Yes, petrol companies operate on Sundays. Refineries are so complex these days they can take weeks to switch off or on, so they operate constantly. I have heard of some older ones which have been modified and added to so much over the years that nobody actually knows how to switch them off safely - there are companies whose sole purpose is to go around figuring out the best way to switch plants off.
The BBC and Channel 4 have a huge catalogue of short films (~10 minutes) available which would be perfect for video iPods - things like Marion and Geoff or Black Cab. I wonder if they've thought of releasing them on iTunes?
Why does every project like this have to be "the next big thing". Why do we have to compare to the E. Britanica and rabidly defend Wikipedia with ever more elaborate answers? Wikipedia is an interesting project, and extremely useful as a starting point for research. That's good enough for me - leave the "Wiki-religion" outside.
Even 'traditional' town centres don't seem to escape the McDonald smell. Take Rose Crescent, Cambridge (UK) , for example - it' a tiny, pedestrianised shopping street with small high-end chain and independent shops. Right in the middle of it is a McDonalds, pumping out that smell of grease all down the street. I think it's made worse by the amount of rubbish generated, and the fat washed off the food in nearby bins and onto the pavement when it rains.
Given that I don't own a car and the quality of the bus service around here (Norwich, UK), walking to the shops is pretty much the only option. Most town centres these days seem to be swallowed up in shopping centres, though, so sometimes they're hard to avoid.
Can you imagine what a DS is going to look like after 30 minutes playing in the hands of a kid eating a Big Mac, fries and ketchup? Maybe McDonalds is planning to make a profit on with a DS cleaning service?
Personally, I wish McDs would just go out of business so I wouldn't have to put up with that horrendous smell of grease permeating every shopping centre.
Is this really true? I've never actually played an MMORPG, but I've played plenty of RPGs (Baldur's Gate 1+2, Golden Sun etc). Can any MMORPG players out there describe an average few hours of play? How much time is spent doing nothing (eg. just running from place to place or waiting for something)? How much time is spent on mindless activities (eg. "Click the same series of buttons 20 times).
How much skill is involved in the combat - is it generally something like Baldur's gate, where you need to combine spell effects, items and characters to win? Or just clicking on your most powerful attack constantly?
But why play the game at all then? If it really is so boring to play that it's worth $62.99 to skip having to play, why play at all? There are hundreds of other good online games out there.
I see this argument posted about 30 times on this thread. I can't believe that the posters are not able to see the difference between knowingly selling software and services to oppressive regimes, often in defiance of a trade embargo, and having some anonymous person download or buy off-the-shelf software.
Cisco and Microsoft, for example, are quite happy to cooperate with the Chinese government over the "Great Firewall of China". They know who they are selling to and the exact purpose to which their products will be put, yet they still do it.
What I don't understand is how a Western software salesman can be so blinded by profit that they can do this. What do they say to their family when they ask "What did you do today?". "Not much, I just sold a complete filtering solution to the Chinese government in order to help them supress dissent and hunt down pro-democracy campaigners".
We're not talking about a few off-the-shelf copies of Windows here - these are large scale installations.
I'm typing this on Windows XP running in VMWare 4.5 on Ubuntu Breezy. It's perfectly stable with the normal vmware any-any-update patches applied , but I need to keep the Linux host at 100% CPU all the time or things start to go funny and slow in VMWare. If anyone knows why that is, please help me!
It's better to give the impression of rarity, driving pre-orders and making the console seem more special and desirable. Then make a few statements about last-minute rushed production or something and actually deliver lots of Xboxes. Every console seems to do it - "only a few PSPs in stock" seem to appear all over the place here in the UK.
Of course, there are worse problems than taking such good photos people assume you do it for a living. That said, wouldn't a simple "declaration of permission to copy" form signed when you drop photos off be enough to allow the printers a "good faith" defense?
"...allegations that Samsung sold the memory chips to Apple at below-market rates"
Doesn't the fact that a company was prepared to sell 10 million chips at that price make that price the "market price" for 10 million chips? How else do you define a market price except as what a seller and a buyer agree on?
Unless Steve Jobs used a focused Reality Distortion Field or blackmail to get the deal, I don't really see the problem. Unless (shock horror), CNet is misrepresenting the story again.
