First thing I though when seeing it was that if I made a 3D animation looking exactly like that, people would say that it looks too fake...:)
Goes to show that when you do 3D imagery things don't have to be like they really are, but how people would expect them to be...:)
I think I know what the GP means. I'm in Venezuela, so we use a . to separate thousands and a , to separate decimals.
When I was in excel (IIRC, it's been ages since I had to use a spreadsheet), I'd put a dot as a decimal separator (which is more practical since the dot is on the numerical keypad), it would just conver to the apropiate (a,) based on my regional settings. I haven't had to use OO's spreadsheet, but if it doesn't work like excel there it would be really annoying when having to input lots of numbers.
One funny we had was back when my family had a net cafe and I did some tech service there. One woman called in saying that her computer kept eating her disks, so I told her to bring it in (I was rather curious about it).
Turns out her case was one of those that has the floppy sized hole and the actual drive goes on the inside... except that her computer had no drive, so she would put the disks in and they fell into the case. I found 19 disks inside of it.
I was rather hard for my and my brother to keep a straight face until we were done fixing it (taking the disks out, selling and installing a floppy drive) and she was out of the store..:)
I had that same problem. One way to fix it is to go to plugins in the options and disable the PDF support, then anytime a website tries to load a PDF firefox will download it and open it on the external PDF reader instead.
I was actually thinking about the same thing. If this is true, then it'll be really bad at least for me since my main interest is on 3D animation(and my favorite one, Animation:Master, doesn't run on linux) which they all run windowed and with OpenGL (well, 3D Studio Max does have a directX option, but when I've used it it isn't as fast as OpenGL, at least with the setups we have at work)...
However I'm taking a wait and see attitude since so far the only source I've seen is a post on a public forum (even if it's a very respected one) which I can't even read to see what their sources are because of the slashdotting.
Well, here they all sell heinz products (and most major brands)... but, for example, CADA (one of the supermarket chains here) sells a brand called "Leader Price" that only they sell, Makro (another one) sells "Aro" brand and there's one kind of brazilian cookies I like (forgot the name right now) that can only be bought on another one.. just to clear the flawed analogy a little bit...:)
I still think the comparison stands (IMHO, at least). If I want heinz products, I have to buy it on the chains they sell to, and at least here in Venezuela it's rather common to have brands that only sell trough one chain (actually, there are at least 3 country-wide supermarket chain stores here and a big local one and each have their own brand of products you can't buy anywhere else, plus the ones everyone sells to).
The way I see it at least, U2 is the brand, and they decided to sell trough one single label. There are some independent artists that sell trough more than one label (none comes to mind offhand, though).
I do agree that if you have exclusively U2 music, then you have to go with their particular label (of their choice), but since you do have a choice to buy any other music, or even start your own band if you want to, I dont think it's much of a market lock or monopoly, at least not more than if you wanted to buy OSX but don't want apple (same thing, you can buy an OS from anyone or make your own, but you can't buy apple's OS from anyone else).
I do agree that it would be a good idea for bands to let more than one label to sell their music, but I'd guess they (both the bands and the labels) don't think it's such a good idea, because there are quite a few bands big enough to have done it if they wanted by now (U2 one of them, to use your example)... nothing stops anyone from creating a band and trying to sell their music that way, though.. who knows, maybe that'll be the next big thing..:)
It can be cheaper too (here in Venezuela at least). I use a prepaid phone, and while I did have to pay more to get it (around $80), I mostly use it to receive calls (which are free for me, caller pays) and send text messages... I end up paying no more than $2 or $3 a month on it..:)
Then you just buy music from other artists if you don't like the label. This sounds (to me at least) kinda like complaining that you can only buy oscar mayer wieners (sp?) with the oscar mayer label.
Well, having one doesn't necesarely preclude the other, but if you have limited man-hours to work on it and you have to choose wether to make them work more on security or standards, I'd pick security first too.
How I wish more people understood that. I work with video editing, and most of the videos we end up doing have scripts that are written by press reporters with little or no video experience... and they're just too different medias (in written press you have to say everything, in video you have to say the bare minimun and let the images say the rest), so we end up either rewritting the scripts or the video ends up being too long and repetitive.
