Yes.
Seriously, it depends. As a previous poster mentioned, Lenovo seems to give restore CDs/partitions that include a preinstalled image, complete with crapware. Other manufacturers give you a genuine Windows disk, complete with holograms and a butler.
Privacy doesn't have to be an issue if Google starts to package all of these apps into standalone appliances.
They've been selling their search appliances for years now for use on corporate intranets -- why not sell the Google Appliance v2, with the same search engine functionality, but the added bonus of e-mail (GMail), companywide IM (GTalk), and an online, collaborative office suite (Google Spreadsheets and Writely)?
Being able to buy a box to slap in a rack and have it just work and provide these services would be a real boon to many IT shops.
If you're using Donkey Kong as a data point for your statement, I can offer a different explanation.
Unfortunately, I can't remember the source, so take it as you will.
In an interview with Miyamoto, he said that he wanted to call the game "Stubborn Monkey" (because the monkey wouldn't give Jumpman/Mario's woman back). After the standard Engrish translation, Stubborn became Dnokey, and Monkey became Kong, giving us the title we've been seeing for the last quarter-century.
Obviously, you're just supposed to download the movie and see for yourself. Because downloading a video file weighing in at multiple hundreds of megabytes is an extremely efficient way to get answers to the questions you just posed.
I know the site owners put the placeholder page up in a hurry, but at least a single frame from the movie would have been nice.
I just ended up bookmarking it, and I guess I'll check it out in a few days.
Your illustration has nothing to do with healthcare -- that's just the place where you happened to see the situation. It could happen in any largish work environment.
Furthermore, this is not a problem that requires a full-blown palmtop computer. Viewing a Remedy ticket requires very little in the ways of computing grunt. It does require a larger screen resolution than you're going to find on most handhelds.
If the users of a ticket system (like Remedy) are going to be out and about, then whoever implements said system needs to take that into account, and choose a system that's more PDA-friendly than Remedy. Perhaps viewability on PDAs was at the end of the requirements list when picking the system. If people need to buy new devices at $2K a pop to use a specific vendor's system (especially because of something as trivial as formatting the system's output), one has to ask why that vendor was chosen.
An application where this device is truly needed is one where someone has to do computationally-intensive operations on a device that can fit in their hand. I'm not sure that I can think of any examples where this is necessary. If I needed to do truly intensive computation, I'd look to remotely control a box in a closet with lots of grunt, and have the results sent to my PDA-class device. The closest I can think of is something where those comptuations would require or generate large datasets that would be inconvenient to transfer wirelessly.
This looks to me to be a smaller-than-normal laptop. If you can handle the tradeoff between reduced grunt and not having to carry a laptop bag home every night, then this machine has a place. Its worth lies in convenience.
I think I started using Mandrake at about 9.0 or 9.1. I remember 9.2 being a little flakey, but later versions have been great. I've used it for my main desktop machines both at home and work, along with a few servers at home (MythTV backend, NFS, apache, etc)
I use the Cisco VPN client to dial in to work all the time. Used to use it under Windows XP, now I use Mandrake. Only drops I ever had were attributable to either my cable modem, or the POS Linksys cable router I was using.
Your IT department probably insists on using it because it works for most people. Did you think to look at your system, rather than blame it on Cisco?
Sure is. Bastard scared the hell out of me when I was playing through the first time. I was in the mirror room in the castle, and I saw something floating behind me in the mirror out of the corner of my eye. I thought it was a Boo or something, so i turned around to get behind it and punch his lights out, but nothing was there.
It took a little moving around to realize that it was just Lakitu's reflection.
Were your friends dropped as children? Microwaved? Eat a lot of paint? If they couldn't make their way through the game with a map that often shows the next objective, perhaps it's because they kept drooling on the controller, making things hard to control.
Methinks they played the game so ferociously because they couldn't find their way out of the room with the TV, and nobody checked on them for 3 weeks.
