Shortly followed a few years later by buying an Apple II+ with dual floppies and 172K of RAM (shipped with 48K, used it for a RAM disk to load my programs disk written in Apple Basic into RAM, where they ran 1000 times faster).
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From a crowded movie theater?
Would you like me to Dial 9-1-1 or Check on your insurance?
Notify your next of kin?
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How about one that sputters, coughs, and dies verbally "Oh, I'm goin to meet my maker! I love you, Bill G! Tell the wife and microchips I love them!" when I stomp it into the ground after ripping it out of the cell phone user's hands while I'm watching a movie?
Or how about one that apologizes for ten minutes when it's user talks on it while sitting (not standing, sitting) on the toilet in a public restroom? Especially one that comments on the personal hygiene habits of someone even using a phone in a public lavatory?
When the government fears the public, you have democracy. When the public fears the government, you have tyranny.
Sorry, I'm an American, born in America, of American parents and grandparents and my dad and grandad served in the USAF.
I don't want to live in Fear.
And right now, we sure as heck don't have democracy here.
That said, I'm not sure I trust the Bush Regime to use this to go after real spyware firms - they're just as likely to use it as yet another excuse to spy on American citizens' private data stored on their private computers, pretending to be "looking for spyware".
So, while on the surface this sounds like a good idea, there is no way I'm trusting those people to "do good". So far all they've done is lie to me.
I imagine a poor laptop, stressed out by all the demands put on it, on hearing that some 1user wants to install Windows Vista on it goes, "Nuh Uh! Ain't happenin!" and wags it's digital finger at you.
Seriously, though, the rule of thumb with Microsoft is:
If they say you need x Hardware with x Video with x RAM and y speed CD/DVD
then you need to buy 2x Hardware with x+2 Video with 2x RAM and y/2 speed CD/DVD.
This is 2 CRM products in development, of which Siebel is the better of the two.
I'm not disagreeing that, of the CRM products, Siebel might have a better version. But when we're talking Oracle layoffs, you should read the Wall Street Journal analysis of their cash flow, rather than focus solely on one product sector.
And if we see x,000 jobs created in India within six months of x,000 jobs eliminated in the US... well, you may not want to do the math, but most people will.
Economics is the allocation of scarce resources amongst many choices - and if Larry wants to finance a new team or buy out some Open Source products, he may decide to renege on his word and deep six "extra" employees.
Face it, I don't "drive to the store" to buy a disk.
I go to the concert and buy the CD or DVD from the band directly, so that they get 50 percent of the money I pay instead of 1 or 2 cents per disk.
Or I buy it at cool record stores like we have in Fremont in Seattle which give more of the money to the local bands and have them play in the stores sometimes, like Sonic Boom Records.
you could be right that people are going to PostgreSQL as well.
I can only speak from my experience, and there were a lot of Oracle devs and DBAs on the MySQL presentation, all of whom seemed fairly competent.
So, my guess is open-source and other DBMS choices are eating away at Oracle's former dominance. Sure, there were a few people migrating from Microsoft's DBMS, but most who were on there were Oracle, or so it appeared.
To be frank, the only reason I was good at PL/SQL triggers is that three of my first five computing languages were PL/1, PL/C and a variant of PL/C.
I won't miss it.
So long as I get my Triggers and at least row-level locks, I'll be fine. Field locks were never that useful. And getting an open-source free Migration Toolkit makes it that much easier to switch to MySQL.
and purchase of the rights to the song "Am I Blue".
Seriously, to get a comparable xBox360 with those features, you have to shell out the same amount of cash and then sign away your rights as well.
Or they could use the song "Blue" by um, the euro band where the lyrics are "... live in a blue house, with a blue window,... I'm Blue I'm a dee double di..."
First, they're outsourcing more work to India, according to printed reports in the Wall Street Journal (not free, so no link). Hence the reductions.
Secondly, they're getting their hat handed to them by MySQL. I attended (via webcast) a MySQL introduction, and probably 90 percent of the online chat Q&A was from Oracle Developers and DBAs like me asking about migration from Oracle and tutorials on the same, as well as differences such as the more TSQL-based triggers (instead of the PL/SQL ones that I learned first).
