I work, for the most part, paperlessly. There are very few situations where I feel compelled to transfer something from the digital world to paper. In most cases, it is because I need to interact with another person who requires it. Those cases are coming less and less frequently. Now, to be fair, I am a software developer and I work with people who are -- for the most part -- comfortable sharing information digitally. But, I also have a side business as a property investor. For the most part, the people I deal with in that business are also quite willing to work digitally. There is the occasional person who can't seem to divorce them-self from their FAX machine and when it comes to signing documents, that tends to be the de facto mechanism. Now, once the lawyer gets involved (i.e. at the signing), everything becomes paper and understandably so. I think we will see the embracing of digital signatures. Its just not here yet -- at least not in a commonly accepted way.
OK, with that said.... I do still read paper books. I am keeping my eye on the e-reader market though. Its beginning to get interesting and I will probably buy into it very soon.
You could buy a Nexus One directly from Google. There's a good chance they will keep it up-to-date with regards to the OS. Of course, you would have to use T-Mobile service. Not sure if that matters to you.
Well, lets see. You may be right. According to the article, the item will sell for 2 - 3 pennies. Lets assume 3 pennies. Now, lets also assume a potential customer is regular once-a-day. That would mean they would need 365 * 3 pennies = 1095 pennies or $10.95/per year. That may not seem like much but when a person's annual income is measured in hundreds of dollars (some times less), that amount might be significant. To offset this, we should consider that there may be some value added -- especially if the person needs to buy fertilizer to grow crops. The big factor to consider is whether governments and aide organizations see sanitation -- especially in inner city slums -- as a high enough priority to fund this so that there is no cost to the individual. From the article:
In the developing world, an estimated 2.6 billion people, or about 40 percent of the earth’s population, do not have access to a toilet, according to United Nations figures.
It is a public health crisis: open defecation can contaminate drinking water, and an estimated 1.5 million children worldwide die yearly from diarrhea, largely because of poor sanitation and hygiene.
To mitigate this, the United Nations has a goal to reduce by half the number of people without access to toilets by 2015.
This is true. I have been developing a game app for Android. So, I am quite familiar with the environment. The Java implementation for Android is not complete. The one area that was missing for me is the RMI (remote method invocation for you non-java folks). That said, I have found the development experience to be a good one. I have nearly 15 years of Java development experience. I know a good development environment when I see one.
In fact, somewhere between one-third and one-half of Chinese immigrants are already spying/aiding for the Chinese mainland in some way.
Care to enlighten us as to where you got these (albeit, very broad) statistics? Certainly, a carefully conducted study of this "fact" would be very newsworthy.
Unless you are referring to the corporation's Board of Directors, do not confuse a corporation with it's employees. A large corporate entity is made up of a significantly small number of decision makers with regards to election campaign contributions. It is a fairly safe bet in most -- if not all -- situations, that the decision made by that significantly small number of people does not in any way represent the preferences of many of the company's employees. If this were truly a case of "right of association", the decision as to which candidates to support in a given election would be something in which ALL members of that "association" could participate. We all know that this is not the case.
Like the parent poster, I do not smoke anything and I am in full support of legalizing marijuana for much the same reasons. An interesting organization to take note of is LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition) http://www.leap.cc/cms/index.php.
I think your idea is a good one, though, there is no need to declare atheism as a form of religion. There are extant religions - such as Buddhism -- which could be used to the same point. Better yet, launch the attack using one of several spoof religions such as The Church of the Subgenius (http://www.subgenius.com/) or the Pastafarian Cult (http://www.venganza.org/).
For several years now, I have been using a mac mini attached to a large, flat panel LCD HD TV monitor and a decent surround-sound system as our digital entertainment hub. For physical DVDs, we just pop it into the mac mini's slot drive and use FrontRow or DVD Player. For digital only media, I tend to use VLC. We do not have cable but we do have an antenna attached that lets us pick up about a dozen HD broadcast channels -- not that we really watch those very much. We sometimes use browser based interfaces to watch content that is streamable from some web site -- such as NetFlix. Though, just recently, NetFlix has partnered with Sony. So, now, we can watch NetFlix's streamable media (movies and TV shows) via the PS3, which, by-the-way, serves as our blu-ray media player. I found a universal remote that works with the PS3. So, now, we just have one remote for the TV monitor, the mac mini, the PS3 and the sound system.
