It's different, some things are better and some are worse, but just as much fun (I only plaed elite a few times, but it didn't seem too much different from First Ecounters--Elite III that I played to no end). It's top down with a simulator type of control, not the realistic intertia model from elite. It has a shorter learning curve and a smaller universe, you can hit most of the galaxy in a solid night's play. There are more unique missions, rather than the few "coded missions" and many template types (take this person here, assasinate that ship etc) There aren't as many upgrades for your ship but the ones you can get make it much more powerful, and they are racially specific. It has a lot more political structure more like GTA 2 with respect, as you work for a race's opponents they begin to fear and hate you.
All that said, it is very fun, and was enough to almost convince me to buy a Mac just for that one game.
It's not the administration, a government can only support a currency for a short period of time (as the British learned a while ago, and Argentina learned more recently). The reason the dollar is falling is that we never curtailed our demand for imports, but foreigners have begun to look at other places to invest their money (the two were in relative balance over the past decade) so now imported goods are becoming more expensive, exports are becoming cheaper, and investments are becoming cheaper. After a few years of the prices changing the flows will return to a blanced range and we will have a stable currency again.
This stuff is great, it makes my mouth feel great (fresh, clean, and tingley) everytime I brush. It seems to lighten slightly more than other toothpastes, but the tingle and feel of your mouth are much better than any other toothpaste I've ever tried. None of the other soda and peroxide pastes leave the same tingle, and its no more expensive than any other branded tube.
I think SUN had this experience with Open office/ Star Office. They said that they couldn't drum up any interest in open office, but once Star Office was released, they sold many licenses (and I tend to beleive them since they didn't announce any adoptions while it was only available free).
That said, I also love Mozilla--tabbed browsing and selective scripting are such nice features.
I'll second mixed licensing. I realize that this is close to a herasy here, but it seems like there could be a license that allowed coders to share code with the code base, but got leechers to pay for their software, especially if they were commerical users. It's very generous of all of you to give me Linux and BSD and all the code behind every project in both, but how much better would all of these things be if the millions of users had to pay a small license fee. Feel free to ignore the kooky libertarian if you wish, but realize that very large corporations (Dell, Merrill Lynch, Oracle, Sun, and Conoco just to name a few)are riding on all of your backs with little benefit to you developers.
Neilson Net Ratings is the tv ratings company trying to expand to the new media, it's software that tracks web usage. Sites visited and probably time spent, I don't know what else. They pay you to use it, the pay might be close to a budget ISP info. Why anyone would share anything with a big rating company tracking their moves is beyond me.
I still use google because it was the first really good search engine. You could enter in almsot anything and get really good results. Unlike other search engines that required you to use several words, and boolean logic to get really good results, a single descriptive word almost always led to several good links on google. I got used to searching there, and still like use it, even though I usually leave Yahoo to go search (I set up all my daily news and info on a Yahoo homepage a long time ago). Those personal pages are really the only thing that Yahoo does significantly better than other sites at least in finance its better than most of the non-free stuff.
And very few of us will drive a Ferrari, but they are still heavily promoted on the front pages of MoterTrend and Road and Track many months. I guess no one wants to read a magazine about the rusty, sputtering 75 hp Dodge Dart. Why should computers be any different?
While Yahoo is using some of its cash, most of this transaction is stock, which is pretty cheap currency. It dilutes your current owners position, but they generally don't seem to mind. Tyco made a business out of doing little more than buying companies and issuing stock for almost a decade. This probably has pretty good cash returns, Overture pulled in about $50 million in cash last year, and Yahoo is only spending $300 million in cash, which is a heck of a lot beter than the 1%-2% money market returns Yahoo was getting on the cash.
Also this is only about half their cash hoard, so they easily have enough to survive a very extended downturn. Their only major cash use is acquisitions, the core business generates cash.
I registered in 1997 and haven't gottent anything from them besides a confirmation email, and headline mails that I tried but didn't like. If someone offers you a free paper take it, even if they want your name first. The WSJ has been requiring paid subs to their website since they started.
I'd be mightily surprised, if there were any sales added from this whole mess. It's actually more surprising that Peoplesoft was able to do their normal amount of business this quarter. The organiziations that would be considering deploying this software could easily pay a consultant or employee to research all the competitors for a month, without adding too much to the final bill. The license, hardware, and customization costs would probably total 500k for a small job, and several million for a big job, our state's 2000 user project budget was 18 million and I think their scrapping it early after only three years, becuase it sucks. The big three are SAP (its a really long german name) Oracle, and Peoplesoft. There are many smaller usually more focused vendors, and still a few in house systems, but thats really about it.
If they did get any new business, it should have been offset by users who crapped bricks on the news that oracle would have dropped support and began plans to migrate to SAP. I really don't know what Oracle has to gain from the merger, it seems like the SAP clients are not very happy with the merger.
