I bid 10c. If I win, I grant a free unlimited license to everyone so long as they do not sue anyone for patent infringement. Except Microsoft. Screw 'em.
Unfortunately, despite our dollar being scarily close to parity with the US ($AU1 = $US0.9165 as I type), a standard single-CD album still costs $25-$35 here, and a good 2-3 CD dance/house/techno compilation (MoS, Gatecrasher etc) costs $40-$50.
I've found that buying CDs at concerts is comparatively attractive - often $10-$15 for older albums, $20-$25 for the latest release, and $30-$40 for 3 albums.
They probably don't, but the point I was trying to make with that detail is this: How often do you see a low-spec computer with Vista Home Basic being demoed?
In my experience, the demo machines are all mid-high spec running Aeroglass. But there's the cheaper version of the computer, with most of the features you see here, in a box I can get you from out the back. In this case, the equivalent would be clicking around on a Vista Ultimate Demo on the demo computer for a while (test driving the top model demo car) and then buying the cheaper version which there isn't a demo model for at the moment...
I don't see how being unable to use Aero or Windows Movie Maker can be made subject to a lawsuit.
The issue is that all the advertising for Vista was built around the "Wow starts now" and the Vista experience, which was Aeroglass. So the customer buys a cheap laptop with Vista pre-loaded and a shiny "Vista Capable" sticker on it. They get it home to find that it runs like a one-legged dog, and is Vista Home Basic, which doesn't have Aeroglass.
It's deceptive, if not outright false advertising.
Here's a car analogy for you. Imagine a large car company starts advertising a new model of car. The ads feature a soft-top coupe with aggressive sports styling, leather trim, 19" chrome wheels, big twin turbo v12 engine, 6 speed flappy-paddle gearbox, and is capable of 200mph.
You walk into the showroom, and the cars look like they do in the ads, or even better, but they are expensive. The salesman says "no worries" - this is the top model. There are much cheaper ones that are almost as good - you still get most of the features of the top model.
"Great", you say. "I'll take one!"
The salesman tells you that they are all in shipping crates out the back, so you can't look at it now, but they will deliver it to you.
The next morning you find a new car in your driveway. It looks like a Hyundai Excel, has a 4 cylinder engine, 14" wheels with plastic hubcaps, cloth trim, and a 4 speed manual gearbox.
You take it back to complain, but the salesman says "How did I mislead you? It has most of the features of the top model - seats, wheels, a steering wheel, seatbelts, a handbrake, lights, a horn, a gearbox, and it drives on the road. And it's capable of doing 200mph, if you can get it into a cargo plane that moves that fast..."
I'm fairly proficient at getting around the windows GUI with a keyboard ( more than I am with Gnome:( ) - my biggest issue is getting to the system tray with the keyboard.
Surely Microsoft hasn't been operating for all these years without API documentation? With the staff turnover, new projects, interoperability between projects etc., I find it hard to believe that the coders would have to go back to the API source to figure out how it works. There must be internal documentation of the APIs in Microsoft somewhere.
And if there is that documentation in Microsoft somewhere, then why hasn't it been just a case of basic editing and formatting so that it can be published?
I guess, however, that if the API documentation isn't there, it would go a long way to explaining the quality of the software coming from Redmond...
You could, of course, just image the drive. Then after every screwup, you copy the drives contents back and start again. For added protection, after you've copied the drive, you mess with the image on a secondary drive and leave the original alone...
Honestly, how many people here expect to be able to design a and then sit back for the rest of their lives receiving money for it? You get paid for your time, and then you get given the next project. You stop working, you stop getting paid.
Disclaimer: I am a non-recording (hobby) musician.
Christianity also has positive things to say about martyrdom - however, it has nothing to do with you killing other people. What it says is that if someone else kills you because of your faith, and you hold true to the end, then you will be greatly blessed in heaven.
Because in the web design world, that's not how it works. You spend 90% of your time making the website. It then takes another 90% to make it render properly in IE without breaking it in more standards compliant browsers, thus causing you take 80% more time to create the site than it should have.
It's just like any other project in the software world. The first 90% of the project takes 90% of the time, and the last 10% of the project takes 90% of the time.
No, it's more like the Send To menu under the right-click context menu. Rather than right-clicking a file, choosing Send To, and then choosing a location, when you drag it opens a better, smarter version of the Send To menu.
My question is: How do we know it's the biggest digital survey of the Milky Way ever? Are we to assume that the other intelligences in the universe progressed beyond digital before they surveyed it? Perhaps they surveyed it in analogue and decided that was enough?
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I bid 10c. If I win, I grant a free unlimited license to everyone so long as they do not sue anyone for patent infringement. Except Microsoft. Screw 'em.
