OK, I was one of the sheeple who used to go a few times weekly to the gmail website to check things out.
But I awoke earlier this week to my Yahoo premium account suddenly offering two, not one, gigabytes of email storage... and all without the (overblown) privacy concerns and advertising. *And* I only pay $19.95/yr. for it.
I'm not (or at least don't need to be) interested in Gmail anymore. I've moved on and Yahoo has succeeded in taking the wind out of Gmail's sails, at least for me.
Console hardware sales dropped a full 25 percent, to just over $336 million. The decrease was attributed to the advancing age of the current generation of console systems.
Sure, and regulating is one thing; but as I understand the legislation, a *potential* for abuse becomes equal to a crime in the case of P2P networks/devices that "encourage the abuse".
I was just making the point--prescription drugs have the potential to be abused also, but that does not make them bad per se.
the Induce Act was scheduled to be introduced Thursday by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah
Senator Hatch has a powerful incentive in attacking P2P networks (see #'s 7, 15, 18).
Oddly enough, by the same logic he's using in this legislation prescription drugs should be illegal because they can be used to kill as well as heal. But since the rest of his top contributors are pharma co's he isn't likely to raise that as an issue is he?
"We're looking at this long term, and we see value that we can provide to our customers now and in the future," said Marc Modersitzki, a SCO spokesman. "Not only do we have a road map, but we're delivering on the road map."
It's obvious SCO's "roadmap" is less product-oriented than legal. But you have to wonder, why they would invest any resources in an aggressive marketing plan when their PR quotient is so incredibly low--much like their recent financials.
They are not the "vibrant, leading UNIX vendor to regain market share lost to Windows"... that would be like the US sending troops to Vietnam to "regain Hanoi". War over. Done deal. Time to close shop, SCO.
Is a 100% W3C-compliant site shoddy if it doesn't render properly in IE, or is IE shoddy
The site is.
We always make sacrifices "to the tools" in web/software dev; I apply hotfixes all the time to my platform/IDE--yet it's the toolset I've chosen and I must live with many idiosyncrasies to get my products to market.
While you also make good points, I think it's wise to lean in favor of pragmatic technology choices rather than dogmatism in favor of "one side of the other".
Emotionally, I'd make each decision in favor of F/OSS.
Rationally, I know that isn't always in the best interest of my clients.
'Look out Internet Explorer... your days have been numbered for some time now, but Firefox 1.0 will surely leave you shaking on your already shaky foundations and standing in a small warm puddle'
Unfortunately, the most feature-rich products do not always get to be standard-setters. <thinking>countless examples</thinking> It often takes loads of marketing hype and product leverage to leap over the competition, something that Firefox doesn't have in spades.
I love Firefox. The best it can do--at least IMO--is raise the bar for commercial browsers. I do hope I'm wrong on this point, however.
The Federal Communications Commission had already proposed almost $800,000 in fines against the radio giant... but the settlement wipes the slate clean.
So the payoff wasn't for actual fines, it was for the threat of fines to come.
The Bluetooth function enables users to use the DIVA GEM as a wireless Head-set or Hands-free device for mobile phones. So users can listen to music and can pick-up incoming calls with the MP3 Player.
...oh great, now I have to worry about some ass bluejacking my Led Zepplin.
This proposal by the UN can, and has been used to define web content distribution.
Seems to indicate that in the case of public domain content, such as a government-created documentary or a very old movie or audio recording--you would not be able to freely store and redistribute that content.
Darknets have multiple uses. These can be used to host flow collectors, backscatter detectors, packet sniffers, and IDS boxes.
Doesn't the term "Darknet" also refer to a collection of networks and other technologies that enable people to share files with little or no fear of detection?
"One day, 2 or 3 billion people will have cell phones, and they are all not going to have PCs," says Jeff Hawkins, inventor of the Palm Pilot and the chief technology officer of PalmOne.
Yes, and "one day" we will implanting WiFi in our brains and thinking in binary.
The reality is, half the people in the world have never even made a phone call. I'll hang my hat on the likelihood that, although my cell phone is great, it's not a worldwide revolution just yet.
