Compatibility is a strong suite that MS has been pushing ever since it came out. Ease of install and ease of use is argue-able.
Linux install is also "click a few options", however, it is argue-able since the options available are not quite as lay.
Solution: Making the first question option on the install of Linux "Easy install / Expert Install" would immediately alleviate this. Upon selecting Easy install, configuration of partitions, IP addresses, screen-resolutions, security, packages, etc. would have a stock template and require only user supplied information. Not SysAdmin supplied information (with the exception of a root password). Post installation, this is where a question and answer manual would be usefull in determining what doesn't work from the stock install, providing steps in how to get it working the way you would want it.
Ease of use is very argue-able as well. That is once the GUI is up and running. Though gettin XFree or Gnome to work has been less than perfect.
NeverWinterNights server argue-ably runs far better on Lunix than windows IMHO, and I've tried both, without a bent to either since my objective for running that server was to run an NWN server, not run windows or linux. I was able to run far more concurrent users, far longer, and have far easier access to administration tools than in windows. On windows, it could hang the whole machine and disable a remote reboot (the only solution at that point). The windows box was hacked the same day we installed the server piece. After re-install and configuring security, we had issues with functionality and visibility due to the miserable firewall. Automatic scripts for cleanup, archive, logging, moving modules around, upload, and all were much easier to handle as well. Yes your argument was about the player application. Specifically, the graphics. Personally I think it was money. Their market was windows for the players. The fact that NWN Player on Linux finally showed up at all proves that it was only a matter of priorities for a company trying to make money. If I were Bioware, I'd do the same. Infact, I might have not even put out a Linux Client at all. I think that may have been just to appease the Linux server admins that also played, since the better servers (uptime, popularity, good module designs) ran on Linux.
My point, for Linux to be technically superior to windows in a user environment, the tools for it need to be geared toward a user environment.
As the other replies have pointed out, I believe also that the foam is moving right, not left. I first mistook the picture as well thinking it was breaking against the dark bordered right side. However if you look closesly, the blue and mustard frame appears to be the structure holding up the wing, and therefore it wouldn't make sense to send the foam from right to left. The braces would get in the way of the experiment.
It has already struck the left side and is just about to roll off the right. The marks on along the top ridge of the wing, just above the "FG#6 Test 1" sign is the damage I surmise they are talking about.
Why would I change? Because it all amounts to nothing in your life without investing some piece of your belief and your role in humanity. Call me a tree hugging philanthropist. I've been at a law office as you described (I wasn't a lawyer, but the techie who supported their systems, but I got more than a fair share of the action). At the end of the day there's nothing left but pure emptiness. There are people in those world that care. About this, or that, or any stupid little thing they do in their life. But they do care.
I guess if it's all about winning and money then the world is going in the right direction, isn't it? It is, isn't it?
If this patent was rejected, would it have stopped MS from developing and rolling this out and collecting profits from it? Would it have given competition unfair market share away from MS? Does the award of the patent justify return on investment for developing this new invention?
Who the FUCK are these people in the patent office? I'm a noob when it comes to law and patents, and I don't know much about VOD, but even I can tell you to chuck this out. Can someone with some clout or maybe who has a friend in the news industry or technews (online or paper) please convince a reporter to go visit the patent office and find out what they are doing? It doesn't appear to be that the people with decision making roles in vital positions, whether they are in the seat of power or not (it may just be a paper-pushin dweeb like me) has any moral, ethical or mental capacity to defer judgement of this sort of thing. Either that or he knows nothing about technology (and he works in the patent office?). I'd like his name, face, address and phone number plastered all over slashdot so we can harass him from time to time. People must be accountable for their actions or we continue this path. It doesn't take alot of imagination or visionary forsight to see where it leads.
True. I concur that there is a strong correlation between wealth and foolish behavior.
