Is Google using their own equipment exclusively, or are they partnering with others who are doing similar work? My wife used to work indirectly for county auditors, and sometimes used photo vans. They had a rebuttable right to be on posted property--They couldn't open gates, but they could go past "no trespassing" signs (on a driveway) unless the residents specifically objected.
My Palm had the same power button issue. I removed the screws from the back with a small jeweler's screwdriver (worked despite them being torx) pried the case open a tiny bit, blew some canned air into the slot, and wiggled the button around. Vast improvement upon reassembly.
How many radio personalities have been suspended then returned to the air immediately after the suspension, as opposed to suspended, then fired before their suspension was up? I can't remember any.
I don't believe this is about O&A offending XM's sensibilities--They've done lots worse. It's mostly about the XM/Sirius merger. In order to get the merger approved, they need to appease the administration. Once the merger is complete, they don't need both O&A and Howard Stern. O&A have almost predicted something like this, although they though it wouldn't happen until after the merger.
Even though the package says MP3!!! in large lettering, what that means is that the included Windows-only software will transcode some MP3's through a long and convoluted process, using buggy software (among the worst 1% of all Windows software that I've seen, including corporate home-grown Visual Basic apps) that only works on certain versions of Windows. If you try to load a batch of MP3's that includes one it doesn't like, it will just crash, without telling you which MP3 it refuses to deal with.
The player itself was fantastic--Great battery life, excellent build quality, and when I bought mine, the cost of the player was competitive with flash-based players with less capacity than the included disk, and minidisks were a tiny fraction of the cost of an equal capacity flash. If Minidisk marketing and computer software was as good as minidisk hardware engineering, (I'm blaming the lack of native MP3 support on marketing) flash MP3 players would have never gained any significant market share, at least until the Ipod-shuffle-sized ones.
I tried the free trial of LibraryThing(max 200 books), and switched to the paid version after I'd entered about 175. Using a barcode scanner rocks, but it's even great for books without barcodes--Enter in fairly minimal information, then select the edition. The biggest improvement I'd like to see is some way of scanning books with UPC but no ISBN barcode.
There are a lot of items where figuring out how costs $fooMillion, but actually producing costs a few cents each. There should be some return on the initial $fooMillion investment, or nobody will spend it. There needs to be a balance between stifling innovation because you can't profit from original research, and stifling innovation because every trivial variation of everything has been patented.
Technically, I've got no argument with you. However, "macro" has been understood to be "extreme close up" and there isn't a good and easily understood substitute term that easily fits on a selector switch, so it's yet another technical term lost to common english. Yes, a native macro on my camera with its 4-5mm sensor would be fantastic, but I'd settle for a finished picture that was similar in magnification and resolution to a true macro 35mm without having to use aux lenses.
1:1 isn't a good cutoff with digicams--The results are what people care about, not some arbitrary value based on sensor size, where the same object at the same final picture size is macro on one camera and not on another. A reasonable claim would be a 35mm equivilant--Any camera that can take a full-frame picture of a 24mm tall object at some minimum resolution should be able to justifiably claim macro regardless of sensor size, otherwise it needs to call it something else. My camera has a "something else" mode that is improperly marked macro, by any reasonable standard.
I use velcro to temporarily attach a $1.99 jeweler's loupe to the front of my point and shoot digicamera. Cost is similar to a box of Pringles, image quality is fine for web pics. By buying the $3.99 set of 5 loupes, I get a variety of magnification levels, down to a 2mm object taking up the full frame.
This isn't "about" Windows vs. Linux, it's about lies, damn lies and statistics. A study like this is more than just Microsoft funding a bunch of studies and only publishing the ones that support their point, it's how the study was specifically set up to look fair on the surface, while being far from that in reality.
Do they make the textured ones for color PDA's? When I got my first color PDA I tried to re-use a B/W textured screen protector. The texture of the protector was close enough to the pixels to give an interference pattern--In other words, with the protector on, the screen had a grid of fairly large polka-dots.
Do you really imagine Linus will start jumping on planes and seeking out kernel contributers to laugh in their faces. Bloody hell, I know geeks have trouble with anything not strictly literal but sheesh.
...and if it were true, how many kernel contributors would increase their late patches just for the chance to meet Linus?
Sony DOESNT want to sell you an MP3 player. They want to sell you an Atrac or however they spell their DRM players. Apparently the buying public won't cooperate, and wants real MP3 players, and printing
MP3* *Windows software included to translate MP3 to our proprietary DRM format included
As far as I know, no part of the GPL has been found UNenforceable, either, while many parts of many EULA's have....and the lack of precident doesn't mean it is not enforceable, it just means that there hasn't been a pair of deep-pocket litigants on opposite sides that both see a benefit in continuing to the end, where the dispute is about license terms rather than ownership.
