I don't forsee this technology being used on personal home computers in the near future.
Where I do anticipate (and look forward to) seeing it is for interactive public displays. It would be a very cool interface to have for a 3d map and directory in a mall or an informative display at a museum or aquarium.
As for home use, it could be used for family gatherings and birthday/wedding parties. Set it up with your DJ software and photos, then let your guests check out photos, pick out music to play, etc.
Most wedding parties, etc have a slideshow going on, why not let your guests upload photos as they take them, add them to the slideshow, maybe browse through them manually, change the background music, etc. It could make for a very entertaining and rewarding device to have for such occasions, even if you just rented them out.
I have the Zen Vision:W and can confirm that amarok works. If you want to access the data section (movies and pictures), you can use gnomad2. The version in hardy would only list files (no folders), but the one in Intrepid allows creation, viewing and editing of folders.
The creative players are a bit more expensive (I have the Zen:W), but you get a LOT more out of them. The components are more robust and you get a lot of stuff with them by default such as IR port (you still need a remote), standard av-out (cable included), wall-plugin charger (usb also works), FM receiver (uses headphones as antena). They also until recently had many more features such as calendars, photo slideshows, movie support, etc. And this was about 3 years ago!
Does your wife know the chances of a spider surviving a trip through the vacuum cleaner? Unless you have a fine grained impeller on the sucker, that things gonna walk right back out again. Just like running it down the sink.
Did you not notice the cellphone thing? Have you tried to find a cellphone lately that DOESN'T have a phone built in?!?
I know there are "some", but if you go the cellphone retailers (Bell, Telus, Verizon, etc) and look around the store, you won't find any. This judge has basically banned this guy from owning a cellphone for a year!
Just think of the poor shmuck who is late for a meeting because he got in a fight with his wife, stuck in traffic and spilled his coffee on his lap; then to top it off his office building door calls the swat team because he tried to get in while "stressed".
As much as I agree with you, pneumonia is simply fluid in the lungs. It is not even a disease, let alone genetic.
Pneumonia is more of a symptom than anything else. It can be brought on by anything from incurable deadly diseases and birth defects to close-encounter drowning victims and people who move to a weird climate!
Saying everyone who gets pneumonia should be sterilized (even though you used it as a counter-example) is like saying everyone who gets a fever should be sterilized.
I believe that HIV immune people simply do not experience symptoms from the virus and that they can indeed still be life-long carriers.
In fact, "going" with an HIV immune person is probably MORE dangerous because a non-HIV immune person has a chance of dieing from it. This means HIV immune people are most likely carriers.
So, unless that person offers you a bone-marrow transplant, it's probably still a good idea to use a rubber...
Ok, first of all, emergency contraceptive pills are not prescribed drugs. Anyone can go to a pharmacy and get them over the shelf!
Second, if I read your post right, the idea that a pharmacist has the authority to deny me drugs that a doctor prescribed, based soly on their religious beliefs is complete and utter bullshit!
Canada's army consists of 5 fully operational nuclear submarines (3 of which currently reside in the West-Edmonton Mall) and 4 killer-beaver equipped war canoes!
Apple invented the iPod as much as Microsoft invented the Zune. However, NEITHER of them invented the mp3 player, portable media player, etc. Even the mp3 player with a touchscreen was nothing new when Apple announced the "innovation"!
If you don't believe me check out Archos. They had touch screens + WIFI WAY before apple did.
I'm sorry, I really hate listening to so-called website developers complaining about having to have 100% validation. If you are any good at what you do (few web developers are these days), you should be able to write a website and only need to spend a few hours (for a rather large site) fixing validation.
In fact, using todays frameworks (wordpress, cakephp, etc) you really only need to do this once for the layout, then the content is usually trivial.
In my mind, a web developer who does not care about 100% validation is like a secretary not worrying about 100% spelling and grammar checking! It's simply irresponsible, lazy and bad a bad work ethic.
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Flash makes perfect sense for throwing in a little interactive graphic or diagram, or for inserting a video clip...
Would you idiots PLEASE for the LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY, stop justifying the use of flash for videos when there is a perfectly good embed tag used for embedding *gasp* videos! Not only does this avoid the annoyance of a user with flash-block, but it allows the user to use their own preferred video player, easy fullscreen and proper streaming, but there are some operating systems (pretty much anything 64 bit and most unix systems) that have abysmally shitty flash players (and those that simply do not want it).
In my opinion, as a user AND a web developer, the ONLY truly acceptable use of flash is for games and intensively interactive media. Even in these cases, Java is a much better alternative. Too bad it lost the browser war:(
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I don't forsee this technology being used on personal home computers in the near future.
Where I do anticipate (and look forward to) seeing it is for interactive public displays. It would be a very cool interface to have for a 3d map and directory in a mall or an informative display at a museum or aquarium.
As for home use, it could be used for family gatherings and birthday/wedding parties. Set it up with your DJ software and photos, then let your guests check out photos, pick out music to play, etc.
Most wedding parties, etc have a slideshow going on, why not let your guests upload photos as they take them, add them to the slideshow, maybe browse through them manually, change the background music, etc. It could make for a very entertaining and rewarding device to have for such occasions, even if you just rented them out.
