I do. In my defence, I only use it to listen to the BBC Radio archive which, unfortunately, can use only RealPlayer (RealPlayer was the only streaming app available when they started this service). On the plus side, the Beeb has an exclusive version of the player which seems to avoid the malware issues.
Parallel parking is simply _not difficult_. I used to parallel park my Ford F150 from time to time which is a big sucker, but it really wasn't that hard. I frequently parallel park my current car - it's not difficult to get it into a space much longer than the car.
I don't know what the big deal is about.
Dunno. Also, what's so difficult about pressing the accelerator pedal with your foot ? So why do we have cruise control ?
On/. - surely not. First of all, UMD is not Sony's only movie media for the PSP. Most PSP owners I know (including myself) rip 'em from DVDs or torrent the suckers and run them from the memory card.
Secondly, this certainly isn't the end of the UMD as we know it seeing as all the PSP games are delivered on this format. I suppose, however, "Movies on UMD may be discontinued, leaving users to watch them from Memory Cards, but still play games delivered on them" doesn't quite have the same impact.
I have always thought that Microsoft products achived their pinacle with DOS 6.22 and have been on a slow but steady downhill slide ever since.
I used MS Word 2.0, which was okay at the time. I don't think there are any features that have been added since then that have increased to it's usefulness.
This was the answer I was looking for: thank you.
Given that all the BlackBerry buzz I hear about from business-types revolves around instant email, I'm not sure how Treo can compete without an on-device provider-supported solution.
A number of corporate IT departments (including mine) like to use Goodlink on the 650 - which, as well as push email, also implements wireless synchronization with calendar and contacts etc. Add Documents to Go and you can open native MS Office and pdf attachments.
"why would they kill really good shows just to stick crap on."
Fox, like all the other networks driven by commercials, exist to sell product. They obviously thought that the numbers and the demographics of the Futurama audience wasn't appropriate for the products they were trying to sell. They do not exist to provide quality programming. Only channels such as HBO need to produce something that is actually watchable, because they are content providers rather than product pushers.
That's funny. My pet peeve, as an IT guy, is people that don't understand why we don't spend $150 and get a bigger hard drive, because they don't know how to store their mail locally.
Which works great until you have a hard drive failure. Which brings us back to extra storage for backup and recovery purposes.
Well they know what they are about apart from the accidental posting of sales projections on the company's Investor Relations Web site during its analyst day presentation on March 2.
If you are going to snub the Analysts, you either have to try and avoid these kind of mistakes, or hang on for the outbreak of Schadenfreude.
I like what you said, but let's be clear... SOX says nothing about change management.
Not directly. PCAOB Audit Standard #2, however, does. The PCAOB Audit Standard is the SEC approved audit standard to which US Public Companies filing under Sarbanes-Oxley are held.
Paragraph 50 of the standard requiter that Change Management over financial systems should be tested by the auditor.
I believe, in the US, that in order to do this, you have be classified as a "Professional Gambler" i.e. one whos primary income is derived from gambling.
Exactly. 90% of the idiotic population of this world hears the word "radiation" and IMMEDIATELY thinks "nuclear radiation" - Even though there are other types of radiation in the world. Only a VERY limited subset of the electromagnetic radiation spectrum (gamma rays) are nuclear in origin, and also not all nuclear radiation is electromagnetic - most of it is particle radiation.
Reminds me of a family we met on a skiing holiday. The mother was into all kinds of 'alternative' science. She had managed to convince her teenage son that she had given him a wristwatch containing a crystal that would absorb all known forms of electromagnetic energy. He couldn't understand our hilarity one evening (we may have been a little drunk), when a channel on a televison set in the chalet started misbehaving and we were all yelling at him to switch off his watch. You had to be there really.
All true - but kind of funny that Larry pulls out his change purse and Martha wears the shackles. Is it just me, or do other people think Larry might actually have a man purse?
Not that I'm defending Larry, but Martha wore the shackles for lying to the Feds, not the insider trading. I'm sure if she hadn't been so arrogant and just 'fessed up front, she would have received similar treatment.
you can build a team gradually - start with the project manager and technical lead; add analysts and architects first, and add QA staff later; involve the project manager and technical lead in the team building process
If we are talking about real QA here as opposed to testing staff (which is a QC function), then I like to have them involved from the very start of the project too. They should be working side-by-side with the PM and technical lead from day one to ensure appropriate quality thresholds are achieved throughout the lifecycle.
In the case of outsourcing a team, this can help to define the deliverables expected along the way.
Yeah, wrapping foil round a badge. How courageous is that ? What a hero. If only he'd stamped his foot too, I would have wanted to father his children.
Funny. What has starkly been demonstrated in the last year is that it has to do with socialist despots who aquire farms and destroy infrastructure in the name of equality. Zimbabwe has gone from exporting food to begging for food in 5 years thanks for corrupt government.
Not to disagree with the main thrust of your argument, but which particular tenets of socialism do you believe the despot Mugabe adheres to ?
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Wait... who uses RealPlayer??
I do. In my defence, I only use it to listen to the BBC Radio archive which, unfortunately, can use only RealPlayer (RealPlayer was the only streaming app available when they started this service). On the plus side, the Beeb has an exclusive version of the player which seems to avoid the malware issues.
I agree on 3d graphics, but not even finance requires 'advanced' math skills.
I take it, you have never been involved with the quant desk, advanced alogrithmic trading or pricing of some of the more exotic options out there.
Parallel parking is simply _not difficult_. I used to parallel park my Ford F150 from time to time which is a big sucker, but it really wasn't that hard. I frequently parallel park my current car - it's not difficult to get it into a space much longer than the car. I don't know what the big deal is about.
