dont forget "and it'll be on late at night, and well change the night and time-slot it's on every week, and then stop airing it 2 episodes before the end because of poor ratings because of our other misdeeds
I think the biggest improvement they could make would be to drop the word "Ultimate" from the name, and only offer one version at a realistic price. having multiple artificial tiers of vista has done nothing to improve the microsoft brand. it may have given short term profits, but microsoft should really be looking at things in the long term, where they may or may not have the majority market share. I feel Windows 7 would have a lot more impact if it were released as a single unified product, instead of 4 cut down imposters and the one true release.
You are purposely being dense. or ignorant, take your pick. installing a firmware update for a mac doesnt get much harder than having software update automatically detect a new firmware is available and offering to install it for you, in exactly the same manner as OS updates are offered. if you can click "ok" on a dialogue box you can update a macs firmware
i think if your product is as niche as the examples you've laid out, you shouldnt have a problem with competitors undercutting you to the $.99 price point. in fact, if you're writing software that niche you can pretty well set the price to whatever you want since there's nobody else for people to buy such a product.
on the other hand, if you're writing throwaway software (eg. todo lists) expect a lot of competition and that you're not going to be able to change as much as you want
Telstra are renowned for rolling out awesome networks and coupling them with the worst plans known to man. tiny quotas, and huge excess charges. in this case excess is charged at $250 per gigabyte, which at that speed you can consume in just over 6 minutes.
Kind of obvious actually. Apple had problems because their customers for iTouch weren't subscribed for a SERVICE in association with their device that included updates/patches. iPhone users are though, through their contract with their carrier, and the carrier's contract with Apple. XBox 360 owners are also subscribed for a service through XBox Live, whether through Silver or Gold memberships.
but silver memberships dont cost anything. xbl silver is no more of a subscription than having an account on the app store is a subscription
Xbox Live is also an example of this. You pay a yearly fee, so the NXE is just an extra "service" delivered as part of that fee.
if only gold members got the update then that would make sense, but users with silver accounts get the update too. having a silver account is on pretty much aligned with having an account on apples app store, neither costs a cent and you pretty much need one to use either product to it's full extent.
I'd be really curious to know how they are able to release an update that adds some quite significant features without having to charge for the update. Every time Apple brings out new features on the iPhone, they charge iPod Touch owners for that same update claiming that the Sarbanes-Oxley act means they cant add the features for free (with some sort of contract loophole for the iphone ).
Perhaps Microsoft could let Apple know what their accountants are doing that Apple's cant figure out.
At present, my birth place is already 7 meters below sea level as it is
could you provide a link, or the name of the place? I'm really curious to read about that. I was always fascinated as a kid to hear about how the Dutch reclaimed large swaths of land from the sea, and am equally amazed to think of formerly inhabited areas now being submerged (by such a significant amount too). sounds like it would make some interesting scuba diving
and the alternative? The government signs up a few conservative Christian ISPs for the trials who will give nothing but praise for the idea? Yeah, the sounds much better. I'm much happier knowing that a big company who opposes the filter is involved and will be playing up how bad it is to anyone who'll listen. Much like the American elections, this is an issue where sitting on the sidelines prove nothing. You can not vote, like you can not participate in he trial, but contrary to common believe this doesn't make a point to those in power. It just means you didn't have a say in the matter.
It's already been shown the people pushing this are idiots and do not listen to expert opinion on the matter. What is needed is some hard numbers reiterating just how dumb the proposal is.
There are plenty of people who would wait until there was more than one problem with their iPhone before calling it in for repairs.
are you joking? the people who buy apple products are generally complete nuts when it comes to returning stuff. shit, I remember ibooks (or were they macbooks?) being returned because of discolouration where you wrists like. discolouration!
if there's the slightest flaw in an apple product their is almost always an outcry demanding a recall. where are you getting the impression people buying iphones are less fussy than blackberry buyers? because it sure isnt this reality
Generally, I have more important things to care about than if I have to wait an extra minute and a half because 3 people just got in front of me.
and when those three people in front of you buy the last six tickets to the concert you were lining up for (or what ever item of scarcity you were waiting in line for), how do you feel about it then?
lets say I start editing a file (lets just say/etc/hosts for simplicity) as a normal user then I go to save it and realise I dont have enough privileges to write it, is there some way to escalate vim's privileges without quitting?
