And it was non-binding, because it wasn't countersigned by the other party, therefore completely un-unenforceable, from your perspective. Well done, clown, you achieved nothing. But you showed The Man, right? Right?
I have a digital SLR and lenses, accessories that are insured for $20,000+ (and I consider myself to not have a whole lot). My cellphone has a 5mp camera in it, and it's far nicer than anything I've seen out of a cellphone, and better than many of my friends digital compacts.
Thats very optimistic of you. I thought the reason was more to sink their fingers into more minds for advertising and data mining. They're not protecting us from big bad MS, MS is just not actively helping Google's plans.
Lets not go creating altruistic motives that if they even exist are likely ancillary.
How on earth does paying a third party firm 'support' Mozilla? You're just making another company money, money that (as far as I can see) they give precisely none of to the Mozilla Foundation.
What I loved was this quote from the "reassurances given to the community":
Mozilla Foundation spending in 2006 seems low, especially the $80,000 in grants. Can you say more?
We planned 2006 spending on a conservative basis to make sure the Foundation remained sustainable amid the growth and change of becoming a much larger project. This meant we planned to spend income but not the basic principal of the Foundation in 2006 and perhaps 2007... the total spent on grants and grant-related expenditures was approximately $285,000 in 2006.
"We got $70M in the bank and we felt it'd further the goals of the organization to spend ZERO POINT FOUR per cent of our reserves on projects! That's fiscally conservative, people. At this rate, with interest, we have enough to keep the foundation going on current balances until some time in the late 22nd century!"
"Well, uhh, until we factor in the fact that we pay our CEO twice of what we actually spend on projects. And then there's that $100,000 pay raise - that raise alone actually is more than we gave in grants. But even then, we could still keep going until the end of the century! What's your problem?"
I'll take a shot at this one... a device that can do everything the iPhone can do. Nokia's N95. Cellphone? Check. MP3 player? Check, 8GB memory. Video player? Check, MP4, 3GP, H264. Mini PDA? Check, Outlook/Exchange sync,.Mac sync.
Some of the stuff you bemoan? MMS? Check. EDGE? 3G, HSDPA, Check. Camera? 5MP glass lens. Web browser? Check. Ability to download TV shows/use integrated iTMS? Missing. Has TV out? Check, component out. Check the weather? Sure. Browse photos? Sure. Maps? Yes. 2D and 3D maps with points of interest, and, get this, actual GPS, as well as A-GPS.
As for ease of use? The iPhone is, not many will deny, easy to use. So is the N95.
You could give the occasional tour of the place but other than knowing that MS has data storage capability and redundancy
MSFT doesn't, as a general rule, give tours of their production datacenters, even to internal FT staff. When I went on a tour of one of the staging data centers a while back, that was onerous, and impressive enough.
That's great! I love how you neglected to mention the N95 originally wasn't even AVAILABLE in the US, due to poor support for much of its functionality, until consumer demand prompted Nokia to offer it at the end of September! That's what, ooh, let me see, all of a month ago.
But that's, you know, such a trivial detail when you're comparing sales figures.
Heh. I loved how you conveniently ignored that the N95 currently on sale has... da - da da... 8GB of memory, the same as the iPhone. And that even the original N95 came bundled with (depending on market) 1GB or 2GB microSD. Let's not get into the fact that most VM is stored with a 16kbps codec, if not 9.6kbps.
Hey, there are many, many problems with the N95. I have no problem 'admitting' that... Predictive text isn't necessarily one of them - custom dictionary, etc, etc.
The parent was talking about "iPhone killers" in the sense of "we (smug) iPhone users have had all these amazing and advanced features, and Nokia thinks they can put such things in/their/ phone?!?", incredulously disbelieving.
Yeah, because Nokia - well, everyone knows they can't build a phone to save their life, right? Let's see. Camera: iPhone, 2MP, N95, 5MP. Storage: 8GB apiece. Web: iPhone, Safari. N95, based on Mozilla. Accelerometer (that 'gee whiz, doesn't every device need this' that fanboys rave about)? iPhone, check. N95, check. Display? iPhone, 320x480, touch sensitive, N95, 320x240, no touch.
Shall we continue? 3G? iPhone, uhh, no. N95, UMTS, HSDPA. GPS? iPhone, no, N95, yes. MMS? PTT? Ability to use your music as ringtone without paying money to the empire? Java? iPhone, no no no no no. N95, yes yes yes yes yes.
