Because most people here feel Borland products are no longer relevant. I haven't used anything from them since Turbo Pascal/C days. These days it's VC++ for PC and gcc for Linux/embedded. There's no reason for me to use a Borland product.
Our local HD added self-checkout lines about 2 years ago. Lowe's followed suit a few months afterwards. Then it was Albertson's turn. I actually liked the self-checkout lines since they're usually shorter and people are getting the hang of it.
I think sometimes people just get spaced out and are not looking at the right indicators/icons/whatever. Last week I spaced out at a 4-way stop for a minute "waiting for the light to turn green". Fortunately there were no cars behind me.
You can get "naked" DSL without active PSTN dialtone, but that only works if you're in range of the telco CO and don't need to use the RT. Telcos are fighting tooth and nail not to share their RT with CLECs if they're not going to get a cut. So the only way for most people to get DSL with good speed is through RT, which also means they must have an active PSTN line to piggyback onto, which means they pay the phone tax already.
No it's correct. But it's not the bowl, rather the rubber flapper keeping the water in the bowl until needed. Seems those chlorine tabs harden it or something. Good thing rubber flaps are easy to replace by anyone who knows which end of the screwdriver to hold.
I was under the impression that the Gates Foundation have little bearing on Microsoft corporate policy in general, other than owning enough stock to throw its weight around at board/shareholder meetings. The Gates Foundation seem to occupy itself with charity work rather than shareholder activism. I fail to see how the decoupling will affect business as usual at MS.
You just have to look at Gates charity in giving computers to schools. Windows. Oh yeah, the first one is free kids.
Hey, they can quit anytime they want. Windows is not dope.
So the man spent 30 years crushing the competition using brutal and sometimes unethical business practices. Big deal. Everybody on the losing end whines but secretly loves to be in his shoes. Now he realizes he has too much money and wants to give it back. I have zero problem with that. You don't like it, fine, nobody's forcing you to take his money.
Are you going to rail against the new dishwashers that use too little water to clean your dishes? No siree, can't have that. Must use more water to make sure my dishes are spot-on clean.
Agreed, "face" these days is something the Chinese tosses out at foreigners to make them feel guilty over whatever faux pas they feel like inventing at that moment. In case people haven't noticed, Chinese people treat each other like crap. They lost the concept of face, morality, and social propriety during the mass insanity of the Cultural Revolution. I'm not sure they've gotten it back yet.
2002 prices are not normal. 1995-1998 is more like it, with 1997 being the low point.
Concensus
is that Bay Area real estate is about 50-60% above fair value, which will put the fair value at 1998 levels.
Well, we're in a housing bubble. Some know it, others are in denial. I'm hearing dot-com echos. In a way, it's an extension of the dot-com boom that grew into its own. Housing prices will come back down to earth, one way or another.
WTF? If I've got anyone in IT putting 1,000,000 rows in a spreadsheet, I'm seriously considering demoting them. If you're going to have a million rows, get a database.
Those in the scientific/engineering community could really use the larger limit. That feature is not aimed at you IT guys.
Had vonage since 10/2004. Never had a problem. Never had to reboot the adapter box (linksys PAP2). I think most people having trouble with Vonage (or any VOIP) has underlying issues with stability and bandwidth of their network connection. If people with 128kbps upstream ADSL crank their VOIP up to 90kbps+, I think they'll have problem because if I recall correctly for ADSL either upstream spectrum is shared with a portion of download spectrum. Or possibly ACK packets are not getting sent because VOIP takes up all the bandwidth, making everything else sluggish.
Also, some consumer level modems/routers crap out under even moderate load.
I've had Vonage since 10/2004. Never once did I had to reboot the linksys box (PAP2). Maybe it's because my router and modem are stable and I use traffic shaping to guarantee bandwidth. Maybe I'm just lucky to get a good linksys box.
If the executives of Yahoo want to go live in China
Judging from the long trail of executive splooge from here to China, they probably are. You only need to look at Taiwan to see that taken to the extreme.
Back until a few months ago many people will take whatever job they could find. For most jobs telecommuting isn't an option. Maybe after a few months of heavy commute some people will make the jump and switch to a house that will cost him/her hundreds more per month, but not until he/she's good and ready. What's "ready"? Depends on financial situations. Many/. readers have this view of how the world would be so much nicer if everybody would just be a software engineer and telecommute. Sorry, buddy, that's not how things are out here in the real world.
Yes, but you were directing your anger at people, not govt policies. There are still folks here that has been around since 1970's, when houses cost around $70,000. Now those same houses usually cost a cool $1.5 million (or more), due to larger parcels of land. That's a 20X increase, whereas their salaries maybe increased 5x. They literally woke up one day to find themselves stuck where they are, and their children priced out of the city where they grew up in.
