The notebook was as much of an incremental size difference to a laptop as a netbook is to a notebook today. That's why they were called notebooks. You literally needed a lap (or a pull-down table larger than the ones on airlines) to operate one outside of the office. When notebooks first came out, they were actually thought as being "hardly" bigger than a notebook. Granted, the screens then were smaller (my first notebook had a 13" B&W LCD screen), so they were smaller than many of the notebooks on the market today, but they were a quantum leap size-wise when they first hit the market.
I lived in Singapore in the early '90s. The country became a signatory of international copyright law in 1989, so what you recall is incorrect. The Sng government was active in pursuing copyright compliance... at least on the brick-and-mortar level (i.e. no "vending machines," no bins of pirated cassettes as existed before 1990, etc.). Given the level of government control over the Internet there, I would find it difficult to believe they would allow any Singapore-hosted server to distribute warez.
On the other hand, Johor Baru, Malaysia is less than 30-minutes away by car. In the '90s, you could buy $10 copies of Photoshop or anything else you might want. I haven't lived in the area for some years now but would not be surprised that pirating still goes on there on some level.
No, he was nominated by Nixon and confirmed by congress. He was appointed by the process or both groups, not just one or the other. You're both a little off. Ford did not need appointment. He was the first Vice-President to succeed into the office of President under the 25th Amendment which was ratified in 1965 following JFK's assassination.
There are a relatively small number of Cubans (vis-a-vis China or Russia) who list themselves on dating (and "dating") web sites and who also have IM addresses. I got the impression one could easily arrange for an escort or other companionship should one decide to include Cuba on their vacation itinerary.
This year, the US didn't win the World Baseball Classic. Japan, which only learned the game after WWII, won by beating economic powerhouse Cuba.
Actually, organized baseball was being played in Japan as early as 1900. There was even a baseball diamond included in the design of Hibiya Park when it was opened to the public in 1903. US All-Star teams made several trips to Japan in the pre-war years to play both Japanese university and professional teams. Babe Ruth was such a giant sports figure in the country that it was once proposed (and rejected) during the war that he broadcast a surrender message to the Japanese people.
Yes, both Japanese and Chinese have the same challenge. Context, i.e. whether a word is being used as a verb or is being used as an adjective or noun, is how a person call then tell whether something is being "wayed" or if the "way" into a Miss Muffet's heart is with curds and "way".
The problem, though, is that there are probably more people in this country who don't know what a pronoun, verb or adjective is than there are who can't spell whey or weigh. They'd have to spend just as much time learning grammar as they would spend time learning to spell so, in the end, what's the difference?
I don't really understand this. Why would you switch?
If purchasers choose to use Google, sellers will almost certainly be forced to allow for payment via GBuy. The same general philosophy exists in the world of brick-n-mortar, too, where VISA/Mastercard hold a large chunk of the credit card market but many retailers, especially restaurants, still offer AmEx as a credit option even though AmEx charges a higher merchant rate than either VISA or Mastercard. Fees are just the cost of doing business.
Sorry. You don't score any points for a recovery even though you made a valient attempt to finesse your reply and turn the tables on your critics. It was pretty obvious you didn't have any clue to what "NO CARRIER" meant when you wrote "how did he have time to write..." "NO CARRIER" was not something anyone had to type; it was part of a modem's programming schema and just appeared on the screen when the modem connection was lost.
Does that make sense? No it does not and I bet they paid $50,000 per second of that ad.
You don't know what you're talking about.
For one thing, ad buys are not measured in "seconds"; they are measured in cost-per-thousand viewers/listeners/readers by also factoring in rating share points. Secondly, air time on cable channels is dirt cheap... comparable to radio in many cases.
The standard CPM (cost per thousand) benchmark is $5 per thousand. So if a channel has 1,000,000 viewers, air time for an advertister would cost roughly $5000 for a:30 second ad based on rating-share ratio of 1.0.
No question why AARP might want to advertise on the Cartoon Network. You don't think there are middle-aged viewers who have an intense interest in animation? (I am one, and I'm 50.) Plus, all advertising is not meant to prompt buy-now behaviors; advertising is also used to brand a service or product into the minds of consumers for future reference.
Have you even bothered to research the demographic viewership the Cartoon Network has? AdultSwim has even been written up in the magazine American Demographics, a publication that tracks consumer trends and is used by marketers to follow where the eyes and ears of the American consumer are going. Cartoons and anime are not just the domain of the 6-18 age viewer.
Hydrogen-powered engines have been bandied about as a solution to using petroleum. So, wouldn't the use of hydrogen increase water vapor and -- and as a result -- contribute to global warming to much the same degree as the use of internal combustion engines?
With CSS, you usually have to deal with pixels and as soon as you want to translate your website into another language your whole website falls apart and/or it's fixed to a specific resolution.
You aren't all that familiar with CSS if you use only pixels for dimensions. Percentages work with CSS just as they do with tables. The big advantage I've found using CSS is that, by using external stylesheets, I'm able to reduce considerably the size of some of my page files, load images (e.g. a logo that appears on every page) in such a way that it speeds up page-load times, and not have to deal with all of the extra, and sometimes messy, code tables requires.
I'm quite happy using CSS, and there is a very simple CSS workaround to the IE vs. Firefox incompatibility problems.
Wichita, KS? That's where Boeing built a huge factory to build B-29s during WWII. After the war, it did become the factory from which was produced the B-47 and B-52 but, as others have pointed, not until ca. 1947. The extra runway length was probably added then.
Who ever thought Google AdWords were any more effective than a pop up ad?
Actually, it is more effective. At a site where I run both banner ads and Google AdSense, the click-thru ratio for Google most days is around 2%; the average click-thru ratio for the banner ads is around 0.2%. The income I make from running AdSense is equal to the income I receive from running both leaderboard, 300x250 box, AND skyscrapers banners on the web site.
