If people would just write for standards-conforming browsers (e.g. Opera) instead of ones who blatantly break conformity with standards (e.g. Internet Explorer, Firefox), then coding would be a hell of a lot easier to read.
00:00 [b]Bush:[/b] Hey, Cheney, get in here! I need you to help me figure something out here. 00:10 [B]Cheney:[/b] What is it now? 18:40 [B]Bush:[/b] That's brilliant! Get right on top of it!
Did they include said batteries with the laptops they sold? Or did they do their own investigation, purchase 12 batteries at retail, and then investigate them?
Just because something's available doesn't mean you have to get it. I think they want to make these programs available, but not force them down consumers' throats.
But it makes pretty good sense. Suppose a family living in California or New York recently emigrated from Latin America, and none of the family is conversent in English. Why the hell should they have to pay for all of these channels that they don't understand? Why can't they just subscribe to VHUno and other Latino channels?
What I don't get is why we seemingly refuse to invest for the long-term in the United States. Sure, some companies do, generally the smarter ones. But when it comes to public infrastructure, politicians haven't found a way to inform the public that by spending 2x as much now, we're saving 20x as much over the next n years.
I know that technology evolves at a rapid rate, but if we invest more money now and use the same amount of energy* now (compared to doing investing less money and the same amount of energy), then we can use the energy that's left over from not having to double our efforts next year for other causes.
Now, I apologize for not being an expert on locamotives and such, but are there any Maglev lines that have fright cars running on them? Maintaining the US's current railway system is a pain as it is (mostly because people fail to acknowledge that it is practical.) Maintaining a system dedicated *only* to freight and *only* to people-movers would never pass here.
I'd love to use the railway system here, and hopefully it'll get fixed within my life time. I really want to take Amtrak from my home in Minneapolis to Richmond in a few months when I go out there to go apartment hunting because I don't see any other opportunity to view as much of the landscape with as little of a hassle. Unfortunately, I can't take Amtrak from Madison to Richmond, but would instead have to go to some (relatively) small town about an hour away to get to an Amtrak station (and when I say I want to depart from Madison, Amtrak's website wants me to take Greyhound to Chicago to get to an Amtrak station. In order for me to take a train from Minneapolis to Madison, Amtrak's site wants me to take the train from MSP to Chicago, then Greyhound it from Chicago to Madison for a grand total of 12 hours or so.) It just doesn't make sense.
Funny part is that it's still the same people who haven't actually used it who're making the most noise.
Yeah, it's been out for a year, and it's managed to eat up 8% of the overall market, an the Linux fanboys declare it a failure. More than Linux fanboys consider it a failure. Adoption rate of Vista is significantly lower than the proportion of new desktops and laptops being sold. Nobody is comparing Vista sales to Linux sales, they're comparing it to its biggest competitor: Windows XP.
Wildlife is returning to Chernobyl and surviving due to the lack of mankind in the area. Obviously, diversity and levels are down below pre-kaboom, but the wildlife is managing. My unscientific and Business background is telling me that it's probably related to lower lifespans and less time for each individual animal to develop cancer. Long-term effects are yet unobservable, but will most-likely be pronounced.
But don't confuse the aftermath with the immediate consequences of the meltdown. How anyone can say that those effects are not as hazardous as we believed last week had better have some damn good and robust statistics.
Not to troll, but it's not always a mistake when a company issues a new operating system that is slower than the others. Unless their benchmark is rediculously unoptimized, it's difficult to increase functionality AND speed. The issue that I keep on hearing (since I haven't tried it yet) is that Microsoft created a slower operating system with less functionality. Time will tell if this is true or not. Oh wait, it's been out for a year already and we're still hearing the same complaints....
Putting more ads on the wsj's website would be a major mistake if it's anything like what the BBC is trying to do. Odds are they're going to piss off their main customer base due to annoying and obtrusive flash ads that distract the readers from what they're trying to read. And since this is the WSJ, these readers typically think that their time is scarce and don't want to have to be annoyed with said distracting ads.
Wal-Mart's site isn't going to go down. People who got severely hit by the credit crisis aren't going to be the ones buying big-ticket items on sale during Black Friday.
Likewise, Wal-Mart's network infrastructure is supposedly intimidatingly huge. They're notorious data mongerers, recording every single line item from every single retail outlet in a central datacenter, and doing all sorts of wacky correlations and calculations on the data. Not a whole ton is publicly known about their data operations, but there were widespread rumors that their network capacity rivaled that of Google up until a year or two ago. Care to explain this then?
I think you'll see a lot more switching to Linux. Anyone who hasn't tried Linux is probably in for a shock when they do. They'll be kicking themselves for not trying it sooner.
