>>If Bill Gates says that HIS ambition would be to be an "astronaut-playboy-robot-vampire that fights crime and plays lead guitar in his own thrash metal band on the weekends" I think he just might have the resources to do it.
If Bill Gates has enough money to create a real vampire then why doesn't he have enough money to make Windows stable? It takes more than money and an Idea to solve a problem. it takes creativity. MSFT employes smart people, but they aren't let loose to create things.
I think this is were being stuck with the obtuse P4 is going to hurt us. We have special processors for Graphics, and now physics. will one day we have a chip designed to speed up the math needed for this.
Is IBM's cell processors expandable to more than just vector co-processors? Say maybe a GPU, a PPU, and now BPU or two of each?
using Open Office under X11 on OS X isn't had for me it registered with file types, and would open both X and Open Office with a double click on the app.
On the other side it took a long time to start up, looked ugly on the mac, and was functional but not overally useful.
I have switched to Abi-word for my word processing documents but keep a copy of Neo J office around for accessing spreadsheets.
So having Red Hat, Novell, and IBM standing behind Linux means those aren't big names that are recongized?
More companies can stand behind Linux because is Inclusive. If you don't like the service your getting from one you can simply migrate to another one with minimal pains.
Try that switching between various versions of windows, then buying the upgraded software, then buying the new tools to control that software.
yea but with a massive amount of 64-bit chips on the way. one would think macromedia would be beta testing flash on 64-bit with the current group of linux users. That way. when MSFt finally releases a 64-bit OS and apple releases a pure 64-bit OS macromedia only has to port to different platforms, and already has the basics taken care of.
You haven't ever had to buy just two or three copies of MS Office for a business have you? Licensing works great when you buy a lot but when you only need a couple of copies you get screwed hard.
I know Office 97 won't support OpenDoc but switching to Open Office or star office from Office 97 isn't that bad at all.
I need a clock with big enough numbers that I can read through blurry half closed eyes.
I automatically wake up between 6-6:30 every day. The only exceptions are when I stay up late then i will sleep until either the sun annoys me awake or 8 hours have passed whichever comes first. (usually the friggin sun) This is called a regular sleep cycle.
Do remember some 30-50% of businesses out there find that Office 97 has all the features that they need. I have a copy of Office 2000 at home that goes uninstalled as I never used it. Open Office as provided me with everything I need as a home owner, and everything the business work for needs.
Why should I spend $400 On software that I don't need when less expensive alternatives work just as well?
You want scary, I can show you scary. I emailed Roadrunner saying I would drop them if they couldn't due something.
I got a semi canned response but it did have some techincal details. It also stated that if you wish to discuss the techincal nature of the problem go to www.ask.slashdot.org With a full link to the other article.
Yep Roadrunner sent me to slashdot to get more information.
You do realize the the UN is the only 100% useless orginzation on the planet right? The UN cant enforce anything on its own. It can't stop people from fighting each other. It is completely powerless to those who resist it.
As designed the UN is next to useless. The only good thing is that it provides a way for all the world's goverments to send each other messages directly.
If the UN had real power it wouldn't have a security council that any member can veto anything because just because.
Want to know a little tiny secert? You can sell GPL code. GPL actually allows you to sell software you create. What you have to do though is also give out the source code too
Of course then someone can simply sell many copies of what you sold to them. Why because Supply and demand doesn't work when you have an infinite amount of supplies you can sell. Think about it. most business are lucky to get 50% profit on a product wholesale. a Lot of area's run on razor thin margins > 5% (think Dell) MSFT gets over 400% profit per XP unit sold. Office is also similiar.
Why should I give 400% profit to a company that doesn't even follow standards? As such I haven't bought any msft software since Win ME-tooo came with my dell.
1) create new and interesting art(music, videos, etc) 2) upload to P2P under creative commons 3) wait till you get sued by the RIAA because their dumb shits who don't check their facts first 4)???? 5) profit by forcing the RIAA to pay you to publish your music by P2P networks
It's a shame you can't sue MSFT when a worm works it's way across the net costing Billions to clean up after. Of Course according the the MSF eula you can't sue them, and they assume no responsiblity either.
I guess noone in the software industry actually cares about the customer.
Funny I listen to 95% of my music on random repeat of song lists. Why would I want to listen to one artist all the way through, until I get to the next one? what happens when you have two songs from one artists and 30 from another?
