More importantly, will they force all of the departments to only buy online prep and testing services from suppliers that support other browsers? Or will the cries of "But www.medspub.com only supports IE" make it all fall apart after the headlines fade?
I had the chance to work in Johannesburg. At the time it was "the most dangerous city in the world outside of a war zone." I was there for 4 months, and it was one of the best experiences of my life. While there, my co-worker was on a contract on New York. This was around 9-11... He saw the towers fall in person. You can die anyplace. Be careful, take precautions, be aware, and you have a better chance. Do the math... How many people have been killed in New York in the last 6 months? The risks may be higher in the mid-east, but how much higher? Especially with you watching everything around you?
It is a tricky catch-22. It is expensive and complex to distinguish between frivalous suits and bad doctoring. Doctors are human, humans are complex, and things sometimes just go wrong. What if programmers had to pay 2 million dollars every time we made a bug?
Well, we might finally have a stable version of Windows... Hmmm...
There will be funding just as soon as it looks like someone else could make it. No one will want to be the president who "Lost space to the Chinese." Embarrassment is a powerful motivator.
You can get pr0n on your cell phone now. (The Sprint Picture phone commercial comes to mind...) That is the REAL reason behind those "hands free" kits!
I agree.. how could a network with no actual backbone last any sort of time, especially when its first starting off when fewer people have the equipment. A network purely based on 802.11 would need an incredable amount of redudancy.
It has a backbone, just not one based on wire. Media is irrelevant. What will actually make or break this project is organization, and the ability to put people in less desirable regions. That still means a high chance of failure, but don't blame the technology.
I can see it getting better than that.
You type "po" and it querries the database, returns "pokemon" and updates your window, completely overtypeing "police stories."
Or, flooding with searches to make "interesting" things come up, like the association of an Oral Roberts book with "The anal sex guide for men" covered in the register last year.
...useless innovation of the Dot Com era is dead. This is a REAL sign of a recovery.
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"Pretty frightening considering I and everybody in my family test somewhere upwards of the 94th percentile on any test we've ever taken."
Remind me no to go to a VD clinic with you... THAT would scare me!
I disagree. RIAA (or its member companies DO NOT produce something of value. They DISTRIBUTE something of value. The ARTIST produces the item of value.
Consumers say that this method no longer works. Artists say that this method no longer works... The only ones that seem to like it are the media companies, and the polititions they bought.
Popularity vs. price and ease. Lots of people pay Sun $10 for a free copy of an OS. No one copies it. Peopel will pay for music and software if there is a reason, like quality or easo of use, or they just like the artist/company.
In a word, Bloat. Win98 SE (Lite) is the leanest thing I can put on my box that runs Direct X. Run Quake (or what ever your favorite benchmark is) on the same system with a lean 98 against an "attempt" at a lean XP.
I would rather use my cpu cycles for the application, not the OS. (Or the paperclip) For development, I would use Linux first (with Win emulation for testing) and Win2k second, but most people are not developers.
With all of the platforms on a level playing field with many games, it will shed some new light on control systems. If the top guns are mostly one platform, it could mean that one platform has better control. In an FPS, I would think the keyboard would give you a natural advantage over someone with a single controler, but I guess we will find out.:-)
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Exactly. They need to look at why people buy the paper now. I buy it for the Fry's ad.
More importantly, will they force all of the departments to only buy online prep and testing services from suppliers that support other browsers? Or will the cries of "But www.medspub.com only supports IE" make it all fall apart after the headlines fade?
I had the chance to work in Johannesburg. At the time it was "the most dangerous city in the world outside of a war zone." I was there for 4 months, and it was one of the best experiences of my life. While there, my co-worker was on a contract on New York. This was around 9-11... He saw the towers fall in person. You can die anyplace. Be careful, take precautions, be aware, and you have a better chance. Do the math... How many people have been killed in New York in the last 6 months? The risks may be higher in the mid-east, but how much higher? Especially with you watching everything around you?
It is a tricky catch-22. It is expensive and complex to distinguish between frivalous suits and bad doctoring. Doctors are human, humans are complex, and things sometimes just go wrong. What if programmers had to pay 2 million dollars every time we made a bug? Well, we might finally have a stable version of Windows... Hmmm...
Shhh... That is one of the new security features in XP SP2! Keep it under wraps!
There will be funding just as soon as it looks like someone else could make it. No one will want to be the president who "Lost space to the Chinese." Embarrassment is a powerful motivator.
You can get pr0n on your cell phone now. (The Sprint Picture phone commercial comes to mind...) That is the REAL reason behind those "hands free" kits!
I agree.. how could a network with no actual backbone last any sort of time, especially when its first starting off when fewer people have the equipment. A network purely based on 802.11 would need an incredable amount of redudancy.
It has a backbone, just not one based on wire. Media is irrelevant. What will actually make or break this project is organization, and the ability to put people in less desirable regions. That still means a high chance of failure, but don't blame the technology.
I can see it getting better than that. You type "po" and it querries the database, returns "pokemon" and updates your window, completely overtypeing "police stories." Or, flooding with searches to make "interesting" things come up, like the association of an Oral Roberts book with "The anal sex guide for men" covered in the register last year.
...useless innovation of the Dot Com era is dead. This is a REAL sign of a recovery.
"Pretty frightening considering I and everybody in my family test somewhere upwards of the 94th percentile on any test we've ever taken." Remind me no to go to a VD clinic with you... THAT would scare me!
I disagree. RIAA (or its member companies DO NOT produce something of value. They DISTRIBUTE something of value. The ARTIST produces the item of value. Consumers say that this method no longer works. Artists say that this method no longer works... The only ones that seem to like it are the media companies, and the polititions they bought.
Popularity vs. price and ease. Lots of people pay Sun $10 for a free copy of an OS. No one copies it. Peopel will pay for music and software if there is a reason, like quality or easo of use, or they just like the artist/company.
In a word, Bloat. Win98 SE (Lite) is the leanest thing I can put on my box that runs Direct X. Run Quake (or what ever your favorite benchmark is) on the same system with a lean 98 against an "attempt" at a lean XP. I would rather use my cpu cycles for the application, not the OS. (Or the paperclip) For development, I would use Linux first (with Win emulation for testing) and Win2k second, but most people are not developers.
With all of the platforms on a level playing field with many games, it will shed some new light on control systems. If the top guns are mostly one platform, it could mean that one platform has better control. In an FPS, I would think the keyboard would give you a natural advantage over someone with a single controler, but I guess we will find out. :-)