Because that would make it legal for someone to take someone else's software and just re-code it copying all of the design/usability work as long as the "expression" was different.
Obviously you're not a software developer either. It costs significant money to develop and test your product Windows 2000 (various SP flavors), Windows XP and XP SP1 especially if high performance graphics optimizations are needed. Supporting the same platform that they're likely doing their development on is the fastest way to get the product to market.
In Gates's massive $50m home with fully automated home of the future features intended to impress other top business execs (CEO summit anyone?), how many computers do you think that he has? Hundreds probably. And it's news if one gets hit with spyware?
Not to mention that he has 3 kids aged 3-9 and plenty of staff who want to check their email, surf the web, and do everything else that employees do. And I'm sure that no employees were ever the source of installing spyware...
I'm not so convinced. I saw him speak a couple of times. He always spoke like he was reading (and not reading well). It was quite disturbing actually to hear someone so praised come across sounding so much like a kid in junior high who couldn't lift their eyes off of the page to look at their audience.
The saddest part is just how angry this guy always comes across. I really hope it's just an act, otherwise he'll probably have a heart attack by the time he's 40.
With all the copyright restrictions these days, a filmmakers needs to "clear rights" on almost every object in their work. So, if there's a pepsi can in your shot, you need to talk to Pepsi lawyers to get a license to show that can.
Imagine if you could just put a little sensor next to the pepsi can and once the film is recorded, that object is blurred--meaning that you don't need to edit out the can later or talk to the lawyers to get clearance.
No you can't, the child's dead before they might possibly be productive (let alone afford) a computer.
Because if the child's not vaccinated, there's a good chance they'll be one of the 10 million who die every year before the age of 5 (source: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20050125/VACCINE25/TPInternational/Eu rope).
I'd look at PubMed for more ideas on what to try or for ideas to trigger a brainstorm but definately not somewhere to try to learn the critical facets of a condition. It might also be helpful if you read about a study in a major media source and want to see the story beneath the story. The bottom line is that PubMed has tons of studies about everything, but unlike the more 'dumbed down' ones, there's no "credibility" sorting system.
A good study is double-blind controlled, with a sufficiently large yet controlled population, peer reviewed by experts at top journals and reproduced by multiple teams at multiple reputable locations. You can't tell that from PubMed unless you know which journals are more respected than others. Some schlock journal could print a few pages full of lies that would just end up helping someone get tenure. You'd have to read almost every article on a subject with a good medical dictionary and keen eye for your own bias (you'll be looking for studies that affirm your hypothesis) or else you're doing yourself a disservice.
Read the article. EDS applied a patch intended to update 7 Windows XP boxes to 60,000 Windows 2000 machines. The TCO here applies to the contract to EDS, not the software. It's like saying that a prison guard intending to open one gate to let someone out accidentally opened all of the gates and then they blamed the door manufacturer.
I live in Japan and use BBC's text only pages (http://news.bbc.co.uk/text_only.stm) on my phone all the time. I'm sure they'll keep a decent tally on their 'Americas' page.
Otherwise, you use Google's WAP/cHTML interface to screenscrape your favorite news site and turn it into something readable on your phone. Just bookmark that and you're ready to go. Also on the google front, you could sign up for news alerts and have those mailed to your phone.
Finally, you might try to look at a gambling website like http://www.tradesports.com and just bookmark the page of the 'price' of the presidency. The the closer to $1 the price reaches, the more likely that guy will win.
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The most common MS Office sku (Students & Teachers and you could be a student of the school of hard knocks for all they care) at Costco and elsewhere in the US for the home is
And it includes a pretty good spell checker.
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Agreed. It was a great machine and 200LX could run for 2 weeks on a set of 2 AAs batteries. It was an _Instant On_ full blown IBM PC--and nobody can claim that today.
The biggest drawback to using it these days is connectivity. If you used it with a modem/LAN card the batteries would die after 30 minutes.
I tried to break it out and use it again a few months ago only to find that I've aged and can barely read the screen anymore. It needs a better reflective or backlit screen!
A lot of people have hate for Microsoft because they want their stuff but aren't willing to pay for it, ostensibly because it's "not worth it" and the high sticker. Same reason a lot of people hate Benzs, Cadillacs and BMWs.
These people consider the success of the Microsoft to be a real thumb on the nose. How can it succeed when it's so expensive? How can it succeed when so many companies/software/devices do the same thing, only with more features? How can it succeed without...?
Microsoft is proof that software need not follow the open source technology model to be successful. It's an alien concept for people who have for so long bought in to the idea that software should be free. So, it enrages them. Because it's not popular for its tech aspect, but for its simplicity and HIPNESS. And hipness and simplicity are two things most technology pundits wouldn't understand.
Mine's up to 250MB...and it's been like that for about 3 weeks now. Guess they have a lot of servers to update.