Thirdly, my guess is their CEO wants to buy a new boat to race in the America's Cup with...
It's a little strange to me, but before this Danish cartoon incident I was siding with the 'doves', yet now I find myself siding with the hawks. Freedom of speech is at least as sacred to me as the prophet is to a muslim person. It's such a crucial part of the very foundation of our culture. People died for it. There can be no compromise on this issue. No apologetic placating.
Exactly. In going thru all the posts on the BBC Have Your Say, I saw a lot of posts from people around the world clamoring for the Danish PM to fire the newspaper editor and close down the paper.
The people who are protesting just don't grok that we have this thing called Rights, including Freedom of Speech.
I'm all for multiple religions - in fact, I've gone out of my way to make people of various religions feel comfortable when I was serving in the Canadian Armed Forces and here at the international multi-ethnic university that I love.
But, to paraphrase, They can take our Lives, but they can't take our Freedom!
Maybe it's my Scottish ancestry, or having been a minority in Canada (American, and that's not easy), or knowing how the slippery slope of religion is frequently used to repress us, but this is one fight I'm not going to back down from.
And I've been a member of Amnesty International for most of my adult life, so if it riles me up this bad, you know it's important.
Don't be ignorant. The rich pay so much more in taxes than you will ever be able to. If you paid the same amount (percent-wise) as them, you'd be paying more than you'd ever want. Then it would be the administrations fault for "raising taxes" when really they were just making it fair for everyone.
Strange. I'm a member of Resposible Wealth, have actually paid estate taxes, and last time I checked Bill Gates admitted he pays about 8 percent in taxes - in my experience, the only reason why you'd be paying more in taxes if you're rich is if you're too stupid to get a good accountant.
But I still think that we should land in the Tropics of the moon - think of the sandy beaches, the low-gravity golf, being able to surf in ion storms.
after all, if we've travelled all the way to the moon, we might as well get an Earthtan for all our trouble, and break out the Virgin Daquiris in their squeeze tetrapacks all round.
Heck, we should think about making a Club Med on the Moon - we'll have lots of Lunar Tokens to buy water with - ok, dirty ice crystals from crevices, but the same concept.
And we should put up a big neon sign that says "UFOs Land Here! Interplanetary Spaceport! Have your Binary Passports ready!"
But whatever we do, let's just borrow the money for it from the overflowing national treasury built up by all those savings we've been saving... um, wait, last time I checked we were at a negative savings rate as a nation because of Tax Cuts for Billionaires so they can buy jewelry for their teacup chihuahuas....
Are you uninformed or a troll? To get discouts on bulk-mailings business jump through a bunch of hoops like presorting, bundling, and barcoding their own mail. These mailings also aren't sent First Class. Essentially, the bulk mailers are saving USPS work, and USPS is rewarding them with an appropriately lower rate.
Neither. I made a statement of fact that spam (in terms of bulk mail) is at a cheaper rate even via the USPS - many people don't realize that they pay a much higher rate to send mail than a business or non-profit does.
The same will apply to the new pre-paid spam that Yahoo or AOL will permit - most likely they will require that it be properly formed headers, with valid email addresses (and only a certain level of rejection rates, or else bounce-back rejects may be automatically deleted or culled). Sure, this saves them money.
But it's still spam. Just official spam.
Slap a postage stamp on me and call me certified double registered mail to an FPO, but it's still spam.
But, like the free credit reports which you are legally entitled to - for free - but that many firms "offer" to sign you up to a "credit report protection" scheme and then bill you $19.99 USD annually to get, many people will sign up to AOL and Yahoo "Do Not Spam" lists and pay for something that they will be entitled to get for free.
There's a sucker born every minute, and then there's hackable Diebold voting machines for the rest of us.
gender preference neutral - whatever, my point is that online games in which one could choose to have your character(s) have relationships/etc with both the other gender or the same gender have existed since the 1970s, so trying to pretend it's never been an issue and wasn't resolved decades ago (to permit it) is an interesting attempt to deny reality.
my question is why are so many obviously closeted individuals so hung up on the issue - and why can't anyone figure out that the reason they doth protest so much is that they're in denial of their own "urges" and cloak them with respectability.
