People buy whatever people sell. I've seen funny stuff on infomercials that people obviously buy (a vacuum that sucks up your hair and cuts it with a blade inside the vacuum attachment- this was in the 'cut your hair at home' stage of the late 80's).
Hey now, you'd be suprised how much money you can save over the years with a Flowbee. It's perfect for guys who don't care about stupid stuff like fashion and style... basically geeks.
Yea, that's whaat I don't understand. Is there really that much of a lack of amateur radio operators these days? A lot of hams LIVE for doing the RACES and ARES drills that deal with exactly these kinds of disaster scenarios.
I imagine the problem was that most hams probably fled the area when the general evacuation was called for, now they can't get anywhere near the place to help. The Red Cross should be asking for amateur radio volunteers to help coordinate emergency communications... that's one of the entire reasons amateur radio exists!!!
They already have VoIP built into their client and a huge marketing machine, including millions of viral marketing droids, working in their favor.
Their client only works on Windows. Skype has voice support on multiple platforms. I was REALLY hoping this would be a Yahoo Messenger replacement, but it offers no new additional features and is in fact less functional since it doesn't support video.
The question is: how do they make money from a VOIP service or even an IM application if they'll provide the service for free?
How does Yahoo make money on their IM app that supports voice (and video) over IP? The best thing that could ever happen would be for some cross-platform instant messaging app to come out that supports voice and video chatting like Yahoo Messenger does... maybe I could finally convert my mother to a Mac after finding a replacement to her "killer app": Yahoo IM voice chat. I even offered to buy her a new Mac if she'd get rid of her Windows box, but she refuses because "all my friends are on Yahoo voice chat", which doesn't work on Macs, only the camera. Bah.
Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2K, Windows XP, Windows 2K3, Windows Vista
Office 95, Office 97, Office 2K
Those aren't forks, they're different versions of Windows. At best you could say Windows95/98/ME is one development base and NT/2k/2k3/XP/Vista, etc. is another, but they are all still developed by the same company.
And what about us poor schmucks who buy blank CDs for purposes other than music piracy? I don't want my CD-R purchases taxed more just because the RIAA is too stubborn to overhaul its business model.
Movie and software piracy won't be tolerated by their respective groups either. Other than pirating one or more of those three things, I can't imagine what anyone needs this "recordable media" for.
I'm glad that ad had a good affect on you. I know you'll be going out to buy some coke... errr Pepsi... no Coke... errr... Just pick up a case of each.
They're both basically carbonated sugar water. I say Pepsi and Coke interchangeably.
According to NS an a million dollars just for the landing. Anyone here knows the actual cost of piggy-back ride on the back of 747?
Well, taking a conservative estimate of $85 billion a year spent in Iraq, dividing by 365 days, then dividing by 24 hours then dividing by 60 minutes I get $161,719 per minute spent in Iraq. If the shuttle costs one million dollars to transport we can figure that equates to about 6 or 7 minutes of the war in Iraq's cost.
To also put it into perspective, the $250 billion or more we've spent on Iraq could've funded NASA for around 18 years at their present budget.
Sorry, I'm not focusing on your comment but rather the attitude of a lot of people in general. I'm just sick of people bitching about the cost of NASA when there's so much fraud, waste, and abuse going on in every other sector of our government.
Add me to the list of Speakeasy customers who would be absolutely pissed off if the FCC screwed with this setup. I gladly pay more for my DSL service from them and I've never been disappointed. I just laugh at the SBC Yahoos that call me trying to sell me their $19.95/month DSL service. No thanks. The simple fact that Speakeasy and others can exist at all even though they almost always offer higher priced DSL services than the telcos speaks volumes to the FCC.
My SecurID hardware authenticators from RSA display a different tokencode every sixty seconds. Or are you talking about something else?
Actually, for the record, that's an adjustable value when the token is created. Just tell your salesperson the value you want it to be. You can also request them with more than 6 digits.
God you gotta love the irony of a security-centric corp losing data..
Cisco is NOT a security-centric corporation. They build routers and switches (damn fine ones I might add) and their security product line was more of an afterthought. This is one of the primary reasons I can never recommend their perimeter protection products to anyone unless they have a stronger firewall behind it in a layered fashion.