It is the only console in the next generation to have a qualitative difference over the current generation. There is only so much that you can say about a faster processor.
Personally, I know only too well (I'm on the DocsToGo Word+Excel dev team), but you are right - most Office users probably know about a very small fraction of its functionality and use even less of it on a regular basis.
Thinking about it, I can see this doing quite well with home users - people who want to write the odd letter or short report. Microsoft Works users, rather than Office users. I can't imagine anyone doing anything serious with it, unless Google makes an Office Appliance for companies.
One good thing that should come out of this is improved MS Office integration for Openoffice - users are going to want to import/export Office docs to send to other people and the kind of massive user base and testing Google can provide should help to catch all those annoying minor import problems with OO.org.
I don't get the fuss about this. So, they can write a simple office application in Javascript. They can't rely on having an internet connection present, otherwise no one will use it, so you're basically looking at a scripting-language-based, non-native suite with some remote file storage for backup. Hardly world-changing, is it?
I think the point is that LCDs don't produce a black pixel, because they work by blocking the light from a lamp behind the screen with a thin film of liquid crystal. They always allow some light through, hence the grey appearance of cheap LCDs
Apart from the obvious fact that first-sale trumps any complaints that the developers have, so that he really just has to live with this, Mark Rein's viewpoint is very short-sighted. The 'loss' is very easy to see: "they played our game but gave us no money!". The gain is harder to see:
- people buy games because they know they can trade them in later - people buy game consoles because there see there are some cheaper games around and then buy Halo 3 or whatever new because they already have the console and don't want to wait a few months for a second hand copy - marginal consumers (students, kids etc) trade in a few older games to help raise the cash for the latest big game - without second hand sales, there would be fewer games stores to sell their games
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Yes, petrol companies operate on Sundays. Refineries are so complex these days they can take weeks to switch off or on, so they operate constantly. I have heard of some older ones which have been modified and added to so much over the years that nobody actually knows how to switch them off safely - there are companies whose sole purpose is to go around figuring out the best way to switch plants off.
tar, alien *.rpm and dpkg -i *.deb worked for me on Ubuntu.
The BBC and Channel 4 have a huge catalogue of short films (~10 minutes) available which would be perfect for video iPods - things like Marion and Geoff or Black Cab. I wonder if they've thought of releasing them on iTunes?
Why does every project like this have to be "the next big thing". Why do we have to compare to the E. Britanica and rabidly defend Wikipedia with ever more elaborate answers? Wikipedia is an interesting project, and extremely useful as a starting point for research. That's good enough for me - leave the "Wiki-religion" outside.
Even 'traditional' town centres don't seem to escape the McDonald smell. Take Rose Crescent, Cambridge (UK) , for example - it' a tiny, pedestrianised shopping street with small high-end chain and independent shops. Right in the middle of it is a McDonalds, pumping out that smell of grease all down the street. I think it's made worse by the amount of rubbish generated, and the fat washed off the food in nearby bins and onto the pavement when it rains.
Given that I don't own a car and the quality of the bus service around here (Norwich, UK), walking to the shops is pretty much the only option. Most town centres these days seem to be swallowed up in shopping centres, though, so sometimes they're hard to avoid.
Can you imagine what a DS is going to look like after 30 minutes playing in the hands of a kid eating a Big Mac, fries and ketchup? Maybe McDonalds is planning to make a profit on with a DS cleaning service?
Personally, I wish McDs would just go out of business so I wouldn't have to put up with that horrendous smell of grease permeating every shopping centre.
Is this really true? I've never actually played an MMORPG, but I've played plenty of RPGs (Baldur's Gate 1+2, Golden Sun etc). Can any MMORPG players out there describe an average few hours of play? How much time is spent doing nothing (eg. just running from place to place or waiting for something)? How much time is spent on mindless activities (eg. "Click the same series of buttons 20 times).
How much skill is involved in the combat - is it generally something like Baldur's gate, where you need to combine spell effects, items and characters to win? Or just clicking on your most powerful attack constantly?
But why play the game at all then? If it really is so boring to play that it's worth $62.99 to skip having to play, why play at all? There are hundreds of other good online games out there.
