While I don't like to see friends suffer any addictions they're getting by just fine. My only concern is that politicians will use these statistics to legislate gaming. There's no direct evidence that violence in games leads to violence in real life. But if they can use the valid label "addiction" and quantify it who knows what kind of crazy legislation they may try to pass. Any negative word they can apply to gaming is fuel for their pointless causes.
Maybe I'm going overboard. But it angers me to no end when I see one of my senators giving BS speeches about how games should be regulated.
His skill was in streamlining a business model. AFAIK he hasn't done anything directly to improve computers. He helped lower the cost to consumers. He deserves a lot of business credit, but I'm not sure he deserves any geek cred. He's already been written up in BusinessWeek. I don't think he warrants a/. article.
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It's alternative is standardized, runs on nearly everything, can be adapted for the visually impared, can (and is) indexed and incidentally doesn't drag down my laptop with 1 GB of RAM everytime I use it.
I assume you're referring to SVG. But most developers have never heard of it. Educate them so they'll want to move away from Flash. I still say don't bash Flash for how some people choose to use it. Most people don't know there's a better alternative. Even when specifically searching for an alternative it's not very clear one exists.
Currently, only a few shipping products actually support the crypto-ROM needed to ensure compliance with Blu-Ray, HD-DVD, and CableCard. It's looking like next-generation cards will all implement the needed firmware.
What does this have to do with Vista? On the software side it only relates to drivers, which can be written for any OS. I fail to see how selling Vista has anything to do with demand for this hardware.
What do you think is going to happen to you if you get an EZPass or a customer loyalty card
People have used these often in divorce cases to claim a spouse is cheating. In a criminal case you need a fair amount of evidence which combined together proves guilt. In a civil divorce case the suspicion of cheating just from lying about where you were at certain times can cause you to lose a case. For example, if you lied to your wife to sneak out to a baseball game instead of working late she can use your EZPass to show you were lying and claim you were having an affair.
And just because more extreme things haven't happened yet doesn't mean they won't.
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A technology shouldn't be thrown away just because you don't like how some choose to use it. Some people use cars to run over others, but that doesn't mean we should get rid of all cars. Blame the web site owners, not Flash.
I assume you're basing this on the lack of daily major news coverage. But, in fact, without an accurate poll, there's no way to know that most people don't care. I actually think more than half of the population does care. They just don't know what to do about it until Nov 2008. See Bush's ratings in the polls for some reference.
The Oscars are a popularity contest, so of course a prediction market will be accurate. Plus everyone knows if you throw in a mentally challanged main character or uglify a hot actress you're 10 times more likely to win the Oscar.
I just did a search of the USPTO database and all I came up with are patents with references to NTFS, but none directly covering NTFS. IANAPL, but searching all the way back to 1976 with the earliest patents containing the letters "NTFS" merely referring to the "technology" implies there's no patent directly on NTFS. I can't find anyone directly referencing any patents using google either.
However, there may be something in the driver which performs some patented task. But I see no patent on reading and writing to an NTFS partition.
From a developer's point of view it's a framework for networked apps. On top of the framework it's easier to write chat clients, email clients, RSS readers, etc. that are all connected in some way (e.g. email sender links to chat client).
From a user's point of view it can be an integration of all of your PIM applications. Data from various sources can be viewed in a variety of ways. I think the idea is to create more open and dynamic ways of viewing and integrating the data. I think the developers are sort of hoping new ways of working with emails, RSS, and other data are invented as a byproduct.
It's a really simple debate. Just edit the wikipedia entry so this birthdate becomes part of wikiality. The facts are far more important than the truth.
The small towns immediately surrounding NYC have become rediculously expensive to live in. Even those living an hour and a half away from Manhattan are seeing their real estate values skyrocket. Pretty soon, to see a real drop in your cost of living, you'll have to live 2+ hours away (and probably in NJ, ugh). I don't know about the rest of the country, but there's no cheap small-town living near NYC.
I know almost nothing of astrophysics but that's exactly what I was thinking. We generally only aim our telescopes at stars since it helps to have a set of targets. But out there in between the bright lights I imagine there's plenty we simply don't see, either from lack of light or lack of looking. I'm probably being overly simplistic, but...
