Let's see... System 6 was used between 1988 and 1991. Hypercard was originally released with System 6. Windows 98 came out in... wait for it... 1998. Ten years after System 6.
The idea of hooking Desktop Accessories to the Internet is trivial once the Internet itself is widespread.
I personally know that there are professors at NCSA at the University of Illinois who to this day are so bitter about Microsoft screwing the NCSA and UIUC out of royalties by negotiating this contract in bad faith* that they refuse to use any Microsoft technology to this day. God forbid you try to turn in a paper in Word format... you'd get one chance to resubmit it in ASCII format or you'd get a zero.
* Apparently Microsoft knew while negotiating the agreement that they planned to give the browser away for free, but led the University representatives to believe that they were going to sell it.
Oh, I agree. It doesn't seem to be enforced. Of course, it's hard to tell if that's because the police don't seem to be around when this occurs, or if they're just ignoring it. Probably a lot of both.
It seems to me that it's pretty hard to tell, from a police perspective, whether or not someone is really in violation of this law. If the vehicle in the left lane is only going slightly faster than its counterpart in the right lane, it's hard to tell if it's legitimately passing or if it's actually maintaining position. The only time I could really see the law being enforced is if someone is stupid enough not to get out of the way of a police car cruising along at 10+ over the limit.
Still, let's not encourage anyone to drive like an ass! When you're done passing, move over. It's the right thing to do.
Also, do not behave like that in Illinois. It is illegal to drive in the left lane if you are not passing in this state. When that law was passed, I thought it was one of the more ridiculous laws this state has on its books, but after reading your comment I now understand why it is necessary.
There is no way to copy the location of a file to the clipboard, so she ends up having to type it out. And since this is a large company, she has to type out something like \\srv-40ntt002934437xxkdf033\ien23434daf3\subfolde r\File Name With Spaces.ppt, which doesn't fully turn into a link because Outlook thinks the link is finished when it encounters a space.
I found out a few days ago how to deal with files with spaces. Just put < > around the link, like this:
<\\srv-40ntt002934437xxkdf033\ien23434daf3\subfold e r\File Name With Spaces.ppt>
Outlook will recognize this construction and turn the entire pathname into a link.
CS225 was indeed one of the classes. I always loved Zych, even though I only saw him in class once (first day of CS125, when I had to sit on the floor of Lincoln Hall, I think, because there were no more seats). I never went to any of his classes again (and to be honest I never really watched the videos either, although that was always my mental excuse). I enjoyed the newsgroup interaction, though. The course groups were good but the best was uiuc.test.
Great school, though. Where else can you study at a top-5 Engineering program (especially in Computer Science) and root on high-quality athletic teams in your free time? I wouldn't trade those experiences for the world.
... Why not just videotape the professor giving his lecture, and have everyone study at home? The professor can keep office hours where each student gets 1 hour of questions a week.
Actually, in some of my CS classes in undergrad, that's pretty much how we did it. Now, everyone had the option of attending the lectures, and they were technically recording them for the distance learning program, but the on-campus students took advantage of it too. They scheduled the classes for 8:00am and the professor usually lectured to a room of maybe a handful of people. The on-campus enrollment was probably around 150. This was at the University of Illinois just a couple of years ago.
To be fair, competitive bids may have been put in place to help combat corruption. Still, I was one of those kids who benefitted greatly from both the paycheck (one summer) and the experience (4 years) of working IT while I was in high school. They should start a program that allows them to hire a few students each year to get around the red tape.
Halo? The later bond games? DAMN, could they have made those controls any more messed up if they tried?
I don't remember for sure, but it was my understanding that Halo, at least, could be made to use the Goldeneye/Perfect Dark controls. You just have to go in to your profile setup and change your controls. I just turned on the inverted look settings, though.
I do know that at least one of the later Bond games didn't have the Goldeneye controls, and I also know that kept most of my friends from playing it.