Bricklin and Frankston did some innovating work in (the quite stable) VisiCalc... not to be outdone, in 1982 Microsoft released Multiplan 1.0 which was a pioneer in some, shall we say, more infamous terms. It was a revenue bomb, and it's miscalculations cost customers umpteen $$. I remember hearing somewhere that the legal threats due to Multiplan almost shut down Microsoft's early operations.
Apparently, rumor was that SCO was hired to port Multiplan (to various *nix's I would guess).
Anyway, it's interesting that one of Microsoft's first attempt to unseat a software application was targeted at Visicalc. Did they succeed?
The majority of the sources are so faint that it is currently not possible to take spectra of them and the VO techniques made it possible for the researchers to work seamlessly with images and catalogues from many different sources
One question the AVO may answer is, in this view how do these black holes produce X-ray sources, similar to what we see from galaxies that are much younger?
And (OT) is it just me or does that background hurt your eyes too?
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Boy, I hope that extra 100MB of space is work $20/yr
Actually, it's 1000MB of additional space. And you don't pay the $20 for the storage (hell, it wasn't even there a week ago), but for the ad-free UI.
That said, I'm sure the searching/message thread stuff is sweet.
it has still gained cult-like status
OK, I was one of the sheeple who used to go a few times weekly to the gmail website to check things out.
But I awoke earlier this week to my Yahoo premium account suddenly offering two, not one, gigabytes of email storage... and all without the (overblown) privacy concerns and advertising. *And* I only pay $19.95/yr. for it.
I'm not (or at least don't need to be) interested in Gmail anymore. I've moved on and Yahoo has succeeded in taking the wind out of Gmail's sails, at least for me.
From Gamespy 4/20/2004:
Console hardware sales dropped a full 25 percent, to just over $336 million. The decrease was attributed to the advancing age of the current generation of console systems.
That's my point.
See Gamespot some more recent sales figures from April 2004, still supports my original assertion.
can't help but think linking to 2002 annual figures was just a sleight of hand on your part
No, it wasn't intentional, thanks for pointing out the date of the article, my mistake.
Microsoft is bad for rushing to release XBOX 2.
...and XNA being a hurdle to studios seeking to offer cross-platform titles.
That's not the point. The article argues that Microsoft's rush to be "first to market" ignores the next-generation R&D going on in the industry.
Poor sales and weak titles may be one reason for the change.
On a side note, I couldn't believe my eyes the other day when I saw a brand new X-Box on sale for $99.
Sure, and regulating is one thing; but as I understand the legislation, a *potential* for abuse becomes equal to a crime in the case of P2P networks/devices that "encourage the abuse".
I was just making the point--prescription drugs have the potential to be abused also, but that does not make them bad per se.
the Induce Act was scheduled to be introduced Thursday by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah
Senator Hatch has a powerful incentive in attacking P2P networks (see #'s 7, 15, 18).
Oddly enough, by the same logic he's using in this legislation prescription drugs should be illegal because they can be used to kill as well as heal. But since the rest of his top contributors are pharma co's he isn't likely to raise that as an issue is he?
Microsoft is developing software to protect personal computers running Windows against malicious software
We all knew this would come someday.
Is there any software outside of Microsoft's "it's a part of the OS" argument?
SCO actually produces a product?
... of AT&T, Novell, Linux, IBM, etc...
In a sense, SCO itself is a product...
"We're looking at this long term, and we see value that we can provide to our customers now and in the future," said Marc Modersitzki, a SCO spokesman. "Not only do we have a road map, but we're delivering on the road map."
It's obvious SCO's "roadmap" is less product-oriented than legal. But you have to wonder, why they would invest any resources in an aggressive marketing plan when their PR quotient is so incredibly low--much like their recent financials.
They are not the "vibrant, leading UNIX vendor to regain market share lost to Windows"... that would be like the US sending troops to Vietnam to "regain Hanoi". War over. Done deal. Time to close shop, SCO.
Is a 100% W3C-compliant site shoddy if it doesn't render properly in IE, or is IE shoddy
The site is.
