The people you see on the streets are the ones who fight for the prime locations. I'd say that ups the odds that they're scum. They also stand alone. There's a reason they stand alone.
I don't give them a penny. I used to, but I regret every cent. People who give to panhandlers are enabling those who should be spending their time putting their lives back together rather than honing their act.
Even the homeless newspapers are a fraudulent industry preying on the slave wages they can give the homeless.
I don't have a solution, but giving them money draws more scum to the street to abuse the "legitimate" homeless.
Anyone I saw taking notes with a laptop in the mid-90's was taking dictation from the professor. It was stupid. Every time the professor started speaking, they started writing. They weren't even listening to what the prof was saying. One idiot was even typing out the "Erm..."'s.
It's far more appropriate to read the course materials before the class, then take notes about the professor's opinions and what was not covered by the materials.
My handwriting is horrible BTW, and I type MUCH faster, but I'd much prefer to take notes by pen and paper.
The best strategy of arts-professors I've encountered is for them to put the full, accurate, course notes online or in the library for photocopying. I'd read the notes before the class, mark out my questions, then annotate them during the lecture.
Of course I have no problem with somebody with a disability using a laptop. They shouldn't be shadowing every word of the prof with a shower of keystrokes though.
The kind of planning, campaign development, timelines, keeping groups of people focused on a task for long hours, delivering bad news to people about the quality of their contributions, pen and paper RPGs are the ultimate microcosm of the business world.
Screw the business sports analogies, AD&D is the best analogy!
Particularly dealing with problem players, people who don't like to contribute, or work against the grain of the project... I mean campaign.
To keep kids out of pure geekdom and able to socialize with the rest of the world, ensuring that they have a respect for competitive sports is very important too.
I will say that no matter what though, success should be measured in happiness. This kind of stuff will just give them more options. They have to choose to do what they love.
The integration only works on MS OSes and in MS Office of course.
Microsoft recently announced that they're going into the corporate mobile email business, competing with RIM.
Microsoft announced that their mobile OS will support free wireless VOIP.
So... the year is 2008. You fire up your new workplace computer, it comes up with MS Communicator. You can add all your buddies from your IM lists, and you can add all their cell phones for texting. You can also access your corporate email.
Now you're looking at your cell phone plan and thinking "I sure wish I had a MS mobile phone so that I could use all these features from my cell phone. Free calling, corporate IM, corporate email integration... etc."
That's how MS uses their OS monopoly to extend into the cellular market, entrench their corporate email solution, deepen their penetration of MS Office, while providing people the first reason to upgrade since Office 97.
Given the alternative those days, OS/2 was certainly superior to everything out there. 2.11 was years ahead of Win95... literally. Maybe a decade ahead of Win2k, literally. They included a web browser before MS included an IP stack.
WinNT wasn't priced for consumers in those days, and Win3.1/Win9x lacked stability.
I don't think anyone would have imagined how badly IBM bungled, and how powerfully Microsoft wormed their way into power. I don't think anyone would have expected Microsoft capable of writing such an OS in those days.
OS/2's greatest failings were that, being ahead of its time, the hardware requirements were too high. Also the initial attempt on proprietary hardware was a bad idea. Marketing the OS as a software upgrade was also very dumb. Finally, "Better Windows than Windows" made it clear which platform developers should target.
Now, IMHO, the WinNT derivatives have long surpassed OS/2. Linux hasn't improved much on the desktop since 1996. Lots of changes yeah, but usability and a desktop environment? Linux apps are about as consistent as DOS apps.
Admittedly there is no such thing as a 1PB drive, it's 2000 times bigger than the biggest thing on the market, it's not even on the horizon, and the fellow who's telling us he can build one is, well, an idiot.
Add to it that RIM hasn't innovated in the past 5 years. Colour screens? They do phonecalls now too? Blah. They should be smaller, lighter, cheaper, and have used their clout to dig into small business, students and other markets. Their back end software should be seamless at this point, we shouldn't be hearing BS about unencrypted mail being stored or other dumb stuff.
I've stayed away from investing in their stock because the moment a big player decides to enter the area, they're sunk. The only thing which has kept them alive this far is that the cell companies and service providers haven't figured out that this is a secure, portable corporate email solution. Not a handy portable email device to chat with your friends.
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The only way political change might occur would be if all U.S. corporations operating in China were to simultaneously back one another on this kind of decision. Including Walmart.
But then that might just result in mass-arrests of U.S. corporate employees on Chineese soil, and... if the U.S. government tries to back the corporations, a new cold war.
The VMM will agressively swap out "unused" memory pages in order to increase the size of the disk cache.
So if you're running a game or something, closing the game will cause all kinds of inactive pages long swapped out to come back into active memory.
The downside to the Linux approach is that your disk performance is not as good as it could be while you're playing the game. This is because a lot of RAM is tied up with memory pages which are only going to be used to shut down the game. Windows would rather use those inactive pages to cache disk activity.
Which approach is better depends on what your system is for.
