You can't always prove that the hit-n-run driver was drunk at that particular moment, but for $50 you can always get an Internet search firm to pull the woman's cellphone records.
Take your B-Team developers into a meeting and cryogenically suspend them for the rest of the decade.
When they wake up, tell them you've got a new set of tools for them and to not worry about gameplay,
since the new system is an order of magnitude better when it comes to resources and speed.
And no idea will be too lame, since everything will be original -- the customer base has short memories!
Hundreds of posts; none mention Linux release
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"Linux shareware version released on July 5th, 1996"
Back when the term 'shareware' didn't mean crippled or time-limited. Four years after Windows 3.1 (and 12 months after WIN95 went gold)... stuff was still being written for DOS
people are finding it necessary to modify their XBox 360's just so they don't overheat.
"It burst into flames! Get out of the way! Get out of the way!
It's fire and it's crashing! It's crashing terrible! Oh, my!
Oh, it's crashing... Oh, the humanity!"
Can't attract/keep good employees now that the stock is no longer going up
I for one, welcome our new non-billionaire Overlord!
--
Forbes richest U.S. citizens:
Bill Gates (1)
Warren Buffet
Paul Allen (1)
Michael Dell (2)
Sheldon Adelson
Larry Ellison (3)
Walton Family (4)
Steve Balmer (1)
Sergey Brin (5)
Larry Page (5)
(1) Microsoft
(2) Dell
(3) Oracle
(4) Wal-Mart
(5) Google
I don't want to have a moving target -- like the fluctuating prices of comparing miles per gallon of diesel versus miles per gallon of gasoline.
I don't want it to be like buying industrial lighting where you have to compare 60W bulbs with 800 lumens to 75W bulbs with 1000 lumens.
I'm not confused by simple linear ratios: We just don't need naming conventions and measurements whose only purpose is to obfuscate easy
comparisons that would allow for simple commodity pricing of a consumer good (which is what you are purchasing -- operations per second).
No, you were paying the price that the market could bare.
Bare... as in, pull down your shorts? As long as places kept saying "We are an all-Intel shop" they stuck it to you.
This also went for places who only bought Dell, and thus, all-Intel as well.
Kind of like fleet sales for so many years were Ford or GM only... no way could cab companies or a government
purchase large volumes of Japanese cars (unless it was a specialty market with no Detroit equivalent like hybrids).
Intel no longer has as many large "captive" consumers today as it once had, and complacency has finally caught up!
Microsoft's new security offering, Windows Live OneCare
"OK.... do you see the little green 1 in your system tray?"
"hmm... can you find a little yellow 1 in the lower corner?"
"ohh... is there maybe a little red 1 down there somewhere?"
Nobody has hit upon the obvious -- this is going to be the first version of Windows
where most consumers have to decide whether "trying it" is truly worth paying for!
DRM adoption: What if Microsoft throws a party and nobody bothers to show up?
But in truth, most software companies don't care about consumers. They care about making money.
As it happens, most people really don't care enough about the subject to make the companies change.
Take a recent batch of updates (windowsXP-kb91????-x86-enu.exe)
Click through the part about agreeing to terms for each update,
watch it indicate how you should first backup before installing,
and "now creating a system restore point" prior to continuing.
Is Microsoft *REALLY* implying you can safely back out of it?
seeing how un-invasive a good anti-virus package can be I refuse to use Symantec products anymore
When Google is giving away your product for free to tens of millions of users... why exactly is it in your interest
to allow for easy uninstall after six months? First get a reputation for it being dangerous to remove from a system.
I taught college level math (trig through intro to calculus) back in the '80s and the same debate raged with regard to using calculators.
Good answers for the entire posting. It's not your fault, but "trig through intro to calculus"
was still considered high school math 30 years ago.
Solid college science and engineering programs considered it remedial and non-credit.
For ten years there had already been entire 8th grade classes routinely learning Algebra,
and the next year -- still Junior High back then in many areas -- was Geometry.
So a senior who skipped math still had 2 years of "high school" Trig and intro to calculus.
Most importantly, what REAL college math have we missed by substituting baby math?
Physics isn't the only wasted course when the underlying language is not comprehended!
As long as Moore's Law significantly outpaces inflation, you should see the cost of most consumer electronics continue to decrease
Didn't anybody let you know that Moore's Law was revoked by AMD after the Athlon XP 1700+
Over four years ago that great chip was $80. Now it is $120 for a low-end AMD Sempron 3400+
(whereas that eighty bucks bought top-tier gaming and a few more good years of solid computing)
And if you want to be picky about prices increasing 50% for a speed doubling every FOUR years...
in this case, actual AMD clockspeed since 2Q 2002 rose a meager 36% from 1.47GHz!
So this year's E3 could very well be a deciding factor in how you view your movie library for years to come."
More important than technical capabilities will be how Wal-Mart consumers perceive the outer boxes.
I think we're in for a surprise at the show based on naming conventions, as with Nintendo's Wii.
"Today, Sony finalized the offering for
the Blu-Ray format by dubbing it: "Very
High Samplerate" otherwise known as VHS
In a surprise announcement, Microsoft's
internal codename "AlphaMin" for HD-DVD
was finalized to ' Beta-Max '
The biggest thing through all of it was practice, practice, practice with constant feedback.
Careful proofing also alerts you to counterfeit products produced by foreign interests whose
talent lies in areas other than proper English. See if you can spot the fake bumper sticker:
"Before I came to college I couldn't spell engineer - now I are one."
"Before I came to college I could not spell engineer. Now I are one."
