They have also been replacing polycarbonate bottles with aluminum ones, which still have not been eliminated as a major suspect in Alzheimer's disease... why, when they could use stainless steel?
This is exactly why so many left Geocities back in 1997/98 when Yahoo purchased them -- the new Yahoo ToS claimed that Yahoo owned all content on Geocities webpages. I don't think Wolfram is going to get away with this, but I'm sure a lot of lawyers are going to get rich.
Not only that, but Borland's founder, Philippe Kahn, is still around with a company called Starfish Software. When Borland's board fired Philippe, he took Sidekick with him and has been selling it to big businesses ever since.
Your moral does not apply here. Kindle 1 owners were, for the most part, happy. This is the Kindle 2, and owners are returning them in droves as there is no way to get the text dark enough, in addition to far more equipment problems.
This is not about him complaining about Amazon, or about returning books and being accused of violating DRM. This guy bought a Kindle, and it did not work properly, so he returned it. They sent him another one, which also did not work properly. Several Kindles later, they cut off his Kindle account for "excessive return of merchandise". He wasn't the one who broke them, and he often told them NOT to replace it if they couldn't get him one which worked better.
So this is like Home Depot sells you a faulty lawnmower, and replaces it with a string of other faulty lawnmowers, then bans you from the entire store because you bothered them too much with returns.
I learned something new. Thank you. I assumed that the procedure that worked on my 701 would work on my 901, and if you are correct (I'll check later), it won't. Hmm.
Obviously you haven't been on the EeePC Forums. The "dumbed down" version of Xandros is easily and simply bypassed to a full power-user level. The OS is not locked down, it's just presented in a hard-to-bollix format for non-power-users.
And how hard is it to replace it with a full version of Xandros, or one of the various Ubuntu remixes for netbooks?
Personally, I'm quite happy with the stock Linux on my Eee PC 901, but I'm hardly a power user.
Not true if you're using one of the variants of Ubuntu -- Ubuntu Netbook Remix, Eeebuntu, Ubuntu Eee, etc. These variants are faster and use less power than the handicapped XP on the same netbook.
... for the chance to walk into a car dealership and say, "Show me your Tatas!" They would do well to hire all women salespersons...
I would point out that they already have Tata dealerships in the US -- that is to say, Tata Motors bought Jaguar and Landrover/RangeRover from Ford last year.
So I wonder how many guys will call themselves lesbians to get out of Xbox...?
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I think 1996 was the year I finally got on the Web, or was it 1997? We all laughed at it, nobody wanted to pay per hour to spend 20 minutes loading a bad picture. Why, when you could get on FidoNet or UseNet for the cost of the modem? I think I got on FidoNet for the first time around 1988... as well as other less-noble BBS systems such as Wildcat and HUB.
There are a LOT of Eee distros just from Ubuntu or based on Ubuntu, including Eeebuntu, Ubuntu Eee, and Ubuntu Netbook Remix. But I have purchased several machines for myself and others, and all but one had the Asus version of Xandros. It works like a dream unless you want to use the "power user" stuff, and as I haven't needed that I don't even remember how to get to that level. The later 901s have a somewhat more robust version of Asus Xandros than my earlier 701s. I will point out that Asus, not Xandros, supports their Linux (especially good since Xandros has gone the way of Lindows, along WITH all the old Lindows/Linspire stuff).
I joined Facebook very early in their process, a couple of years ago... and found out what they were up to within a week, and removed all my information. I'd rather the government have to work harder than that to obtain my information... not that I'm paranoid, you understand, but sometimes they ARE out to get you.
In case you missed it (I didn't and it was on/.), the RIAA has signed agreements with Charter Communications and The New AT&T (formerly SBC, BellSouth, and Cingular) to monitor P2P usage by their DSL and Cable subscribers, and to threaten them to reduce and potentially cut off service to those who do not respond positively to their threats.
Sounds like the RIAA just shifted gears to me. Which is stupid, considering how the statistics clearly state that P2P is driving sales of music purchases.
I agree with the article -- the main mistake was firing staff only because they had been successful and thus were earning higher pay, and replacing them with entry-level employees who had no clue.
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Damn. I thought he was talking about the School of Assasins.
Um, ok, yeah, he discovered the moons of Jupiter. But he spent his whole life trying to figure out how they affected the tides of Earth's oceans? Apparently he decided at an early point that our Moon was too small, but couldn't he realize proximity might have something to do with it??? Even if Jupiter's moons ARE larger, I would think a mind such as Galileo's would note that gravity is quite limited by distance... ah well... I'm not perfect either...
Ask any Hindu -- Endo13 is correct. You can get to "heaven" faster by HATING God than you can by worshipping him -- because attention to God is attention to God, and the haters are more consistent (and persistent).
Or, from the Western perspective, "All press is good press."
...nothing ever gets fixed in OO.o... Mail Merge is a farce, converting.doc to.rtf messes up fonts and formats, and nobody cares. If OO.o would fix a few things, I would never need to use Windoze again, but as it is, I simply must use MSO in my work (as a professional editor).
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They have also been replacing polycarbonate bottles with aluminum ones, which still have not been eliminated as a major suspect in Alzheimer's disease... why, when they could use stainless steel?