On a slightly different note, why can't NASA work with private contractors to outsource their delivery vehicle research? I can understand their concerns of technology getting leaked, but don't the defense departments do it all the time?
They do work with private contractors. Boeing, Lockheed Martin, etc.
However, the kernel boots fine, and people have been able to get OSx86 to work on commodity hardware in console mode.
But if that's all you want then you can just download and run Darwin with X11. The valuable parts of MacOS X isn't the underlying operating system, it's the display server.
I don't really see the point of all this. Simply standardize on Eastern Standard Time and be done with it. The rest of the world will learn to adjust to it.
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Neither Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6 or Safari 2.0 passed that test either on my Mac. Does any browser pass that test?
I agree that the User Interface is critical in a finished product. But that is not true of an alpha version.
Sure it is. You should design the user interface THEN code the rest of the functionality around that. The place I've seen it done otherwise a lot is on open source programs where the GUI has been an afterthought. Some guy had some itch he wanted to scratch then thought "Well, I guess I should slap a GTK GUI on this thing so I don't have to pass it a bunch of command line arguments." You know what programs like that look and feel like? Like someone wrote a command-line program then slapped a GUI onto it.
When you can make more money selling off the software and support?
Because turnkey "appliances" are popular right now. Instead of having to worry about multiple maintenance contracts for your OS, software, hardware, etc., you just buy a contract from the appliance vendor and they handle the rest and guarentee the software is compatible on the hardware they sell. It's not a bad arrangement, especially when you factor in the cost of not having to putz around installing and maintaining your own OS on your own hardware and hoping it all works together.
It is a spyware distribution system used for software, music, and movie piracy. Is this worth even trying to track down someone who is hosting this WMV file properly via a web or FTP site?
Honestly, does the Mac really need hibernation? Sleep works fine as it is. If you are going to not be using your system for a while, just turn it off. If you really need what you were working on, just leave it in suspend mode.
Because if you leave your Mac in your laptop bag in sleep mode, after a few days you pull it out and realize "shit, my battery is dead" and the entire system shut down (hopefully). If it had hibernation support the Mac could just hibernate when the battery was low and you wouldn't lose your open programs and such. This feature works fine on my 5 year old Dell laptop, I don't see what's confusing about offering it on a Powerbook. It'd be just a simply check box in the system preferences to turn it on or off.
Better yet, will Powerbooks finally get a removable drive option so I can replace the Superdrive with another battery when I need more battery life? I can do that on my Dell, but apparently Apple decided that wasn't an important feature. As a result I get over 8 hours out of my two batteries on my older Dell laptop and barely 4 hours on my G4 Powerbook. Plus I can swap out one battery on my Dell with another if they're both in and not have to shut down.
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Hey now, you'd be suprised how much money you can save over the years with a Flowbee. It's perfect for guys who don't care about stupid stuff like fashion and style... basically geeks.
I imagine the problem was that most hams probably fled the area when the general evacuation was called for, now they can't get anywhere near the place to help. The Red Cross should be asking for amateur radio volunteers to help coordinate emergency communications... that's one of the entire reasons amateur radio exists!!!
Their client only works on Windows. Skype has voice support on multiple platforms. I was REALLY hoping this would be a Yahoo Messenger replacement, but it offers no new additional features and is in fact less functional since it doesn't support video.
How does Yahoo make money on their IM app that supports voice (and video) over IP? The best thing that could ever happen would be for some cross-platform instant messaging app to come out that supports voice and video chatting like Yahoo Messenger does... maybe I could finally convert my mother to a Mac after finding a replacement to her "killer app": Yahoo IM voice chat. I even offered to buy her a new Mac if she'd get rid of her Windows box, but she refuses because "all my friends are on Yahoo voice chat", which doesn't work on Macs, only the camera. Bah.
Those aren't forks, they're different versions of Windows. At best you could say Windows95/98/ME is one development base and NT/2k/2k3/XP/Vista, etc. is another, but they are all still developed by the same company.