However, it does not preclude it in theory. In theory, however, to hear about geocaching from a friend who does it will land a higher probability of a higher average preservation. In theory, hearing about it on a website, and worse, on slashdot, will land a higher probability of a lower average preservation. I will make the assumption that there are a significant number of slashdotters with money that engage in foolish behavior;L
There is a much lower number of people who will be interested in vandlising the sport which a friend has introduced him/her to.
Quantifying them is of little value when the quality makes the difference. I suggest you (all of you) do a little traveling and find out the difference in peoples attitudes, quality of life, work ethic, policies of state, policies of companies, policies of personal protocol, and generally how people live in each area being compared, before you apply some of these theories. Even a couple a weeks of light-weight tourism will teach you alot and sway your perspective. I mean this for anyone in this discussion. I have my opinions but won't share them here in the hope that this advice is will be heard by all camps. This is the road to world understanding. Hopefully this is the road to achieving peace in space.
As with anything that becomes popular, it presents itself to abuse. More so with fads. Posting this on/. was a bad idea. It really isn't suitable for mass consumption. Slashdot crowd isn't what it used to be. Hopefully geocaching won't "catch-on". Hopefully some joe-schmoe doesn't decide that it will be fun to plant an unpleasant surprise for a cache.
Good behavior and respect is like common sense. It's rare among the general populace. I would want the practice of this activity be limited to those that are in the know, if I were into this sort of thing. Best kept secrets are best kept by being secret, or rather obscurity.
I might suggestion that geocaching be taught through a buddy-like system instead of hanging it out there for anyone to just pick up.
Spam is not unlike that methodology. Opinions and general public sentiments may lie, the numbers don't, people want to be spammed, they want these things and they buy these things. The root of the problem is how to connect a buyer and seller of different degrees together for a transaction without impacting a million others that don't. The methodologies we have today work on the lowest common denominator of human communication. This species is also developing an epidemic problem with attention span that make pop-ups and bright-colored e-mails attractive (Homer-like-sound "mmmmm"). Is it possible, and how, without socially undesirable side-effects such as spam and telemarketing?
However none of these theories discern between a legitimate business spamming you and a clear social pariah offering penis enlargement or investments in Zaire.
And yes, I did not forget that in some conditions, sellers may lay influence to someone who was not a buyer before. Ethically and morally, I won't offer my opinions. Just something to think about.
Why are they making this a fine instead of a small claim (follow the money)?
[1] Someone got paid big time for pushing this through [2] Someone will get paid for collecting on this [3]
If they REALLY wanted this to stop, you DO give an incentive to abuse the anti-spam anti-telemarketing laws. Placing the burden on corporations to keep a hawkeye on its operations so that it either does no telemarketing or does so with very stringent procedures is the solution for the people. This solution thats been implemented is for a handful of people making a handful of dollars.
Which is why it's not a solution for you. I strongly agree with the philosophy that if you don't identify yourself, you have me at a disadvantage and I don't want to play. Shit happens. That's why its called shit. Emergency? Risk? It's happened to me on ocassion. I accept that life's not perfect. I'll accept the compromise.
"Hi, I'm calling you to tell you about a fanastic..."
"What's your name and number?"
"Excuse me? Why do you want that?"
"So I can call you on your private phone and try to sell you some of the lint from my testicals. I have a fantastic collection..."
It aint all their (US & USSR) fault. It's partly to blame that they (NKorea) got a completely insane paranoid powerhungry despot family for rulers. It's happened in most countries at sometime in their history. NKorea is just a late bloomer.
The problem with collecting data isn't that we fear it will be used a malicious way. Corpoartions aren't out to get you (That's what the Govment is for;). They're out to get your money. The voice I think I'm hearing is the fear that they will use the data with money in mind, disregarding whether morally good or evil the results are. Whatever the result is to consumer privacy, it's inconsequential to them (unless the consumers respond unfavorably with their wallets).
Even aggregate data. As long as you got a buck behind the motivation, you've no idea what kind of payload its carrying. It could be flowers. It could be poison gas. They don't care. As long green paper comes with it.
