Google Earth Pro costs $400 plus you can pay up to $800 for additional options. They also make search boxen that index everything in your network (read: large-scale Google Desktop), and these cost even more.
Google is not a retailer, they do not take content from a commercial third-party and distribute it, with markup, to consumers.
Open any Gmail mailbox and observe commercial third-party emails (ch3ap s0ftw4res, fre3 m0r7gage) distributed, with markup (labeled Spam), to consumers. *ducks*
Mod me troll (and grammar nazi), but DivX is a MPEG4-based codec that was named after the DIVX you-re talking about. That's why the first versions of DivX was named DivX 3.11:-)
Well, on Google I usually stay signed in with my Gmail account so that Google can record my search queries. Quite a useful thing, I use it to look up what I was doing or thinking some time ago.
Ubuntu was certified for IBM's db2: http://www.ubuntu.com/news/db2cert However I think Ubuntu will only be used in small companies as desktops. Most people I know use either FreeBSD or Windows 2003 as their server OS.
My prediction is that Novell will gain significant marketshare in the enterprise OS sector. Especially after all those Netware servers migrate to SuSE. Also, Novell seems to support the non-enterprise users more than Redhat (and their Opensuse distro is much more stable than Fedora).
False Vacuum In just one moment the laws of physics will change dramatically, rendering all chemical processes (which are needed to support life) useless. This may happen faster than you could think "Oh crap".
Perhaps it was ugly - but it was one of the first mice that wasn't white or black. And most modern PCs look very much like that mouse - black, grey and some sort of "metallic". Oh, and it had an additional led that wasn't used by the optical sensor but was just making the mouse look more beautiful.
The reset button on most Pocket PCs is much better than on Palms. On most iPaqs, Toshibas and LOOXes you don't even need to unscrew anything, because Reset can be pressed with the stylus. Palm's PDAs on the other hand have reset pins that need to be unscrewed from the stylus to be used. And some even need a third-party paperclip! Unfortunately Palms have about the same freeze rate as Pocket PCs.
Their mice and keyboards are often considered very good (if not the best). They're also making webcams and fingerprint scanners as well. Oh, and XBox 360 isn't really ugly.
Linux can be hacked. For example my SonyEricsson T610 has links to their WAP site nearly everywhere in the menus and that drives me mad - because I'm always one click away from spending money on a WAP site I don't want. If I could hack my phone I'd remove this crap immediately.
If you got you Aluminium G4 after the Ti, then perhaps you just used it more carefully? You know, some thought like "I'll never let this happen again" after observing the scratched Ti surface and the brand-new Al?
Windows Mobile 5.0 based Pocket PC? They have everything you described. And if you want a larger keyboard, you may use most of bluetooth desktop keyboards.
Well, the best defense from this kind of accusations would be making a pr0n movie involving the whole police department. If they can use this technology, you can do it too.
And my belly-aching about it started when I picked up my first video card which had more memory than my first hard drive.
Hmmm... My first hard drive was 400 megs and yet my first video card was a Trident with one meg of memory. My dad used to have a 40-meg hard drive at work and a really expensive Artist video card that woundn't fit in the computer case and had two parts, one internal and one external connected with a cable. That video card had something like one meg of memory.
Even if the code can't be ported it'll be rewritten.
Office couldn't be ported to Linux, so it was rewritten (OpenOffice). Rewriting a big project is as difficult as making a new one from scratch (especially if the OS architecture or API is completely different). You can copy the UI, you can borrow ideas, but looking at code which is tightly intergrated with a lot of platform-specific libraries won't help you much.
I think that they wanted to say either that: 1) 64% people who played Pacman thought it was violent 2) people used a 5-star scale to rate the violence, then the scores were converted to percent, then the average percent was 64%
I've noticed that actually most movies and cartoons made especially for kids are more violent thanthe ones made for teens and adults. Take Tom&Jerry for example - it makes fun of extremely violent things (I'm being serious).
This could be great for pirated books - download a book in PDF, send it to Lulu and get it printed. This would be definetly cheaper than buying those $50 computer-related books (although probably lower quality).