Unfortunately, despite our dollar being scarily close to parity with the US ($AU1 = $US0.9165 as I type), a standard single-CD album still costs $25-$35 here, and a good 2-3 CD dance/house/techno compilation (MoS, Gatecrasher etc) costs $40-$50.
I've found that buying CDs at concerts is comparatively attractive - often $10-$15 for older albums, $20-$25 for the latest release, and $30-$40 for 3 albums.
1) There was nothing 2) It exploded 3) ??? 4) Pro... wait, WHAT?
They probably don't, but the point I was trying to make with that detail is this: How often do you see a low-spec computer with Vista Home Basic being demoed?
In my experience, the demo machines are all mid-high spec running Aeroglass. But there's the cheaper version of the computer, with most of the features you see here, in a box I can get you from out the back. In this case, the equivalent would be clicking around on a Vista Ultimate Demo on the demo computer for a while (test driving the top model demo car) and then buying the cheaper version which there isn't a demo model for at the moment...
It's deceptive, if not outright false advertising.
Here's a car analogy for you. Imagine a large car company starts advertising a new model of car. The ads feature a soft-top coupe with aggressive sports styling, leather trim, 19" chrome wheels, big twin turbo v12 engine, 6 speed flappy-paddle gearbox, and is capable of 200mph.
You walk into the showroom, and the cars look like they do in the ads, or even better, but they are expensive. The salesman says "no worries" - this is the top model. There are much cheaper ones that are almost as good - you still get most of the features of the top model.
"Great", you say. "I'll take one!"
The salesman tells you that they are all in shipping crates out the back, so you can't look at it now, but they will deliver it to you.
The next morning you find a new car in your driveway. It looks like a Hyundai Excel, has a 4 cylinder engine, 14" wheels with plastic hubcaps, cloth trim, and a 4 speed manual gearbox.
You take it back to complain, but the salesman says "How did I mislead you? It has most of the features of the top model - seats, wheels, a steering wheel, seatbelts, a handbrake, lights, a horn, a gearbox, and it drives on the road. And it's capable of doing 200mph, if you can get it into a cargo plane that moves that fast..."
How can php run on Windows with [i]performance and stability[/i] when Windows itself is incapable of both?
Wait... Windows has security?
I'm fairly proficient at getting around the windows GUI with a keyboard ( more than I am with Gnome :( ) - my biggest issue is getting to the system tray with the keyboard.
And we have a winner.
Surely Microsoft hasn't been operating for all these years without API documentation? With the staff turnover, new projects, interoperability between projects etc., I find it hard to believe that the coders would have to go back to the API source to figure out how it works. There must be internal documentation of the APIs in Microsoft somewhere.
And if there is that documentation in Microsoft somewhere, then why hasn't it been just a case of basic editing and formatting so that it can be published?
I guess, however, that if the API documentation isn't there, it would go a long way to explaining the quality of the software coming from Redmond...
You could, of course, just image the drive. Then after every screwup, you copy the drives contents back and start again. For added protection, after you've copied the drive, you mess with the image on a secondary drive and leave the original alone...
How about "get a real job, like everyone else"?
Honestly, how many people here expect to be able to design a and then sit back for the rest of their lives receiving money for it? You get paid for your time, and then you get given the next project. You stop working, you stop getting paid.
Disclaimer: I am a non-recording (hobby) musician.
Less support than Unix, no wireless - lame.
Christianity also has positive things to say about martyrdom - however, it has nothing to do with you killing other people. What it says is that if someone else kills you because of your faith, and you hold true to the end, then you will be greatly blessed in heaven.
I've had Lego since the mid eighties myself and I fail to see how
<brickquote>Lego now has far too many custom parts, it's a bit more like building some flat pack furniture that a chance to be creative.</brickquote>
helps to make any sense of the time-frame. It must be some weird sort of American Thing then?
So the Slashdot effect is caused by a flashmob of geeks and nerds?
Because in the web design world, that's not how it works. You spend 90% of your time making the website. It then takes another 90% to make it render properly in IE without breaking it in more standards compliant browsers, thus causing you take 80% more time to create the site than it should have.
It's just like any other project in the software world. The first 90% of the project takes 90% of the time, and the last 10% of the project takes 90% of the time.
No, it's more like the Send To menu under the right-click context menu. Rather than right-clicking a file, choosing Send To, and then choosing a location, when you drag it opens a better, smarter version of the Send To menu.
Don't worry if you missed it. It will be back in a couple of days...
I was joking. I can read it fine.
It's going to be one of those days. *Sigh*...
SSL works by making the font so small that you can't read it? INGENIOUS!
Oh, is THAT what is meant by "burning a dvd"? I feel so silly...
My question is: How do we know it's the biggest digital survey of the Milky Way ever? Are we to assume that the other intelligences in the universe progressed beyond digital before they surveyed it? Perhaps they surveyed it in analogue and decided that was enough?