Here is a small excerpt: According to Lord Talbot, it is "much better to stick to the known general rules than to follow any one particular precedent which may be founded on reason unknown to us." Blackstone says, that a former decision is in general to be followed unless "manifestly absurd or unjust," and, in the latter case, it is declared when overruled not that the former sentence was bad law, but that it was not law.
"Lifting" as you call it, is a stress on the underside of the wing, and the on airframe where the wing joins the fuelselage. The biggest worry for the solar cells on top of a wing is air turbulence. The suction of air above the wing, as well as wind shear (winds that are not in parallel to the direction of travel.
It is really just a matter of adhering them to the wing, making them aerodynamic, and keeping them clean.
My time is far more valuable than the 25MB of hard drive space DirectX takes up. I'm glad it's installed by default in WinXP. I was able to get my XP box up and gaming in ten minutes. It's been a month, and I still can't get my Linux box to run quake3.
uhhhh, I suck at trying to configure Linux and even I could get quake3 working relatively quickly.
This is yet another reason for different distro's.
My time is far more valuable than the 25MB of hard drive space DirectX takes up. I'm glad it's installed by default in WinXP. I was able to get my XP box up and gaming in ten minutes. It's been a month, and I still can't get my Linux box to run quake3.
uhhhh, I suck at trying to configure Linux and even I could get quake3 working relatively quickly.
This is yet another reason for different distro's.
Actually, I work in retail. The accounting is weird, but basically, they have paid for the boxen already. Simplisticly: ux + y + gz = d.
where, at time=1 (launch day)
u=number of units (XBox) made
x=cost per XBox
y=advertising costs
g=number of accessories made
z=avg. cost per accessory
d=debt
As time goes on, it becomes cheaper to make boxes, games, etc. This is due to the system being in place, and for the kinks to have been resolved (manufacturing, delivery, as well as service).
Advertising costs go down as word of mouth increases also.
If they are operating the XBox as a seperate business (remember, tax breaks for business' that report a loss), then they only make back money spent when we buy something.
It is true that the console is their loss leader (ie the object sold purposefully at a loss to increase sales of profitable items, noted by others as games, controllers, mem cards etc), but without it, they have no continuing source of revenue.
Don't buy the XBox, and you don't buy the games and other periferals, causing the XBox business to stay in debt for a longer period of time.
for that "Revenge of the Jedi" trailer, go here starting tonight, about 7pm EST. Sorry about delay, but I am at work, and I forgot to do it before, and there is no ssh daemon running on my machine right now:-(
A friend of mine has an Apple Airport set-up, which is 802.11b, in a three story house, and there are dead zones inside the house, on the same floor!
Your buddy in the other building might get some usage, with a high-gain directional antenna on your base station, depending on how well the signal can be reflected.
Or, you could put antennaes on the roof on the south side of both buildings... There are rules to worry about though.
Proxim amd others have complete set-ups for you to try.
"1) Remove the bloat. Most linux distro?s ship with way to many useless programs. Desktop users do not need 10 different text editors. Give them one or two good ones and that will be enough."
Truth.
"2) Dump the command line. Desktop users do not use command lines. Windows is light-years ahead in this regard. Even their server OS has a great gui, and it is not necessary to use the command line. Linux needs to follow Microsoft?s lead and get rid of the command line. You could maybe include an option for advanced users, like how windowsXP has an ms-dos prompt, if you really want to use it."
I thought the idea of Linux was to not follow Microsoft's lead. Great gui?? Please define great. The MS-DOS prompt is fairly neutered, and has been for some time. Make up your mind, gui or not.
"3) Dump open-source. Normal desktop users do not care about source code, they care about good programs. They do not want to compile anything. Linux needs real companies that actually know how to make good interfaces. Right now they are few and far between."
...good programs...good interfaces, truth. Obviously users do care about source-code.
"4) A universal gui system. Linux needs ONE gui. Perhaps people should focus on developing KDE into a competitive platform. Forget about gnome and everything else."
Why? KDE and Gnome and all the others are fairly distinct, giving different types of users different types of gui's. *gasp*
"5) Make upgrading the software easier. Desktop users need an easy way to upgrade the kernel."
Have you used a recently released distro lately? This is one of the concerns being addressed (ie Red Hat, Debian, Mandrake etc.).
