To run W7 effectively most XP users will require a hardware upgrade: DX10 minimum video card, more ram, virtualization-enabled CPU. At that point a new system overall becomes a compelling alternative meaning, are they really switching to W7, or just using what comes preloaded on their new system?
Isn't it a feature of diesels that they run best in a narrow RPM range? If so, they would be ideal for operating a generator optimized to that range in a hybrid.
A genuine 100mpg car -- not this phoney 230mpg G(overnment) M(otors) Chevy Volt figure -- with acceptable performance would truly excite the automobile market much more than a 99mpg car can.
we embed a lot of information in our workstation names: site, warranty end date, machine type, etc. I'm of the opinion that this is too much information to overload in the machine name when it can more suitably be stored in the computer description.
Comcast's case must not be so great if it has taken them this long to file it. One would think that their case will also be much weaker under the current administration than the last one. What Comcast seems to fail to realize is that they are an effective monopoly in much of the area that they serve and monopolists aren't allowed to just go out and do as they please.
'In fact, there are but two essential reasons we maintain these increased controls on behalf of our community: to protect our participants so that images that violate their privacy are not displayed, and to prevent companies from using Burning Man to sell products. We don't remove images from pages...
It's not that you don't remove images from pages for your stated reasons, it's that you could. I prefer situations where it simply can't happen at all. Too often I've been burned otherwise by promises of, "Oh that will never happen with this legislation..."
Claims that ePUB will kill Kindle are clearly bogus. All that Kindle needs to read ePUB books is a software update. If the market is getting away from Amazon because of a lack of ePUB compatibility then expect to see an ePUB update made available. Until then, they're doing quite well with Kindle since you don't need Kindle hardware to read Kindle books. Free Kindle readers for iPhone/iPod Touch are already available and expect them on other platforms soon. And these readers all integrate back to your Kindle if you have one (i.e. pick up reading on any one device right where you left off on the other one). I don't think Amazon is in any danger at all yet, and has good options to respond if they do find themselves in that situation. For now they're the iPod of eBooks.
There is a danger (to Sony) that the market for ebook hardware will be dominated by the big bookstores. Amazon and B&N, because books are their primary business, can provide a huge number of ebook titles, more than Sony's online store could ever hope to.
You clearly don't understand the eBook market at all. The cost of adding new eBooks to your online store is virtually nil, and eBook publishers want their books carried in every possible store unless someone very big (e.g. Amazon) is actually willing to pay for an exclusive eBook arrangement -- which is yet to happen AFAIK, and likely subject to legal action if it did. As such, there is no reason besides Sony's own refusal to carry a publisher (which has been the case with Sony to my own exact personal knowledge) on why it can't offer all the same titles as any other eBook vendor. It's all in what kind of deal Sony offers to the publishers. If Sony demands 90% of the list price to themselves then publishers may want to skip over them. So far, Fictionwise is the most "expensive" eBook publisher, and the only reason that they have gotten away with it so far is because they also sell the most books. With new competition opening up this may change and FW may have to become more reasonable.
The big content industries have stolen the Public Domain in one huge grab that, very sadly, all three branches of the federal government colluded in allowing to happen against the clear wording in the US Constitution. Copyright was so very important that it is enshrined in that relatively short document.
Now we're stealing it back one song at a time, and I don't see a thing wrong with that. If copyrights had been more reasonable then I would feel differently.
Just another reason to throw the whole establishment out -- Democrats and Republicans -- and elect an entirely new government that actually has a clue about how unreasonable this all is. And until that can happen, stop them from committing any more damage on the rest of us. All that never-actually-defined Hope and Change isn't working out at all well from my vantage point.
This seems open to gaming the system since there are no controls on the users and Twit-bots are easily possible. Given that politicians are so d@mn poll-driven these days, this idea seems dangerous.
What does he mean that most browsers aren't keeping pace with the web? By definition, browsers define the pace of the web. If your browser can't see it then it doesn't exist yet.
There's no one out there making a good living by creating webpages that browsers can't display.
What do the Apple Apps Store and US Patent Office have in common?
