Zune will only be popular if they give it away which may be the case.
At least an iPod will work as an external drive out of the box. Zune doesn't even have this functionality without some serious hacking. All it is is a DRM container for Windows.
Well, they wouldn't want to pay more, they need to pay more to offset the cost of broadcasting.
30-40+ years ago, an advertiser could sponsor 30 minutes of airtime just by having the host state the plug for the product or service.
Your family of concerned parent felt that local celebrities were being created by local businesses and sponsored advertising was creating a monster and untrue product endorsements. This would be your local weatherman issuing a plug for a Chevrolet from the local dealer or your news anchor plugging a gallon of milk and ice cream from the local dairy.
So this stopped local sponsorship and forced advertisers to have commercials to be produced at a much higher cost than a 30 minute sponsored time. Add airtime to that and you get the idea.
There was no need to inject the cost of production of a 30 second spot when a 30 minute sponsored time was cheaper.
There is a real cost to the broadcaster to broadcast HD content so it only makes sense that the advertiser should pay.
The advertiser's dillema is that the cost of an HD spot will cost more than an SD spot and still reach the same demographic. If the advertiser chooses to only advertise on the last SD station in the market, then that is their choice.
I'm aware that the power features can be adjusted. The Parent stated "Congratulations, you just described the default power functionality in XP." which is not the case. My point adds to the fact that an external monitor requires user intervention and is not automatic unless a docking station is invloved.
The 2 above points negate any user friendly settings that Windows supposedly has as an automatic function whereas my iBook requires nothing more than connection of cables.
He said this "If you want to use the MacBook with the lid closed plug in an external keyboard. Done. I wish my PC laptop did these things."
I currently have a Thinkpad that does not work with the lid closed for external devices AND to use an external monitor, I have to Fn(CRT). So I have to leave it on, open, and Fn(CRT) for it to work with external devices. When I close the lid, the laptop sleeps. Hardly a default power functionality as you stated.
Not going to buy a docking station as I'm sure that would fix the problem for my intended needs but there is no space for a docking station for my setup.
My iBook I can stack on it's front and have the cables coming out so it only takes up 1" of space vs 13" of space for the thinkpad to stay open.
This new blood has no idea how to make money however.
Zune and XBox is still dependant upon the core OS and Office money makers in order to exist.
Zune will never ever be as ubiquitous as the iPod unless it is allowed to run on other operating systems. Even if you were successful enough to convert 100% of Windows iPod users to the Zune, it still won't be the numbers of the Apple/Windows iPod user base.
DRM is Microsoft's only hope for future revenue outside of the OS and Office products. If they can get digital downloads on their codecs commercially, that will be their third profitable arm.
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I remember being a kid in Hawaii and loving those shows. I still have my original first season Go Ranger toys with removable helmets and learning how to count in japanese and not be bothered by subtitles because of the show - the subtitle thing came in handy when Star Wars came out.
People don't really get that Power Rangers are really 31 years old and not 14.
2 other shows I wish I could get for a personal collection are Kamen Rider and Roboccon, the home robot that was afraid of cockroaches.
I don't know what kind of crack you're on but I'm a MCSE from the NT4.0 era and i don't remember any editing any config files for IIS4.0. More over, any migration tools that exist for IIS4 to IIS5 never worked 100%.
A backup of a httpd.conf will work on any and I mean ANY apache server of the same type and it's pretty trivial to get setup, almost as trivial as setting up an IIS server.
Never had backup of meta data files work for any IIS installation for a server migration, always had to resetup by hand.
Also, there is a tool that comes with *nix servers called logrotate that keeps your log files at bay. There isn't anything like it for the Windows camps as log cleaning is a manual process for weblogs and MSSQL logs. Yeah, I know there are 3rd party tools but that should be beside the point and scripting could work too but NT scripting isn't as powerful as BASH scripting.
It also sounds like a puppy granting wishes but that isn't what the article is about.
That so called "shortcut" feature that has been around since Windows 3.1 isn't a 'link' as it works on POSIX complaint systems. It is a shortcut that gives the user - not the computer - a quick way to access a directory. It cannot handle I/O functions.
The thing that made the Neo Geo unique was the fact that the games were identical to the arcade version.
At that time frame, that was pretty awesome. If you had your memory stick with your stats on it from home, you could play your same character in the arcade.
IMO, most of the Neo Geo games sucked as they were all the same formulaic game. Either fighting or a scrolling shoot em up. Replace fighter and opponent graphics and you had a different named game but same gameplay.
Having arcade quality at home at that time was unheard of. Today, the reverse is true.
Radiation isn't like a cloud of dust you pass through and you have this 'radiation' on you.
Radiation is basically energy. When you turn on a light, you're getting irradiated but from a human safe radiation source (unless you have that skin/vampire genetic disorder).
If you boil water, it boils and turns to steam. The steam can be racaptured back into water or ice.
