Most cable providers do provide asynchronous access here in the US, with upload speeds being a small percentage of the upload bandwidth. I am using Comcast's service and I believe the download is 3Mbit and the upload is 384Kbit (maybe 512Kbit since they just upgraded the service in my area). I know that companies try to give you enough uplink speed to play games, etc. but still discourage users from running a small-time ISP-like service. In fact, some providers even block outbound HTTP, FTP, mail, etc. requests altogether.
I am not sure about BitTorrent -- it may be too new to be noticed on the radar.
Why bother? Just spend $500 per seat upgrading your company to the new, improved and highly secure Office XP 2003 Reloaded! MS will remove the metadata feature since it has been deemed a thread to Microsoft^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hnational security!
It's a shame that the third film didn't get a nomination for cinematography (neither did TTT, but FOTR won for it). Same goes for one of the actor awards. I find it very hard to believe that of all three films, none of the Fellowship nor Saruman nor any of the other characters deserved a nod. Had any single one of those 3 categories had a LotR nomination, I think we would have seen a higher Oscar count.
When I was at school at Baylor (in Waco, Texas) when you would call the time and temperature number, a little ad would play before giving you the stats. My favorite : "Come visit the Church of the Living Christ. For more information call 666-...". I forget the actual number, but you would think a church would demand to have a phone number that didn't contain the mark of the beast.
Which is why most GUIs now give you thumbnail views of files when using a graphical file navigator. I find that to be the best way to make sense of custom labeled folders containing randomly-named files.
Can you tell your boss to sod off and never show up to work again? Yes.
Can you find a job at another company, sometimes even a competitor, and instantly go work there with little fear of backlash from your current employer? Yes.
If a company lets you go, are you entitled to unemployment compenstation of some sort? Yes.
Can a company legally tell another company that you don't bathe, you write shitty code and your mother-in-law calls you 17 times a day distracting you at work? No.
We have rights, they just don't seem to be as nice when you're the one getting let go for no reason. Rights go both ways, unfortunately it's usually the employer that is on the receiving end of the benefit.
Geez, Scrooge, sounds like you need a nice evening by the fire with eight maids-a-milking. Or the ten lords-a-leaping, if that's your preference. I'll put the maids on a credit card for you, but I've already ruined by credit by purchasing presents for my kid and the ten lords are just a bit out of my price range. Maybe next year...
I think you also need to look at Gamestop's stores after the Funcoland buyout. They now have thousands of strip mall stores that cater mostly to console games. The few in my immediate area probably only have 7% of the store dedicated to PC gaming, so it makes sense that their filings would reflect the same.
Most of the mall stores around here have a larger portion of the store dedicated to PC gaming, but the console-oriented strip mall stores definitely outnumber the mall ones so perhaps this is another reason for Gamestop's numbers.
It depends on the agreement the retailers make. I know that in the past where I've worked, products with skepticism generally had buyback contracts associated with them. Sometimes at the full purchase price, sometimes it was a lesser amount as time went on. I do know that in the instances where console makers drop their price, they tend to rebate the retailers in some fashion for the money they shelled out to purchase their current, more expensive stock.
What Nokia's arrangements are with the current retailers, I have no clue. My guess is that the retailers have a specious outlook on the sales of the N-Gage and contracted to get their money back if the up-front risk didn't pay off.
Well in protest a huge number of smaller awards shows decided to take the year off, along with the Golden Globes which shocked the MPAA into realizing it made a horrable mistake
Are you just spreading FUD, or do you actually have some facts to back up your statements? As far as I've seen, only the L.A. Critics Association cancelled their annual ceremony. I haven't seen anything regarding the Golden Globes or other ceremonies.
It does make me wonder if a lot of these new phones are designed without American transportation habits in mind (not that the world should cater to our habits, mind you). It seems to me that all of the features on these new "smart" phones cater more to a population that relies on public transporation, ie, someone else is doing the driving.
Personally, I'd rather see phones with more emphasis on less expensive wireless headsets, better voice dialing (the ones I've used all suck) and bigger buttons so you can dial by touch while watching the road. The Nokia 3650 is a good example of a phone not really catered to people who shouldn't look at the phone while dialing.
Anybody normal. What if I have 2 instances of Visual Studio open with one in debug mode. Then I have 2 VMWare sessions running because I'm testing a client install that I don't want to pollute my development environment. Oh, and don't forget that I have Mozilla open, iTunes streaming music, SQL Enterprise Manager open, Outlook open, etc.
