A colleague's (genius stock trader, harvard MBA with honors, etc) Windows desktop would be to me simply unmanageable. He's got two monitors, both at very high resolution, and both completely full of icons. I'm not kidding, he has to have at least 200 icons of programs, folders, files, etc, on his desktop. He has at least 3 add-on Windows macro programs running. I told him I would have no idea how he could work in such an environment, and he said it was "easy once you just assigned the icon in your visual map". Uhh... OK. That's why he's the Harvard MBA honors genius, and I'm a code slave.
My Windows desktop has 5 icons on it: "My Documents", "My Computer", "Recycle Bin", a shortcut to my "Projects" folder, and a shortcut to "My Music". My "Quick Launch" area shows 4 icons, "Show Desktop", "Mozilla Firebird", Mozilla Thunderbird", and "Lotus Notes 6", with 9 more "often used" shortcuts if you click on the ">>" portion of the "Quick Launch". (SecureCRT, iTunes, QuickTime, Napster, QCD Player, IE, WSAD, Jabber, and my VPN connection tool). I've got 1 application (Calculator, if you must know) "pinned" to my "Start Menu".
If my desktop starts to accumulate a lot of clutter due to a hectic project, etc, I make a folder called "CURRENT" on the desktop and move it all there. I just can't stand it when I get a second column of desktop icons. It bothers me. I need help.
Any law which is so powerful and ambiguous as to put fear into people by its mere mention must be a bad law. A reasonable person, if accused of violating the Patriot Act, might actually doubt his own innocence because of the sheer labyrinthian might of the Act.
People are human and want recognition for their work and ideas.
Another human attribute which occurs from time to time is that they don't care about recognition, they just want to spread their ideas for the betterment or enjoyment of all mankind.
To see the Microsoft Media SDK in action, visit Quinnware.com and download their QCD player (a very nice, free WinAMP-style player). Download the WMA input plugin (naturally there are plugins for MP4, Ogg, etc).
Go ahead. Try it. Buy a track from buymusic.com and then copy the file to another computer which has QCD installed. Play the track. Heck, re-encode into MP3, WAV, OGG, whatever. All without QCD (and the Windowd Media SDK) ever asking anyone for a license.
Outsourcing has a potential damage to software production much more so than "hard" manufacturing like automobiles, etc. This is because eventually, there is a cost associated with shipping a ton of steel to the US to be bought.
There is no such cost for FTP traffic of software from India to the US.
Solution? Simple. If a US company wants to sell software product XYZ, and the product was actually produced (coded) in India, the company pays import tax on the price of the product for each copy they sell.
Using India to produce software and FTP-ing the code back to the US before packaging for sale.. imagine if it cost Ford $0 to import all the parts for the Mustang, hell, $0 to import a fully-assembled Mustang except for the 'Ford' label. They slap the 'Ford' sticker on the car, and boom, they sell it for however much it sells for.
This is how it's going with software right now. HP's $10K storage software solution XYZ could be completely coded, built, tested, etc, and then the ISO images get FTP'd into the US, CD's stamped and boxes printed. Meanwhile HP pays $0 for importing THOUSANDS of dollars worth of labor and materials.
Better to insist on trade agreements that set minimum requirements for wages, time off, health & safety, retirement, environmental protection, etc. Workers in China and India will still be cheaper to hire, but at least we won't be competing based on who is willing to give up basic rights.
If the reason not to do something depends on whether or not you care what people think, or whether or not you get busted, it sounds like somebody didn't take either ethics or morality 101.
My wife and I both enjoy playing the Mario Advance series on the GameCube GameBoy Player. Sure, we're still a bit under the average gamer age of 29, but there are a LOT of people our age who love Golden Sun, Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, Advance Wars, and other GBA games.
Actually, how would the controller work in sich a "mini GameCube"? If it was meant to play "real" GameCube games, then it would need all the buttons and sticks of a "real" controller, meaning 2 analog sticks, D-pad, L, R, and Z triggers, A-B-X-Y buttons, making for a fairly bulky hand-held system.
I will say that I like both Apple and Nintendo, and don't particularly like Microsoft and... Microsoft. Draw correlations as you will. Although I went from NES to PlayStation, to GameCube, didn't buy either SNES or N64, and haven't bought an Apple computer since the IIgs.
For me, it's always been about the games. It's why I have the GameCube now, and more than likely it'll be why I get the next Nintendo console in the next generation, unless Nintendo hardware goes the way of the dodo and starts publishing titles for the PS3, which I really, really, really doubt.
In the old SUN lab, we would cat some massive binary file into a write pipe, causing the recipient's SUN to scream static across the lab for minutes at a time.
