Great point. I actually have been doing this with Star Trek TNG via NetFlix (While I hate their pop ups it's a good service). The episodes are so much better without commercials. it's easier to get into an stay in the fantasy world without someone trying to sell you dishwasher detergant.
Note it's talking about a movie, which are usually not intended to have commercials in it, and not a regular tv show.
If the US did commercials like England I think our shows would be much different. At least half of all commercials in US TV merely act to delay a moment of suspense. The show leaves off and picks up at the exact same moment in this case. The commercials are not merely in between scenes, but there to entrap you to watch at least part of the commercials so that you don't miss the pick up.
How much different would our TV be without this? better? worse? the same?
mail.yahoo.com or someother big free mail program should implement this. Yahoo has a "report as spam" button on every message you read, so that would be an easy way to build the spam group. As for the "good" group dunno.
Have each team member send out weekly status reports before noon on friday to all the team members and also the group manager if it's someone else. That way each person has a good idea how much everyone is doing and it motivates people to do their jobs so they actually have something to report each week.
Also, make an actual schedule using some program, like MS project or whatever. Assign people specific parts with deadlines. It may feel like the freedom that you are used to as a software engineer/code monkey is being taken away but it really helps you meet your final deadline and if it's documented it pushes people to actually work.
What's really funny is that an AT&T service guy told me this after he couldn't get into my apartment buildings attics cause his service van didn't have a ladder. mmmm RCN
The article says nothing about local calls. I'm guessing the way it works is that if you happen to live in the area of one of their phone number "hubs" you can get local calls within that specific hubs local reach, preferably without a charge, and that if you don't happen to live in one of the hubs areas all your calls are then long distance. I guess it's no worse than a cell phone plan in that respect though.
I really wish they would at least mention that IRC for the most part is just ppl getting together online like they would in real life, doing completely legit things and yes even helping people out in some places. The slant on the article is way to anti-IRC, it's like saying "clubs aid pedophiles in trading kiddie pr0n." I can see how some techno-n00b parents could start restricting their childrens IRC access purely because of this article.:(
They are saying that they can't prove the extent of the crime any further to warrant penalties beyond what they currently have. You have to take what you can get sometimes, you can't always decapitate the criminal, and sometime, you know, you just shouldn't.
How are 1 and 2 mutually exclusive. 2 does not make 1 false. And did you ever think that maybe MS improved upon WE by adding internet capabilities because it was logical, that doesn't sound like such a far fetched idea.
I interned at MS over the summer of '99 and '00 and both summers I used w2k in it's prerelease form. The summer of '99 I only every received a single BSoD and it was a fairly nasty error, ie little stuff didn't cause the crash.
The second summer I worked in VS.NET in the webforms groups. I used Beta 3 of W2k the entire summer to do test development on VS.NET in it's alpha stages. Being an alpha product it crashed a bit, I would say I got about 100 crashes a week, mainly do to the fact that webforms is a very new product and integration isn't always easy. Anyway, through there many many VS crashes w2k stood strong and never crashed itself.
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Great point. I actually have been doing this with Star Trek TNG via NetFlix (While I hate their pop ups it's a good service). The episodes are so much better without commercials. it's easier to get into an stay in the fantasy world without someone trying to sell you dishwasher detergant.
Note it's talking about a movie, which are usually not intended to have commercials in it, and not a regular tv show.
If the US did commercials like England I think our shows would be much different. At least half of all commercials in US TV merely act to delay a moment of suspense. The show leaves off and picks up at the exact same moment in this case. The commercials are not merely in between scenes, but there to entrap you to watch at least part of the commercials so that you don't miss the pick up.
How much different would our TV be without this? better? worse? the same?
It's called plausible deniability. And it is used way too ofter unfortunatly. :(
You have been tricked. WMA is inferior quality but the encoder boosts the volume by 3 db which is known to make people think it sounds better.
Umm, if I think it sounds better then as far as I care doesn't it?
-flamesplash
mail.yahoo.com or someother big free mail program should implement this. Yahoo has a "report as spam" button on every message you read, so that would be an easy way to build the spam group. As for the "good" group dunno.
-shane
Have each team member send out weekly status reports before noon on friday to all the team members and also the group manager if it's someone else. That way each person has a good idea how much everyone is doing and it motivates people to do their jobs so they actually have something to report each week.
Also, make an actual schedule using some program, like MS project or whatever. Assign people specific parts with deadlines. It may feel like the freedom that you are used to as a software engineer/code monkey is being taken away but it really helps you meet your final deadline and if it's documented it pushes people to actually work.
-Flamesplash
Microsoft is upset Apple isn't pushing a Pro Unix/Linux OS more? interesting.
Engineers are just the new artists on the block.
FP?
-flamesplash
well ender talked by subvocalizing, I dunno if this would be capable of picking up on vibrations in addition to generating them.
-flamesplash
Maybe when we have quantum computers we can test every single user scenario in parallel
-flamesplash
What's really funny is that an AT&T service guy told me this after he couldn't get into my apartment buildings attics cause his service van didn't have a ladder. mmmm RCN
I saw the face of god in my mashed potatos once, but well I was hungry so I ate him. sorry.
How is believing in ESP or psychic powers any different than believing in most religions? I'm much more for the former than the later myself.
The article says nothing about local calls. I'm guessing the way it works is that if you happen to live in the area of one of their phone number "hubs" you can get local calls within that specific hubs local reach, preferably without a charge, and that if you don't happen to live in one of the hubs areas all your calls are then long distance. I guess it's no worse than a cell phone plan in that respect though.
-Flamesplash
I really wish they would at least mention that IRC for the most part is just ppl getting together online like they would in real life, doing completely legit things and yes even helping people out in some places. The slant on the article is way to anti-IRC, it's like saying "clubs aid pedophiles in trading kiddie pr0n." I can see how some techno-n00b parents could start restricting their childrens IRC access purely because of this article. :(
Reminds me of this article.
read the subject with high sarcasm. The OS war has gone on for a while, why are people so upset like it had never been there?
OS, software, hardware are tools, use which ever gets what you need done.
-Flamesplash
anybody?
I remember reading somewhere that tron2k is a continuation of TRON with the 20 years that really passed having also passed in the story line.
Keep an eye out for the new tron movie.
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0208650
I don't see how this can't be a total flop, given historical sequals/remakes of classics, but we can hope.
They are saying that they can't prove the extent of the crime any further to warrant penalties beyond what they currently have. You have to take what you can get sometimes, you can't always decapitate the criminal, and sometime, you know, you just shouldn't.
How are 1 and 2 mutually exclusive. 2 does not make 1 false. And did you ever think that maybe MS improved upon WE by adding internet capabilities because it was logical, that doesn't sound like such a far fetched idea.
-shane
Well enjoy using the slow staroffice, which will soon no longer be available to non Solaris users.
maybe you should upgrade.
I interned at MS over the summer of '99 and '00 and both summers I used w2k in it's prerelease form. The summer of '99 I only every received a single BSoD and it was a fairly nasty error, ie little stuff didn't cause the crash.
The second summer I worked in VS.NET in the webforms groups. I used Beta 3 of W2k the entire summer to do test development on VS.NET in it's alpha stages. Being an alpha product it crashed a bit, I would say I got about 100 crashes a week, mainly do to the fact that webforms is a very new product and integration isn't always easy. Anyway, through there many many VS crashes w2k stood strong and never crashed itself.
.AVI ports are much smaller, than the corrected 600MB value, depending on the resolution. Not the nicest things to watch but they work at times.
The parent post is unecessary.