Will Microsoft be able to sell it through another outlet? What will be done with all the Generation One Zunes still on shelves? What percentage of these Gen 2 Zunes are being purchased by hapless parents who will see them returned by ungrateful children?
For the answer to this and many more questions, wait for December 26!
I saw this on TV once! It was this documentary about these very things! They're called Hortas and their intelligent. Apparently they can be taught to mine.
I'm sorry, your memory format is no longer supported. All Microsoft Brain products only work with Remembers4Sure stored memories. We understand your need due to head injury but we are unable to assist you at this time.
Maybe they're just really upset that Robert Weir from IBM was given co-chair status instead of one of them. After all they're in charge of a whole foundation.
This is not new. The upheaval in the advertising industry has been causing a change for the past five years. Even the largest ad agencies have made broad changes to their operating structure and moved to a much more dynamic and multi-media format.
Media giants (NBC, CBS, ABC, BBC, CBC, ITV, etc., etc.) have embraced this change months and/or years ago and are moving their sales to much more targetted audiences, with the exception of prime time mega-shows.
Media buying agencies have stopped looking only at Nielsen data and circulation data (reach and frequency figures) and are using far more types of information to make their choices. The 10,000 digital cable channels and the explosive growth of on-line advertising forced that a long time ago.
All of these groups (perhaps except IBM, who just woke up) have been looking at how people watch and segmenting them by attitude, life stage and much more than age and income. Especially when the advertisers are using a combination of TV, Radio, Internet and maybe even print (there still is printed stuff out there, right? It's not all just bits, now?). The amount of information used to make decisions is growing.
I'm sorry, but I refuse to go anywhere near a flying car until we've fixed all the problems with two dimensional travel. Can you imagine what a pile up would look like when there's three dimensions of cars?
Forget it. People aren't patient enough to deal with traffic on roads, never mind the air.
Funny when that happened, I would start either packing up to leave with him or looking for a way to leave before he sees me... either way, I left the party.
"The Visio installation only failed the validation because I haven't activated it."
So what you're complaining about is that you didn't want to go through the trivial step of activation and, because of this Microsoft is to blame? In the time it took to submit this, the activation would be done and the updates started.
This is a non-issue. Move along, nothing to see here.
Wait a minute! Are you saying Apple's OS was locked in to a single hardware manufacturer even though there were thousands of clones out there? I mean IBM, Compaq and Gateway all make Mac clones running the latest OSX, right?
50% is closest to the truth. Although you are technically correct, in a survey like this, you are only allowed to select one of the list. So That way don't get compounding.
Nope, it's just a perfect example of writing a short article with a sufficient level of buzzwords to get Google traffic. The article offers nothing except a byline and truisms.
The question is, did the/. editor RTFA before he posted it?
More interesting is the application of networked versions of the goggles, it would be then possible to have the field of vision wireframed and allow for many different kinds of detection techniques.
It would also make playing lasertag or paintball much easier...
That $20billion (or so) that you mention is already accounted for. The trade deficit is a measure of (imports - exports). So, yes, it might be $100Billion without Microsoft but that really doesn't make a difference. Cars, food and other finished goods is the lion's share of what the US imports and exports.
In your example, you're right in a way. The money from anything sold in Japan by Microsoft doesn't enter the US. It stays offshore to prevent paying taxes in the US. In fact, much of the money that comes from sales of US goods, even including those sold within the US, move offshore quickly to avoid US taxes. The money is moved to tax havens where the tax rates are very low. If enough of this happens, the company will set up a "Head office" offshore and claim to be a non-US company and pay almost no taxes.
In Microsoft's case, the manufacture of the software (pressing the discs, packaging, etc.) is done outside the US. So even so many (not all, they use overseas programmers too) of their programmers are in the US, most of the money never sees a US bank. This is true for most large companies. So if Microsoft folded up and a thousand small companies were born (or at least could thrive without anti-competitive pressure) the US economy would be better off as the smaller companies would be more likely to use use manufacturing for their products.
I'd like to actually see one of these artists that say they'd rather people hear/see it on P2P than not see actually pony up for the downloader's defense fund.
It's all fine and good to say you don't care, it's another to stand up for your fans.
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I want them to make me a suit of that stuff!
I'd also hate to feel the g forces that kind of acceleration would give when I'm trying to drink my rum and coke.
Will Microsoft be able to sell it through another outlet? What will be done with all the Generation One Zunes still on shelves? What percentage of these Gen 2 Zunes are being purchased by hapless parents who will see them returned by ungrateful children?
For the answer to this and many more questions, wait for December 26!
I saw this on TV once! It was this documentary about these very things! They're called Hortas and their intelligent. Apparently they can be taught to mine.
3-2. Place more infrastructure in Europe and elsewhere that bypasses North America. It's only the US bottleneck that's going to be a problem.
