I totally hate the idea of the Segway: it's too slow to be on the motorway, too heavy and quick to be safe on the walkway (and yet, it -is- allowed on the walkway), and it's realy bad on your knees.
This thing, however, addresses all my issues with the Segway: it's fast enough for the motorway and you can sit, reducing the strain on your knees.
If this thing takes off, it could reduce congestion and pollution caused by cars. That's almost utopian.
Strangely enough, I agree with you completely. In addition, our experience both with RH sales people and techsupport was regrettable, and they aren't going to get our business.
SuSE was the otheroption. Perhaps it will be re-evaluated.
our experience with you guys has been terrible. Starting from the "availability" of your sales personnel (before the buy) and the technical preparadness of your techsupport people after the buy, it has been unpleasant. Let me tell you what you missed: 1 to 4 million US$ a year. We were going to use RHAS for our products for the telecom market, but now we're sticking with Sun and HP/HP-UX. There's even Linux on the roadmap, and it isn't RH.
I guess you're not interested. Oh well, good for you, I guess. As for us, we're much more than just a part of that 10% who didn't renew.
Yes, we had. Paid 1200 Euro (about 1350 US$) for one year usage of RHAS (redhat adv. server), and the support was laughable. OK, sure, the support guys knew some things, but they never told us anything we didn't already know, and most of the times we had to come up wth the solutions ourselves.
And one time, we never found a solution, no matter what. We decided not to use RHAS for our turnkey solution.
I work for a 50.000 Software/Hardware/Telecommunications company in Europe.
Yes, 25 $US is closer to a realistic figure. The problem with pollution and clean environment value, is that it has an effect on everybody and everything, and therefore it's extremely difficult to evaluate. It's more a mentality issue, actually.
Until the clean environment is not understood as a resource, we're bound to get worse. I hope, with education, the mentality will slowly change.
But right now, unfortunately, I can't imagine the 25 US$ thing.
And if you want to get rid of old batteries you can drop them at most shop
Yes, you can, but will you? I will, perhaps you will, but try to look past your nose: most people don't. And these phones just scream "throw me away once you used me", as that's the whole phylosophy behind them.
You are skewing the point I was making: batteries are the most toxic mass-market product today, and most european countries are very aware of the risks involved with chemicals in the batteries. Cadmium, used in NiCd cells (luckily, these are going out) is expecially toxic, even in traces.
Actually, all the phones manufactured today, for the european market, are triple-band. I am not sure they'll work with TDMA (US) but most of them do support CDMA (US). And of course, all support GSM. Looks to me that a European customer will rather bring his/her phone with him/her, and look for a prepais SIM card.
Provided he can find one. But in the end, he/she might end up having to use a feature-poor, environment polluting displayless piece of junk.
Yeah, well, dual band is really entry level, nowadays. In fact, I don't know of any new Nokia phone that isn't at least triple-band. GPRS is on almost all new models.
Why not just use prepaid SIM cards? That's what we have here in Finland. You get a prepaid SIM card and presto, you get to talk or receive calls. Once the allocated talktime has been exceeded, you just buy a code and "recharge" the prepaid SIM card. Or just buy a new prepaid SIM. SIM cards are small and made of non-toxic material. A much better idea for the environment, and I'd say it's much nicer, as you have YOUR choice of mobile phone.
I have worked and lived in several countries in Eueope, and everywhere, recycling and safe storage of old batteries was top issue. Batteries are VERY toxic.
And now, an idea to just throw away your mobile phone? Don't these people think about the environment? Yeah, I know, there's a 5$ incentive to return them, but you know as I know, that the average northamerican user of such device will think of the return as a nuisance and will gladly renounce to the 5$ and toss the phone. Even if only 10% does this, you still end up with huge quantities of toxic materials in the environment.
I'd like to kick the ass of the guy who launched this product.
Verbatim seems a company that puts some effort in their media. Ever since the days of 5.25" floppies, I have noticed that not all media is the same. And Verbatim (expecialy the DataLife) floppies were all 100% reliable. With any other brand I had to fear, as there was always some floppies that would fail (even BASF failed, rather often actually).
Nowadays I notice the same thing happening with CD-Rs. I was unfaithful to Verbatim, I confess, and bought two boxes of those nearly-no-name CD-Rs. I discovered that some of them are now unusable. They were backups of game CDs, which need to be inserted in the PC while you play, so they get warm, and constatnly.
