While I'm here, I'd like to say that the recent Beast Wars/Beast Machines series was fantastic! It was definitely written with those of us in mind who watched the original show. Beast Wars/Machines has tons of arcane references to stuff from the old show (ie the key to Vector Sigma, Ravage) that only the "old timers" can appreciate. The new characters were very developed and the show tries to draw connections between political and religious fanaticism. I'll always remember what Optimus Primal once said..."That which begins in simplicity must grow in simplicity."
You pay for the card once, let's say $500. From then on, you receive all their channels. Although your initial outlay for the card is higher, there are no more cash outflows.
You can theoretically pay DirecTV in perpetuity for service. Plus, the more channels you want, the more you'll have to pay per month.
So while the net present value of cash outflows for the card is $500, the net present value of cash outflows for paying DirecTV can be damn near infinite.
Personally, I am a paying subscriber to DISH Network.
with a Slashdot poll to determine who *really* invented radio:
* Marconi
* Tesla
* Edison
* Popov
* CowboyNeal
* The little green men who have been transmitting their signals straight into my brain.
* God
* Pulsars (the stars, not the watch company)
* Pulsra (the watch company, not the stars)
BeOS has a few good IM clients other than Jabber (which just came out for Be). For AOL IM, there's BeAIM. It looks nice and is easy to use. There are at least 3 ICQ clients that I know of...ICBMx86, GimmiICQ and Gimmick. The latter two are a bit flaky IMO. ICBMx86 (intercontinental ballistic messenger) works well. It takes a very minimalist approach - just a little grey box with your buddy lists and pop-up windows for chat.
I was channel surfing and stopped at QVC when I saw them selling a computer. They were selling a system (something like a PIII or Duron, 20gig HD, big monitor, printer, other bits & pieces) for about $1,600. Based upon all the hardware they had laid out there, I'd guess that something in the neighborhood of $1,000 - $1,200 was more realistic.
Then I saw something rather disturbing. They show you the $1,600 price on the left hand side of the screen. Directly below that price, in slightly smaller text, is the "Retail Price." They were claiming that this system retails for *** FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS ($4,000) *** if you were to buy it in a store. Talk about lying through your teeth!
I know that at certain times during their programming day they bring up some words on the screen and a voice explaines how they define "retail price". My interpretation is that they are saying that they effectively make the number up. Regardless, they don't show that disclaimer too often, so that if you're watching something, you're more apt to believe the lies they tell about retail price.
The scary part is that, as the above poster mentioned, the people that primarily watch and buy things from QVC are rubes. The scarier part is that who knows what kind of scam they're pulling with the alleged "retail" values of the jewelry they sell. *shiver*
Your comparison is way off. You're talking about interoperability of products that are over 50 years apart in age, whereas the above poster was talking about two products made a couple years apart. All he was looking for was a simple driver to get his joystick to work under (presumably) Win95 instead of having to upgrade to Win98.
Your truck comparison would only work if the poster owned something like ENIAC and he was trying to get his MS Joystick to work with it.
If you hook up a terminal to the serial port while BeOS is booting, you'll get all sorts of messages on the terminal as the system boots up. It comes in handy for diagnosing if there is a (very rare) problem.
I believe if you press the space bar just before bootup, you can get into the boot menu and have it throw up some initialization messages on your actual screen, too.
Let's see...our support staff uses word processors for quick and easy text entry and layout. What-you-see-is-what-you-get comes in handy when you're trying to get 50+ page reports out the door. Personally, I write some stuff by hand and type the rest out with Pico for NT and then give the whole thing to the support staff.
I use Excel for a variety of purposes. Yes, the most common use of a spreadsheet is to layout numbers in pretty rows and columns. But it's what you can do with those numbers that makes spreadsheets valuable. The spreadsheet can be embedded with formulas to generate tables full of ratios and stuff on the fly.
One of the major things we do with spreadsheets is ratio analyses of companies. Each company will have a "tab" in the spreadsheet with a 6 year balance sheet and 5 year income statement. The table in each tab is formatted nicely and get printed and put into our reports. We then have other tabs, such as "sales trends," earnings trends," "financial ratios" and "operating ratios" that generate tables of ratios based upon data in the company tabs. We examine those ratios, write a couple paragraphs about them, print them and put those in the reports as exhibits.
