Heh, i am tempted to claim i learned English by reading RPG books. Well, that and trying to play computer games with interfaces and manuals in said language. At least if feel i picked up more of the language that way then i ever did trying to memorize list of words in school.
Dunno how it is in the US, but i could have sworn that elsewhere in the world there are CFLs being sold that look remarkably like a frosted bulb. Now if you specifically require clear bulbs tho, i can understand your problem.
I guess said Korean company have registered.co.cc with eNIC (a subsidiary of Verisign, afaik) and is then reselling sub-domains of that to anyone interested, without bothering to check who places the order or what it is used for as long as the payments show up on time.
Similar to the hoopla regarding Torvalds shaving a vestigial number form the Linux version by going 3.x.
I have long wondered why various projects, if they are not maintaining a stable branch for fixes, do not simply use a single rolling number to indicate a new release.
Also, i think Windows have had built in ability to write cd-r since XP. Tho this is a easy to overlook feature as it involves dropping files onto a "empty" optical drive.
Glad i am not the only one. I still would love to see cheap 5x-10x packs of small usb sticks or similar. There are ways to format optical RW media to behave like floppies, but it never seemed to catch on. Likely because of the "rarity" of the drives and cost of media when introduced. And perhaps a lack of native support in Windows. Tho one format i tried had the "feature" of auto-installing the required driver on first insertion.
The IP sector is based on rent seeking on non-rivalrous goods. This means that they can rent something out to a infinite number of customers at the same time. A bit like a apartment building with infinite capacity. But with infinite capacity it also means that anyone could find a place there, and the price of housing is based on scarcity and need. So they need to keep a sharp watch on all entryways so nobody on the inside allows anyone on the outside in.
A mental cog snapped into place for me when i heard someone presented as a "recording artist" during a press event of some kind. That to me signaled that the person was more interested in recorded media and their sales then touring and actually interacting with his fans. And yes, he was some big name seller in a genre i do not care much about.
In the movie they used a rubber ball and multiple contact "wheels" to spin it in various directions as needed (one pr wanted axis of rotation at least). Quite possible right now but likely need a whole lot more computing power then what this robot has available.
I do, had some fun with it (and the typewriter sounds) back when i first got online. I think i still have the ICQ number registered, but unsure if i recall the password any longer.
I am just saying it seems like just about every US company approach a global reach as if US == World. Consider that the one Apple office covers a whole lot of nations with differing languages, cultures and laws.
I guess the war on drugs is allowed to continue on because the visible users are the "outsiders" of society. I wonder how many there is that wear a suit and tie each day, and inject or snort something in at times and places less publicly visible.
Sounds like companies gaming peoples habits for profit to me.
That is, change the suffix, keep the numbers, sell less for more. This thanks to people being so used to calculating in the old system, that the new one give their habits a runaround.
Reminds me how stores would keep the prices but pocket the difference when the Norwegian government, in a populist move, lowered the VAT on food (as a reaction to complaints about high food prices, not considering that the franchise layer involved may be pushing their prices up because they held a strong bargaining poition).
There will always be transition pains. Question is if the short term transition pain is worse then the long term issues of using a less and less relevant system.
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Heh, i am tempted to claim i learned English by reading RPG books. Well, that and trying to play computer games with interfaces and manuals in said language. At least if feel i picked up more of the language that way then i ever did trying to memorize list of words in school.
Dunno how it is in the US, but i could have sworn that elsewhere in the world there are CFLs being sold that look remarkably like a frosted bulb. Now if you specifically require clear bulbs tho, i can understand your problem.
I guess said Korean company have registered .co.cc with eNIC (a subsidiary of Verisign, afaik) and is then reselling sub-domains of that to anyone interested, without bothering to check who places the order or what it is used for as long as the payments show up on time.
Dilbert, being on the ball since 1980s.
Similar to the hoopla regarding Torvalds shaving a vestigial number form the Linux version by going 3.x.
I have long wondered why various projects, if they are not maintaining a stable branch for fixes, do not simply use a single rolling number to indicate a new release.
i found myself reminded of this concept:
http://www.ubergizmo.com/2011/02/art-lebedev-cardboard-usb-flash-drives-concept/
Also, i think Windows have had built in ability to write cd-r since XP. Tho this is a easy to overlook feature as it involves dropping files onto a "empty" optical drive.
Glad i am not the only one. I still would love to see cheap 5x-10x packs of small usb sticks or similar. There are ways to format optical RW media to behave like floppies, but it never seemed to catch on. Likely because of the "rarity" of the drives and cost of media when introduced. And perhaps a lack of native support in Windows. Tho one format i tried had the "feature" of auto-installing the required driver on first insertion.
The IP sector is based on rent seeking on non-rivalrous goods. This means that they can rent something out to a infinite number of customers at the same time. A bit like a apartment building with infinite capacity. But with infinite capacity it also means that anyone could find a place there, and the price of housing is based on scarcity and need. So they need to keep a sharp watch on all entryways so nobody on the inside allows anyone on the outside in.
Yea, around the netMD/MDHD time the only devices that could do quick extraction of the audio was professional-market products.
Reminds me of some plug system i read about that one would only find on similar such products today for handling digital video.
http://mafiaa.org/
A mental cog snapped into place for me when i heard someone presented as a "recording artist" during a press event of some kind. That to me signaled that the person was more interested in recorded media and their sales then touring and actually interacting with his fans. And yes, he was some big name seller in a genre i do not care much about.
issue 2 likely comes from vehicle weight vs engine torque.
In the movie they used a rubber ball and multiple contact "wheels" to spin it in various directions as needed (one pr wanted axis of rotation at least). Quite possible right now but likely need a whole lot more computing power then what this robot has available.
If the PSTN network is up to snuff, the conversation likely stays ATM up to the nearest PSTN "switch" for the landline customer.
I do, had some fun with it (and the typewriter sounds) back when i first got online. I think i still have the ICQ number registered, but unsure if i recall the password any longer.
Iirc, there is http://www.circlehack.com/ for the circle stuff.
Difficult on a laptop with both built in.
No rotors to bump into things with? Thus allowing it to slip between buildings and such?
There are some twitter clients done in Air, with the biggest being Tweetdeck.
I am just saying it seems like just about every US company approach a global reach as if US == World. Consider that the one Apple office covers a whole lot of nations with differing languages, cultures and laws.
Its a standard US company thing. I think Apple got one office covering the whole or Europe and Middle-east...
I guess the war on drugs is allowed to continue on because the visible users are the "outsiders" of society. I wonder how many there is that wear a suit and tie each day, and inject or snort something in at times and places less publicly visible.
I wonder if those founding fathers ever considered a nation that would span the continent when they wrote that document.
If they where .com.us and so on, that would make sense. As it is, USA have at best a "historical" claim on the jurisdiction of .com and the rest.
Sounds like companies gaming peoples habits for profit to me.
That is, change the suffix, keep the numbers, sell less for more. This thanks to people being so used to calculating in the old system, that the new one give their habits a runaround.
Reminds me how stores would keep the prices but pocket the difference when the Norwegian government, in a populist move, lowered the VAT on food (as a reaction to complaints about high food prices, not considering that the franchise layer involved may be pushing their prices up because they held a strong bargaining poition).
There will always be transition pains. Question is if the short term transition pain is worse then the long term issues of using a less and less relevant system.