And in other news, grandmothers are being rounded up in droves for "reading" bedtime stories aloud to their grandchildren. Copyright infringement charges are starting at $150,000.00 per incident.
Stop worrying about it. The chances are exceptionally high that you current employer won't say squat about your employment with them, and besides any future job after this one will be more interested in you last employer who won't be your current employer.
There have been so many lawsuits over employer comments about past employees that any large employer, and any smart small employer, won't say anything more than Mr. X worked here from [start date] to [end date]. While this works against you if you left on glowing terms, unless your current employer and some future employer are close buddies at the tennis club this is not anything you should need to worry about.
The person making the phone call always knows 2 things: 1) The number they're calling from; 2) The number they're calling to.
Why shouldn't the person on the other end of the call be entitled to the same information? After all, the person making the call isn't required to do so if they truly don't want to - court orders not withstanding.
The conclusion suggests that relational databases and key value stores aren't really mutually exclusive and instead are different tools for different requirements.
So how does this have anything to do with dooming relational databases anyway?
My question is: can you run Open Office on the Linux side? Modern systems (e.g. Core 2 Duo) are way overkill for even most Microsoft Office tasks. If you have a lean, quick booting, OO ready and able to go is fully booting into Windows and firing up MSOffice really necessary? How quickly might people learn that the few extra features that MSOffice does provide aren't features they really ever neeeded in the first place? Since the cost of testing this out comes in at the low low cost of Free, why not give it a spin if it's possible to fit it into the Linux partition in the first place?
So Texas libel laws were possibly violated. But what if the person typing into the blog lives in and typed the words in question in from another state where it isn't libel and online anonymous speech is protected? That's the first question I'd like answered.
Text-to-Speech converters have existed on personal computers for many years now. Personal computers can display eBooks. No doubt Amazon was not the first company or person to marry these two and have books read out verbally. So why do we only hear the screams of outrage now?
Also, where are the advocates for the legally blind? This has to be a boon to the visually impaired everywhere. Will someone sic them on this first group please? And can I sell tickets to the resulting catfight?
lacking support from Microsoft for Windows; the applications it runs for the PC have to do so under Linux.
You can bet that if ARM gains an arm-hold into the consumer space that Microsoft will either move to kill it - or provide applications and an OS alternative to Linux for it.
The early tests I've seen published indicate almost no improvement for DDR3 over DDR2 in an identical system. A bit lower latency is the only real improvement, and that's tiny. So what gives? How much should DDR3 improve over DDR2, except for the estimated 30% improvement in power requirements?
If it didn't affect users then there'd be no reason to implement such a limit. It obviously affects users and forces them to buy a more expensive version of what is essentially the exact same program, while allowing Microsoft to still claim how cheap Windows is.
If you succeed, I'd love to be there on the day that the BSA shows up for a software audit because you haven't paid your Microsoft tariff of late and that they are just so darn sure that you absolutely cannot live without Microsoft software.
1: Locate the d@mn things? It's a radio transmitter every moment it's turned on.
2: Set up legal femtocells connected to black holes? The phones connect, but they never deliver.
'Macs are no longer at the top of the laptop display heap in our minds.'
This implies that Macs used to be at the top and that they fell the entire distance from top to bottom in one fell swoop. More likely Macs have either been overrated because users like them otherwise, or coasting on previous impressions for far too long. Don't forget the dithered 6-bit color that has been with Macs for a good long time now and poorly that incident was handled.
I like the idea, and believe it can be done well. A whole universe was created here, yet only a single story ever told in it. I feel it's a bit bigger place than that. I've made an investment in learning about how this universe works and a few more dividends on that investment would be well worthwhile.
What I WOULDN'T want to see ever is just a Blade Runner remake. I have yet to see a remake that I consider better than the original movie.
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Mac LC - my first Mac. Cashed in my 401k and bought it, a color monitor, and printer for about $6,000
A truly stupid (among many truly stupid) reasons to cash on ones 401k. Unless it's provided you 10X the income since, and you've stashed that income away for retirement, a very bad move indeed.
1: Sealing up the original Mac while Apple II and IBM PC were open architectures.
2: Comparably higher prices for equivalent performance and peripherals.
3: Absolute hostility to clone makers, which allowed Apple to pass on their inefficiency to their customers.
4: Floppy disc incompatibility with other more prevalent systems for far too long.
5: Threats to discontinue warranty coverage from anybody who dared crack the sealed-box open.
6: Taking forever to provide an internal hard drive long after their PC competition and 3rd party suppliers (anyone remember HyperDrive) had shown them how to do it.
7: Needing to dump Steve Jobs before an Open Mac arrived.
8: The most expensive (by far) laser printer on the market when the excellent HP LaserJet met many user's needs with the same print engine for far less money.
9: 50% profit margins and proud of it!
Yes there's more, but this was a good enough start for now.
And how is this different than Star Trek TOS, which did the same thing in many regards during its own original run?
Personally I'll miss 6.
And while I'm at it what is this fascination with naming the most fascinating, sexy, robots "Six"? Not only BSG, but also Tripping the Rift come to mind as examples?
1: Remove all the Vista DRM crap out of Windows 7. It's my computer, not Hollywood's.
2: Interoperate better with Open Office and support their open standard in MSWord, not your own.
3: No more per processor licensing agreements. If we want Windows at purchase time we'll ask for it ourselves.
Keep a couple copies of Office around in I.T. support, one on a laptop that you can loan out in an emergency, to handle the odd issue that the user can't resolve using OO alone. Fix their problem when they occur and give them OO files afterwards to work with. Expect issues to arise and simply deal with them.
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And in other news, grandmothers are being rounded up in droves for "reading" bedtime stories aloud to their grandchildren. Copyright infringement charges are starting at $150,000.00 per incident.