Oh god... the joy, the pure joy of sending the I_AM_GAY.au file across the lab...
1. Should come in white. 2. Should have been a 2 GB model for $149 and a 4 GB model for $199. As it sits, you pay $50 more than the $249 and you go from 4 GB to 15 GB. Obviously if I want an iPod I'm going to get the 15 GB iPod now, which means more waiting because I'm not ready to drop $300 on something. $150 and Jobs would have my money in his pockets already.
Hell, even if it was a 256 MB flash-based player, if it was an iPod and for $149 I would probably have already given him my credit card information. $250? I'll wait until I save up for the 15 GB.
Put. Everything. Away. Every. Time. Finished an epochal 4-way multiplayer session of Halo? Unplug all the controllers, wrap the cords up, and put them away in drawers or cabinets. Yes it takes 2 minutes, but this to me is preferable than having a tangled mess of controllers, AV cords, etc. The consoles themselves sit in a nice AV cabinet with the cables going to a switch box, with enough slack in the cables to pull the consoles out of the rack and onto the floor during use. After use the console goes back into the AV cabinet, with controllers safely stowed in drawers of the AV cabinet.
They arrested me for a crime I didn't commit! Attempted murder, I ask you!
I think you're making a joke, but in seriousness, a better analogy would have been: "They arrested me for a crime I didn't commit! Conspiracy to attempt murder, I ask you!"
However even that isn't as good as: "They arrested me for a crime I didn't commit! Thinking about killing my boss, I ask you!"
New Line is screwing itself by asking the Academy to consider Liv Tyler for best supporting actress. How can anything else they say get any consideration after that?
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A colleague's (genius stock trader, harvard MBA with honors, etc) Windows desktop would be to me simply unmanageable. He's got two monitors, both at very high resolution, and both completely full of icons. I'm not kidding, he has to have at least 200 icons of programs, folders, files, etc, on his desktop. He has at least 3 add-on Windows macro programs running. I told him I would have no idea how he could work in such an environment, and he said it was "easy once you just assigned the icon in your visual map". Uhh... OK. That's why he's the Harvard MBA honors genius, and I'm a code slave.
My Windows desktop has 5 icons on it: "My Documents", "My Computer", "Recycle Bin", a shortcut to my "Projects" folder, and a shortcut to "My Music". My "Quick Launch" area shows 4 icons, "Show Desktop", "Mozilla Firebird", Mozilla Thunderbird", and "Lotus Notes 6", with 9 more "often used" shortcuts if you click on the ">>" portion of the "Quick Launch". (SecureCRT, iTunes, QuickTime, Napster, QCD Player, IE, WSAD, Jabber, and my VPN connection tool). I've got 1 application (Calculator, if you must know) "pinned" to my "Start Menu".
If my desktop starts to accumulate a lot of clutter due to a hectic project, etc, I make a folder called "CURRENT" on the desktop and move it all there. I just can't stand it when I get a second column of desktop icons. It bothers me. I need help.
Any law which is so powerful and ambiguous as to put fear into people by its mere mention must be a bad law. A reasonable person, if accused of violating the Patriot Act, might actually doubt his own innocence because of the sheer labyrinthian might of the Act.
People are human and want recognition for their work and ideas.
Another human attribute which occurs from time to time is that they don't care about recognition, they just want to spread their ideas for the betterment or enjoyment of all mankind.
To see the Microsoft Media SDK in action, visit Quinnware.com and download their QCD player (a very nice, free WinAMP-style player). Download the WMA input plugin (naturally there are plugins for MP4, Ogg, etc).
Go ahead. Try it. Buy a track from buymusic.com and then copy the file to another computer which has QCD installed. Play the track. Heck, re-encode into MP3, WAV, OGG, whatever. All without QCD (and the Windowd Media SDK) ever asking anyone for a license.
Wrong. The DRM on the WMA files from buymusic.com and from Napster 2 is easily ignored using Microsoft's own media APIs.
It uses the same paper ballots we have now, and only minor modifications in the counting process.
Why Approval Voting Should Be Approved Now
Outsourcing has a potential damage to software production much more so than "hard" manufacturing like automobiles, etc. This is because eventually, there is a cost associated with shipping a ton of steel to the US to be bought.
There is no such cost for FTP traffic of software from India to the US.
Solution? Simple. If a US company wants to sell software product XYZ, and the product was actually produced (coded) in India, the company pays import tax on the price of the product for each copy they sell.
