This is true. It depends on the environment in this case. In my job, if one of my engineers fucks up and the product doesn't get delivered, I am the one in trouble. That is how it should be. It's my job to allocate good resources and execute properly with my "resources" (engineers). If they don't get their job done on time, I either A) Didn't schedule it properly, B) Didn't hire the right people, or C) Couldn't manage the "engineering" process, or make the engineers work hard and be happy.
In a proper environment, amazingly which I am in right now, its not the engineers fault, its mine.
Now, what happens alot of times is the manager comes into an existing group and things slip, then there is some leeway, and the engineers can take a bit of heat.
The most common mistake made by a company though is the manager doesn't do the hiring, but the managers MANAGER does it. So I'm sitting here as the manager, my BOSS hired the engineer reporting to me, he is not a good engineer, now there is a problem. If I fire this engineer, I am saying my boss can't hire.
I've been in the scenario as well.
In the end though, you are mostly right. Most companies operate where the engineer gets the blame when the manager screws up.
(I've been both, and currently am operating as both at the same time).
Assumption I am making:
1) There is a likely chance that you worked on this software durring office hours, after all, you developed it for this specific job. You are not a contractor, you are a full time employee. This makes it difficult for you claim it is yours because you developed it for your specific job. The only thing you really have going for you, is you are not a "developer". The assumption I will make here is that the company owns it, because if they see value in it, you'll get threatened with lawsuit if you claim you own it now. You probably signed a non-compete agreement anyways, saying you can't work on company related things at another company (OR YOUR OWN TIME). If its company related, they own it no matter what. Sorry.
You should expect recognition for your efforts outside your normal job. You could even get a promotion, into development, or maybe a bump up on the salary pole in customer service. As an engineer, I would actually expect something in return for this effort, if it turns out to be a large scale solution to a bigger problem. If you don't get anything, what the hell, you have a customer support job, quit and now go get a development job with this on your resume.
Your manager has a bigger objective, most "managers" have fallen into the trap already and are trying to climb the corporate ladder. He will be trying to get a big raise or promotion.
It makes more sense for a manager to get the raise/promotion, after all, he is responsible if everything goes WRONG not the engineer. Alot of people assume the opposite, if everything goes right, reward the engineers, but if everything goes wrong, the fire the manager. This isn't the case, and that is how its observed from above. Most "engineers" observe it "I get the reward if everything goes right, and my Manager is fired if I fuck up", that's NOT the case. Sorry.
Your case is fuzzy, because the Manager wasn't originally responsible for delivery of an alpha-product you've created, however may turn it into a real-project, with the VP's or company owners knowing now whats going on, they may now assume responsibility if it fails for lost time and resources. However, you have to look out for what really happends, it could be your managers keep it secret from the guys above until you finish the project, that way if it fails, they can just pretend like it never occured and no harm done. If it succeedes then they say they did this big thing for the company and pat you on the head.
I believe it does increase immediete demand. Those who were going to wait to buy one will buy one NOW. All the extra hype generated because "So many other people want this thing, they don't have enough supply" causes those who were on the fence about getting one may jump on the bandwagon and say I want one now too. Couple that with the "You can't have one!", ever so simple reverse psychology and the wallet, or purse opens.
I don't know how many people this accounts for, but I'm sure its some significant percentage (1% to 3% of purchases).
I know one thing for sure, I've fallen for it in the past.. tell me I probably can't get something, all the sudden I am out looking for it even though I may not of really wanted it.
I wouldn't doubt they do this on purpose. There is probably some historical, mathematical or even emotional reasoning to limiting the distribution on launch.
Lower supply, increase demand. Those who said "I'll wait a month or two to buy an XBox360", are now thinking, "Oh man, if I don't buy it NOW, I may not get it for a long time, I better get in line today for one".
They could even be completely lying, say supply is "Low", but don't provide any real numbers as to what "Low" means, and then get people lining up and "Low" could mean "Have enough for everyone", now they have a much nicer launch, plus they can say "Sold out!" which drives people even more to want one.
Tell someone they can't have it, or may not be able to get it, and all the sudden their wallet is open. Say we have over-stock on XBox360's, and people take their time getting to the store for one.
I disagree, completely. While your argument holds true for die-hard gamers, its hardly the case for the masses, especially those on tighter budgets.
We are not talking about adding DVD support, we are taking about adding a brand new player to these devices.