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That's to be expected when you've got what appears to be a monkey at the keyboard.
I think you're confusing the psychotic "Everything in the Bible is true, word for word, and it should ALL be taken literally" Christians for all of Christianity.
Personally, I'm inclined to believe in C-14 dating, but I'm also inclined to believe the stories in the Bible have a grain of truth to them, but they're shrouded in metaphor. In the case of the Ark, I'd say there was a flood, and somehow a big-ass Ark got built. If they find the remains of it on Mount Arrat, cool. If not -- well, religion is all about a leap of faith at some point. Otherwise we'd call it science or history.
And the next time you see some whacko trying to tell people the Earth is 6000 years old, tell them to wipe the foam from their lips, and stop scaring people away from Christianity.
The only instance of any Metroid-related material on the N64 that I can think of is Samus Aran's appearance in Super Smash Brothers.
As far as an actual Metroid sequel, things jumped straight from Super Metroid for the SNES to Metroid Fusion and Metroid Prime, for the GBA and GC, respectively.
Concerning the movie, I'll go see it. I just hope it's more like the first Mortal Kombat movie, and not like the sequels or that godawful Street Fighter 2 movie.
His boss was threatening to "fuck his ass". If he was hetero, I would think it unprofessional, but I wouldn't worry about it too terribly much. If the line was delivered by a male crossdresser with his own (sizable) gravity well, however, I might be a little more careful about turning my back to him.
The guys job sounded shitty, even without the boss.
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Perhaps he should have spent his 250 hours of spare time mindlessly gibbing in his Quake clan, eh? Would that have been a better use of his time?
First off, I don't think this would result in a sudden influx of apathetic voters. As it stands now, it's pretty easy for me to go out and vote, and I see the (relatively minor) wait in line as a way to get out there and meet some neighbors I don't know yet.
But let's say that Michigan (my home state, and yes, I know about the Super-DMCA blah blah) institutes some sort of E-Voting that spurs a huge spike of votes by people who normally just don't care enough to go down to the local elementary school, and punch a few holes in some cardstock. Personally, I think this might give politicians a huge reason to actually make their platforms meaningful, in an attempt to 'win over' the apathetic majority.
Perhaps we won't see people running for office on a platform that's nothing more than a house of cards, built with hollow debates and empty promises.
That sentence reminds me of a coworker of mine, and his choices of attire. I actually once asked him to turn down his shirt so I could hear what he was saying.
All I got was *blink* *blink*, and he was back at full speed. What a waste.
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Oh, it's not gross. She's actually quite lovely.
Yes. Seriously, it depends. As a previous poster mentioned, Lenovo seems to give restore CDs/partitions that include a preinstalled image, complete with crapware. Other manufacturers give you a genuine Windows disk, complete with holograms and a butler.
Privacy doesn't have to be an issue if Google starts to package all of these apps into standalone appliances.
They've been selling their search appliances for years now for use on corporate intranets -- why not sell the Google Appliance v2, with the same search engine functionality, but the added bonus of e-mail (GMail), companywide IM (GTalk), and an online, collaborative office suite (Google Spreadsheets and Writely)?
Being able to buy a box to slap in a rack and have it just work and provide these services would be a real boon to many IT shops.
We'd explain, but there's no point.
Followed by:
Ted Stevens: Hey, I can't get my internets. Someone filled up the tubes again! Goddammit, where's my plunger?
Unfortunately, I can't remember the source, so take it as you will.
In an interview with Miyamoto, he said that he wanted to call the game "Stubborn Monkey" (because the monkey wouldn't give Jumpman/Mario's woman back). After the standard Engrish translation, Stubborn became Dnokey, and Monkey became Kong, giving us the title we've been seeing for the last quarter-century.
What mirror-universe are you referring to exactly? Last I checked GP was alive and kicking.
Twice.
I know the site owners put the placeholder page up in a hurry, but at least a single frame from the movie would have been nice.
