At the time I worked for ETAK they used a combo of GPS and some deal you put on your tires to compensate for the distortion in the GPS signal back then. When Clinton removed that distortion I think all of the products improved by leaps and bounds in usability. You still had CD-ROMS in your trunk and if you went into another city you had to swap disks. Great for a traveling salesman I suppose, or for a rental car, but for the average person? too much hassle.
Etak before they were bought by Teleatlas. There was a number of ways to downgrade a road so that the route choices avoided it.
There were cases when our company sent mappers into urban areas where they felt there lives were in danger and we never really did anything about it. Problem was (in my opinion of course) that we had icons to establish an area was rich and didn't want random traffic but no icon to say the area was dangerous (from a mapping point of view the same icon would would have worked) and we were afraid of the appearance of racism or classism or whatever.
Sounds like some of these decision makers spend too much time in the airport.
Fact is that comfortable atmosphere is gonna suck when it comes to making phone calls or if you have a loud Harold in the group. Certain jobs sort of require a lot of typing (engineers, writers) and this setup would be a nightmare.
Perhaps if they could hire artists that produced a number of hit singles instead of one or two and the rest as filler they'd make more money. Increasing quality is a time-proven answer to competition.
Perhaps if they cut back on the price they charge for a cds some folks would return to buying cds with their higher sound quality. Decreasing costs is a time-proven answer to competition.
Perhaps if they stopped signing artists to multi-album deals that inevitably kill their creativity (Prince, George Michael, Michael Jackson). Cutting stupid expenses is a time-proven answer to competition.
Why the music industry thinks that regular business practices don't apply to them escapes me.
Very, very few people will code by hand. It'll all be done by Blogger and similar stuff with templates. So making it as complicated as possible will create job security for a few and be invisible to others. Just make sure it works.
Why can't someone sneak in a tag or javascript that causes IE to dump, thus generating migration away from the standard non-compliance beast?
Delaying the release of Leopard are probably feeling pretty stupid right now.
I think the one fair comparison between Leopard and Vista is that the bulk of people have no problem with the OS but there is certainly a problem that is hitting enough folks in both camps that the companies should be embarrassed.
When the first two movies were made (New Hope and Empire) the impression was given of an ongoing adventure serial, one that could continue on and on. Then somewhere in there Lucas burned out and made Jedi to wrap things up, than started denying his quotes of a second trilogy. If you can't afford Han Solo's salary leave him in carbonite for a few episodes. Of the Princess is stoned out on coke bring in a new character. Keep the thing running.
Lucas followed Isaac Asimov's footsteps in that the later works were trying to tie up loose ends and fill in gaps that nobody really wanted filled in. Our imagination filled that stuff in just fine thank you. Give us new adventures, don't destroy our imaginations by filling in backstory.
The thing this article misses is the fact that systems are shipping with Vista and not everyone is reverting to XP so the installed base is growing and growing and at some point (probably past) it will be unstoppable. Slow adoption does not mean failure it means slow adoption.
And those people buying Windows XP. Well they may be reverting to XP but they are going backwards and they know it and nobody is happy with an old OS forever. These people are going to XP not OSX or Linux (at least not in dangerous numbers). They will eventually upgrade again. This gives Microsoft time to fix Vista while giving them more cash (for that box of XP and then the vista mark 2). Yeah they take a hit in the public relations but beyond that their dominance remains inevitable.
Now if OSX was able to boot of a generic Vista Box you might have seen something different but it's not, not really.
I could be wrong but I think Unearthed Acana came out to normalize and add all the stuff from Dragon Magazine.
I doubt it's a coincidence that Gary Gygax was outmanuevered out of TSR around the time Version 2 was being written.
Who reads the manuals? Who reads the man pages?
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Perhaps a manual is the wrong format for the information.
Chunk it up into bite-size bits by topic and make it accessible from a command line instead of over there on the books shelf and you'll find Linux/Unix users reading the important bits. You'll find the manual/man pages grow in number because it's easier to write a three to four page chunk than an entire manual. So eventually it'll be like a Linux wikipedia in your distro with corrections and everything which are not really practical in an old style manual.
Anyone who thinks 9/11 was a conspiracy has a whole lot more faith in the competance of Government than I do. I've watched the Government in action my entire life and competance isn't a word a would normally use.
There have been news reports of an illegal smuggling of Iraqi terrorists across the Mexican border. Most likely they were aided and abedded by someone in the USA and the laws simply do not cover this as a crime other than human trafficing until a terrorist attack has been committed.
My guess is that loophole has been closed for a specific person or two.
The government can already cease your assets and sell them with little recourse in the name of the drug war which started long before the Sept 11 attack. Freezing at least allows you the time to win the case and get your stuff, in the drug war if your boat or car is ceased you are basically told to buy it when auctioned and try to recoup that cost during the trials. That's absurd.
The fact that this has yet to go up to the Supreme Court or been a flood of articles in various papers throughout the nation however indicates that the Vogon's in charge don't just use their potentially abusive powers indescriminately.