Oh the humanity of it all!!
Think of the children!!
Stop worrying about it. The chances are exceptionally high that you current employer won't say squat about your employment with them, and besides any future job after this one will be more interested in you last employer who won't be your current employer.
There have been so many lawsuits over employer comments about past employees that any large employer, and any smart small employer, won't say anything more than Mr. X worked here from [start date] to [end date]. While this works against you if you left on glowing terms, unless your current employer and some future employer are close buddies at the tennis club this is not anything you should need to worry about.
The person making the phone call always knows 2 things: 1) The number they're calling from; 2) The number they're calling to.
Why shouldn't the person on the other end of the call be entitled to the same information? After all, the person making the call isn't required to do so if they truly don't want to - court orders not withstanding.
So how does this have anything to do with dooming relational databases anyway?
My question is: can you run Open Office on the Linux side? Modern systems (e.g. Core 2 Duo) are way overkill for even most Microsoft Office tasks. If you have a lean, quick booting, OO ready and able to go is fully booting into Windows and firing up MSOffice really necessary? How quickly might people learn that the few extra features that MSOffice does provide aren't features they really ever neeeded in the first place? Since the cost of testing this out comes in at the low low cost of Free, why not give it a spin if it's possible to fit it into the Linux partition in the first place?
So Texas libel laws were possibly violated. But what if the person typing into the blog lives in and typed the words in question in from another state where it isn't libel and online anonymous speech is protected? That's the first question I'd like answered.
Text-to-Speech converters have existed on personal computers for many years now. Personal computers can display eBooks. No doubt Amazon was not the first company or person to marry these two and have books read out verbally. So why do we only hear the screams of outrage now?
Also, where are the advocates for the legally blind? This has to be a boon to the visually impaired everywhere. Will someone sic them on this first group please? And can I sell tickets to the resulting catfight?
You can bet that if ARM gains an arm-hold into the consumer space that Microsoft will either move to kill it - or provide applications and an OS alternative to Linux for it.
So are they getting the mirror right this time before launch?
The early tests I've seen published indicate almost no improvement for DDR3 over DDR2 in an identical system. A bit lower latency is the only real improvement, and that's tiny. So what gives? How much should DDR3 improve over DDR2, except for the estimated 30% improvement in power requirements?
If it didn't affect users then there'd be no reason to implement such a limit. It obviously affects users and forces them to buy a more expensive version of what is essentially the exact same program, while allowing Microsoft to still claim how cheap Windows is.
Not if we start counting at a much finer resolution. I mean, after all, seconds are so...Last Century.
If you succeed, I'd love to be there on the day that the BSA shows up for a software audit because you haven't paid your Microsoft tariff of late and that they are just so darn sure that you absolutely cannot live without Microsoft software.
You don't need to monitor your traffic, Comcast will do it for you - and shut you down for exceeding their cap.
So why can't you:
1: Locate the d@mn things? It's a radio transmitter every moment it's turned on.
2: Set up legal femtocells connected to black holes? The phones connect, but they never deliver.
Anyone want to guess that the RIAA will drop this case rather than allow even these hearings to be telecast?
This implies that Macs used to be at the top and that they fell the entire distance from top to bottom in one fell swoop. More likely Macs have either been overrated because users like them otherwise, or coasting on previous impressions for far too long. Don't forget the dithered 6-bit color that has been with Macs for a good long time now and poorly that incident was handled.
Five years. It's always five years.
Tomorrow would be nice for once.
I like the idea, and believe it can be done well. A whole universe was created here, yet only a single story ever told in it. I feel it's a bit bigger place than that. I've made an investment in learning about how this universe works and a few more dividends on that investment would be well worthwhile.
What I WOULDN'T want to see ever is just a Blade Runner remake. I have yet to see a remake that I consider better than the original movie.
Adds a whole new meaning to the term: wireless.
A truly stupid (among many truly stupid) reasons to cash on ones 401k. Unless it's provided you 10X the income since, and you've stashed that income away for retirement, a very bad move indeed.
What I remember Macintosh for:
1: Sealing up the original Mac while Apple II and IBM PC were open architectures.
2: Comparably higher prices for equivalent performance and peripherals.
3: Absolute hostility to clone makers, which allowed Apple to pass on their inefficiency to their customers.
4: Floppy disc incompatibility with other more prevalent systems for far too long.
5: Threats to discontinue warranty coverage from anybody who dared crack the sealed-box open.
6: Taking forever to provide an internal hard drive long after their PC competition and 3rd party suppliers (anyone remember HyperDrive) had shown them how to do it.
7: Needing to dump Steve Jobs before an Open Mac arrived.
8: The most expensive (by far) laser printer on the market when the excellent HP LaserJet met many user's needs with the same print engine for far less money.
9: 50% profit margins and proud of it!
Yes there's more, but this was a good enough start for now.
And how is this different than Star Trek TOS, which did the same thing in many regards during its own original run?
Personally I'll miss 6.
And while I'm at it what is this fascination with naming the most fascinating, sexy, robots "Six"? Not only BSG, but also Tripping the Rift come to mind as examples?
Hey Microsoft, want to improve your image?
1: Remove all the Vista DRM crap out of Windows 7. It's my computer, not Hollywood's.
2: Interoperate better with Open Office and support their open standard in MSWord, not your own.
3: No more per processor licensing agreements. If we want Windows at purchase time we'll ask for it ourselves.
While there's more, get started on this list now!
Keep a couple copies of Office around in I.T. support, one on a laptop that you can loan out in an emergency, to handle the odd issue that the user can't resolve using OO alone. Fix their problem when they occur and give them OO files afterwards to work with. Expect issues to arise and simply deal with them.