I am an owner of the HDTV box, and yes it was expensive, and it has already been broken and replaced once...
But it is the *ONLY* box that does what it does. 2 OTA tuners, 2 Satellite Tuners, both OTA and Satellite HD...
But Mpeg4 is coming, and this box has NO way to deal with it. And even as an owner of the box, I welcome MPEG4, as this will give me what I really want... Not "digital quality", but "quality digital". Replacing all of the boxes out there is cheaper than building and launching a satellite. HD will be where they go first, but eventually ALL DirectTV will be mpeg4.
I am sad that there was a breakdown between Tivo and DirectTV, because the combo *is* the best way to watch tv today.
There is some promise apparantly for us HDTiVo folks to replace our boxes with something "as good or better". We shall see when it happens. For now, I LOVE my HDTiVo.
Yeah I understand hating a piece of software that makes you more money than it costs. That does things that no other piece of software does...
But anyways. Under the Edit menu you can change your keyboard shortcuts to whatever the "F" you want. And you could always change the keyboard shortcuts if you put as much research into it as you do into bitching about it.
And oh yeah, there was that whole Illustrator/Indesign rationalization for making the same type of keyboard shortcuts the same in all of the apps. So that the learning impaired would only have to learn them one last time.
So young to not be able to learn... Maybe we should start a foundation...
And it is also why it is difficult to find top-class databases.
In general he is right. The fun *is* in the hard problems. The hard problems in databases are scaling (speed and size), robustness (ability to recover from error), and security (prevention of unathorized viewing or changing). These are truly hard problems. Often they are solved by doing stuff around the operating system rather than with the operating system.
Actually writing some accounting package or some other database app... That, I agree, will cause you to want to poke your eyes out with a stick.
Is that this argument is largely wrong... In Reality, Joe listener is able to listen to the music in any form that they would like, unless they don't have an ipod. But they know this up front, and they can go to walmart or napster or real.
They can burn to CD, they can move it to other computers, and they can put it on unlimited numbers of ipods.
What they cannot do, is mindlessly add it to a P2P network. Sure pirates can... But the point was Joe Listener and millions of *his* friends were doing it because it was so easy and largely automatic.
As to the pirates distributing the music to the entire world for free... You have been watching the news haven't you... Large distributers are being found, sued, and some have been put in jail.
Bill realized that the browser would or could become the platform.
Which led to an overly extensible IE, and OE to keep the platform on windows if it did move to the browser.
But... and I still think this is true today. People want a fat client. They want to be on the Internet, yes. But they want most of thier applications running locally, not at a distance.
So while Google will want to be the.mac of the PC world, I think you will find that there is a real limit to how far they can go. And Microsoft, Yahoo, AOL, and OSS will be real competitors in every place that google wants to play.
This just goes to show the fallacies that can be introduced with "thought" experiments. This one is just silly. There are no perpetual motion machines and there is no hovering...
If you actually *do* this experiment, you will find the CTO (Cat/Toast Object), to actually start spinning at a high rated of speed, until it is ripped apart in a massive structural failure due to centrifigul "force". This is the expected result, and does not break any known laws of physics...
Powerful refutation of Murphy's Law! It has been determined that not everything thing that *can* go wrong *does* go wrong. Using the Apollo 13 mission as a case study, it has indeed been shown that only a small fraction of the things that could have gone wrong indeed did go wrong.
NASA Scientists have now recast murphy law as, "There are a lot of things that can go wrong. Some of them might happen." Which, of course, shows that far fewer things go wrong than previously thought.
Scientists predict that this will have no effect on the size or scope of any government project or agency.
They are doing very very well in most of the technical aspects, but they forgot the guy with the directional boom mike. And when you do that, no matter how good the movie it sounds like a porno. And when it sounds like a porno, everyone thinks the actors act like they are in a porno and start bagging on the acting.
Much of the bad acting are the vocals not being recorded and compressed properly. Hopefully a decent sound guy will step up and help them fix it!
Presumably the ATM/Windows XP part of the box is *not* connected directly to the network. That there is a VPN box/pair between the ATM and the home networks...
ATM -- VPN -- Internet -- VPN -- Wells Fargo
So the real question is how secure are THOSE boxes...
Essentially, the experiment showed that if the photons released in the argon gas are triggered by a wave with only a slope on one side of the wave that you get an "Interference Pattern". And that if you do this from the top of the wave the interference pattern shows up in one direction and if at the bottom of the wave in the other direction.
Assuming they know this for sure (and they don't!, we cannot *see* light waves, only observe effects and speculate as to cause), why is this not a behavior of photons being created by incomplete waves (IE a left half or right half wave)? Which seems more likely than a spooky time based interference?
Does the emperor have clothes here? Where did I leave my Occams Razor?
This is being used to automatically take attendance. That's it.
Nobody's "rights" are being violated, nobody is forced to take any drugs... Yes, you look like a bit of a dork wearing one, and I am not sure that there has been a rash of elementary kids that have been trying to infiltrate the school.
I am pretty sure that this is not serving any purpose other than enriching the school. How hard *is* attendance anyways? But surely, this is no big deal.
