Crippling Financial Losses often lead commentators to use words like "Dying" and "Sinking."
On July 9, 1997, Gil Amelio was ousted as CEO of Apple by the board of directors after overseeing a 12 year record low stock price and crippling financial losses. Jobs stepped in as the iCEO (interim CEO) and began a critical restructuring of the company's product line.
You can check for the existence of other browser windows with javascript through the DOMs. A web site should be able to sense that a pop-up was blocked by testing for its existence or by having the pop-up set a value in the parent. If the web site admins really want to present these ads, why wouldn't they block access to people who don't view them?
Rule: "Allow our ad or you don't get access to the content."
The Iranian revolution was originally middle-of-the-road secular types partnered with religious conservatives. Once the Pahlavi's were deposed the religious conservatives took power. It seems to be the pattern in many revolutions; Madame la Guillotine was well served by Robespierre who was fed to her in turn in France.
You can choose to not to study these histories of you want...
who would like to make a death ray for Global Domination?
From Family Guy: Stewie: This isn't the first time my small stature has hindered my plans. [flashback] Auctioneer: Item 157... Global Domination. Enslave the human race. Do I have any bids? Stewie: OOH. OOH. ME. ME. Auctioneer: I'll take any bids. $1. Enslave the human race for $1? Stewie: BEHIND THE FAT CHICK. OOH. OOH.
Marge : I'm worried about the kids, Homey. Lisa's becoming very obsessive. This morning I caught her trying to dissect her own raincoat. Homer : I know. And this perpetual-motion machine she made today is a joke. It just keeps going faster and faster. Marge : And Bart isn't doing very well either. He needs boundaries and structure. There's something about flying a kite at night that's so unwholesome. [Looks out window] Bart : [creepily] Hello, mother dear. Marge : That's it, we have to get them back to school. Homer : I'm with you, Marge. Lisa. Get in here. [Lisa walks in] Homer : In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics.
It's been my favourite tool since that time in '93 when my roomie went on vacation and I thought how cool it would be to dual boot his Win3.11 box and I ended up losing the partition. fdisk along with my lucky guess work over partition ID's saved my hide.
More recently, it helped me when I was nosing around in my work laptop and wanted to have a look at this mysterious partition and I accidentally marked it "active." Knoppix came to my rescue then. There was nothing interesting on the partition, but at least I now know.
A densely packed periodical with a ton of well thought out opinion pieces that cover the whole world. Their articles contain a lot of fact but are - ultimately - opinion pieces. I don't always agree with them, but when I don't I have to sit down and think about my reasons.
Although, if you read their technology quarterly you realise that they aren't delving that deep into each issue they research.
Which is ironic; Alberta spends more per person than any other province. I guess they follow the Bush school of fiscal prudence. Mind you, they can afford it.
I was in Toronto and the blackout occured about 30 hours before I was scheduled to leave for Europe to meet up with my parents. I was going to do laundry that night so I could get it all out of the way before the trip.
I was sitting at my desk when it hit; the folks with desktops lost power long enough before the auxilary started that their machines rebooted. I was on a laptop so i just lost connections to test servers that were not on UPS's. I went home shortly after that.
I was pleasantly surprised that my apartment building had generators too. They packed enough punch to power one of the elevators, emergency hallway lights, and give lukewarm water to the apartments. No Laundry tho'.
That night my roomies and I went out to Baldwin Street to a nice patio and had a cold dinner. Everything was chaotic but calm as we strolled up the street. The dinner was - of course - simple but nice. Of course, at that time all lights were still out and no planes were flying at the airport.
At home we made do with candles and flashlights. I had a little waterproof light. That was useful the next morning. I had an old, black, bell phone that we plugged in to phone jack so that we could call people - none of our cordless phones would work. I was then able to call my parents in Europe and tell them of my situation
In the middle of the night I went for a stroll; I couldn't sleep without the air conditioning. I noticed that the power had come back on the other side of University Avenue - less than 100 meters away from my apartment building. I remember standing on one side of the street under the working street lights willing the electricity to move just a little bit West.
The next morning I woke up on my own (no alarm clock), had a luke warm shower (from the auxilary power), put on shorts and a t-shirt (still no laundry done) and went into work. Took the one working elevator at work to my floor (on auxilary power) and plugged in to check to see that there were no problems with the production servers (there were none). I wasn't so thrilled to be on the same elevator as the EVP looking unshaven with shorts and t-shirt. But on that day allowances could be made.
