It costs a couple of orders of magnitude more to upgrade a system as large as the US cellular system than it does to upgrade Japan (a system about the size of California). Added to this is the fact that many million of people simply want a phone. They can give a rat's ass about features, and probably don't care much about text messaging either. Your need doesn't make a compelling market, after all in six months you'll just want something else.
Reading to your children, and them seeing you and your wife read for pleasure is the most important thing you can do for your child.
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I don't want to be "Miss Pollyanna blue sky" but let's be honest with ourselves. Print will be dead in a decade. For all but the widest possible audiences (Time, Newsweek, People) magazines are useless in the digital age.
Unfortunately a lot of your peers may have been extemely unethical in the past. After spending a few thousand dollars, a few times, they may just feel that the risk is too great. While it is somewhat insulting, it may be good business for them in the longer run. Had you discussed your resignation with your supervisor previously (and you didn't mention it) this might not have been an issue. It isn't that you did anything wrong, but maybe a lot of others had done wrong before.
Well yes, and the income and profit from Alternity would keep most smaller publishers alive for years... Of course HAsbro as a whole was hemmoragging cashe while WotC was profitable. There was a lot of cutting even in profitable divisions. I still have a complete run of the game and supplements, and we can always dream of a revival.
There isn't a killer app for PDA any more. I have been carrying one since I bought my Newton 130 in 1997. I love them. However there have been no significant developments in software since 2000. No decent applications and no real innovations coupled with a refusal of the industry to drop below $100 for basic models mean they have only been selling replacements for most of the last five years. MS is spending something like a billion a year and sales are still declining overall. It seems to be a cognitive dissonance. Some people like PDAs that do music, and some like music that does PDAs.
This is, for all intents and purposes, what NeXT tried to do in the late 80s. The optical drive they used was ruinously expensive. The software was limited. Now, twenty years later, theidea is coming into its own. Devices like the USB key, the microdrive, and the Palm LifeDrive are actually spacious enough to make all of this work. Twenty years ago Jobs said you should be able to walk up to any personal computer and make it your own. Ten years ago Ellison said that you could access anything from anywhere. In five to ten years these visionary things may just really happen. Funny how the world works, isn't it...
well since ATI doesn't develop linux drivers for it, like they do for anything windows, it is stupid. However nVidia works just fine. It is an ATI issue, not a linux issue.
I just love that the use an ATI video card, an audigy sound card, and a Serial ATA drive. If you can pack more difficult components for linux into a single box I would be very surprised. Most distributions seem to have the USB issue under control, but the rest is laughable.
The price is also out of this world.
This isn't news and it hasn't been for some time. Just like the invention of the CD, the VCR, and the Abacus; this will neither cause nor cure piracy. It will make it harder, but it is getting pretty hard already. DRM is a reality for all of us, it isn't going away, and hopefully the implementation will be as painless as possible. I do think that Apple version will be less painful than the Windows version, but neither is going away.
I think Bill Gates remarks about the dominance of the iPod mean he is serious, and that things are about to get very interesting. I think Longhorn is going to be a huge problem for Microsoft, and I think that Apple will continue to make consistently amazing products.
I can't wait to get an Intel PowerBook.
Apple is managing it's change. They are moving a huge code base, and will have to leave some things by the wayside as they do. This is not to say that there will never new support after the change, but I personally doubt it.
My personal opinion? People are going to bitch. No matter what. If they win the lottery they will complain about taxes. It is just there nature, they are resisting change for its own sake.
I do not think it is like that at all. It may be the same as saying "if all you use are crayons then maybe you aren't an artist" Programmers commonly have 3-5 languages that they are proficient in, and artists have more than one medium, even if they prefer one over the others.
Like MS cares. They have spent a huge amount of money developing.net and c#, and now thay want cash to try and staunch the bleeding. Not that they cannot afford to lose money, but they don't want to lose money if they can help it. besides, if visual basic is the only language you know, can you really call yourself a programmer? I don't think so.
I didn't become a member of Slashdot until the site proved it's worth. The issue that I have with the LJ sale is that they have conveniently obviated the social contract and simultaneously prevented further posting unless you agree to their authority. I have a paid subscription until X date, I should get access until X date. I understand having to agree to a new TOS to renew, but not blindsided at 7am on a Thursday.
I am a luggage snob. I ran a luggage and leather goods store for almost five years in California. The best bag ever made for your application is the 19" ErgoGrip Executive Mobile Office. Amazing construction, and tough as nails. I have the 22" version (I don't think they make that any more).
One of my customes carried 3 laptops (he was a CCIE for PacBell in the mid-nineties) and raved about it. I think I sold five on his word alone.
The Patriot Act was also unconstitutional, and is slowly being overturned. However it is taking years, and being enforced as law in the interim. We are splitting hairs at this point, except for one point. The Constitution is a great idea, too bad our government doesn't have the stones to police constitutionality.
This is functionally a national ID card. Since when did politicians start being honest about things? Those who wish there to be such a thing are going to use several avenues of approach to do so. We could just requires all citizens to have passports. It all works the same.
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It costs a couple of orders of magnitude more to upgrade a system as large as the US cellular system than it does to upgrade Japan (a system about the size of California). Added to this is the fact that many million of people simply want a phone. They can give a rat's ass about features, and probably don't care much about text messaging either. Your need doesn't make a compelling market, after all in six months you'll just want something else.
