Well each cable company many do something different with regards to how it handles digital, but with Comcast Digital Cable in my area, the quality of the standard def digital stations is just as good as Directv or better; blocking and artifacts are evident on both (usually dependant on the channel as some channels are better than others on both systems. When it comes to HD content, Directv and its not so hi-def signals are left way behind with what I can get OTA and via cable. If it were not for NFLST, there would be no need for Directv IMHO.
I don't think ET sold that many VCRs. The poor little guy had a slow distribution system (kids and their bikes--granted they could fly, but still, those bike baskets don't hold many VCRs, plus ET could have stayed on the office and have left more space for the VCRs, BUT then the bikes couldn't fly then could they?). Anyway, he also was more concerned with constantly trying to report into his home sales office rather than focusing on customer satisfaction. Why the "competition" was so concerned with catching him is beyond me. The only thing he had was the "light finger promotion" deal and the claims that his prices didn't "Ouch".
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Soldier: "What's a nice robot like you doing in a place like this?" Robot: "I'm looking to set something off? How about you?" Soldier: "Well I'm certainly armed now" Robot: "You're not one of those 3 minute timer types are you?" Soldier: "No mam, er...you ever watch BSG?" Robot: "No" Soldier: "Good, mind if I call you #6?" Robot: "Anything is fine but 'Rosie'" Soldier: "Great, care to get out of here *Rosie* ?" Robot grabbing soldier's PED (Personal "Explosive" Device): "Time to cut the wire funny boy" Soldier: "No...a 3G Terminator unit.....NO!!!!!"
I know you can and I did such math manipulations to work around the lack of floating point, the "problem" if you will, is that it requires more code. More code == more space (especially since you would likely make it some sort of math lib for reuse purposes). And space can be at a premium when developing/deploying J2ME apps. If there was no CLDC 1.1, then fine, but there is and there has been now for a couple of years. I wish I knew the reason why so many phones were staying with the 1.0 version (maybe 1.1 takes up that much more space itself....I really don't know).
I've done some J2ME development and it can be chore. Phone display sizes/interfaces (MIDP stuff) aside, there are a couple of other things that make the development environment less than ideal. --Most phone still on supoprt CLDC 1.0 while CLDC 1.1 has been available for a couple of years (major benefit of 1.1 is floating point support) --Mobile carrier support for development
Nextel (now Sprint) was the best IMHO WRT J2ME with their iDen program. Motorola made development documentation easily available (Nokia does too IIRC) and even provided documentation and examples to their java location APIs. I must say it was pretty cool to develop a J2ME geocaching app that could work almost as well as a dedicated GPS unit (with the phone you don't have a much accuracy as a dedicated unit, but I was still able to find the caches). The bonus was that the phone app could then send a query to the geocache site with your current location and then retrieve nearby locations; I used this a few times while on vacation.
Yeah, it was fun, but since J2ME location APIs (if available) are vendor sepcific (no JSR was even in the works at the time when I did this), it wasn't just write once debug everywhere, it was write everywhere, debug everywhere. Sure factory patterns and the like make development easier, but with J2ME you want your code to be as small as possible and sometimes what might be the "best" OO approach may not be practical on a J2ME device.
I agree that they should just tie them to your account and when you go to check out have them automatically applied. Please suggest to them that they implement something to that affect; I have and maybe if more people would do so we could enjoy our virtual coupons. As it is now though, it's not to hard to print out a coupon (unless you don't have a printer---that could be a problem). When I update my queue, I'll print out any new coupons and just put them in my car. That way when I stop in I already have them ready to go.
I currently have both and have had BB since it was in beta. The two are about equal in my book for turnaround time with added value going to BB for the "free" in store rentals.
I've never had a 90 day waiting time for a new release DVD from either service. Overall, if a DVD set to be released on Tuesday is in my queue (at the top) and I get a DVD shipped out to me on Monday, it has been the new release (this goes for both rental services).
You either need to complain to BB about this if it really is true or stop spreading the FUD.
Did you RTFA? Windows/MS isn't even mentioned. They switched from Unix (vendor unspecified) although your first point could be valid if MS was competing against RH/Linux to replace the Unix system.
