A web browser, such as Netscape was never supposed to be a competitor with Windows. But everyone somehow had downloaded a copy of Netscape on their desktop.
Microsoft follows the money and takes it accordingly.
Starting a career was interesting after getting my electrical engineering degree. I got my BS during the peak of the recession in '92. School was mostly fun due to the labs and being able to pick my senior project.
Unfortunately, I had to graduate and get a job unlike some of the other career students. It started out with a short lived technician's job with oil wells in Texas. That job stunk more ways than one. It came to an end very quick and I was surprised to see my buddies in the graduate placement office too.
I took to the newspaper and took the first thing I could find. Repairing televisions and VCR's was fun. It paid like crap, but we could do things after hours, like make robots out of old VCR parts or design radar guns and other michievious fun. Within a few months, the business did so good I was managing my own store. Due to the rapid expansion and mismanagement that followed, the business rapidly collapsed and I went back into school. Had to do something.
My second round of school turned out to be full time employment in the Dean's office. After a few years of gaining skills with all the opportunities presented to me, I used the reference to get a maintenance job running a manufacturing plant. I started at the bottom and got promoted to senior electronic technician in six months. Its not the glamorous job title of engineer or anything, but I do get to play with 3 megawatts and lots of large assemblies of DC motors, servos, encoders, and high voltage test equipment.
I have found most industry is pretty much the same and the skills are transferable. Its nice staying in an industry where job security is always available.
Not much more difficult than a dirt bike. Remember those bikes in the James Bond movies tearing through the mountains with guys shooting machine guns at the same time? Take away the studded tires and the grip is decreased, but traction is still strong (I would dare say its still better than what a car would see.) Just keep the bike from dissappearing from underneath you and traction is not a problem.
Wrong. There's no such thing as bad weather. Just bad clothing. Electric clothing takes a few minutes to put on, but well worth it. Just seconds after plugging it in during 20 degree weather, you are guaranteed to feel like a toasted cheese sandwich.
I ride my motorcycle through the freezing weather whilst most are driving their cars waiting for their heaters to warm up. Snow, ice? You would be surprised. Its interesting to see them look at me like I'm nuts when I can see their breath in their cars as their frozen hands attempt to grasp the dangerous cup of coffee.
Beer does innovate at a much faster rate. Like at a bar, those lines just get better looking as the night progresses and you have to take them all home. It is debugging the staggering amount of code hurled the morning after the hangover that is the headache.
Yep, we had a week's wait on getting that rear tire. We were tempted to get a cheapo Firstone tire put on, but that would have lowered the resale value.
As far as repairing the car, the electric drive is very similar to the electric forklifts I repair. If anyone needs a technician to work on one of these things, I start at $30.00 an hour. hehe...
My mom bought a Toyota Prius last year and I often get the chance to take it for a spin. If you can deal with a waiting list, they are $20,000. Its pretty much the same car as a Toyota Echo, but with some interesting guts inside to make it run.
Its a cool car. The only way someone can tell if its electric is by noticing the car often does not make any noise when driving by. Except for the faint singing from the inverters that drive the car and charge the battery from braking. Did I mention the car is very quiet? When tooling around the city, the most noticeable thing you can hear is the fine gravel on the asphalt crunching under the tires.
A computer screen graphs what kind of energy the car is using at the moment and what kind of milage it is getting. With light effort, 80mpg (or more!) can often be achieved for a trip across town. Its a very smooth ride. On the highway with the traffic, the milage is much less, often dropping to about 45mpg. The gas savings could pay for this car very quickly.
How fast does it go? Acceleration is very good as cars go due to its variable speed transmission. Leaving a stop sign is very smooth and brisk without any jerking commmon with usual automatic or manual transmissions. Top speed may be just over 100mph. I remember reading a magazine (Road and Track?) documented a top speed of 102.
Since it is an "experimental" car, Toyota pays for all service for 4 years. The batteries have a 10 year warranty. We have had no problems with it yet, except for driving over debris from an accident, slashing a rear tire.
Oh, the stereo is awesome. Imagine hearing every faint noise during a concert when driving.
The air conditioner was great during the blistering summer. It will start the engine when the cooling system needs some fresh liquid freon (or whatever they use these days.)