These make it so when a line has wrapped, jk navigation moves one line on the screen, instead of one line in the file nnoremap j gj nnoremap k gk vnoremap j gj vnoremap k gk nnoremap <Down> gj nnoremap <Up> gk vnoremap <Down> gj vnoremap <Up> gk inoremap <Down> <C-o>gj inoremap <Up> <C-o>gk
this gives you a current-row and current-column highlight, so you never lose your cursor set cursorcolumn set cursorline hi cursorcolumn ctermbg=red
and finally, I think nobody should use vim without learning how to use split panes. :sp filename.txt -- opens the file in a new horizontal pane ^ww -- changes between the panes. ^w+ -- grows the current pane one line ^w- -- shrinks it one line ^w= --makes all panes the same size.
you can also use:vsp to open in vertical panes for side by side editing too.
and some of these big file filters can even work on HTTPS connections
you were doing pretty well until here. how exactly does a filter inspect the contents of an encrypted ssl stream without performing a man-in-the-middle attack (which firefox would jump and and down about warning you they're fucking with your shit)
i couldnt resist the temptation and installed the update that's floating around the net already. the silence is beautiful, I'm considering allowing the 360 back into the tv room now:)
oh, and I didn't even last 24hours before I rushed out and did the 120 WD BEVS upgrade. with the installs being in the range ~4-7gb and a 20gb hdd only having 13gb free, i could see it was going to get frustrating shuffling data around very, very quickly.
dont ask me. last time I looked they didnt even offer SD content on the australian xbl marketplace. the artificial online "region" bullshit has to stop
I'm not worried so much about loading speed, as making the goddamn DVD drive quieter when playing.
I know exactly what you mean. my 360 is on the end of a 5M vga + 5M optical cable in order to get it out of the tv room, and even then you can hear the dvd drive whine if the door isnt shut.
thank you for saving me and many others from wasting our time too. I think that's the only think most people are interested in. I guess the netflix streaming might interest some where it's available, but to the rest of the world this update is basically avatars and installing to disk; and no one really gives a shit about avatars
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prophetic iphone autocorrection combined with "your fingers are too large for this tiny keyboard" syndrome :P
Any chills protection agency who can't afford to help ISPs with the costs of THEIR investigation simply can't afford to do business
dont forget "and it'll be on late at night, and well change the night and time-slot it's on every week, and then stop airing it 2 episodes before the end because of poor ratings because of our other misdeeds
I think the biggest improvement they could make would be to drop the word "Ultimate" from the name, and only offer one version at a realistic price. having multiple artificial tiers of vista has done nothing to improve the microsoft brand. it may have given short term profits, but microsoft should really be looking at things in the long term, where they may or may not have the majority market share. I feel Windows 7 would have a lot more impact if it were released as a single unified product, instead of 4 cut down imposters and the one true release.
You are purposely being dense. or ignorant, take your pick. installing a firmware update for a mac doesnt get much harder than having software update automatically detect a new firmware is available and offering to install it for you, in exactly the same manner as OS updates are offered. if you can click "ok" on a dialogue box you can update a macs firmware
i think if your product is as niche as the examples you've laid out, you shouldnt have a problem with competitors undercutting you to the $.99 price point. in fact, if you're writing software that niche you can pretty well set the price to whatever you want since there's nobody else for people to buy such a product.
on the other hand, if you're writing throwaway software (eg. todo lists) expect a lot of competition and that you're not going to be able to change as much as you want
Telstra are renowned for rolling out awesome networks and coupling them with the worst plans known to man. tiny quotas, and huge excess charges. in this case excess is charged at $250 per gigabyte, which at that speed you can consume in just over 6 minutes.
The first rule of retention policy club is do not talk about retention policy club!
Kind of obvious actually. Apple had problems because their customers for iTouch weren't subscribed for a SERVICE in association with their device that included updates/patches. iPhone users are though, through their contract with their carrier, and the carrier's contract with Apple. XBox 360 owners are also subscribed for a service through XBox Live, whether through Silver or Gold memberships.
but silver memberships dont cost anything. xbl silver is no more of a subscription than having an account on the app store is a subscription
Xbox Live is also an example of this. You pay a yearly fee, so the NXE is just an extra "service" delivered as part of that fee.
if only gold members got the update then that would make sense, but users with silver accounts get the update too. having a silver account is on pretty much aligned with having an account on apples app store, neither costs a cent and you pretty much need one to use either product to it's full extent.
I'd be really curious to know how they are able to release an update that adds some quite significant features without having to charge for the update. Every time Apple brings out new features on the iPhone, they charge iPod Touch owners for that same update claiming that the Sarbanes-Oxley act means they cant add the features for free (with some sort of contract loophole for the iphone ).