1: If you're turned down the first time you just keep submitting until you find an idiot who will grant you application.
2: Neither operates by any consistent set of rules.
So if Slashcode takes this message with inline formatting codes, and at any point converts it into pure text and stores the formatting codes separately as a set of pointers into the raw text, Slashdot has violated the patent. Ridiculous.
Sounds like CSS to me - which everyone uses every time the open up a browser.
Why can't the cookie blocker and/or cookie cleaner take these out as well? This is presented that only some arcane going to the Adobe website can deal with them. Why are they so hard to kill otherwise?
This is complete and utter crap, and the only reason it's happening is that the government now owns GM and sets the rules.
This would only even begin to be reasonable if electricity came for free, and never with any carbon footprint. It doesn't, the Obama EPA lies, and none of us should be surprised in the least.
I can only hope that all the other hybrid makers -- and even non-hybrid makers -- sue the government's pants off over this outright lie!
Perhaps cars should be rated in $/mi to drive based on average fuel and electricity rates for the county in which they're sold. That would be more honest than this farce.
All AMD has to do to kill the Atom is to not impose asinine restrictions (e.g. screen size <11.7") on its usage. It's as simple as that. Do that, and you will kill a good piece of the much more expensive Core 2 Duo market as well since that's what Intel is trying to foist off on the anything-larger-than-what-we-define-as-a-netbook market.
This is the same crap as cell phone companies disabling features on those phones. You read a great review of a new cell phone (or CPU), only to find out that when you buy it from this manufacturer that it won't do that.
Now as to why Sony will enable it on some laptops, yet not others, truly boggles the mind.
The one place that I had offer me 1 week of ETO got a nicely worded "hell no", even though the offer was for 15k more than I was making at the time.
For +$15K I would have asked if they allowed taking additional unpaid time off, not to exceed 2 additional weeks total over any 12 month period? A little imagination here might have resulted in a better deal for you overall.
I am not aware of how required processor power is directly related to screen size. While the case might be made that GPU power should be scaled up to match the number of pixels being handled, ATI and NVidia are already nicely handling that end of the equation. To say that a 12" laptop requires a full Core Duo or better, while 11.6" screens run just fine on Atoms, is beyond bogus.
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To run W7 effectively most XP users will require a hardware upgrade: DX10 minimum video card, more ram, virtualization-enabled CPU. At that point a new system overall becomes a compelling alternative meaning, are they really switching to W7, or just using what comes preloaded on their new system?
Isn't it a feature of diesels that they run best in a narrow RPM range? If so, they would be ideal for operating a generator optimized to that range in a hybrid.
A genuine 100mpg car -- not this phoney 230mpg G(overnment) M(otors) Chevy Volt figure -- with acceptable performance would truly excite the automobile market much more than a 99mpg car can.
One word: TinyURL.
What was filed under seal:
Dear Judge, The world will end if we can't continue shipping Word.
Comcast's case must not be so great if it has taken them this long to file it. One would think that their case will also be much weaker under the current administration than the last one. What Comcast seems to fail to realize is that they are an effective monopoly in much of the area that they serve and monopolists aren't allowed to just go out and do as they please.
It's not that you don't remove images from pages for your stated reasons, it's that you could. I prefer situations where it simply can't happen at all. Too often I've been burned otherwise by promises of, "Oh that will never happen with this legislation..."
Claims that ePUB will kill Kindle are clearly bogus. All that Kindle needs to read ePUB books is a software update. If the market is getting away from Amazon because of a lack of ePUB compatibility then expect to see an ePUB update made available. Until then, they're doing quite well with Kindle since you don't need Kindle hardware to read Kindle books. Free Kindle readers for iPhone/iPod Touch are already available and expect them on other platforms soon. And these readers all integrate back to your Kindle if you have one (i.e. pick up reading on any one device right where you left off on the other one). I don't think Amazon is in any danger at all yet, and has good options to respond if they do find themselves in that situation. For now they're the iPod of eBooks.
