Re:Graffiti... & SmartPhone...
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Palm's Mistakes
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Ah, a fellow 6035 user?
I too have/had one. When I bought it, I never thought the flip pad would survive, but it lived 2 years being dropped, left powerless in the rain, until it finally stopped working, the Mic broke, and would only function in speakphone mode.
Then I traded to a 7035 because I figured with it's flipcase it'd survive living in my pockets better than a Treo.
Graffiti 2 SUCKS. That and some of the UI choices Kyocera made are pretty mindless.
Re:He's not wrong
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Anecdote: I've owned 4 Palms over the years, from the original Pilot to two Kyocera Smartphones, and I've yet to have a problem syncing with any version of Outlook (from 98 - 2003).
About the biggest beef I have with SQL server is that you cannot schedule jobs in SQL Agent to run under different user contexts. That's about it. That, and it's sometimes incoherent inability to grow a database under load.
Actually, I'd wager that Russia and perhaps one or two of the other ex-Soviet Republics have the technology to hit a target at 10,000km. Whether or not they'd have 20-30 missiles capable of doing it is something entirely different, when you'd probably want to be lobbing nuclear weapons at your enemy instead.
You ignore the point that every time MS releases Yet Another New Technology, they replace it two generations later with something else. Bastardized DCE-RPC, bastardized Kerberos, although they kept LDAP marginally intact.
CIFS is never going away, MAPI is never going away, MFC is Never Going Away. Drive letters are never going away. We'll never have cross-volume symlinks. DFS will never have its shortcomings fixed.
Microsoft's problem: They never deprecate anything. It's time to start.
Gates has so many BILLIONS of shares, that using him as a model is silly. For 20 years he's done nothing but amass share after share, and he rightfully deserves to sell some off. Besides, he had to pay for the Bill & Melissa Gates Foundation somehow.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/it?s=MSFT
As it is, there have been 42.5m shares purchased by insiders in the past 6 months (probably option grants or bonuses).
As it is, Gates is the single largest (insider) seller of Microsoft stock with maybe 40million shares sold in 2004. No on else comes close. Considering Gates has: 1,017,499,336 shares, Him selling off 5% per year is not a trend worth scrutinizing too heavily.
Care to elaborate? The government has already learned that Apaches and Tomcats and Hellfire armed UAVs are infinitely better against tanks than tanks are, and heavy mobile field artillery is practically useless. The ability to drop guided ordinance from space is even better! Rocks from orbit! But the hard part is always the guy on the ground, and he is most certainly not obsolete. Maybe nanotubes will lead to better body armor?
As someone else has brought up, exactly what characteristics equate "MAN-RATED?". What exactly is different about ensuring a billion dollar probe/satellite achieves it's mission, versus launching some squishy astronauts?
I'm not sure that's entirely true. If you could give a 90% guarantee that you'd get 3-5 years of research time on Mars, but a zero percent chance of coming home, I know at least one person (me) who'd jump at the opportunity.
Bad example, because they never aired the entire season of Firefly, and you would have been forced to purchase the DVD set anyway (up until this rebroadcasting in anticipation of the release of Serenity).
I only have cable for one purpose. Battlestar Galactica and Discovery Channel/TLC/NGC/History Channel.
However the massive slaughterfest of programming on DSC/TLC that is Orange County Chopper, Monster Garage and Trading Spaces has just left me watching History and Sci-Fi.
I get my Family Guy fix on Fox, and maybe some TBS for Law and Order reruns.
Everyone once in a while, Tivo offers new products and the option to upgrade your old subscription service. I've only seen them do it once, but I've heard of others.
That, and I understand there's software out there to tweak what serial number your box thinks it is.
Scared the crap out of us when EMC showed up with replacement drives for a Symmetra and the primary contact on site didn't bother telling us that EMC was coming.
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Ah, a fellow 6035 user?
I too have/had one. When I bought it, I never thought the flip pad would survive, but it lived 2 years being dropped, left powerless in the rain, until it finally stopped working, the Mic broke, and would only function in speakphone mode.
Then I traded to a 7035 because I figured with it's flipcase it'd survive living in my pockets better than a Treo.
Graffiti 2 SUCKS. That and some of the UI choices Kyocera made are pretty mindless.
