You're entirely right about the "pay for premium" though. Google needs to drop the stupid beta word, and pick something that's more representative of what the product is. I'd choose something more like a "lifestage" kind of label. Toddler, teenage, adult, mature, senior, elderly would be good starts.
That is a good idea but I can't think of a word that would clearly express what they do to the general public that they can be clearly attach to each product that will never be "released". Take the lifestage model as an example google mail geriatric or google finance toddler. Those names are no where near as clear as the word beta, which I take to mean not finished yet but usable by people who probably aren't developers. It is the definition of usable that may be in play here not the definition of the entire word.
disclaimer: I skimmed the article so I'm not really sure what they are claiming the difference in definition is.
...the theory of global warming says it gets warmer as a trend but that there are cold and hot extremes along the way.
Sounds to me like they are just covering their collective asses. This way they are right for as long as they need their jobs to last. I don't have an opinion one way or another on global warming/cooling and don't want to make one based on the reports I have read. The reports all seem to say we are all going to die, but on the way to death there is no way to tell whether or not I'm right so basically I need more money so I can continue to tell you we are going to die. Sounds like a good gig to me.
I started off with the thinking that patents as a business model are a bad thing. Then realized that there are cases where patents, when used as they were intended, are a good thing which is why I changed stance in the middle of the post. I should have finished the sentence
Although at the same time IBM has done a lot to increase the research and knowledge in the whole nano-tech field. with, so it isn't that bad, they deserve to profit off of all the money they are spending.
It would have made my change in position much more clear.
The intro to the video has "people patents projects" it is almost scary to see that patents is that entrenched in their business plans. Although at the same time IBM has done a lot to increase the research and knowledge in the whole nano-tech field. When I was a tech in a lab the prof running the lab told me that most of the time when there was some barrier that no one could cross in the nano-tech field IBM would throw a ton of money at it and solve the problem. So it is nice to see they are still working on solving problems and advancing the field.
I'm going to go ahead and assume that he meant it would take 10 hours for someone to get piece x to production and the superstar would do the same in 1 to 5 hours.
Production in this case meaning ready for general consumption i.e. not having bugs of its own, not creating bugs in other pieces and handling bugs from other pieces nicely.
That is what all of the "superstars" in my company can do. I'm fairly certain most reasonable definitions of superstar have very little do to with actual amount of code written and more to do with quality of code and what I like to call the WTF factor (where people say, "WTF, I worked on that for hours and couldn't get it working" or "WTF, you can do that").
All Americans suck because the make stupid comments like this: Instant +5 Insightful: just say "All Americans suck because {insert generalization here}"
Your amazing plan of "limiting" crypto use to financial situations is not very good, we would have the financial and in your opinion "illegal" traffic all encrypted and everything else unencrypted. Much like the hand gun situation in some countries the only people with guns are criminals and the police and usually there is more criminals than police.
It should also be said that only Canadian artists can receive disbursements from levies collected. That means that Canadian artists are theoretically earning revenue, indirectly, from downloads of non Canadian music. That should be: That means that Canadian artists are theoretically earning revenue, indirectly, from people purchasing blank media on which the levy applies. After that as far as I understand the money is split based upon popularity of Canadian artists (I have no idea how this is done if it is true).
Most cellphones don't have feedback from the mic to the speaker like most landline phones do, because of this you start talking louder so that what you hear is the same volume you would hear on a land line phone.
As such, I will be sending DMCA takedown notices to anyone who reproduces all or part of this comment. When should I be expecting my DMCA notice I have always wanted to ignore one and never received the chance before.
That's odd, the first time I brought a Office 2007 excel sheet to work from home to work and tried to open it in 2003 it asked me if I wanted to download something to allow me to load the 2007 version on my 2003 version. Haven't had a problem with interoperability since then.
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You're a fucking tool, he didn't ask how do I get rid of Windows because of their numerous retarded practices he asked how to turn off a single feature in MSN. To install Ubuntu doesn't help him at all if you were to tell him to install other MSN protocol IM clients such as Pidgin, Trillian or something else then you could have moved them slowly towards open sourced software and made the switch go easier, not that I really would recommend Trillian and I haven't played with Pidgin yet. The best course of action however would have been to not click the reply button because your answer had absolutely no relevance to the question he was asking.
