I bought my first Thinkpad (a used T20) in the early 2000's after reading Slashdot reviews. The various reviewers discussed Sony Vaio, Dell Laptops, etc. What eventually sold me was that the Thinkpad was consistently well regarded (durable construction, backwards compatible, etc.) and most importantly had the best keyboard feel of all the brands.
I love the feel of the Thinkpad keyboard and how the layout preserved essential aspects of an extended keyboard (esp. the insert/delete/home/end/PgUp/PgDn keys). The function keys were grouped in 4's which made them easy to find by touch. It made the transition from a full keyboard to the laptop keyboard that much easier.
Lenovo seemed to have started down the slope when they started tweaking the layout by moving the "Insert" key and enlarging the "Delete" key.
The whole point of the Thinkpad line (esp with the T and X series) is that when the time comes to upgrade, one could simply start (/focus on) working as one didn't have to relearn/readjust where keys got moved around to.
For mass market appeal, Lenovo had the IdeaPad line to experiment with. The traditional business laptop series should have remained unchanged. The T series incarnation in this case is nothing special; it's not really a ThinkPad anymore. Hopefully, Lenovo will hear the cries of the T series devotees and revert the design emphasis.
...sad but true (the part about making a profit)......though to be fair, to commercialize does also imply that they would be trying to expand the number of people to whom the treatment can be given to. Currently, it's only one person treated, under the guise of a highly talented doctor and his research team.
Sometimes, seemingly ingenious ideas never get out of the research stage because the processes involved can't be replicated on a wider scale. (of course, there are other reasons why some ingenious ideas never see the light of day, but that's beyond the scope of this discussion)
It's a recessive mutation, so it is as a result of the bubonic plague going across Europe that certain European populations have a greater incidence of this mutation.
Currently, the theory is that HIV immunity is provided by a mutation of the CCR5 receptor. In particular, it seems to provide an immunity also to the bubonic plague--it is as a result of the bubonic plague that this recessive mutation has manifested itself today in somewhat greater numbers in certain populations--natural selection, so to speak at work.
How about starting with the FCC instead? They have some enforcement powers regarding communications. Though whether or not those powers extend to Caller ID spoofing is unknown to me.
Recall that there was a Simpsons episode where he salvages an auto-caller to run a telemarketing scam on the residents of Springfield.
Also recall that Homer actually did figure out how to setup a website and post "blogs" in his stint as Mr. X.
So, all someone has to do is give him a spiel of how a particular program or an infected computer (not known to Homer of course) can provide him with easy money, and he'll be more than happy to distribute that program en masse or very quickly hook up his computer to the internet.:-)
Lenovo could just be purging it's current stock of Thinkpad laptops. According to this posting on Gizmodo, Lenovo is expected to release a refresh to the Thinkpad T series (T62) on June 3, 2008.
The above info in conjunction with the popularity of widescreen laptops could just mean that they purged the standard aspect ratio laptops before the widescreen models
I'll have to disagree with your statement that "TI just doesn't cut it." True, their low to mid range graphing calculators (e.g., 73, 85, etc.) can't compare to any of the HP's current (or past) graphing calculator offerings. However, the TI-92 PLUS and TI-89 can very much hold their own in comparison to the HP's.
My primary calculator is the TI-92 PLUS (I used to use a TI-85) and the HP 48 series can't beat the ease of the TI-92 PLUS in terms of entering/performing symbolic operations. What do I use it for? I use it to check that I haven't made a mistake in my pencil and paper grunge work (i.e., arithmetic or algebraic manipulation [my level of math is well beyond calculus so basic algebraic manipulations are considered somewhat grungy]).
The symbolic manipulation of Mathematica is vastly superior to that of the TI-92; however, it is inconceivable that I have ready access to my laptop or another public computer that has Mathematica on it. So, in those moments, I whip out my TI-92 to verify that I didn't make a silly error such as sign dropping or whatever in those calculations which require a page long worth of algebraic manipulation.
