My provider gives free nights and weekends (which is when I primarily use the phone, seeing as I'm gainfully employed) and 500 free minutes during business hours. So it really isn't that bad for ~$35 a month. I've never gone over. My wife, who talks all the time, has only gone over once (and been billed for individual minutes). We've had Verizon for 4 years now...
Then ask him what zip code these calls were made from, they should be able to figure that out. Verify that it's something reasonable.
Wife and I were having some problems keeping track of phone calls after our son was born (which is understandable...) We use Verizon, and their website when you log in will list all placed and received calls including numbers, locations, durations. We didn't even have to call a service rep.
When your website is linked on/. you should expect a disproportionate amount of users from non-IE browsers. That being said, you still have more IE users than non-IE users. And if you were able/tried to parse out which browsers people were using (not versions but types) you would see IE with a 58% chunk and then a bunch of tiny, segmented slices representing all the different factions of the various Gecko-based browsers, Mozilla, etc... Microsoft still owns the pie.
CE does real-time. Not just a marketing ploy. As the AC said (but most people probably won't read) CE is based on a completely **different** kernel than the NT line. Check out windows Embedded which beats RTOS to a living pulp.
Lots of places use Windows robots. Just google "robot microsoft windows"... epson's robotics uses Windows exclusively as far as I can tell. Hobbyists have been doing it for a long time. Microsoft has a SDK for programming LEGO's using.net... all sorts of people have been using windows with robotics, on varying levels.
... processor performance is still gimp and in general the video cards in laptops (vs luggables) suck. Those are 2 big points for developers. The rest is just gravy:)
Yeah, but you need to get up from your chair, go to a frigging Wal-Mart, stand in line and then drive back home in order to get that movie.
A lot of us still rely on food for sustinance (which requires leaving the house). We drive by WalMart / Best Buy / etc. I can wait a day to get my movie. I can wait a day to save a few bucks and get something of value.
If Mass. can deploy OO.o or other office tools for free, then the value of M$'s office tools to those same institutions is...essentially nothing.
Not when Microsoft's version offers utilities and functionale (particularly in Excel) that doesn't exist in OO.org's offerings (as an engineer... as of the 1.9.104 release there was enough missing to make it counterproductive). I can offer you a piece of toast for a nickel, that doesn't mean that a full 5-course meal should run a nickel as well...
It boiled down to skill. Even after the latest patches there are a good number of builds that can solo well into hell (I only played HC ladder... the only unfair challenge was the hackers). But that's not the point... WoW is nothing like warcraft,they took the themes and boiled them down into a MMO. Same would happen to Diablo. Diablo's theme is a lot different from Warcraft, if you paid attention to the story.
But... diablo was multiplayer... 8 people to be exact... which is a larger party size than most online games. Think of Diablo as an instanced MMO (a very, very weak one at that... ). They'd just be consolidating the world into a few servers instead of a few thousand instances, giving you a more expansive one with more things to do and more people to interact with simultaneously. It could work...
It's not my choice of a license; it's the program's author's
Doesn't stop you from compiling it on your end. GPL only speaks to the transport of the program.
Besides, as I mentioned earlier and you conspicuously omitted in your reply, neither the compiler nor the binaries it creates work with my Linux-incompatible hardware.
Because you were conspicuously ambiguous as to the hardware/platform. I'm not gonna make a blanket statement about something I don't know about. I'm not an idiot.
The GPL does not allow anybody to add such restrictions to a binary.
That's exactly my point. Your choice of a license is what is causing problems here, not a freely available compiler.
Intel is giving you a damn good compiler to play with for free, and you complain because it won't play with your license? Get off your @#$%ing pedistal.
In other words, you're likely to be forbidden to distribute compiled binaries at all. A lot of programs that hobbyists would compile are under GNU GPL or another license that forbids adding restrictions against commercial fields of endeavor.
Non-commercial. You can re-distribute a binary as long as you aren't seeking renumeration for your work. And if you are scared, then just distribute as source with a makefile and have the user./configure, make, make install with GNU gcc... your code is clean and not compiler specific, right?
Try searching "Creator of Vanguard"... you will find Brad McQuaid in the top 5.
Brad has the Vision(TM)(C).
Should hit stores end of this year. Brad originally was a designer for 989 studios (original Everquest) and is now rolling his own MMO. While you are right about Oblivion and Warcraft I think Vanguard is a good example of a "game god" leading the way.
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My provider gives free nights and weekends (which is when I primarily use the phone, seeing as I'm gainfully employed) and 500 free minutes during business hours. So it really isn't that bad for ~$35 a month. I've never gone over. My wife, who talks all the time, has only gone over once (and been billed for individual minutes). We've had Verizon for 4 years now...
Then ask him what zip code these calls were made from, they should be able to figure that out. Verify that it's something reasonable.
Wife and I were having some problems keeping track of phone calls after our son was born (which is understandable...) We use Verizon, and their website when you log in will list all placed and received calls including numbers, locations, durations. We didn't even have to call a service rep.
