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Except the repackaging & hosting is being done by the enthusiasts and not by the companies. And if it's that hard for a company to make a decision about a product line that generates zero revenue, that company has bigger problems than mere abandonware.
I find the ideas that I get from beer are generally along the lines of "I think I'll have another beer". TdR is obviously made of sterner stuff than I. Or it could just be that Canada has the 2nd worst beer in the world (after the US).
Oy, Mr. (or Ms.) Moderator. How can a post with Christmas in the title, that references a well-known seasonal campaign, be offtopic in a discussion about Christmas gifts?
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Taco, maybe we need a "-1: Not Funny" moderation option for humor-impaired losers like this one.
is that the heatsink will weigh 100 kilogrammes and will need to be mounted on the roof of your house. People in warm climates (e.g. where the snow melts in summer) need not apply. Those people who live in cold climates, who get one of these 10GHz intel chips, will soon find themselves living in a warm climate.
The BBC and ITV tried this many years ago, claiming that the information in the Radio Times and TV Times respectively was copyrighted. I forget which was the first daily newspaper to ignore them and start publishing its own list (probably the Sun). The Beeb (or maybe it was the ITC) sued, and lost. Now pretty much every newspaper publishes the day's TV & radio listings.
I haven't seen the Stowaway, but a colleague of mine has a Go-Type, which he has let me play with. It's nice, but the big drawback for me is that is not rigid when extended, meaning you have to put it on a table to use it. Compare this with the nice extending keyboards in IBM Thinkpads. If the Go-Type were rigid enough to use on my lap I would certainly get one for my Palm IIIx.
Unfortunately, those of us who work in the Windows world see this a lot.
Applications that have to run as administrator for no good reason. You try and explain this to windows developers and they just look at you funny.
Applications that have to be logged on to run. Writing a service is really not that hard.
Applications designed with no thought given to remote management. It's been said before, but the best remote management tool for Windows is a car. Even so, running PCAW over the public internet is quite a unique solution.
Applications that require a reboot after installation/upgrade/config changes.
I think part of the problem is that Microsoft sets such a poor example. I have seen various bits of software from MS that exhibit some or all all of all of the above failures.
You can get 10 java engineers for every 1 C++ engineer
Unfortunately, you can also get 100 VB monkeys for every java engineer. This also supports my personal belief that C++ is 1000 times better than VB, with Java somewhere in between.
The scientists are preparing us for the day that they announce (for they have known for 50 years) that not only are there aliens amongst us, but they already own all the human-habitable real-estate in the galaxy. If we think we're special, that could cause a collosal mindquake. If we have accepted our lowly place in the universe, it will just be another "whatever".
Interestingly, the aliens have also patented, trademarked and coprighted all future inventions. You are no longer allowed to think of new things. Please turn the television on.
My fingers are not the fattest I've ever seen (I knew a chap once who had difficulty on a full size keyboard[*]), but the getting a full qwerty keyboard in an area the size of my hand doesn't seem like a good idea to me. Few input devices are as fast or familiar as a full sized keyboard, but when you get below a certain size, other methods must be considered. Graffiti is cool, but I have difficulty forming the characters with consistency (it requires more loopiness than my normal handwriting), and after a while my hand starts to ache. Voice input has potential, and it looks like these devices have the horsepower to do it. I haven't played with chording keyboards, but people who use them tend to rave about them.
[*] he had difficulty with other things, too, like breathing, and walking up the two flights of stairs to our (elevatorless) offices.
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Except the repackaging & hosting is being done by the enthusiasts and not by the companies. And if it's that hard for a company to make a decision about a product line that generates zero revenue, that company has bigger problems than mere abandonware.
beer results in ideas, which results in new code
I find the ideas that I get from beer are generally along the lines of "I think I'll have another beer". TdR is obviously made of sterner stuff than I. Or it could just be that Canada has the 2nd worst beer in the world (after the US).
Oy, Mr. (or Ms.) Moderator. How can a post with Christmas in the title, that references a well-known seasonal campaign, be offtopic in a discussion about Christmas gifts?
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Taco, maybe we need a "-1: Not Funny" moderation option for humor-impaired losers like this one.
is that the heatsink will weigh 100 kilogrammes and will need to be mounted on the roof of your house. People in warm climates (e.g. where the snow melts in summer) need not apply. Those people who live in cold climates, who get one of these 10GHz intel chips, will soon find themselves living in a warm climate.
This was >=15 years ago. It included the commercial channels.
The Moderators Have Been Trolled
The BBC and ITV tried this many years ago, claiming that the information in the Radio Times and TV Times respectively was copyrighted. I forget which was the first daily newspaper to ignore them and start publishing its own list (probably the Sun). The Beeb (or maybe it was the ITC) sued, and lost. Now pretty much every newspaper publishes the day's TV & radio listings.
Thanks for the clarification. I hope the idiot that modded my post up is suitably mortified.
The new Bush administration is starting early...
I haven't seen the Stowaway, but a colleague of mine has a Go-Type, which he has let me play with. It's nice, but the big drawback for me is that is not rigid when extended, meaning you have to put it on a table to use it. Compare this with the nice extending keyboards in IBM Thinkpads. If the Go-Type were rigid enough to use on my lap I would certainly get one for my Palm IIIx.
I think part of the problem is that Microsoft sets such a poor example. I have seen various bits of software from MS that exhibit some or all all of all of the above failures.
There should be a moderation option "+2: Profound" for posts like this one.
Mod him up mercilessly.
You can get 10 java engineers for every 1 C++ engineer
Unfortunately, you can also get 100 VB monkeys for every java engineer. This also supports my personal belief that C++ is 1000 times better than VB, with Java somewhere in between.
The scientists are preparing us for the day that they announce (for they have known for 50 years) that not only are there aliens amongst us, but they already own all the human-habitable real-estate in the galaxy. If we think we're special, that could cause a collosal mindquake. If we have accepted our lowly place in the universe, it will just be another "whatever".
Interestingly, the aliens have also patented, trademarked and coprighted all future inventions. You are no longer allowed to think of new things. Please turn the television on.
My fingers are not the fattest I've ever seen (I knew a chap once who had difficulty on a full size keyboard[*]), but the getting a full qwerty keyboard in an area the size of my hand doesn't seem like a good idea to me. Few input devices are as fast or familiar as a full sized keyboard, but when you get below a certain size, other methods must be considered. Graffiti is cool, but I have difficulty forming the characters with consistency (it requires more loopiness than my normal handwriting), and after a while my hand starts to ache. Voice input has potential, and it looks like these devices have the horsepower to do it. I haven't played with chording keyboards, but people who use them tend to rave about them.
[*] he had difficulty with other things, too, like breathing, and walking up the two flights of stairs to our (elevatorless) offices.