"Activision's CEO, Bobby Kotick, will become the head of the joint company" "its chief executive will be Activision's current CEO Bobby Kotick"
"Vivendi, Blizzard's current parent company, will become the largest single investor in the new group" "Vivendi will be the biggest shareholder in the group"
Short stories work just as well. No need to repeat everything.
Anyone who ever wanted a Gmail account got one ages ago. After the initial hype period, invitations were passed around semi-automatically via various websites. For a social network this is not only not helpful, but damaging, as it introduces more noise.
And all that is irrelevant, because anyone outside the US can register a new Gmail account without an invitation (and without the SMS option).
This brings up an interesting possibility. Since so many users are now using the same few well-established web-based email services, why not establish some sort of a protocol for passing an 'unsubscribe' link in the header, and ask the web-based email service providers to show an 'unsubscribe' button, adjacent or instead of the 'spam' button?
This leaves some room for exploitation, but this can be resolved if companies get white listed to be able to use this feature.
As a non-US resident, all the good US and UK shows get here with a delay of at least a year. And then there're all the crappy advertisement breaks.
Screw that, I'm downloading all the TV shows I watch. I get it not 24 hours after it's shown in the US/UK, easily spoiler-free (which is important when it comes to high-profile shows), ads free, and with the added benefit of watching it whenever I choose (no TIVO here) and without issues of missing an episode.
I've gotten to the point of not watching TV for nearly 5 years now. I have no idea what's on, and I don't care. I get everything I want. Cable is around $50 here. If I could pay that to do what I do--completely legally--I'd sign up in a blink of an eye.
I can definitely see what Gates is talking about; but I'm afraid the the legality of this will never catch up, as world-wide distribution is still not feasible from an advertising point of view.
But the reason you no longer see those is because some programmers set the maxversion valueon their extensions to 2.* or even 3. This keeps everything working smoothly, until something doesn't. I have had one such extension, which was set to 2.5 (go figure), and was actually broken in 2.0 (and worse yet, caused problems).
Am I the only one who scratched his head, thikning why, and how, would FastTrack (i.e. KaZaA) fine (as in "impose a fine") Wine (i.e. Wine Is Not an Emulator)? Sheesh.
This is just precious. After all, much of the scientific research in the past was done under the umbrella of the Church, and it was never a problem. There's faith (e.g. God made the Universe), and there's science (e.g. the Universe started from the Big Bang, and life evolved as a consequence), and there's no problem holding to both at the same time, if one wants to.
He didn't mention Apple because they don't have a significant market share... 'those open source guys' is a large group of people who represent a real type of competition
I would think that from their point of view, Apple poses a bigger threat to MS than 'those open source guys'.
The price of both drops, but hard drive price per GB (or MB, TB, whatever) always drops faster
This isn't to say that solid state drives won't become popular. If I can get a 80GB solid state drive for the price of a standard 400GB HD, I'd go for it. I think this is exactly what'll happen. As capacity grows, it becomes less and less important for people to have the largest HD on the market. Sure, many people have the need for large drives (video editing, pr0n, etc.), but most can do just fine with tenth the size of a modern HD. Especially when it comes to laptops.
Give me the ability to set the volume level per application. I mean really, did you ever had a system message go off when you were watching a movie that required you to turn up the speaker to maximum volume?
Seeing how I got my invitation throught a giveaway right here on slahshdot, I'll "pay it forward," so to speak. I will email an invitation to each of the first four people to reply to this post (just don't forget to provide me with some form of a human-readable email address).
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"Activision's CEO, Bobby Kotick, will become the head of the joint company"
"its chief executive will be Activision's current CEO Bobby Kotick"
"Vivendi, Blizzard's current parent company, will become the largest single investor in the new group"
"Vivendi will be the biggest shareholder in the group"
Short stories work just as well. No need to repeat everything.
php.net has had that feature for years. Makes for a very quick way to check the manual.
e.g. http://www.php.net/sprintf
Oof.
"552 Too many first posts."
Maybe we'll be around to tell them about it.
What are you smoking?
