This is fricken retarded. The keyboard ergonomics are crap. The screen, wtf? Why limit it to 10" on a 7" display, you might as well make it 100", I'm still positioning all windows within the 7" area so I don't have to scroll around like a bxtch. I hate it when I remote into a machine and the screen resolution is larger than what I can see on my screen. It's a pain in the ass and as mentioned before, I just end up positioning everything into the area I can see and using alt+tab to switch between windows.
Perhaps I'm not the target market, but who is? I hope they didn't spend too much money on this, if I were ever subjected to something as asinine as this I would probably start killing...
Or any OS... Why just the filter on Mac? I suppose when you only care about the OS that you are working on it makes sense however... I'm not starting a flame war on Mac and gaming but I hate it when I see a game I like while browsing on a specific OS and find out it is only x compatible.
I wasn't aware of any software that Google developed of which was open source. As far as I knew, there was an API available but the actual code was still closed.
"Red Hat should be doing $5 billion, not $500 million."
Not really in relation to your comment but, WOW. A CEO who thinks their company should be making more, that's newsworthy. He must have beat out a couple of the others applying for the job who thought 500M was okay.
I do agree with your comment though, how is he going to do it? Saying and doing are two completely different things. Talk is cheap.
"Halo 3
Let's all just agree that the fight is finished. No matter what happens after the end of the credits in "Halo 3," we all should be done with this and move on. If you want to continue playing multiplayer, that's fine, but the marketing blitz, the soda, the Burger King promotion, and everything else that came along to hype this bad boy should all be left in 2007, not to be seen again until "Halo 4" inevitably comes out.
I don't know if it's different down in the US but I haven't heard anything about Halo 3 for the past month or so with the exception of adverts in the walmart flyer.
I wouldn't use the wireless anyways. wireless internet just can't be relied on for continuous uptime. Not that you need continuous uptime but if you are in the middle of an hour long game and the wireless goes down for a couple seconds...
If you look directly above this comment, you will notice a nickname preceded by the word, "By." Now, scroll up a bit and look for the same thing in the original comment that you posted a reply to. Shockingly, you may notice that the nicknames are different.
Continuing on, I see two quotes that are from the article that is referenced:
Retailers must return to the level of compliance in previous years
Ummm, those funny little lines around words are called quotation marks, the mark a "quote". If you look at the "quotes" and do a search based on those in the article you will find those "quotes". Perhaps you are too important to read the article but important enough for everyone to listen... You should me modded down for wasting our time.
Lenovo has done nothing but drag the thinkpad name through the mud. Our organization runs all IBM for laptops and desktops but we are switching soon because 50% of the laptops we have been receiving over the last year or two end up getting sent back because of random problems that are completely hardware related.
I consider myself green and am looking into installing Solar when the price drops a bit more.
So in other words you are like everyone else, green as long as it isn't an inconvenience.
I'm not trying to flame you in particular but I hear a lot of people saying how green they are but aren't doing more than the average person. I buy the low energy bulbs, recycle, try to only drive when I need to and what not but I don't consider that being green; I consider it being economical. Al Gore is trying to save the planet but not at an inconvenience to him, he uses far more energy than the average person does.
I'm wondering how this new system solves this. I don't see anything that you mention being solved by merely attaching a barcode to something and having it scanned by this machine that counting wouldn't do in the first place. What I do see is a lot of time having to be spent implementing it (training, barcodes, machines, etc...). This all costs time as well and there is no benefit that counting won't also solve.
Ummm, is anyone else wondering how much this cost? I have an idea that costs nothing, it's a bit archaic but why don't they just count the damn sponges and equipment before and after the procedure.
No I haven't, and I have to agree that the airlines are still holding their breath on the profit. What I'm trying to say is that using the excuse, "You are bothering the other passengers" is bullshit considering they already have the mechanism installed to do such a thing. I guess it's only bothering the other passengers when it isn't profitable for them.
I'm pretty sure they don't care about bothering the other passengers, why else would they have had seat back phones for as long as I can remember? It's just a ruse to make people use those phones as opposed to cheap-ass VOIP.
The problem is that no actual value was added. A gold subscripion pre-update is exactly the same as one post-update. No features were added, and nothing was changed. Demos are available at the same time they were before.
