The general purpose desktop market is going to start migrating towards developers and major power users (like graphic design), but the 90% use case for most people right now is surfing the web, checking email and playing flash games. All these can be accomplished with smaller, cheaper, portable devices like the iPad or whatever other tablets come out.
With a traditional Visa/Mastercard 'debit' card that pulls money from your checking, there are two ways to use that card and pay for your purchase:
Use it like a credit card (you don't type your PIN)
Use it like a debit/atm card (you enter your PIN)
If you use you card as a credit card, you are protected in the same manner as you would with a credit card, you aren't responsible for fraudulent charges above $X.xx and you can dispute charges, etc. If you use it as a debit card, if your PIN is exposed by some 3rd party (i.e. the store you are purchasing from, the company they contract with for their POS system, etc) you are fully on-the-hook when it comes to losses - if they steal $2000 from your account, you have lost $2000 - there is no disputing charges or limited liability like with a credit card.
tl;dr;
Use your card as a credit card, you have many protections, use your card as a debit card (you enter your PIN), you are liable for every transaction associated with your PIN.
I use 172.16.99.x and 172.16.42.x and I happened to have a client that I often had to clean-up their messes that also used BOTH 172.16.99.x and 172.16.42.x.
Yeah, I had my car in for an oil change at the dealership (I have free lifetime oil changes), 1 year ago they said I only had 1mm of brake pads left, then 3 months ago they said I had between 2-3mm of brake pads left. I think I have the *only* car that actually GROWS brake pads instead of wearing them down.
Needless to say, I don't let them do anything to my vehicle beyond the oil change.
And on top of the different locales, different places charge different RATES for different kinds of purchases. Food in CO is 0%, but somewhere else it is like 4% - and it differs between COUNTIES AND CITIES, not just states.
There are companies who's whole purpose is keeping track of these tax rates which allow you to pay through the nose for their products. Vertex is one such company. Amazon shouldn't have a problem paying for those systems, but what about the little guy? I cannot afford $10k, just so that I can collect sales tax for FL when my only physical location is in NV.
From the referenced article summary Over 57,000 people took advantage of the offer, which was enough for 2D Boy to term it "a huge success." Interestingly, they also saw a significant increase in sales through Steam, and a smaller increase through Wiiware. They've decided to extend the experiment until October 25th.
Even though the average payment was $2.00, they still made a ton of money on the issue, even to the point of them calling it a huge success. This says to me that the product was worth $2.00 to people, you can see a similar effect on the iPhone App Store...
Solaris includes 32-bit binaries for most applications but includes 32- and 64-bit libraries. It includes 32- and 64-bit kernels as well, all in the same installation media.
I have been thinking for a while now that Solaris would benefit greatly from FatELF binaries. They already do some goofy magic with their execution of binaries to figure out which version to run (the one from/usr/bin -or- the one from/usr/bin/amd64)?
I had a similar situation, somebody brought over a zombie XP machine that started spamming. They were house sitting while I was out of town. Anyway, if you talk around to the right person and call about 5 different numbers, you CAN get port 25 unblocked, it just takes you getting in touch with the correct department...
Anyway, now my firewall doesn't let any "untrusted" ip addresses unfettered access to the internet anymore. Which is a pain when I bring the work laptop home and the VPN won't connect (until I make that IP a trusted ip)...
Get yourself another laser printer, after I bought mine (HP P2015-dn for $300 2 years ago) I haven't looked back. 99.99% of my printing is black and white anyway, I use the crap out of the double sided feature and I love the networked aspect.
My only complaint is that it needs to be restarted every month or so - otherwise it takes 20 minutes to print 1 page.
I definitely appreciate the people willing to work on necessary things like the Audio stack on Linux. We need more people who are like Mike Shuttleworth, rich people looking to give back into the community that served them well in the past.
When I manage to get rich I plan on tackling a few issues that I see in the Open Source community as a whole, especially when we are talking about corporate developers and in-house applications are concerned. I would invest in creating a developer environment that is catered towards RAPID application development. I believe that this would be a good realm to get people to jump ship from the MS "Stack" - provide a Linux "Stack" that goes beyond LAMP (or the many variants).
Of course, you don't have to be rich in order to contribute to software, you just need time and a little self discipline.
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Hmm, I had the key to the gas pumps - I'm no pump technician. Of course our pumps still had mechanical dials and the max price of fuel was 2.99/gal...
Anyway, there is a key to the printer on current digital pumps, so the receiver could be stashed inside the pump without needing to be a tech.
He's the guy that told Steve Jobs "You're full of shit". http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Close_Encounters_of_the_Steve_Kind.txt
The general purpose desktop market is going to start migrating towards developers and major power users (like graphic design), but the 90% use case for most people right now is surfing the web, checking email and playing flash games. All these can be accomplished with smaller, cheaper, portable devices like the iPad or whatever other tablets come out.
they use an old version of Navison Axapta
My condolences
I've been there, done that, have the t-shirt...
So, HP is going retro, they couldn't think of anything new so they re-invented the fax machine!
Invent! - they need to rethink that tagline...
