My first computer was an Atari 400, and the Kingdom game (a Hammurabi clone) did something similar, playing title music and an audio introduction through the tape drive...
But, as someone else stated once, Slashdot is the place where I come for tech related news, if I wanted politics news I would go to BBC/politics, if I wanted entertainment news I would go to eonline or yahoo enterntainment...
If you truly can't handle political stories on/., adjusting your personal preferences is a much quicker way to solve that problem than wading into the discussion for the sole purpose of expressing your disinterest.
My background is with AS400, and along with shifting platforms, we're moving from a homegrown Cobol app to a packaged ERP (Java based under OS400). The technical issue between mainframe and AS400 is really the least of our worries, as the AS400 still provides the bullet-proof stability at much lower cost points than the mainframe.
The real trick is discovering all the business rules that we need to consider during our transition, as most of them are buried in the legacy code.
I'm originally from Michigan, thanks, and am well placed to make such an observation. There's a reason so many groups are interested in NHL ownership in the post-lockout environment, and that's because the business is actually doing quite well.
What most people don't realize is that national TV deals in the US have never been a big driver for the NHL as a business. It's all about selling tickets to games, and you can do that with minimal fan interest in a huge city like L.A., or hockey-crazy interest in smaller cities like Buffalo. The NHL is more about 30 local markets and the Canadian TV package. Anything they can get from US national coverage is a bonus.
The thing about the NHL is that as a business, it's more about ticket-buying butts in the seats than national TV deals. As far as attendance and ticket prices go, by and large the NHL is doing quite well. That's why RIM's Jim Balsillie is ponying up $220 million for the Nashville Predators, and there's word that expansion teams may be coming soon to Las Vegas and Kansas City.
Most commentators (particularly sports-radio hosts) associate national TV ratings with the overall health of a sports league, and in hockey, that's never been a huge factor here in the US.
Agreed, Meet The Robinsons was really stunning. I caught myself admiring the animation and 3D quite a bit to the detriment of following the film (no big deal, really).
The only problem I had was that at the very beginning, after getting the instructions to put the glasses on, the first 3D stuff was a trailer for a Tim Burton animated Halloween movie - this scared the crap out of my kids (aged 5, 5, and 4, this being the first time they experienced 3D), with all sorts of nasties reaching out of the screen at them. They followed that with an old 1950's 3D cartoon with Donald Duck, which was harmless and would have made a much better introduction to 3D for the millions of little kids who will see it.
'Google's proposed acquisition of DoubleClick will give one company access to more information about the Internet activities of consumers than any other company in the world,'
Obviously, the solution is to divide such information equally among all companies, so that no single company could possibly have more information than any other...
At both my current job and my previous one, we had plenty of people with laptops and docking stations at their desks, complete with CRT or flat panel monitor. At my previous job they seemed stunned when I simply opened up my laptop at the same time and ran dual-desktop between the laptop monitor and the CRT! Worse yet, at my current job the typical docking station had a platform on the top that the CRT sat on, meaning you couldn't open the laptop even if you wanted to. I removed the platform, opened the laptop, and entered dual-desktop nirvana.
Don't you think they're playing it that way, on purpose, because they know that the majority of potential employees don't have any better option?
That just not true, however. The majority of potential employees have a current job, and hiring companies don't (in general) have the leverage to play hardball like that.
Just last night the wife made just this objection as I pulled out the Tablet while cooking dinner so I could check email. I shrugged, conceded the point in general, and then she grabbed the damned thing and went into the bedroom to catch up on stuff related to Heroes and Jericho!
Forget scientific data, I do analysis of hockey statistics for my blog, and Calc just doesn't cut it for my needs (web page table import, and >30K records). I didn't realize the latest office extends the record limit beyond 65K, I'll have to look into that...
No, stupid... it's too long for that. They'll simply lay the antenna down in the aisle. You'll just have to carefully step through it on your way to and from your seat.
Actually, economics can answer the $10 laundry service question quite well, you're just not looking at the whole picture. On the one side, you have the work, hassle, time and cost of doing laundry at home, vs. the hassle, transportation costs (in time and money), and cost of using a laundry service. The hassle is hardly trivial (bundling up all your laundry, taking it to the service, picking it up afterwards, etc., so it's not merely $10 vs. an hour of your time.
People make these types of decisions every day, they're just not typically conscious of it when they're doing it. And it's not so much that economics "explains" their decision, it just provides the tools for analyzing the results of those decisions.
At least you have some entities getting out ahead of this and cooperating with YouTube/Google Video to get their content out there, like the NHL. They're including current games, as well as selected "classics" from previous ones. They're even interested in incorporating user-generated content into the mix...
The US has been forced to contend with heinously patronizing and crude TV advertising for decades, but the UK's advertising industry has managed to create art out of the dirty act of selling.
What do this snaggle-toothed limey think he's doing, slandering our great American advertising industry? There is indeed a cream that rises to the top of the business, raising TV commercials above the mere act of shilling.
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My first computer was an Atari 400, and the Kingdom game (a Hammurabi clone) did something similar, playing title music and an audio introduction through the tape drive...
And here I thought it stood for the well-known sales technique, Seriously Overhyped Acronym Proliferation.
But, as someone else stated once, Slashdot is the place where I come for tech related news, if I wanted politics news I would go to BBC/politics, if I wanted entertainment news I would go to eonline or yahoo enterntainment...