This would be a great laptop for the sales person on the road or a college student primarily doing research and papers, but those of us with more stringent demands whine that most laptops have a 1 GB limit for RAM.
And yes, I know what you were referring to in your post.:^)
It's sad because these same parents who let their kids' game consoles do the babysitting will be the ones at the PTA meetings screaming about how kids are out of control because of exposure to media.
Actually, it won't be that way because the parents that let consoles do the babysitting aren't interested enough in their children's lives to show up at a PTA meeting. Parents that care are the ones screaming about media exposure because they know that no one is standing up for the kids whose parents could care less.
I don't think $2 is a reasonable price at all. They must be charging a dollar a k! They should sell them for the old arcade prices - 25cents a rom.
But the old arcade price wasa $.25 per PLAY. I think it's safe to say that many of us here spent WAAAY more than that on single games. Don't even TRY and tell me that you spent less than $6 in your entire life on Gauntlet or Gauntlet II (presuming you played it, of course).
If you could travel back in time and tell a teenager that for $6 he/she could play a game as much as they like for all eternity, they'd pony it up in a heartbeat. I know I would have. Today, people gripe because everything isn't free and won't cough up a couple of bucks to revel in their youth.
Maybe you would rather spend hundreds, nay thousands, of dollars buying these games individually from eBay, praying that they still worked so you didn't have to spend your weekends pouring over wiring diagrams that you printed from some JPEGs on a classic arcade site?
I did, once, have one ask me how long it would take for me to learn a particular language that wasn't on my resume. I asked him how long it would take him to learn Portugese. He got the message.
You should have said, "As a developer, I can learn any language in 21 days." Well, at least that's what the books tell us...
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Hmm, preview doesn't work when your brain reads what it WANTS to read. That should read :
...with upload speeds being a small percentage of the download bandwidth.
Most cable providers do provide asynchronous access here in the US, with upload speeds being a small percentage of the upload bandwidth. I am using Comcast's service and I believe the download is 3Mbit and the upload is 384Kbit (maybe 512Kbit since they just upgraded the service in my area). I know that companies try to give you enough uplink speed to play games, etc. but still discourage users from running a small-time ISP-like service. In fact, some providers even block outbound HTTP, FTP, mail, etc. requests altogether.
I am not sure about BitTorrent -- it may be too new to be noticed on the radar.
I prefer the acronym from above.
"Classic Amiga Operating System" : CAOS!
A propos?
Actually, I heard it was more like 78%** of all statistics were made up on the spot.
** Source : http://www.foxnews.com/
Why bother? Just spend $500 per seat upgrading your company to the new, improved and highly secure Office XP 2003 Reloaded! MS will remove the metadata feature since it has been deemed a thread to Microsoft^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hnational security!
It's a shame that the third film didn't get a nomination for cinematography (neither did TTT, but FOTR won for it). Same goes for one of the actor awards. I find it very hard to believe that of all three films, none of the Fellowship nor Saruman nor any of the other characters deserved a nod. Had any single one of those 3 categories had a LotR nomination, I think we would have seen a higher Oscar count.
A co-worker of mine has a 256 MB MMC card in his N-Gage. You can order one from Newegg for cheap.
When I was at school at Baylor (in Waco, Texas) when you would call the time and temperature number, a little ad would play before giving you the stats. My favorite : "Come visit the Church of the Living Christ. For more information call 666-...". I forget the actual number, but you would think a church would demand to have a phone number that didn't contain the mark of the beast.
Which is why most GUIs now give you thumbnail views of files when using a graphical file navigator. I find that to be the best way to make sense of custom labeled folders containing randomly-named files.
Sounds more like Apple's original monikers for the various Macintosh models to me.
Hey, at least they didn't use the word "beleaguered"...
No worker's rights?
Can you tell your boss to sod off and never show up to work again? Yes.
Can you find a job at another company, sometimes even a competitor, and instantly go work there with little fear of backlash from your current employer? Yes.
If a company lets you go, are you entitled to unemployment compenstation of some sort? Yes.
Can a company legally tell another company that you don't bathe, you write shitty code and your mother-in-law calls you 17 times a day distracting you at work? No.
We have rights, they just don't seem to be as nice when you're the one getting let go for no reason. Rights go both ways, unfortunately it's usually the employer that is on the receiving end of the benefit.
