They've been using it for 3 years now and it's doing great. Maybe I missed something? Are there NEW Macs without Office that need licenses, or are they simply stating that they will not be upgrading to the latest/greatest word processor and spreadsheet suite?
Would they (FTC) force Google to spin off a section of the company IF they had developed the technology themselves?
If not then this deal should be fine. If so, well they better be able to prove why... with precedents like Microsoft still around, it'll be a hard sell.
SO you're saying that skilled writers and actors portraying fictional events with no real connection to reality at all is a far better form of entertainment than skilled editors and producers guiding regular people through a series of real but peformatted events with a somewhat closer connection to reality?
Hmmm I don't know.... I think it may be a toss up, depending on how skilled the supposedly skilled people are. I was never terribly impressed with Jericho, everything seemed overly urgent all the time, like 24... but maybe you like that? OTOH most 'reality show' do suck balls.... over-directed with poorly cast 'stars' who just don't have the motivation to do anything interesting.
Something must be wrong with them since they aren't the obvious solution here. Either the client, the server or the spec. just doesn't offer the capabilities that keep people using it. Maybe it just needs to be 'reinvented' with a fancy new name and some hype about a cool new way to read news or something... Call it RSS 2.0 Extreme;-p
If you're cheap but adventurous and willing to risk a little maturity for a fast growing, easy to support DB, pick MySQL.
If you're a tight-ass who is insecure but is willing to spend money on something that's been around as long as you've been an adult or you've got an expensive DBA who's like this... pick Oracle (or some other proprietary RDBMS).
successful in producing a desired or intended result : effective solutions to environmental problems.
(esp. of a law or policy) operative : the agreements will be effective from November.
2 [ attrib. ] fulfilling a specified function in fact, though not formally acknowledged as such : the companies were under effective Soviet control. assessed according to actual rather than face value : an effective price of $176 million.
from: Oxford's
The key phrase here would be "intended result". The manufacturer/distributor made it work as it was intended to work, so it is effective. The fact that it can be circumvented in no way lessens it's ability to work as intended, ie: it's not 'defective'.
Sounds like someone needs to create a discussion board client/server suite, similar to email but way more boxed in security wise, ie: it is not public and only user/pass authenticated posts/replies get in.
The UI could be a lot more targeted to threaded discussions, with filtering rules etc. pulled from email clients but also some of the better elements of web based d-Boards. As a local client app the UI would be a lot more responsive and capable, maybe include SQLite for doing local stores of downloaded threads so it wouldn't need to access the server except for the first view of a topic and for live updating.
Maybe this is too much? OTOH it seems like email is too little for this use and that existing web based apps are too slow and prone to security problems because they have to talk over 80 or be even slower over 443 AND they drain the server resources due to high number of DB calls, so are inherently server killers.
You should encourage those email lists to set up an RSS feed of the emails. Surely a system can be cobbled together from a mailing-list archive system to publish via RSS and additionally have an archive accessible in some form.
Email wasn't meant for this kind of mass threaded discussion.. it's why discussion boards were invented. Hey that's an idea... set up a discussion board AND publish an RSS feed of the latest posts. Maybe one per thread as well.
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Just FYI for those who enjoyed "The Science of Superman", the same guy, Michael Dennin (a friend of mine from Church [Catholic if you're interested] will be hosting a show on the technology of Star Wars, Mon. May 28th 8PM on the History Channel.
Definitely changed... looking for 3x plus on mid-terms.
I was at a startup for 4 years that just sold last year for 165M... w/ 60M in VC money. The early investors got 3X the late got 1.5X but at a better pricepoint (they could buy more). First round was 15M, second was 30M, 3rd was 15M. I made 8.5K via options exercised as a lowly employee on a 1.5k pricepoint (0.15 per share, 9650 shares approx) but VCs got 3x that on average with several million shares each at different prices.
Get a job doing what you love to do. Set up your life so you only spend 30% on housing (buy a house wherever you can afford it with this percent of your income, fuck impressing people for 10 years at least... never spend anything on an apartment), 30% on living and 40% stick into a high growth mutual fund of some sort (YMMV but energy is still really good right now).
Keep your eye on the ball, which is 5 years from now, no matter when now is. That 40% you put into growing your money will compound no matter how poorly you manage it. In 5 years you will have a hell of a lot more money than you had before AND because you bought a house your housing investment will also appreciate and you can then sell and get something much nicer.
In 10 years you may even look like a respectable member of society AND you'll have enjoyed getting there.
