MUCH worse.
How is this different than the sense of patriotism that anyone feels for his or her country?
I think it's great that the current community allows us to do both. Some people want to talk business, others want to socialize, it's just like going to your typical party or after work gathering. I don't see anything wrong with the way it's being done now.
I don't think you can say that. You don't know jack is a registered trademark.
This would be a great idea! However, not that many people read the agreements anyway, as most people want to get right into the software they bought. But if enough people did start reading and filing complaints, either the EULA would change, or they would pull them off of the website. If a company knows that they are slowly losing customers because they object to a EULA (it takes a higher caliber of person to stand up and not use software on principle), and they aren't willing to change it, then I think they would attempt to keep them from reading it until the last possible moment. This is what I think is presently happening.
New Mexico's state site is decent. You can even renew your vehicle registration via an online form and a cc #. However, the deeper you get into the site, the design and functionality starts to suffer.
While I don't typically like mandatory drug testing, I can understand why a hardware store like Home Depot might want to do so. There are employees driving forklifts, cutting wood and any number of other things. The last thing I want is someone drunk, rolling, dosed, stoned, etc. running into me with the a pallet jack or forklift.
However, I don't care if someone at taco hell hands me my food while drugged up, as long as they wash their hands after using the bathroom!
They're going to support Linux, and they do quite a bit for the community
Maybe they mean "easier downloads" for the FBI once they've used the speech recognition software to make a text copy of your call.
Do you frequently reply to your own posts? Or is the multiple personality disorder acting up today? :)
They're going to be using the vessel. docking at different villages to teach the villagers how to use computers and the internet, before the infrastructure even gets there. They want to educate. They're building a wan between the villages and giving them net access. They're not even in the building stages, so far blueprints have been submitted, but that's it.
That is true. But it doesn't need to be that way. If you don't please your customers, and they have a choice, they just may not return for additional products. I know I've boycotted quite a number of vendors due to poor quality, customer service, etc.
What I worry about the most is receiving a product only to have it recalled. If a firm made sure to begin with that their product was in good working order (under all conditions) it would save them money in the long run. I know that sometimes bugs only pop up after months of use, and that should also be tested. I recently bought a machine that had a bad logic board. This had been a known issue. After two months of use, the board had a circuit that fried. It took two weeks to get the machine back. I'm sure that the company doesn't like having to pay for warrantied work. More extensive tests would ease some of these problems. Is there really no way to ensure more quality yet still be "first to market"? I know it's a cut-throat industry, but customer satisfaction should be the ultimate goal.
If you know that the first 3 digits you dial will always be the same (or maybe vary between 2 different sets), then that becomes part of your long term memory, to which you can easily append the other 7.
Here in Atlanta we've been using 10 digit numbers for a few years, and additional exchanges are slowly added now and again. We've got 404, 770, and 678. I don't know how many more will be added over time, but with the increase in mobile phones and other devices utilizing phone numbers, it's inevitable.
According to the article, it's nowhere near a service. These guys literally climb around on rooftops. From the article:
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But building what Kahle calls "a citywide wireless LAN that grows from anarchistic cooperation" isn't as simple as contributing code to Linux. Participants must have not just time and patience, but also the soldering skills of an electrician, not to mention the ability to work on rooftops without falling. Ultimately, "it's all a bit dangerous," Stevens admits.
---
I imagine at some point it WOULD end up as a service, but not until it matures. Not sure how many people would want to pay for service that deteriorates when it rains. There's also the hinderance of the signals not being able to pass through concrete.
Surprisingly, all but the DV Edition of the iMac are shipped standard with only 64 megs of ram. Apple doesn't like to increase the base level of ram, and that annoys the crap out of me. A few months ago I bought a dual processor g4, and instead of adding an additional 512 module through apple (who was selling it for $1350), I bought it elsewhere for $429. Apple has finally lowered their RAM prices a bit, and the memory rebate helps, but I'd still rather go elsewhere for components.
OS X public beta runs very smoothly on my new machine, but I imagine it could be quite a bit faster, and will be once the debug code has been removed. I can run all my MacOS applications in the Classic environment, with a slight slowdown in speed, but they still work.
The rebates that apple has been offering on their G4's are probably indicative of a new product release in MacWorld SF. I imagine that prices for existing products will come down considerably following the conference. So waiting until end of January will probably save you quite a bit of cash.
He'll be able to release updates over the years, and see a greater profit.
I do agree that in moderation, _most_ things are acceptable, I was, however, referring to the people that use these things in excess.
Point taken, that mobile phone use doesn't measurably improve one's physical health (unless one is calling an ambulance/doctor/etc).
Nobody's complaining because there's noone left alive to complain about it. Looks like the estimate was right!
But really. Although we hear a considerable amount these days of the radiation emitted into our heads by mobile phones, people don't seem to care that much. We'll always want to have our self destructive behavior. People drink, smoke, use drugs, and these are PROVEN killers. What makes something like a mobile different?
Many carriers used to offer the first incoming minute free. Now I can't even get that anymore. Yes, our minutes do get used for incoming calls, as the provider's network is used. So no breaks just because you didn't call someone. That's what caller ID is for. If I don't recognize the number, I won't answer it.
Yes, it exists. I bought one at DisneyWorld a few months ago when I took my girlfriend down to orlando. It was $20 or $25, comes pre-programmed with certain words, and lets you add your own message as well. It also has a toggle to allow lefties to swing it the other way. (The first time I saw one was at a Sasha/Digweed party, and someone had it writing "Digweed")
I'm not sure where else they can be bought, nor can I remember the product's actual name, as the packaging is long gone...