Sorry, I forgot my sarcasm tags. :-)
Movie and software piracy won't be tolerated by their respective groups either. Other than pirating one or more of those three things, I can't imagine what anyone needs this "recordable media" for.
They're both basically carbonated sugar water. I say Pepsi and Coke interchangeably.
No, StarOffice is not open source software. You're thinking of OpenOffice. Sun still sells StarOffice as a proprietary office suite.
Well, taking a conservative estimate of $85 billion a year spent in Iraq, dividing by 365 days, then dividing by 24 hours then dividing by 60 minutes I get $161,719 per minute spent in Iraq. If the shuttle costs one million dollars to transport we can figure that equates to about 6 or 7 minutes of the war in Iraq's cost.
To also put it into perspective, the $250 billion or more we've spent on Iraq could've funded NASA for around 18 years at their present budget.
Sorry, I'm not focusing on your comment but rather the attitude of a lot of people in general. I'm just sick of people bitching about the cost of NASA when there's so much fraud, waste, and abuse going on in every other sector of our government.
Add me to the list of Speakeasy customers who would be absolutely pissed off if the FCC screwed with this setup. I gladly pay more for my DSL service from them and I've never been disappointed. I just laugh at the SBC Yahoos that call me trying to sell me their $19.95/month DSL service. No thanks. The simple fact that Speakeasy and others can exist at all even though they almost always offer higher priced DSL services than the telcos speaks volumes to the FCC.
Actually, for the record, that's an adjustable value when the token is created. Just tell your salesperson the value you want it to be. You can also request them with more than 6 digits.
Cisco is NOT a security-centric corporation. They build routers and switches (damn fine ones I might add) and their security product line was more of an afterthought. This is one of the primary reasons I can never recommend their perimeter protection products to anyone unless they have a stronger firewall behind it in a layered fashion.
They do work with private contractors. Boeing, Lockheed Martin, etc.
But if that's all you want then you can just download and run Darwin with X11. The valuable parts of MacOS X isn't the underlying operating system, it's the display server.
I don't really see the point of all this. Simply standardize on Eastern Standard Time and be done with it. The rest of the world will learn to adjust to it.
Neither Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6 or Safari 2.0 passed that test either on my Mac. Does any browser pass that test?
Sure it is. You should design the user interface THEN code the rest of the functionality around that. The place I've seen it done otherwise a lot is on open source programs where the GUI has been an afterthought. Some guy had some itch he wanted to scratch then thought "Well, I guess I should slap a GTK GUI on this thing so I don't have to pass it a bunch of command line arguments." You know what programs like that look and feel like? Like someone wrote a command-line program then slapped a GUI onto it.
Heh, I was thinking the same thing. "We just said we'd get you to the moon for $100 million. The trip back will cost $10 billion."
Because turnkey "appliances" are popular right now. Instead of having to worry about multiple maintenance contracts for your OS, software, hardware, etc., you just buy a contract from the appliance vendor and they handle the rest and guarentee the software is compatible on the hardware they sell. It's not a bad arrangement, especially when you factor in the cost of not having to putz around installing and maintaining your own OS on your own hardware and hoping it all works together.
It is a spyware distribution system used for software, music, and movie piracy. Is this worth even trying to track down someone who is hosting this WMV file properly via a web or FTP site?
I think these are the people running our new mail system.
Because if you leave your Mac in your laptop bag in sleep mode, after a few days you pull it out and realize "shit, my battery is dead" and the entire system shut down (hopefully). If it had hibernation support the Mac could just hibernate when the battery was low and you wouldn't lose your open programs and such. This feature works fine on my 5 year old Dell laptop, I don't see what's confusing about offering it on a Powerbook. It'd be just a simply check box in the system preferences to turn it on or off.
Better yet, will Powerbooks finally get a removable drive option so I can replace the Superdrive with another battery when I need more battery life? I can do that on my Dell, but apparently Apple decided that wasn't an important feature. As a result I get over 8 hours out of my two batteries on my older Dell laptop and barely 4 hours on my G4 Powerbook. Plus I can swap out one battery on my Dell with another if they're both in and not have to shut down.