Who's suffering most? Wealthy kids in those regions who can no longer connect to Blizzard and play WoW.
Imagine the chaos that would ensue if South Korea had all of its connections (or a fair amount of them) severed. On the one hand, I'm sure productivity would be hampered by their network speeds slowing down dramatically (if the fair amount), or completely (if all were severed.) On the othe hand, I'm sure there would be a giant spike in non-computer activities as Starcraft servers see their workloads drop to 1% of their averages.
I have 10 years of email in yahoo. If MS takes over, what then? Will they force everyone into hotmail accounts? I think I'm going to be spending a few hours every night downloading and saving my email off line. With all the comments regarding the Charter fiasco, I thought the vast majority of/. said that they already do regularly back up their email. At least, that's what I understood from all the chastising going on.
Would all downloads of Windows XP be legal then, since they were linked to from a Microsoft site? I say Windows XP because, well, who here would buy a (now) new computer with XP and then install Vista?
ABC News did a report complaining about the current tax system. They found a trader who made more than a million dollars in a year. They compared the amount he paid in taxes to that of someone who makes less than $100,000. The person who made less than $100,000 paid more in taxes than the trader because of how taxes differ between investments and "earnings."
Your perspective comes from people that used only Win2k.
My family upgraded directly from Win98SE to XP Pro. We tried ME right away when that came out, but when it fucked up my dad's partition with all of his spreadsheets (fortunately he backed them up on tape,) we went back to 98SE until XP came out.
Compared to 98SE, XP was golden. It worked great. The only times that I recall having problems with it were when trying to run some programs in 95/98 compatibility mode, but that was unnecessary for the majority of our programs, and companies provided XP compatible releases fairly quickly. As it is now, many software companies have held off on developing for official Vista compatibility, probably because they foresaw the disaster better and better each time Microsoft announced that $feature would be removed from Vista in order to get it to ship within 5 years of its original release date. Once features like WinFS or whatever was supposed to be the successor of NTFS was dropped, all of the major players knew this was going to be a dud.
Of all places,/. frequenters should know that there is a dramatic difference between the terms PC and Desktop Computer.
I would not be surprised if the personal computer changes dramatically in the next 10 years. Already, we have laptops that are more than powerful enough for all desktop computer needs. I'm foreseeing the desktop market share becoming dismally small within 5 years (for sales, there's still going to be tons of desktops that are still running). Everyone that can't get what they need done on a laptop is going to be using a workstation. Servers and mainframes, well who knows, other than that they're going to perform a role more important than they do now, probably returning to similar importance that they did decades ago.
Why? Because even way back in the 80's, you could play a sports video game with a joystick where you could shatter the backboard, resulting in the janitorial staff coming out onto the court with a broom.
Since most Linux OSes are free, there's no business reason for them to deliver features people want (and hence are prepared to pay for). Sure there is:
I hope it isn't China's anti-satellite defense system, because that would just result in bad, bad things. Especially since Bush & Cheney have so "little" time left and his legacy stands no chance of being favourable.
...They had to be removed because baby monkeys kept falling into the pitchers and required rescuing before they began to get digested which in turn apparently made many of the children at the zoo observing the monkeys cry. Stupid young'uns
Salaries, unlike hourlies, are a flat amount, regardless of how much you work. If the company wants to keep you around and has you working more than you were told when you were hired (you did ask how many hours a week you would be working, right?,) then the company will typically give you a bonus to represent the earnings you helped contribute to during your additional hours.
One thing that really struck a cord with me was when I saw Carol Moseley Braun being interviewed on The Daily Show (14 January, 2004.) Somehow, the topic of space exploration came up. I believe it had to do with 'renewed interest' in going to Mars. If I recall properly, Jon asked her what she thought of going to Mars and if she had a plan to get us there. I think she said something along the lines of "Sure, I don't think we shouldn't go to Mars." But I remember her explicitly stating that there is so little we know about Earth. Specifically, she wanted to redirect our scientific efforts from focusing on outer space and focusing on Earth, and more specifically, underwater exploration. We know virtually nothing about our seas and oceans. And they're close. I believe Mosely Brown used the rational that it would take 18 months to get to Mars, but it would take only hours to get to the bottom of the Ocean. That, and what happens in the oceans affects us a hell of a lot more than what happens on Mars.
