If this is an AFJ, it's a pretty lame one - as if Microsoft came out and said "Hey everyone, we admit our security sucks...just kidding!! They'd just be faced with a sea of blank stares and incredulous expressions.
Because this actually falls into Apple's unfortunate historic pattern of aborted game support. Every once in a while, Jobs announces a huge game initiative, how it will be the new center of the Mac plaform (remember Game Sprockets?). Back in the day when I worked in the industry, we met Apple's new game evangelist for the new G3 three times, great things were prophecied and big plans were laid. Less than 6 months later, the guy was gone, and less than a year later I think the position was eliminated.
Totally. I think we should send this story to all those Southern/conservative politicians trying to deny public education and benefits to children of illegal immigrants.
And the company that will sell it sounds just like "LOSER"!!! They must all be morons.
If only there was another explanation, like if they were from a magical fantasy land far away and spoke not English like all civilized people, but in a strangely different and marvelous tongue?
Yes, I can see this opening the way to a nasty set of test cases.
Either way, I assume the employer already pays state employment taxes for the telecommuter - that he may never set foot in the state yet still be liable for taxes, let alone also be potentially liable for home-state income tax "earned while in state" is too troubling. It almost makes me want to go Republican.
So what if the other state's courts then rule that telecommuters who work in that state for a NY company have to pay income tax for work "they performed in the state?" Then people are getting double-taxed for one unit of work.
This sounds like a big federalism issue, I bet it leads to direct review by the Supreme Court, or will at least work its way up to a circuit split.
So he filed for bankruptcy...this could just be a ploy to end the lawsuit without losing any real money. If his cash and property were 1) not sufficiently garnished or attached, or he was able to transfer them overseas or to another person, he could easily file for bankruptcy, tell Microsoft to get in line as a creditor if they wish to continue the suit, and carry on in his "wife's" or "brother's" yacht, business, and private jet, continuing to send out spam through a new company all the while.
It could lead to some very promising developments. I was trying to collect solar energy today, but ended up siliconing so bad that I couldn't sit down for hours. It still smarts...
So I take it we've all heard the story about the guy who filmed his pet octopus climbing out of its saltwater tank, crawling 12 feet across the floor and up a stand into a freshwater tank to eat the goldfish before heading back?
Not only is high-dynamic-range-lighting old news for everyone else, but isn't it even old news for Valve? It looks like Source has always had HDR lighting, supported in DX8 and DX9. It was featured in all of those Blink videos Valve was putting out before the game's release,
On a related note, it should really be called LOW dynamic range lighting - anyone with a DSLR knows that viewing HDR in the same color space decreases contrast and brightness in order make every color viewable, whereas low dynamic range gives images brilliance and pop and high contrast between colors, and washes out into pure white (the effect Valve and FarCry tout as HDR) easily because there aren't as many levels of brightness(hence, low dynamic range) to work with before it oversaturates.
Is this the same as the dynamic resizing effect in WMP9/10 or Firefox, or something more like the weird super-choppy brushed-metal resizing you get in itunes?
I guess the thinking is that Microsoft was really unhappy with the decision to force them to create a "Windows Reduced Media Edition" with less functionlity (and lower price), so they "intentionally sabotaged" it so that people would hear and opt to get the full version instead?
Sorry, don't have 7.0 so I can't say for sure. But with every version of Acrobat since 5.0, I've had luck by 1) removing all instances of pdfmaker.dot and.xla from all acrobat and Office/template directories, and deleting the pdfmaker directory from within the Acrobat install directory.
Did Adobe "fix" that in 7.0? They're incredible bastids. I woudln't mind if the PDFMaker stuff stuck around in an an existing toolbar...but making an undeletable toolbar with only 2 icons on it is just ridiculous.
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It's hard to be the next OS for the Mac when Apple's CEO actually owns the other major contender.
Seriously, they "only" sold 575k of the stock they sent to us, why not just adjust their forecasts for out-of-japan sales and deliver to both markets?
