AOL says it has about 30 million members. Eventually they're going to hit a plateau and stop the massive growth they had in the late 90s. In fact they already have. They've got to find NEW ways of revenue. The days of massive growth are over. I don't think it has anything to do with dirty sex chat. There's still plenty of that. In fact AOL has never advertised that. Go to their chat room listings. You still see those chat rooms. Another thing hurting AOL is competition. There's a lot more of it. Earlier they had to compete with other ISPs when they had the best chat rooms. Now other web sites and ISPs have good chat rooms and instant messanging too. AOL is a victim of capatilism. They've grown all they can in the terms of members, they now need to look to NEW ways of entertaining their members. Maybe then they'll get new ones.
Anybody else surprised by the fact that it took 9000 lines of code. Having done similar projects in VHDL, it should take less than 1000. Looking at their code, I understand why. They did not use any of the more complex VHDL features. No generics or loops. The entire project was just poorly thought through.
What about time? This was a class project. With this project and projects for other classes, they probably didn't have the time to make it better.
My cousin built a house similar to this in the late 1970s. One year he went on vacation while his teenage son stayed home for the 2 or 3 weeks he was gone. The fans in the ventilation system were shut off accidently and the son never turned them back on. When he came back, the rooms in the rear of the house were filled with mildew, lots of mildew. It was on the walls, the beds, and in the bathrooms. This house is located on a farm in central Illinois.
I have a book written by Janet Ruhl, published by John Wiley and Sons titled "The Computer Consultant's Guide" subtitled Real-Life Stratagies for Building a Successful COnsulting Career. It gives a lot of tips and pointers on doing your own contract / consulting work. It goes through all the business and legal issues you might face. It's ISBN 0-471-17649-4
Why not a compromise? Have a few computers set off to the side with some good filtering. Children can use those without a parent/gaurding. Then have some computers with no filtering where children under 18 would have to be accompanied by an adult/parent/gaurdian in order to use. Make it mandatory that for every filtered access computer you must have one unfiltered one. Or some such deal.
I would take John Ashcroft any day over the previous AG. Janet Reno NEVER investigated any of the illegal campaign funding of Bill Clinton. Where Chinese influenced money (illegal of course) got to his campaign. In the process, Clinton gave Chinese missle capabilities, which sped up China's nuclear capabilities by around 20 years.
I don't know about the current race in NC, but the Democrats could have had that Senate seat a long time ago. They always ran someone who was as extreme liberal as Helms was extreme conservative. They never gave the middle of the road and disenfranchised Republicans someone they could consider.
XDocs' potential is not as a PDF killer, but that's the way it could go. The reason MS is using XML is to make it easier for users to exchange data. One user could create an Access database with it and then send it to a user that doesn't have Access. This user could open it up in Excel or Word without doing anything. Right now the sender or receiver would have to do some type of conversion in order to use the data.
One poster correctly observed that to many users _WORD_ is the computer. XDocs makes users more depenent on Microsoft. Now it'll be easier to share spreadsheets, databases, and other documents... they can do it with one program not several.
Since Bell Labs is pulling some of it's patents because they were based on bogus work, I wonder how many other companies submit patents BEFORE they fully know whether the idea works or not. (I do understand that they need to get them before someone else does, but I think they should have an idea if it's going to work.)
This wasn't meant to be a flaimbait, if you do a search in google for autism and vaccines, you can vaccines causing some autism is a Legitimate argument. Next time you mark a post like this flaimbait, check first. I was trying to be informative.
I work in the healthcare industry too. I believe there are certian circumstances where you can apply for an extension to the April 2003 date. Look more carefully at the law itself and not what your buying group gave you.
Here is a website http://www.nichd.nih.gov/publications/pubs/autism2.htm that says that there is some anectdotal evidence that the MMR vaccine may be partially responsible for some cases of autism. The web page says there's not much proof.
There is also this link which shows some problems with autism and vaccines. http://www.hacres.com/articles.asp?arti d=78
Will many major companies switching to Itanium in some form or another (read Dell, Gateway, Unisys, IBM, HP/COMPAQ, and others) it would be wise to go ahead and purchase it especially if it's for a college lab. Many students will be going out into the workforce with valuable experience with the Itanium.
OpenGL SuperBible Game Programming Gems Series 3d Graphics Programming Games and Beyond by Sergei Savchenko Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book (this book is dated) 3d Game Engine Design by David H. Eberly
Does the book 1984 have any meaning to you? Mainland China is headed in that direction if government control of hardware and software technology has its way.
Umm... China is communist and therefore they authoratarian. They control many aspects of people's lives. They are not headed that way they ARE that way. 1984 exists in China (to an extent). They don't have a lot of the same freedoms other parts of the world enjoy.
? Surely you don't think ppl, would switch to linux just becaus AOL have a clinet for linux. I would. I do currently use Linux a little. I want to move to it full time except it doesn't have an AOL client. I use AOL because I travel some, and it's one of the few nationwide ISPs. I have been on AOL for 6 years, and I would have to contact too many people with a new email if I switched to something else. I don't like MS at all, and want to switch to Linux full time.
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AOL says it has about 30 million members. Eventually they're going to hit a plateau and stop the massive growth they had in the late 90s. In fact they already have. They've got to find NEW ways of revenue. The days of massive growth are over. I don't think it has anything to do with dirty sex chat. There's still plenty of that. In fact AOL has never advertised that. Go to their chat room listings. You still see those chat rooms. Another thing hurting AOL is competition. There's a lot more of it. Earlier they had to compete with other ISPs when they had the best chat rooms. Now other web sites and ISPs have good chat rooms and instant messanging too. AOL is a victim of capatilism. They've grown all they can in the terms of members, they now need to look to NEW ways of entertaining their members. Maybe then they'll get new ones.
