It's a little different than that. Delaware's deed claimed all lands within a 12-mile radius from the Courthouse at New Castle, hence the round northern border of the state. The extension of the border to the NJ coast only applies to the area within the 12-mile circle.
NJ and DE both have interests in the Oil/Gas industry, in the form of tax revenue. Both are home to several refineries. Hence the need for competition.
I would expect China or India to come up with a solution first: they don't have many IP addresses to begin with, they have growing economies that will sooner or later require more IP addresses, and they have the means to kickstart a major project.
All the more reason for the US to get something set up first. I don't think the Chinese controlling/influencing the next big step in the Internet architecture will sit well with the US government.
... it's just very complicated. The amount of information recorded is mind-boggling and not readily accessible mainly due to its size. Also, many of the types of information recorded need to be handled in certain ways - I've seen many beginning GIS students bungle up census data by misinterpreting Hispanic data and unemployment data because they don't understand how it is tabulated.
Macs are just another PC - despite this people still froth at the mouth for them. Maybe Commodore is trying to build on whatever brand power is left. (I am a Mac user and used to be a C64/C128 user, fyi)
I disagree with you only on the usability point. I remember the outrage on Macintosh user forums when they announced in 2003 that Classic support was ending and that everyone should have migrated to OS X by now. There was bitching and moaning, but for the most part it worked out for Apple because OS X was easier to use (at least in my opinion) and everyday people could migrate to it with little problem. I don't know about plugins, but Rosetta should handle most of the applications that are not yet universal. I doubt most people will have a problem with the transition.
Lids are there so you don't accidentally knock items off a nearby sink or shelf into the toilet.
Lids are commonly not on public bathroom toilets because there's usually not anything to knock off of anything else. It would also be costly to put lids on restroom toilets, considering they'd likely never get put down anyway.
If you really want a lidless toilet seat, big-box do-it-yourself stores have split-seat (no need to even lift the seat! oh my!), lidless seats, just like in your favorite tearoom, i mean restroom.
The risk doesn't need to be financially based. He risked his growing reputation and he risked himself, in a sense, with many of the ballsy moves he pulled.
I'm not a huge fan of Gates. Besides the philanthropy, there's not much to speak highly of, other than he had the personal mix of "what it takes" and was very lucky. I just hate when I hear fellow geeks blast him for being a shitty programmer. It took more than BASIC donkeys to make Microsoft what it is.
They may have been mediocre programmers, but they were shrewd, lucky and willing to take risk and that is what makes you successful in a capitalist system.
I'm a TA for two of the GIS classes this semester. Considering the nature of the course relies on having a computer, the class is held in the computer lab. Students are often checking their email or browsing the web. Some of them are distracted for the whole lecture. Some students don't need a laptop (or even a computer) to be distracted in class.
Do you really think that they'd move backwards in transition? The Mac Mini is the first to receive Intel chips, to allow for Intel to come up with a really high end, professional workstation processor for the intel Power Macs in 2007.
But I agree, the current systems are great. I bought my G5 one month before the announcement. I was initally pissed, thinking this "investment" was going to depreciate rapidly to nothing. The universal binaries, plus the fact that the PPC architecture will be supported till 2008(+) made me feel better about my purchase. I love my G5 and it's definitely worth getting.
Let's hope this DRM scheme dies due to the blatant disregard for the environment. We don't need millions of copies of "Alone in the Dark Special Edition" clogging our landfills. Although I think that title might be VNTA (View Never, Throw Away).
If that's the case, why not just have them buy time in lots of 100hrs/$1. Would you want your software to stop working because you were without an internet connection to confirm your use? That'd cause more headaches than it's worth.
I think these micropayments will be useful as I described. I don't think there really is a need for nanopayments, nor is there a demand for an infrastructure to accomodate them.
I agree with you. Even though I would not use Linux on my iBook, there are still several Apps out there that would benefit from the release of the Extreme drivers source, namely Kismac.
Would your boss like it if your store rejected people who drove up in something *other* than a Ford or GM car?
But if you had to go completely out of your way to cater to those driving Yugos, would you? Especially if you knew that that 0.1% of those Yugo drivers have access to your site via the aforementioned Ford or Chevy?
Web pages are no different. You make them accessible to as many people as you can, because you don't want to alienate your customers.
I agree. Just because a very small segment uses alternative browsers doesn't mean you should shut them out entirely, but I wouldn't bend over backwards for them. Keep an eye on those server logs, and even with the reduced features, if your logs indicate an increase in PDA/Phone Browsers, then improve their pages look/functionality.
The end-all is why waste time/money if there isn't a return?
Turn the key right for on, left for off. Pretty clear.
You also start the car with that key. You don't start windows with a start menu. You press a button on the machine. That's why the soft-off button feature on most computers nowadays is useful. It preserves that mental connection to a physical symbol - this is on and off.
It must be odd talking to a GTA-playing patient that's feeling unsatisfied sexually.
"Well, I thought her excitement level was up, so I really started mashing her buttons, but all that did was piss her off? I had to up-and-down on joystick 1 by myself!"
It's an infrastructure problem. Just like suburban sprawl is causing municipalities to place excise taxes on new development for the cost of water/sewer/etc, providing WiFi would be of a greater cost to Orlando than it would to Philly, New York or any other high-density municipality. The denser the area, the less APs/infratructure you need to serve the same amount of people.
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It's a little different than that. Delaware's deed claimed all lands within a 12-mile radius from the Courthouse at New Castle, hence the round northern border of the state. The extension of the border to the NJ coast only applies to the area within the 12-mile circle.