People don't pay extra money to find out what happens in the end of a film without "grinding" through the film.
I see this argument posted about 30 times on this thread. I can't believe that the posters are not able to see the difference between knowingly selling software and services to oppressive regimes, often in defiance of a trade embargo, and having some anonymous person download or buy off-the-shelf software.
Cisco and Microsoft, for example, are quite happy to cooperate with the Chinese government over the "Great Firewall of China". They know who they are selling to and the exact purpose to which their products will be put, yet they still do it.
Wrong analogy. Selling more bullets to someone you just watched shoot ten people outside your store would be more apt.
What I don't understand is how a Western software salesman can be so blinded by profit that they can do this. What do they say to their family when they ask "What did you do today?". "Not much, I just sold a complete filtering solution to the Chinese government in order to help them supress dissent and hunt down pro-democracy campaigners".
We're not talking about a few off-the-shelf copies of Windows here - these are large scale installations.
Lovely? Looks like a terrible page here - all the text runs out of the boxes and overlaps the quotes. (Firefox 1.0.7/Windows XP/Font Size 18)
I'm typing this on Windows XP running in VMWare 4.5 on Ubuntu Breezy. It's perfectly stable with the normal vmware any-any-update patches applied , but I need to keep the Linux host at 100% CPU all the time or things start to go funny and slow in VMWare. If anyone knows why that is, please help me!
It's better to give the impression of rarity, driving pre-orders and making the console seem more special and desirable. Then make a few statements about last-minute rushed production or something and actually deliver lots of Xboxes. Every console seems to do it - "only a few PSPs in stock" seem to appear all over the place here in the UK.
Of course, there are worse problems than taking such good photos people assume you do it for a living. That said, wouldn't a simple "declaration of permission to copy" form signed when you drop photos off be enough to allow the printers a "good faith" defense?
"...allegations that Samsung sold the memory chips to Apple at below-market rates"
Doesn't the fact that a company was prepared to sell 10 million chips at that price make that price the "market price" for 10 million chips? How else do you define a market price except as what a seller and a buyer agree on?
Unless Steve Jobs used a focused Reality Distortion Field or blackmail to get the deal, I don't really see the problem. Unless (shock horror), CNet is misrepresenting the story again.
It is the only console in the next generation to have a qualitative difference over the current generation. There is only so much that you can say about a faster processor.
Does that mean I can sue the goatse trolls?
Personally, I know only too well (I'm on the DocsToGo Word+Excel dev team), but you are right - most Office users probably know about a very small fraction of its functionality and use even less of it on a regular basis.
Thinking about it, I can see this doing quite well with home users - people who want to write the odd letter or short report. Microsoft Works users, rather than Office users. I can't imagine anyone doing anything serious with it, unless Google makes an Office Appliance for companies.
One good thing that should come out of this is improved MS Office integration for Openoffice - users are going to want to import/export Office docs to send to other people and the kind of massive user base and testing Google can provide should help to catch all those annoying minor import problems with OO.org.
You're asking for useful technical information from the kind of company that calls their products "Mega-Contrast" Advanced Super View Premium LCD?
I don't get the fuss about this. So, they can write a simple office application in Javascript. They can't rely on having an internet connection present, otherwise no one will use it, so you're basically looking at a scripting-language-based, non-native suite with some remote file storage for backup. Hardly world-changing, is it?
I think the point is that LCDs don't produce a black pixel, because they work by blocking the light from a lamp behind the screen with a thin film of liquid crystal. They always allow some light through, hence the grey appearance of cheap LCDs
Apart from the obvious fact that first-sale trumps any complaints that the developers have, so that he really just has to live with this, Mark Rein's viewpoint is very short-sighted. The 'loss' is very easy to see: "they played our game but gave us no money!". The gain is harder to see:
- people buy games because they know they can trade them in later
- people buy game consoles because there see there are some cheaper games around and then buy Halo 3 or whatever new because they already have the console and don't want to wait a few months for a second hand copy
- marginal consumers (students, kids etc) trade in a few older games to help raise the cash for the latest big game
- without second hand sales, there would be fewer games stores to sell their games