I work for a generous company. We got $700 and a cool pull over zip sweatshirth thing with the company logo on it.
Way cool.
Try Ebay. You may even fine a really nice one there and not a cheap $2 cardboardone.
Anybody else surprised by the fact that it took 9000 lines of code. Having done similar projects in VHDL, it should take less than 1000. Looking at their code, I understand why. They did not use any of the more complex VHDL features. No generics or loops. The entire project was just poorly thought through.
What about time? This was a class project. With this project and projects for other classes, they probably didn't have the time to make it better.
640 TB should be enough for anybody
Didn't Bill Gates once said that 640K is all one would ever need? =)
Definitly need the concrete pipe here in Florida. In FL you can't dig more than a few feet before you hit water!
Who said you had to dig? Why not build the house on top of ground and then dump a bunch of dirt on top?
My cousin built a house similar to this in the late 1970s. One year he went on vacation while his teenage son stayed home for the 2 or 3 weeks he was gone. The fans in the ventilation system were shut off accidently and the son never turned them back on. When he came back, the rooms in the rear of the house were filled with mildew, lots of mildew. It was on the walls, the beds, and in the bathrooms. This house is located on a farm in central Illinois.
I have a book written by Janet Ruhl, published by John Wiley and Sons titled "The Computer Consultant's Guide" subtitled Real-Life Stratagies for Building a Successful COnsulting Career. It gives a lot of tips and pointers on doing your own contract / consulting work. It goes through all the business and legal issues you might face. It's ISBN 0-471-17649-4
Why not a compromise? Have a few computers set off to the side with some good filtering. Children can use those without a parent/gaurding. Then have some computers with no filtering where children under 18 would have to be accompanied by an adult/parent/gaurdian in order to use. Make it mandatory that for every filtered access computer you must have one unfiltered one. Or some such deal.
I would take John Ashcroft any day over the previous AG. Janet Reno NEVER investigated any of the illegal campaign funding of Bill Clinton. Where Chinese influenced money (illegal of course) got to his campaign. In the process, Clinton gave Chinese missle capabilities, which sped up China's nuclear capabilities by around 20 years.
I don't know about the current race in NC, but the Democrats could have had that Senate seat a long time ago. They always ran someone who was as extreme liberal as Helms was extreme conservative. They never gave the middle of the road and disenfranchised Republicans someone they could consider.
XDocs' potential is not as a PDF killer, but that's the way it could go. The reason MS is using XML is to make it easier for users to exchange data. One user could create an Access database with it and then send it to a user that doesn't have Access. This user could open it up in Excel or Word without doing anything. Right now the sender or receiver would have to do some type of conversion in order to use the data.
One poster correctly observed that to many users _WORD_ is the computer. XDocs makes users more depenent on Microsoft. Now it'll be easier to share spreadsheets, databases, and other documents... they can do it with one program not several.
Since Bell Labs is pulling some of it's patents because they were based on bogus work, I wonder how many other companies submit patents BEFORE they fully know whether the idea works or not. (I do understand that they need to get them before someone else does, but I think they should have an idea if it's going to work.)
I've picked up button down shirts geeks would like on Ebay. Look in one of the computer sections not apparel.
I was thinking along the lines of North Korea, Iraq, Al Qeada or any other militant islamic terrorist types.
Any one else have ideas?
This wasn't meant to be a flaimbait, if you do a search in google for autism and vaccines, you can vaccines causing some autism is a Legitimate argument. Next time you mark a post like this flaimbait, check first. I was trying to be informative.
Thank you.
I work in the healthcare industry too. I believe there are certian circumstances where you can apply for an extension to the April 2003 date. Look more carefully at the law itself and not what your buying group gave you.
Here is a website http://www.nichd.nih.gov/publications/pubs/autism2 .htm that says that there is some anectdotal evidence that the MMR vaccine may be partially responsible for some cases of autism. The web page says there's not much proof.
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There is also this link which shows some problems with autism and vaccines.
http://www.hacres.com/articles.asp?art
A couple of years ago the company I worked for used SCO Unix. Once an error popped up that said "No Sleeping in Stream Head of Pipe".
Why? Is it really needed?
Will many major companies switching to Itanium in some form or another (read Dell, Gateway, Unisys, IBM, HP/COMPAQ, and others) it would be wise to go ahead and purchase it especially if it's for a college lab. Many students will be going out into the workforce with valuable experience with the Itanium.
OpenGL SuperBible
Game Programming Gems Series
3d Graphics Programming Games and Beyond by Sergei Savchenko
Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book (this book is dated)
3d Game Engine Design by David H. Eberly
Does the book 1984 have any meaning to you? Mainland China is headed in that direction if government control of hardware and software technology has its way.
Umm... China is communist and therefore they authoratarian. They control many aspects of people's lives. They are not headed that way they ARE that way. 1984 exists in China (to an extent). They don't have a lot of the same freedoms other parts of the world enjoy.
? Surely you don't think ppl, would switch to linux just becaus AOL have a clinet for linux.
I would. I do currently use Linux a little. I want to move to it full time except it doesn't have an AOL client. I use AOL because I travel some, and it's one of the few nationwide ISPs. I have been on AOL for 6 years, and I would have to contact too many people with a new email if I switched to something else. I don't like MS at all, and want to switch to Linux full time.
$450 for a top of the line video card that will be outdated in 6 months.
-OR-
$149 - $199 for a console that will last for another 3 or 4 years.