From Delaware's website: http://www.dgs.udel.edu/publications/infoseries/info6.aspx
NJ and DE both have interests in the Oil/Gas industry, in the form of tax revenue. Both are home to several refineries. Hence the need for competition.
Or better yet, get your wife to play along with you. My wife and I just completed the campaign on casual.
All the more reason for the US to get something set up first. I don't think the Chinese controlling/influencing the next big step in the Internet architecture will sit well with the US government.
... it's just very complicated. The amount of information recorded is mind-boggling and not readily accessible mainly due to its size. Also, many of the types of information recorded need to be handled in certain ways - I've seen many beginning GIS students bungle up census data by misinterpreting Hispanic data and unemployment data because they don't understand how it is tabulated.
Macs are just another PC - despite this people still froth at the mouth for them. Maybe Commodore is trying to build on whatever brand power is left. (I am a Mac user and used to be a C64/C128 user, fyi)
So what? You're too lazy to read a book on the Civil War, but too haughty to enjoy a book on tape with pictures?
I disagree with you only on the usability point. I remember the outrage on Macintosh user forums when they announced in 2003 that Classic support was ending and that everyone should have migrated to OS X by now. There was bitching and moaning, but for the most part it worked out for Apple because OS X was easier to use (at least in my opinion) and everyday people could migrate to it with little problem. I don't know about plugins, but Rosetta should handle most of the applications that are not yet universal. I doubt most people will have a problem with the transition.
Lids are there so you don't accidentally knock items off a nearby sink or shelf into the toilet.
Lids are commonly not on public bathroom toilets because there's usually not anything to knock off of anything else. It would also be costly to put lids on restroom toilets, considering they'd likely never get put down anyway.
If you really want a lidless toilet seat, big-box do-it-yourself stores have split-seat (no need to even lift the seat! oh my!), lidless seats, just like in your favorite tearoom, i mean restroom.
The risk doesn't need to be financially based. He risked his growing reputation and he risked himself, in a sense, with many of the ballsy moves he pulled.
I'm not a huge fan of Gates. Besides the philanthropy, there's not much to speak highly of, other than he had the personal mix of "what it takes" and was very lucky. I just hate when I hear fellow geeks blast him for being a shitty programmer. It took more than BASIC donkeys to make Microsoft what it is.
They may have been mediocre programmers, but they were shrewd, lucky and willing to take risk and that is what makes you successful in a capitalist system.
I'm a TA for two of the GIS classes this semester. Considering the nature of the course relies on having a computer, the class is held in the computer lab. Students are often checking their email or browsing the web. Some of them are distracted for the whole lecture. Some students don't need a laptop (or even a computer) to be distracted in class.
It's been mentioned that the Mac Mini is likely to receive the new chips first.
Do you really think that they'd move backwards in transition? The Mac Mini is the first to receive Intel chips, to allow for Intel to come up with a really high end, professional workstation processor for the intel Power Macs in 2007.
But I agree, the current systems are great. I bought my G5 one month before the announcement. I was initally pissed, thinking this "investment" was going to depreciate rapidly to nothing. The universal binaries, plus the fact that the PPC architecture will be supported till 2008(+) made me feel better about my purchase. I love my G5 and it's definitely worth getting.
Let's hope this DRM scheme dies due to the blatant disregard for the environment. We don't need millions of copies of "Alone in the Dark Special Edition" clogging our landfills. Although I think that title might be VNTA (View Never, Throw Away).
But sometimes, even real curses aren't effective.
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If that's the case, why not just have them buy time in lots of 100hrs/$1. Would you want your software to stop working because you were without an internet connection to confirm your use? That'd cause more headaches than it's worth.
I think these micropayments will be useful as I described. I don't think there really is a need for nanopayments, nor is there a demand for an infrastructure to accomodate them.
Or, if you have a web hosting account from someone like Dreamhost, you get a webmail frontend to your IMAP email account AND it's backed up.
Oh, and you get a website and SQL databases and all that too.
I agree with you. Even though I would not use Linux on my iBook, there are still several Apps out there that would benefit from the release of the Extreme drivers source, namely Kismac.
But if you had to go completely out of your way to cater to those driving Yugos, would you? Especially if you knew that that 0.1% of those Yugo drivers have access to your site via the aforementioned Ford or Chevy?
I agree. Just because a very small segment uses alternative browsers doesn't mean you should shut them out entirely, but I wouldn't bend over backwards for them. Keep an eye on those server logs, and even with the reduced features, if your logs indicate an increase in PDA/Phone Browsers, then improve their pages look/functionality.
The end-all is why waste time/money if there isn't a return?
That's a physical form of interaction.
Turn the key right for on, left for off. Pretty clear.
You also start the car with that key. You don't start windows with a start menu. You press a button on the machine. That's why the soft-off button feature on most computers nowadays is useful. It preserves that mental connection to a physical symbol - this is on and off.
It must be odd talking to a GTA-playing patient that's feeling unsatisfied sexually.
"Well, I thought her excitement level was up, so I really started mashing her buttons, but all that did was piss her off? I had to up-and-down on joystick 1 by myself!"
I think the Commodore 64 version looked a hell of a lot better. Those were the days, man.
I played this when I was five. The original disk still resides somewhere at my parents, along with a dead C64.
It's an infrastructure problem. Just like suburban sprawl is causing municipalities to place excise taxes on new development for the cost of water/sewer/etc, providing WiFi would be of a greater cost to Orlando than it would to Philly, New York or any other high-density municipality. The denser the area, the less APs/infratructure you need to serve the same amount of people.
If you do $1 Billion worth of damage just to look for UFO conspiracy information, you deserve to be locked up.
Although this could help his insanity plea.
The virus uses ROT13 encryption.