To state it more concisely, "scrambled words are legible as long as the first and last letter are in place [_AND_ they are arranged in sentence context]." For instance, "uinervtisy" by itself is just a misspelling and less recognisable as "university" than say "lsat" is recognisable as "last"; and "ltteer" by itself will be translated in the brain [of the native English speaker] as letter or litter.
When reading a misspelled sentence, one's brain acts like a spell checker. But where the spell checkers fail [for now, at least] is where the human brain excels -- i.e., selecting the best word for the context.
Note that this contextual recognition also works for Chinese characters for the native Chinese speaker/reader. In this case, instead of misspellings, it would be the obscuring of portions of the characters (i.e., blocked by a tree, smudged ink, etc.).
Back in a U.S. History class a few years ago, my teacher was discussing the topic of low voter turn out rates and registration rates. In his discussion, he mentioned a case in which a congressman proposed that all U.S. citizens be automatically registered in order to see a higher voting rate. However, that idea was shot down quite quickly by another congressman who indicated that we should not register people who are too lazy to put in the time and effort to obtain an application and register to vote. There were no rebuttals.
In some senses, voting via the internet seems to fall along similar lines. Such an action seems to be giving-in the people who are not motivated enough to drive to the polls to cast their votes. The above action should thus be avoided.
The article provided me with a whole bunch of info concerning the construction of Epcot that I did not realize. It's been some time since I've gone to Disney World so I only have faded memories to go by.
It is interesting to point out that the article indicates that commercialism caused Epcot to move away from Disney's original dream for a land of tomorrow. I think in many regards, that is true -- the over commercialism of our society is rather annoying and saddening.
If I ever go visit Epcot again, I'll have to remember to take another look at Tomorrowland and Epcot in general.
I think the iMac has been infiltrating the marketing mentality of all who have come across it. Check out the Palm IIIe special edition at this link. If I'm not mistaken, it has a clear see-through enclosure and has multicolored flip tops.
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I bought my first Thinkpad (a used T20) in the early 2000's after reading Slashdot reviews. The various reviewers discussed Sony Vaio, Dell Laptops, etc. What eventually sold me was that the Thinkpad was consistently well regarded (durable construction, backwards compatible, etc.) and most importantly had the best keyboard feel of all the brands.
I love the feel of the Thinkpad keyboard and how the layout preserved essential aspects of an extended keyboard (esp. the insert/delete/home/end/PgUp/PgDn keys). The function keys were grouped in 4's which made them easy to find by touch. It made the transition from a full keyboard to the laptop keyboard that much easier.
Lenovo seemed to have started down the slope when they started tweaking the layout by moving the "Insert" key and enlarging the "Delete" key.
The whole point of the Thinkpad line (esp with the T and X series) is that when the time comes to upgrade, one could simply start (/focus on) working as one didn't have to relearn/readjust where keys got moved around to.
For mass market appeal, Lenovo had the IdeaPad line to experiment with. The traditional business laptop series should have remained unchanged. The T series incarnation in this case is nothing special; it's not really a ThinkPad anymore. Hopefully, Lenovo will hear the cries of the T series devotees and revert the design emphasis.
...sad but true (the part about making a profit)... ...though to be fair, to commercialize does also imply that they would be trying to expand the number of people to whom the treatment can be given to. Currently, it's only one person treated, under the guise of a highly talented doctor and his research team.
Sometimes, seemingly ingenious ideas never get out of the research stage because the processes involved can't be replicated on a wider scale. (of course, there are other reasons why some ingenious ideas never see the light of day, but that's beyond the scope of this discussion)
...for a while now. Mutation of the CCR5 gene seems to provide some degree of (even total) immunity to HIV (and also the bubonic plague).
read:
http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/news/2005/01/66198
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCR5
It's a recessive mutation, so it is as a result of the bubonic plague going across Europe that certain European populations have a greater incidence of this mutation.
Yeah there is...