With the PS2, I have convinced many to buy it vs Xbox, BECAUSE it comes with a built in DVD player. One example was my brother, who recently married and moved into his own apartment. He wanted a game system in his new apartment, and is on a very tight budget, the PS2 makes the most sense. Why spend $50 more on a DVD player when your PS2 has one?
The same arguments will hold true for XBox 360 and PS3. If I am going to buy a game system, and see 100 blu-ray discs at my local blockbuster... hmm, should I spend $150 on a blu-ray player, then another $399 on an XBox360, or buy a PS3 for $399, and get one with it?
Bluray and HD-DVD players will carry a premium for a few years, integration with the next generation gaming console is really smart.
Thats part of my argument though, I got all this hardware laying around, and I can either throw it all away because the "Free" MythTV/Linux can't use it so I have to BUY new hardware, or I can use a CHEAPER Windows license and use everything I own right now today.
Also, even when MythTV was working well, it did not pass the WAF in my house. The tuner management alone was enough to throw it away, let alone hitting record on live tv and throwing away the ringbuffer.
First and foremost, don't run MythTV. Really, you are asking for headache after headache. I know I am going to get responses saying I'm the idiot etc, but really... If you want a PVR that WORKS, forget about MythTV. -OR- *Buy exactly what KnoppMythTV recommends for hardware*, no less, no more.
The problem really isn't MythTV. It's Linux driver support. For Hauppauge PVR150 cards (very popular, and great cards), you need the BETA ivtv drivers. After a solid week of tweaking this and that, getting a backend/frontend MythTV system working, I finally sat down and watched a show... Twenty minutes into it, the backend crashed. This is after putting in 40 hours easily into the setup. I got up, pulled the plug, went to bed. The next morning, I woke up, installed Windows 2000, and SageTV. Ever since then its been wonderful.
SageTV has two commercial skip packages, one stolen from MythTV land (comskip) and one ShowAnalyzer made specifically for Windows and all the various PVR applications (BeyondTV etc).
SageTV also has a web-server so you can do all the same things you can do with MythTV.
SageTV has a real show-progress bar where you can actually see how far you are in a show. It even shows the commercial areas on the progress bar.
SageTV even shows the TV video on the background (transparencies) of all the menus.
SageTV has REAL tuner management. In MythTV if you have 2 tuners, each recording a show, and you hit "Watch Live TV", you get the response "Sorry, all the tuners are busy, go away".. You then have to go to the videos list, find the recording show, then select it to watch. Then cancel the show if you want to watch live TV, then go back to the menu and hit Live TV again.
With SageTV, you hit LiveTV and its recording two shows, it will simply show you one of the tuners, if you try to change the channel, it will ask you, which of the two shows you want to cancel in order to change the channel. NICE!
Also, with MythTV, if you come home from work, turn on the TV, see your 4 hour ring buffer full and its in the middle of a movie, you hit RECORD and it wipes out the movie up to where you are now then starts recording, LAME! SageTV will tag the entire beginning of the show/movie to be part of the show/movie recording, so you get it all.
MythTV is limited to a SINGLE recording directory, you can use LVM to span your disks to join together hard disks, but you can't use network disks then. (Im sure theres some hacky way to do it though). With SageTV, I can use the hard disks all over my house in all my computers on the LAN. So I got my two 250gb cards in my server machine, a 160 gig disk on another machine and a 300 gig disk ona linux machine with a Samba server.. SageTV records to ALL of them.
SageTV has great HDTV support for ATI HDTV Wonder, AverMeda A180's ($80!!), and Fusion 5 HDTV cards! I'm doing pure HDTV now with an antenna picking up 36 stations in the bay area.
SageTV because its on Windows, you can use ATI Video cards for TV OUT.. With NVIDIA and ATI you can use Nvidia PureVideo decoders for PixelAdaptive hardware deinterlacing, features of new GeForce6 and ATI cards for kick-ass deinterlacing... With MythTV you get Software-Bob that eats 100% of your 2.6ghz CPU.. blah.
Best of all, its STABLE.
Now, mind you I am not talking about Sage v2, I am talking about Sage v3.0.11-PR11 Beta. http://sagetv.com/beta.html
Read the discussion forums, and try it out. I did, and love it. I could go on and on about why SageTV is better than MythTV... SageTV even has a MUCH better expansion API called SVT's, to totally create custom interfaces and features within the clients.
The only real downside is its $79.95 after your two week trial. I put 4 hours into SageTV and got further than 40 hours with MythTV, I have High Definition video, better support, drivers, etc, commercial skip, web interface yadda yadda yadda... 40 hours for $79.95 is $2/hour... my time is worth more th
What the heck is going on. Slashdot is not a Technical support forum.