A few other neat features of my N95. Tethering? Oh so cool. Especially when your phone can act as a wireless access point. OpenGL hardware acceleration? Yes, you read me right.
But no mind, you just go on being a raving, frothing at the mouth Apple fanboy, oblivious to the RDF.
they don't yet have any 3G service available anywhere (they're waiting for the spectrum they bought for it to become available for their use)
More information? I'd be curious to read this - last I'd heard they'd deployed to at least a dozen big cities (yeah, yeah, I know they're wayyyyy behind the eight ball, but still)...?
A few thousand a year? It's called working during the summer. Even the abysmally paying undergrad summer research program at stanford paid out that much.
And when you don't live in the area? Watch that money get eaten up by the extra fees for your accommodation during that time.
Add in 5 hours a week doing some manual work such as the library or cafeteria at $7-8/hr
5*7.50*52*0.9 (for, say, 10% taxes) = a whopping $1700 a year.
Seriously, your other posts are all "Well, that only leaves $28,000, and your parents can contribute that." like a shrugged throwaway statement. Other sibling posters point out that, in a far larger number of people's worlds than you seem familiar with, shock, horror, parents aren't able to just reach into their magic purse and find nearly thirty thousand dollars floating free.
Hah... that same road yesterday afternoon, I watched a trooper who was in the median strip, with a radar gun, just/watch/ a guy in a Mustang doing approximately NINETY in a sixty zone (four lane Interstate) fly by everyone. Didn't even bother.
Some are clueless, others actually think they're saving the day by enforcing the limit
... or obeying the law, be it right or wrong, quaint notion that that is...
and a few honestly believe that 60mph is fast-as-hell because it feels like it in their Prius.
Ha. Ha. Apparently you're not immune to 'smug fuck' yourself. I regularly (well, offpeak), cruise along at 75mph on I-5 between Seattle and Tacoma in my Prius and it doesn't feel fast-as-hell. In fact, going to visit my wife's family, going along I-84, usually earns me an admonition from my wife when I have cruise control set at 85mph+ in said same Prius.
Postscript: yes, I am aware that I pointed out that some people like to follow the law, whilst I also admitted I speed.
That you make the assumption that the Adobe price wouldn't go skyhigh. That 50% of Adobe stock isn't outstanding shares. They're owned by holders. Who are not going to want to sell for that price, when they know Apple wants to acquire. i.e. The stock price would rise, dramatically, allowing Apple to buy a lot less.
And, seriously, it would be monumentally stupid for Apple to spend themselves/broke/ on an acquisition. If you have to do that, you can't afford it.
Haha, it's cute that you think that Adobe's share price wouldn't skyrocket in such a scenario, or that Apple could buy 50% of Adobe at today's market price...
They can re-add that section through copy/edit/paste, and explain in Talk that there is very good reason to do so, especially if their argument to do so had not come forward during the initial short consensus-procedure.
That's great, in theory, but doing so has almost universally (in the cases I've seen) resulted in said block being re-deleted with an indignant "Other people before you have discussed this, and we decided it was to go. So it is said, so shall it be done."
I have a two-and-a-half year old laptop that runs Vista Ultimate just fine. Asus A7Vc. Pentium M, 1.86GHz, 2GB RAM, and 128mb dedicated, 128mb shared ATI Mobility Radeon X700.
Runs fine. Has more problems with newer games, as you'd expect, than Vista.
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And it was non-binding, because it wasn't countersigned by the other party, therefore completely un-unenforceable, from your perspective. Well done, clown, you achieved nothing. But you showed The Man, right? Right?
I have a digital SLR and lenses, accessories that are insured for $20,000+ (and I consider myself to not have a whole lot). My cellphone has a 5mp camera in it, and it's far nicer than anything I've seen out of a cellphone, and better than many of my friends digital compacts.
Cute quote. Way to fire up the hordes. Your evidence is, exactly, what?
Oh, I see where your ideas could have come from. Going to share?
Lets not go creating altruistic motives that if they even exist are likely ancillary.
How on earth does paying a third party firm 'support' Mozilla? You're just making another company money, money that (as far as I can see) they give precisely none of to the Mozilla Foundation.
"We got $70M in the bank and we felt it'd further the goals of the organization to spend ZERO POINT FOUR per cent of our reserves on projects! That's fiscally conservative, people. At this rate, with interest, we have enough to keep the foundation going on current balances until some time in the late 22nd century!"