For small player random play and straight through play you don't need a screen. Heck the screen on the Nano is almost useless as well.
Where the Fsck do you build such a device? What do you anchor it down to?
Bedrock? where? Can't be any place, where there are strong storms, prone to earthquakes, Volcanoes, etc.
there is only a small handful of available sites around the globe for the Anchor point. Second the amount of mass that will be tugging on the techonic plate is going to cause problems, possibly leading to earth quakes in that region. Between the mass of the station, and the force of that thing trying to shoot into space(trust me on this you don't want it balanced the other way), this thing sounds like it will kill us all. Forget looking for meteor's we will build one our self and crash it into the planet.
The base required for this thing to hook on to is not only going to be huge, but needs to be inbeded in a few hundred feet of solid rock.
If your not smart enough to remember how you file things, how are you going to be smart enough to remember the metadata needed to extract the files out of a database?
Second people complain of Resier4's system overhead. What your proposing is every one needs three different computers so they have enough CPU power to play a game. Because that game is going to need to make a few thousand database queries in a short order to load up a map.
The Rokr is a 2 year old phone, that has been software updated with AAC abilities. That's it.
No This s more about Apple's push on the Phone carriers to allow more than themselves to sell services for phones.
Look at the sudden resistance Apple is getting from Sony and Warner in Japan and Australia. The RIAA members got caught off guard when Itunes Music store actually started to make a profit. Napster, and the others were nothing but a joke. Itunes rolled in and cleaned everybody's clock. over $600 million in sales in 2 years.
They didn't kill off Vala. Vala is just trapped in the Ori's Home Galaxay, where hopefully we will have either a few episodes there, or spin off like Atlantis.
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>>If Bill Gates says that HIS ambition would be to be an "astronaut-playboy-robot-vampire that fights crime and plays lead guitar in his own thrash metal band on the weekends" I think he just might have the resources to do it.
If Bill Gates has enough money to create a real vampire then why doesn't he have enough money to make Windows stable? It takes more than money and an Idea to solve a problem. it takes creativity. MSFT employes smart people, but they aren't let loose to create things.
I think this is were being stuck with the obtuse P4 is going to hurt us. We have special processors for Graphics, and now physics. will one day we have a chip designed to speed up the math needed for this.
Is IBM's cell processors expandable to more than just vector co-processors? Say maybe a GPU, a PPU, and now BPU or two of each?
I don't know but next time I have an illegal conversation i am going to be playing rap music with a sub woofer cranked all the way up.
A little bass will go a long way towards destroying whatever signal they think they can get.
Then they shouldn't sign a deal with the recording industry were said insudtry gets 70-80% of the revenue generated.
Sure an artist might get a coupl of million for a million albums sold. Of course their sponsers just got 3-4 times that.
using Open Office under X11 on OS X isn't had for me it registered with file types, and would open both X and Open Office with a double click on the app.
On the other side it took a long time to start up, looked ugly on the mac, and was functional but not overally useful.
I have switched to Abi-word for my word processing documents but keep a copy of Neo J office around for accessing spreadsheets.
So having Red Hat, Novell, and IBM standing behind Linux means those aren't big names that are recongized?
More companies can stand behind Linux because is Inclusive. If you don't like the service your getting from one you can simply migrate to another one with minimal pains.
Try that switching between various versions of windows, then buying the upgraded software, then buying the new tools to control that software.
yea but with a massive amount of 64-bit chips on the way. one would think macromedia would be beta testing flash on 64-bit with the current group of linux users. That way. when MSFt finally releases a 64-bit OS and apple releases a pure 64-bit OS macromedia only has to port to different platforms, and already has the basics taken care of.
You haven't ever had to buy just two or three copies of MS Office for a business have you? Licensing works great when you buy a lot but when you only need a couple of copies you get screwed hard.
I know Office 97 won't support OpenDoc but switching to Open Office or star office from Office 97 isn't that bad at all.
Well Mine is even simpler.
I need a clock with big enough numbers that I can read through blurry half closed eyes.
I automatically wake up between 6-6:30 every day. The only exceptions are when I stay up late then i will sleep until either the sun annoys me awake or 8 hours have passed whichever comes first. (usually the friggin sun) This is called a regular sleep cycle.
Of course I am also abby-normal
Do remember some 30-50% of businesses out there find that Office 97 has all the features that they need. I have a copy of Office 2000 at home that goes uninstalled as I never used it. Open Office as provided me with everything I need as a home owner, and everything the business work for needs.