As to should a game do this or not - if you're trying to simulate actual societies or ones that could exist with the preconditions (magic, weapons, tech, etc) specified, trying to pretend it doesn't just means you're a lazy game designer.
I think in the rules systems I developed it was pretty much a non-issue - very few lines of code, other than one I tend to put in for a pattern-match choice - allowing people to have a basic preference they can override (e.g. being closeted and acting straight, or being straight and acting metrosexual), which permits all the shades of grey inbetween. I usually set the default at hetero, although research shows it probably should be around 90 percent, and don't spend much time on any side issues (e.g. the Sims approach by Will Wright of WooHoo instead of sex, makes it much more of a non-issue so you don't have to code the animation sequences).
well, yeah, DQ is hot in Japan, and DDR (and all the other spinoffs) is not as much, but worldwide Dance Dance Revolution brings in more revenues for the company...
they sent a link to Konami investors so you could watch - on your computer - the annual meeting (with english subtitles) - my son and I watched it, that's where they were talking about what the games were. but it's also in the emails to investors, where they talk about plans.
I've never tried to link from the corporate website, except thru the links in the investor's email newsletter for shareholders - maybe they don't publicize it?
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made by hand, hand-soldered the boards myself.
Shortly followed a few years later by buying an Apple II+ with dual floppies and 172K of RAM (shipped with 48K, used it for a RAM disk to load my programs disk written in Apple Basic into RAM, where they ran 1000 times faster).
From a crowded movie theater?
Would you like me to Dial 9-1-1 or Check on your insurance?
Notify your next of kin?
How about one that sputters, coughs, and dies verbally "Oh, I'm goin to meet my maker! I love you, Bill G! Tell the wife and microchips I love them!" when I stomp it into the ground after ripping it out of the cell phone user's hands while I'm watching a movie?
Or how about one that apologizes for ten minutes when it's user talks on it while sitting (not standing, sitting) on the toilet in a public restroom? Especially one that comments on the personal hygiene habits of someone even using a phone in a public lavatory?
When the government fears the public, you have democracy.
When the public fears the government, you have tyranny.
Sorry, I'm an American, born in America, of American parents and grandparents and my dad and grandad served in the USAF.
I don't want to live in Fear.
And right now, we sure as heck don't have democracy here.
That said, I'm not sure I trust the Bush Regime to use this to go after real spyware firms - they're just as likely to use it as yet another excuse to spy on American citizens' private data stored on their private computers, pretending to be "looking for spyware".
So, while on the surface this sounds like a good idea, there is no way I'm trusting those people to "do good". So far all they've done is lie to me.
is to attack their CEOs salaries, bonus, options, benefits, and retirement plans.
Nothing else will change their behavior.
It's that they won't.
I imagine a poor laptop, stressed out by all the demands put on it, on hearing that some 1user wants to install Windows Vista on it goes, "Nuh Uh! Ain't happenin!" and wags it's digital finger at you.
Seriously, though, the rule of thumb with Microsoft is:
If they say you need x Hardware with x Video with x RAM and y speed CD/DVD
then you need to buy 2x Hardware with x+2 Video with 2x RAM and y/2 speed CD/DVD.
This is 2 CRM products in development, of which Siebel is the better of the two.
... well, you may not want to do the math, but most people will.
I'm not disagreeing that, of the CRM products, Siebel might have a better version. But when we're talking Oracle layoffs, you should read the Wall Street Journal analysis of their cash flow, rather than focus solely on one product sector.
And if we see x,000 jobs created in India within six months of x,000 jobs eliminated in the US
Economics is the allocation of scarce resources amongst many choices - and if Larry wants to finance a new team or buy out some Open Source products, he may decide to renege on his word and deep six "extra" employees.
and are killing his subscription-service model.
Face it, I don't "drive to the store" to buy a disk.
I go to the concert and buy the CD or DVD from the band directly, so that they get 50 percent of the money I pay instead of 1 or 2 cents per disk.