"6) Get a good web browser. Linux has no good web browsers right now. Netscape is old and bloated. Opera cost extra and lacks some features. Mozilla is still beta and isn?t even up to version 1.0 yet, so it doesn?t count. Linux needs a browser that is competitive with IE, and right now IE is light-years ahead of anything for linux."
What happens in 6 months when there are numerous browsers available that are better than IE? Of course "better" is a rather ambiguous term...
"7) Proper office programs. If you want Linux to be used in offices, you need decent applications. These programs should be able to import all MS formats, past and present. Microsoft is still light years ahead when it comes to their office programs. "
MS Office can't open older Office formatted documents properly either. Are K-Office and/or Star Office so horrible?
"8) Backward compatibility. WindowsXP can run dos programs, windows 3.11 programs, windows9x programs, windowsNT programs, ect? Linux is barely backward compatible."
Not true! The NT/2000 kernel is different than the 9x kernel, and alot of the older programs don't work on the "other" kernel.
"Right now I would recommend windowsXP for any sensible desktop user."
Right now, I would stick with something that is known to be stable, like Windows 2000 Professional. If I was not using Linux that is...
The FCC raised the spectrum cap to 55 MHz in all markets during the transition period. This change is intended to address certain carriers' concerns about near-term spectrum capacity constraints in the most constrained urban areas.
There are alot more cellular phones being used in NYC now, and they need the capacity. I am pretty sure this is due to a huge upsurge in new phone/service contracts being purchased after Sept. 11.
One: "Member states have 18 months to ratify and implement the directive."
Two: "Musicians and artists will now be paid directly for broadcasts of their work in the US on cable, satellite and the internet..."
What "member states" are they talking about?
What if it is a US company using European hardware to broadcast on the internet? Where does that fall under? Or is it based on where the music is listened to?
E-commerce in general can learn something here...
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The PayPal Phenomenon
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· Score: 1
"The lessons learned from PayPal can be distilled into six simple rules for developing new payment services:
* Focus on the customer. Understand the market; be responsive to real-world needs; act with an obsessive customer orientation.
* Keep it simple. Keep it understandable; make it easy to use; let simplicity itself be the key competitive edge.
* Exploit the Internet. Play by Internet rules; develop new features that leverage the Internet; use the Internet as the dominant go-to-market channel.
* Design for adoption. Eliminate as many adoption dependencies as possible; make it easy for target customers to become registered users; keep providing compelling reasons for registered users to increase their use of the service.
* Think incrementally. Start small, get market feedback, and then incrementally make it a little better. Remember that big things grow from lots of little things.
* Costs matter. Price the service to reach critical mass first; adjust the pricing for profitability later; obsessively drive down internal costs at every opportunity.
There is nothing magical about this approach; others in the financial services industry should be able to follow the philosophy behind these rules--and the many lessons learned along the way--as they develop and introduce new online payment services."
Does 'F' imply no password protection?
Does 'D' imply posted password?
Does 'C' imply password?
Does 'B' imply encryption?
Does 'A' imply near perfection?
I presume an 'A+' is un-obtainable. If it has a way in, then, can't it be cracked?
I sure wish that sites like this were around a couple of years ago...
I have used Linux off and on for about 2 yrs now, first dual-booting, then just Linux, then just Windows, and now back to Linux again.
My roommate is a big Red Hat guy, and that is what I used before, RH 6.0-7.1. Now that I am interested in Linux, but suedo capable of doing some things without help, I have switched. I am now using Linux Mandrake 8.1. I installed it myself, botched it up somehow the first time, re-did it, and have been happy since. Once I get Q3A working, I will be exstatic!
Through all of this, the effort has been worth it, although, of course, it is now much easier to get going on your own without the help of a guru!
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It doeesn't absolve anything. I was just stating that "both" sides are involved; this issue is neither solely a Republican nor Democratic one.
"encouraging people to use lots of short-lived, nonbiodegradeable devices and then toss them out"
are you talking about regular old credit cards??
Remember, it was Bill Clinton who signed the DMCA into law.
"FBI backing private companies" is not new, in fact, it is standard practice.
Legal definition of precedent.
Here is a small excerpt:
According to Lord Talbot, it is "much better to stick to the known general rules than to follow any one particular precedent which may be founded on reason unknown to us." Blackstone says, that a former decision is in general to be followed unless "manifestly absurd or unjust," and, in the latter case, it is declared when overruled not that the former sentence was bad law, but that it was not law.
very funny!