We don't really have a need for a DVR. So, that is not part of our solution. Though, if we want to, I did pick up an eyetv hybrid just to try it out. We could inline that to the mac-mini. It comes with DVR software that looks pretty decent. Since, I have not played with a TiVo or any other DVR, I can not really compare the two interfaces.
Occasionally, we purchase content from iTunes and the above setup serves as our digital music hub as well.
As an Android game developer, I am hoping that this will be the case. There have been quite a few new Android fueled mobile devices both announced and released of late. I think it is safe to say that the Android platform will capture more of the market share over the next couple of quarters and through the coming year. How much is hard to say. I am also hoping that Google moves forward with making arrangements with more countries for paid apps.
My guess is that people would route around it. Acoustic modems would see a resurgence in popularity. Clever arrangement of wifi routers and bridges would help to create ad-hoc networks. I suppose it also depends largely on what you mean by "They've turned off the Internet". At what level has it been "turned off"? Is it just that the DNS routers have been shut down? Have the ISP hubs gone dark? There is a lot of physical network still in place. Someone is bound to find a way to make use of it.
Really? I see no significant difference between receiving a digital copy of a bill or invoice and receiving a paper one. This, assuming that they both contain all of the same information and that the digital copy is of an easily viewable, copyable and printable format. In fact, I find the digital version to be a better format if for no other reason than that it is easier to make backups.
Now, in reading through the previous post, I see that there seems to be an assumption that the digital version of the bill will somehow remain with the vendor. I am not sure how that would be done and, in any case, it is certainly not my experience. When I receive digital bills, they are either sent to me via email or I receive an email letting me know that I can view it online whenever I like. Viewing bills online always includes the option to print and/or download a digital copy.
No doubt, there is bias in the media. It is well documented. That the bias is strictly or even heavily of a liberal nature is a dubious claim. There are plenty of examples of conservatively biased media. There are also examples of corporate biases as well as religious biases. I do agree with the original poster (MikeRT) that, it will be interesting. I am not all that certain that the result would be as he predicts.
In so much as Falun Gong promotes the supernatural, I am opposed to it. Just as I think all claims of the supernatural should be challenged. Do I support violence and imprisonment as a means of challenge? No.
You might consider taking a look at magnatune.com. When users buy music at their site, they can pay within a range. The default cost of a digital download of a CD is $8. The lowest amount in the pulldown menu is $5. The highest amount is $18. They guarantee that the artist gets %50 of whatever you pay. They must be doing something right because they've managed to stay in business.
I happen to live less than half-a-mile from the train station, which is an easy walk or bike ride. Where I work is also conveniently next to a train station (about 50 yards away). In addition, I live about 5 miles from where I work. So, I could actually bike all the way to work. The train ride is usually not more than 10-12 minutes. So, for me, all these factors make it very easy for me to decide to take the train. I am not really saving much money -- largely because I live so close to where I work.
We live in Atlanta and have been using an indoor antenna for well over two years now. We get approximately 20 channels in our area. My girlfriend watches T.V. that way sometimes. I seldom do. But then, I don't watch T.V. much anyway. We also have a Mac-mini hooked as our digital entertainment hub. We buy some content from iTunes. We watch streaming episodes and movies from NetFlix (the quality suffers a bit). We, of course, receive movies and T.V. series via DVD and Blueray from NetFlix. All-in-all, we generally have plenty of content available.
It doesn't help your point to wantonly misquote Winston Churchill. For those who don't know, the actual quote is as follows:
"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried."
Really, this says nothing about capitalism.
Not necessarily. With good use of JSON and reliance on well written third party Javascript libraries, it is possible to write serious AJAX and dynamic HTML applications with far less lines of code.
