Actually, I don't think of those when I think computers. Sony and Toshiba, I think "commodity electronics". HP, I think "printers". IBM, "Servers".
When I think computers, I think, "Intel, Asus, DFI, Soyo, etc."
At the same time though, Sony, Toshiba, HP, and IBM don't have "Computer" in the company name like "Apple Computer, Inc." does. My statement still stands. It is ironic that a computer company's biggest product isn't a computer.
It is almost like: "Look at us! We have a proprietary digital music player! We sell music! (Oh, and we also have some computers.)"
I do not own an iPod (or any other portable music device except a PDA that can play MP3s and Ogg files from an SD Card), but if I did I would likely NOT get an iPod. Why should I pay a premium for a device to have an Apple logo on it?
That said, it is pretty ironic that a "personal computer" manufacturer's top selling product isn't a "personal computer".
But then again, your response of 80% market share was regarding the iPod which was not the "market" that was being referred to.
I can think of a better franchise to associate it with (sans magic) that I think a lot more people would be happy with: Syndicate
The original Syndicate was a top-down squad-based game (I never played Syndicate Wars). They would probably need to get the rights from EA (who assimilated Bullfrog), but MS does have an advantage for that franchise... They have Peter Molyneux to make it the way a Syndicate game should be.
It looks like the development environment is being ported. The.NET framework has been available on the past few revisions of CE (The Pocket PC versions). I have a Pocket PC handheld for that purpose (Too much of a learning curve for Palm programming. My C++ skills are absent since I've not used them in years).
Here is my solution. If an ISP doesn't want to treat all of the traffic generated by it's users equally as part of a neutral internet, then I say they shouldn't be a part of it (meaning they, and all of their customers, should be cut off from it, and let their customers have at them).
If you are running an ISP that is connecting other ISPs to each other, all of your expenses should be covered.
If ISP "A" provides ISP "B" bandwidth to ISP "C", ISP "B" should be paying for it (at a slight premium, for "A" to be profitable). If ISP "B" provides ISP "D" with bandwidth through to ISP "C" via "A", then "D" should be paying "B's" costs for that bandwidth plus a slight premium.
If you are an ISP losing money on peered bandwidth, then you obviously weren't thinking when you established your connections.
Not everyone voted along the party lines. I'm sure some "Red state" people voted intelligently (and vice-versa).
Let me immortalize the current quote from the page footer of Slashdot: When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it. -- Clarence Darrow
Then again, the fact that Kerry won the people's vote but wasn't elected shows the problem with the system. The electoral college is hand-picked, and is NOT bound by law to follow the "suggestion" made by the popular vote.
Best example: Dreamcast. The project name was "Katana". The names Genesis and Saturn were thought to be cool. Then, one day, Sega says "Ok, it'll be called... Dreaaaaaamcast". Along with this, the console turned white, and the logo was just a swirl. The comments ranged from "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard!" to "I'm not going to buy anything that sounds like that!"
Hmmm... I don't remember seeing Sega's entry for the next-gen. What's that? They don't make consoles anymore? People actually followed through on that threat?
Imagine how things would have been if Nintendo had gone from a code name of "GameCube" to the final product of "Dolphin" rather than the other way around. "Revolution" was a powerful name. "Wii" just falls flat.
You must not be familiar with the Illinois Fry's. The service is great, the lines are short, and the prices aren't bad. Of course, if you were going to buy computer parts in the Chicago area, you could just go to one of the two TigerDirect stores. I've been to both. Tiger's store is small (but you can get everything they sell there. It's attached to the warehouse.) Fry's has a larger variety of products though.
Well, it's probably an artifact of the survey. There is a certain percentage of people who will believe what they are told without question, and apparently the "Red state" population outnumbers the "Blue state" population.
The more informed know better. The correct answer to "Which national news program is the most trustworthy?" is "None of the above"
Why not just sign spam@uce.gov up? That way the US government will have a nice log of who is sending these emails. Plus, if the spammer shares the list, there will be additional spammers who will happily be reporting themselves for violating the CAN-SPAM act.
I agree. Any video card above $100 is what I consider "more than I need". I have a $40 Radeon 9250 in my computer and have absolutely no issues with it. Okay, so maybe I don't play HL2 or any other high-end graphics games. They are all just the same old drivel anyway.
According to the wording in the summary, there is a chance that information from another company (possibly the employee's former employer) could exist on the employee's computer. This can result in the contamination of the business. This is a situation that that is "less likely" to occur with an unbiased third-party service.
Leave it to Google to come up with a better design than "alphabetically, by author, then title"
(Sorry, I couldn't resist.)
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My careful use of pronouns did not place myself into that group. I am not someone who regularly enjoys being spoonfed mainstream entertainment. I would much rather play a game.
My brother and I had an NES with a Power Pad. Sure we only had the pack-in game for it, but we found interesting ways of playing.