Grandfather: "Where you youngins off to?" Kids: "BAWDriving" Grandfather: "huh, what is that, some new type of BMW?" Kids: "(old people) No, it's beta/alpha wave driving. We go around getting peoples' passwords as they think them." Grandfather: "In my day, we went a wardriving looking for people stupid enough, or maybe even nice enough til the laws kicked in that is, to give us wide open access to their WiFi. Free surfing on someone else's net connection. Boy those were the days. I got a lot of tail doing that too." Grandmother is kitchen: "Yeah, downloaded tail" Kids/Grandfather: "Whatever"
A digg story referring to this/. thread did make the front page with 100+ diggs. However, the story was quickly labled as being "under review" and not soon thereafter it was gone from the front page. I actually read some of the comments and most were pretty well thought out and showed concern over whether this is an issue at digg or not. I guess those people got their answer.
Hu: President Gates, I.. Gates: Please, I'm not the president, I have more power Hu: I am still pleased to present you with the Chinese version of Windows Gates: Hey, that's a pirated copy! Hu: Yes, we made it just for you, need a key? Gates: No, you go and post in on YOUR internet, be sure not to censor it. BTW, you do know that RED Hat isn't a communist version of Linux. It actually promotes human rights. Hu: Oh yes, we know, and based on what I am allowed to read about your decline in human rights, it appears that the US isn't using it either. Gates: Cheers
you are correct, but you'll see that as you go onto (if you go into) higher engineering classes that the term becomes interchangable even if not entirely correct. This is normally because of the use of electromagnetic induction as one way to produce emf. But Maxwell and his equations did refer to it as electromotive force IIRC (my professor would be happy if you just got electric field out of all of it).
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What's worse than finding a worm in your Apple?
Finding half a worm in your Apple.
I suspect that the writers will bring in Rygel to replaces the Asgard as the Asgard clearly want too much money and the show will continue.
Well each cable company many do something different with regards to how it handles digital, but with Comcast Digital Cable in my area, the quality of the standard def digital stations is just as good as Directv or better; blocking and artifacts are evident on both (usually dependant on the channel as some channels are better than others on both systems. When it comes to HD content, Directv and its not so hi-def signals are left way behind with what I can get OTA and via cable. If it were not for NFLST, there would be no need for Directv IMHO.
from a public terminal. Sexual Predators: How to Recognize Them on the Internet and on the Street. How to Keep Your Kids Away. I guess the best I can do now is keep them away from politicans and teach them to vote for people that aren't idiots.
There's plenty of blank betamax tapes out there
Popcorn, peanuts, betamax tapes
when CCDs die.
I don't think ET sold that many VCRs. The poor little guy had a slow distribution system (kids and their bikes--granted they could fly, but still, those bike baskets don't hold many VCRs, plus ET could have stayed on the office and have left more space for the VCRs, BUT then the bikes couldn't fly then could they?). Anyway, he also was more concerned with constantly trying to report into his home sales office rather than focusing on customer satisfaction. Why the "competition" was so concerned with catching him is beyond me. The only thing he had was the "light finger promotion" deal and the claims that his prices didn't "Ouch".
So was UML modeled using UML?
Soldier: "What's a nice robot like you doing in a place like this?"
Robot: "I'm looking to set something off? How about you?"
Soldier: "Well I'm certainly armed now"
Robot: "You're not one of those 3 minute timer types are you?"
Soldier: "No mam, er...you ever watch BSG?"
Robot: "No"
Soldier: "Good, mind if I call you #6?"
Robot: "Anything is fine but 'Rosie'"
Soldier: "Great, care to get out of here *Rosie* ?"
Robot grabbing soldier's PED (Personal "Explosive" Device): "Time to cut the wire funny boy"
Soldier: "No...a 3G Terminator unit.....NO!!!!!"
I know you can and I did such math manipulations to work around the lack of floating point, the "problem" if you will, is that it requires more code. More code == more space (especially since you would likely make it some sort of math lib for reuse purposes). And space can be at a premium when developing/deploying J2ME apps. If there was no CLDC 1.1, then fine, but there is and there has been now for a couple of years. I wish I knew the reason why so many phones were staying with the 1.0 version (maybe 1.1 takes up that much more space itself....I really don't know).