I should post:
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Dear Ask Slashdot, I just got a new Dell, and need help setting up my new Printer. I can't get it working for anything! Windows XP SP2 and this Canon Printer I got from best buy, it just doesn't work! I think its all of Windows XP SP2, it just doesn't work with any printers. It must not be me, I has to be Microsoft.
I can't believe Microsoft DISABLED printer support in Windows XP SP2! It's ridiculous!!!
The company I work for, we order a few hundred thinkpads a year minimum, we started seeing up to 30% failure rate + DOA rate of T42's after Lenovo took over, we had to switch to DELL because we were running out of machines for new-hires to use because they simply didn't work.
I started a company a few years ago (Sold it to a 400 lbs gorilla, yes, 400, not 800).
I got two 20.1" Dell FP2000 (1600x1200) LCD displays, a decent 2.8ghz (at the time), pentium 4, with a GeForce 440MX (Dual DVI Out to drive both panels), big hard disk yadda yadda yadda.
I had multi-monitor setups before, and it worked well.
To be honest, it was TOO much screen space, 3200x1600... My mouse, a wireless RF mouse, probably 400dpi was too low resolution to quickly move across from one edge of one display to the other. If I bumped up the acceleration, I lost pixel accuracy and couldn't click on tiny pixel things in gimp/photoshop.
Then being tied to that one place... After a while, I said screw it.
I went out and bought a nice IBM T41 Thinkpad. Simple 1024x768 resolution screen, with the extra battery (replaced DVD drive).
In the end, I had both options, and I always used the laptop. I could take it anywhere, work at my gf's house (now my wife), work outside, inside, in the office, at another problem computer where im trouble shooting something, or of course at home... In bed right before I go to sleep, in the shower.... ok, you got me there, I never coded in the shower. But regardless, you get the idea.
The low resolution 1024x768 isn't a problem because you just adjust your habits and your IDE to that resolution. If you are in Windows using MSVC.NET IDE, everything can become a auto-pop-out window on mouse over. Im sure in Linux there are many options too. You reduce your font size, and just work with it.
In the end, I got the most productivity this way, I love it and I don't think I'll go back. Playing games, I use a desktop, but for serious work... A Laptop it is.
They should (if not already) create a new team, called the XBox Crackers Team. They can use a saltine logo for thier t-shirts.
The saltine group will then comprise of a group of 5 bright individuals, who will be awarded as a whole $200,000 or $40,000 each if they can come up with a hack that would or could end up with a cheap mod-chip solution that could be mass-produced.
They of course have a pre-set deadline, say between now and the actual launch.
The Xbox 360 is the first system to be "modded" or hacked, before actual launch! You can buy the new mod chips up to one week before launch says some sources. The mod chips will be a simple drop in dongle with only one solder point. Estimates at $69.95 for v1 mod chip for Xbox 360 expected.
You can get from point A to point B much faster now that you can just cruze in a boat over the houses, you can use many of the roofs as ramps. Weeeeee!
It allows you to instantly find anything on your PC. It also has a very useful feature Google, Yahoo, Copernic do not have. Application Integration. Click "attach" in your favorite email program and search for your file with AJDS, one click and your file is attached.
Its the power of instant desktop search integrated into every application on the desktop.
> Backed by glowing reviews in every major magazine and newspaper in this country and others, the SolarRoll has officially taken its place as one of our most talked about products.
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This is true. It depends on the environment in this case. In my job, if one of my engineers fucks up and the product doesn't get delivered, I am the one in trouble. That is how it should be. It's my job to allocate good resources and execute properly with my "resources" (engineers). If they don't get their job done on time, I either A) Didn't schedule it properly, B) Didn't hire the right people, or C) Couldn't manage the "engineering" process, or make the engineers work hard and be happy.
In a proper environment, amazingly which I am in right now, its not the engineers fault, its mine.
Now, what happens alot of times is the manager comes into an existing group and things slip, then there is some leeway, and the engineers can take a bit of heat.
The most common mistake made by a company though is the manager doesn't do the hiring, but the managers MANAGER does it. So I'm sitting here as the manager, my BOSS hired the engineer reporting to me, he is not a good engineer, now there is a problem. If I fire this engineer, I am saying my boss can't hire.
I've been in the scenario as well.
In the end though, you are mostly right. Most companies operate where the engineer gets the blame when the manager screws up.
A single Dual 7800 GT Card costs MORE than TWICE a true TWO-Card 7800 GT SLI Setup.
