The smart thing would be for FB to simply ignore them. You want to take your toys and leave because of your irrational belief in an invisible ruler of the universe? Fine.
This is a browser for people like my mom. Perhaps that'll work, although most people fight back hard when they perceive they're using a dumbed-down tool. We want all the bells and whistles, whether or not we actually need them or know how to use them. Microsoft's latest iterations of Word and Excel demonstrate this admirably.
This sounds like a brilliant way to ensure that the servers and their caretakers outlive the general population of Switzerland. Let them breed for a few hundred thousand years after the nuclear holocaust and I suspect the place will be just right for a visit by The Doctor.
Understand one thing: fairness doesn't matter. Never having them used in war, that's what matters.
Um. But the USA is the only country ever to use them in war. So perhaps you wish to modify your statement to: "Never having them used against us in war, that's what matters."
Predicting the future is an impossible task where IT is involved. Analysts always base future predictions on current technology because it's impossible to foresee disruptive innovations. That makes their predictions largely useless beyond a relatively short timeframe. So while "Android will own 99% of the market by 2020" makes a great headline, it's not worth its weight in pixels. It's as relevant as "Economy seen growing at a 4% pace for the next X years" or "By 2100, humans will be stacked three deep in NYC"
My wife and I are still running Win XP, simply because I'm reluctant to spend several hundred dollars for Win 7. Our current machines should last several more years (barring catastrophic hardware failure), and it makes a lot more sense to migrate to Win 7 preloaded on a shiny new machine.
In fact, I may keep my current machine around for a little while after the migration, simply because there are several pieces of software that I use, such as a specialized DSP assembler package, that aren't available on Win 7 or Linux.
Vinyl sales are 2.27% of CD sales - a tiny part of the physical media market. The resurgence is partly because of nostalgia and partly because vinyl has a dramatically different sound - music has to be EQ'd differently to ensure the needle doesn't hop grooves, and there's a gradual rolloff of the high end after repeated playings. It's a different beast, and one that appeals to listeners who appreciate the simplicity, timelessness and elegance of old tech.
Funding for municipal services has dried up over the last couple of years. It seems that the first thing libraries do in a cash crunch is reduce service hours, the second is to limit spending on A/V materials such as DVDs and CDs. Still, our local library costs each household about $50 per year. In return, we can order books and DVDs from several hundred libraries in our region. Makes me wonder why people buy books at all.
The Boxee Box is actually quite small - about 5" wide and 5" high. It'll fit on a shelf in my A/V unit next to my son's Wii and still leave room to store remotes. It's not stackable, true, but then neither is Logitech's GooTV or the minuscule new Apple TV.
I'd prefer a Cylon opera. The cylons could give away the model of your choice with each ticket. Of course, the world would only have days to live, but at least thousands of geeks would get to spend those days with Lucy Lawless.;)
Prices have gone up, dude. Ford lists the Escape Hybrid between $29,865-$32,375 in the USA. The study was Canadian, where the Ford Escape Hybrid AWD currently sells for $35,934 plus 12% HST in British Columbia - $40,246.08 in Canadian dollars.
Just did a bit of googling and found the Jitterbug phone, which offers "familiar" features like a dial tone and operator assisted calling along with 15 quick dial numbers. It seems to be only in the US, though.
There's a huge market for non-intrusive devices that allow seniors to call for help when needed. It doesn't have to be fancy - a simple (and small) GSM phone that's configured to get help would be wonderful. However, the difficulty will be convincing people who have been extremely active throughout their lives that it's a good idea. My mother is a case in point. She's a very active senior who walked out to her car on very cold winter's evening and slipped on a sheet of ice on the sloping driveway. She hurt herself badly, couldn't get up and had no means to call for help. It took her the better part of half an hour to crawl into the front door where a neighbour spotted her and called an ambulance. A phone in her pocket could have saved the day, but she's from a generation who considers mobile phones optional - she only takes it with her when she's traveling and keeps it turned off to "preserve the battery."
12 cores will make an enormous difference for pro audio and video production. From an audio perspective, it means a significant increase in the number of plug-ins (virtual instruments and FX) that I can use simultaneously. As far as video goes, I use Red Giant Software's Magic Bullet Looks for video post production. The tool performs frame-by-frame rendering and a 12 core machine will slice processing time by about 80%.
