I have an old ReplayTV with autoskip (before the advertising lobby pushed for its removal) that works like MythTV - I sometimes forget that commercials even exist.
Verizon will sell you ADSL without a land line in my market (Buffalo, NY) and as far as I know they'll do that anywhere in the country. Probably other providers will too. I've been without a landline for several years.
That's not how it works. They offered upgrade coupons to PC buyers during the holiday season since the product wasn't out the door yet...essentially those users "bought" Vista in the form of a coupon in the third quarter. So now when they ship a copy of Vista to a coupon holder it is counted as sale made in the third quarter...this is a standard accounting practice that is accepted throughout the business world. They are looking at it, financially, as though they released Vista during the Christmas season rather than when they did because they ran a promotion that was equivalent from a marketing perspective. Because they are a public company they are required by law to look at it this way, only small businesses can use cost based accounting that records the sale as occurring when the money/product changes hands.
I think it would be easy to apply a U.S. perspective to this and cry foul. But if Japan has publicly funded elections and strict, but fair rules about how candidates communicate then maybe they are justified in their action. It seems to me that a slightly stricter approach to election practices might take away the "guy with the most money wins" mentality that has come to dominate the U.S. process.
Limits of free speech are sometimes justified (you can't cry fire in a theater) and this MAY be one of those occasions. Or not.
I don't know how much of a heads up subscribers get...but 867 words is a lot. The world record for typing is about 212wpm which would have required about 4 minutes for your post...odds are you type less than half that speed which would take 8 minutes plus time to get through the web UI.
I went through the same thing...bought a laptop with preinstalled XP, swapped out the hard drive, restored from the cd image it came from and then was unable to activate. Contacted MS...they, after several calls and several weeks, provided me with a download that would fix the situation...but it did not...I finally had to use a dubious third party solution to get around the activation problem.
This article goes over some of the finer points of the Vista license:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/29/microsoft_ vista_eula_analysis/
Besides the "significant upgrade" crap they are also disallowing virtualization in the two cheapest licenses. It's going to get a lot more expensive to test web pages in IE if I have to either buy a premium license or a separate computer.
Sysadmins are like surgeons, they are the only ones that can access all my systems. They can kill me if they want to. I'm very careful about choosing my surgeon.
Take a look at content that's geared towards the Toddler to preTeen age group. Its full of flash and shockwave content. Flash is filling a niche to deliver tv/video game style content to the worlds young children. My kids even have a large number of game/applications that use flash on the desktop to deliver content.
As far as flash studio sucking, I couldn't agree more, but then again I'm a J2EE programmer. My artist friends think it rocks. Again its all about knowing your audience.
Instead of just adding movies, how bout integrating products with game play. In Oddworld Munch's Oddysee there you drink Sobee to restore your health.
Or maybe have an army recruiting office in the game where you actually have to join the real world Army to get to the next level....
If the nasdaq adds an 'e' to the symbol then SCO will have 30 days to file the 10-k before they are delisted. Also the nasdaq routinely allows companies to extend the 30 day deadline if the company can make a case for why they are late in filing....so while they are likely to get an e I find it unlikely they will allow themselves to be delisted.
The A stands for America...as in North America...its the name of a continent not a country. If the article refered to AOL France I would understand your position...That would have to be EOL -- not to be confused with ELO, the band.
If we can extend the life of 60 year old to 100 and in that 40 years learn to extend his life to 150 and in that 50 years extend it another 50 then we'll stay ahead of the game and extend life indefinately.
We don't need to cure aging today, just take the first step before I die:)
This link [google cache] shows how its planned out.
Probably the best way to send a message to George W is to wait til Nov. 2004 and then go to your local voting booth and express your opinion...he's sure to get the message that way.
RTFA -- its 7 bit binary, but with 24 possible colors to express each bit...(not only binary, but true color graphics:)
so the calculation is 2^6*24=1536
The world economy has become global, but labor organizations haven't.... maybe we need world wide labor unions so that companies can't get labor cheaper anywhere because all the worlds programmers, etc, are in the same union.
I began programming in php without using ANY reference because, it seems that if I can conceive a syntax to do something it will work. PHP combines ALL the syntax from PERL, C/C++, sh, so no matter what your native language is you can pick up php right off the bat.
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I have an old ReplayTV with autoskip (before the advertising lobby pushed for its removal) that works like MythTV - I sometimes forget that commercials even exist.