Don't you just hate those games that require the CD in the drive? What a moronic thing.
I was thinking about that human face-thing, and I came to the conclusion that it's a good idea: how do you know, outside of the matrix, that you're talking to the Architect? There must be something to show that all machines (I mean -ALL-) listen to him. This was a good way to show that Neo was talking to the sovereign machine master.
Based on the last paragraph in your post, I conclude that you don't necessary believe the "real world" which is another matrix, is "on top" of the-matrix-as-we-know-it-from-first-episode, but rather a parallel matrix, an outlet for dissatisfied people, who now think they're free.
Hey, btw, what do you think about the metamorphosis of Oracle? I didn't catch the explanation for that, did you?
Number 2 has been already answered: Neo has supernatural powers, which transcend the Matrix/real world boundaries. As Oracle said, he is The One, and not only in the matrix.
Number 3: nobody ever said there wasn't oxygen on the earth's surface. It may be polluted, but there is nothing to conclude that it isn't there.
Is it possible that a person of average intelligence like you could have completely missed the point that I was making: not all CDs will be replaced by downloadable music in my lifetime. Which, since I am not terminally ill, should be some 40 years.
But perhaps intelligence (or lack of it) isn't the problem, maybe you are just too impatient to read and understand a post you are replying to. Maybe if you throw more numbers around your next reply, you will manage to miss the point of the original post even more thoroughly.
I will still continue to collect classical music CDs. There's a lot to be read and seen on the covers, and I enjoy the act of chosing the CD I want to listen to and then flipping it in the CD player.
I am sure I belong to a minority, but that doesn't mean this minority is a market that the music industry would want to ignore. Heck, just bein a lover of classical music puts me in a VERY small minority, and yet, I still can chose among hundreds of thousands of titles. I don't see hard drive storage of MP3 files replacing all the music media in the world. Not in my lifetime anyway.
*** Unexplained: Neo is able to effect things in the "real world"...this is the big cliffhanger at the end of Revolutions, what accordingly we all expect to be the first thing addressed in Revolutions, and it never really is! "he just can"...he's just "powerful now"...sigh...comeon, give me something more/better than that!
*** Unexplained: Neo is able to "see" some sort of orange computer light stuff...same sort of stuff...
*** Unexplained: How Smith was able to "come through the Matrix"...or how Neo was able to "go halfway in" without jacking in...both cases, again, it was just another case of hand-waving.
All these HAVE been explained, but the problem is that people expected a physical, CS-based explanation. The reason for these things is, however, metaphysical. I know that many are not going to swallow this easily, but the fact is, Neo has supernatural powers given him from an outside entity, a power that transpasses the boundaries of the real and the Matrix world. Thus Neo can stop the machines in the real world, and can see even though blind. That was, btw, a nice touch, IMHO.
The Oracle also explains how Smith is the opposite of Neo. They balance each other, but Smith is Evil, Neo is good. Similarly to the good "force" that enables Neo, there is the evil "force" that enables Smith. This is analogous to the notion of heaven and hell, God vs. Lucifer. Now, I personally don't believe in the devil (I am religious, though), but that has nothing to do with the movie's idea, which I can still appreciate.
If you can, try to recall what the Oracle said, because in her words lies the explanation to your questions. But you must be willing to accept them.
You flushed it? Fool, you should have eaten it! Remember: 10 trillion flies MUST be right!
(If you don't get my point: just because many people say it's bad doesn't mean you won't like it. You have your own head, right? Why don't you fucking use it?)
Well, your code is of because it contains a bug: the first "x == 1" should be an assignment, but it's actually a comparison. It would fail in compilation.
If your code is Pascal (my guess) then correct that line to read
Not a bad movie, but would have hated to see it copied. The W bros did someting completely different, even though the clues in Reloaded have fooled most of the audience in believing in a scenario similar to the one in The Thirteenth Floor.
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Yes, in 1993 it was called UnixWare, but I'm not sure if UW 2.x was out at that time.
I totally hate the idea of the Segway: it's too slow to be on the motorway, too heavy and quick to be safe on the walkway (and yet, it -is- allowed on the walkway), and it's realy bad on your knees.