'As a retailer I'm going to be holding on desperately for any compelling physical product,' said Eric Levin, who owns two independent stores called Criminal Records
Now that's funny. A retailer "sanctioned" by the RIAA called Criminal Records who's afraid of "criminal" file sharing. That's more interesting than these DVDs they're talking about.
But it is in "feature freeze." Therefore if there are design issues it will probably be released with them if they don't allow it time to go through another whole cycle.
No point in having an OS that frustrates you when you already are using one that frustrates you less. Users don't care about release deadlines (other than some who want the latest toys ASAP). The only people who care about Vista release "deadlines" are corporate stock holders. There's no value in rushing it out if you end up angering customers who may later switch to another vendor.
Back when my only experience was development on Windows I was very frustrated with the lack of good string handling in Microsoft languages (VB, T-SQL). If you didn't find a third-party library you had to write a lot of expensive code to do fancy string searches. Try writing recursion in VB6 without bringing your computer to a screeching halt.
Then when I switched to linux and open source I was shocked to learn that something as useful as regex had already been around for many years. Most of the Windows developers I knew never even heard of it. It was tricky to learn but has paid off many times over in utility.
Every developer is better of for knowing it. Even if they never use regex the thought process in understanding it is quite interesting and educational.
Backfired? Quite the opposite. This proves his point. If it's left open you can end up with any facts people choose to insert. The other option is to limit edit rights, which goes against the basic idea behind the site.
I'm sure he didn't go to bed crying because he's been blocked from editing wikipedia.
Kudos to competition. So many people wrote off AMD from the start for trying to compete directly with Intel. This proves an upstart can influence a market and take away from a huge company. We don't see it often enough, but it does happen.
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While I don't like to see friends suffer any addictions they're getting by just fine. My only concern is that politicians will use these statistics to legislate gaming. There's no direct evidence that violence in games leads to violence in real life. But if they can use the valid label "addiction" and quantify it who knows what kind of crazy legislation they may try to pass. Any negative word they can apply to gaming is fuel for their pointless causes.
Maybe I'm going overboard. But it angers me to no end when I see one of my senators giving BS speeches about how games should be regulated.
I can buy a Ferrari. That doesn't give me racing cred.
His skill was in streamlining a business model. AFAIK he hasn't done anything directly to improve computers. He helped lower the cost to consumers. He deserves a lot of business credit, but I'm not sure he deserves any geek cred. He's already been written up in BusinessWeek. I don't think he warrants a /. article.
It's alternative is standardized, runs on nearly everything, can be adapted for the visually impared, can (and is) indexed and incidentally doesn't drag down my laptop with 1 GB of RAM everytime I use it.
I assume you're referring to SVG. But most developers have never heard of it. Educate them so they'll want to move away from Flash. I still say don't bash Flash for how some people choose to use it. Most people don't know there's a better alternative. Even when specifically searching for an alternative it's not very clear one exists.
Currently, only a few shipping products actually support the crypto-ROM needed to ensure compliance with Blu-Ray, HD-DVD, and CableCard. It's looking like next-generation cards will all implement the needed firmware.
What does this have to do with Vista? On the software side it only relates to drivers, which can be written for any OS. I fail to see how selling Vista has anything to do with demand for this hardware.
What do you think is going to happen to you if you get an EZPass or a customer loyalty card
People have used these often in divorce cases to claim a spouse is cheating. In a criminal case you need a fair amount of evidence which combined together proves guilt. In a civil divorce case the suspicion of cheating just from lying about where you were at certain times can cause you to lose a case. For example, if you lied to your wife to sneak out to a baseball game instead of working late she can use your EZPass to show you were lying and claim you were having an affair.
And just because more extreme things haven't happened yet doesn't mean they won't.
A technology shouldn't be thrown away just because you don't like how some choose to use it. Some people use cars to run over others, but that doesn't mean we should get rid of all cars. Blame the web site owners, not Flash.
and the bulk of Americans couldn't care less.
I assume you're basing this on the lack of daily major news coverage. But, in fact, without an accurate poll, there's no way to know that most people don't care. I actually think more than half of the population does care. They just don't know what to do about it until Nov 2008. See Bush's ratings in the polls for some reference.