So your 4 GPU setup would end up costing alot more than "the price of two!"
Besides, you can't run these cards in "SLI" mode again. This card is it, you can't add another.
Wake up from your fantacy!
(I've been both, and currently am operating as both at the same time).
Assumption I am making:
1) There is a likely chance that you worked on this software durring office hours, after all, you developed it for this specific job. You are not a contractor, you are a full time employee. This makes it difficult for you claim it is yours because you developed it for your specific job. The only thing you really have going for you, is you are not a "developer". The assumption I will make here is that the company owns it, because if they see value in it, you'll get threatened with lawsuit if you claim you own it now. You probably signed a non-compete agreement anyways, saying you can't work on company related things at another company (OR YOUR OWN TIME). If its company related, they own it no matter what. Sorry.
You should expect recognition for your efforts outside your normal job. You could even get a promotion, into development, or maybe a bump up on the salary pole in customer service. As an engineer, I would actually expect something in return for this effort, if it turns out to be a large scale solution to a bigger problem. If you don't get anything, what the hell, you have a customer support job, quit and now go get a development job with this on your resume.
Your manager has a bigger objective, most "managers" have fallen into the trap already and are trying to climb the corporate ladder. He will be trying to get a big raise or promotion.
It makes more sense for a manager to get the raise/promotion, after all, he is responsible if everything goes WRONG not the engineer. Alot of people assume the opposite, if everything goes right, reward the engineers, but if everything goes wrong, the fire the manager. This isn't the case, and that is how its observed from above. Most "engineers" observe it "I get the reward if everything goes right, and my Manager is fired if I fuck up", that's NOT the case. Sorry.
Your case is fuzzy, because the Manager wasn't originally responsible for delivery of an alpha-product you've created, however may turn it into a real-project, with the VP's or company owners knowing now whats going on, they may now assume responsibility if it fails for lost time and resources. However, you have to look out for what really happends, it could be your managers keep it secret from the guys above until you finish the project, that way if it fails, they can just pretend like it never occured and no harm done. If it succeedes then they say they did this big thing for the company and pat you on the head.
Exactly my point. Saying there is "low supply" IS the marketing.
I believe it does increase immediete demand. Those who were going to wait to buy one will buy one NOW. All the extra hype generated because "So many other people want this thing, they don't have enough supply" causes those who were on the fence about getting one may jump on the bandwagon and say I want one now too. Couple that with the "You can't have one!", ever so simple reverse psychology and the wallet, or purse opens.
I don't know how many people this accounts for, but I'm sure its some significant percentage (1% to 3% of purchases).
I know one thing for sure, I've fallen for it in the past.. tell me I probably can't get something, all the sudden I am out looking for it even though I may not of really wanted it.
I wouldn't doubt they do this on purpose. There is probably some historical, mathematical or even emotional reasoning to limiting the distribution on launch.
Lower supply, increase demand. Those who said "I'll wait a month or two to buy an XBox360", are now thinking, "Oh man, if I don't buy it NOW, I may not get it for a long time, I better get in line today for one".
They could even be completely lying, say supply is "Low", but don't provide any real numbers as to what "Low" means, and then get people lining up and "Low" could mean "Have enough for everyone", now they have a much nicer launch, plus they can say "Sold out!" which drives people even more to want one.
Tell someone they can't have it, or may not be able to get it, and all the sudden their wallet is open. Say we have over-stock on XBox360's, and people take their time getting to the store for one.
I disagree, completely. While your argument holds true for die-hard gamers, its hardly the case for the masses, especially those on tighter budgets.
We are not talking about adding DVD support, we are taking about adding a brand new player to these devices.
With the PS2, I have convinced many to buy it vs Xbox, BECAUSE it comes with a built in DVD player. One example was my brother, who recently married and moved into his own apartment. He wanted a game system in his new apartment, and is on a very tight budget, the PS2 makes the most sense. Why spend $50 more on a DVD player when your PS2 has one?
The same arguments will hold true for XBox 360 and PS3. If I am going to buy a game system, and see 100 blu-ray discs at my local blockbuster... hmm, should I spend $150 on a blu-ray player, then another $399 on an XBox360, or buy a PS3 for $399, and get one with it?
Bluray and HD-DVD players will carry a premium for a few years, integration with the next generation gaming console is really smart.
Sure it does, search here: http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/
Thats part of my argument though, I got all this hardware laying around, and I can either throw it all away because the "Free" MythTV/Linux can't use it so I have to BUY new hardware, or I can use a CHEAPER Windows license and use everything I own right now today.