This thing, however, addresses all my issues with the Segway: it's fast enough for the motorway and you can sit, reducing the strain on your knees.
If this thing takes off, it could reduce congestion and pollution caused by cars. That's almost utopian.
Strangely enough, I agree with you completely. In addition, our experience both with RH sales people and techsupport was regrettable, and they aren't going to get our business.
SuSE was the otheroption. Perhaps it will be re-evaluated.
I'm glad I can find a RH employee I can reply to:
our experience with you guys has been terrible. Starting from the "availability" of your sales personnel (before the buy) and the technical preparadness of your techsupport people after the buy, it has been unpleasant. Let me tell you what you missed: 1 to 4 million US$ a year. We were going to use RHAS for our products for the telecom market, but now we're sticking with Sun and HP/HP-UX. There's even Linux on the roadmap, and it isn't RH.
I guess you're not interested. Oh well, good for you, I guess. As for us, we're much more than just a part of that 10% who didn't renew.
Yes, we had. Paid 1200 Euro (about 1350 US$) for one year usage of RHAS (redhat adv. server), and the support was laughable. OK, sure, the support guys knew some things, but they never told us anything we didn't already know, and most of the times we had to come up wth the solutions ourselves.
And one time, we never found a solution, no matter what. We decided not to use RHAS for our turnkey solution.
I work for a 50.000 Software/Hardware/Telecommunications company in Europe.
Yes, 25 $US is closer to a realistic figure. The problem with pollution and clean environment value, is that it has an effect on everybody and everything, and therefore it's extremely difficult to evaluate. It's more a mentality issue, actually.
Until the clean environment is not understood as a resource, we're bound to get worse. I hope, with education, the mentality will slowly change.
But right now, unfortunately, I can't imagine the 25 US$ thing.
And if you want to get rid of old batteries you can drop them at most shop
Yes, you can, but will you? I will, perhaps you will, but try to look past your nose: most people don't. And these phones just scream "throw me away once you used me", as that's the whole phylosophy behind them.
You are skewing the point I was making: batteries are the most toxic mass-market product today, and most european countries are very aware of the risks involved with chemicals in the batteries. Cadmium, used in NiCd cells (luckily, these are going out) is expecially toxic, even in traces.
Actually, all the phones manufactured today, for the european market, are triple-band. I am not sure they'll work with TDMA (US) but most of them do support CDMA (US). And of course, all support GSM. Looks to me that a European customer will rather bring his/her phone with him/her, and look for a prepais SIM card.
Provided he can find one. But in the end, he/she might end up having to use a feature-poor, environment polluting displayless piece of junk.
Yeah, well, dual band is really entry level, nowadays. In fact, I don't know of any new Nokia phone that isn't at least triple-band. GPRS is on almost all new models.
Strike that: all new models have GPRS, too.
Why not just use prepaid SIM cards? That's what we have here in Finland. You get a prepaid SIM card and presto, you get to talk or receive calls. Once the allocated talktime has been exceeded, you just buy a code and "recharge" the prepaid SIM card. Or just buy a new prepaid SIM. SIM cards are small and made of non-toxic material. A much better idea for the environment, and I'd say it's much nicer, as you have YOUR choice of mobile phone.
I have worked and lived in several countries in Eueope, and everywhere, recycling and safe storage of old batteries was top issue. Batteries are VERY toxic.
And now, an idea to just throw away your mobile phone? Don't these people think about the environment? Yeah, I know, there's a 5$ incentive to return them, but you know as I know, that the average northamerican user of such device will think of the return as a nuisance and will gladly renounce to the 5$ and toss the phone. Even if only 10% does this, you still end up with huge quantities of toxic materials in the environment.
I'd like to kick the ass of the guy who launched this product.
Verbatim seems a company that puts some effort in their media. Ever since the days of 5.25" floppies, I have noticed that not all media is the same. And Verbatim (expecialy the DataLife) floppies were all 100% reliable. With any other brand I had to fear, as there was always some floppies that would fail (even BASF failed, rather often actually).
Nowadays I notice the same thing happening with CD-Rs. I was unfaithful to Verbatim, I confess, and bought two boxes of those nearly-no-name CD-Rs. I discovered that some of them are now unusable. They were backups of game CDs, which need to be inserted in the PC while you play, so they get warm, and constatnly.