There were 3 rows of sensors on the "running" side of the pad. If you had some friends over, you could just hit the sensors with your fists instead. It worked great for events like the hurdles. With 6 "feet" running, you can just plow through the course and be finished before the computer reaches the first hurdle.
Exactly. The Power Glove was made by a big-name toy manufacturer (Mattel) who's two main product lines are molded plastic dolls (Barbie) and die-cast miniature cars (Hot Wheels). I thought it worked fairly well, all things considered. There were some things that you could do with one that you could not replicate on a regular controller. I remember playing Milon's Secret Castle with the "Glove" and having the character moonwalk (i.e. walk backwards).
Yes, their home products suck, but before upgrading to a newer version of corporate AV, we had to switch some of our users to the home version of NAV because the software that we wrote that printed reports made in Crystal 8.5 would cause Norton to blue screen the computer whenever they printed.
Oh yeah, their Personal Internet Firewall is such a "great" product that even though I have told it that such and such program is safe, it continues to block it. Microsoft might suck, but at least XP's built-in firewall will do what it is supposed to do.
Why would you need to know their address if they are paying by credit card? Merchants should gather address information for AVS (Address Verification Service) so that a) It verifies that the person submitting the credit card information knows the billing address for the card. This along with the 3 or 4 digit code that is only printed on the back of the card reduces the amount of fraud that occurs (which is good for the industry). b) Providing the information to your credit card processor will ensure that the transaction is qualified or at least mid-qualified which in turn, means that the processor takes less of a cut from the sale.
If the "transaction" occurs where the company is, then my "company" is at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, far from the coast. Since there are no services that run out to there, the company's servers are hosted elsewhere and the company's mail is delivered to me (since the postal service doesn't deliver there). The "company" redirects all of it's profits to me (which I will dutifully report as income). That way, no business is being conducted within the jurisdiction of a taxing body, but I'm still reporting my income, so I can't be charged with tax evasion.
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The lunatic is on the grass.
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Got to keep the loonies on the path.
Actually, I don't think of those when I think computers. Sony and Toshiba, I think "commodity electronics". HP, I think "printers". IBM, "Servers".
When I think computers, I think, "Intel, Asus, DFI, Soyo, etc."
At the same time though, Sony, Toshiba, HP, and IBM don't have "Computer" in the company name like "Apple Computer, Inc." does. My statement still stands. It is ironic that a computer company's biggest product isn't a computer.
It is almost like:
"Look at us! We have a proprietary digital music player! We sell music! (Oh, and we also have some computers.)"
We have three coffee pots where I work:
Black (Dark Brown): Regular
Green: Flavored (usually Irish Creme)
Orange: Sludge (double-dose in the filter)
There is no decaf here. If you don't want caffeine, don't drink coffee. Even decaf has some in it.
I do not own an iPod (or any other portable music device except a PDA that can play MP3s and Ogg files from an SD Card), but if I did I would likely NOT get an iPod. Why should I pay a premium for a device to have an Apple logo on it?
That said, it is pretty ironic that a "personal computer" manufacturer's top selling product isn't a "personal computer".
But then again, your response of 80% market share was regarding the iPod which was not the "market" that was being referred to.
I can think of a better franchise to associate it with (sans magic) that I think a lot more people would be happy with: Syndicate
The original Syndicate was a top-down squad-based game (I never played Syndicate Wars). They would probably need to get the rights from EA (who assimilated Bullfrog), but MS does have an advantage for that franchise... They have Peter Molyneux to make it the way a Syndicate game should be.
It looks like the development environment is being ported. The .NET framework has been available on the past few revisions of CE (The Pocket PC versions). I have a Pocket PC handheld for that purpose (Too much of a learning curve for Palm programming. My C++ skills are absent since I've not used them in years).
Here is my solution. If an ISP doesn't want to treat all of the traffic generated by it's users equally as part of a neutral internet, then I say they shouldn't be a part of it (meaning they, and all of their customers, should be cut off from it, and let their customers have at them).
If you are running an ISP that is connecting other ISPs to each other, all of your expenses should be covered.
If ISP "A" provides ISP "B" bandwidth to ISP "C", ISP "B" should be paying for it (at a slight premium, for "A" to be profitable). If ISP "B" provides ISP "D" with bandwidth through to ISP "C" via "A", then "D" should be paying "B's" costs for that bandwidth plus a slight premium.
If you are an ISP losing money on peered bandwidth, then you obviously weren't thinking when you established your connections.
Not everyone voted along the party lines. I'm sure some "Red state" people voted intelligently (and vice-versa).
Let me immortalize the current quote from the page footer of Slashdot:
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it. -- Clarence Darrow
Then again, the fact that Kerry won the people's vote but wasn't elected shows the problem with the system. The electoral college is hand-picked, and is NOT bound by law to follow the "suggestion" made by the popular vote.