Well, in addition to the path given above, on the Office main page, you could click "Downloads" and see that it's one of the top 5 Office downloads...
Or you could just go to the Microsoft Downloads page directly and note that it's the second most popular download, available right at the top of the page...
Or, you could Google "Office 2007 format" and see that it's in the top 10 results for that query...
Pretty complicated stuff there....
Or when you try to open a 2007 office file in 2003 it pops up a dialog that asks you if you want to download the conversion pack. I use 2007 at home and 2003 at work and forgot to change the format one day, I was pretty happy when it automatically asked me if I would like to download the conversion pack so I wouldn't have to run home.
Robertson said an average user that maintains good [gadget] hygiene would never see the software loaded onto their device without their knowledge.'" I'm sure most of you have seen your bosses leave their blackberry, Treo or whatever device they have lying around or just hand it off to the secretary who leaves it on the desk. They really should find some way to alert people if this software or software like this gets on the device as in my humble opinion this is a huge risk for the people who need to have semi-secure communication in most companies I have seen.
It would be if you provided an opinion. With out your opinion on whether or not scuttlemonkey is incompetent there is no way I can take the opposite opinion and call you incompetent for your opinion.
Is M$ still selling these at a loss, or barely past the break-even point? If so, how are they getting money back by making you go buy another? If you go to buy another console that means you are doing it to play on live, which means that you are going to be buying games to play on Live. If you don't care about playing on Live you'll probably just keep using your modded xbox and won't be buying a new one unless the current one breaks.
I highly doubt that there will be any lawsuits because of this. If someone were to bring a suit against Microsoft for banning them for having a modded console Microsoft would slap them with a DMCA circumvention suit immediately, it would work in Britain and the US for sure. As for false positives I bet that the reason they have taken a year in waiting to ban the modded consoles is that they have taken the time to test against consoles that they themselves have modded in order to be absolutely sure. I didn't hear of any first generation unmodified xboxes being banned from Live for being modded.
Last generation it was worth modding the xbox as you could then use tunneling software to play multiplayer games but I don't know if there is anything like that available for the 360 yet, which in my opinion makes modding the 360 not worth it. I think it is going to take quite a bit for me to mod my 360. Someone would have to build a Live like server to distribute updates using some sort of tunneling software and try to distribute updates that way. I think that they would still need to actually change the dashboard first, which as to my knowledge has not happened yet.
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You're entirely right about the "pay for premium" though. Google needs to drop the stupid beta word, and pick something that's more representative of what the product is. I'd choose something more like a "lifestage" kind of label. Toddler, teenage, adult, mature, senior, elderly would be good starts.
That is a good idea but I can't think of a word that would clearly express what they do to the general public that they can be clearly attach to each product that will never be "released". Take the lifestage model as an example google mail geriatric or google finance toddler. Those names are no where near as clear as the word beta, which I take to mean not finished yet but usable by people who probably aren't developers. It is the definition of usable that may be in play here not the definition of the entire word.
disclaimer: I skimmed the article so I'm not really sure what they are claiming the difference in definition is.
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...the theory of global warming says it gets warmer as a trend but that there are cold and hot extremes along the way.
Sounds to me like they are just covering their collective asses. This way they are right for as long as they need their jobs to last. I don't have an opinion one way or another on global warming/cooling and don't want to make one based on the reports I have read. The reports all seem to say we are all going to die, but on the way to death there is no way to tell whether or not I'm right so basically I need more money so I can continue to tell you we are going to die. Sounds like a good gig to me.
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It would have made my change in position much more clear.
The intro to the video has "people patents projects" it is almost scary to see that patents is that entrenched in their business plans. Although at the same time IBM has done a lot to increase the research and knowledge in the whole nano-tech field. When I was a tech in a lab the prof running the lab told me that most of the time when there was some barrier that no one could cross in the nano-tech field IBM would throw a ton of money at it and solve the problem. So it is nice to see they are still working on solving problems and advancing the field.
I'm going to go ahead and assume that he meant it would take 10 hours for someone to get piece x to production and the superstar would do the same in 1 to 5 hours.
