So this little shop in italy tries to make better pizza than all the other mafia-owned pizza joints... Gonna be hard to make pizza when you're bleeding from the stab wounds everyday. Police? Who need the police when you're making better pizza!
Well at least you can sniff out drugs. How do you sniff out processors? Are we going to train dogs to sniff out pcb's and other electronics too? I wonder if the dog could tell the difference between a 1.7Ghz Celeron and a 3.2 P4 Extreme Edition processor? That would be way cool.... I could get the dog to find me "repackaged" celeron chips that I could overclock to 3.2Ghz....
no, because google actually works and this one doesn't? just read the comments from other people. If they used google's code, we might actually have something to talk about. The search engine displayed here is worst than Altavista when it first came out.
funny how xfree86 returns "You have entered a search term that is likely to return adult content."
If you search for xfree87 or xfree76, you actually get results. Strangely, xfree69 doesn't tell you about adult content. What is wrong with 86? Was 1986 the year of pr0n?
yeah, but the quality and res on the xbox is gonna be much lower. NTSC has a limit of 512 horizontal scan lines. Besides, the xbox only has a 733Mhz processor and a GeForce3. That's less than half the speed of my current athlon box that happens to be 2 years old already! Not to mention, my slowest video card is still a GeForce4 4200... not sure if the xbox will offer the same amount of quality as my computer.
This is nothing too new. You can get a PowerCommander device that does this for more of the newer fuel-injected bikes (like my 2003 yamaha r6)
You can put a setting on the power commander to make flames come out of your exhaust if you really wanted to, but why go through the trouble? most people get the power commander so that the power output is more linear since some bikes only reach their full power band around the 10,000 rpm range which is much less used in normal street usage. Manufacturers build the bike for track usage, and usually don't keep in mind that 80% of the bikes are never going to be on the track.
I made my contribution to the Freenet political movement by calling that number and leaving a polite voicemail about my concerns. Others should do the same! We can slashdot a voice mailbox!
I left a message at Hani Durzy's voicemail box... the number leads directly there since he's out of office...
Or better yet, lets outsource the US Army! We can save loads of cash if we just get some kung-fu fighting chinese and arm them with a pistol made in russia in those child labor camps!
And how many farmers you know own an International? Most farmers I'm friends with own a little John Deere because it's cheap and good enough. Unless you have a 30000 acre farm, it's not really cost effective to own one of those huge ass things.
I have no clue who runs the IT department at my company. It's so damn big I barely even know who my boss's boss is. I do think they run server side virus filters, but not enough apparently. I still get tons of emails from random people with the subject "test".
sure, but you can't schedule appointments/meetings via OWA because you can't see the other attendant's schedules. You won't be able to pick a time where everyone is free because you can't see their schedules. If you're familiar with scheduling meetings via Outlook, you'd know what I mean. There is pretty much no way around this unless you ask the whole company to switch to something else.
If you run an MS machine, and don't know that you have to update regularly, you need your head checked. Besides, updating an MS machine really is easy.
Unless of course you are a corporate user and administrators don't give you the privileges to update the computer yourself. Seems like I'm gonna be infected tomorrow morning and there's nothing I can do about it. I could only use OWA, but then there's no way I could schedule meetings via OWA....
Ehh.... our company has 10 email servers. Only 1 of them is configured to use IMAP and my account is not on that particular email server. The only way is to use everything through OWA which isn't that great a solution since I still have to schedule meetings everyday.... Got a better solution?
Easy for casual email users, but not for corporate people like myself. All meetings are scheduled via Outlook and if I don't promptly respond to meeting requests, I get rough verbal feedback from my boss. Even though I do most of my development in Linux, I still need a windows machine to use Outlook 2003. You're lucky if your company doesn't force you to use Outlook for all the meeting/appointment scheduling. But unfortunately there is no solution here. Even Evolution is not a solution since it doesn't quite support calendaring very well. Would you care to offer more useful advice? Thanks!
Become an actor! At least they probably won't outsource hollywood actors to India.... unless the general population starts to enjoy sing and dance musicals instead of action movies....
I don't think innovation here is the point though. RealOne may have great innovations, but windows media is built into almost every computer that runs the microsoft windows. RealOne will simply wiped out because nobody will go through the trouble of downloading it if windows media is already available.
Just think on the Linux side. Mplayer is a great player, but you have to download & install it. Suppose KDE included some great media player bundled along and KDE had 90% of the Linux desktop market. Who in their right mind would go through the trouble of downloading and installing Mplayer even though Mplayer might have better innovation??
