I'm not sure what exactly caused the obesity, it could have been anything from hormonal changes to medications she had to take, but I know her house isn't exactly filled with twinkies.
Steroids, though probably not the corticosteroids she may have been treated with. Lupus treatment can be a crazy thing involving lots and lots of drugs and lots of other drugs to deal with those drugs.
You use the kiosk at the bank, grocery store or public library and I don't hear any complaints about smudges or hygiene there. In those scenarios you don't want a full keyboard laying around that someone can vandalize (ie. jam the keys or rip the thing out) or get rained on.
Why not? Easy, you could give your kids an old PDA or hacked Skype phone or something for use around the neighborhood without having to pay an extra phone bill.
What ever happened to the new pointing device that Apple was supposed to come out with? I instantly though they were going to strengthen their stance on gaming when the rumors about it started circulating.
How many of the 14.65% for Vista are actual Vista installs and how many are just XP installs on Vista licenses?
Second question, how do you get these numbers? Are they based on actual polling of the current number of users or this years sales figures? If it is the latter, Vista is actually doing pretty damn bad given the number of Vista OEMs.
MS's biggest problem is the everything or nothing mentality. If they managed to share a little they could make leaps and bounds in sectors that they have previously struggled in.
It is one thing to come to the playground and let the other kids play with your toys, but something completely different to demand that either all toys played with are yours or that you decided what is done with any toys brought by anyone.
"If you're talking about modern laptops, I'd like to suggest that you talk to a doctor."
OK, hold your arm out for a half-hour. Your arm is only a few pounds, but it gets sore pretty quick.
If that doesn't convince you, talk to a soldier who carries a 5 lb. gun all day. You'll begin to hear a lot about how a little bit of weight makes a lot of difference.
I hate to say this, but MADD is an organization that complains but often has no idea of what it really wants. Some years back they pushed to have free pour taken out of the bars in my state and replaced with mini bottles. They assumed that with the higher taxation people would drink less and that bartenders could be more easily charged with selling alcohol to someone under the influence. Of course it had the opposite effect since the mini bottle only guaranteed drinkers 1.7 ounce in every drink. So when the number of DUIs rose they went out, picketed, signed petitions, cried on television and had the demon mini bottled removed.
I'm not saying I have anything against their motives, but they often tend to put the histrionics before rational thought.
Granted I never worked for anyone as nefarious as AOL, but the one thing that I learned after 4 years of internet help desk was that fixing the problem isn't what you are there for. Making the customer happy with their service and more importantly happy with the company is.
When lightning has fried something or there is noise on the line and you tell the customer that fixing the problem is in their hands not yours, nine times out of ten they will cancel their account and tell you to go to Hell if you come off as a bastard who doesn't care. It is the still of tact that comes from the job before nearly anything else.
First off I'm not a lawyer, but I was wondering the same thing a month or so ago. I asked around to a few cops and a friend who had been researching forensics. My big question was that it seemed to make more sense to keep any recording off site in case the thief though of stealing my PC, so should I? It seems that there was the question of the Cain of Custody. In the end it boiled down to the further away, the more work law enforcement has to do to get the evidence and the less likely they will ever bother looking into it. The general consensus was either to hide the machine that you are saving information on or just bolt the thing to the ground.
"Beta and Minidisc were used in the professional industry ( the last beta recorder was made in 2002). And explain how umd's are a failur with more than 15 mill PSP's worldwide and growing? Didn't Capcom just sell 2 millions copies of Monster hunter..... on UMD's?"
Beta is pretty obvious. Ask anyone who owned one who didn't switch to VHS a few years after purchase. Since then you can probably find remaining Beta tapes and players rotting in attics across the world, despite the higher video quality.
Minidisc could be considered professional, though I've not known too many artist who stuck with it over the old multi-track tapes; but any buyer off the street who purchased a DiscMan ended up feeling the burn from having to deal with ATRAC conversion so it was dropped like a pile of bricks when MP3 players became the norm. Data MiniDisc had an even poorer record. When it came around the bend, Sony went on the warpath to create a piss poor product. It promised to be a bridge between tape backup and a portable HD, but instead was so crippled by DRM that the poor thing was downright useless for the applications it was designed for.
UMD for games doesn't really count in this one. As long as they continue making PSPs it will be fine. UMD as a non-game media format and follow up to the minidisc will be a failure because Sony (and in the end Wal-Mart) has already decided it will be. If they really were going to support it they would have had playback built into the PS3 (and yes, the RCA output for the PSP Slim was too little too late). Instead they would rather have you repurchase that movie on Blu-Ray.