Perhaps Microsoft could let Apple know what their accountants are doing that Apple's cant figure out.
wait nevermind, I think I just misinterpreted what you'd written. it's still dry where you were born, right?
At present, my birth place is already 7 meters below sea level as it is
could you provide a link, or the name of the place? I'm really curious to read about that. I was always fascinated as a kid to hear about how the Dutch reclaimed large swaths of land from the sea, and am equally amazed to think of formerly inhabited areas now being submerged (by such a significant amount too). sounds like it would make some interesting scuba diving
and the alternative? The government signs up a few conservative Christian ISPs for the trials who will give nothing but praise for the idea? Yeah, the sounds much better. I'm much happier knowing that a big company who opposes the filter is involved and will be playing up how bad it is to anyone who'll listen. Much like the American elections, this is an issue where sitting on the sidelines prove nothing. You can not vote, like you can not participate in he trial, but contrary to common believe this doesn't make a point to those in power. It just means you didn't have a say in the matter. It's already been shown the people pushing this are idiots and do not listen to expert opinion on the matter. What is needed is some hard numbers reiterating just how dumb the proposal is.
There are plenty of people who would wait until there was more than one problem with their iPhone before calling it in for repairs.
are you joking? the people who buy apple products are generally complete nuts when it comes to returning stuff. shit, I remember ibooks (or were they macbooks?) being returned because of discolouration where you wrists like. discolouration!
if there's the slightest flaw in an apple product their is almost always an outcry demanding a recall. where are you getting the impression people buying iphones are less fussy than blackberry buyers? because it sure isnt this reality
Generally, I have more important things to care about than if I have to wait an extra minute and a half because 3 people just got in front of me.
and when those three people in front of you buy the last six tickets to the concert you were lining up for (or what ever item of scarcity you were waiting in line for), how do you feel about it then?
lets say I start editing a file (lets just say /etc/hosts for simplicity) as a normal user then I go to save it and realise I dont have enough privileges to write it, is there some way to escalate vim's privileges without quitting?
Plus, all the other editors I use have this weird habit of putting ':wq's and 'dd's in my text...
yeah, I hate it how they do that!:wq
this makes ctrl+a and ctrl+e work like they do in bash (and practically everywhere else)
:vsp to open in vertical panes for side by side editing too.
:map <C-a> 0
:map <C-e> $
:cmap <C-a> <home>
:cmap <C-e> <end>
:imap <C-e> <ESC>$i<right>
:imap <C-a> <ESC>0i
These make it so when a line has wrapped, jk navigation moves one line on the screen, instead of one line in the file
nnoremap j gj
nnoremap k gk
vnoremap j gj
vnoremap k gk
nnoremap <Down> gj
nnoremap <Up> gk
vnoremap <Down> gj
vnoremap <Up> gk
inoremap <Down> <C-o>gj
inoremap <Up> <C-o>gk
this gives you a current-row and current-column highlight, so you never lose your cursor
set cursorcolumn
set cursorline
hi cursorcolumn ctermbg=red
and finally, I think nobody should use vim without learning how to use split panes.
:sp filename.txt -- opens the file in a new horizontal pane
^ww -- changes between the panes.
^w+ -- grows the current pane one line
^w- -- shrinks it one line
^w= --makes all panes the same size.
you can also use
and some of these big file filters can even work on HTTPS connections
you were doing pretty well until here. how exactly does a filter inspect the contents of an encrypted ssl stream without performing a man-in-the-middle attack (which firefox would jump and and down about warning you they're fucking with your shit)
Tell that to almost all the southern states - they all voted for McCain.
wow! redneck racists voted for the white guy. colour me surprised!
i couldnt resist the temptation and installed the update that's floating around the net already. the silence is beautiful, I'm considering allowing the 360 back into the tv room now :)
oh, and I didn't even last 24hours before I rushed out and did the 120 WD BEVS upgrade. with the installs being in the range ~4-7gb and a 20gb hdd only having 13gb free, i could see it was going to get frustrating shuffling data around very, very quickly.
dont ask me. last time I looked they didnt even offer SD content on the australian xbl marketplace. the artificial online "region" bullshit has to stop
I'm not worried so much about loading speed, as making the goddamn DVD drive quieter when playing.
I know exactly what you mean. my 360 is on the end of a 5M vga + 5M optical cable in order to get it out of the tv room, and even then you can hear the dvd drive whine if the door isnt shut.
thank you for saving me and many others from wasting our time too. I think that's the only think most people are interested in. I guess the netflix streaming might interest some where it's available, but to the rest of the world this update is basically avatars and installing to disk; and no one really gives a shit about avatars