In the first hours of an outbreak, different vendors will call the same malware by different names. Some may identify it as a variant of previous malware, others may give it a new name based on an attribute, and yet others may give it a name based on a different attribute. Having a common format will let you know that Sasser-435 (CME-42), Blogkiller (CME-42)and SlamDunk (CME-42) are all the same thing named by different vendors, fairly important when trying to solve a problem.
Corporate credit cards aren't just for personal travel expenses, they are frequently used when dealing with new suppliers, with infrequent suppliers, and with suppliers that aren't set up to use corporate purchase orders. It is likely that there are a lot of firms with engineers that can put $3000 on their corporate card at the engineer's discression.
Maybe, as long as there is a sane and carefully crafted definition of a business relationship that doesn't mean Walmart can start calling me when their surveilance video sees me buying a pop from a vending machine in the entryway.
I like the "less than of transactions are proven fraudulent". If you look at Ebay/Paypal's protection policies, it's not worth pursuing in most cases. With the combination of all the hoops to jump through and the limits on what Ebay will refund, you could earn more per hour at McDonalds. Meanwhile the fraudster has left you negative feedback just before switching to a new account.
If Ebay really cared, they'd make it easy to report fakes and frauds, and they'd set up software to triage the reports most likely to result in a real finding and real people would work on those.
We aren't worried about total energy here, but 'replacement energy'. This study says that it currently takes 129 miles worth of petrochemical energy to create 100 miles of ethanol, *in addition* to the solar energy stored in the ethanol. Until that ratio is below 1:1, every gallon of ethanol is using more petroleum than just using the petroleum directly would.
In some respects, journalists *are* more important than regular citizens--Jounalists are essential in keeping some abuses in check. The extra impact a free press can have when sources can remain confidential is worth the few cases where it might be abused.
This isn't particularly clear-cut--Somebody has to be able to poke around, investigate, and be a general pain-in-the-ass to the powers-that-be. If the powers get to pick who's a journalist, or almost the same impose conditions that effectively limit it to corporate-sponsoroed journalism there's little point to a free press. It's a bad thing when a journalist has to reveal a source, it makes it less likely that a future journalist will get the key source he needs to break an important story incovienient to the government. On the other hand, people shouldn't just be able to declare 'I'm a jorunalist' without evedence of journalism for a get-out-of-jail free card.
Do you meta-moderate? When I do, I get mod points 2-4 times a month. When I don't, I get mod points every few months. Don't know if that's the cause here, but...
I think what happened is that Wildlife allowed Wrestling to continue to use the initials, so long as Wrestling didn't do Wildlife-based promotions. Wrestling agreed, then did Wildlife-based promotions anyway.
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Is Google using their own equipment exclusively, or are they partnering with others who are doing similar work? My wife used to work indirectly for county auditors, and sometimes used photo vans. They had a rebuttable right to be on posted property--They couldn't open gates, but they could go past "no trespassing" signs (on a driveway) unless the residents specifically objected.
My Palm had the same power button issue. I removed the screws from the back with a small jeweler's screwdriver (worked despite them being torx) pried the case open a tiny bit, blew some canned air into the slot, and wiggled the button around. Vast improvement upon reassembly.
How many radio personalities have been suspended then returned to the air immediately after the suspension, as opposed to suspended, then fired before their suspension was up? I can't remember any.
I don't believe this is about O&A offending XM's sensibilities--They've done lots worse. It's mostly about the XM/Sirius merger. In order to get the merger approved, they need to appease the administration. Once the merger is complete, they don't need both O&A and Howard Stern. O&A have almost predicted something like this, although they though it wouldn't happen until after the merger.
Even though the package says MP3!!! in large lettering, what that means is that the included Windows-only software will transcode some MP3's through a long and convoluted process, using buggy software (among the worst 1% of all Windows software that I've seen, including corporate home-grown Visual Basic apps) that only works on certain versions of Windows. If you try to load a batch of MP3's that includes one it doesn't like, it will just crash, without telling you which MP3 it refuses to deal with.
The player itself was fantastic--Great battery life, excellent build quality, and when I bought mine, the cost of the player was competitive with flash-based players with less capacity than the included disk, and minidisks were a tiny fraction of the cost of an equal capacity flash. If Minidisk marketing and computer software was as good as minidisk hardware engineering, (I'm blaming the lack of native MP3 support on marketing) flash MP3 players would have never gained any significant market share, at least until the Ipod-shuffle-sized ones.
I tried the free trial of LibraryThing(max 200 books), and switched to the paid version after I'd entered about 175. Using a barcode scanner rocks, but it's even great for books without barcodes--Enter in fairly minimal information, then select the edition. The biggest improvement I'd like to see is some way of scanning books with UPC but no ISBN barcode.
There are a lot of items where figuring out how costs $fooMillion, but actually producing costs a few cents each. There should be some return on the initial $fooMillion investment, or nobody will spend it. There needs to be a balance between stifling innovation because you can't profit from original research, and stifling innovation because every trivial variation of everything has been patented.
So an analogy that's not a comparison is really big, like a train car?
