I've gone through three 700ps this year for various malfunctions (and one broken screen) versus a 3 or 4 yo 650 I gave to my friend that's still trucking.
I'm not getting the broken screen replaced - I may just get a N810 or similar. I can't stand to be without a keypad, so no Storm, Pre or iPhone for me.
Datebk+ and Agendus are two apps I've yet to see decent competitors for on other platforms. Do they exist for WinCE? (Who the Fsck thought up that name at MS, btw?)
God I hate the Storm even more than I hate the iPhone... that clicky screen gimick... blech. If only I could testdrive an N810 before spending the money on it...:-/ I NEED the smartphone keyboard like my Treo has.
Raising kids is about respect, and give and take... knowing which battles you absolutely have to win, and which are just distractions. I don't have kids, but I do have a ton of nieces and nephews, and while running around the house and causing havoc are things I generally allow (all the breakables get put away before the nerf guns come out), there are rules I have that are disobeyed at their own peril (no running or playing on stairs) and they know this.
That said, I know I'm going to be cursed with triplet girls when it's my time... Lol.
As a poor student at the time (well maybe not so poor, I WAS making $10/h as an intern), I purchased the Watcom 10 C/C++ compiler for OS/2, and PM Dos for $199. That's not the same as GCC today, but it's a far cry from Visual Studio Professional.:-)
FUD + Preload is a big reason, but winos2 was amazing, and could have easily supplanted Windows had memories of the time been more prolific. That and cost... bundling did (and continues) to hide the cost of Windows.
Okay, you MIGHT, just MIGHT have a point with a microkernel architecture, or if the filesystems are implemented in user space (Fuse), but is irrelevant in kernel modules in Linux - you're not crossing interrupt boundaries, so calling a kernel function is just as cost effective as rolling your own.
Well here's the thing. If google patents it's work, then eventually it'll make it into the public domain and you will benefit.
If it doesn't, and just tries to protect it as a trade secret, then you are free to reimplement it yourself, and patent it and license it for everyone to use.
If VMware VirtualCenter and Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise Manager are the sorts of.NET Applications Microsoft likes to be proud of, give me Java and Eclipse and all the portability it brings me over.NET anyday.:-)
Not necessarily true. day traders and institutional investors only care about the daily spread. I, on the other hand, am looking at something that'll give me 5-10% consistently over a 5-10 years period.
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Not the nukes, the MISSILES... the steam piping, I believe the line was "there are things in here which don't react well to bullets"
This was probably a huge series of bad human decisions and nothing related to technology.
Two words: version control
Thanks for the tip!
I've gone through three 700ps this year for various malfunctions (and one broken screen) versus a 3 or 4 yo 650 I gave to my friend that's still trucking.
I'm not getting the broken screen replaced - I may just get a N810 or similar. I can't stand to be without a keypad, so no Storm, Pre or iPhone for me.
Datebk+ and Agendus are two apps I've yet to see decent competitors for on other platforms. Do they exist for WinCE? (Who the Fsck thought up that name at MS, btw?)
God I hate the Storm even more than I hate the iPhone... that clicky screen gimick... blech. If only I could testdrive an N810 before spending the money on it... :-/ I NEED the smartphone keyboard like my Treo has.
Remember this adage: girls love the feeling of power between their legs.
wouldn't that be awped by a wallhacking grue?
Reminds me when my grandpa pulled the pin and tossed me an old (empty) grenade while walking the corn fields one day. I do believe I shit my pants.
You're just lucky your 2x4 didn't have nails in it. :-)
That said, I only got the belt once in my life... Several times I deserved it as a teenager, but I could probably have kicked my dad's ass by then.
Raising kids is about respect, and give and take... knowing which battles you absolutely have to win, and which are just distractions. I don't have kids, but I do have a ton of nieces and nephews, and while running around the house and causing havoc are things I generally allow (all the breakables get put away before the nerf guns come out), there are rules I have that are disobeyed at their own peril (no running or playing on stairs) and they know this.
That said, I know I'm going to be cursed with triplet girls when it's my time... Lol.
As a poor student at the time (well maybe not so poor, I WAS making $10/h as an intern), I purchased the Watcom 10 C/C++ compiler for OS/2, and PM Dos for $199. That's not the same as GCC today, but it's a far cry from Visual Studio Professional. :-)
FUD + Preload is a big reason, but winos2 was amazing, and could have easily supplanted Windows had memories of the time been more prolific. That and cost... bundling did (and continues) to hide the cost of Windows.
Nevermind the fact that modern processors can cache the entirety of the Linux kernel.
Simplicity of code is nearly always better than premature and not necessarily useful optimizations.
Did you know that WinFS was SUPPOSED to be in Windows 2000?
OS/2 lost the war because of the price of memory in 1993-1995 timeframe. It would have replaced Windows entirely if it could have run in 4MB of RAM.
Okay, you MIGHT, just MIGHT have a point with a microkernel architecture, or if the filesystems are implemented in user space (Fuse), but is irrelevant in kernel modules in Linux - you're not crossing interrupt boundaries, so calling a kernel function is just as cost effective as rolling your own.
Windows, Office, SQL, Exchange.
That's their profit.
Everything else is fluff or the software equivalent as a weeklong junket to a two-bit whore-house in Bangkok.
Well here's the thing. If google patents it's work, then eventually it'll make it into the public domain and you will benefit.
If it doesn't, and just tries to protect it as a trade secret, then you are free to reimplement it yourself, and patent it and license it for everyone to use.
Yay America!
If VMware VirtualCenter and Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise Manager are the sorts of .NET Applications Microsoft likes to be proud of, give me Java and Eclipse and all the portability it brings me over .NET anyday. :-)
Shudder.
I thought the whole Taligent project burned through a Billion of IBM's money...
Funny. Everyone I know with a Wii has either an Xbox 360 or a PS3. Predominantly PS3's though. Maybe 60/40.
Zune died on the vine because it was a horrible name, had poor market (witness the OS/2 Warp campaign), and broke Play-for-Sure(ly not).
Not necessarily true. day traders and institutional investors only care about the daily spread. I, on the other hand, am looking at something that'll give me 5-10% consistently over a 5-10 years period.
And when they finally die, ebay will simply eat their corpse, because they took the long-term view of being profitable AND managing growth.