Puerto Rico, though not a country, is still an currently existing political entity. Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union do not exist in any fashion except in history books.
That is BS. In GSM/UMTS networks at least, SMS messages are sent through the network via the MAP protocol and between the switch and mobile via DTAP. DTAP is required for any kind of mobile interaction and a provider must already have a MAP infrastructure in place to be able to handle practically any type of call.
The only additional piece of equipment required to handle SMS in a network is a SMS service center. All this is a database to receive SMS messages from an originating mobile and then send them back out to terminating mobile.
Using up bearer channels in their network for voice or data calls costs providers (both in dollars and in availability) far more than the simple signalling that SMS uses. There is no financial reason why a provider can provide unlimited voice calls but must charge $0.15 for an SMS message.
Also gotta consider that many broadcasters aren't exactly thrilled about DVRs... They rely on advertising to make money and aren't going to freely help people with a device that most people are going to use to skip advertising.
Even it the amount of additional compression is insignificant, ZIP, RAR, etc. are still very useful as container formats for MP3, JPG, etc. files since it's easier to distribute 1 or 2.ZIP files than it is 1000 individual.JPG files. And if you're going to package up a bunch of files into a single file for distribution, why not use the opportunity to save a few kilobytes here and there if it doesn't require much more time to do that?
WordPerfect has had a feature like this for years called "show tags" (I think). It'd show you where formatting markers started and stopped (similar to an HTML source listing). It was pretty useful. I'd love to see OpenOffice incorporate a feature like this (if it doesn't already).
I have a CFL in a table lamp in the living room that is going on 6 years now. It gotten several hours of use each day practically every day during those 6 years.
I don't LED bulbs are quite "there" yet. They're still too expensive (looks like around $20 each for small quantities) and the light output is a fraction of a CFL or incandescent bulb. I'm sure they're great for spot lights, desk lamps, etc. where the tightly focused light of an LED bulb is an asset though.
I do agree that LED is probably the future though. I'll give it a few years to get the cost down and light output up before I dip my feet into that particular pool.
Yeah, I know this phone is a dinosaur at this point but it's the on the "supported devices" list. Mine gets stuck at the "loading" screen. The phone itself isn't frozen, just Opera doesn't seem to finish loading.
autoexec.bat and config.sys have to be in C:\ for backwards compatability reasons. Those files only exist to make old DOS apps happy. In the dark DOS days those files had to be in the root level directory.
If you don't use any DOS or old Windows apps you're probably okay deleting those two files.
Extensions can be happily installed inside a user's profile directory. It doesn't require write permissions to the Firefox application's directory to install an extension.
There is nothing about "vulnerability" that would stop the same thing happening on a Linux box. The only saving grace for Linux at this point in time is that your average Linux user is smart enough to not execute random executable files they receive from people they don't know in an email message.
In that scenario, what is the advertiser's incentive to properly report all sales to Google? If I have 100 clicks on my ad that resulted in sales and if I pay $1 per click, I can report all 100 and have to pay $100, or I can just say "oh, only 10 resulted in sales" and only pay $10.
If they force advertisers to use Google's Checkout system they could enforce it better but I think that's dangerously close to "leveraging their monopoly to get into new markets" that we like to chastise Microsoft for.
Because it diminishes the value of their primary source of income - selling advertising. Everything else Google does is to provide them with more places for them to put up ads.
Google isn't the only game in town and they know this. If Google can provide some assurance that every click on an ad is a real person, advertising with Google suddenly becomes much more valuable than advertising with another company that can't provide that assurance.
In previous versions, GnuCash was nowhere near being a replacement for Quicken (or MS Money).
I see this new version finally has the ability to set budgets. Since the site is still overloaded I don't know exactly what this entails. Can you setup recurring bills as well? If so, GnuCash 2 is probably pretty close to the "good enough for most people" mark.
I would love to replace MS Money with GnuCash (once somebody makes a Windows port). Every so often I'll try out the latest version on my Linux partition to see how it's progressing and each time I've been disappointed (as far as it being a replacement for Money, not the quality of the software itself).