I see a little explosion. The thing needs bigger flames. And tanks. And blackjack. And hookers. In fact forget the ...
more like reading my newspaper under my frontdoor. It is theft, and it is happening on my property.
When your website is linked on /. you should expect a disproportionate amount of users from non-IE browsers. That being said, you still have more IE users than non-IE users. And if you were able/tried to parse out which browsers people were using (not versions but types) you would see IE with a 58% chunk and then a bunch of tiny, segmented slices representing all the different factions of the various Gecko-based browsers, Mozilla, etc ... Microsoft still owns the pie.
CE does real-time. Not just a marketing ploy. As the AC said (but most people probably won't read) CE is based on a completely **different** kernel than the NT line. Check out windows Embedded which beats RTOS to a living pulp.
Windows CE supports real-time.
... epson's robotics uses Windows exclusively as far as I can tell. Hobbyists have been doing it for a long time. Microsoft has a SDK for programming LEGO's using .net ... all sorts of people have been using windows with robotics, on varying levels.
Lots of places use Windows robots. Just google "robot microsoft windows"
get it here
... processor performance is still gimp and in general the video cards in laptops (vs luggables) suck. Those are 2 big points for developers. The rest is just gravy :)
Yeah, but you need to get up from your chair, go to a frigging Wal-Mart, stand in line and then drive back home in order to get that movie.
A lot of us still rely on food for sustinance (which requires leaving the house). We drive by WalMart / Best Buy / etc. I can wait a day to get my movie. I can wait a day to save a few bucks and get something of value.
If Mass. can deploy OO.o or other office tools for free, then the value of M$'s office tools to those same institutions is...essentially nothing.
Not when Microsoft's version offers utilities and functionale (particularly in Excel) that doesn't exist in OO.org's offerings (as an engineer... as of the 1.9.104 release there was enough missing to make it counterproductive). I can offer you a piece of toast for a nickel, that doesn't mean that a full 5-course meal should run a nickel as well...
$999.99
It should really be m*v^2. (m*v is a vector equation, m*v^2 is a scalar)
Gotta follow your heart, wherever it takes you.
It boiled down to skill. Even after the latest patches there are a good number of builds that can solo well into hell (I only played HC ladder... the only unfair challenge was the hackers). But that's not the point... WoW is nothing like warcraft,they took the themes and boiled them down into a MMO. Same would happen to Diablo. Diablo's theme is a lot different from Warcraft, if you paid attention to the story.
But... diablo was multiplayer... 8 people to be exact... which is a larger party size than most online games. Think of Diablo as an instanced MMO (a very, very weak one at that ... ). They'd just be consolidating the world into a few servers instead of a few thousand instances, giving you a more expansive one with more things to do and more people to interact with simultaneously. It could work ...
... could attract a diffrent crowd. Make the game a little less cartoony, a little darker, and you could have yourself something unique.
It's not my choice of a license; it's the program's author's
Doesn't stop you from compiling it on your end. GPL only speaks to the transport of the program.
Besides, as I mentioned earlier and you conspicuously omitted in your reply, neither the compiler nor the binaries it creates work with my Linux-incompatible hardware.
Because you were conspicuously ambiguous as to the hardware/platform. I'm not gonna make a blanket statement about something I don't know about. I'm not an idiot.
The GPL does not allow anybody to add such restrictions to a binary.
That's exactly my point. Your choice of a license is what is causing problems here, not a freely available compiler.
Intel is giving you a damn good compiler to play with for free, and you complain because it won't play with your license? Get off your @#$%ing pedistal.
(it's funny. laugh.)
In other words, you're likely to be forbidden to distribute compiled binaries at all. A lot of programs that hobbyists would compile are under GNU GPL or another license that forbids adding restrictions against commercial fields of endeavor.
./configure, make, make install with GNU gcc ... your code is clean and not compiler specific, right?
Non-commercial. You can re-distribute a binary as long as you aren't seeking renumeration for your work. And if you are scared, then just distribute as source with a makefile and have the user
Try searching "Creator of Vanguard" ... you will find Brad McQuaid in the top 5.
Brad has the Vision(TM)(C).
Should hit stores end of this year. Brad originally was a designer for 989 studios (original Everquest) and is now rolling his own MMO. While you are right about Oblivion and Warcraft I think Vanguard is a good example of a "game god" leading the way.
Cause, you know, you gotta turn the lights off to use it ...
I don't care, my point was in response to parent, it isn't just the non-whites getting searched. The poor-me attitude doesn't take you far in life.
Paperwork is the same here in the states and our taxes are a lot lower. And small businesses = huge tax breaks.
... we pay a lot less taxes, and when you take into account that small business gets large tax breaks in america... it's a win!)
The "bureaucratic processes" you are talking about will not matter dependant on location, crossing national lines will always invoke said processes.
(and besides