Anecdote: I've owned 4 Palms over the years, from the original Pilot to two Kyocera Smartphones, and I've yet to have a problem syncing with any version of Outlook (from 98 - 2003).
Did you remember to type ; at the end of the statement? :-)
Pls explain?
Got worse in 2000? Are you nuts? :-P
About the biggest beef I have with SQL server is that you cannot schedule jobs in SQL Agent to run under different user contexts. That's about it. That, and it's sometimes incoherent inability to grow a database under load.
Actually, I'd wager that Russia and perhaps one or two of the other ex-Soviet Republics have the technology to hit a target at 10,000km. Whether or not they'd have 20-30 missiles capable of doing it is something entirely different, when you'd probably want to be lobbing nuclear weapons at your enemy instead.
I miss cdrom.com. The bastardization that exists now is a pimple upon the face of the Internet... :-/
Oh I so can't wait to run BF:2 on OS X... :-)
You ignore the point that every time MS releases Yet Another New Technology, they replace it two generations later with something else. Bastardized DCE-RPC, bastardized Kerberos, although they kept LDAP marginally intact.
CIFS is never going away, MAPI is never going away, MFC is Never Going Away. Drive letters are never going away. We'll never have cross-volume symlinks. DFS will never have its shortcomings fixed.
Microsoft's problem: They never deprecate anything. It's time to start.
Gates has so many BILLIONS of shares, that using him as a model is silly. For 20 years he's done nothing but amass share after share, and he rightfully deserves to sell some off. Besides, he had to pay for the Bill & Melissa Gates Foundation somehow.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/it?s=MSFT
As it is, there have been 42.5m shares purchased by insiders in the past 6 months (probably option grants or bonuses).
As it is, Gates is the single largest (insider) seller of Microsoft stock with maybe 40million shares sold in 2004. No on else comes close. Considering Gates has: 1,017,499,336 shares, Him selling off 5% per year is not a trend worth scrutinizing too heavily.
Care to elaborate? The government has already learned that Apaches and Tomcats and Hellfire armed UAVs are infinitely better against tanks than tanks are, and heavy mobile field artillery is practically useless. The ability to drop guided ordinance from space is even better! Rocks from orbit! But the hard part is always the guy on the ground, and he is most certainly not obsolete. Maybe nanotubes will lead to better body armor?
As someone else has brought up, exactly what characteristics equate "MAN-RATED?". What exactly is different about ensuring a billion dollar probe/satellite achieves it's mission, versus launching some squishy astronauts?
I'm not sure that's entirely true. If you could give a 90% guarantee that you'd get 3-5 years of research time on Mars, but a zero percent chance of coming home, I know at least one person (me) who'd jump at the opportunity.
All of them? Floating ocean platforms? Artificial islands? Why have only one? Why not two at twice the price?
And a little pop up that says:
Critical Error: Universe rebooted. Report to Microsoft Support?
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No, they're buying stakes in AOL Time Warners AOL division, not Time Warner.
While I may dislike George Bush, John Kerry was not the answer. The Democrats should NEVER have nominated him.
Bad example, because they never aired the entire season of Firefly, and you would have been forced to purchase the DVD set anyway (up until this rebroadcasting in anticipation of the release of Serenity).
I only have cable for one purpose. Battlestar Galactica and Discovery Channel/TLC/NGC/History Channel.
However the massive slaughterfest of programming on DSC/TLC that is Orange County Chopper, Monster Garage and Trading Spaces has just left me watching History and Sci-Fi.
I get my Family Guy fix on Fox, and maybe some TBS for Law and Order reruns.
Everyone once in a while, Tivo offers new products and the option to upgrade your old subscription service. I've only seen them do it once, but I've heard of others.
That, and I understand there's software out there to tweak what serial number your box thinks it is.
Scared the crap out of us when EMC showed up with replacement drives for a Symmetra and the primary contact on site didn't bother telling us that EMC was coming.
'nuff said.
No, but I have had two mobos (ecs k7sem) and one power supply (dust bunnies) catch fire.
Proper contact betwixt yourself and something metallic before touching sensitive components is enough to prevent the evils of static discharge.
Or the google lawyers basically told them that they had no case and weren't going to give them any money.
Not saying, either way.
TWO WEEKS!!!!