Except (I would guess) that the lawnmowers are transported a shorter distance than the goats. And (I would guess) the lawnmowers can be transported by fewer trucks. But (I would hope) Google has already calculated all of this before patting themselves on the back.
Google has nothing to lose: Some Google Apps Engine developer will soon enough put up HuddleChat 2. Google will look chivalrous, and 37signals will still get poked in the eye.
Maybe Google doesn't want to shove ads at you as much as they want to track your every movement in meatspace. No doubt this thing will have a cookie tied to your Google Account (as soon as you sign into Gmail... actually probably as part of activation), and now the phone will know what stores you shop at and for how long. Do you think that information might be useful to a company that sells ads?
In addition, Disney probably will be able to make the sequels to all the Pixar films made under the current agreement, paying Pixar only limited royalties.
While Pixar has the right of first refusal to make the sequels, under the current agreement it would have to put up half the money and get only 35 percent of the profit, which makes it extremely unlikely Pixar will make the sequels, said Jeffrey Logsdon, analyst with Harris, Nesbitt and Gerard.
Disney started to make Toy Story 2 on their own, and before they could ruin it, Pixar stepped in and made it themselves, as is their contractual right. However, Pixar probably will not make future sequels, so caveat emptor.
Details from CNN:
In addition, Disney probably will be able to make the sequels to all the Pixar films made under the current agreement, paying Pixar only limited royalties.
While Pixar has the right of first refusal to make the sequels, under the current agreement it would have to put up half the money and get only 35 percent of the profit, which makes it extremely unlikely Pixar will make the sequels, said Jeffrey Logsdon, analyst with Harris, Nesbitt and Gerard.
Disney said Thursday it's working on "Toy Story 3" as part of a new push to do its own computer-generated animated features, though it did not give a release date.
The big question is: What kind of DRM will be on the pre-loaded songs? When you buy songs from the iTunes Music Store, the files are DRM'ed so that only your authorized copies of iTunes will play them. These pre-loaded files will have to playable on every installation of iTunes out there...?!?
After all everyone already knows my @yahoo.com email address.
I hope that's not the only reason you don't migrate to another e-mail service. With fetchyahoo, I forwarded all my Yahoo mail to my new address, so that I was able to catch all the people and mailing lists that hadn't started using my new address. I ran fetchyahoo as a cron job on a Linux server; if you are tied to Windows, you could probably run in under Cygwin.
and they can't use their previous so many passwords
I have a friend who worked on a system with a similar restriction in their password-changing policy. So, when the system forced him to change his password, he just changed it "so many" times until it let him go back to his old one...
At first I thought the CBEN Home Page icon was something nifty, like a buckyball or something. Sadly, it's just a baseball. Here's why it's a baseball. (sigh)
Programming is still more tedious with dictation because of all the symbols and nonstandard word spellings. You can define macros to help with common usage, but even so it's substantially harder to dictate programs than to type them. Nonetheless, dictation hasn't hurt my overall programming productivity that much.
NASA has a large presence in California, Texas, and Florida -- important electoral states. Plus, aerospace (aka defense) contractors have a lot of money in their pockets.
Well, finally, one mirror has the 1.5 release. Many of the other mirrors don't even have 1.5RC2...!? (For those with BitTorrent capabilities, see above comments for BT links.)
I would never have guessed that the emissions from a wireless network are bad, unlike the healthy emissions given off by the now inescapable cell phones that are everywhere in public.
Parents are worried about Wi-Fi "emissions"? How about the toxic emissions from their cars? Or from the big old yellow buses?
I worked on a project where we had a family of classes that obviously shared a common parent class. The child classes were similar to each other -- they each had a large-but-unique subset of a common pool of attributes. For example, Class1 had attributes A, B, and C, while Class2 had attribute B, C, and D.
There was no obvious class hierarchy to put the classes into, yet there were common methods (getA() and setA()). So I wrote a Perl script that generates the code for the classes, based on the attributes that each class should have.
