I find correlation between your concept of low-hanging fruit, standing on the shoulders of past achievements, and competition-destroying patents. How about you?
Strange. When I see human-alien hybrids, futuristic technology that only the special one can use, evil money-grubbing overlords, a Gordon Freeman-type character, and cute insect kids, the first thing that came to my mind was "Looks like another FPS game". Wait, what movie were we talking about?
I use service tags too. Then I ran into Acer and their uber long tags. I mean, seriously, an individual tag can run over 30 random chars, a real headache to key into our asset management system w/o running into typo problems. So we improvise. Either service tag, or asset tag (which is much shorter and easier to use when connecting to file shares)
I thought it was about punishing the people who took your hundred bucks anyway. You know, so they and anybody else would think twice before they did it again?
The real issue here is monopoly power. As a big oil company, I'd make sure the technologies developed were only the ones that require big amounts of resources to sustain, so that I won't be trumped by some upstart.
Let's be a bit more specific here. If your bank requires Silverlight, it's the CIO or some IT manager looking for some personal kickbacks, not necessarily the entire bank itself.
NASA _needs_ a good PR department, especially since they have to fight for budget dollars. They don't have a special interests group to lobby for science after all.
I'm typing this on 1440x900 screen, so yes, vertical screen space is valuable. Especially since this screen is sold as a 19" wide, and has less vertical pixels than a 17" square (1280x1024), my previous screen.
Rather than fish salmon to extinction, they figured out a way to farm salmon. It's not going extinct anytime soon. Why not with tuna? Why rely on some genetic monster thing that could have unpredictable effects on the global environment?
Will file system formats be the next format war? And why not, you do want your old hard disks and flash drives readable 20 years in the future. After the fiasco over office document formats, the following trends have appeared: 1. Microsoft will take notice if an entire government makes a specific requirement for its own internal use. 2. You _can_ compromise an entire standards organization completely. Apparently quite cheaply too.
People use these sites because they either don't want to or can't seed the stuff 24/7. A few of the manga translation groups don't even have an IRC channel to hang out on, they just use a blogger site and rapidshare account to publish their material.
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I find correlation between your concept of low-hanging fruit, standing on the shoulders of past achievements, and competition-destroying patents. How about you?
For some reason or another all Europe wants to do is fund research on how to destroy the universe.
You've got superhuman reflexes, godlike judgement, and 99.99th-percentile driving skills, and you couldn't get first post?
I said it before, I'll say it again.
"The all-new Windows 7! What's in the box? "
I must be missing something here. In soviet America, doesn't the government use you?
Strange. When I see human-alien hybrids, futuristic technology that only the special one can use, evil money-grubbing overlords, a Gordon Freeman-type character, and cute insect kids, the first thing that came to my mind was "Looks like another FPS game".
Wait, what movie were we talking about?
But I Adamo the Qi! It's tomorrow's Bing! Can't wait to Tweet about it!
It's only funny because it's true. The lifespan on Vista was so short that customers ought to be pissed that they didn't get a free upgrade to 7.
I use service tags too. Then I ran into Acer and their uber long tags. I mean, seriously, an individual tag can run over 30 random chars, a real headache to key into our asset management system w/o running into typo problems. So we improvise. Either service tag, or asset tag (which is much shorter and easier to use when connecting to file shares)
I thought it was about punishing the people who took your hundred bucks anyway. You know, so they and anybody else would think twice before they did it again?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eye_of_Judgment
Eye of Judgement - an augmented reality game for the PS3
The real issue here is monopoly power. As a big oil company, I'd make sure the technologies developed were only the ones that require big amounts of resources to sustain, so that I won't be trumped by some upstart.
This is why: http://www.google.com.sg/search?q=free+antivirus
I remember first running across AVG through google search too.
Let's be a bit more specific here. If your bank requires Silverlight, it's the CIO or some IT manager looking for some personal kickbacks, not necessarily the entire bank itself.
No way am i going to link to a site called arse technica! What kind of idiot do you take me for?
GMA 500: this means no osx86 on this baby for the moment.
NASA _needs_ a good PR department, especially since they have to fight for budget dollars. They don't have a special interests group to lobby for science after all.
I'm typing this on 1440x900 screen, so yes, vertical screen space is valuable. Especially since this screen is sold as a 19" wide, and has less vertical pixels than a 17" square (1280x1024), my previous screen.
This has got to be undoubtedly the worst James Bond movie title I've ever heard...
Rather than fish salmon to extinction, they figured out a way to farm salmon. It's not going extinct anytime soon. Why not with tuna? Why rely on some genetic monster thing that could have unpredictable effects on the global environment?
Will file system formats be the next format war? And why not, you do want your old hard disks and flash drives readable 20 years in the future.
After the fiasco over office document formats, the following trends have appeared:
1. Microsoft will take notice if an entire government makes a specific requirement for its own internal use.
2. You _can_ compromise an entire standards organization completely. Apparently quite cheaply too.
www.thepersianbay.com
Iranian 1: "DEATH TO AMERICA!"
Iranian 2: "Hey, they make the movies on Channel 2."
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Iranian 2: "DEATH TO AMERICA!"
People use these sites because they either don't want to or can't seed the stuff 24/7. A few of the manga translation groups don't even have an IRC channel to hang out on, they just use a blogger site and rapidshare account to publish their material.