All throughout that Friday I had heard about flight cancellations. My flight was at about 8 PM. That morning I had heard that all flights were cancelled until 10 AM. At around 9 that cutoff was moved to noon. At around 10 AM all flights were cancelled to 4 PM. And the cutoff stayed at 4 PM. I did laundry like a madman, packed clothing - some of it semi-dry - and hopped a cab to the airport to the longest line I have ever seen.
I was flying out of Terminal 1. I had an electronic ticket that allowed me to bypass most of the line (thankfully). Once I got checked in I found out my flight had been delayed; first until 10 PM and then until about midnight. But I got on the plane and off I went. Smooth sailing from there.
Step 5... shout DAMNIT even louder when you try to type something and discover that the punctuation keys are completely different on a US keyboard to a UK keyboard.
Has an article on this. Good article exposing the availability of different applications in local languages. It seems that one of the benefits of open source software is it's ability to be modified in this manner. Open Office in Gujarati, anyone?
The article is online for premium users only. For some reason the Economist wants you to pay for content. I got it in the old-media form; good old paper.
Now that's funny because a german kid once referred to me as "ein grosse elk." The danger in using elks as a form of measurement is variation between jurisdictions; Elk is another word for moose in Europe while it refers to a large deer, also called a Wapiti, in North America. So this kid was calling me a big moose while I thought he was calling me a large, red deer.
However, since this is a Canadian measure Elk should refer to the deer and not the moose.
On another note, for the purposes of accident insurance, deer are considere flying objects in Canada.
What about distributed computing? Write the code outside of and then provide it as a service via SOAP. You might have to revert to charging tariffs for services as well as software.
1. I'm not a gun owner and have no problem with gun controls, but I know people who own guns. They're responsible and have never caused problems or have anti-social tendencies. While I don't mind the thought of gun registration, it needs to be done in a responsible manner. Maybe something akin to vehicle registration, which is not that onerus and not very outrageous at all.
2. on a pro-gun (American) website (IIRC) I noted that %29 of Canadian households had guns and %39 of Amercan ones did. IIRC, as well, most guns in Canada are rifles or shotguns. I believe that a greater proportion of the firearms in the U.S. are pistols or (semi-)automatic rifles. These are weapons more suited to killing people. That could explain the discrepancy between murder rates between the two countries. Being Canadian and knowing some Americans, the character of the two peoples is not that far apart.
Michael Moore is entertaining and smart, but like most commentators on any side of any issue he isn't the most unbiased guy in the world. And this is a fairly liberal fellow saying this. A specific note about "Bowling for Columbine;" I think he's talking about gun related deaths, not the murder rate in his movie. (I could be wrong but I don't think so)
Hence, NA, despite being way larger in population, has a much less percentage of people who are tech savvy
Actually, the Population of the US and Canada is about 315 million while the EU has about 378 million. Given EU net users number 186 millon and NA net users number 182 million this gives us the following net usage rates: EU = 49%(186/378) and NA = 57%(182/315).
Since your premise that NA is larger in population is incorrect can we reverse your conclusion and state that NA actually has a higher proportion of people who are tech savvy? Knowing the Europeans I've known I don't believe the education of that continent is lacking so maybe we have to blame the EU telecoms.
Given what English friends of mine have said I blame British Telecom.:)
A couple of months ago I started received messages from a couple of big ISP's saying that my messages could not be delivered since my e-mail address had been blocked. The messages were spam that I didn't send to people I didn't know; my address had been used in the from line of the spam.
Jeez, Did none of you people play Funhouse? "It's lunchtime, get yourself a hotdog." The Frenzy, the super Frenzy, Getting the ball in the talking head's mouth during the multiplay. That game and Addams Family were my favourites, and I'd love to own them.
I'd heard that some of the FC guys had gone off to BitBoys Oy. and 3D Mark (Didn't know about Max Payne). But I haven't heard of FC or Demo-ing in years. I'd figured that M$'s attempts at hardware abstraction had killed them off. Glad to hear there's still a demo culture out there. And they're producing some pretty slick stuff.
The site I linked to in my Grand-parent post also has archives of FC's music. I didn't see any recent demo work from FC - must be too busy with their jobs in the industry...
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the closeup from Google Maps is kind of cool, too.
IMHO, as per
J:)
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Apple_Com
You can check for the existence of other browser windows with javascript through the DOMs. A web site should be able to sense that a pop-up was blocked by testing for its existence or by having the pop-up set a value in the parent. If the web site admins really want to present these ads, why wouldn't they block access to people who don't view them?
Rule: "Allow our ad or you don't get access to the content."
Just a question...