Oh, you'll rarely notice when the engine starts to charge the battery. The engine seems to be well insulated from noise and vibration and starts almost instantly.
The way the engine-battery way this car works is pretty cool. When you put the key in, you start it like a normal car, but it tops off the batteries. I suppose you could run out of gas and just run on the batteries too. Perhaps you could disconnect the batteries and just run off the engine. Pressing on the gas in nuetral just starts the engine and revs it up. It can behave and act just like the normal cars we are used to. Very friendly operation.
Everyone needs to get one of these. Why people continue to buy cars that have the same room inside and gas milage of 30mpg or less is beyond my understanding. Yes, the interior has plenty of room for my step dad who weighs over 300lbs.
Mine is just some cheapo APS unit with the guts ripped out and a wiring job. I was using a $60 Walmart special until I found a slightly beefier unit in someone's trash. Any UPS unit will do!
I picked up an attractive, modern looking wall mount bracket from the local furniture/appliance store. Its good enough for up to 27" televisions and holds my other large computer monitor well. The monitors can easily be swiveled in any angle with these mounts.
Mounting the monitors on the wall left my entire desk surface free for papers and books. With the remaining opening in the desk, I shoehorned in two a stout UPS unit with two marine batteries coupled by 6 guage wire. I also included recessed lighting under the desk. If the power ever goes out for a long time, I'll still have lights, room to work, and play on my computer for a day or two.
I suppose if the license is concise enough to grab the general idea why the author felt compeled to ask for unique conditions, its not evil.
Unless of course, the license is beyond casual reading and does not require many hours of a legal team to imagine the implications of the many possible hypothetical special circumstances that always arise.
That said, its always nice to see an old, well proven license when untarring a package.
And no other calculator could match the tactile feedback of HP's keyboards. They were rugged and were part of the most reliable hardware one could find in a calculator.
When pushed rapidly or slowly, despite massive consumption of caffeine or lack of sleep of the user, that key was guaranteed to show up in the register.
HP calculators were required when mistakes were not an option.
My laptops require anywhere from 19 volts to 15 volts, but you know what? They all have switching power supplies to convert the power feed into the varying degrees of power needed for the CPU, bus, multiple batteries, disc drives, and inverter for the screen. I have found a fused connection from a car battery is more than sufficient for operating my laptops. Even with a voltage swing from just under 12 volts up to 16 volts from starting the car to taking long trips, the laptop, even with its battery removed, will keep on going.
Just be sure to fuse the connection around 6 amps or so. There should be a diode inside the laptop in case the polarity is reversed, so that fuse is necessary. Be aware that switching power supplies will draw more amperage when the voltage is lower. The only two exceptions is the low voltage alarm that will be triggered before the CPU is starved of voltage required for proper logic levels or the high voltage SCR "crowbar" which will clamp down on dangerously high levels.
Oh, I suppose experimenting with crude power feeds to your delicate electronic equipment will weed out inferior designs. Great experimenting on cold winter mornings. The worst that could happen is you could start a nice toasty fire to warm your hands and lap with.
Unfortuantely, there will always be conspiracy theories behind Microsoft's mistakes. Microsoft does not have a simple 2D personality. There seems to be many sides to its marketing department. One side researches and then "invents" said technology into aa colorful package, another pushes that technology to everyone including those who don't need or want it, and one side cleans up the mess.
And I'm sure there's a legal arm of its marketing department. The whole company reeks of marketing. There are way too many security fiascos from this company as they agressively push their touted inexpensive technologies onto the masses.
"More than 70 sites are in the process of deploying Passport's authentication technology, according to Microsoft. Among them is Prudential Banking's Egg.com online bank, which is switching to Passport..."
Egg.com sounds kind of ironic. Must be quite a marketing effort on Microsoft's behalf getting banks to deploy not tested technology on a mass scale.
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Closed source, proprietary memory sticks, lawyers after those who hack it, what other clues to the AIBO's motives do you need?
Reminds me of a .sig on the newsfroups:
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
The two are absolutely in no way competitors.
A web browser, such as Netscape was never supposed to be a competitor with Windows. But everyone somehow had downloaded a copy of Netscape on their desktop.
Microsoft follows the money and takes it accordingly.
Most Windows boxen I have seen have a virus scan upon bootup. Any guesses how long this will take?