Verizon will sell you ADSL without a land line in my market (Buffalo, NY) and as far as I know they'll do that anywhere in the country. Probably other providers will too. I've been without a landline for several years.
That's not how it works. They offered upgrade coupons to PC buyers during the holiday season since the product wasn't out the door yet...essentially those users "bought" Vista in the form of a coupon in the third quarter. So now when they ship a copy of Vista to a coupon holder it is counted as sale made in the third quarter...this is a standard accounting practice that is accepted throughout the business world. They are looking at it, financially, as though they released Vista during the Christmas season rather than when they did because they ran a promotion that was equivalent from a marketing perspective. Because they are a public company they are required by law to look at it this way, only small businesses can use cost based accounting that records the sale as occurring when the money/product changes hands.
I think it would be easy to apply a U.S. perspective to this and cry foul. But if Japan has publicly funded elections and strict, but fair rules about how candidates communicate then maybe they are justified in their action. It seems to me that a slightly stricter approach to election practices might take away the "guy with the most money wins" mentality that has come to dominate the U.S. process.
Limits of free speech are sometimes justified (you can't cry fire in a theater) and this MAY be one of those occasions. Or not.
I don't know how much of a heads up subscribers get...but 867 words is a lot. The world record for typing is about 212wpm which would have required about 4 minutes for your post...odds are you type less than half that speed which would take 8 minutes plus time to get through the web UI.
It's a trap!
I went through the same thing...bought a laptop with preinstalled XP, swapped out the hard drive, restored from the cd image it came from and then was unable to activate. Contacted MS...they, after several calls and several weeks, provided me with a download that would fix the situation...but it did not...I finally had to use a dubious third party solution to get around the activation problem.
This article goes over some of the finer points of the Vista license: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/29/microsoft_ vista_eula_analysis/
Besides the "significant upgrade" crap they are also disallowing virtualization in the two cheapest licenses. It's going to get a lot more expensive to test web pages in IE if I have to either buy a premium license or a separate computer.
Sysadmins are like surgeons, they are the only ones that can access all my systems. They can kill me if they want to. I'm very careful about choosing my surgeon.
Take a look at content that's geared towards the Toddler to preTeen age group. Its full of flash and shockwave content. Flash is filling a niche to deliver tv/video game style content to the worlds young children. My kids even have a large number of game/applications that use flash on the desktop to deliver content.
As far as flash studio sucking, I couldn't agree more, but then again I'm a J2EE programmer. My artist friends think it rocks. Again its all about knowing your audience.
Instead of just adding movies, how bout integrating products with game play. In Oddworld Munch's Oddysee there you drink Sobee to restore your health. Or maybe have an army recruiting office in the game where you actually have to join the real world Army to get to the next level....
If the nasdaq adds an 'e' to the symbol then SCO will have 30 days to file the 10-k before they are delisted. Also the nasdaq routinely allows companies to extend the 30 day deadline if the company can make a case for why they are late in filing....so while they are likely to get an e I find it unlikely they will allow themselves to be delisted.
Yup-- they oughta go by EOL...
The A stands for America...as in North America...its the name of a continent not a country. If the article refered to AOL France I would understand your position...That would have to be EOL -- not to be confused with ELO, the band.
If we can extend the life of 60 year old to 100 and in that 40 years learn to extend his life to 150 and in that 50 years extend it another 50 then we'll stay ahead of the game and extend life indefinately. We don't need to cure aging today , just take the first step before I die :)
This link [google cache] shows how its planned out.
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is due May 5th
Its basically the home version of this: http://wwws.sun.com/hw/sunray/sunray100/index.html
Probably the best way to send a message to George W is to wait til Nov. 2004 and then go to your local voting booth and express your opinion...he's sure to get the message that way.
RTFA -- its 7 bit binary, but with 24 possible colors to express each bit...(not only binary, but true color graphics :)
so the calculation is 2^6*24=1536
The world economy has become global, but labor organizations haven't .... maybe we need world wide labor unions so that companies can't get labor cheaper anywhere because all the worlds programmers, etc, are in the same union.
I began programming in php without using ANY reference because, it seems that if I can conceive a syntax to do something it will work. PHP combines ALL the syntax from PERL, C/C++, sh, so no matter what your native language is you can pick up php right off the bat.