Personally I don't own one of these. But I would be worried. The boxes are uniquely identifiable to a household. I would want proof before I either cry or smile. A sample with simple explanations of the columns would suffice. It would smooth relations with their customers, I would think they would want that.
However if they are hiding the fact that they are selling individual information, this may be the statement to diffuse any incident should news leak out. "You knew about this. We announced we were selling this information. No we didn't give you a chance to see a sample to make sure. Trust us."
Trust? Trust has nothing to do with money making corporations. Who are you kidding? They emulate trust... to get in your pockets maybe. Do you know TiVo? Does he live on your block? Do you know his kids? Do your kids mow his lawn? Does your dog know the scent of his crotch?
"And in related news, Christie's will now be filing suite against all other auction houses in the United States requiring them to pay a fee for holding auctions."
There are many things that people have posted and the arguments, briefs and explanations of the issues quite complex.
Honestly, I think this is just dumb. I wish the judges would declare a new classisfication besides dismissed.
"Earlier today the honorable Judge Thomas has declared the case against eBay Just Dumb. MercExchange will be required to pay a Dumb fine of $1, restricted to payments of one penny per month. Judge Thomas stated that the fine is appropriate for such a case, saying that hopefully corporations that are considering such dumb lawsuites review them before committing themselves to a dumb punishment. Violations to this payment plan will result in fines of up to and including $100 million. MercExchange could not be reached for comments at the time of this writing and it is suspected they are arranging a contract with a bank to ensure their penny-a-month payment."
Someday, when you're older, you'll begin to understand there are shades of gray... reasons for things. Unlike computers, the real world is not binary.
I understand the shades of gray quite well. And the motivation (your reasons) that is built apon complex layers of these shades. I suppose it was expected that someone would patronize the rather simplistic nature of my post. I did so with the intention of providing some insight to the audience how shades of gray and hidden reasons betray personal agendas of politicians that work at cross-purposes to the agendas of humanity. Any religion you study or follow will teach that retaliation or threat of retaliation is not the tool towards peace. I concur, the world indeed is not binary, nor black and white, nor good and evil, nor right and wrong. This cliche is not suitable for/. consumption.
Read some information about the WWII nukes from different sources (at least one for and one against). The "against" should be easy to find. Try to understand the political, economic, and humanitarian needs for using those nukes.
Perhaps I might suggest you try to understand the human desires that necessitate using politics and economics in the name of humanitarian efforts.
Just because you understand those reasons doesn't force you to agree with the action itself. But it is very important to fully understand the rationale before you loudly pronounce that the US must sit silent in every situation for which a protestor can make some charge.
I suppose this is good advice, incase I need to defend the opinion that one human's intent on killing another is wrong, a belief that is innate among all those who participate and attempt to socially engage in a mutual world. You speak as if the "US" is an entity or person. Remember that the "US" is a collection of individual people that have several common attributes that identify. Examine carefully what those attributes are and perhaps you will get to the bottom of what is referenced in the first paragraph above. I don't proclaim that I or he or anyone is better. Let me re-iterate this.
I simply imply that nobody is better to judge another.
In your humble opinion? Opinion has nothing to do with it. It is a fact. Politicians are actors. They must be effective actors or they can not achieve great leadership. Have you ever made presentations at meetings or to a board or a large crowd? You'll notice those who sway and motivate people are those who give great presentations. They influence people's emotions.
WE designed and DEPLOYED the first nukes on Japan. WE still pump the most funds into designing NEW ways to kill people. How are we any better? How are we in a position to criticize someone else?
Either he had a bad hair day, or maybe he just simply overlooked it. Humans do make mistakes after-all. If every statement out of every mouth was carefully crafted and thoughtful, we wouldn't be in such a mess, now would we? Correct me if I'm wrong, but what I think he meant was India is country with an inexperienced (relative to US) software technology industry with potentially significant impacts to worldwide software progress.
More to the matter, this not only applies to "poor" countries, it applies here. The majority, and I do mean larger than 50%, of those working in IT and software development, are influenced by the behemoth with a bigger buck. Yaya, there is a growing trend to put Linux in and blah blah blah. Evidence suggests that MS is a very large company with lots of money and power. Wonder if there's any impact to people considering a career in technology.