Production in this case meaning ready for general consumption i.e. not having bugs of its own, not creating bugs in other pieces and handling bugs from other pieces nicely.
That is what all of the "superstars" in my company can do. I'm fairly certain most reasonable definitions of superstar have very little do to with actual amount of code written and more to do with quality of code and what I like to call the WTF factor (where people say, "WTF, I worked on that for hours and couldn't get it working" or "WTF, you can do that").
I was already thinking it would be much easier if you just had it water itself when it was thirsty. No need to run a cable anywhere that way.
All Americans suck because the make stupid comments like this: Instant +5 Insightful: just say "All Americans suck because {insert generalization here}"
I wouldn't admit to having actually read it 10 times.
Drop down lists are hard before coffee, is there any other way to undo a bad moderation with the new system?
I don't know about string theory but there is no way he pulled it off without rope theory.
Your amazing plan of "limiting" crypto use to financial situations is not very good, we would have the financial and in your opinion "illegal" traffic all encrypted and everything else unencrypted. Much like the hand gun situation in some countries the only people with guns are criminals and the police and usually there is more criminals than police.
That should be: That means that Canadian artists are theoretically earning revenue, indirectly, from people purchasing blank media on which the levy applies. After that as far as I understand the money is split based upon popularity of Canadian artists (I have no idea how this is done if it is true).
Probably your laptop from your apartment somewhere in Alberta where you work in the oilfield.
Most cellphones don't have feedback from the mic to the speaker like most landline phones do, because of this you start talking louder so that what you hear is the same volume you would hear on a land line phone.
That's odd, the first time I brought a Office 2007 excel sheet to work from home to work and tried to open it in 2003 it asked me if I wanted to download something to allow me to load the 2007 version on my 2003 version. Haven't had a problem with interoperability since then.
You're a fucking tool, he didn't ask how do I get rid of Windows because of their numerous retarded practices he asked how to turn off a single feature in MSN. To install Ubuntu doesn't help him at all if you were to tell him to install other MSN protocol IM clients such as Pidgin, Trillian or something else then you could have moved them slowly towards open sourced software and made the switch go easier, not that I really would recommend Trillian and I haven't played with Pidgin yet. The best course of action however would have been to not click the reply button because your answer had absolutely no relevance to the question he was asking.
Or you could just go to the Microsoft Downloads page directly and note that it's the second most popular download, available right at the top of the page...
Or, you could Google "Office 2007 format" and see that it's in the top 10 results for that query...
Pretty complicated stuff there....
Or when you try to open a 2007 office file in 2003 it pops up a dialog that asks you if you want to download the conversion pack. I use 2007 at home and 2003 at work and forgot to change the format one day, I was pretty happy when it automatically asked me if I would like to download the conversion pack so I wouldn't have to run home.
I'm sure most of you have seen your bosses leave their blackberry, Treo or whatever device they have lying around or just hand it off to the secretary who leaves it on the desk. They really should find some way to alert people if this software or software like this gets on the device as in my humble opinion this is a huge risk for the people who need to have semi-secure communication in most companies I have seen.
You should fix the mammoths page on wikipedia to include that fact.
It would be if you provided an opinion. With out your opinion on whether or not scuttlemonkey is incompetent there is no way I can take the opposite opinion and call you incompetent for your opinion.
I highly doubt that there will be any lawsuits because of this. If someone were to bring a suit against Microsoft for banning them for having a modded console Microsoft would slap them with a DMCA circumvention suit immediately, it would work in Britain and the US for sure. As for false positives I bet that the reason they have taken a year in waiting to ban the modded consoles is that they have taken the time to test against consoles that they themselves have modded in order to be absolutely sure. I didn't hear of any first generation unmodified xboxes being banned from Live for being modded.
Last generation it was worth modding the xbox as you could then use tunneling software to play multiplayer games but I don't know if there is anything like that available for the 360 yet, which in my opinion makes modding the 360 not worth it. I think it is going to take quite a bit for me to mod my 360. Someone would have to build a Live like server to distribute updates using some sort of tunneling software and try to distribute updates that way. I think that they would still need to actually change the dashboard first, which as to my knowledge has not happened yet.