I have the Zen Vision:W and can confirm that amarok works. If you want to access the data section (movies and pictures), you can use gnomad2. The version in hardy would only list files (no folders), but the one in Intrepid allows creation, viewing and editing of folders.
The creative players are a bit more expensive (I have the Zen:W), but you get a LOT more out of them. The components are more robust and you get a lot of stuff with them by default such as IR port (you still need a remote), standard av-out (cable included), wall-plugin charger (usb also works), FM receiver (uses headphones as antena). They also until recently had many more features such as calendars, photo slideshows, movie support, etc. And this was about 3 years ago!
Wow, I have to say, beside the fact that you use flash (Boooo), those are some amazingly beautiful photographs!
Does your wife know the chances of a spider surviving a trip through the vacuum cleaner? Unless you have a fine grained impeller on the sucker, that things gonna walk right back out again. Just like running it down the sink.
Think of the movie rights!!!
First Sharks, then Snakes and now Spiders!
Did you not notice the cellphone thing? Have you tried to find a cellphone lately that DOESN'T have a phone built in?!?
I know there are "some", but if you go the cellphone retailers (Bell, Telus, Verizon, etc) and look around the store, you won't find any. This judge has basically banned this guy from owning a cellphone for a year!
1 - Look for iPhone user on the street
2 - Yell "Big Boobs" into their phone while passing
3 - ???
4 - Profit!!!
Now that Ubuntu has finally ported to the ever-popular ARM architecture, maybe 2009 will be the year of Linux on the netbook!
There, fixed that for you.
So it won't let you in if you're stressed?
Just think of the poor shmuck who is late for a meeting because he got in a fight with his wife, stuck in traffic and spilled his coffee on his lap; then to top it off his office building door calls the swat team because he tried to get in while "stressed".
And you though you were having a bad day...
Ok, linking to a page with flash is bad. But linking to a flash file itself?!?
Wow, that's like a hospital refusing to perform blood transfusions...
Sorry, by bad, that's the tag I was referring to.
Wait, isn't the fact that the immune system has already been suppressed the reason they are getting said transplant?!?
Sir, we are ready to give you back your leg you lost in Vietnam, but first we must cut off your leg!
As much as I agree with you, pneumonia is simply fluid in the lungs. It is not even a disease, let alone genetic.
Pneumonia is more of a symptom than anything else. It can be brought on by anything from incurable deadly diseases and birth defects to close-encounter drowning victims and people who move to a weird climate!
Saying everyone who gets pneumonia should be sterilized (even though you used it as a counter-example) is like saying everyone who gets a fever should be sterilized.
I believe that HIV immune people simply do not experience symptoms from the virus and that they can indeed still be life-long carriers.
In fact, "going" with an HIV immune person is probably MORE dangerous because a non-HIV immune person has a chance of dieing from it. This means HIV immune people are most likely carriers.
So, unless that person offers you a bone-marrow transplant, it's probably still a good idea to use a rubber...
Ok, first of all, emergency contraceptive pills are not prescribed drugs. Anyone can go to a pharmacy and get them over the shelf!
Second, if I read your post right, the idea that a pharmacist has the authority to deny me drugs that a doctor prescribed, based soly on their religious beliefs is complete and utter bullshit!
You must be new here...
(to the world that is)
Canada's army consists of 5 fully operational nuclear submarines (3 of which currently reside in the West-Edmonton Mall) and 4 killer-beaver equipped war canoes!
Disclaimer: Yes, I am Canadian!
Last sub floating wins...
*scratches head...*
Apple invented the iPod as much as Microsoft invented the Zune. However, NEITHER of them invented the mp3 player, portable media player, etc. Even the mp3 player with a touchscreen was nothing new when Apple announced the "innovation"!
If you don't believe me check out Archos. They had touch screens + WIFI WAY before apple did.
I'm sorry, I really hate listening to so-called website developers complaining about having to have 100% validation. If you are any good at what you do (few web developers are these days), you should be able to write a website and only need to spend a few hours (for a rather large site) fixing validation.
In fact, using todays frameworks (wordpress, cakephp, etc) you really only need to do this once for the layout, then the content is usually trivial.
In my mind, a web developer who does not care about 100% validation is like a secretary not worrying about 100% spelling and grammar checking! It's simply irresponsible, lazy and bad a bad work ethic.
Flash makes perfect sense for throwing in a little interactive graphic or diagram, or for inserting a video clip...
Would you idiots PLEASE for the LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY, stop justifying the use of flash for videos when there is a perfectly good embed tag used for embedding *gasp* videos! Not only does this avoid the annoyance of a user with flash-block, but it allows the user to use their own preferred video player, easy fullscreen and proper streaming, but there are some operating systems (pretty much anything 64 bit and most unix systems) that have abysmally shitty flash players (and those that simply do not want it).
In my opinion, as a user AND a web developer, the ONLY truly acceptable use of flash is for games and intensively interactive media. Even in these cases, Java is a much better alternative. Too bad it lost the browser war :(
My email is gravyface at mail with a g prepended .com.
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God I hate how people accept that abomination as a word...
I think a better analogy would be a sausage factory using transparent walls!