There's no need to make an excuse. You're abosolutely right. The minute you feel guilty about what you know is inherently right and wrong, is the minute another munchkin lifts a buck off you. If not naive, then be jaded. And thus be jaded, enjoin with the munchkins.
It is an OK way to make a buck. That is the nature of money. Money is the quintessential icon of greed. And desire, my friend as buddha would enlighten you to believe, is the source of all suffering in the world. There is no good or evil. Just suffering.
I only discovered this year how much wisdom there is in that teaching.
I usually purchase cards that are roughly 2 model generations behind. When the GF4600 came out I started shopping for the 4200 I have currently. Bleeding edge is for bleeding edge people. For the majority of people purchasing cards for games and applications, the slightly 2nd rate card is more than sufficient.
Sure it does make a difference if you get the latest and greatest, but if you took careful notice of some games, you can see where developers expected certain resolutions to be common. Frames, buttons and borders are misaligned or difficult to use on some of the resolutions you can run smoothly on the brand new cards.
People whine all the time about cards not being powerful enough to run their games, then turn around and complain that games don't take advantage of the new cards features. Check the flip side of the coin before you start crying. There's a lag between development of hardware and development of software.
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Compatibility is a strong suite that MS has been pushing ever since it came out. Ease of install and ease of use is argue-able.
Linux install is also "click a few options", however, it is argue-able since the options available are not quite as lay.
Solution: Making the first question option on the install of Linux "Easy install / Expert Install" would immediately alleviate this. Upon selecting Easy install, configuration of partitions, IP addresses, screen-resolutions, security, packages, etc. would have a stock template and require only user supplied information. Not SysAdmin supplied information (with the exception of a root password). Post installation, this is where a question and answer manual would be usefull in determining what doesn't work from the stock install, providing steps in how to get it working the way you would want it.
Ease of use is very argue-able as well. That is once the GUI is up and running. Though gettin XFree or Gnome to work has been less than perfect.
NeverWinterNights server argue-ably runs far better on Lunix than windows IMHO, and I've tried both, without a bent to either since my objective for running that server was to run an NWN server, not run windows or linux. I was able to run far more concurrent users, far longer, and have far easier access to administration tools than in windows. On windows, it could hang the whole machine and disable a remote reboot (the only solution at that point). The windows box was hacked the same day we installed the server piece. After re-install and configuring security, we had issues with functionality and visibility due to the miserable firewall. Automatic scripts for cleanup, archive, logging, moving modules around, upload, and all were much easier to handle as well. Yes your argument was about the player application. Specifically, the graphics. Personally I think it was money. Their market was windows for the players. The fact that NWN Player on Linux finally showed up at all proves that it was only a matter of priorities for a company trying to make money. If I were Bioware, I'd do the same. Infact, I might have not even put out a Linux Client at all. I think that may have been just to appease the Linux server admins that also played, since the better servers (uptime, popularity, good module designs) ran on Linux.
My point, for Linux to be technically superior to windows in a user environment, the tools for it need to be geared toward a user environment.
As the other replies have pointed out, I believe also that the foam is moving right, not left. I first mistook the picture as well thinking it was breaking against the dark bordered right side. However if you look closesly, the blue and mustard frame appears to be the structure holding up the wing, and therefore it wouldn't make sense to send the foam from right to left. The braces would get in the way of the experiment.
It has already struck the left side and is just about to roll off the right. The marks on along the top ridge of the wing, just above the "FG#6 Test 1" sign is the damage I surmise they are talking about.
Why would I change? Because it all amounts to nothing in your life without investing some piece of your belief and your role in humanity. Call me a tree hugging philanthropist. I've been at a law office as you described (I wasn't a lawyer, but the techie who supported their systems, but I got more than a fair share of the action). At the end of the day there's nothing left but pure emptiness. There are people in those world that care. About this, or that, or any stupid little thing they do in their life. But they do care.