Technically, I've got no argument with you. However, "macro" has been understood to be "extreme close up" and there isn't a good and easily understood substitute term that easily fits on a selector switch, so it's yet another technical term lost to common english. Yes, a native macro on my camera with its 4-5mm sensor would be fantastic, but I'd settle for a finished picture that was similar in magnification and resolution to a true macro 35mm without having to use aux lenses.
1:1 isn't a good cutoff with digicams--The results are what people care about, not some arbitrary value based on sensor size, where the same object at the same final picture size is macro on one camera and not on another. A reasonable claim would be a 35mm equivilant--Any camera that can take a full-frame picture of a 24mm tall object at some minimum resolution should be able to justifiably claim macro regardless of sensor size, otherwise it needs to call it something else. My camera has a "something else" mode that is improperly marked macro, by any reasonable standard.
I use velcro to temporarily attach a $1.99 jeweler's loupe to the front of my point and shoot digicamera. Cost is similar to a box of Pringles, image quality is fine for web pics. By buying the $3.99 set of 5 loupes, I get a variety of magnification levels, down to a 2mm object taking up the full frame.
This isn't "about" Windows vs. Linux, it's about lies, damn lies and statistics. A study like this is more than just Microsoft funding a bunch of studies and only publishing the ones that support their point, it's how the study was specifically set up to look fair on the surface, while being far from that in reality.
Do they make the textured ones for color PDA's? When I got my first color PDA I tried to re-use a B/W textured screen protector. The texture of the protector was close enough to the pixels to give an interference pattern--In other words, with the protector on, the screen had a grid of fairly large polka-dots.
Sony DOESNT want to sell you an MP3 player. They want to sell you an Atrac or however they spell their DRM players. Apparently the buying public won't cooperate, and wants real MP3 players, and printing
MP3*
*Windows software included to translate MP3 to our proprietary DRM format included
on the packaging isn't enough.
As far as I know, no part of the GPL has been found UNenforceable, either, while many parts of many EULA's have. ...and the lack of precident doesn't mean it is not enforceable, it just means that there hasn't been a pair of deep-pocket litigants on opposite sides that both see a benefit in continuing to the end, where the dispute is about license terms rather than ownership.
In the first hours of an outbreak, different vendors will call the same malware by different names. Some may identify it as a variant of previous malware, others may give it a new name based on an attribute, and yet others may give it a name based on a different attribute. Having a common format will let you know that Sasser-435 (CME-42), Blogkiller (CME-42)and SlamDunk (CME-42) are all the same thing named by different vendors, fairly important when trying to solve a problem.
Corporate credit cards aren't just for personal travel expenses, they are frequently used when dealing with new suppliers, with infrequent suppliers, and with suppliers that aren't set up to use corporate purchase orders. It is likely that there are a lot of firms with engineers that can put $3000 on their corporate card at the engineer's discression.
Maybe, as long as there is a sane and carefully crafted definition of a business relationship that doesn't mean Walmart can start calling me when their surveilance video sees me buying a pop from a vending machine in the entryway.
I like the "less than of transactions are proven fraudulent". If you look at Ebay/Paypal's protection policies, it's not worth pursuing in most cases. With the combination of all the hoops to jump through and the limits on what Ebay will refund, you could earn more per hour at McDonalds. Meanwhile the fraudster has left you negative feedback just before switching to a new account.
If Ebay really cared, they'd make it easy to report fakes and frauds, and they'd set up software to triage the reports most likely to result in a real finding and real people would work on those.
If it's true that 48 hours can be considered caching, that explains my ISP's usenet retention.
We aren't worried about total energy here, but 'replacement energy'. This study says that it currently takes 129 miles worth of petrochemical energy to create 100 miles of ethanol, *in addition* to the solar energy stored in the ethanol. Until that ratio is below 1:1, every gallon of ethanol is using more petroleum than just using the petroleum directly would.
In some respects, journalists *are* more important than regular citizens--Jounalists are essential in keeping some abuses in check. The extra impact a free press can have when sources can remain confidential is worth the few cases where it might be abused.
This isn't particularly clear-cut--Somebody has to be able to poke around, investigate, and be a general pain-in-the-ass to the powers-that-be. If the powers get to pick who's a journalist, or almost the same impose conditions that effectively limit it to corporate-sponsoroed journalism there's little point to a free press. It's a bad thing when a journalist has to reveal a source, it makes it less likely that a future journalist will get the key source he needs to break an important story incovienient to the government. On the other hand, people shouldn't just be able to declare 'I'm a jorunalist' without evedence of journalism for a get-out-of-jail free card.
Do you meta-moderate? When I do, I get mod points 2-4 times a month. When I don't, I get mod points every few months. Don't know if that's the cause here, but...
I think what happened is that Wildlife allowed Wrestling to continue to use the initials, so long as Wrestling didn't do Wildlife-based promotions. Wrestling agreed, then did Wildlife-based promotions anyway.