Why should I spend $400 On software that I don't need when less expensive alternatives work just as well?
Yea but when was the last time you actually looked at AOL's content? I find slashdot gives better content, with less dups.
You want scary, I can show you scary. I emailed Roadrunner saying I would drop them if they couldn't due something.
I got a semi canned response but it did have some techincal details. It also stated that if you wish to discuss the techincal nature of the problem go to www.ask.slashdot.org With a full link to the other article.
Yep Roadrunner sent me to slashdot to get more information.
If I had mod points that would be marked as funny. Oh, now I have to go clean my keyboard.
You do realize the the UN is the only 100% useless orginzation on the planet right? The UN cant enforce anything on its own. It can't stop people from fighting each other. It is completely powerless to those who resist it.
As designed the UN is next to useless. The only good thing is that it provides a way for all the world's goverments to send each other messages directly.
If the UN had real power it wouldn't have a security council that any member can veto anything because just because.
Want to know a little tiny secert? You can sell GPL code. GPL actually allows you to sell software you create. What you have to do though is also give out the source code too
Of course then someone can simply sell many copies of what you sold to them. Why because Supply and demand doesn't work when you have an infinite amount of supplies you can sell. Think about it. most business are lucky to get 50% profit on a product wholesale. a Lot of area's run on razor thin margins > 5% (think Dell) MSFT gets over 400% profit per XP unit sold. Office is also similiar.
Why should I give 400% profit to a company that doesn't even follow standards? As such I haven't bought any msft software since Win ME-tooo came with my dell.
So the new slashdot idea will be
1) create new and interesting art(music, videos, etc)
2) upload to P2P under creative commons
3) wait till you get sued by the RIAA because their dumb shits who don't check their facts first
4)????
5) profit by forcing the RIAA to pay you to publish your music by P2P networks
It's a shame you can't sue MSFT when a worm works it's way across the net costing Billions to clean up after. Of Course according the the MSF eula you can't sue them, and they assume no responsiblity either.
I guess noone in the software industry actually cares about the customer.
Funny I listen to 95% of my music on random repeat of song lists. Why would I want to listen to one artist all the way through, until I get to the next one? what happens when you have two songs from one artists and 30 from another?
For small player random play and straight through play you don't need a screen. Heck the screen on the Nano is almost useless as well.
Where the Fsck do you build such a device? What do you anchor it down to?
Bedrock? where? Can't be any place, where there are strong storms, prone to earthquakes, Volcanoes, etc.
there is only a small handful of available sites around the globe for the Anchor point. Second the amount of mass that will be tugging on the techonic plate is going to cause problems, possibly leading to earth quakes in that region. Between the mass of the station, and the force of that thing trying to shoot into space(trust me on this you don't want it balanced the other way), this thing sounds like it will kill us all. Forget looking for meteor's we will build one our self and crash it into the planet.
The base required for this thing to hook on to is not only going to be huge, but needs to be inbeded in a few hundred feet of solid rock.
You don't have to trust them.
Of course if IBM wants to be the nice guy, and help people get and hold new jobs, why shouldn't they get some respect for it.
Of course I will be keeping the other eye on them to make sure they don't become evil once again.
If your not smart enough to remember how you file things, how are you going to be smart enough to remember the metadata needed to extract the files out of a database?
Second people complain of Resier4's system overhead. What your proposing is every one needs three different computers so they have enough CPU power to play a game. Because that game is going to need to make a few thousand database queries in a short order to load up a map.
The Rokr is a 2 year old phone, that has been software updated with AAC abilities. That's it.
No This s more about Apple's push on the Phone carriers to allow more than themselves to sell services for phones.
Look at the sudden resistance Apple is getting from Sony and Warner in Japan and Australia. The RIAA members got caught off guard when Itunes Music store actually started to make a profit. Napster, and the others were nothing but a joke. Itunes rolled in and cleaned everybody's clock. over $600 million in sales in 2 years.
Don't forget a test bed system. For times when you need to format a Hard drive, Duplicate a drive, test a piece of hardware, etc.
You don't even need a case for the thing.
They didn't kill off Vala. Vala is just trapped in the Ori's Home Galaxay, where hopefully we will have either a few episodes there, or spin off like Atlantis.
It's still a damn bit easier to figure out than Sony's numbers which use 48kbps Atrac files.
So Apple rounds a little. The rest of them don't even come close to real useful numbers.