From the confirmation page: "Thank You! You will receive your FREE copy of the Solaris 9 Operating Environment on a DVD (while quanitities last) and be contacted by our sales organization shortly."
On the other hand, considering that most people don't consider Office to have been drastically improved since Office 97, they may continue to use their old pirated versions and Microsoft is none the wiser for it.
If you bought one properly licensed copy, and then used the Corporate Edition with that key, and didn't spread your key around, then you'd have several pirated versions of XP, and Microsoft would be none the wiser.
With that in mind, you should probably be careful if you're sharing your key with your friends.
I've found quite a few toner refill services that were top-notch. I've only seen one instance where we had a heavy-duty laser printer that actually got damaged from using a refilled toner cartridge.
And, quite on the other hand, I've had a great many inkjet printer get ruined by those crappy Re-Ink refill kits that just don't work.
For starters, there's the human error issue. If I don't fill the cartridge in *just* the right way, the vacuum could force the cartridge to squirt ink back into the printer, and then I have a $200 doorstop. Also, the ink formulas are protected, so Re-Ink and others have to "reverse engineer" them. I imagine they may or may not also have the same facilities for ink production, so with them, I have less of a guarantee that their refill ink will have the proper color-matching...or that the pigment particles will be of a uniform size, and that they won't quickly clog the printhead nozzles.
And that, of course, doesn't factor in that printhead nozzles *will* clog over time, so refilling those cartridges is like trying to increase the pump strength on your water system when the pressure goes down in the shower, but in reality it's because water contaminants got caught in the head nozzle (you could always clean it, but that's beside the point).
Of course, if the printer manufacturer made their cartridges easily refillable, they'd lose a fairly obvious leg up on ink competitors, since your average Joe-blow won't care if he loses some print quality since he saved $10 on the cartridges.
"...and massive improvements in crew survivability."
No, I didn't read the article, but, assuming this poster is reasonably accurate with his description text, why is this necessary? Aside from Challenger, have we had any significant (or even insignificant?) problems with shuttle crews surviving the trip?
I'm listening to the piece on TV right now. I like one particular quote "They say that we've got all these economic models that we're taking advantage of...What models? We're *losing* money on this...It's a labor of love."
As an aside...I would presume that the best way to do this isn't to simply shut off all the broadcasts, but to change out the playlists for a single looping track with an awareness message about CARP.
As the other poster noted, generally speaking, when the paychecks start coming late, and continue coming late, it's a sure-fire sign that the company is going down the tubes.
So, I guess I have to start calling lawyers to see if there is any legal action that I can take... anyone happen to have had a similar experience and have advise??
Unfortunately, whenever a company tanks, its employees are the lowest spot on the totem pole as far as debt resolution goes. The creditors, who already have a sizeable sum of money in their coffers no doubt (Otherwise they wouldn't be *creditors*), typically scoop up whatever's left of the company.
I'm not going to say that it's the right thing to do, but if you're in a company that really seems like it's getting shut down, it's probably time to start taking work home with you, along with (more importantly) work supplies...as it's probably the only renumeration you're ever going to get.
Sorry about that. I went and kicked Dave. It should be fixed soon.:)
By the way - The pictures on the site aren't the most current. I have the CD-ROM flipdoor installed now, and the floppy drive is gone. I put in some rounded cables on the inside, and I fixed the wiring up some more.
The fish head turns toward them, the mouth moves, and says "Whattaya want?"... the key of course, would be syncing the lips to the voice playing through it. Maybe some sort of DSP programmed to pick out the hard consonants (not perfect, but would be close enough).
Dear god...whatever you do, *don't* make that thing SING! Please...for the love of everything that's human! No more singing bass!!! Spare us all!
What we really need is either a Billy Bass Intercom system, or a trash talking Furby.
Coolest thing I can think of that I eventually want to do...
Take two Furbys, program them individually in isolated rooms by screaming at each one "Tetsuo!" and "Kaneda!" and then put one in front of the other, and let the fun begin!
<SNIP>
"In some ways, global satellite TV and Internet access have actually made the world a less understanding, less tolerant place." Reg. required blah blah</SNIP>
Heh...I guess Hemos is proving the author's point.:)
Interesting that this would be posted no less than three days after Penny Arcade's screenshot rant from Wednesday.
I have to say that I agree with Tycho and Gabe on this one. All too often I'm seeing websites post crappy images claiming that they show intricate detail of upcoming software, yet they compress it to the point that it looks like it came out of one of these.