Also, even when MythTV was working well, it did not pass the WAF in my house. The tuner management alone was enough to throw it away, let alone hitting record on live tv and throwing away the ringbuffer.
SageTV handles this beautifully.
First and foremost, don't run MythTV. Really, you are asking for headache after headache. I know I am going to get responses saying I'm the idiot etc, but really... If you want a PVR that WORKS, forget about MythTV. -OR- *Buy exactly what KnoppMythTV recommends for hardware*, no less, no more.
The problem really isn't MythTV. It's Linux driver support. For Hauppauge PVR150 cards (very popular, and great cards), you need the BETA ivtv drivers. After a solid week of tweaking this and that, getting a backend/frontend MythTV system working, I finally sat down and watched a show... Twenty minutes into it, the backend crashed. This is after putting in 40 hours easily into the setup. I got up, pulled the plug, went to bed. The next morning, I woke up, installed Windows 2000, and SageTV. Ever since then its been wonderful.
SageTV has two commercial skip packages, one stolen from MythTV land (comskip) and one ShowAnalyzer made specifically for Windows and all the various PVR applications (BeyondTV etc).
SageTV also has a web-server so you can do all the same things you can do with MythTV.
SageTV has a real show-progress bar where you can actually see how far you are in a show. It even shows the commercial areas on the progress bar.
SageTV even shows the TV video on the background (transparencies) of all the menus.
SageTV has REAL tuner management. In MythTV if you have 2 tuners, each recording a show, and you hit "Watch Live TV", you get the response "Sorry, all the tuners are busy, go away".. You then have to go to the videos list, find the recording show, then select it to watch. Then cancel the show if you want to watch live TV, then go back to the menu and hit Live TV again.
With SageTV, you hit LiveTV and its recording two shows, it will simply show you one of the tuners, if you try to change the channel, it will ask you, which of the two shows you want to cancel in order to change the channel. NICE!
Also, with MythTV, if you come home from work, turn on the TV, see your 4 hour ring buffer full and its in the middle of a movie, you hit RECORD and it wipes out the movie up to where you are now then starts recording, LAME! SageTV will tag the entire beginning of the show/movie to be part of the show/movie recording, so you get it all.
MythTV is limited to a SINGLE recording directory, you can use LVM to span your disks to join together hard disks, but you can't use network disks then. (Im sure theres some hacky way to do it though). With SageTV, I can use the hard disks all over my house in all my computers on the LAN. So I got my two 250gb cards in my server machine, a 160 gig disk on another machine and a 300 gig disk ona linux machine with a Samba server.. SageTV records to ALL of them.
SageTV has great HDTV support for ATI HDTV Wonder, AverMeda A180's ($80!!), and Fusion 5 HDTV cards! I'm doing pure HDTV now with an antenna picking up 36 stations in the bay area.
SageTV because its on Windows, you can use ATI Video cards for TV OUT.. With NVIDIA and ATI you can use Nvidia PureVideo decoders for PixelAdaptive hardware deinterlacing, features of new GeForce6 and ATI cards for kick-ass deinterlacing... With MythTV you get Software-Bob that eats 100% of your 2.6ghz CPU.. blah.
Best of all, its STABLE.
Now, mind you I am not talking about Sage v2, I am talking about Sage v3.0.11-PR11 Beta. http://sagetv.com/beta.html
Read the discussion forums, and try it out. I did, and love it. I could go on and on about why SageTV is better than MythTV... SageTV even has a MUCH better expansion API called SVT's, to totally create custom interfaces and features within the clients.
The only real downside is its $79.95 after your two week trial. I put 4 hours into SageTV and got further than 40 hours with MythTV, I have High Definition video, better support, drivers, etc, commercial skip, web interface yadda yadda yadda... 40 hours for $79.95 is $2/hour... my time is worth more th
What the heck is going on. Slashdot is not a Technical support forum.
I should post:
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Dear Ask Slashdot, I just got a new Dell, and need help setting up my new Printer. I can't get it working for anything! Windows XP SP2 and this Canon Printer I got from best buy, it just doesn't work! I think its all of Windows XP SP2, it just doesn't work with any printers. It must not be me, I has to be Microsoft.
I can't believe Microsoft DISABLED printer support in Windows XP SP2! It's ridiculous!!!