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I work, for the most part, paperlessly. There are very few situations where I feel compelled to transfer something from the digital world to paper. In most cases, it is because I need to interact with another person who requires it. Those cases are coming less and less frequently. Now, to be fair, I am a software developer and I work with people who are -- for the most part -- comfortable sharing information digitally. But, I also have a side business as a property investor. For the most part, the people I deal with in that business are also quite willing to work digitally. There is the occasional person who can't seem to divorce them-self from their FAX machine and when it comes to signing documents, that tends to be the de facto mechanism. Now, once the lawyer gets involved (i.e. at the signing), everything becomes paper and understandably so. I think we will see the embracing of digital signatures. Its just not here yet -- at least not in a commonly accepted way. OK, with that said.... I do still read paper books. I am keeping my eye on the e-reader market though. Its beginning to get interesting and I will probably buy into it very soon.
You could buy a Nexus One directly from Google. There's a good chance they will keep it up-to-date with regards to the OS. Of course, you would have to use T-Mobile service. Not sure if that matters to you.
In the developing world, an estimated 2.6 billion people, or about 40 percent of the earth’s population, do not have access to a toilet, according to United Nations figures.
It is a public health crisis: open defecation can contaminate drinking water, and an estimated 1.5 million children worldwide die yearly from diarrhea, largely because of poor sanitation and hygiene.
To mitigate this, the United Nations has a goal to reduce by half the number of people without access to toilets by 2015.
This is true. I have been developing a game app for Android. So, I am quite familiar with the environment. The Java implementation for Android is not complete. The one area that was missing for me is the RMI (remote method invocation for you non-java folks). That said, I have found the development experience to be a good one. I have nearly 15 years of Java development experience. I know a good development environment when I see one.
In fact, somewhere between one-third and one-half of Chinese immigrants are already spying/aiding for the Chinese mainland in some way.
Care to enlighten us as to where you got these (albeit, very broad) statistics? Certainly, a carefully conducted study of this "fact" would be very newsworthy.
Yes, and I am sure you read every word of every EULA for every piece of software that you install as well.
Unless you are referring to the corporation's Board of Directors, do not confuse a corporation with it's employees. A large corporate entity is made up of a significantly small number of decision makers with regards to election campaign contributions. It is a fairly safe bet in most -- if not all -- situations, that the decision made by that significantly small number of people does not in any way represent the preferences of many of the company's employees. If this were truly a case of "right of association", the decision as to which candidates to support in a given election would be something in which ALL members of that "association" could participate. We all know that this is not the case.
Like the parent poster, I do not smoke anything and I am in full support of legalizing marijuana for much the same reasons. An interesting organization to take note of is LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition) http://www.leap.cc/cms/index.php.
I think your idea is a good one, though, there is no need to declare atheism as a form of religion. There are extant religions - such as Buddhism -- which could be used to the same point. Better yet, launch the attack using one of several spoof religions such as The Church of the Subgenius (http://www.subgenius.com/) or the Pastafarian Cult (http://www.venganza.org/).
For several years now, I have been using a mac mini attached to a large, flat panel LCD HD TV monitor and a decent surround-sound system as our digital entertainment hub. For physical DVDs, we just pop it into the mac mini's slot drive and use FrontRow or DVD Player. For digital only media, I tend to use VLC. We do not have cable but we do have an antenna attached that lets us pick up about a dozen HD broadcast channels -- not that we really watch those very much. We sometimes use browser based interfaces to watch content that is streamable from some web site -- such as NetFlix. Though, just recently, NetFlix has partnered with Sony. So, now, we can watch NetFlix's streamable media (movies and TV shows) via the PS3, which, by-the-way, serves as our blu-ray media player. I found a universal remote that works with the PS3. So, now, we just have one remote for the TV monitor, the mac mini, the PS3 and the sound system.
We don't really have a need for a DVR. So, that is not part of our solution. Though, if we want to, I did pick up an eyetv hybrid just to try it out. We could inline that to the mac-mini. It comes with DVR software that looks pretty decent. Since, I have not played with a TiVo or any other DVR, I can not really compare the two interfaces.
