Microsoft ships to distribution centers. It is up to the distribution centers to decide which stores get the product. Just because the distribution centers decided the stores you talked to were a low priority doesn't mean Microsoft isn't shipping product to those distribution centers...
Almost done with mine in a year and a half... and I'm working full time with a family. Grad school is a cakewalk if you like what your doing. No pesky general electives or bullshit prereqs just classes in the stuff you enjoy doing (and if you don't enjoy doing it you shouldn't be going for it...)
it is a great tool for detection of POSITION, but it is completely useless for DIRECTION
Direction can be derived from multiple positions. It's easy. And thats kind of the point of having multiple satellites. You get your position lock. You move. You get your new position lock. Your difference is a vector. Guess what... that vector points... in a direction!
While the Chinese failure was tragic you cannot discount an entire program over 1 failure. I don't agree with their government's handling of the situation just like I don't agree with the NASA's beaurocracy. They have made some great progress. The Japanese as well have made some great progress as well in the area of VTVL SSTO technology.
The Arianne V is a decent launch vehicle.
Decent, I guess. Russian launchers are cheaper with [the same|better] success rate. And they still don't have a manned program.
ESA has the second most robust planetary program, a distant second to NASA, but way ahead of Russia and Japan
Thats because Russia has a manned space program (you catching the drift yet?) and Japan doesn't pump nearly as many dollars into spaceflight as NASA or RSC, or even ESA. But Japan does have some cool tech wrt. VTVL SSTO's. At least they are doing something unique. What unique cool things has the ESA really done?
Who can blame ESA? Why should they fund Russian technology development to the detriment of their own?
ESA's trying to play with the "Big Boys" (NASA, RSC) but yet they can't even manage a human space program. This was their shot to get their fingers on a human space program with minimal investment.
Oh yea, and about the CryoSat mission... linking to one mission failure (one data point) is not an example of consistent failures by Russia. In fact it was ESA's fault for selecting a refurbished ICBM. They were trying to perform the mission on a shoestring budget and decided to take a risk with a refurbished ICBM. They knew the risks up-front.
What this all boils down to is that RSA is trying to run with the big boys but they just can't seem to keep up. Even China is leaping ahead of them, and Japan isn't far behind. ESA will become a joke if they don't step it up. (yes, I am an Aerospace Engineer)
The Kliper is a response to the space shuttle not the CEV.
No. The Buran was a response to the space shuttle. The Phase 1 contract for the CEV was awarded in 2004 (before the elections; meaning the idea was out there long before that). The initial press release for the Kliper was in 2004 as well. The Kliper was a response to the CEV.
He made a professional resignation, they said no thanks but paid him for two weeks anyways. This is standard business practice and was financially beneficial for him. (two weeks free pay?)
What he's probably dealing with is the feeling of rejection: if they could drop him on a days notice was he really needed? He'll just have to be honest with himself about that but he will just have to get over that himself. Again its a standard business practice in many places and not a reflection of his character.
You resigned professionally. You offered to work two more weeks (the typical professional offer). They said no thanks, but here we'll pay you for two more weeks anyways. It's a fair deal.
You're probably dealing with feelings like you weren't needed if they could drop you on a day's notice. (be honest with yourself) You'll just have to get over that.
The fact is governments bitch, users don't. The wording of the article makes it sound like Microsoft can only offer the two new versions but if they were allowed to offer the old standard product (like the whole "Windows N" thing in Europe) users would still choose the base product over a stripped-down version, like they did in Europe. Governments might have some pie-in-the-sky ideals but users want bang for their buck. I might not use Media Player and/or MSN Messenger but like hell if I'm buying a crippled copy of Windows!
Anybody with any "blog sophistication" won't take statements on student blogs very seriously.
Doesn't matter.
Here's a newsflash for you: this wasn't a business meeting, it was a glorified diary!
A diary he made public and advertized to the world, including the school administration.
He didn't name anybody!
Within context it was understood what professor was named... the administraton knew who he was talking about (do some research if you want to have an intelligent conversation, please. Thanks.)
All I see is MS making a land grab at someone else's success.