Don't you just hate those games that require the CD in the drive? What a moronic thing.
I was thinking about that human face-thing, and I came to the conclusion that it's a good idea: how do you know, outside of the matrix, that you're talking to the Architect? There must be something to show that all machines (I mean -ALL-) listen to him. This was a good way to show that Neo was talking to the sovereign machine master.
Based on the last paragraph in your post, I conclude that you don't necessary believe the "real world" which is another matrix, is "on top" of the-matrix-as-we-know-it-from-first-episode, but rather a parallel matrix, an outlet for dissatisfied people, who now think they're free.
Hey, btw, what do you think about the metamorphosis of Oracle? I didn't catch the explanation for that, did you?
OK, but I -can- see the parent post, and hope that most people can, too.
1: I have no idea how does the train work.
Number 2 has been already answered: Neo has supernatural powers, which transcend the Matrix/real world boundaries. As Oracle said, he is The One, and not only in the matrix.
Number 3: nobody ever said there wasn't oxygen on the earth's surface. It may be polluted, but there is nothing to conclude that it isn't there.
Is it possible that a person of average intelligence like you could have completely missed the point that I was making: not all CDs will be replaced by downloadable music in my lifetime. Which, since I am not terminally ill, should be some 40 years.
But perhaps intelligence (or lack of it) isn't the problem, maybe you are just too impatient to read and understand a post you are replying to. Maybe if you throw more numbers around your next reply, you will manage to miss the point of the original post even more thoroughly.
I have a tip for you: alcohol. If that didn't do the trick (some adhesive materials are not soluble in normal alcohol) try isopropyl alcohol.
That's what I do, because I'm just as frustrated as you are, with those fucking stickers.
I will still continue to collect classical music CDs. There's a lot to be read and seen on the covers, and I enjoy the act of chosing the CD I want to listen to and then flipping it in the CD player.
I am sure I belong to a minority, but that doesn't mean this minority is a market that the music industry would want to ignore. Heck, just bein a lover of classical music puts me in a VERY small minority, and yet, I still can chose among hundreds of thousands of titles. I don't see hard drive storage of MP3 files replacing all the music media in the world. Not in my lifetime anyway.
Well, if you want to force your view on the movie, that's your prerogative. After all, it's you choice ;o)))))
*** Unexplained: Neo is able to effect things in the "real world"...this is the big cliffhanger at the end of Revolutions, what accordingly we all expect to be the first thing addressed in Revolutions, and it never really is! "he just can"...he's just "powerful now"...sigh...comeon, give me something more/better than that!
*** Unexplained: Neo is able to "see" some sort of orange computer light stuff...same sort of stuff...
*** Unexplained: How Smith was able to "come through the Matrix"...or how Neo was able to "go halfway in" without jacking in...both cases, again, it was just another case of hand-waving.
All these HAVE been explained, but the problem is that people expected a physical, CS-based explanation. The reason for these things is, however, metaphysical. I know that many are not going to swallow this easily, but the fact is, Neo has supernatural powers given him from an outside entity, a power that transpasses the boundaries of the real and the Matrix world. Thus Neo can stop the machines in the real world, and can see even though blind. That was, btw, a nice touch, IMHO.
The Oracle also explains how Smith is the opposite of Neo. They balance each other, but Smith is Evil, Neo is good. Similarly to the good "force" that enables Neo, there is the evil "force" that enables Smith. This is analogous to the notion of heaven and hell, God vs. Lucifer. Now, I personally don't believe in the devil (I am religious, though), but that has nothing to do with the movie's idea, which I can still appreciate.
If you can, try to recall what the Oracle said, because in her words lies the explanation to your questions. But you must be willing to accept them.
You flushed it? Fool, you should have eaten it! Remember: 10 trillion flies MUST be right!
(If you don't get my point: just because many people say it's bad doesn't mean you won't like it. You have your own head, right? Why don't you fucking use it?)
Well, your code is of because it contains a bug: the first "x == 1" should be an assignment, but it's actually a comparison. It would fail in compilation.
If your code is Pascal (my guess) then correct that line to read
x:=1
The Thirteenth Floor
Not a bad movie, but would have hated to see it copied. The W bros did someting completely different, even though the clues in Reloaded have fooled most of the audience in believing in a scenario similar to the one in The Thirteenth Floor.