When life is viewed as a test for an afterlife, disease, paracitism and all kinds of worldly horrors can be explained away just fine. Life itself is not precious for a God who has power over life and death.
Not that such beliefs need logical explanations. Just bend over when the priest asks you to.
VMWare is not in a good position to use patents to protect their IP.
The reason being that they actually have a product. This means they can be countersued for things like using a drop down menu, displaying a rectangle on a screen, ingenious stuff like that.
If you mean 1989, then maybe. Even then, the 80 column text was done in raster.
Remember that Windows 3.0 came out in 1990. It still supported High Resolution CGA... 640x200x1bpp. Stunningly awful:-). VGA was 640x480x4bpp, getting 256 colours at high resolution on VGA was not standard. For 256 colours, your resolution was 320x200.
Using a "subpixel" rendering method, you could probably match or exceed CGA on a cellphone, and you'd have low-res full colour modes which would blow away anything from the 1980's.
...Although technically speaking regarding resolution, I think you're right... the resolution of those tiny portable displays designed to display phone numbers and dog pictures using low power have a slightly lower resolution than 14" monitors from the late 1980's. Unless you're talking about colour depth:-)
The story on that one is quite good. A cyborg from the future is sent into the past to prevent Bambi from overthrowing the Matrix by killing his mother sooner so that he is never born. I know, it sounds a bit like the first one, but this time the robot is made of liquid metal.
Apparently there's a bullettime sequence of Thumper getting redmisted.
Netscape used to be able to charge corporations money to use their browser.
When Microsoft gave away IE for free, it cut off Netscape's revenue source. I blame the downfall in software quality on Netscape's inability to find a new revenue stream.
Or to put it another way... even if they implemented roaming profiles, you'd still be paying Microsoft and not paying Netscape.
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The people you see on the streets are the ones who fight for the prime locations. I'd say that ups the odds that they're scum. They also stand alone. There's a reason they stand alone.
I don't give them a penny. I used to, but I regret every cent. People who give to panhandlers are enabling those who should be spending their time putting their lives back together rather than honing their act.
Even the homeless newspapers are a fraudulent industry preying on the slave wages they can give the homeless.
I don't have a solution, but giving them money draws more scum to the street to abuse the "legitimate" homeless.
Anyone I saw taking notes with a laptop in the mid-90's was taking dictation from the professor. It was stupid. Every time the professor started speaking, they started writing. They weren't even listening to what the prof was saying. One idiot was even typing out the "Erm..."'s.
It's far more appropriate to read the course materials before the class, then take notes about the professor's opinions and what was not covered by the materials.
My handwriting is horrible BTW, and I type MUCH faster, but I'd much prefer to take notes by pen and paper.
The best strategy of arts-professors I've encountered is for them to put the full, accurate, course notes online or in the library for photocopying. I'd read the notes before the class, mark out my questions, then annotate them during the lecture.
Of course I have no problem with somebody with a disability using a laptop. They shouldn't be shadowing every word of the prof with a shower of keystrokes though.
A nice side effect of that bizzare clause is that the outcome does not affect the decision makers.
If the outcome did affect the decision-makers, then they'd be inclined towards one side.
Make them DM.
No really!
The kind of planning, campaign development, timelines, keeping groups of people focused on a task for long hours, delivering bad news to people about the quality of their contributions, pen and paper RPGs are the ultimate microcosm of the business world.
Screw the business sports analogies, AD&D is the best analogy!
Particularly dealing with problem players, people who don't like to contribute, or work against the grain of the project... I mean campaign.
To keep kids out of pure geekdom and able to socialize with the rest of the world, ensuring that they have a respect for competitive sports is very important too.
I will say that no matter what though, success should be measured in happiness. This kind of stuff will just give them more options. They have to choose to do what they love.
MS Communicator enters Microsoft into two areas:
The integration only works on MS OSes and in MS Office of course.
Microsoft recently announced that they're going into the corporate mobile email business, competing with RIM.
Microsoft announced that their mobile OS will support free wireless VOIP.
So... the year is 2008. You fire up your new workplace computer, it comes up with MS Communicator. You can add all your buddies from your IM lists, and you can add all their cell phones for texting. You can also access your corporate email.
Now you're looking at your cell phone plan and thinking "I sure wish I had a MS mobile phone so that I could use all these features from my cell phone. Free calling, corporate IM, corporate email integration... etc."
That's how MS uses their OS monopoly to extend into the cellular market, entrench their corporate email solution, deepen their penetration of MS Office, while providing people the first reason to upgrade since Office 97.
(BTW, I HATE real-time collaboration.)
Given the alternative those days, OS/2 was certainly superior to everything out there. 2.11 was years ahead of Win95... literally. Maybe a decade ahead of Win2k, literally. They included a web browser before MS included an IP stack.
WinNT wasn't priced for consumers in those days, and Win3.1/Win9x lacked stability.
I don't think anyone would have imagined how badly IBM bungled, and how powerfully Microsoft wormed their way into power. I don't think anyone would have expected Microsoft capable of writing such an OS in those days.