I look forward to checking out GnuCash 2 once the site is available again:) Money does have some annoying traits (like if you use the Debt Reduction Planner, it doesn't take into account bills you have charged to your credit card when forecasting payments) and I'm always looking for alternatives.
Why are we making all this fuss over what could just be a rumor unwittingly spread by a clueless help desk worker? Since when did help desk techs become privy to future, unannounced plans for a company, let alone ones as sensitive as this one?
I'm not saying it's impossible but consider the source.
Credit cards typically charge a transaction fee on top of a percentage fee. Since it looks like you can only do credit card transactions through Google Checkout, they have to pass those fees on to you.
Paypal is in a much better position currently for the micropayment market. Since you can store money directly in your Paypal account, Paypal could move money between accounts with zero overhead. If Paypal ever drops the transaction fee for non-credit card transactions for merchant accounts, that is.
Water has a much higher specific heat than either alcohol or mineral oil, so it makes a much better coolant. Plus, it's cheap and pleantiful. There's a reason most vehicle cooling systems are water based these days. Distilled water is not very electrically conductive either so it's still pretty safe if a minor leak occurs.
The write speed of the fastest flash cards isn't that much different from a good hard drive. It doesn't make too much sense to use it as a cache for this purpose. However, since I can't RTFA I don't know if they're using a different type of flash memory than what is common used on flash memory cards.
To be completely fair, your $20 HL2:Episode One download also nets you HL2:Death Match. Even if the Episode One game gets old, with HL2:Death Match you can download new maps and play against random people on the Internet which can provide plenty of challenge.
Of course, if you already own HL2 then you have HL2:Death Match already. If you don't own HL2, HL2:Death Match is a $10 download by itself.
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It is based on the amount of reward you are promised in the afterlife for using the car bomb. A "standard" car blast has a strength of 7 dekavirgins.
Puerto Rico, though not a country, is still an currently existing political entity. Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union do not exist in any fashion except in history books.
That is BS. In GSM/UMTS networks at least, SMS messages are sent through the network via the MAP protocol and between the switch and mobile via DTAP. DTAP is required for any kind of mobile interaction and a provider must already have a MAP infrastructure in place to be able to handle practically any type of call.
The only additional piece of equipment required to handle SMS in a network is a SMS service center. All this is a database to receive SMS messages from an originating mobile and then send them back out to terminating mobile.
Using up bearer channels in their network for voice or data calls costs providers (both in dollars and in availability) far more than the simple signalling that SMS uses. There is no financial reason why a provider can provide unlimited voice calls but must charge $0.15 for an SMS message.
Also gotta consider that many broadcasters aren't exactly thrilled about DVRs... They rely on advertising to make money and aren't going to freely help people with a device that most people are going to use to skip advertising.
Will these computers work in the Fox News offices? As we all know, that is a "No Spin" zone.
Even it the amount of additional compression is insignificant, ZIP, RAR, etc. are still very useful as container formats for MP3, JPG, etc. files since it's easier to distribute 1 or 2 .ZIP files than it is 1000 individual .JPG files. And if you're going to package up a bunch of files into a single file for distribution, why not use the opportunity to save a few kilobytes here and there if it doesn't require much more time to do that?
WordPerfect has had a feature like this for years called "show tags" (I think). It'd show you where formatting markers started and stopped (similar to an HTML source listing). It was pretty useful. I'd love to see OpenOffice incorporate a feature like this (if it doesn't already).
ASUS has one now. I'm sure others will follow suit in the coming months as well.
Check out driverpacks.net. It takes most of the pain out of trying to integrate drivers. It's just a few clicks using their software.
I have a CFL in a table lamp in the living room that is going on 6 years now. It gotten several hours of use each day practically every day during those 6 years.
I don't LED bulbs are quite "there" yet. They're still too expensive (looks like around $20 each for small quantities) and the light output is a fraction of a CFL or incandescent bulb. I'm sure they're great for spot lights, desk lamps, etc. where the tightly focused light of an LED bulb is an asset though.
I do agree that LED is probably the future though. I'll give it a few years to get the cost down and light output up before I dip my feet into that particular pool.