Spreadsheets are also good for visualizing things. I work in finance and the best example I can think of is tracking earnings projections over several years. Each column can track the flow of cash for a year. In that column, you might have to apply different formulas to expenses and stuff. I once did a 10 year cash flow projection for a multi-billion dollar investment fund that was a client and I couldn't have done it (and produced presentable results)without the use of a spreadsheet.
There's really lots of things one can do with a spreadsheet. Just because it has little use in your particular profession, that doesn't mean it's entirely useless. By your definition, something like GIMP or Photoshop would be utterly worthless to either of us (being in the fields of programming and finance). And to a janitor, all of the above would be useless.
"Anyways, the latest BeOS, can be run under a Win9x environment I think so you can try it yourself and see if you like it."
Let me clarify/correct that statement. BeOS is its own operating system. You do not need Windows at all to run BeOS.
I believe the above poster meant that you can install BeOS as a disk image inside a FAT partition. You then click an icon in Windows and the computer will reboot into BeOS, running off that disk image. You can do the same thing with QNX RtP, btw.
Of course, you can also install BeOS as a standalone system or partition a hard drive and share the space with Windows and/or Linux.
This happened in the Red Dwarf books (based upon the TV show). GELFs (genetically engineered life forms) were used to serve all sorts of human conveniences, including walking couches. Then they got tired of serving Man and rebelled. Imagine you're the something that people find between the couch cushions because the couch ate you. yuck and ouch.
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Albert Einstein never bothered to remember menial things like phone numbers. He'd probably be a big PDA user if he was alive today.
it was so cold they could overclock that little badass to 5Mhz!
Can someone post a ..... hehe :-)
No, he have them cut off if he turned himself in or sold/ratted out the cause.
Not to nitpick, but Rhodomus s/b Rodimus.
While I'm here, I'd like to say that the recent Beast Wars/Beast Machines series was fantastic! It was definitely written with those of us in mind who watched the original show. Beast Wars/Machines has tons of arcane references to stuff from the old show (ie the key to Vector Sigma, Ravage) that only the "old timers" can appreciate. The new characters were very developed and the show tries to draw connections between political and religious fanaticism. I'll always remember what Optimus Primal once said..."That which begins in simplicity must grow in simplicity."
You're saving lots of money.
You pay for the card once, let's say $500. From then on, you receive all their channels. Although your initial outlay for the card is higher, there are no more cash outflows.
You can theoretically pay DirecTV in perpetuity for service. Plus, the more channels you want, the more you'll have to pay per month.
So while the net present value of cash outflows for the card is $500, the net present value of cash outflows for paying DirecTV can be damn near infinite.
Personally, I am a paying subscriber to DISH Network.
with a Slashdot poll to determine who *really* invented radio:
* Marconi
* Tesla
* Edison
* Popov
* CowboyNeal
* The little green men who have been transmitting their signals straight into my brain.
* God
* Pulsars (the stars, not the watch company)
* Pulsra (the watch company, not the stars)
Worse yet, the FTC director, himself, with above said boy.
Will your solution block out their cookies as well? I don't care if I see banner ads or not, I just want to keep their cookies off my system.
The second Hemos uses proper grammar, hell will freeze over, making the earth a bit cooler.
I saw one of those for sale at Software, Etc. On the box, it said, "Recommended for those age 14"
BeOS has a few good IM clients other than Jabber (which just came out for Be). For AOL IM, there's BeAIM. It looks nice and is easy to use. There are at least 3 ICQ clients that I know of...ICBMx86, GimmiICQ and Gimmick. The latter two are a bit flaky IMO. ICBMx86 (intercontinental ballistic messenger) works well. It takes a very minimalist approach - just a little grey box with your buddy lists and pop-up windows for chat.
Instead of doing it manually, use RipEnc to rip the CD and fill in all the attributes (and ID3 tags, too), based upon a query to FreeDDB.
I'm just glad that I turned on the "prompt for cookies" option before they started doing it. What a close call!
I was channel surfing and stopped at QVC when I saw them selling a computer. They were selling a system (something like a PIII or Duron, 20gig HD, big monitor, printer, other bits & pieces) for about $1,600. Based upon all the hardware they had laid out there, I'd guess that something in the neighborhood of $1,000 - $1,200 was more realistic.