Instead of memorizing a series of digits, numbers and symbols, I use "nonsense" passwords based on the position of my fingers (not just on the home row) that can be typed quickly. By shifting the block of keys left or right, I can create new passwords with a minimum of fuss. The result is non-dictionary passwords that are easy to remember and quick to enter.
True. This is just another window into the same sales environment (courtesy of the AAP). A hardcover doesn't retail for 24x the price of an e-book, so we can conclude that e-book sales still don't outstrp hardcover sales in the industry at large.
US Book sales totaled $715.3 million in May 2010. Adult hardcover sales were up 43.2% from last year to $138.5 million. Softcover sales were down 2.2% to $110.7 million. Now, the important bit: E-book sales were $29.3 million (up 162.8% from May 2009). So, while Amazon may be doing a fantastic job of selling software for the Kindle platform, it's not yet indicative of the broad market. There's still a big battle ahead.
Matt Smith's contract gives him a salary of only £200,000 per year - far lower than the estimated £1,000,000 earned by Tennant. He just happened to sign on at exactly the wrong time - the global economic crisis was in full swing, and the BBC (as a public broadcaster) had come under attack for its seemingly extravagant on-air talent salaries. If he can raise his profile enough over the next couple of years to attract serious attention from Hollywood, he can easily earn more than £200,000 from a single film. Let's hope that a reasonable compromise can be met before the second season is up, because the revolving door of doctors is getting tiring.
I suspect the band's biggest expense here will be legal fees (shared with EMI). The ruling awards only 5% of the royalties earned by the song since 2002. That means the band's earnings from their heyday in the early 1980s are untouched. Given the state of modern music sales, I'd be surprised to see the amount owing reach more than $10,000. The court basically said, "Yeah, it looks like the band unconsciously based the solo on an old campfire song, but we're going to award minimal damages because you're just gold digging."
It takes me less time to check my storage rack for oddball parts that I might be short on (Atmega MCUs, for example) than it would to open a database app and query three or four different parts.
Places like Mouser and Digikey sell decent multi-packs of resistors. However, it may make financial sense to just order 10 of your favorite four or five values (unless you're doing extensive analog work, you don't need a broad range of weird values). Don't forget an assortment of caps as well.
Forget the software. I purchased a set of storage racks from a hardware store - the kind with 30 little drawers of varying sizes. They're stackable, so you can combine them into a fairly impressive wall of drawers on the back of your workbench. The drawers are somewhat transparent, so it's possible to see when they're empty. I use a label maker to run off stickers for the drawers that say things like "5.6K res" and "10 uF cap."
The reality of electronics is that there are some pieces (dip sockets, 0.1uF caps, 220 ohm resistors, 1N4148 diodes, 7805 voltage regulators) that get used over and over again, so it makes sense just to build a well stocked physical rack. Checking inventory levels periodically is simply a matter of peeking into the drawers and seeing what needs re-ordering. I tend to order resistors, caps and diodes in quantities of at least 100 anyway, just to get more reasonable pricing.
Because Windows and Office are proprietary software, the onus is on Microsoft to shoulder the entire effort of development. It was a model that worked extremely well in the old days when hardware was less varied and complexity was significantly less. However, each iteration of Windows seems to be more painful to release. However, the fact still remains that Microsoft is an extremely good business because each copy of their software costs only a handful of dollars to produce and package while pulling in several hundred dollars on store shelves. The result was a net profit margin of 24.94% in FY 2009. Contrast that to Apple (19.19% net profit in FY 2009), which charges top dollar for sleek hardware but shoulders higher expenses as a result.
Much as we like to whine about Microsoft, the truth is that there is no other well marketed consumer operating system brand apart from Mac OS. Until well marketed competition arrives, Microsoft still drives the market.
Shatner isn't bilingual, which is a serious strike against anyone vying for the GG position. Also note that the Canadian Governor General is essentially powerless in modern government - similar to the role played by the Queen. While, theoretically, the GG has the ability to impact parliamentary procedures in rare circumstances, it's not real power. Instead, the GG gives speeches, meets dignitaries, and spends a lot of time paying respect to unlucky soldiers arriving back from Afghanistan in coffins.
I disagree with the notion that the new Mini is aimed at the living room, because this $699 box is $300-$400 more than the Boxee Box, Popcorn Hour and other less-expensive media players. It's more likely that the Mini's primary market is education and home users who want a desktop Mac for under $1K.
