Comment Re:Meanwhile, on amazon: (Score 1) 764
wow! the recommended products on the titles above leave no shadow of doubt about the target consumer of these. Just eew.
from the memo:
Disposable accounts are similar to the service a pre-paid phone offers to drug dealers (a disposable, untraceable communication device).
I wonder how did he come across this service? I mean, even if you think doing drugs is ok it's a questionable example to use in a corporate memo.
Given that this is a list of "Windows' Failed Rivals", OS/2 rightfully isn't on that list... IBM continued to release new OS/2 versions for nearly a decade after its initial release.
Did they ever manage to get it to print?
Well, if sending LIVE people...is this voluntary, or can we vote who goes to Mars one way.
It's Mars, mate. Not Australia.
Why do so many articles ignore the fact that there is more to Flash than video?
Because there is less to Flash than video
If you are stupid enough to use flash to build your web site when HTML would have done just as well (drop down menus, anyone?) then you deserve it.
Heck, the other day I turned-down a vendor in favour of a competitor because their web management portal required flash. It wasn't just pretty reports or anything like that - the whole bloody site is flash! you can't even see the menu.
I agree. My Dell Inspiron 1501 is 3 years old and I was ready to replace it because of a failing hard disk.
Looking for a disk replacement I came across a Silicon Power 128GB 2.5" MLC SSD for A$330. Since it is the same size of the disk shipped with my laptop I can still fit all my stuff and my Ubuntu installation boots in 8 seconds.
The speed difference is still brutal, even with an encrypted home directory. I am very happy with the upgrade and don't see myself shopping for a new laptop for the time being.
sitting next to someone that is on his 3rd iphone due to screen breakage
So... this person broke 3 phones and didn't give up? Do me a favour, will you? When you get a chance break this one and let me know if he/she gets a new one.
This is a mostly USA site so it's pushing it to expect everyone here to know slang from the almost the other side of the world
It's pushing it to expect Americans to know *anything* about the other side of the world.
I'm assuming that Skype plans on making money off of this somehow, so how are they doing that?
When you buy SkypeOut credit you can call "normal" (land lines, cellular) phones from skype. It's dirt cheap to call the UK from Australia, for instance.
Needing a computer to make skype calls limits your use and so making skype more ubiquitous is obviously one of their strategies. Just look at all skype USB handsets on the market. Look at the inclusion of Skype on the Nokia N900 (which works over your mobile data plan btw, not only wifi).
I'd make a guess that this SDK will make its way to other mobile devices sooner rather than later. The easier it is to come across skype the more likely it is that some day you will use it to make SkypeOut calls or perhaps get SkypeIn numbers.
Postgre has no such level of support either. So when you missions critical DB goes south either you better be able to fix it or you had better have a lot of friends you can wake up in the middle of the night.
There are companies out there doing 24x7 support for Postgres. Fujitsu Australia is one of them
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