OS/2's greatest failings were that, being ahead of its time, the hardware requirements were too high. Also the initial attempt on proprietary hardware was a bad idea. Marketing the OS as a software upgrade was also very dumb. Finally, "Better Windows than Windows" made it clear which platform developers should target.
Now, IMHO, the WinNT derivatives have long surpassed OS/2. Linux hasn't improved much on the desktop since 1996. Lots of changes yeah, but usability and a desktop environment? Linux apps are about as consistent as DOS apps.
Admittedly there is no such thing as a 1PB drive, it's 2000 times bigger than the biggest thing on the market, it's not even on the horizon, and the fellow who's telling us he can build one is, well, an idiot.
Sorry, that's right.
A real Canadian would apologise.
As an ad-hoc projector which can be built-in, I'd gladly sacrifice the colour. For big presentations, the big projector can be used.
False-colour, like red and green would be ok too. I think you could get a much more reasonable amber from that.
Add to it that RIM hasn't innovated in the past 5 years. Colour screens? They do phonecalls now too? Blah. They should be smaller, lighter, cheaper, and have used their clout to dig into small business, students and other markets. Their back end software should be seamless at this point, we shouldn't be hearing BS about unencrypted mail being stored or other dumb stuff.
I've stayed away from investing in their stock because the moment a big player decides to enter the area, they're sunk. The only thing which has kept them alive this far is that the cell companies and service providers haven't figured out that this is a secure, portable corporate email solution. Not a handy portable email device to chat with your friends.
Just check Google:
Results 1 - 10 of about 10,100 for "norton sucks".
Results 1 - 10 of about 1,420 for "do not recommend norton".
Results 1 - 10 of about 17,800 for "recommend norton" (don't forget to subtract the "do not..." from the number.
Results 1 - 10 of about 7,050 for "recommend AVG free edition".
Your search - "do not recommend AVG free edition" - did not match any documents.
Your search - "AVG free edition sucks" - did not match any documents.
We've charged them with theft.
We warned them, but some people are really dumb.
Oh no, you're in the right place. Morons are welcome here.
Yep... that's business.
The only way political change might occur would be if all U.S. corporations operating in China were to simultaneously back one another on this kind of decision. Including Walmart.
But then that might just result in mass-arrests of U.S. corporate employees on Chineese soil, and... if the U.S. government tries to back the corporations, a new cold war.
Some people might think that's worth it.
You just want to smoke one because they're forbidden :-)
ISPs are happy to lose those customers.
It takes a long time to understand how a large project operates. I couldn't tell much from the source without a few months to think about it.
At your advice, I'm pulling it down to have a look.
Do you have any examples of what I should be looking for, or is it really that obvious?
Windows just handles memory differently.
The VMM will agressively swap out "unused" memory pages in order to increase the size of the disk cache.
So if you're running a game or something, closing the game will cause all kinds of inactive pages long swapped out to come back into active memory.
The downside to the Linux approach is that your disk performance is not as good as it could be while you're playing the game. This is because a lot of RAM is tied up with memory pages which are only going to be used to shut down the game. Windows would rather use those inactive pages to cache disk activity.
Which approach is better depends on what your system is for.
When life is viewed as a test for an afterlife, disease, paracitism and all kinds of worldly horrors can be explained away just fine. Life itself is not precious for a God who has power over life and death.
Not that such beliefs need logical explanations. Just bend over when the priest asks you to.
Use a valid credit card for the free posting, identify an account by a credit card. Bill subsequent postings (with authorization) to the card.
VMWare is not in a good position to use patents to protect their IP.
The reason being that they actually have a product. This means they can be countersued for things like using a drop down menu, displaying a rectangle on a screen, ingenious stuff like that.
If you mean 1989, then maybe. Even then, the 80 column text was done in raster.
Remember that Windows 3.0 came out in 1990. It still supported High Resolution CGA... 640x200x1bpp. Stunningly awful :-). VGA was 640x480x4bpp, getting 256 colours at high resolution on VGA was not standard. For 256 colours, your resolution was 320x200.
Using a "subpixel" rendering method, you could probably match or exceed CGA on a cellphone, and you'd have low-res full colour modes which would blow away anything from the 1980's.
...Although technically speaking regarding resolution, I think you're right... the resolution of those tiny portable displays designed to display phone numbers and dog pictures using low power have a slightly lower resolution than 14" monitors from the late 1980's. Unless you're talking about colour depth :-)
The story on that one is quite good. A cyborg from the future is sent into the past to prevent Bambi from overthrowing the Matrix by killing his mother sooner so that he is never born. I know, it sounds a bit like the first one, but this time the robot is made of liquid metal.
Apparently there's a bullettime sequence of Thumper getting redmisted.
I can't wait for the videogame spinoff.
Netscape used to be able to charge corporations money to use their browser.
When Microsoft gave away IE for free, it cut off Netscape's revenue source. I blame the downfall in software quality on Netscape's inability to find a new revenue stream.
Or to put it another way... even if they implemented roaming profiles, you'd still be paying Microsoft and not paying Netscape.