to create something to assist themselves. I don't think society owes them anything, and if they really want a change, I would invite them to do so in a way that doesn't infringe on the rest of community to do something for them.
It may be against your terms of service for you to open it up. I remember in one of the contracts that I had with an ISP, it was in no uncertain terms, you were not allowed to share your connection with another.
Too bad that it's not very enforceable as that was the sole purpose of having the line--to split the outrageous bill.
An this is what really matters. Will I go legit when the App store comes out? No. Because jailbreaking offers me the freedom that I have now come to expect.
Ask yourself, what could be worse for your MMO than a pissed off black panther guild? Oh, I don't know, a bunch of trolls wearing sheets and pointy hats, flocking around a grand wizard lich king?
Is this a self admission that Vista didn't do what they thought it would? What happens when Windows 7 doesn't ship on time? Will they come out with XP SP5?
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Troubling isn't it? One could argue that we should trust the government to do the right thing, but just men are not always our kings, and the constitution was suppose to protect us from such institutions abusing its people. A very sad day indeed...
I like being able to reply to comments inline, but I browse the site with an iphone and the uberbig boxes don't make for a very great browsing experience.
Blogging, as a profession, perhaps, but not as a role. I think the profession has a little ways to mature, but as we age inside the 'Web 2.0' era, I think it will take on the same prominence and prestige, that say, the anchorperson on the nightly news has. There will always be the pretenders, but there will also be the personalities that garner attention.
FTFA:
White's resignation is the latest in a string of key departures at Microsoft.
Joanne Bradford, who was chief media officer for the company's MSN Media Network, resigned last month to join advertising startup Spot Runner. Bradford had also previously served as Microsoft's VP for sales and marketing and as chief media revenue officer. Information Weekly think they see a trend, so they're making an observation. Again FTFA:
The departures highlight one of Microsoft's biggest challenges as a mature company: attracting and retaining Silicon Valley's top talent. In its early days, Microsoft could entice recruits with an entrepreneurial environment and stock options that eventually turned secretaries into millionaires.
In 2008, however, it's hot Web 2.0 startups like Flickr and MySpace that can offer those kinds of perks and incentives. They're saying that MSFT is facing problems with retention because there are smaller fish offering big bucks for those willing to take on the risk, just like MSFT was back in the day. MSFT need to kick it up a notch to compete for labor because of the *many* departures in the past year.
...and whatever else I want with me all for the size of a couple of packs of cigs Gee, I heard you can trade cigs like money in prison because you held a public viewing of copyrighted movies.
I'd definitely get one of these to use at work. Sometimes I find myself in a meeting with a few people in a place with no projectors, so it'd be useful to be able to go over something that could be kept in my pocket, ready to sue at a moments notice. This is especially useful since my employer is stingy with the number of conference rooms with projectors.
.... somebody telling me he does not fancy serving 25% of our potential costumers.
Wish that when I find a new job is not as your boss:-P Jokes aside, the first thing asked would be what value add is there in coding for such thing if the install base is that small. I ought to be fired for wasting project money. Take Silverlight. It's cool and all, but everyone has Flash--hardly anyone has Silverlight. It's a waste of time and effort to develop for right now.
This is really cool that competition has provoked a response from the browsers to be compliant, but until IE is compliant, does it make a lick of difference? The combined market share of these ACID3 browsers is ~25%, so in the scheme of things, I'm still not going to be developing sites that take advantage of the newest features.
IE8 is still puttering around with ACID2...so I hate to sound like the cynic...
If you take a look at Windows Server 2008, it is pretty lean. It doesn't come with anything but the most basic of features installed. You can then install the packages/features that you want and it only installs the dependencies to run it. They could have made Vista the same way. In fact, when I went to the release of Vista last year, this was one of the features that purported to exist in Vista. That 'like Linux you can install only the packages that you want'--what a crock.
This blog post summarizes the problems I have with it. Excerpt:
I installed the Ultimate version of Vista, but one of the biggest things that I can't understand is it's 10GB installation footprint. It really bothers me that the base installation is bloated. I really wish that I could turn off and uninstall a lot of features that I know that I won't use on my workstation. For example, let's get rid of Media Center. I don't have a tuner card installed, so I won't watch TV. I don't watch DVDs on my computer, that's what my entertainment center is for. I don't need x. Don't need y. Why won't you let me remove them?! I want to be able to have just in case I want to use them, but please! I want to have a little bit greater control than you're giving me!