I guess if it's all about winning and money then the world is going in the right direction, isn't it? It is, isn't it?
There's a reason for patents.
If this patent was rejected, would it have stopped MS from developing and rolling this out and collecting profits from it? Would it have given competition unfair market share away from MS? Does the award of the patent justify return on investment for developing this new invention?
Who the FUCK are these people in the patent office? I'm a noob when it comes to law and patents, and I don't know much about VOD, but even I can tell you to chuck this out. Can someone with some clout or maybe who has a friend in the news industry or technews (online or paper) please convince a reporter to go visit the patent office and find out what they are doing? It doesn't appear to be that the people with decision making roles in vital positions, whether they are in the seat of power or not (it may just be a paper-pushin dweeb like me) has any moral, ethical or mental capacity to defer judgement of this sort of thing. Either that or he knows nothing about technology (and he works in the patent office?). I'd like his name, face, address and phone number plastered all over slashdot so we can harass him from time to time. People must be accountable for their actions or we continue this path. It doesn't take alot of imagination or visionary forsight to see where it leads.
"What are you doing."
"I'm processing a patent for..."
"What are you doing."
"Well I was telli..."
"What are you doing."
"Wa... I..."
"What are you doing."
"I'm just..."
Smack!
"Ow... that hur..."
Please see previous article: Auction Patent
True. I concur that there is a strong correlation between wealth and foolish behavior.
;L
However, it does not preclude it in theory. In theory, however, to hear about geocaching from a friend who does it will land a higher probability of a higher average preservation. In theory, hearing about it on a website, and worse, on slashdot, will land a higher probability of a lower average preservation. I will make the assumption that there are a significant number of slashdotters with money that engage in foolish behavior
There is a much lower number of people who will be interested in vandlising the sport which a friend has introduced him/her to.
Are these assumptions off their mark?
Quantifying them is of little value when the quality makes the difference. I suggest you (all of you) do a little traveling and find out the difference in peoples attitudes, quality of life, work ethic, policies of state, policies of companies, policies of personal protocol, and generally how people live in each area being compared, before you apply some of these theories. Even a couple a weeks of light-weight tourism will teach you alot and sway your perspective. I mean this for anyone in this discussion. I have my opinions but won't share them here in the hope that this advice is will be heard by all camps. This is the road to world understanding. Hopefully this is the road to achieving peace in space.
As with anything that becomes popular, it presents itself to abuse. More so with fads. Posting this on /. was a bad idea. It really isn't suitable for mass consumption. Slashdot crowd isn't what it used to be. Hopefully geocaching won't "catch-on". Hopefully some joe-schmoe doesn't decide that it will be fun to plant an unpleasant surprise for a cache.
Good behavior and respect is like common sense. It's rare among the general populace. I would want the practice of this activity be limited to those that are in the know, if I were into this sort of thing. Best kept secrets are best kept by being secret, or rather obscurity.
I might suggestion that geocaching be taught through a buddy-like system instead of hanging it out there for anyone to just pick up.
It's called business.
Can anyone find the link to the original statement FutureMark released when it happened? It was a PDF.
Anyway, it's real easy to make it fair. Like they suggested, put a random element in the test.
"But then they're not consistent".
Run them a few times and take the average. Duh.
Spam is not unlike that methodology. Opinions and general public sentiments may lie, the numbers don't, people want to be spammed, they want these things and they buy these things. The root of the problem is how to connect a buyer and seller of different degrees together for a transaction without impacting a million others that don't. The methodologies we have today work on the lowest common denominator of human communication. This species is also developing an epidemic problem with attention span that make pop-ups and bright-colored e-mails attractive (Homer-like-sound "mmmmm"). Is it possible, and how, without socially undesirable side-effects such as spam and telemarketing?
However none of these theories discern between a legitimate business spamming you and a clear social pariah offering penis enlargement or investments in Zaire.
And yes, I did not forget that in some conditions, sellers may lay influence to someone who was not a buyer before. Ethically and morally, I won't offer my opinions. Just something to think about.