"Before I went to college I could not spell engineer. Now I are one."
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You must be This__Tall to Golf -- Volkswagen's newest verb, replacing Farfegnugen.
You can't always prove that the hit-n-run driver was drunk at that particular moment, but for $50 you can always get an Internet search firm to pull the woman's cellphone records.
The judges found in favor of Mickey when he easily proved that Minnie is fucking goofy.
When they wake up, tell them you've got a new set of tools for them and to not worry about gameplay,
since the new system is an order of magnitude better when it comes to resources and speed.
And no idea will be too lame, since everything will be original -- the customer base has short memories!
Back when the term 'shareware' didn't mean crippled or time-limited. Four years after Windows 3.1 (and 12 months after WIN95 went gold) ... stuff was still being written for DOS
And if GMAIL decides to make RAR files a banned attachment for some reason, you are SOL with your years of free backup and storage.
"It burst into flames! Get out of the way! Get out of the way!
It's fire and it's crashing! It's crashing terrible! Oh, my!
Oh, it's crashing... Oh, the humanity!"
I for one, welcome our new non-billionaire Overlord!
--
Forbes richest U.S. citizens:
Bill Gates (1)
Warren Buffet
Paul Allen (1)
Michael Dell (2)
Sheldon Adelson
Larry Ellison (3)
Walton Family (4)
Steve Balmer (1)
Sergey Brin (5)
Larry Page (5)
(1) Microsoft
(2) Dell
(3) Oracle
(4) Wal-Mart
(5) Google
I don't want it to be like buying industrial lighting where you have to compare 60W bulbs with 800 lumens to 75W bulbs with 1000 lumens.
I'm not confused by simple linear ratios: We just don't need naming conventions and measurements whose only purpose is to obfuscate easy
comparisons that would allow for simple commodity pricing of a consumer good (which is what you are purchasing -- operations per second).
Apple cannot afford to have 2 failures in this important measuring of gaming prowess.
Apple would once and for all, immediately alienate half the US map with this merger.
Bare ... as in, pull down your shorts? As long as places kept saying "We are an all-Intel shop" they stuck it to you.
This also went for places who only bought Dell, and thus, all-Intel as well.
Kind of like fleet sales for so many years were Ford or GM only ... no way could cab companies or a government
purchase large volumes of Japanese cars (unless it was a specialty market with no Detroit equivalent like hybrids).
Intel no longer has as many large "captive" consumers today as it once had, and complacency has finally caught up!
"OK .... do you see the little green 1 in your system tray?" ... can you find a little yellow 1 in the lower corner?" ... is there maybe a little red 1 down there somewhere?"
"hmm
"ohh
So I've got to buy 12 of these to end up with one of each for myself? I'll do it!
So why then does SBC have you pick one of 16 locations "close to you" rather than the default speedtest location?
Traceroutes indicate you are within "their network" and AT&T's own PR would have you believe this is the case as well.
They can still change the name from Vista to Vii !
where most consumers have to decide whether "trying it" is truly worth paying for!
DRM adoption: What if Microsoft throws a party and nobody bothers to show up?
--
"Look at me, I'm flying!"
As it happens, most people really don't care enough about the subject to make the companies change.
Take a recent batch of updates (windowsXP-kb91????-x86-enu.exe)
Click through the part about agreeing to terms for each update,
watch it indicate how you should first backup before installing,
and "now creating a system restore point" prior to continuing.
Is Microsoft *REALLY* implying you can safely back out of it?
'Scientists float plan to blast water to the moon'
--. html
Project SLAM
www.space.com/businesstechnology/060524_slam_moon
Also studies known crater-formation from impacts
When Google is giving away your product for free to tens of millions of users ... why exactly is it in your interest
to allow for easy uninstall after six months? First get a reputation for it being dangerous to remove from a system.
Good answers for the entire posting. It's not your fault, but "trig through intro to calculus"
was still considered high school math 30 years ago.
Solid college science and engineering programs considered it remedial and non-credit.
For ten years there had already been entire 8th grade classes routinely learning Algebra,
and the next year -- still Junior High back then in many areas -- was Geometry.
So a senior who skipped math still had 2 years of "high school" Trig and intro to calculus.
Most importantly, what REAL college math have we missed by substituting baby math?
Physics isn't the only wasted course when the underlying language is not comprehended!
The best Bread'n'Butter chips aren't made by Intel, IBM or AMD.
Didn't anybody let you know that Moore's Law was revoked by AMD after the Athlon XP 1700+
Over four years ago that great chip was $80. Now it is $120 for a low-end AMD Sempron 3400+
(whereas that eighty bucks bought top-tier gaming and a few more good years of solid computing)
And if you want to be picky about prices increasing 50% for a speed doubling every FOUR years...
in this case, actual AMD clockspeed since 2Q 2002 rose a meager 36% from 1.47GHz!
More important than technical capabilities will be how Wal-Mart consumers perceive the outer boxes.
I think we're in for a surprise at the show based on naming conventions, as with Nintendo's Wii.
"Today, Sony finalized the offering for
the Blu-Ray format by dubbing it: "Very
High Samplerate" otherwise known as VHS
In a surprise announcement, Microsoft's
internal codename "AlphaMin" for HD-DVD
was finalized to ' Beta-Max '
Careful proofing also alerts you to counterfeit products produced by foreign interests whose
talent lies in areas other than proper English. See if you can spot the fake bumper sticker:
"Before I came to college I couldn't spell engineer - now I are one."
"Before I came to college I could not spell engineer. Now I are one."
"Before I went to college I could not spell engineer. Now I are one."