Hopefully they will include the original like Truth about Charlie/Charade, it might be good for exposing the really good orignial to a new audience. Casablanca is one of my favorite movies, if you haven't seen it go get a copy, it costs less than $10 to own, and its very, very good.
NAS servers might be easier to recieve, but a cargo van filled with NAS servers just doesn't roll of the tounge as easily as a station wagon full of backup tapes.
Qwest here sells 7 Mb down 1Mb up for 400 or so a month. Not quite the same bandwidth that the cable company is playing with, but it should do a real time movie.
Every orchard I've every worked in they paid by the box or bin. Usually the pickers made a pretty good wage. The last orchard paid $3.50 per 30#-35# bin of cherries, most good pickers (husband wive, possibly a kid or two) got at least 40 a day. That's more than I make with a degree. They do have to start early and move a lot, and it's pretty tough to do that sort of work all year, but they could generally find work for 4-6 months. Most of them really enjoyed being outside, and the generally relaxed attituted there. Until the government cracked down on migrant camps, (some were pretty bad shanty towns) most orchards provided showering facilities, rest rooms, and an area for camping. Basically the rules changes so if you offered them they had to meet all sorts of expensive requirements so the farmers generally pulled their limited offerings.
The risk is that the HR manager reads between the lines:
I contributed to a project that was so poorly designed the lawsuits bankrupted the company and I am now looking for a new job.
They are at several airports, and I think Disney World or Epcot had an early version of a phone lounge. The idea is that you get a little room, with a phone and ethernet jack/ terminal that you rent. You could check with one of those places, to see about cost and viability. I'm sure your friendly Cisco or Nortel salesperson would have some info for you too.
I worked there one summer in college, and when I was in electronics, I usually looked for the edited marks (they're on the top sticker as well) and would try to confirm that the customer understood that the music was edited, occasionally someone would decide not to buy, but most people didn't care.
Over- and under- rated mods don't change the class? of the moderation. This post got what looks like 1 funny mod (20%) and 4 over rated mods (80%) starting at two this would take the post to -1 if my caffene deprived math is to be trusted. Some mods prefer those two moderations because they are never subject to metamoderation, as I understand it.
The first oregon trail I played had text stating that somehting attacked you and to shoot back you had to type bang boom or another gun sound quickly to shoot back.
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It's different, some things are better and some are worse, but just as much fun (I only plaed elite a few times, but it didn't seem too much different from First Ecounters--Elite III that I played to no end). It's top down with a simulator type of control, not the realistic intertia model from elite. It has a shorter learning curve and a smaller universe, you can hit most of the galaxy in a solid night's play. There are more unique missions, rather than the few "coded missions" and many template types (take this person here, assasinate that ship etc) There aren't as many upgrades for your ship but the ones you can get make it much more powerful, and they are racially specific. It has a lot more political structure more like GTA 2 with respect, as you work for a race's opponents they begin to fear and hate you.
All that said, it is very fun, and was enough to almost convince me to buy a Mac just for that one game.
It's not the administration, a government can only support a currency for a short period of time (as the British learned a while ago, and Argentina learned more recently). The reason the dollar is falling is that we never curtailed our demand for imports, but foreigners have begun to look at other places to invest their money (the two were in relative balance over the past decade) so now imported goods are becoming more expensive, exports are becoming cheaper, and investments are becoming cheaper. After a few years of the prices changing the flows will return to a blanced range and we will have a stable currency again.
Yes, but the parents come with the kids to the G rated movies, that's the big difference.
Sorry to dissapoint, that wasn't an ad, I'm a happy user of the stuff. I didn't mean to sound so much like an ad.
This stuff is great, it makes my mouth feel great (fresh, clean, and tingley) everytime I brush. It seems to lighten slightly more than other toothpastes, but the tingle and feel of your mouth are much better than any other toothpaste I've ever tried. None of the other soda and peroxide pastes leave the same tingle, and its no more expensive than any other branded tube.
I think SUN had this experience with Open office/ Star Office. They said that they couldn't drum up any interest in open office, but once Star Office was released, they sold many licenses (and I tend to beleive them since they didn't announce any adoptions while it was only available free).
That said, I also love Mozilla--tabbed browsing and selective scripting are such nice features.
I'll second mixed licensing. I realize that this is close to a herasy here, but it seems like there could be a license that allowed coders to share code with the code base, but got leechers to pay for their software, especially if they were commerical users. It's very generous of all of you to give me Linux and BSD and all the code behind every project in both, but how much better would all of these things be if the millions of users had to pay a small license fee. Feel free to ignore the kooky libertarian if you wish, but realize that very large corporations (Dell, Merrill Lynch, Oracle, Sun, and Conoco just to name a few)are riding on all of your backs with little benefit to you developers.
Neilson Net Ratings is the tv ratings company trying to expand to the new media, it's software that tracks web usage. Sites visited and probably time spent, I don't know what else. They pay you to use it, the pay might be close to a budget ISP info. Why anyone would share anything with a big rating company tracking their moves is beyond me.