/., adjusting your personal preferences is a much quicker way to solve that problem than wading into the discussion for the sole purpose of expressing your disinterest.
If you truly can't handle political stories on
My background is with AS400, and along with shifting platforms, we're moving from a homegrown Cobol app to a packaged ERP (Java based under OS400). The technical issue between mainframe and AS400 is really the least of our worries, as the AS400 still provides the bullet-proof stability at much lower cost points than the mainframe.
The real trick is discovering all the business rules that we need to consider during our transition, as most of them are buried in the legacy code.
Tell me about it, we're trying to migrate from mainframe to AS/400 (err... iSeries) primarily for cost savings.
I know TD Ameritrade offers a tool called StrategyDesk which performs such tasks...
I'm originally from Michigan, thanks, and am well placed to make such an observation. There's a reason so many groups are interested in NHL ownership in the post-lockout environment, and that's because the business is actually doing quite well.
I do agree that Hartford would probably make the most attractive expansion option, given the size of the market and the hockey fan base.
What most people don't realize is that national TV deals in the US have never been a big driver for the NHL as a business. It's all about selling tickets to games, and you can do that with minimal fan interest in a huge city like L.A., or hockey-crazy interest in smaller cities like Buffalo. The NHL is more about 30 local markets and the Canadian TV package. Anything they can get from US national coverage is a bonus.
The thing about the NHL is that as a business, it's more about ticket-buying butts in the seats than national TV deals. As far as attendance and ticket prices go, by and large the NHL is doing quite well. That's why RIM's Jim Balsillie is ponying up $220 million for the Nashville Predators, and there's word that expansion teams may be coming soon to Las Vegas and Kansas City.
Most commentators (particularly sports-radio hosts) associate national TV ratings with the overall health of a sports league, and in hockey, that's never been a huge factor here in the US.
Nobody said downtime was the only metric to use, only that it is one that has value.
Agreed, Meet The Robinsons was really stunning. I caught myself admiring the animation and 3D quite a bit to the detriment of following the film (no big deal, really).
The only problem I had was that at the very beginning, after getting the instructions to put the glasses on, the first 3D stuff was a trailer for a Tim Burton animated Halloween movie - this scared the crap out of my kids (aged 5, 5, and 4, this being the first time they experienced 3D), with all sorts of nasties reaching out of the screen at them. They followed that with an old 1950's 3D cartoon with Donald Duck, which was harmless and would have made a much better introduction to 3D for the millions of little kids who will see it.
Obviously, the solution is to divide such information equally among all companies, so that no single company could possibly have more information than any other...
At both my current job and my previous one, we had plenty of people with laptops and docking stations at their desks, complete with CRT or flat panel monitor. At my previous job they seemed stunned when I simply opened up my laptop at the same time and ran dual-desktop between the laptop monitor and the CRT! Worse yet, at my current job the typical docking station had a platform on the top that the CRT sat on, meaning you couldn't open the laptop even if you wanted to. I removed the platform, opened the laptop, and entered dual-desktop nirvana.
Don't you think they're playing it that way, on purpose, because they know that the majority of potential employees don't have any better option?
That just not true, however. The majority of potential employees have a current job, and hiring companies don't (in general) have the leverage to play hardball like that.
Just last night the wife made just this objection as I pulled out the Tablet while cooking dinner so I could check email. I shrugged, conceded the point in general, and then she grabbed the damned thing and went into the bedroom to catch up on stuff related to Heroes and Jericho!
Forget scientific data, I do analysis of hockey statistics for my blog, and Calc just doesn't cut it for my needs (web page table import, and >30K records). I didn't realize the latest office extends the record limit beyond 65K, I'll have to look into that...
No, stupid... it's too long for that. They'll simply lay the antenna down in the aisle. You'll just have to carefully step through it on your way to and from your seat.
Some people!
To be more precise, the rich get richer, and the poor get richer, just not as fast. It's that disparity that people focus on.
Quoth the article:
When fully implemented, it is supposed to give more than 100,000 of Kaiser's physicians and employees instant access to the medical records...
That 100,000 includes Kaiser employees, so the actual number of physicians should be much lower.
But then how confident can we be in their assertion that Peak Oil is 24 years off? It's hard to predict where oil production technology will lead...
Actually, economics can answer the $10 laundry service question quite well, you're just not looking at the whole picture. On the one side, you have the work, hassle, time and cost of doing laundry at home, vs. the hassle, transportation costs (in time and money), and cost of using a laundry service. The hassle is hardly trivial (bundling up all your laundry, taking it to the service, picking it up afterwards, etc., so it's not merely $10 vs. an hour of your time.
People make these types of decisions every day, they're just not typically conscious of it when they're doing it. And it's not so much that economics "explains" their decision, it just provides the tools for analyzing the results of those decisions.
Goodbye, dear family - if all goes well, I'll bring a D's tooth back for each of you.
Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.
At least you have some entities getting out ahead of this and cooperating with YouTube/Google Video to get their content out there, like the NHL. They're including current games, as well as selected "classics" from previous ones. They're even interested in incorporating user-generated content into the mix...
The US has been forced to contend with heinously patronizing and crude TV advertising for decades, but the UK's advertising industry has managed to create art out of the dirty act of selling.
What do this snaggle-toothed limey think he's doing, slandering our great American advertising industry? There is indeed a cream that rises to the top of the business, raising TV commercials above the mere act of shilling.