So get a job, any job, that you like... and then live. Set your life up correctly, then relax and let time do the work for you.
I say it's censorship. Google can easily provide a way to disable ads of this nature 'by preference' from the user.... and 'by preference' from the client. They simply have to put in few checkboxes for each: "Do you prefer to not see/serve ads of the following nature: [list of potentially repugnant services]"
They do this already with image/ad/results filtering of 'adult content'.
There isn't even a good economic reason to avoid this feature. Google should empower users to block all ads in search results... most of their money comes from hosted ads now anyways, so why not allow their searches to be clean and virtuous for those who aren't interested in buying anything right now. They could even close up the ad box to just show a headline bar "There are 5 ads relevant to your search, click to view" where clicking would slide open the ad box.
Google should be all about personalizing the web experience for their users through providing choices.... not taking away choices.
For a suit like this to hold water you should have to prove that you as plaintiff lost revenue because of this problem. SO... did they have to spend more time on a project than necessary, did their client reject their work and hold them accountable for the problem? What?
Why any color professional would rely on RGB to begin with is beyond me. It's great for web and digital display graphics as the color space is equivalent (still test your work on the deployment platform (screen model, projector, kiosk, etc.) before stating "it's done"... it's called Quality Control). For print work OTOH it sucks balls. Some other poster mentioned matchprints, color proofs... I'll add in press checks. These are what you use for color QC, not the monitor. Then you use absolute values from colorometric profiles to fix what's wrong.
Also it's really dumb to think that your laptop screen is good for this type of work. Get a laptop sure they're great, I use one. Then get a 2nd display... even a small one. Use that for doing your digital spot checks. A high quality 17in. monitor that has been perfectly fine for this type of work for at least a decade will cost you under $200.
True... most people have the forethought to put a little money away for retirement... what makes musicians and songwriters any different? Maybe they shouldn't have lived such extravagant lifestyles and wasted their earning power when it was at it's peak. This was and is still a problem with sports pros and actors as well.
I say 'boo hoo hoo' you weren't smart and now you're screwed. Maybe they should sell off some assets to reduce their expenses, live a little more within their means and suck it up.
uh I downloaded the QTL and opened it directly in Quicktime.. worked fine. Then after it downloaded the source i saved it to my desktop... maybe you're not on a Mac?
Playback works fine and looks great on my 30 in. ACD, though 1080p always looks a little small at 100%;-p
Owners of first-generation Intel Macs that used (32-bit only) Core Duo CPUs may not be so happy knowing that Vista will be the last Windows they will be able to run.
So what, we'll need to upgrade our machines in 6 years or so? That's well within the typical Mac lifecycle... though just barely. Unlike standard PCs Macs are typically used for ~5 years before being upgraded. The OS just keeps getting better and faster so the older machines actually work better than when they were introduced... Linux seems close to this, though only if you limit your media options.
DO you also take you mouse and put it over the cursor on your screen "just to be sure that it's hitting the right link" or like the rest of us, do you move it around on your desk... offset by several dimensions from the virtual pointer on your screen. Are you saying that the mouse device is unintuitive?
Graphic Designers use this same technique. We are always asked to develop multiple 'comps' or compositions to present to a client. Usually there is really only a budget for one 'comp' as creativity takes way more time than people think and we always always take as much time as we can to come up with something interesting to us AND the client (good designers also consider business needs, demographics, existing branding strategies, etc. etc.).
SO, we will typically make 3 designs. A) is bland and boring but meets the requirements. B) is outrageous and cool and but doesn't meet requirements and C) meets requirements but has a very cool concept that we spent 90% of the time working up.
They usually pick A;-p but we got to have fun on B and C.... AND the client feels like we made a great effort to present them with viable options (even though B was never in the budget) and every once in a while some client will go crazy and pick something other than A or incorporate some aspect of B and C into A.
Be careful though, never present (design or technical) any option that you DO NOT want them to pick. They assume that all options are recommended because you presented them. You wouldn't be presenting a bad option now would you?
This was really my thought as well... but serious. Put a big bag around some location, drill some holes, explode some small charges inserted to some depth... profit? wait I mean, the regolith goes flying, a winch closes up the bag... then something drags the regoltih where it needs to go.
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Is there something wrong with Mac Office 2004?
They've been using it for 3 years now and it's doing great. Maybe I missed something? Are there NEW Macs without Office that need licenses, or are they simply stating that they will not be upgrading to the latest/greatest word processor and spreadsheet suite?
