Maybe it matters a slight amount that the thing was used by a democratic nation to end a dreadful war launched against them rather than by the Nazis to achieve world domination in a war of their own making?
Remind me again what military installations were being targetted? The citizens of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were what, human shields? The bomb couldn't have been dropped off-shore or somesuch?
"The competition from free sources is reducing our sales!" In fact, slow growth in the economy impacts all kinds of sales
Doesn't it work both ways? A slow-down in the growth of the economy may be causing lower sales. But couldn't it be lower sales that are causing a slow-down in the economy?
There's a good history of the Saturn and why it failed in this month's Edge magazine. Amongst other things (being expensive etc), it was a dual-CPU system (two Hitachi CPUs) that was hard to code for, and there weren't enough Saturn coders of a high enough calibre to write good for it. Also, FWIW Saturn apparently sold very well in Japan.
I never had one, my dodo was Dreamcast. But Rez made it all worthwhile...
Also, the movies consists of still pictures that fade in/out, are zoomed into, etc. You aren't exactly missing any movies of "Blizzard quality"
Thank God! At last, a developer that isn't wasting time and money producing cheesy 3D cut-scenes that you see once (if hammering all the buttons doesn't skip them) and then forget instantly.
In theory, prices should either be at the point of equilibrium between the supply and demand curves, or at the point of diminishing returns (the point at which selling more at a lower price does not lead to increased profit).
Alecto Historical Editions has translated the books from Latin to English and is selling them in printed and electronic form (BTW the translation, not the Latin, is what is copyrighted).
There are two Domesday Books books: Little Domesday (comprising Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk) and Great Domesday (the other English counties).
They have also photographed each folio of the book and scanned them from transparencies at good res (888 folios altogether).
There's also a transcription of the book. (A bloke called Farley typeset the Latin some time in the 18th century. Unfortunately I keep visualising Chris Farley.) This too has now been photographed and scanned.
It's pretty dry stuff, but historically important: basically, it's an 11th century inventory, conducted at the time of Kings Edward and William (the Conqueror). It says who owned what, who lived where, how much money was paid in tax, etc. as well as containing all sorts of social comment. For us plebs the amazing thing is that you can look up a town, read what was there, and still see what remains in real life.
[Disclaimer: I know this stuff not because I'm a history buff but because for a while know we've been working on putting it all on CD-ROM for them. By coincidence the gold masters went out today. If I have to pnmrotate one more sodding 250MB image I'll kill someone.]
36 Euros per week * 52 = 1872 Euros per year. That's 18720 in 10 years. That's 1.872 Lupos (using your valuation).
However - alternative fuels are currently cheap, in the UK at least, because of government subsidies. Nevertheless even in the long run they are unlikely to be more expensive than petrol, so there are real savings to be had.
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Slashdot Mirror
Has there ever been a triple post on slashdot?
Having just finished The Return of the King, it's funny how much of this way of speech reminds me of Aragorn et al to their troops.
I did a NewsForge interview with a SuSE rep who quotes an IDC study that says Linux desktop use will double by 2004.
Great! Any idea yet who the other desktop user is?
Anyone have the BSA's IP addresses? I want to protect my network against this sort of intrusion.
Shit! Does this mean that every time I get a digest-mode mailing list digest I should be sending Jeff a cheque?
Maybe it matters a slight amount that the thing was used by a democratic nation to end a dreadful war launched against them rather than by the Nazis to achieve world domination in a war of their own making?
Remind me again what military installations were being targetted? The citizens of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were what, human shields? The bomb couldn't have been dropped off-shore or somesuch?
Secret Government Property? They should have disguised it as an 8-track tape player.
Or a copy of Daikatana...
From the "buy now" link: price is $1299.95
"The competition from free sources is reducing our sales!" In fact, slow growth in the economy impacts all kinds of sales
Doesn't it work both ways? A slow-down in the growth of the economy may be causing lower sales. But couldn't it be lower sales that are causing a slow-down in the economy?
There's a good history of the Saturn and why it failed in this month's Edge magazine. Amongst other things (being expensive etc), it was a dual-CPU system (two Hitachi CPUs) that was hard to code for, and there weren't enough Saturn coders of a high enough calibre to write good for it. Also, FWIW Saturn apparently sold very well in Japan.
