Or you can get Lingo which gives you unlimited calling to US, Canada, and 21 countries in Western Europe and some others like South Korea for $21.95 a month. Vonage always was a ripoff compared to most other VOIP companies, they just spent huge amounts on marketing. I hate Verizon and Vonage equally.
My mistake, actually I left out an important detail. The friend I mentioned, my passenger, was a Taiwanese citizen holding both American and Canadian visas.
I've had the opposite experience. I just went from Seattle to Vancouver and back this weekend. The Canadians searched my car and wasted almost an hour of my time I entered. They asked all kinds of personal questions about my work, where I've been living for the past few years, the relationship with my friend, etc. On the way back, the American border patrol woman just asked me why I went to Canada, looked at my passport, and said "you're set."
If I saw v1 + v2, how would I know if it's adding the numerical vectors v1 and v2 or appending v2 to the end of v1 ? What if v1 and v2 are not numerical? Or do you think people should just intuitively know that for numerical vectors the + operator means element-wise addition and otherwise it means concatenation?
No, it's quite the opposite. They are trying to unlock their file format by standardizing it. Thanks to IBM that won't happen, and MS will continue to use their non-standard format (don't ever think they'll drop it just because it's not standardized). The only loser is the consumer.
Thanks for the "hint". I understand the importance of sufficient lighting, which is why my blinds are open during the day and my lights are on during the night. In fact, I wouldn't even consider computing in a dark room. Despite this, I still don't like staring directly at a bright light source so all my flatpanels are on brightness setting 0.
This is a matter of opinion. I work on a computer every day and I prefer dark colors because they're much easier on the eyes. I generally use dark themes and turn my monitor brightness settings very low, because staring at a lightbulb all day gives me a headache.
Actually, when MS was sued it was using both these formats in Office. And MS had the strange reaction to pull both formats out of Office making it look like Adobe was pushing for PDF to be excluded from Office. Adobe never wanted that (and must really hate MS pulled it).
What do you mean Adobe never wanted that? Have you looked at the article?
"Adobe wants the software giant to remove the PDF "save as" feature from its beta version of Office 2007."
"Adobe has threatened to file an antitrust complaint against Microsoft with the European Commission if the software giant includes the PDF "save as" feature in its Office 2007"
Get your facts straight. The reason Microsoft created their own file format is that Adobe tried to sue them when they included "Save as PDF" capabilities in Office 12. Despite being the most requested feature in Office by far, Microsoft was forced to remove it and make it an optional free download.
We've already had this technology for years in the form of an original Xbox with XBMC. It only costs 85$ to get a used Xbox nowadays. I'm not going to pay $400 for a device that does the same thing, only plays slightly better games.
The question is why hasn't anyone released a console that does this out of the box? Why do we have to hack an Xbox to unlock its potential?
I don't understand how having IE installed on the operating system hurts anybody. Nobody is forced to use it. I use Firefox for most of my browsing, unless a webpage doesn't work - speaking of which:
Why is it Microsoft's fault that some people write code that only works on IE? When I do web development I always make sure my pages work on both IE and Firefox. I do this using MS tools.
Finally, why is it "surprising" that Firefox does well in Windows? Are you saying that most programs don't work well in Windows? Or are you surprised that the Firefox coders were competent enough to port it to Windows?
Why would you want to completely take Internet Explorer out anyway? It's used for the windows shell. What's next, requiring MS to release a copy of windows without the windows kernel?
The argument was about using it as a web browser, and you can use Firefox just fine in windows.
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Reliability. Not magnetic, no moving parts.
100 MB/sec is quite fast, and in fact is faster than the read speed of most hard drives.
Yeah it's called "caucasian". Note that the Caucasus mountains, the origin of the word, are IN Russia.
Or you can get Lingo which gives you unlimited calling to US, Canada, and 21 countries in Western Europe and some others like South Korea for $21.95 a month. Vonage always was a ripoff compared to most other VOIP companies, they just spent huge amounts on marketing. I hate Verizon and Vonage equally.
My mistake, actually I left out an important detail. The friend I mentioned, my passenger, was a Taiwanese citizen holding both American and Canadian visas.
I've had the opposite experience. I just went from Seattle to Vancouver and back this weekend. The Canadians searched my car and wasted almost an hour of my time I entered. They asked all kinds of personal questions about my work, where I've been living for the past few years, the relationship with my friend, etc. On the way back, the American border patrol woman just asked me why I went to Canada, looked at my passport, and said "you're set."
If I saw v1 + v2, how would I know if it's adding the numerical vectors v1 and v2 or appending v2 to the end of v1 ? What if v1 and v2 are not numerical? Or do you think people should just intuitively know that for numerical vectors the + operator means element-wise addition and otherwise it means concatenation?
No, it's quite the opposite. They are trying to unlock their file format by standardizing it. Thanks to IBM that won't happen, and MS will continue to use their non-standard format (don't ever think they'll drop it just because it's not standardized). The only loser is the consumer.
Thanks for the "hint". I understand the importance of sufficient lighting, which is why my blinds are open during the day and my lights are on during the night. In fact, I wouldn't even consider computing in a dark room. Despite this, I still don't like staring directly at a bright light source so all my flatpanels are on brightness setting 0.
This is a matter of opinion. I work on a computer every day and I prefer dark colors because they're much easier on the eyes. I generally use dark themes and turn my monitor brightness settings very low, because staring at a lightbulb all day gives me a headache.
Actually, when MS was sued it was using both these formats in Office. And MS had the strange reaction to pull both formats out of Office making it look like Adobe was pushing for PDF to be excluded from Office. Adobe never wanted that (and must really hate MS pulled it).
What do you mean Adobe never wanted that? Have you looked at the article?
"Adobe wants the software giant to remove the PDF "save as" feature from its beta version of Office 2007."
"Adobe has threatened to file an antitrust complaint against Microsoft with the European Commission if the software giant includes the PDF "save as" feature in its Office 2007"
Get your facts straight. The reason Microsoft created their own file format is that Adobe tried to sue them when they included "Save as PDF" capabilities in Office 12. Despite being the most requested feature in Office by far, Microsoft was forced to remove it and make it an optional free download.
We've already had this technology for years in the form of an original Xbox with XBMC. It only costs 85$ to get a used Xbox nowadays. I'm not going to pay $400 for a device that does the same thing, only plays slightly better games. The question is why hasn't anyone released a console that does this out of the box? Why do we have to hack an Xbox to unlock its potential?
I don't understand how having IE installed on the operating system hurts anybody. Nobody is forced to use it. I use Firefox for most of my browsing, unless a webpage doesn't work - speaking of which: Why is it Microsoft's fault that some people write code that only works on IE? When I do web development I always make sure my pages work on both IE and Firefox. I do this using MS tools. Finally, why is it "surprising" that Firefox does well in Windows? Are you saying that most programs don't work well in Windows? Or are you surprised that the Firefox coders were competent enough to port it to Windows?
Why would you want to completely take Internet Explorer out anyway? It's used for the windows shell. What's next, requiring MS to release a copy of windows without the windows kernel?
The argument was about using it as a web browser, and you can use Firefox just fine in windows.