"Well, uhh, until we factor in the fact that we pay our CEO twice of what we actually spend on projects. And then there's that $100,000 pay raise - that raise alone actually is more than we gave in grants. But even then, we could still keep going until the end of the century! What's your problem?"
Some of the stuff you bemoan? MMS? Check. EDGE? 3G, HSDPA, Check. Camera? 5MP glass lens. Web browser? Check. Ability to download TV shows/use integrated iTMS? Missing. Has TV out? Check, component out. Check the weather? Sure. Browse photos? Sure. Maps? Yes. 2D and 3D maps with points of interest, and, get this, actual GPS, as well as A-GPS.
As for ease of use? The iPhone is, not many will deny, easy to use. So is the N95.
MSFT doesn't, as a general rule, give tours of their production datacenters, even to internal FT staff. When I went on a tour of one of the staging data centers a while back, that was onerous, and impressive enough.
But that's, you know, such a trivial detail when you're comparing sales figures.
Heh. I loved how you conveniently ignored that the N95 currently on sale has ... da - da da ... 8GB of memory, the same as the iPhone. And that even the original N95 came bundled with (depending on market) 1GB or 2GB microSD. Let's not get into the fact that most VM is stored with a 16kbps codec, if not 9.6kbps.
The parent was talking about "iPhone killers" in the sense of "we (smug) iPhone users have had all these amazing and advanced features, and Nokia thinks they can put such things in /their/ phone?!?", incredulously disbelieving.
I like the iPhone, too. But horses for courses.
Shall we continue? 3G? iPhone, uhh, no. N95, UMTS, HSDPA. GPS? iPhone, no, N95, yes. MMS? PTT? Ability to use your music as ringtone without paying money to the empire? Java? iPhone, no no no no no. N95, yes yes yes yes yes.
A few other neat features of my N95. Tethering? Oh so cool. Especially when your phone can act as a wireless access point. OpenGL hardware acceleration? Yes, you read me right.
But no mind, you just go on being a raving, frothing at the mouth Apple fanboy, oblivious to the RDF.
Curious - exactly what APIs will you get with Android that are unavailable to Windows Mobile developers?
More information? I'd be curious to read this - last I'd heard they'd deployed to at least a dozen big cities (yeah, yeah, I know they're wayyyyy behind the eight ball, but still)...?
And when you don't live in the area? Watch that money get eaten up by the extra fees for your accommodation during that time.
5*7.50*52*0.9 (for, say, 10% taxes) = a whopping $1700 a year.
Seriously, your other posts are all "Well, that only leaves $28,000, and your parents can contribute that." like a shrugged throwaway statement. Other sibling posters point out that, in a far larger number of people's worlds than you seem familiar with, shock, horror, parents aren't able to just reach into their magic purse and find nearly thirty thousand dollars floating free.
For 'rich colleges', replace 'Stanford'. The systemic bias towards Stanford is so blatant it has most 'old boy' networks beat soundly.
Hah... that same road yesterday afternoon, I watched a trooper who was in the median strip, with a radar gun, just /watch/ a guy in a Mustang doing approximately NINETY in a sixty zone (four lane Interstate) fly by everyone. Didn't even bother.
Ha. Ha. Apparently you're not immune to 'smug fuck' yourself. I regularly (well, offpeak), cruise along at 75mph on I-5 between Seattle and Tacoma in my Prius and it doesn't feel fast-as-hell. In fact, going to visit my wife's family, going along I-84, usually earns me an admonition from my wife when I have cruise control set at 85mph+ in said same Prius.
Postscript: yes, I am aware that I pointed out that some people like to follow the law, whilst I also admitted I speed.
Or do we only allow "cool" companies that moniker?
And, seriously, it would be monumentally stupid for Apple to spend themselves /broke/ on an acquisition. If you have to do that, you can't afford it.
If you've spent any time on IRC you should know that there are many many people who are more than happy to wile away their days doing exactly this.
Haha, it's cute that you think that Adobe's share price wouldn't skyrocket in such a scenario, or that Apple could buy 50% of Adobe at today's market price...
Wow, that's quite the superiority complex you've got going there. Us amazing geeks, huh? Smarter than the average mouth breather.
That's great, in theory, but doing so has almost universally (in the cases I've seen) resulted in said block being re-deleted with an indignant "Other people before you have discussed this, and we decided it was to go. So it is said, so shall it be done."
Runs fine. Has more problems with newer games, as you'd expect, than Vista.