I know this is off-topic, but/. is the best place I can think of to ask this question:
I recently got an iPod Nano from my (future) employer. Included on the iPod are a welcome video and two audio books, using Audible Audio's DRM. When I tried copying some songs over from Rhythmbox to the iPod, nothing showed up in the catalog any more. So I copy the.aa files off of the thing, boot into Windows, and install iTunes to try to fix my iPod. Now iTunes is telling me to sign in to Audible Audio, even though I don't have an account with them. I never have. I got these files legitimately and legally from my employer, and they played fine on the iPod before I tried copying music onto it. Anyone know if it's possible for me to recover these files? Or do I have to go to the library and check out either the physical (and unabridged) books or the (abridged) audio CD's?
...Part of a plan to triple the number of students and teachers trained in its software programs... This would be fantastic if people were actually taught how to use the software properly. However, I'm guessing the acutal implementation of this program is going to discount licensing fees to schools, without teaching anyone how to actually use a word processor or a database properly.
At least where I'm from (Twin Cities,) the idea of implementing the tolls wasn't to disperse the traffic over a larger area, but disperse it over time. People realized (and who knows why they couldn't realize this before) that traffic was considerably lighter at 7:00 than 7:30, and dramatically ligher than at 8:00 or 8:30.
Sure, we'd love to see people actually carpooling as well, but the stakes will have to be much higher because it's just so easy to complain instead of doing something about it.
We need to take baby-steps for these kinds of projects, and because of our abandonment years ago, we need to start over.
Facts: We don't have any astronauts that have experience landing on satellites or anything other than the Earth. The moon has a very stable orbit around the Earth Asteroids do not have very stable orbits around the Earth
From these observations, as well as other common knowledge, I'm willing to state that it would be easier to have a Lunar mission than a mission landing on an Asteroid. Why? Because it's most-likely easier to land on the moon than on an asteroid. Also, by the time we have finished doing whatever we were doing on the asteroid, it will (most likely) be much further away from the Earth than it was when we landed on it.
Sure, I don't see any real reason why we shouldn't do any manned asteroid missions. I just think we need to work our way up to them. As it is now, astronauts don't have the experience to be able to land on an asteroid. They should be able to get enough experience to land on the moon rather quickly. And I know I've ignored the ground crews, who have no experience sending people to the moon any more, so the same comments about the astronauts also apply to the people staying on the Earth.
Did anyone else immediately think of the Southpark episode? I immediately thought of Cartman shouting "Mom! Bathroom! Bathroom!" with Mrs. Cartman running down the basement stairs with a bedpan.
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Who's suffering most? Wealthy kids in those regions who can no longer connect to Blizzard and play WoW.
Imagine the chaos that would ensue if South Korea had all of its connections (or a fair amount of them) severed. On the one hand, I'm sure productivity would be hampered by their network speeds slowing down dramatically (if the fair amount), or completely (if all were severed.) On the othe hand, I'm sure there would be a giant spike in non-computer activities as Starcraft servers see their workloads drop to 1% of their averages.
Until they can replicate Scarlet Johanson or Natalie Portman, it sounds pretty worthless to me.
Would all downloads of Windows XP be legal then, since they were linked to from a Microsoft site? I say Windows XP because, well, who here would buy a (now) new computer with XP and then install Vista?
ABC News did a report complaining about the current tax system. They found a trader who made more than a million dollars in a year. They compared the amount he paid in taxes to that of someone who makes less than $100,000. The person who made less than $100,000 paid more in taxes than the trader because of how taxes differ between investments and "earnings."
Your perspective comes from people that used only Win2k.
My family upgraded directly from Win98SE to XP Pro. We tried ME right away when that came out, but when it fucked up my dad's partition with all of his spreadsheets (fortunately he backed them up on tape,) we went back to 98SE until XP came out.
Compared to 98SE, XP was golden. It worked great. The only times that I recall having problems with it were when trying to run some programs in 95/98 compatibility mode, but that was unnecessary for the majority of our programs, and companies provided XP compatible releases fairly quickly. As it is now, many software companies have held off on developing for official Vista compatibility, probably because they foresaw the disaster better and better each time Microsoft announced that $feature would be removed from Vista in order to get it to ship within 5 years of its original release date. Once features like WinFS or whatever was supposed to be the successor of NTFS was dropped, all of the major players knew this was going to be a dud.
Seriously, he wants us to do what? This is /.
We're lucky if half of the people here even read the summary, let alone an article, let alone anything more than that.
Of all places, /. frequenters should know that there is a dramatic difference between the terms PC and Desktop Computer.
I would not be surprised if the personal computer changes dramatically in the next 10 years. Already, we have laptops that are more than powerful enough for all desktop computer needs. I'm foreseeing the desktop market share becoming dismally small within 5 years (for sales, there's still going to be tons of desktops that are still running). Everyone that can't get what they need done on a laptop is going to be using a workstation. Servers and mainframes, well who knows, other than that they're going to perform a role more important than they do now, probably returning to similar importance that they did decades ago.