_J_
For consumer stuff I've yet to see a place with better prices than Canada Computers
The Iranian revolution was originally middle-of-the-road secular types partnered with religious conservatives. Once the Pahlavi's were deposed the religious conservatives took power. It seems to be the pattern in many revolutions; Madame la Guillotine was well served by Robespierre who was fed to her in turn in France.
You can choose to not to study these histories of you want...
J:)
I caught a bit of this last night. My favourite quote came from Stallman: "Giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is a bit like giving the Han Solo Award to the Rebel Alliance."
I had to track down this quote this morning after hearing it last night.
who would like to make a death ray for Global Domination?
From Family Guy:
Stewie: This isn't the first time my small stature has hindered my plans.
[flashback]
Auctioneer: Item 157... Global Domination. Enslave the human race. Do I have any bids?
Stewie: OOH. OOH. ME. ME.
Auctioneer: I'll take any bids. $1. Enslave the human race for $1?
Stewie: BEHIND THE FAT CHICK. OOH. OOH.
J
easily fended off joe pesci and that ugly guy
I'm sure there is at least one person on this planet who wishes that you had said "Daniel Stern and that ugly guy"
J:)
Found Here:
Marge : I'm worried about the kids, Homey. Lisa's becoming very obsessive. This morning I caught her trying to dissect her own raincoat.
Homer : I know. And this perpetual-motion machine she made today is a joke. It just keeps going faster and faster.
Marge : And Bart isn't doing very well either. He needs boundaries and structure. There's something about flying a kite at night that's so unwholesome.
[Looks out window]
Bart : [creepily] Hello, mother dear.
Marge : That's it, we have to get them back to school.
Homer : I'm with you, Marge. Lisa. Get in here.
[Lisa walks in]
Homer : In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics.
J:)
It's been my favourite tool since that time in '93 when my roomie went on vacation and I thought how cool it would be to dual boot his Win3.11 box and I ended up losing the partition. fdisk along with my lucky guess work over partition ID's saved my hide.
More recently, it helped me when I was nosing around in my work laptop and wanted to have a look at this mysterious partition and I accidentally marked it "active." Knoppix came to my rescue then. There was nothing interesting on the partition, but at least I now know.
IMHO, as per.
J
A densely packed periodical with a ton of well thought out opinion pieces that cover the whole world. Their articles contain a lot of fact but are - ultimately - opinion pieces. I don't always agree with them, but when I don't I have to sit down and think about my reasons.
Although, if you read their technology quarterly you realise that they aren't delving that deep into each issue they research.
IMHO, as per.
J:)
Which is ironic; Alberta spends more per person than any other province. I guess they follow the Bush school of fiscal prudence. Mind you, they can afford it.
J:)
I was in Toronto and the blackout occured about 30 hours before I was scheduled to leave for Europe to meet up with my parents. I was going to do laundry that night so I could get it all out of the way before the trip.
I was sitting at my desk when it hit; the folks with desktops lost power long enough before the auxilary started that their machines rebooted. I was on a laptop so i just lost connections to test servers that were not on UPS's. I went home shortly after that.
I was pleasantly surprised that my apartment building had generators too. They packed enough punch to power one of the elevators, emergency hallway lights, and give lukewarm water to the apartments. No Laundry tho'.
That night my roomies and I went out to Baldwin Street to a nice patio and had a cold dinner. Everything was chaotic but calm as we strolled up the street. The dinner was - of course - simple but nice. Of course, at that time all lights were still out and no planes were flying at the airport.
At home we made do with candles and flashlights. I had a little waterproof light. That was useful the next morning. I had an old, black, bell phone that we plugged in to phone jack so that we could call people - none of our cordless phones would work. I was then able to call my parents in Europe and tell them of my situation
In the middle of the night I went for a stroll; I couldn't sleep without the air conditioning. I noticed that the power had come back on the other side of University Avenue - less than 100 meters away from my apartment building. I remember standing on one side of the street under the working street lights willing the electricity to move just a little bit West.
The next morning I woke up on my own (no alarm clock), had a luke warm shower (from the auxilary power), put on shorts and a t-shirt (still no laundry done) and went into work. Took the one working elevator at work to my floor (on auxilary power) and plugged in to check to see that there were no problems with the production servers (there were none). I wasn't so thrilled to be on the same elevator as the EVP looking unshaven with shorts and t-shirt. But on that day allowances could be made.
