I think you'll find that 40K is nothing compared to the budget of the thing. That might be their daily electricity bill, for all I care (and I suspect I am not that far off)
Bullshit. There is quite a large difference in failing maths (a an example) by not recalling some obscure formula right (or not recognizing the immediate use of it in circumstances) versus not recognizing what plus sign means... If you worked hard but failed just short - you get a second try. If you showed up just to give it a try - fail.
Yes. Of course second issue is that I have not seen a REAL item for sale there in what - six months? It's always some cheap chinese knockoffs that just get relisted if sold as auction. Powerseller these days is a put-off instead of a promise of smooth transaction. New users in 5-10 tx range seem to be much more reliable.
Yes. I considered doing a clean-up of surplus equipment in my room (there was a fair bit) but after realizing that I have to provide about 1/3 money upfront and then just hope it actually sells. And then wait for 30 days to actually start process of getting anything out of my paypal account to somewhere where it is useful. No thanks. Craiglist is full of scamers annobody actually uses it.
I just dumped it. About 1000 USD of present value. My time is simply worth more.
IF you were an IT guy you would have a reasonably sized collection of default installation CDs. To be installed using the default sticker keys or just extracting the assigned serial-no as neccessary, but still - default installations that you have checked to be legit, no viruses and guaranteed to work. Nobody should even think about using anything from TPB - 99% of the shit in there seems to be a rootkit virus crapfest anyway.
uhm, no? Parent was talking about a corporate policies ensuring that competition cannot patent stuff they think there might be a risk with. Patent as it stands is quite an expensive process for a company - as such a simple ad that amounts to giving up all rights very well might work out cheaper than cost of patent + risk of litigation/contest around.
Ah. BTW the guy is an ex-chemist not some random 15 year old kid with dads CC. Also there are 1500 ITEMS cited, not 1500 different chemicals in the article. In any basic hobby you will easily find that in 2m radius of you in our "lab" you will easily list 500+ items related to your hobby. Just look at that pile of cables stashed away in the corner. 200 separate items at least! 1500 is NOT THAT excessive in chemistry where you are talking about having 30+ items just for a basic distilling process.
So, M$ did not expanded on the eye candy. Fixed some bugs. Backported some kernel features to replace known flaky ones. Improved support for HW as it came along. Updated some bundled software to latest versions and fixed usability issues in a number of wizards. Repackaged bug-fixes in a monolith updates to ensure reliable baselining of installations. ?
Saddest part is that we have been conditioned by now that list above should be a new product. Every single item there can be tracked back to something that was a known issue at a launch and quite a lot of them - "we'll fix it soon, just buy" kind of things. So, basically, it all boils down to M$ being a good citizen for a change.
There is nothing wrong with vista. It's just that investement required to master any OS these days does not match the benefit.
Why? Because most of the performance proceedings indeed go to the band. Some (large) bands are quoted saying that they make living only on concerts since their multi-milion-platinum-albums are bringing in nothing after record labels cut.
A _criminal_? No way. At the moment where he refused to act on orders he breached the contract, but certainly not a criminal. If anyone would be held responsible they are his executive managers that allowed critical network to be taken under control by single person. Bad employee? Yes. Civil liability? Yes. Padeophile? No, not based on the data. Criminal? No.
Guy is no starshine, but situation is there exclusively because of his managers incompetence.
No, not really. Customer has to be blamed too. Customer that takes up shit rationalizes decision to feed shit by boards. In a dream world where customer would demand at least some kind of quality versus quick gratification it would be rational for shareholders to push for quality. It's all about picking the rational decision that will maximize revenue. Revenue is generated by customers (generally).
Funny that you mention - trouble was that apart from US/UK nobody seemed to agree with US in this little nagging matter. Smaller countries w/o any intelligence on their own agreed since their US subsidies depended on it, and quite a few larger players called US bluff. Security council was calling for more weapons inspectors that Hussein actually welcomed (apart from a technicality or two) instead of invasion... US has veto powers there.
Freedom fries anyone? For those with short-lived memory.
well, degree is worth shit, generally. "where he can use it"? he has no fucking experience in anything that relates to that, of course he will not be let anywhere near anything that matters. Should've thinked earlier. And by your description - he is overpaid as well.
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Damn it! We need to crank up the DRM to prevent such 'letting a go' from ever occuring again!!!
I think you'll find that 40K is nothing compared to the budget of the thing. That might be their daily electricity bill, for all I care (and I suspect I am not that far off)
Bullshit. There is quite a large difference in failing maths (a an example) by not recalling some obscure formula right (or not recognizing the immediate use of it in circumstances) versus not recognizing what plus sign means... If you worked hard but failed just short - you get a second try. If you showed up just to give it a try - fail.
Yes. Of course second issue is that I have not seen a REAL item for sale there in what - six months? It's always some cheap chinese knockoffs that just get relisted if sold as auction.
