@Cerberus I just mean that Google is the market leader and the default map solution for most people. So unless Microsoft can come up with a genuinely better product, they won't be able to compete. So far I like what I see. It is very smooth.
@Robusto Yeah, agreed. MS wins at zooming, and the zoomed-out maps look better, at least the land areas. But Google's seas win (although I would like an option to just display actual photos for water), and it seems to have more zoom levels.
@MrShinyandNew安宇 my point is that that is not a reason to just go ahead and lower our expectations. And celebrate every time they don't majestically fck up.
@Cerberus I don't think it's a spoiler to tell you that Windows lost the phone OS war. I know you haven't seen the whole movie yet, but the statute of limitations has passed.
The writing was on the wall when Microsoft's embedded Windows was called "wince".
I think Microsoft completely underestimated the appeal of Linux in the embedded space. I don't think they're SO incapable of making a decent embedded OS that they simply couldn't compete at all, but rather they were blind-sided with the portability of Linux and the free-software nature.
It took them over a decade to bring Windows to Nokia phones. Funnily enough, it took Nokia approximately the same amount of time to not matter anymore.
You can't tell me that Sony didn't have the know-how to produce the iPhone in 2005 or earlier. They had the Clie division, the personal music division, the phone division, it could have been awesome.
Oh wait, I forgot, nobody should ever talk about the Koran. Because once you tell someone what's inside, if they don't believe it, they burn in hell forever. I know this because it's in the Koran.
Which means I could hook up the PS3 controller to my PC games, and map the controls, and pipe the graphics to my TV. Yes, yes. It would be just like having a pretty little console.
Hey, speaking of XBox, in playing Fallout.3 the disc gets reported as "unreadable" if I turn the console on with the disk inside, but if I then open and close the tray it works fine. Any thoughts on that? This is the only game this has ever happened with.
"What's the time frame for this thing we've never talked about doing before?"
"Well, how long do you think it would take to do something like this?"
"But if we were going to pull data, how long would that take?"
"Well, if you were going to write a query to get the information I need so I can put it into SPSS?"
He narrowed it down further and further, until I could see that clearly he thinks that I am dragging my feet because all I'd have to do is write a query.
And my replies were consistently "Without discussing what you need in greater detail, I couldn't tell you how long."
@Reg Should I fight Safety or stick with Ur Mother?
@Robusto Oh, good plan.
Or a car.
He is so condescending. He really thinks it takes as long as it takes to just literally write the query.
"Well, see, I'm going to Atlanta in two weeks to talk to them about this stuff." And? How is that my problem? Maybe he should've paid attention before now.
Then it will take two more weeks to schedule another meeting where I will tell you I am not done yet, and you can tell me that you have figured out that you want something completely different from what you said you wanted.
"We didn't start the fire, it was always burning since the world's been turning" is from a song by Billy Joel, but I vaguely remember Malcom X saying it in one of his speeches that I heard on YouTube. Is this an old phrase? Where had it originated?
Everyone at work is always like blah blah blah we want to eat healthy and then the only thing left a couple days after the party will be the fruit or veggie tray looking sad in the fridge. The chips are gone gone gone.
@Kit When we were little, my brother had a car racing toy with a steering wheel, that was a sort of a videogame. I don't remember if it had any other buttons other than something to start it, but it had a windshield with a little screen, and you could turn the wheel to steer and pass the other cars, and you would lose the race and start over if you crashed, or else after what seemed like ages of racing (probably about 3 minutes or something) you could win the race.
I played the videogame part at least as much as he did. He played with it more, I think, with the game off, just for imaginary play.
"We didn't start the fire, it was always burning since the world's been turning" is from a song by Billy Joel, but I vaguely remember Malcom X saying it in one of his speeches that I heard on YouTube. Is this an old phrase? Where had it originated?
Is there any single word for exchange of gifts ?
I've been looking around the Internet. Some websites says that Foods is incorrect but other says it is correct.
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…