The big plus to hotmail over gmail right now if that hotmail supports rich clients. You can use it without ads and with full offline support through Outlook or Outlook Express. Try pulling out the cable and reading your Gmail.
That and you can actually get a gmail account without groveling or buying one on ebay. Incidentally, I did get one a few weeks ago but am already relegated to a really long login name that isn't firstname.lastname because every permutation was already used up!
Okay, how's this for a deal. I'll let you clean up after the 200 neighbors letting their dogs shit in my yard for a week, and in return, I'll delete the spam from your inbox for a whole _month_.
Either you have a dog shit fetish or your email requires a shovel to delete.
Yeah, but if Google loses a website in their results, nobody notices. If an air traffic controller loses a plane with a few hundred people on board and lets another plane fly close to or into it, you can be damn sure that people will notice.
For conventional approaches, I'd look at Getting to Yes from Fisher and Ury. Based on academic research and the mediation project at Harvard Law School, it comes up with a number of recommendations for approaching conflict. It gets boiled down to four rules:
1) Separating the people from the problem
2) Focusing on the interests, not positions
3) Inventing options for mutual gain
4) Insisting on using objective criteria
This can get you so far but the results can still be frustrating...so I'd keep in mind that as long as you see yourself with a future at this company, you're better off thinking that:
1) Anger, frustration do nothing to you except for make you feel crappy. Accept that he's a prick and move on.
2) Your manager is a great teacher of patience and tolerance. Once you can put up with him, you can conquer anything!
3) When he's being a jerk, just smile or be nice back to him. He's probably using his asshole-ness as a power play and he'll be confused as hell when you don't play his game. Hopefully others in the company will pick up on your competence+ability to deal with people and want you on their team.
A self destructing DVD could be quite useful, just not for movies. Imagine if you could provide an encryption code on the disk that unlocked some other content. You could pass it along to another person, they'd be able to use it to unlock whatever you wanted them to have access to and within 8 hours the encryption code wipes itself out. Of course, it's only one part of the solution as you'd need a secure OS as well but it's useful.
Or if you're distributing trial software or sending a demo of your product to a venture capitalist. Make a bootable DVD that expires in 8 hours that has some copy protection on it. They can basically run the program for 8 hours and you don't have to worry about the program then getting into the wrong hands.
And then of course there are practical jokes. Just burn say photoshopped pictures of your (married) enemy with another woman. Send them to the person's wife and by the time he tries to analyze the disc to see where it came from it'll be blank!
As with all technologies, it's not the technology that's evil, but the application.
If the newspapers wanted to fight fake registrations, they could easily have a script modify the content that the user would see.
For instance, they might show ridiculously ad-ridden pages (with a 2 minute DHTML/flash/full screen "click to continue to article" ads) for those with bogus registrations (based on a bad email address). They could do anything from showing non-updated (day old) news or, at worst, add "not" after every "was" or "had" and completely throw the reader for a loop. Of course in the last case, they'd probably need to modify their logo/title to show that it was no longer their newspaper to maintain their credibility.
The technology to do this is trivial. If the day comes when a falsely-registered user is worth less to the site (because of advertiser's refusals to pay) than non-readers, I could very well see this happening.
The Media Player classic comes with WMP as a Skin.
You can get the old look in a couple clicks. And you're complaining about the bloat caused by a SKIN?!
And generally, yes, new versions need a new looking UI. Otherwise most people would never know that they got a new version and would keep bitching about how long it's been since a new version of ___ came out (or how nothing's changed/improved in the new version.
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No, your blindness was caused by all of your jerking off after that.
Because that would make it legal for someone to take someone else's software and just re-code it copying all of the design/usability work as long as the "expression" was different.
Obviously you're not a software developer either. It costs significant money to develop and test your product Windows 2000 (various SP flavors), Windows XP and XP SP1 especially if high performance graphics optimizations are needed. Supporting the same platform that they're likely doing their development on is the fastest way to get the product to market.
Great. Now we'll probably also get people hogging the bathrooms just so that they can plug in their laptops or charge up.
Not to mention that he has 3 kids aged 3-9 and plenty of staff who want to check their email, surf the web, and do everything else that employees do. And I'm sure that no employees were ever the source of installing spyware...
Not quite, Shell's profit was for the full last year. Microsoft's is for the last quarter. Multiply MSFTs by 4 and it gets close.
The saddest part is just how angry this guy always comes across. I really hope it's just an act, otherwise he'll probably have a heart attack by the time he's 40.
Imagine if you could just put a little sensor next to the pepsi can and once the film is recorded, that object is blurred--meaning that you don't need to edit out the can later or talk to the lawyers to get clearance.
Because if the child's not vaccinated, there's a good chance they'll be one of the 10 million who die every year before the age of 5 (source: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews /TPStory/LAC/20050125/VACCINE25/TPInternational/Eu rope).