Powerseller these days is a put-off instead of a promise of smooth transaction. New users in 5-10 tx range seem to be much more reliable.
Yes. I considered doing a clean-up of surplus equipment in my room (there was a fair bit) but after realizing that I have to provide about 1/3 money upfront and then just hope it actually sells. And then wait for 30 days to actually start process of getting anything out of my paypal account to somewhere where it is useful. No thanks. Craiglist is full of scamers annobody actually uses it.
I just dumped it. About 1000 USD of present value. My time is simply worth more.
WANT!
Seriously. Microsoft decided to play hardball. Having a nice advertising saga - an "ad battle" might be soooo coool!
Amen! One couldn't say any better.
Bad news - most new Sony Ericsson or Nokia phones are just fine with flash. Some samsung or LG devices code their UI in flash now.
Of course this is not "browser" flash, but standalone swf file works just fine.
I suspect that developers more or less mirror your view. You probably want to talk to thick-scum-like-executives around in the publishers...
at least it's fast!
U-8.04 is the best thing you can have to look up after your windows installation. ;) (ntfs tools is brilliant)
BTW - what does *BSD installations help you with when your mother calls you? (unless you have a disc image for her already prepared)
IF you were an IT guy you would have a reasonably sized collection of default installation CDs. To be installed using the default sticker keys or just extracting the assigned serial-no as neccessary, but still - default installations that you have checked to be legit, no viruses and guaranteed to work.
Nobody should even think about using anything from TPB - 99% of the shit in there seems to be a rootkit virus crapfest anyway.
uhm, no? Parent was talking about a corporate policies ensuring that competition cannot patent stuff they think there might be a risk with. Patent as it stands is quite an expensive process for a company - as such a simple ad that amounts to giving up all rights very well might work out cheaper than cost of patent + risk of litigation/contest around.
fire dept was called? Yes.
Air con unit is in no way related to actual chemicals found in the home? In no way.
I fail to see the indication of danger.
Ah. BTW the guy is an ex-chemist not some random 15 year old kid with dads CC. Also there are 1500 ITEMS cited, not 1500 different chemicals in the article.
In any basic hobby you will easily find that in 2m radius of you in our "lab" you will easily list 500+ items related to your hobby. Just look at that pile of cables stashed away in the corner. 200 separate items at least! 1500 is NOT THAT excessive in chemistry where you are talking about having 30+ items just for a basic distilling process.
So,
M$ did not expanded on the eye candy. Fixed some bugs. Backported some kernel features to replace known flaky ones. Improved support for HW as it came along. Updated some bundled software to latest versions and fixed usability issues in a number of wizards. Repackaged bug-fixes in a monolith updates to ensure reliable baselining of installations. ?
Saddest part is that we have been conditioned by now that list above should be a new product. Every single item there can be tracked back to something that was a known issue at a launch and quite a lot of them - "we'll fix it soon, just buy" kind of things. So, basically, it all boils down to M$ being a good citizen for a change.
There is nothing wrong with vista. It's just that investement required to master any OS these days does not match the benefit.
I have tried to use that excuse when I do stupid things and my bank manager calls me up too....
Why? Because most of the performance proceedings indeed go to the band. Some (large) bands are quoted saying that they make living only on concerts since their multi-milion-platinum-albums are bringing in nothing after record labels cut.
A _criminal_? No way.
At the moment where he refused to act on orders he breached the contract, but certainly not a criminal. If anyone would be held responsible they are his executive managers that allowed critical network to be taken under control by single person.
Bad employee? Yes. Civil liability? Yes. Padeophile? No, not based on the data. Criminal? No.
Guy is no starshine, but situation is there exclusively because of his managers incompetence.
You probably mean one - pentium-m. Core and core 2 is direct spinoffs of it, atom is a beefed up/scaled down modern pentium III.
Goes a long way explaining the situation... I would prefer sitting in a cell than trying to survive interaction with sql server 2000 any time.
No, not really. Customer has to be blamed too.
Customer that takes up shit rationalizes decision to feed shit by boards. In a dream world where customer would demand at least some kind of quality versus quick gratification it would be rational for shareholders to push for quality.
It's all about picking the rational decision that will maximize revenue. Revenue is generated by customers (generally).
Funny that you mention - trouble was that apart from US/UK nobody seemed to agree with US in this little nagging matter. Smaller countries w/o any intelligence on their own agreed since their US subsidies depended on it, and quite a few larger players called US bluff. Security council was calling for more weapons inspectors that Hussein actually welcomed (apart from a technicality or two) instead of invasion... US has veto powers there.
Freedom fries anyone? For those with short-lived memory.
I happily acknowledge that government may be making stuff up.
well, degree is worth shit, generally. "where he can use it"? he has no fucking experience in anything that relates to that, of course he will not be let anywhere near anything that matters. Should've thinked earlier. And by your description - he is overpaid as well.