No, Microsoft is providing a user base, and Time Warner is providing the advertisements... kinda like I bring the baseball bat, you bring the ball. Together we'll kick the other team's ass. And when you consider the numbers that AOL/TW and MSN have in their respective user bases, the revenue they can generate there alone could pose a viable threat to Google. I'm not a fanboy of either MS or Google, just saying...
Second, what makes you think his comments weren't justified?
I didn't say they weren't justified. I said he should have made a more mature argument than using profanities. Had he made a mature argument using words that you could use in a business meeting he might have made his point and he might have made a difference. Instead he's on the street and kicked out of school. Don't get me wrong, I've had many a disagreement with profs- but you don't get the best of them by calling them a "cockmaster", among other things...
Freedom of speech is one thing, defamation of character is another. He could have taken a reasonable tone. He didn't; he used words I won't use here. You are free to say whatever you want to say, but part of that freedom is sucking it up and accepting the consequences.
since they also cost him a semester of his life, the cost (in time and effort as well as money) of finding a new school, and the cost of losing all the social and professional connections he made while at that school.
No, I would say his choice of language cost him that.
Well at least the new episodes of Law & Order, which are filmed in HDTV, will be shown in brilliant 1280x720 resolution, right? Nope. 320x240.
As has already been noted, you can play your media in another player, that's not an issue. The real kick in the nuts is resolution. Until they increase it to decent-looking on a monitor... the market is limited.
Apparenlyt you've never heard the saying that children are the future? Get them hooked now and you have a consumer for life. Not trying to be cynical, but your parents are just that much closer (15-30 years) to not being active consumers...
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Microsoft ships to distribution centers. It is up to the distribution centers to decide which stores get the product. Just because the distribution centers decided the stores you talked to were a low priority doesn't mean Microsoft isn't shipping product to those distribution centers...
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Almost done with mine in a year and a half... and I'm working full time with a family. Grad school is a cakewalk if you like what your doing. No pesky general electives or bullshit prereqs just classes in the stuff you enjoy doing (and if you don't enjoy doing it you shouldn't be going for it...)
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it is a great tool for detection of POSITION, but it is completely useless for DIRECTION
Direction can be derived from multiple positions. It's easy. And thats kind of the point of having multiple satellites. You get your position lock. You move. You get your new position lock. Your difference is a vector. Guess what... that vector points... in a direction!
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...its called Terraserver, and it predated Google by a good many years...
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While the Chinese failure was tragic you cannot discount an entire program over 1 failure. I don't agree with their government's handling of the situation just like I don't agree with the NASA's beaurocracy. They have made some great progress. The Japanese as well have made some great progress as well in the area of VTVL SSTO technology.
The Arianne V is a decent launch vehicle.
Decent, I guess. Russian launchers are cheaper with [the same|better] success rate. And they still don't have a manned program.
ESA has the second most robust planetary program, a distant second to NASA, but way ahead of Russia and Japan
Thats because Russia has a manned space program (you catching the drift yet?) and Japan doesn't pump nearly as many dollars into spaceflight as NASA or RSC, or even ESA. But Japan does have some cool tech wrt. VTVL SSTO's. At least they are doing something unique. What unique cool things has the ESA really done?
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For the love of bob
Microsoft Bob?
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Whatever happend to unreasonable search an seasure laws?
Online banking is an option. Use the physical bank if you are paranoid.
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Who can blame ESA? Why should they fund Russian technology development to the detriment of their own?
ESA's trying to play with the "Big Boys" (NASA, RSC) but yet they can't even manage a human space program. This was their shot to get their fingers on a human space program with minimal investment.
Oh yea, and about the CryoSat mission... linking to one mission failure (one data point) is not an example of consistent failures by Russia. In fact it was ESA's fault for selecting a refurbished ICBM. They were trying to perform the mission on a shoestring budget and decided to take a risk with a refurbished ICBM. They knew the risks up-front.
What this all boils down to is that RSA is trying to run with the big boys but they just can't seem to keep up. Even China is leaping ahead of them, and Japan isn't far behind. ESA will become a joke if they don't step it up. (yes, I am an Aerospace Engineer)
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the alternative was the undead zombie known as Kerry... wasn't much of a choice there, 1u3hr...