Maximum Productivity is achieved in many many different ways. Not engaging the brain, or allowing it to wander like it wants, for many jobs is tantamount to less productivity. Particularly in jobs that require creative thought, and or, mental acquity.
Treating people humanely, and creating a sense of comradary has shown since the concept of work has begun has always led to maximum productivity.
Pushing people slavishly has always been the downfall of dull and dense managers.
18 months, a lifetime felony label, and having to recompense Microsoft.
You really think this is worth wasting a productive life over?!?
I guess the reason that I got rejected for this story is that I thought the sentance was oppressive, and this submitter felt it was lightweight.
Get out of jail free card?? How about felony speech?!
Surely, there was some ground that both got the point home to him well before prison. Were they worried about Anarchy breaking out all over?
Everytime Bill Gates "sells" stock, he adds to the current float, and customers have to be found to buy his stock. This competes with everyone else that wants to sell thier stock and the natural marketplace. This is from the view of the marketplace, newly minted stock that now has to be dealt with. With the result that this new stock in a larger pool of stock being sold into a system that does not generate that many new buyers. Since Bill has been selling his stock, Microsoft is down ~75%. It has remained flat during the recovery. The shareholders have been screwed out of BILLIONS in equity. Shareholders would have been better off in general if the company would pay him the large salary he deserves, and more money was disbursed through dividends. Bill should be paid by the profits of the company, rather than out of the equity hide of the shareholders. It is really nice that he has been so generous with the Stockholders money. Other foundations have spent decades bleeding off stockholder value in such a way that the friction does NOT cause a downword valuation in the stock. Bill and Paul have been raping the marketplace, shareholders be damned.
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I am an owner of the HDTV box, and yes it was expensive, and it has already been broken and replaced once ...
But it is the *ONLY* box that does what it does. 2 OTA tuners, 2 Satellite Tuners, both OTA and Satellite HD...
But Mpeg4 is coming, and this box has NO way to deal with it. And even as an owner of the box, I welcome MPEG4, as this will give me what I really want... Not "digital quality", but "quality digital". Replacing all of the boxes out there is cheaper than building and launching a satellite. HD will be where they go first, but eventually ALL DirectTV will be mpeg4.
I am sad that there was a breakdown between Tivo and DirectTV, because the combo *is* the best way to watch tv today.
There is some promise apparantly for us HDTiVo folks to replace our boxes with something "as good or better". We shall see when it happens. For now, I LOVE my HDTiVo.
Yeah I understand hating a piece of software that makes you more money than it costs. That does things that no other piece of software does...
But anyways. Under the Edit menu you can change your keyboard shortcuts to whatever the "F" you want. And you could always change the keyboard shortcuts if you put as much research into it as you do into bitching about it.
And oh yeah, there was that whole Illustrator/Indesign rationalization for making the same type of keyboard shortcuts the same in all of the apps. So that the learning impaired would only have to learn them one last time.
So young to not be able to learn... Maybe we should start a foundation...
But you should see the SIZE of my penis!!!!
And it is also why it is difficult to find top-class databases.
In general he is right. The fun *is* in the hard problems. The hard problems in databases are scaling (speed and size), robustness (ability to recover from error), and security (prevention of unathorized viewing or changing). These are truly hard problems. Often they are solved by doing stuff around the operating system rather than with the operating system.
Actually writing some accounting package or some other database app... That, I agree, will cause you to want to poke your eyes out with a stick.
Is that this argument is largely wrong...
In Reality, Joe listener is able to listen to the music in any form that they would like, unless they don't have an ipod. But they know this up front, and they can go to walmart or napster or real.
They can burn to CD, they can move it to other computers, and they can put it on unlimited numbers of ipods.
What they cannot do, is mindlessly add it to a P2P network. Sure pirates can... But the point was Joe Listener and millions of *his* friends were doing it because it was so easy and largely automatic.
As to the pirates distributing the music to the entire world for free... You have been watching the news haven't you... Large distributers are being found, sued, and some have been put in jail.
Iconic female heroine of our time...
Condoleeza.... Or Hillary...
Bill realized that the browser would or could become the platform.
.mac of the PC world, I think you will find that there is a real limit to how far they can go. And Microsoft, Yahoo, AOL, and OSS will be real competitors in every place that google wants to play.
Which led to an overly extensible IE, and OE to keep the platform on windows if it did move to the browser.
But... and I still think this is true today. People want a fat client. They want to be on the Internet, yes. But they want most of thier applications running locally, not at a distance.
So while Google will want to be the
This just goes to show the fallacies that can be introduced with "thought" experiments. This one is just silly. There are no perpetual motion machines and there is no hovering...
If you actually *do* this experiment, you will find the CTO (Cat/Toast Object), to actually start spinning at a high rated of speed, until it is ripped apart in a massive structural failure due to centrifigul "force". This is the expected result, and does not break any known laws of physics...
"Hovers indefinitely..." Snicker....