Not to play Devil's Advocate here, but in all honesty, it's probably a good thing that these people didn't try out Linux sooner. Being introduced to something that's usable is one thing. Being introduced to something that's not, and then later asked to try it out again when it is usable is different. If the users don't have any prior experience with Linux, then they don't have any major predisposed bias. However, for those early adopters who tried using it, say, when WinXP was first released, most likely have bad memories of things like X11, Gnome, &al. In my opinion, it's best not to have many people use a product before it's good enough. Leave the beta-testing to people who enjoy that sort of stuff, but leave the risk-averse people out of it.
that Walmart's website will go down again due to high traffic on Black Friday. It'll be interesting to see how other companies, like Target, will do on that day as well. Something also is making me want to think that Best Buy will not perform to the same levels (time- and price-adjusted) as they used to, probably due to the credit crunch and that the Average Joe should be less inclined to make a moderate-large luxury purchase (e.g. 60" TV being moderate) this year compared to last.
But in all likelyhood, I'm guessing that the people who are going to be shopping less this year are going to be the lowest-lower income families, since a larger portion of their income is going to be spent on interest rates because they got taken advantage of with the adjustable-rate mortages and Home Equity Lines of Credit. So I'm expecting that people in the lower-middle to middle income families will shop at places like Kohls and Target rather than Macy's/Marshal Fields/Dayton's, while upper-income stores like Tiffany's will have another phenominal season.
What about people who keep their access points open and connect to other people's access points when they're away? I'd imagine that if somebody purposefully leaves their AP open that it wouldn't be stealing. The trouble is knowing if somebody intentionally has an unsecured WAP or if the person just never knew/bothered to secure it.
Replace those incandescent light bulbs with CF's. Typical payback period is 3 months. Store the incandescents somewhere relatively safe, and pop them back in whenever you move out of your residence.
Personally, I liked the university. They gave us money and facilities, we didn't have to produce anything! You've never been out of college! You don't know what it's like out there! I've *worked* in the private sector. They expect *results*.
But 5 years ago, it would've only been $1.2B dollars. And this is ignoring the time value of money, so it likely would've been lower yet. In the past five years, the USD is roughly 3/4 of what it used to be compared to the South Korean Won (KRW). So $1.2B for two theme parks? $600Mil for one? Doesn't seem that outrageous to me....
Remember, these are typical Walmart customers here. How many of them are going to return these things when that AOL CD they have doesn't work automagically? How many of these people are expected to have DSL or Cable instead of dial-up? How many are going to be returned because they don't have MS Office pre-installed on them?
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If people would just write for standards-conforming browsers (e.g. Opera) instead of ones who blatantly break conformity with standards (e.g. Internet Explorer, Firefox), then coding would be a hell of a lot easier to read.
00:00 [b]Bush:[/b] Hey, Cheney, get in here! I need you to help me figure something out here.
00:10 [B]Cheney:[/b] What is it now?
18:40 [B]Bush:[/b] That's brilliant! Get right on top of it!
Did they include said batteries with the laptops they sold? Or did they do their own investigation, purchase 12 batteries at retail, and then investigate them?
So are the schools going to get any cuts from all of the user information and emails that are going to be scanned for better targeting advertisements?
Just because something's available doesn't mean you have to get it. I think they want to make these programs available, but not force them down consumers' throats.
But it makes pretty good sense. Suppose a family living in California or New York recently emigrated from Latin America, and none of the family is conversent in English. Why the hell should they have to pay for all of these channels that they don't understand? Why can't they just subscribe to VHUno and other Latino channels?
What I don't get is why we seemingly refuse to invest for the long-term in the United States. Sure, some companies do, generally the smarter ones. But when it comes to public infrastructure, politicians haven't found a way to inform the public that by spending 2x as much now, we're saving 20x as much over the next n years.
I know that technology evolves at a rapid rate, but if we invest more money now and use the same amount of energy* now (compared to doing investing less money and the same amount of energy), then we can use the energy that's left over from not having to double our efforts next year for other causes.
*energy here is refering to human capital.
Now, I apologize for not being an expert on locamotives and such, but are there any Maglev lines that have fright cars running on them? Maintaining the US's current railway system is a pain as it is (mostly because people fail to acknowledge that it is practical.) Maintaining a system dedicated *only* to freight and *only* to people-movers would never pass here.
I'd love to use the railway system here, and hopefully it'll get fixed within my life time. I really want to take Amtrak from my home in Minneapolis to Richmond in a few months when I go out there to go apartment hunting because I don't see any other opportunity to view as much of the landscape with as little of a hassle. Unfortunately, I can't take Amtrak from Madison to Richmond, but would instead have to go to some (relatively) small town about an hour away to get to an Amtrak station (and when I say I want to depart from Madison, Amtrak's website wants me to take Greyhound to Chicago to get to an Amtrak station. In order for me to take a train from Minneapolis to Madison, Amtrak's site wants me to take the train from MSP to Chicago, then Greyhound it from Chicago to Madison for a grand total of 12 hours or so.) It just doesn't make sense.
it's "Where the hell did I place that book?"
I like the idea of losing one book when I lose a book, not my whole library.
Plus, just having this thing sitting on your bookshelf looks way less impressive than a bookshelf full of books.