Don't tell me it's cause the other 500K are needed for dead-pixel exchanges? :D
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Well, it's an editorial so that's close enough.
Yeah yeah, but does it run on linux?
Because this actually falls into Apple's unfortunate historic pattern of aborted game support. Every once in a while, Jobs announces a huge game initiative, how it will be the new center of the Mac plaform (remember Game Sprockets?). Back in the day when I worked in the industry, we met Apple's new game evangelist for the new G3 three times, great things were prophecied and big plans were laid. Less than 6 months later, the guy was gone, and less than a year later I think the position was eliminated.
Totally. I think we should send this story to all those Southern/conservative politicians trying to deny public education and benefits to children of illegal immigrants.
This is just like Bring It On, just not as pretty.
If only there was another explanation, like if they were from a magical fantasy land far away and spoke not English like all civilized people, but in a strangely different and marvelous tongue?
Chevy Nova? Mazda Laputa? Bueller?
High bandwidth (DSL): 500kb Low Bandwidth (56k): 4MB?
So we should all buy stock in manufacturers of three-phase power sockets!
Hopefully that means your 1 hour of charge would net you at least 3 minutes ;)
Yes, I can see this opening the way to a nasty set of test cases. Either way, I assume the employer already pays state employment taxes for the telecommuter - that he may never set foot in the state yet still be liable for taxes, let alone also be potentially liable for home-state income tax "earned while in state" is too troubling. It almost makes me want to go Republican.
This sounds like a big federalism issue, I bet it leads to direct review by the Supreme Court, or will at least work its way up to a circuit split.
So he filed for bankruptcy...this could just be a ploy to end the lawsuit without losing any real money. If his cash and property were 1) not sufficiently garnished or attached, or he was able to transfer them overseas or to another person, he could easily file for bankruptcy, tell Microsoft to get in line as a creditor if they wish to continue the suit, and carry on in his "wife's" or "brother's" yacht, business, and private jet, continuing to send out spam through a new company all the while.
It could lead to some very promising developments. I was trying to collect solar energy today, but ended up siliconing so bad that I couldn't sit down for hours. It still smarts...
Well, don't expect it to get any faster, but I'm sure Carmack will add some kick-ass per-pixel lighting and dynamic shadows to the board and pieces!
So I take it we've all heard the story about the guy who filmed his pet octopus climbing out of its saltwater tank, crawling 12 feet across the floor and up a stand into a freshwater tank to eat the goldfish before heading back?
Does Captain Archer finally find his way back into his own time/body?
On a related note, it should really be called LOW dynamic range lighting - anyone with a DSLR knows that viewing HDR in the same color space decreases contrast and brightness in order make every color viewable, whereas low dynamic range gives images brilliance and pop and high contrast between colors, and washes out into pure white (the effect Valve and FarCry tout as HDR) easily because there aren't as many levels of brightness(hence, low dynamic range) to work with before it oversaturates.
Is this the same as the dynamic resizing effect in WMP9/10 or Firefox, or something more like the weird super-choppy brushed-metal resizing you get in itunes?
The effects aren't quite as polished as Luminocity (yes, ironic), but the idea's been out there for a while:
Old video: http://www.stardock.com/video/windowfx1.wmv
New video: http://www.stardock.com/video/winfx21.wmv
I guess the thinking is that Microsoft was really unhappy with the decision to force them to create a "Windows Reduced Media Edition" with less functionlity (and lower price), so they "intentionally sabotaged" it so that people would hear and opt to get the full version instead?
Microsoft ships out buggy code after a fight with the EU: people complain that they're intentionally sabotaging their code in retaliation.
Please people, just pick one conspiracy theory and stick with it...
Did Adobe "fix" that in 7.0? They're incredible bastids. I woudln't mind if the PDFMaker stuff stuck around in an an existing toolbar...but making an undeletable toolbar with only 2 icons on it is just ridiculous.