Larry Bird vs. Doctor J.
Why? Because even way back in the 80's, you could play a sports video game with a joystick where you could shatter the backboard, resulting in the janitorial staff coming out onto the court with a broom.
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...and her grandchild, HARP, and HARP's child, SHARP
I hope it isn't China's anti-satellite defense system, because that would just result in bad, bad things. Especially since Bush & Cheney have so "little" time left and his legacy stands no chance of being favourable.
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I still don't get why they abandoned development for A.A. on both Mac and Linux
How was it that the United States got involved in Iraq, exactly?
...They had to be removed because baby monkeys kept falling into the pitchers and required rescuing before they began to get digested which in turn apparently made many of the children at the zoo observing the monkeys cry. Stupid young'unsSalaries, unlike hourlies, are a flat amount, regardless of how much you work. If the company wants to keep you around and has you working more than you were told when you were hired (you did ask how many hours a week you would be working, right?,) then the company will typically give you a bonus to represent the earnings you helped contribute to during your additional hours.
One thing that really struck a cord with me was when I saw Carol Moseley Braun being interviewed on The Daily Show (14 January, 2004.) Somehow, the topic of space exploration came up. I believe it had to do with 'renewed interest' in going to Mars. If I recall properly, Jon asked her what she thought of going to Mars and if she had a plan to get us there. I think she said something along the lines of "Sure, I don't think we shouldn't go to Mars." But I remember her explicitly stating that there is so little we know about Earth. Specifically, she wanted to redirect our scientific efforts from focusing on outer space and focusing on Earth, and more specifically, underwater exploration. We know virtually nothing about our seas and oceans. And they're close. I believe Mosely Brown used the rational that it would take 18 months to get to Mars, but it would take only hours to get to the bottom of the Ocean. That, and what happens in the oceans affects us a hell of a lot more than what happens on Mars.
I know this is off-topic, but /. is the best place I can think of to ask this question:
.aa files off of the thing, boot into Windows, and install iTunes to try to fix my iPod. Now iTunes is telling me to sign in to Audible Audio, even though I don't have an account with them. I never have. I got these files legitimately and legally from my employer, and they played fine on the iPod before I tried copying music onto it. Anyone know if it's possible for me to recover these files? Or do I have to go to the library and check out either the physical (and unabridged) books or the (abridged) audio CD's?
I recently got an iPod Nano from my (future) employer. Included on the iPod are a welcome video and two audio books, using Audible Audio's DRM. When I tried copying some songs over from Rhythmbox to the iPod, nothing showed up in the catalog any more. So I copy the
...Part of a plan to triple the number of students and teachers trained in its software programs... This would be fantastic if people were actually taught how to use the software properly. However, I'm guessing the acutal implementation of this program is going to discount licensing fees to schools, without teaching anyone how to actually use a word processor or a database properly.At least where I'm from (Twin Cities,) the idea of implementing the tolls wasn't to disperse the traffic over a larger area, but disperse it over time. People realized (and who knows why they couldn't realize this before) that traffic was considerably lighter at 7:00 than 7:30, and dramatically ligher than at 8:00 or 8:30.
Sure, we'd love to see people actually carpooling as well, but the stakes will have to be much higher because it's just so easy to complain instead of doing something about it.
Does this mean that we can expect Longhorn in less than 2 years?
Guys! Guys! Microsoft is finally releasing Longhorn in less than two years' time!
We need to take baby-steps for these kinds of projects, and because of our abandonment years ago, we need to start over.
Facts:
We don't have any astronauts that have experience landing on satellites or anything other than the Earth.
The moon has a very stable orbit around the Earth
Asteroids do not have very stable orbits around the Earth
From these observations, as well as other common knowledge, I'm willing to state that it would be easier to have a Lunar mission than a mission landing on an Asteroid. Why? Because it's most-likely easier to land on the moon than on an asteroid. Also, by the time we have finished doing whatever we were doing on the asteroid, it will (most likely) be much further away from the Earth than it was when we landed on it.
Sure, I don't see any real reason why we shouldn't do any manned asteroid missions. I just think we need to work our way up to them. As it is now, astronauts don't have the experience to be able to land on an asteroid. They should be able to get enough experience to land on the moon rather quickly. And I know I've ignored the ground crews, who have no experience sending people to the moon any more, so the same comments about the astronauts also apply to the people staying on the Earth.
That's great and all, but which languages are supported? I hope it's more than just English
Did anyone else immediately think of the Southpark episode? I immediately thought of Cartman shouting "Mom! Bathroom! Bathroom!" with Mrs. Cartman running down the basement stairs with a bedpan.