This is exactly why so many left Geocities back in 1997/98 when Yahoo purchased them -- the new Yahoo ToS claimed that Yahoo owned all content on Geocities webpages. I don't think Wolfram is going to get away with this, but I'm sure a lot of lawyers are going to get rich.
I totally agree -- my ASUS Eee PC 701 was just too small, my 901 is great. I wouldn't put Windows on it if you paid me.
The problem is, miles per acre of WHAT? Brazilian sugarcane is much more efficient than American corn.
Not only that, but Borland's founder, Philippe Kahn, is still around with a company called Starfish Software. When Borland's board fired Philippe, he took Sidekick with him and has been selling it to big businesses ever since.
Your moral does not apply here. Kindle 1 owners were, for the most part, happy. This is the Kindle 2, and owners are returning them in droves as there is no way to get the text dark enough, in addition to far more equipment problems.
So this is like Home Depot sells you a faulty lawnmower, and replaces it with a string of other faulty lawnmowers, then bans you from the entire store because you bothered them too much with returns.
I learned something new. Thank you. I assumed that the procedure that worked on my 701 would work on my 901, and if you are correct (I'll check later), it won't. Hmm.
Obviously you haven't been on the EeePC Forums. The "dumbed down" version of Xandros is easily and simply bypassed to a full power-user level. The OS is not locked down, it's just presented in a hard-to-bollix format for non-power-users. And how hard is it to replace it with a full version of Xandros, or one of the various Ubuntu remixes for netbooks? Personally, I'm quite happy with the stock Linux on my Eee PC 901, but I'm hardly a power user.
Not true if you're using one of the variants of Ubuntu -- Ubuntu Netbook Remix, Eeebuntu, Ubuntu Eee, etc. These variants are faster and use less power than the handicapped XP on the same netbook.
Um, excuse me, but doesn't IBM already own an enterprise Linux?
NVidia: You missed, that was your hip. Here's the video to prove it.
... for the chance to walk into a car dealership and say, "Show me your Tatas!" They would do well to hire all women salespersons... I would point out that they already have Tata dealerships in the US -- that is to say, Tata Motors bought Jaguar and Landrover/RangeRover from Ford last year.
So I wonder how many guys will call themselves lesbians to get out of Xbox...?
I think 1996 was the year I finally got on the Web, or was it 1997? We all laughed at it, nobody wanted to pay per hour to spend 20 minutes loading a bad picture. Why, when you could get on FidoNet or UseNet for the cost of the modem? I think I got on FidoNet for the first time around 1988... as well as other less-noble BBS systems such as Wildcat and HUB.
There are a LOT of Eee distros just from Ubuntu or based on Ubuntu, including Eeebuntu, Ubuntu Eee, and Ubuntu Netbook Remix. But I have purchased several machines for myself and others, and all but one had the Asus version of Xandros. It works like a dream unless you want to use the "power user" stuff, and as I haven't needed that I don't even remember how to get to that level. The later 901s have a somewhat more robust version of Asus Xandros than my earlier 701s. I will point out that Asus, not Xandros, supports their Linux (especially good since Xandros has gone the way of Lindows, along WITH all the old Lindows/Linspire stuff).
I joined Facebook very early in their process, a couple of years ago... and found out what they were up to within a week, and removed all my information. I'd rather the government have to work harder than that to obtain my information... not that I'm paranoid, you understand, but sometimes they ARE out to get you.
This post has unanimously been awarded the English Language Institute's New Adjective Award, for "best use of 'tony' as an adjective."
In case you missed it (I didn't and it was on /.), the RIAA has signed agreements with Charter Communications and The New AT&T (formerly SBC, BellSouth, and Cingular) to monitor P2P usage by their DSL and Cable subscribers, and to threaten them to reduce and potentially cut off service to those who do not respond positively to their threats.
Sounds like the RIAA just shifted gears to me. Which is stupid, considering how the statistics clearly state that P2P is driving sales of music purchases.
Because Keith Olbermann listens to newsmakers. Despite his opinions, he is open to all sources.
I agree with the article -- the main mistake was firing staff only because they had been successful and thus were earning higher pay, and replacing them with entry-level employees who had no clue.
Damn. I thought he was talking about the School of Assasins.
Um, ok, yeah, he discovered the moons of Jupiter. But he spent his whole life trying to figure out how they affected the tides of Earth's oceans? Apparently he decided at an early point that our Moon was too small, but couldn't he realize proximity might have something to do with it??? Even if Jupiter's moons ARE larger, I would think a mind such as Galileo's would note that gravity is quite limited by distance... ah well... I'm not perfect either...
Ask any Hindu -- Endo13 is correct. You can get to "heaven" faster by HATING God than you can by worshipping him -- because attention to God is attention to God, and the haters are more consistent (and persistent). Or, from the Western perspective, "All press is good press."
...nothing ever gets fixed in OO.o ... Mail Merge is a farce, converting .doc to .rtf messes up fonts and formats, and nobody cares. If OO.o would fix a few things, I would never need to use Windoze again, but as it is, I simply must use MSO in my work (as a professional editor).