Oh come on. The thing looks wicked. You can't tell me that the Batman-like design wouldn't strike fear in the hearts of 16 year old geek jihadists everywhere.
Why would it be expensive to translate the American texts to Australian English? I would presume that once they were translated from American to any dialect of English the cost of translating to regional English dialects would be quite low.
Because you have to carefully read through all of the documentation and make sure that when someone talks about driving on the right side of the road, you change it to the left. Then you have to deal with bathtub whirlpools spinning in the opposite direction.
And don't get me started on the metric system.
All of that crap is time consuming and expensive. Somebody has to do it....
Multi hundred gigabyte HDs don't fill up that fast.
Besides, Street View is some tiny little bit of Google with managers and engineers stuck in some corner of the cafeteria. It's not like tons of money is expended on them (eg, the price tag on data center cooling) so multiple levels of review / fine tuning probably just doesn't occur. I saw the Google car in town not too long ago - a DIY dream. Gear strewn over the rear seat with cables everywhere and a what appeared to be big tube of cables running into the trunk.
And these Google engineers - I'm sure they're smart and all, but they put their pants on one leg a time.
Because it allows you to put what is traditionally a page of material on a - page - while not cranking the font size down to where you have to be 16 years old to read.
It also handles PDFs from printed pages well. And Lord knows, there are lots and lots of those.
So yes, it's an ancient and arbitrary size, but so are Imperial units and we seem to have a devil of a time getting rid of those stupid things.
(The rest of the world can at least ignore that last statement, but us USA!ers have to deal with it.)
still have an unwrapped copy of XP in case the world ends.
OK, I'll bite. I know a number of doomers / survivalists and they hoard all manner of odd things. But an unwrapped copy of XP?
Do Zombies really go apesehit over the buffer overflows? Will we need the unpatched security holes to traverse the now-radioactive Internet? Can you eat the packaging?
I remember a political text I read years ago in which the author was of the opinion that every democracy should experience a few years (or decades, as is wont to happen) of fascism to both fully appreciate the value of what's been lost as well as to learn what stupid mistakes to avoid next time around...
Right. Because the US Civil war was such a wonderful experience and improved 'democracy' for all citizens.
Sorry, it's just a bit more complex than that. You just don't hit CTL-ALT-DELETE and reboot a society.
Google Calendar. Contacts. Not everybody has a corporate Active Directory server to hook into.
When I was looking to get out of upgrading to Lion, I looked at the Android system (I have an iPhone currently) - the only way to get a contacts / calendar / email system that you could sync with other devices was to fall into the Google machine.
Post a link to paper the US Air Force wrote on the requirements and potential paths toward researching macro-scale traversable wormhole technology, and get ignored.
What the troops REALLY want is to end the killing of innocents & come back home to defend THIS country. And there's only one candidate who is willing to do that. If we really cared about the troops, we would honor their wish.
Look, if you want fantasy presidents, at least pick somebody like Milla Jovovich. She hasn't a chance in hell of getting elected but I'd rather watch her campaign than Mr. Crazy. You really have to admit that her dialog makes more sense than Ron Paul's. Besides, if you polled the troops and asked who they would vote for Paul or Jovovich - who do you think would win?
They're not sending the films out with patrols. They're showing them at base theaters which have more technical support and equipment than anything Main St. can rustle up. Of course, DVDs can be used to entertain small groups or individuals but that would give people more options than what is good for them.
I think the part the analysts are looking at it the Asia Pacific market share. There are billions of potential customers in Chindia and surrounding villages. Even if / when the North American / European market gets saturated, you can count on sales figures from the 'developing world' to, well, develop.
Should give them a couple more years.
It's not much different from the US car manufacturers who are seeing stable to decreasing sales in NA / Europe but are busily building factories in China for domestic consumption. It's the New World Order folks.
1. is pretty easy to do. I walk into your office with a clipboard. I unplug an unused PC and away I go. If need be I clone that PCs network address. How many places actually encrypt their wired network?
I walk up to you, don't recognize you as an employee so I figure you're a tech from one of our vendors. I start hinting around for toys and freebies.
Boy, you'd better be able to deliver or you're in a heap of trouble.
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Thanks to pprune, arrse and similar sites it is good to know you don't have to rely on the old press for slanted crap.
Yeah, you've gotta love pprune.
Terms of endearment: Self Loading Freight.
Or 'passengers' to the rest of the world.
Oh come on. The thing looks wicked. You can't tell me that the Batman-like design wouldn't strike fear in the hearts of 16 year old geek jihadists everywhere.
Why would it be expensive to translate the American texts to Australian English? I would presume that once they were translated from American to any dialect of English the cost of translating to regional English dialects would be quite low.
Because you have to carefully read through all of the documentation and make sure that when someone talks about driving on the right side of the road, you change it to the left. Then you have to deal with bathtub whirlpools spinning in the opposite direction.
And don't get me started on the metric system.
All of that crap is time consuming and expensive. Somebody has to do it....
I don't remember.
Multi hundred gigabyte HDs don't fill up that fast.