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The Kliper is a response to the space shuttle not the CEV.
No. The Buran was a response to the space shuttle. The Phase 1 contract for the CEV was awarded in 2004 (before the elections; meaning the idea was out there long before that). The initial press release for the Kliper was in 2004 as well. The Kliper was a response to the CEV.
-everphilski-
He made a professional resignation, they said no thanks but paid him for two weeks anyways. This is standard business practice and was financially beneficial for him. (two weeks free pay?)
What he's probably dealing with is the feeling of rejection: if they could drop him on a days notice was he really needed? He'll just have to be honest with himself about that but he will just have to get over that himself. Again its a standard business practice in many places and not a reflection of his character.
-everphilski-
You resigned professionally. You offered to work two more weeks (the typical professional offer). They said no thanks, but here we'll pay you for two more weeks anyways. It's a fair deal.
You're probably dealing with feelings like you weren't needed if they could drop you on a day's notice. (be honest with yourself) You'll just have to get over that.
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Mythbusters actually did an ep where they built two different needle-in-haystack finding machines, one actually did quite well...
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The fact is governments bitch, users don't. The wording of the article makes it sound like Microsoft can only offer the two new versions but if they were allowed to offer the old standard product (like the whole "Windows N" thing in Europe) users would still choose the base product over a stripped-down version, like they did in Europe. Governments might have some pie-in-the-sky ideals but users want bang for their buck. I might not use Media Player and/or MSN Messenger but like hell if I'm buying a crippled copy of Windows!
-everphilski-
Anybody with any "blog sophistication" won't take statements on student blogs very seriously.
Doesn't matter.
Here's a newsflash for you: this wasn't a business meeting, it was a glorified diary!
A diary he made public and advertized to the world, including the school administration.
He didn't name anybody!
Within context it was understood what professor was named... the administraton knew who he was talking about (do some research if you want to have an intelligent conversation, please. Thanks.)
-everphilski-
All I see is MS making a land grab at someone else's success.
No, Microsoft is providing a user base, and Time Warner is providing the advertisements... kinda like I bring the baseball bat, you bring the ball. Together we'll kick the other team's ass. And when you consider the numbers that AOL/TW and MSN have in their respective user bases, the revenue they can generate there alone could pose a viable threat to Google. I'm not a fanboy of either MS or Google, just saying...
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[insert Blizzard parent company here]
Blizzard
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First, whose character, precisely, did he defame?
d ental-student-suspended.html
RTFA for yourself. http://mu-warrior.blogspot.com/2005/12/marquette-
Second, what makes you think his comments weren't justified?
I didn't say they weren't justified. I said he should have made a more mature argument than using profanities. Had he made a mature argument using words that you could use in a business meeting he might have made his point and he might have made a difference. Instead he's on the street and kicked out of school. Don't get me wrong, I've had many a disagreement with profs- but you don't get the best of them by calling them a "cockmaster", among other things...
-everphilski-
Freedom of speech is one thing, defamation of character is another. He could have taken a reasonable tone. He didn't; he used words I won't use here. You are free to say whatever you want to say, but part of that freedom is sucking it up and accepting the consequences.
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since they also cost him a semester of his life, the cost (in time and effort as well as money) of finding a new school, and the cost of losing all the social and professional connections he made while at that school.
No, I would say his choice of language cost him that.
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They rarely have any content of worth, and when they do, it's overshadowed by their poor writing style and use of reactionary language.
/., huh? Gonna have to check this place out...
... kinda like
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Well at least the new episodes of Law & Order, which are filmed in HDTV, will be shown in brilliant 1280x720 resolution, right? Nope. 320x240.
As has already been noted, you can play your media in another player, that's not an issue. The real kick in the nuts is resolution. Until they increase it to decent-looking on a monitor... the market is limited.
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I just blued myself.
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Apparenlyt you've never heard the saying that children are the future? Get them hooked now and you have a consumer for life. Not trying to be cynical, but your parents are just that much closer (15-30 years) to not being active consumers...
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You hit the nail on the head. Not really.
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