Had Sony decided to stick with hardware and not go into the content business they would be in a much better position to actually sell consumers what they want. Instead, they became a company that gave us the root-kit fiasco and the opportunity to re-purchase the same media in their new, new format 6 months after purchase.
Oh yea, I've owned all of these except the Beta and I got burned every time.
I'll agree that with today's marketing tactics much of this will be nothing more than infomercials. Somehow producers and marketers seem to think this is more sophisticated or something. The good thing is that people are a lot smarter than they are given credit for. If the content becomes nothing more than a you-must-love-product-A-and-hate-product-B situation people will feel insulted, shortchanged and they will quit watching. People want something for their time and they can generally know shill when they see it.
Jack Benny centered who knows how many of his jokes on Jello. In the Whistler, people were always pulling into Signal gas stations. Sometimes going miles to fine one of those "fine signal gas stations". Fibber McGee & Molly even made the Johnson Wax pitchman the crux of their plots.
With lower costs in producing this kind of stuff it makes perfect sense. Everything old is new again.
Actually he has a point. Unlike medicine where a doctor has an obligation to protect his patient, a lawyer has none. Their only oath is to serve the law and nothing else.
Now that we have started acting like children we should be treated like children. I'll expect George Clooney to come by my house, give me a cookie and prop up my self esteem.
..since I'm an AT&T customer, it feels like there are two unasked questions.
1.) What is AT&t going to do to make sure that this is the only browser that I use? Certainly something more than a silly EULA. How about automated litigation if I step a foot off Ma Bell's Farm?
2.) What can Bell do to offer me more choice with their browser? In other words how can they help me by blocking anything other than a heavily proxied port 80. Mail, it should sit on AT&T's webmail, where they own it and copyright whatever I say. FTP, thats for terrorists. We need more choices, you know, like cable TV.
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I'm not sure what exactly caused the obesity, it could have been anything from hormonal changes to medications she had to take, but I know her house isn't exactly filled with twinkies.
Steroids, though probably not the corticosteroids she may have been treated with. Lupus treatment can be a crazy thing involving lots and lots of drugs and lots of other drugs to deal with those drugs.
You use the kiosk at the bank, grocery store or public library and I don't hear any complaints about smudges or hygiene there. In those scenarios you don't want a full keyboard laying around that someone can vandalize (ie. jam the keys or rip the thing out) or get rained on.
Servo controller. Give it legs and shock your neighbors.
I didn't realize that CNET had $1.8 Billion in office furniture. That is what they are buying it for, right?
Why not? Easy, you could give your kids an old PDA or hacked Skype phone or something for use around the neighborhood without having to pay an extra phone bill.
What ever happened to the new pointing device that Apple was supposed to come out with? I instantly though they were going to strengthen their stance on gaming when the rumors about it started circulating.
I'd like to know two things.
How many of the 14.65% for Vista are actual Vista installs and how many are just XP installs on Vista licenses?
Second question, how do you get these numbers? Are they based on actual polling of the current number of users or this years sales figures? If it is the latter, Vista is actually doing pretty damn bad given the number of Vista OEMs.
Just to clarify, I meant the parent, not the AC.
Another poster I agree with.
MS's biggest problem is the everything or nothing mentality. If they managed to share a little they could make leaps and bounds in sectors that they have previously struggled in.
It is one thing to come to the playground and let the other kids play with your toys, but something completely different to demand that either all toys played with are yours or that you decided what is done with any toys brought by anyone.
Agreed.
"If you're talking about modern laptops, I'd like to suggest that you talk to a doctor."
OK, hold your arm out for a half-hour. Your arm is only a few pounds, but it gets sore pretty quick.
If that doesn't convince you, talk to a soldier who carries a 5 lb. gun all day. You'll begin to hear a lot about how a little bit of weight makes a lot of difference.
I hate to say this, but MADD is an organization that complains but often has no idea of what it really wants. Some years back they pushed to have free pour taken out of the bars in my state and replaced with mini bottles. They assumed that with the higher taxation people would drink less and that bartenders could be more easily charged with selling alcohol to someone under the influence. Of course it had the opposite effect since the mini bottle only guaranteed drinkers 1.7 ounce in every drink. So when the number of DUIs rose they went out, picketed, signed petitions, cried on television and had the demon mini bottled removed.
I'm not saying I have anything against their motives, but they often tend to put the histrionics before rational thought.