Or I buy it at cool record stores like we have in Fremont in Seattle which give more of the money to the local bands and have them play in the stores sometimes, like Sonic Boom Records.
you could be right that people are going to PostgreSQL as well.
I can only speak from my experience, and there were a lot of Oracle devs and DBAs on the MySQL presentation, all of whom seemed fairly competent.
So, my guess is open-source and other DBMS choices are eating away at Oracle's former dominance. Sure, there were a few people migrating from Microsoft's DBMS, but most who were on there were Oracle, or so it appeared.
To be frank, the only reason I was good at PL/SQL triggers is that three of my first five computing languages were PL/1, PL/C and a variant of PL/C.
I won't miss it.
So long as I get my Triggers and at least row-level locks, I'll be fine. Field locks were never that useful. And getting an open-source free Migration Toolkit makes it that much easier to switch to MySQL.
and purchase of the rights to the song "Am I Blue".
... I'm Blue I'm a dee double di ..."
Seriously, to get a comparable xBox360 with those features, you have to shell out the same amount of cash and then sign away your rights as well.
Or they could use the song "Blue" by um, the euro band where the lyrics are "... live in a blue house, with a blue window,
KUOW, KEXP (formerly KCMU), and RainyDawg.
Most people podcast them or use our Gigapop internet backbones to listen to them.
I think that Internet radio isn't decreasing, it's just going non-commercial. All the stations I mentioned are non-profit.
There's no good music on commercial radio anymore, and no reason to listen to it.
Two months ago the WSJ predicted that Oracle would layoff 2,000 people after the merger, so this news should not be a surprise
They also noted that Oracle was, coincidentally, outsourcing jobs to India.
None of this is a coincidence.
First, they're outsourcing more work to India, according to printed reports in the Wall Street Journal (not free, so no link). Hence the reductions.
...
Secondly, they're getting their hat handed to them by MySQL. I attended (via webcast) a MySQL introduction, and probably 90 percent of the online chat Q&A was from Oracle Developers and DBAs like me asking about migration from Oracle and tutorials on the same, as well as differences such as the more TSQL-based triggers (instead of the PL/SQL ones that I learned first).
Thirdly, my guess is their CEO wants to buy a new boat to race in the America's Cup with
It's a little strange to me, but before this Danish cartoon incident I was siding with the 'doves', yet now I find myself siding with the hawks. Freedom of speech is at least as sacred to me as the prophet is to a muslim person. It's such a crucial part of the very foundation of our culture. People died for it. There can be no compromise on this issue. No apologetic placating.
Exactly. In going thru all the posts on the BBC Have Your Say, I saw a lot of posts from people around the world clamoring for the Danish PM to fire the newspaper editor and close down the paper.
The people who are protesting just don't grok that we have this thing called Rights, including Freedom of Speech.
I'm all for multiple religions - in fact, I've gone out of my way to make people of various religions feel comfortable when I was serving in the Canadian Armed Forces and here at the international multi-ethnic university that I love.
But, to paraphrase, They can take our Lives, but they can't take our Freedom!
Maybe it's my Scottish ancestry, or having been a minority in Canada (American, and that's not easy), or knowing how the slippery slope of religion is frequently used to repress us, but this is one fight I'm not going to back down from.
And I've been a member of Amnesty International for most of my adult life, so if it riles me up this bad, you know it's important.
Heck, I probably make 20 to 40 thousand less, but it's way more fun and you learn new things every day.
Don't be ignorant. The rich pay so much more in taxes than you will ever be able to. If you paid the same amount (percent-wise) as them, you'd be paying more than you'd ever want. Then it would be the administrations fault for "raising taxes" when really they were just making it fair for everyone.
Strange. I'm a member of Resposible Wealth, have actually paid estate taxes, and last time I checked Bill Gates admitted he pays about 8 percent in taxes - in my experience, the only reason why you'd be paying more in taxes if you're rich is if you're too stupid to get a good accountant.
But I still think that we should land in the Tropics of the moon - think of the sandy beaches, the low-gravity golf, being able to surf in ion storms.
At first I thought this was an "Ask Slashdot" entry, at which point I thought, "I'm not sure I want to trust NASA with a shuttle program."