A good study is double-blind controlled, with a sufficiently large yet controlled population, peer reviewed by experts at top journals and reproduced by multiple teams at multiple reputable locations. You can't tell that from PubMed unless you know which journals are more respected than others. Some schlock journal could print a few pages full of lies that would just end up helping someone get tenure. You'd have to read almost every article on a subject with a good medical dictionary and keen eye for your own bias (you'll be looking for studies that affirm your hypothesis) or else you're doing yourself a disservice.
Read the article. EDS applied a patch intended to update 7 Windows XP boxes to 60,000 Windows 2000 machines. The TCO here applies to the contract to EDS, not the software. It's like saying that a prison guard intending to open one gate to let someone out accidentally opened all of the gates and then they blamed the door manufacturer.
Otherwise, you use Google's WAP/cHTML interface to screenscrape your favorite news site and turn it into something readable on your phone. Just bookmark that and you're ready to go. Also on the google front, you could sign up for news alerts and have those mailed to your phone.
Finally, you might try to look at a gambling website like http://www.tradesports.com and just bookmark the page of the 'price' of the presidency. The the closer to $1 the price reaches, the more likely that guy will win.
Oops..the price got left out. It's less than 150 dollars. http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=students+teach ers+office
And it includes a pretty good spell checker.
The biggest drawback to using it these days is connectivity. If you used it with a modem/LAN card the batteries would die after 30 minutes.
I tried to break it out and use it again a few months ago only to find that I've aged and can barely read the screen anymore. It needs a better reflective or backlit screen!
These people consider the success of the Microsoft to be a real thumb on the nose. How can it succeed when it's so expensive? How can it succeed when so many companies/software/devices do the same thing, only with more features? How can it succeed without ...?
Microsoft is proof that software need not follow the open source technology model to be successful. It's an alien concept for people who have for so long bought in to the idea that software should be free. So, it enrages them. Because it's not popular for its tech aspect, but for its simplicity and HIPNESS. And hipness and simplicity are two things most technology pundits wouldn't understand.
The big plus to hotmail over gmail right now if that hotmail supports rich clients. You can use it without ads and with full offline support through Outlook or Outlook Express. Try pulling out the cable and reading your Gmail. That and you can actually get a gmail account without groveling or buying one on ebay. Incidentally, I did get one a few weeks ago but am already relegated to a really long login name that isn't firstname.lastname because every permutation was already used up!
Either you have a dog shit fetish or your email requires a shovel to delete.
Great. So the Union owns your thoughts and ideas instead of the company. Works great for the airline industry doesn't it?
Yeah, but if Google loses a website in their results, nobody notices. If an air traffic controller loses a plane with a few hundred people on board and lets another plane fly close to or into it, you can be damn sure that people will notice.
1) Separating the people from the problem
2) Focusing on the interests, not positions
3) Inventing options for mutual gain
4) Insisting on using objective criteria
This can get you so far but the results can still be frustrating...so I'd keep in mind that as long as you see yourself with a future at this company, you're better off thinking that:
1) Anger, frustration do nothing to you except for make you feel crappy. Accept that he's a prick and move on.
2) Your manager is a great teacher of patience and tolerance. Once you can put up with him, you can conquer anything!
3) When he's being a jerk, just smile or be nice back to him. He's probably using his asshole-ness as a power play and he'll be confused as hell when you don't play his game. Hopefully others in the company will pick up on your competence+ability to deal with people and want you on their team.
For vonage the instructions are here while for Packet8 it's here.
Or if you're distributing trial software or sending a demo of your product to a venture capitalist. Make a bootable DVD that expires in 8 hours that has some copy protection on it. They can basically run the program for 8 hours and you don't have to worry about the program then getting into the wrong hands.
And then of course there are practical jokes. Just burn say photoshopped pictures of your (married) enemy with another woman. Send them to the person's wife and by the time he tries to analyze the disc to see where it came from it'll be blank!
As with all technologies, it's not the technology that's evil, but the application.
For instance, they might show ridiculously ad-ridden pages (with a 2 minute DHTML/flash/full screen "click to continue to article" ads) for those with bogus registrations (based on a bad email address). They could do anything from showing non-updated (day old) news or, at worst, add "not" after every "was" or "had" and completely throw the reader for a loop. Of course in the last case, they'd probably need to modify their logo/title to show that it was no longer their newspaper to maintain their credibility.
The technology to do this is trivial. If the day comes when a falsely-registered user is worth less to the site (because of advertiser's refusals to pay) than non-readers, I could very well see this happening.
You can get the old look in a couple clicks. And you're complaining about the bloat caused by a SKIN?!
And generally, yes, new versions need a new looking UI. Otherwise most people would never know that they got a new version and would keep bitching about how long it's been since a new version of ___ came out (or how nothing's changed/improved in the new version.