Depends on how you look at it. If you are paying 4.99/month for gold and it is taking you longer to download a demo because a bunch of non-paying silver accounts are downloading at the same time, removing the silver accounts for the first week and upping the total possible bandwidth is value added.
Actually, I believe it was organizations but it isn't really telling us much. I'm just saying that perhaps they could have expanded on it more. For example, lets take the same three users/organizations based on installations:
User 1: Ubuntu installed 97 times, RHEL installed 1 time
User 2: Ubuntu installed 1 time
User 3: RHEL installed 1 time
Now, since there is only a checkbox and no room for a number, RHEL still comes out looking like a winner with 67% even though it is really only 3% installation rate. Personally, I just think it's a retarded way of looking at it. In looking at just who has what installed you aren't really getting the larger picture. They could have RHEL installed just for testing purposes or as an email server while they are using Ubuntu on the desktop. Personally I have Ubuntu, RHEL, Fedora, Win2k/xp/2k3/vista all for testing purposes but which do I use more often? Ubuntu and XP dependent upon what I am doing. The others are only used for testing purposes but according to this survey I use all equally.
Key word being *many*. My brother is 18 and still hasn't bothered to get an id. I suppose he could ask one of his friends who has an id to pick up the game for him much like a 16 year old could.
I'm part of the "who cares" crowd. The only way this affects me is my tax dollars that go into these useless studies. It isn't illegal, why are we spending our money on this shxt? When it becomes illegal then knock yourselves out on your little sting operations.
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This is fricken retarded. The keyboard ergonomics are crap. The screen, wtf? Why limit it to 10" on a 7" display, you might as well make it 100", I'm still positioning all windows within the 7" area so I don't have to scroll around like a bxtch. I hate it when I remote into a machine and the screen resolution is larger than what I can see on my screen. It's a pain in the ass and as mentioned before, I just end up positioning everything into the area I can see and using alt+tab to switch between windows.
Perhaps I'm not the target market, but who is? I hope they didn't spend too much money on this, if I were ever subjected to something as asinine as this I would probably start killing...
Or any OS... Why just the filter on Mac? I suppose when you only care about the OS that you are working on it makes sense however... I'm not starting a flame war on Mac and gaming but I hate it when I see a game I like while browsing on a specific OS and find out it is only x compatible.
FBI shuts down telephone companies for selling drugs to children.
Who in their right mind would screw with the FBI knowing the information they can find/create on you?
Completely off topic but:
Open Source Program Manager, Google, Inc.
I wasn't aware of any software that Google developed of which was open source. As far as I knew, there was an API available but the actual code was still closed.
Not really in relation to your comment but, WOW. A CEO who thinks their company should be making more, that's newsworthy. He must have beat out a couple of the others applying for the job who thought 500M was okay.
I do agree with your comment though, how is he going to do it? Saying and doing are two completely different things. Talk is cheap.
Let's all just agree that the fight is finished. No matter what happens after the end of the credits in "Halo 3," we all should be done with this and move on. If you want to continue playing multiplayer, that's fine, but the marketing blitz, the soda, the Burger King promotion, and everything else that came along to hype this bad boy should all be left in 2007, not to be seen again until "Halo 4" inevitably comes out.
I don't know if it's different down in the US but I haven't heard anything about Halo 3 for the past month or so with the exception of adverts in the walmart flyer.
I wouldn't use the wireless anyways. wireless internet just can't be relied on for continuous uptime. Not that you need continuous uptime but if you are in the middle of an hour long game and the wireless goes down for a couple seconds...
Continuing on, I see two quotes that are from the article that is referenced:
Retailers must return to the level of compliance in previous years
Mediawise Recommend Games for Children and Teens
The rest is babbling on behalf of the OP.
Ummm, those funny little lines around words are called quotation marks, the mark a "quote". If you look at the "quotes" and do a search based on those in the article you will find those "quotes". Perhaps you are too important to read the article but important enough for everyone to listen... You should me modded down for wasting our time.
Lenovo has done nothing but drag the thinkpad name through the mud. Our organization runs all IBM for laptops and desktops but we are switching soon because 50% of the laptops we have been receiving over the last year or two end up getting sent back because of random problems that are completely hardware related.