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Correction: You literally needed a lap (or a pull-down table larger than the ones on airlines) to operate a lap-top outside of the office.
The notebook was as much of an incremental size difference to a laptop as a netbook is to a notebook today. That's why they were called notebooks. You literally needed a lap (or a pull-down table larger than the ones on airlines) to operate one outside of the office. When notebooks first came out, they were actually thought as being "hardly" bigger than a notebook. Granted, the screens then were smaller (my first notebook had a 13" B&W LCD screen), so they were smaller than many of the notebooks on the market today, but they were a quantum leap size-wise when they first hit the market.
I lived in Singapore in the early '90s. The country became a signatory of international copyright law in 1989, so what you recall is incorrect. The Sng government was active in pursuing copyright compliance ... at least on the brick-and-mortar level (i.e. no "vending machines," no bins of pirated cassettes as existed before 1990, etc.). Given the level of government control over the Internet there, I would find it difficult to believe they would allow any Singapore-hosted server to distribute warez.
On the other hand, Johor Baru, Malaysia is less than 30-minutes away by car. In the '90s, you could buy $10 copies of Photoshop or anything else you might want. I haven't lived in the area for some years now but would not be surprised that pirating still goes on there on some level.
Also observe that Office 2007 isn't affected
... which I still use, even on my XP.
And neither is Office 97
There are a relatively small number of Cubans (vis-a-vis China or Russia) who list themselves on dating (and "dating") web sites and who also have IM addresses. I got the impression one could easily arrange for an escort or other companionship should one decide to include Cuba on their vacation itinerary.
This year, the US didn't win the World Baseball Classic. Japan, which only learned the game after WWII, won by beating economic powerhouse Cuba.
Actually, organized baseball was being played in Japan as early as 1900. There was even a baseball diamond included in the design of Hibiya Park when it was opened to the public in 1903. US All-Star teams made several trips to Japan in the pre-war years to play both Japanese university and professional teams. Babe Ruth was such a giant sports figure in the country that it was once proposed (and rejected) during the war that he broadcast a surrender message to the Japanese people.
... and Kleenex ... and Scotch tape ... and ...
Yes, both Japanese and Chinese have the same challenge. Context, i.e. whether a word is being used as a verb or is being used as an adjective or noun, is how a person call then tell whether something is being "wayed" or if the "way" into a Miss Muffet's heart is with curds and "way". The problem, though, is that there are probably more people in this country who don't know what a pronoun, verb or adjective is than there are who can't spell whey or weigh. They'd have to spend just as much time learning grammar as they would spend time learning to spell so, in the end, what's the difference?
I don't really understand this. Why would you switch?
If purchasers choose to use Google, sellers will almost certainly be forced to allow for payment via GBuy. The same general philosophy exists in the world of brick-n-mortar, too, where VISA/Mastercard hold a large chunk of the credit card market but many retailers, especially restaurants, still offer AmEx as a credit option even though AmEx charges a higher merchant rate than either VISA or Mastercard. Fees are just the cost of doing business.
Sorry. You don't score any points for a recovery even though you made a valient attempt to finesse your reply and turn the tables on your critics. It was pretty obvious you didn't have any clue to what "NO CARRIER" meant when you wrote "how did he have time to write ..." "NO CARRIER" was not something anyone had to type; it was part of a modem's programming schema and just appeared on the screen when the modem connection was lost.
Does that make sense? No it does not and I bet they paid $50,000 per second of that ad.
... comparable to radio in many cases.
:30 second ad based on rating-share ratio of 1.0.
You don't know what you're talking about.
For one thing, ad buys are not measured in "seconds"; they are measured in cost-per-thousand viewers/listeners/readers by also factoring in rating share points. Secondly, air time on cable channels is dirt cheap
The standard CPM (cost per thousand) benchmark is $5 per thousand. So if a channel has 1,000,000 viewers, air time for an advertister would cost roughly $5000 for a
No question why AARP might want to advertise on the Cartoon Network. You don't think there are middle-aged viewers who have an intense interest in animation? (I am one, and I'm 50.) Plus, all advertising is not meant to prompt buy-now behaviors; advertising is also used to brand a service or product into the minds of consumers for future reference.
Have you even bothered to research the demographic viewership the Cartoon Network has? AdultSwim has even been written up in the magazine American Demographics, a publication that tracks consumer trends and is used by marketers to follow where the eyes and ears of the American consumer are going. Cartoons and anime are not just the domain of the 6-18 age viewer.
Hydrogen-powered engines have been bandied about as a solution to using petroleum. So, wouldn't the use of hydrogen increase water vapor and -- and as a result -- contribute to global warming to much the same degree as the use of internal combustion engines?
That doesn't make it any less of crime. Private property is private property, even if it's in the middle of the street.
With CSS, you usually have to deal with pixels and as soon as you want to translate your website into another language your whole website falls apart and/or it's fixed to a specific resolution.
You aren't all that familiar with CSS if you use only pixels for dimensions. Percentages work with CSS just as they do with tables. The big advantage I've found using CSS is that, by using external stylesheets, I'm able to reduce considerably the size of some of my page files, load images (e.g. a logo that appears on every page) in such a way that it speeds up page-load times, and not have to deal with all of the extra, and sometimes messy, code tables requires.
I'm quite happy using CSS, and there is a very simple CSS workaround to the IE vs. Firefox incompatibility problems.
Wichita, KS? That's where Boeing built a huge factory to build B-29s during WWII. After the war, it did become the factory from which was produced the B-47 and B-52 but, as others have pointed, not until ca. 1947. The extra runway length was probably added then.