Magazines don't cost $20 bucks a month, most cost about $20 bucks a year and that's because you're basically paying for the delivery and handling charge. Subscriptions are cheaper than news stand because advertisers are guaranteed exposure to subscribers.
Because people mistakenly believed that because Sony was successful with their SNES add-on (Playstation) and followed up with a great sequel (PS2) that somehow they would be able to do at least something halfway interesting in a market that Nintendo has p0wn3d for 15+ years.
I would imagine that Apple has a September 30 fiscal year-end because once all the back to school shopping for computers is done in August and September, the rest of the calendar year is somewhat slower.
Except Apple, unlike most computer companies, does a BOOMING holiday business. Then on top of that they always introduce new products in January, besting other computer companies again.
There's NOTHING in any of the descriptions as to which desktop platforms or player platforms the stores work with, excepting that iTunes only works with iPod. Completely useless to me because I have a Mac and I already know that Napster won't work. Not that I'm all die hard over using anything other than iTunes because I have an iPod, but I also have a Treo that has RealPlayer on it and I thought I could use Real's online music store but I had to make an extra seek and find trip to discover, no, there's no way to do it with a Mac.
bleh. Makes no sense to me that music stores don't think that people who spend more on their computers won't make good customers.
That both Dell and HP are offering machines with Linux suggests that the power has shifted, that MS needs HP and Dell more than those big PC makers need MS.
Well, before long PC vendors will have an even greater bargaining chip with Apple. Whether it will be a real threat or not, who knows. Up until this point it required an architecture change if you wanted to sell Mac OS (during the clone years). Going forward it would just be a configuration change. Apple has shown that they're not opposed to selling rebranded Apple kit with the HP iPod. If Michael Dell felt the need to put the squeeze on MS I'm sure a few publicised talks with Steve Jobs would do the trick.
Neither the rain nor the wind nor consumer opinion will stop Nintendo(TM) from trying to sell us ANOTHER copy of an already existing product it seems...
I don't see anything wrong with Nintendo trying to improve on a successful product, because so far they've never stopped selling the current product because a new version came out. The GBA SP has so much more going for it than the original GBA that I am glad Nintendo sees these opportunities.
I'm not opting for a GBA Micro myself, but I will probably buy 2 for my nieces this holiday.
With absolutely no experience with any unix/linux system and very little windows experience, I setup a mail server, webserver and started creating a website for a company.
I have a BS in ECE Comm so my experience is a lot less than what those working on this system but more than an average computer user and I was able to install YellowDog Linux on a PowerMac 6100 in about 3 hours, in April of this year. It mainly took that long because it was over 10Mb enet (which was faster than the 2x CDROM). Then it only took another hour to get postfix and apache up and running (nothing fancy though). I can't imagine an install on modern hardware taking two weeks by people whose job it is to do it.
B) And it is normally called Kernel Panic, or a Random Reboot in your world.
To the best of my knowledge, a Windows Blue Screen and a kernel panic differ because the NT kernel will not halt when something violates the kernel space. The last Blue Screen I have seen was on an XP SP2 unit and there's the option to continue. I've never even heard of a Unix machine or derivative OS allow the user to continue once the kernel space has been compromised.
I have NEVER heard the term "Random Reboot" outside of lusers describing Windows behaviour. Unix and its derivatives have Console messages that would eliminate anything "random" happening and, unless you are doing a "shutdown -now", I'm unaware of any way to make a Unix or derivative do anything like it unless there's a hardware issue.
Since the interface can be designed in XML it allows for rapid development. And to entice developers further they are adding extra platform support. It seems to be a pretty good system.
Interface Builder.app allows for rapid development, too (mainly because you don't have to "design" an interface). Not sure how funky XML is better. I dunno how much stock I'd put into the importance or uselfulness of an MS cross-platform solution. They can't even get things working between versions of their own products (Visual Basic, Office, whatever they're calling Windows CE now).