Granted I never worked for anyone as nefarious as AOL, but the one thing that I learned after 4 years of internet help desk was that fixing the problem isn't what you are there for. Making the customer happy with their service and more importantly happy with the company is.
When lightning has fried something or there is noise on the line and you tell the customer that fixing the problem is in their hands not yours, nine times out of ten they will cancel their account and tell you to go to Hell if you come off as a bastard who doesn't care. It is the still of tact that comes from the job before nearly anything else.
First off I'm not a lawyer, but I was wondering the same thing a month or so ago. I asked around to a few cops and a friend who had been researching forensics. My big question was that it seemed to make more sense to keep any recording off site in case the thief though of stealing my PC, so should I? It seems that there was the question of the Cain of Custody. In the end it boiled down to the further away, the more work law enforcement has to do to get the evidence and the less likely they will ever bother looking into it. The general consensus was either to hide the machine that you are saving information on or just bolt the thing to the ground.
And that dear children is where we get the phrase, same shit different day.
You can all go back to your seats now.
"Beta and Minidisc were used in the professional industry ( the last beta recorder was made in 2002). And explain how umd's are a failur with more than 15 mill PSP's worldwide and growing? Didn't Capcom just sell 2 millions copies of Monster hunter..... on UMD's?"
Beta is pretty obvious. Ask anyone who owned one who didn't switch to VHS a few years after purchase. Since then you can probably find remaining Beta tapes and players rotting in attics across the world, despite the higher video quality.
Minidisc could be considered professional, though I've not known too many artist who stuck with it over the old multi-track tapes; but any buyer off the street who purchased a DiscMan ended up feeling the burn from having to deal with ATRAC conversion so it was dropped like a pile of bricks when MP3 players became the norm. Data MiniDisc had an even poorer record. When it came around the bend, Sony went on the warpath to create a piss poor product. It promised to be a bridge between tape backup and a portable HD, but instead was so crippled by DRM that the poor thing was downright useless for the applications it was designed for.
UMD for games doesn't really count in this one. As long as they continue making PSPs it will be fine. UMD as a non-game media format and follow up to the minidisc will be a failure because Sony (and in the end Wal-Mart) has already decided it will be. If they really were going to support it they would have had playback built into the PS3 (and yes, the RCA output for the PSP Slim was too little too late). Instead they would rather have you repurchase that movie on Blu-Ray.
Had Sony decided to stick with hardware and not go into the content business they would be in a much better position to actually sell consumers what they want. Instead, they became a company that gave us the root-kit fiasco and the opportunity to re-purchase the same media in their new, new format 6 months after purchase.
Oh yea, I've owned all of these except the Beta and I got burned every time.
Nah, more like Beta, CRVdisc, UMD or Minidisc.
I'll agree that with today's marketing tactics much of this will be nothing more than infomercials. Somehow producers and marketers seem to think this is more sophisticated or something. The good thing is that people are a lot smarter than they are given credit for. If the content becomes nothing more than a you-must-love-product-A-and-hate-product-B situation people will feel insulted, shortchanged and they will quit watching. People want something for their time and they can generally know shill when they see it.
This was the norm on old radio programs.
Jack Benny centered who knows how many of his jokes on Jello. In the Whistler, people were always pulling into Signal gas stations. Sometimes going miles to fine one of those "fine signal gas stations". Fibber McGee & Molly even made the Johnson Wax pitchman the crux of their plots.
With lower costs in producing this kind of stuff it makes perfect sense. Everything old is new again.
Actually he has a point. Unlike medicine where a doctor has an obligation to protect his patient, a lawyer has none. Their only oath is to serve the law and nothing else.
Now that we have started acting like children we should be treated like children. I'll expect George Clooney to come by my house, give me a cookie and prop up my self esteem.
..since I'm an AT&T customer, it feels like there are two unasked questions.
1.) What is AT&t going to do to make sure that this is the only browser that I use? Certainly something more than a silly EULA. How about automated litigation if I step a foot off Ma Bell's Farm?
2.) What can Bell do to offer me more choice with their browser? In other words how can they help me by blocking anything other than a heavily proxied port 80. Mail, it should sit on AT&T's webmail, where they own it and copyright whatever I say. FTP, thats for terrorists. We need more choices, you know, like cable TV.
Thats when it's called Corporatism.
Don't blame Marx and Engels for Lenin and Stalin or Adam Smith for United Fruit.
At least Kanno has done more than one soundtrack. Stylistically, Williams has been treading the same kiddie pool his entire career.
Now we can find out about Motoko's estranged relationship with her divorced parents!