Best example: Dreamcast. The project name was "Katana". The names Genesis and Saturn were thought to be cool. Then, one day, Sega says "Ok, it'll be called... Dreaaaaaamcast". Along with this, the console turned white, and the logo was just a swirl. The comments ranged from "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard!" to "I'm not going to buy anything that sounds like that!"
Hmmm... I don't remember seeing Sega's entry for the next-gen. What's that? They don't make consoles anymore? People actually followed through on that threat?
Imagine how things would have been if Nintendo had gone from a code name of "GameCube" to the final product of "Dolphin" rather than the other way around. "Revolution" was a powerful name. "Wii" just falls flat.
You must not be familiar with the Illinois Fry's. The service is great, the lines are short, and the prices aren't bad. Of course, if you were going to buy computer parts in the Chicago area, you could just go to one of the two TigerDirect stores. I've been to both. Tiger's store is small (but you can get everything they sell there. It's attached to the warehouse.) Fry's has a larger variety of products though.
Well, it's probably an artifact of the survey. There is a certain percentage of people who will believe what they are told without question, and apparently the "Red state" population outnumbers the "Blue state" population.
The more informed know better. The correct answer to "Which national news program is the most trustworthy?" is "None of the above"
Why not just sign spam@uce.gov up? That way the US government will have a nice log of who is sending these emails. Plus, if the spammer shares the list, there will be additional spammers who will happily be reporting themselves for violating the CAN-SPAM act.
I agree. Any video card above $100 is what I consider "more than I need". I have a $40 Radeon 9250 in my computer and have absolutely no issues with it. Okay, so maybe I don't play HL2 or any other high-end graphics games. They are all just the same old drivel anyway.
No... That's a "different" type of cluster.
A Beowulf cluster of these would buy everything on eBay.
Runs away quickly
According to the wording in the summary, there is a chance that information from another company (possibly the employee's former employer) could exist on the employee's computer. This can result in the contamination of the business. This is a situation that that is "less likely" to occur with an unbiased third-party service.
Last I heard, Ball stopped making mason jars.
When I heard that, my response was, "What do you mean Ball is no longer manufacturing mason jars?!"
Ball seems to have moved on to bigger things. Did you know that Ball has an Aerospace division?
Leave it to Google to come up with a better design than "alphabetically, by author, then title"
(Sorry, I couldn't resist.)
My careful use of pronouns did not place myself into that group. I am not someone who regularly enjoys being spoonfed mainstream entertainment. I would much rather play a game.
I can't either...
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of middle-aged white American males.
My wife's family gathered around to watch my brother-in-law play Doom 3. They actually do like watching other people play games.
My brother and I had an NES with a Power Pad. Sure we only had the pack-in game for it, but we found interesting ways of playing.
There were 3 rows of sensors on the "running" side of the pad. If you had some friends over, you could just hit the sensors with your fists instead. It worked great for events like the hurdles. With 6 "feet" running, you can just plow through the course and be finished before the computer reaches the first hurdle.
Exactly. The Power Glove was made by a big-name toy manufacturer (Mattel) who's two main product lines are molded plastic dolls (Barbie) and die-cast miniature cars (Hot Wheels). I thought it worked fairly well, all things considered. There were some things that you could do with one that you could not replicate on a regular controller. I remember playing Milon's Secret Castle with the "Glove" and having the character moonwalk (i.e. walk backwards).
Yes, their home products suck, but before upgrading to a newer version of corporate AV, we had to switch some of our users to the home version of NAV because the software that we wrote that printed reports made in Crystal 8.5 would cause Norton to blue screen the computer whenever they printed.
Oh yeah, their Personal Internet Firewall is such a "great" product that even though I have told it that such and such program is safe, it continues to block it. Microsoft might suck, but at least XP's built-in firewall will do what it is supposed to do.
Me too. I find the lack of magic mushrooms and the Hand of God in modern games as a big turn-off.
I'd really like to see another drunk missile launcher. It was awesome in open areas.
Why would you need to know their address if they are paying by credit card? Merchants should gather address information for AVS (Address Verification Service) so that a) It verifies that the person submitting the credit card information knows the billing address for the card. This along with the 3 or 4 digit code that is only printed on the back of the card reduces the amount of fraud that occurs (which is good for the industry). b) Providing the information to your credit card processor will ensure that the transaction is qualified or at least mid-qualified which in turn, means that the processor takes less of a cut from the sale.
If the "transaction" occurs where the company is, then my "company" is at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, far from the coast. Since there are no services that run out to there, the company's servers are hosted elsewhere and the company's mail is delivered to me (since the postal service doesn't deliver there). The "company" redirects all of it's profits to me (which I will dutifully report as income). That way, no business is being conducted within the jurisdiction of a taxing body, but I'm still reporting my income, so I can't be charged with tax evasion.