This article refers to USR as a totally stand-alone identity. This is news to me. Did 3Com spin off USR recently? Last I heard, they were a totally absorbed identity, thus no more USR modems or USR Palm Pilots (Irrelevant now).
And furthermore, if US Robotics exists again, has Bernard Shifman returned to work there?:)
I'm not going to argue the (stupid) merits of the lawsuit, but why Yahoo? Yahoo isn't a search engine anymore than Microsoft's DNS error page is. It's powered by Google. If suing Google gets Google to fix the issue they have, then it'll be summarily fixed on Yahoo's page as well. Yahoo just plain has nothing to do with this, outside of using Google's search tool.
Are you sure? Hydrogen is the most common element in the universe.
Are *you* sure? There's a lotta universe out there that we haven't seen yet.
Perhaps you're basing this on the abundance of stars (which burn hydrogen), but you fail to consider the potential number of bodies out there that have *no* star, and are just floating balls of gas or rock. There could be many out there that we don't know about simply because we can't *see* them.
First, WiFi devices have been out for a few years now. Yeah, hardware modems had been too, but the markets are moving faster now than they had been 10/15 years ago.
Furthermore, there's already a new big player in the WiFi market that won't stand and let Microsoft have exclusivity on WiFi drivers...Apple.
Windows Longhorn will expose new APIs for accelerated 2D drawing. These new APIs will not use existing GDI acceleration but will instead use the Microsoft Direct3D® DDI. New applications, therefore, will make use of the 3D pipeline of the graphics adapter for their 2D / productivity graphics requirements.
I think you're arguing the wrong reasons here. 2000 was not an upgrade to Windows 98. That was Windows ME. That's why you can say that 2000 was a drastic change from 98...The same way that NT was a drastic change from 95. They were two separate product lines the whole time.
Shift your argument up a notch to ME-XP or 2000-XP, though, and you're dead on.
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This is a great idea on paper, but it'll never work...
Why?
Because the goals change every four/eight years.
Just ask NASA how easy it is to accomplish their objectives when the administration gets recycled once or twice a decade.
Oh wait...Maybe it was a typo...
From the confirmation page:
"Thank You! You will receive your FREE copy of the Solaris 9 Operating Environment on a DVD (while quanitities last) and be contacted by our sales organization shortly."
From the website...
"Which version of the Solaris Operating Environment would you prefer?
Solaris 9 on SPARC(TM) platform, Solaris 8 on Intel
Gene Taylor is a member of the US House of Representatives. Mississippi's Senators are Thad Cochran and Trent Lott, both Republicans.
On the other hand, considering that most people don't consider Office to have been drastically improved since Office 97, they may continue to use their old pirated versions and Microsoft is none the wiser for it.
If you bought one properly licensed copy, and then used the Corporate Edition with that key, and didn't spread your key around, then you'd have several pirated versions of XP, and Microsoft would be none the wiser. With that in mind, you should probably be careful if you're sharing your key with your friends.
lex is short for Lexical Analyzer. It's useful for developing grammars and languages, a la Chomsky and Greibach.
I've found quite a few toner refill services that were top-notch. I've only seen one instance where we had a heavy-duty laser printer that actually got damaged from using a refilled toner cartridge.
And, quite on the other hand, I've had a great many inkjet printer get ruined by those crappy Re-Ink refill kits that just don't work.
For starters, there's the human error issue. If I don't fill the cartridge in *just* the right way, the vacuum could force the cartridge to squirt ink back into the printer, and then I have a $200 doorstop. Also, the ink formulas are protected, so Re-Ink and others have to "reverse engineer" them. I imagine they may or may not also have the same facilities for ink production, so with them, I have less of a guarantee that their refill ink will have the proper color-matching...or that the pigment particles will be of a uniform size, and that they won't quickly clog the printhead nozzles.
And that, of course, doesn't factor in that printhead nozzles *will* clog over time, so refilling those cartridges is like trying to increase the pump strength on your water system when the pressure goes down in the shower, but in reality it's because water contaminants got caught in the head nozzle (you could always clean it, but that's beside the point).
Of course, if the printer manufacturer made their cartridges easily refillable, they'd lose a fairly obvious leg up on ink competitors, since your average Joe-blow won't care if he loses some print quality since he saved $10 on the cartridges.
"...and massive improvements in crew survivability."
No, I didn't read the article, but, assuming this poster is reasonably accurate with his description text, why is this necessary? Aside from Challenger, have we had any significant (or even insignificant?) problems with shuttle crews surviving the trip?