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The smart thing would be for FB to simply ignore them. You want to take your toys and leave because of your irrational belief in an invisible ruler of the universe? Fine.
This is a browser for people like my mom. Perhaps that'll work, although most people fight back hard when they perceive they're using a dumbed-down tool. We want all the bells and whistles, whether or not we actually need them or know how to use them. Microsoft's latest iterations of Word and Excel demonstrate this admirably.
This sounds like a brilliant way to ensure that the servers and their caretakers outlive the general population of Switzerland. Let them breed for a few hundred thousand years after the nuclear holocaust and I suspect the place will be just right for a visit by The Doctor.
Understand one thing: fairness doesn't matter. Never having them used in war, that's what matters.
Um. But the USA is the only country ever to use them in war. So perhaps you wish to modify your statement to: "Never having them used against us in war, that's what matters."
Predicting the future is an impossible task where IT is involved. Analysts always base future predictions on current technology because it's impossible to foresee disruptive innovations. That makes their predictions largely useless beyond a relatively short timeframe. So while "Android will own 99% of the market by 2020" makes a great headline, it's not worth its weight in pixels. It's as relevant as "Economy seen growing at a 4% pace for the next X years" or "By 2100, humans will be stacked three deep in NYC"
My wife and I are still running Win XP, simply because I'm reluctant to spend several hundred dollars for Win 7. Our current machines should last several more years (barring catastrophic hardware failure), and it makes a lot more sense to migrate to Win 7 preloaded on a shiny new machine. In fact, I may keep my current machine around for a little while after the migration, simply because there are several pieces of software that I use, such as a specialized DSP assembler package, that aren't available on Win 7 or Linux.
Vinyl sales are 2.27% of CD sales - a tiny part of the physical media market. The resurgence is partly because of nostalgia and partly because vinyl has a dramatically different sound - music has to be EQ'd differently to ensure the needle doesn't hop grooves, and there's a gradual rolloff of the high end after repeated playings. It's a different beast, and one that appeals to listeners who appreciate the simplicity, timelessness and elegance of old tech.
Funding for municipal services has dried up over the last couple of years. It seems that the first thing libraries do in a cash crunch is reduce service hours, the second is to limit spending on A/V materials such as DVDs and CDs. Still, our local library costs each household about $50 per year. In return, we can order books and DVDs from several hundred libraries in our region. Makes me wonder why people buy books at all.
The Boxee Box is actually quite small - about 5" wide and 5" high. It'll fit on a shelf in my A/V unit next to my son's Wii and still leave room to store remotes. It's not stackable, true, but then neither is Logitech's GooTV or the minuscule new Apple TV.
I'd prefer a Cylon opera. The cylons could give away the model of your choice with each ticket. Of course, the world would only have days to live, but at least thousands of geeks would get to spend those days with Lucy Lawless. ;)
Prices have gone up, dude. Ford lists the Escape Hybrid between $29,865-$32,375 in the USA. The study was Canadian, where the Ford Escape Hybrid AWD currently sells for $35,934 plus 12% HST in British Columbia - $40,246.08 in Canadian dollars.
Just did a bit of googling and found the Jitterbug phone, which offers "familiar" features like a dial tone and operator assisted calling along with 15 quick dial numbers. It seems to be only in the US, though.
There's a huge market for non-intrusive devices that allow seniors to call for help when needed. It doesn't have to be fancy - a simple (and small) GSM phone that's configured to get help would be wonderful. However, the difficulty will be convincing people who have been extremely active throughout their lives that it's a good idea. My mother is a case in point. She's a very active senior who walked out to her car on very cold winter's evening and slipped on a sheet of ice on the sloping driveway. She hurt herself badly, couldn't get up and had no means to call for help. It took her the better part of half an hour to crawl into the front door where a neighbour spotted her and called an ambulance. A phone in her pocket could have saved the day, but she's from a generation who considers mobile phones optional - she only takes it with her when she's traveling and keeps it turned off to "preserve the battery."
12 cores will make an enormous difference for pro audio and video production. From an audio perspective, it means a significant increase in the number of plug-ins (virtual instruments and FX) that I can use simultaneously. As far as video goes, I use Red Giant Software's Magic Bullet Looks for video post production. The tool performs frame-by-frame rendering and a 12 core machine will slice processing time by about 80%.