If you boil humans, you'd cook and burn up.
That being said, radiation can do crazy things at the molecular level and humans are 30% mix of a variety of molecules and 70% H20.
It would be a safe bet that the amout of spammers visiting the form is > than the amount of visually impaired visitors. For a quick fix I suggested the hidden field and/or the hidden style, both of which are 508 accesible, provided the proper tags are used.
In the event that a form has to be 508 compliant and you don't want spammers to use your form, there are other methods to verify.
If you're going to go through the validity of 508, you might as well:
validate the form that the referrer is from within the site itself - all others should be banned for the session/future use
validate the data
block the forms from known IP addresses that tend to submit spam material
Writing the 508 compliant form would take the longest to code followed by validating the data.
You should have a hidden field with no value and make sure it returns no value. Bots tend to populate all form fields.
That would be the easiest step. You could go a step further by having a text field that is hidden by a style="display: none;" and make sure that is empty as well.
When I was in high school, typing was still a class. CC documents sucked as it was what the abbreviation stands for, a copy made from a sheet of carbon paper. You learned how to type correctly as there was no delete key. Liquid paper sucked. Liquid paper sheets were a godsend. You knew how to use the Return key as it brought your carriage to the beginning of the next line.
Now, I knew how to use a manual typewriter where you had to flip the lever to return the carriage but those IBM selectrics were nice.
Anybody remember the beep for the 5 character (a word) limit near the end of the margin?
I like to give them a chance but this will be used as a toy then discarded. local.live.com and it's horrible 2 condition search criteria makes it unusable.
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You can call it the music industry royalty but we all know it's a pirate tax.
One good reason why it's a dumb idea for others to pay it is because (take the iPod for example) other devices can be used as external drives.
If I were to use an iPod as a portable drive for my camera, should I have to pay a royalty for that?
Or just overpriced junk with no family friendly titles.
There are seriously no family friendly titles in the vein of Mario Kart for XBox.
Zune will only be popular if they give it away which may be the case.
At least an iPod will work as an external drive out of the box. Zune doesn't even have this functionality without some serious hacking. All it is is a DRM container for Windows.
...why would they want to pay more?
Well, they wouldn't want to pay more, they need to pay more to offset the cost of broadcasting.
30-40+ years ago, an advertiser could sponsor 30 minutes of airtime just by having the host state the plug for the product or service.
Your family of concerned parent felt that local celebrities were being created by local businesses and sponsored advertising was creating a monster and untrue product endorsements. This would be your local weatherman issuing a plug for a Chevrolet from the local dealer or your news anchor plugging a gallon of milk and ice cream from the local dairy.
So this stopped local sponsorship and forced advertisers to have commercials to be produced at a much higher cost than a 30 minute sponsored time. Add airtime to that and you get the idea.
There was no need to inject the cost of production of a 30 second spot when a 30 minute sponsored time was cheaper.
There is a real cost to the broadcaster to broadcast HD content so it only makes sense that the advertiser should pay.
The advertiser's dillema is that the cost of an HD spot will cost more than an SD spot and still reach the same demographic.
If the advertiser chooses to only advertise on the last SD station in the market, then that is their choice.
I'm aware that the power features can be adjusted. The Parent stated "Congratulations, you just described the default power functionality in XP." which is not the case.
My point adds to the fact that an external monitor requires user intervention and is not automatic unless a docking station is invloved.
The 2 above points negate any user friendly settings that Windows supposedly has as an automatic function whereas my iBook requires nothing more than connection of cables.
He said this "If you want to use the MacBook with the lid closed plug in an external keyboard. Done. I wish my PC laptop did these things."
I currently have a Thinkpad that does not work with the lid closed for external devices AND to use an external monitor, I have to Fn(CRT).
So I have to leave it on, open, and Fn(CRT) for it to work with external devices. When I close the lid, the laptop sleeps. Hardly a default power functionality as you stated.
Not going to buy a docking station as I'm sure that would fix the problem for my intended needs but there is no space for a docking station for my setup.
My iBook I can stack on it's front and have the cables coming out so it only takes up 1" of space vs 13" of space for the thinkpad to stay open.
I have years worth of WMA and WMV files
Man, I feel sorry for you.
If MS decides to change their WMA/V codecs which they may well do with this Zune debacle, you'll be SOL.
Never trust YOUR media to a closed standard. Then again, it may not be your media anyway which then the license holder may revoke at anytime.
This new blood has no idea how to make money however.
Zune and XBox is still dependant upon the core OS and Office money makers in order to exist.
Zune will never ever be as ubiquitous as the iPod unless it is allowed to run on other operating systems.
Even if you were successful enough to convert 100% of Windows iPod users to the Zune, it still won't be the numbers of the Apple/Windows iPod user base.