We thought in advance to disable the news generator on the front page, so it won't go down in 30 seconds like last time.
:D
Now it'll just take 3 minutes.
I'm listening to the piece on TV right now. I like one particular quote "They say that we've got all these economic models that we're taking advantage of...What models? We're *losing* money on this...It's a labor of love."
As an aside...I would presume that the best way to do this isn't to simply shut off all the broadcasts, but to change out the playlists for a single looping track with an awareness message about CARP.
As the other poster noted, generally speaking, when the paychecks start coming late, and continue coming late, it's a sure-fire sign that the company is going down the tubes.
So, I guess I have to start calling lawyers to see if there is any legal action that I can take... anyone happen to have had a similar experience and have advise??
Unfortunately, whenever a company tanks, its employees are the lowest spot on the totem pole as far as debt resolution goes. The creditors, who already have a sizeable sum of money in their coffers no doubt (Otherwise they wouldn't be *creditors*), typically scoop up whatever's left of the company.
I'm not going to say that it's the right thing to do, but if you're in a company that really seems like it's getting shut down, it's probably time to start taking work home with you, along with (more importantly) work supplies...as it's probably the only renumeration you're ever going to get.
Sorry about that. I went and kicked Dave. It should be fixed soon. :)
By the way - The pictures on the site aren't the most current. I have the CD-ROM flipdoor installed now, and the floppy drive is gone. I put in some rounded cables on the inside, and I fixed the wiring up some more.
The fish head turns toward them, the mouth moves, and says "Whattaya want?"... the key of course, would be syncing the lips to the voice playing through it. Maybe some sort of DSP programmed to pick out the hard consonants (not perfect, but would be close enough).
Dear god...whatever you do, *don't* make that thing SING! Please...for the love of everything that's human! No more singing bass!!! Spare us all!
What we really need is either a Billy Bass Intercom system, or a trash talking Furby.
Coolest thing I can think of that I eventually want to do...
Take two Furbys, program them individually in isolated rooms by screaming at each one "Tetsuo!" and "Kaneda!" and then put one in front of the other, and let the fun begin!
Interesting that this would be posted no less than three days after Penny Arcade's screenshot rant from Wednesday.
I have to say that I agree with Tycho and Gabe on this one. All too often I'm seeing websites post crappy images claiming that they show intricate detail of upcoming software, yet they compress it to the point that it looks like it came out of one of these.
This article refers to USR as a totally stand-alone identity. This is news to me. Did 3Com spin off USR recently? Last I heard, they were a totally absorbed identity, thus no more USR modems or USR Palm Pilots (Irrelevant now). And furthermore, if US Robotics exists again, has Bernard Shifman returned to work there? :)
Sure, you can read your email and surf the web, but can you blast away at Wolfenstein?
No, but you can Slashdot the nonstop from Atlanta to New York!
I'm not going to argue the (stupid) merits of the lawsuit, but why Yahoo? Yahoo isn't a search engine anymore than Microsoft's DNS error page is. It's powered by Google. If suing Google gets Google to fix the issue they have, then it'll be summarily fixed on Yahoo's page as well. Yahoo just plain has nothing to do with this, outside of using Google's search tool.
Are you sure? Hydrogen is the most common element in the universe.
Are *you* sure? There's a lotta universe out there that we haven't seen yet.
Perhaps you're basing this on the abundance of stars (which burn hydrogen), but you fail to consider the potential number of bodies out there that have *no* star, and are just floating balls of gas or rock. There could be many out there that we don't know about simply because we can't *see* them.
First, WiFi devices have been out for a few years now. Yeah, hardware modems had been too, but the markets are moving faster now than they had been 10/15 years ago. Furthermore, there's already a new big player in the WiFi market that won't stand and let Microsoft have exclusivity on WiFi drivers...Apple.
With new features like digital rights management, it looks like Longhorn will not just be Windows XP LE (Limited Edition)."
Windows Longhorn will expose new APIs for accelerated 2D drawing. These new APIs will not use existing GDI acceleration but will instead use the Microsoft Direct3D® DDI. New applications, therefore, will make use of the 3D pipeline of the graphics adapter for their 2D / productivity graphics requirements.
Microsoft Chrome, anyone?
I think you're arguing the wrong reasons here. 2000 was not an upgrade to Windows 98. That was Windows ME. That's why you can say that 2000 was a drastic change from 98...The same way that NT was a drastic change from 95. They were two separate product lines the whole time.
Shift your argument up a notch to ME-XP or 2000-XP, though, and you're dead on.