Occasionally, we purchase content from iTunes and the above setup serves as our digital music hub as well.
As an Android game developer, I am hoping that this will be the case. There have been quite a few new Android fueled mobile devices both announced and released of late. I think it is safe to say that the Android platform will capture more of the market share over the next couple of quarters and through the coming year. How much is hard to say. I am also hoping that Google moves forward with making arrangements with more countries for paid apps.
My guess is that people would route around it. Acoustic modems would see a resurgence in popularity. Clever arrangement of wifi routers and bridges would help to create ad-hoc networks. I suppose it also depends largely on what you mean by "They've turned off the Internet". At what level has it been "turned off"? Is it just that the DNS routers have been shut down? Have the ISP hubs gone dark? There is a lot of physical network still in place. Someone is bound to find a way to make use of it.
Really? I see no significant difference between receiving a digital copy of a bill or invoice and receiving a paper one. This, assuming that they both contain all of the same information and that the digital copy is of an easily viewable, copyable and printable format. In fact, I find the digital version to be a better format if for no other reason than that it is easier to make backups. Now, in reading through the previous post, I see that there seems to be an assumption that the digital version of the bill will somehow remain with the vendor. I am not sure how that would be done and, in any case, it is certainly not my experience. When I receive digital bills, they are either sent to me via email or I receive an email letting me know that I can view it online whenever I like. Viewing bills online always includes the option to print and/or download a digital copy.
No doubt, there is bias in the media. It is well documented. That the bias is strictly or even heavily of a liberal nature is a dubious claim. There are plenty of examples of conservatively biased media. There are also examples of corporate biases as well as religious biases. I do agree with the original poster (MikeRT) that, it will be interesting. I am not all that certain that the result would be as he predicts.
In so much as Falun Gong promotes the supernatural, I am opposed to it. Just as I think all claims of the supernatural should be challenged. Do I support violence and imprisonment as a means of challenge? No.
You might consider taking a look at magnatune.com. When users buy music at their site, they can pay within a range. The default cost of a digital download of a CD is $8. The lowest amount in the pulldown menu is $5. The highest amount is $18. They guarantee that the artist gets %50 of whatever you pay. They must be doing something right because they've managed to stay in business.
I happen to live less than half-a-mile from the train station, which is an easy walk or bike ride. Where I work is also conveniently next to a train station (about 50 yards away). In addition, I live about 5 miles from where I work. So, I could actually bike all the way to work. The train ride is usually not more than 10-12 minutes. So, for me, all these factors make it very easy for me to decide to take the train. I am not really saving much money -- largely because I live so close to where I work.
We live in Atlanta and have been using an indoor antenna for well over two years now. We get approximately 20 channels in our area. My girlfriend watches T.V. that way sometimes. I seldom do. But then, I don't watch T.V. much anyway. We also have a Mac-mini hooked as our digital entertainment hub. We buy some content from iTunes. We watch streaming episodes and movies from NetFlix (the quality suffers a bit). We, of course, receive movies and T.V. series via DVD and Blueray from NetFlix. All-in-all, we generally have plenty of content available.
No problem. I just wanted to help stem the tide of future misquotes :-)
It doesn't help your point to wantonly misquote Winston Churchill. For those who don't know, the actual quote is as follows: "It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried." Really, this says nothing about capitalism.
Oddly enough, I am able to view the website using Safari. But, as others have pointed out, trying to view the site with Firefox is impossible.
In addition to that excellent explanation, I would like to add that making yogurt at home is very simple. Here is a site that gives the details: http://biology.clc.uc.edu/fankhauser/Cheese/yogurt _making/YOGURT2000.htm. Here is another informative article: http://homecooking.about.com/library/archive/bldai ry9.htm
Not necessarily. With good use of JSON and reliance on well written third party Javascript libraries, it is possible to write serious AJAX and dynamic HTML applications with far less lines of code.