Instead of memorizing a series of digits, numbers and symbols, I use "nonsense" passwords based on the position of my fingers (not just on the home row) that can be typed quickly. By shifting the block of keys left or right, I can create new passwords with a minimum of fuss. The result is non-dictionary passwords that are easy to remember and quick to enter.
True. This is just another window into the same sales environment (courtesy of the AAP). A hardcover doesn't retail for 24x the price of an e-book, so we can conclude that e-book sales still don't outstrp hardcover sales in the industry at large.
US Book sales totaled $715.3 million in May 2010. Adult hardcover sales were up 43.2% from last year to $138.5 million. Softcover sales were down 2.2% to $110.7 million. Now, the important bit: E-book sales were $29.3 million (up 162.8% from May 2009). So, while Amazon may be doing a fantastic job of selling software for the Kindle platform, it's not yet indicative of the broad market. There's still a big battle ahead.
Matt Smith's contract gives him a salary of only £200,000 per year - far lower than the estimated £1,000,000 earned by Tennant. He just happened to sign on at exactly the wrong time - the global economic crisis was in full swing, and the BBC (as a public broadcaster) had come under attack for its seemingly extravagant on-air talent salaries. If he can raise his profile enough over the next couple of years to attract serious attention from Hollywood, he can easily earn more than £200,000 from a single film. Let's hope that a reasonable compromise can be met before the second season is up, because the revolving door of doctors is getting tiring.
I suspect the band's biggest expense here will be legal fees (shared with EMI). The ruling awards only 5% of the royalties earned by the song since 2002. That means the band's earnings from their heyday in the early 1980s are untouched. Given the state of modern music sales, I'd be surprised to see the amount owing reach more than $10,000. The court basically said, "Yeah, it looks like the band unconsciously based the solo on an old campfire song, but we're going to award minimal damages because you're just gold digging."
It takes me less time to check my storage rack for oddball parts that I might be short on (Atmega MCUs, for example) than it would to open a database app and query three or four different parts.
Places like Mouser and Digikey sell decent multi-packs of resistors. However, it may make financial sense to just order 10 of your favorite four or five values (unless you're doing extensive analog work, you don't need a broad range of weird values). Don't forget an assortment of caps as well.
Forget the software. I purchased a set of storage racks from a hardware store - the kind with 30 little drawers of varying sizes. They're stackable, so you can combine them into a fairly impressive wall of drawers on the back of your workbench. The drawers are somewhat transparent, so it's possible to see when they're empty. I use a label maker to run off stickers for the drawers that say things like "5.6K res" and "10 uF cap."
The reality of electronics is that there are some pieces (dip sockets, 0.1uF caps, 220 ohm resistors, 1N4148 diodes, 7805 voltage regulators) that get used over and over again, so it makes sense just to build a well stocked physical rack. Checking inventory levels periodically is simply a matter of peeking into the drawers and seeing what needs re-ordering. I tend to order resistors, caps and diodes in quantities of at least 100 anyway, just to get more reasonable pricing.
Because Windows and Office are proprietary software, the onus is on Microsoft to shoulder the entire effort of development. It was a model that worked extremely well in the old days when hardware was less varied and complexity was significantly less. However, each iteration of Windows seems to be more painful to release. However, the fact still remains that Microsoft is an extremely good business because each copy of their software costs only a handful of dollars to produce and package while pulling in several hundred dollars on store shelves. The result was a net profit margin of 24.94% in FY 2009. Contrast that to Apple (19.19% net profit in FY 2009), which charges top dollar for sleek hardware but shoulders higher expenses as a result.
Much as we like to whine about Microsoft, the truth is that there is no other well marketed consumer operating system brand apart from Mac OS. Until well marketed competition arrives, Microsoft still drives the market.
Shatner isn't bilingual, which is a serious strike against anyone vying for the GG position. Also note that the Canadian Governor General is essentially powerless in modern government - similar to the role played by the Queen. While, theoretically, the GG has the ability to impact parliamentary procedures in rare circumstances, it's not real power. Instead, the GG gives speeches, meets dignitaries, and spends a lot of time paying respect to unlucky soldiers arriving back from Afghanistan in coffins.
I disagree with the notion that the new Mini is aimed at the living room, because this $699 box is $300-$400 more than the Boxee Box, Popcorn Hour and other less-expensive media players. It's more likely that the Mini's primary market is education and home users who want a desktop Mac for under $1K.