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The company I work for, we order a few hundred thinkpads a year minimum, we started seeing up to 30% failure rate + DOA rate of T42's after Lenovo took over, we had to switch to DELL because we were running out of machines for new-hires to use because they simply didn't work.
hamster ball. can we hook up a generator too, so you have to power your own video game.
I started a company a few years ago (Sold it to a 400 lbs gorilla, yes, 400, not 800).
.NET IDE, everything can become a auto-pop-out window on mouse over. Im sure in Linux there are many options too. You reduce your font size, and just work with it.
I got two 20.1" Dell FP2000 (1600x1200) LCD displays, a decent 2.8ghz (at the time), pentium 4, with a GeForce 440MX (Dual DVI Out to drive both panels), big hard disk yadda yadda yadda.
I had multi-monitor setups before, and it worked well.
To be honest, it was TOO much screen space, 3200x1600... My mouse, a wireless RF mouse, probably 400dpi was too low resolution to quickly move across from one edge of one display to the other. If I bumped up the acceleration, I lost pixel accuracy and couldn't click on tiny pixel things in gimp/photoshop.
Then being tied to that one place... After a while, I said screw it.
I went out and bought a nice IBM T41 Thinkpad. Simple 1024x768 resolution screen, with the extra battery (replaced DVD drive).
In the end, I had both options, and I always used the laptop. I could take it anywhere, work at my gf's house (now my wife), work outside, inside, in the office, at another problem computer where im trouble shooting something, or of course at home... In bed right before I go to sleep, in the shower.... ok, you got me there, I never coded in the shower. But regardless, you get the idea.
The low resolution 1024x768 isn't a problem because you just adjust your habits and your IDE to that resolution. If you are in Windows using MSVC
In the end, I got the most productivity this way, I love it and I don't think I'll go back. Playing games, I use a desktop, but for serious work... A Laptop it is.
They should (if not already) create a new team, called the XBox Crackers Team. They can use a saltine logo for thier t-shirts.
The saltine group will then comprise of a group of 5 bright individuals, who will be awarded as a whole $200,000 or $40,000 each if they can come up with a hack that would or could end up with a cheap mod-chip solution that could be mass-produced.
They of course have a pre-set deadline, say between now and the actual launch.
Good news everyone:
The Xbox 360 is the first system to be "modded" or hacked, before actual launch! You can buy the new mod chips up to one week before launch says some sources. The mod chips will be a simple drop in dongle with only one solder point. Estimates at $69.95 for v1 mod chip for Xbox 360 expected.
Link to follow.
Just like Nvidia to 3Dfx and ATI to Nvidia (almost
You can get from point A to point B much faster now that you can just cruze in a boat over the houses, you can use many of the roofs as ramps. Weeeeee!
yes, this is insensitive! You insensitive clod!
Ask Jeeves Desktop Search is not a "Toolbar", its an entire indexing and seach engine.
http://sp.ask.com/docs/desktop/index.html
It allows you to instantly find anything on your PC. It also has a very useful feature Google, Yahoo, Copernic do not have. Application Integration. Click "attach" in your favorite email program and search for your file with AJDS, one click and your file is attached.
Its the power of instant desktop search integrated into every application on the desktop.
It does not come with Ask Jeeves Desktop Search.
I should know, I am the manager of the Ask Jeeves Desktop Search development group here at Ask Jeeves.
AJDS isn't bundled with anything at this point in time.
Makes you wonder what other parts of your posting are full of crap, or all of your postings you've ever made...
What am I saying, I am probably talking to a troll right now... Damnit, I fell for the trap. ^H^H^H
If I go to Google.com and see my copywrited works when going to http://google.com/ then Google is wrong.
Just because YOU are not hosting the file doesn't mean YOU are not doing something illegal.
Going to this Google.com results page shows me copywrited images in my browser. PERIOD. No matter what the application, search, indexer or aggregator.
It doesn't matter. Really, think about it.
http://www.brunton.com/product.php?id=256
> Backed by glowing reviews in every major magazine and newspaper in this country and others, the SolarRoll has officially taken its place as one of our most talked about products.
Simple solution, stop laying underneath a coconut tree!
Man, sheesh, as stupid as Turkey's opening their beaks to the sky when it rains and thus drowning.
Stupid Stupid Monkey: http://www.compfused.com/directlink/707/
Just like Gmail, Google could display contextual ads in your conversations (or perhaps only with their client off to the side) while you chat...
Blah.
And the SuperFX chip is a 10mhz RISC processor...
So, the article was off by 3mhz. Or if you are adding MIPS, in some crude way you could say off by 6mhz...
Wow.