But the original poster got it backwards.
Microsoft was designed to appeal to the masses rather than the elites. The elites being Linux/unix for technical elite, Apple for cooler than though artist elite types. This is similar to the way McDonalds and Budwiser and big dumb action movies were designed for the masses because the masses mean larger sales.
The USA was designed (by elites oddly enough) with government by the masses for the masses and not with some elites telling us what to do all the time. We've enshrined our right to mouth off and tell the government they suck as well as the right to carry a gun in case the government doesn't like our mouthing off. Most other countries are run by elites. Even democracies in Europe have elites trying to force the EU upon member states. Yes the US has elites (in both parties) trying to increase government power all the time, the post would be far to long to cover all the shades-of-gray.
And in almost all examples above the elites generally dislike or hate the product/nation designed for the masses with a passion that is sometimes irrational.
Microsoft probably doesn't care as the mac market is fairly small by comparison.
My question is, if Vista ran on Intel Macs with no virus issues and no stability problems could Windows use that to say the problems with Windows are not really them but with the windows hardware guys. Yeah it might be bull but it might be a useful tool to bash the windows oems when it comes time to deciding prices.
The space on a typical roof or building is insufficient for mechanized farming. So basically you're talking hydroponics.
This solution is better because it doesn't require buying manhattan property (some of the most expensive in the world). It uses space currently unused.
This solution is better because it might be possible to use waste from toilets in the building to help provide nightsoil and the plants might provide some oxygen for the building in return.
This solution is better because it can be tried on a single roof rather than sinking the billions and years required to build one using the suggested farm tower method. Billions that put the cost of brining produce from out of town to shame. If the single roof works you'll see someone finding a way to build prefabricated systems that can be helicoptered onto prepositioned pylons to make installation quick and easy. You might see a single company owning a dozen rooftop greenhouses or you might see coops tending their own gardens if the price came down enough.
This solution is better because if the crops on one roof get infected somehow you don't lose it all, as you might if they are all in a single building.
This solution is better because if it succeeds it doesn't displace office buildings and/or homes.
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At the time I worked for ETAK they used a combo of GPS and some deal you put on your tires to compensate for the distortion in the GPS signal back then. When Clinton removed that distortion I think all of the products improved by leaps and bounds in usability. You still had CD-ROMS in your trunk and if you went into another city you had to swap disks. Great for a traveling salesman I suppose, or for a rental car, but for the average person? too much hassle.
Etak before they were bought by Teleatlas. There was a number of ways to downgrade a road so that the route choices avoided it. There were cases when our company sent mappers into urban areas where they felt there lives were in danger and we never really did anything about it. Problem was (in my opinion of course) that we had icons to establish an area was rich and didn't want random traffic but no icon to say the area was dangerous (from a mapping point of view the same icon would would have worked) and we were afraid of the appearance of racism or classism or whatever.
Sounds like some of these decision makers spend too much time in the airport. Fact is that comfortable atmosphere is gonna suck when it comes to making phone calls or if you have a loud Harold in the group. Certain jobs sort of require a lot of typing (engineers, writers) and this setup would be a nightmare.
Perhaps if they could hire artists that produced a number of hit singles instead of one or two and the rest as filler they'd make more money. Increasing quality is a time-proven answer to competition. Perhaps if they cut back on the price they charge for a cds some folks would return to buying cds with their higher sound quality. Decreasing costs is a time-proven answer to competition. Perhaps if they stopped signing artists to multi-album deals that inevitably kill their creativity (Prince, George Michael, Michael Jackson). Cutting stupid expenses is a time-proven answer to competition. Why the music industry thinks that regular business practices don't apply to them escapes me.
If everyone who uses standards did such a thing the result might be a bit different. Putting best viewed using Netscape or whatever is a joke.
Very, very few people will code by hand. It'll all be done by Blogger and similar stuff with templates. So making it as complicated as possible will create job security for a few and be invisible to others. Just make sure it works. Why can't someone sneak in a tag or javascript that causes IE to dump, thus generating migration away from the standard non-compliance beast?
Delaying the release of Leopard are probably feeling pretty stupid right now. I think the one fair comparison between Leopard and Vista is that the bulk of people have no problem with the OS but there is certainly a problem that is hitting enough folks in both camps that the companies should be embarrassed.
When the first two movies were made (New Hope and Empire) the impression was given of an ongoing adventure serial, one that could continue on and on. Then somewhere in there Lucas burned out and made Jedi to wrap things up, than started denying his quotes of a second trilogy. If you can't afford Han Solo's salary leave him in carbonite for a few episodes. Of the Princess is stoned out on coke bring in a new character. Keep the thing running. Lucas followed Isaac Asimov's footsteps in that the later works were trying to tie up loose ends and fill in gaps that nobody really wanted filled in. Our imagination filled that stuff in just fine thank you. Give us new adventures, don't destroy our imaginations by filling in backstory.