Everyone I talked to about this problem said "inheritance should solve this problem, you silly fool!", but as I explained the problem in more detail, each person agreed that a code generator was called for. So, object-oriented languages and inheritance alone don't allow you to avoid similar-looking code, at least in my experience.
Don't miss Monticello, home of our nation's nerdiest President. Yes, he was nerd enough to proudly proclaim "I cannot live without books." His house exhibits some of the crazy gadgets he invented (amazing for his time), definitely worth a look. Plus, they give clean, crisp $2 bills as change at the admission booth -- a great souvenir.
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Except (I would guess) that the lawnmowers are transported a shorter distance than the goats. And (I would guess) the lawnmowers can be transported by fewer trucks. But (I would hope) Google has already calculated all of this before patting themselves on the back.
Google has nothing to lose: Some Google Apps Engine developer will soon enough put up HuddleChat 2. Google will look chivalrous, and 37signals will still get poked in the eye.
Maybe Google doesn't want to shove ads at you as much as they want to track your every movement in meatspace. No doubt this thing will have a cookie tied to your Google Account (as soon as you sign into Gmail ... actually probably as part of activation), and now the phone will know what stores you shop at and for how long. Do you think that information might be useful to a company that sells ads?
0.20 * $14000 = $2800
You just said the iPods were worth $3000, so I bet you could get at least $2800 for them on eBay.
Leaving you with 10,000 free songs, and a free concert package. That's not too bad.
Not exactly. Here's more informatino, from an earlier post of mine quoting CNN:
The big question is: What kind of DRM will be on the pre-loaded songs? When you buy songs from the iTunes Music Store, the files are DRM'ed so that only your authorized copies of iTunes will play them. These pre-loaded files will have to playable on every installation of iTunes out there...?!?
Operator: I got a patch on an old exit. Wabash and Lake.
Ah, too bad their web site looks to be running on Windows.
I hope that's not the only reason you don't migrate to another e-mail service. With fetchyahoo, I forwarded all my Yahoo mail to my new address, so that I was able to catch all the people and mailing lists that hadn't started using my new address. I ran fetchyahoo as a cron job on a Linux server; if you are tied to Windows, you could probably run in under Cygwin.
At first I thought the CBEN Home Page icon was something nifty, like a buckyball or something. Sadly, it's just a baseball. Here's why it's a baseball. (sigh)
Does anyone know what that is all about? I couldn't find any details...
Yes. I know someone who has had to deal with severe RSI, and he says:
To really see the impracticality of the proposal, see what Gregg Easterbrook has to say about it.
Interesting. So you can get modded up for copying old posts?
Yes, it will work with a TiVo.
Well, finally, one mirror has the 1.5 release. Many of the other mirrors don't even have 1.5RC2...!? (For those with BitTorrent capabilities, see above comments for BT links.)
Parents are worried about Wi-Fi "emissions"? How about the toxic emissions from their cars? Or from the big old yellow buses?
Or, if you don't like your employer a whole lot, give out their main switchboard number as your own. Technically, it is a way to contact you...
I worked on a project where we had a family of classes that obviously shared a common parent class. The child classes were similar to each other -- they each had a large-but-unique subset of a common pool of attributes. For example, Class1 had attributes A, B, and C, while Class2 had attribute B, C, and D.
There was no obvious class hierarchy to put the classes into, yet there were common methods (getA() and setA()). So I wrote a Perl script that generates the code for the classes, based on the attributes that each class should have.
Everyone I talked to about this problem said "inheritance should solve this problem, you silly fool!", but as I explained the problem in more detail, each person agreed that a code generator was called for. So, object-oriented languages and inheritance alone don't allow you to avoid similar-looking code, at least in my experience.
Don't miss Monticello, home of our nation's nerdiest President. Yes, he was nerd enough to proudly proclaim "I cannot live without books." His house exhibits some of the crazy gadgets he invented (amazing for his time), definitely worth a look. Plus, they give clean, crisp $2 bills as change at the admission booth -- a great souvenir.