:-(
didn't see Bruce though...
"Lifting" as you call it, is a stress on the underside of the wing, and the on airframe where the wing joins the fuelselage. The biggest worry for the solar cells on top of a wing is air turbulence. The suction of air above the wing, as well as wind shear (winds that are not in parallel to the direction of travel.
It is really just a matter of adhering them to the wing, making them aerodynamic, and keeping them clean.
My time is far more valuable than the 25MB of hard drive space DirectX takes up. I'm glad it's installed by default in WinXP. I was able to get my XP box up and gaming in ten minutes. It's been a month, and I still can't get my Linux box to run quake3.
uhhhh, I suck at trying to configure Linux and even I could get quake3 working relatively quickly.
This is yet another reason for different distro's.
My time is far more valuable than the 25MB of hard drive space DirectX takes up. I'm glad it's installed by default in WinXP. I was able to get my XP box up and gaming in ten minutes. It's been a month, and I still can't get my Linux box to run quake3.
uhhhh, I suck at trying to configure Linux and even I could get quake3 working relatively quickly.
This is yet another reason for different distro's.
truth :-(
which drivers did you use for LM 8.1?? i ahve not any luck yet... :-(
Actually, I work in retail. The accounting is weird, but basically, they have paid for the boxen already. Simplisticly: ux + y + gz = d.
where, at time=1 (launch day)
u=number of units (XBox) made
x=cost per XBox
y=advertising costs
g=number of accessories made
z=avg. cost per accessory
d=debt
As time goes on, it becomes cheaper to make boxes, games, etc. This is due to the system being in place, and for the kinks to have been resolved (manufacturing, delivery, as well as service).
Advertising costs go down as word of mouth increases also.
If they are operating the XBox as a seperate business (remember, tax breaks for business' that report a loss), then they only make back money spent when we buy something.
It is true that the console is their loss leader (ie the object sold purposefully at a loss to increase sales of profitable items, noted by others as games, controllers, mem cards etc), but without it, they have no continuing source of revenue.
Don't buy the XBox, and you don't buy the games and other periferals, causing the XBox business to stay in debt for a longer period of time.
If we don't buy any, they lose even more money. Instead of losing ~$125, they lose ~$424.
for that "Revenge of the Jedi" trailer, go here starting tonight, about 7pm EST. Sorry about delay, but I am at work, and I forgot to do it before, and there is no ssh daemon running on my machine right now :-(
A friend of mine has an Apple Airport set-up, which is 802.11b, in a three story house, and there are dead zones inside the house, on the same floor!
Your buddy in the other building might get some usage, with a high-gain directional antenna on your base station, depending on how well the signal can be reflected.
Or, you could put antennaes on the roof on the south side of both buildings... There are rules to worry about though.
Proxim amd others have complete set-ups for you to try.
Good Luck!
"Hello, as an experienced MCSE"
...good programs...good interfaces, truth. Obviously users do care about source-code.
uhhh... minesweeper certified solitaire expert...
"1) Remove the bloat. Most linux distro?s ship with way to many useless programs. Desktop users do not need 10 different text editors. Give them one or two good ones and that will be enough."
Truth.
"2) Dump the command line. Desktop users do not use command lines. Windows is light-years ahead in this regard. Even their server OS has a great gui, and it is not necessary to use the command line. Linux needs to follow Microsoft?s lead and get rid of the command line. You could maybe include an option for advanced users, like how windowsXP has an ms-dos prompt, if you really want to use it."
I thought the idea of Linux was to not follow Microsoft's lead. Great gui?? Please define great. The MS-DOS prompt is fairly neutered, and has been for some time. Make up your mind, gui or not.
"3) Dump open-source. Normal desktop users do not care about source code, they care about good programs. They do not want to compile anything. Linux needs real companies that actually know how to make good interfaces. Right now they are few and far between."
"4) A universal gui system. Linux needs ONE gui. Perhaps people should focus on developing KDE into a competitive platform. Forget about gnome and everything else."
Why? KDE and Gnome and all the others are fairly distinct, giving different types of users different types of gui's. *gasp*
"5) Make upgrading the software easier. Desktop users need an easy way to upgrade the kernel."