Xbox 360 has no Q and E keys. )c; Maybe they've solved the problem on the PC version.
I love Call of Duty 4 but I really miss being able to peek and shoot around corners without exposing my entire torso.
Works for everything I've tried it on. I imagine other browsers have a similar function or will soon enough if this sort of thing becomes common.
The thing this article misses is the fact that systems are shipping with Vista and not everyone is reverting to XP so the installed base is growing and growing and at some point (probably past) it will be unstoppable. Slow adoption does not mean failure it means slow adoption. And those people buying Windows XP. Well they may be reverting to XP but they are going backwards and they know it and nobody is happy with an old OS forever. These people are going to XP not OSX or Linux (at least not in dangerous numbers). They will eventually upgrade again. This gives Microsoft time to fix Vista while giving them more cash (for that box of XP and then the vista mark 2). Yeah they take a hit in the public relations but beyond that their dominance remains inevitable. Now if OSX was able to boot of a generic Vista Box you might have seen something different but it's not, not really.
Seems to me that if you had phone over internet working you'd have the workings of a phone (assuming there is an audio in).
Does the guy filing this stuff even know who all of the famous people are?
Often didn't even bother with backgrounds at all. They would just animate in some streaky lines instead.
I could be wrong but I think Unearthed Acana came out to normalize and add all the stuff from Dragon Magazine. I doubt it's a coincidence that Gary Gygax was outmanuevered out of TSR around the time Version 2 was being written.
Perhaps a manual is the wrong format for the information. Chunk it up into bite-size bits by topic and make it accessible from a command line instead of over there on the books shelf and you'll find Linux/Unix users reading the important bits. You'll find the manual/man pages grow in number because it's easier to write a three to four page chunk than an entire manual. So eventually it'll be like a Linux wikipedia in your distro with corrections and everything which are not really practical in an old style manual.
Anyone who thinks 9/11 was a conspiracy has a whole lot more faith in the competance of Government than I do. I've watched the Government in action my entire life and competance isn't a word a would normally use.
There have been news reports of an illegal smuggling of Iraqi terrorists across the Mexican border. Most likely they were aided and abedded by someone in the USA and the laws simply do not cover this as a crime other than human trafficing until a terrorist attack has been committed. My guess is that loophole has been closed for a specific person or two.
The government can already cease your assets and sell them with little recourse in the name of the drug war which started long before the Sept 11 attack. Freezing at least allows you the time to win the case and get your stuff, in the drug war if your boat or car is ceased you are basically told to buy it when auctioned and try to recoup that cost during the trials. That's absurd. The fact that this has yet to go up to the Supreme Court or been a flood of articles in various papers throughout the nation however indicates that the Vogon's in charge don't just use their potentially abusive powers indescriminately.
I use the XBox for games. I just wish they'd port Civilization.
Do you run the OS straight using BootCamp or virtually? Might make a difference.
But the original poster got it backwards. Microsoft was designed to appeal to the masses rather than the elites. The elites being Linux/unix for technical elite, Apple for cooler than though artist elite types. This is similar to the way McDonalds and Budwiser and big dumb action movies were designed for the masses because the masses mean larger sales. The USA was designed (by elites oddly enough) with government by the masses for the masses and not with some elites telling us what to do all the time. We've enshrined our right to mouth off and tell the government they suck as well as the right to carry a gun in case the government doesn't like our mouthing off. Most other countries are run by elites. Even democracies in Europe have elites trying to force the EU upon member states. Yes the US has elites (in both parties) trying to increase government power all the time, the post would be far to long to cover all the shades-of-gray. And in almost all examples above the elites generally dislike or hate the product/nation designed for the masses with a passion that is sometimes irrational.
Microsoft probably doesn't care as the mac market is fairly small by comparison. My question is, if Vista ran on Intel Macs with no virus issues and no stability problems could Windows use that to say the problems with Windows are not really them but with the windows hardware guys. Yeah it might be bull but it might be a useful tool to bash the windows oems when it comes time to deciding prices.
The space on a typical roof or building is insufficient for mechanized farming. So basically you're talking hydroponics. This solution is better because it doesn't require buying manhattan property (some of the most expensive in the world). It uses space currently unused. This solution is better because it might be possible to use waste from toilets in the building to help provide nightsoil and the plants might provide some oxygen for the building in return. This solution is better because it can be tried on a single roof rather than sinking the billions and years required to build one using the suggested farm tower method. Billions that put the cost of brining produce from out of town to shame. If the single roof works you'll see someone finding a way to build prefabricated systems that can be helicoptered onto prepositioned pylons to make installation quick and easy. You might see a single company owning a dozen rooftop greenhouses or you might see coops tending their own gardens if the price came down enough. This solution is better because if the crops on one roof get infected somehow you don't lose it all, as you might if they are all in a single building. This solution is better because if it succeeds it doesn't displace office buildings and/or homes.