I'm typing this reply on my iPod touch right now. I really enjoy casually surfing around, catching up on the news and stuff that matters.;)
No, seriously, I find myself more relaxed because I can sprawl out on the couch and surf around. I don't have to have my computer on to check my mail. Now that the SDK is out, I look forward to developing applications for it. I found with my old 80GB iPod that I wasn't using so much to listen to music, so I sold it on Craigslist to purchase this one and it has definitely been worth it.
But I had second thoughts. I had considered getting the Nokia Internet Tablet instead. It has a larger screen, has a flash player, and runs Linux. So why did I go with the Touch? I decided I'd go with something I know would do me right. My encounters in Linuxland hadn't been too favorable. Plus the Apple UI is much more polished. The other thing is that it fits inconspicuously in my pocket.
But that doesn't mean that it's the perfect device, either. One of biggest gripes is the lack of copy/paste functionality. This is quite annoying since I do a lot of this. No Flash support on the horizon. With all its coolness, I cannot rename a playlist. Some web pages take a long time to render.
But despite these problems, it really is a joy to use. It's a just a great experience.
DISCLAIMER: I do not own any other Apple products.
First, I use one of the myriad ripping packages out there, then copy it to my 2TB stripe, and view it using MediaPortal, an open source media center app. My wife and kids enjoy being able to watch anything with the click of the remote. In a way its like having on-demand videos through a cable service.
Pay for college? No, but I've paid money for those discs, and expect that they will pay entertainment dividends for a long time to come. It is a significantly better use of my money than, say, going to the movie theater, where I pay money and there is no tangible future return. With a plastic disc, I pay once and get as may replays as I want--especially if I'm able to copy the data off it and move it to the format of my choice.
I do this at home already, and it's wonderful. My intentions are this: I have a two young kids who like to watch movies and I'm protecting my investment by putting the legally acquired discs on the top shelf of my closet where peanut butter covered fingers can't get them. They get an easy way to watch movies through a client, I get to protect my investment from the inadvertent damage of my kids.
What we have here is an organization that is losing in the distribution game. It used to be that casual piracy wasn't a big deal because it was inconvenient to try and copy a VHS tape. Now, it is super easy to duplicate *and* distribute it over the net.
So, instead of changing their business model where they can return the distribution power back their way *by adapting*, they're trying to inhibit or restrict the convenience of a high speed network. When are these people going to get a clue?
In the book Good To Great, Jim Collins points out one of the fundamental things that great companies have to do: the have to have the courage to face reality. The longer they ignore it, the more difficult it will be for them to turn things around. Some may say it's too late (I disagree), but they need a real culture change to transform.
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to create something to assist themselves. I don't think society owes them anything, and if they really want a change, I would invite them to do so in a way that doesn't infringe on the rest of community to do something for them.
Brings new meaning to 'astroterf'.
It may be against your terms of service for you to open it up. I remember in one of the contracts that I had with an ISP, it was in no uncertain terms, you were not allowed to share your connection with another. Too bad that it's not very enforceable as that was the sole purpose of having the line--to split the outrageous bill.
An this is what really matters. Will I go legit when the App store comes out? No. Because jailbreaking offers me the freedom that I have now come to expect.
and get all their sensitive material on the SIPRNet (or something like it) where it should belong. Nothing should reachable from the public network.
to switch carriers. It's facinating though that AT&T paid significantly more than Verizon did for its block. The price of going proprietary?
Is this a self admission that Vista didn't do what they thought it would? What happens when Windows 7 doesn't ship on time? Will they come out with XP SP5?/>
Troubling isn't it? One could argue that we should trust the government to do the right thing, but just men are not always our kings, and the constitution was suppose to protect us from such institutions abusing its people. A very sad day indeed...
I like being able to reply to comments inline, but I browse the site with an iphone and the uberbig boxes don't make for a very great browsing experience.
Blogging, as a profession, perhaps, but not as a role. I think the profession has a little ways to mature, but as we age inside the 'Web 2.0' era, I think it will take on the same prominence and prestige, that say, the anchorperson on the nightly news has. There will always be the pretenders, but there will also be the personalities that garner attention.
FTFA: White's resignation is the latest in a string of key departures at Microsoft.
Joanne Bradford, who was chief media officer for the company's MSN Media Network, resigned last month to join advertising startup Spot Runner. Bradford had also previously served as Microsoft's VP for sales and marketing and as chief media revenue officer. Information Weekly think they see a trend, so they're making an observation. Again FTFA: The departures highlight one of Microsoft's biggest challenges as a mature company: attracting and retaining Silicon Valley's top talent. In its early days, Microsoft could entice recruits with an entrepreneurial environment and stock options that eventually turned secretaries into millionaires.