Currently, the theory is that HIV immunity is provided by a mutation of the CCR5 receptor. In particular, it seems to provide an immunity also to the bubonic plague--it is as a result of the bubonic plague that this recessive mutation has manifested itself today in somewhat greater numbers in certain populations--natural selection, so to speak at work.
check out:
http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/news/2005/01/66198
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCR5
How about starting with the FCC instead? They have some enforcement powers regarding communications. Though whether or not those powers extend to Caller ID spoofing is unknown to me.
Recall that there was a Simpsons episode where he salvages an auto-caller to run a telemarketing scam on the residents of Springfield.
Also recall that Homer actually did figure out how to setup a website and post "blogs" in his stint as Mr. X.
So, all someone has to do is give him a spiel of how a particular program or an infected computer (not known to Homer of course) can provide him with easy money, and he'll be more than happy to distribute that program en masse or very quickly hook up his computer to the internet. :-)
Lenovo could just be purging it's current stock of Thinkpad laptops. According to this posting on Gizmodo, Lenovo is expected to release a refresh to the Thinkpad T series (T62) on June 3, 2008.
The above info in conjunction with the popularity of widescreen laptops could just mean that they purged the standard aspect ratio laptops before the widescreen models
I'll have to disagree with your statement that "TI just doesn't cut it." True, their low to mid range graphing calculators (e.g., 73, 85, etc.) can't compare to any of the HP's current (or past) graphing calculator offerings. However, the TI-92 PLUS and TI-89 can very much hold their own in comparison to the HP's.
My primary calculator is the TI-92 PLUS (I used to use a TI-85) and the HP 48 series can't beat the ease of the TI-92 PLUS in terms of entering/performing symbolic operations. What do I use it for? I use it to check that I haven't made a mistake in my pencil and paper grunge work (i.e., arithmetic or algebraic manipulation [my level of math is well beyond calculus so basic algebraic manipulations are considered somewhat grungy]).
The symbolic manipulation of Mathematica is vastly superior to that of the TI-92; however, it is inconceivable that I have ready access to my laptop or another public computer that has Mathematica on it. So, in those moments, I whip out my TI-92 to verify that I didn't make a silly error such as sign dropping or whatever in those calculations which require a page long worth of algebraic manipulation.
To state it more concisely, "scrambled words are legible as long as the first and last letter are in place [_AND_ they are arranged in sentence context]." For instance, "uinervtisy" by itself is just a misspelling and less recognisable as "university" than say "lsat" is recognisable as "last"; and "ltteer" by itself will be translated in the brain [of the native English speaker] as letter or litter.
When reading a misspelled sentence, one's brain acts like a spell checker. But where the spell checkers fail [for now, at least] is where the human brain excels -- i.e., selecting the best word for the context.
Note that this contextual recognition also works for Chinese characters for the native Chinese speaker/reader. In this case, instead of misspellings, it would be the obscuring of portions of the characters (i.e., blocked by a tree, smudged ink, etc.).
Back in a U.S. History class a few years ago, my teacher was discussing the topic of low voter turn out rates and registration rates. In his discussion, he mentioned a case in which a congressman proposed that all U.S. citizens be automatically registered in order to see a higher voting rate. However, that idea was shot down quite quickly by another congressman who indicated that we should not register people who are too lazy to put in the time and effort to obtain an application and register to vote. There were no rebuttals.
In some senses, voting via the internet seems to fall along similar lines. Such an action seems to be giving-in the people who are not motivated enough to drive to the polls to cast their votes. The above action should thus be avoided.
The article provided me with a whole bunch of info concerning the construction of Epcot that I did not realize. It's been some time since I've gone to Disney World so I only have faded memories to go by.
It is interesting to point out that the article indicates that commercialism caused Epcot to move away from Disney's original dream for a land of tomorrow. I think in many regards, that is true -- the over commercialism of our society is rather annoying and saddening.
If I ever go visit Epcot again, I'll have to remember to take another look at Tomorrowland and Epcot in general.
I think the iMac has been infiltrating the marketing mentality of all who have come across it. Check out the Palm IIIe special edition at this link. If I'm not mistaken, it has a clear see-through enclosure and has multicolored flip tops.