People need to stop dissing math in their k-12 education as "not something I'd use in real life".
It's not math, it's the KIND of math. Math seems to be the one jubject that people adamantly defend as important to know in-depth concepts of because we use objects everyday that advanced math has created. You know what? You ought to have taken biochemistry, too, to understand how all those preservatives you are eating affect your body. While you're at it, you need to take micro and macro economics in high school, too, so you can understand why gas is almost $4 a gallon. Or have taken an etymology course because you speak with people everyday.
Yeah, it starts looking silly when I apply that attitude to everything, huh?
High school graduation requirements are based on what colleges want you to know before you enter them. That's quite different than what you need to know by the time you're 18.
I think it kind of depends on what you do for a living....And thats hard to know in High School
Except that any job that requires trig more than likely requires a college degree and as I perused through course requirements for different degrees at my alma mater (University of Louisville) I failed to see any of them that let you get away with high school trig.
Nice intro but you're most likely going to have to do it all over again in college and high school would probably be better spent preparing people for what actually happens after school than expecting college to fix all the mistakes high school has made. i.e. I'd rather see required life-skill courses like personal finance that everyone will use than the three people per trig class that will use it after school.
While I agree with you that there's definitely a "The US must run the world and everyone must live as we do" attitude prevalent here, most medicines that would be useful in third world countries require refrigeration. That's a big problem with vaccines and such when trying to get them to remote places.
It would also be an easier life if they could freeze foods for times when there is drought or pestilence or migration changes of animals.
Speaking of which, is there any filesystem around that "automagically" detects redundancy and avoids storing the same data twice (i.e. two files with the same content end up being stored only once)?
I'm pretty sure The HFS+ Volume Format has that ability but it's just not used in the file manager.
HFS+ is a very cool volume format but it's pretty much abstracted from file management which, incidentally, makes it a perfect format for something like Mac OS X because of the way OS X, Classic, and the Unix side work.
This obviously doesn't solve the problem because you can always use older GPLed software and modify it yourself to keep it up to date.
I could have my licenses screwed up but doesn't the OLD GPL require you to submit your changes if you release software based on GPL source? Basically it looks like a win/win to me. Old applications still get the newer updates and no one can use the newer updates that are integrated unless they don't patent software.
I think it's a great idea. Lost of companies are already making money directly from free software or benefiting from code without having to patent everything.
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The problem was that Real wanted to PAY to advertise on MSN and MS said no. It was not free exposure they were after.
BTW, I love magazine ads.
Kylie Minogue has one of the hottest bodies on the planet. I'd do her, and I'm gay.
Because people mistakenly believed that because Sony was successful with their SNES add-on (Playstation) and followed up with a great sequel (PS2) that somehow they would be able to do at least something halfway interesting in a market that Nintendo has p0wn3d for 15+ years.
they were wrong.
Except Apple, unlike most computer companies, does a BOOMING holiday business. Then on top of that they always introduce new products in January, besting other computer companies again.
bleh. Makes no sense to me that music stores don't think that people who spend more on their computers won't make good customers.
Well, before long PC vendors will have an even greater bargaining chip with Apple. Whether it will be a real threat or not, who knows. Up until this point it required an architecture change if you wanted to sell Mac OS (during the clone years). Going forward it would just be a configuration change. Apple has shown that they're not opposed to selling rebranded Apple kit with the HP iPod. If Michael Dell felt the need to put the squeeze on MS I'm sure a few publicised talks with Steve Jobs would do the trick.
I don't see anything wrong with Nintendo trying to improve on a successful product, because so far they've never stopped selling the current product because a new version came out. The GBA SP has so much more going for it than the original GBA that I am glad Nintendo sees these opportunities.
I'm not opting for a GBA Micro myself, but I will probably buy 2 for my nieces this holiday.
Music isn't really a loss leader for Apple, it's just not a money-maker. They make a few cents off of each track.