In 2008, however, it's hot Web 2.0 startups like Flickr and MySpace that can offer those kinds of perks and incentives. They're saying that MSFT is facing problems with retention because there are smaller fish offering big bucks for those willing to take on the risk, just like MSFT was back in the day. MSFT need to kick it up a notch to compete for labor because of the *many* departures in the past year.
...and whatever else I want with me all for the size of a couple of packs of cigs Gee, I heard you can trade cigs like money in prison because you held a public viewing of copyrighted movies.Just sayin'...
I'd definitely get one of these to use at work. Sometimes I find myself in a meeting with a few people in a place with no projectors, so it'd be useful to be able to go over something that could be kept in my pocket, ready to sue at a moments notice. This is especially useful since my employer is stingy with the number of conference rooms with projectors.
You mean, like, comparing Apple's to oranges?
.... somebody telling me he does not fancy serving 25% of our potential costumers.Wish that when I find a new job is not as your boss
This is really cool that competition has provoked a response from the browsers to be compliant, but until IE is compliant, does it make a lick of difference? The combined market share of these ACID3 browsers is ~25%, so in the scheme of things, I'm still not going to be developing sites that take advantage of the newest features.
IE8 is still puttering around with ACID2...so I hate to sound like the cynic...
That would have been a GLORIous HOLE to fill indeed.
If you take a look at Windows Server 2008, it is pretty lean. It doesn't come with anything but the most basic of features installed. You can then install the packages/features that you want and it only installs the dependencies to run it. They could have made Vista the same way. In fact, when I went to the release of Vista last year, this was one of the features that purported to exist in Vista. That 'like Linux you can install only the packages that you want'--what a crock.
I'm typing this reply on my iPod touch right now. I really enjoy casually surfing around, catching up on the news and stuff that matters. ;)
No, seriously, I find myself more relaxed because I can sprawl out on the couch and surf around. I don't have to have my computer on to check my mail. Now that the SDK is out, I look forward to developing applications for it. I found with my old 80GB iPod that I wasn't using so much to listen to music, so I sold it on Craigslist to purchase this one and it has definitely been worth it.
But I had second thoughts. I had considered getting the Nokia Internet Tablet instead. It has a larger screen, has a flash player, and runs Linux. So why did I go with the Touch? I decided I'd go with something I know would do me right. My encounters in Linuxland hadn't been too favorable. Plus the Apple UI is much more polished. The other thing is that it fits inconspicuously in my pocket.
But that doesn't mean that it's the perfect device, either. One of biggest gripes is the lack of copy/paste functionality. This is quite annoying since I do a lot of this. No Flash support on the horizon. With all its coolness, I cannot rename a playlist. Some web pages take a long time to render.
But despite these problems, it really is a joy to use. It's a just a great experience.
DISCLAIMER: I do not own any other Apple products.
First, I use one of the myriad ripping packages out there, then copy it to my 2TB stripe, and view it using MediaPortal, an open source media center app. My wife and kids enjoy being able to watch anything with the click of the remote. In a way its like having on-demand videos through a cable service.
Pay for college? No, but I've paid money for those discs, and expect that they will pay entertainment dividends for a long time to come. It is a significantly better use of my money than, say, going to the movie theater, where I pay money and there is no tangible future return. With a plastic disc, I pay once and get as may replays as I want--especially if I'm able to copy the data off it and move it to the format of my choice.
I do this at home already, and it's wonderful. My intentions are this: I have a two young kids who like to watch movies and I'm protecting my investment by putting the legally acquired discs on the top shelf of my closet where peanut butter covered fingers can't get them. They get an easy way to watch movies through a client, I get to protect my investment from the inadvertent damage of my kids.
What we have here is an organization that is losing in the distribution game. It used to be that casual piracy wasn't a big deal because it was inconvenient to try and copy a VHS tape. Now, it is super easy to duplicate *and* distribute it over the net.
So, instead of changing their business model where they can return the distribution power back their way *by adapting*, they're trying to inhibit or restrict the convenience of a high speed network. When are these people going to get a clue?
In the book Good To Great, Jim Collins points out one of the fundamental things that great companies have to do: the have to have the courage to face reality. The longer they ignore it, the more difficult it will be for them to turn things around. Some may say it's too late (I disagree), but they need a real culture change to transform.