...
Heck, I'm not even that sure how many space shuttles we have left, they keep blowing them up all the time
after all, if we've travelled all the way to the moon, we might as well get an Earthtan for all our trouble, and break out the Virgin Daquiris in their squeeze tetrapacks all round.
... um, wait, last time I checked we were at a negative savings rate as a nation because of Tax Cuts for Billionaires so they can buy jewelry for their teacup chihuahuas ....
Heck, we should think about making a Club Med on the Moon - we'll have lots of Lunar Tokens to buy water with - ok, dirty ice crystals from crevices, but the same concept.
And we should put up a big neon sign that says "UFOs Land Here! Interplanetary Spaceport! Have your Binary Passports ready!"
But whatever we do, let's just borrow the money for it from the overflowing national treasury built up by all those savings we've been saving
Are you uninformed or a troll? To get discouts on bulk-mailings business jump through a bunch of hoops like presorting, bundling, and barcoding their own mail. These mailings also aren't sent First Class. Essentially, the bulk mailers are saving USPS work, and USPS is rewarding them with an appropriately lower rate.
Neither. I made a statement of fact that spam (in terms of bulk mail) is at a cheaper rate even via the USPS - many people don't realize that they pay a much higher rate to send mail than a business or non-profit does.
The same will apply to the new pre-paid spam that Yahoo or AOL will permit - most likely they will require that it be properly formed headers, with valid email addresses (and only a certain level of rejection rates, or else bounce-back rejects may be automatically deleted or culled). Sure, this saves them money.
But it's still spam. Just official spam.
Slap a postage stamp on me and call me certified double registered mail to an FPO, but it's still spam.
Yum!
Afterall, I never get spam mail in my snail mail where it costs like $.40 to send. All those ads and various other junkmail are my imagination.
Actually, it only costs them 4.5 cents to send you junk mail via the USPS. It costs non-profits about the same as well.
Only the peasants in Soviet America pay 39 cents to send letters. Businesses pay one-tenth the amount.
will be coming soon.
But, like the free credit reports which you are legally entitled to - for free - but that many firms "offer" to sign you up to a "credit report protection" scheme and then bill you $19.99 USD annually to get, many people will sign up to AOL and Yahoo "Do Not Spam" lists and pay for something that they will be entitled to get for free.
There's a sucker born every minute, and then there's hackable Diebold voting machines for the rest of us.
does it make it any less spam-like?
No.
It's still spam, but the network provider is taking a cut of the profits to betray you.
gender preference neutral - whatever, my point is that online games in which one could choose to have your character(s) have relationships/etc with both the other gender or the same gender have existed since the 1970s, so trying to pretend it's never been an issue and wasn't resolved decades ago (to permit it) is an interesting attempt to deny reality.
my question is why are so many obviously closeted individuals so hung up on the issue - and why can't anyone figure out that the reason they doth protest so much is that they're in denial of their own "urges" and cloak them with respectability.
As to should a game do this or not - if you're trying to simulate actual societies or ones that could exist with the preconditions (magic, weapons, tech, etc) specified, trying to pretend it doesn't just means you're a lazy game designer.
I think in the rules systems I developed it was pretty much a non-issue - very few lines of code, other than one I tend to put in for a pattern-match choice - allowing people to have a basic preference they can override (e.g. being closeted and acting straight, or being straight and acting metrosexual), which permits all the shades of grey inbetween. I usually set the default at hetero, although research shows it probably should be around 90 percent, and don't spend much time on any side issues (e.g. the Sims approach by Will Wright of WooHoo instead of sex, makes it much more of a non-issue so you don't have to code the animation sequences).
well, yeah, DQ is hot in Japan, and DDR (and all the other spinoffs) is not as much, but worldwide Dance Dance Revolution brings in more revenues for the company ...
they sent a link to Konami investors so you could watch - on your computer - the annual meeting (with english subtitles) - my son and I watched it, that's where they were talking about what the games were. but it's also in the emails to investors, where they talk about plans.
I've never tried to link from the corporate website, except thru the links in the investor's email newsletter for shareholders - maybe they don't publicize it?