Using India to produce software and FTP-ing the code back to the US before packaging for sale.. imagine if it cost Ford $0 to import all the parts for the Mustang, hell, $0 to import a fully-assembled Mustang except for the 'Ford' label. They slap the 'Ford' sticker on the car, and boom, they sell it for however much it sells for.
This is how it's going with software right now. HP's $10K storage software solution XYZ could be completely coded, built, tested, etc, and then the ISO images get FTP'd into the US, CD's stamped and boxes printed. Meanwhile HP pays $0 for importing THOUSANDS of dollars worth of labor and materials.
Better to insist on trade agreements that set minimum requirements for wages, time off, health & safety, retirement, environmental protection, etc. Workers in China and India will still be cheaper to hire, but at least we won't be competing based on who is willing to give up basic rights.
EXACTLY.
Fantastic link to the pens. Our next office order is coming from them without a doubt!
The Playstation 2 was the first modern home console to build on the previous generation console's name.
NES. SNES. I would classify both of those as modern, so I won't bring up the Comoodore series or the many Atari XXXX consoles of ancient lore.
If the reason not to do something depends on whether or not you care what people think, or whether or not you get busted, it sounds like somebody didn't take either ethics or morality 101.
My wife and I both enjoy playing the Mario Advance series on the GameCube GameBoy Player. Sure, we're still a bit under the average gamer age of 29, but there are a LOT of people our age who love Golden Sun, Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, Advance Wars, and other GBA games.
They also all have Xbox's, but thats primarily used with a mod chip so they can play games that are free (as in free).
So what you're saying is that your friends are a bunch of thieves?
Actually, how would the controller work in sich a "mini GameCube"? If it was meant to play "real" GameCube games, then it would need all the buttons and sticks of a "real" controller, meaning 2 analog sticks, D-pad, L, R, and Z triggers, A-B-X-Y buttons, making for a fairly bulky hand-held system.
I will say that I like both Apple and Nintendo, and don't particularly like Microsoft and... Microsoft. Draw correlations as you will. Although I went from NES to PlayStation, to GameCube, didn't buy either SNES or N64, and haven't bought an Apple computer since the IIgs.
I predict that what Nintendo will anounce is a portable gamecube that uses the same media.
That would be freakin' BRILLIANT.
For me, it's always been about the games. It's why I have the GameCube now, and more than likely it'll be why I get the next Nintendo console in the next generation, unless Nintendo hardware goes the way of the dodo and starts publishing titles for the PS3, which I really, really, really doubt.
In the old SUN lab, we would cat some massive binary file into a write pipe, causing the recipient's SUN to scream static across the lab for minutes at a time.
Oh god... the joy, the pure joy of sending the I_AM_GAY.au file across the lab...
I hate the iRiver things. A couple of my friends have them and I just hate them, hate them.
1. Should come in white.
2. Should have been a 2 GB model for $149 and a 4 GB model for $199. As it sits, you pay $50 more than the $249 and you go from 4 GB to 15 GB. Obviously if I want an iPod I'm going to get the 15 GB iPod now, which means more waiting because I'm not ready to drop $300 on something. $150 and Jobs would have my money in his pockets already.
Hell, even if it was a 256 MB flash-based player, if it was an iPod and for $149 I would probably have already given him my credit card information. $250? I'll wait until I save up for the 15 GB.
The original "Wing Commander" for PC opened with this "symphony" which I still remember quite well.
And "RBI Baseball" on the NES -- the theme song can linger in my head for days. Then again, so can "It's a Small World After All".
Put. Everything. Away. Every. Time. Finished an epochal 4-way multiplayer session of Halo? Unplug all the controllers, wrap the cords up, and put them away in drawers or cabinets. Yes it takes 2 minutes, but this to me is preferable than having a tangled mess of controllers, AV cords, etc. The consoles themselves sit in a nice AV cabinet with the cables going to a switch box, with enough slack in the cables to pull the consoles out of the rack and onto the floor during use. After use the console goes back into the AV cabinet, with controllers safely stowed in drawers of the AV cabinet.
They arrested me for a crime I didn't commit! Attempted murder, I ask you!
I think you're making a joke, but in seriousness, a better analogy would have been: "They arrested me for a crime I didn't commit! Conspiracy to attempt murder, I ask you!"
However even that isn't as good as: "They arrested me for a crime I didn't commit! Thinking about killing my boss, I ask you!"
Far more impressive than: "I took my life in my hands today. It was awful. I drove to work. I could have died."
That all depends on what you drive and how fast you drive it. And, of course, what exactly "work" is.
New Line is screwing itself by asking the Academy to consider Liv Tyler for best supporting actress. How can anything else they say get any consideration after that?