Reading to your children, and them seeing you and your wife read for pleasure is the most important thing you can do for your child.
I don't want to be "Miss Pollyanna blue sky" but let's be honest with ourselves. Print will be dead in a decade. For all but the widest possible audiences (Time, Newsweek, People) magazines are useless in the digital age.
Unfortunately a lot of your peers may have been extemely unethical in the past. After spending a few thousand dollars, a few times, they may just feel that the risk is too great. While it is somewhat insulting, it may be good business for them in the longer run. Had you discussed your resignation with your supervisor previously (and you didn't mention it) this might not have been an issue. It isn't that you did anything wrong, but maybe a lot of others had done wrong before.
Well yes, and the income and profit from Alternity would keep most smaller publishers alive for years... Of course HAsbro as a whole was hemmoragging cashe while WotC was profitable. There was a lot of cutting even in profitable divisions. I still have a complete run of the game and supplements, and we can always dream of a revival.
There isn't a killer app for PDA any more. I have been carrying one since I bought my Newton 130 in 1997. I love them. However there have been no significant developments in software since 2000. No decent applications and no real innovations coupled with a refusal of the industry to drop below $100 for basic models mean they have only been selling replacements for most of the last five years. MS is spending something like a billion a year and sales are still declining overall. It seems to be a cognitive dissonance. Some people like PDAs that do music, and some like music that does PDAs.
nice jab, patently untrue, but a nice jab.
This is, for all intents and purposes, what NeXT tried to do in the late 80s. The optical drive they used was ruinously expensive. The software was limited. Now, twenty years later, theidea is coming into its own. Devices like the USB key, the microdrive, and the Palm LifeDrive are actually spacious enough to make all of this work. Twenty years ago Jobs said you should be able to walk up to any personal computer and make it your own. Ten years ago Ellison said that you could access anything from anywhere. In five to ten years these visionary things may just really happen. Funny how the world works, isn't it...
well since ATI doesn't develop linux drivers for it, like they do for anything windows, it is stupid. However nVidia works just fine. It is an ATI issue, not a linux issue.
I just love that the use an ATI video card, an audigy sound card, and a Serial ATA drive. If you can pack more difficult components for linux into a single box I would be very surprised. Most distributions seem to have the USB issue under control, but the rest is laughable. The price is also out of this world.
you could do this.
This isn't news and it hasn't been for some time. Just like the invention of the CD, the VCR, and the Abacus; this will neither cause nor cure piracy. It will make it harder, but it is getting pretty hard already. DRM is a reality for all of us, it isn't going away, and hopefully the implementation will be as painless as possible. I do think that Apple version will be less painful than the Windows version, but neither is going away.
I think Bill Gates remarks about the dominance of the iPod mean he is serious, and that things are about to get very interesting. I think Longhorn is going to be a huge problem for Microsoft, and I think that Apple will continue to make consistently amazing products. I can't wait to get an Intel PowerBook.
Apple is managing it's change. They are moving a huge code base, and will have to leave some things by the wayside as they do. This is not to say that there will never new support after the change, but I personally doubt it. My personal opinion? People are going to bitch. No matter what. If they win the lottery they will complain about taxes. It is just there nature, they are resisting change for its own sake.
Well we have little to worry about, as this could be someime in 2010 or later. MS is killing themselves.
I do not think it is like that at all. It may be the same as saying "if all you use are crayons then maybe you aren't an artist" Programmers commonly have 3-5 languages that they are proficient in, and artists have more than one medium, even if they prefer one over the others.
Like MS cares. They have spent a huge amount of money developing .net and c#, and now thay want cash to try and staunch the bleeding. Not that they cannot afford to lose money, but they don't want to lose money if they can help it. besides, if visual basic is the only language you know, can you really call yourself a programmer? I don't think so.
I didn't become a member of Slashdot until the site proved it's worth. The issue that I have with the LJ sale is that they have conveniently obviated the social contract and simultaneously prevented further posting unless you agree to their authority. I have a paid subscription until X date, I should get access until X date. I understand having to agree to a new TOS to renew, but not blindsided at 7am on a Thursday.
since when did Hotmail start running on Windows Advanced Server? I think this may be a bit of a lie.
I haven't seen any updates from them in ages.
I am a luggage snob. I ran a luggage and leather goods store for almost five years in California. The best bag ever made for your application is the 19" ErgoGrip Executive Mobile Office. Amazing construction, and tough as nails. I have the 22" version (I don't think they make that any more). One of my customes carried 3 laptops (he was a CCIE for PacBell in the mid-nineties) and raved about it. I think I sold five on his word alone.
The Patriot Act was also unconstitutional, and is slowly being overturned. However it is taking years, and being enforced as law in the interim. We are splitting hairs at this point, except for one point. The Constitution is a great idea, too bad our government doesn't have the stones to police constitutionality.
This is functionally a national ID card. Since when did politicians start being honest about things? Those who wish there to be such a thing are going to use several avenues of approach to do so. We could just requires all citizens to have passports. It all works the same.
Pretty much most of Nevada, Montana, Oregon, & Utah; with some parts of Hawaii, Main, Kentucky & West Virginia also spotty.
...so why not SCO as well?