Would they (FTC) force Google to spin off a section of the company IF they had developed the technology themselves?
If not then this deal should be fine. If so, well they better be able to prove why... with precedents like Microsoft still around, it'll be a hard sell.
SO you're saying that skilled writers and actors portraying fictional events with no real connection to reality at all is a far better form of entertainment than skilled editors and producers guiding regular people through a series of real but peformatted events with a somewhat closer connection to reality?
Hmmm I don't know.... I think it may be a toss up, depending on how skilled the supposedly skilled people are. I was never terribly impressed with Jericho, everything seemed overly urgent all the time, like 24... but maybe you like that? OTOH most 'reality show' do suck balls.... over-directed with poorly cast 'stars' who just don't have the motivation to do anything interesting.
Nice quasi-scientific rant!
;-p
I'm definitely going to use the term "lightly-whipped space" to refer to a problem that is just beyond our current capability
Something must be wrong with them since they aren't the obvious solution here. Either the client, the server or the spec. just doesn't offer the capabilities that keep people using it. Maybe it just needs to be 'reinvented' with a fancy new name and some hype about a cool new way to read news or something... Call it RSS 2.0 Extreme ;-p
If you're cheap but adventurous and willing to risk a little maturity for a fast growing, easy to support DB, pick MySQL.
If you're a tight-ass who is insecure but is willing to spend money on something that's been around as long as you've been an adult or you've got an expensive DBA who's like this... pick Oracle (or some other proprietary RDBMS).
from: Oxford's
The key phrase here would be "intended result". The manufacturer/distributor made it work as it was intended to work, so it is effective. The fact that it can be circumvented in no way lessens it's ability to work as intended, ie: it's not 'defective'.
Sounds like someone needs to create a discussion board client/server suite, similar to email but way more boxed in security wise, ie: it is not public and only user/pass authenticated posts/replies get in.
The UI could be a lot more targeted to threaded discussions, with filtering rules etc. pulled from email clients but also some of the better elements of web based d-Boards. As a local client app the UI would be a lot more responsive and capable, maybe include SQLite for doing local stores of downloaded threads so it wouldn't need to access the server except for the first view of a topic and for live updating.
Maybe this is too much? OTOH it seems like email is too little for this use and that existing web based apps are too slow and prone to security problems because they have to talk over 80 or be even slower over 443 AND they drain the server resources due to high number of DB calls, so are inherently server killers.
You should encourage those email lists to set up an RSS feed of the emails. Surely a system can be cobbled together from a mailing-list archive system to publish via RSS and additionally have an archive accessible in some form.
Email wasn't meant for this kind of mass threaded discussion.. it's why discussion boards were invented. Hey that's an idea... set up a discussion board AND publish an RSS feed of the latest posts. Maybe one per thread as well.
Just FYI for those who enjoyed "The Science of Superman", the same guy, Michael Dennin (a friend of mine from Church [Catholic if you're interested] will be hosting a show on the technology of Star Wars, Mon. May 28th 8PM on the History Channel.
/. Great work.
Here's a link: Star Wars - The Legacy Revealed
Michael is a professor of Physics and Astro-Physics at UCI and an all-around great guy.
Cheers Michael, if you read
Oh Yeah, that show kicks off the whole Star Wars History Channel event which starts at 9PM.
Definitely changed... looking for 3x plus on mid-terms.
I was at a startup for 4 years that just sold last year for 165M... w/ 60M in VC money. The early investors got 3X the late got 1.5X but at a better pricepoint (they could buy more). First round was 15M, second was 30M, 3rd was 15M. I made 8.5K via options exercised as a lowly employee on a 1.5k pricepoint (0.15 per share, 9650 shares approx) but VCs got 3x that on average with several million shares each at different prices.
Get a job doing what you love to do. Set up your life so you only spend 30% on housing (buy a house wherever you can afford it with this percent of your income, fuck impressing people for 10 years at least... never spend anything on an apartment), 30% on living and 40% stick into a high growth mutual fund of some sort (YMMV but energy is still really good right now).
Keep your eye on the ball, which is 5 years from now, no matter when now is. That 40% you put into growing your money will compound no matter how poorly you manage it. In 5 years you will have a hell of a lot more money than you had before AND because you bought a house your housing investment will also appreciate and you can then sell and get something much nicer.
In 10 years you may even look like a respectable member of society AND you'll have enjoyed getting there.
So get a job, any job, that you like... and then live. Set your life up correctly, then relax and let time do the work for you.