I've done some J2ME development and it can be chore. Phone display sizes/interfaces (MIDP stuff) aside, there are a couple of other things that make the development environment less than ideal.
--Most phone still on supoprt CLDC 1.0 while CLDC 1.1 has been available for a couple of years (major benefit of 1.1 is floating point support)
--Mobile carrier support for development
Nextel (now Sprint) was the best IMHO WRT J2ME with their iDen program. Motorola made development documentation easily available (Nokia does too IIRC) and even provided documentation and examples to their java location APIs. I must say it was pretty cool to develop a J2ME geocaching app that could work almost as well as a dedicated GPS unit (with the phone you don't have a much accuracy as a dedicated unit, but I was still able to find the caches). The bonus was that the phone app could then send a query to the geocache site with your current location and then retrieve nearby locations; I used this a few times while on vacation.
Yeah, it was fun, but since J2ME location APIs (if available) are vendor sepcific (no JSR was even in the works at the time when I did this), it wasn't just write once debug everywhere, it was write everywhere, debug everywhere. Sure factory patterns and the like make development easier, but with J2ME you want your code to be as small as possible and sometimes what might be the "best" OO approach may not be practical on a J2ME device.
I agree that they should just tie them to your account and when you go to check out have them automatically applied. Please suggest to them that they implement something to that affect; I have and maybe if more people would do so we could enjoy our virtual coupons. As it is now though, it's not to hard to print out a coupon (unless you don't have a printer---that could be a problem). When I update my queue, I'll print out any new coupons and just put them in my car. That way when I stop in I already have them ready to go.
I currently have both and have had BB since it was in beta. The two are about equal in my book for turnaround time with added value going to BB for the "free" in store rentals.
I've never had a 90 day waiting time for a new release DVD from either service. Overall, if a DVD set to be released on Tuesday is in my queue (at the top) and I get a DVD shipped out to me on Monday, it has been the new release (this goes for both rental services).
You either need to complain to BB about this if it really is true or stop spreading the FUD.
Who said anything about India?
So I can see how my old job is going.
Mod +5 for knowing your forces (Jedi's need not comment)
Did you RTFA? Windows/MS isn't even mentioned. They switched from Unix (vendor unspecified) although your first point could be valid if MS was competing against RH/Linux to replace the Unix system.
I think lift has more to do with keeping planes in the sky. Otherwise the FAA coud declare gravity a terrorist "force"
Grandfather: "Where you youngins off to?"
Kids: "BAWDriving"
Grandfather: "huh, what is that, some new type of BMW?"
Kids: "(old people) No, it's beta/alpha wave driving. We go around getting peoples' passwords as they think them."
Grandfather: "In my day, we went a wardriving looking for people stupid enough, or maybe even nice enough til the laws kicked in that is, to give us wide open access to their WiFi. Free surfing on someone else's net connection. Boy those were the days. I got a lot of tail doing that too."
Grandmother is kitchen: "Yeah, downloaded tail"
Kids/Grandfather: "Whatever"
The TSA screener terminal can also be heard producing the sounds "Would you like to play a game?" as the image appeared on screen.
Here's the link to the digg story that got pulled (at the time of this post it had 485 diggs)
A digg story referring to this /. thread did make the front page with 100+ diggs. However, the story was quickly labled as being "under review" and not soon thereafter it was gone from the front page. I actually read some of the comments and most were pretty well thought out and showed concern over whether this is an issue at digg or not. I guess those people got their answer.
Hu: President Gates, I..
Gates: Please, I'm not the president, I have more power
Hu: I am still pleased to present you with the Chinese version of Windows
Gates: Hey, that's a pirated copy!
Hu: Yes, we made it just for you, need a key?
Gates: No, you go and post in on YOUR internet, be sure not to censor it. BTW, you do know that RED Hat isn't a communist version of Linux. It actually promotes human rights.
Hu: Oh yes, we know, and based on what I am allowed to read about your decline in human rights, it appears that the US isn't using it either.
Gates: Cheers
you are correct, but you'll see that as you go onto (if you go into) higher engineering classes that the term becomes interchangable even if not entirely correct. This is normally because of the use of electromagnetic induction as one way to produce emf. But Maxwell and his equations did refer to it as electromotive force IIRC (my professor would be happy if you just got electric field out of all of it).