Why are they making this a fine instead of a small claim (follow the money)?
[1] Someone got paid big time for pushing this through
[2] Someone will get paid for collecting on this
[3]
If they REALLY wanted this to stop, you DO give an incentive to abuse the anti-spam anti-telemarketing laws. Placing the burden on corporations to keep a hawkeye on its operations so that it either does no telemarketing or does so with very stringent procedures is the solution for the people. This solution thats been implemented is for a handful of people making a handful of dollars.
But none of us REALLY want it to stop.
Which is why it's not a solution for you. I strongly agree with the philosophy that if you don't identify yourself, you have me at a disadvantage and I don't want to play. Shit happens. That's why its called shit. Emergency? Risk? It's happened to me on ocassion. I accept that life's not perfect. I'll accept the compromise.
"Hi, I'm calling you to tell you about a fanastic..."
"What's your name and number?"
"Excuse me? Why do you want that?"
"So I can call you on your private phone and try to sell you some of the lint from my testicals. I have a fantastic collection..."
It aint all their (US & USSR) fault. It's partly to blame that they (NKorea) got a completely insane paranoid powerhungry despot family for rulers. It's happened in most countries at sometime in their history. NKorea is just a late bloomer.
The problem with collecting data isn't that we fear it will be used a malicious way. Corpoartions aren't out to get you (That's what the Govment is for ;). They're out to get your money. The voice I think I'm hearing is the fear that they will use the data with money in mind, disregarding whether morally good or evil the results are. Whatever the result is to consumer privacy, it's inconsequential to them (unless the consumers respond unfavorably with their wallets).
Even aggregate data. As long as you got a buck behind the motivation, you've no idea what kind of payload its carrying. It could be flowers. It could be poison gas. They don't care. As long green paper comes with it.
Personally I don't own one of these. But I would be worried. The boxes are uniquely identifiable to a household. I would want proof before I either cry or smile. A sample with simple explanations of the columns would suffice. It would smooth relations with their customers, I would think they would want that.
However if they are hiding the fact that they are selling individual information, this may be the statement to diffuse any incident should news leak out. "You knew about this. We announced we were selling this information. No we didn't give you a chance to see a sample to make sure. Trust us."
Trust? Trust has nothing to do with money making corporations. Who are you kidding? They emulate trust... to get in your pockets maybe. Do you know TiVo? Does he live on your block? Do you know his kids? Do your kids mow his lawn? Does your dog know the scent of his crotch?
Business is rarely coincidence. Big Business is never coincidence.
Iron is the history of which Big Blue and The Borg are made of.
"And in related news, Christie's will now be filing suite against all other auction houses in the United States requiring them to pay a fee for holding auctions."
There are many things that people have posted and the arguments, briefs and explanations of the issues quite complex.
Honestly, I think this is just dumb. I wish the judges would declare a new classisfication besides dismissed.
"Earlier today the honorable Judge Thomas has declared the case against eBay Just Dumb. MercExchange will be required to pay a Dumb fine of $1, restricted to payments of one penny per month. Judge Thomas stated that the fine is appropriate for such a case, saying that hopefully corporations that are considering such dumb lawsuites review them before committing themselves to a dumb punishment. Violations to this payment plan will result in fines of up to and including $100 million. MercExchange could not be reached for comments at the time of this writing and it is suspected they are arranging a contract with a bank to ensure their penny-a-month payment."
Someday, when you're older, you'll begin to understand there are shades of gray ... reasons for things. Unlike computers, the real world is not binary.
/. consumption.
I understand the shades of gray quite well. And the motivation (your reasons) that is built apon complex layers of these shades. I suppose it was expected that someone would patronize the rather simplistic nature of my post. I did so with the intention of providing some insight to the audience how shades of gray and hidden reasons betray personal agendas of politicians that work at cross-purposes to the agendas of humanity. Any religion you study or follow will teach that retaliation or threat of retaliation is not the tool towards peace. I concur, the world indeed is not binary, nor black and white, nor good and evil, nor right and wrong. This cliche is not suitable for
Read some information about the WWII nukes from different sources (at least one for and one against). The "against" should be easy to find. Try to understand the political, economic, and humanitarian needs for using those nukes.