We always make sacrifices "to the tools" in web/software dev; I apply hotfixes all the time to my platform/IDE--yet it's the toolset I've chosen and I must live with many idiosyncrasies to get my products to market.
While you also make good points, I think it's wise to lean in favor of pragmatic technology choices rather than dogmatism in favor of "one side of the other".
Emotionally, I'd make each decision in favor of F/OSS.
Rationally, I know that isn't always in the best interest of my clients.
I have been in a web dev for many years, and I recognize a couple of things contrary to your post:
You must conform to IE; it's > 90% of the browser market, to "give up on IE" is to admit you create shoddy sites or intranets.
Creating websites with "making them work with Mozilla" in mind, and ignore the other 90%?
IE doesn't conform to standards? Perhaps in the strict W3C definition, but at that level of ubiquity it basically is a standard.
"Pick any web developer" OK, I just did.
'Look out Internet Explorer... your days have been numbered for some time now, but Firefox 1.0 will surely leave you shaking on your already shaky foundations and standing in a small warm puddle'
Unfortunately, the most feature-rich products do not always get to be standard-setters. <thinking>countless examples</thinking> It often takes loads of marketing hype and product leverage to leap over the competition, something that Firefox doesn't have in spades.
I love Firefox. The best it can do--at least IMO--is raise the bar for commercial browsers. I do hope I'm wrong on this point, however.
The Federal Communications Commission had already proposed almost $800,000 in fines against the radio giant ... but the settlement wipes the slate clean.
So the payoff wasn't for actual fines, it was for the threat of fines to come.
Sounds like a shake-down to me.
The Bluetooth function enables users to use the DIVA GEM as a wireless Head-set or Hands-free device for mobile phones. So users can listen to music and can pick-up incoming calls with the MP3 Player.
...oh great, now I have to worry about some ass bluejacking my Led Zepplin.
// TODO: remove this line or face retribution
I seem to remember using the TODO list feature in Eclipse before it showed up in Visual Studio. Am I wrong?
This proposal by the UN can, and has been used to define web content distribution.
Seems to indicate that in the case of public domain content, such as a government-created documentary or a very old movie or audio recording--you would not be able to freely store and redistribute that content.
Naw... thats called the Internet.
The term "Darknet" is cited in this sense frequently. It was first used by Patrick Ross in Nov. 2002
Thanks, though.
Darknets have multiple uses. These can be used to host flow collectors, backscatter detectors, packet sniffers, and IDS boxes.
Doesn't the term "Darknet" also refer to a collection of networks and other technologies that enable people to share files with little or no fear of detection?
"One day, 2 or 3 billion people will have cell phones, and they are all not going to have PCs," says Jeff Hawkins, inventor of the Palm Pilot and the chief technology officer of PalmOne.
Yes, and "one day" we will implanting WiFi in our brains and thinking in binary.
The reality is, half the people in the world have never even made a phone call. I'll hang my hat on the likelihood that, although my cell phone is great, it's not a worldwide revolution just yet.
The Good: The smallest TV available.
The Bad: Lasts just over an hour per charge.
That's bad?
In any given day, there is probably less than one hour of good TV. I'm thinking, Simpsons re-runs, and... well, yeah that's just about it.
Bricklin and Frankston did some innovating work in (the quite stable) VisiCalc... not to be outdone, in 1982 Microsoft released Multiplan 1.0 which was a pioneer in some, shall we say, more infamous terms. It was a revenue bomb, and it's miscalculations cost customers umpteen $$. I remember hearing somewhere that the legal threats due to Multiplan almost shut down Microsoft's early operations.
Apparently, rumor was that SCO was hired to port Multiplan (to various *nix's I would guess).
Anyway, it's interesting that one of Microsoft's first attempt to unseat a software application was targeted at Visicalc. Did they succeed?
The majority of the sources are so faint that it is currently not possible to take spectra of them and the VO techniques made it possible for the researchers to work seamlessly with images and catalogues from many different sources
One question the AVO may answer is, in this view how do these black holes produce X-ray sources, similar to what we see from galaxies that are much younger?
And (OT) is it just me or does that background hurt your eyes too?