Besides, Street View is some tiny little bit of Google with managers and engineers stuck in some corner of the cafeteria. It's not like tons of money is expended on them (eg, the price tag on data center cooling) so multiple levels of review / fine tuning probably just doesn't occur. I saw the Google car in town not too long ago - a DIY dream. Gear strewn over the rear seat with cables everywhere and a what appeared to be big tube of cables running into the trunk.
And these Google engineers - I'm sure they're smart and all, but they put their pants on one leg a time.
Because it allows you to put what is traditionally a page of material on a - page - while not cranking the font size down to where you have to be 16 years old to read.
It also handles PDFs from printed pages well. And Lord knows, there are lots and lots of those.
So yes, it's an ancient and arbitrary size, but so are Imperial units and we seem to have a devil of a time getting rid of those stupid things.
(The rest of the world can at least ignore that last statement, but us USA!ers have to deal with it.)
still have an unwrapped copy of XP in case the world ends.
OK, I'll bite. I know a number of doomers / survivalists and they hoard all manner of odd things. But an unwrapped copy of XP?
Do Zombies really go apesehit over the buffer overflows? Will we need the unpatched security holes to traverse the now-radioactive Internet? Can you eat the packaging?
Inquiring minds want to know.
I remember a political text I read years ago in which the author was of the opinion that every democracy should experience a few years (or decades, as is wont to happen) of fascism to both fully appreciate the value of what's been lost as well as to learn what stupid mistakes to avoid next time around...
Right. Because the US Civil war was such a wonderful experience and improved 'democracy' for all citizens.
Sorry, it's just a bit more complex than that. You just don't hit CTL-ALT-DELETE and reboot a society.
Keep looking, the Arc of the Covenant is bound to be in there somewhere....
Google Calendar.
Contacts.
Not everybody has a corporate Active Directory server to hook into.
When I was looking to get out of upgrading to Lion, I looked at the Android system (I have an iPhone currently) - the only way to get a contacts / calendar / email system that you could sync with other devices was to fall into the Google machine.
I upgraded to Lion.....
Oh just drop some acid and settle back.
Post a link to paper the US Air Force wrote on the requirements and potential paths toward researching macro-scale traversable wormhole technology, and get ignored.
The Star Trek fan site is ---> thataway.
More like:
"Was that the primary buffer coupling?"
What the troops REALLY want is to end the killing of innocents & come back home to defend THIS country. And there's only one candidate who is willing to do that. If we really cared about the troops, we would honor their wish.
Look, if you want fantasy presidents, at least pick somebody like Milla Jovovich. She hasn't a chance in hell of getting elected but I'd rather watch her campaign than Mr. Crazy. You really have to admit that her dialog makes more sense than Ron Paul's. Besides, if you polled the troops and asked who they would vote for Paul or Jovovich - who do you think would win?
They're not sending the films out with patrols. They're showing them at base theaters which have more technical support and equipment than anything Main St. can rustle up. Of course, DVDs can be used to entertain small groups or individuals but that would give people more options than what is good for them.
it's the coming home part that is the problem.
Capt. Malcolm Reynolds: Just get us on the ground!
Hoban 'Wash' Washburn: That part'll happen pretty definitely.
CHRISTIANITY is the most destructive malware
Citation needed.
Pretty sure Christianity is more compassionate and charitable than destructive malwaric.
Nobody expected the Spanish Inquisition!
You're hired.
And legalese is legalese because lawyers are assholes and will nail you for any omission, inconsistency or inaccuracy.
Or erroneousness, mistakenness, fallaciousness, faultiness, inexactness, mistake, fallacy, slip, slip-up, oversight, fault, blunder, gaffe; erratum, solecism; informal howler, typo, blooper, goof,exception; deletion, cut, excision, elimination, erasure; gap, blank, or absence.
You didn't even really get started.
That was a cybercool post. +1 cybermods for you!
boats?
'Hello. This is the US Coast Guard, may we board you?'
Best to say yes. And, surprisingly enough, the US Coast Guard is now part of the Department of Homeland Security. (Not their fault.)
The CG can board any boat in US waters. Any time. For any reason.
I think the part the analysts are looking at it the Asia Pacific market share. There are billions of potential customers in Chindia and surrounding villages. Even if / when the North American / European market gets saturated, you can count on sales figures from the 'developing world' to, well, develop.
Should give them a couple more years.
It's not much different from the US car manufacturers who are seeing stable to decreasing sales in NA / Europe but are busily building factories in China for domestic consumption. It's the New World Order folks.
I dunno. Although I agree that the Vendetta approach is old and tiresome, it's really hard to let go of my deep and visceral hate for Adobe.
They make Larry Ellison look like the Easter Bunny.
Simple really. It's the Golden Rule.
He who has the gold, rules.
1. is pretty easy to do. I walk into your office with a clipboard. I unplug an unused PC and away I go. If need be I clone that PCs network address. How many places actually encrypt their wired network?
I walk up to you, don't recognize you as an employee so I figure you're a tech from one of our vendors. I start hinting around for toys and freebies.
Boy, you'd better be able to deliver or you're in a heap of trouble.