Yeah, I know this phone is a dinosaur at this point but it's the on the "supported devices" list. Mine gets stuck at the "loading" screen. The phone itself isn't frozen, just Opera doesn't seem to finish loading.
Anyone had any luck on this phone?
autoexec.bat and config.sys have to be in C:\ for backwards compatability reasons. Those files only exist to make old DOS apps happy. In the dark DOS days those files had to be in the root level directory.
If you don't use any DOS or old Windows apps you're probably okay deleting those two files.
Extensions can be happily installed inside a user's profile directory. It doesn't require write permissions to the Firefox application's directory to install an extension.
There is nothing about "vulnerability" that would stop the same thing happening on a Linux box. The only saving grace for Linux at this point in time is that your average Linux user is smart enough to not execute random executable files they receive from people they don't know in an email message.
In that scenario, what is the advertiser's incentive to properly report all sales to Google? If I have 100 clicks on my ad that resulted in sales and if I pay $1 per click, I can report all 100 and have to pay $100, or I can just say "oh, only 10 resulted in sales" and only pay $10.
If they force advertisers to use Google's Checkout system they could enforce it better but I think that's dangerously close to "leveraging their monopoly to get into new markets" that we like to chastise Microsoft for.
Because it diminishes the value of their primary source of income - selling advertising. Everything else Google does is to provide them with more places for them to put up ads.
Google isn't the only game in town and they know this. If Google can provide some assurance that every click on an ad is a real person, advertising with Google suddenly becomes much more valuable than advertising with another company that can't provide that assurance.
In previous versions, GnuCash was nowhere near being a replacement for Quicken (or MS Money).
:) Money does have some annoying traits (like if you use the Debt Reduction Planner, it doesn't take into account bills you have charged to your credit card when forecasting payments) and I'm always looking for alternatives.
I see this new version finally has the ability to set budgets. Since the site is still overloaded I don't know exactly what this entails. Can you setup recurring bills as well? If so, GnuCash 2 is probably pretty close to the "good enough for most people" mark.
I would love to replace MS Money with GnuCash (once somebody makes a Windows port). Every so often I'll try out the latest version on my Linux partition to see how it's progressing and each time I've been disappointed (as far as it being a replacement for Money, not the quality of the software itself).
I look forward to checking out GnuCash 2 once the site is available again
Is it twice as big as the white iPod?
Robot Chicken doesn't have any commercials anyway :) Big thumbs up to Adult Swim for not trying to put commercials in their various 15 minute shows.
roman_mir, don't be jealous that I've been chatting online with babes, all day. Besides, we both know I'm training to become a cage fighter.
Why are we making all this fuss over what could just be a rumor unwittingly spread by a clueless help desk worker? Since when did help desk techs become privy to future, unannounced plans for a company, let alone ones as sensitive as this one?
I'm not saying it's impossible but consider the source.
Credit cards typically charge a transaction fee on top of a percentage fee. Since it looks like you can only do credit card transactions through Google Checkout, they have to pass those fees on to you.
Paypal is in a much better position currently for the micropayment market. Since you can store money directly in your Paypal account, Paypal could move money between accounts with zero overhead. If Paypal ever drops the transaction fee for non-credit card transactions for merchant accounts, that is.
Water has a much higher specific heat than either alcohol or mineral oil, so it makes a much better coolant. Plus, it's cheap and pleantiful. There's a reason most vehicle cooling systems are water based these days. Distilled water is not very electrically conductive either so it's still pretty safe if a minor leak occurs.
I've NEVER, in the 12 or so years I've played with Linux, had a time-related problem on a dual boot MS/Linux box.
The write speed of the fastest flash cards isn't that much different from a good hard drive. It doesn't make too much sense to use it as a cache for this purpose. However, since I can't RTFA I don't know if they're using a different type of flash memory than what is common used on flash memory cards.
To be completely fair, your $20 HL2:Episode One download also nets you HL2:Death Match. Even if the Episode One game gets old, with HL2:Death Match you can download new maps and play against random people on the Internet which can provide plenty of challenge.
Of course, if you already own HL2 then you have HL2:Death Match already. If you don't own HL2, HL2:Death Match is a $10 download by itself.