Ummm, so something that isn't ruled out in a fire that happened is the cause of batteries being banned?
I heard a couple years ago about a plane crash because of pilot error, lets ban pilots! Our country would be way safer without pilots.
So in other words you are like everyone else, green as long as it isn't an inconvenience.
I'm not trying to flame you in particular but I hear a lot of people saying how green they are but aren't doing more than the average person. I buy the low energy bulbs, recycle, try to only drive when I need to and what not but I don't consider that being green; I consider it being economical. Al Gore is trying to save the planet but not at an inconvenience to him, he uses far more energy than the average person does.
I'm wondering how this new system solves this. I don't see anything that you mention being solved by merely attaching a barcode to something and having it scanned by this machine that counting wouldn't do in the first place. What I do see is a lot of time having to be spent implementing it (training, barcodes, machines, etc...). This all costs time as well and there is no benefit that counting won't also solve.
Ummm, is anyone else wondering how much this cost? I have an idea that costs nothing, it's a bit archaic but why don't they just count the damn sponges and equipment before and after the procedure.
No I haven't, and I have to agree that the airlines are still holding their breath on the profit. What I'm trying to say is that using the excuse, "You are bothering the other passengers" is bullshit considering they already have the mechanism installed to do such a thing. I guess it's only bothering the other passengers when it isn't profitable for them.
I'm pretty sure they don't care about bothering the other passengers, why else would they have had seat back phones for as long as I can remember? It's just a ruse to make people use those phones as opposed to cheap-ass VOIP.
Depends on how you look at it. If you are paying 4.99/month for gold and it is taking you longer to download a demo because a bunch of non-paying silver accounts are downloading at the same time, removing the silver accounts for the first week and upping the total possible bandwidth is value added.
Because I'm sure they are going through so much trouble of finding him so they can give him a pat on the back...
I hear there is such a boat that can garner 100% of it's power from wind. I think it's called a sailboat.
Yes, I do realize that sailboats are a lot lighter than cargo ships which is most likely the reason for only 50% of the power.
So in other words, "Use our product online but continue paying for other software to edit offline."
Doesn't really solve any problems that aren't already solved from what I can see.
Actually, I believe it was organizations but it isn't really telling us much. I'm just saying that perhaps they could have expanded on it more. For example, lets take the same three users/organizations based on installations:
User 1: Ubuntu installed 97 times, RHEL installed 1 time
User 2: Ubuntu installed 1 time
User 3: RHEL installed 1 time
Now, since there is only a checkbox and no room for a number, RHEL still comes out looking like a winner with 67% even though it is really only 3% installation rate. Personally, I just think it's a retarded way of looking at it. In looking at just who has what installed you aren't really getting the larger picture. They could have RHEL installed just for testing purposes or as an email server while they are using Ubuntu on the desktop. Personally I have Ubuntu, RHEL, Fedora, Win2k/xp/2k3/vista all for testing purposes but which do I use more often? Ubuntu and XP dependent upon what I am doing. The others are only used for testing purposes but according to this survey I use all equally.
That's all well and good but shouldn't it still be based on 100%?
Lets take three users:
User 1 uses Ubuntu and Red Hat
User 2 uses Ubuntu
User 3 uses Red Hat
Given this you would assume that it was a 50/50 split but given the numbers what you are going to get is:
Ubuntu = 2/3 = 67%
Red Hat = 2/3 = 67%
WTF kind of math is that? Shouldn't it really be:
Ubuntu = 2/4 = 50%
Red Hat = 2/4 = 50%
I'm guessing it will help poor ailing AT&T with the money they can charge for using their cell towers.
Key word being *many*. My brother is 18 and still hasn't bothered to get an id. I suppose he could ask one of his friends who has an id to pick up the game for him much like a 16 year old could.
I'm part of the "who cares" crowd. The only way this affects me is my tax dollars that go into these useless studies. It isn't illegal, why are we spending our money on this shxt? When it becomes illegal then knock yourselves out on your little sting operations.
The coverage looks to be around major cities in the US.
http://www.showmycoverage.com/mycoverage.jsp?id=A921ZON