>"...antivirus manufacturers must make a special effort...
As opposed to the 'regular' effort they've gotten comfortable with over the years....? How dare anyone suggest that a product do what it should - I fart in your general dye-rection.
>"I'd love free as much as the next guy, but monetizing a free product (enough to sustain a business, anyways) is *** hard to start, and borderline impossible without using ads, which are ineffective in desktop software..."
"The plan, as Microsoft explains it, involves charging students $1.15 an hour to do their homework, making an Office bundle available for $1/hour, and billing gamers $1.25 for each hour of fun. In addition to your PC, Microsoft also discloses plans to bring the chargeback scheme to your cellphone and automobile..."
And ads - don't forget ads...lots and lots and lots of ads.
Seriously, when is MS going to get off the same old profit-stump? Is there no one inside that company that can imagine fresh ways to make money besides licensing? Will MS ever come out of the ice age they fostered and find something to sell that the world actually looks forward to paying for?
Despite what MS would wish, software isn't a utility product that spins a meter at the sidewalk. It isn't a consumable that requires a refill after every trip to the coast. It isn't a treat that changes flavor every month according to some designer whim.
Software is part of a process. A process that can be solved by many means and anyone willing to devote the time. It doesn't come out of a strip mine in the Congo...market it according to the market, not to your desire to fill coffers and it will make money - I promise.
The Japanese have an 'eye' for quality. They seem to unconsciously detect poor quality in things such as cars, clothes, furniture etc. Details on a new car that would escape a Westerner are prime suspects to the Japanese consumer, without their making much of a conscious effort to decide.
Food is considered more for presentation than taste. They ask themselves how the meal makes them feel when they look at the arrangement of the plates, cups and consumables. This is one reason westerners often comment that Japanese food is typically bland.
This seems in contrast to their buildings which are so frequently torn down that they've apparently lost interest at that level.
And while WIRED rolls along as at least being interesting, it is still batting a rather low average when it comes to genuinely interesting content, including, but not limited to, the TTBs of 2008. Not bad...not good - so so and holding the fort down until something better finally comes along.
What happened to those great lists that attracted so many fans in the beginning?
> I forgot to add the point of all that - is that I really doubt he 'knew too much'.
When 'enough' is 'too much', is when these things happen - that's why they call it a puzzle. You remember puzzles, right? Those innocent little artifacts that come in a box and are impossible to finish putting together if pieces are missing...?
WORD falls out on anything over 50 pages, especially with a tech book that contains drawings/images...pagination, accurate templating/style guide application and usage (opening/closing/TOC indexing), not to mention cross-platform compatibility, all fall off quickly. Past 150 pages is a quick trip to document hell. Forget about 'write once, use anywhere' (DITA etc.). Only an idiot/masochist would insist on working under such conditions.
10 pages or under and life w/WORD isn't so bad...sort of like never leaving the bubble of your parent's basement.
>"...the lead in development is now held in Asia."
And Asia has the lead with no intention of looking back. Batteries of the kind mentioned here will follow on the heals of a steady stream of wind turbine imports shortly.
The US has been a bona fide service industry for years...get used to it already.
> "The state mandates web filtering on all machines."
Not a problem. Let the students apply any 'mandated' filtering as a learning experience. I'm sure they can handle it...or is butt-wiping by the state mandated as well.
Which is basically a movie prop - no engines, no heatshield, rejected wing design, never flown and incapable of flight due to prohibitive retrofit expense, if nothing else.
Evergreen Aviation and Space Musuem, in McMinnville, west of Portland OR, has already erected 'coming soon' billboards and made space indoors for one of the retired Shuttle's...will be a nice bookend to their Titan II missle that stands upright in the newest exhibit hall.
Front connectivity seems most common to me (businesses, parking stalls, charging stations). Your choice to have it come in from the left, right or center.
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>"Has HP unknowingly been supplying Iran with technology or have they been trying to secretly get by the U.S. governement's export restrictions?"
Yes.
Oh, and Timmy...please use a modern browser w/spell checking, thanks.
>"...antivirus manufacturers must make a special effort...
....they taste funny.
As opposed to the 'regular' effort they've gotten comfortable with over the years....? How dare anyone suggest that a product do what it should - I fart in your general dye-rection.
Know why cannibals don't eat clowns?
Yeah, since British English is the primary language of programmers, engineers and technical writers worldwide - that and British CS schools rule!
Where, exactly? If you expect classes in English, then you betta' stay/study in the USA.
Learn Chinese...that will go a long ways towards improving your net worth in the mean time.
>"I'd love free as much as the next guy, but monetizing a free product (enough to sustain a business, anyways) is *** hard to start, and borderline impossible without using ads, which are ineffective in desktop software..."
Then stop complaining about. Please.
"The plan, as Microsoft explains it, involves charging students $1.15 an hour to do their homework, making an Office bundle available for $1/hour, and billing gamers $1.25 for each hour of fun. In addition to your PC, Microsoft also discloses plans to bring the chargeback scheme to your cellphone and automobile..."