I never had one, my dodo was Dreamcast. But Rez made it all worthwhile...
Would they then have to refund the patent application fees? They'd probably get sued by businesses built around their gene patents.
Clearly what Opera should do is quit whining, adopt open source, and bring all their fabulous innovations to the KDE source base... right?
Oh, and also: ??? Profit!
Also, the movies consists of still pictures that fade in/out, are zoomed into, etc. You aren't exactly missing any movies of "Blizzard quality"
Thank God! At last, a developer that isn't wasting time and money producing cheesy 3D cut-scenes that you see once (if hammering all the buttons doesn't skip them) and then forget instantly.
Did you ever consider that he was makeing an analogy... "MacOS is to Darwin (BSD) as Windows is to Linux" just in case you can't figure it out.
That's exactly what I meant. Perhaps I was overestimating the intellect of the slashdot crowd.
You mean, like OS X?
In theory, prices should either be at the point of equilibrium between the supply and demand curves, or at the point of diminishing returns (the point at which selling more at a lower price does not lead to increased profit).
Neither of these apply in practice.
I keep typing
./install.sh
#
and nothing happens?
So have the people who work for Largo started to switch to Linux at home?
Alecto Historical Editions has translated the books from Latin to English and is selling them in printed and electronic form (BTW the translation, not the Latin, is what is copyrighted).
There are two Domesday Books books: Little Domesday (comprising Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk) and Great Domesday (the other English counties).
They have also photographed each folio of the book and scanned them from transparencies at good res (888 folios altogether).
There's also a transcription of the book. (A bloke called Farley typeset the Latin some time in the
18th century. Unfortunately I keep visualising Chris Farley.) This too has now been photographed and scanned.
It's pretty dry stuff, but historically important: basically, it's an 11th century inventory, conducted at the time of Kings Edward and William (the Conqueror). It says who owned what, who lived where, how much money was paid in tax, etc. as well as containing all sorts of social comment. For us plebs the amazing thing is that you can look up a town, read what was there, and still see what remains in real life.
[Disclaimer: I know this stuff not because I'm a history buff but because for a while know we've been working on putting it all on CD-ROM for them. By coincidence the gold masters went out today. If I have to pnmrotate one more sodding 250MB image I'll kill someone.]
36 Euros per week * 52 = 1872 Euros per year. That's 18720 in 10 years. That's 1.872 Lupos (using your valuation).
However - alternative fuels are currently cheap, in the UK at least, because of government subsidies. Nevertheless even in the long run they are unlikely to be more expensive than petrol, so there are real savings to be had.
So to keep stockholders happy
Slightly OT, but... if Microsoft is so rich, why doesn't it buy its stock back? Surely it must be annoying to have to keep those stockholders happy?
Salient info from their FAQs:
How much does downloading a song from EMusic cost? One low monthly fee gives you unlimited access to explore and download any of EMusic's 200,000+ songs and 17,000+ albums from 10,000+ artists.
# Sign up for a minimum of 3 months -- we'll bill you $14.99 each month
# Sign up for a minimum of 12 months -- we'll bill you $9.99 each month
How does EMusic protect against piracy? Very simple -- we trust our customers. We believe that if downloadable music is presented in an inexpensive and flexible way, most consumers will do the right thing.
EMusic does not include any type of Digital Rights Management or complex security rules in our music files -- just pure, open MP3. In addition, we provide our customers with extremely flexible rights for the music they purchase and download, allowing them to easily transfer their music files to portable MP3 players and burn them on to compact discs using CD-R.
Do musicians and labels get paid for the MP3s I download? Yes. EMusic splits all of the profits from membership fees 50/50 with the label or artist. EMusic is a legitimate downloadable music service that compensates artists and labels for their work, without sacrificing convenience or low-cost.
What is a bitrate? At what bitrate are EMusic's MP3s encoded at? Bitrate is the number of bits per second used in the encoding process. A higher encoding rate usually means a larger size file, but higher quality sound. EMusic currently encodes its MP3s at 128 Kbps.
Is this what happens when you're slashdotted by God?
The reason I like e-mail is that it is asynchronous. If I want synchronous communication, I use the telephone.
It's amazing to me that MS is able to get away with the same thing without its competitors screaming more loudly at the US government.
Microsoft can absorb the costs of lobbying politicians far longer than its competitors.