I'd say it's more like letting customers choose their own mechanics, but also providing a mechanic that rides in the back seat, ready to fix any problems that might come along. The customer is welcome to use another mechanic, but why would they?
Of course, if the customer wants, they should be able to ask the mechanic to get out of the back seat and go back to the dealership. In other words, the customer should be able to uninstall Microsoft's built-in antivirus software if they so choose.
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Well, it does seem to make them upset: "I don't like seeing NTP referred to as a patent troll company," says Tom Campana III, Mr. Campana's son. "I take it personally." Of course, a big payout will make them feel better. I hope they don't get it.
I don't think that RIM has acted in anything but self-interest, but the Campanas are being ridiculous. RIM came up with a product that actually works, while NTP has nothing to offer except a bunch of old patents. They aren't actively developing them; they're sitting on them until someone else comes up with something similar, and then they sue. They have no redeeming value. It's too bad.
In my opinion, if you're not going to use something that you've patented, then you should have no right to stop someone else from developing it, especially if the other party seems to have come up with the idea independently. The idea behind patents is to let the inventor develop their product without competition for a limited amount of time. If the inventor isn't developing it, it's not in anyone's interest to let them stop others from doing so.
Yeah, but it wouldn't have been Google refusing to give the people of China the content, it would have been the government of China refusing to let them access it. It's China that has been running the Great Firewall, not Google... and now Google is helping them.
Are there a lot of minorities in Upstate NY or New England? If not, it's hard to say if or to what extent racism exists... It may not manifest itself due to the low number of "opportunities."
Do you live in a country where the VAT/sales tax is included in the displayed price? It was a lot easier to do stuff like that when I lived in Ireland, where the VAT is included, then when I'm living in the US, where it isn't.
I really wish that we'd switch to the tax-included way of marking prices.
It seems to me that the person who runs the sewing machines is closer to the person that runs the CD duplication machines than the artist. The clothes-industry equivalent to the artists would be the people who design the shirts.
You have to keep in mind that salary or wages make up only about half of the compensation package given to most white collar workers. Therefore, even if they're paying time-and-a-half, it's still cheaper to drive their employees to work overtime, because they only have to pay one set of benefits. If two workers were hired to do the same job, they'd be paying for about the same number of hours, but they'd have to pay for two sets of benefits, and that's where the extra costs come in.
- BB takes the rebate concept one step further and also adds a gift card for a future purchase but advertises a current price minus the value of the future use only card in your current purchase. Something like "after 50 MIR and $50 gift card"
To be fair, the last time I participated in one of those, it wasn't a gift card, but like a cash card or something like that. So they mailed you the card, and tried really hard to imply that it was simply a gift card, but in actuality you could just go up to a cashier and they would cash it out for you. It was no problem at all when I did it, and I didn't buy anything else, either, so it wasn't like they were getting anything from me. It still sucks, since they should just mail the check, but at least you don't have to spend the money on more merchandise.
Has your friend actually tried it? It was my understanding that Microsoft started checking things like the size of the hard drive, or whether or not the hard drive is locked, etc. Modded Xboxes usually have larger hard drives, the better for storing game backups and videos. I haven't even bothered trying to use XBox Live with my box; I mainly use it for XBMC and (the original) Halo. I'd be interested in knowing if it's something I should look in to.
You need to keep in mind that agriculture is a strategic interest for any country. If a country can't feed itself, it must import food from other countries, and is therefore susceptible to that food source being disrupted, either by the trading partner shutting down the shipping lines, or by other countries doing things like naval blockades, etc. Therefore, it is important to have a local (and by local, I mean within your own country) food source. If this isn't economically viable, the government has no choice but to support it with subsidies.
A similar argument works for many of the other products we get from agriculture. Food is only the most obvious strategic commodity.
I'm guessing that they store the title of the article in a field in their database, and that they don't store different titles for the browser window title and the in-article title. Thus, since they wanted to make "Your Mail" italic on the main page, they have to include the HTML markup. I doubt they wanted the browser to italicize its titlebar.