I'm sorry, your memory format is no longer supported. All Microsoft Brain products only work with Remembers4Sure stored memories. We understand your need due to head injury but we are unable to assist you at this time.
Maybe they're just really upset that Robert Weir from IBM was given co-chair status instead of one of them. After all they're in charge of a whole foundation.
Good to see them gone.
This is not new. The upheaval in the advertising industry has been causing a change for the past five years. Even the largest ad agencies have made broad changes to their operating structure and moved to a much more dynamic and multi-media format.
Media giants (NBC, CBS, ABC, BBC, CBC, ITV, etc., etc.) have embraced this change months and/or years ago and are moving their sales to much more targetted audiences, with the exception of prime time mega-shows.
Media buying agencies have stopped looking only at Nielsen data and circulation data (reach and frequency figures) and are using far more types of information to make their choices. The 10,000 digital cable channels and the explosive growth of on-line advertising forced that a long time ago.
All of these groups (perhaps except IBM, who just woke up) have been looking at how people watch and segmenting them by attitude, life stage and much more than age and income. Especially when the advertisers are using a combination of TV, Radio, Internet and maybe even print (there still is printed stuff out there, right? It's not all just bits, now?). The amount of information used to make decisions is growing.
I, for one, welcome our Google media overlords.
I'm sorry, but I refuse to go anywhere near a flying car until we've fixed all the problems with two dimensional travel. Can you imagine what a pile up would look like when there's three dimensions of cars?
Forget it. People aren't patient enough to deal with traffic on roads, never mind the air.
Looks like dad just turned up to the party.
Funny when that happened, I would start either packing up to leave with him or looking for a way to leave before he sees me... either way, I left the party.
No, he's right. Nobody has blown up the World Trade Center in over six years.
They don't exclude the rich and politicians. Only LIBERAL rich and politicians are on the list. Like Ted Kennedy...
Funny, I only found out he'd left when I went to update my preferences and his name (and the blocking of) had disappeared.
I sat there wondering how long he'd been gone before I noticed.
I'll set up an illegal hard drive smuggling ring! I'll be rich!
It's perfect except for them Untouchables that will break open my liquor barrels looking for bootleg hard drives.
That would be a neat trick as everything from the first year got lost in a crash...
Only the original crew would have any idea what they might have been.
"The Visio installation only failed the validation because I haven't activated it."
So what you're complaining about is that you didn't want to go through the trivial step of activation and, because of this Microsoft is to blame? In the time it took to submit this, the activation would be done and the updates started.
This is a non-issue. Move along, nothing to see here.
Wait a minute! Are you saying Apple's OS was locked in to a single hardware manufacturer even though there were thousands of clones out there? I mean IBM, Compaq and Gateway all make Mac clones running the latest OSX, right?
Lock-in, yea right...
50% is closest to the truth. Although you are technically correct, in a survey like this, you are only allowed to select one of the list. So That way don't get compounding.
That's vaporware. Their website hasn't even been updated in 8 years!
Apologies to Fox News?
Why does Life2Short hate MSNBC?
Nope, it's just a perfect example of writing a short article with a sufficient level of buzzwords to get Google traffic. The article offers nothing except a byline and truisms.
/. editor RTFA before he posted it?
The question is, did the
More interesting is the application of networked versions of the goggles, it would be then possible to have the field of vision wireframed and allow for many different kinds of detection techniques.
It would also make playing lasertag or paintball much easier...
They probably considered that but realized he'd only have it finished compiling everything for the installation 3 months after his sentence was over.
That $20billion (or so) that you mention is already accounted for. The trade deficit is a measure of (imports - exports). So, yes, it might be $100Billion without Microsoft but that really doesn't make a difference. Cars, food and other finished goods is the lion's share of what the US imports and exports.
In your example, you're right in a way. The money from anything sold in Japan by Microsoft doesn't enter the US. It stays offshore to prevent paying taxes in the US. In fact, much of the money that comes from sales of US goods, even including those sold within the US, move offshore quickly to avoid US taxes. The money is moved to tax havens where the tax rates are very low. If enough of this happens, the company will set up a "Head office" offshore and claim to be a non-US company and pay almost no taxes.
In Microsoft's case, the manufacture of the software (pressing the discs, packaging, etc.) is done outside the US. So even so many (not all, they use overseas programmers too) of their programmers are in the US, most of the money never sees a US bank. This is true for most large companies. So if Microsoft folded up and a thousand small companies were born (or at least could thrive without anti-competitive pressure) the US economy would be better off as the smaller companies would be more likely to use use manufacturing for their products.
I'd like to actually see one of these artists that say they'd rather people hear/see it on P2P than not see actually pony up for the downloader's defense fund.
It's all fine and good to say you don't care, it's another to stand up for your fans.