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Doom 2? $60? Must have been an auction or something!
*ducks*
Google Earth Pro costs $400 plus you can pay up to $800 for additional options. They also make search boxen that index everything in your network (read: large-scale Google Desktop), and these cost even more.
*ducks*
I wonder if they DRM the DVD before burning the ripped copy or leave it unprotected?
Mod me troll (and grammar nazi), but DivX is a MPEG4-based codec that was named after the DIVX you-re talking about. That's why the first versions of DivX was named DivX 3.11 :-)
Well, most new iPods allow you to use the clickwheel to enter your password in a safe-like manner. Looks cool enough!
Well, on Google I usually stay signed in with my Gmail account so that Google can record my search queries. Quite a useful thing, I use it to look up what I was doing or thinking some time ago.
Ubuntu was certified for IBM's db2: http://www.ubuntu.com/news/db2cert
However I think Ubuntu will only be used in small companies as desktops. Most people I know use either FreeBSD or Windows 2003 as their server OS.
My prediction is that Novell will gain significant marketshare in the enterprise OS sector. Especially after all those Netware servers migrate to SuSE.
Also, Novell seems to support the non-enterprise users more than Redhat (and their Opensuse distro is much more stable than Fedora).
False Vacuum
In just one moment the laws of physics will change dramatically, rendering all chemical processes (which are needed to support life) useless. This may happen faster than you could think "Oh crap".
Perhaps it was ugly - but it was one of the first mice that wasn't white or black. And most modern PCs look very much like that mouse - black, grey and some sort of "metallic".
Oh, and it had an additional led that wasn't used by the optical sensor but was just making the mouse look more beautiful.
The reset button on most Pocket PCs is much better than on Palms. On most iPaqs, Toshibas and LOOXes you don't even need to unscrew anything, because Reset can be pressed with the stylus.
Palm's PDAs on the other hand have reset pins that need to be unscrewed from the stylus to be used. And some even need a third-party paperclip! Unfortunately Palms have about the same freeze rate as Pocket PCs.
Their mice and keyboards are often considered very good (if not the best).
They're also making webcams and fingerprint scanners as well.
Oh, and XBox 360 isn't really ugly.
Yup, so you think the guys pay for our free CDs but don't actually care what is actually burned on them?
Linux can be hacked.
For example my SonyEricsson T610 has links to their WAP site nearly everywhere in the menus and that drives me mad - because I'm always one click away from spending money on a WAP site I don't want.
If I could hack my phone I'd remove this crap immediately.
Was I the only one to think that the article's about Xen not yet ready to be used as a relay for teleportation from City 17 to Black Mesa East? :-)
If you got you Aluminium G4 after the Ti, then perhaps you just used it more carefully? You know, some thought like "I'll never let this happen again" after observing the scratched Ti surface and the brand-new Al?
Windows Mobile 5.0 based Pocket PC? They have everything you described. And if you want a larger keyboard, you may use most of bluetooth desktop keyboards.
Well, the best defense from this kind of accusations would be making a pr0n movie involving the whole police department. If they can use this technology, you can do it too.
Think about it, when you have to call support in in India for some peice of crap made in China by an American company :-)
Rewriting a big project is as difficult as making a new one from scratch (especially if the OS architecture or API is completely different). You can copy the UI, you can borrow ideas, but looking at code which is tightly intergrated with a lot of platform-specific libraries won't help you much.
I think that they wanted to say either that:
1) 64% people who played Pacman thought it was violent
2) people used a 5-star scale to rate the violence, then the scores were converted to percent, then the average percent was 64%
I've noticed that actually most movies and cartoons made especially for kids are more violent thanthe ones made for teens and adults. Take Tom&Jerry for example - it makes fun of extremely violent things (I'm being serious).
*sigh* I remember when TVs made in the Soviet Union contained schematics so that you could repair them yourself (I'm not joking!)
This could be great for pirated books - download a book in PDF, send it to Lulu and get it printed. This would be definetly cheaper than buying those $50 computer-related books (although probably lower quality).