Geez, Scrooge, sounds like you need a nice evening by the fire with eight maids-a-milking. Or the ten lords-a-leaping, if that's your preference. I'll put the maids on a credit card for you, but I've already ruined by credit by purchasing presents for my kid and the ten lords are just a bit out of my price range. Maybe next year...
I think you also need to look at Gamestop's stores after the Funcoland buyout. They now have thousands of strip mall stores that cater mostly to console games. The few in my immediate area probably only have 7% of the store dedicated to PC gaming, so it makes sense that their filings would reflect the same.
Most of the mall stores around here have a larger portion of the store dedicated to PC gaming, but the console-oriented strip mall stores definitely outnumber the mall ones so perhaps this is another reason for Gamestop's numbers.
It depends on the agreement the retailers make. I know that in the past where I've worked, products with skepticism generally had buyback contracts associated with them. Sometimes at the full purchase price, sometimes it was a lesser amount as time went on. I do know that in the instances where console makers drop their price, they tend to rebate the retailers in some fashion for the money they shelled out to purchase their current, more expensive stock.
What Nokia's arrangements are with the current retailers, I have no clue. My guess is that the retailers have a specious outlook on the sales of the N-Gage and contracted to get their money back if the up-front risk didn't pay off.
Here you go :
http://www.selectiveexports.com/ballpen.htm
Well in protest a huge number of smaller awards shows decided to take the year off, along with the Golden Globes which shocked the MPAA into realizing it made a horrable mistake
Are you just spreading FUD, or do you actually have some facts to back up your statements? As far as I've seen, only the L.A. Critics Association cancelled their annual ceremony. I haven't seen anything regarding the Golden Globes or other ceremonies.
It does make me wonder if a lot of these new phones are designed without American transportation habits in mind (not that the world should cater to our habits, mind you). It seems to me that all of the features on these new "smart" phones cater more to a population that relies on public transporation, ie, someone else is doing the driving.
Personally, I'd rather see phones with more emphasis on less expensive wireless headsets, better voice dialing (the ones I've used all suck) and bigger buttons so you can dial by touch while watching the road. The Nokia 3650 is a good example of a phone not really catered to people who shouldn't look at the phone while dialing.
Why, when the server is down due to the traffic and some of us are interested in the information?
Anybody normal. What if I have 2 instances of Visual Studio open with one in debug mode. Then I have 2 VMWare sessions running because I'm testing a client install that I don't want to pollute my development environment. Oh, and don't forget that I have Mozilla open, iTunes streaming music, SQL Enterprise Manager open, Outlook open, etc.
:^)
This would be a great laptop for the sales person on the road or a college student primarily doing research and papers, but those of us with more stringent demands whine that most laptops have a 1 GB limit for RAM.
And yes, I know what you were referring to in your post.
It's sad because these same parents who let their kids' game consoles do the babysitting will be the ones at the PTA meetings screaming about how kids are out of control because of exposure to media.
Actually, it won't be that way because the parents that let consoles do the babysitting aren't interested enough in their children's lives to show up at a PTA meeting. Parents that care are the ones screaming about media exposure because they know that no one is standing up for the kids whose parents could care less.
Sounds cool, but can Jesus bend it like Beckham?
I don't think $2 is a reasonable price at all. They must be charging a dollar a k! They should sell them for the old arcade prices - 25cents a rom.
But the old arcade price wasa $.25 per PLAY. I think it's safe to say that many of us here spent WAAAY more than that on single games. Don't even TRY and tell me that you spent less than $6 in your entire life on Gauntlet or Gauntlet II (presuming you played it, of course).
If you could travel back in time and tell a teenager that for $6 he/she could play a game as much as they like for all eternity, they'd pony it up in a heartbeat. I know I would have. Today, people gripe because everything isn't free and won't cough up a couple of bucks to revel in their youth.
Maybe you would rather spend hundreds, nay thousands, of dollars buying these games individually from eBay, praying that they still worked so you didn't have to spend your weekends pouring over wiring diagrams that you printed from some JPEGs on a classic arcade site?
I did, once, have one ask me how long it would take for me to learn a particular language that wasn't on my resume. I asked him how long it would take him to learn Portugese. He got the message.
You should have said, "As a developer, I can learn any language in 21 days." Well, at least that's what the books tell us...
SOMETHING rather than destroying an extremely useful tool?
.ru open mail relays instead.
So maybe they could destroy the servers of Russian spammers and all those