Starting a career was interesting after getting my electrical engineering degree. I got my BS during the peak of the recession in '92. School was mostly fun due to the labs and being able to pick my senior project.
Unfortunately, I had to graduate and get a job unlike some of the other career students. It started out with a short lived technician's job with oil wells in Texas. That job stunk more ways than one. It came to an end very quick and I was surprised to see my buddies in the graduate placement office too.
I took to the newspaper and took the first thing I could find. Repairing televisions and VCR's was fun. It paid like crap, but we could do things after hours, like make robots out of old VCR parts or design radar guns and other michievious fun. Within a few months, the business did so good I was managing my own store. Due to the rapid expansion and mismanagement that followed, the business rapidly collapsed and I went back into school. Had to do something.
My second round of school turned out to be full time employment in the Dean's office. After a few years of gaining skills with all the opportunities presented to me, I used the reference to get a maintenance job running a manufacturing plant. I started at the bottom and got promoted to senior electronic technician in six months. Its not the glamorous job title of engineer or anything, but I do get to play with 3 megawatts and lots of large assemblies of DC motors, servos, encoders, and high voltage test equipment.
I have found most industry is pretty much the same and the skills are transferable. Its nice staying in an industry where job security is always available.
Its a celebration of our operating system's core. Not much, really. Just a big party.
Compile and grab a cold beer. Then join us.
Just ask Microsoft or their partners if its a good idea to voluntarily remove their logo. Their investors depend on it for their lives.
Not much more difficult than a dirt bike. Remember those bikes in the James Bond movies tearing through the mountains with guys shooting machine guns at the same time? Take away the studded tires and the grip is decreased, but traction is still strong (I would dare say its still better than what a car would see.) Just keep the bike from dissappearing from underneath you and traction is not a problem.
Bicycle...Not comfortable in bad weather
Wrong. There's no such thing as bad weather. Just bad clothing. Electric clothing takes a few minutes to put on, but well worth it. Just seconds after plugging it in during 20 degree weather, you are guaranteed to feel like a toasted cheese sandwich.
I ride my motorcycle through the freezing weather whilst most are driving their cars waiting for their heaters to warm up. Snow, ice? You would be surprised. Its interesting to see them look at me like I'm nuts when I can see their breath in their cars as their frozen hands attempt to grasp the dangerous cup of coffee.
Beer does innovate at a much faster rate. Like at a bar, those lines just get better looking as the night progresses and you have to take them all home. It is debugging the staggering amount of code hurled the morning after the hangover that is the headache.
Yep, we had a week's wait on getting that rear tire. We were tempted to get a cheapo Firstone tire put on, but that would have lowered the resale value.
As far as repairing the car, the electric drive is very similar to the electric forklifts I repair. If anyone needs a technician to work on one of these things, I start at $30.00 an hour. hehe...
I thought most of us worked for the NSA and FBI.
We can get it done by next week! We can do this because we have just #defined a day as having 2000 hours.
My mom bought a Toyota Prius last year and I often get the chance to take it for a spin. If you can deal with a waiting list, they are $20,000. Its pretty much the same car as a Toyota Echo, but with some interesting guts inside to make it run.
Its a cool car. The only way someone can tell if its electric is by noticing the car often does not make any noise when driving by. Except for the faint singing from the inverters that drive the car and charge the battery from braking. Did I mention the car is very quiet? When tooling around the city, the most noticeable thing you can hear is the fine gravel on the asphalt crunching under the tires.
A computer screen graphs what kind of energy the car is using at the moment and what kind of milage it is getting. With light effort, 80mpg (or more!) can often be achieved for a trip across town. Its a very smooth ride. On the highway with the traffic, the milage is much less, often dropping to about 45mpg. The gas savings could pay for this car very quickly.
How fast does it go? Acceleration is very good as cars go due to its variable speed transmission. Leaving a stop sign is very smooth and brisk without any jerking commmon with usual automatic or manual transmissions. Top speed may be just over 100mph. I remember reading a magazine (Road and Track?) documented a top speed of 102.
Since it is an "experimental" car, Toyota pays for all service for 4 years. The batteries have a 10 year warranty. We have had no problems with it yet, except for driving over debris from an accident, slashing a rear tire.
Oh, the stereo is awesome. Imagine hearing every faint noise during a concert when driving.
