So why are they ranked the top company in a reputation survey? Seems a little silly since although Gates made his money from Microsoft, his spending is not related to the company.
Oh, I don't know... does it have anything to do with Microsofties being more generous than the rest of the corporate world in general?
It's this reason that they are allowed to do things like charge me more when someone else hits my parked, empty car. Suddenly I become more of a risk because someone else runs into my parked car? That's not a law of averages, that's manipulation of the system.
See, you proved that you are, statistically speaking, prefer parking car in places where it is more likely to be hit. So they charge you more. There are no many clear indications to place a person in a particular risk group (age, sex, place of living?), they have to be inventive and use indicators such as tickets and accidents, even those which may not be directly your fault.
Disclaimer: I don't work for insurance company, and I don't like them either.
email it in Word format to an recruitment agency (why they wouldn't accept PDF is beyond me)
Why? Because before the first living soul casts a glance on your resume it will be sifted for keywords, dragged through filters and rendered in some uniform way. And guess what, PDF is a presentation format, not a data storage format - there is no guarantee that you get the original textual data back from an arbitrary PDF document. So they don't accept any PDFs.
I don't know why you would want Vista, but for me there is a new networking & audio stacks, XPS & totally cool new printing system, transactional FS, and a lot more interesting stuff. Sure, crawl back under your rock and keep beliving that all what Vista is is Aqua interface AKA MacOS circa 80s;-P
That's why you use cameras on wheels. They can move, they can jump the stairs, they can be thrown, and better yet, they can be fired from a special cannon. Totally sweet:-)
Oh, the minibar was never in danger of running low on soda...
Naturally. At up to $5 per bottle of pop and upper $XX per bottle of buzz one can make a really smart minibar that would promptly reorder and refill itself when it runs low on stuff... which is never.
Adding more 'stuff' to the universe is part of the creation process...
Have you read the last revision of the first book? It got a freaking taheen brute-forced into it completely out of the story line! It does [maybe] help holding the series together, still IMHO it just sticks out as a sore thumb:-(
You're talking about Microsoft and Apple, and then about Gates giving away "free money" etc. I don't see any of Founding Steves (Jobs and Wozniak) here. Didn't they get any "free stock" to blow away on charity? Would you donate your "free money" or lock it down as Apple guys or maybe spend it to please your precious ego? Is nearly $28 billion (58% of net worth) donated by Gates to date (2004) a "petty cash"? Killjoe, you're full of shit, pardon the language I never used online before.
Computers with Windows XP are stuffed to the roof with trialware and services that kick back the cost. Those with empty hard drives are, well, empty. What's so hard to grasp here?
Missed one: Microsoft sells software and hardware in, what, maybe a hundred countries now? China is a big market, and it's Asian, not Western country - sure they know better there how to make, adapt and sell software in Asian markets.
the Xbox 360 has an architecture where you essentially have got three processors and they're all running the same memory pool and they're all synchronized, and cache coherent, and you can spawn off another thread in your program and make it go do some work. That's kind of the best case and it's still really difficult to turn into faster performance or getting it to get more stuff done in a game title.
On PS3:
Is the performance benefit that you get out of this worth the extra development time? There's sort of an inclination to believe that, and there's some truth to it, that Sony sort of takes this position where, 'okay it's going to be difficult, maybe its going to suck to do this, but the good game developers are going to suck it up and make it work.' There's some truth to that. There will be the developers that go ahead and have a miserable time and do get good performance out of some of these multi-core approaches. And Cell is worse than others in some respects, here.
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Unimplementable? Right you are: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ooxml#Adoption
Require full implementation? ISO approved ODF 1.0 doesn't have a single full implementation - all current implementations extend ODF 1.0 and most have compatibility problems: http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2008/02/01/is-it-jetlag.aspx#7465908
How they wish now Seadragon were there to help ;-)
I send my bills in letters, you insensitive clod!
See, you proved that you are, statistically speaking, prefer parking car in places where it is more likely to be hit. So they charge you more. There are no many clear indications to place a person in a particular risk group (age, sex, place of living?), they have to be inventive and use indicators such as tickets and accidents, even those which may not be directly your fault.
Disclaimer: I don't work for insurance company, and I don't like them either.
Why? Because before the first living soul casts a glance on your resume it will be sifted for keywords, dragged through filters and rendered in some uniform way. And guess what, PDF is a presentation format, not a data storage format - there is no guarantee that you get the original textual data back from an arbitrary PDF document. So they don't accept any PDFs.
Here is the draft of ECMA standard, enjoy its 2000+ pages of detailed info.
Tight spot or not, Shaolin training is the answer to your problems: just watch the last 10 seconds of the trailer here and learn! ;-)
Trolling? ;-P
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-90 (I positively love its height ;-))
Thanks to their deplorable deal with Intel they are off my memory page for good.
I'm bilingual (2 1/4 to be correct) gamer, so $subj :-)
I don't know why you would want Vista, but for me there is a new networking & audio stacks, XPS & totally cool new printing system, transactional FS, and a lot more interesting stuff. Sure, crawl back under your rock and keep beliving that all what Vista is is Aqua interface AKA MacOS circa 80s ;-P
Two slashdvertisements from the same Adrian's "hit the monkey" Rojakpot on the same day - that must be a true boxing day today here =8X
That's why you use cameras on wheels. They can move, they can jump the stairs, they can be thrown, and better yet, they can be fired from a special cannon. Totally sweet :-)
Have you read the last revision of the first book? It got a freaking taheen brute-forced into it completely out of the story line! It does [maybe] help holding the series together, still IMHO it just sticks out as a sore thumb :-(
Agreed. And in the true spirit of the platform they will call it iPorn or iPr0n or something...
You're talking about Microsoft and Apple, and then about Gates giving away "free money" etc. I don't see any of Founding Steves (Jobs and Wozniak) here. Didn't they get any "free stock" to blow away on charity? Would you donate your "free money" or lock it down as Apple guys or maybe spend it to please your precious ego? Is nearly $28 billion (58% of net worth) donated by Gates to date (2004) a "petty cash"? Killjoe, you're full of shit, pardon the language I never used online before.
That's quite ugly, don't you think? Here is a TeX version to compare (kudos to Wikipedia's TeX renderer)
Computers with Windows XP are stuffed to the roof with trialware and services that kick back the cost. Those with empty hard drives are, well, empty. What's so hard to grasp here?
Missed one: Microsoft sells software and hardware in, what, maybe a hundred countries now? China is a big market, and it's Asian, not Western country - sure they know better there how to make, adapt and sell software in Asian markets.
That's what happens when one starts writing a piece from a title.
On Xbox 360
On PS3:
How about John Carmack's choosing it over PS3 as a primary development platform? I trust the man :-)
...that, and Halo 3