Then I saw something rather disturbing. They show you the $1,600 price on the left hand side of the screen. Directly below that price, in slightly smaller text, is the "Retail Price." They were claiming that this system retails for *** FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS ($4,000) *** if you were to buy it in a store. Talk about lying through your teeth!
I know that at certain times during their programming day they bring up some words on the screen and a voice explaines how they define "retail price". My interpretation is that they are saying that they effectively make the number up. Regardless, they don't show that disclaimer too often, so that if you're watching something, you're more apt to believe the lies they tell about retail price.
The scary part is that, as the above poster mentioned, the people that primarily watch and buy things from QVC are rubes. The scarier part is that who knows what kind of scam they're pulling with the alleged "retail" values of the jewelry they sell. *shiver*
QVC and Home Shopping Network are two separate entities. On the tastefulness ladder, QVC comes up only a knat's hair higher than HSN.
Your comparison is way off. You're talking about interoperability of products that are over 50 years apart in age, whereas the above poster was talking about two products made a couple years apart. All he was looking for was a simple driver to get his joystick to work under (presumably) Win95 instead of having to upgrade to Win98.
Your truck comparison would only work if the poster owned something like ENIAC and he was trying to get his MS Joystick to work with it.
If you hook up a terminal to the serial port while BeOS is booting, you'll get all sorts of messages on the terminal as the system boots up. It comes in handy for diagnosing if there is a (very rare) problem.
I believe if you press the space bar just before bootup, you can get into the boot menu and have it throw up some initialization messages on your actual screen, too.
Let's see...our support staff uses word processors for quick and easy text entry and layout. What-you-see-is-what-you-get comes in handy when you're trying to get 50+ page reports out the door. Personally, I write some stuff by hand and type the rest out with Pico for NT and then give the whole thing to the support staff.
I use Excel for a variety of purposes. Yes, the most common use of a spreadsheet is to layout numbers in pretty rows and columns. But it's what you can do with those numbers that makes spreadsheets valuable. The spreadsheet can be embedded with formulas to generate tables full of ratios and stuff on the fly.
One of the major things we do with spreadsheets is ratio analyses of companies. Each company will have a "tab" in the spreadsheet with a 6 year balance sheet and 5 year income statement. The table in each tab is formatted nicely and get printed and put into our reports. We then have other tabs, such as "sales trends," earnings trends," "financial ratios" and "operating ratios" that generate tables of ratios based upon data in the company tabs. We examine those ratios, write a couple paragraphs about them, print them and put those in the reports as exhibits.
Spreadsheets are also good for visualizing things. I work in finance and the best example I can think of is tracking earnings projections over several years. Each column can track the flow of cash for a year. In that column, you might have to apply different formulas to expenses and stuff. I once did a 10 year cash flow projection for a multi-billion dollar investment fund that was a client and I couldn't have done it (and produced presentable results)without the use of a spreadsheet.
There's really lots of things one can do with a spreadsheet. Just because it has little use in your particular profession, that doesn't mean it's entirely useless. By your definition, something like GIMP or Photoshop would be utterly worthless to either of us (being in the fields of programming and finance). And to a janitor, all of the above would be useless.
It's not in the kernel.
Scorched Earth
(and GORILLA.BAS for the minimalists out there)
"Anyways, the latest BeOS, can be run under a Win9x environment I think so you can try it yourself and see if you like it."
Let me clarify/correct that statement. BeOS is its own operating system. You do not need Windows at all to run BeOS.
I believe the above poster meant that you can install BeOS as a disk image inside a FAT partition. You then click an icon in Windows and the computer will reboot into BeOS, running off that disk image. You can do the same thing with QNX RtP, btw.
Of course, you can also install BeOS as a standalone system or partition a hard drive and share the space with Windows and/or Linux.
he'll get another form of spam...
bad meat in the can!
This happened in the Red Dwarf books (based upon the TV show). GELFs (genetically engineered life forms) were used to serve all sorts of human conveniences, including walking couches. Then they got tired of serving Man and rebelled. Imagine you're the something that people find between the couch cushions because the couch ate you. yuck and ouch.
Iridium CEO: "Governments of the world, pay us $72 *MILLION* dollars or we will crash our satellites into your major cities!"