The real question is when Apple or Microsoft will start/buy their own music label. Sounds easier to me than trying to negotiate with any cartel...
I have a BS in ECE Comm so my experience is a lot less than what those working on this system but more than an average computer user and I was able to install YellowDog Linux on a PowerMac 6100 in about 3 hours, in April of this year. It mainly took that long because it was over 10Mb enet (which was faster than the 2x CDROM). Then it only took another hour to get postfix and apache up and running (nothing fancy though). I can't imagine an install on modern hardware taking two weeks by people whose job it is to do it.
To the best of my knowledge, a Windows Blue Screen and a kernel panic differ because the NT kernel will not halt when something violates the kernel space. The last Blue Screen I have seen was on an XP SP2 unit and there's the option to continue. I've never even heard of a Unix machine or derivative OS allow the user to continue once the kernel space has been compromised.
I have NEVER heard the term "Random Reboot" outside of lusers describing Windows behaviour. Unix and its derivatives have Console messages that would eliminate anything "random" happening and, unless you are doing a "shutdown -now", I'm unaware of any way to make a Unix or derivative do anything like it unless there's a hardware issue.
Any body that contains an atmosphere and orbits a star singularly or in binary. Just what I think of traditionally as a planet.
Interface Builder.app allows for rapid development, too (mainly because you don't have to "design" an interface). Not sure how funky XML is better. I dunno how much stock I'd put into the importance or uselfulness of an MS cross-platform solution. They can't even get things working between versions of their own products (Visual Basic, Office, whatever they're calling Windows CE now).
It's not math, it's the KIND of math. Math seems to be the one jubject that people adamantly defend as important to know in-depth concepts of because we use objects everyday that advanced math has created. You know what? You ought to have taken biochemistry, too, to understand how all those preservatives you are eating affect your body. While you're at it, you need to take micro and macro economics in high school, too, so you can understand why gas is almost $4 a gallon. Or have taken an etymology course because you speak with people everyday.
Yeah, it starts looking silly when I apply that attitude to everything, huh?
High school graduation requirements are based on what colleges want you to know before you enter them. That's quite different than what you need to know by the time you're 18.
There will always be cafeteria food...
Except that any job that requires trig more than likely requires a college degree and as I perused through course requirements for different degrees at my alma mater (University of Louisville) I failed to see any of them that let you get away with high school trig.
Nice intro but you're most likely going to have to do it all over again in college and high school would probably be better spent preparing people for what actually happens after school than expecting college to fix all the mistakes high school has made. i.e. I'd rather see required life-skill courses like personal finance that everyone will use than the three people per trig class that will use it after school.
Oh yeah, the evil bit is set and the "what a waste of money on a TiVO" switch is broken in the "on" position.
Microsoft, the music industry and the movie industry do not make their money selling hardware.
While I agree with you that there's definitely a "The US must run the world and everyone must live as we do" attitude prevalent here, most medicines that would be useful in third world countries require refrigeration. That's a big problem with vaccines and such when trying to get them to remote places.
It would also be an easier life if they could freeze foods for times when there is drought or pestilence or migration changes of animals.
Is that an iPod in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
As an aside, that's not a coin pocket, Levi Strauss designed it for matches when he created the jean for miners to keep the matches dry.
I'm pretty sure The HFS+ Volume Format has that ability but it's just not used in the file manager.
HFS+ is a very cool volume format but it's pretty much abstracted from file management which, incidentally, makes it a perfect format for something like Mac OS X because of the way OS X, Classic, and the Unix side work.
Because we all know those large contributors would have returned their code to the projects if the license didn't require them to do so.
I could have my licenses screwed up but doesn't the OLD GPL require you to submit your changes if you release software based on GPL source? Basically it looks like a win/win to me. Old applications still get the newer updates and no one can use the newer updates that are integrated unless they don't patent software.
I think it's a great idea. Lost of companies are already making money directly from free software or benefiting from code without having to patent everything.