I just ended up bookmarking it, and I guess I'll check it out in a few days.
Your illustration has nothing to do with healthcare -- that's just the place where you happened to see the situation. It could happen in any largish work environment.
Furthermore, this is not a problem that requires a full-blown palmtop computer. Viewing a Remedy ticket requires very little in the ways of computing grunt. It does require a larger screen resolution than you're going to find on most handhelds.
If the users of a ticket system (like Remedy) are going to be out and about, then whoever implements said system needs to take that into account, and choose a system that's more PDA-friendly than Remedy. Perhaps viewability on PDAs was at the end of the requirements list when picking the system. If people need to buy new devices at $2K a pop to use a specific vendor's system (especially because of something as trivial as formatting the system's output), one has to ask why that vendor was chosen.
An application where this device is truly needed is one where someone has to do computationally-intensive operations on a device that can fit in their hand. I'm not sure that I can think of any examples where this is necessary. If I needed to do truly intensive computation, I'd look to remotely control a box in a closet with lots of grunt, and have the results sent to my PDA-class device. The closest I can think of is something where those comptuations would require or generate large datasets that would be inconvenient to transfer wirelessly.
This looks to me to be a smaller-than-normal laptop. If you can handle the tradeoff between reduced grunt and not having to carry a laptop bag home every night, then this machine has a place. Its worth lies in convenience.
I think I started using Mandrake at about 9.0 or 9.1. I remember 9.2 being a little flakey, but later versions have been great. I've used it for my main desktop machines both at home and work, along with a few servers at home (MythTV backend, NFS, apache, etc)
Your IT department probably insists on using it because it works for most people. Did you think to look at your system, rather than blame it on Cisco?
It took a little moving around to realize that it was just Lakitu's reflection.
Methinks they played the game so ferociously because they couldn't find their way out of the room with the TV, and nobody checked on them for 3 weeks.
Way to go, Chim-Chim!
Unless you really miss the entertainment, you may want to look into it.
Personally, I'm inclined to believe in C-14 dating, but I'm also inclined to believe the stories in the Bible have a grain of truth to them, but they're shrouded in metaphor. In the case of the Ark, I'd say there was a flood, and somehow a big-ass Ark got built. If they find the remains of it on Mount Arrat, cool. If not -- well, religion is all about a leap of faith at some point. Otherwise we'd call it science or history.
And the next time you see some whacko trying to tell people the Earth is 6000 years old, tell them to wipe the foam from their lips, and stop scaring people away from Christianity.
As far as an actual Metroid sequel, things jumped straight from Super Metroid for the SNES to Metroid Fusion and Metroid Prime, for the GBA and GC, respectively.
Concerning the movie, I'll go see it. I just hope it's more like the first Mortal Kombat movie, and not like the sequels or that godawful Street Fighter 2 movie.
The guys job sounded shitty, even without the boss.
Perhaps he should have spent his 250 hours of spare time mindlessly gibbing in his Quake clan, eh? Would that have been a better use of his time?
3d6 burn damage each round until you get out of the hot tub, to be exact.
But let's say that Michigan (my home state, and yes, I know about the Super-DMCA blah blah) institutes some sort of E-Voting that spurs a huge spike of votes by people who normally just don't care enough to go down to the local elementary school, and punch a few holes in some cardstock. Personally, I think this might give politicians a huge reason to actually make their platforms meaningful, in an attempt to 'win over' the apathetic majority.
Perhaps we won't see people running for office on a platform that's nothing more than a house of cards, built with hollow debates and empty promises.
Great, our next president is going to be named Miller, because a bunch of voters just don't like Busch.
That sentence reminds me of a coworker of mine, and his choices of attire. I actually once asked him to turn down his shirt so I could hear what he was saying.
All I got was *blink* *blink*, and he was back at full speed. What a waste.
Any situation where you're a paper-thin dog being taught martial (not marital) arts by a friggin' onion has to be a dream.