Dunno. Also, what's so difficult about pressing the accelerator pedal with your foot ? So why do we have cruise control ?
On /. - surely not. First of all, UMD is not Sony's only movie media for the PSP. Most PSP owners I know (including myself) rip 'em from DVDs or torrent the suckers and run them from the memory card.
Secondly, this certainly isn't the end of the UMD as we know it seeing as all the PSP games are delivered on this format.
I suppose, however, "Movies on UMD may be discontinued, leaving users to watch them from Memory Cards, but still play games delivered on them" doesn't quite have the same impact.
I have always thought that Microsoft products achived their pinacle with DOS 6.22 and have been on a slow but steady downhill slide ever since.
I used MS Word 2.0, which was okay at the time. I don't think there are any features that have been added since then that have increased to it's usefulness.
This was the answer I was looking for: thank you. Given that all the BlackBerry buzz I hear about from business-types revolves around instant email, I'm not sure how Treo can compete without an on-device provider-supported solution.
A number of corporate IT departments (including mine) like to use Goodlink on the 650 - which, as well as push email, also implements wireless synchronization with calendar and contacts etc. Add Documents to Go and you can open native MS Office and pdf attachments.
I'm a European living in America and I love the fact that I pay for each call I receive. I also love the complete lack of per-second billing.
"why would they kill really good shows just to stick crap on."
Fox, like all the other networks driven by commercials, exist to sell product. They obviously thought that the numbers and the demographics of the Futurama audience wasn't appropriate for the products they were trying to sell. They do not exist to provide quality programming. Only channels such as HBO need to produce something that is actually watchable, because they are content providers rather than product pushers.
That's funny. My pet peeve, as an IT guy, is people that don't understand why we don't spend $150 and get a bigger hard drive, because they don't know how to store their mail locally.
Which works great until you have a hard drive failure. Which brings us back to extra storage for backup and recovery purposes.
I agree... I trust GOOG knows what they are about
Well they know what they are about apart from the accidental posting of sales projections on the company's Investor Relations Web site during its analyst day presentation on March 2.
If you are going to snub the Analysts, you either have to try and avoid these kind of mistakes, or hang on for the outbreak of Schadenfreude.
I like what you said, but let's be clear... SOX says nothing about change management.
Not directly. PCAOB Audit Standard #2, however, does. The PCAOB Audit Standard is the SEC approved audit standard to which US Public Companies filing under Sarbanes-Oxley are held.
Paragraph 50 of the standard requiter that Change Management over financial systems should be tested by the auditor.
I believe, in the US, that in order to do this, you have be classified as a "Professional Gambler" i.e. one whos primary income is derived from gambling.
#define I_AM_NOT_A_TAX_LAWYER 1
Exactly. 90% of the idiotic population of this world hears the word "radiation" and IMMEDIATELY thinks "nuclear radiation" - Even though there are other types of radiation in the world. Only a VERY limited subset of the electromagnetic radiation spectrum (gamma rays) are nuclear in origin, and also not all nuclear radiation is electromagnetic - most of it is particle radiation.
Reminds me of a family we met on a skiing holiday. The mother was into all kinds of 'alternative' science. She had managed to convince her teenage son that she had given him a wristwatch containing a crystal that would absorb all known forms of electromagnetic energy. He couldn't understand our hilarity one evening (we may have been a little drunk), when a channel on a televison set in the chalet started misbehaving and we were all yelling at him to switch off his watch. You had to be there really.
All true - but kind of funny that Larry pulls out his change purse and Martha wears the shackles. Is it just me, or do other people think Larry might actually have a man purse?
Not that I'm defending Larry, but Martha wore the shackles for lying to the Feds, not the insider trading. I'm sure if she hadn't been so arrogant and just 'fessed up front, she would have received similar treatment.
you can build a team gradually - start with the project manager and technical lead; add analysts and architects first, and add QA staff later; involve the project manager and technical lead in the team building process
If we are talking about real QA here as opposed to testing staff (which is a QC function), then I like to have them involved from the very start of the project too. They should be working side-by-side with the PM and technical lead from day one to ensure appropriate quality thresholds are achieved throughout the lifecycle.
In the case of outsourcing a team, this can help to define the deliverables expected along the way.
The guy has balls
Yeah, wrapping foil round a badge. How courageous is that ? What a hero. If only he'd stamped his foot too, I would have wanted to father his children.
Sure. In America, we err on the side of free speech. But if you can't provide evidence, no one will believe you.
Unless, of course, you are a consumer of the Fox News Channel.
I don't see what advantage this has over, say, fingerprint authentication. I pick up my phone, finger print is verified as I hold it, and off we go.
Hang on a minute - I posted this joke first and was modded down as a Troll. Bloody PETA moderators.
... and create renewable food supply
I bought and AMD64 laptop a couple of weeks ago from CompUSA. Ordered on-line, picked it up the same day.
the net is US created, US Built and it shows though and through.....
So was the Ford Pinto...
Funny. What has starkly been demonstrated in the last year is that it has to do with socialist despots who aquire farms and destroy infrastructure in the name of equality. Zimbabwe has gone from exporting food to begging for food in 5 years thanks for corrupt government.
Not to disagree with the main thrust of your argument, but which particular tenets of socialism do you believe the despot Mugabe adheres to ?
Natalie was pretty hot in 'Garden State' too, but mod me down immediately for a referencing a movie that was actually watchable.
"Shameless" also just finished a run on BBC America, for those who want to have missed it on two continents !