Sure a chair at $750 may seem expensive, but unlike computers, software, and employees, chairs tend to stick around a lot longer if taken care of. The chairs we had before the Aerons looked like they came out of the 70's show. Considering that the fabric chairs lasted about 20 years... if the Aerons were to last that long.... So if the Aerons were to last 20 something years, that's only a mere $35 a year. Not a bad investment. A $2000 computer usually gets junked after 2 years or so. Software at expensive corporate prices are being upgraded and bought everyday.... Each employee has 2 computers and lots of software. Probably costs $10,000 upwards to seat an employee at a desk, with 2 computers loaded with software and a desk. And about $5000 per year would be spent in hardware/software upgrades. So I'd think buying a chair at $750 over 20 years is a pretty good investment for the company whether or not it makes the employee happy or not.
Not to mention, we just replaced all our cubicle walls with newer walls (not that I could tell). I'm sure the cubical walls cost a lot more than that Aeron chair!
I don't agree... the reason we have herman miller chairs at our company is because our company wants to prove that they care for their employees. And my company isn't even a dotcom, it's a huge hotel group company that owns chains of hotels such as Holiday Inn, Crowne Plaza, etc. Everyone in the entire company has these chairs including the security officer at the bottom level and all the secretaries, programmers, and marketing people. I was there when they made the switch to Aeron chairs in fact. They used fabric chairs before the Aeron, but even the fabric chairs weren't cheap.... they were perhaps $150 cheaper than the Aerons so I guess the company decided that the $150 adjustment per chair wasn't so bad.
So what if I used my own hand held air horn for 4 minutes?
That's it... i'm gonna go buy a bunch of air horns, go to a major intersection, and set them all off. If you see a major wacko at some intersection blowing air horns, that'll be me.
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yeah okay that sounds good.
So this little shop in italy tries to make better pizza than all the other mafia-owned pizza joints... Gonna be hard to make pizza when you're bleeding from the stab wounds everyday. Police? Who need the police when you're making better pizza!
Well at least you can sniff out drugs. How do you sniff out processors? Are we going to train dogs to sniff out pcb's and other electronics too? I wonder if the dog could tell the difference between a 1.7Ghz Celeron and a 3.2 P4 Extreme Edition processor? That would be way cool.... I could get the dog to find me "repackaged" celeron chips that I could overclock to 3.2Ghz....
no, because google actually works and this one doesn't? just read the comments from other people. If they used google's code, we might actually have something to talk about. The search engine displayed here is worst than Altavista when it first came out.
funny how xfree86 returns "You have entered a search term that is likely to return adult content."
If you search for xfree87 or xfree76, you actually get results. Strangely, xfree69 doesn't tell you about adult content. What is wrong with 86? Was 1986 the year of pr0n?
that's the old search engine, not the new one they're going to be releasing soon. Jeez won't you read the article or something?
I think amazon has better promotions than a 300-yen promotion. That's like McDonalds giving away "free ketchup" for every large fries you order.
yeah, but the quality and res on the xbox is gonna be much lower. NTSC has a limit of 512 horizontal scan lines. Besides, the xbox only has a 733Mhz processor and a GeForce3. That's less than half the speed of my current athlon box that happens to be 2 years old already! Not to mention, my slowest video card is still a GeForce4 4200... not sure if the xbox will offer the same amount of quality as my computer.
This is nothing too new. You can get a PowerCommander device that does this for more of the newer fuel-injected bikes (like my 2003 yamaha r6)
You can put a setting on the power commander to make flames come out of your exhaust if you really wanted to, but why go through the trouble? most people get the power commander so that the power output is more linear since some bikes only reach their full power band around the 10,000 rpm range which is much less used in normal street usage. Manufacturers build the bike for track usage, and usually don't keep in mind that 80% of the bikes are never going to be on the track.
how many pistols do you own that have bullets with GPS guidance?
I made my contribution to the Freenet political movement by calling that number and leaving a polite voicemail about my concerns. Others should do the same! We can slashdot a voice mailbox!
I left a message at Hani Durzy's voicemail box... the number leads directly there since he's out of office...
Or better yet, lets outsource the US Army! We can save loads of cash if we just get some kung-fu fighting chinese and arm them with a pistol made in russia in those child labor camps!
I still think 2000 generic pcs are gonna be cheaper than 200 cray nodes.