Yeah, it's been out for a year, and it's managed to eat up 8% of the overall market, an the Linux fanboys declare it a failure. More than Linux fanboys consider it a failure. Adoption rate of Vista is significantly lower than the proportion of new desktops and laptops being sold. Nobody is comparing Vista sales to Linux sales, they're comparing it to its biggest competitor: Windows XP.
Wildlife is returning to Chernobyl and surviving due to the lack of mankind in the area. Obviously, diversity and levels are down below pre-kaboom, but the wildlife is managing. My unscientific and Business background is telling me that it's probably related to lower lifespans and less time for each individual animal to develop cancer. Long-term effects are yet unobservable, but will most-likely be pronounced.
But don't confuse the aftermath with the immediate consequences of the meltdown. How anyone can say that those effects are not as hazardous as we believed last week had better have some damn good and robust statistics.
If it's like a AA battery, does that mean that it, too, will explode if you leave it outside in the winter? God I love living in Minnesota....
Legality is an issue in many places, but FTS didn't mention Hackintosh or OSx86
Not to troll, but it's not always a mistake when a company issues a new operating system that is slower than the others. Unless their benchmark is rediculously unoptimized, it's difficult to increase functionality AND speed. The issue that I keep on hearing (since I haven't tried it yet) is that Microsoft created a slower operating system with less functionality. Time will tell if this is true or not. Oh wait, it's been out for a year already and we're still hearing the same complaints....
Aggregate the languages to get the total number.
Putting more ads on the wsj's website would be a major mistake if it's anything like what the BBC is trying to do. Odds are they're going to piss off their main customer base due to annoying and obtrusive flash ads that distract the readers from what they're trying to read. And since this is the WSJ, these readers typically think that their time is scarce and don't want to have to be annoyed with said distracting ads.
Likewise, Wal-Mart's network infrastructure is supposedly intimidatingly huge. They're notorious data mongerers, recording every single line item from every single retail outlet in a central datacenter, and doing all sorts of wacky correlations and calculations on the data. Not a whole ton is publicly known about their data operations, but there were widespread rumors that their network capacity rivaled that of Google up until a year or two ago. Care to explain this then?
Not to play Devil's Advocate here, but in all honesty, it's probably a good thing that these people didn't try out Linux sooner. Being introduced to something that's usable is one thing. Being introduced to something that's not, and then later asked to try it out again when it is usable is different. If the users don't have any prior experience with Linux, then they don't have any major predisposed bias. However, for those early adopters who tried using it, say, when WinXP was first released, most likely have bad memories of things like X11, Gnome, &al. In my opinion, it's best not to have many people use a product before it's good enough. Leave the beta-testing to people who enjoy that sort of stuff, but leave the risk-averse people out of it.
that Walmart's website will go down again due to high traffic on Black Friday. It'll be interesting to see how other companies, like Target, will do on that day as well. Something also is making me want to think that Best Buy will not perform to the same levels (time- and price-adjusted) as they used to, probably due to the credit crunch and that the Average Joe should be less inclined to make a moderate-large luxury purchase (e.g. 60" TV being moderate) this year compared to last.
But in all likelyhood, I'm guessing that the people who are going to be shopping less this year are going to be the lowest-lower income families, since a larger portion of their income is going to be spent on interest rates because they got taken advantage of with the adjustable-rate mortages and Home Equity Lines of Credit. So I'm expecting that people in the lower-middle to middle income families will shop at places like Kohls and Target rather than Macy's/Marshal Fields/Dayton's, while upper-income stores like Tiffany's will have another phenominal season.
What about people who keep their access points open and connect to other people's access points when they're away? I'd imagine that if somebody purposefully leaves their AP open that it wouldn't be stealing. The trouble is knowing if somebody intentionally has an unsecured WAP or if the person just never knew/bothered to secure it.
Replace those incandescent light bulbs with CF's. Typical payback period is 3 months. Store the incandescents somewhere relatively safe, and pop them back in whenever you move out of your residence.
Personally, I liked the university. They gave us money and facilities, we didn't have to produce anything! You've never been out of college! You don't know what it's like out there! I've *worked* in the private sector. They expect *results*.
But 5 years ago, it would've only been $1.2B dollars. And this is ignoring the time value of money, so it likely would've been lower yet. In the past five years, the USD is roughly 3/4 of what it used to be compared to the South Korean Won (KRW). So $1.2B for two theme parks? $600Mil for one? Doesn't seem that outrageous to me....
Remember, these are typical Walmart customers here. How many of them are going to return these things when that AOL CD they have doesn't work automagically? How many of these people are expected to have DSL or Cable instead of dial-up? How many are going to be returned because they don't have MS Office pre-installed on them?
What makes you think that they pretty much don't already? Remember, the US isn't the only other country besides China out there with a naval fleet.
...to be able to watch these videos while using Opera on Linux? Oh yeah, that's right. http://www.thepiratebay.org/