Heavy equipment like John Deere's ag, construction, and consumer equipment is still produced in the US, and will be for some time. They have a few factories outside the US, but the vast majority of the equipment sold here is made here.
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Let's see... System 6 was used between 1988 and 1991. Hypercard was originally released with System 6. Windows 98 came out in... wait for it... 1998. Ten years after System 6.
The idea of hooking Desktop Accessories to the Internet is trivial once the Internet itself is widespread.
STFU.
I personally know that there are professors at NCSA at the University of Illinois who to this day are so bitter about Microsoft screwing the NCSA and UIUC out of royalties by negotiating this contract in bad faith* that they refuse to use any Microsoft technology to this day. God forbid you try to turn in a paper in Word format... you'd get one chance to resubmit it in ASCII format or you'd get a zero.
* Apparently Microsoft knew while negotiating the agreement that they planned to give the browser away for free, but led the University representatives to believe that they were going to sell it.
Oh, I agree. It doesn't seem to be enforced. Of course, it's hard to tell if that's because the police don't seem to be around when this occurs, or if they're just ignoring it. Probably a lot of both.
It seems to me that it's pretty hard to tell, from a police perspective, whether or not someone is really in violation of this law. If the vehicle in the left lane is only going slightly faster than its counterpart in the right lane, it's hard to tell if it's legitimately passing or if it's actually maintaining position. The only time I could really see the law being enforced is if someone is stupid enough not to get out of the way of a police car cruising along at 10+ over the limit.
Still, let's not encourage anyone to drive like an ass! When you're done passing, move over. It's the right thing to do.
You, sir, are a jerk.
Also, do not behave like that in Illinois. It is illegal to drive in the left lane if you are not passing in this state. When that law was passed, I thought it was one of the more ridiculous laws this state has on its books, but after reading your comment I now understand why it is necessary.
I found out a few days ago how to deal with files with spaces. Just put < > around the link, like this:
<\\srv-40ntt002934437xxkdf033\ien23434daf3\subfol
Outlook will recognize this construction and turn the entire pathname into a link.
CS225 was indeed one of the classes. I always loved Zych, even though I only saw him in class once (first day of CS125, when I had to sit on the floor of Lincoln Hall, I think, because there were no more seats). I never went to any of his classes again (and to be honest I never really watched the videos either, although that was always my mental excuse). I enjoyed the newsgroup interaction, though. The course groups were good but the best was uiuc.test.
Great school, though. Where else can you study at a top-5 Engineering program (especially in Computer Science) and root on high-quality athletic teams in your free time? I wouldn't trade those experiences for the world.
Actually, in some of my CS classes in undergrad, that's pretty much how we did it. Now, everyone had the option of attending the lectures, and they were technically recording them for the distance learning program, but the on-campus students took advantage of it too. They scheduled the classes for 8:00am and the professor usually lectured to a room of maybe a handful of people. The on-campus enrollment was probably around 150. This was at the University of Illinois just a couple of years ago.
To be fair, competitive bids may have been put in place to help combat corruption. Still, I was one of those kids who benefitted greatly from both the paycheck (one summer) and the experience (4 years) of working IT while I was in high school. They should start a program that allows them to hire a few students each year to get around the red tape.
I don't remember for sure, but it was my understanding that Halo, at least, could be made to use the Goldeneye/Perfect Dark controls. You just have to go in to your profile setup and change your controls. I just turned on the inverted look settings, though.
I do know that at least one of the later Bond games didn't have the Goldeneye controls, and I also know that kept most of my friends from playing it.
I'd say it's more like letting customers choose their own mechanics, but also providing a mechanic that rides in the back seat, ready to fix any problems that might come along. The customer is welcome to use another mechanic, but why would they?
Of course, if the customer wants, they should be able to ask the mechanic to get out of the back seat and go back to the dealership. In other words, the customer should be able to uninstall Microsoft's built-in antivirus software if they so choose.