I still use google because it was the first really good search engine. You could enter in almsot anything and get really good results. Unlike other search engines that required you to use several words, and boolean logic to get really good results, a single descriptive word almost always led to several good links on google. I got used to searching there, and still like use it, even though I usually leave Yahoo to go search (I set up all my daily news and info on a Yahoo homepage a long time ago). Those personal pages are really the only thing that Yahoo does significantly better than other sites at least in finance its better than most of the non-free stuff.
And very few of us will drive a Ferrari, but they are still heavily promoted on the front pages of MoterTrend and Road and Track many months. I guess no one wants to read a magazine about the rusty, sputtering 75 hp Dodge Dart. Why should computers be any different?
While Yahoo is using some of its cash, most of this transaction is stock, which is pretty cheap currency. It dilutes your current owners position, but they generally don't seem to mind. Tyco made a business out of doing little more than buying companies and issuing stock for almost a decade. This probably has pretty good cash returns, Overture pulled in about $50 million in cash last year, and Yahoo is only spending $300 million in cash, which is a heck of a lot beter than the 1%-2% money market returns Yahoo was getting on the cash.
Also this is only about half their cash hoard, so they easily have enough to survive a very extended downturn. Their only major cash use is acquisitions, the core business generates cash.
I registered in 1997 and haven't gottent anything from them besides a confirmation email, and headline mails that I tried but didn't like. If someone offers you a free paper take it, even if they want your name first. The WSJ has been requiring paid subs to their website since they started.
I'd be mightily surprised, if there were any sales added from this whole mess. It's actually more surprising that Peoplesoft was able to do their normal amount of business this quarter. The organiziations that would be considering deploying this software could easily pay a consultant or employee to research all the competitors for a month, without adding too much to the final bill. The license, hardware, and customization costs would probably total 500k for a small job, and several million for a big job, our state's 2000 user project budget was 18 million and I think their scrapping it early after only three years, becuase it sucks. The big three are SAP (its a really long german name) Oracle, and Peoplesoft. There are many smaller usually more focused vendors, and still a few in house systems, but thats really about it.
If they did get any new business, it should have been offset by users who crapped bricks on the news that oracle would have dropped support and began plans to migrate to SAP. I really don't know what Oracle has to gain from the merger, it seems like the SAP clients are not very happy with the merger.
Wasn't the most famous version of "Night of the Living Dead" a remake?
Hopefully they will include the original like Truth about Charlie/Charade, it might be good for exposing the really good orignial to a new audience. Casablanca is one of my favorite movies, if you haven't seen it go get a copy, it costs less than $10 to own, and its very, very good.
NAS servers might be easier to recieve, but a cargo van filled with NAS servers just doesn't roll of the tounge as easily as a station wagon full of backup tapes.
Please mod up, this is exactly correct!
Qwest here sells 7 Mb down 1Mb up for 400 or so a month. Not quite the same bandwidth that the cable company is playing with, but it should do a real time movie.
Every orchard I've every worked in they paid by the box or bin. Usually the pickers made a pretty good wage. The last orchard paid $3.50 per 30#-35# bin of cherries, most good pickers (husband wive, possibly a kid or two) got at least 40 a day. That's more than I make with a degree. They do have to start early and move a lot, and it's pretty tough to do that sort of work all year, but they could generally find work for 4-6 months. Most of them really enjoyed being outside, and the generally relaxed attituted there. Until the government cracked down on migrant camps, (some were pretty bad shanty towns) most orchards provided showering facilities, rest rooms, and an area for camping. Basically the rules changes so if you offered them they had to meet all sorts of expensive requirements so the farmers generally pulled their limited offerings.
The risk is that the HR manager reads between the lines:
I contributed to a project that was so poorly designed the lawsuits bankrupted the company and I am now looking for a new job.
They are at several airports, and I think Disney World or Epcot had an early version of a phone lounge. The idea is that you get a little room, with a phone and ethernet jack/ terminal that you rent. You could check with one of those places, to see about cost and viability. I'm sure your friendly Cisco or Nortel salesperson would have some info for you too.
Good maybe they can send the salary info and phone number to that favorite cashier.
I worked there one summer in college, and when I was in electronics, I usually looked for the edited marks (they're on the top sticker as well) and would try to confirm that the customer understood that the music was edited, occasionally someone would decide not to buy, but most people didn't care.
Over- and under- rated mods don't change the class? of the moderation. This post got what looks like 1 funny mod (20%) and 4 over rated mods (80%) starting at two this would take the post to -1 if my caffene deprived math is to be trusted. Some mods prefer those two moderations because they are never subject to metamoderation, as I understand it.
The first oregon trail I played had text stating that somehting attacked you and to shoot back you had to type bang boom or another gun sound quickly to shoot back.