And how many farmers you know own an International? Most farmers I'm friends with own a little John Deere because it's cheap and good enough. Unless you have a 30000 acre farm, it's not really cost effective to own one of those huge ass things.
I have no clue who runs the IT department at my company. It's so damn big I barely even know who my boss's boss is. I do think they run server side virus filters, but not enough apparently. I still get tons of emails from random people with the subject "test".
sure, but you can't schedule appointments/meetings via OWA because you can't see the other attendant's schedules. You won't be able to pick a time where everyone is free because you can't see their schedules. If you're familiar with scheduling meetings via Outlook, you'd know what I mean. There is pretty much no way around this unless you ask the whole company to switch to something else.
If you run an MS machine, and don't know that you have to update regularly, you need your head checked. Besides, updating an MS machine really is easy.
Unless of course you are a corporate user and administrators don't give you the privileges to update the computer yourself. Seems like I'm gonna be infected tomorrow morning and there's nothing I can do about it. I could only use OWA, but then there's no way I could schedule meetings via OWA....
Ehh.... our company has 10 email servers. Only 1 of them is configured to use IMAP and my account is not on that particular email server. The only way is to use everything through OWA which isn't that great a solution since I still have to schedule meetings everyday.... Got a better solution?
Easy for casual email users, but not for corporate people like myself. All meetings are scheduled via Outlook and if I don't promptly respond to meeting requests, I get rough verbal feedback from my boss. Even though I do most of my development in Linux, I still need a windows machine to use Outlook 2003. You're lucky if your company doesn't force you to use Outlook for all the meeting/appointment scheduling. But unfortunately there is no solution here. Even Evolution is not a solution since it doesn't quite support calendaring very well. Would you care to offer more useful advice? Thanks!
Become an actor! At least they probably won't outsource hollywood actors to India.... unless the general population starts to enjoy sing and dance musicals instead of action movies....
I don't think innovation here is the point though. RealOne may have great innovations, but windows media is built into almost every computer that runs the microsoft windows. RealOne will simply wiped out because nobody will go through the trouble of downloading it if windows media is already available.
Just think on the Linux side. Mplayer is a great player, but you have to download & install it. Suppose KDE included some great media player bundled along and KDE had 90% of the Linux desktop market. Who in their right mind would go through the trouble of downloading and installing Mplayer even though Mplayer might have better innovation??
I don't think giving away the recipe is the same as giving away source code.
Software runs exactly the same anywhere. Recipes require more skill from a proper chef to prepare it.
I've downloaded gcc and compiled it with ease before. I have the recipe for the basic souffle, but I still can't make it properly.
If I could download a recipe, click a button, and get a perfect souffle, then yeah recipes would be the same as code.
Sure a chair at $750 may seem expensive, but unlike computers, software, and employees, chairs tend to stick around a lot longer if taken care of. The chairs we had before the Aerons looked like they came out of the 70's show. Considering that the fabric chairs lasted about 20 years... if the Aerons were to last that long.... So if the Aerons were to last 20 something years, that's only a mere $35 a year. Not a bad investment. A $2000 computer usually gets junked after 2 years or so. Software at expensive corporate prices are being upgraded and bought everyday.... Each employee has 2 computers and lots of software. Probably costs $10,000 upwards to seat an employee at a desk, with 2 computers loaded with software and a desk. And about $5000 per year would be spent in hardware/software upgrades. So I'd think buying a chair at $750 over 20 years is a pretty good investment for the company whether or not it makes the employee happy or not.
Not to mention, we just replaced all our cubicle walls with newer walls (not that I could tell). I'm sure the cubical walls cost a lot more than that Aeron chair!
I don't agree... the reason we have herman miller chairs at our company is because our company wants to prove that they care for their employees. And my company isn't even a dotcom, it's a huge hotel group company that owns chains of hotels such as Holiday Inn, Crowne Plaza, etc. Everyone in the entire company has these chairs including the security officer at the bottom level and all the secretaries, programmers, and marketing people. I was there when they made the switch to Aeron chairs in fact. They used fabric chairs before the Aeron, but even the fabric chairs weren't cheap.... they were perhaps $150 cheaper than the Aerons so I guess the company decided that the $150 adjustment per chair wasn't so bad.
I'll use it when eclipse adopts it. All of our programmers use eclipse so without integration, I doubt we'll ever see it ever!
So what if I used my own hand held air horn for 4 minutes?
That's it... i'm gonna go buy a bunch of air horns, go to a major intersection, and set them all off. If you see a major wacko at some intersection blowing air horns, that'll be me.