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Because most people here feel Borland products are no longer relevant. I haven't used anything from them since Turbo Pascal/C days. These days it's VC++ for PC and gcc for Linux/embedded. There's no reason for me to use a Borland product.
Our local HD added self-checkout lines about 2 years ago. Lowe's followed suit a few months afterwards. Then it was Albertson's turn. I actually liked the self-checkout lines since they're usually shorter and people are getting the hang of it.
I think sometimes people just get spaced out and are not looking at the right indicators/icons/whatever. Last week I spaced out at a 4-way stop for a minute "waiting for the light to turn green". Fortunately there were no cars behind me.
Don't worry. Technical people will follow soon by the ratio of 10:1.
it really is Deutschland uber alles.
You had me until the "assassination" thing.
You can get "naked" DSL without active PSTN dialtone, but that only works if you're in range of the telco CO and don't need to use the RT. Telcos are fighting tooth and nail not to share their RT with CLECs if they're not going to get a cut. So the only way for most people to get DSL with good speed is through RT, which also means they must have an active PSTN line to piggyback onto, which means they pay the phone tax already.
No it's correct. But it's not the bowl, rather the rubber flapper keeping the water in the bowl until needed. Seems those chlorine tabs harden it or something. Good thing rubber flaps are easy to replace by anyone who knows which end of the screwdriver to hold.
I was under the impression that the Gates Foundation have little bearing on Microsoft corporate policy in general, other than owning enough stock to throw its weight around at board/shareholder meetings. The Gates Foundation seem to occupy itself with charity work rather than shareholder activism. I fail to see how the decoupling will affect business as usual at MS.
Hey, they can quit anytime they want. Windows is not dope.
So the man spent 30 years crushing the competition using brutal and sometimes unethical business practices. Big deal. Everybody on the losing end whines but secretly loves to be in his shoes. Now he realizes he has too much money and wants to give it back. I have zero problem with that. You don't like it, fine, nobody's forcing you to take his money.
Are you going to rail against the new dishwashers that use too little water to clean your dishes? No siree, can't have that. Must use more water to make sure my dishes are spot-on clean.
Fire one.
Agreed, "face" these days is something the Chinese tosses out at foreigners to make them feel guilty over whatever faux pas they feel like inventing at that moment. In case people haven't noticed, Chinese people treat each other like crap. They lost the concept of face, morality, and social propriety during the mass insanity of the Cultural Revolution. I'm not sure they've gotten it back yet.
I'd put it at about the same time we're visited by the four horsemen, give and take a few years.
2002 prices are not normal. 1995-1998 is more like it, with 1997 being the low point. Concensus is that Bay Area real estate is about 50-60% above fair value, which will put the fair value at 1998 levels.
Well, what's Berkeley then? No, wait, shhhhhh. Pay no attention to that world-class university across the bay.
Well, we're in a housing bubble. Some know it, others are in denial. I'm hearing dot-com echos. In a way, it's an extension of the dot-com boom that grew into its own. Housing prices will come back down to earth, one way or another.
Those in the scientific/engineering community could really use the larger limit. That feature is not aimed at you IT guys.
Also, some consumer level modems/routers crap out under even moderate load.
I've had Vonage since 10/2004. Never once did I had to reboot the linksys box (PAP2). Maybe it's because my router and modem are stable and I use traffic shaping to guarantee bandwidth. Maybe I'm just lucky to get a good linksys box.
Judging from the long trail of executive splooge from here to China, they probably are. You only need to look at Taiwan to see that taken to the extreme.
No, they've got baidu. They don't need google.
Didn't the guy say he can't afford a new car?
Back until a few months ago many people will take whatever job they could find. For most jobs telecommuting isn't an option. Maybe after a few months of heavy commute some people will make the jump and switch to a house that will cost him/her hundreds more per month, but not until he/she's good and ready. What's "ready"? Depends on financial situations. Many /. readers have this view of how the world would be so much nicer if everybody would just be a software engineer and telecommute. Sorry, buddy, that's not how things are out here in the real world.
ok, maybe not "woke up one day" but you get the gist.
Yes, but you were directing your anger at people, not govt policies. There are still folks here that has been around since 1970's, when houses cost around $70,000. Now those same houses usually cost a cool $1.5 million (or more), due to larger parcels of land. That's a 20X increase, whereas their salaries maybe increased 5x. They literally woke up one day to find themselves stuck where they are, and their children priced out of the city where they grew up in.