All throughout that Friday I had heard about flight cancellations. My flight was at about 8 PM. That morning I had heard that all flights were cancelled until 10 AM. At around 9 that cutoff was moved to noon. At around 10 AM all flights were cancelled to 4 PM. And the cutoff stayed at 4 PM. I did laundry like a madman, packed clothing - some of it semi-dry - and hopped a cab to the airport to the longest line I have ever seen.
I was flying out of Terminal 1. I had an electronic ticket that allowed me to bypass most of the line (thankfully). Once I got checked in I found out my flight had been delayed; first until 10 PM and then until about midnight. But I got on the plane and off I went. Smooth sailing from there.
J
Step 5...
shout DAMNIT even louder when you try to type something and discover that the punctuation keys are completely different on a US keyboard to a UK keyboard.
German kezboards are worse....
J:)
Has an article on this. Good article exposing the availability of different applications in local languages. It seems that one of the benefits of open source software is it's ability to be modified in this manner. Open Office in Gujarati, anyone?
The article is online for premium users only. For some reason the Economist wants you to pay for content. I got it in the old-media form; good old paper.
IMHO, as per.
J:)
Now that's funny because a german kid once referred to me as "ein grosse elk." The danger in using elks as a form of measurement is variation between jurisdictions; Elk is another word for moose in Europe while it refers to a large deer, also called a Wapiti, in North America. So this kid was calling me a big moose while I thought he was calling me a large, red deer.
However, since this is a Canadian measure Elk should refer to the deer and not the moose.
On another note, for the purposes of accident insurance, deer are considere flying objects in Canada.
IMHO, as per.
J:)
It would be interesting to find out how many
oh yeah, and Bwahahahahahahahahaa
That gives me a thought:
What about distributed computing? Write the code outside of and then provide it as a service via SOAP. You might have to revert to charging tariffs for services as well as software.
IMHO, as per
J:)
A few thoughts on that debate:
1. I'm not a gun owner and have no problem with gun controls, but I know people who own guns. They're responsible and have never caused problems or have anti-social tendencies. While I don't mind the thought of gun registration, it needs to be done in a responsible manner. Maybe something akin to vehicle registration, which is not that onerus and not very outrageous at all.
2. on a pro-gun (American) website (IIRC) I noted that %29 of Canadian households had guns and %39 of Amercan ones did. IIRC, as well, most guns in Canada are rifles or shotguns. I believe that a greater proportion of the firearms in the U.S. are pistols or (semi-)automatic rifles. These are weapons more suited to killing people. That could explain the discrepancy between murder rates between the two countries. Being Canadian and knowing some Americans, the character of the two peoples is not that far apart.
Michael Moore is entertaining and smart, but like most commentators on any side of any issue he isn't the most unbiased guy in the world. And this is a fairly liberal fellow saying this. A specific note about "Bowling for Columbine;" I think he's talking about gun related deaths, not the murder rate in his movie. (I could be wrong but I don't think so)
Anyway....
J:)
I live NW of Queen and University. I think I need to get a wireless networkign card....
IMHO, as per
J:)
Hence, NA, despite being way larger in population, has a much less percentage of people who are tech savvy
Actually, the Population of the US and Canada is about 315 million while the EU has about 378 million. Given EU net users number 186 millon and NA net users number 182 million this gives us the following net usage rates: EU = 49%(186/378) and NA = 57%(182/315).
Since your premise that NA is larger in population is incorrect can we reverse your conclusion and state that NA actually has a higher proportion of people who are tech savvy? Knowing the Europeans I've known I don't believe the education of that continent is lacking so maybe we have to blame the EU telecoms.
Given what English friends of mine have said I blame British Telecom.:)
IMHO, as per.
J:)
A couple of months ago I started received messages from a couple of big ISP's saying that my messages could not be delivered since my e-mail address had been blocked. The messages were spam that I didn't send to people I didn't know; my address had been used in the from line of the spam.
Disturbing to say the least.
J
Jeez,
Did none of you people play Funhouse? "It's lunchtime, get yourself a hotdog." The Frenzy, the super Frenzy, Getting the ball in the talking head's mouth during the multiplay. That game and Addams Family were my favourites, and I'd love to own them.
J:)
I'd heard that some of the FC guys had gone off to BitBoys Oy. and 3D Mark (Didn't know about Max Payne). But I haven't heard of FC or Demo-ing in years. I'd figured that M$'s attempts at hardware abstraction had killed them off. Glad to hear there's still a demo culture out there. And they're producing some pretty slick stuff.
The site I linked to in my Grand-parent post also has archives of FC's music. I didn't see any recent demo work from FC - must be too busy with their jobs in the industry...
J:)