DRM is Microsoft's only hope for future revenue outside of the OS and Office products. If they can get digital downloads on their codecs commercially, that will be their third profitable arm.
I remember being a kid in Hawaii and loving those shows. I still have my original first season Go Ranger toys with removable helmets and learning how to count in japanese and not be bothered by subtitles because of the show - the subtitle thing came in handy when Star Wars came out.
People don't really get that Power Rangers are really 31 years old and not 14.
2 other shows I wish I could get for a personal collection are Kamen Rider and Roboccon, the home robot that was afraid of cockroaches.
I don't know what kind of crack you're on but I'm a MCSE from the NT4.0 era and i don't remember any editing any config files for IIS4.0.
More over, any migration tools that exist for IIS4 to IIS5 never worked 100%.
A backup of a httpd.conf will work on any and I mean ANY apache server of the same type and it's pretty trivial to get setup, almost as trivial as setting up an IIS server.
Never had backup of meta data files work for any IIS installation for a server migration, always had to resetup by hand.
Also, there is a tool that comes with *nix servers called logrotate that keeps your log files at bay.
There isn't anything like it for the Windows camps as log cleaning is a manual process for weblogs and MSSQL logs. Yeah, I know there are 3rd party tools but that should be beside the point and scripting could work too but NT scripting isn't as powerful as BASH scripting.
It also sounds like a puppy granting wishes but that isn't what the article is about.
That so called "shortcut" feature that has been around since Windows 3.1 isn't a 'link' as it works on POSIX complaint systems. It is a shortcut that gives the user - not the computer - a quick way to access a directory. It cannot handle I/O functions.
You had one too?
I had all the 1979 games and Sea Duel.
At that time, the competition were those Mattel and Coleco handhelds.
I remember anticipating getting the Star Trek Phaser Strike game as the movie was coming out as well.
That was probably the worst one of the lot.
I also remember thinking how awesome Sea Duel was because it played music.
The thing that made the Neo Geo unique was the fact that the games were identical to the arcade version.
At that time frame, that was pretty awesome. If you had your memory stick with your stats on it from home, you could play your same character in the arcade.
IMO, most of the Neo Geo games sucked as they were all the same formulaic game.
Either fighting or a scrolling shoot em up.
Replace fighter and opponent graphics and you had a different named game but same gameplay.
Having arcade quality at home at that time was unheard of. Today, the reverse is true.
That would be the Coleco Quiz Wiz
You had to enter the question number then hit the appropriate answer.
Radiation isn't like a cloud of dust you pass through and you have this 'radiation' on you.
Radiation is basically energy.
When you turn on a light, you're getting irradiated but from a human safe radiation source (unless you have that skin/vampire genetic disorder).
If you boil water, it boils and turns to steam. The steam can be racaptured back into water or ice.
If you boil humans, you'd cook and burn up.
That being said, radiation can do crazy things at the molecular level and humans are 30% mix of a variety of molecules and 70% H20.
For a quick fix I suggested the hidden field and/or the hidden style, both of which are 508 accesible, provided the proper tags are used.
In the event that a form has to be 508 compliant and you don't want spammers to use your form, there are other methods to verify.
If you're going to go through the validity of 508, you might as well:
Writing the 508 compliant form would take the longest to code followed by validating the data.
Do you happen to have one I could review? I have had my emails javascript obfuscated for about 2 years now and haven't gotten spam yet.
You should have a hidden field with no value and make sure it returns no value.
Bots tend to populate all form fields.
That would be the easiest step.
You could go a step further by having a text field that is hidden by a style="display: none;" and make sure that is empty as well.
Bold was a 3 character strike.
When I was in high school, typing was still a class.
CC documents sucked as it was what the abbreviation stands for, a copy made from a sheet of carbon paper.
You learned how to type correctly as there was no delete key.
Liquid paper sucked. Liquid paper sheets were a godsend.
You knew how to use the Return key as it brought your carriage to the beginning of the next line.
Now, I knew how to use a manual typewriter where you had to flip the lever to return the carriage but those IBM selectrics were nice.
Anybody remember the beep for the 5 character (a word) limit near the end of the margin?
Did you see the 20 minutes before the video?
With the release if Vista, I can honestly say that I've missed the XP boat.
If cost is an issue with the OEMs, Apple tends to gain here.
Isn't the ring signal 90 volts or something like that?
Anonymous coward most likely lives in Arizona.
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http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2006/pages/results/st
I stopped at Idaho to figure it out. I though Idaho was supposed be the Libertarian experiment.
Way to go Arizona, sorry about Napolitano. She's right up there with Blanco as far as reactionary leadership.
80-90% of those users won't know or even care about this application as the search criteria and counterintuitive UI is difficult to use.
If MySpace uses it then it's a go.
I like to give them a chance but this will be used as a toy then discarded. local.live.com and it's horrible 2 condition search criteria makes it unusable.