AND somewhat prophetic... as the shark pup in question was later found dead, presumably killed by other sharks in the habitat.
I say it's censorship. Google can easily provide a way to disable ads of this nature 'by preference' from the user.... and 'by preference' from the client. They simply have to put in few checkboxes for each: "Do you prefer to not see/serve ads of the following nature: [list of potentially repugnant services]"
They do this already with image/ad/results filtering of 'adult content'.
There isn't even a good economic reason to avoid this feature. Google should empower users to block all ads in search results... most of their money comes from hosted ads now anyways, so why not allow their searches to be clean and virtuous for those who aren't interested in buying anything right now. They could even close up the ad box to just show a headline bar "There are 5 ads relevant to your search, click to view" where clicking would slide open the ad box.
Google should be all about personalizing the web experience for their users through providing choices.... not taking away choices.
For a suit like this to hold water you should have to prove that you as plaintiff lost revenue because of this problem. SO... did they have to spend more time on a project than necessary, did their client reject their work and hold them accountable for the problem? What?
Why any color professional would rely on RGB to begin with is beyond me. It's great for web and digital display graphics as the color space is equivalent (still test your work on the deployment platform (screen model, projector, kiosk, etc.) before stating "it's done"... it's called Quality Control). For print work OTOH it sucks balls. Some other poster mentioned matchprints, color proofs... I'll add in press checks. These are what you use for color QC, not the monitor. Then you use absolute values from colorometric profiles to fix what's wrong.
Also it's really dumb to think that your laptop screen is good for this type of work. Get a laptop sure they're great, I use one. Then get a 2nd display... even a small one. Use that for doing your digital spot checks. A high quality 17in. monitor that has been perfectly fine for this type of work for at least a decade will cost you under $200.
True... most people have the forethought to put a little money away for retirement... what makes musicians and songwriters any different? Maybe they shouldn't have lived such extravagant lifestyles and wasted their earning power when it was at it's peak. This was and is still a problem with sports pros and actors as well.
I say 'boo hoo hoo' you weren't smart and now you're screwed. Maybe they should sell off some assets to reduce their expenses, live a little more within their means and suck it up.
"Cialis - Enabling New Directions for Active Seniors" : huh, makes perfect sense to me. Why would you put a pause in there?
uh I downloaded the QTL and opened it directly in Quicktime.. worked fine. Then after it downloaded the source i saved it to my desktop... maybe you're not on a Mac?
;-p
Playback works fine and looks great on my 30 in. ACD, though 1080p always looks a little small at 100%
So what, we'll need to upgrade our machines in 6 years or so? That's well within the typical Mac lifecycle... though just barely. Unlike standard PCs Macs are typically used for ~5 years before being upgraded. The OS just keeps getting better and faster so the older machines actually work better than when they were introduced... Linux seems close to this, though only if you limit your media options.
DO you also take you mouse and put it over the cursor on your screen "just to be sure that it's hitting the right link" or like the rest of us, do you move it around on your desk... offset by several dimensions from the virtual pointer on your screen. Are you saying that the mouse device is unintuitive?
Graphic Designers use this same technique. We are always asked to develop multiple 'comps' or compositions to present to a client. Usually there is really only a budget for one 'comp' as creativity takes way more time than people think and we always always take as much time as we can to come up with something interesting to us AND the client (good designers also consider business needs, demographics, existing branding strategies, etc. etc.).
;-p but we got to have fun on B and C.... AND the client feels like we made a great effort to present them with viable options (even though B was never in the budget) and every once in a while some client will go crazy and pick something other than A or incorporate some aspect of B and C into A.
SO, we will typically make 3 designs. A) is bland and boring but meets the requirements. B) is outrageous and cool and but doesn't meet requirements and C) meets requirements but has a very cool concept that we spent 90% of the time working up.
They usually pick A
Be careful though, never present (design or technical) any option that you DO NOT want them to pick. They assume that all options are recommended because you presented them. You wouldn't be presenting a bad option now would you?
SO my TDAmeritrade account will now only charge me $4.99 per transaction? What are you trying to say....
All new media players play a version of AAC/MP4.... have done so for several years now.
here's a quick list
Requires fingerprinting. Just FYI.
This was really my thought as well... but serious. Put a big bag around some location, drill some holes, explode some small charges inserted to some depth... profit? wait I mean, the regolith goes flying, a winch closes up the bag... then something drags the regoltih where it needs to go.