Perhaps I might suggest you try to understand the human desires that necessitate using politics and economics in the name of humanitarian efforts.
Just because you understand those reasons doesn't force you to agree with the action itself. But it is very important to fully understand the rationale before you loudly pronounce that the US must sit silent in every situation for which a protestor can make some charge.
I suppose this is good advice, incase I need to defend the opinion that one human's intent on killing another is wrong, a belief that is innate among all those who participate and attempt to socially engage in a mutual world. You speak as if the "US" is an entity or person. Remember that the "US" is a collection of individual people that have several common attributes that identify. Examine carefully what those attributes are and perhaps you will get to the bottom of what is referenced in the first paragraph above. I don't proclaim that I or he or anyone is better. Let me re-iterate this.
I simply imply that nobody is better to judge another.
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In your humble opinion? Opinion has nothing to do with it. It is a fact. Politicians are actors. They must be effective actors or they can not achieve great leadership. Have you ever made presentations at meetings or to a board or a large crowd? You'll notice those who sway and motivate people are those who give great presentations. They influence people's emotions.
WE designed and DEPLOYED the first nukes on Japan. WE still pump the most funds into designing NEW ways to kill people. How are we any better? How are we in a position to criticize someone else?
Either he had a bad hair day, or maybe he just simply overlooked it. Humans do make mistakes after-all. If every statement out of every mouth was carefully crafted and thoughtful, we wouldn't be in such a mess, now would we? Correct me if I'm wrong, but what I think he meant was India is country with an inexperienced (relative to US) software technology industry with potentially significant impacts to worldwide software progress.
More to the matter, this not only applies to "poor" countries, it applies here. The majority, and I do mean larger than 50%, of those working in IT and software development, are influenced by the behemoth with a bigger buck. Yaya, there is a growing trend to put Linux in and blah blah blah. Evidence suggests that MS is a very large company with lots of money and power. Wonder if there's any impact to people considering a career in technology.
There's no need to make an excuse. You're abosolutely right. The minute you feel guilty about what you know is inherently right and wrong, is the minute another munchkin lifts a buck off you. If not naive, then be jaded. And thus be jaded, enjoin with the munchkins.
It is an OK way to make a buck. That is the nature of money. Money is the quintessential icon of greed. And desire, my friend as buddha would enlighten you to believe, is the source of all suffering in the world. There is no good or evil. Just suffering.
I only discovered this year how much wisdom there is in that teaching.
NOVL and SCO
& s= scox&a=v&p=s&l=on&z=m&q=l
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?d=c&c=novl&k=c1&t=1d
I thought it was just me.
Specifically...
"Contracts are what you use against parties you have relationships with"
looks pretty bad in the eyes of prospective business partners. Silly, contracts are what you bind two parties to an agreement.
Looks very rushed. Even a mediocre writer like me wouldn't make this mistake.
Anyone notice the similiarity?
& s= scox&a=v&p=s&l=on&z=m&q=l
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?d=c&c=novl&k=c1&t=1d
800-946-0719 for the Conference Call
I agree.
I usually purchase cards that are roughly 2 model generations behind. When the GF4600 came out I started shopping for the 4200 I have currently. Bleeding edge is for bleeding edge people. For the majority of people purchasing cards for games and applications, the slightly 2nd rate card is more than sufficient.
Sure it does make a difference if you get the latest and greatest, but if you took careful notice of some games, you can see where developers expected certain resolutions to be common. Frames, buttons and borders are misaligned or difficult to use on some of the resolutions you can run smoothly on the brand new cards.
People whine all the time about cards not being powerful enough to run their games, then turn around and complain that games don't take advantage of the new cards features. Check the flip side of the coin before you start crying. There's a lag between development of hardware and development of software.