You clearly don't understand the eBook market at all. The cost of adding new eBooks to your online store is virtually nil, and eBook publishers want their books carried in every possible store unless someone very big (e.g. Amazon) is actually willing to pay for an exclusive eBook arrangement -- which is yet to happen AFAIK, and likely subject to legal action if it did. As such, there is no reason besides Sony's own refusal to carry a publisher (which has been the case with Sony to my own exact personal knowledge) on why it can't offer all the same titles as any other eBook vendor. It's all in what kind of deal Sony offers to the publishers. If Sony demands 90% of the list price to themselves then publishers may want to skip over them. So far, Fictionwise is the most "expensive" eBook publisher, and the only reason that they have gotten away with it so far is because they also sell the most books. With new competition opening up this may change and FW may have to become more reasonable.
The big content industries have stolen the Public Domain in one huge grab that, very sadly, all three branches of the federal government colluded in allowing to happen against the clear wording in the US Constitution. Copyright was so very important that it is enshrined in that relatively short document.
Now we're stealing it back one song at a time, and I don't see a thing wrong with that. If copyrights had been more reasonable then I would feel differently.
Just another reason to throw the whole establishment out -- Democrats and Republicans -- and elect an entirely new government that actually has a clue about how unreasonable this all is. And until that can happen, stop them from committing any more damage on the rest of us. All that never-actually-defined Hope and Change isn't working out at all well from my vantage point.
This seems open to gaming the system since there are no controls on the users and Twit-bots are easily possible. Given that politicians are so d@mn poll-driven these days, this idea seems dangerous.
Basically a big Up Yours to Intel and Microsoft.
What does he mean that most browsers aren't keeping pace with the web? By definition, browsers define the pace of the web. If your browser can't see it then it doesn't exist yet.
There's no one out there making a good living by creating webpages that browsers can't display.
Just sneak in. No ticket -- no rules.
Seriously folks, is there no already existing file system that can already meet these needs? If not, then what are Google's competitors using?
Is that no one else has yet to face up to this issues properly and this is a huge competitive advantage for Google, or is it simply NIH?
What do the Apple Apps Store and US Patent Office have in common?
1: If you're turned down the first time you just keep submitting until you find an idiot who will grant you application.
2: Neither operates by any consistent set of rules.
Sounds like CSS to me - which everyone uses every time the open up a browser.
Well, Microsoft now has a really good reason to simply accept ODF.
Does this ruling mean that MS's open standard XML competitor to ODF is now also SOL?
Why can't the cookie blocker and/or cookie cleaner take these out as well? This is presented that only some arcane going to the Adobe website can deal with them. Why are they so hard to kill otherwise?
This is complete and utter crap, and the only reason it's happening is that the government now owns GM and sets the rules.
This would only even begin to be reasonable if electricity came for free, and never with any carbon footprint. It doesn't, the Obama EPA lies, and none of us should be surprised in the least.
I can only hope that all the other hybrid makers -- and even non-hybrid makers -- sue the government's pants off over this outright lie!
Perhaps cars should be rated in $/mi to drive based on average fuel and electricity rates for the county in which they're sold. That would be more honest than this farce.
All AMD has to do to kill the Atom is to not impose asinine restrictions (e.g. screen size <11.7") on its usage. It's as simple as that. Do that, and you will kill a good piece of the much more expensive Core 2 Duo market as well since that's what Intel is trying to foist off on the anything-larger-than-what-we-define-as-a-netbook market.
This is the same crap as cell phone companies disabling features on those phones. You read a great review of a new cell phone (or CPU), only to find out that when you buy it from this manufacturer that it won't do that.
Now as to why Sony will enable it on some laptops, yet not others, truly boggles the mind.
You ought to be able to send Midi through Twitter.
For +$15K I would have asked if they allowed taking additional unpaid time off, not to exceed 2 additional weeks total over any 12 month period? A little imagination here might have resulted in a better deal for you overall.
I am not aware of how required processor power is directly related to screen size. While the case might be made that GPU power should be scaled up to match the number of pixels being handled, ATI and NVidia are already nicely handling that end of the equation. To say that a 12" laptop requires a full Core Duo or better, while 11.6" screens run just fine on Atoms, is beyond bogus.
I am aware of how much I hate Dell for lying.