And ads - don't forget ads...lots and lots and lots of ads.
Seriously, when is MS going to get off the same old profit-stump? Is there no one inside that company that can imagine fresh ways to make money besides licensing? Will MS ever come out of the ice age they fostered and find something to sell that the world actually looks forward to paying for?
Despite what MS would wish, software isn't a utility product that spins a meter at the sidewalk. It isn't a consumable that requires a refill after every trip to the coast. It isn't a treat that changes flavor every month according to some designer whim.
Software is part of a process. A process that can be solved by many means and anyone willing to devote the time. It doesn't come out of a strip mine in the Congo...market it according to the market, not to your desire to fill coffers and it will make money - I promise.
MS has announced they will not enter the online porn industry until they can determine a way to charge by the erection - film at eleven.
Said S.Balmer "Things are lookin' up!"
The Japanese have an 'eye' for quality. They seem to unconsciously detect poor quality in things such as cars, clothes, furniture etc. Details on a new car that would escape a Westerner are prime suspects to the Japanese consumer, without their making much of a conscious effort to decide.
Food is considered more for presentation than taste. They ask themselves how the meal makes them feel when they look at the arrangement of the plates, cups and consumables. This is one reason westerners often comment that Japanese food is typically bland.
This seems in contrast to their buildings which are so frequently torn down that they've apparently lost interest at that level.
> Not to be pedantic, but rendered webpages containing news are also physical publications.
Let me know when you figure a way to line your bird cage and wrap fish with a rendered page, thanks.
And while WIRED rolls along as at least being interesting, it is still batting a rather low average when it comes to genuinely interesting content, including, but not limited to, the TTBs of 2008. Not bad...not good - so so and holding the fort down until something better finally comes along.
What happened to those great lists that attracted so many fans in the beginning?
> I forgot to add the point of all that - is that I really doubt he 'knew too much'.
When 'enough' is 'too much', is when these things happen - that's why they call it a puzzle. You remember puzzles, right? Those innocent little artifacts that come in a box and are impossible to finish putting together if pieces are missing...?
if you worry more about how to write it than you do actually writing it. Books were written with pencil and paper for centuries. Really.
Yeah, publishers love that...especially with bad handwriting.
WORD falls out on anything over 50 pages, especially with a tech book that contains drawings/images...pagination, accurate templating/style guide application and usage (opening/closing/TOC indexing), not to mention cross-platform compatibility, all fall off quickly. Past 150 pages is a quick trip to document hell. Forget about 'write once, use anywhere' (DITA etc.). Only an idiot/masochist would insist on working under such conditions.
10 pages or under and life w/WORD isn't so bad...sort of like never leaving the bubble of your parent's basement.
Cosmic rays have been found as a likely contributing source related to repeatedly confused Norweigan researchers...
Video at 11.
>"...the lead in development is now held in Asia."
And Asia has the lead with no intention of looking back. Batteries of the kind mentioned here will follow on the heals of a steady stream of wind turbine imports shortly.
The US has been a bona fide service industry for years...get used to it already.
...before the LHC "we see nothing". And now, after the LHC was turned on... "oh, look at the too shiny two holes!" - coincidence?
> "The state mandates web filtering on all machines."
Not a problem. Let the students apply any 'mandated' filtering as a learning experience. I'm sure they can handle it...or is butt-wiping by the state mandated as well.
How about ....n o n e...?
Given that most students will need little time to work around any restrictions in their way. Use the program as a way to demonstrate trust.
> they already have the Enterprise.
Which is basically a movie prop - no engines, no heatshield, rejected wing design, never flown and incapable of flight due to prohibitive retrofit expense, if nothing else.
>Is that 4200 pounds to LEO or geostationary?
Payload to LEO: 3,600 kg
Payload to 10,000 km sub-orbital trajectory: 3,700 kg
Payload to Polar LEO: 2,177 kg Payload to Escape: 227 kg (500 lb)
> So you're looking for a launcher that can put 200,000lb or so into orbit
A bare Shuttle weighs 230,000 lbs - add in a 50,000 lb payload and the entire package comes in at 280,000 lbs.
Saturn V payload is too low at 260,000 lbs. Energia lifts even less.
A Titan II can lift a 4,200 pound payload - a Shuttle weighs 4.5 million pounds with a maximum payload weight of approximately 50,000 pounds.
Evergreen Aviation and Space Musuem, in McMinnville, west of Portland OR, has already erected 'coming soon' billboards and made space indoors for one of the retired Shuttle's...will be a nice bookend to their Titan II missle that stands upright in the newest exhibit hall.
So, the plan is to drill MORE holes...yeah, that'll work :)
Front connectivity seems most common to me (businesses, parking stalls, charging stations). Your choice to have it come in from the left, right or center.