Yes but it only takes a certain percentage of your customers to kill you in warranty claims. And worse if it's found that you were misrepresenting the warranty to mislead the public.
I think customers who have RAID or big investments in IT would want to claim that warranty because it does add up.
And to say of a loss in reputation, can anyone say IBM/Deathstar?
The question for Real's investors is if doing this is worth the risk.
It doesn't sound very bright. They're trying to sneak in their product as a competitor's clone, they feel there might be trouble and carry on anyways?
What happened to relying on their own technology and competing at that level? Maybe LICENSING apple's technology? I really wonder if this unnecessary risk taking is part of Real's corporate culture.
"Further assume that a GPS receiver on the ground can measure the distance between a receiver and a satellite for at least three satellites at the same time. By defining the receiver location with three coordinates, such as latitude, longitude and height, one can readily write three equations that relate the three distance observations to the known coordinates of the satellites and the unknown coordinates of the receiver."
But since distance measurement needs to time how long the signal travels to earth, we need an accurate time measurement...
"The complete position determination of the receiver consequently requires four unknowns: the receiver clock error and the three receiver coordinates. Measuring distances to at least four satellites allows one to set up four equations that can be solved for these four unknowns"
No but the issue was on using the quiz to see if he was qualified INSTEAD of looking if his experience/education would be a great asset as a MS employee.
The guy's resume shows he has a PhD and experience working with the Government and high tech corporations. A MS recruiter can CERTAINLY verify that before the interview and make more appropiate questions.
I think this guy should be more of a high priced consultant than trying to get into MS.
But you can PLAN before building your website to include Firefox, Safari, Opera, et.al. by forcing your design to comply to standards FIRST and then accomodate for incompatibilities after that.
I will be very skeptical if I hear that a particular activeX component is absolutely essential for a website to work.
So assuming that the European Union adopts a more "lenient" patent law, what will happen when American companies start suing europeans because they are "violating" their god like patents?
We all know that Americans are not liable on international courts but they can sure drag anyone they wish to their courts so they can get "justice" done.
The only solution is for foreign firms to license their technology/services to whatever bully is enforcing the most patents. Look at the current situation with RIM and their blackberry.
I bought an iRiver for my wife and it's so confusing to use. If you forget or don't have the manual handy you'll be lost with the navigation "joystick". Pull "lightly" left or right and will either move menu navigation or skip a song. Pull "strongly" and it will fast forward a song or exit you to a parent menu. Press the joystick and it's some other function... nuts!! Try using it while jogging or even walking and all presision is lost while moving the joystick. It's so frustrating you feel like throwing it away!!
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Yes but it only takes a certain percentage of your customers to kill you in warranty claims. And worse if it's found that you were misrepresenting the warranty to mislead the public.
I think customers who have RAID or big investments in IT would want to claim that warranty because it does add up.
And to say of a loss in reputation, can anyone say IBM/Deathstar?
The question for Real's investors is if doing this is worth the risk.
:-/
It doesn't sound very bright. They're trying to sneak in their product as a competitor's clone, they feel there might be trouble and carry on anyways?
What happened to relying on their own technology and competing at that level? Maybe LICENSING apple's technology? I really wonder if this unnecessary risk taking is part of Real's corporate culture.
I agree.
:-/
If someone still hangs on to the lame excuse that their java gui is slow, they should at least use SWT and take a look at how Eclipse works.
Why Flamebait?
It's exactly it, the article is lame.
Wouldn't this be a perfect opportunity to engage their creative forces and reinforce their "Invent" slogan?
Man, not a single insightful comment about Apache or what Rich said.
WTF?
God I don't understand what the whole issue is about opening up a PDF.
I started reading the thread to hear other people's experiences with Apache and all I'm reading is this goddam issue with PDFs.
I don't get it. Am I an idiot or geekdom is having a period?
I agree, I just could not understand what was the whole issue with the pdf.
I opened it on a new tab in Firefox with no problems.
Meh...whiners.
Ha Ha!
That' a good one, thanks.
So it only takes a little more effort from the Chinese, Taiwanese and Korean manufacturers to overtake HP.
If I was HP I would be dead scared and trying to climb desperately to the middle end!
Wow with that resume he should have his phone ringing off the hook.
I know that he would be an increidible mentor where I work but I doubt my company could afford him.
And the fact that IE treats you like a dumb user by not allowing you to remove components, why?!!
Parent is right.
When creating pages for Firefox first and correct odd errors on IE is the way to go.
And the developer's tools are quite nice.
MOD PARENT UP.
You are correct, I found this on sciam.com:
"Further assume that a GPS receiver on the ground can measure the distance between a receiver and a satellite for at least three satellites at the same time. By defining the receiver location with three coordinates, such as latitude, longitude and height, one can readily write three equations that relate the three distance observations to the known coordinates of the satellites and the unknown coordinates of the receiver."
But since distance measurement needs to time how long the signal travels to earth, we need an accurate time measurement...
"The complete position determination of the receiver consequently requires four unknowns: the receiver clock error and the three receiver coordinates. Measuring distances to at least four satellites allows one to set up four equations that can be solved for these four unknowns"
How do GPS devices work?
Illegal?
By whom? The US army?
Please clarify!!
Technically speaking you need 3 but the GPS gear needs to keep track of the fourth one when one of the 3 disappears over the horizon.
That's why it is very difficult to get GPS working in between tall buildings. Unless you have a repeater nearby for error correction.
Solar battery chargers:
Are available at Canadian Tire
*sigh*
Well in order to fit such grandiose statement then the article is not misspelled.
No but the issue was on using the quiz to see if he was qualified INSTEAD of looking if his experience/education would be a great asset as a MS employee.
The guy's resume shows he has a PhD and experience working with the Government and high tech corporations. A MS recruiter can CERTAINLY verify that before the interview and make more appropiate questions.
I think this guy should be more of a high priced consultant than trying to get into MS.
Ha Ha!
Agreed!
Probably after showing the very first warning the user agreed to block it and checked the box to remember that setting so it doesn't ask again.
What I don't know is how to go into the AntiSpyware thing and release those locks.
But you can PLAN before building your website to include Firefox, Safari, Opera, et.al. by forcing your design to comply to standards FIRST and then accomodate for incompatibilities after that.
I will be very skeptical if I hear that a particular activeX component is absolutely essential for a website to work.
So assuming that the European Union adopts a more "lenient" patent law, what will happen when American companies start suing europeans because they are "violating" their god like patents?
/by the way, did not RTFA.
We all know that Americans are not liable on international courts but they can sure drag anyone they wish to their courts so they can get "justice" done.
The only solution is for foreign firms to license their technology/services to whatever bully is enforcing the most patents. Look at the current situation with RIM and their blackberry.
Would not change until strong economic incentives force microsoft to innovate.
Monopolies are strange that way.
I agree completely.
/sigh
I bought an iRiver for my wife and it's so confusing to use. If you forget or don't have the manual handy you'll be lost with the navigation "joystick".
Pull "lightly" left or right and will either move menu navigation or skip a song. Pull "strongly" and it will fast forward a song or exit you to a parent menu. Press the joystick and it's some other function... nuts!!
Try using it while jogging or even walking and all presision is lost while moving the joystick. It's so frustrating you feel like throwing it away!!