Powerful refutation of Murphy's Law! It has been determined that not everything thing that *can* go wrong *does* go wrong. Using the Apollo 13 mission as a case study, it has indeed been shown that only a small fraction of the things that could have gone wrong indeed did go wrong.
NASA Scientists have now recast murphy law as, "There are a lot of things that can go wrong. Some of them might happen." Which, of course, shows that far fewer things go wrong than previously thought.
Scientists predict that this will have no effect on the size or scope of any government project or agency.
They are doing very very well in most of the technical aspects, but they forgot the guy with the directional boom mike. And when you do that, no matter how good the movie it sounds like a porno. And when it sounds like a porno, everyone thinks the actors act like they are in a porno and start bagging on the acting.
Much of the bad acting are the vocals not being recorded and compressed properly. Hopefully a decent sound guy will step up and help them fix it!
Here is all of *real* information regarding reporter privilege. Reporter Privilege site
Presumably the ATM/Windows XP part of the box is *not* connected directly to the network. That there is a VPN box/pair between the ATM and the home networks...
ATM -- VPN -- Internet -- VPN -- Wells Fargo
So the real question is how secure are THOSE boxes...
as opposed to an interference behavior?
Essentially, the experiment showed that if the photons released in the argon gas are triggered by a wave with only a slope on one side of the wave that you get an "Interference Pattern". And that if you do this from the top of the wave the interference pattern shows up in one direction and if at the bottom of the wave in the other direction.
Assuming they know this for sure (and they don't!, we cannot *see* light waves, only observe effects and speculate as to cause), why is this not a behavior of photons being created by incomplete waves (IE a left half or right half wave)? Which seems more likely than a spooky time based interference?
Does the emperor have clothes here? Where did I leave my Occams Razor?
This is being used to automatically take attendance. That's it.
Nobody's "rights" are being violated, nobody is forced to take any drugs... Yes, you look like a bit of a dork wearing one, and I am not sure that there has been a rash of elementary kids that have been trying to infiltrate the school.
I am pretty sure that this is not serving any purpose other than enriching the school. How hard *is* attendance anyways? But surely, this is no big deal.
Maximum Productivity is achieved in many many different ways. Not engaging the brain, or allowing it to wander like it wants, for many jobs is tantamount to less productivity. Particularly in jobs that require creative thought, and or, mental acquity.
Treating people humanely, and creating a sense of comradary has shown since the concept of work has begun has always led to maximum productivity.
Pushing people slavishly has always been the downfall of dull and dense managers.
The **AA's are very pragmatic... They want to make the most money possible out of you. That is different than paying per every view.
They like Radio, they even like small time piracy. What they do not want is full scale alternative distribution.
Compare Shoplifting and making copies for anyone who asks, vs. downloading via torrent. That is what is comprable...
Compare shoplifting with simply downloading and not resharing (IE no torrent...) then it is a lot less for downloading..
It is distribution here that is what generates the fines. Not the downloading...
My main computer is an Ibook, I am going to get a mini, I own an Ipod...
But... Sheesh, why does EVERY apple article have to hit the front page?
MSNBC is homegrown as well as Slate and office.microsoft.com.
All three of these are high traffic successful homegrown web services, as is the clip art site, and heck even xbox live.
Windows update is quite a site... I think actually they may have *some* skillz.
But the real reason for the search is they do have their own world that needs it, MSN, just as AOL and Yahoo have their own little worlds.
If they let me pay $x a year for all the shipping for a year (unlimited shopping and no shipping)... I would consider that.
Free 2 day shipping for a year... Now will you consider this?
You really think this is worth wasting a productive life over?!?
I guess the reason that I got rejected for this story is that I thought the sentance was oppressive, and this submitter felt it was lightweight. Get out of jail free card?? How about felony speech?!
Surely, there was some ground that both got the point home to him well before prison. Were they worried about Anarchy breaking out all over?
Everytime Bill Gates "sells" stock, he adds to the current float, and customers have to be found to buy his stock. This competes with everyone else that wants to sell thier stock and the natural marketplace. This is from the view of the marketplace, newly minted stock that now has to be dealt with. With the result that this new stock in a larger pool of stock being sold into a system that does not generate that many new buyers. Since Bill has been selling his stock, Microsoft is down ~75%. It has remained flat during the recovery. The shareholders have been screwed out of BILLIONS in equity.
Shareholders would have been better off in general if the company would pay him the large salary he deserves, and more money was disbursed through dividends. Bill should be paid by the profits of the company, rather than out of the equity hide of the shareholders.
It is really nice that he has been so generous with the Stockholders money.
Other foundations have spent decades bleeding off stockholder value in such a way that the friction does NOT cause a downword valuation in the stock. Bill and Paul have been raping the marketplace, shareholders be damned.
oohhhh... Rounded Rectangles! Wild Applause.
And it took till the Ibook G4 before I bought another Apple (my first was a IIc).
Seriously, the mac is back. OsX and Ilife, are as awe inspiring today as MacOS and MacWrite/MacPaint were back then...
Updated since Homeland Security took over... Otherwise known as "The Carnivore Files"
Floppies... Lots and lots of floppies!