The air conditioner was great during the blistering summer. It will start the engine when the cooling system needs some fresh liquid freon (or whatever they use these days.)
Oh, you'll rarely notice when the engine starts to charge the battery. The engine seems to be well insulated from noise and vibration and starts almost instantly.
The way the engine-battery way this car works is pretty cool. When you put the key in, you start it like a normal car, but it tops off the batteries. I suppose you could run out of gas and just run on the batteries too. Perhaps you could disconnect the batteries and just run off the engine. Pressing on the gas in nuetral just starts the engine and revs it up. It can behave and act just like the normal cars we are used to. Very friendly operation.
Everyone needs to get one of these. Why people continue to buy cars that have the same room inside and gas milage of 30mpg or less is beyond my understanding. Yes, the interior has plenty of room for my step dad who weighs over 300lbs.
Mine is just some cheapo APS unit with the guts ripped out and a wiring job. I was using a $60 Walmart special until I found a slightly beefier unit in someone's trash. Any UPS unit will do!
I picked up an attractive, modern looking wall mount bracket from the local furniture/appliance store. Its good enough for up to 27" televisions and holds my other large computer monitor well. The monitors can easily be swiveled in any angle with these mounts.
Mounting the monitors on the wall left my entire desk surface free for papers and books. With the remaining opening in the desk, I shoehorned in two a stout UPS unit with two marine batteries coupled by 6 guage wire. I also included recessed lighting under the desk. If the power ever goes out for a long time, I'll still have lights, room to work, and play on my computer for a day or two.
or the Monsanto/Microsoft License:
all your crops will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.
I suppose if the license is concise enough to grab the general idea why the author felt compeled to ask for unique conditions, its not evil.
Unless of course, the license is beyond casual reading and does not require many hours of a legal team to imagine the implications of the many possible hypothetical special circumstances that always arise.
That said, its always nice to see an old, well proven license when untarring a package.
Unix is karma. What me worry?
And no other calculator could match the tactile feedback of HP's keyboards. They were rugged and were part of the most reliable hardware one could find in a calculator.
When pushed rapidly or slowly, despite massive consumption of caffeine or lack of sleep of the user, that key was guaranteed to show up in the register.
HP calculators were required when mistakes were not an option.
My laptops require anywhere from 19 volts to 15 volts, but you know what? They all have switching power supplies to convert the power feed into the varying degrees of power needed for the CPU, bus, multiple batteries, disc drives, and inverter for the screen. I have found a fused connection from a car battery is more than sufficient for operating my laptops. Even with a voltage swing from just under 12 volts up to 16 volts from starting the car to taking long trips, the laptop, even with its battery removed, will keep on going.
Just be sure to fuse the connection around 6 amps or so. There should be a diode inside the laptop in case the polarity is reversed, so that fuse is necessary. Be aware that switching power supplies will draw more amperage when the voltage is lower. The only two exceptions is the low voltage alarm that will be triggered before the CPU is starved of voltage required for proper logic levels or the high voltage SCR "crowbar" which will clamp down on dangerously high levels.
Oh, I suppose experimenting with crude power feeds to your delicate electronic equipment will weed out inferior designs. Great experimenting on cold winter mornings. The worst that could happen is you could start a nice toasty fire to warm your hands and lap with.
We could tell you, but the NSA would have to kill you.
Unfortuantely, there will always be conspiracy theories behind Microsoft's mistakes. Microsoft does not have a simple 2D personality. There seems to be many sides to its marketing department. One side researches and then "invents" said technology into aa colorful package, another pushes that technology to everyone including those who don't need or want it, and one side cleans up the mess.
And I'm sure there's a legal arm of its marketing department. The whole company reeks of marketing. There are way too many security fiascos from this company as they agressively push their touted inexpensive technologies onto the masses.
Quoting a gem from the article:
"More than 70 sites are in the process of deploying Passport's authentication technology, according to Microsoft. Among them is Prudential Banking's Egg.com online bank, which is switching to Passport..."
Egg.com sounds kind of ironic. Must be quite a marketing effort on Microsoft's behalf getting banks to deploy not tested technology on a mass scale.
Funny, that link didn't present what I wanted to show. Put msft,sun in the box and select for two years. Its a damn pretty chart.