Same thing happens with video / movies / games / books / theater, which is why screenwriters instead of authors are hired to adapt books to movies. I guess the game genre is too young for having a specific role for that yet.
Maybe they didn't want to mess with the other things publishers do (advertising and the like)... or maybe just didn't have enough money to fund complete development of their next game (since games, like movies, don't start to bring in money until they're released).
Even then, they could claim that you opted in if you ever accidentally left a "allow third parties to contact me" checkbox checked in any form where you enter your email on.
To be fair, if you started to reproduce that book you bough (wether it was 10 years ago or today) and give it away to everyone, then I would expect the author to sue you.
There's also the thing about that sport the entire world calls football and that USians (not sure about canadians) prefer to call soccer which was mentioned quite a bit in the first harry potter book...:)
Well, he was pharao's adopted son... I doubt that anyone that would deny him a promotion would have a very long military career after that... or a life at all...:)
There's also the thing that it might not even be 10% of the market. I'd like to know which % of the people that use firefox use it in windows, so they have internet explorer installed.
I'd guess that most of the people using firefox in windows, when they find a website that they want to go to and doesn't work, will just load IE and open it (I know I do at least, with the open in IE extension). If course there are quite a few geeks that will refuse to open a site that doesn't support their choice of browser (be it firefox, opera, lynx or anthing else), but I doubt they are a majority (I might be wrong, though).
I probably got a different table than you got (since windows is in spanish here, the microsoft website is in spanish too when following the link), but I do see a column (4th one from the left) that says "processor type" (in spanish) and says "64 bits (NX)" on the photoshop CS entry.
One temporary solution would be to take a week of unpaid vacation from your work and then buy the diamong ring in that week... you can pay anything you want and still feel good about yourself since for that week your salary is practically nothing..;)
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First thing I though when seeing it was that if I made a 3D animation looking exactly like that, people would say that it looks too fake... :)
Goes to show that when you do 3D imagery things don't have to be like they really are, but how people would expect them to be... :)
I think I know what the GP means. I'm in Venezuela, so we use a . to separate thousands and a , to separate decimals. When I was in excel (IIRC, it's been ages since I had to use a spreadsheet), I'd put a dot as a decimal separator (which is more practical since the dot is on the numerical keypad), it would just conver to the apropiate (a ,) based on my regional settings. I haven't had to use OO's spreadsheet, but if it doesn't work like excel there it would be really annoying when having to input lots of numbers.
What makes it weird is the graphs applied to other companies... specially check the last one... :)
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One funny we had was back when my family had a net cafe and I did some tech service there. One woman called in saying that her computer kept eating her disks, so I told her to bring it in (I was rather curious about it).
:)
Turns out her case was one of those that has the floppy sized hole and the actual drive goes on the inside... except that her computer had no drive, so she would put the disks in and they fell into the case. I found 19 disks inside of it.
I was rather hard for my and my brother to keep a straight face until we were done fixing it (taking the disks out, selling and installing a floppy drive) and she was out of the store..
I had that same problem. One way to fix it is to go to plugins in the options and disable the PDF support, then anytime a website tries to load a PDF firefox will download it and open it on the external PDF reader instead.
I was actually thinking about the same thing. If this is true, then it'll be really bad at least for me since my main interest is on 3D animation(and my favorite one, Animation:Master, doesn't run on linux) which they all run windowed and with OpenGL (well, 3D Studio Max does have a directX option, but when I've used it it isn't as fast as OpenGL, at least with the setups we have at work)...
However I'm taking a wait and see attitude since so far the only source I've seen is a post on a public forum (even if it's a very respected one) which I can't even read to see what their sources are because of the slashdotting.
From TFA:
"In order to comply with the mandated deadline, Rackspace delivered copied drives to the FBI."
So I guess they either sent other drives with copies to the FBI, or copied them before sending.