Well, it does seem to make them upset: "I don't like seeing NTP referred to as a patent troll company," says Tom Campana III, Mr. Campana's son. "I take it personally." Of course, a big payout will make them feel better. I hope they don't get it.
I don't think that RIM has acted in anything but self-interest, but the Campanas are being ridiculous. RIM came up with a product that actually works, while NTP has nothing to offer except a bunch of old patents. They aren't actively developing them; they're sitting on them until someone else comes up with something similar, and then they sue. They have no redeeming value. It's too bad.
In my opinion, if you're not going to use something that you've patented, then you should have no right to stop someone else from developing it, especially if the other party seems to have come up with the idea independently. The idea behind patents is to let the inventor develop their product without competition for a limited amount of time. If the inventor isn't developing it, it's not in anyone's interest to let them stop others from doing so.
So I'll throw my list in too.
The cool thing is that I can play all of those on my xbox now. Hurray for modding...
Yeah, but it wouldn't have been Google refusing to give the people of China the content, it would have been the government of China refusing to let them access it. It's China that has been running the Great Firewall, not Google... and now Google is helping them.
Are there a lot of minorities in Upstate NY or New England? If not, it's hard to say if or to what extent racism exists... It may not manifest itself due to the low number of "opportunities."
Do you live in a country where the VAT/sales tax is included in the displayed price? It was a lot easier to do stuff like that when I lived in Ireland, where the VAT is included, then when I'm living in the US, where it isn't.
I really wish that we'd switch to the tax-included way of marking prices.
It seems to me that the person who runs the sewing machines is closer to the person that runs the CD duplication machines than the artist. The clothes-industry equivalent to the artists would be the people who design the shirts.
Very interesting. Thanks for the links.
Can you provide a reference to the case that decided this? I'd love to read it, because it sounds fascinating.
You have to keep in mind that salary or wages make up only about half of the compensation package given to most white collar workers. Therefore, even if they're paying time-and-a-half, it's still cheaper to drive their employees to work overtime, because they only have to pay one set of benefits. If two workers were hired to do the same job, they'd be paying for about the same number of hours, but they'd have to pay for two sets of benefits, and that's where the extra costs come in.
Isn't that pretty much the iPod interface?
To be fair, the last time I participated in one of those, it wasn't a gift card, but like a cash card or something like that. So they mailed you the card, and tried really hard to imply that it was simply a gift card, but in actuality you could just go up to a cashier and they would cash it out for you. It was no problem at all when I did it, and I didn't buy anything else, either, so it wasn't like they were getting anything from me. It still sucks, since they should just mail the check, but at least you don't have to spend the money on more merchandise.
Has your friend actually tried it? It was my understanding that Microsoft started checking things like the size of the hard drive, or whether or not the hard drive is locked, etc. Modded Xboxes usually have larger hard drives, the better for storing game backups and videos. I haven't even bothered trying to use XBox Live with my box; I mainly use it for XBMC and (the original) Halo. I'd be interested in knowing if it's something I should look in to.
You need to keep in mind that agriculture is a strategic interest for any country. If a country can't feed itself, it must import food from other countries, and is therefore susceptible to that food source being disrupted, either by the trading partner shutting down the shipping lines, or by other countries doing things like naval blockades, etc. Therefore, it is important to have a local (and by local, I mean within your own country) food source. If this isn't economically viable, the government has no choice but to support it with subsidies.
A similar argument works for many of the other products we get from agriculture. Food is only the most obvious strategic commodity.
I'm guessing that they store the title of the article in a field in their database, and that they don't store different titles for the browser window title and the in-article title. Thus, since they wanted to make "Your Mail" italic on the main page, they have to include the HTML markup. I doubt they wanted the browser to italicize its titlebar.
Heavy equipment like John Deere's ag, construction, and consumer equipment is still produced in the US, and will be for some time. They have a few factories outside the US, but the vast majority of the equipment sold here is made here.