Have you used a recently released distro lately? This is one of the concerns being addressed (ie Red Hat, Debian, Mandrake etc.).
"6) Get a good web browser. Linux has no good web browsers right now. Netscape is old and bloated. Opera cost extra and lacks some features. Mozilla is still beta and isn?t even up to version 1.0 yet, so it doesn?t count. Linux needs a browser that is competitive with IE, and right now IE is light-years ahead of anything for linux."
What happens in 6 months when there are numerous browsers available that are better than IE? Of course "better" is a rather ambiguous term...
"7) Proper office programs. If you want Linux to be used in offices, you need decent applications. These programs should be able to import all MS formats, past and present. Microsoft is still light years ahead when it comes to their office programs. "
MS Office can't open older Office formatted documents properly either. Are K-Office and/or Star Office so horrible?
"8) Backward compatibility. WindowsXP can run dos programs, windows 3.11 programs, windows9x programs, windowsNT programs, ect? Linux is barely backward compatible."
Not true! The NT/2000 kernel is different than the 9x kernel, and alot of the older programs don't work on the "other" kernel.
"Right now I would recommend windowsXP for any sensible desktop user."
Right now, I would stick with something that is known to be stable, like Windows 2000 Professional. If I was not using Linux that is...
Isn't tic-tac-toe 2 vertical and horizontal lines??
_|_|_
_|_|_
| |
...more stuff added to get around lameness filter regarding ascii art/junk characters...
blech!!!
"Maybe he will just renumber them again."
Are you an idiot?? Watch the first released Star Wars movie again... the infamous scrolling story intro... Episode IV.
Does this sound/look familiar...??
The revenue still goes to the states .
/dev/null
Don't you mean the revenue still goes to Gates??
Which, for now, is, $ >
The FCC raised the spectrum cap to 55 MHz in all markets during the transition period. This change is intended to address certain carriers' concerns about near-term spectrum capacity constraints in the most constrained urban areas.
There are alot more cellular phones being used in NYC now, and they need the capacity. I am pretty sure this is due to a huge upsurge in new phone/service contracts being purchased after Sept. 11.
true true.
One: "Member states have 18 months to ratify and implement the directive."
Two: "Musicians and artists will now be paid directly for broadcasts of their work in the US on cable, satellite and the internet..."
What "member states" are they talking about?
What if it is a US company using European hardware to broadcast on the internet? Where does that fall under? Or is it based on where the music is listened to?
" The lessons learned from PayPal can be distilled into six simple rules for developing new payment services:
* Focus on the customer. Understand the market; be responsive to real-world needs; act with an obsessive customer orientation.
* Keep it simple. Keep it understandable; make it easy to use; let simplicity itself be the key competitive edge.
* Exploit the Internet. Play by Internet rules; develop new features that leverage the Internet; use the Internet as the dominant go-to-market channel.
* Design for adoption. Eliminate as many adoption dependencies as possible; make it easy for target customers to become registered users; keep providing compelling reasons for registered users to increase their use of the service.
* Think incrementally. Start small, get market feedback, and then incrementally make it a little better. Remember that big things grow from lots of little things.
* Costs matter. Price the service to reach critical mass first; adjust the pricing for profitability later; obsessively drive down internal costs at every opportunity.
There is nothing magical about this approach; others in the financial services industry should be able to follow the philosophy behind these rules--and the many lessons learned along the way--as they develop and introduce new online payment services. "
Does 'F' imply no password protection?
Does 'D' imply posted password?
Does 'C' imply password?
Does 'B' imply encryption?
Does 'A' imply near perfection?
I presume an 'A+' is un-obtainable. If it has a way in, then, can't it be cracked?
1. Use a smaller browser window.
2. Use a different browser.3. Use a bigger brain!
I sure wish that sites like this were around a couple of years ago...
I have used Linux off and on for about 2 yrs now, first dual-booting, then just Linux, then just Windows, and now back to Linux again.
My roommate is a big Red Hat guy, and that is what I used before, RH 6.0-7.1. Now that I am interested in Linux, but suedo capable of doing some things without help, I have switched. I am now using Linux Mandrake 8.1. I installed it myself, botched it up somehow the first time, re-did it, and have been happy since. Once I get Q3A working, I will be exstatic!
Through all of this, the effort has been worth it, although, of course, it is now much easier to get going on your own without the help of a guru!