Well, here they all sell heinz products (and most major brands)... but, for example, CADA (one of the supermarket chains here) sells a brand called "Leader Price" that only they sell, Makro (another one) sells "Aro" brand and there's one kind of brazilian cookies I like (forgot the name right now) that can only be bought on another one.. just to clear the flawed analogy a little bit... :)
I still think the comparison stands (IMHO, at least). If I want heinz products, I have to buy it on the chains they sell to, and at least here in Venezuela it's rather common to have brands that only sell trough one chain (actually, there are at least 3 country-wide supermarket chain stores here and a big local one and each have their own brand of products you can't buy anywhere else, plus the ones everyone sells to).
:)
The way I see it at least, U2 is the brand, and they decided to sell trough one single label. There are some independent artists that sell trough more than one label (none comes to mind offhand, though).
I do agree that if you have exclusively U2 music, then you have to go with their particular label (of their choice), but since you do have a choice to buy any other music, or even start your own band if you want to, I dont think it's much of a market lock or monopoly, at least not more than if you wanted to buy OSX but don't want apple (same thing, you can buy an OS from anyone or make your own, but you can't buy apple's OS from anyone else).
I do agree that it would be a good idea for bands to let more than one label to sell their music, but I'd guess they (both the bands and the labels) don't think it's such a good idea, because there are quite a few bands big enough to have done it if they wanted by now (U2 one of them, to use your example)... nothing stops anyone from creating a band and trying to sell their music that way, though.. who knows, maybe that'll be the next big thing..
It can be cheaper too (here in Venezuela at least). I use a prepaid phone, and while I did have to pay more to get it (around $80), I mostly use it to receive calls (which are free for me, caller pays) and send text messages... I end up paying no more than $2 or $3 a month on it.. :)
Then you just buy music from other artists if you don't like the label. This sounds (to me at least) kinda like complaining that you can only buy oscar mayer wieners (sp?) with the oscar mayer label.
Well, having one doesn't necesarely preclude the other, but if you have limited man-hours to work on it and you have to choose wether to make them work more on security or standards, I'd pick security first too.
How I wish more people understood that. I work with video editing, and most of the videos we end up doing have scripts that are written by press reporters with little or no video experience... and they're just too different medias (in written press you have to say everything, in video you have to say the bare minimun and let the images say the rest), so we end up either rewritting the scripts or the video ends up being too long and repetitive.
Same thing happens with video / movies / games / books / theater, which is why screenwriters instead of authors are hired to adapt books to movies. I guess the game genre is too young for having a specific role for that yet.
Maybe they didn't want to mess with the other things publishers do (advertising and the like)... or maybe just didn't have enough money to fund complete development of their next game (since games, like movies, don't start to bring in money until they're released).
Even then, they could claim that you opted in if you ever accidentally left a "allow third parties to contact me" checkbox checked in any form where you enter your email on.
To be fair, if you started to reproduce that book you bough (wether it was 10 years ago or today) and give it away to everyone, then I would expect the author to sue you.
There's also the thing about that sport the entire world calls football and that USians (not sure about canadians) prefer to call soccer which was mentioned quite a bit in the first harry potter book... :)
Well, he was pharao's adopted son... I doubt that anyone that would deny him a promotion would have a very long military career after that... or a life at all... :)
There are probably still some leftovers from this one.. :)
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Well, it could stop spam coming from botnets with forged addresses... :)
There's also the thing that it might not even be 10% of the market. I'd like to know which % of the people that use firefox use it in windows, so they have internet explorer installed.
I'd guess that most of the people using firefox in windows, when they find a website that they want to go to and doesn't work, will just load IE and open it (I know I do at least, with the open in IE extension). If course there are quite a few geeks that will refuse to open a site that doesn't support their choice of browser (be it firefox, opera, lynx or anthing else), but I doubt they are a majority (I might be wrong, though).
Probably most countried have localized versions. At least if we have one here in Venezuela, I doubt there are too many countries left without one.. :)
Now it'll only have to specify on which starbuck you are to meet them out of the 10 within those 6 blocks.. :)
I probably got a different table than you got (since windows is in spanish here, the microsoft website is in spanish too when following the link), but I do see a column (4th one from the left) that says "processor type" (in spanish) and says "64 bits (NX)" on the photoshop CS entry.
One temporary solution would be to take a week of unpaid vacation from your work and then buy the diamong ring in that week... you can pay anything you want and still feel good about yourself since for that week your salary is practically nothing.. ;)