The Oscars are a popularity contest, so of course a prediction market will be accurate. Plus everyone knows if you throw in a mentally challanged main character or uglify a hot actress you're 10 times more likely to win the Oscar.
I just did a search of the USPTO database and all I came up with are patents with references to NTFS, but none directly covering NTFS. IANAPL, but searching all the way back to 1976 with the earliest patents containing the letters "NTFS" merely referring to the "technology" implies there's no patent directly on NTFS. I can't find anyone directly referencing any patents using google either.
However, there may be something in the driver which performs some patented task. But I see no patent on reading and writing to an NTFS partition.
From a developer's point of view it's a framework for networked apps. On top of the framework it's easier to write chat clients, email clients, RSS readers, etc. that are all connected in some way (e.g. email sender links to chat client).
From a user's point of view it can be an integration of all of your PIM applications. Data from various sources can be viewed in a variety of ways. I think the idea is to create more open and dynamic ways of viewing and integrating the data. I think the developers are sort of hoping new ways of working with emails, RSS, and other data are invented as a byproduct.
It's a really simple debate. Just edit the wikipedia entry so this birthdate becomes part of wikiality. The facts are far more important than the truth.
That's a bad analogy. The internet's more like a series of tubes than a truck... oh, um, forget it.
The small towns immediately surrounding NYC have become rediculously expensive to live in. Even those living an hour and a half away from Manhattan are seeing their real estate values skyrocket. Pretty soon, to see a real drop in your cost of living, you'll have to live 2+ hours away (and probably in NJ, ugh). I don't know about the rest of the country, but there's no cheap small-town living near NYC.
So wouldn't these be -150 day flaws? (plus or minus a few weeks)
I know almost nothing of astrophysics but that's exactly what I was thinking. We generally only aim our telescopes at stars since it helps to have a set of targets. But out there in between the bright lights I imagine there's plenty we simply don't see, either from lack of light or lack of looking. I'm probably being overly simplistic, but...
'As a retailer I'm going to be holding on desperately for any compelling physical product,' said Eric Levin, who owns two independent stores called Criminal Records
Now that's funny. A retailer "sanctioned" by the RIAA called Criminal Records who's afraid of "criminal" file sharing. That's more interesting than these DVDs they're talking about.
But it is in "feature freeze." Therefore if there are design issues it will probably be released with them if they don't allow it time to go through another whole cycle.
No point in having an OS that frustrates you when you already are using one that frustrates you less. Users don't care about release deadlines (other than some who want the latest toys ASAP). The only people who care about Vista release "deadlines" are corporate stock holders. There's no value in rushing it out if you end up angering customers who may later switch to another vendor.
Slightly off-topic, but...
Back when my only experience was development on Windows I was very frustrated with the lack of good string handling in Microsoft languages (VB, T-SQL). If you didn't find a third-party library you had to write a lot of expensive code to do fancy string searches. Try writing recursion in VB6 without bringing your computer to a screeching halt.
Then when I switched to linux and open source I was shocked to learn that something as useful as regex had already been around for many years. Most of the Windows developers I knew never even heard of it. It was tricky to learn but has paid off many times over in utility.
Every developer is better of for knowing it. Even if they never use regex the thought process in understanding it is quite interesting and educational.
Backfired? Quite the opposite. This proves his point. If it's left open you can end up with any facts people choose to insert. The other option is to limit edit rights, which goes against the basic idea behind the site.
I'm sure he didn't go to bed crying because he's been blocked from editing wikipedia.
Yeah, sure, AMD just popped out of thin air. They were never a new company.
"On May 1, 1969, Jerry Sanders and seven friends founded Advanced Micro Devices in the living room of one of the co-founders." (source)
Kudos to competition. So many people wrote off AMD from the start for trying to compete directly with Intel. This proves an upstart can influence a market and take away from a huge company. We don't see it often enough, but it does happen.
a Diebold AccuVote...
At least their marketing department has a sense of humor.
Emad Wassef walked out of a Target store in Orange County, California, to find a big space where his 2003 Lincoln Navigator had been.
Big space = 3 normal parking spots
I hope they scrap his SUV and use it to build 3 Civic-sized cars.