Anyone who ever wanted a Gmail account got one ages ago. After the initial hype period, invitations were passed around semi-automatically via various websites. For a social network this is not only not helpful, but damaging, as it introduces more noise.
And all that is irrelevant, because anyone outside the US can register a new Gmail account without an invitation (and without the SMS option).
In Gmail's case, Beta != Invitation-only
This brings up an interesting possibility. Since so many users are now using the same few well-established web-based email services, why not establish some sort of a protocol for passing an 'unsubscribe' link in the header, and ask the web-based email service providers to show an 'unsubscribe' button, adjacent or instead of the 'spam' button?
This leaves some room for exploitation, but this can be resolved if companies get white listed to be able to use this feature.
As a non-US resident, all the good US and UK shows get here with a delay of at least a year. And then there're all the crappy advertisement breaks.
Screw that, I'm downloading all the TV shows I watch. I get it not 24 hours after it's shown in the US/UK, easily spoiler-free (which is important when it comes to high-profile shows), ads free, and with the added benefit of watching it whenever I choose (no TIVO here) and without issues of missing an episode.
I've gotten to the point of not watching TV for nearly 5 years now. I have no idea what's on, and I don't care. I get everything I want. Cable is around $50 here. If I could pay that to do what I do--completely legally--I'd sign up in a blink of an eye.
I can definitely see what Gates is talking about; but I'm afraid the the legality of this will never catch up, as world-wide distribution is still not feasible from an advertising point of view.
But the reason you no longer see those is because some programmers set the maxversion valueon their extensions to 2.* or even 3. This keeps everything working smoothly, until something doesn't. I have had one such extension, which was set to 2.5 (go figure), and was actually broken in 2.0 (and worse yet, caused problems).
Am I the only one who scratched his head, thikning why, and how, would FastTrack (i.e. KaZaA) fine (as in "impose a fine") Wine (i.e. Wine Is Not an Emulator)? Sheesh.
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Really? How do you pronounce that?
I'd be more than willing to bet [...] that more people are killed each year by excessive speed than by excessive downloading.
I agree, but it feels as if you assume that those in charge value human life over money, which is blantly false.
This is just precious. After all, much of the scientific research in the past was done under the umbrella of the Church, and it was never a problem. There's faith (e.g. God made the Universe), and there's science (e.g. the Universe started from the Big Bang, and life evolved as a consequence), and there's no problem holding to both at the same time, if one wants to.
Shouldn't that read "U.S. Lawmakers Support U.S. Control Of The Internet" ?
ThinkGeek has been selling those for quite a while. I'm sure I saw them advertise it more than once here.
:-(
He didn't mention Apple because they don't have a significant market share ... 'those open source guys' is a large group of people who represent a real type of competition
I would think that from their point of view, Apple poses a bigger threat to MS than 'those open source guys'.
This isn't to say that solid state drives won't become popular. If I can get a 80GB solid state drive for the price of a standard 400GB HD, I'd go for it. I think this is exactly what'll happen. As capacity grows, it becomes less and less important for people to have the largest HD on the market. Sure, many people have the need for large drives (video editing, pr0n, etc.), but most can do just fine with tenth the size of a modern HD. Especially when it comes to laptops.
I sure did, which is why I think punctuation is not overrated.
This reminds me of a famous sentence: The horse raced past the barn fell.
Most native English speakers would say it's wrong, on first reading, at least.
> Putting lots of people in the Dalles makes sense. Putting lots of computer doesn't.
It's good to know what we value most.
Give me the ability to set the volume level per application. I mean really, did you ever had a system message go off when you were watching a movie that required you to turn up the speaker to maximum volume?
I got another batch today. I sent out invitations to everyone in this thread by now, except you. Ask and you shall receive.
Maybe this is human-readable, but not to this human right here (no tld?).
Seeing how I got my invitation throught a giveaway right here on slahshdot, I'll "pay it forward," so to speak.
I will email an invitation to each of the first four people to reply to this post (just don't forget to provide me with some form of a human-readable email address).
Brilliant.
Thank you for your insightful point of view.
I only regret not having any moderation points left.