With a traditional Visa/Mastercard 'debit' card that pulls money from your checking, there are two ways to use that card and pay for your purchase:
If you use you card as a credit card, you are protected in the same manner as you would with a credit card, you aren't responsible for fraudulent charges above $X.xx and you can dispute charges, etc. If you use it as a debit card, if your PIN is exposed by some 3rd party (i.e. the store you are purchasing from, the company they contract with for their POS system, etc) you are fully on-the-hook when it comes to losses - if they steal $2000 from your account, you have lost $2000 - there is no disputing charges or limited liability like with a credit card.
tl;dr;
Use your card as a credit card, you have many protections, use your card as a debit card (you enter your PIN), you are liable for every transaction associated with your PIN.
Compared to FaceBook, Google looks like a saint.
yeah, but SherlockHolmes.mkv.exe sure did.
I use 172.16.99.x and 172.16.42.x and I happened to have a client that I often had to clean-up their messes that also used BOTH 172.16.99.x and 172.16.42.x.
That was annoying...
Yeah, I had my car in for an oil change at the dealership (I have free lifetime oil changes), 1 year ago they said I only had 1mm of brake pads left, then 3 months ago they said I had between 2-3mm of brake pads left. I think I have the *only* car that actually GROWS brake pads instead of wearing them down.
Needless to say, I don't let them do anything to my vehicle beyond the oil change.
His followers will be recognized by the rimless glasses, black faux turtlenecks, and razor stubble.
Rimless glasses - CRAP
Razor stubble - CRAP
Black faux turtlenecks - whew, at least I don't own any of those...
I think it may be time for new glasses and kicking my lazy habit of not shaving every day.
Because Adobe Illustrator is bug-free, completely stable and doesn't corrupt files, like EVER?
Every software is going to have stuff that works great and stuff that wasn't thought out well or tested well - even on version 13.0.0.1
And on top of the different locales, different places charge different RATES for different kinds of purchases. Food in CO is 0%, but somewhere else it is like 4% - and it differs between COUNTIES AND CITIES, not just states.
There are companies who's whole purpose is keeping track of these tax rates which allow you to pay through the nose for their products. Vertex is one such company. Amazon shouldn't have a problem paying for those systems, but what about the little guy? I cannot afford $10k, just so that I can collect sales tax for FL when my only physical location is in NV.
hmm, I take it you have never used MSN?
From the referenced article summary
Over 57,000 people took advantage of the offer, which was enough for 2D Boy to term it "a huge success." Interestingly, they also saw a significant increase in sales through Steam, and a smaller increase through Wiiware. They've decided to extend the experiment until October 25th.
Even though the average payment was $2.00, they still made a ton of money on the issue, even to the point of them calling it a huge success. This says to me that the product was worth $2.00 to people, you can see a similar effect on the iPhone App Store...
I would be at a loss of what to say when Cialis commercials come on, even in the audience of all adults.
Bathtubs? WTF?
Solaris includes 32-bit binaries for most applications but includes 32- and 64-bit libraries. It includes 32- and 64-bit kernels as well, all in the same installation media.
I have been thinking for a while now that Solaris would benefit greatly from FatELF binaries. They already do some goofy magic with their execution of binaries to figure out which version to run (the one from /usr/bin -or- the one from /usr/bin/amd64)?
I had a similar situation, somebody brought over a zombie XP machine that started spamming. They were house sitting while I was out of town. Anyway, if you talk around to the right person and call about 5 different numbers, you CAN get port 25 unblocked, it just takes you getting in touch with the correct department...
Anyway, now my firewall doesn't let any "untrusted" ip addresses unfettered access to the internet anymore. Which is a pain when I bring the work laptop home and the VPN won't connect (until I make that IP a trusted ip)...
Its EFI since they went the route of Intel (btw Vista 64-bit supposedly has EFI support)...
Thats right! How would you be able to Google for a fix to that broken Windows or Linux machine without a mac?
Get yourself another laser printer, after I bought mine (HP P2015-dn for $300 2 years ago) I haven't looked back. 99.99% of my printing is black and white anyway, I use the crap out of the double sided feature and I love the networked aspect.
My only complaint is that it needs to be restarted every month or so - otherwise it takes 20 minutes to print 1 page.
I definitely appreciate the people willing to work on necessary things like the Audio stack on Linux. We need more people who are like Mike Shuttleworth, rich people looking to give back into the community that served them well in the past.
When I manage to get rich I plan on tackling a few issues that I see in the Open Source community as a whole, especially when we are talking about corporate developers and in-house applications are concerned. I would invest in creating a developer environment that is catered towards RAPID application development. I believe that this would be a good realm to get people to jump ship from the MS "Stack" - provide a Linux "Stack" that goes beyond LAMP (or the many variants).
Of course, you don't have to be rich in order to contribute to software, you just need time and a little self discipline.
No, the iPhone SDK is a free download from ADC (you have access to it from the free developer account).
The $100 is for a code signing key that allows you to put those binaries on an actual iPhone and to submit it to the app store
2P = 2 Processor (as in physical CPU slots)...
At least one financial institution in this country realizes what a horrible security risk Windows is!
Of course they came to this realization entirely by chance, and money was the motivator to start using Linux as the client OS anyway...